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

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Speaker 2: Let's kick this hour off as we do each and

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Speaker 2: every Thursday, with the man covering the Cincinnati Bearcats for

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Speaker 2: Bearcat Journal dot Com and Boots on the Ground in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 2: Kegan Nikison. What's up, Keegan? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I am doing excellent, Tony? How have you been?

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Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm curious. Did Chad like put you up

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Speaker 2: in a hotel in India? You're making the commute each day.

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Speaker 3: No, he's got me the what is it, the nicest

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Speaker 3: suite at the JW.

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Speaker 4: Marriott.

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Speaker 3: Oh, so he didn't really cash him out for me

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Speaker 3: on this trip.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I had money.

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Barkat Journal crushing it.

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Speaker 6: Although west Miller Discourse has led to some success.

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Speaker 2: Oh, let's start with the combine. We'll get to hoops

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Speaker 2: and obviously what's going on with Brendan Soarsby as well.

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Speaker 2: But you've been around yesterday, Dante Corleone, Jake Golday, Joe

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Speaker 2: Royer today. Any big takeaways from having a chance to

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Speaker 2: listen to the Bearcats at the combine.

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Speaker 3: No, not a ton of huge takeaways and attendance, like

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Speaker 3: important or stuff that we haven't really heard. I think

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Speaker 3: Jake Golday's situation is interesting to me because he's kind

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Speaker 3: of he's going to be playing sort of a different

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Speaker 4: In the NFL, he played.

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Speaker 3: A lot of Sam at uc with the premium front,

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Speaker 3: so he was kind of flexible, could line up on

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Speaker 4: A little bit.

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Speaker 3: But I just think his skill set and mix the production,

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Speaker 3: like he had one hundred and four tackles his past year,

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Speaker 4: Four or five forty his size.

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Speaker 3: I just feel like a GM would kind of be

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Speaker 3: a full to pass up on him if if they're

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Speaker 3: linebacker needy, especially a team in Cincinnati like the Bengals,

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Speaker 3: who as of yesterday hadn't yet met with gold Ay,

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Speaker 3: so I would love to see him stay in the city.

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Speaker 3: Joe Royer's story is obviously awesome, lost his mom, his

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Speaker 3: thirty year Ohio State and lost his love for the

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Speaker 3: game of football, transferred back home to Cincinnati and told

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Speaker 3: us today that he kind of rediscovered it, saying with

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Speaker 3: the Bearcats, and part of it might be going back home.

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Speaker 3: Part of that might be, you know, it's it's way

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Speaker 3: more fun to be the go to guy in an

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Speaker 4: Like fixed receptions.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't say go to.

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Speaker 4: We're getting to that, Tony, all right.

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Speaker 3: So someone asked him about that, and you know kind

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Speaker 3: of what led to it. And this dude he came

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Speaker 3: with receipts. He was like, so, I got a few

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Speaker 3: stats for you, and he's like, we were lasting time

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Speaker 3: of possession, running a lot of RPO. We had a

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Speaker 3: so I had to protect a bunch.

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Speaker 4: So I'm hoping that.

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Speaker 3: This past year definitely danged his draft block a little bit.

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Speaker 3: He was rumored to be a first round pick. He'll

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Speaker 3: probably go more in the fourth or fifth round range

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Speaker 3: if I had the guests, But I think just at Golda,

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Speaker 3: he's got the skill set and the size and the

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Speaker 2: How do you project these guys as NBA NFL draft picks?

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Speaker 2: Because you can make the argument Keegan when he's healthy

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Speaker 2: and when he's in the game, Dante Corleone disrupts everything

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Speaker 2: did not play enough. He was off the field. The

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Speaker 2: injuries are obviously a concern. Gold Day's an absolute physical freak,

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Speaker 2: going into the year had this huge upside. Some had

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Speaker 2: the highest out of those three cats?

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Speaker 3: If I had to go stealing wise, I think it's

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Speaker 4: He's played a lot of sam he.

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Speaker 3: Could probably slide over to will and he can line

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Speaker 3: Dante's interesting to me because he mainly played in the

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Speaker 3: But in those one on ones you saw how he

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Speaker 3: think Joe, if he can stay on the field as

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Speaker 3: But I think it for me, if Jake Golden is

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Speaker 3: the Hall of Famer one day, it would really surprise me.

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Speaker 3: And I said that since the first spraying or fall

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Speaker 2: I wonder because I saw a list yesterday of combine snubs.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of folks that believe Cyrus Allen should

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Speaker 2: in that sense, does that sometimes maybe add fuel to

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Speaker 2: Cyrus Allen because I still project him if he lands

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I think it should add fuel. And I

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Speaker 3: for me to understand why you can't give the Big

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Speaker 3: the skill set that he showed and kind of what

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Speaker 4: GMS love guys who.

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Speaker 3: Get open, because if you can get open, you can

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Speaker 4: Just one year. I think that, like Golde.

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Speaker 3: Sets him up for a lot of success and I

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Speaker 2: Any other Bearcats that outside of those four that you

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Speaker 3: I think if anyone can capitalize up for Pro Day,

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Speaker 3: it's Jeff Caldwell because I think he had a eleven

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Speaker 3: forward to seeing his numbers where he is at the

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Speaker 2: Let's switch gears a little bit. The quarterback of the

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Speaker 2: this year is being sued by the University of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Brendan Swaresby versus now the University of Cincinnati. What do

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's kind of funny to me that this

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Speaker 3: because when you really boil it down, it's just breach

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Speaker 3: makes even more sense. It's also funny because when you

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Speaker 3: just saying, look, Cincinnati's being very mean by doing this,

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Speaker 3: like that's a million dollars right to a team like Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: That's three starters, maybe four starters for the Cincinnati Bearcats.

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Speaker 3: So it's extremely important to them. And I just think

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Speaker 2: I think it was Chad On on a podcast that

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Speaker 2: actually said it. It to me like we're already in

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Speaker 2: uncharted to uncharted territory. We're already in the term that

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Speaker 2: Austin loves to use, the Wild West with where we're at.

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Speaker 2: If if the contracts that these players are signing, that

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Speaker 2: If those if those don't hold up, then then what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I even think about the coach's buyout stuff

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Speaker 3: like at least Kansas State said, look, he embarrassed our team,

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Speaker 3: lay that out. And even even they were getting toasted

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Speaker 4: To do that.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, you just don't see these buyouts fought very often.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of an understanding and it's almost like Brendan

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Speaker 4: Tried to get away with it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not exactly sure, but yeah, I think Cincinnati's going

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Speaker 3: to be the benefactor of this and ended up getting

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Speaker 2: That they're Let's talk about the basketball program. They come

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Speaker 3: I think if they I don't know the exact math

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Speaker 2: It before we let you go, Keegan. For Wes Miller,

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Speaker 3: I think if they went out the regular season and

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Speaker 2: Now are you are you heading home after today? Are

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Speaker 3: Jeff Caldwell talks tomorrow at ten, I think, and Jake

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Speaker 2: Now the Combine doesn't go into all hours of the night.

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Speaker 2: What else are you doing to pass your time in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to check out the Pacers and Hornets tonight?

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Speaker 2: Do you have dinner plans? What's the rest of the

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Speaker 3: I would actually rather watch paint DRS and go see

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Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna go probably a Planet Fitness at

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Speaker 6: Hold on a second for a guy who for a living,

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Speaker 6: That's what it's supposed to look like, by the way

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the guys that only play half the games

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Speaker 4: Get them kids.

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Speaker 6: The NBA is not perfect, nobody said it is, but

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Speaker 5: How dare you?

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Speaker 3: Well, you're the one often you're the one that wants

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Speaker 5: Damn right, I do.

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Speaker 4: Why can't we just figure it out?

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Speaker 2: Perfection is not attainable, but you can always go for it, Kegan,

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Speaker 2: Fitness is more than eleven bucks.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're going to watch an India game in person.

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Speaker 4: Would be bad for my health if I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not doing that very well, Keigan, enjoy your time in

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Speaker 3: Bye, Kean, Thanks Stanning, and see you guys.

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Speaker 2: That is Kig and Nickolson live from Indianapolis at the

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Speaker 5: You can talk there about the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was ready for you to push back there.

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Speaker 5: I like Keegan a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll take a break. I do too. We'll take

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Speaker 2: Next on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station is no Better.

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Speaker 1: Latest Station Tony Pike Sincy three sixty continues now on

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Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: Dude, welcome back since he three to sixty. ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 2: the combine Reds winners yesterday. That's their their second straight

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Speaker 6: Well, Tony, Here's how the Red Legs will line them up.

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Speaker 6: He's the sixth batter Okay. The seventh batter is right

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Speaker 6: fielder Noel V. Marte, batting eighth and playing center field

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Speaker 6: is Dane Myers. The ninth batter and catcher is Will Banfield,

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Speaker 6: who with the hurler Chase Burns on the mound once more.

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Speaker 6: For Cincinnati, it's Freedol, McLean, de la Cruz, Swarez, Steer, Benson, Marte, Meers,

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Speaker 6: Banfield with Burns on the mound. The notables there Sworez

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Speaker 6: in the field at third, Friedel in left, and Spencer

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Speaker 6: Steer has not yet played the outfield in a spring

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Speaker 6: training game. He gets the start at first base. Here's

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Speaker 6: the lineup of pitchers that are scheduled to appear today

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Speaker 6: against the Padres, and not only is it Chase Burns tone,

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Speaker 6: it's also Chase Petty.

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Speaker 5: Okay, don't believe he is.

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Speaker 6: Related to Richard or Kyle or any of the Petty

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Speaker 6: Racing royalty family. Graham Ashcraft will come in and try

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Speaker 6: not to walk the first batter he faces. Connor Phillips,

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Speaker 6: tj Antone friend of the Show, and Big Sugar Zach

458
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Speaker 6: Maxwell all scheduled to pitch today for the Red Legs.

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Speaker 6: I think Hunter will pitch in his first game, Hunter Green,

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Speaker 6: tomorrow afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I like the fact too that you're ideally gonna get

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Speaker 2: Chase Burns some reps against Fernando Tatis, Junior Manny Machado

463
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Speaker 2: and Ty France are all in the lineup today.

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Speaker 5: For the Hives.

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Speaker 2: France that's right.

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Speaker 5: Fran had a nice little with the Reds.

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Speaker 2: He did.

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Speaker 5: I got no beef with Ty France.

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Speaker 2: So Chase Burns some of bouts against some good hitters

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Speaker 2: as well. I like it for the Cincinnati Reds Now

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Speaker 2: we like. I think that the ceiling and the opportunity

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Speaker 2: for the Reds this season to maybe do some some

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Speaker 2: good things. I don't think nationally people are viewing the

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Speaker 2: red Legs too high. They David Schoenfield ESPN dot Com

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Speaker 2: went ahead and looked ahead and projected all stars out

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Speaker 2: of the American and National League. Hunter Green was the

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Speaker 2: only all Star that would represent the Cincinnati Reds. But

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Speaker 2: it's how ESPN dot Com and Brad Doolittle, who we've

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Speaker 2: referenced on times of this show, he ranked every Major

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Speaker 2: League baseball lineup from just a hitting standpoint. He had

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Speaker 2: the redsked all the way down below the Cubs, below

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Speaker 2: the Brewers, below the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is the Reds

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Speaker 2: coming in just ahead of the Cardinals at twenty fourth overall.

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Speaker 2: Listen to the grades that he gives the Reds hitting

485
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Speaker 2: D patience C power D plus, base running B plus,

486
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Speaker 2: durability C plus, depth C versus a right handed pitcher,

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Speaker 2: He gives them an F versus left handed pitcher a

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Speaker 2: C minus. He claims that they have two stars and

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Speaker 2: three holes on the roster. Are the Reds offensively being

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Speaker 2: slept on in any way? For what it's worth? Uh,

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Speaker 2: Doolittle has the base lineup for the Reds as Friedel Marte,

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Speaker 2: Ellie Suarez, Stuart Stevenson, Blade McClain, and Hayes.

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Speaker 6: Uh No, I don't think so. I think that's a

494
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Speaker 6: fair assessment of the team. Matt McCain was horrible last year.

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Speaker 6: Ke Brian Hayes has always been a terrible batter. Spencer

496
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Speaker 6: or South Stewart, you don't know much about him as

497
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Speaker 6: a full big league season at all. Ellie Da La

498
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Speaker 6: Cruz fell off the face of the earth in the

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Speaker 6: second half of last year. Au Haneo Suarez strikes out

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Speaker 6: as much as anybody in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 5: TJ.

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Speaker 6: Friedl kind of fell off at the end of last

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Speaker 6: year as well. It is a prove it year for

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Speaker 6: a lot of these guys, and last year they were

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Speaker 6: one of the worst offenses in baseball. They didn't hit

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Speaker 6: the ball out of the ballpark, they didn't hit the

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Speaker 6: ball in the gaps, they didn't have timely hitting. They

508
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Speaker 6: weren't good with runners in scoring position. Until you prove

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Speaker 6: that you can do otherwise with a group that's mostly

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Speaker 6: the same, even adding the home runs of au Haneo

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Speaker 6: Suarez may not matter if you can't do the rest

512
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Speaker 6: of that stuff.

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Speaker 5: So I think that's a fair assessment.

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Speaker 2: It has their wins based on the lineup, So you

515
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Speaker 2: take the pitching staff out, they have them as the

516
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Speaker 2: same win total as the Saint Louis Cardinals just based

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Speaker 2: on the line up. Now, the pitching is going to

518
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Speaker 2: help obviously the Reds, and that's where you see their

519
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Speaker 2: totals kind of bounce back to where they are. But

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Speaker 2: seventy seven point nine based on just the offense for

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Speaker 2: the Reds, that's twenty fourth in Major League Baseball. So

522
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Speaker 2: that's where they're viewed in that sense, and obviously that's

523
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Speaker 2: not how they're always viewed locally or maybe the upside

524
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Speaker 2: of what some of these players can do. But to

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Speaker 2: your point, South Stewart's an unknown. How does Bledat fit in?

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Speaker 2: McLain and Hayes not great options. It's just there's a

527
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Speaker 2: lot of hope going into the build up of this

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Speaker 2: roster and hoping that Suarez can can you know, eclipse

529
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Speaker 2: forty home runs in Great American ballpark and you just

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Speaker 2: don't know. There's not the proven commodities for the red

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Speaker 2: You're counting on a leap and a step forward for

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Speaker 2: Spencer Steer, for Matt McClain, noelve, Martin, what a full

533
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Speaker 2: season looks like. There, there's just a lot of what ifs,

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Speaker 2: And I understand that part. For the Cincinnati retch.

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Speaker 6: You could put the if man costume on every single

536
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Speaker 6: player on that team.

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Speaker 5: True, it's just a reality.

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Speaker 2: True. Let's take a break, we'll come back. We'll see

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Speaker 2: if we can squeeze a call or two in before

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Speaker 2: we get to Moagar for quick hits. Next on ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, are you experiencing on one

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Speaker 2: of Achs and pain? Welcome back? Since he three to

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Speaker 2: sixty ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, We'll try to

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Speaker 2: fit in a call or two. Oh Jeff, what's going on?

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Speaker 7: Hey guys, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 4: How are you pretty good? I apologize.

548
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Speaker 7: I haven't listened all day, So if someone's already addressed this,

549
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Speaker 7: I apologize. Did I hear Austin say earlier he has

550
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Speaker 7: not seen Bull Durham?

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Speaker 4: He did?

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Speaker 2: That's correct, he did say that.

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Speaker 8: That is correct.

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Speaker 7: Okay, y'all need to step up your interview process. That

555
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Speaker 7: should not have been the first question in the interview,

556
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Speaker 7: but at least.

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Speaker 4: The third or fourth.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand how you got your job.

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Speaker 6: I don't know how I've made it this far either, Jeff,

561
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 6: I'm historically awful with movies.

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Speaker 7: That movie is full of quotes.

563
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Speaker 8: It is a classic.

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Speaker 7: But another one, another quote real quick. And if you

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Speaker 7: don't know Bulderam, you're not gonna know this one either.

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Speaker 7: But every time I watch somebody doing a press conference,

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Speaker 7: either before a game, after a game, or like Duke

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Speaker 7: the other day or whenever he did the last one,

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Speaker 7: I think of the scene in Melbrooks History of the

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Speaker 7: World Part one during the Roman Empire series. Mel Brooks

571
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Speaker 7: walks up to a window and it's the unemployment window

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Speaker 7: that's being run by b Arthur, and she goes, they

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Speaker 7: our occupation. He goes stand up philosopher. She's like what

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Speaker 7: he says, stand up philosopher and he explains what that

575
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Speaker 7: means and she goes, oh, a BS artist.

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Speaker 4: Did you be as last week?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 7: Did you try to BS last week?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 7: Well this is your last week of bsing or else

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Speaker 7: you're going to be cut off like it because most

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Speaker 7: of those most of those press conferences are just full

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Speaker 7: of dribble. They're never really probably never really going to

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Speaker 7: give you anything good to go with and I get that.

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Speaker 7: I mean that, you know, Mike Brown's not going to

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Speaker 7: hand over the keys to the empire and just let

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Speaker 7: somebody go to there and ramble on. But I mean,

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Speaker 7: I understand why they have to do them, but they

589
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Speaker 7: just don't make a whole lot of sense most of

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Speaker 7: the time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, that that's good, Jeff, Thank you for the call.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening. We appreciate that.

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Speaker 8: Guys.

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Speaker 2: We'll try to squeeze in here.

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Speaker 5: Mike. What's up?

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Speaker 8: Hey, Tom?

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Speaker 4: Thanks?

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Speaker 8: Thanks awesome. Hey, what were the top five lineups that

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Speaker 8: that guy rated? I'd like to hear the top five.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Dodgers off the top of my head. I don't

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Speaker 2: have it pulled up in front of me. Dodgers were

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Speaker 2: easily number one on the list. Number two, Uh, the

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Speaker 2: Atlanta Braves. He had the Mets at three, the Mariners

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Speaker 2: at four, and then the Blue Jays at five, and

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Speaker 2: then the Athletics at six.

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Speaker 8: Wow, wow, wow, boy, you got me good on that one. Hey,

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Speaker 8: let me ask, are the trees starting to get any

609
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Speaker 8: greenery on them? Yet?

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Speaker 5: They were covered in white today.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the most it's it's the craziest day.

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Speaker 2: We woke up this morning and the trees were covered

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Speaker 2: in snow, and by the time lunch rolled around, it

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Speaker 2: was all gone. All the snow was gone. It's insane

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Speaker 2: right now, that's Cincinnati early. It was like it was

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Speaker 2: a lot of snow too.

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Speaker 5: Like it was.

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Speaker 6: It was the most beautiful, like something out of a

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Speaker 6: Christmas movie type of snow that I can ever remember

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Speaker 6: since I've lived here. It was gorgeous. And now it's

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Speaker 6: all gone. Yea, it was four hours ago.

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Speaker 8: Like a real light powdery snow.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was short lived. It was thick and wet,

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Speaker 6: them thick flakes.

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Speaker 8: Mike, I'll be damn big player. I'll be going. They

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Speaker 8: could have seen that.

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Speaker 4: You should have too, I know it.

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Speaker 8: Although I ain't complaining about seventy four, but you shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I told you, brother, Those Gators ain't no joke.

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Speaker 2: They're good.

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Speaker 8: Ain't no joke.

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Speaker 2: They're Yeah. And there are two there are two losses

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Speaker 2: in conference. Aren't against the best teams. It was games

635
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 2: they just didn't show up when they needed to. They

636
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Speaker 2: lost against Auburn and Missouri. But all the big dogs

637
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 2: that they've come across, they've they've taken care of.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, weather at home, war on the road, and I

639
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 8: put some money down yesterday on the My on on

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Speaker 8: the NBA Finals is I'm so hot on the Pistons

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00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 8: and then Wendy and they. San Antonio has about five

642
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 8: really good guards. They are so deep at the guard spot.

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Speaker 8: I'm telling you watch.

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Speaker 2: And they defend. They defend really well. They're one of

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Speaker 2: the best defensive teams in basketball. And a lot of

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Speaker 2: that helps when you talk about having Victor Webbin Yama.

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Speaker 8: They really are. Mike Evans is talking about San Francisco,

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Speaker 8: but then he said Buffalo he'd like to play, but

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Speaker 8: it comes to colds to Tampa.

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Speaker 2: Yah.

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Speaker 8: But hey, real quick. Austin mentioned Wally Post earlier. He

652
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Speaker 8: was a study. He was kind of a stud, Austin.

653
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Speaker 8: I used to go down and watch the Reds with

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Speaker 8: my dadd at Crosley and they used to platoon Wally

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Speaker 8: Post and Gus Bell out in left field. And I

656
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Speaker 8: think Wally's lifetime bag Neres was about two sixty six.

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Speaker 8: He hit a couple hundred home runs. Gus was a

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Speaker 8: left handed hit. Her hit about two eighty one. He

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Speaker 8: had a couple of home runs. They both had about

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Speaker 8: seven hundred rbi but the real studs on that team were,

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Speaker 8: of course, we're Frank Robinson and then Veda Penson. Gordy

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Speaker 8: Coleman was the first baseman. Roy McMillan was the shortstop,

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Speaker 8: and uh and uh Gene Freeze was a third basement. Anyway,

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Speaker 8: I'm done boring people.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Mike you man have a good one. We

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Speaker 2: uh post Wally Post. We've got Mo waiting on UH

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Speaker 2: standby for us most announcement. We've got a special announcement,

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Speaker 2: and it's not Moe's reach. He has he has done

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Speaker 2: some combine measurables. Yes, we'll get to those, but a

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Speaker 2: special announcement first when we come back ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 1: Station for a quick hits on Tony Tykes.

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Speaker 2: Since all right, welcome back. Since three sixty we have

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Speaker 2: connected with Mo the Mo Wager Show coming up in

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Speaker 2: just a few moments. He will share the rest of

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Speaker 2: his combine measurables that he has taken earlier this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that in just a few moments. Before that, Mo,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're doing daily countdowns of UH days until

679
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Speaker 2: opening day, and we are uh, we're we're keeping track

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Speaker 2: of what's going on at spring training and before you

681
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Speaker 2: know it, Opening Day will be here and and all

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Speaker 2: the pageantry that surrounds that at Great American Ballpark. But

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Speaker 2: before you go into the game on opening Day, we

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Speaker 2: have a special announcement on how folks may be able

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Speaker 2: to join us and hang out with us if they

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Speaker 2: want to before the game actually has its first pitch.

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Speaker 5: Why would they not want to?

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Speaker 2: It's a great, great point, so true.

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Speaker 9: Right, I mean, why would you not want to hang

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Speaker 9: out with us before the Reds begin the march to

691
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Speaker 9: the World Series one month from today? So it's going

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Speaker 9: to be awesome. Who's in charge of making the announcement?

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Speaker 9: Which one of us?

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Speaker 5: We were all three charged with doing it?

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Speaker 9: Yes, so okay on the count of three, surprise. I'm

696
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Speaker 9: not sure anybody is going to be stunned to find

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Speaker 9: out where we are, because we are going to be

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Speaker 9: where we've been since they opened. But I'm excited to

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Speaker 9: be back. Let one of you say the name of

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Speaker 9: the location, same as in the name of the establishment.

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Speaker 5: Well, they named the show after you, Tony. Why don't

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Speaker 5: you go ahead?

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Speaker 2: Well, I know it's a block and a bridge away

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Speaker 2: from the ballpark. Yeah, are good friends at Smoke Justice

705
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Speaker 2: the home of the heater yes opening day, mo Austin

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Speaker 2: myself Smoke Justice a block and a bridge from the ballpark.

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Speaker 9: It's the one day a year, I believe, where the

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Speaker 9: three of us get to be on with each other

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Speaker 9: at the same time. Beyond like the ten minutes we

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Speaker 9: do here, so super stokes. Smoke Justice has been an

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Speaker 9: awesome partner to us. Obviously an amazing place to hang

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Speaker 9: out before games, after games. The food is terrific, the

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Speaker 9: wings are awesome. If you love smoke meat, you're absolutely

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Speaker 9: gonna love Smoke Justice. And they have been awesome to

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Speaker 9: us there across a number of different a number of

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Speaker 9: different things that we've done there. But they also have

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Speaker 9: coming up now. This is next week the Bonded Spirit

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Speaker 9: Bluegrass Festival, Yes, which they've sold most of their tickets.

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Speaker 9: They haven't sold all their tickets. This is good to

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Speaker 9: be an absolutely awesome event. It starts on the third,

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Speaker 9: which is Tuesday, and it goes clear through the seventh,

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Speaker 9: which is Saturday night. That is the main event. And

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Speaker 9: you can get tickets and you can learn more about

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Speaker 9: this event at Bondedspirit dot com. It is brought to

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Speaker 9: you by Smoke Justice and it is going to be

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Speaker 9: an incredible event, bondedspirit dot Com with great music, great food,

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Speaker 9: great times.

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Speaker 6: Steel Drivers are going to be there and they are

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Speaker 6: a couple of my I mean, they're one of my favorites,

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Speaker 6: like I've discovered them over the last year, big fan

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Speaker 6: of the steel Drivers.

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Speaker 9: Now for the opening day show, I want to send

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Speaker 9: out an invitation, if you guys don't mind, please please,

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Speaker 9: I want to invite the parents of the young man

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Speaker 9: who deface the Marty Brenneman statue because I want to

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Speaker 9: know was your young man's experience like what my experience

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Speaker 9: would have been with my parents had I done that.

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Speaker 9: Thinking about that a lot, I don't know. I look,

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Speaker 9: there are obviously kids who do far worse things at

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Speaker 9: the end of the day. Hopefully this doesn't define this guy.

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Speaker 9: But I'm I'm kind of I've been thinking about, like,

742
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Speaker 9: what would it have been like had my mom or

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Speaker 9: dad gotten the phone call, Hey, we have your son

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Speaker 9: on video. No damaging a statue of a Hall of

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Speaker 9: Fame play by play guy. I'm just I'm trying to

746
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Speaker 9: envision what life for me would have been like at

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Speaker 9: thirteen year old. The thirteen years old had my parents

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Speaker 9: gotten that phone call. So I want to hear from

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Speaker 9: the parents of that kid. The kids no longer allowed

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Speaker 9: to the ballpark, not necessarily, sure, I want to hang

751
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Speaker 9: out with the kid, let him go to school. Seems

752
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 9: like he has some things he can learn. But if

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Speaker 9: the parents want to come down to smoke justice, I'd

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Speaker 9: love to interview that.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a great point. I would have been

756
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Speaker 2: scared to death to go home after something like that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, dude, did you guys ever get paddled when you

758
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Speaker 6: were a kid?

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Speaker 5: Because I did.

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Speaker 2: Oh, there was the paddle, there was the belt, there

761
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: was the y, there was the twig or stick you

762
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Speaker 2: could go out and pick off a track. We had

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Speaker 2: a hill in our backyard that I would have to

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Speaker 2: run that I was terrified of.

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Speaker 9: We had a dad had a ruler. It wasn't used

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Speaker 9: for measuring. Dad had a ruler.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 9: And so I'm not advocating child abuse, but I just

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Speaker 9: I want to know what, Like what was the ride

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Speaker 9: home from jail, Like, what was the ride home from

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Speaker 9: the police station like for that kid? And did mom

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Speaker 9: and dad behave in the same way that my mom

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Speaker 9: and dad would have behaved. That's what I want to

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Speaker 9: know Marty's door and apologize to him. That's what the

775
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Speaker 9: punishment should have been, right, Like, come down and have

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Speaker 9: Marty lecture the kid, right, you know what? Any sort

777
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Speaker 9: of scared straight thing. Yeah, you can go to you

778
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Speaker 9: can go to Juvie for six months, or you can

779
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Speaker 9: spend an hour with Marty Brenneman just be reading you

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Speaker 9: for damaging his statue.

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Speaker 6: No thanks, you want to talk about getting taught a lesson?

782
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Speaker 6: Grand Canyon Mule the famer off the record.

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Speaker 2: What do you got coming up today?

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Speaker 10: Mo?

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Speaker 2: On your show?

786
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Speaker 5: It's arm sized day. Have you guys measured your arms? No?

787
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Speaker 2: I was in the ninety eighth percentile back in two

788
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Speaker 2: thousand and nine.

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Speaker 5: How much do you think your arms have shrunk since then?

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Speaker 2: Ooh, I don't know. Okay, they have to remeasure.

791
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Speaker 9: Well, if you call the show today, you have to

792
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Speaker 9: give us your specific It's arm measurement Day. So like

793
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Speaker 9: let's have a discussion and we'll do this today. Like

794
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Speaker 9: how much should this matter? Because there's a reason they

795
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Speaker 9: do it. There's a reason they they do the measurables.

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Speaker 9: There's a reason they check out to see how all

797
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Speaker 9: these prospects, what their arm length is, How much should

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Speaker 9: it matter and how much should it matter if ruben

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Speaker 9: Bain is there when the Bengals are on the clock

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Speaker 9: in the first round, given that they're the team that

801
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Speaker 9: has leaned into traits instead of, you know, as much

802
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Speaker 9: what they see on film. So we'll make that make

803
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Speaker 9: sense with Ruben Bain. Our guy Sam Brookhouse from a

804
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Speaker 9: Sumer Sports is at the combine. He's going to join

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Speaker 9: us at four thirty five. Looking forward to that. Dax

806
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 9: McCarty from Apple TV on FC Cincinnati. I love the

807
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Speaker 9: fact that Brendan Soresby is being sued. I don't know

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Speaker 9: if you guys heard about this what got reported yesterday

809
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Speaker 9: that you see issuing him. But today, and this comes

810
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Speaker 9: from Indianapolis, Joe Royer is going to sue Brendan Sorosby

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Speaker 9: for never throwing him the ball?

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Speaker 2: Right as well? He should?

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, poor.

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Speaker 9: Joe Royer is going to be up there in any

815
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Speaker 9: talking to NFL people, like explaining away like I was

816
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Speaker 9: always open. You know you like trades, boy, I got

817
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Speaker 9: the trades. Yeah, but where are the catches? Well, the

818
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 9: dudes at Texas Tech now collecting five mil. He's got

819
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Speaker 9: to be in court. Maybe I can piggyback on that

820
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Speaker 9: hire the same lawyer, and Sue Brendan for never throwing

821
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Speaker 9: me the football.

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Speaker 2: There is a lot of reasons I wanted to be

823
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Speaker 2: at the combine me perhaps none more than for you

824
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Speaker 2: and I. We could have just stood by Joe Royer

825
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Speaker 2: and offered our opinion on Joe Royer to the crowds.

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Speaker 2: You know what, Joe a lot of answer that. Let

827
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Speaker 2: us answer that one. We'll take this one.

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Speaker 5: He could have got more catches today.

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Speaker 9: I could have thrown him a ball and said, there

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Speaker 9: you go, Joe, there's your one catch per game. There's

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Speaker 9: one catch per day that you got in college. Chad

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Speaker 9: Brendle's gonna join us to talk about this, coming up

833
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Speaker 9: at three forty five. Justin Vive, who as soon to

834
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Speaker 9: be the all time leading point scorer for the Cincinnati Cyclones,

835
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Speaker 9: is going to talk hockey with us coming up at

836
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Speaker 9: five twenty and uh, it's gonna be a fun show.

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Speaker 2: Well, we hope you enjoy all of that, Mo and

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Speaker 2: we look forward to talking again tomorrow. By the way,

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Speaker 2: what did you make of Yukon and Saint John's last night?

840
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, have the Patinos collectively ever taken a

841
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 2: lost that band combined forty two points.

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Speaker 9: Well, I mean the Xavier game, and they made it

843
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 9: close ish, But I'm I had an eye on the

844
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Speaker 9: Saint John's game, which, by the way, if you bought

845
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 9: Peacocks specifically for that last night, you should use your

846
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Speaker 9: money back. And I'm thinking the same thing, like, are

847
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 9: Richard and Rick go to lose by a combined seventy points?

848
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Speaker 9: Man a rough night for both? Yeah, a rough night

849
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 9: for Richard at Providence and a rough night for Rick,

850
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Speaker 9: whose postgame press conference lasted well like admitted in ten seconds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting interesting stuff. MO, have a great show. We'll

852
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: talk again tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: I can't wait. Thanks guys.

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Speaker 2: That is mowagar arm length day. This has been since

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Speaker 2: he three to sixty again. Make your opening day plans

856
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Speaker 2: now to join MO and Austin and myself I smoke justice.

857
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 2: No better place to be get the plans set.

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Speaker 5: Now you get to meet people like Marcus.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you there.

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Speaker 6: Maybe Reverend Richard Brewery brewing, Wow, come back?

861
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Speaker 2: Maybe someone, maybe someone will climb the bourbon ladder. Hank

862
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,479
Speaker 2: Hill was there last year. Who will climb this year's

863
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Speaker 2: bourbon ladder?

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Speaker 5: Oh my lord, it's.

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Speaker 2: Sincy three to sixty. Have a great rest of your Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Mowager is next on the Home of the Bengals, ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.

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