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Speaker 2: He's got the call tomorrow FC Cincinnati and Atlanta. We've

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Speaker 2: games in Goodyear the Bengals. Next week's going to be interesting.

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Speaker 2: Duke Tobin's gonna talk again, Zach Taylor's going to talk

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Speaker 2: to coordinators. And next week is when we start to

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Speaker 2: flip the page to the twenty twenty six season, and

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Speaker 2: it's gathering intel about draft prospects. It's maybe seeing what

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Speaker 2: the market could be if the Bengals do apply the

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Speaker 2: tag to Trey Hendrickson. One of the topics that's going

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Speaker 2: to be discussed in Indie for a lot of different

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Speaker 2: teams is Max Crosby, who the Raiders apparently have set

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Speaker 2: Max Crosby is awesome. The Raiders aren't liquidating him, They're

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Speaker 2: Now are the Bengals interested?

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Speaker 2: Your guess is as good as mine. I do know

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Speaker 2: that Max Crosby and the Bengals that potential will go

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Speaker 2: with potential relationship was kind of kicked in a hyperdrive

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Speaker 2: Andrew Whitworth and Ryan Fitzpatrick do a podcast and it's

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Speaker 2: for the Bengals to go trade for Max Crosby. Our

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Speaker 2: friend Danner Junior of the Athletic Rites a really good

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Speaker 2: piece where he presents the pros and the cons. The

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Speaker 2: it would cost a lot. It would cost a lot

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Speaker 2: of money. Max Crosby's salary cap hit is roughly thirty

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Speaker 2: One of the most annoying things you can do in life,

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Speaker 1: Should the Max?

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Speaker 2: You ask, should the the Bengals trade for Max Crosby,

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Speaker 2: I'll answer it with a question, And the question is

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Speaker 2: the entire thing. But like he writes this in the

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Speaker 2: con part of his piece, the downside, there needs to

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Speaker 2: be concerned about raising the floor more than the ceiling.

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Speaker 2: Feel free to do both. But the Bengals can't go

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Speaker 2: forward with bargain basement replacements in the starting lineup, trotting

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Speaker 2: Because acquiring Max Crosby, who's a younger, better version of

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Speaker 2: here with the Bengals on their starting caliber players. Can

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Speaker 2: the defense and get Max Crosby. The answer may be yes,

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Speaker 2: Crosby helps. He does not help the interior pass rush.

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Speaker 2: the question about whether or not they should acquire Max Crosby,

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Speaker 2: So right now, it's not that what the Bengals have

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Speaker 2: get Max Crosby. He would occupy a significant chunk of money.

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Speaker 2: Let's face that the Bengals track record is not one

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Speaker 1: You're gonna throw a lot of money at one guy, You're.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: What an unbelievable college basketball weekend we have in front of.

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Speaker 1: Us, Just.

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Speaker 2: Forget all the off court issues the sport has right now.

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Speaker 1: Overall. We talked before about the Bearcats.

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Speaker 2: Beat somebody good on the road. Miami plays tonight, and

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Speaker 2: the schedule is more attention, more eyeballs, more scrutiny, and frankly,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I would say I've ever been excited.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember a season in my lifetime, Bob where

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Speaker 4: Hey, mo, two of our pitchers, one of them can

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Speaker 4: Well, he said Richard, but call me Dick for short,

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Speaker 4: All right, well, hey, good speaking with you, Bob.

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Speaker 1: It's nice to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: Katie is with us. What's up?

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Speaker 4: Mo?

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Speaker 1: It's an honor to be here. Man. I always wants

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Speaker 5: With that Cincinnati versus Kansas game, Now you guys get

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Speaker 1: Every time he does well. If Darren plays, maybe he'll

438
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Speaker 1: pull himself out. We'll see. You never know, Bearcats.

439
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Speaker 2: Cats could could use win against a good team, whether

440
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Speaker 2: or not Darren Peterson plays.

441
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Speaker 1: How are you welcome to town. I'm doing great. It's

442
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Speaker 1: nice to get here a little early.

443
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Speaker 5: I actually got to go to training today, talk to

444
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Speaker 5: Pat Noonan and some of the guys for a little bit.

445
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Speaker 5: And and when I got my schedule to start the

446
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 5: season and I saw us coming to Cincinnati, I got

447
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 5: fired up because you guys have one of the best

448
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 5: fan bases, one of the best atmosphere.

449
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Speaker 1: Probably sounds like pandering, but that's that's the truth. We

450
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: agree in all of Major League soccer.

451
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Speaker 5: And so you know, as a broadcaster, you want to

452
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 5: go to places where it matters, places where there's an

453
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Speaker 5: intensity amongst the fan base, a good atmosphere. Pat Nowton

454
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Speaker 5: said that today at his news conference. He said they

455
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Speaker 5: asked him what he was most excited about. He said,

456
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Speaker 5: getting back in front of the fans and feeling that energy.

457
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Speaker 5: You feel it, you feel it in that building.

458
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Speaker 2: It's interesting because one of the talking points from Chris

459
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 2: Albright this offseason was well things kind of got stale.

460
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Speaker 2: And I don't think that was a shot at the fans.

461
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Speaker 2: It was a shot at the fact that at home

462
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Speaker 2: last year they left a little to be desired.

463
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And and their game against Atlanta United is an

464
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Speaker 5: example of that. Atlanta was a bad team last year

465
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Speaker 5: and they didn't beat him either time they played him,

466
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Speaker 5: including in this place. And I had a chance to

467
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Speaker 5: call a few games here over the past two years

468
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Speaker 5: in which the results were not what.

469
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Speaker 1: You would have expected coming in.

470
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Speaker 5: You know, you thought Cincinnati should have been the favorite

471
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Speaker 5: in those games, and they didn't always come away with

472
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Speaker 5: a win. But I was here for the Lucho a

473
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Speaker 5: cost to return and that was one of the more

474
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Speaker 5: memorable matches I've ever covered because of the fans in

475
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 5: that one, they let him have it. It shook him

476
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Speaker 5: and and I think that really stood out. So I

477
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Speaker 5: think it's going to be obviously. I mean, it's the opener.

478
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Speaker 5: Everybody's got to be fired up. I would think right now.

479
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Speaker 1: Would think so.

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Speaker 2: And we've talked about this a lot. I talked about

481
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Speaker 2: this with your partner Devin Curry yesterday. You go back

482
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Speaker 2: to a year ago and the season starting and it

483
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,239
Speaker 2: kind of felt like, good, there's a game, because there

484
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 2: was all this stuff swirling around the team, the Lutuacosta thing.

485
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Speaker 2: You know, they go and get a Vander and it's like, well,

486
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 2: hell's that going to work. They had players who didn't

487
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Speaker 2: ShW up for preseason training. It just it felt like

488
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 2: there was a lot of upheaval and this year serene

489
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Speaker 2: by comparison. That can't help but be anything but a

490
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Speaker 2: good thing. Talking to Pat noon ad heesher feels like

491
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Speaker 2: it is.

492
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Speaker 5: I mean, that was the first thing he brought up

493
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Speaker 5: when I asked him, how are you feeling about this

494
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Speaker 5: season going into it? And that's exactly what he pointed out.

495
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Speaker 5: Nobody's holding out, nobody's demanding out. You know, most our

496
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 5: guys are healthy. We've had a chance to train together

497
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Speaker 5: for a while and implement some of these new ideas.

498
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Speaker 5: You mentioned, the idea of being a little stale. I

499
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 5: think a lot of that's in the attack right. They

500
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Speaker 5: want to find a way to create more chances for

501
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Speaker 5: players to score and not just rely on dank A

502
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 5: being amazing in an individual moment or Evander being you know,

503
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 5: incredible in an individual moment. But they got to create

504
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 5: some more chances outside of that, and it's a lot

505
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 5: easier to develop some of those things if you actually

506
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Speaker 5: have all your players up in lockstep.

507
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Speaker 2: I think that's an observation that folks have made, even

508
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Speaker 2: going back to when Luco was here, that you know,

509
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 2: those are great individual players, but at times it feels

510
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: like the attack is depends on those guys a little

511
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 2: bit too much.

512
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I mean, like to use a basketball analogy,

513
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 5: it's almost like give it, give it to Jordan and

514
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 5: let them create, you know, as opposed to let's get

515
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 5: some good ball movement. Let's you know, let's let's make

516
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 5: some easy baskets for ourselves. Boy, XG you got thrown

517
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 5: around a lot when Chris Albright talked at the end

518
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 5: of last year, right, and and XG is a polarizing

519
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 5: term in the soccer world because it's, uh, are we

520
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 5: just starting to talk about math problems and things like

521
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 5: that now? But I think that the point that they're

522
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 5: saying is we've got to get the ball inside the

523
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 5: penalty area a little bit more. They've got to get

524
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 5: a better connection between denk a. Here's here's a number

525
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 5: for you that my guy John at Cincinnati helped me

526
00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 5: look up today. There were only five occasions last year

527
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 5: year where either dank A assisted a goal to Evander

528
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 5: or a Vander assisted a goal to dank kdan K

529
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 5: set up Evander for one goal last year, Wow, and

530
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Speaker 5: Evander did it four times for dan K.

531
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Speaker 1: And these are two MVP caliber players.

532
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And it doesn't sound like it's because they don't

533
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 5: like each other or anything like that.

534
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: They just have to be more aware of one another and.

535
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 5: What they're each good at, and where they want the

536
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 5: ball and how to get them the ball. That's obviously

537
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 5: been a big point of emphasis. So I'm gonna be

538
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 5: looking for that connection tomorrow.

539
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 2: For sure, only one team can win an MLS Cup.

540
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 2: But you know, I go back to a couple of

541
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 2: years ago, they lose a heartbreaker to Columbus in the

542
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Speaker 2: Eastern Final, and I felt like that cast a paul

543
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Speaker 2: over the entire offseason. Do you think that did that

544
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Speaker 2: with the way they were just manhandled against Miami last year?

545
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Speaker 1: Did that Do you feel like they've moved on?

546
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 2: Do you feel like they've you know, turned the page

547
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: quickly or is that something that could sort of hover

548
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Speaker 2: over the sort of the season.

549
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Speaker 1: I think of those two.

550
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Speaker 5: Results very differently. You're closer to the situation in many

551
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Speaker 5: ways than I am. But as I look at them

552
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 5: from the outside, I say that first one cast to

553
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 5: Paul because if I remember quickly, that was the Matt

554
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 5: Mioska suspended because he got in trouble.

555
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 1: With uh, you know, and and the winning the game

556
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: to nothing.

557
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so more like it that was our moment

558
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 5: and we let it slip away. We're also Columbus, Yeah,

559
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 5: and it's rival this one last year. I almost think

560
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 5: it's it's it's it could be a long term, a

561
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 5: good thing, because I don't think you're having the conversation

562
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 5: from Chris Albright and the organization about how we need

563
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 5: and they made a change in the coaching staff, right,

564
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 5: and a change in the approach. I don't think they

565
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 5: do that unless they have that result where it's like, Okay,

566
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 5: here's the standard now and you've got to get to

567
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 5: this if you want to win that trophy. So I

568
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 5: think the one two years ago it's more like, oh,

569
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 5: darn it, we shot ourselves in the foot. We screwed

570
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 5: it up when we had it. I think last year

571
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 5: it was more like, all, we need to get better

572
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 5: if we want to be able to win that trophy.

573
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 5: So we've got to change something, and they didn't really.

574
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Speaker 5: They changed a little bit of personnel, but not any

575
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Speaker 5: big names.

576
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Speaker 1: Nothing.

577
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I think it's more about let's change the

578
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 5: way we go about things in the attack a little

579
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 5: bit and see if we can get better in that regard.

580
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Speaker 2: I think of that night and I just remember thinking, like,

581
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Speaker 2: the FC Cincinnati guys look like they're in awe of

582
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 2: Messi and I just they just look like they look

583
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 2: like bystanders more than competitors that night, which to me

584
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 2: is what was most disappointing.

585
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Speaker 5: It's it's the most remarkable thing I've had. I think

586
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 5: four times now I've been able to watch Messi in person.

587
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 5: And this might be a weird analogy to you, but

588
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 5: it's only one I could come up with the first

589
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 5: time I saw him.

590
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Speaker 1: It's like watching Prince and Concert. Wow. Where And the

591
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: reason I say.

592
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 5: That I saw Prince and Concert three times in my life,

593
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Speaker 5: I was a pretty big fan when he when it

594
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 5: was his turn to play like a solo or something,

595
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 5: all of the other world class musicians on stage would

596
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 5: watch him in awe like their world class at what

597
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 5: they do. Yet they're still in awe of this man.

598
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 5: And when Messi is involved, that's what happens. Every He

599
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 5: just seems to draw the energy and attention of every

600
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Speaker 5: single person in the building, even the players in around

601
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 5: his own players get better.

602
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: He's got it.

603
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 5: Let me make mine Let me you know, I better

604
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 5: be on the on point here with my past to him,

605
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 5: or else Messi's going to be mad at me. Everybody

606
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 5: just seems to kind of uh snap to attention when

607
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 5: they're around him. So Cincinnati is not the only team

608
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 5: that's had that happen.

609
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 2: We've we've had Messi in Major League Soccer now for

610
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 2: a while and when he when he joined the league,

611
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: we all talked about his potential impact. Obviously, he's had

612
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 2: an impact on the league, they won the thing last year.

613
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 2: But beyond that, where's where have you seen, as somebody

614
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: who's close to the league and go around the country,

615
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 2: where's his impact been felt the most in Major League Soccer?

616
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Speaker 5: I think it's in what I mentioned earlier about Cincinnati

617
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 5: and that it's set a new bar for where everybody

618
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 5: else knows they have to get.

619
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Speaker 1: Now in the league.

620
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Speaker 5: You know, I use Atlanta United, the upcoming opponent for

621
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 5: Cincinnati as an example, I've been doing some appearances on

622
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 5: their media this week and I've told them, you know, look,

623
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 5: your team when they came into the league set a

624
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 5: new standard for what it was going to take to compete.

625
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 5: They you're a juggernaut right in twenty eighteen, back when

626
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 5: Tatsa Martinez was there the first time, ago Almirn was

627
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 5: there the first time, and those were guys that you

628
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 5: hadn't seen coming into the league up until that point.

629
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 5: And they changed the money a little bit and then

630
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 5: every but and I think the Atlanta fans thought, well,

631
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 5: this is how it's gonna be. You know, we're gonna

632
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,719
Speaker 5: just roll through this league. We're gonna be the big dogs.

633
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 5: And then all of a sudden, other teams like LAFC

634
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 5: got involved and said, oh, we can spend money like that,

635
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 5: and that raised the level. Well, now Messi's here, and

636
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 5: that raises it to a different level and makes people

637
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 5: thinking that. And obviously you get sun young men coming

638
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 5: into LAFC, and I think with the World Cup coming

639
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 5: this summer, you're going to see another influx of teams

640
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 5: around the league going Okay, if we want to really compete,

641
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 5: we're gonna have to and look, Kevin Danke, I think

642
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 5: is an example of that.

643
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: I mean the money they spent on him.

644
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 5: So to me, the biggest impact apart from the eyeballs

645
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 5: coming to the league is that it's it's kind of

646
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 5: setting the tone for everybody else that this is where

647
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 5: the league needs to go.

648
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 2: Right. A Bukt is with us MLSC some past Apple

649
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 2: TV tomorrow four forty five f C Cincinnati hosting Atlanta.

650
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 2: Major League Soccer is going to change its calendar and

651
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 2: about a year and a half.

652
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: We're a fan of that. He's a good.

653
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 5: Massively a fan of it. Yeah, I have debates with

654
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 5: people about it. I know that the northern city's are

655
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 5: not as thrilled about it. I come from Kansas City,

656
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 5: where when we when when you start the season it's

657
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 5: miserably cold, then in the middle of the season it's

658
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 5: miserably hot, and then at the end it's cold again.

659
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 5: It's gonna flip around, and I would tell you I

660
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 5: would rather have the good weather at the beginning and

661
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 5: end of the season, particularly the end when teams are

662
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 5: playing for a championship and not going up against football

663
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 5: with rules today, it sucks all the oxygen out of

664
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 5: the room. You don't want your playoffs going on against

665
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 5: college and pro football.

666
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: But more importantly, the transfer windows.

667
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 5: And you probably have heard this conversation, but you know,

668
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 5: Tatsa Martino, we were just talking with him, you know,

669
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 5: getting ready for this Atlanta and I He's said, look,

670
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 5: you can't build teams in the middle of the summer,

671
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 5: but that is the main transfer window for all the

672
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 5: other clubs in the world. So when you want to

673
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 5: do business, you want to buy a player. Those guys

674
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 5: are like, we're not gonna sell our best player in

675
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 5: the middle of a good season, right or you know,

676
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 5: and vice versa. Teams in MLS get stuck with this

677
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 5: conundrum of we're having a great year, but we got

678
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 5: this asset. The teams in Europe want to pay twenty

679
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 5: million dollars for it. If we don't sell them now,

680
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 5: we can't get it. So in the middle of a

681
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,239
Speaker 5: season you got to sell your best player. That just

682
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 5: is not good for business. It's not good for the

683
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 5: fans either, because they're getting all excited then all of

684
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 5: a sudden, you sell your best player. So I think

685
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 5: that's the biggest reason it's going to be a really

686
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 5: good move. And the way I look at it is,

687
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 5: take a little break in the winter time and they

688
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 5: play games. I mean, look, you think it's nice in

689
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 5: Minnesota right now, now, It's.

690
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: Not gonna be nice in Minnesota for three months.

691
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, so you know you're gonna have to

692
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 5: deal with weather challenges in a in a footprint as

693
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 5: big as MLS as You're gonna have weather challenges no

694
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 5: matter what.

695
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 2: I just think, you know, running concurren to the NFL.

696
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 2: You live in an NFL city, one that we hate.

697
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: But that's neither here nor there. But like you know,

698
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: even in the postseason last year, they're playing Columbus, they're

699
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: playing Miami, and the Bengals are playing the University of

700
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 2: Cincinnati is playing college basketball is just starting. And it

701
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: just I don't want to say it gets buried. It does,

702
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 2: but like it just it gets lost in the shuffle sometimes.

703
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: And and to me, you're your your most important games

704
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 2: should should have a larger stage.

705
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 5: I mean, I use that phrase. It the NFL sucks

706
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 5: the oxygen out of the room. It's the only sport

707
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 5: in the United States that I think Major League Soccer

708
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 5: just can't go toe to toe with.

709
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's more popular than.

710
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 5: The NBA or baseball, although there are reports out there

711
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 5: these days that show that it's up there in terms

712
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 5: of people listing soccer as being as asa toil baseball

713
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 5: goes away for a year, I'm not gonna be fun,

714
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 5: but you know, But but football, Yeah, football is the

715
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 5: one thing I mean looking in Kansas City. Obviously the

716
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 5: Chiefs have really taken it over, but when they're winning

717
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 5: Super Bowl, all of a sudden, Kansas basketball doesn't even

718
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 5: have the same cachet that it does until the football

719
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 5: season's over with. So you're right, and and the flip side,

720
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 5: you play these games in May, you play in your

721
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 5: MLS Cup final in May. It's okay to go up

722
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 5: against a regular season baseball game. Even if people love baseball.

723
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,479
Speaker 5: It's a regular season game. It's one of one hundred

724
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 5: and sixty two. There's not that urgency to watch. So yeah,

725
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 5: I think it's better for all reasons. Speaking of Kansas City,

726
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 5: you've written a book. You guys are getting World Cup matches.

727
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 5: We tried, we're not getting a but you you've written

728
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 5: a book about Kansas City, the World Cup and how

729
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:33,919
Speaker 5: as you put it.

730
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: It's become the heart of American soccer. That's right.

731
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 5: It's called perfect pitch. How Kansas City became the heart

732
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 5: of American soccer and won the World Cup. And I

733
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 5: would my appeal, if you're from Cincinnati, go well, I

734
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 5: already hate Kansas City.

735
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: Whatever I want to write that book, I get it.

736
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 5: Here's here's my thirty second elevator pitch to someone Cincinnati.

737
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 5: My my Uber driver out to the training facility today,

738
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 5: showed up in a big FC Cincinnati hat and ticket

739
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 5: holder since the stadium opened. We had a long talk

740
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 5: about what a great atmosphere it is here, and I

741
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 5: told him this Kansas City is nothing more than a

742
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 5: microcosm of Middle American soccer growth. And I'm just using

743
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 5: Kansas City because I know that story the best, and

744
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 5: because the World Cup's coming there to really tell the

745
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 5: story to the rest of the world about how soccer

746
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 5: came to be a real culturally vibrant thing in the

747
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 5: United States.

748
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: And I think Cincinnati is a perfect example of that. Right.

749
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but for me, growing up

750
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 5: in Kansas City, it was kind of a niche thing.

751
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 5: When I was a little kid, there was an indoor

752
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 5: soccer team, and you know, kids played youth soccer until

753
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 5: they got old enough to play other sports. But because

754
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 5: of some really diehard fans that fought hard for it,

755
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 5: and some visionary leaders like Lamar Hunt, who is responsible

756
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 5: as anybody for bringing soccer to America, and the owners

757
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,439
Speaker 5: that decided to invest in a real stadium that people

758
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 5: could that the fans can feel proud of. All of

759
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 5: a sudden it became a booming thing. That's the story

760
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 5: in Cincinnati, right, And I think I want people that

761
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 5: come to the United States for this World Cup to

762
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 5: realize there is a vibrant soccer culture in this country.

763
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 5: It might not be like theirs is, but in some

764
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 5: ways it's just as impressive, if not more so, because

765
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 5: they don't have to fight for soccer in their places.

766
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 5: You know, the people that love soccer and Cincinnati have

767
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 5: had to fight for it, right and then they had

768
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 5: to suffer through three wooden spoons and all that, and

769
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 5: they're still here and I think they deserve credit for

770
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 5: what it took to make soccer relevant in this market.

771
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 5: And so yeah, if you get a chance, it's a

772
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 5: short read, it's only one hundred and ninety pages. It's

773
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 5: got some incredible stories about just the history of how

774
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 5: The supporter shield was invented by a fan who was

775
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 5: a sophomore in college at the University of Kansas. Literally

776
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 5: raised two thousand bucks on a national nerdy soccer campaign

777
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 5: and had a gallon of his art class design it

778
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 5: for two thousand dollars worth a piece of metal that

779
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 5: was the original supporter shield. Now they got a big

780
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 5: fancy one that they give out because the original was stolen,

781
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 5: by the way, and no one knows where it is. Really, Yeah,

782
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 5: that's that's apparently.

783
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 1: So somebody is walking around with around with the guys.

784
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm not going to throw any you know.

785
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 5: Eating general off to you know, like, yeah, there's there's

786
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 5: stories from the big guys like Lamar Hunt, who's got

787
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 5: the US Open Cup trophy named after him and who

788
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 5: brought soccer to America in many ways in Kansas City,

789
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 5: but also stories about the average fan who just decided,

790
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 5: you know, I want to make something special. We need

791
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 5: to make something to honor the best supporter shield that

792
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 5: you guys want a couple of years ago. Yes, if

793
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 5: you like stories like that, I think you'll like the books.

794
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 5: So it's it's called perfect Pitch. I'd love it if

795
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 5: people would. You can pre order it right now. It'll

796
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 5: be out May twenty six, right in time to get

797
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 5: you ready for the World Cup.

798
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: Well, we're jealous.

799
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: We're jealous of a lot of things here for a

800
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 2: lot of different perspectives. But we're jealous of the fact

801
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 2: you guys are World Cup matches because we we held

802
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 2: out hope. M sure, I realistically thought we were gonna

803
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 2: get World Cup matches.

804
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 5: I'm afraid we were competing against each other that one,

805
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 5: you know, because obviously New York and LA and Miami

806
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 5: they're all getting it. They know they're going to get

807
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 5: the world they don't even have to try, right, Places

808
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 5: like Cincinnati Kansas City got to fight with each other,

809
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 5: you know, and unfortunately that's what happened. So come to

810
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 5: Kansas City for the World Cup. You can stay at

811
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 5: my place. Oh I gotta really gow up, mattress. Yeah, okay,

812
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 5: that's fine, that's fine.

813
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 2: The last time I was in Kansas City was that

814
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 2: second AFC Championship game, and I still can't feel my toes.

815
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: So you know, so, yeah, was that the one you

816
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: guys got us? That was the one we lost?

817
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 2: Okay, the one, the first one I didn't get to

818
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 2: go to the second one I went to and I

819
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 2: remember this when the Bengals got that.

820
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: We talk about this all the time.

821
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 2: Bengals get the ball a little bit more than two

822
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 2: minutes to go, and I remember this sound in the

823
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 2: stadium where it's like, holy crap, this is gonna happen again.

824
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: And then you know the rest is history. But yeah,

825
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: it was.

826
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 2: I went in twenty eighteen, was the first time I

827
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 2: went to a Chiefs game. The Bengals played there on

828
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 2: a Sunday night and got destroyed. And it was year

829
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: one of Mahomes late October, and it was like, oh boy,

830
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 2: this is about to take off and it did so

831
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 2: yeahs Marvin Lewis was still our coach, so it.

832
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: Was a little bit different.

833
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 5: Hey man, it's uh, what's gonna happen with I mean,

834
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 5: is he gonna get it?

835
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: You know, like, uh we you.

836
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: Know, if they're if they're better this year, then chances

837
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 2: are everything's going to be fine. If the year go

838
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 2: sideways again, then he's gonna want out. I wouldn't stun anybody.

839
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to hear that. I will get people mad

840
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 2: at me for saying right.

841
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 5: Decided to me to bring up I gotta be careful here.

842
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 5: You know, I think he's incredible, and uh, I mean

843
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 5: I think the best those are the best rivalry. That's

844
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 5: like the best rivalry the Chiefs have had.

845
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: I like these in sports.

846
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 2: I like organic rivalries that are born out of commonalty

847
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: and great games. And that's what happened with the Bengals

848
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 2: and Chiefs. So hopefully it's revitalized down the road because

849
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 2: both teams were obviously down this year.

850
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 5: Enjoy the match tomorrow, have a great call. Hey, thanks, Hey,

851
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 5: thanks for having me on the show. And that offer

852
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 5: stands you come to town for the World Cup. Let

853
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 5: me know, and just just one last plug. You know,

854
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 5: Apple TV, you're not free. It's not MLS Season passing anymore.

855
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 5: It's on TV. Yes, obviously it's gonna be a great

856
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 5: atmosphere there and and a lot of good stories lines

857
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 5: in this game as well. Right lot, the guy that

858
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 5: broke Nick Haglin's ribs is coming back into the building too,

859
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 5: Oh yeahs since they played each other. And I'm a

860
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 5: little interested to hear what kind of reception he gets in.

861
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 2: This I just hope he stays away from Nick. Nick's

862
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 2: had a hard go, but man.

863
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: He's surprised if his teammates have a little something to

864
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 1: say for him too. I don't know.

865
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: Nick can go over here, and Nick's teammates can enforce

866
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 2: because we finally got Nick healthy and keep him healthy.

867
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 5: You know, he's a Cincinnati guy, so he's he to me.

868
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 5: He represents the club as well as anybody.

869
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 2: Yeah no, in the city, as well as anybody. I

870
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 2: can't thank you enough. Come next time you're in town.

871
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 2: Now you have to come up and visit in studio.

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Speaker 2: I love to man, this is a great studio. You

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Speaker 2: gotta get set up here. It's not bad. It's it

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Speaker 2: has its it has its charm, yes, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: It is. We are way late, tarn I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: Four from five o'clock, natebe Katie Tomorrow mls the game

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Speaker 2: on Apple TV. He has the call with Devin Curve

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Speaker 2: four forty five. Is the kick a little bit earlier

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Speaker 2: than usual?

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Speaker 1: There you go. Four from five o'clock.

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Speaker 2: This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty Traffic.

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Speaker 3: From the UC Health Traffic Center. Around forty percent of

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Speaker 3: cancers are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference.

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Speaker 3: Call five one three five eighty five UCCC col Rain

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Speaker 3: is now completely shut down due to an accident between

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Speaker 3: Bahama Terrace and North Bend Road northbound seventy five. New

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Speaker 3: accident in at Union Center Boulevard on the left shoulder

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Speaker 3: right now a two to three minute delay from two

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Speaker 3: to seventy five on the Ohio side. I'm at ezelic

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Speaker 3: with traffic.

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