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Speaker 2: Welcome in RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet
Speaker 2: Avliance Havelister. How you doing, Thanks for making your way here.
Speaker 2: We've got two hours to get it done tonight. I
Speaker 2: can tell you upfront. Coming up at about fifteen minutes,
Speaker 2: we're going to start some pretty in depth Kyle Schwerber
Speaker 2: conversation and reaction on your part to what is transpired
Speaker 2: over the last twenty four hours or so. And then
Speaker 2: we'll have a fun topic we'll toss in in the
Speaker 2: eight o'clock hour as well. But let's start first right here.
Speaker 2: My first guest is from Middletown. No, he's not Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2: He created something really cool though, years ago, the MLB
Speaker 2: Ballpark Passport. Think of a book to officially stamp your
Speaker 2: visit to a ballpark. Well, this idea, this product has
Speaker 2: grown so big and has had such an impact on
Speaker 2: baseball fans across the country that the Baseball Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame has voted to induct the original first print of
Speaker 2: the Major League Baseball Ballpark Passport to be put on
Speaker 2: display in the museum. And I said, how cool is that?
Speaker 2: Because I had this next guest on way back when
Speaker 2: let's find out all about it. Welcome in, Tim Barks.
Speaker 2: How are you, hey, Lan?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I am fantastic.
Speaker 3: Let's do this.
Speaker 2: Let's backtrack a little bit for those who may not
Speaker 2: know of the idea, just kind of describe the passport,
Speaker 2: what it looks like and how it works.
Speaker 4: Well back in twenty ten, I had the idea, you
Speaker 4: know of in the recording your memories and your visits
Speaker 4: to the ballparks. And when I got back, you know,
Speaker 4: I had the prototype made and and everything, and I
Speaker 4: called up Phil Cassolini of the Reds and said, hey, Phil,
Speaker 4: I got this pretty neat idea. I want to show
Speaker 4: you so what you think And he said, sure, Tim,
Speaker 4: come on down to the ballpark. And so he loved it,
Speaker 4: and he took it to Major League Baseball at the
Speaker 4: winter meetings.
Speaker 3: That was fifteen years ago. Wow.
Speaker 4: And and he came back and called me and said, Tim,
Speaker 4: come on down to the ballpark. We have a conference
Speaker 4: call with MLB. They love your idea. And the rest
Speaker 4: is history. And that year it was the Red Season Passport,
Speaker 4: which if you recall I was on your show prior
Speaker 4: to opening day discussing the first book, and I know.
Speaker 3: Casey had one and he got one to use, and.
Speaker 4: You know, we were all such short notice that we
Speaker 4: didn't have a chance to design and make the MLB
Speaker 4: Ballpark Passport Book, which was for visiting all thirty ballparks,
Speaker 4: and so that's what we did, you know, the whole
Speaker 4: summer and in winter was creating and developing that book
Speaker 4: for release in twenty twelve. And I just want to
Speaker 4: say real quick that without Phil Casilini, none of this
Speaker 4: ever would have happened, because he took that to MLB
Speaker 4: on his on the cord, had an offline meeting with
Speaker 4: MLB and Phil just you know, it never the day
Speaker 4: of light they've had it been for him.
Speaker 3: I just want to tell him thanks, if he's listening.
Speaker 2: And Tim, if I remember correctly, this all kind of
Speaker 2: popped into your head because you you had kind of
Speaker 2: a quest to visit. You wanted to visit all thirty
Speaker 2: Major League parks to begin with.
Speaker 4: Correct, Yes, I was already doing it. I was already
Speaker 4: doing it. And uh I drove to uh the Arctic
Speaker 4: Circle back in twenty ten and we'd already been to
Speaker 4: a number of ballparks, and and of course, you know,
Speaker 4: watching the Reds play as much as we could on
Speaker 4: the road, and uh, you know when you drive to Alaska,
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, a lot of time to think. And
Speaker 4: I started thinking about growing up with the big Red
Speaker 4: machine when I was, you know, thirteen years old in
Speaker 4: the seventy five, and I said, you know, I've got
Speaker 4: no memories at all, no ticket stubs, nothing, no anything
Speaker 4: to remember all the visits that I had, you know,
Speaker 4: to the ballpark with my with my dad and brothers
Speaker 4: and sisters and in church groups and youth groups and things,
Speaker 4: and I had nothing. And I said, I want to
Speaker 4: throw something out there. And I would get back to
Speaker 4: the hotel and I'd do some search, you know, on
Speaker 4: my phone online and couldn't find anything. And so it's
Speaker 4: just amazing that you know, a guy from Middletown had
Speaker 4: an idea. Yeah, and you know that I went with
Speaker 4: and you know, I was the first one to come
Speaker 4: up with this idea for baseball in pathboards and so tim.
Speaker 2: If if someone has a passport, say they order the
Speaker 2: passport from you kind of walks like when you walk
Speaker 2: into a stadium, what happens or how is it used?
Speaker 2: Explain it for someone who might not understand it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you have the book, and so inside the
Speaker 4: book it lists all what we call them validation stations
Speaker 4: at all the Major League ballparks.
Speaker 3: And so what happens when fan comes.
Speaker 4: In they look inside their book, they see where the
Speaker 4: valuation stations are located inside the ballpark. There's multiple locations
Speaker 4: at all thirty stadiums, and so like the red for example,
Speaker 4: the Reds have I think seven or eight different stamping
Speaker 4: locations listed and Dodger Stadium has like ten. So it
Speaker 4: was grown from one, you know, from one stamping location
Speaker 4: for ballpark to you know, seven, eight, nine, tens stamping locations.
Speaker 3: It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 4: And so fans will present their book and they'll ask
Speaker 4: for the stamp, and they'll turn to their you know,
Speaker 4: to to the team page in the book, and uh,
Speaker 4: the staff will roll the date to the date that
Speaker 4: you're there, and they'll hand you the stamp and you'll
Speaker 4: ink it up, test it, then stamp your book and
Speaker 4: it has the name of the ballpark, city, Stton, zip
Speaker 4: code to the ballpark and then the date you were there.
Speaker 4: And so once you stamp that it's ink the paper,
Speaker 4: it's there forever.
Speaker 2: Tell me the Hall of Fame news. Tell me how
Speaker 2: you got the news, and tell me how exciting this is.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was so unreal.
Speaker 4: I've been thinking for a while because you know, next
Speaker 4: year is the fifteenth year of the MLB ball Park
Speaker 4: Passport Book. We released it at the All Star Game
Speaker 4: in Kansas City in twenty twelve, and we only took
Speaker 4: you know, we brought like something like, you know, one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty one hundred and seventy five books, and
Speaker 4: we got the joking on the way in that hey,
Speaker 4: well what if we don't sell any books.
Speaker 3: And never been done before? You know, no one had
Speaker 3: ever done before. So there was no blueprint for it.
Speaker 3: And I knew on.
Speaker 4: The second day there at fantast we sold out of
Speaker 4: our inventory and we took orders for another I think
Speaker 4: it was three hundred and some orders for the next print,
Speaker 4: and we told them up front that hey, it might
Speaker 4: be three four five months before we have another rundowne
Speaker 4: and they said, we don't care, we want the book.
Speaker 3: And it was at that time that I knew.
Speaker 4: That we had, you know, something special, and so I
Speaker 4: have to thinking about the fifteenth year and coinciding with that.
Speaker 3: And I said, you know, I said, I said.
Speaker 4: I wonder if the Hall of Fame would be, you know,
Speaker 4: interested in this book. And since it was the first
Speaker 4: you know, I kept the first book off this off
Speaker 4: the press and got the first stamp at Great American
Speaker 4: Ballpark in it on April fifth of twenty twelve, and so,
Speaker 4: you know, I thought, you know, this is this is
Speaker 4: a part of baseball history, and you know, I'll contact
Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame and see what they think. And
Speaker 4: so I called and got ahold of a very nice lady,
Speaker 4: Cassidy Lynt, who is the library director at the Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame, and I told her I had the original
Speaker 4: first print, first book, first stamp MLB Ballpark passport book,
Speaker 4: and if the Hall of Fame would be interested in it.
Speaker 4: And then so then she pertea to tell me she's
Speaker 4: like Tim bat the Hall of Fame Committee Board on
Speaker 4: Historical Artifacts.
Speaker 3: It is scheduled to.
Speaker 4: Have a meet on the I think it was the
Speaker 4: first Wednesday in November. And she said, I'll take this
Speaker 4: information about your books. She she knew about the book.
Speaker 4: The Hall of Fame has sold it from the very
Speaker 4: beginning they've been a part of it, and she said,
Speaker 4: I'll see what they think, and she's all get back
Speaker 4: to you. And so it was, you know, several weeks
Speaker 4: that passed and and then I'm you know, in the
Speaker 4: back of my mind, I had November fifth on the calendar,
Speaker 4: you know. So so on November seventh, I got the
Speaker 4: call and uh yeah, and so you know, and I
Speaker 4: was nervous. You know, my my heart kind dropped my
Speaker 4: stomach because I I didn't I didn't think he would
Speaker 4: go anywhere, you know. And so uh, she said, Jim,
Speaker 4: she said, the board voted to have have your book
Speaker 4: put into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable, so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I mean it's like a baseball player gave
Speaker 3: him the call. But that's how you really felt like it, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah it was. Yeah, it was so cool. Tim.
Speaker 2: For for those wondering who I want to learn more
Speaker 2: about it does and kind of explain the inventory here
Speaker 2: would would if somebody wants to hit like minor league
Speaker 2: ballparks or spring training ballparks. Is there a version of
Speaker 2: that for the ballpark passport?
Speaker 3: Yes, you you talked a little about before.
Speaker 4: You know, the program has grown where we now have
Speaker 4: stamped in two hundred and twenty four stadiums and and
Speaker 4: museums and in ballparks all over the country. So we
Speaker 4: have the MLB ball Park Passport Book, which is of
Speaker 4: course pro visiting all thirty ballparks. It's a binder, so
Speaker 4: in the most often question I get asked is about
Speaker 4: what there's a new stadium built. It's a binder, so
Speaker 4: you can add new stadium as the build. The book
Speaker 4: never becomes outdated. We have a Game Day Book which
Speaker 4: took the place of the Red Season Passport book. That
Speaker 4: is for season ticket holders and people who frequent, you know,
Speaker 4: multiple games, so you can stamp every game you go to.
Speaker 4: And we have the Spring Training Passport, we have the
Speaker 4: Minor league Passport, and then then we have this the
Speaker 4: new Baseball Attractions Passport that was created here about a
Speaker 4: year and a half, which has fifty non MLB venues
Speaker 4: in it. So the Jackie Robinson Museum, yeah, Canadian Baseball
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame. The list goes on and on all.
Speaker 2: Right, So this would be great, This would be great
Speaker 2: for the holidays, A great stocking stuffer for a kid
Speaker 2: who's starting out as a baseball fan or an older
Speaker 2: adult who's a baseball fan. Tell listeners how they can
Speaker 2: find out more. What's the website to get more information
Speaker 2: on the MLB Ballpark passport.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's an MLB Ballpark Passport dot com and it's
Speaker 4: on there. We have an awesome Facebook group also that
Speaker 4: for they want some real, live, you know, working information.
Speaker 4: It's the Facebook group is Ballpark Stampeders, and it's a
Speaker 4: wonderful group. They poster stamps from all over the country
Speaker 4: every night. And I think now we have people coming
Speaker 4: in from all over the world to ballgames with the book.
Speaker 3: Oh uh yeah. And we're small business.
Speaker 4: We don't advertise at all, and so we we've been
Speaker 4: award of mouth. And I appreciate you so much for
Speaker 4: you having me on your program.
Speaker 2: You got it well, absolutely, man, those were great days.
Speaker 2: And I'm just so happy and excited for you. And
Speaker 2: shout out to all the stam Peters listening. Shout out
Speaker 2: to our guy Bill Bray who's listening, and congrats on
Speaker 2: all this and and keep it rolling and keep me
Speaker 2: posted on stuff unfolding. All right, sure, well, brother, thank you,
Speaker 2: Thanks Tim, take care, Okay, all right, there you go,
Speaker 2: Tim Parks, what what what cool? Just decide, I want
Speaker 2: to do this. Nobody's doing this. What if we did
Speaker 2: an MMB ballpark passport and you could take it stadium
Speaker 2: to stadium and have it validated and jot down your
Speaker 2: memories and moments of the game. And just what a concept.
Speaker 2: And now it's in Cooper's down. Unbelievable. All right, let's
Speaker 2: do this. Let's take time out, come back a little
Speaker 2: bit behind. We'll play some catch up, get some headlines,
Speaker 2: then we'll talk Reds season, Kyle Schwarber and more. Rnel
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Speaker 2: All right, let's squeeze in a couple of headlines. Bengal's
Speaker 2: got to work on the Ravens today. T Higgins still
Speaker 2: in concussion protocol, limited to individual drills today. Shamar Stewart
Speaker 2: cleared to practice. He comes off the reserve injured list
Speaker 2: Today opens up that twenty one day window he can
Speaker 2: be activated to the roster at any time during that period.
Speaker 2: The Bengals signed wide receiver Xavier Johnson to the practice squad.
Speaker 2: The former Ohio State Buckeye and Pride of Summit Country
Speaker 2: Day Join join us tomorrow night for the Roundtable Show.
Speaker 2: I'm with Rocky log Necks and Wilder. We're there for
Speaker 2: the rest of the year. On Thursday six to eight o'clock,
Speaker 2: the big bombshell in sports, Michigan has fired football coach
Speaker 2: Arn Moore. Statement from the university says an investigation determined
Speaker 2: and they have fired him with cause determined. He engaged
Speaker 2: in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Report moments ago,
Speaker 2: indicating tonight he is in police custody. Assistant coach Biff
Speaker 2: Hoji named the interim coach for the Citrus Bowl against Texas.
Speaker 2: U see starting corner Christian Harrison says on Instagram today
Speaker 2: he's entering the transfer portal. College basketball is underway. We'll
Speaker 2: get you an update. I see Miami leading unc Asheville
Speaker 2: seventy four sixty three with about five minutes to go,
Speaker 2: and Purdue an early leader over Minnesota twenty one to
Speaker 2: thirteen about eight minutes to go in the first half. Baseball,
Speaker 2: the Orioles pivoted from Kyle Schwarber pivot to the Polar Bear.
Speaker 2: Today Pete Alonzo reports say it's a five year, one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five million dollars deal. The metsaw closer
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz bolt to the Dodgers yesterday. Joe Buck is
Speaker 2: the winner of the twenty twenty six Ford C. Frick Award.
Speaker 2: He'll be inducted into the broadcasters winging the Baseball Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame. Buck and his father Jack the first father
Speaker 2: Son Frick Award winners. And in news that maybe only
Speaker 2: jars me. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow turned twenty nine years
Speaker 2: old today. It seems like only yesterday, and boy it
Speaker 2: was a somber, if not sad Joe Burrow earlier today
Speaker 2: at his weekly news conference, we'd ask about, you know,
Speaker 2: the fact he seemed frustrated. His response was, there's just
Speaker 2: a lot of things going on right now, a lot
Speaker 2: of things going on, and when asking to follow up
Speaker 2: football related are personal, Joe said, all of the above. Wow,
Speaker 2: all right, we've reached the bottom of the hour. Let's
Speaker 2: talk some reds when we come back. Let's open up
Speaker 2: the lines five three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, one
Speaker 2: eight hundred, the big one, your reaction to Kyle Schwarber,
Speaker 2: My reaction to Kyle Schwarber, and what is next for
Speaker 2: this team? As we continue with RNL Carrier Sports Talk
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Speaker 2: Doug bear Skeeter Barnes, Tucker Barnhardt, Sean Casey Friday, Danny
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Speaker 2: don't join us at Lance Pacalister Sports Talk, the complete
Speaker 2: rundown is there. All right, Let's let's talk Reds. Let's
Speaker 2: talk Kyle Schoorber. Let's talk what happened and what's next.
Speaker 2: Here's what frustrates me about the Reds. We were told
Speaker 2: their twenty twenty six budget was going to be about
Speaker 2: the same as twenty twenty five in the neighborhood of
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty million, and after resigning Amelia Pagan,
Speaker 2: they were left with about ten million to spend, and
Speaker 2: yet they were willing to go above the budget to
Speaker 2: offer Kyle Schwarber a five year, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: million dollar deal. That's twenty five million a year. That
Speaker 2: would have been over their budget. Now with Kyle Schwarp
Speaker 2: were off the board. Nick Crawls indicated their payroll status
Speaker 2: is status quo. So they found the money for the
Speaker 2: hometown kid in an attempt to excite the fan base
Speaker 2: and benefit from the attendance boost. But now they're not
Speaker 2: willing to spend above the payroll to improve the team,
Speaker 2: make it a winner and excite the fan base. I mean,
Speaker 2: the shore Ber offer shows you they have money and
Speaker 2: they can spend over the budget. They're choosing not to.
Speaker 2: And how do you expect I guess, how do they
Speaker 2: expect fans to take that? And I've wondered this consistently
Speaker 2: throughout the offseason. If their twenty twenty five attendants was
Speaker 2: their biggest since twenty fifteen, and they had the fifth
Speaker 2: biggest jumping attendance in baseball from twenty twenty four to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and they aren't raising the payroll, then
Speaker 2: when would they ever raise the payroll? I mean, think
Speaker 2: about it. If they drew twenty six thousand plus largest
Speaker 2: Reds attendance in a decade, fifth biggest jump in baseball
Speaker 2: from one year to the next, and yet their payroll
Speaker 2: is remaining the same. When would it ever go above
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty million dollars. I don't I don't understand,
Speaker 2: you know, Charlie Goldsmith wrote today for Charlie's Chalkboard there's
Speaker 2: a massive gap between Plan A and Plan B for
Speaker 2: the Reds of this offseason, and he wrote the difference
Speaker 2: reflects a lot about the Reds. They found a way
Speaker 2: to make Kyle Schorber a real offer of five years,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five million. It wasn't enough. Now
Speaker 2: it's back to building within. Somebody make that make sense.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you if you doubt the seriousness of
Speaker 2: the offer. As Charlie wrote, Schwerber and his wife visited
Speaker 2: in person in late November with the Reds office and
Speaker 2: with Terry Francona and with Bob Castelany, and the Reds
Speaker 2: weren't told they were out of the race until yesterday morning.
Speaker 2: And is Charlie Wright's the Reds were willing to spend
Speaker 2: in this case, but Shorber would have been the exception.
Speaker 2: And without that exception, the Reds have about five to
Speaker 2: ten million to spend going forward. So how do you
Speaker 2: make that work in the third offseason of needing That
Speaker 2: Air quotes elusive bat and Nick Kral said, and I quote,
Speaker 2: our ownership group puts everything back into the team every year.
Speaker 2: They try to figure out how to break even every year.
Speaker 2: That's how we budget. We're trying to figure out how
Speaker 2: to best utilize that budget for the major league club.
Speaker 2: Well here's an idea. How about trying to figure out
Speaker 2: how to build a winning team and instead of trying
Speaker 2: to break even, understanding that maybe every now and then
Speaker 2: you need to do more. Because the Reds and no
Speaker 2: other team in Major League Baseball is ever going to
Speaker 2: tell you how much revenue they have. It is won't.
Speaker 2: It's the beauty of Major League Baseball teams. They don't
Speaker 2: have to tell you, so they can say we put
Speaker 2: everything back into it and just try to break even.
Speaker 2: And we're we're in a position of having to accept
Speaker 2: that of teams around Major League Baseball. It will be
Speaker 2: a headbutting point of conversations when we had to lock
Speaker 2: out after twenty twenty six with the Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: players that were going to say, then show us the books.
Speaker 2: If what you say is true, then show us the
Speaker 2: books of your financials. And teams are not going to
Speaker 2: do that. But if you can do it for Shoreber,
Speaker 2: but shorebur doesn't happen. I take the pick the number,
Speaker 2: twenty five million. What could you get for twenty five
Speaker 2: million if Schwarber's out of the equation. Maybe it's a
Speaker 2: bat in two relievers. Maybe it's a bat in three relievers.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I just can't. You
Speaker 2: can't have an offer for Kyle Schwarber on the table
Speaker 2: and then say, well, that didn't work out, worse status
Speaker 2: quo one hundred and twenty million dollars. I get that.
Speaker 2: That's what is so frustrating to me. Ken Rosenthal, the
Speaker 2: athletic writing, unlike the Orioles, the Reds are not expected
Speaker 2: to pursue other expensive free agents. There offered to Schwarber
Speaker 2: was tied to their belief that his addition would help
Speaker 2: drive ticket sales. Well, why can't it ever be by
Speaker 2: up're reading the talent winning will result in more ticket sales.
Speaker 2: In this case, it was just let's get the hometown
Speaker 2: kid and ticket sales will go up. And now they're
Speaker 2: not expected to pursue anybody else. Had one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty million to give Kyle Schwarber status quo going forward
Speaker 2: for everything else and that's about ten million dollars to spend.
Speaker 2: Incredibly frustrating. You know, I was running the numbers today,
Speaker 2: just some simple math, and I would love to know
Speaker 2: how much the Reds baked into of this. The Reds
Speaker 2: baked into their offer, because my thinking is people I've
Speaker 2: talked to it's not out of whack. Let's just say
Speaker 2: you assume the addition of Kyle Schwarber, and I kind
Speaker 2: of did this in the week leading up to this,
Speaker 2: of if what type of financial commitment you'd be willing
Speaker 2: to make if it meant getting Kyle Schorber. And my
Speaker 2: angle was what would this mean for attendance specifically. Let's
Speaker 2: just say, for argument, say Kyle Schorber came here and
Speaker 2: the Reds attendance was boosted five thousand a game. That's
Speaker 2: not unrealistic. It would have got him up to thirty
Speaker 2: one thousand a game. They did that in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: So Schorber comes, excitement rains, attendance jumps five thousand per game. Well,
Speaker 2: five thousand per game times eighty one dates is four
Speaker 2: hundred and five thousand added fans at an average ticket
Speaker 2: price of thirty dollars. That's twelve point one million dollars
Speaker 2: twelve point one million dollars a year from the addition
Speaker 2: of Kyle Schorber, maybe maybe more, And that doesn't even
Speaker 2: include who's pointed out to me, well, don't forget what
Speaker 2: it would have meant for parking and concessions and playoff
Speaker 2: appearances and TV ratings and radio ratings and all that
Speaker 2: comes with it. I wonder how much, if any, that
Speaker 2: they baked into the offer of twenty five million a
Speaker 2: year to Kyle Schuber. I mean, I would assume to
Speaker 2: some extent they factored that in and thought along my lines,
Speaker 2: me along their lines of all right, he would be
Speaker 2: a boost to our attendants. And maybe it'll be tough
Speaker 2: to see that us reaching that number on the surface,
Speaker 2: but if we factor in he might mean another five, seven,
Speaker 2: nine twelve million a year, then that makes it easier
Speaker 2: for us to offer him five years at one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty million. I just know this. He's a Philly
Speaker 2: and the Reds payroll is back to status quo at
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty million with ten million to spend,
Speaker 2: and that is incredibly frustrating. Your calls Next to RNL
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Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Hi? So I wanted to ask two things. So in
Speaker 5: Punarcion Strand, is he getting better? He was a great
Speaker 5: hitter and then he broke his hand, got hit by
Speaker 5: a ball, and he got hurt last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no reason to believe. I have no
Speaker 2: reason to hold out hope that he would be a
Speaker 2: factor on this team in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: He's not coming back to get there.
Speaker 2: You know, he'll believe me. No that No, I didn't
Speaker 2: say that. He's just I would not count on him
Speaker 2: being in their plans.
Speaker 5: Anything really could anything else if somebody comes into spring training.
Speaker 5: My old thing with the Reds is that they always
Speaker 5: need to have their their lineups made up before spring
Speaker 5: training comes. You know, if somebody comes in, they get
Speaker 5: hot and stuff. Then they set them down the miners
Speaker 5: and they coof you never out to get it. It's
Speaker 5: like they're streaky.
Speaker 3: You always your confidence. And I don't know.
Speaker 5: I hope that somebody does get hot during spring training.
Speaker 5: They let him, they decide, maybe they'll let him play start.
Speaker 5: The other thing I was wondering is hope it is
Speaker 5: maybe they can learn to play some small ball and
Speaker 5: learn some fundamentals. I know they lost a lot of games,
Speaker 5: lest I would hear the announcers complained at all, or
Speaker 5: they threw it to the wrong.
Speaker 2: Place, random, the wrong way, no question, there's no and
Speaker 2: thank you for the call. There's no question they had
Speaker 2: some fundamental issues. I don't know that small ball is
Speaker 2: the answer. The game's kind of gone away from small ball.
Speaker 2: There just aren't a whole lot of sacrifice bunch anymore
Speaker 2: in the game because teams value their twenty seven ounce
Speaker 2: and I don't like to give them up. But there
Speaker 2: were times where fundamentally this team gave you a headache.
Speaker 3: No question.
Speaker 2: Columbus, we go, Hey Forrest, how.
Speaker 6: Are you.
Speaker 3: Lance?
Speaker 7: Doing great?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm well? What's on your mind?
Speaker 3: Lance?
Speaker 8: Your spot on with the Schwarber debacle? I almost think
Speaker 8: the Reds didn't want to sign Schwarber. They wanted to
Speaker 8: make an offer, try to make us flash the next thing.
Speaker 8: I think he signs elsewhere. You pivot, you go out,
Speaker 8: and you get the polar Bear. You have the same
Speaker 8: effect bringing a star in for the younger players to
Speaker 8: learn from, learn a great hitting approach. You move forward
Speaker 8: then and pivot with a polar Bear.
Speaker 2: How exciting.
Speaker 8: And we're not even using our revenue sharing money from
Speaker 8: what it sounds like in the newspaper.
Speaker 3: I'll listen to your.
Speaker 8: Reaction, but I thought polar Bear, Pete Alonzo, it'd be
Speaker 8: a great fit if we can't get Schward Forest.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for calling tonight and listening. I
Speaker 2: just wish more of their view was about the boost
Speaker 2: in attendance that would come from putting a winner on
Speaker 2: the field, a ninety plus win team, and not as
Speaker 2: much as get a hometown kid or do concerts or
Speaker 2: do bobbleheads. I just wish the mindset would be man
Speaker 2: that old saying you got to spend money to make money,
Speaker 2: and maybe instead of keeping status quo from one year
Speaker 2: to the next and keeping the same payroll despite the
Speaker 2: salary's going up despite our fans supporting us more than
Speaker 2: they have any year in Reds Baseball since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is the year, maybe we take a little
Speaker 2: bit of a leap of faith. I don't think anybody
Speaker 2: expects the Reds to go to two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: I think it is the driving reason for why so
Speaker 2: many would love to see during this war that's coming
Speaker 2: up between the two sides of salary floor put in
Speaker 2: as much as a salary cap. All right, look, salary
Speaker 2: cap fined. But any talk of a labor war that
Speaker 2: doesn't get a salary floor and forces that anything that
Speaker 2: doesn't force the Reds or pirates or teams to spend
Speaker 2: more money to get up to a level is going
Speaker 2: to have no impact on this game whatsoever. And I
Speaker 2: just wish that that pursuit was driven by if we
Speaker 2: put a winner on the field, we don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about anything else. The fans will show up incredibly frustrating.
Speaker 2: There was one man frustrated on this date nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 2: He uttered words that live still today. We'll get into
Speaker 2: that and more in the eight o'clock hour Sports Talk
Speaker 2: RNL Carrier. Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevalet seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.
Speaker 2: Ay, let's keep moving one hour to get it done.
Speaker 2: Then let's see Wednesday night, Dan Carroll, and tonight nine
Speaker 2: to midnight. Plenty of ground to cover between now and then. Man,
Speaker 2: this Michigan story gets gets the more bizarre worse by
Speaker 2: the minute. Michigan coach ex Michigan coach now Sharon more
Speaker 2: Cordiner reports detained by police and salign Michigan this evening
Speaker 2: and turned over to police in Pittsfield Township for investigation
Speaker 2: into potential charges. Again the Michigan coach fired with cause
Speaker 2: earlier today university investigation revealing an improper relationship with a staffer,
Speaker 2: and now turned over to police tonight. Final thought on
Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber, I wonder in his mind, at least it'd
Speaker 2: be fair to wonder in his mind. All right, they've
Speaker 2: offered me five years, one fifty What if I take this?
Speaker 2: What if they don't raise their payroll? What if they
Speaker 2: try to squeeze me in at twenty five million of
Speaker 2: the one hundred and twenty million dollars payroll and have
Speaker 2: to lop guys off to fit me in. What chance
Speaker 2: is there we're going to win if I come there?
Speaker 2: I think that would be a fair concern if you
Speaker 2: were Kyle Schwarber. All right, it was this date, December tenth,
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine. That's something happened in this city that
Speaker 2: we will never forget. Bengals Seahawks Riverfront Stadium snowing that day.
Speaker 2: Fans were upset with the officiating, some calls had gone
Speaker 2: against the Bengals. Fans started throwing snowballs onto the field,
Speaker 2: to the point that a riled up, agitated Sam Wish
Speaker 2: walked over. It would have been to Tom Kinder, the
Speaker 2: PA voice of the Bengals, who did the PA on
Speaker 2: the field, holding a microphone on a long cable cord
Speaker 2: on the field, not upstairs in the in the booth.
Speaker 2: On the field. Sam Wish walked over to him, took
Speaker 2: the microphone and uttered this famous phrase, Well, the next person.
Speaker 9: That sees anybody brought anything on this field, point them out,
Speaker 9: rick you them out of here.
Speaker 2: You don't let it. Clevelight, listen to that crown. A
Speaker 2: quote never to be forgotten in the annals of sports history,
Speaker 2: and this city. One of those quotes phrases, sayings that
Speaker 2: will always live with great lore of that moment in
Speaker 2: time when Sam uttered those words. I was digging around
Speaker 2: archives today and I found I found the NBC call
Speaker 2: of that moment, and that was Don Kricky doing the
Speaker 2: game with Ahmad Rashad. Listen to their description of what
Speaker 2: was unfolding, and then NBC picks up Sam's microphone when
Speaker 2: he utters the words, take a listen.
Speaker 5: Right now, Seattle has the lead seventeen to ten.
Speaker 10: We're getting some snowballs thrown onto the field and I'm
Speaker 10: sure that's why referee Bob mcley is stopping play right now.
Speaker 2: A little brisk in the jungle today there is snow.
Speaker 10: Reggie Williams, the coountman, trying to quiet the crowd down
Speaker 10: a little bit. Jonnas not fair. They're looking for sideline security.
Speaker 10: You know, people don't call yeah, Sam on this way
Speaker 10: you're saying, let.
Speaker 2: Me you know, Sam White one of the people that
Speaker 2: was very upset.
Speaker 10: About the dunk Town when they were throwing things. They
Speaker 10: ut here in the jungle, These fans here the live
Speaker 10: a lot of control. I don't know where they find
Speaker 10: the snow to throw the snowball.
Speaker 4: Now, Sam White is running over to the Seattle side
Speaker 4: of the field.
Speaker 2: Perhaps he and Coach Knocks are going to tee it
Speaker 2: up right now, I go out him for all I
Speaker 2: doubt that Sam on the.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 9: The next person that sees anybody brow anything onto this field,
Speaker 9: point them out and get him out of here.
Speaker 2: You don't leave it Cleveland.
Speaker 5: That was a ward of cameel here time and time again.
Speaker 2: And he goes in the Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Years to come.
Speaker 2: They don't have to play them again this year.
Speaker 6: Do me down and clear them.
Speaker 2: I mean his feelings and in camp certainly I don't
Speaker 2: at all, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: He said, we don't live.
Speaker 2: In Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati, which they'll know. I
Speaker 2: don't know if this is he's stopped the cropping throwing.
Speaker 5: Things, but they are so far and up right now.
Speaker 2: This would mark a playoff game. Let's oh man, it
Speaker 2: happened this date nineteen eighty nine. To me, that headlines
Speaker 2: any list if we're putting together those quotes or phrases
Speaker 2: or sayings that will withstand the test of time around
Speaker 2: here and we'll always be referred to. I think that's
Speaker 2: number one. I think this one would be number two.
Speaker 2: It was uttered in nineteen ninety by Chris Sabo. Take
Speaker 2: a listen.
Speaker 11: I like to thank everybody because you guys are pretty good.
Speaker 11: And uh, I'd like to say that, don't get with
Speaker 11: a chance. We kicked her act afore straight. That's all
Speaker 11: I gotta say. And all I think I I we
Speaker 11: cut our mouths shut. We just went out there and
Speaker 11: proved it on the field. They could talk all they want,
Speaker 11: but they're gonna they're gonna sit home all winter, and
Speaker 11: they know they don't got nothing because we we got
Speaker 11: the ring, we got the money, we got everything.
Speaker 2: I go, what an all time classic? Just a a
Speaker 2: the the boyish enthusiasm of Chris Sabo, so excited and
Speaker 2: so searching for words to say, and he comes up with,
Speaker 2: We've got the rings, We've got the money, We've got everything.
Speaker 2: Thank you, beautiful. What else has popped into your head?
Speaker 2: While I've set this up? Because as I'm thinking about
Speaker 2: the most famous quotes and phrases and sayings in Cincinnati
Speaker 2: sports history, I add the famous phrase from Chad Johnson
Speaker 2: during Hard Knocks. Child Please, I would add au Hanio
Speaker 2: Suarez good vibes, only I would add And I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: what year would this have? Been Rick Minner was the
Speaker 2: coach you see was playing at Hawaii. I should have
Speaker 2: texted Scott Springer about this, and it was you see
Speaker 2: got hosed in that game by the officiating, and then
Speaker 2: there was a brawl among the teams at the end,
Speaker 2: in total chaos. And I believe it was Rick Minner
Speaker 2: on the postgame show here on seven hundred WLWY. Scott
Speaker 2: may have been interviewing him for the postgame and you
Speaker 2: hear a Rick Minner yell, this is a disgrace because
Speaker 2: they had been so jobbed by the officials.
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 2: How about a classic for Marge Shot who once said,
Speaker 2: why do we need scouts? All they do is want games.
Speaker 2: There is another one that I will never forget, the
Speaker 2: look on Dave Lapham's face. We were doing Bengals line,
Speaker 2: and back in the day, this is twenty fourteen, we
Speaker 2: did Bengals line at the Holy Grail. And since the
Speaker 2: Bengals have moved it inside of pay Cort, there's broadcast studios,
Speaker 2: we do it from there. But we were doing it
Speaker 2: the Holy Grail and the Bengals were playing the Browns
Speaker 2: that coming Sunday and we had Marvin on. Marvin would
Speaker 2: call in on Mondays at eight o'clock to join the show,
Speaker 2: and I asked him about defending Johnny Manziel, the Browns quarterback,
Speaker 2: who was small in stature, was not a very tall guy,
Speaker 2: and so I asked him about, you know, guarding somebody
Speaker 2: mobile and small like Johnny Manziel. And Johnny went about.
Speaker 3: What was Johnny?
Speaker 2: He was probably what was he six foot that? So
Speaker 2: Marvin says, I'm looking for his height now, yep, listed
Speaker 2: at six foot exactly. Marvin says, without missing a beat,
Speaker 2: over the phone and over the airwaves, quote, you gotta
Speaker 2: go defend the offense. You don't defend the players, particularly
Speaker 2: a midget. And I paused, and I turned my head
Speaker 2: to the side, and I looked at Dave Lapham and
Speaker 2: he was looking at me, and I looked back out
Speaker 2: to the crowd, and the crowd was looking at us,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, what did Marvin
Speaker 2: Lewis just say?
Speaker 3: What? I think?
Speaker 2: He said that you got to defend the offense. You
Speaker 2: don't defend the player, particularly a midget, And that is
Speaker 2: exactly what he said. And if you remember, the next day,
Speaker 2: Marvin apologized publicly for calling Johnny manziel a midget. I
Speaker 2: will never forget that, never forget that quote. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we'll grab you. I've won three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 2: seven thousand, eight hundred, the big one. I've got so
Speaker 2: many more of these to get to. But uh samwish
Speaker 2: this date. Man, Holy cow, he let it fly, and
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody who heard it we'll ever forget it.
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Speaker 2: That is outstanding. Ooh, you know who else is outstanding?
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Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well.
Speaker 5: Lance.
Speaker 6: I know you like these anniversaries.
Speaker 3: So you got one today December tenth.
Speaker 6: I'm going to go back one yesterday, December ninth, nineteen
Speaker 6: sixty five and infamous day in Cincinnati sports history, the
Speaker 6: trading of Frank Robinson and if you remember, build the
Speaker 6: wit use the quote Frank Robinson was an old thirty
Speaker 6: and traded him for Milt Pappat, Jack Balsham and Dick
Speaker 6: Suitcase Simpson. And of course we know what Frank Robinson did.
Speaker 6: He went on to win the MVP for Baltimore led
Speaker 6: him to the World Series, probably the worst trade ever
Speaker 6: in Cincinnati history. But the old thirty.
Speaker 3: Quote, that.
Speaker 2: Fabulous quote. I have a list of about twenty six
Speaker 2: of these, and I did not have that one. That
Speaker 2: is going on the list because that will no doubt
Speaker 2: live in infamy.
Speaker 3: Oh that was a dark day.
Speaker 6: In Cincinnati history, last imagine.
Speaker 3: I wish it wasn't on your list.
Speaker 2: But if there you and me both.
Speaker 3: Thanks, We'll see you right there.
Speaker 2: You go, friend and lovely wife Philis probably hopefully listening
Speaker 2: as well. Shout out to you guys. How about I mean,
Speaker 2: you'd have to put the phills where you're gonna go.
Speaker 2: That's a famous quote in Cincinnati sports Marty's and this
Speaker 2: one belongs to the Reds. Famous quote in Cincinnati sports
Speaker 2: Sam has another one. Sam one said there's golf to
Speaker 2: be played, in tennis to be served, and other things
Speaker 2: to be done out there, besides worrying about a silly
Speaker 2: football game. That was in nineteen ninety one following a
Speaker 2: loss to the Browns. How about two Holloway his famous quote,
Speaker 2: We went out there and zipped them up. That's our motto,
Speaker 2: zip them up after beating you see in the crossdown
Speaker 2: shoot out, the brawl of twenty eleven along those lines,
Speaker 2: and not to rub it into Bearcat fans, Andy Mack
Speaker 2: with a famous quote in Cincinnati sports history when he said,
Speaker 2: the U see I can't do it like him, do
Speaker 2: it justice that you see Bearcats number one in the country,
Speaker 2: number two in their own city after Lenny Brown's jumper
Speaker 2: beat the Bearcats in the ninety six or ninety seven
Speaker 2: Skyline Crosstown shootout, I would add Brian Price, I can't
Speaker 2: do it justice. But in April of twenty fifteen, Brian Price,
Speaker 2: perturbed about things, went on a profanity laced tirade where
Speaker 2: he used the F word seventy seven times in four
Speaker 2: and a half minutes. In his postgame tirade, it went
Speaker 2: something like, I like to talk, and I have spoken
Speaker 2: as candidly as I can with you people speaking with
Speaker 2: the media. If that's not good enough, I won't say
Speaker 2: a blanking thing. I'll go yes, sir, no, sir, and
Speaker 2: I can do that. But blank, I've been as candid
Speaker 2: as I can blank about this team and our players,
Speaker 2: and we've got to deal with this blank every blank
Speaker 2: in time that we blank and play, every opponent has
Speaker 2: to blank and know which guys are available on which aren't.
Speaker 2: That's as much as I can give you. I'll leave
Speaker 2: the rest of your imagination. But for a really mild
Speaker 2: mannered guy like Brian Price, that moment, that quote, Holy cow.
Speaker 2: Junior offered one in February of two thousand, in a
Speaker 2: packed room at Riverfronts Stadium, senterg Field Don in a
Speaker 2: REDS jersey with a REDS cap. He looked around the
Speaker 2: packed room and he leaned in the microphone and with
Speaker 2: a smile, he said, well, I'm home. Another famous line
Speaker 2: from the Banana Phone Adam from Milwaukee quote Marty, do
Speaker 2: you have your shirt?
Speaker 7: On?
Speaker 2: The famous banana phone call? That quote has to make
Speaker 2: the list more as we continue. It was this date
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine. Sam Wish utters what I would consider
Speaker 2: to be the most famous Cincinnati sports quote. You don't
Speaker 2: live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati. More of your
Speaker 2: calls ahead. RNL Cary Sports Doc presented by Kelsey Valet
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW eight thirty eight seven hundred WLW. The
Speaker 2: show RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Cherbla. I'm
Speaker 2: Lance Pick Camilister. Thanks for handing out with me tonight.
Speaker 2: I'll hand things off to Dan Carroll coming up at
Speaker 2: nine o'clock. Dan Horde, during the break sends the following
Speaker 2: text for an offering of quotes, phrases, and sayings. Quote, Sir,
Speaker 2: the NC DOUBLEA wants you out of here, Chuck mayshat
Speaker 2: turning and saying, what did I do? But Chuck was
Speaker 2: ejected from the NCUBLEA tournament game? Oh my goodness, what
Speaker 2: a moment. What today, sir? The NC DOUBLEA wants you
Speaker 2: out of here?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Man, that leads me into coffin nails. Bam bam bam.
Speaker 2: Famous Cincinnati quote. How about oh this would count? We
Speaker 2: don't we don't, we don't mess around?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 2: From sports or consequences? How about one one of many
Speaker 2: some famous, some infamous from Hugs? I guess how about
Speaker 2: the famous get Kenyon the ball in the timeout against
Speaker 2: the Paul at the horizon at the Horizon center. What
Speaker 2: was it the horizon? What was that called? Where de
Speaker 2: Paul played? Horizon? Jeez? I was there at rosemun Horizon
Speaker 2: and called games there blanket on the name and uh,
Speaker 2: they're starting to come back, had been down big and
Speaker 2: Huggs calls the timeout and basically threatens anybody who did
Speaker 2: any position that doesn't start with Keny with the ball,
Speaker 2: You're gonna lose your scholarship in so many words, and
Speaker 2: his line was, get Kenyon the ball back out to
Speaker 2: the phones. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred, the big one, Hamilton, we go.
Speaker 7: What do you know, Jim, that's how you're doing tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm well, how about you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing all right.
Speaker 7: I got to Pete Gillen.
Speaker 3: I've heard him say.
Speaker 7: This one was he was a color commentating on a
Speaker 7: basketball game and a turn in the NCAA tournament, and
Speaker 7: the announcer asked him, what do.
Speaker 3: You think of this other this team?
Speaker 7: And I can't think of the name of the team,
Speaker 7: but he said, well, they'll press you in the fore
Speaker 7: front court, they'll pressure in the back court, they'll press
Speaker 7: you at mid court. They'll pressure your pants if you want.
Speaker 2: That's a classic Pete.
Speaker 7: And the second one was he said somebody asked him
Speaker 7: about Duke University. He said, Duke, they're on TV. More
Speaker 7: than leave it to Beava.
Speaker 2: I remember that one. I remember that one. That's good, Pete.
Speaker 2: You could do a whole book of Pete Gillan. Very
Speaker 2: well done, Hey, Jim, Thanks buddy, all right, all right,
Speaker 2: good hearing from me. That's good, good, that's good. It
Speaker 2: all stems from this date nineteen eighty nine when Sam
Speaker 2: Wish uttered those words, you don't live in Cleveland, you
Speaker 2: live in Cincinnati. Cold we go. Hey, Eric, welcome to
Speaker 2: sports talk.
Speaker 4: Heylan, how you doing, I'm well, how are you?
Speaker 8: I'm doing?
Speaker 12: All right?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 8: I got I got two. I mean I had three,
Speaker 8: but you did the bam bam coffin day all. That
Speaker 8: always sticks out with me.
Speaker 12: Yes, But the first one with the Reds that I'll
Speaker 12: always remember is Brandon Phillips after I think we we
Speaker 12: blew a lead to the Cardinals, and in the locker
Speaker 12: room afterwards, you know, he had some a lot today
Speaker 12: about how much he hated there, and you know what,
Speaker 12: as a Red Reds fan, I'm right there with Brandon,
Speaker 12: I hate them too. And then that, of course sparked
Speaker 12: the big brawl. Yes, Johnny Cueto kicking uh oh Man LaRue.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 12: And then the other one with the Bengals is uh
Speaker 12: I mean, more recently with Joe Burrow when we went
Speaker 12: up to Buffalo in the playoffs and won.
Speaker 8: Hey, better have those receipts. They didn't know where they
Speaker 8: were going to do.
Speaker 12: The championship game would have won because of the whole
Speaker 12: Damar Hamlin incident and everything, but better get those receipts ready.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he said that right after the game. You never
Speaker 8: forget that one.
Speaker 2: That's a great one. Well done. Hey, Eric, thanks for listening,
Speaker 2: thanks for calling. Thank you have a great night.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Brandon Phillips, the clean version would be there, a
Speaker 2: bunch of whiny little blanks. And then that led to
Speaker 2: the next night, Brandon leading off and walking up to
Speaker 2: home plate the lead off for the bottom of the
Speaker 2: first and he taps yatare Molina on the shing guard,
Speaker 2: just kind of a tap like hey, what's up? And
Speaker 2: yacht here took exception to that, and he stood up
Speaker 2: out of his crouch and and then then it was on, Oh,
Speaker 2: I'll never forget Hesey and I had seats in the
Speaker 2: second section behind home is that thing unfolded? What an
Speaker 2: unbelievable scene. By the way, speaking of UC basketball, as
Speaker 2: we did with Dan's reference to Chuck Mayshack, Corey Blunt
Speaker 2: and Terry Nelson have a new podcast. It is Legends Unplugged.
Speaker 2: You can find it on YouTube. I assume you can
Speaker 2: find it where you find your podcast. But I know
Speaker 2: it's on YouTube because I watched it yesterday Terry Nelson,
Speaker 2: Corey Blunt sitting talking Bearcat basketball present Day and passed
Speaker 2: and telling stories. Terry Nelson, Corey Blunt Legends Unplugged. Check
Speaker 2: it out. By the way, speaking of the Bearcats, I
Speaker 2: was watching the Indiana game last night and Josh Reid
Speaker 2: was playing for Penn State, and I'm I forgot about
Speaker 2: Josh Reed, the former Bearcat who transferred, and it got
Speaker 2: me thinking during that game, and I immediately went to
Speaker 2: Basketball Reference, which is a great website, and I started
Speaker 2: I looked at UC's roster last year to look at
Speaker 2: players who transferred other players, and I said, I wonder
Speaker 2: how they're doing in some other spots, and lo and behold.
Speaker 2: Scott Springer sent me a text to afternoon. He said, hey,
Speaker 2: by the way, he says, I'm actually writing a story
Speaker 2: about that today for the Inquiry that's about the post.
Speaker 2: He says, I want you to think I was stealing
Speaker 2: your idea. I said, no, I don't want you to
Speaker 2: think that. I would like to I was stealing your idea,
Speaker 2: I said, I just happened to notice Josh last night
Speaker 2: playing for Penn State and it led me to looking
Speaker 2: it up. But he has written about it extensively today
Speaker 2: at Sinsinia dot com. Arrington Page the seven footer is
Speaker 2: at Northwestern this year. He's averaging over fifteen points a
Speaker 2: game and seven rebounds. Connor Hickman just got healthy and
Speaker 2: cleared for College of Charleston. He's only played four games,
Speaker 2: but he's averaging fifteen points and four rebounds a game. CJ.
Speaker 2: Anthony is at Iona, averaging about sixteen points and six assists.
Speaker 2: Dan Skillings at Baylor eleven points, eight rebounds, about three assists.
Speaker 2: Dylan Mitchell is at Saint John's remember him ten and
Speaker 2: a half points, six and a half boards, two and
Speaker 2: a half assists per game. Tyler Betsy is at Syracuse.
Speaker 2: He's averaging just under nine points a game. Josh Reed,
Speaker 2: who I watched last night for Penn State ten points,
Speaker 2: four rebounds and assist and about one and a half
Speaker 2: steals per game. And Rayvin Griffith is it Kent State,
Speaker 2: averaging six points and three rebounds. But Scott has written
Speaker 2: much more about this. Check that out Cincinnati dot com
Speaker 2: through the inquiry. But yeah, I'm saying like Josh Reed.
Speaker 2: I completely forgot about Josh Reed and it even lost
Speaker 2: track of where he uh where he was I had
Speaker 2: I had seen a big game from Errington Page within
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks with what he's doing at
Speaker 2: Northwestern in the Big Ten. And again, some of these
Speaker 2: guys transferred to high level conferences, some went to lower
Speaker 2: level conferences. But cool to see each of them finding
Speaker 2: success in UH in new surroundings this season. How about UH,
Speaker 2: let me go do UH. Let's see how about here
Speaker 2: and there and right here in Miami Town. Hey, Tom,
Speaker 2: welcome to sports Talk.
Speaker 8: Hello, Hello man, real quick, Jerry Fowles, you think you stink?
Speaker 2: I never heard that one from Jerry Faust.
Speaker 3: I kind of like that defense.
Speaker 8: If you can, you're done, start reacting.
Speaker 3: I like, I liked it.
Speaker 2: You go all right, I put it on the list.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for the call. All right, we'll
Speaker 2: head down the stretch. Squeeze in on this state in
Speaker 2: sports history. Zach, I'm gonna play it just because it's
Speaker 2: it's it's such an I don't want to say an
Speaker 2: odd answer. It's such an interesting answer. Zach was asked
Speaker 2: asked today about his reaction to UH Trey Hendrickson having
Speaker 2: surgery and the Bengals now not having him probably the
Speaker 2: rest of this season at all likelihood. Wait wait till
Speaker 2: you hear what what. Zach's answer to that was, as
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Speaker 2: Dan Carroll popped in, He'll be in here at nine.
Speaker 2: He said, what about Bob Trumpy and the story used
Speaker 2: to tell about Paul Brown, who uttered the line, act
Speaker 2: like you've been there before. Absolutely, there was another one
Speaker 2: he mentioned, Now I forget it. Maybe he'll tell you
Speaker 2: when he gets in here, Dan. Nine to midnight. Zach
Speaker 2: Taylor spoke earlier today a couple of things, and tomorrow
Speaker 2: night much more in depth on this the Bengals. What
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow said. I'll tell you what. If you haven't
Speaker 2: had a chance to see it, watch the Joe Burrow Prescott, Oh,
Speaker 2: the other Tony Perez see the ball, hit the ball?
Speaker 2: There you go. Absolutely, it is a really good one.
Speaker 2: But that one on the list. If you haven't seen
Speaker 2: the Joe Burrow news conference today. I would watch it
Speaker 2: a very very bummed out. I don't even know if
Speaker 2: bummed out, down bothered Joe Burrow at one point he
Speaker 2: would ask, Joe, you seem frustrated. I think trags asking that,
Speaker 2: and Joe's response was, there are just a lot of
Speaker 2: things going on right now, A lot of things going on,
Speaker 2: and the follow up was football related or personal, and
Speaker 2: he said all of the above, and adding to that
Speaker 2: the look on his face as he spoke today, added
Speaker 2: the line I think I've been through more than most
Speaker 2: and it's certainly not easy on the brain or the
Speaker 2: body in terms of his injuries, and said, if I
Speaker 2: want to keep doing this, I have to have fun
Speaker 2: doing it. I've been through a lot. But if I'm
Speaker 2: not having fun, what am I doing it for? More
Speaker 2: of that tomorrow night on the Roundtable show, Zach when
Speaker 2: he talked, was ask about Trey Hendrickson, and now we
Speaker 2: know Trey is out, probably he's played his final down
Speaker 2: for the Bengals. But the question to Zach was about,
Speaker 2: you know, a very fair at obvious question the week
Speaker 2: the news comes out he's having surgery and the question
Speaker 2: being about what's your reaction to losing Ray, And you
Speaker 2: could understand if if a coach would say, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: it's a it's another tough break and a frustrating season.
Speaker 2: We could really use a closer late in games like
Speaker 2: Trey has been and we hope uh a speedy recover
Speaker 2: and he's back on the field soon. You never know.
Speaker 2: And it was none of that. Here here is what
Speaker 2: Zach said, would ask about Trey Hendrickson today. Take a listen.
Speaker 2: How disappointing wasn't it to find out about Hendrickson and
Speaker 2: not potentially being able to happen for the rest of
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 13: Yeah, nothing new, brilliant, Mean, that's that's been the last
Speaker 13: few weeks.
Speaker 2: That's it. Yeah, nothing new. That's how it's been the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. Out of the next question, No,
Speaker 2: it's a tough break. We miss him, hope to have
Speaker 2: him back. He's a clear difference maker. It was just
Speaker 2: that And I don't know what do you think that
Speaker 2: says about the relationship between Zach Tray these days. Zach
Speaker 2: was also asking I think it was our guy James
Speaker 2: Rapine ask about Zach and dealing with the pressure he
Speaker 2: has faced this season. Here's Zach Taylor.
Speaker 13: They're all challenging. Every situation. Every season is unique. It's
Speaker 13: got his own challenges, He's got his own ups and downs.
Speaker 13: I just take a week the week, you know, and
Speaker 13: now we're focused on Baltimore and trying to find a
Speaker 13: win and really want to win this game to get
Speaker 13: ourselves a little bit of momentum before the next one.
Speaker 13: Every season is a challenge in so own ways. Even
Speaker 13: when your record is flipped from what it is now,
Speaker 13: there's still challenges and the verst year you're gonna face
Speaker 13: and our guys are eager for this one. You can
Speaker 13: feel the energy level is still really good in the
Speaker 13: building and expect to go play well on Sunday. Anytime
Speaker 13: you're asked about pressure, you say, no one puts more
Speaker 13: pressure on you than you.
Speaker 8: When were you able to kind of tune out down
Speaker 8: side noise, especially during challenging seasons like this record live.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, I don't think that's something that just happens now.
Speaker 13: I mean, that's your whole life gets you ready for that.
Speaker 13: So I enjoy pressure. I enjoy adversity, something that scares
Speaker 13: us or makes us nervous. It's part of why you're
Speaker 13: in this profession is doing challenging things and doing things
Speaker 13: you don't think everybody can do. And so we work
Speaker 13: really hard, even when it's tough, and even when it
Speaker 13: looks bleak, to find this silver lining and keep working
Speaker 13: through it and find a way to win. And those
Speaker 13: are some of your greatest moments when you face a
Speaker 13: lot of challenges and you come through it. And so
Speaker 13: we embrace that. It's not something we like get us down.
Speaker 13: It's frustrating when you don't win. It's frustrating when you're
Speaker 13: in close games. Yeah, that's the amount of work we
Speaker 13: put in and the expectations we have ourselves. That's really
Speaker 13: hard when it doesn't go your way. But it doesn't
Speaker 13: change the fact that you got to wake up Monday
Speaker 13: morning and the Ravens are coming to town, and so
Speaker 13: you got to find a way to win.
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor earlier today, meeting with the media. Final note
Speaker 2: on this date, this before on this date, I always
Speaker 2: enjoy I always appreciate when somebody gives me a recommendation
Speaker 2: of maybe a place to eat. I would like to
Speaker 2: offer you one. We enjoyed our first time dining experience
Speaker 2: at Carmelo's and Covington last night. It's a really cool place,
Speaker 2: like a little Italian vibe. Excellent meal, lasagna and Kelly
Speaker 2: had the crispy garlic alfredo, share the caesar salad, which
Speaker 2: is huge. Shout out to chef Mitch Arena. Props to
Speaker 2: server Eric. Just a really enjoyable meal, reasonable price. Places
Speaker 2: bigger than I realized and looking at it online it
Speaker 2: was packed. We dined at a high top in the
Speaker 2: very cool bar area. But for those looking for a
Speaker 2: dinner recommendation, I love when you pass.
Speaker 4: Them on to me.
Speaker 2: Thank you, whether it's dinner or breweries or other places.
Speaker 2: Carmelo's was very enjoyable last night on this date in
Speaker 2: Red's or sports history, how about let me give you
Speaker 2: other than Sam Weiss. Nineteen seventy one a sports note,
Speaker 2: the Mets trade Nolan Ryan in three prospects to the
Speaker 2: Angels for six time All Star third baseman Jim Fregosi.
Speaker 2: Fregosie would play less than two full seasons with the Mets.
Speaker 2: Ryan would throw seven no hitters, set the all time
Speaker 2: strikeout record, and become a Hall of Famer. I didn't
Speaker 2: realize Jim Fergosi went to six All Star Games that trade.
Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy three, the American League on this date voted
Speaker 2: unanimously to adapt the designated hitter. Adopt the designated hitter
Speaker 2: on a trial basis for three years. Nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 2: Cardinals and Podres swap shortstops. Gary Templeton goes to the Podres.
Speaker 2: Ozzy Smith goes to the Cardinals. And this date, twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: because I mentioned him earlier, Johnny Manziel, Texas A and
Speaker 2: M quarterback comes the first freshman to win the award.
Speaker 2: This date, twenty sixteen, Lamar Jackson, Louisville quarterback became the
Speaker 2: youngest to win the award at nineteen. All Right, I
Speaker 2: wish I had more time. I never had it a time.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use that third hour tonight, but I'm done.
Speaker 2: Thank you for being here, thank you for listening, Thank
Speaker 2: you for contributing. Thanks to Joe Waddell stick around the
Speaker 2: News and then Dan Carroll. He will carry you on
Speaker 2: nine to midnight. I'll catch you hopefully at the roundtable
Speaker 2: tomorrow night at Long Necks in Wilder. This has been
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