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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Wow your dreams.

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Speaker 2: It's SINCY three sixty ESBN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports station.

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Speaker 2: And there was a moment today Austin, we didn't know

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Speaker 2: if this was going to happen. Yeah, we said it

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Speaker 2: was at the top of the show, and then for

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Speaker 2: a moment there was reason for concern. But we've made

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Speaker 2: it work today and we get the welcome back edition

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Speaker 2: of talking to our good friend from FC Cincinnati. The

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Speaker 2: voice of the Orangine Blue, Tom Gallairder joining us right now. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy,

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Speaker 2: what's up.

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Speaker 1: Tony, Tony, Tony? Whats good? My man? We are back

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Speaker 1: ready to kick off the twenty twenty six season. I

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Speaker 1: know there was some confusion today. I appreciate the flexibility.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of people who plan to catch

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Speaker 1: me right at two o'clock. Right. They had to tune

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Speaker 1: in a little bit early today to get this FC

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati update. But we made it all work. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys. Man, good to hear your voices.

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Speaker 2: We're here and we're actually now eight days away from

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Speaker 2: the home opener, if you can believe it, against Atlanta United.

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Speaker 2: Let's try to get caught up. Though we talked yesterday

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Speaker 2: on the show, this team's got new kids this year,

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Speaker 2: marking the seven Hills in Cincinnati. Outside of the new kids, Tommy,

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Speaker 2: what has happened? What is different from the last time

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Speaker 2: we spoke about this roster to right now?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit of turnover, maybe some new ideas.

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Speaker 1: The one change on the coaching staff, Domcaneer out and

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Speaker 1: a new broad body brought on to add a new

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Speaker 1: face into the coaching staff for Pat Noonan NFC Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: You know, Brenner's not back. At the end of the

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Speaker 1: season when we recapped it, he left everybody with this

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Speaker 1: great feeling and everybody wanting more a Brenner up there

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Speaker 1: with Dan Kang and Evander. But the way that the

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Speaker 1: roster construction works, it wasn't it wasn't to be. He

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Speaker 1: would have had to be in a DP spot and

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Speaker 1: simply they don't have one available. So Brenner is out,

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Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of question of who

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Speaker 1: final you know, regular season tune up, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know that Tom Barlow is gonna be a regular starter

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Speaker 1: I think we'll see a lot of Ayu Jabari, who

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Speaker 1: season and I'm excited to see more of. But for

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Speaker 1: the most part, most of the regular pieces are back.

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Speaker 1: Luca Orshano we now know has been sold to Monterrey,

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Speaker 1: so he is out, and Brian Ramirez, another South American

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Speaker 1: to play at that position. So I think that the

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Speaker 1: right pieces are in place to start the season, and

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Speaker 1: that Chris albrighton his staff will continue to examine the

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Speaker 1: situation and see when is the right moment to press

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Speaker 1: the button to bring in additional bodies. But right now,

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Speaker 1: I think that they have a team I will compete

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Speaker 1: with the best in the Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 2: I think it's unique at the at this time last year,

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Speaker 2: we were talking about all these new pieces coming together,

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Speaker 2: and then the season started in a way the schedule

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Speaker 2: really get work done. So how different will that be

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Speaker 2: for this team to get off to a fast start

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Speaker 2: knowing that you're not trying to incorporate as many new

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Speaker 2: be tony.

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Speaker 1: Everybody I've talked to over the last month or so

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Speaker 1: since the team reported what was it January ten, eleventh, twelfth,

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Speaker 1: that weekend, the one word that they've used is continuity,

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Speaker 1: because you're right, last year there was distractions and there

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Speaker 1: was a lack of continuity. Lucho Acosta was not in

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Speaker 1: vander comes in literally days before that first match in

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Speaker 1: Hondoras in the CONCAT Champions Cup. So he didn't get

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Speaker 1: a preseason with the team. Now he gets a full

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Speaker 1: And I know they've used these preseason games to work

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Speaker 2: This club is picked right now going into the season

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Speaker 2: with the six best odds to win the MLS Cup.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned that the conference itself. When you look at

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Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference, they're right there, picked third from the

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Speaker 2: betting standpoint. So as you mentioned, it's not like this

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Speaker 2: is a team picked in the middle of the Packet's

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Speaker 2: a team that is projected to be in the hunt.

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Speaker 2: And I would imagine that's mean you're going to get

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Speaker 2: a lot of other team's best shot knowing that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And that's been the case since twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: you win the Supporter Shield for the first time, and

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Speaker 1: then you have a target the size of the moon

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Speaker 1: every night, and people know that TQL Stadium is a

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Speaker 1: you got to come in and be ready every night.

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Speaker 1: This team's done very well on the road historically under

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Speaker 1: pattent in it and I assume that that will continue

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Speaker 1: think you're in a really good spot for this season. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, I think it's gonna be very difficult.

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Speaker 1: You have Miami defending MLS Cup champions. All they've done

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Speaker 1: why why doubt David Beckham, you know, and and Orge

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Speaker 1: So I think that MLS is gonna have a really

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Speaker 2: Talk about the start of the season, because you got

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Speaker 2: So talk about first of the concor cat How does

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Speaker 2: that work to start the year. I know we've talked

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Speaker 2: that work on top of the already scheduled MLS matches.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy because some of the MLS teams already

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Speaker 1: So this year they get to go to Dominican Republic

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Speaker 2: Let me finish with this because every year at the

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Speaker 2: I know every team that gets together they set goals.

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Speaker 2: And for FC Cincinnati and and for how the schedule

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Speaker 1: I think it starts stoning with the goal scoring and

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Speaker 1: Maybe're winning a supportership, then you're in a better situation

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you know, much like we saw twenty

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Speaker 1: to be very strong again. You have your your now

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Speaker 2: For you personally, Tommy, not only are you getting ready

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine your excitement going into another season.

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Speaker 2: Fun, Tommy. I know it's a busy time. I know

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Speaker 2: a lot leading up into the season. We can't thank

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Speaker 2: you enough and look forward to getting to talk to

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Speaker 2: you a lot more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I appreciate you guys with the flexibility today

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Speaker 1: and let's keep it wrong and talk to you next Friday.

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Speaker 1: There we go, Tommy.

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Speaker 2: That's Tom Gallad, the voice of MC Cincinnati, Tommy G

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Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Remember your talkbacks

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