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Speaker 5: Here we go Opening Day twenty twenty six. Here and

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Speaker 5: the Reds are bringing some big expectations, possibly for the

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Speaker 1: Are we ready? Are we ready to go?

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Speaker 6: I can't tell you how many times I've been kind

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Speaker 5: What time is it?

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Speaker 6: And now now I could look up and know what

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Speaker 1: It is awesome to be here.

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Speaker 6: It is Opening Day twenty twenty six, the best day

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Speaker 6: on the calendar, and we're gonna get eighty degree weather.

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Speaker 1: For opening day. Red's a Red Sox this afternoon.

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Speaker 5: When's the last time we had eighty degree It's been

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Speaker 1: It has been a while.

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Speaker 5: Last time we've got the doors open early. Here's usually

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Speaker 1: So it's not raining downtown. It's great.

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Speaker 5: Nope, nope, this means it's our season.

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Speaker 1: Baby this yeah, yeah, it's a good omen.

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Speaker 5: Here we go, Here we go. All right, So we'll

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Speaker 5: start with a big picture here in that, of course,

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Speaker 6: You know, the strength of this team is supposed to

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Speaker 6: pitching depth. That depth is going to be tested very

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Speaker 6: early in the season. And you add to it the

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Speaker 6: an excellent season last year, kind of had an uneven spring.

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Speaker 1: And then they're going to turn to Chase Burns earlier.

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Speaker 6: Than they would like and see if he can probably

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Speaker 6: Same for Brandon Williamson, and same for Ret Loud. But

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Speaker 6: Now, I wish they had Caleb Ferguson, who got injured

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Speaker 6: The counter to that is where there's a lot of

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Speaker 6: But this team hit during the spring and I think

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Speaker 6: it's the deepest offensive team the Reds have had in

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Speaker 5: You're in good. This is the best shape the Reds

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Speaker 6: JJ Blede and ops over one thousand had a great spring.

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Speaker 6: Matt McClain did nothing but hit. Sal Stewart did nothing

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Speaker 6: Every test they've thrown in front of him he is passed.

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Speaker 5: And you look at it too. The other factor is

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Speaker 6: You kept waiting for him to come back to Earth,

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Speaker 6: Matt McClain in twenty twenty three was their best player.

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Speaker 6: This offense sets up to be much better. What I'm

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Speaker 5: the Red seven hundred w old. Here we go, Scott's

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Speaker 5: here with Brantley and of course Tommy Thrawl. Brantley the

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Speaker 5: The weather's cleared up. It's gonna be eighty freaking degrees today.

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Speaker 5: Life is good in Cincinnati, and we welcome in the

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Speaker 5: director of the Reds Community Fund, our good friend, Charlie

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Speaker 5: Frank Charles. I'll tell you what we had. Reds come

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Speaker 5: we're back in business. They have an unbelievable spring. Everybody's

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Speaker 5: Right now, has there ever been a more anticipated season

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Speaker 7: Because that's a challenge that we have in our sport

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Speaker 6: What I love about what you guys do, which is everything.

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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that. I'll give you a quick statistic.

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Speaker 3: Let's just say that.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's an easy buy in today, fifty to fifty raffle.

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Speaker 3: Sloney grits to you.

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Speaker 5: Mo.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys having me on.

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Speaker 5: He is Charlie Frank, director of the Reds Community Fund,

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Speaker 1: The Reds go back to back.

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Speaker 2: Speaking is the MLB season, six months of games and

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Speaker 4: Saint Clair broadcast area, your home's trusting problem Solver, Got

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Speaker 5: Welcome to it, Scott Sloan and this is the opening

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Speaker 1: Let's go, Let's go.

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Speaker 5: The sun is shining, It's God is smiling on us

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Speaker 5: here in Cincinnati. It's been a long miserable winner. It's

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Speaker 1: The Reds made some moves.

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Speaker 5: This is the most anticipated opening day I can think

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Speaker 6: Thank you so loney, thank you Mogo to be here.

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Speaker 6: You know, when I did the games, I used to

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Speaker 6: Imagine the daylight today, eighty today.

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Speaker 6: Happy one year anniversary. Thanks, I'm taking over the morning show.

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Speaker 6: Thank you very It has been awesome to listen to.

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Speaker 1: Where do you fill the innings with a starting rotation?

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Speaker 6: Because you know, Tom Verducci made his name you see

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Speaker 6: him on television now, but made his name as a

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Speaker 6: writer with Sports Illustrated, and he did a lot of

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Speaker 6: research and came up with his theory about pictures from

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Speaker 6: one year to the next, how much more do you

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Speaker 6: increase their workload? Most of it settled in anywhere from

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Speaker 6: ten percent to fifteen percent. If you figure in x

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Speaker 6: RA inning games over the course of the season, you

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Speaker 6: know you're you're looking at rough roughly say fifteen sixteen

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Speaker 6: hundred innings of baseball a year. Say you got half

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Speaker 6: of that out of your bullpen, which you don't want

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Speaker 6: to do, but say you did. You got to fill

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Speaker 6: seven hundred fifty eight hundred innings from the rest of

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Speaker 6: the starters. And when three fists of your rotation starting

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Speaker 6: the year basically didn't pitch last year, two of the

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Speaker 6: three didn't pitch at all, that would be my one

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Speaker 6: concern is where are those innings going.

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Speaker 1: To come from?

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Speaker 6: Because come August in September, I just wonder who's still standing, right, yeah.

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Speaker 1: No question.

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Speaker 6: I mean you're starting the season with your staff as yep,

462
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Speaker 6: gone for at least three months. Nico Lodolo is a

463
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Speaker 6: walking blister, no doubt. They got to figure that out.

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Speaker 6: There's so much upside with Burns, so much upside with

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Speaker 6: Louder yep, so much upside with Williamson. But like at

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Speaker 6: the end of spring training they were deloading Chase Burns,

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Speaker 6: they weren't ramping up his innings. So suddenly here at

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Speaker 6: the beginning of the season they're going to start to

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Speaker 6: really ramp up his innings. I wonder about that. Nick

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Speaker 6: Crawl attacked the bullpen at the start, at the start

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Speaker 6: of the offseason, and you take spring training results with

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Speaker 6: a grain of Salt, but a lot of those guys

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Speaker 6: pitched on, even Lee.

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Speaker 1: I want to see who fills one role.

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Speaker 6: And the guy that I'm most excited at watching that

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Speaker 6: bullpen Connor Phillips.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 6: You know at the end of the season last year,

479
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Speaker 6: suddenly he became a weapon. But there's going to be

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Speaker 6: such a premium on that retool bullpen. I think much

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Speaker 6: more so because of the fallout from not having Lodolo

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Speaker 6: and Hunter Green then we anticipated two months ago well,

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Speaker 6: and I think that's a big reason why you see

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Speaker 6: the Franco kid now on the active roster for opening day.

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Speaker 6: Because I was just talking about number of innings. This

486
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Speaker 6: guy threw one hundred and fifteen innings roughly last year,

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Speaker 6: So he's at least starting with say a ceiling if

488
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Speaker 6: you increased a ten to fifteen percent, where if he's

489
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Speaker 6: got to be the Nick Martinez of a year ago

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Speaker 6: for a while here, until you stretch out some of

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Speaker 6: the starters, or until you get Lodolo back, Lord knows

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Speaker 6: when that'll be. And Green, as you said, at least

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Speaker 6: three months. So I think that's why he's here. Some

494
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Speaker 6: people thought it was a surprise. I wasn't all that

495
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Speaker 6: surprise offensively is where I think they've got a chance

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Speaker 6: to make significant Yeah, improve it.

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Speaker 1: We'll hold that for.

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Speaker 5: The next segment of the show here. But staying the

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Speaker 5: pitching thing in the bullpen, especially at least that all

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Speaker 5: that you got an anchor and pugan a solid closure.

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Speaker 6: They were able to get him, Oh, there's no doubt.

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Speaker 6: And not only did he step into a role which

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Speaker 6: he's never had before, but he finished the season. He

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Speaker 6: did well, pitching his best baseball the year in September.

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Speaker 1: I mean, were it not for him, they don't get

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Yep.

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Speaker 6: So I'm really exciting. He's thirty two and people wonder, okay,

508
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Speaker 6: can he do it again? And that's a fair question.

509
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Speaker 6: But he's been around the block. He's a leader on

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Speaker 6: that pitching staff, and so look, are there more dominant guys.

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Speaker 1: In him and that role in basketball? Of course there are.

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Speaker 6: But the bottom line is it doesn't matter whether you

513
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Speaker 6: strike him out or a ground ball to second base.

514
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Speaker 6: If you get him out, nail down leads late, end

515
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Speaker 6: of story, You've done your job. And compare things to

516
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Speaker 6: where we were a year ago. On Opening Day, ninth inning,

517
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Speaker 6: that bullpen gate flung open who came charging out Ian Jebbo.

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Speaker 6: Nothing against Ian, but there ain't no Ian Jebou charging

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Speaker 6: out to close out a game in the ninth inning

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Speaker 6: on opening Day. This year, I think that's a testament

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Speaker 6: to number one, the season that Amelia Puts had Number two.

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Speaker 6: I do think there are more options for Tito in

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Speaker 6: the back end.

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Speaker 1: Of the games.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he has other games besides, but God, and you're

526
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Speaker 6: gonna need as you well know the book. You guys know,

527
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Speaker 6: there'll be days where he might come in for a

528
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Speaker 6: say situation two days in a row and now you

529
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Speaker 6: don't want to use him for a third straight day.

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Speaker 6: There will be those stretches of games over the course

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Speaker 6: of the season multiple times. So this year, I think,

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Speaker 6: unlike last year, they have a number of guys that

533
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Speaker 6: are more than capable. Maybe they haven't proven they're capable

534
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Speaker 6: of doing it, but I think they have guys that

535
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Speaker 6: can't do it.

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Speaker 5: To your point, with the starting rotation, back to that

537
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Speaker 5: hundred green with the elbow thing, very frustrating that something

538
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Speaker 5: could have been handling offseason, but the doctor said, well,

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Speaker 5: I'll get the injections. It didn't work out. Are we

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Speaker 5: hoping this is it that he can be a long

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Speaker 5: term piece. You're long term ace this time next year.

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Speaker 5: We're not talking about that. We're talking about being just

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Speaker 5: being very steady and leaning off.

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Speaker 6: There are a lot of people out there that have

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Speaker 6: been upset with the Reds quote unquote medical staff in

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Speaker 6: the past. Okay, fair if you want to say it.

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Speaker 6: This one was totally botched, totally botched by Hunter Green,

548
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Speaker 6: his agent and those closest to him. There are people

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Speaker 6: there are pitchers literally all over the globe, countries outside

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Speaker 6: of the United States, pitchers on other teams inside the

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Speaker 6: United States that come to Cincinnati to see one guy,

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Speaker 6: one of the two best guys in the world at

553
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Speaker 6: doing Tommy John surgery or trying to figure out.

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with your elbow.

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Speaker 6: Never one time has a pitcher come to Tim Kremcheck

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Speaker 6: with bone ships and he said, you know what, we're

557
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Speaker 6: gonna try shots for this, drb Okay. I mean I

558
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Speaker 6: was around Bob Brenley catcher in the big leagues a

559
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Speaker 6: long time. And it's ironic because he used to joke

560
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Speaker 6: back in the nineties and we were doing the Cubs

561
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Speaker 6: games together about we had a picture named Mike CarKey

562
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Speaker 6: used to do this all the time. And Brenley used

563
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Speaker 6: to say off the air, he's lining up his bone ships.

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Speaker 6: But bone ships can only be corrected in one way.

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Speaker 6: So the advice that Hunter Green got was not from

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Speaker 6: the Reds medical staff because Kremcheck would have had surgery

567
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Speaker 6: for him in October and he would be ready to

568
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Speaker 6: start the game today.

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Speaker 5: And he was pretty mad about that too. And and

570
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Speaker 5: you know the second been he's back all Star breakish

571
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Speaker 5: and this is a you know, the rearview, Tom Brenner,

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Speaker 5: can you hang out for a while, of course, all right,

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Speaker 5: appreciate it. Moegger's here from ESPN fifteen thirty. He's down

574
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Speaker 5: to smoke justice later on Today We've got you covered

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Speaker 5: all day long with Fingers and Rocky coming up at

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Speaker 5: at eleven am here on Opening Day twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: This is the RNL Kerries Opening Day Show Live The

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Speaker 5: Holy Grail, presented by Your Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky to the

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Speaker 5: Dealer's Arthur Sinci Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and by Miami

580
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Speaker 5: University Live from the Racing Player Roofing broadcast are he

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Speaker 5: has seven hundred w aldo. Yeah, all right, here we

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Speaker 5: go live Holy Grail, Banks and Scott's run show on

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Speaker 5: seven hundred wild red stands are packed and stacked inside

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Speaker 5: the Holy Grail Banks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah for a win, to.

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Speaker 5: Feel a win coming. Here's the other thing too, Did

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Speaker 5: you know?

588
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Speaker 1: Did you know?

589
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Speaker 5: Did you know that the Red Sox had twelve players

590
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Speaker 5: in the World Baseball Classic. That means they're worn out.

591
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Speaker 3: They're tired.

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Speaker 5: They're worn out, They're tired, they're tired. Coming up at

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Speaker 5: the top of the hour, it's Eddy Fingers, Rocky Boyman

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Speaker 5: and special guest, the kid who broke your dad statue.

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Speaker 6: Really, really I like to meet that'd be good. I'd

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Speaker 6: like to meet you, and then maybe they can introduce

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Speaker 6: the one who will ruin the.

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Speaker 1: Clock to later.

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Speaker 5: Exactly right, Moeger's here from ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 1: He'll be on later.

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Speaker 6: What did they sentence that kid too? Like community service?

602
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Speaker 6: Because I thought what he should have been sentenced to

603
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Speaker 6: is like a one hour lecture from your dad. Well,

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Speaker 6: I can assure you one thing. He might have grown

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Speaker 6: up in a tough neighborhood. Was it was it a

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Speaker 6: he or she? I don't know what better man, but

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Speaker 6: I can promise you even if they grew up in

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Speaker 6: a tough neighborhood. If they got an hour lecture from him,

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Speaker 6: they'd hear words they'd never heard before, as you know,

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Speaker 6: and it'll all.

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Speaker 1: Begin with this. So let me ask you a question

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Speaker 1: that's right.

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Speaker 5: And that it'd be downhill for that be. That'd be

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Speaker 5: the only thing you.

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Speaker 6: Could see del people all the time, you know, like

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Speaker 6: you know, Joe Fredericks, some of these guys that you

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Speaker 6: know known my dad forty years. I'm like, dude, I've

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Speaker 6: known him sixty to two. You ain't even not even

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Speaker 6: Clod even close.

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Speaker 5: With some of the pearls that yeah, Tom Brennan here,

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Speaker 5: of course, our morning show host could to have Tom

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Speaker 5: back home. Now is one year anniversary here on the

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Speaker 5: Home of the Red seven hundred WLW. Last segment we

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Speaker 5: talked about pitching. Let's focus on the offense and it

625
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Speaker 5: doesn't all begin and end. But what do we expect

626
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Speaker 5: out of Ellie this season? He came into camp ready

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Speaker 5: to go. He looked great in the spring translates hopefully

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Speaker 5: to the regular season. He looks like a lot better

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Speaker 5: version of himself already.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, for me, more than anything, are they

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Speaker 6: going to tell him no? Because he wants to play

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Speaker 6: every game? And they're gonna have to give him some

633
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Speaker 6: days off, which they didn't last year. If he's healthy,

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Speaker 6: we keep waiting for him to make to leave the Superstars.

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Speaker 6: If he's healthy, This is the year that I expect

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Speaker 6: that to happen, in large part because I'm.

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Speaker 1: Buying into Matt McClain getting on base more so.

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Speaker 6: He's gonna hit more often with guys on base, and

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Speaker 6: I think they've given him a level of protection behind

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Speaker 6: him that's going to allow him to think you would think, so,

641
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Speaker 6: you hope. So you know, for those of us old

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Speaker 6: enough to remember, and you're not. But for those of

643
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Speaker 6: us old enough to remember, it was waiting on that

644
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Speaker 6: breakout year for Eric Davis.

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Speaker 1: How do you think I am?

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Speaker 6: I don't remember Eric data young. No, I'm not saying

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Speaker 6: you don't remember, but I'm not thinking about it. If

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Speaker 6: you had eighties you weren't like you know, I mean,

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Speaker 6: you followed it.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Correct, Yeah, you're young, bo,

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Speaker 1: Just go with that. I won't take it. See, that's

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Speaker 1: when you know you're young longer. Yeah, yeah, that's when

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 5: This radio he still gets mad when he gets carted.

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Speaker 1: I give the lady ten bucks absolutely radio station.

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Speaker 6: It's a extension I understand, but you know, I mean

657
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Speaker 6: Davis all of a sudden became what everybody wanted him

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Speaker 6: to be. And now's the time for Da La Cruz

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00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 6: because you don't know how long you gonna have them.

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00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: Hopefully have them forever.

661
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 6: And I even hate getting into that whole conversation because

662
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 6: enjoy them while we're there. Here is a way I

663
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 6: kind of look at it. But it is time for

664
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Speaker 6: him to go. I mean, it's time for a lot

665
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 6: of these guys to go. They're very similar in a

666
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 6: lot of ways to that team in the late nineteen

667
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 6: eighties and became world champions in ninety and then a

668
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 6: whole fleet of them have come up together and now,

669
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 6: whether it's through injury and setbacks or inconsistency in ninety,

670
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,479
Speaker 6: all those guys put it together and and this group

671
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 6: is a very talented group and it's time for them

672
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 6: to put it together. You can speak to this with Gino.

673
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 6: We see forty nine home runs. Yeah, that's great, But

674
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 6: does a personality here, Oh, no doubt. And I want

675
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 6: you to speak to that for me because it's infectious

676
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 6: and you can tell just when he showed up in goodyear.

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00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, boy.

678
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 6: The level of enthusiasm, the level of just excitement, just

679
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 6: for the God not to mention the fact that guy

680
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 6: can hit the ball out of the ballpark, no doubt

681
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 6: about you know. I remember like it was yesterday. One

682
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 6: of the coolest things in my thirty one years I

683
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 6: was privileged enough to announce baseball. One of the coolest

684
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 6: moments I can ever remember was getting up one morning

685
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 6: in Milwaukee going down. We were staying at the Fister

686
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 6: Hotel and they had this great little breakfast spot right

687
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 6: in the lobby of the place, and I remember I

688
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 6: sat down at the table next to and Suarez was

689
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 6: there with three or four other Spanish speaking Latin players,

690
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 6: and he was making them conduct the conversation at breakfast

691
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 6: at nine o'clock in the morning. He was making these

692
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 6: guys conduct the conversation.

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00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: In English because.

694
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 6: He was trying to impart to them that look, if

695
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 6: you really want to be able to not only acclimate

696
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 6: to America, but to be able to become engaged with

697
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 6: people in the United States, in the fan base of Cincinnati,

698
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 6: you've got to force yourself to start speaking English.

699
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: Clato was the one who fought him on that.

700
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 6: The longest he wouldn't do interviews in English, and then

701
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 6: by the time Quato's run came near and d Johnny

702
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 6: was was doing it. And look, there's a lot of

703
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 6: apprehension on that because you say the wrong word the

704
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 6: wrong way, and that's saying you're in trouble, right, I

705
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 6: know all about it, and uh, but yeah, but English,

706
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 6: see what I mean.

707
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: You know that the way I'm making I brought it up.

708
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 6: But but but anyway, he was, you know, he was

709
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 6: just such He's a special guy. I mean, he's my

710
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 6: favorite player they've ever had here as far as the

711
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 6: last couple of generations of players, by far, my favorite.

712
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: Guy as a guy as a guy. Yeah. Yeah, And

713
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: he can hit the ball on the ball he can

714
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: do he's still really good. Yeah, all right, So.

715
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 5: Tom brought him in back tomorrow morning on the big

716
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 5: one seven hundred w W mohagger, You're headed off to

717
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 5: smoke Justice and the broadcast starts at New I'm.

718
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: Gonna see if Tom will come with me. We walk

719
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: across the bridge, Bourbon and barbecue. Let's go.

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00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,479
Speaker 5: That's a great spot where equally an I spot here

721
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 5: the Holy Ground banks. It is the epicenter to ground

722
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 5: zero for Reds Baseball twenty twenty six. Eddie and Rocky

723
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 5: are on the wait. In a few minutes here William

724
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 5: Sag a little bit later on he.

725
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: May give a speech.

726
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 5: I may give a speech to guarantee the Reds won't

727
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 5: win any games of seas. Every year he talks, every

728
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 5: year it gets worse. Shut him the hell up. But

729
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 5: we are ready for some baseball this season.

730
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 3: Eighty degrees today.

731
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 5: The sun is out downtown. Make sure you have the

732
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 5: radio on. If you can't make it down here, bring

733
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 5: the radio if you can. We are looking forward to

734
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 5: some Reds baseball here. I'm Scott sling back tomorrow at

735
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 5: nine oh six on the home of the Red seven

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Speaker 5: hundred wty cent an