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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike since e three sixty about Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: From Cincinnati. This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back our number three, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: We are underway. Let's talk some FC Cincinnati the Orangine Blue.

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Speaker 2: We do so with the voice of FC Cincinnati. Tom

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Speaker 2: Gallader joins us right now, as he does on most Fridays,

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Speaker 2: unless Kentucky Basketball stating Friday or there's a parade happening.

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Speaker 2: Most of the time, we get a chance to talk

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Speaker 2: to Tommy on Fridays, and we do so right now. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy,

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Speaker 2: what's going on.

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Speaker 1: Tony, Tony, Tony, Happy Friday. Good to be with you.

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Speaker 1: You know, defeat a break weekend. But I'm not mailing

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Speaker 1: it in. I'm not any parades. I've never been invited

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Speaker 1: to be a Grand Marshall, so I'm just glad that

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Speaker 1: Austin and I are still allowed to be in your presidence. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as grand as you are the days. But congratulations and yeah,

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Speaker 1: here we are. I'm glad to chat with you guys.

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Speaker 2: FIFA break week. How did you fill your time?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Busy, busy. We work and you know, prep for

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Speaker 1: what will be you know, not as congestive of a

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Speaker 1: month of April as we would have hope, but still,

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Speaker 1: you know, you get into some midweek play in Major

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Speaker 1: League Soccer and in April, so got to get ahead,

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Speaker 1: get ready for all of that. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: my older son high school baseball cranking up, so there'll

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Speaker 1: be plenty of plenty of other activities to keep me

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Speaker 1: out of trouble over the next few days before we

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Speaker 2: A needed win and a shorthanded win against Montreal. What

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Speaker 2: happened previously for this team the six to one loss

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Speaker 2: at the hands of New England and then the five

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Speaker 2: to one loss to Tea Grace, but also losing the

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Speaker 2: aggregate because of that four gold differential. Did it feel

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Speaker 2: at all like the team ahead of Montreal was wavering

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Speaker 2: just kind of heads down, continue to get back to work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know that that confidence wavering at that point,

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Speaker 1: but certainly frustrations, and I think that's through the whole organization,

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Speaker 1: like everybody, nobody wants to see, you know, back to

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Speaker 1: back lowout losses, especially in the way that it happened,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the disappointment of being eliminated from Champions

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Speaker 1: nil advantage. But you know, I felt pretty good that,

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Speaker 1: you know, Pat Noon has been a pretty steady hand

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Speaker 1: for four plus years as the head coach, and that

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Speaker 1: he'd be able to prepare this team properly, get them

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Speaker 1: ready for that Montreal game, and you know, find a

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Speaker 1: way for a result. But Kevin and I talked about

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Speaker 1: in the pregame, you know, in many ways it felt

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Speaker 1: like a must win games because they needed a result,

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Speaker 1: They needed to go into the break feeling better about

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Speaker 1: the situation. If they lost to Montreal, it certainly would

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Speaker 1: have felt pretty bad at the end of the world.

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Speaker 1: Is the season over? No, because the season so long

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Speaker 1: and it's still you know, so early that Okay, you

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Speaker 1: and if you lost, it doesn't feel great, but you're

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Speaker 1: not out of contention by any stretch of the imagine

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Speaker 1: So I think that the team responded in the way

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Speaker 1: in a very unexpected and unorthodox fashion to get three points.

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Speaker 2: I want to get to the Montreal match in just

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Speaker 2: a second that the previous matches that you just discussed. There,

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Speaker 2: is there any particular things that that Pat Noonan can

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Speaker 2: it just kind of things snowballed over the course of

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I asked him about that, you know, going into

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Speaker 1: five to one or six one, like, so many things

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Speaker 1: there was opportunities that corner kicks, set pieces, crosses where

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Speaker 1: So there's no fault of Romans, But it was the

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Speaker 2: Now you come off the multiple losses and you come

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Speaker 2: back to TQL Stadium and here comes Montreal And I

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Speaker 2: credit FC Cincinnati on many accounts, one because they score

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Speaker 2: back to back short handed goals in the last few

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Speaker 2: importantly than that, here's a team who had been skidding

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Speaker 2: here we go again. Cannis get worse, the team rallied,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say it's probably one of the grittiest

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Speaker 1: because they've got to face long odds in fighting a

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Speaker 1: go as we wanted today, but not a completely lost situation,

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Speaker 1: especially being down a man. I think, yeah, certainly there

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Speaker 1: But there was was there throughout the match, even even

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Speaker 1: sure that's an unexpected, you know, gritty win, and I

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Speaker 1: The turning point of the season was that game in

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Speaker 2: Is it Is it one of those moments because you

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Speaker 2: good to go into a little bit of a break

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Speaker 2: with that positive momentum. How do you view rest versus man,

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Speaker 2: let's get back out there because we feel really good

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Speaker 1: You know, that's always a tough one and I think,

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Speaker 1: considering the circumstances and the long stretch that had led

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Speaker 1: But the Romans banged up a little bit, sadly has

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Speaker 1: So I think in the big picture of everything, that

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Speaker 1: it lines up pretty well to okay, because listen, they

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Speaker 1: So it's not like that game was perfect. It was

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Speaker 1: certainly flaws, but you found a way to get a win.

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Speaker 1: So I think now you use the two weeks all right,

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Speaker 1: right foot. Going to take on the New York Red Bulls,

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Speaker 2: How much about this you've You've made mention to it,

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Speaker 2: And there is so much still ahead of this team.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you you you hear anytime a sports

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Speaker 2: MLS season, how important is it to use that term.

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Speaker 2: We've seen it a lot of just relax. There's a

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Speaker 2: we've we've talked about this before for sure. How important

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Speaker 2: that this is a marathon right now of a season?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? How many fans walked out in Major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: He's saying, oh, Seasons, though the Seasons lost, it's game

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Speaker 1: two amazing soccer, but it's still thirty four. So you

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Speaker 1: for great success in the postseason. So I think that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Lastly, and and we've seen as well when it gets

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Speaker 2: What would that look like?

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Speaker 2: Tommy G, you're the best. Any big plans for your

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Speaker 2: your your your free weekend here, I doubt it is

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Speaker 1: No? Never. Let's see. We have Wallet Hills freshman baseball

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Speaker 1: I'll find I'll find some. But yeah, probably have more

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Speaker 2: Now show up now. On top of this, you mentioned MLB.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you catch the young rookie? I did?

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Speaker 1: I did two home runs. I mean my twenty four

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah, no, now, yeah, no, that's uh. I mean, shoot,

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Speaker 1: the Guardians haven't brought tough stretch with having to play

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Speaker 2: Tommy, You're the best man.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Look forward to catching up pleasure again next week again.

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Speaker 2: F C Cincinnati off this weekend, back on the road

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you again next week, Tommy, Thanks so

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do boys, have a good day. Cheers.

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