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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike sincey three sixty about Cincinnati. From Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: this is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Hello, welcome in our number three on a Friday,

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Speaker 2: a Friday edition here of Sincy three sixty and the

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Speaker 2: start of our three means we talk to the voice

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Speaker 2: of the Orange and Blue, Tom Galaid. Tommy g joining

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Speaker 2: us now for his typical Friday spot at two o'clock. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy,

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Speaker 2: how are we doing on this Friday afternoon? Happy Friday,

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Speaker 2: my friend. The weekend is looming, the sun is shining

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Speaker 2: after all that rain all week.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it'll dry up a little bit. But life

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Speaker 3: is good. We have a Sunday game on tap, the

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Speaker 3: big Spotlight game from here. Yes, soccer. So life's good,

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Speaker 3: my friend, and I'm here with you in our number three.

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Speaker 3: I don't know where Pike is whatever, worried about that

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Speaker 3: another day, but often running in our number three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to ask you about the Sunday night

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Speaker 2: soccer in the Spotlight in just a moment. But first

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Speaker 2: let's go back to what happened last week and Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: It was freezing cold. How much did that play a factor?

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Speaker 2: And what really went wrong up there against Minnesota last weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I have a hard time. I mean,

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Speaker 3: pony fingers are feeling that the weather hadn't much of

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Speaker 3: anything to do with it, But look, both teams had

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Speaker 3: to deal with it. Is Minnesota more adjusted to it,

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Speaker 3: maybe because they're there all the time, sure, or why not,

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Speaker 3: But I don't think that it has anything to do

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Speaker 3: with the weather. The team just frankly didn't play very well.

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Speaker 3: Now they're missing one of their best players in the

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Speaker 3: vander But I thought the midfield didn't do enough in

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Speaker 3: maybe that's where wherever Minnesota United won the match, you know,

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Speaker 3: or at least kept from being very good that day.

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Speaker 3: You know, they they won on a rebound that man

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Speaker 3: or maybe was not offside, but you know, probably not.

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Speaker 3: And that was the one opportunity, but they took advantage

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Speaker 3: there by their goalkeeper, and the team just wasn't good enough.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying number two. And I think you know,

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Speaker 3: Patt Newton knew it. The guys knew it, and look,

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Speaker 3: it's earlier in the season. You hit the panic button

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Speaker 3: after that. No, but you have an opportunity to come

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Speaker 2: Well, on top of that, you mentioned everybody has to

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Speaker 2: deal with it, that includes the broadcasters. And it felt

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Speaker 2: to me, Tommy, like one of you was woefully unprepared

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Speaker 2: How much of an impact do you think that ad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think at times he was freezing,

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Speaker 3: he was freaking. He didn't want to admit it. You

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Speaker 3: because he didn't bring gloves, and he thought it was

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Speaker 3: funny that I brought gloves. I'm like, dude, it's twenty

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Speaker 3: which is Minnesota Tiko Stadium. You know where it gets

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Speaker 3: cold when you open the windows. It's like the Dad rule,

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Speaker 3: I was toasted. Like it was kind of comfortable, you know,

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Speaker 3: then what happens right up? You're fine, right, every body

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Speaker 2: Cold and on top of that, I mean it furthers

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Speaker 2: know well, which is feet heat. Let's go to Evander.

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Speaker 2: What's the latest on Evander and his injury and do

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Speaker 2: we expect him to be available this weekend?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, kind of a waiting word as to

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Speaker 3: And listen, you're losing a guy who was a finalist

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Speaker 3: I think Dotto had a tough game in Minnesota after

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Speaker 3: then that's great news because you're getting you know, one

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Speaker 2: I also saw the move announced yesterday with Liverpool, which

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Speaker 2: of course one of the biggest, if not the biggest

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Speaker 2: can you tell us about Fabian Morosick? Did I say

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Speaker 2: that correctly? I don't know how to say his name.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's close. Listen. He comes in as another opportunity

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Speaker 3: to add some depth for this actually Cincinnati goalkeeping unit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think I think you got it right though, Merosick. Okay,

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Speaker 3: with emphasis on the row. Morosick, Yeah, twenty two years old,

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Speaker 3: he's out on loan. He's over in Ireland getting opportunities

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean obviously when you see that that

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Speaker 3: probably without having asked anybody, but the be an opportunity

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Speaker 3: And Paul's obviously proven to be an amazing asset for

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Speaker 2: When Pat did talking to Tom Gallairder, the voice of

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Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati, FC Cincinnati Back in Action coming up on

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night, more on that in a moment, Tommy, what

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Speaker 2: was your reaction when you saw this week that a

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Speaker 2: fan favorite Yu Yah Kubo announced that he's retiring from soccer.

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Speaker 3: What did you think did a little bit interesting?

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Speaker 3: Thirty one years old they decided to call quit? You know,

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Speaker 3: think had had an awesome career with that. She Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati beck on the pitch against Toronto this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Before we get into what all is entails in a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Toronto's starting a season with three straight

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Speaker 3: They just signed Josh Sargent on you know massive you know,

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Speaker 2: And now that this has happened and the damn is

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Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, I mean do you maybe just kind of

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Speaker 2: Well, as long as Kevin's side features him wearing ankle socks,

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Speaker 2: That right, Tommy G. On the call coming up this

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Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty. Tommy, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: Our three continues next right here on the Home of

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Speaker 4: Hey, thanks though enjoying the show. Oh, thank my pardon

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Speaker 4: before we get to the Reds real quick, you mentioned

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Speaker 4: uh they're both premium quality does uh, Which takes me

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's that philosophy that the Chiefs have

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Speaker 2: with that after they beat the Bengals in Super Bowl

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Speaker 2: fifty six, and I think there was some concern about,

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Speaker 2: you know, just some of the burnout and he's got

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Speaker 2: he's got a young child and just all this time

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Speaker 2: that is required of a head coach in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that's very much a possibility, maybe

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Speaker 2: as long as Stafford goes that McVeigh is around, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he.

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Speaker 4: Was probably what eighteen years old at the time. I mean,

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Speaker 4: he's so young, though. Are you hearing Alex Pearce might

439
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Speaker 4: go to the pass now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard that there's a lot of interest in that.

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Speaker 2: I actually was just reading something this morning that they

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Speaker 2: they're prepared to offer him quite a lot of money

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Speaker 2: to be their guy.

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Speaker 4: You like it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense. I mean I think they still

446
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Speaker 2: need some help as far as their wide receivers are concerned,

447
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Speaker 2: and I think a little bit more production out of

448
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Speaker 2: the time in spot like their offense needs work. But

449
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Speaker 2: just adding somebody like that who can immediately beat you

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Speaker 2: over the top. Defenses have to respect that and that'll

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Speaker 2: help it make everybody better.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad they got rid of Diggs. I think I've

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Speaker 4: never been a big Digs guy. I just never have.

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Speaker 4: Uh So, I don't think that that really hurts New

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Speaker 4: England losing Digs, not really the Reds. Well, hey, you

456
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Speaker 4: just slammed me on on uh you know who yesterday.

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Speaker 2: And he I know I've been waiting for you to

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Speaker 2: bring it up. I thought that's what you were gonna

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Speaker 2: lead with.

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Speaker 4: Well, no, I don't want to be a shirt. I

461
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Speaker 4: don't want to act like that. But crow Crow is

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Speaker 4: kind of right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he launched those two baseballs. Now he got yeah,

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Speaker 2: got some help from the wind, got some help from

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Speaker 2: the wind. But it was pretty funny for him and

466
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Speaker 2: Simzel both to hit homers.

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Speaker 4: Probably either one of those guys will probably make the team.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it sounds like it sounds like going

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Speaker 2: to make the team. Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts has basically

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Speaker 2: said it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know he loves him, but they've got a

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Speaker 4: lot of depth on the infield, so we'll see hopefully.

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Speaker 4: You know, I like the guy, but that's that's just

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Speaker 4: my opinion.

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Speaker 2: Is he going to play first base? Is that where

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Speaker 2: he's going to play most of the time.

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Speaker 4: Oh, he's not going to start at all?

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Speaker 2: Okay, is Freeman's not heard? Is he Freeman's fine? Heard?

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Speaker 4: Tommy Edmonds will play second? Uh Muka in the Muki

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Speaker 4: at shortened Max at third. Max was the only regular

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Speaker 4: of the Dodgers have played in that game yesterday. Everybody

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Speaker 4: else was either rookies or one of these or whatever.

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Speaker 4: And the same way with the seven six or seven

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Speaker 4: pitchers they use. None of those guys will be on

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Speaker 4: the team this year. None of them so I'm not

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Speaker 4: pooping on fourteen runs of the Reds. But the Dodgers

487
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Speaker 4: had definitely the junior varsity team playing well.

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Speaker 2: Everybody cares more about spring training results than anything that

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Speaker 2: happened in a wildcard round. I can tell you that much.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 4: That's what's so hilarious about. Oh right, guys, I appreciate

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Speaker 4: your time. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: A Mike, thanks man. That is uh Mike in uh

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. Now I'm seeing as that conversation was

495
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Speaker 2: happening with Mike that Rob Damofski, friend of the show,

496
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Speaker 2: uh said that Rashan Gary deleted his goodbye to the

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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers from his Instagram account, and according to

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Speaker 2: a source to Rob Damofsky, Rashan Gary has been told

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Speaker 2: he has not been he will not be released or traded,

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Speaker 2: and that his Instagram account was hacked. Oh there, it is.

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Speaker 2: What is going on? What are we talking about? We're

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Speaker 2: hacking instagrams to say goodbyes? If so, I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: a good kind of hack, right, Like that's kind of funny.

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Speaker 5: If I was my account was ever going to actually

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Speaker 5: be hacked, If all it was was a goodbye that

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Speaker 5: didn't happen, you skated by pretty good.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's pretty funny. That's that's really funny. Okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, when we come back, Drew's gonna give us

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Speaker 2: the Reds lineup for today. We'll also go over the

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Speaker 2: weekend sports calendar. There's a lot going on, and a

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Speaker 2: phone line still open as well. Five one, three, seven,

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Speaker 2: four nine, fifteen thirty is the phone number. Our three

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Speaker 2: continues next right here on the home of the Bengals,

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Welcome back since e three to

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Speaker 2: sixty Here on ESPN fifteen thirty on astin know Moore,

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Speaker 2: the big fella out today. Tone back on Monday. We're

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Speaker 2: going to take a look at the weekend schedule before

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Speaker 2: we talk to our buddy Chad Brindle, who's in for

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Speaker 2: Moeggar this afternoon. But before we do that, there's a

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Speaker 2: baseball game this afternoon, Cactus League action between the Old

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Speaker 2: Red Legs and the San Francisco Giants and Scottsdale Arizona.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if you've never been out there to

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Speaker 2: Arizona for spring training, good Year is awesome and they've

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Speaker 2: built it up and it's a wonderful place to watch

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Speaker 2: a game, and I recommend it, but there's no place

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Speaker 2: better than Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Arizona, the home of

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Speaker 2: the San Francisco Giants, for a spring training game. That's

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Speaker 2: where the Reds are at today. Drew Bison, Drew wester Heide,

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Speaker 2: my producer today, tell us how will the Reds line

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Speaker 2: them up for today's Cactus League game?

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Speaker 5: For the three to zero five start time in Scottsdale

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Speaker 5: Batting first, playing left, Will Benson Beamon Beamon batting second

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Speaker 5: and catching today, Tyler Stevenson, country singer, the designated hitter,

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Speaker 5: JJ bleda Oh playing second today, batting fourth south, Stuart

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Speaker 5: Okay at first base.

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Speaker 2: It's the low down.

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Speaker 5: Nathaniel low All right in center, Dane Myers right and right,

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Speaker 5: noeh Welvie Marte playing third, key, Brian Hayes and rounding

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Speaker 5: it up at short Garrett Hampson, Wow, Andrew Abbott on

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Speaker 5: the bump.

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Speaker 2: Would like to see Andrew Rabbit have a good day

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Speaker 2: today on the bump.

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Speaker 5: So that is Benson Stevenson, Blade, Stuart Lowe, Myers, Marte, Hayes,

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Speaker 5: Hampson with Andrew Abbott on the man.

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Speaker 2: That's how the Red Legs will line him up. It

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Speaker 2: was interesting. We didn't have time to get into it

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Speaker 2: with Charlie today, but he said that Noel v Marte

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Speaker 2: is not having a good camp and if you would

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Speaker 2: have and I think I said this on the air

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Speaker 2: going into the spring, that I thought Noel v Marte

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Speaker 2: was the most important player offensively if he could, because

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Speaker 2: the last month of the year he's stunk, like to

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Speaker 2: the point where he got benched in the playoffs. He

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Speaker 2: was so bad, can't hit against lefties. I was hoping

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Speaker 2: an off season of comfort out there in right field

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Speaker 2: would lead to and maybe the lineup helping him out

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Speaker 2: a little bit and a little bit more protection for him.

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Speaker 2: But it just feels like it's a slow start for

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Speaker 2: noelvi Marte. We saw that from him last year too.

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Speaker 2: Keep in mind it was around this time last year

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Speaker 2: when noelvi Marte got shipped down to minor league camp

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Speaker 2: and started the season in Triple A. So I'm hoping

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Speaker 2: that aelv Marte can turn it around. That's a three

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Speaker 2: zero five game down the dial on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: As far as the weekend calendar is concerned, a lot

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Speaker 2: of good action, including tonight the Miami RedHawks go for

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Speaker 2: perfection in Athens up against Ou and the Battle of

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Speaker 2: the Bricks. That is a nine pm tip off tonight

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Speaker 2: in mac Action in Athens between Miami and Ohio. Meanwhile, Saturday,

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Speaker 2: Xavier gets things started off. They play Villa Nova at noon,

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Speaker 2: and you see at two pm Saturday is at TCU

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Speaker 2: to take on the horn Frogs. Five thirty pm Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: it'll be Ohio State and Indiana from Columbus. Bruce Thornton,

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Speaker 2: the longtime Buckeye, needs just twelve points to become the

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Speaker 2: all time leading scorer in Ohio State basketball history. It

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Speaker 2: is Bruce Thornton Bobblehead Day in Columbus. That will be

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Speaker 2: a really cool environment up against Indiana. Game. Yeah, huge game,

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Speaker 2: and that's a game that you see fans are gonna

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Speaker 2: be rooting for Ohio State much like they're rooting for Dayton.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you want to talk about making ends meet

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Speaker 2: between those two. Ohio State will can essentially eliminate Indiana

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Speaker 2: with that win. And then six thirty pm Saturday night

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Speaker 2: the classic Duke North Carolina rivalry as well.

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Speaker 5: We do have some somber news on the North Carolina front.

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Speaker 5: Uh Oh, the superstar freshman Caleb Wilson broke his thumb

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Speaker 5: in practice. Oh no, he is having a surgery, season

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Speaker 5: ending surgery on his broken thumb.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 5: Projected number four pick in the upcoming NBA Draft. This

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Speaker 5: season is done, which is a shame because he's a

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Speaker 5: lot of fun to watch. Yeah, hopefully he is healthy

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Speaker 5: in time for the Bulls to ruin his career in

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Speaker 5: the next year. Meanwhile, the Red schedule for the weekend,

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Speaker 5: as you mentioned, they are playing the Giants today at

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Speaker 5: three to five. They are also taking on the Royals.

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Speaker 5: They are on the road to take on the Royals

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Speaker 5: tomorrow afternoon at three oh five, and then early morning

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Speaker 5: Sunday Daylight Savings begins. This is crucial for the mental

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Speaker 5: health of so many Americans. Myself included Reds and Diamondbacks

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Speaker 5: at four oh five on Sunday afternoon. So that is

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Speaker 5: pretty much everything. Do I miss anything on the weekend schedule?

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Speaker 5: You think you hit everything FC Cincinnati on Sunday night

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Speaker 5: and yes, since thing on Sunday night. Talked about that

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Speaker 5: with Tommy g What's going on in the golf world.

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Speaker 5: I know you're a big golf fan. Where are they

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Speaker 5: at this weekend and who's currently in the lead. They

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Speaker 5: are in Orlando, Florida at Bay Hill the Arnold Palmer Invitational,

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Speaker 5: which is a signature event which means all the big

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Speaker 5: dogs are playing this week.

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Speaker 2: And literally the logo is the signature with the little

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Speaker 2: umbrella right, correct, That is correct.

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Speaker 5: Daniel Berger leads at eleven under. A really good player,

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Speaker 5: battles some injuries the last several years. Is the first

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Speaker 5: time he's led a tournament in four years, so he's

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Speaker 5: starting to get back into the forum. And then some

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Speaker 5: big names on the leaderboard right now, Colin Morikawa, lud

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Speaker 5: big Aberg, Ricky Fowlers on the first page of leader.

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Speaker 2: By Fowler's on the first page, wow, and Xander Schaffle

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Speaker 2: just to name a few. Did Scotty perform poorly again?

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Speaker 2: Or is he not playing?

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Speaker 5: Scotty's playing? He is two under par so he is

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Speaker 5: about tee. Actually he's three under part so he's t fourteen.

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Speaker 5: He is just teed off on number six.

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Speaker 2: Oh wonderful. His ball has found the rough unk, so

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Speaker 2: it's just like me.

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Speaker 3: That's that.

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Speaker 5: So the players is next week, which is obviously a

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Speaker 5: big deal for the PGA Tour and before you know it.

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Speaker 2: As the weather begins to turn, we will get to

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Speaker 2: hear yes play it.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 5: We will head to augusta one of my favorite weeks

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Speaker 5: of the year where Rory McElroy we're trying to defend

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Speaker 5: his Green Jacket.

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Speaker 2: I am very much looking forward to, by the way,

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Speaker 2: for years, did you know the green jackets were made

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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati? I did, Yeah, I didn't know that. I

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Speaker 2: can't wait to find out what Rory's Champions dinner is

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Speaker 2: going to be. Yes, coming in the needles kind of

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Speaker 2: stuff that we're waiting to see. This all right, speaking

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Speaker 2: of pens and needles, that's what everyone's been waiting on.

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Speaker 2: To talk to Chad Brindle. He's in for Moegar this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: He joins us next for quick hits right here on

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for quick hits on Tony Pikes since

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Speaker 1: the three sixty.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in final segment of the show here on

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty, and we're getting ready to make a

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Speaker 2: way for the great Chad Brindle, who is in this

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Speaker 2: afternoon from three to six for Moegar. Hi, Chad, how

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Speaker 2: are you great? It's probably an over Friday trying to

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Speaker 2: be nice, we don't try to undersell like that.

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Speaker 6: Well that's true, you know, the little of the slightly

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Speaker 6: above average Chad Brendle and under sell over deliver, right, Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 6: then if it's great, like they were expecting slightly above average.

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Speaker 2: Is that kind of what happened with U see basketball

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Speaker 2: this year? Hida? Yeah, like they you know, they lowered

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Speaker 2: the expectations. And now, right, am I wrong for so

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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm obviously not a huge bear Cat fan,

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Speaker 2: we know, but I'm not like moving the goal posts

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Speaker 2: on west Miller, Like the goal should still be make

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Speaker 2: the tournament, and if he doesn't make the tournament, I'm

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Speaker 2: still like this season was a failure. Fair?

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, when it comes to make the

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Speaker 6: tournament or be fired, I think it's more nuanced than that.

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Speaker 6: But if you want to consider what they did at

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Speaker 6: the beginning of the season, putting them in this position

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Speaker 6: as a bit of a failure of a season, like

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Speaker 6: I understand that. I get where fans that are coming

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Speaker 6: from that have that belief. Why is it more nuanced

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Speaker 6: than make the tournament or be fired? Because there's lots

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Speaker 6: of money involved and now special college sports buy out, Yes, like,

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Speaker 6: just hypothetically speaking, you're his buyout is ten million until

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Speaker 6: April first, it drops to five. They can't wait until

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Speaker 6: April first. Sure, so you're gonna have to negotiate a

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Speaker 6: settlement fire him, which at this point I don't think

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Speaker 6: is going to happen. Right, let's say seven million, right

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Speaker 6: between five and ten six seven million?

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Speaker 2: Yes. Now let's say.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna hire Josh Shirtz or Jared Calhoun. Right, both

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Speaker 6: of those coaches have four million dollar buyouts. So now

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Speaker 6: you're at eleven million dollars to make a change, paying

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Speaker 6: more than what you would have.

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Speaker 2: And who do you who pays buy it? Who pays buyouts?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Donors? Donors pay buyouts, right, Donors wouldn't pay for the

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Speaker 2: players to who plays and pays nil.

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Speaker 6: So if you know Donor X had two and a

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Speaker 6: half million dollars slated to go to UC basketball, now

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Speaker 6: you're gonna have to go to Donor ACKs and say,

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Speaker 6: well that we need that two and a half million

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Speaker 6: to do the to do this other stuff, we're gonna

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Speaker 6: need another two and a half million from you. If

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Speaker 6: your coach is five and thirteen in the conference, that's you.

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Speaker 6: That's unders like the donors are a little bit more

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Speaker 6: app to do that to have that conversation. If your

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Speaker 6: coach is ten and eight in the conference and finish

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Speaker 6: the season as one of the hottest teams in the country,

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Speaker 6: you might have a different conversation with SEID donors. So

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Speaker 6: it just especially now in the world of paying players

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Speaker 6: and having to come up with money to I mean

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Speaker 6: we're talking there were probably this and I think there

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Speaker 6: was an article yesterday that touched on this as well.

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Speaker 6: There were probably twenty teams in college basketball that had

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Speaker 6: a roster ten million plus for this year. We thought

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Speaker 6: that was going to drop because nil was supposed to

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Speaker 6: kind of be going away and it was going to

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Speaker 6: be rev share teams with football, We're going to be

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Speaker 6: putting more into football rev share than basketball. The expectation

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Speaker 6: is that the ten million number is now like the

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Speaker 6: baseline for Power five teams. So you're talking probably forty

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Speaker 6: teams are going to have a roster of ten million

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Speaker 6: or more. Now that creates another thing because without the

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Speaker 6: COVID years and there's not going to be enough players

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Speaker 6: good enough to have forty teams with a ten million

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Speaker 6: dollar roster.

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Speaker 2: Sure, but it just it's a lot more nuanced than

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Speaker 2: it used to be. Okay, I guess I guess that

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Speaker 2: makes sense. What you easy to spend somebody else's money. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of that. I'm a huge fan

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Speaker 2: of that. Actually, what do you got coming up on

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Speaker 2: the show this after? We're going to talk about the Bearcats?

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Speaker 6: Really and you know, get have the feelings on Wes

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Speaker 6: Miller shifted any seeing the way not just that this

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Speaker 6: team is winning, but the way that they're winning, the

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Speaker 6: way that they're playing over this last month, is that

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Speaker 6: changed maybe the idea that he figured something out, that

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Speaker 6: he's turning the corner. I think people just gloss over

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Speaker 6: this because it's easy to gloss over. He's a young

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Speaker 6: coach in the toughest league in America, and winning in

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Speaker 6: this league is not a guarantee, so you can fire him.

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Speaker 6: But if you bring in a Calhoun or a shirts,

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Speaker 6: what is that adjustment period for them right to learn

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Speaker 6: how to win against Bill self and Calvin Samson and

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Speaker 6: you know, the the top of this league, Tommy Lloyd,

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Speaker 6: who's proven to be an outstanding coach. So it's I'm

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Speaker 6: interested to see what people think there. Uh, we're gonna

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Speaker 6: talk quite a bit of rads. Klay Snoden joins us

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Speaker 6: UH to talk some reds. Kegan Nickoson will join us.

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Speaker 6: They should just about being fort Worth. I sent him

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Speaker 6: to Fort Worth, did you really?

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Speaker 4: I did?

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Speaker 2: Well? He's in Fort Worth for actually I knew that.

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Speaker 2: He told us that yesterday.

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Speaker 6: I think I'm sending them to Kansas City too. Like

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Speaker 6: I didn't budget. Let's be honest, I didn't budget for this.

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Speaker 2: Now Kegan's out here trying to spend your money. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's easy to spend somebody else's money. But is it okay?

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Speaker 6: Or are we at a point where we can start

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Speaker 6: wondering if the offense is ready to carry a little

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Speaker 6: bit more of the load, especially with no Hunter Green.

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Speaker 6: We don't know for how long, but if you're going

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Speaker 6: with the rotation that's got Burns and Louder at the

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Speaker 6: four and five, you're probably gonna be taxing your bullpen

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Speaker 6: a little bit more. You're gonna be putting some overall

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Speaker 6: stress on that pitching staff. The offense has been outstanding

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Speaker 6: in Arizona, but it's spring training in Arizona. In Arizona,

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Speaker 6: and to add to one of the I was listening

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Speaker 6: on the way in one of the points you made.

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Speaker 6: The ball doesn't break nearly as much out there, the

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Speaker 6: heat out there, This Reds team, when it warms up,

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Speaker 6: might be a much better power hitting team. You know,

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Speaker 6: it's gonna be really hard for them to do that

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Speaker 6: April and May so. Are they ready to be more

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Speaker 6: than a three outcome offense, walk, strikeout, home run? Will

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Speaker 6: they be able to manufacture day to day because last

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Speaker 6: year what we saw was if you looked at the

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Speaker 6: run total at the end of the week, like that

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Speaker 6: offense is pretty good, but they had one day with

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Speaker 6: no two days with one, and a day with four

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Speaker 6: like it just there wasn't any level of consistency.

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Speaker 2: So consistency for the entire ball, like every part. Defensive consistency,

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Speaker 2: offensive consistency. Can the bullpen, the first guy out of

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Speaker 2: the bullpen be consistent? You know that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: I yeah, I mean, the ceiling is so hot. It

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Speaker 2: can be, but it takes a lot to get all

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Speaker 2: the way up there.

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Speaker 6: I was just looking at that conversation and I had

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Speaker 6: planned this, and then hearing you talk about it kind

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Speaker 6: of added to it.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna take.

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Speaker 6: A little bit of bumps, You're gonna take on some

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Speaker 6: water because you don't have your number one. Now your

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Speaker 6: number two is your number one. I don't think Nicodola

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Speaker 6: is number one. Oh, I think it's a two. I

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Speaker 6: think it's a really good sure of three fair And

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Speaker 6: part of that is because you're worried about the blister

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Speaker 6: and the history with him. I think a number one

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Speaker 6: is a guy you want to pencil in, and that's

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Speaker 6: why Green is a problem penciling him in as a

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Speaker 6: number one. But like, that guy's gonna get me thirty

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Speaker 6: starts this year and he's gonna be really good. So

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Speaker 6: I don't think Andrew Abbott is a great two. I

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Speaker 6: think he's an awesome three. He's serviceable as a number

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Speaker 6: two starter, like he's best as the number three. I

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Speaker 6: think Brady Singer's a four, maybe even like on a

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Speaker 6: really really good team, like a five ding eater, you know,

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Speaker 6: medium middle of the road e ra A. So everybody's

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Speaker 6: bumping up a spot and you're asking these two young

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Speaker 6: guys to step up and be really important pieces. That

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Speaker 6: means your bullpen's gonna work more innings. Are you able

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Speaker 6: to avoid getting to the middle of May and your

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Speaker 6: bullpen is shod destroyed? You're doing the shuttling guys from

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Speaker 6: Louisville to Cincinnati, and and this is ultimately gonna be

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Speaker 6: the test of something that the Reds have been terrible

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Speaker 6: at the last four years. Austin de Yeah, because as

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Speaker 6: soon as there were bumpy waters, it was, you know,

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Speaker 6: like Stuart Fairchild's here.

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Speaker 2: To hit lefties, right, and in that role.

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Speaker 6: I didn't mind Stuart Fairchild, right, But then one injury happens,

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Speaker 6: and now Stuart Fairchild's out there five days a week

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Speaker 6: swinging against Rioty's which like they didn't have the ability

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Speaker 6: to sustain anything. Is what we're seeing in spring training,

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Speaker 6: not just the results, but Matt McLain looks right. And

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Speaker 6: I think you talked about this earlier as well, McLain

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Speaker 6: to Ellie, to Suarez to probably Marte to probably Stewart,

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Speaker 6: Like those guys all have the ability to protect each other.

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Speaker 2: Right all the way up at like that. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: not as many holes.

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Speaker 6: How many times last year was it like, well, if

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Speaker 6: they don't get something done here at the two three

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Speaker 6: four spot, we got three more innings until the two

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Speaker 6: more innings until they're gonna do something again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, all that and more Begels Agency we'll

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Speaker 2: get to that coming up from three to six this

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Speaker 2: afternoon with Chad Brindle. That does it for me. Thank

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Speaker 2: you to Drew wester Heidie for producing. Thank you if

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Speaker 2: you can't get enough sports talk radio. After you're done

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Speaker 2: listening to Chad from three to six this afternoon, listen

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Speaker 2: to me tonight from six to nine down the dial

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Speaker 2: on seven hundred WLW, going to be joined by Butch Hobson,

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Speaker 2: who went inside the Bengals new personnel department. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: to Tommy Thrall, the voice of the Reds. We'll also

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Speaker 2: talk to Paul Fritzner, mister college Basketball as we get

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Speaker 2: into college basketball weekend, that is. That's all coming up

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Speaker 2: on seven hundred WLW from six to nine tonight. Chad

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Speaker 2: Brindle is next. Thanks so much for listening on the

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Speaker 2: Home of the Bengals ESPN fifteen thirty