1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Seven thirty seven, seven hundred wl W. This is RNL 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: carri Or Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. Im Lance McCallister, 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: my next guest, begins his thirtieth season his team physician 4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati Reds. That's marking three decades of service 5 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: leadership dedication. He's one of baseball's most recognized orthopedic surgeons, 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: performing over three thousand Tommy John surgeries. 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: He once rode his bike to the studios to be 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: on with me. 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: From Beacon Orthopedics in sports medicine, that only can be 10 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: doctor Tim Kremchek. 11 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 2: How are you, Lance, I'm doing great. Yeah, I forgot 12 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: about riding my bike down there. That was That was Yeah, 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 2: that was a little time ago before the traffic got 14 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: so bad. Yeah. 15 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: Hey, you will be recognized during the Finlay Market Opening 16 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: Day parade tomorrow. 17 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:49,319 Speaker 2: One. 18 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: Congratulations, that's big time. Do you get to are you 19 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: like riding in a car? Do you get to waive it? 20 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 2: People? 21 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: What is your involvement tomorrow? 22 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: You know, I've never never done it on you know, 23 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 2: being working with the team of ever been to the parade. 24 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 2: I've only heard great things about it, how much fun 25 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: it is. But I will be riding in a car, 26 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 2: will be right behind Jeff Brantley. Hopefully I'm not the 27 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 2: guy with the shovel behind the horses. But I don't know. 28 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: I don't know who knows what this really means. 29 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: Growing up here, going to Red's opening day, redspan all 30 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: your life, I mean thirty years. This has got to 31 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: be like stuff that dreams are made of. 32 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 2: For you, you know what you think about it. I mean, 33 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 2: it's gone by so fast. I mean I remember as 34 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 2: a kid sitting in the driveway the year I guess 35 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: it was nineteen seventy four when Hank Aaron hit his 36 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 2: home run in seven hundred and fourteenth And what a beautiful, 37 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 2: seventy five degree, beautiful day it was. And I was 38 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,639 Speaker 2: just a kid and in the Saint that years later, 39 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 2: you know, every year I'd be at opening day for 40 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 2: thirty straight years. Unbelievable. I just you have to pinch yourself. 41 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 2: You know, a huge Reds fan, love what I do 42 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 2: for a living, love taking care of the team, but 43 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: certainly a dream come true. And it's it's been so 44 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: much fun. And I say it every year, you know, 45 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 2: the optimism of spring, the weather's change and it's gonna 46 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: beautiful day tomorrow and I'm not too cold, not going 47 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: to rain. And you know, the team we've got, you 48 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 2: always has that optimism to look forward to the games, 49 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 2: the competitive the competitiveness of the season, and look forward 50 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 2: to the postseason. Hopefully do a little bit better than 51 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: we did last year, and I think we will. 52 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: All Right, let's talk some medical stuff, slash baseball stuff. 53 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: The seeming rash of blisters around Major League Baseball? Is 54 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: this weather? Is it the seams of the ball? Is 55 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: it the chase for spin rate? Is it all of 56 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: the above? Well, how do you explain all this? 57 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 2: No, Well, it is all the above. You talk about 58 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 2: the hot weather, especially you know in Arizona last week 59 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: it was one hundred and seven degrees and the ball 60 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 2: they took some of the stickiness off. You've got to 61 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 2: grip it sort of ball so they can spin it. 62 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: And add those things together, you're gonna get blisters. And 63 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 2: it's not just a red thing. It is a baseball thing. 64 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: And I think in Florida is probably a little bit 65 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: better than the air that we had in Arizona, And 66 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 2: it's something to watch for when they take that sticky 67 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: stuff off the ball. These pictures really rely on that 68 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 2: grip to be able to really spin it, and if 69 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 2: they don't spin it, they get crushed. So it's a 70 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 2: double edged sword. You don't want to increase the injury rate. 71 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 2: Certainly that's an injury that can be treated, gets better, 72 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 2: but it's certainly tamperage with your starting rotation when you're 73 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 2: ready to start the season, when get all the optimism going. 74 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:27,119 Speaker 2: But again that's baseball. 75 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,279 Speaker 1: When you do what you do, you obviously develop connections 76 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: with players because it's their career, it's their livelihood. They're injured, 77 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: you become part of the recovery, the healing process. And 78 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: I think of somebody as I say that, like TJ Antone, 79 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: who you've been through this three times with for the 80 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: ebo surgery. Such an inspiration, a fan favorite, a guy 81 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: you root for, And just tell me your emotions as 82 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: you think of everything I just laid out, and how 83 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: happy you are for where he is in this comeback. 84 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 2: Well, you know TJ. In a second, all these guys 85 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: you know, You get to know him personally, get to 86 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: know the families, and you know them good times, bad times, injured, 87 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 2: not injured, winning, losing, and so you're pulling for all 88 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 2: of them. Spencer Steere last year when he started the 89 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 2: season on the DL or not in the DL but 90 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 2: hurting because of his shoulder. You know, Matt McClain coming 91 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: back from shoulder surgery. These are all guys that you 92 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: pull for. But tj Antone, I mean watching him come 93 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 2: off after he tours. You see out the second time 94 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: a year and a half ago, crying and making a 95 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 2: career and lifetime decision saying I'm going to fight this 96 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: and come back and do it and done as well 97 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 2: as he's done. I'm going up to Dayton last year, Louisville, 98 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 2: Washington pitch watching him in spring training, and he's close. 99 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 2: He's really close. But you know, he wrote a book 100 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: on how to mentally and physically get through Tommy John Surgery, 101 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 2: which any baseball player ought to read because it's not 102 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 2: just about the medical aspect, it's about the journey. But 103 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. Every time he grips the ball, I've got 104 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: shivers thinking of And he's just an incredible human being. 105 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,919 Speaker 2: And I think he was close to making the team. 106 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 2: I think we're going to see him at the big 107 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 2: league level this year, I really do. 108 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: I talked with him at Redsfest and I'll never forget. 109 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: I said, TJ, what do you say to people who say, man, 110 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: three of these what are you doing? Why are you 111 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: still trying to do this? Why don't you find your 112 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: life's work? And I said, what would you say to 113 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: people ask why? And he looked at me and said, 114 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: I'd say why not. I love the game. I love 115 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: the pursuit that the chase of it. He says, That's 116 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: what I'm all about. And I get chills when I 117 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: hear him say stuff like that. 118 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, you talk about having an attitude of somebody, 119 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: anybody you'd want on your team, A great teammate, a 120 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 2: great leader. He helps all the other young players. When 121 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 2: he was in Arizona, we having is down as you 122 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 2: would be after a third Timmy John, he's pulling up 123 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: these minor league players. He's pushing them, telling him what 124 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 2: to do. I mean, he will be a tremendous asset 125 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 2: to any organization. And he retires from baseball. But again, 126 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 2: as a guy who's trying to live the dream, he 127 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 2: made it. He did great, and I was trying to 128 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 2: work his way back, and you talk about a comeback story, 129 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 2: that would be the comeback story at twenty twenty six. 130 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 2: To see this kid come up and really helped his 131 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 2: team get over the hump into the playoffs. I think 132 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 2: we'll see him, I really do. Can't wait. Cannot wait. 133 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: Doctor Tim Krumchek Chicken in a couple more minutes to 134 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: out on Sports Talk. One of many things that stands 135 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,559 Speaker 1: out about you. 136 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 2: You don't just. 137 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: Treat Red's players, but there are players across Major League 138 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: Baseball who come to you, teams that send their players 139 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: to you, which has got to say a lot about 140 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: your reputation and trust and care. If not just the Reds, 141 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: but other teams are go see that guy, that's going 142 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: to mean a lot to you. 143 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 2: You know it does. I mean when you've been around 144 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 2: enough and you get a reputation with the players and 145 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 2: you know, hopefully as a player's doctor, you know, not 146 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 2: trying to play the politics of Major League Baseball, wish 147 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 2: there are a lot of but you got to love 148 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 2: the game. You got to know the game. You got 149 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 2: to know what the politics and everything to go around. Again, 150 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 2: I don't care if that's just major league, but major 151 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: college high school kids what they've got to do. It 152 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: makes you feel good and you know, I love seeing 153 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 2: these guys. I love seeing them and trying to fulfill 154 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 2: their dream and continue their careers, and you pull form. 155 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: It makes it fun to turn on the MLB channel 156 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: and watch these games at night to watch them pitch. 157 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 2: So you know, with the Reds just signed a young 158 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: man named Andrew Chaffin who pitched at Kent State and 159 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 2: is Tommy John in two thousand and nine. So you know, 160 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 2: these guys all come back and after a period of time, 161 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 2: Kayley Ferguson we did his Tommy John in twenty fourteen, 162 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 2: so you know, you forget about them. Then they come 163 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 2: back and you watch how they've succeeded. They made their careers, 164 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 2: they made their money for their families. They're great people, 165 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: great individuals. So it's all part of enjoying your career 166 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 2: and having fun. And you know, people ask me all 167 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 2: the time, it's got to be tough going down to 168 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 2: these ball games doing this. It's not tough. It's a hobby. 169 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 2: It makes what I do every day a lot easier and. 170 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: Part of the big picture of all this with orthopedics 171 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: and sports medicine, we mentioned like star players' names, it's 172 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: just not baseball players. Star players You've got twenty locations 173 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: plus across the Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and you guys help 174 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: beyond stars, I mean weekend warriors, high school athletes. You 175 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: cover all the bases, don't you. 176 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 2: You know what you do that you get the notoriety 177 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 2: from taking care of the Reds or Miami University or 178 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 2: whatever we do, but it's the everyday people that come in, 179 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 2: the golfers, the runners, the high school kids, the younger kids, 180 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 2: people that are trying to stay active, and that's what 181 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 2: we do. And again, you put a smile on your 182 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 2: face to help people. You love what you do. You 183 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 2: got a group of people around you that have the 184 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 2: same mentality and it just makes it a lot of fun. 185 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 2: So you know, that's been a great career. Thirty years 186 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 2: with the Reds has been unbelievably satisfying. And again I'm 187 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 2: holding out for that World Series, man. I mean, I 188 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 2: couldn't imagine sitting through the game one of a World 189 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 2: Series with the Cincinnati Reds to oh I mean, a 190 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 2: whole city's waiting, you know, it's been since nineteen ninety. 191 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 2: Let's go and let's win a playoff series this year 192 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 2: and we're close with San Francisco. I think it was 193 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 2: twenty twelve, yep, twenty ten or twenty twelve. And you know, 194 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 2: let's put a team together. I think we can. I 195 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 2: really do. I mean, you see these kids, the pickups 196 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: we've made, the lineup, we've got the pitching week back 197 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 2: and the depth. I give Nick Crawl and bobcast Leni 198 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 2: and all the guys that have done this in the offseason. 199 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 2: They put together quite the roster that's going to compete 200 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 2: with some of these big money teams. 201 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: He is doctor Timothy Kremchek, Beacon Orthopedics and Sports medicinebeaconortho 202 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 1: dot com. For more congratulations on thirty years enjoyed tomorrow, 203 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 1: go hang up for me and go work on that 204 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: wave because you got to get the waves down. What 205 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: everybody's saying, Hey, hey, you got that one rise. 206 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 2: Then I gotta get the turn of the hand. I 207 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 2: got to pull off the let's make a deal with 208 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: Carol Merrill's or whatever they are. So yeah, it should 209 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. It begins. If weather's change 210 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,599 Speaker 2: in springtime, Baseball opening day's better than this nothing. You 211 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 2: got that? Thanks dot congrats again. Okay, buddy, take care