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Speaker 2: Good afternoon on Mollhegger. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for listening. What a loaded sports weekend right this time

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Speaker 2: Chase Burns is going to get the ball for Cincinnati. Now,

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Speaker 2: we've discussed a lot this week, the quality and depth

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Speaker 2: It's weird to say preview the season because they've already

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Speaker 3: I'm doing well.

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Speaker 9: Thanks for having me today.

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Speaker 2: What did we learn about this team on Wednesday night?

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Speaker 9: Although we learned that they've got some depth, which really

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Speaker 9: That was Champions Cup play. They will return home obviously

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Speaker 2: Healthy, And I feel like a year ago at this time,

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Speaker 9: It was a much smoother preseason and that I mean

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Speaker 2: Check out Laurels Newsletter, Queen Citypress dot net for comprehensive

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Speaker 2: coverage of FC Cincinnati. You know the East last year,

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Speaker 9: The Eastern Conference is I would say, still the tougher

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Speaker 9: I think the Shield is gonna be probably their best

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Speaker 2: It'll be fun to watch. Starts tomorrow at four forty five.

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Speaker 2: Reds are getting set to open up the Cactus League

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Speaker 2: tomorrow against the Guardians in Goodyear. Chase Burns will start

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Speaker 2: for Cincinnati first pitch tomorrow three oh five. Radio coverage

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Speaker 2: tomorrow will be on Fox Sports thirteen. Sixty. FC Cincinnati,

437
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Speaker 2: as we just talked about, will open up MLS play

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Speaker 2: against Atlanta tomorrow. That game is going to start at

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Speaker 2: four forty five. That's good stuff from Laurel Fayler earlier.

440
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Speaker 2: If you are looking for radio coverage of FC Cincinnati,

441
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,440
Speaker 2: are a lot a lot of moving parts with baseball

442
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Speaker 2: and all the college basketball. If you're looking for radio

443
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Speaker 2: coverage of FC Cincinnati, it's actually going to be here

444
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Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty. I misspoke before because Kentucky plays

445
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Speaker 2: at night. That's an eight thirty tip off, So we

446
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Speaker 2: will have the FC Cincinnati game with coverage starting at

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Speaker 2: four o'clock right here. College hoops Tonight, Miami looks for

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Speaker 2: a twenty seventh consecutive victory to open up the season

449
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Speaker 2: as the RedHawks host Bowling Green Tarren Bland's Bowling Green Falcons,

450
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Speaker 2: whom Miami beat the first go around ninety three to

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Speaker 2: eighty three. Tonight's tip off is at eight thirty. Indiana

452
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Speaker 2: won the first match up against Perdue. The rematches tonight

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Speaker 2: at eight o'clock. Tomorrow you see is at Kansas. Bearcats

454
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Speaker 2: have won three consecutive games. Bearkats have won three consecutive games.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that it has ignited any real chatter

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Speaker 2: about the bubble, like come on. I do think it

457
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Speaker 2: has changed the conversation a little bit about the future

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Speaker 2: of the head coaching position, and Chad and I talked

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Speaker 2: about that. Chad was on the show yesterday. You could

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Speaker 2: hear that conversation on the iHeartRadio app. Cincinnati has won

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Speaker 2: three in a row. Now, let's let's be honest about

462
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Speaker 2: the three victories. The most recent one took place on

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Speaker 2: Sunday of last week. Last weekend against Utah. Utah is atrocious.

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Speaker 2: The Bearcats were trailing by five points with ninety minutes

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Speaker 2: to go. They barely escaped against a bad team at home.

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Speaker 2: The game before that, they slaughtered Kansas State. Kansas State

467
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Speaker 2: is abysmal, which is why the head coach got let go.

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Speaker 2: They have two league wins Prior to that. Cincinnati did

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Speaker 2: beat UCF and the Knights are probably right now still

470
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Speaker 2: an NCAA tournament team, but they just had a three

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Speaker 2: game losing streak which they broke against a TCU. For

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Speaker 2: what it's worth, most bracketologists have UCF around a ten seed.

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Speaker 2: That was a home game. Now, can they go on

474
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Speaker 2: the road and beat a really good team. Your guess

475
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Speaker 2: is as good as mine as to whether Darren Peterson's

476
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Speaker 2: gonna play or if he plays and then pulls himself.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but they beat Arizona at home without him.

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Speaker 2: But like you really want to change a conversation about

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Speaker 2: your team and your season and what's next, got to

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Speaker 2: go beat somebody who's really good on the road one

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Speaker 2: o'clock tomorrow and Laurence Xavier's at Butler tomorrow, the Musketeers

482
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Speaker 2: coming off the loss to Villanova the other night. Tomorrow's

483
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Speaker 2: tip off is at one thirty U SEE in Kansas

484
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Speaker 2: on seven hundred WOW. Xavier Butler on fifty five KRC.

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Speaker 2: Also tomorrow, Dayton takes on Duquine. Kentucky battles Auburn tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: The Wildcats are trying to bounce back from their loss

487
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Speaker 2: the other night to Georgia. Tip Off is at eight

488
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Speaker 2: thirty Pregame coverage at seven o'clock, pretty much right after.

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Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati Soccer on ESPN fifteen thirty. Mkus at Youngstown

490
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Speaker 2: State on Sunday on ESPN fifteen thirty. Ohio State battles

491
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Speaker 2: Michigan State on Sunday as well. Hockey Tonight, the Cyclones

492
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Speaker 2: skate in the first of back to back games on

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Speaker 2: the road against Iowa, and it is one nothing in

494
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Speaker 2: favor of the United States. It just showed the family

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Speaker 2: of the late Columbus bluejacket Johnny Gudaux on TV the

496
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Speaker 2: Olympics watching a team that I'm sure Johnny would have

497
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Speaker 2: been a part of. It is one nothing in favor

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Speaker 2: of the US over Slovakia. Late in the first period,

499
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Speaker 2: winner will take on Canada for the gold. Loser plays

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Speaker 2: Finland for the bronze. Red's play tomorrow against the Guardians. Now, look,

501
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Speaker 2: people can be overly romantic about such things, but I

502
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Speaker 2: am very willing to say this, there is something very

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Speaker 2: heartwarming about the first stanzas of a broadcast from Goodyear.

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Speaker 2: The first stanzas of the first broadcast from Goodyear. Tommy

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Speaker 2: Thrall has the game tomorrow and he'll join us talking

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Speaker 2: about the team and spring training.

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Speaker 11: Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty Traffic.

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Speaker 8: From the UC Health Traffic Center. Around forty percent of

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Speaker 8: cancers are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference.

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Speaker 8: Call five one three five eighty five US bound seventy one.

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Speaker 8: A disabled vehicle has been cleared from the entrance remp

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Speaker 8: from two to seventy five on the Ohio side in

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Speaker 8: northbound seventy one as well. Disabled vehicle now cleared from

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Speaker 8: the off ramp to westbound Norwood Lateral. However, northbound seventy

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Speaker 8: one after Ridge an accident on the right shoulder on that,

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Speaker 8: he's like with traffic, So.

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Speaker 2: We're moving to Indiana.

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Speaker 12: Maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Combines Next week Red's Baseball Tomorrow, Reds and Guardians. Chase

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Speaker 2: Burns was going to make the start Tommy Thrall said

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Speaker 2: to begin his seventh season as the voice of the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Reds. First pitch Tomorrow three to ZHO five down

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Speaker 2: the Hall on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. In the years

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Speaker 2: you've been doing this, First of all, thank you for

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Speaker 2: joining us. Is is this the least amount of stuff

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Speaker 2: the Reds of it is swored through with the roster

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Speaker 2: and starting spots since you've been calling the games.

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Speaker 10: You know, it's funny.

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Speaker 5: I was out of that conversation with somebody yesterday. I said,

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Speaker 5: you know, I just I go feel like I have

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Speaker 5: a good grasp on some of these battles because there

532
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Speaker 5: really aren't any There's you know, maybe a position player

533
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Speaker 5: or two that are up for grabs, but it's really

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Speaker 5: just controlled. And then you got maybe a couple of

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Speaker 5: bullpen spots and trying to figure out who the fifth

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Speaker 5: starter is. But again there I you know, that's much

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Speaker 5: of a mystery at this point. So it's really just

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Speaker 5: to see, all right, let's hold our breath and hope

539
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Speaker 5: we can get through camp healthy. But that's that's such

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Speaker 5: a good position I think for this team to be

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Speaker 5: in right now. It's a pretty small camp. There's a

542
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Speaker 5: lot of open spaces in the clubhouse, just because there's

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Speaker 5: just not a lot of not a lot of spots

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Speaker 5: up for grabs. I think that that tells you kind

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Speaker 5: of where this team's at right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when when the biggest question is who's going to

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Speaker 2: be the fifth starter? I mean, you know, there there

548
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Speaker 2: have been years where I'm not sure who the opening

549
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Speaker 2: day starter should be, right, So if the biggest battle

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Speaker 2: is for the last part, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 7: I think.

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Speaker 5: So in the other part about that, let's keep in

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Speaker 5: mind the guys that are battling for that that last

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Speaker 5: rotation spot are all pretty darn good. I don't I

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Speaker 5: don't know that you can go wrong. I mean, just

556
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Speaker 5: about all those guys that are buying for that spot

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Speaker 5: would be a lock, and just about any other rotation.

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Speaker 5: Brandon Williamson looks spectacular, Uh, Brett Louder looks fantastic, and

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Speaker 5: we know what he's capable of. And then of course

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Speaker 5: Chase Burns is that now he's the guy kind of

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Speaker 5: think will probably end up getting that spot with with

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Speaker 5: Louder missing all of last year, I think he'll probably

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Speaker 5: and and for that matter, Williamson too. I think those

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Speaker 5: guys will probably need to go to Louisville just to

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Speaker 5: get some innings because they didn't pitch last year and

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Speaker 5: they're still young.

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Speaker 7: So uh.

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Speaker 5: But regardless, I mean, you've got you've got some really

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Speaker 5: talented arms in that group of three that I just mentioned.

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Speaker 5: So this team, I think, from a pitching standpoints in

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Speaker 5: a really good spot. And the other part about that

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Speaker 5: too is because you have those guys and you have

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Speaker 5: that battle. If somebody goes down, it's not the end

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Speaker 5: of the world. So yeah, I think I think they're

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Speaker 5: sitting real pretty from a pitching standpoint.

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Speaker 2: Nick Krawl made it a priority we're going to upgrade

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Speaker 2: the bullpen, and what I like about what they did

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Speaker 2: is they acquired like established relievers, not guys who you

579
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Speaker 2: know had a good year three years ago, not failed starters,

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Speaker 2: like dudes that I think fill specific roles. And so

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Speaker 2: you could answer this for me, it feels like on

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Speaker 2: a night in a night out basis, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be reasonably easy for Tito to kind of map out

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Speaker 2: how he wants to play the later innings compared to

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Speaker 2: last year.

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Speaker 5: And it's not just the later innings matchups at different

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Speaker 5: points in the game. Here's the other part to keep

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Speaker 5: in mind too. This team has had fairly good bullpens

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Speaker 5: over the last few years with guys that are not

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Speaker 5: really household names, and they've kind of piecemealed bullpens together

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Speaker 5: that have still been able to kind of hold their own.

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Speaker 5: It's a it's a much better bullpend this year. And

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Speaker 5: I think the part that gets overlooked is, sure, it's

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Speaker 5: great when you have the lead, but when when you

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Speaker 5: only have guys a handful of guys that you're comfortable

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Speaker 5: pitching when you have the lead, you can't really use

597
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Speaker 5: any of those guys when you're down by a run

598
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Speaker 5: because you might have the lead tomorrow and you might

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Speaker 5: need them tomorrow. It makes it and and Tito said this,

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Speaker 5: and I think you can get overlooked. This affords you

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Speaker 5: the opportunity now to chase some of those games when

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Speaker 5: you're trailing a little bit, you can you can try

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Speaker 5: to chase a win a little bit, even when you're

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Speaker 5: down by a run or two, when maybe before kind

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Speaker 5: of had to put somebody in that maybe didn't have

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Speaker 5: as much confidence in and and just hope they keep

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Speaker 5: it close. And a lot of times that doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 5: work out. So this gives you a chance in some

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Speaker 5: of those games where maybe you've been behind in the

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Speaker 5: past and haven't been able to come back and they

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Speaker 5: get away. Now hopefully you keep them close and have

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Speaker 5: a chance to come back.

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Speaker 2: You you talked with me a year ago at this

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Speaker 2: time and we were talking about you know, Tito takes over.

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Speaker 2: It's a Hall of Fame manager. He's trying to figure

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Speaker 2: out what he has, players are trying to figure him out.

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Speaker 2: There's an acclamation process this This franchise has had a

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Speaker 2: year under his program, so to speak. So how is

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Speaker 2: camp different this year from that regard compared to last year?

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Speaker 5: Now, now the expectation is there, it's established guys understand

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Speaker 5: that they know it. There's no trying to feel him

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Speaker 5: out or vice versa. I think it's it's go time

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Speaker 5: now and and that I think there's a lot to that,

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Speaker 5: and it's not just the players and him. I think

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Speaker 5: the other part too, that that again it's easy to

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Speaker 5: kind of overlook, is the coaching aspect. I think lastly

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Speaker 5: an example of that. I think last year, you know,

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Speaker 5: this team went from being maybe the most aggressive team

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Speaker 5: on the basis in baseball to a little more conservative. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I think the sweet spot's there in the middle, and

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Speaker 5: I think all of that is trying to kind of

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Speaker 5: figure out what Tito wants and how he wants this

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Speaker 5: team to run the bases. I think they're on a

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Speaker 5: spot now where they kind of understand that a little bit.

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Speaker 5: I would expect this team to be a little bit

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Speaker 5: more aggressive on the basis. Again, I think that can

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00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 5: do a lot for this team in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 5: So that's just kind of a little example of what

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00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 5: you're talking about with kind of figuring out a new

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Speaker 5: manager and how he wants to go about it. Again,

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Speaker 5: this isn't to say that they're going to be reckless,

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Speaker 5: because I thought before they have been a little reckless

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Speaker 5: last year, probably a little too passive. I just think

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Speaker 5: that they're going to be a little smarter and still

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Speaker 5: a little more aggressive the.

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Speaker 2: Au Haanio Suarez effect. So we expect him to hit

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Speaker 2: the ball out of the ballpark, which that's why you

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Speaker 2: get him. But there's an ancillary part of that. And

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Speaker 2: you've talked about this already. Everybody who covers the team,

650
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 2: you know, he's a beloved figure. He's a guy that

651
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: just it feels like people gravitate toward him as somebody

652
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 2: who's had his feet on the ground there in goodyear

653
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 2: described for me the geno effect that goes beyond the

654
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 2: potential to at the ball out of the ballpark forty

655
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Speaker 2: plus times.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think there's a lot of things. One he

657
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 5: can lead by example, which is great because these guys

658
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 5: we're kind of done talking about how young they are,

659
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 5: but there is still some youth there. And this is

660
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 5: a veteran presence that can lead by example. It's easy

661
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 5: to sit there and here, we'll stay within yourself and

662
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 5: all this stuff. Well, now you not only have a

663
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 5: veteran that exemplifies that, but he's also going to be

664
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Speaker 5: in the lineup protecting these guys and they don't all

665
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 5: have to do it on every swing now, which I

666
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 5: think is huge. That to me is that where I

667
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 5: hope we see that effect the most, where I think

668
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 5: just his presence in the lineup allows everybody to just

669
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 5: relax at the plate a little bit and take some

670
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,720
Speaker 5: of the pressure off themselves and just stay within themselves.

671
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Speaker 5: I've said this several times of people around camp that

672
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 5: I feel like this team is going to not just

673
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 5: be good, but be really really good if offensively as

674
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Speaker 5: a group, they stay within what makes them good. I

675
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 5: think at times you saw this team get a little

676
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 5: homer happy. Guys are trying to take on too much

677
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 5: at the plate, and as such, here pats tend to

678
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 5: get a little worse. I think you're becoming easier out

679
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 5: when you're trying to do something that is not really

680
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 5: in your game. So whar's the power guy in there?

681
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 12: Now?

682
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 5: They don't have to do it all themselves. So if

683
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 5: everybody just kind of relaxes a little bit at the plate,

684
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 5: does what fits their game, they're going to be in

685
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 5: good shape. And this is going to be a really

686
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Speaker 5: dangerous and pesky team.

687
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Speaker 2: I see images of Elie Dela Cruz from Goodyear, and

688
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 2: you could tell he put the work in. Has there

689
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: been anybody else that you've seen when they've strolled on

690
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 2: to a field somewhere, maybe in the clubhouse, that you've

691
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: just put your eyes on and been like, you know what,

692
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 2: that guy looks different than he did a year ago.

693
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, well, Ellie, it's hard to miss because

695
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 5: he had warned sleeves. I don't think I can't, but yeah,

696
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 5: you know, south Stewart is a guy that I think

697
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 5: really stands out and I'm curious to see how that.

698
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 5: I'm excited to see him in game action. Look, I'm

699
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 5: not a scout, I'm not going to pretend to be,

700
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 5: so I kind of want to see what he looks

701
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 5: like once he gets in there starts to get some

702
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 5: reps over at first base. Keep in mind first base

703
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 5: is still very new to him. I want to see

704
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 5: how a slim down version of him moves on the field.

705
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 5: And then I'm curious if it affects him at the

706
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 5: plate at all, because sometimes guys lose weight and then

707
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 5: they try to prove that they still have pop. Well,

708
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 5: it goes back to what I was just talking about.

709
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 5: With your last question. You don't need to show that

710
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 5: you have pop. It kind of just shows itself when

711
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 5: you go about things the right way. That's what I'd

712
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 5: like to see from sal. You know, if he gets

713
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 5: into a situation where he tries to prove that he

714
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 5: still has some power even though he's lost some weight,

715
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Speaker 5: that could be problematic. If he stays with his line

716
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 5: drive approach, the whole Huttons are gonna come just fine

717
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 5: without trying.

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Speaker 2: It's your last day before you call a game, so

719
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to keep you forever one more. When

720
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Speaker 2: when you're when you're calling some of these early Cactus

721
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Speaker 2: League games and we get to like this seventh or

722
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 2: eighth inning and they're putting in dudes who have numbers

723
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 2: in the eighties and your scorecard looks like my daughter's homework.

724
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 2: Give me some players that we should be paying attention

725
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 2: to maybe aren't going to make the club. But that

726
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 2: might raise an eyebrow too during the Cactus League.

727
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it was a high pick. Recently, Lewis, I

728
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 5: think I think we're going to see him this spring.

729
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 5: I'm kind of excited to see him. And about a

730
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 5: couple of names that are not all that unfamiliar Blake

731
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 5: Dunn finished the year really well in Louisville, and Reese

732
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 5: Hines another guy. The big thing with ree Hines He's

733
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 5: loaded with power. We've seen that obviously. He cut down

734
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 5: on his strikeouts dramatically last year. He kind of changed

735
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 5: his approach at the plate. Those are guys. They may

736
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 5: start some games too, I would guess that they would.

737
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Speaker 5: But those are guys that if they can prove that

738
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 5: their adjustments that they made last year are actually working,

739
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 5: they can help this team when somebody goes down. We

740
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 5: know it happens every year. Somebody is gonna get hurt,

741
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 5: so you have to have guys that can fill in.

742
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 5: Reese Hines has a chance to be a difference maker

743
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 5: if somebody goes down and this new approach that he

744
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 5: has works out. If that was the biggest thing, if

745
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 5: he could have cut down on his strikeouts in the

746
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 5: major league level, I think he was going to be

747
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 5: dangerous and probably play pretty consistent amount. So that if

748
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 5: that works for him and it works up here at

749
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 5: the major league level, he has a chance to help

750
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 5: this team this year. So that's Those are some guys

751
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 5: that I think are worth keeping an eye on. It's

752
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 5: good to see Tyler Callahan's back. Will see him some

753
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 5: this spring. I'm curious to see how he looks now

754
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 5: that he's got some new hardware in his arm after

755
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 5: breaking it last year. So there are certainly some guys

756
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 5: that keep it even though they may not make this

757
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 5: team out of camp.

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Speaker 2: There is nothing like hearing those first few syllables during

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Speaker 2: the first CATUS League broadcast tomorrow three ten Reds and Guardians.

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00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: Enjoy the spring, Enjoy the season. Can thank you enough?

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00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 2: Always awesome to have you. Tommy, thanks so.

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00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 5: Much, absolutely moth, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Voice of the Reds Tommy Thrall from Goodyear. Tomorrow's broadcast

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Speaker 2: Arizon Fox Sports thirteen to sixty. First pitch, Reds and Guardians.

765
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 2: Reds will be the road team tomorrow. For what it's worth.

766
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 2: First pitch will be at three to oh five. In

767
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 2: the middle of all this stuff. Thank you very much.

768
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 2: Tags Thompson with a power play goal to give the

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Speaker 2: United States a to nothing lead. They're in the first

770
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 2: intermission of this semi final tilt the US over Slovakia.

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Speaker 2: A birth in the gold medal game on Sunday is

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00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 2: up for grabs to nothing. The United States on top

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00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 2: winner will play Canada on Sunday. Nick Bukaty from MLS

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00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 2: Season Pass is going to join us at four twenty.

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00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 2: He's got the call of the game tomorrow night. I'm

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00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 2: going to answer a question by asking a question next

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Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 12: Yea, this report Cincinnati's sports station.

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Speaker 2: I love that commercial. Six after four. This is ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. I don't know how to read a clock,

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00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: so a slightly late start to the hour of my apologies.

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Speaker 2: Are we doing this? We're doing another one. We're broadcasting

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Speaker 2: this hour. Maybe the rest of the show we'll see

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Speaker 2: on Twitter. This is advancing from the beta version. That's

785
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 2: try you can watch a radio show. There's nothing more

786
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Speaker 2: exciting at Mullager, nothing more exciting. You can watch me

787
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 2: sit here and talk into a microphone instead of simply

788
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 2: listening to me talking to a microphone. Nate Bukaty from

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00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: an MLS season past Apple TV is going to join

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00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: us at four to twenty. He's got the call tomorrow

791
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati and Atlanta. We've got the color It's basketball

792
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 2: from this weekend to touch on more on the Reds

793
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 2: as they get set to start games in Goodyear the Bengals.

794
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 2: Next week's going to be interesting. Duke Tobin's gonna talk again,

795
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor's gonna talk to coordinators. And next week is

796
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 2: when we start to flip the page to the twenty

797
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 2: twenty six season and it's gathering intel about draft prospects,

798
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 2: maybe seeing what the market could be if the Bengals

799
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 2: do apply the tag to Trey Hendrickson. One of the

800
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 2: topics that's going to be discussed in Indie for a

801
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 2: lot of different teams is Max Crosby, who the Raiders

802
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 2: apparently have set the asking price way up here, and

803
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 2: of course they should, right. Max Crosby is awesome. The

804
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 2: Raiders aren't liquidating him, They're not giving him away. They

805
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 2: should be asking for a lot. Now are the Bengals interested?

806
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 9: Man?

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00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 2: Your guess is as good as mine. I do know

808
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 2: that Max Crosby and the Bengals that potential will go with.

809
00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 2: Potential relationship was kind of kicked into hyperdrive because of

810
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: the the Fitzian Wit podcast or is it Wit and Fits.

811
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 2: I don't know. Andrew Whitworth and Ryan Fitzpatrick to a

812
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 2: podcast and it's a good one, or they were like

813
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 2: banging the drum for the Bengals to go trade for

814
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 2: Max Crosby. Our friend Paul Dayner, Junior of The Athletic

815
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 2: writes a really good piece where he presents the pros

816
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 2: and the cons. The pros are, it's Max Crosby. It's

817
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 2: also something bold, and you know, something bold might be

818
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 2: what's required if you're really going to push all your

819
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 2: chips to the center of the table for twenty twenty six,

820
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 2: and if you want to send a surge of energy

821
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 2: and optimism through your team and through your fan base.

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00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 2: The cons are it would cost a lot. It would

823
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 2: cost a lot of money. Max Crosby's salary cap hit

824
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 2: is roughly thirty five million dollars, and you would be partying,

825
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 2: in all likelihood with some draft capital, including obviously the

826
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 2: tenth overall pick. One of the most annoying things you

827
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 2: can do in life, and I'm guilty of it, but

828
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 2: one of the most annoying things you can do in

829
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 2: life is when you are asked a question, you answer

830
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 2: it with a question, I'm going to do that. Not

831
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 2: the first time I've done something annoying. In front of

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00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 2: this microphone. Should the Max? You ask, should the Bengals

833
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:23,959
Speaker 2: trade for Max Crosby. I'll answer it with a question,

834
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 2: and the question is can they do it and still

835
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 2: fix the rest of their defense? Paul writes this passage,

836
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 2: and I'm not a big believer in giving away people's content,

837
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 2: so go read the entire thing. But like he writes

838
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 2: this in the con part of his piece, the downside

839
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 2: there needs to be concerned about raising the floor more

840
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 2: than the ceiling. Feel free to do both. But the

841
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 2: Bengals can't go forward with bargain basement replacements in the

842
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 2: starting lineup, trotting out Barrett Carter and Demetrius Knight again,

843
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 2: or not finding an interior pass rush compliment. So I

844
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 2: will well answer a question by asking can they still

845
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 2: do all that stuff while still acquiring Max Crosby. Now

846
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 2: there is a world, especially if the Bengals entertain restructuring

847
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow's contract, which he's kind of expressed a willingness

848
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 2: to do, where you can get creative, and you could

849
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 2: use the draft assets you have, and you can find

850
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 2: the right free agents, and you can spend the still

851
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 2: considerable dollars you have available to go and fix the

852
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 2: rest of the defense. Because acquiring Max Crosby, who's a younger,

853
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 2: better version of Trey Hendrickson. I think a more well

854
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 2: rounded version of Trey Hendrickson. And that's not Trey Hendrickson slander.

855
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 2: It's more of a statement about how good Max Crosby is,

856
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 2: ultimate high motor guy, like has all the intangibles and

857
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 2: he is an awesome player. But simply acquiring him and

858
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 2: then you know, patchworking the rest of the defense, it's

859
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: probably not going to work. And like I joked about

860
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 2: this with Paul on Tuesday where I said, you know,

861
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 2: if I'm gonna be in Texas on Monday and Tuesday,

862
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 2: and the way I put it was, if I find

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00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 2: out next week that Duke Tobin has said, you know what,

864
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 2: we feel pretty comfortable. We think we're just going to

865
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 2: run it back with Barrett and Demetrius, I'm gonna go

866
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 2: find a cowboy that's gonna brand me with an iron

867
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 2: Like come on, like that can't That's not to say

868
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 2: those guys can't be on the team. It's not to

869
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 2: say that those guys can't be productive, good NFL players,

870
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: but like, you want to substantially improve your defense, you

871
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 2: gotta do better than those dudes. So they need starting

872
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,399
Speaker 2: caliber players. I'm not sure, there's been an offseason where

873
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 2: the terms starting caliber players have been used more frequently

874
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 2: than they've been here with the Bengals on their starting

875
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 2: caliber players. Can the Bengals get starting caliber players on

876
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 2: every level of the defense and get Max Crosby. The

877
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 2: answer may be yes, but I fear it's no because

878
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 2: of the lack of faith in the Bengals being able

879
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 2: to be creative and smart and find players that are

880
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 2: smart acquisitions that might not be the absolute top of

881
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 2: line guys. Like if you have fewer draft picks, it

882
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 2: puts more of a premium on the draft picks you have.

883
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 2: So the Bengals, whose recent track record with the draft

884
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 2: isn't great, we're gonna take away draft picks now again. Man,

885
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 2: Adding Max Crosby helps. He does not help the interior

886
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 2: pass rush. He doesn't help you at the three technique.

887
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 2: He doesn't help you at linebacker, doesn't help you at

888
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 2: slock corner, doesn't help you at safety, doesn't help you

889
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 2: anywhere else. So he helps solve a need. By the way,

890
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 2: if there's one area where you're kind of okay, it's

891
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 2: at edge. Not that they don't need more, because they do,

892
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 2: but you do have Miles Murphy, who was pretty good

893
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 2: in the second half of the season last year. And

894
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 2: I'm sure they haven't given up on Shamar Stewart. So

895
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 2: like unfortunately, the question about whether or not they should

896
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: acquire Max Crosby, it's a good one. I will answer

897
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 2: it with a question that I'm not sure can be

898
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 2: answered right now, because if you're gonna answer it, you

899
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 2: have more faith in the Bengals front office than a

900
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 2: lot of us do. The whole reason why we went

901
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 2: nuts over the Bengals keeping Duke Tobin around was there's

902
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 2: sort of a lack of faith in here. So right now,

903
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 2: it's not that what the Bengals have in front of

904
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 2: them is easy, But right now, you got all this

905
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 2: money to spend, you got all this cap space, you

906
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 2: got all the draft picks, you have obvious needs. You

907
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 2: have an offensive side of the ball that you can

908
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 2: pretty much leave untouched. So though it would be cool

909
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 2: if they got the Dalton Reisner thing done, well, you're

910
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 2: gonna cut into that a little bit to go get

911
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,959
Speaker 2: Max Crosby. He would occupy a significant chunk of money.

912
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 2: Let's face it, the Bengals track record is not one

913
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 2: that suggests they're gonna restructure Joe Burrow's contract so that

914
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 2: feels like it's not really on the table. You're gonna

915
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 2: throw a lot of money at one guy, You're gonna

916
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: throw a lot of draft picks at the trade to

917
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 2: get that one guy, and you still have all these

918
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 2: other areas to fix on your defense. Kind of small,

919
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 2: aren't creative? Efficient, well staffed front office still get the

920
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,959
Speaker 2: job done? Yes? Do we feel like the Bengals front

921
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 2: office right now is smart, well staffed, creative and efficient?

922
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 2: The answer is not.

923
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:18,439
Speaker 6: Yes.

924
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 2: Fourteen minutes after four o'clock, phone lines are open five

925
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 2: point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty and eight sixty six,

926
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 2: seven oh two three seven seven six. Uh I lied,

927
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:32,720
Speaker 2: I said we had Nate Bukati at four twenty because

928
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 2: I can't read my own handwriting. Of course, those of

929
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 2: you who follow me on social media who have seen

930
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 2: you know I've I've tweeted out some some picks, And

931
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 2: what I do is I just tweet out a picture

932
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 2: of the piece of paper that I keep for myself.

933
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 2: The handwriting is awful. I have many many flaws, many

934
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 2: many deficiencies. Awful handwriting is well. Frankly, it's not even

935
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 2: at the top of the list or even close. But

936
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,399
Speaker 2: it's on the list, and uh Nate's going to join

937
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: us at four thirty in studio is going to be

938
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 2: here in just about fifteen minutes. So you and I

939
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 2: between now and then five one, three, seven, four nine,

940
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty is our phone number.

941
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 3: Pseudo.

942
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 2: Good news for fans of one college basketball team in

943
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 2: the area. Next on ESPN fifteen thirty.

944
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 11: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the UC.

945
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 8: Health Traffic Center. Around forty percent of cancers are preventable.

946
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 8: Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. Call five

947
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 8: one three five eighty five UCCC. There is an accident

948
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 8: northbound seventy one after Ridge Avenue that went off on

949
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 8: the right shoulder. Police are there on scene as well.

950
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 8: Another accident on Vine at the Camp Avenue. In one

951
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 8: final crash north Bend Road. It's over at Remlin Road

952
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 8: northbound seventy five. Slow traffic. Mitchell de Paddock, I'm at

953
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Speaker 8: eazelic with traffic this report.

954
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 2: What an unbelievable college basketball weekend we have in front

955
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 2: of us. Just forget all the off court issues the

956
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 2: sport has right now. You don't get many weekends where

957
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 2: you get one versus three depending on which pole you love.

958
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 2: We get that tomorrow with Duke and Michigan, which is

959
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 2: just going to be absolutely awesome. And this on top

960
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 2: obviously of all the local games, and then you get

961
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 2: Arizona and Houston two versus four. Just an unbelievably packed

962
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 2: college hoops weekend in the middle of a really fun

963
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 2: sports weekend overall. We talked before about the Bearcats. U

964
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 2: See's at Kansas tomorrow, like, really want to change the

965
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: conversation beat somebody good on the road. Miami plays tonight

966
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 2: and I thought that went on Tuesday. Look, you get

967
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:48,760
Speaker 2: a lot of credit. You get a lot of attention

968
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 2: when you're twenty six and zer regardless of what league

969
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 2: you're in, whatever, the schedule is more attention, more eyeballs,

970
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 2: more scrutiny, and frankly, more pressure with every game. By

971
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 2: the way, for what it's worth, it like they're running

972
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 2: away and hiding in the MAC. They have a one

973
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 2: game lead over Akron. Now Akron has one loss. The

974
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 2: one loss was to Miami, so it's kind of effectively

975
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 2: a two game lead, but they haven't closed out the

976
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 2: MAC yet. Akron, for what it's worth, is in Munsey

977
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 2: tonight to play Ball State. I thought they took UMass's

978
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 2: best shot on Tuesday. I thought, I don't know how

979
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 2: tough of a gym the Minutemen playing on a regular

980
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 2: Mac game basis. But the crowd was ready for him,

981
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 2: the team was ready for him. Miamis not a great

982
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 2: defensive team. We're at the stage in the season where

983
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 2: it's just it's kind of who they are. There are

984
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 2: gonna be times where they just have to outscore people.

985
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 2: There're gonna be times where they're gonna have to offset

986
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 2: what you're doing offensively by just getting buckets, and Miami

987
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 2: is really good at that. But we talked about this

988
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 2: on Wednesday. That game on Tuesday felt like one that

989
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 2: all the attention of the game on Friday, while he's

990
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 2: Herbiak in town, the games are sold out, people are going,

991
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 2: They're getting a lot of national attention. Travel. This is

992
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 2: on game day on Saturday. They go on the road

993
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 2: against a team that almost beat him here. That felt

994
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 2: like a landmine. They avoided the land mine. Now come

995
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 2: back home tonight. Lots of noise around the program. They've

996
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,919
Speaker 2: beaten Bowling Green once beat him by ten up there,

997
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,280
Speaker 2: they play him at Molett Hall tonight. Can they maintain

998
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,760
Speaker 2: the same level of focus. I we have our official

999
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: bracketologist who we got to get on here soon, Hunter

1000
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 2: sansm He is the official bracketologist of our show. I

1001
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 2: think he's the official bracketologist of this station. In fact,

1002
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 2: he might be the official bracketologist of Lance's show. Because

1003
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 2: you know how it works. We get guests, we find

1004
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 2: good people to have on. Then the other hosts are like,

1005
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 2: oh yeah, that guy's good. Happens all the time. But

1006
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 2: for what it's worth, the most well known bracketologist is

1007
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 2: Joe Lenardi. Now many will say on a year and

1008
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 2: a year up basis, his projections aren't the most accurate. Fine,

1009
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 2: but he's kind of like invented bracketology. What it's worth,

1010
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 2: He's written a book about bracketology. We had him on

1011
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 2: the show to talk about the book and so so

1012
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:09,320
Speaker 2: much else. He's his latest projections. The exercise that he

1013
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 2: did he had Miami losing a game and he still

1014
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 2: has him in the field as one of the last

1015
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 2: four in playing in Dayton in the quote play in

1016
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 2: but he's got him in. I just you know they're

1017
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 2: they're getting a lot of attention and they seem to

1018
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 2: have maintained their focus and h there's when you get

1019
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:30,800
Speaker 2: to the stage in the season and it feels like

1020
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 2: it may go up and smoke if you lose one game,

1021
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 2: Like Arizona and Houston are are playing games against each

1022
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 2: other tomorrow, Duke and Michigan. They're great games, and a

1023
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,320
Speaker 2: ripple effect from those games and and seeding an NCAA

1024
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 2: tournament impact. Their seasons aren't going to be over if

1025
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 2: they lose them, or their tournament chances aren't going to

1026
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 2: be dashed if they lose them. Yes, Miami would still

1027
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 2: have the MAC Tournament, which they should be favored in,

1028
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 2: but still so you're playing with a lot of pressure.

1029
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 2: You're playing like when you're trying to finish undefeated. There's

1030
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 2: a different type of pressure I would imagine that comes

1031
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 2: with that, all the added scrutiny, all the added attention,

1032
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 2: and you are trying to work around a little bit

1033
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 2: of a fatal flaw, which is their defense, although it

1034
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 2: hasn't been fatal so far this season. Miami and Bowling

1035
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,720
Speaker 2: Green tonight at eight thirty. That is a CBS Sports

1036
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 2: Network game. If I'm not mistaken, Uh, let's see here.

1037
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 2: Five point three, seven, four, nine, fifteen thirty Bob and

1038
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 2: bowling Green. Bob, you're the biggest hockey fan. I know

1039
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 2: the US is playing right now and you're calling our show.

1040
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 2: What's up?

1041
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 6: Hey? Well, how are you?

1042
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 2: I'm well yourself, I'm good, you know, speaking of hockey.

1043
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 7: You guys, I know got mostly snow up there a

1044
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 7: few weeks back, but we got killed with ice. I mean,

1045
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 7: it was just unbelievable and in fact so weird. In

1046
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 7: fact that the Predators actually called off a game because

1047
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 7: of ice.

1048
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 2: The national press didn't play a hockey game because of ice. Wow, Yes,

1049
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 2: And I don't know.

1050
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 7: For me, it was just it didn't seem fair, It

1051
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 7: didn't seem right actually. But but anyway, what I wanted.

1052
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 2: To do, well, you know that there were there were

1053
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 2: Olympic events in uh in Italy in fact two I think,

1054
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 2: featuring local athletes that got postponed because of too much snow. Really,

1055
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 2: the Winter Olympics have events that get moved because of

1056
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 2: too much snow, like snowboarding. How do you cancel snowboarding

1057
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 2: if there's too much snow?

1058
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, that doesn't say much.

1059
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. Now for a second, Bob,

1060
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna throw at me a like

1061
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 2: a joke about UH immigrations and Custom Enforcement enforcement, and

1062
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 2: I was really hoping you weren't going to do that. No, no, no, no,

1063
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 2: not me.

1064
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 12: Thanks.

1065
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 7: Hey, I wanted to talk to you about the UH

1066
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 7: this season with the car and the Cincinnati Reds. Okay,

1067
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 7: and for the first time in gosh, I don't know

1068
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 7: how many years, champions are pretty good. We're going to

1069
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 7: be looking up all season long at you guys.

1070
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like it and and you know what,

1071
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 2: for a.

1072
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 7: Lot of people, I'm sure that's one of those things

1073
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 7: where you go, oh god, this is going to be

1074
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Speaker 7: a horrible I am actually looking forward to it, really

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Speaker 7: and yeah, and you've probably been this way when the

1076
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 7: Reds were doing like a rebuild thing. I want to

1077
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 7: see which of these young guys they have and which

1078
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 7: they've obtained in trades for you know, the all the

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00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 7: guys they got rid of can really play. And like

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Speaker 7: I say, for me, I'm I'm really excited about it.

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00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would say I've ever been excited.

1082
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 2: I've tried to view it from a lens where it's like,

1083
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 2: all right, if you're not going to compete. Hopefully, amid

1084
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 2: all the losing, some key pieces emerge, and sometimes that

1085
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 2: has happened, and sometimes that hasn't happened. The Reds lost

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00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 2: one hundred games in twenty twenty two, and yet there

1087
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 2: was something about, Okay, let's see if you know, Hunter

1088
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 2: Green and Nicolodolo and Graham Ashcraft can stick. But by

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00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 2: and large, Number one, I can't remember a season in

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00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 2: my lifetime, Bob where the expectations for the Cardinals have

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00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 2: been this low. Number two. If I have a choice

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00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 2: between getting ready for a season where I think my

1093
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 2: team has a chance and getting ready for a season

1094
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 2: where my team has no chance, I will take the former. Yeah, yeah,

1095
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 2: And I do appreciate the bright side. I do appreciate it.

1096
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 2: You look it on the bright side, and I do

1097
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 2: think there's something about, like, you know what, I'm a

1098
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 2: fan of these teams, this team. Let's see what these

1099
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Speaker 2: guys can do and hopefully in a couple of years

1100
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 2: these pieces are worth building around. I do understand that,

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00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 2: but I'd rather be I'll put it this way. I'd

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Speaker 2: rather be in the Reds position than the Cardinals position.

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00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 7: Right A MO two of our pitch. One of them

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00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 7: can throw with either arm.

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Speaker 2: That's cool.

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00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 7: And they have a starter named Dick Fits.

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00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 2: Uh, Dick Fitz is going to be one of the

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Speaker 2: starting pitchers.

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00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 7: Well he could be.

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00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, is he any good?

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00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 7: And well you know what came over from Boston? Uh

1112
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 7: wasn't great over there, but the really young guy and

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00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 7: uh and I think just with a name alone, he

1114
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 7: should have a lot of followers with that.

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00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 2: No question. Does he go by Richard or does he

1116
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 2: like to be called Dick Fitz? Is that is Dick

1117
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 2: Fitz on his baseball card?

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00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 7: Well, he said Richard, but call me Dick for short.

1119
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 7: I think is the way he likes to say it.

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Speaker 2: I I one. I would like to spend one day

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00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 2: in his shoes, just introducing myself to people, telling folks

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00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 2: my name, just to see how they would react.

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Speaker 7: All right, well, hey, good speaking with you, Bob and Son.

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Speaker 2: Nice to hear from you. Enjoy, enjoy the enjoy the

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Speaker 2: rest of the hockey game. It's four thirty. Uh naybe

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Speaker 2: Katy from MLS Season Pass Apple TV is going to

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Speaker 2: join us. And he just texted me, said the GPS

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Speaker 2: says he's three minutes out. All right, fine, sports headlines break.

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Speaker 2: It's four minutes. You know, Tarren and I were supposed

1130
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Speaker 2: to do something at one thirty s head and I

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01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 2: showed up right at one thirty. And I'm sure he

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Speaker 2: wasn't annoyed at all by that. So you know, it's

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01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 2: a Friday that Nate's not from in town, so he's

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01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 2: navigating a sure a part of town he's never been to,

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Speaker 2: in a part of country is not from. We'll do

1136
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Speaker 2: sports headlines and Nate might be here in a few

1137
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Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 3: Station Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 8: Traffic from the UC Health Traffic Center. Around forty percent

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Speaker 8: There is an accident northbound seventy one after Ridge Avenue

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Speaker 8: that went off on the right shoulder. Police are there

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Speaker 8: on scene as well. Another accident on Vine at the

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Speaker 8: Camp Avenue. In one final crash north Bend Road. It's

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Speaker 8: over at Remlin Road northbound seventy five. Slow traffic, Mitchell

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Speaker 8: the Paddock. I'm at eazelic with the traffic.

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Speaker 2: signed Jalen Davis for a one year contract. Believe it

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Speaker 2: or not, that dude's been here since twenty twenty. Running

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Speaker 2: back Kendall Milton one year contract. He has spent the

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Speaker 2: last two years. Most of the last two years on

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Speaker 2: the Bengals practice squad Reds and Guardians tomorrow and the

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Speaker 2: Cactus League opener FC Cincinnati tomorrow, and it's MLS opener

1160
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 2: against Atlanta at four forty five on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: Our guy nap Pukati from a Apple TV is in

1162
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 2: studio will chat with him in just a second. Loa

1163
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 2: to college basketball weekend locally. Miami host bowling Green tonight

1164
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 2: at eight thirty. Indiana battles Purdue tomorrow, It's a UC

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Speaker 2: at Kansas at one. That's on seven hundred wow Xaviers

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Speaker 2: at Butler at one thirty fifty five KRC has radio

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Speaker 2: coverage to that one Dayton takes on du Caine U

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Speaker 2: Can Auburn tomorrow at eight thirty on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: On Sunday, we have NKU at Youngstown State, Ohio State

1170
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 2: battles Michigan State. US is up for nothing. As I

1171
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,479
Speaker 2: just mentioned in the semi final tilt of the men's

1172
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 2: hockey competition at the Olympics, winner plays in the gold

1173
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 2: medal match on Sunday against Canada. Cyclone skate tonight at Iowa.

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Speaker 2: Another game at Iowa tomorrow evening. FC Cincinnati wins. It's

1175
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 2: a CONCA CAF Champions Cup match on Wednesday. Now they

1176
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 2: set their sights on the MLS regular season opener tomorrow

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Speaker 2: afternoon four to forty five. You can watch it on

1178
01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 2: Apple TV. Calling the game in studio. Visit ye Katie

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Speaker 2: is with us? What's up?

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Speaker 9: Mo?

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Speaker 14: It's an honor to be here, man. I always want

1182
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 14: you to know what that that Cincinnati versus Kansas game.

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01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 14: Do you guys get to have the Darren Peterson experience

1184
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 14: now where we wait to find.

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Speaker 15: Out if he's gonna play, how long he's gonna play.

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Speaker 2: You know all that we're hopefully doesn't you know, if

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01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 2: he's if he's really want to do load management, I

1188
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 2: suggest he'd, you know, watch the game, watch, maybe take

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Speaker 2: Florie Butdunga with him. That'd be great.

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Speaker 15: You know what, Florrie seems to play every time.

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Speaker 14: I'm a Jayhawk. If you have sure, yeah, but uh,

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Speaker 14: Florie seems to have it. Find a way to get

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Speaker 14: out there every time he does well. If Darren plays,

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01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 14: maybe he'll pull himself out.

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Speaker 2: We'll see. You never know, Bearcats. Cats could could use

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Speaker 2: a win against a good team, whether or not Darren

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Speaker 2: Peterson plays. How are you welcome to town?

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Speaker 15: I'm doing great.

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Speaker 2: It's nice to get here a little early.

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Speaker 14: I actually got to go to training today, talk to

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Speaker 14: Pat Noonan and some of the guys for a little bit.

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Speaker 14: And and when I got my schedule to start the

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Speaker 14: season and I saw us coming to Cincinnati, I got

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Speaker 14: fired up because you guys have one of the best

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Speaker 14: fan base, is one of the best atmosphere. Probably sounds

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Speaker 14: like pandering, but that's that's the truth. We agree in

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Speaker 14: all of Major League soccer. And so you know, as

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Speaker 14: a broadcaster, you want to go to places where it matters,

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Speaker 14: places where there's an intensity amongst the fan base, a

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Speaker 14: good atmosphere. Pat Newton said that today at his news conference.

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Speaker 14: He said they asked him what he was most excited about.

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Speaker 14: He said, getting back in front of the fans and

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Speaker 14: feeling that energy. You feel it, you feel it in

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Speaker 14: that building.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because one of the talking points from Chris

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Speaker 2: Albright this offseason was well things kind of got stale.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think that was a shot at the fans.

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Speaker 2: It was a shot at the fact that at home

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Speaker 2: last year they left a little to be desired.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, And and their game against Atlanta United is an

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Speaker 14: example of that. At n it was a bad team

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Speaker 14: last year and they didn't beat him either time they

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Speaker 14: played him, including in this place. And I I had

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Speaker 14: a chance to call a few games here over the

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Speaker 14: past two years in which the results were.

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Speaker 15: Not what you would have expected coming in.

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Speaker 14: You know, you thought Cincinnati should have been the favorite

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Speaker 14: in those games, and they didn't always come away with

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Speaker 14: a win. But I was here for the luccho a

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Speaker 14: cost to return and that was one of the more

1231
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 14: memory Bull matches I've ever covered because of the fans

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Speaker 14: in that one, they let him have it. It shook

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Speaker 14: him and and I think that really stood out. So

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Speaker 14: I think it's gonna be obviously. I mean it's the opener.

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Speaker 14: Everybody's gotta be firing up. I would think right now.

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Speaker 2: Would think so. And we've talked about this a lot.

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Speaker 2: I talked about this with your partner Devin Curry yesterday.

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Speaker 2: You go back to a year ago and the season starting,

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Speaker 2: and it kind of felt like, good, there's a game

1240
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 2: because there was all this stuff swirling around the team,

1241
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 2: Lutoacosta thing, you know, they go and get a vander

1242
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 2: and it's like, well, hell's that gonna work. They had

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Speaker 2: players who didn't show up for preseason training. It just

1244
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 2: it felt like there was a lot of upheaval and

1245
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 2: this year serene by comparison. That can't help but be

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01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 2: anything but a good thing. Talking to Pat noon a

1247
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Speaker 2: heesher feels like it is.

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Speaker 14: I mean that was the first thing he brought up

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Speaker 14: when I asked him, how are you feeling about this

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Speaker 14: season going into it? And that's exactly what he pointed out.

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Speaker 14: Nobody's holding out, nobody's demanding out. You know, most our

1252
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 14: guys are healthy. We've had a chance to train together

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Speaker 14: for a while and implement some of these new ideas.

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Speaker 14: You mentioned the idea of being a little stale. Well,

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Speaker 14: I think a lot of that's in the attack, right.

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01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 14: They want to find a way to create more chances

1257
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 14: for players to score and not just rely on dank

1258
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 14: A being amazing in an individual moment or Evander being

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01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 14: a you know, incredible in an individual moment. They got

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Speaker 14: to create some more chances outside of that. And it's

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01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:19,760
Speaker 14: a lot easier to develop some of those things if

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01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 14: you actually have all your players upeah in lockstep.

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Speaker 2: I think that's an observation that folks have made, even

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01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 2: going back to when Luco was here, that you know,

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01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 2: those are great individual players, but at times it feels

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Speaker 2: like the attack is depends on those guys a little

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Speaker 2: bit too much.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's I mean, like to use a basketball analogy,

1269
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 14: it's almost like give it, give it to Jordan and

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01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 14: let them create, you know, as opposed to let's get

1271
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 14: some good ball movement, let's you know, let's let's make

1272
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Speaker 14: some easy baskets for ourselves. Boy, XG you got thrown

1273
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 14: around a lot when Chris Albright talked at the end

1274
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 14: of last year, right, and and XG is a polarizing

1275
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 14: term in the soccer world because it's uh, are we

1276
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 14: just starting to talk about math problems and things like

1277
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Speaker 14: that now? But I think that the point that they're

1278
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 14: saying is we've got to get the ball inside the

1279
01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 14: penalty area a little bit more.

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Speaker 15: They've got to get a better connection between dank A.

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01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 14: Here's here's a number for you that my guy John

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01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 14: at Cincinnati helped me look up today. There were only

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01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 14: five occasions last year where either dank A assisted a

1284
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 14: goal to Evander or Evander assisted a goal to dank

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01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:22,919
Speaker 14: dan K set up Evander for one goal last year. Wow,

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01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 14: And Evander did it four times for dan K. And

1287
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 14: these are two MVP caliber players. Yeah, And it doesn't

1288
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 14: sound like it's because they don't like each other or

1289
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 14: anything like that. They just have to be more aware

1290
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 14: of one another and what they're each good at and

1291
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 14: where they want the ball and how to get them

1292
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 14: the ball. That's obviously been a big point of emphasis.

1293
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 14: So I'm gonna be looking for that connection tomorrow.

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01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 2: For sure, only one team can win an MLS Cup.

1295
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 2: But you know, I go back to a couple of

1296
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 2: years ago, they lose a heartbreaker to Columbus in the

1297
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 2: Eastern Final, and I felt like that cast a Paul

1298
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 2: over the entire offseason. You think that did that with

1299
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 2: the way they were just manhandled against Miami last year.

1300
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 2: That do you feel like they've moved on? Do you

1301
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 2: feel like they've you know, turned the page quickly, or

1302
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 2: is that something that could sort of hover over the

1303
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 2: sort of the season.

1304
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 14: I think of those two results very differently. You're closer

1305
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 14: to the situation in many ways than I am. But

1306
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 14: as I look at them from the outside, I say

1307
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 14: that first one cast the Paul because if I remember quickly,

1308
01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 14: that was the Matt Mioska suspended because he got in

1309
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,720
Speaker 14: trouble with uh, you know, and the we're winning the

1310
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 14: game to nothing, yeah, and so more like it that

1311
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 14: was our moment and we let it slip away. We're

1312
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 14: also Columbus, Yeah, and it's rival this one last year.

1313
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 14: I almost think it's it's it's it could be a

1314
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 14: long term a good thing, because I don't think you're

1315
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 14: having the conversation from Chris Albright and the organization about

1316
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:43,640
Speaker 14: how we need and they made a change in the

1317
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 14: coaching staff, right, and a change in the approach. I

1318
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 14: don't think they do that unless they have that result

1319
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 14: where it's like, Okay, here's the standard now, and you've

1320
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 14: got to get to this if you want to win

1321
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 14: that trophy. So I think the one two years ago,

1322
01:08:57,640 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 14: it's more like, oh, darn it, we shot ourselves in

1323
01:08:59,439 --> 01:08:59,720
Speaker 14: the foot.

1324
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 15: We screwed it up when we had it. I think

1325
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 15: last year it.

1326
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 14: Was more like, all, we need to get better if

1327
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 14: we want to be able to win that trophy, So

1328
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 14: we've got to change something, and they didn't really. They

1329
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 14: changed a little bit of personnel, but not any big names.

1330
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:13,679
Speaker 2: Nothing.

1331
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 14: Yeah, So I think it's more about, let's change the

1332
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 14: way we go about things in the attack a little

1333
01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:20,679
Speaker 14: bit and see if we can get better in that regard.

1334
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 2: I think of that night and I just remember thinking, like,

1335
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,560
Speaker 2: the FC Cincinnati guys look like they're in awe of

1336
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 2: Messi and I just they just look like they look

1337
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:30,920
Speaker 2: like bystanders more than competitors that night, which to me

1338
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 2: is what was most disappointing.

1339
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 14: It's it's the most remarkable thing I've had. I think

1340
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 14: four times now I've been able to watch Messi in person.

1341
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 14: And this might be a weird analogy to but it's

1342
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 14: only one I could come up with the first time

1343
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:46,719
Speaker 14: I saw him. It's like watching Prince and Concert. Wow

1344
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 14: where And the reason I say that I saw Prince

1345
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 14: and Concert three times in my life. I was a

1346
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 14: pretty big fan when he when it was his turn

1347
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 14: to play like a solo or something, all of the

1348
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 14: other world class musicians on stage would watch him in awe,

1349
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,840
Speaker 14: like their world class at what they do, yet they're

1350
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 14: still in awe of this man.

1351
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:08,759
Speaker 15: And when Messi is involved, that's what happens.

1352
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:12,720
Speaker 14: Every he just seems to to draw the energy and

1353
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 14: attention of every single person in the building, even the

1354
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 14: players in around his own players get better.

1355
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 15: O't let me make one.

1356
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 14: Let me you know, I better be on the on

1357
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 14: point here with my past to him or else Messi's

1358
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:27,559
Speaker 14: gonna be mad at me. Everybody just seems to kind

1359
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,560
Speaker 14: of uh snap to attention when they're around him. So

1360
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 14: Cincinnati is not the only team that's had that happen.

1361
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:35,640
Speaker 2: We've we've had Messi in Major League Soccer now for

1362
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 2: a while and when he when he joined the league,

1363
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 2: we all talked about his potential impact. Obviously, he's had

1364
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 2: an impact on the league. They won the thing last year.

1365
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:45,559
Speaker 2: But beyond that, where's where have you seen as somebody

1366
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 2: who's close to the league and go around the country.

1367
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 2: Where's his impact been felt the most in Major League Soccer?

1368
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:53,520
Speaker 14: I think it's in what I mentioned earlier about Cincinnati

1369
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:56,080
Speaker 14: and that it's set a new bar for where everybody

1370
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 14: else knows they have to get now in the league.

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01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 14: You know, I use it United, the upcoming opponent for Cincinnati,

1372
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 14: as an example. I've been doing some appearances on their

1373
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 14: media this week, and I've told them, you know, look,

1374
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 14: your team when they came into the league set a

1375
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:13,679
Speaker 14: new standard for what it was going to take to compete.

1376
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 14: They were a juggernaut right in twenty eighteen, back when

1377
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 14: Tatsa Martino was there the first time, Ago Almron was

1378
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 14: there the first time, and those were guys that you

1379
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,599
Speaker 14: hadn't seen coming into the league up until that point.

1380
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 14: And they changed the money a little bit, and then

1381
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 14: every but and I think the Atlanta fans thought, well,

1382
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:32,719
Speaker 14: this is how it's gonna be. You know, we're gonna

1383
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 14: just roll through this league. We're gonna be the big dogs.

1384
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:37,719
Speaker 14: And then all of a sudden, other teams like LAFC

1385
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:40,560
Speaker 14: got involved and said, oh, we can spend money like that,

1386
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 14: and that raised the level. Well, now Messi's here, and

1387
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 14: that raises it to a different level and makes people

1388
01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 14: thinking that.

1389
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,919
Speaker 15: And obviously you get sun young men coming into LAFC.

1390
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 14: And I think with the World Cup coming this summer,

1391
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:55,560
Speaker 14: you're going to see another influx of teams around the

1392
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 14: league going Okay, if we want to really compete, we're

1393
01:11:58,040 --> 01:11:59,640
Speaker 14: gonna have to And look, Kevin Denk, I think, is

1394
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:01,479
Speaker 14: an example of that. I mean the money they spent

1395
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 14: on him, so to me, uh, the biggest impact apart

1396
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:07,920
Speaker 14: from the eyeballs coming to the league is that it's

1397
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 14: it's kind of set in the tone for everybody else

1398
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:11,560
Speaker 14: that this is where the league needs to go.

1399
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:15,240
Speaker 2: Nay Bukaty is with us MLS season pass, Apple TV

1400
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 2: tomorrow four forty five f C Cincinnati hosting Atlanta. Major

1401
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:21,719
Speaker 2: League Soccer is going to change its calendar and about

1402
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 2: a year and a half. We're a fan of that.

1403
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 14: He's a good massively a fan of it. Yeah, I

1404
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 14: have debates with people about it. I know that the

1405
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 14: northern city's not as thrilled about it. I come from

1406
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:36,840
Speaker 14: Kansas City, where when we when when you start the

1407
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:39,640
Speaker 14: season it's miserably cold, then in the middle of the

1408
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 14: season it's miserably hot and then at the end it's

1409
01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 14: cold again. It's gonna flip around. And I would tell

1410
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 14: you I would rather have the good weather at the

1411
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:51,160
Speaker 14: beginning and end of the season, particularly the end when

1412
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:54,240
Speaker 14: teams are playing for a championship and not going up

1413
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 14: against football with rules today. It sucks all the oxygen

1414
01:12:58,320 --> 01:13:01,160
Speaker 14: out of the room. You don't want your playoffs going

1415
01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 14: on against college and pro football. But more importantly, the

1416
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 14: transfer windows. And you probably have heard this conversation, but

1417
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 14: you know Tato Martinez, we were just talking with him,

1418
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:14,760
Speaker 14: you know, getting ready for this Atlanta and I he said, look,

1419
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 14: you can't build teams in the middle of the summer,

1420
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 14: but that is the main transfer window for all the

1421
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 14: other clubs in the world. So when you want to

1422
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,800
Speaker 14: do business, you want to buy a player, those guys

1423
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 14: are like, we're not going to sell our best player

1424
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 14: in the middle of a good season, right or you know,

1425
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 14: and vice versa. Teams in MLS get stuck with this

1426
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 14: conundrum of we're having a great year, but we got

1427
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 14: this asset. The teams in Europe want to pay twenty

1428
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 14: million dollars for it. If we don't sell them now,

1429
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 14: we can't get it. So in the middle of a season,

1430
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:44,720
Speaker 14: you got to sell your best player. That just is

1431
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 14: not good for business. It's not good for the fans either,

1432
01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 14: because they're getting all excited then all of a sudden,

1433
01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 14: you sell your best player. So I think that's the

1434
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:53,160
Speaker 14: biggest reason it's going to be a really good move.

1435
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 14: And the way I look at it is take a

1436
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 14: little break in the winter time and they play games.

1437
01:13:57,479 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 14: I mean, look, you think it's nice in Minnesota right

1438
01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:03,519
Speaker 14: now now, now, It's not gonna be nice in Minnesota

1439
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 14: for three months, you know. So I you know, you're

1440
01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 14: gonna have to deal with weather challenges in a in

1441
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 14: a footprint as big as as MLS is, You're gonna

1442
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 14: have weather challenges no matter what.

1443
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:14,679
Speaker 2: I just think, you know, running concurrent to the NFL,

1444
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 2: you live in an NFL city, one that we hate.

1445
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 2: But that's neither here nor there. But like you know,

1446
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 2: even in the postseason last year, they're playing Columbus, they're

1447
01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 2: playing Miami, and the Bengals are playing the University of

1448
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 2: Cincinnati is playing. College basketball is just starting, and it

1449
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:30,679
Speaker 2: just I don't want to say it gets buried, it does,

1450
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:33,599
Speaker 2: but like it just it gets lost in the shuffle

1451
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:36,879
Speaker 2: sometimes and and to me, you're your your most important

1452
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:41,720
Speaker 2: games should should have a larger stage, right, I.

1453
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 14: Mean, I use that phrase it the NFL sucks the

1454
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 14: oxygen out of the room. It's the only sport in

1455
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:50,280
Speaker 14: the United States that I think Major League Soccer just

1456
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 14: can't go toe to toe with. I'm not saying it's

1457
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 14: more popular than the NBA or baseball, although there are

1458
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 14: reports out there these days that show that it's up there.

1459
01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 14: In terms of people. Soccer is being as toil baseball

1460
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 14: goes away for a year, I'm not gonna be fun,

1461
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 14: but you know, but football, yeah, football is the one

1462
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:11,160
Speaker 14: thing I mean looking in Kansas City. Obviously the Chiefs

1463
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 14: have ever really taken it over, but when they're winning

1464
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 14: Super Bowls all of a sudden, Kansas basketball doesn't even

1465
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 14: have the same cachet that it does until the football

1466
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:24,000
Speaker 14: season's over with. So you're right, and and the flip side,

1467
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 14: you play these games in May, you play in your

1468
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:28,479
Speaker 14: MLS Cup final in May. It's okay to go up

1469
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 14: against a regular season baseball game. Even if people love baseball,

1470
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 14: it's a regular season game. It's one of one hundred

1471
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:36,599
Speaker 14: and sixty two. There's not that urgency to watch, so yeah,

1472
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 14: I think it's better for all reasons.

1473
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 2: Speaking of Kansas City, you've written a book. You guys

1474
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:43,679
Speaker 2: are getting World Cup matches. We tried, we're not getting

1475
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 2: a but you you've written a book about Kansas City,

1476
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 2: the World Cup and how, as you put it, it's

1477
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 2: become the heart of American soccer. That's right.

1478
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:54,800
Speaker 14: It's called perfect pitch, how Kansas City became the heart

1479
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,880
Speaker 14: of American soccer and won the World Cup. And I

1480
01:15:57,920 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 14: would my appeal if you're from Cincinnati, go I already

1481
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 14: hate Kansas City.

1482
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 15: Whatever I want to write that book.

1483
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 2: I get it.

1484
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 14: Here's here's my thirty second elevator pitch to someone from Cincinnati.

1485
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:07,519
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1486
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:12,160
Speaker 14: My Uber driver out to the training facility today showed

1487
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 14: up in a big FC Cincinnati had season ticket holder

1488
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 14: since the stadium opened. We had a long talk about

1489
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:19,639
Speaker 14: what a great atmosphere it is here, and I told

1490
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:24,600
Speaker 14: him this Kansas City is nothing more than a microcosm

1491
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 14: of Middle American soccer growth. And I'm just using Kansas

1492
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 14: City because I know that story the best, and because

1493
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 14: the World Cup's coming there to really tell the story

1494
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:36,679
Speaker 14: to the rest of the world about how soccer came

1495
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:40,719
Speaker 14: to be a real culturally vibrant thing in the United States,

1496
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 14: and I think Cincinnati is a perfect example of that, right.

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Speaker 14: I don't know about you, but for me, growing up

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01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 14: in Kansas City, it was kind of a niche thing.

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01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 14: When I was a little kid. There was an indoor

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01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 14: soccer team, and you know, kids played youth soccer until

1501
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 14: they got old enough to play other sports. But because

1502
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 14: of some really die hard fans that fought hard for it,

1503
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 14: and some visionary leader like Lamar Hunt, who is responsible

1504
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 14: as anybody for bringing soccer to America, and the owners

1505
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:07,800
Speaker 14: that decided to invest in a real stadium that people

1506
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 14: could that the fans can feel proud of, all of

1507
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 14: a sudden, it.

1508
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 15: Became a booming thing.

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01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 14: That's the story in Cincinnati, right, Yes, And I think

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01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,640
Speaker 14: I want people that come to the United States for

1511
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,759
Speaker 14: this World Cup to realize there is a vibrant soccer

1512
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 14: culture in this country. It might not be like theirs is,

1513
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 14: but in some ways it's just as impressive, if not

1514
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:29,960
Speaker 14: more so, because they don't have to fight for soccer

1515
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:32,599
Speaker 14: in their places. You know, the people that love soccer

1516
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 14: and Cincinnati have had to fight for it, right, and

1517
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:37,320
Speaker 14: then they had to suffer through three wooden spoons and

1518
01:17:37,360 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 14: all that, and they're still here and I think they

1519
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 14: deserve credit for what it took to make soccer relevant

1520
01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 14: in this market. And so yeah, if you get a chance,

1521
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 14: it's a short read, it's only one hundred ninety pages.

1522
01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 14: It's got some incredible stories about just the history of

1523
01:17:54,120 --> 01:17:57,599
Speaker 14: how the supporter shield was invented by a fan who

1524
01:17:57,680 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 14: was a sophomore in college at the University of Kansas

1525
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 14: literally raised two thousand bucks on a national nerdy soccer

1526
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 14: campaign and had a gallon his art class design it

1527
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 14: for two thousand dollars worth a piece of metal that

1528
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 14: was the original supporter shield. Now they got a big

1529
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:15,799
Speaker 14: fancy one that they give out because the original was stolen,

1530
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 14: by the way, and no one knows where it is. Really, Yeah,

1531
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:20,280
Speaker 14: that's that's apparently.

1532
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 2: So somebody is walking around with around with guys, I'm

1533
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 2: not going to throw anything, you know, at eating general

1534
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 2: off of it.

1535
01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:26,600
Speaker 9: You know.

1536
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:28,640
Speaker 14: Like, Yeah, there's there's stories from the big guys like

1537
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 14: Lamar Hunt, who's got the US Open Cup trophy named

1538
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,960
Speaker 14: after him and who brought soccer to America in many

1539
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 14: ways in Kansas City, but also stories about the average

1540
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 14: fan who just decided, you know, I want to make

1541
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 14: something special. We need to make something to honor the

1542
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:44,439
Speaker 14: best Supporter Shield that you guys want a couple of

1543
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 14: years ago. Yes, if you like stories like that, I

1544
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:50,280
Speaker 14: think you'll like the books. So it's it's called Perfect Pitch.

1545
01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 14: I'd love it if people would.

1546
01:18:51,439 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 15: You can pre order it right now. It'll be out

1547
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 15: May twenty six, right in time to get you ready

1548
01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 15: for the World Cup.

1549
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:58,679
Speaker 2: Well, we're jealous. We're jealous of a lot of things

1550
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 2: here for a lot of different but we're jealous of

1551
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:02,680
Speaker 2: the fact you guys are World Cup matches because we

1552
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 2: we held out hope. Make sure I realistically thought we

1553
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:07,240
Speaker 2: were gonna get World Cup matches.

1554
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 14: I'm afraid we were competing against each other, you know,

1555
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 14: because obviously New York, in LA and Miami they're all

1556
01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:14,400
Speaker 14: getting it. They know they're gonna get the World Cup.

1557
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:16,919
Speaker 14: They don't even have to try. Right, Places like Cincinnati,

1558
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,439
Speaker 14: Kansas City got to fight with each other, you know,

1559
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:22,320
Speaker 14: and unfortunately that's what happened. So come to Kansas City

1560
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 14: for the World Cup. You can stay at my place. No,

1561
01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 14: I gotta really grow up, Mattress. Yeah, okay, that's fine,

1562
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 14: that's fine.

1563
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 2: The last time I was in Kansas City was that

1564
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 2: second AFC Championship game and I still can't feel my toes,

1565
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 2: so you know, so, yeah, was that the one you

1566
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 2: guys got us? That was the one we lost? Okay,

1567
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 2: the one, the first one I didn't get to go to.

1568
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:42,720
Speaker 2: The second one I went to. And I remember this

1569
01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 2: when the Bengals got that. We talk about this all

1570
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 2: the time. Bengals get the ball a little bit more

1571
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 2: than two minutes to go, and I remember this sound

1572
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:50,519
Speaker 2: in the stadium where it's like, holy crap, this is

1573
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:52,719
Speaker 2: gonna happen again, and then you know, the rest is history.

1574
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was. I went in twenty eighteen, was

1575
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:57,720
Speaker 2: the first time I went to a Chiefs game. The

1576
01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 2: Bengals played there on a Sunday night and got and

1577
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 2: it was year one of Mahomes, late October, and it

1578
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 2: was like, oh boy, this is about to take off

1579
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:10,040
Speaker 2: and it did, so yeahs Marvin Lewis was still our coach,

1580
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 2: so it was a little bit different.

1581
01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:14,920
Speaker 15: Hey man, it's, uh, what's gonna happen with Burrow? I mean,

1582
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:15,760
Speaker 15: is he gonna get it?

1583
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 2: You know, like, uh, we you know, if they're if

1584
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 2: they're better, this year, then chances are everything's going to

1585
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 2: be fine. If the year go sideways again, then he's

1586
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:28,960
Speaker 2: gonna want out. I wouldn't stun anybody. Nobody wants to

1587
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 2: hear that. I will get people mad at me for saying.

1588
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 2: Right decided of me to bring up.

1589
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 14: I gotta be careful here, you know. I think he's

1590
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 14: incredible and uh, I mean I think the best. Those

1591
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 14: are the best rivalry. That's like the best rivalry the

1592
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 14: Chiefs have had. I like these in sports.

1593
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:46,440
Speaker 2: I like organic rivalries that are born out of commonalty

1594
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 2: and great games. And that's what happened with the Bengals

1595
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 2: and Chiefs. So hopefully it's revitalized down the road because

1596
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:56,759
Speaker 2: both teams were obviously down this year. Enjoy the match tomorrow,

1597
01:20:57,240 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 2: have a great call. Hey, thanks thanks for.

1598
01:20:59,280 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 15: Having me on the show.

1599
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 14: Uh, and that offer stands come to town for the

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Speaker 14: World Cup. Let me know, And just just one last plug.

1601
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:08,719
Speaker 14: You know, Apple TV, you're not free. It's not MLS

1602
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:09,559
Speaker 14: Season passing anymore.

1603
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 15: It's on TV.

1604
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:13,160
Speaker 14: Yes, obviously it can be a great atmosphere there and

1605
01:21:13,320 --> 01:21:15,880
Speaker 14: and a lot of good storylines in this game as well.

1606
01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 14: Lot the guy that broke Nick Haglin's Ribs is coming

1607
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:23,080
Speaker 14: back into the building since they played each other, and

1608
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:24,960
Speaker 14: I'm I'm a little interested to hear what kind of

1609
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 14: reception he gets in this. I just hope he stays

1610
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 14: away from Nick. Nick's had a hard go, but.

1611
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:32,000
Speaker 15: He's surprised if his teammates have a little something to

1612
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:32,800
Speaker 15: sad for him too.

1613
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 2: I don't know Nick can go over here and Nick's

1614
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 2: teammates can enforce because we finally got Nick healthy and

1615
01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 2: keep him healthy. You know, he's a Cincinnati guy, so

1616
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 2: he's he to me, he represents the club as well

1617
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:46,599
Speaker 2: as anybody. Yeah no, in the city, as well as anybody.

1618
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 2: I can't thank you enough. Come next time you're in town.

1619
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:50,639
Speaker 2: Now you have to come up and visit in studio.

1620
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 2: You love to man, this is a great studio. You

1621
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 2: gotta get set up here. It's not bad. It's it

1622
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:57,400
Speaker 2: has its it has its charm, yes, no question about it.

1623
01:21:57,479 --> 01:21:57,680
Speaker 13: It is.

1624
01:21:57,760 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 2: We are way late, Taran. I'm sorry for for five o'clock. Nebu.

1625
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 2: Katie Tomorrow mls the game on Apple TV. He has

1626
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,640
Speaker 2: the call with Devin Curve. Four forty five is the

1627
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 2: kick a little bit earlier than usual? There you go,

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01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 2: four from five o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.

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Speaker 8: to seventy five on the Ohio side. I'm at Ezelek

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Speaker 8: with traffic.

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Speaker 1: Shut to last second saves The Orange and Blue are

1642
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:01,360
Speaker 1: drama every game.

1643
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 2: And if that won't give you goosebumps, I don't know

1644
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:04,559
Speaker 2: what will.

1645
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:07,280
Speaker 3: FC Cincinnati Soccer lives here.

1646
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 2: Yard thing can look Payley tonight.

1647
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:13,679
Speaker 3: On ESPN fifteen thirty.

1648
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,479
Speaker 2: Late start to the hour because I'm bad at reading time.

1649
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 2: This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Moegger, thanks for listening. Hopefully

1650
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:24,640
Speaker 2: your weekend is off to a great start. Tarn and

1651
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:27,640
Speaker 2: I are enjoying the makers and coke because that's how

1652
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 2: we start our weekend. That's not sponsored by anybody either.

1653
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 2: The United States is gonna go playing the gold medal

1654
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 2: game unless they give up a five goal advantage. With

1655
01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 2: eighteen minutes to go, the United States leads Slovakia. The

1656
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 2: Slovakian team has pulled their goaltender. I guess they they

1657
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:49,720
Speaker 2: swap goaltenders. They're still playing with a goaltender, but the

1658
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:53,559
Speaker 2: guy who started was terrible. The United States just destroyed

1659
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 2: him and we'll see if they score against his replacement.

1660
01:23:56,439 --> 01:24:00,439
Speaker 2: It's five nothing in favor of the US. The gold

1661
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 2: medal game is going to be on Sunday against Canada,

1662
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:09,080
Speaker 2: which won a thriller earlier today over Finland. I've maintained

1663
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 2: this for years. I like hockey. I like hockey. I

1664
01:24:13,160 --> 01:24:14,520
Speaker 2: love the other sports.

1665
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 7: I have liked.

1666
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 2: I have followen myself liking hockey a lot more during

1667
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 2: the Olympics and the Blue Jackets went into the Olympic

1668
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:26,000
Speaker 2: break and won like ten out of eleven, and I

1669
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 2: kind of jumped on board that as well. So I'm

1670
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 2: never going to be a full on puckhead, but Olympic hockey,

1671
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:34,760
Speaker 2: I just I have a very soft spot in my

1672
01:24:34,840 --> 01:24:37,799
Speaker 2: heart for it, and I don't necessarily know why five's

1673
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:41,599
Speaker 2: at Us over Slovakia in the semifinal. Bronze medal game

1674
01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 2: is going to be tomorrow between Slovakia and Finland. If

1675
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:48,080
Speaker 2: anybody cares, good stuff from Nape you Katy FC. Cincinnati

1676
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:51,840
Speaker 2: opens Major League Soccer play against Atlanta tomorrow. The Reds

1677
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:55,040
Speaker 2: begin Cactus League play tomorrow, and you know, you could,

1678
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 2: you could do whatever you want with those games. It's

1679
01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 2: just fun to have baseball on the radio. It's fun

1680
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:03,360
Speaker 2: to have baseball on TV. Even if I'm not entirely

1681
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:05,599
Speaker 2: sure how I'm going to be watching the Reds this year.

1682
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 2: I got a few weeks to figure that out. I

1683
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:16,800
Speaker 2: guess opening day, five weeks from yesterday, Chase Burns is

1684
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:20,920
Speaker 2: going to pitch tomorrow. Chase Burns is a pitcher that

1685
01:25:21,120 --> 01:25:25,640
Speaker 2: has a ton of upside, and I think, just you know,

1686
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:29,280
Speaker 2: this isn't so much about tomorrow or spring training games.

1687
01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 2: And you know, let's face it, there's competition for the

1688
01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 2: fifth spot in the rotation. It feels like at the

1689
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:40,760
Speaker 2: outset of spring training, Chase Burns should be considered the

1690
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:45,040
Speaker 2: favorite we will see. I feel like though, if you

1691
01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:47,600
Speaker 2: want to talk about the Reds from an optimistic perspective,

1692
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:50,280
Speaker 2: and most of us really do. But if you want

1693
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:53,600
Speaker 2: to talk about this team from an optimistic perspective, you

1694
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 2: obviously start with the starting pitching. But inside of that,

1695
01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:05,080
Speaker 2: if if Chase Burns is the front runner to be

1696
01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:09,960
Speaker 2: the last guy, that's really awesome. He's pitched in all

1697
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,200
Speaker 2: of thirteen big league games, he's made all of eight

1698
01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:17,000
Speaker 2: big league starts. There are, in all likelihoods, some serious,

1699
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:19,519
Speaker 2: serious growing pains that he's going to have to contend with.

1700
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:23,719
Speaker 2: And by the way, if they present themselves during exhibition season,

1701
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 2: then you know, a guy like Brandon Williamson or somebody

1702
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:27,720
Speaker 2: else could end up being the fifth starter. But it's

1703
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 2: it's refreshing.

1704
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 10: Man.

1705
01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 2: You know, we were talking with a caller last hour, Bob,

1706
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:35,439
Speaker 2: who was talking about the Cardinals, and if you're a

1707
01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:38,760
Speaker 2: Saint Louis fan, well, you've had a great run. I

1708
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 2: can't recall a season where the expectations for the Saint

1709
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:43,320
Speaker 2: Louis Cardinals are as low as they are for the

1710
01:26:43,400 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 2: Cardinals this season. But oftentimes when you're going when you're

1711
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 2: entering a season like that, you're just looking for some

1712
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:52,599
Speaker 2: guys to fill out the bottom end of the roster,

1713
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 2: like I don't know why the name Jason Marquis comes

1714
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:58,599
Speaker 2: to mind, but remember like twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, when

1715
01:26:59,280 --> 01:27:02,480
Speaker 2: you know that re Tread was was kind of earmarked

1716
01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 2: to make some starts for the Reds early in the season.

1717
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 2: A lot of teams, even teams that have hopes of contending, well,

1718
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:13,200
Speaker 2: they'll just kind of throw some guys against the wall

1719
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:16,439
Speaker 2: and see if one of them sticks. To be the

1720
01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:20,080
Speaker 2: fifth starter. They'll do that sometimes to be like the

1721
01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:22,639
Speaker 2: third starter. For what it's worth, there have been spring

1722
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 2: trainings in the not so distant past where you might

1723
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 2: know who should start on opening Day, but it's like

1724
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 2: your guess is as good as mine as to who

1725
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 2: should start game number two. It is a really enviable place.

1726
01:27:35,280 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 2: And we talk about the Reds having like a a

1727
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:47,719
Speaker 2: relatively low ceiling as a team, and there's there's something

1728
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:52,400
Speaker 2: to that because the team's offense it still feels like

1729
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:56,839
Speaker 2: it has a relatively low ceiling. They can win the division,

1730
01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:01,360
Speaker 2: they can make the postseason. But the Pirates are more

1731
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 2: interesting than they've been in a decade. The Cubs are

1732
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:08,040
Speaker 2: still formidable, and until I see the Milwaukee Brewers lose

1733
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:09,880
Speaker 2: more games than they win, I will assume they will

1734
01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 2: win more games than they lose. It could be a

1735
01:28:12,600 --> 01:28:16,000
Speaker 2: really tough n L Central race, But like, I don't

1736
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:18,160
Speaker 2: think it's that far fetch to suggest the Reds win

1737
01:28:18,200 --> 01:28:22,200
Speaker 2: the division. Might not be likely, might not be something

1738
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:25,600
Speaker 2: you would bet on happening. But it still feels like,

1739
01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 2: relatively speaking, the team's collective ceiling is not that high,

1740
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:32,920
Speaker 2: but within that, it feels like the starting pitching staff

1741
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 2: ceiling is really really high, and maybe that in itself

1742
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:38,800
Speaker 2: could raise the ceiling for the team as a whole.

1743
01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 2: I've used the word ceiling today more often than I

1744
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:43,480
Speaker 2: ever have in my life. By the way, the Slovakian

1745
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:47,200
Speaker 2: team just scored its five to one United States leeds.

1746
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:50,400
Speaker 2: There are a lot of teams who want to do

1747
01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:53,040
Speaker 2: better than they did last year. Oh yeah, I'm gonna

1748
01:28:53,040 --> 01:29:03,200
Speaker 2: play nine. Forgot? Forgot? There's a goal horn? Is that

1749
01:29:03,320 --> 01:29:06,400
Speaker 2: the Slovakian was that Slovakian music? Is that the Slovakian

1750
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:07,320
Speaker 2: national anthem?

1751
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 12: That was the national anthem?

1752
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 2: That was the national anthem? All right, well, congratulations, the

1753
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 2: Slovakian team has found the back of the net. It

1754
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 2: is five. That was a play that looked like it

1755
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:19,400
Speaker 2: was destined to for. The goaltender went behind the net,

1756
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 2: looked like he was looked like he was looking for

1757
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:24,759
Speaker 2: his lost keys or something, and barely got back in position,

1758
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 2: and the guy with the white at the end of

1759
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:28,160
Speaker 2: his name made him pay. It's five to one the

1760
01:29:28,320 --> 01:29:32,960
Speaker 2: US leads. I'm gonna bet the United States doesn't blow

1761
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:34,800
Speaker 2: this game. Red starting pitching is a chance to be

1762
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:39,160
Speaker 2: really good. That's I mean, that's that's sort of the

1763
01:29:39,240 --> 01:29:41,400
Speaker 2: basic take. The Red starting pitching is a chance to

1764
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 2: be really good, and there are a lot of teams

1765
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 2: who are looking to do better than they did last year,

1766
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:49,000
Speaker 2: perhaps even postseason teams that I think would like to

1767
01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:53,760
Speaker 2: start from that place. Now, there's still there's still some unprovenness,

1768
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:58,040
Speaker 2: if you will, I do think though that Tommy fral

1769
01:29:58,200 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 2: you'll hear him mention this a little bit later on.

1770
01:30:02,680 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 2: The Reds for a couple of years have been referred

1771
01:30:04,479 --> 01:30:07,800
Speaker 2: to as having a really good young team, or maybe

1772
01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:09,800
Speaker 2: not a good young team, but a young team filled

1773
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 2: with a lot of players have a chance to be

1774
01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 2: pretty good. He has time to stop referring to the

1775
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 2: Reds as a young team. You know, it's why, like

1776
01:30:17,320 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 2: Tito's like all about Hey, it's it's time, like Eli

1777
01:30:20,520 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 2: Dela Cruz will surpass two thousand big league at bats

1778
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:26,720
Speaker 2: this year. This is the fifth big league season for

1779
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:30,360
Speaker 2: Hunter Green, Nick Ladolo, Graham Ashcraft, a whole host of others.

1780
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:34,320
Speaker 2: Billio Pecan's been around for a while. Tyler Stevenson's going

1781
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:39,280
Speaker 2: into his last season of team control. Matt McClain was

1782
01:30:39,439 --> 01:30:42,080
Speaker 2: obviously robbed of a full season, but was became a

1783
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:46,120
Speaker 2: big leaguer in twenty twenty three, which frankly was forever ago.

1784
01:30:46,280 --> 01:30:48,560
Speaker 2: Like there's TJ. Friedel's been a big leaguer for a

1785
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:52,120
Speaker 2: long time. JJ Blede. Like Will Benson, his time with

1786
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 2: the Reds goes back to twenty twenty three as a

1787
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,320
Speaker 2: big leaguer. Kee Brian Hayes has been a big leaguer

1788
01:30:57,360 --> 01:31:00,560
Speaker 2: for a really long time. This is no longer the

1789
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:04,760
Speaker 2: young team that's up and coming. It's the team that

1790
01:31:04,880 --> 01:31:07,760
Speaker 2: is collectively in its prime that it's time to start winning.

1791
01:31:07,840 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 2: We will see, we will see. I do think this

1792
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:15,599
Speaker 2: spring you do what you want with spring training stats.

1793
01:31:16,040 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 2: When they're good, we make a big deal about them.

1794
01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:22,720
Speaker 2: When they're bad, we say we dismiss them. I think

1795
01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:25,280
Speaker 2: it's smart to do neither, but you do look for

1796
01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 2: things that suggest certain things once the real games begin.

1797
01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:33,680
Speaker 2: The Reds last year stopped running. Ellie Dela Cruz not

1798
01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:35,960
Speaker 2: being one hundred percent is a major reason why they

1799
01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 2: stopped running. But is there something that happens in these

1800
01:31:41,360 --> 01:31:43,680
Speaker 2: games that suggests the Reds will be a little bit

1801
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:47,320
Speaker 2: more aggressive or daring on the base pass. That's not

1802
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:51,960
Speaker 2: just stealing bases, it's forcing the defense to make plays.

1803
01:31:52,920 --> 01:31:55,680
Speaker 2: It's being better at creating offense when the ball is

1804
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 2: not going out of the ballpark. And, by the way,

1805
01:31:58,160 --> 01:32:02,639
Speaker 2: wouldn't it be cool if not only there's an uptick

1806
01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:05,479
Speaker 2: in home runs, more guys hitting the ball out of

1807
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:09,160
Speaker 2: the ballpark, but they're better at creating runs when the

1808
01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:11,840
Speaker 2: ball isn't leaving the ballpark and they're not needing three

1809
01:32:11,920 --> 01:32:15,439
Speaker 2: consecutive hits to score. Then that's how this offense takes off.

1810
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 2: If you can run more and be more aggressive and

1811
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 2: force the issues, force the issue in the base pass

1812
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 2: a little bit more, and force the other team to

1813
01:32:23,520 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 2: make plays and hit more home runs, then this offense

1814
01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:32,559
Speaker 2: can take off. Do they run more? This is an

1815
01:32:32,720 --> 01:32:36,840
Speaker 2: enormous season for Matt McLean, like you know we used

1816
01:32:36,880 --> 01:32:40,559
Speaker 2: to do with Joseph Osai. Joseph Osai in twenty twenty one,

1817
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:43,599
Speaker 2: Remember he had that great half of his first ever

1818
01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:48,640
Speaker 2: preseason game against Tom Brady and in the Buccaneers, and

1819
01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:51,240
Speaker 2: then he got hurt, and then like three years later

1820
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 2: we were still talking about, Hey, remember that, Remember that

1821
01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 2: preseason game that Joseph Osai had. It's not apples to apples,

1822
01:32:59,880 --> 01:33:03,160
Speaker 2: of course. I feel like it's time to stop doing

1823
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:05,519
Speaker 2: that with Matt McClain in twenty twenty three. Well, twenty

1824
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:08,200
Speaker 2: twenty three he was their best player. Yeah, well he

1825
01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:11,840
Speaker 2: wasn't last year, not even close. Are there things this

1826
01:33:12,040 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 2: spring that suggest Matt McClain is capable of a better

1827
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:20,800
Speaker 2: season this year? Pretty much earmarked to play second base.

1828
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 2: Don't know if he's going to hit second. Don't think

1829
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 2: he should hit second, at least at the start of

1830
01:33:25,439 --> 01:33:29,000
Speaker 2: the season. Like, can you find some things in spring training?

1831
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:29,240
Speaker 10: Good?

1832
01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 2: Spring training stats certainly don't guarantee you anything. You could

1833
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:35,200
Speaker 2: hit five hundred in games that don't count, still be

1834
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:38,200
Speaker 2: a bad hitter once the games do count. But like,

1835
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:41,360
Speaker 2: if they're gonna play games, you're hoping to see some

1836
01:33:41,479 --> 01:33:44,680
Speaker 2: things that suggest better results for individual players at the

1837
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:47,679
Speaker 2: very top of that list, as Matt McLain. Sal Stewart's

1838
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:51,000
Speaker 2: on that list too. Like Red's, they've they've tried to

1839
01:33:51,080 --> 01:33:53,839
Speaker 2: emphasize better defense or putting a guy at sal Stewart.

1840
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:56,320
Speaker 2: Let's see how he holds up defensively, and are there

1841
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 2: things we see during the preseason that suggest that sal

1842
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:02,439
Speaker 2: Stewart's not just going to make the team, but that

1843
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:05,439
Speaker 2: he can be a legitimate asset for a better offense.

1844
01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 2: Use the word ceiling. Imagine what would happen for this

1845
01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:14,280
Speaker 2: offense if Gino hits thirty five, which would be a

1846
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:18,519
Speaker 2: fourteen homer reduction from last year, and if sal Stewart

1847
01:34:18,600 --> 01:34:24,160
Speaker 2: can hit twenty five to thirty, which feels perhaps not

1848
01:34:24,479 --> 01:34:29,559
Speaker 2: likely but at least possible. Do things happen this spring

1849
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:31,880
Speaker 2: that suggests that, you know, what sal Stewart, what we

1850
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:34,200
Speaker 2: saw from him at the big league level last September

1851
01:34:35,360 --> 01:34:40,320
Speaker 2: not a mirage. We'll find out starting tomorrow eighteen after

1852
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:42,719
Speaker 2: five o'clock, five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifteen thirty

1853
01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:45,560
Speaker 2: is our number. We'll take some phone calls when we

1854
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:48,480
Speaker 2: come back on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.

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1866
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Speaker 2: This show you can go listen to again and again

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Speaker 2: and again and again and again and again on the

1868
01:35:32,680 --> 01:35:38,439
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app including Chad Brendall yesterday, including Devin Kerr yesterday,

1869
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:42,840
Speaker 2: Chad on the Bearcats, Devon on FC Cincinnati, Rick Brooring

1870
01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:47,240
Speaker 2: earlier this week, Paul Daanner Junior, and so United.

1871
01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:55,160
Speaker 4: States has scorn again take down Slovakia, Brady can Shuck

1872
01:35:55,280 --> 01:35:57,960
Speaker 4: finds the back of the neck out of Saint Louis,

1873
01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:03,600
Speaker 4: and the United States now leads six one, eight to go.

1874
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:08,320
Speaker 2: The Americans have outshot Slovakia thirty five to sixty. Why

1875
01:36:08,360 --> 01:36:08,720
Speaker 2: have they no?

1876
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:12,720
Speaker 12: What's that I'm going to miss this? Playing like live

1877
01:36:12,840 --> 01:36:13,679
Speaker 12: gold Horn.

1878
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:16,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to find other live sports that are

1879
01:36:16,680 --> 01:36:20,479
Speaker 2: on while we're on and just interrupt the show with

1880
01:36:20,880 --> 01:36:22,960
Speaker 2: random music. We we got to find a way to

1881
01:36:23,040 --> 01:36:25,439
Speaker 2: do this. You know we I mentioned this, Yes, so

1882
01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:27,479
Speaker 2: we do have. We're gonna have a bunch of like

1883
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:30,400
Speaker 2: Cactus League games on while we're on. We've got conference

1884
01:36:30,439 --> 01:36:33,040
Speaker 2: tournament games are gonna be on while we're imagine if

1885
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:35,400
Speaker 2: we interrupt the show every time a team scores a

1886
01:36:35,439 --> 01:36:39,240
Speaker 2: basket to have a show, one might argue, what would

1887
01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:42,879
Speaker 2: be better? Six to one? The US leads Slovakia. Anyway,

1888
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 2: if you miss anything on this show, go listen to

1889
01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:48,080
Speaker 2: it on the iHeartRadio app. Podcasts of this show are

1890
01:36:48,120 --> 01:36:51,880
Speaker 2: a service of Long Necks Sports growth. Did I see

1891
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 2: the gold medal game is going to be at eight

1892
01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:58,200
Speaker 2: to ten in the morning? Why? I'm not asking why.

1893
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:00,240
Speaker 2: For some reason, I was under the impression that the

1894
01:37:00,280 --> 01:37:02,240
Speaker 2: game was going to be a two forty in the afternoon.

1895
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:04,599
Speaker 2: I don't know why I believe, I don't know. These

1896
01:37:04,640 --> 01:37:10,479
Speaker 2: are just the narratives I created in my head. Let's

1897
01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:13,599
Speaker 2: see here, John in Findley, Ohio. John, You're on ESPN

1898
01:37:13,680 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. Good afternoon, Mo.

1899
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:18,160
Speaker 6: How are you this Friday?

1900
01:37:18,400 --> 01:37:18,599
Speaker 10: Man?

1901
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:20,320
Speaker 2: I am awesome. How about yourself?

1902
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:21,760
Speaker 7: Good?

1903
01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 6: Good? So last week we talked about Red's pitching, so

1904
01:37:26,240 --> 01:37:30,439
Speaker 6: I guess we'll talk about offense this time, Sir. I

1905
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:36,080
Speaker 6: like what we've got. I think this. I think the

1906
01:37:36,280 --> 01:37:41,840
Speaker 6: floor is fairly the floor is fairly high for this team.

1907
01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:45,800
Speaker 6: I would be stunned if this team, I mean, the

1908
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 6: things would have to go early sideways. I think for

1909
01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:52,000
Speaker 6: this team to win less than say seventy five games

1910
01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:53,439
Speaker 6: this year, I think there'd have to be a lot

1911
01:37:53,479 --> 01:37:57,560
Speaker 6: of things go sideways. Yeah, but I do think that

1912
01:37:58,240 --> 01:38:00,599
Speaker 6: one thing I do want to caution people a little

1913
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 6: bit with is when we saw south Stewart in a

1914
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:07,800
Speaker 6: very very small sample size last year. And while he's

1915
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:11,439
Speaker 6: he's hit every he's hit every place he's been, so

1916
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 6: I think we can be okay with him. I think

1917
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 6: to think he's going to just jump in and be

1918
01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:22,040
Speaker 6: a great power bat and all that, because obviously other

1919
01:38:22,160 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 6: teams have got some tape on him and stuff like that.

1920
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 6: So you know, you know, a guy that could be

1921
01:38:28,000 --> 01:38:30,800
Speaker 6: kind of in the shadows in the mix. Maybe this year,

1922
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:34,360
Speaker 6: and obviously a big spring training would change that. The

1923
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:37,920
Speaker 6: tune for him would be a Christian Incarnassi and Strand.

1924
01:38:38,439 --> 01:38:41,640
Speaker 6: I mean last year, at this time, he was he

1925
01:38:41,840 --> 01:38:44,720
Speaker 6: was going to be South Stewart and be the big

1926
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:46,840
Speaker 6: power bat at first base and all that, and then

1927
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:52,560
Speaker 6: obviously he struggles. He struggled at times, but also I

1928
01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:57,000
Speaker 6: think injuries has really derailed his progression. So if he

1929
01:38:57,120 --> 01:38:59,920
Speaker 6: has a let's let's say he has a big spring

1930
01:39:00,200 --> 01:39:04,080
Speaker 6: and sal struggles, what do you do, I mean, do

1931
01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:05,200
Speaker 6: you consider.

1932
01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you would have to. I don't know

1933
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:14,479
Speaker 2: that he would be the first baseman. I think that

1934
01:39:14,560 --> 01:39:17,479
Speaker 2: would be Nathaniel Lowe. I think it would be Spencer Steer.

1935
01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:20,920
Speaker 2: I think Christian and Karanasi on Strand to make the

1936
01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:23,000
Speaker 2: team would have to have a good spring. I think

1937
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:26,000
Speaker 2: for Christian and Karnasi on Strand to be the starting

1938
01:39:26,040 --> 01:39:28,880
Speaker 2: first baseman, he would have to have an unbelievable spring

1939
01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:32,040
Speaker 2: and need a lot of other things to go his way.

1940
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:34,639
Speaker 2: But I mean, you are right. It wasn't that long

1941
01:39:34,720 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 2: ago that he was viewed as one of the cornerstones

1942
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:40,200
Speaker 2: and now he's an afterthought. And that's that's a byproduct

1943
01:39:40,240 --> 01:39:42,839
Speaker 2: of injury. It's also a byproduct of his lack of performance.

1944
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:45,559
Speaker 2: I mean, his his numbers last year just simply weren't

1945
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:48,800
Speaker 2: very good. You feel bad for him because he's dealt

1946
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:50,800
Speaker 2: with a hamstring issue and so it's this is like

1947
01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:54,000
Speaker 2: such a huge spring for him, and that's that's made

1948
01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:55,880
Speaker 2: the road to come back all the more difficult. But

1949
01:39:55,960 --> 01:39:59,479
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be completely floored if he made the team,

1950
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,840
Speaker 2: would be stunned beyond belief if if he ended up

1951
01:40:02,880 --> 01:40:04,639
Speaker 2: being the opening day starting first basement.

1952
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:08,720
Speaker 6: So so, if he's not in the if he's not

1953
01:40:08,840 --> 01:40:11,320
Speaker 6: in the mix at first base, was if he's strictly a.

1954
01:40:11,400 --> 01:40:15,680
Speaker 2: D h uh, Yeah, I mean, you know, I.

1955
01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:18,040
Speaker 6: Don't know where. I don't know where else he can play.

1956
01:40:18,160 --> 01:40:20,439
Speaker 6: I mean, but then again, we're kind of at that

1957
01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:23,440
Speaker 6: point with Sal Stewart. Now, I could see a situation

1958
01:40:23,600 --> 01:40:27,759
Speaker 6: where if McLain, if McLain got hurt or really struggle

1959
01:40:27,800 --> 01:40:32,759
Speaker 6: and underperformed, you might consider sick and Steward at second base,

1960
01:40:32,840 --> 01:40:35,400
Speaker 6: although I just I don't know how much defense you're

1961
01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 6: willing to give up with doing that. But if Stuart

1962
01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:41,960
Speaker 6: can hit hit well enough to take the take the

1963
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:45,840
Speaker 6: hit defensively, that's a possibility, but I don't know.

1964
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:49,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's certainly. It's it's interesting you're going

1965
01:40:49,280 --> 01:40:51,200
Speaker 2: from a guy at at you know, who played first

1966
01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:53,559
Speaker 2: base at a really high level last year in Spencer's tear,

1967
01:40:53,560 --> 01:40:57,240
Speaker 2: and you're willing to move him. Matt McLain holds such

1968
01:40:57,240 --> 01:40:58,720
Speaker 2: a key to so much of it because like last

1969
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:02,720
Speaker 2: year he had the longest leash ever. You know, they

1970
01:41:02,840 --> 01:41:05,080
Speaker 2: moved him from the second spot to he was hitting eighth,

1971
01:41:05,160 --> 01:41:06,920
Speaker 2: to then he was hitting ninth. It was like never

1972
01:41:07,040 --> 01:41:09,680
Speaker 2: a consideration to send him down. Meanwhile, you have all

1973
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:12,320
Speaker 2: these other guys who are getting sent down. I would

1974
01:41:12,479 --> 01:41:15,559
Speaker 2: have to think that this year, if the offensive struggles continue,

1975
01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:18,479
Speaker 2: they may not pun him from the team, but they're

1976
01:41:18,479 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 2: gonna look for other options. And then okay, it's Sal

1977
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 2: Stewart at second base, which could be a position he's

1978
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:26,720
Speaker 2: better suited to play. And then you're probably getting a

1979
01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:30,479
Speaker 2: defensive upgraded first base with Spencer's deeer. And then there's

1980
01:41:30,560 --> 01:41:33,599
Speaker 2: figuring out how Nathaniel low factors into the mix. I mean,

1981
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 2: it would be ideal if Matt McClain would have a

1982
01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:39,599
Speaker 2: solid season for a bunch of different reasons. You're right.

1983
01:41:39,840 --> 01:41:43,600
Speaker 2: The Sal Stewart thing, he showed a tremendous glimpse in

1984
01:41:43,760 --> 01:41:47,400
Speaker 2: September of last year. Once upon a time, Christian etcarnassion

1985
01:41:47,439 --> 01:41:50,599
Speaker 2: Strand did the exact same thing in twenty twenty three.

1986
01:41:50,800 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 2: It got derailed because of injury. But it doesn't take

1987
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:56,599
Speaker 2: much and it can happen quickly where you go from

1988
01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:59,200
Speaker 2: a dude that everybody thinks, you know what, that small

1989
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:02,200
Speaker 2: sample size is going to pourtend somebody being really good,

1990
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:05,040
Speaker 2: to then turning into in a very quick amount of time,

1991
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:07,639
Speaker 2: a bit of an afterthought. Because that's exactly what's happened

1992
01:42:07,640 --> 01:42:08,920
Speaker 2: with Christian and Canassian Strain.

1993
01:42:10,080 --> 01:42:13,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's a tough thing with baseball because it's

1994
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:16,280
Speaker 6: again it's one hundred and sixty two game season, and

1995
01:42:17,040 --> 01:42:19,400
Speaker 6: you want to kind of balance that, Okay, we have

1996
01:42:19,600 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 6: to be we have to be patient. We have to

1997
01:42:21,960 --> 01:42:27,000
Speaker 6: give guys, I don't know, at least twenty twenty five

1998
01:42:27,160 --> 01:42:30,439
Speaker 6: thirty games to see what they can do. But you

1999
01:42:30,600 --> 01:42:33,200
Speaker 6: also are like, okay, well, we're kind of more in

2000
01:42:33,360 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 6: a win mode, win now mode, And I think that

2001
01:42:35,600 --> 01:42:37,680
Speaker 6: was part of it with McClain last year. I think

2002
01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:40,679
Speaker 6: the Reds kind of I think they kind of straddled

2003
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:43,639
Speaker 6: defense last year and okay, yeah, we want to win

2004
01:42:43,800 --> 01:42:46,240
Speaker 6: this year, but we all were also in kind of

2005
01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:49,720
Speaker 6: a developmental mode. And I think with McLean's twenty four

2006
01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:53,400
Speaker 6: being completely out, that's why he had such a long

2007
01:42:53,520 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 6: leash last year.

2008
01:42:55,160 --> 01:42:59,439
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that's plausible. Yeah, like we especially with him,

2009
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:03,160
Speaker 2: we still like his long term. His long term development

2010
01:43:03,320 --> 01:43:05,559
Speaker 2: is going to be aided by him getting big league

2011
01:43:05,560 --> 01:43:07,960
Speaker 2: at bats and not going down to Uleville. I think

2012
01:43:08,040 --> 01:43:11,720
Speaker 2: that's plausible. The guy that I think is interesting is

2013
01:43:11,840 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 2: Key Brian Hayes because we acknowledge two things. He's an

2014
01:43:16,920 --> 01:43:20,840
Speaker 2: awesome defender. He's not a very good hitter, but I

2015
01:43:20,920 --> 01:43:26,400
Speaker 2: guess a how bad would the offense have to be

2016
01:43:26,560 --> 01:43:29,240
Speaker 2: before they said, Look, we know he's making a lot

2017
01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 2: of money, we know he's not going anywhere, we know

2018
01:43:31,520 --> 01:43:33,559
Speaker 2: he's awesome with the glove, but we need a guy

2019
01:43:33,600 --> 01:43:36,280
Speaker 2: who could do something at a corner infield position offensively,

2020
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 2: And could there be someone on the team that you're like,

2021
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:41,920
Speaker 2: you know what, We've got to move things around because

2022
01:43:41,920 --> 01:43:43,760
Speaker 2: we've got to get their bat into the lineup, and

2023
01:43:43,840 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 2: the best way to do that is to take Key

2024
01:43:45,439 --> 01:43:47,600
Speaker 2: Brian Hayes's bat out of the lineup. You know, like

2025
01:43:48,000 --> 01:43:50,519
Speaker 2: that to me, You know if you go, okay, well,

2026
01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:52,439
Speaker 2: you'll put up with the lack of offense because his

2027
01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:55,439
Speaker 2: glove is good. Okay, But is there a point where

2028
01:43:55,479 --> 01:43:58,439
Speaker 2: the offense is so bad that you're like, we can't, can't,

2029
01:43:58,439 --> 01:44:00,160
Speaker 2: We can't give this guy for at bats again, We

2030
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:02,200
Speaker 2: can't have this guy in the starting lineup. And then

2031
01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:05,560
Speaker 2: is there somebody that is forcing their hand to go,

2032
01:44:05,720 --> 01:44:08,640
Speaker 2: you know what, We're gonna take Sal Stewart and move

2033
01:44:08,720 --> 01:44:10,640
Speaker 2: him at third and do this at first base, and

2034
01:44:10,680 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 2: we're gonna put Ces at third base, which is a

2035
01:44:13,320 --> 01:44:15,160
Speaker 2: position he has played, and we're gonna put him there.

2036
01:44:15,840 --> 01:44:19,000
Speaker 2: I think he's the most interesting guy because he plays

2037
01:44:19,040 --> 01:44:22,200
Speaker 2: a position that you typically associate with offense, with slugging,

2038
01:44:22,640 --> 01:44:24,679
Speaker 2: and he's one of the worst hitters in the sport.

2039
01:44:24,960 --> 01:44:27,280
Speaker 2: At the same time you got him for his glove.

2040
01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:30,599
Speaker 2: I think what happens with him this year is going

2041
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:33,560
Speaker 2: to be really interesting. Ideally, he hits just enough that

2042
01:44:33,680 --> 01:44:35,120
Speaker 2: you put him in the ninth spot in the batting

2043
01:44:35,160 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 2: water and you live with it. But if the offense

2044
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:40,000
Speaker 2: is really bad, and if they are looking for offense

2045
01:44:40,080 --> 01:44:42,960
Speaker 2: from somewhere. Is that a place where they go, screw it,

2046
01:44:43,040 --> 01:44:45,879
Speaker 2: despite what we're paying him, despite what he does on defense,

2047
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:48,000
Speaker 2: We're gonna move things around, and it's gonna come at

2048
01:44:48,040 --> 01:44:49,760
Speaker 2: the expense of Kee Brian Hayes's playing time.

2049
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:52,800
Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, thanks mooe.

2050
01:44:52,920 --> 01:44:55,639
Speaker 2: John, have a great weekend. Thanks so much. You gotta

2051
01:44:55,640 --> 01:44:57,560
Speaker 2: play the horn again. We didn't interrupt John's call with

2052
01:44:57,640 --> 01:45:08,160
Speaker 2: the horn. Slovaki has scored at six to two. Is

2053
01:45:08,240 --> 01:45:11,599
Speaker 2: that is that the same song he played before? Yes,

2054
01:45:14,280 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 2: that's a very elegant, almost regal national anthem. I did

2055
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:21,320
Speaker 2: confirm the gold medal game is Sunday at eight ten.

2056
01:45:21,400 --> 01:45:23,040
Speaker 2: I have no idea why. In the back of my

2057
01:45:23,200 --> 01:45:26,400
Speaker 2: head I thought it was a two forty. I don't

2058
01:45:26,479 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 2: know where I came up with that. I do love

2059
01:45:30,120 --> 01:45:34,680
Speaker 2: I love Wimbledon and the French Open because and I

2060
01:45:34,840 --> 01:45:37,519
Speaker 2: like the British Open, which is the Open Championship, because

2061
01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:39,200
Speaker 2: you roll out of bed and sports are on. It's

2062
01:45:39,240 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 2: the cool thing about the Olympics. Get up on Sunday

2063
01:45:43,560 --> 01:45:47,759
Speaker 2: eight ten's a little aggressive. Although my daughter hasn't reached

2064
01:45:47,760 --> 01:45:49,920
Speaker 2: that point in life where she's a big sleeper.

2065
01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:55,320
Speaker 12: In boh little an am kid she's still like.

2066
01:45:55,360 --> 01:45:57,640
Speaker 2: A seven forty five kid on the weekends, Like she

2067
01:45:57,720 --> 01:46:01,040
Speaker 2: gets up at seven forty five for school, which all right, cool,

2068
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:05,800
Speaker 2: uh seven forty five. On the weekends, it's like getto

2069
01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:07,600
Speaker 2: can we can we like, can we get this to

2070
01:46:07,680 --> 01:46:10,640
Speaker 2: eight thirty? And she's still reluctant to do that. I

2071
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 2: have friends who have like teenage daughters, and it's like,

2072
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:16,840
Speaker 2: you don't see them before noon. I can't wait for that.

2073
01:46:16,960 --> 01:46:17,720
Speaker 9: But little like.

2074
01:46:19,280 --> 01:46:23,120
Speaker 2: Bloody Mary and pucks, pancakes, puck.

2075
01:46:23,160 --> 01:46:25,599
Speaker 12: Wait a minute, So like when she wakes up, doesn't

2076
01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:27,120
Speaker 12: she like to do her own thing? Or she can

2077
01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:28,880
Speaker 12: get you guys, she.

2078
01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:31,680
Speaker 2: Has done her own thing, but typically, and we've we've

2079
01:46:31,760 --> 01:46:34,400
Speaker 2: tried to tell her, like, you know, you're almost nine

2080
01:46:34,479 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 2: years old. You're a little bit more independent than you

2081
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:39,280
Speaker 2: were a few years ago. If you get up, you know,

2082
01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:41,519
Speaker 2: you can pour yourself a bowl of cereal. You can

2083
01:46:42,560 --> 01:46:45,320
Speaker 2: you can set daddy's k cup up and you can

2084
01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:48,519
Speaker 2: watch your TV or iPad. Or she's really into this

2085
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:53,600
Speaker 2: roadblocks thing, which I don't love, to be honest.

2086
01:46:53,320 --> 01:46:55,360
Speaker 12: With you, rollbucks. You spend a lot of money on

2087
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:56,320
Speaker 12: Roebuck Roe Bucks.

2088
01:46:56,439 --> 01:46:58,360
Speaker 2: I don't really know understand how it works. I don't

2089
01:46:58,360 --> 01:47:00,400
Speaker 2: think we spend I mean she has it, she plays

2090
01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:04,519
Speaker 2: it with her friends. I just I really wish I

2091
01:47:04,520 --> 01:47:06,479
Speaker 2: would have had a kid during the pre internet age.

2092
01:47:06,720 --> 01:47:09,439
Speaker 2: I'd be honest with you, but the bottom line is

2093
01:47:09,520 --> 01:47:11,320
Speaker 2: like she should be able to sort of get out

2094
01:47:11,360 --> 01:47:12,920
Speaker 2: of bed and like, all right, go do your thing

2095
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:15,639
Speaker 2: and let mom and dad sleep till about eleven thirty.

2096
01:47:18,600 --> 01:47:20,960
Speaker 2: But no, she's she's big into like, hey, I'm up,

2097
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:22,800
Speaker 2: So at least one other person has to get up,

2098
01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:26,439
Speaker 2: and my wife and I alternate. So one day it's her,

2099
01:47:26,560 --> 01:47:30,080
Speaker 2: one day it's me. But Sunday, maybe she'll watch some

2100
01:47:30,960 --> 01:47:33,360
Speaker 2: gold metal hockey with me. We'll see Bloody Mary's and

2101
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:38,479
Speaker 2: pucks on Sunday morning. Sports headlines coming up on ESPN

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Speaker 2: last two years on the Bengals practice squad. Big College

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Speaker 2: Basketball Weekend, Big College Basketball Weekend Locally, I'm stoke for

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Speaker 2: this weekend, Michigan and Duke. You've got Arizona and Houston

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Speaker 2: headlining everything around the country Locally, Tonight, Miami takes on

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Speaker 2: Bowling Green. The RedHawks won the first matchup between the

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Speaker 2: two schools, eight to thirty. Tonight, Indiana takes on Purdue.

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Speaker 2: Hoosiers won the first game in that rivalry. Tomorrow, it's

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Speaker 2: a UC at Kansas at one o'clock. Beat a good

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Speaker 2: team on the road. We'll see seven hundred WLW has

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Speaker 2: that game if yours at Butler the Musketeers coming off

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Speaker 2: another tough loss, this one and overtime against Villanova. Tip

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Speaker 2: off at one thirty on the Double Nickel fifty five

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Speaker 2: KRC Dayton tags on Duquine. Tomorrow night on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: It's Kentucky at Auburn, tip off at eight thirty. Sunday,

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Speaker 2: mku's at Youngstown State, and Ohio State will take on

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Speaker 2: Michigan State. Cyclone skate Tonight at Iowa and then they

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Speaker 2: skate tomorrow at Iowa. United States won the semi final

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Speaker 2: game against Slovakia and men's hockey to advance of the

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Speaker 2: golden medal game against Canada on Sunday morning. By the way,

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Speaker 2: speaking of Sunday, if you missed our conversation yesterday, if

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Speaker 2: you're a card collector, there's an event happening at Oakley

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Speaker 2: Greens on Sunday that you don't want to miss and

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Speaker 2: I might see you there. Might be watching the hockey

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Speaker 2: game there. Listen to that conversation on the iHeartRadio app. Mike,

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Speaker 2: I have like one minute. It's all yours. Go ahead,

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Speaker 2: thank you, Mom off there, that's okay. Can you do

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Speaker 2: me a favorite and take me off speakerphone? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: thank you, sir. Thanks sure, all right, don't have a

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Speaker 2: ton of time, Mike, Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 10: I did you hear the story today about the high

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Speaker 10: school coaches and assistant coaches in Florida at the high

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Speaker 10: school level that are allowed to help out the athletes

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Speaker 10: with up to fifteen thousand dollars of their personal money

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Speaker 10: for things like transportation, food, recovery, whatever that means.

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Speaker 2: This is the Teddy Bridgewater Roly Legislature this is the

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Speaker 2: Teddy Bridgewater Bill. Yes, I love it too.

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Speaker 10: The coolest thing I ever heard in my life. So

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Speaker 10: Florida is a screwed up state, but they finally did somewhere.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the coolest thing I've ever

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Speaker 2: heard of in my life, but I do. I am

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Speaker 2: a proponent of it.

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Speaker 10: Very benevolent. I'll tell you that Michigan, I like over

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Speaker 10: Duke Arizona, I like over Houston. Moneyline last night without.

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Speaker 7: Two starters with Cunningham happened.

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Speaker 2: Detroit's better. Kate Cunningham should be in the MVP conversation.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, because they didn't have Stuart and I forget the

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Speaker 10: other guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Kate Cunningham is one of the best players.

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Speaker 2: Didn't have a during either. Kate Cunningham is one of

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Speaker 2: the best players in the league. And the Knicks are

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Speaker 2: extraordinarily suspect on defense.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, they are. One last thing Jeremiah loved. I know

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Speaker 10: we need defense, defense, defense, defense, but this guy, I

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Speaker 10: feel is right up there with with Robinson from the

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Speaker 10: Falcons and the kid from Gibbs from the Lions. I

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Speaker 10: think he's that talented and if you team him up

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Speaker 10: with Chase Brown also nating him. Guys in and out,

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Speaker 10: This would tremendously help Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 2: You know where I think you know where A lot

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Speaker 2: of experts think he's going to go, the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: It was it just for able to just make all

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Speaker 2: this sense in the world. Unfortunately, Mike, I got a run, man.

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Speaker 2: Have you have a good weekend. Okay, the Chiefs are

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Speaker 2: ahead of us, they're not drafting ahead of us, but

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Speaker 2: I don't think the Bengals are going to take a

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Speaker 2: running back with the tenth overall peck. Okay, thank you, Sorry,

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Speaker 2: no nod, you do the same. Thanks so much. We

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Speaker 2: gotta go, We gotta go. I'm not here Monday and Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: so you'll have Chad Brendle. I am back on Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: and uh I look forward to being here. Have a

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Speaker 2: great night, have a great weekend. Thank you very much,

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Speaker 2: hanging out and Luddick, have a great weekend. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for listening. Thanks to Taram Bland for producing and for

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Speaker 2: pouring me a very very good and strong makers and coke.

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Speaker 2: This is ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 11: Station Cincinnati's esp You're on sixteen thirty. Traffic from the UC.

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Speaker 8: Health Traffic Center. Around forty percent of cancers are preventable.

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Speaker 8: Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. Call five

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Speaker 8: one three five eighty five UCCC Good news. Col Rain

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Speaker 8: has now been reopened from an earlier accident that was

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Speaker 8: between Bahama Terrace and North Bend Road. Looks like traffic

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Speaker 8: can now go through there. East found two seventy five

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Speaker 8: in Ohio. Accident on the left shoulder between seventy one

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Speaker 8: and Montgomery Road. Ten minute delay from Reed Hartman Highway.

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Speaker 8: I'm at eazelic with traffic.

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