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Speaker 2: Red's off today.

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Speaker 3: They're in Arlington for a week weekend series that starts

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Speaker 3: oh five here on seven hundred WLW. It will be

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Speaker 3: singer louder Burns for the series Red's revealing today. The

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Speaker 3: newest edition of their City Connect jerseys will be revealed

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Speaker 3: one week from today, expected to debut the next night

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Speaker 3: when they play the Angels Friday night at Great American Ballpark.

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Speaker 3: Down on the Farm, Nickelodolo makes a rehab start for

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Speaker 3: Dayton Dragons open their season tonight in Lansing against the

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Speaker 3: for the Bengals, they signed free agents safety Kyle Duggar

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Speaker 3: Played eighty one games for the Patriots for being traded

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Speaker 3: including a pick six of Joe Flacco last year. Adds

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Speaker 3: This offseason, Bengals also signed free agent corner just Seer

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Speaker 3: the Chargers in twenty twenty two. Played in fifty seven

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Speaker 3: Think special team's depth and help replacing Tyson Anderson more

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Speaker 3: than anything else. Hockey Blue Jackets skate at Carolina tonight.

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Speaker 3: Columbus on a four game skid, including losing to the

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Speaker 3: Hurricanes Tuesday night five to two at Nationwide Arena. With

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Speaker 3: Conference College Basketball n semi finals at historic hinkle Field

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Speaker 3: Old House Tonight, New Mexico versus Tulsa, Illinois State versus Auburn. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 3: Final four prep continues for Saturday's matchups at Lucas Oil

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Speaker 3: and Indy. Illinois battles Yukon at six zh nine. Arizona

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Speaker 3: who announced his retirement this week, Mike Decorsi coming up

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Speaker 3: seven thirty five. FC Cincinnati have signed seventeen year old

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Speaker 3: FC Cincinnati two defender Andre Churla as a homegrown player

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Speaker 3: oh and as we continue, what do we call it?

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Speaker 3: We'll call it like Reese Heines Site, Reese Heines Site.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm intrigued enough to consider the the playing time

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Speaker 3: They're listening in Berea, Kentucky tonight on the iHeart Radio app.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait for checking out Bria, Kentucky. Next weekend.

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Speaker 3: It's as easy as that anywhere around the country and

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Speaker 3: around the world. The Red's hottest player in the entire

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Speaker 3: he was their best hitting performer of all of Spring Train.

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Speaker 2: Have you heard?

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Speaker 3: Have you noticed what Reese Hines is up to? Listen

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Speaker 3: to what he did yesterday?

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Speaker 2: They have won in game four this year. First one

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Speaker 4: He swings and hits one of the air and the

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Speaker 2: God grand slam rees Hines.

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Speaker 5: He is absolutely on another planet right now.

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Speaker 6: His second home run of the year. He's gone deep

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Speaker 2: Nothing beats here in the first Here's the pitch and

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Speaker 2: a ball driven the right field by Hines. Back goes

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Speaker 6: Head, that ball off the wall.

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Speaker 2: That's a home run. Just got all of the wall.

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Speaker 8: Look I get the fencing out there and dropped down

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Speaker 9: He now has five runs batted in in this alee

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Speaker 9: on an opposite field solo blast by Ray Hines.

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Speaker 3: And it feels like a weird situation. I mean, let's

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Speaker 3: He struck at twenty one times in forty three at bats.

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Speaker 3: And understandably so, because the Reds feel they didn't have

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Speaker 3: So he's been given a grand total of ninety five

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Speaker 2: That's it for his career.

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Speaker 3: How would you decide what somebody is after ninety five

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Speaker 2: I just know this, He's still just twenty five.

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Speaker 3: He's no doubt athletic, he's got power, he's got speed,

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Speaker 3: he can play all three outfield positions, and key here

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Speaker 3: since adjusting his approach and swing, and you'll hear him

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Speaker 3: talk about it. Coming up at six point fifty he

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Speaker 3: there's a couple of things in play. The Reds would

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Speaker 3: by Kelsey Chevrolet. My first guest is a Hall of

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Speaker 3: a treat to welcome in once again. Mike de Coursey, Hi, Mike,

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Speaker 11: My last Bearcat.

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Speaker 12: Well, one of the beautiful things about my experience after

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Speaker 2: Oh no, we may have lost, we may have lost. Mike.

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Speaker 3: Let's I'm gonna drop him and call him back and

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Speaker 3: I can remember reading your story you were at get

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Speaker 10: Yeah, the first, the number one memory that I listed

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Speaker 10: then you see it in person and you understand like

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Speaker 10: they just responded to him. And I got a chance

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Speaker 10: to talk to Anthony and he's really still proud of

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Speaker 10: everything he accomplished. And Cameron Mill said, no, it wouldn't

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Speaker 10: have worked.

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Speaker 11: With anyone else but him. He got us together.

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Speaker 3: You've been to so many different Final Four sites. What

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Speaker 3: do you think of Indianapolis as a host?

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Speaker 10: I think so highly of Atlance that there shouldn't be

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Speaker 10: any other sites. That's what I've always said. I like

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Speaker 10: San Antonio, I like visiting there. I like New Orleans.

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Speaker 10: I hear Nashville is getting a dome stadium, and I

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Speaker 10: think eventually we'll be there, and.

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Speaker 11: I like going I'd love to go there to see

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Speaker 11: country music.

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Speaker 10: I'm not sure if I want to go there for

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Speaker 10: a final four, because I think it should always be here.

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Speaker 10: It's the best place to have a final four. The

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Speaker 10: only year I didn't like Atlance was in twenty fifteen

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Speaker 10: when I lived here. And it's no fun to commute

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Speaker 10: to a final four. The game's over, you go home,

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Speaker 10: and I love the endeba, but it's the final four.

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Speaker 11: I want to be who twenty four hours a day.

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Speaker 3: I got to ask you before we conclude about this

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Speaker 3: this weekend, Saturday and Monday night, to the extent you're

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Speaker 3: prepared to speak on it, perhaps you haven't written about it.

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Speaker 3: How do you see the final four playing out?

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Speaker 16: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: I mean I think Arizona is the best team.

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Speaker 10: But what I think about Michigan after watching them over

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Speaker 10: the last couple of weeks, I was really worried about

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Speaker 10: them after they lost LJ. Case and their backup point guard,

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Speaker 10: and they seem to really lose a lot of ziph

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Speaker 10: when they got into the Big ten tournament.

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Speaker 11: And maybe it was just we already went.

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Speaker 10: Nineteen to one in this league and the real things,

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Speaker 10: you know, the real big deal is in a week

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Speaker 10: from now.

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Speaker 11: But they went all the way to the final and

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Speaker 11: they just never.

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Speaker 10: Looked like like an elite championship level team, and then

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Speaker 10: the tournament started and they resumed.

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Speaker 11: Playing like an elite National championship level team.

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Speaker 10: What I think, the way I describe it is this,

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Speaker 10: if Michigan gets to its a game, then they're they're

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Speaker 10: beating everybody, like nobody else has that level of a game.

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Speaker 10: But it's a pretty specific game. It's going to have

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Speaker 10: to be heavy transition, a lot of pace. Arizona can run,

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Speaker 10: and they might even be able to run with Michigan

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Speaker 10: and squeeze it out at the end. But if Arizona

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Speaker 10: runs too much in this game or allows were so,

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Speaker 10: allows Michigan to run, like if Arizona wants to run

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Speaker 10: on their own ball, that's fine, but they got to

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Speaker 10: They've got to get back in transition to stop Arizona

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Speaker 10: or excuse me, to stop Michigan or slow Michigan, because

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Speaker 10: if Michigan goes full speed, they're really tough. I think

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Speaker 10: Illinois wins the other game I got. It's the weirdest thing.

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Speaker 10: I can't figure out how you contier. I don't think

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Speaker 10: they weren't great against Michigan State. They weren't great for

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Speaker 10: most of the game against UCLA and then they were

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Speaker 10: aren't close to bad in the in about thirty five

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Speaker 10: minutes of the Duke game, and yet here they are.

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Speaker 10: They have an unbelievable spirit. Terris Reid has been a monster.

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Speaker 10: Alex Caraban is a pure winner.

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Speaker 6: Here's a Here's.

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Speaker 11: One another thing that you should know.

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Speaker 10: If alex if Yukon wins on Monday night, Alex Caraban

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Speaker 10: will be the sixteenth player to win three national championships

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Speaker 10: in men's.

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Speaker 11: Basketball, and he will be the only one who wasn't

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Speaker 11: coached by John Wooden.

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Speaker 12: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Now that's a stat to conclude on excellent.

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Speaker 3: All Right, you have been the standard for college basketball

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Speaker 3: writers for thirty years. In my mind, I am honored

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Speaker 3: to call you a friend. You have always been kind

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Speaker 3: to me. Your appearances on this show have made my

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Speaker 3: show better over thirty years. Congratulations, thank you, and and

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Speaker 3: enjoy what's ahead.

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Speaker 11: Well, thank you, Lance.

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Speaker 10: But if you stop calling me, might I mean you

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Speaker 10: don't want to do that, because I'm I mean, I

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Speaker 10: am still going.

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Speaker 11: To be active.

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Speaker 10: I'm The plan is to continue doing the brackets for Fox.

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Speaker 6: The plan is.

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Speaker 10: Hopefully to continue doing my Big ten studio work and

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Speaker 10: VTN studio work and hopefully still maintain a relationship with

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Speaker 10: The Sporting News.

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Speaker 11: We've already discussed something, excell.

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Speaker 10: I don't know exactly what, but the way I've been

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Speaker 10: describing it lately is to take it from the spinal

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Speaker 10: tap eleven down to about a two or a three.

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Speaker 11: I think that's the plan.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 3: Hey again, congrats, thank you for making time tonight and

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Speaker 3: enjoyed this weekend.

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Speaker 11: All right, all right, thank you, Lint.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Mike.

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Speaker 3: There you go, Mike de Coursey, Hall of fame college

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Speaker 3: basketball writer the Sporting News and retiring from that as

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Speaker 3: a full time employee after thirty seasons. But much more

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Speaker 3: excited to hear about that still ahead. We'll head down

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Speaker 3: the stretch that's still ahead for us Rnel Carrier Sports

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Speaker 3: Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WLW. I believe

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Speaker 3: Dan Carol time for now. It's Arnale Carrier Sports Talk

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Speaker 3: presented by Kelsey ever Lay. We talked first part of

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Speaker 3: the hour about Reese Hines and how I'm kind of

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Speaker 3: intrigued by him because he's changed, and I think that's

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Speaker 3: the that's the important part of the story. And we

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Speaker 3: know what he did in his previous two stints on

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Speaker 3: the major league level, they were short and they were

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Speaker 3: a quick burst of success followed by a lot of

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Speaker 3: exposure in terms of he had some holes in his

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Speaker 3: swing and struck out a lot, and then he changed

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Speaker 3: his approach. It changed his swing, had his best season

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Speaker 3: last year at Triple A Louisville and tore it up

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Speaker 3: in the spring, and he's tearing it up in the

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Speaker 3: first week of Triple A this year.

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Speaker 2: But that's not the major leagues.

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Speaker 3: But I remember what he was telling Tommy Thrall during

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Speaker 3: the spring about his change, why he did it, and

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Speaker 3: how it's working out. This is from spring training Tommy

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Speaker 3: Thrall with Reese Hines.

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Speaker 14: The word power is always around my name, and I

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Speaker 14: think I kind of earlier in my career let that,

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Speaker 14: let that get to me and like described me as

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Speaker 14: that type of hitter, and I think I'm more than

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Speaker 14: just a power hitter. And I think last year I

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Speaker 14: just kind of tapped into myself and allow myself to

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Speaker 14: be myself and it showed.

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Speaker 2: Seeing your power.

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Speaker 4: Uh, that probably didn't diminish any with the strikeouts I

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Speaker 4: would get.

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Speaker 17: No.

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Speaker 14: Actually, it actually hit the most one ones I've ever

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Speaker 14: hit in a season. So I think just that showed

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Speaker 14: me that if I make contact more on the barrel,

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Speaker 14: good things gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: What does that do for your confidence as a hitter?

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's got to make you feel really good

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Speaker 4: and give you a ton of confidence move for sure.

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Speaker 14: For sure, it gives me a lot of confidence, especially

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Speaker 14: finishing off how I finished off last year and come

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Speaker 14: into this year. I just want to keep that train

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Speaker 14: moving and stay with that consistency and keep keep putting

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Speaker 14: the barrel on the ball as m as much as

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Speaker 14: I can.

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Speaker 4: A mindset is one thing, but was there a physical

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Speaker 4: aspect of that too?

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Speaker 2: I mean, did you do you.

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Speaker 4: Try to shrink the strike zone to some extent? Do

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Speaker 4: you try to get a little more selective on what

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Speaker 4: pitches you go after?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 14: I think my biggest thing was more just like trying

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Speaker 14: to cut the bottom of the zone out as much

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Speaker 14: as possible. I tried to like tell myself, as Okay,

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Speaker 14: if I strike out on a pitch down in the zone,

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Speaker 14: just let those strikes be because the more pitches that

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Speaker 14: I looked down that let go down there, the more

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Speaker 14: they're going to be balls, because I'm going to get

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Speaker 14: a lot of sliders, a lot of card walls lost speed,

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Speaker 14: that they're trying to get me a chase since I've

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Speaker 14: I do damage when they when they put in the.

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Speaker 2: Own How eager are you to prove that this?

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Speaker 4: I don't want to call it a new approach, but

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Speaker 4: to some extent a modified approach can work at the

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Speaker 4: big league level.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say too eager.

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Speaker 14: I just I'm ready to do whatever Tito and this

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Speaker 14: team asked me to do, and and help them win,

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Speaker 14: and just come out here and show them, be myself

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Speaker 14: and shown what I can do.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 3: Earlier this spring, I'm not just a power hitter. It's

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Speaker 3: not just about power, Reese Hines. Earlier this spring. Nicolodolo

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Speaker 3: is an inning in on his rehab appearance, got a

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Speaker 3: strikeout on the first three eleven pitches. Eight were strikes

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Speaker 3: still ahead. We'll get into at seven twenty, the rising

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Speaker 3: cost of youth sports today, the stories I've heard this week,

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Speaker 3: Holy cow, that and more to get to afternoons Arnel

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Speaker 3: Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: The following takes place between seven pm and eight pm.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's keep it rolling.

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Speaker 3: Seven oh seven seven hundred WLW The show RNL Carrier

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Speaker 3: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. I'm Lance Bacalister, your host,

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Speaker 3: Russ Jackson, your producer. Thanks for hanging out with us.

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Speaker 3: If you are looking for some high school hoops this

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Speaker 3: weekend Saturday, Cincinnati Public Schools will host the All Star

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Speaker 3: Showcase noon to five at UC's fifth Third Arena. What

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Speaker 3: a great lead into college Basketball's Final four and catch

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Speaker 3: some final hoops of the season from more on Thatt.

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Speaker 3: Let's welcome in the CPS director of Athletics. That would

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Speaker 3: be Josh Harden. Josh, how are we.

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Speaker 6: Doing doing great?

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Speaker 7: Are you alas?

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Speaker 3: I'm fantastic good catching up with you. So what we

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Speaker 3: talked about this last year? What year is this for

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Speaker 3: the event and what's the idea behind it?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate that, lant.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, we are now year five, so we're we got

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Speaker 18: a year five logo. It's a big event for us

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Speaker 18: to be able to do this year after year with

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Speaker 18: our partners over at the University of Cincinnati. And it's

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Speaker 18: exactly like you called it.

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Speaker 7: It's an all star showcase.

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Speaker 18: We're gonna be showcasing the top talent across Cincinnati Public Schools,

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Speaker 18: which we know we had a bunch of district champions

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Speaker 18: this year, one of the most amounts we've had in

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Speaker 18: CPS history. And those student athletes are all going to

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Speaker 18: be representing a skills contest, three point contest, dunk contest,

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Speaker 18: and the girls and boys All Star.

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Speaker 3: Games, and Josh, I gotta believe it's kind of cool,

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Speaker 3: really cool for these these players who some maybe most

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Speaker 3: will be playing their final organized basketball game of their career,

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Speaker 3: but they get to do it at fifth third on

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Speaker 3: a big twelve basketball court.

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Speaker 2: No better way to.

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Speaker 18: Go out than that, And you know, it's it's been

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Speaker 18: fun to watch, you know, these student athletes shine over

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Speaker 18: these last five years.

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Speaker 7: You know, we've had student athletes like Paul.

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Speaker 18: McMillan who's gone on to D one, ray Von Griffith

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Speaker 18: who you know went to UC and then Kent State.

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Speaker 18: We had Deb Davenport who's now at Arizona State on

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Speaker 18: the D one level, Ian Elmer, who we know was

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Speaker 18: on the Miami undefeated team. So it's pretty cool that

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Speaker 18: we've had so many kids that have come through our

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Speaker 18: All Star Showcase in advance on to play high level

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Speaker 18: college basketball after that last go round at UC So.

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Speaker 3: You've got a slam dunk contest which will be cool,

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Speaker 3: a three point shootout, the All Star Game are how

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Speaker 3: are teams chosen? Is there a draft or how does

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Speaker 3: that work out?

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Speaker 18: Yeah, so we sit down and be with the coaches

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Speaker 18: of all of our high schools and they look at

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Speaker 18: the statistics throughout the year. They're they're student athlete leaders,

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Speaker 18: and take all that in consideration and then they will

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Speaker 18: select the kids. And so we do have a pool

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Speaker 18: of kids from each of our thirteen high schools that

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Speaker 18: have athletic departments, and each school has between two and

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Speaker 18: five kids on the boys and girls.

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Speaker 7: Side that gets selected by our coaches and admin.

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Speaker 3: This thing keeps getting bigger and better. And I notice

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Speaker 3: you're adding a new incentive for students and families.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, appreciate that.

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Speaker 18: So, yeah, on ticket sales this year is going to

686
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Speaker 18: be fun. Anybody that buys a ticket can put the

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Speaker 18: name of a CPS kid when they buy a ticket,

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Speaker 18: and then that kid will have an opportunity to win

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Speaker 18: one of two prizes, one being a five hundred dollars

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Speaker 18: shopping spree with Means Cameron at Black Owned and another

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Speaker 18: being one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Can't beat that.

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Speaker 3: It also proceeds from the event support Project Connect.

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Speaker 2: What is Project Connect?

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Speaker 18: The Project Connect is our department in Cincinnati Public Schools

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Speaker 18: that support our students experiencing homelessness with resources and support.

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Speaker 18: They've recently started a center called the Rap which allows

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Speaker 18: students to come in and be supported by them with

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Speaker 18: many partners, and in the next couple of weeks, we

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Speaker 18: will be opening a safe sleep lot to support the

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Speaker 18: families that are living out of their cars, and the

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Speaker 18: funds from the event will go to support those families

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Speaker 18: with emergency housing.

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Speaker 3: Saturday, it's the All Star Showcase since I Public Schools hosting.

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Speaker 3: It's noon to five at UC's fifth third Arena, Josh

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Speaker 3: four tickets. Can they get them at the door? Do

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Speaker 3: they have to buy them online? Tell them what to do?

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Speaker 18: Yep, you got it both in so we will accept

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Speaker 18: tickets at the door. We'll be selling them cash and

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Speaker 18: credit at the door. You see, everything else is cash

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Speaker 18: lists with the concessions and the parking. But you can

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Speaker 18: find tickets at our website at STPAS dash K one

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Speaker 18: two dot RG and then there'll be a story right

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Speaker 18: on that front page to be able to buy tickets

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Speaker 18: and put a name so a kick and win one

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Speaker 18: of those prizes.

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Speaker 2: Easy is that?

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Speaker 19: Hey?

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Speaker 2: Good catching up.

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Speaker 3: Congrats on now five years of this thing, keep it rolling,

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Speaker 3: and good talking to you and I hope we can

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Speaker 3: talk again next season.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, look forward to it. Lance. Always appreciate you having

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Speaker 7: me on.

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Speaker 2: You got it. Take care, Josh, you two broth. There

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Speaker 2: you go.

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Speaker 3: Josh Harden, CPS District Athletic Director. The All Star Showcase

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Speaker 3: Saturday noon to five U See's fifth third Arena. All right,

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Speaker 3: updating on the Nicolodolo rehab start for the Daytona Tortugas.

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00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 3: The Tortuga is taking on the Jupiter Hammerheads, and Nick

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00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 3: is through two innings. We pull up his line score

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Speaker 3: two innings, no hits, no runs, no walks, he has

733
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Speaker 3: three strikeouts. He is pitching now in the top of

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Speaker 3: the third. He threw thirty pitches in the first two innings.

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Speaker 3: He did have an eight pitch at bat to end

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Speaker 3: the second end that ran the pitch count up a little,

737
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Speaker 3: but he just recorded his first out of the third inning.

738
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Speaker 3: He's thirty three pitches in. Their goal was in the

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Speaker 3: neighborhood of sixty to sixty five so we'll continue tracking

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Speaker 3: monitoring that. We'll go down on the farm a little

741
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Speaker 3: bit later on, update you on the Dayton Dragons and

742
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Speaker 3: the debut at Dayton for actually playing in Lansing tonight,

743
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Speaker 3: the debut at Higha of Alfredo Duno, an update on

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00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 3: the Louisville Bats. All of that later on in the

745
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Speaker 3: show as well. Up next Man, I teased last night

746
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Speaker 3: we were going to do it, and I didn't have

747
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Speaker 3: enough time to do justice to it, so I pushed

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Speaker 3: it to tonight. The number of people I have heard

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Speaker 3: from about this subject matter. You talk about something that

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Speaker 3: seems to be hitting home with people, and listener Chuck

751
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Speaker 3: Clevenger had passed this story along to me about a

752
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Speaker 3: week ago, and the line that caught my eye was

753
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Speaker 3: this one the forty billion dollar game of youth sports.

754
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 3: Parents have never spent more time and money on youth sports,

755
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Speaker 3: and it details the rising cost when your kids play sports.

756
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Speaker 3: I want to get into that next and I'll welcome

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Speaker 3: in your thoughts, observations and what it's been like for

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Speaker 3: you and your kids in sports. As we continue with

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Speaker 3: rn L carri Or Sports Doc presented by Kelsey Chevale

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Speaker 3: seven hundred wlw All right, we have a we have

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Speaker 3: a developing situation in Daytona. According to the Tortugas online

762
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 3: play by play, in the third inning, there is an

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Speaker 3: injury delay and Nicolodolo has been replaced.

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Speaker 2: Beyond that, I.

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Speaker 3: Think the initial assumption would be the blister has created

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Speaker 3: a new problem, but that's just speculation. This is the

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Speaker 3: Tortuga's website. They're online. I don't have a visual of it.

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Speaker 3: I'm just following their online box score and it notes

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Speaker 3: game advisory, injury delay in the middle of a count

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Speaker 3: at one ball and two strikes pitching in the third inning,

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Speaker 3: pitching change, Brady Afthem replaces Nickelodolo. That can't be pitch

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Speaker 3: count related because the plan going in was Nick to

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Speaker 3: throw between sixty and sixty five. Nick had gone two

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Speaker 3: and two thirds innings, no hits, no runs, no walks,

775
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Speaker 3: four strikeouts. He'd thrown forty pitches, twenty nine were strikes,

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Speaker 3: three groundouts of flyout, four strikeouts, but an injury delay

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Speaker 3: and that is all that is available at this moment

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Speaker 3: for Nickelodolo. So that is discouraging. Will monitor and look

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Speaker 3: for more. All right, this topic is for you, and

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Speaker 3: it came by email about ten days or so ago

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Speaker 3: from listener Chuck Clevenger, who keeps track of all the

782
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Speaker 3: cool stuff Wall Street Journal does sports Wise and sends

783
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Speaker 3: it to me. Topic ideas, and this one caught my eye.

784
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Speaker 3: The forty billion dollar game of youth sports, and it

785
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 3: notes that parents have never spent more time and money

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Speaker 3: on youth sports. It notes families are now shelling out

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Speaker 3: more than forty billion dollars every year on child's sports

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Speaker 3: children's sports activities. According to Aspen Institute research, over the

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Speaker 3: past decade, the company Dick's Sporting Goods has seen revenue

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Speaker 3: more than double, and it details the rising cost of

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Speaker 3: youth sports across the board in all sports. It does

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Speaker 3: note specifically for Little league these are here's what it

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Speaker 3: takes to survive another year of a Little league.

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Speaker 2: These days, there are sleek.

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Speaker 3: Composite bats that cost four hundred and fifty dollars. There

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Speaker 3: are training bats, wood bats, torpedo bats, and backpacks to

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Speaker 3: carry them, plus gloves, helmets, elbow guards, leg protectors, arm sleeves,

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Speaker 3: sliding mis cleats, turf shoes, the coolest sunglasses, Bruce bolt,

799
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Speaker 3: batting gloves, fluorescent batting grips, socks, pants, belts, and garments

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Speaker 3: known simply as ice cream shorts, and it notes a

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00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 3: minor tweak in my in. Major League Baseball's rule book.

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Speaker 3: Before the twenty nineteen season, loosened the color restrictions on

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Speaker 3: player cleats, and that has now trickled down to the

804
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Speaker 3: little league level, where the little leaguers race to get

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Speaker 3: their hands on the latest, hottest equipment. When a sick

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Speaker 3: back comes out, it sells out almost instantly, details the

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Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal. Teenagers on travel teams are rolling into

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Speaker 3: weekend tournaments wearing a few thousand dollars of apparel, equipment,

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Speaker 3: and swag. The average famili's annual spending on baseball increased

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Speaker 3: nearly seventy percent between twenty nineteen and twenty four. According

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Speaker 3: to the Aspen Institute Project Play Initiative, it is already

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Speaker 3: the most expensive of America's played sports. But that's just baseball.

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Speaker 3: This details across the board the various sports. How much

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Speaker 3: the equipment is costing, how much the fees are costing,

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Speaker 3: how much the travel is costing, the hotel's entrance to.

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Speaker 2: Games, you name it.

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Speaker 3: And I'm wondering if what I'm laying out is something

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00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,919
Speaker 3: that you can directly relate to and add perspective five one, three, seven, four, nine,

819
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Speaker 3: seven thousand one to eight hundred the big one. I've

820
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 3: joked that when Casey and Peyton were younger and growing

821
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 3: up in Casey as the baseball player, I remember vividly

822
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Speaker 3: going to places like Dick Sporting Goods and he would

823
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Speaker 3: be grabbing bats off the wall and they would be

824
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Speaker 3: bats that would be approaching three hundred dollars And going

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Speaker 3: through my mind trying to do the calculation.

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Speaker 2: As a parent, you know, you're one.

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Speaker 3: You want your kid to have the best opportunity and

828
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Speaker 3: the best equipment to have the best opportunity to succeed.

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Speaker 2: And yet I'm running the calculation in my head.

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00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 3: I said, all right, what I'm saying this to myself,

831
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Speaker 3: what is the difference in the number of hits that

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Speaker 3: he could get this year with say one hundred dollars

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00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 3: bad versus how many hits he would get with a

834
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Speaker 3: three hundred dollars bad. And I'm thinking back to when

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Speaker 3: I was a kid, the extent of the purchase of

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Speaker 3: equipment for me, when I was playing for Wix Good

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Speaker 3: Food and Booze and Anderson Township or the Burger King

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Speaker 3: Athletics who went undefeated in nineteen seventy seven and got

839
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 3: a free burger fries and a drink after every game.

840
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Speaker 3: I had a batting glove, which I got it Red's

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Speaker 3: batting glove giveaway day.

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Speaker 2: That was my batting glove. And the only thing else

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Speaker 2: I had.

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Speaker 3: Was big League chew bubble gum, and I put it

845
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Speaker 3: in my back pocket. That was the extent of my

846
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 3: and I had a wood bat that was it. Of

847
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 3: course I had a mitt, and I did the whole

848
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 3: thing with you know, Neat's foot oil and rubbing up

849
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 3: the mint and putting. I'd put a big softball in it,

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Speaker 3: and then i'd take my sister's jump rope and I'd

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00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 3: wrap it around and tie it real tight, and then

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00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,240
Speaker 3: I'd stick it under my mattress in my bed for

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00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 3: a couple of days to oil my min But that's

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00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 3: a whole nother story, the idea of how much it

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00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 3: is now costing. And I got an email from This

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Speaker 3: Is listener Jason, and this email just blows me away.

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Speaker 3: He said, my kids have played sports in three different

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Speaker 3: states now, Ohio, Georgia, and Florida. My daughter excels at

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Speaker 3: soccer and volleyball. We put her in a recreational soccer league,

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Speaker 3: and after a couple of games, I couldn't see how

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Speaker 3: this was gonna make her any better. The coach was lacking,

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Speaker 3: the talent was just horrific. Zero chance she could get

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Speaker 3: any better because she saw zero competition. So that meant

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Speaker 3: taking her to a club soccer team for a minimum

865
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Speaker 3: cost of three thousand dollars a year just to play.

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Speaker 3: He adds, you're traveling at least a half hour every

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Speaker 3: weekend to a game. You're there all weekend, so you've

868
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Speaker 3: got gas and food that you're buying. The club does

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Speaker 3: not supply uniforms, so you have to buy those who well,

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Speaker 3: Florida club Soccer wants you to travel a minimum of

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Speaker 3: three times overnight just to play league games. Then we

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00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 3: moved on to volleyball. There is no recreational volleyball in Florida.

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00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 3: It's all club same three thousand dollars price to play

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Speaker 3: for the year, but now comes two tournaments a month,

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Speaker 3: and it costs twenty five dollars a person just to

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00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 3: watch your child play. Again, you've got to buy uniforms,

877
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 3: you have to buy knee pads, you have to buy shoes.

878
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 3: I would say this year alone in volleyball, I spent

879
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 3: in total over five thousand dollars and haven't left the

880
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 3: Tampa area. From what I'm hearing, in the next couple

881
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 3: of years, they are going to expect us to travel

882
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 3: across the United States to play tournaments. Seems a bit

883
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 3: much as Florida is a top three state for girls volleyball,

884
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 3: but the older they get, the more expensive it becomes.

885
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 2: That's just one of.

886
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 3: Just an endlessumber of emails I've received just since last night.

887
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 3: For teasing, I was going to talk about this, how

888
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 3: does that hit you? Nodding your head, exasperated about all

889
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 3: this and the more I look this week and kind

890
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 3: of did some background on this on the on the

891
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 3: annual spending and man fascinating part of the Wall Street

892
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 3: Journal story is Dick Sporting Goods and how they are

893
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 3: connecting with the youth sports parents and how that is

894
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 3: such a driving force in their their revenue down to

895
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 3: you know, if you buy a bat at Dick Sporting

896
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 3: Goods in November and you sign up for their online

897
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 3: discounts and you know, deals and stuff like that, you

898
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 3: will get an email the next November from Dick Sporting

899
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 3: Goods reminding you, hey, you bought a bat last year

900
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 3: at this time, come get your new bat. And the

901
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,919
Speaker 3: connection and the in rowdes that Dick Sporting Goods specifically

902
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,720
Speaker 3: has made in the industry with parents to the point

903
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 3: that Dick Sporting Goods is building bigger like gigantic megastores,

904
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,320
Speaker 3: and they want people to spend more time in their stores.

905
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 3: And what they're building in those stores to keep people there.

906
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 2: It's just the more I read that, I said, all right,

907
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 2: I got to do a topic on this tonight.

908
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 3: I've got to They call them the Dick's House of Sports,

909
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 3: and I think they started five years ago and there's

910
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 3: now one hundred Houses of Sports around the country. And

911
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 3: in these Dick Sporting Goods stores, they focus on the

912
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: dwell time metric of how much time people spend in

913
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 3: their stores. And they've added in these now one hundred

914
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 3: and fifty thousand square foot stores triple their normal size.

915
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 3: They've added batting cages and climbing walls and golf simulators

916
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 3: and the idea is to get people in, get them

917
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 3: the buy stuff, and keep them there milling around buying

918
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,479
Speaker 3: more stuff. First one open five years ago, now there's

919
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 3: thirty five and according to the Wall Street Journal. Within

920
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 3: the next two years, Dick's plans to operate as many

921
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 3: as one hundred houses of sports.

922
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 2: It's become a destination.

923
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 3: I think this is a good starting point for her conversation,

924
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 3: so I'll grab you as we continue. We'll get a

925
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 3: check on News five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, one,

926
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 3: eight hundred, the Big One, because I know what it

927
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 3: was like when Casey and Peyton were growing up. I'm

928
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 3: not as attached to it now since they are older,

929
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 3: but man, the expectations, the pressure, the dollar signs attached.

930
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 3: Need this need that if they want to be good,

931
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: they need this. Holy cow, what is that like? We'll

932
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 3: talk next RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet

933
00:49:52,480 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 3: seven hundred WW thirty seven seven hundred WLWRNL carri Or

934
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 3: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. Coming up in the

935
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 3: eight o'clock hours, something I hope you can relate to.

936
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 3: I'm going to borrow it from something I heard Chick

937
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 3: Ludwig say earlier this week. It will deal with Braylan

938
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 3: Mullens and Sal Stewart and when you were a kid,

939
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 3: all of that coming up in the eight o'clock hour.

940
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 3: But let's grab some calls on the rising cost of

941
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 3: youth sports in claves.

942
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 5: Gary.

943
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 2: Welcome to Sports Talk.

944
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 16: Good evening lanes.

945
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 2: How you doing, I'm well, what do you got for me?

946
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 16: Well, I don't want to make it sound like I

947
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 16: have a little bit of history when it comes to

948
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 16: baseball anyway, but I have been playing the sport since

949
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 16: I was six years old, and I played till I

950
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 16: was thirty six, and I've been coaching for the last

951
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 16: forty four years. I started coaching when I was twenty,

952
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 16: so even when I was coaching, I was still playing baseball.

953
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 16: It just at a recreational level, but I played a lot.

954
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 16: So what I have figured out in what probably most

955
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 16: people know is that images everything and this starty years

956
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 16: ago with an and campaign about tennis, and you know

957
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 16: the guy Andre Agasy with the camera and all that stuff. Okay,

958
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 16: that has gone on steroids now and it's it's Dick

959
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 16: sporting goods on steroids. They understand the market, they understand

960
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:24,399
Speaker 16: the people that have the money that want to get

961
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 16: their kids the best of everything. But and I'm not

962
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 16: asking you something you don't already know the answer to

963
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 16: does your kid catch the ball any better? With a

964
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,479
Speaker 16: smart fifty dollars glove than he does with a hundred

965
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 16: dollars glove, No he doesn't. Does he hit the ball

966
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 16: any farther with a three hundred dollars back than he

967
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 16: does with a one hundred and twenty dollars bat, No

968
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,959
Speaker 16: he doesn't. Does he run faster with a two hundred

969
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 16: and fifty dollars pair of spikes than he does with

970
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 16: a used pair of spikes? For playing again sports, I mean,

971
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 16: I've coached kids from second grade all the way up

972
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 16: to forty years old. And one of the things that

973
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 16: kind of drives me creaty his younger parents feel like

974
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 16: they got to go out and get them their kids

975
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 16: brand new bat at eight years old, at nine years old,

976
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 16: at ten years old. And I tell these parents all

977
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 16: the time, you have to understand something. By next year,

978
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 16: he won't be able to use that bat. By next year,

979
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 16: he'll outgrow those spikes. By next year, he'll outgrow that glove.

980
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 16: Buy some new stuff or buy just an average bat.

981
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 16: When he gets to a certain point like high school,

982
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 16: when he stops growing, if you want to go out

983
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 16: and buy him a good glove, or if you want

984
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 16: to go out and buy him a great pair of spikes.

985
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 16: Even then they're going to wear out. Well, why are

986
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,959
Speaker 16: these people so? My kid played baseball from the age

987
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 16: of six to eighteen, and I coached him all those years.

988
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 16: Every time he wanted something that Johnny had, I told him,

989
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 16: I said, but I can't afford that. Now, the truth

990
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,319
Speaker 16: of the matter is I could afford it, but I'm

991
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 16: not stupid. I understand how the process works. You go

992
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 16: out and buy a two hundred fifty dollars glove, but

993
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,359
Speaker 16: that's fine dandy, but you're not going to catch any

994
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 16: better than the next kid that has one hundred dollars glove.

995
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 16: You either got it or you don't have it. That's

996
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 16: the way it is. You can either see the ball

997
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 16: and hit the ball or you can't. No two r

998
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 16: and fifty dollars back is going to change that. Now,

999
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 16: when you get to the college level, maybe when you

1000
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 16: get to the semi pros and stuff like that, that's

1001
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 16: that's that changes everything. When you start getting paid. I

1002
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 16: do what you want to do. But why are we

1003
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 16: Why are we allowing Dick Sporting Goods to do marketing

1004
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 16: to talk us into this stuff. It's because they know

1005
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 16: the audience is I gotta one up the next guy.

1006
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 16: I gotta one up the next guy. And that's all

1007
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 16: it's about. It's just one up in the next guy.

1008
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 3: Hey, Gary so Well said, thanks for being the lead

1009
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 3: offitter on this tonight.

1010
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: Yep, thank you to take care.

1011
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny because he mentioned played against sports,

1012
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 3: and we got to the point where with Casey we

1013
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 3: would go to play it again sports. And it's not

1014
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 3: like at his age he knew there was any difference

1015
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 3: between the two. But I said, hey, you know, after

1016
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 3: looking at three hundred, three hundred and fifty dollars bats,

1017
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 3: I said, let's go check out what they have at

1018
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 3: played again sports. And he was all excited about that.

1019
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 3: And we, you know, stand there and we take some

1020
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 3: swings and he would pick out a bat and he'd

1021
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 3: be excited about it, and I'm like, who, Okay, good

1022
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 3: that that worked. Peyton played for played for King's Hammer,

1023
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 3: wonderful organization coached for her entire time by John Chambers,

1024
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 3: legendary youth soccer coach in northern Kentucky. Just had a

1025
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 3: blast with the team. The girls grew up together and

1026
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 3: we would we traveled. I don't remember it was Ohio,

1027
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 3: Kentucky Indian and I'm trying to think of we had

1028
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 3: a further a road trip than that, and I really

1029
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 3: enjoyed it. I still always joke I missed the sounds

1030
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 3: when you would stay overnight at a hotel, of like

1031
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 3: the giggling and the running up and down the halls

1032
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 3: at night of all the girls on the team who

1033
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:56,760
Speaker 3: were we'd stay in the same wing of the hotel

1034
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 3: before they went to bed, and they'd all be running around.

1035
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,240
Speaker 3: And I miss hearing that sound because we always laughed.

1036
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,800
Speaker 3: But man, I tell you, the more times you travel

1037
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 3: out of town and are staying at a hotel and

1038
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 3: you're paying gas and you start calculating, all right, how

1039
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 3: much is this costing, And that's one less vacation we're

1040
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 3: going to take because we've got this tournament and we've

1041
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 3: got that tournament, and you're always doing those calculations in

1042
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 3: your head. She enjoyed it. I do it again. It

1043
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 3: was a great group to play with and learn from

1044
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 3: and be coached by. But I remember those calculations of

1045
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 3: all right, we're doing this. And we were big into

1046
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 3: car washes. There was car washes and raising money paying

1047
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,479
Speaker 3: for entry fees into the leagues which were just into

1048
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 3: the tournaments, which were just extraordinarily high amounts of money.

1049
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 3: And I think back and I say, man, that was then,

1050
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 3: and now it seems like it's just it's steam rolling

1051
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 3: down a track with no end in sight. Let's go

1052
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 3: to Mark, who's next on seven hundred WLW Hey.

1053
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 6: Mark, Hey Lance, are you to see me? Well, but

1054
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:01,920
Speaker 6: we'll count gig Harbor, Washington. Yeah, I said. All of

1055
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,919
Speaker 6: my people of lovely Cincinnati certainly wished I was there,

1056
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 6: but I'm glad you brought glad you brought the topic up.

1057
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 6: I was actually talking to one of my old friends

1058
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 6: back in Cincinnati earlier this week, and we were reminiscent.

1059
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 6: And I grew up in Mount Adams, and I remember

1060
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 6: the days when a dad or the coach just rolled out,

1061
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 6: usually an old military bag, and you had the communal bats,

1062
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 6: the communal catcher year, the communal bases, and.

1063
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 2: We had fun.

1064
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 6: But it brings me to my point, I think, what's

1065
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 6: going on now? And I'm guilty of it. I was

1066
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 6: very blessed to have some success in high school and

1067
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 6: in college. And I have a son that just graduated

1068
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,879
Speaker 6: college and he played some college baseball and I'll tell

1069
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 6: you what I'm seeing. I'm seeing a lot of these

1070
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 6: parents that are paying for a pathway to either college

1071
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 6: or something else, or they're living vicariously through their kids.

1072
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 6: And don't get me wrong, I think it is important

1073
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 6: that we give our children every benefit we can, but

1074
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 6: we also got to step back and say what are

1075
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 6: we really chasing. For me spending an evening watching my

1076
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 6: son play ball, my wife and my daughter next to me,

1077
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 6: I wouldn't change it for the world. But I think

1078
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 6: the gentleman before just said, you know, baseball is a

1079
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 6: fundamental sport. It doesn't matter the equipment, it doesn't matter

1080
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 6: what you're trying to pay for them as far as

1081
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 6: extra training and getting them in all these showcases and stuff.

1082
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 6: At the end of the day, we building memories and

1083
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 6: we having fun with our kids. That's my point. I

1084
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 6: think it's gotten out, just completely out of control. Get

1085
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 6: it back to fundamental baseball, and I think we'll all

1086
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 6: be a better place.

1087
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 3: Very well, said Mark. I appreciate you listening. It really

1088
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 3: means a lot. You called in tonight.

1089
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a great point.

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Speaker 3: And I've read the studies of the drop in age

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Speaker 3: where kids are deciding they're not playing anymore because it's

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00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 3: become too much, the pressure of the expectations, the travel,

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Speaker 3: the games, whatever it is. I don't have that number

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Speaker 3: in front of me, but the average age in which

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Speaker 3: kids are checking out of youth sports is getting younger

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Speaker 3: and younger, and I can understand why from that standpoint.

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Speaker 3: Another email, Amy says Lance, I have a story for

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Speaker 3: you regarding a local volleyball club that falls under a

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Speaker 3: major national governing body. For a season of club, parents

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Speaker 3: spend about thirty nine hundred dollars for a national team.

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Speaker 3: On top of that, you have hotels ranging from one

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty to two fifty nine for seven tournaments

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Speaker 3: about five out of town. You then have the cost

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Speaker 3: of admission, which is ten to ninety dollars depending on

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Speaker 3: the venue. Let's not forget perking lessons. Those are fifty

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Speaker 3: to nine dollars per lesson camps, clinics. You want to

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Speaker 3: talk about a money grab? There is so much detail

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Speaker 3: and story here about the corruption in youth sports and

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Speaker 3: the price, but I will not go into much detail

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Speaker 3: at the moment. Man, the stories I canntinue to hear.

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Speaker 3: Terry Steve and Jake have contributions to make Next to

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Speaker 3: Rnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Cherbalez seven hundred

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Speaker 3: ww Well, this is discouraging if you're just tuning in.

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Speaker 3: Nicolodolo left in his rehab start in the third inning,

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Speaker 3: in the middle of the inning with an injury. Charlie

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00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 3: Goldsmith Charlie chalkboard indicating it is in fact a blister

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Speaker 3: on the left index finger, the same finger. So let's

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Speaker 3: trace the timeline. This initial blister happened on the twenty

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Speaker 3: second of March when he left the game, So we're

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Speaker 3: what nine to ten, What are we eleven days in

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Speaker 3: and the blister has reoccurred, So now we're looking at

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Speaker 3: a timeline of you would think at least another well,

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Speaker 3: you would think more than eleven days. If eleven the

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Speaker 3: first time wasn't enough and it came back, I don't

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, he's clearly, he's clearly staying

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Speaker 3: with what he's doing grip wise, because of the spin

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Speaker 3: it allows him. The spin rate and the type of

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Speaker 3: release and pressure point with that finger is important. Yet

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Speaker 3: I would argue it may be important, but if it

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Speaker 3: doesn't allow you sustained health and performance, then I'd suggest

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Speaker 3: you need to figure out a different way to put

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Speaker 3: the pressure point on the baseball beyond the finger that

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Speaker 3: keeps getting the blister. I am, I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 3: a doctor, and I pitched as a kid. I haven't

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Speaker 3: pitched at any higher level. But if you have reoccurring

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Speaker 3: blister problems, and I don't, I don't care what the

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Speaker 3: reason is, whether it's the seams on the baseball, or

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Speaker 3: the fact he's a sweater, or the fact that the

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Speaker 3: temperatures were really hot, whatever it is. If the blister

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Speaker 3: keeps coming back by applying the same pressure point to

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Speaker 3: the baseball with your finger in that pad of the

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Speaker 3: index finger, then there has to be a different way

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Speaker 3: you're going to have to spin the baseball unless you

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Speaker 3: just plan on being the on the injured list and

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Speaker 3: on a revolving door throughout the season.

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Speaker 2: I don't, I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if there were one thing, but this is

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Speaker 3: what the third different year he's had a blead, So

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Speaker 3: I am, I don't know. I go back to talking

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Speaker 3: with him at at Redsfest. He was so he was

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Speaker 3: so like relieved and excited that it seemed to be

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Speaker 3: taken care of and how he just got to pitch

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Speaker 3: and we're back to square one. Lawrence Burg. We go, Steve,

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Speaker 3: you were on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 17: Hey Lance, I'm on a remote phone here. I'm actually

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Speaker 17: in a Saint Petersburg, Florida right now. Oh wow, I

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Speaker 17: gotta tell you. I love your show and you're always on.

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Speaker 17: Your topics are terrific and you do the research. Thank

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Speaker 17: you and people appreciate that. Yes, well done, well done.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 17: The very first caller kind of said some of the

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Speaker 17: things I was going to say already in that because

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Speaker 17: he and I coached together for about eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Years, and uh, but I wanted to add on to that.

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Speaker 17: You know this, I'm going to speak just in terms

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Speaker 17: of baseball and the cost of youth baseball. So when

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Speaker 17: my son is twenty six, he played, so he played

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Speaker 17: age four all the way up through age seventeen eighteen,

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Speaker 17: and he had enough, you know, kind of wore them out.

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Speaker 17: There was a lot. But I can tell you in

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Speaker 17: coaching youth select baseball that if the cost they don't

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Speaker 17: have to be that way, you know you can you

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Speaker 17: can manage it and have a lot of fun and

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Speaker 17: enjoy the sport. Without being extravagant. And I know the

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Speaker 17: driver here is it's moneyball. You know, you got dix

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Speaker 17: Foy and Goods. They're they're driving this whole thing.

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Speaker 2: And why wouldn't they.

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Speaker 17: You know, they're they're they're chasing that money and they're

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Speaker 17: creating demand.

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Speaker 2: But what I my my few of my points are

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Speaker 2: is that when we were when we were.

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Speaker 17: Coaching the kids coming up, you know, they sure they

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Speaker 17: wanted the fancy bat and the the arm guards. All

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Speaker 17: that stuff was just starting to take shape. The fyton necklaces.

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Speaker 2: You know, one kid had them, they.

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Speaker 17: All want so so what we what? What what we

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Speaker 17: did as coaches? We pretty much said, look, every every

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Speaker 17: dollar that we taken as player fees is going to

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Speaker 17: go back to the players to make the player.

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Speaker 2: What is going to make the players better?

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Speaker 17: You know, we don't need extravagant, We need practical and

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Speaker 17: so we never we didn't get paid a dime a penny,

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Speaker 17: We didn't get paid a penny. We volunteered our time

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Speaker 17: and it was all to teach the kids the game

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Speaker 17: of baseball. And things can really get complicated. Parents lose

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Speaker 17: their heads. And let me tell you, this whole thing

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Speaker 17: starts with parents or lack thereof because the parents. And

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Speaker 17: now it's even worse because you've got no money out there, right,

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Speaker 17: so everybody's chasing that dream. Well, my kid, my kid

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Speaker 17: can hit the ball. You know, my kid can throw

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Speaker 17: harder than anybody. So we're gonna we're gonna go to college.

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Speaker 17: I'm gonna get the college paid for him. We're to

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Speaker 17: get knowill, So now it's even more exaggerated. But it

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Speaker 17: doesn't have to be that way. And I can tell

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Speaker 17: you firsthand that if your practical, you know, coaches should

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Speaker 17: all take note that, you know, coach the benefit of

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Speaker 17: the kids instead of the you know, the radar guns

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Speaker 17: and everything else.

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Speaker 2: I would just tell you.

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Speaker 17: That our kids, if they wanted to, uh, we we

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Speaker 17: didn't travel extensively because a lot of good baseball comes

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Speaker 17: to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: How all the teams were coming here from Chicago and Buffalo,

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Speaker 2: and I.

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Speaker 17: Mean we we had a great but but like like

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Speaker 17: you said, you know those memories, we did travel out

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Speaker 17: of town. We went to Gatlinburg one time, in the

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Speaker 17: Grand Rapids, Michigan maybe two or time a couple of times,

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Speaker 17: but we made one travel trip per season and that

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Speaker 17: was fun. We all had memories you can't replace, right,

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Speaker 17: but we did it. We did it frually. We did it, uh,

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Speaker 17: you know, with with the kids and the family's best

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Speaker 17: interest in mine.

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Speaker 6: I didn't.

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Speaker 17: I didn't really like running families, right, I trying to

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Speaker 17: make you know, force them to uh split up their

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Speaker 17: family and one parent go with the kid that was

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Speaker 17: playing baseball and the other parents stays back as it

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Speaker 17: couldn't afford it. So we did it with the kid's

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Speaker 17: best interest. But the other thing we also did was

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Speaker 17: for player fees, which were really reasonable.

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Speaker 2: We had the kids.

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Speaker 17: We encouraged the kids to part pay their own you know,

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Speaker 17: here's a fundraiser, here's a keefcake fundraiser was.

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Speaker 2: Out there, hustle and.

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Speaker 17: Give them an equity, give them an equity position, and

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Speaker 17: guess what, they enjoy it that much better. You know,

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Speaker 17: my son wanted I think it was A two thousand

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Speaker 17: baseball We love It's all we talked to all I wanted. Yeah,

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Speaker 17: uh A Rod had the A two thousand, you know, marketing,

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Speaker 17: So I'm like, hey, dude, you know what you want

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Speaker 17: that glove go out and cut grass and you keep

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Speaker 17: cutting grass until you save up enough money.

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Speaker 2: Then you go out and get the gloves.

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Speaker 17: So yeah, things are off the tracks. I'm not sure

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Speaker 17: where it's going. But the last thing I will say

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Speaker 17: is that it is harming baseball because participation is down

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Speaker 17: and we got to really be careful of baseball.

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Speaker 2: We're losing kids.

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Speaker 17: We're losing kids because it is cost prohibitive and you

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Speaker 17: mentioned it earlier, the cost of a bat, the cost

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Speaker 17: of tournaments, everything else. So that's that's what I have

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Speaker 17: and I just wanted to share that with you. But

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Speaker 17: thank you for all that you do. You got, you

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Speaker 17: do have a great show, and I thoroughly enjoy all.

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Speaker 7: See.

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Speaker 3: You have made my night with the kind words, and

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Speaker 3: you have greatly contributed and lifted this conversation with your input.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for calling in you bet. I have a

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Speaker 2: great night, you know.

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Speaker 3: One final note on Dick's Sporting Goods, and I'm not

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Speaker 3: aware of this, but there's a what they've added to

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Speaker 3: their portfolio is what's called Game Changer. It's a subscription

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01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 3: app for stat keeping and live streaming that Dick's acquired

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Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen, and according to The Wall Street Journal,

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Speaker 3: it's become a staple of youth sports and disastrous for

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Speaker 3: the sanity of Little League Parents. It's now printing almost

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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty million of annual revenue from this

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Speaker 3: app that acquired, which has become the thing. All right,

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Speaker 3: I hadn't planned for this, but what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do another segment of this and I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: grab if you're on hold, you're going to be my

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Speaker 3: next segment. And then maybe we'll add our eight o'clock

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Speaker 3: topic closer to eight twenty. But I know Tom and

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01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 3: Terry and Jake have input and I want to hear it,

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Speaker 3: so that will be next after we check news. RNL

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Speaker 3: Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Shabla, seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.

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Speaker 2: All right, here we go.

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Speaker 3: Let's put the wraps on a really interesting topic tonight,

1282
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Speaker 3: and I've got three callers who have been kind enough

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01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 3: to hang around to complete our conversation. It stems from

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01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 3: a story in the Wall Street Journal, the forty billion

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Speaker 3: dollar Game of youth Sports. Parents have never spent more

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Speaker 3: time and more money on youth sports. The input has

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Speaker 3: been fantastic tonight. Let's add more before we transition to

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Speaker 3: our next topic. In the eight o'clock hour, Let's go

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Speaker 3: to Bethel, or Agonia and then Westchester. Tom you're on

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Speaker 3: seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: Hey, great job to night Land. Thank you listening to this.

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Speaker 20: I have a kid that graduated two years that played

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01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:20,760
Speaker 20: all the way from Florida High School and h you know,

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01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 20: buying all the five hundred dollars bats and stuff. And

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01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 20: the one coach we had on there talked about the

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Speaker 20: old Army green bag. I'm fifty years old. I remember

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Speaker 20: those days. But I'm gonna say some opposite, those bats

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Speaker 20: do make a difference. And to tell you the reason

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01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 20: they do. Some bats are you can't even use them.

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01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 20: They're too hot and they pull them off. So for

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Speaker 20: little coaches say the good stuff donesn't help. That's a

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Speaker 20: lie and I know that meanwhill. But the other thing

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Speaker 20: I'm want to talk about with the game changer? Do

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01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 20: you talk about a game changer? When my son would

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Speaker 20: travel sometimes at Tennessee or Michigan, I'd be a home.

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Speaker 20: If I couldn't make it, I could watch it live.

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Speaker 20: Your son in the outfield when he's up to bad.

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01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 20: It's so everything. But here's the day you're about to

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Speaker 20: do a topic on this by itself. Lance, let me

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Speaker 20: tell you what's bad about it though, sort of. If

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Speaker 20: your kid tries out for another summer team or a

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Speaker 20: select traveler team, they'll say, was your team on game

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Speaker 20: changer and you can say yes. They go back and

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Speaker 20: look at your stats, Lance, Glance batted he was he

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01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 20: batted one hundred And you got to tell me right now,

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Speaker 20: he's a good player. I'm looking at his game changer

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01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 20: and except kids, Wow, but that game changer. I mean

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Speaker 20: you for a word, I mean, it's truly a game changer.

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Speaker 20: It's a blessing, but it's also a curse because in

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Speaker 20: your kids, they start looking at the numbers, are like, man,

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Speaker 20: I'm bating this and you know, back in the day

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Speaker 20: you could hide it and erase it and say you

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Speaker 20: know what I'm saying, But but it Hey, one thing

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01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 20: about the ladoo, how do you say his name? I

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01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 20: used to piss when I was younger, and I know

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Speaker 20: I'm the pro pictuer, but I had the same issue

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Speaker 20: every time pitched because I put my finger on one

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Speaker 20: of these uh I forget call it now.

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Speaker 2: On the ball.

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Speaker 20: But see this would always get on the same on

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01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 20: one of the teams in my on the inside of

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01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:13,240
Speaker 20: my index finger would bust open. I would have to

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Speaker 20: piss Lance. That would be blood on the baseball. And

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01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:18,760
Speaker 20: I'd go three or four innings and then I reressed

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Speaker 20: up for three or four days. I'm ready to They

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01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 20: put me the wreck in first then and blood popped again.

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Speaker 6: But I promise you, Lance, it hurts.

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01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 2: It hurts.

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01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 20: But yeah, really looking to that game changer because it

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01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 20: really is, and uh, you know it's And it's also

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01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 20: so in high school coaches they can look at and say,

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Speaker 20: this is what these kids are producing, and uh, it's

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01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:40,560
Speaker 20: a h's a game track check it in.

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Speaker 3: Hey, thank you, Tom. I appreciate you checking in tonight.

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Speaker 3: You It's funny is he talks keeping track of stats.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget my dad. My dad was always my

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01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,240
Speaker 3: coach and we had an official score and my dad

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01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:51,719
Speaker 3: at the end of the night with the book would

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01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 3: add up the and add to the season totals and he,

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01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,839
Speaker 3: I will never forget this. We would go to his office.

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Speaker 3: He was the regional manager for Aceland Chemical. Started working

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01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,280
Speaker 3: for Ashland the day after I graduated from UC and

1353
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 3: worked there for forty years in different parts of the country.

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Speaker 3: But we would always go to his office on Saturday

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Speaker 3: and he would xerox runs. There's an old school term.

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01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,920
Speaker 3: He would run, get xerox copies for everybody on the team,

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01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 3: and the next practice he would hand out our sheet

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Speaker 3: handwritten with at bats hits, so you know, runs, doubles, triples, homer, strikeouts, walks,

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01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 3: earned run average all the players and was handwritten in pencil,

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01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 3: and then xerox at the xerox. Who used the xerox anymore?

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01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 3: But that was that was before the days of Game Changer.

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Speaker 3: Let's go Terry and then Jake Terry, Welcome to Sports Talk.

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Speaker 7: How you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm great? What do you go for me?

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01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:43,559
Speaker 5: Hey, that last kind of sold my thunder. But you

1366
01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:46,799
Speaker 5: were talking about Dick's profits being way up. Dick bought

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Speaker 5: Game Changer a.

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Speaker 7: Couple of years ago.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I guarantee that's why they're up because I'm forty

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01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 5: five and when when I was in high school, it

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01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:58,479
Speaker 5: was the East and redline bats that were all three

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Speaker 5: hundred dollars, yes, the mid nineties, which is you know,

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01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,680
Speaker 5: I totally agree with that last guy, though the other

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01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 5: guys are called in like if they don't think those

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01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 5: five hundred dollars bats are making a difference. They haven't

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01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 5: gone through enough games. Because I got four daughters that

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01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,240
Speaker 5: all play softball. And when you see the smallest girl

1378
01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 5: in the field hit what should just be a pop

1379
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:20,639
Speaker 5: up that goes twenty feet over the fence. But they're

1380
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 5: using those, They're using those ghost bats. There's a reason

1381
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 5: those five hundred dollars bats are five hundred dollars.

1382
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:28,400
Speaker 7: But the.

1383
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,680
Speaker 5: But what I was talking about with the game changer, we.

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01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 7: Pay one hundred and forty dollars for that.

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01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:37,719
Speaker 5: My daughter was just in a tournament for a school

1386
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 5: ball down in Tennessee. I can sit there and watch

1387
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 5: it live on my phone when I'm at work. I'm

1388
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 5: a mailman, so when I'm at work, I can sit

1389
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 5: there and just put the audio on and it will play.

1390
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:51,679
Speaker 5: It will do a generic play by play.

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01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 7: But I had no idea.

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01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 3: I have learned, so I had no idea about this.

1393
01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 3: I got to get somebody on and talk about this

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01:12:58,560 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 3: next week.

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01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 5: This is fascinating, and lance my parents live. I'm I'm

1396
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:05,400
Speaker 5: up in Oregonia in northern One County and my girls

1397
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:09,680
Speaker 5: play all over in Clinton County, Brown County, all over

1398
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 5: the place in this school. But my parents down in

1399
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 5: Cincinnati can sit there and watch the games on their phone.

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01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 5: Incredible and not have to drive an hour and a

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01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,800
Speaker 5: half to go watch it. It's it's it's it's a

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01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:21,760
Speaker 5: great app. I mean, it's one hundred and fifty bucks

1403
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 5: or whatever. But you can get a free app. But

1404
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:25,720
Speaker 5: you can get it for free. You just have to

1405
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 5: pay for heads.

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01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 2: But sure.

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01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:30,360
Speaker 7: Yeah.

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01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 2: I have a good night, Lance, have good with you

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01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 2: as well.

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01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,560
Speaker 3: I I can't believe how much I've learned tonight. I

1411
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 3: thought I was pretty officially prepared to talk about this.

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01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 3: That I've learned even more than the game changer thing.

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01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 3: I need to look up this after tonight, because I man,

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01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 3: I I would have been all over that as a

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01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:48,080
Speaker 3: kid or with Casey and I would have I would

1416
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 3: have probably driven Kelly crazy with it. Westchester, Jake, you

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01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:52,719
Speaker 3: get the final word on this. Welcome.

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01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:54,559
Speaker 6: Hey, what's going on? Lance?

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01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 2: You are tell me about it?

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01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 6: I'm I'm one of four boys.

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01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:04,639
Speaker 21: We all played very competitive travel baseball. We're all three

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01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 21: to four years apart. So it was a big part

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01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 21: of my parent's life and we couldn't have done it

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01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:11,560
Speaker 21: without a lot of help from the grandparents.

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01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 11: But I've got this.

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01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 21: I mean, we played on teams from the Flames to

1427
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 21: the Midland Redskins, from the Sticks to all these you know,

1428
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:25,840
Speaker 21: higher class baseball teams around Cincinnati, and I think my

1429
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 21: older brother had the trouble with it most. You go

1430
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 21: from your whole life playing one hundred games a year baseball,

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01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:37,879
Speaker 21: and then you get a shot in college, and college

1432
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 21: doesn't necessarily work out, and then all of a sudden,

1433
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:45,480
Speaker 21: you get a face life. It's no longer just baseball,

1434
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:50,639
Speaker 21: which is all you've done your entire life, and nothing

1435
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 21: prepares you for that. And I think that's the scariest part.

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Speaker 21: I'm a parent. I have four kids myself, and all

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01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 21: I don't think all ever, not saying that we got pushed,

1438
01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:04,799
Speaker 21: but even even make that an option. You know, baseball

1439
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 21: is supposed to be fun and and you know, as

1440
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 21: a kid, you think you're having fun. You're going on

1441
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 21: these trips. You're going to Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois,

1442
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 21: you know, all the surrounding states playing these baseball tournaments,

1443
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,839
Speaker 21: and it's it's your life, and then all of a sudden,

1444
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,440
Speaker 21: when it doesn't pan out, it's just like the boom

1445
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:28,679
Speaker 21: reality and nobody nobody really thinks about that. So that's

1446
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:32,720
Speaker 21: kind of the perspective I have on that, other than

1447
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:37,679
Speaker 21: the budget that that you know, the profits of Dicks

1448
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 21: is making. It's not only about profit and what they're pushing, man,

1449
01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 21: it's we're talking about kids. My favorite was I quit

1450
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:51,600
Speaker 21: select baseball. I think it was my sophomore year and

1451
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 21: I went and played for a for a club team

1452
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,120
Speaker 21: with all these guys I knew, and it was it

1453
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:01,800
Speaker 21: made baseball so much more when it was just a

1454
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 21: little bit less competitive. Sure, sure it was great.

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01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:08,679
Speaker 2: Hey Jake, I'm glad you called tonight. Thank you, yep,

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01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:10,200
Speaker 2: thank for the great night.

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01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you that input over the last forty

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01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 3: minutes was a nothing short of spectacular.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Let's do this the rest of the way.

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01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 3: And this is a nod to Chick Ludwig because I

1461
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 3: heard him ask this question earlier this week to a

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01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,000
Speaker 3: guest he had on and I thought, I'm going to

1463
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 3: borrow that. I'm not going to steal, because I text him,

1464
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 3: I said, can I borrow your topic?

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Speaker 2: It's simply this.

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01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,840
Speaker 3: You remember Saturday, the Yukon freshman Braylan Mullens hits the

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01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 3: dramatic thirty five footter from the logo to stun Duke,

1468
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 3: one of the biggest shots in NCAA tournament history. And

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01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 3: he talked about it being a childhood dream in a

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Speaker 3: three two one driveway moment that he had always dreamed about.

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Speaker 3: And I heard south Stewart this week talk about winning

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Speaker 3: the National Player of the Week honors and how he

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01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:55,680
Speaker 3: it was something he had dreamed about since he was

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Speaker 3: like nine years old, winning awards like that. And I thought,

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01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 3: this is what we could spend some time on with

1476
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:07,960
Speaker 3: your input. What athlete were you in your backyard or

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Speaker 3: driveway as a kid? Who did you want to be

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Speaker 3: and play like swing like shoot like throw like. I've

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Speaker 3: been thinking about that since Brayln Mullens hit the three,

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Speaker 3: and he hits a three to send his team not

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01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:25,759
Speaker 3: just to the Final four, but to send him back home.

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Speaker 3: He's from nearby Greenfield, thirty minutes from Indianapolis, and he

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01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,600
Speaker 3: was mister basketball in the state of Indiana, and he

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01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 3: realized the dream of a kid shooting baskets hitting a

1485
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Speaker 3: three pointer to send his team to the Final four.

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Speaker 3: Who were you in your backyard, in your driveway as

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Speaker 3: a kid you wanted to be that player. We'll open

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Speaker 2: Low testosterone can be a real problem for many men.

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Speaker 5: Sure that Buckles stole about Bullens caravan.

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Speaker 2: Two seconds Fox tosses it up.

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Speaker 13: We're poor.

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Speaker 2: What an unbelievable moment.

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Speaker 3: Yukon freshman Braylon Mullens hits a thirty five footer from

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Speaker 3: the logo to stun Dupe, one of the biggest shots

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Speaker 3: in NCAA tournament history, and he said it was a

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Speaker 3: childhood dream, a three two one driveway moment. He said, quote,

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Speaker 3: that's kind of what I dream that little kid in me.

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Speaker 3: He's running around the room right now. And it was

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Speaker 3: a shot, as I said, that sent his team to

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Speaker 3: the Final four and sent him back home. He attended

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Speaker 3: Greenfield Central High School. Greenfield's about thirty minutes outside of Indianapolis,

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01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:18,639
Speaker 3: and he was mister basketball in the state of Indiana.

1515
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:22,240
Speaker 3: And I heard Chick earlier this week down the dial

1516
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:25,960
Speaker 3: on ESPN fifteen thirty talk about that shot, and he

1517
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,240
Speaker 3: asked a guest, I think it was I think he

1518
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 3: had Trags on and he asked Trags who Trags pretended

1519
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:36,600
Speaker 3: to be growing up. Who was Trags in the driveway?

1520
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:40,920
Speaker 3: And Trag said Andrew Tony, the Philly Assassin, the former

1521
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 3: Philadelphia seventy six er. And I thought, I want to

1522
01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 3: use that. I want to borrow that topic. And I

1523
01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 3: heard salth Stewart, who's twenty two, this week when he

1524
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:54,760
Speaker 3: won National League Player of the Week honors, he said

1525
01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:56,680
Speaker 3: that this is stuff he dreamed about when he was

1526
01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:59,520
Speaker 3: nine years old. And I said, all right, I'm doing that.

1527
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 3: That's the time Thursday night, eight o'clock. And so I'm

1528
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 3: gonna borrow from Chick's topic and simply ask this, what

1529
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:11,080
Speaker 3: athlete were you in the backyard or driveway as a

1530
01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 3: kid who did you dream about being who did you imitate?

1531
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 3: Maybe you wore their number, maybe you had their poster,

1532
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 3: maybe you imitated their stance. Did your book report on them?

1533
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 3: For me, it was without question, Peter Edward Rose. I

1534
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 3: crouched at the plate because of Pete. I ran to

1535
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 3: first on a walk because of Pete. I slid head

1536
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,880
Speaker 3: first because of Pete. I haven't had down when I

1537
01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 3: would line a single, I let off. I was a

1538
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 3: lead off hitter and another cooler than lining the first

1539
01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 3: pitch of the game right back up the box into

1540
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 3: center field for a hit. And I would round first

1541
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 3: base hard, throw on the brakes, and like Pete, I

1542
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 3: would take my hand and I would scrunch down my

1543
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,280
Speaker 3: helmet as I went back to first base, and I

1544
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:57,680
Speaker 3: would clap my hands. Pete was the guy for me.

1545
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 3: Who was it for you? Five one, three, seven, four nine,

1546
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 3: seven thousand, one, eight hundred the big one? Hey Richard,

1547
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:10,280
Speaker 3: you were on seven hundred wlw welcome.

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01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:11,599
Speaker 23: Good even Lance?

1549
01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 2: Good for me?

1550
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 23: For me, it was Kenny Anderson, ghost quarterback. Yeah, I

1551
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 23: well really enjoyed that. I was did for backyard football,

1552
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:25,439
Speaker 23: playing on the playground whatever, you know, Because he actually

1553
01:21:25,479 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 23: had a book called The Art of Quarterbacking.

1554
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 11: Yes, really neat book back from the eighties he.

1555
01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 23: Wrote, and it was really detailed on, you know, how

1556
01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 23: to play a positions. I had all the mechanics down

1557
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 23: the ball in this throwing position, and you know i'd

1558
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:40,559
Speaker 23: have the whole mechanics style in the whole nine yards.

1559
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 6: So much fun, you know.

1560
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:45,120
Speaker 3: Oh, that's perfect. That's all I'm looking for. Thank you

1561
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 3: for the call, Richard. You know, if football wise, I

1562
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 3: can relate, I was Kenny Anderson in the backyard, whether

1563
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:53,760
Speaker 3: it was a nerve football or a regular football. I

1564
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 3: would do the I do like the the pat of

1565
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,280
Speaker 3: the ball when I when I dropped back the passer.

1566
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 3: If I was all time quarterback, I remember that term,

1567
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,960
Speaker 3: and I would do I would move my feet like

1568
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,640
Speaker 3: looking at like the progressions and I would you know,

1569
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 3: shuffle my feet right and then back to the center

1570
01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 3: and over to the left and I would throw. And

1571
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 3: even though I was left handed, and there was part

1572
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:15,759
Speaker 3: of me that would it'd be like Ken Stabler because

1573
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:17,760
Speaker 3: the snake was left handed. But I was such a

1574
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 3: Kenny Anderson guy. I was Ken Anderson in the backyard

1575
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:24,360
Speaker 3: while you were playing football. Let me go to Loveland. Hey, Rick,

1576
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:26,040
Speaker 3: welcome to seven hundred WLW.

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01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:28,679
Speaker 11: How are you is Lance?

1578
01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 24: We must be brothers from another mother, because there is

1579
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 24: no doubt that Peter Edward Rose was the man. If

1580
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:42,640
Speaker 24: you grew up in Cincinnati in the sixties and seventies,

1581
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:46,680
Speaker 24: I played baseball in fourth part, so I know all

1582
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 24: about it. I even grew up there where the kid

1583
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 24: got struck by lightning. I don't know if you lived

1584
01:22:52,560 --> 01:22:56,080
Speaker 24: around here back then in the early seventies.

1585
01:22:56,760 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 2: Man, you were sliding door, neighbor.

1586
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 3: You were sliding head first because a Pete running the

1587
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:04,200
Speaker 3: first on the walk like Pete.

1588
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 19: You and even doing a thing like Joe Morgan.

1589
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:10,679
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes.

1590
01:23:10,640 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 3: Sir, absolutely good. Good talking with you. Thanks for checking in.

1591
01:23:15,120 --> 01:23:17,760
Speaker 3: I'll give you a basketball one. And this was more

1592
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 3: my age, and it's just because I just loved watching

1593
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 3: him play basketball, and I had a chance to call

1594
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 3: a number of his high school games when when I

1595
01:23:25,479 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 3: was in high school. I think Steve Alford and I

1596
01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 3: are perhaps he might be a year older than me,

1597
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,640
Speaker 3: but Steve Alford in the state of Indiana, and I

1598
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 3: can speak in glowing terms of Damon Bailey, and I

1599
01:23:36,200 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 3: watched Damon much later on in the what ninety ninety

1600
01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 3: one was the state championship. But in terms of my

1601
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:46,439
Speaker 3: age and being able to watch Steve Alford play at

1602
01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:50,479
Speaker 3: Newcastle and call games and legendary showdowns versus Mary and

1603
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:55,600
Speaker 3: James Blackman and guys like that, Steve Alford's ability to

1604
01:23:55,640 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 3: shoot a basketball and his hair not move I out fascinating.

1605
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:05,760
Speaker 3: And just when I was playing an innermural basketball or

1606
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:09,080
Speaker 3: in the driveway, I wanted to run a baseline screen

1607
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:12,639
Speaker 3: and come off a screen and catch and square and

1608
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 3: shoot like Steve Alford. And he was just, I mean,

1609
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:22,200
Speaker 3: the man, and he was he was my age, and

1610
01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:24,120
Speaker 3: it wasn't somebody you know, you look up to as

1611
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:24,799
Speaker 3: an order adult.

1612
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:25,880
Speaker 2: He was just somebody my age.

1613
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:29,000
Speaker 3: I'm like, this dude, He's just the greatest shooter I've

1614
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:32,840
Speaker 3: ever seen and his hair doesn't move. How is that possible?

1615
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 3: I wanted to shoot and have my hair not move

1616
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 3: like Steve Alford, Sam and Nick and Andy and you

1617
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,879
Speaker 3: can join his five one, three, seven four nine, seven thousand,

1618
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 3: one eight hundred, the Big One. I thank Chick Ludwig

1619
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 3: for allowing me to borrow his topic because when he

1620
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 3: asked Trags that question, and Trag said Andrew Tony. I said, oh, man,

1621
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:57,679
Speaker 3: Andrew Tony in the Philadelphia seventy six ers with Mode

1622
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:01,320
Speaker 3: Cheeks and Doctor J and all those guys. I said,

1623
01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:03,640
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this as a topic sometime in the

1624
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 3: eight o'clock hour tonight.

1625
01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:07,920
Speaker 2: And we're doing it, and your input is next.

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Speaker 2: Carroll's in at nine.

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1644
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1645
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1646
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Speaker 3: me let me go over that one more time to

1647
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1648
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1649
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1653
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1654
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Speaker 2: and say I want.

1655
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Speaker 3: To take a look at that Kelsey Chevrolet pre Owned

1656
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Speaker 3: Deal of the Week that Lance was talking about. And

1657
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1659
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Speaker 1: Uh.

1660
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Speaker 3: Let's do an injury report updating on Nicolodolo. We take

1661
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:51,040
Speaker 3: a look at the O'Connor at Shanni and Levy injury

1662
01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 3: report attorneys you know, attorneys you trust. Visit Oa l

1663
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Speaker 3: dash Law dot com. Nicolodolo left tonight's rehab start, his

1664
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:03,679
Speaker 3: first sin the blister appeared, and tonight it reappeared same finger.

1665
01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:07,320
Speaker 3: According to Charlie Goldsmith, he exited the game in the

1666
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 3: third inning.

1667
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:10,519
Speaker 2: He had not allowed a hit or a walk or

1668
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 2: a run.

1669
01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 3: He had struck out four, he'd thrown forty pitches and

1670
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:17,759
Speaker 3: removed from the game. The blister has returned. No official

1671
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 3: word or comment from the organization. That's today's O'Connor at

1672
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 3: Chaney and Levy injury report. Attorneys you know, attorneys you trust,

1673
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:29,760
Speaker 3: Visita l dash Law dot come all right. So the

1674
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:35,439
Speaker 3: question on the board stems from freshman freshman Braylan Mullens

1675
01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:37,880
Speaker 3: and the thirty five footer to send you con to

1676
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Speaker 3: the NCAA Final four. And he called it a three

1677
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:45,439
Speaker 3: two one driveway moment, kind of what I dreamed about

1678
01:27:45,520 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 3: that little kid in me. He's running around the room

1679
01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:51,759
Speaker 3: right now, and I thought that will lead us into

1680
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 3: the athlete you were in your backyard or driveway as

1681
01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:57,639
Speaker 3: a kid. I asked Chick Ludwig if I mind if

1682
01:27:57,680 --> 01:28:00,840
Speaker 3: he minded me borrowing what he present heed for this

1683
01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 3: topic earlier in the week, and he said absolutely, said

1684
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 3: start go ahead. So I'm going ahead. And let's grab

1685
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 3: in Mason. Hey, Nick, who did you want to be?

1686
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 6: Hey, what's going on?

1687
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 2: You are? Tell me about it?

1688
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:15,599
Speaker 6: A so uh.

1689
01:28:15,760 --> 01:28:16,759
Speaker 2: Depending on the sport.

1690
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 13: When we're in the driveway back in the day playing

1691
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 13: home run.

1692
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 2: Derby, if you ever played that, oh yes, whenever I was.

1693
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 13: Whenever I was pitching, I was always Mario Soto. Or

1694
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:27,559
Speaker 13: if I wanted to get really crazy with my pitches,

1695
01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:30,759
Speaker 13: I'd become kent to Colby and throw them sidearm pitches

1696
01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:33,080
Speaker 13: and they call my friends Matt because I was actually

1697
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:33,760
Speaker 13: good at throwing it.

1698
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:37,599
Speaker 6: And uh. And in the backyard and in the backyard playing.

1699
01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 13: Football, I was always Dan Marino when I was the quarterback,

1700
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 13: or if I was playing on defense, when I was

1701
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:44,559
Speaker 13: on the line rushing, I was Mark Gastino. If I

1702
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:46,800
Speaker 13: was covering the receivers, I was I was the Blackwood

1703
01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:47,839
Speaker 13: brothers from the Dolphins.

1704
01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:52,639
Speaker 3: I love that you were very adaptable. Whatever the sport

1705
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 3: you had, a player you were going to be.

1706
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:55,679
Speaker 2: I love that, darn right.

1707
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:57,760
Speaker 6: And it was it was doctor j or Larry Bird.

1708
01:28:57,800 --> 01:28:58,640
Speaker 11: When I was playing.

1709
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:01,559
Speaker 2: Basketball, well doctor Jay, my goodness.

1710
01:29:02,200 --> 01:29:02,360
Speaker 7: Yes.

1711
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 13: When I when I played on one derby, when I

1712
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:06,200
Speaker 13: was batting, I was usually George Foster. And I even

1713
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 13: took my old wooden bat and I and I sprayed

1714
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:10,720
Speaker 13: painted it black to be like kids, which was a

1715
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:12,599
Speaker 13: black beauty he used to swing back in the day.

1716
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:16,160
Speaker 3: Yes, oh that is you have made my night. Nick,

1717
01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:17,760
Speaker 3: You're the man. Thanks for calling.

1718
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 2: Buddy, all right, you as well.

1719
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:22,320
Speaker 3: I love that he's like sevent different guys he was.

1720
01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 2: He was like, who are you today?

1721
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:27,559
Speaker 3: And I did the Joe Morgan with the arm flap

1722
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,960
Speaker 3: I've always said I did out in the cul de sac.

1723
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:34,680
Speaker 3: I would be Rod Carew because Rod Krewe would lay

1724
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 3: the bat parallel. I'm a left handed batter, and he'd

1725
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 3: lay the back kind of parallel. And he would always

1726
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:42,519
Speaker 3: have like chew either tobacco or gum, like a wat

1727
01:29:42,560 --> 01:29:44,880
Speaker 3: of it in his cheek and his right cheek. And

1728
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:46,599
Speaker 3: so I would be doing that in the cold desack.

1729
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:48,120
Speaker 3: I'm doing it right now and I have the bat

1730
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 3: laying like parallel and chew going on. Lay that in here.

1731
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:57,720
Speaker 3: The Kent Tacolby was fantastic Kent Tacolby or Dan Quizenberry,

1732
01:29:57,760 --> 01:29:59,080
Speaker 3: that side arm delivery.

1733
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:00,719
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.

1734
01:30:01,200 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 3: How about Oh, let me go to Fairfield, Andy, welcome

1735
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 3: to seven hundred wlw.

1736
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:07,519
Speaker 16: Heylan, how are you?

1737
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:09,639
Speaker 2: I'm good? We got right.

1738
01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:13,599
Speaker 19: So in the baseball called a sack, I always had

1739
01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:16,479
Speaker 19: the plastic Orioles helmet from the eighty three series, switch

1740
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 19: hitting first base. And I know Pete played in that

1741
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:20,639
Speaker 19: World Series too, but I loved.

1742
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:24,519
Speaker 3: Eddie Murphy oh Man sench an imposing figure.

1743
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 19: I wanted to switch hit. I was a right handed

1744
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,439
Speaker 19: hitter or left I wrote and left handed. I could

1745
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:32,200
Speaker 19: never figure out the left handed hitting.

1746
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:33,439
Speaker 16: But that was you mean so.

1747
01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:36,640
Speaker 19: But but the last caller real quick reminded me of

1748
01:30:36,680 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 19: backyard football with my best friend. We would get his

1749
01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:41,640
Speaker 19: little brother, and so you get as many friends as

1750
01:30:41,680 --> 01:30:43,800
Speaker 19: you want against us. They were about three years younger

1751
01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:47,439
Speaker 19: than us. On defense, I was ed too tall Jones,

1752
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:51,000
Speaker 19: and on offense I was Tony Hill going deep for

1753
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 19: the touchdowns. So yes, oh, beautiful conversation. Thank you, Andy,

1754
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:58,800
Speaker 19: have a great night. Yep, all right, to take care.

1755
01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 19: I'll tell you who else I was in the backyard

1756
01:31:00,439 --> 01:31:03,160
Speaker 19: playing football. If I was not throwing it. If I

1757
01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:05,680
Speaker 19: was throwing it, I was Kenny. If I was catching it,

1758
01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:08,400
Speaker 19: you better believe I was Isaac Curtis and I would

1759
01:31:08,439 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 19: do the drop after a touchdown. I would just drop

1760
01:31:11,160 --> 01:31:14,720
Speaker 19: it over and back behind me, just like Isaac did.

1761
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 19: It wasn't anything on that end of the end zone

1762
01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 19: and just drop it behind your head and touchdown in

1763
01:31:20,640 --> 01:31:22,840
Speaker 19: the backyard in Anderson Township.

1764
01:31:23,680 --> 01:31:26,280
Speaker 2: Let's go. Oh now, wait a minute.

1765
01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:29,720
Speaker 3: I need this because I've always been fascinated and I'd

1766
01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:31,880
Speaker 3: love to go on a time machine and watch the

1767
01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:34,680
Speaker 3: career of this guy, specifically at LSU. Let me go

1768
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:37,720
Speaker 3: to Cherry Grove. Hey, Mike, you're on seven hundred WLW.

1769
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:42,320
Speaker 6: That's right, Lance. We all wanted to be Pistol Pete,

1770
01:31:42,360 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 6: mayor of it. He's the guy that invented the way

1771
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:47,080
Speaker 6: they played basketball.

1772
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:47,360
Speaker 7: Now.

1773
01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 6: Oh and to think all the points he scored without

1774
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:54,439
Speaker 6: a three point line incredible. We always want We always

1775
01:31:54,439 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 6: wanted to shoot the thirty footer. We wanted to make

1776
01:31:57,160 --> 01:32:02,360
Speaker 6: the passes. I mean, Pistol p was the man. Everybody

1777
01:32:02,400 --> 01:32:05,120
Speaker 6: I knew wanted to be Pistol Pete. I never got there, but.

1778
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:06,599
Speaker 7: It was hard to do.

1779
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:10,120
Speaker 3: But you know, I saw a highlight of him the

1780
01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:12,479
Speaker 3: other night, and I can't remember if it was in LSU,

1781
01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 3: were in the NBA, but he grabbed a rebound and

1782
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 3: he threw an underhand pass the length of the court,

1783
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 3: caught a guy in mid stride for a layup and

1784
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:21,559
Speaker 3: an assist.

1785
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:23,559
Speaker 2: And it was the most incredible thing I've ever seen.

1786
01:32:23,720 --> 01:32:27,040
Speaker 3: It was an underhand pass fired the length of the court.

1787
01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:32,720
Speaker 6: I mean, he was incredible, just incredible. And in football,

1788
01:32:32,760 --> 01:32:35,040
Speaker 6: I always want to run the ball like Jim Brown.

1789
01:32:35,400 --> 01:32:38,120
Speaker 2: Jim Brown, you were running over with some people.

1790
01:32:38,120 --> 01:32:42,000
Speaker 6: Then come on, you're talking about some stars now, man.

1791
01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:45,960
Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt about it, no doubt. Oh, this is fantastic.

1792
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:48,160
Speaker 2: Right Hey, I appreciate you calling. Take care all right,

1793
01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 2: Thank you? This is fun.

1794
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:53,320
Speaker 3: Credit to Braylon Mullins for hitting the shot, South Stewart

1795
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 3: for talking about winning awards when he was nine years old,

1796
01:32:56,040 --> 01:32:58,720
Speaker 3: and Chick Ludwig asking Trags this week who he was

1797
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 3: in the driveway when he was shooting hoops as a kid.

1798
01:33:01,880 --> 01:33:06,639
Speaker 3: Wait minute, we have a developing situation. Let's go to Loveland.

1799
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:09,920
Speaker 3: I need to welcome in my guy, Fran. How are you.

1800
01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 15: I'm doing well, Lance, I'm excited here and I've shared

1801
01:33:14,200 --> 01:33:16,000
Speaker 15: this with you in the past that you probably know

1802
01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:16,639
Speaker 15: where I'm going.

1803
01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:19,560
Speaker 6: When I was growing up, the two guards.

1804
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:22,960
Speaker 15: In basketball that I idolized were Oscar Robertson because he was

1805
01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:25,600
Speaker 15: a Cincinnati guy. He could do it all. But my

1806
01:33:25,720 --> 01:33:29,240
Speaker 15: idol was Jerry west Oh. I could relate to Jerry

1807
01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:33,040
Speaker 15: west Moore. He was an excellent shooter, you know, great

1808
01:33:33,080 --> 01:33:37,519
Speaker 15: defensive player, had all the skills. Mister clutch Talking about

1809
01:33:37,560 --> 01:33:41,840
Speaker 15: mister Clutches, he's famous for making that sixty foot shot

1810
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:42,920
Speaker 15: in the NBA Final.

1811
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:45,240
Speaker 2: And of course he's the logo.

1812
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:48,000
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, if there was any doubt when

1813
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:51,759
Speaker 3: you're the logo, you know you were pretty dark good.

1814
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:52,920
Speaker 2: He's my guy.

1815
01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:54,599
Speaker 16: Oh, thanks Lance.

1816
01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:56,679
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you, Hey, send my best to your lovely

1817
01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 3: wife Phyllis. And you guys have a wonderful easter.

1818
01:33:59,160 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 2: All right, you two and your family. Thank you, Lamb,

1819
01:34:02,360 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 2: thank you, frand all right, there you go.

1820
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:06,559
Speaker 3: Jerry west Man oh Man average twenty seven points a

1821
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:09,840
Speaker 3: game in his NBA career. And I still look at

1822
01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:15,599
Speaker 3: lsu Pete Merrivich and I see averaged forty three point six,

1823
01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 3: forty three point eight, forty four point two, forty four

1824
01:34:19,920 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 3: point five. It's just I can't even comprehend it. Without

1825
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:26,559
Speaker 3: a three point shot. I just cannot comprehend it. I

1826
01:34:26,600 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 3: can't but that. It must have been an NBA highlight

1827
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:30,559
Speaker 3: the other night. I have to go back and look

1828
01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:33,479
Speaker 3: at it. But a length of the court underhand pass,

1829
01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:36,599
Speaker 3: he just grabs a rebounded whoom, length of the court

1830
01:34:36,640 --> 01:34:41,160
Speaker 3: in stride, layup two. Uh oh, waitit a minute. The

1831
01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:43,639
Speaker 3: swing of this guy. Let me go to Zanesville, Sam,

1832
01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:44,680
Speaker 3: who did you want to be?

1833
01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:47,960
Speaker 6: I'm not going to top Nick, but I have a

1834
01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:48,759
Speaker 6: similar story.

1835
01:34:48,920 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 2: Yes, back in the day.

1836
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:52,160
Speaker 7: I'm a child of the eighties.

1837
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:53,439
Speaker 25: You know, grew up playing litle league baseball back and

1838
01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 25: kids played little league, and I'll travel ball all the time. Yeah,

1839
01:34:56,479 --> 01:34:58,360
Speaker 25: if you I was an E D guy forty four

1840
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:01,599
Speaker 25: Magna Merrick Davis and remember remember Big League two?

1841
01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:05,479
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so I had I had the.

1842
01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:08,200
Speaker 25: Stance, had the big wad and you know, the big

1843
01:35:08,240 --> 01:35:09,000
Speaker 25: hogh leg kick.

1844
01:35:09,240 --> 01:35:09,400
Speaker 6: You know.

1845
01:35:09,479 --> 01:35:11,280
Speaker 25: My dad used to get me hell about all the time,

1846
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:13,559
Speaker 25: like he's like, why you're bad like that. I'm like, hey,

1847
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:14,840
Speaker 25: it works very David, Damn it.

1848
01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:15,280
Speaker 21: Worked for me.

1849
01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 3: Oh there was just he would wiggle that bad and

1850
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:22,360
Speaker 3: just have that leg kind of bent a little bit.

1851
01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:25,200
Speaker 3: It was such a and the hands were so lows,

1852
01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:27,680
Speaker 3: Like how could you hit that way and man, he

1853
01:35:27,840 --> 01:35:28,719
Speaker 3: was just so quick.

1854
01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:30,880
Speaker 2: Those wrists were lightning quick.

1855
01:35:31,720 --> 01:35:34,120
Speaker 6: As long as it wasn't passball press to him, he was.

1856
01:35:34,040 --> 01:35:37,559
Speaker 2: Fine, exactly right. Oh that's well done, Sam, You're the man.

1857
01:35:37,600 --> 01:35:38,240
Speaker 2: Have a great night.

1858
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:40,760
Speaker 25: I got but I gotta tell you, Oh yeah, I

1859
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:42,679
Speaker 25: thought you hit a home run with the Bengals topic

1860
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:44,599
Speaker 25: with the ah or Z. I was driving back from

1861
01:35:44,600 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 25: the city basketball tournament. You're doing that one. Yes, this

1862
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:48,559
Speaker 25: might be better than this, may be better than that.

1863
01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 2: I'm glad you liked it. I've had a blast with it.

1864
01:35:51,479 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 2: Thanks Sam, brother, all right, take care, love you too.

1865
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:57,639
Speaker 3: This is uh and I get Chick gets full credit

1866
01:35:57,720 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 3: for the original question. He asked Trags the dial when

1867
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:02,639
Speaker 3: he was on ESPN fifteen thirty.

1868
01:36:02,640 --> 01:36:04,120
Speaker 2: And the more I thought about it, I said, Man,

1869
01:36:04,120 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 2: when Braylen.

1870
01:36:05,280 --> 01:36:07,000
Speaker 3: Mullen said it, you know, he was like the little

1871
01:36:07,080 --> 01:36:09,360
Speaker 3: kid in him who was running around the room right now, And.

1872
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:11,400
Speaker 2: I thought, I gotta do this at eight o'clock and

1873
01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:12,880
Speaker 2: it's been fantastic.

1874
01:36:13,560 --> 01:36:17,120
Speaker 3: Let me go to OTR then go to Hamilton and

1875
01:36:17,240 --> 01:36:18,840
Speaker 3: uh Boomer, give me a name.

1876
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:19,640
Speaker 2: Who did you want to be?

1877
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:22,280
Speaker 6: You know, I gotta let you know.

1878
01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:26,360
Speaker 26: I'm thirty eight and Pete lasted to the generations. For me,

1879
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 26: I had plp play like Pete under the brim of

1880
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:34,840
Speaker 26: my hat, all grown up and like to last call it.

1881
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:36,800
Speaker 26: Eric Davis too, My coach just hated out of the

1882
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:40,000
Speaker 26: center fielder. They hated the glove tap. I had to

1883
01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:40,320
Speaker 26: do it.

1884
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:45,519
Speaker 2: Oh, that's fantastic. And then basketball. I was always rooting

1885
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 2: to the Jazz.

1886
01:36:46,520 --> 01:36:48,519
Speaker 26: I wanted Stocked in to beat the bulls pretty bad.

1887
01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:49,719
Speaker 16: I was John Stocking.

1888
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:54,520
Speaker 3: Oh man, he with him and Carl Malone my goodness, holy.

1889
01:36:54,760 --> 01:36:57,000
Speaker 2: Kind to get past him though, Yeah, back.

1890
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:59,719
Speaker 3: To back years unfortunately, But I love the names. Boomer,

1891
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:01,200
Speaker 3: thanks listening, Thanks for calling.

1892
01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:03,960
Speaker 2: I have a great night. I love that.

1893
01:37:04,080 --> 01:37:06,360
Speaker 3: Let me do one more? One more? Oh is a

1894
01:37:06,360 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 3: good one in Hamilton? Hey, John, who did.

1895
01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:09,360
Speaker 2: You want to be?

1896
01:37:10,479 --> 01:37:10,719
Speaker 19: Hey?

1897
01:37:10,840 --> 01:37:11,200
Speaker 7: Lance?

1898
01:37:11,680 --> 01:37:13,400
Speaker 2: Quick quick story.

1899
01:37:13,520 --> 01:37:18,120
Speaker 27: It was my brother, my cousin and me playing home

1900
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:26,000
Speaker 27: run derby down at Joyce Park. My brother was Dave Parker,

1901
01:37:29,640 --> 01:37:32,680
Speaker 27: my cousin was Eric Davis.

1902
01:37:33,160 --> 01:37:36,160
Speaker 2: My goodness, I was Chris Sabo.

1903
01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 6: I was the one.

1904
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:42,599
Speaker 2: That wore those the goddess red specs.

1905
01:37:42,760 --> 01:37:45,839
Speaker 6: Oh yes, and I played Lowly.

1906
01:37:49,120 --> 01:37:51,599
Speaker 3: Oh what a trio you guys were that that must

1907
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:52,560
Speaker 3: have been incredible.

1908
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 27: I've mastered his batting stance, and I got that my

1909
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 27: haircut from the same guy Chris Stavo did.

1910
01:38:03,560 --> 01:38:04,200
Speaker 6: Personally.

1911
01:38:04,640 --> 01:38:07,920
Speaker 3: Yes, that is the now that's going the extra mile

1912
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:09,600
Speaker 3: for it. That's fantastic.

1913
01:38:11,479 --> 01:38:13,320
Speaker 6: I mean I was clean shaven.

1914
01:38:16,320 --> 01:38:18,719
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it. I have had so much fun

1915
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:20,760
Speaker 3: with this tonight, John. That's a great way to cap it.

1916
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:21,880
Speaker 3: Thank you for calling.

1917
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:24,240
Speaker 2: All right that.

1918
01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:27,800
Speaker 3: Oh gee, I think I'm gonna guess he was saying

1919
01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:29,360
Speaker 3: Happy Easter, So happy Easter.

1920
01:38:29,479 --> 01:38:32,480
Speaker 2: Right back to you. I clipped you too soon. My apologies.

1921
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:35,280
Speaker 3: This is one of those nights where I've had the

1922
01:38:35,280 --> 01:38:37,240
Speaker 3: best of both worlds. In the last like hour and

1923
01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:40,719
Speaker 3: a half, we did a topic on youth sports, which

1924
01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:44,800
Speaker 3: the input, what the the discussion that was led by

1925
01:38:45,040 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 3: callers was as good as I think we've had on

1926
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:49,920
Speaker 3: this show in a long long time, because I could

1927
01:38:49,960 --> 01:38:53,320
Speaker 3: tell it was it was personable and relatable and I

1928
01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:55,680
Speaker 3: learned so much and I loved it. And then we

1929
01:38:55,720 --> 01:38:59,280
Speaker 3: followed it up with this thanks to Chick and the

1930
01:38:59,320 --> 01:39:02,880
Speaker 3: delight in your voice in explaining who you were and

1931
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:06,679
Speaker 3: why you were that person. I just I very much

1932
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:11,040
Speaker 3: appreciate and man, I think I just flashed out. I'm

1933
01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:13,120
Speaker 3: in the cul de sac and doing the Willie stargel.

1934
01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:15,439
Speaker 3: As a left handed hitter, I would do that. I'd

1935
01:39:15,479 --> 01:39:18,559
Speaker 3: wind it up and I kind of lift my toes

1936
01:39:18,640 --> 01:39:20,600
Speaker 3: up a little bit in my stance and whind that

1937
01:39:20,720 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 3: windmill swing, and then I'd set it and I'd go

1938
01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:28,480
Speaker 3: to work on the whiffle ball. Thank you for the contributions.

1939
01:39:28,479 --> 01:39:30,040
Speaker 3: We'll head down the stretch, wrap it up with on

1940
01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:31,519
Speaker 3: this date. In a couple of notes down on the

1941
01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:34,799
Speaker 3: farm next Rnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet

1942
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:35,959
Speaker 3: seven hundred WLW.

1943
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 2: In the stretch, we got a hustle.

1944
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Speaker 3: Let's see a couple of things down on the farm,

1945
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Speaker 3: presented by my guys at Kelsey Chevallet. Race Hines cannot

1946
01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:46,080
Speaker 3: be stopped. He doubles, scores a run, and drives in

1947
01:39:46,080 --> 01:39:49,439
Speaker 3: a run. Tonight for the bats, Blake Dunn had three hits,

1948
01:39:49,439 --> 01:39:52,920
Speaker 3: a run on a stolen base. Hector Rodriguez had a hit,

1949
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:56,439
Speaker 3: a walk, a run, and an RBI. Julian Aggie Are

1950
01:39:56,520 --> 01:40:00,480
Speaker 3: started didn't go well three innings, seven hits, eight runs,

1951
01:40:00,520 --> 01:40:03,960
Speaker 3: four home runs allowed by Julian Aggie are This after

1952
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:06,599
Speaker 3: Chase Petty yesterday, didn't get out of the second inning,

1953
01:40:06,640 --> 01:40:10,679
Speaker 3: gave up seven runs. JJ Blede a couple of doubles

1954
01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:15,360
Speaker 3: tonight and tj Antone had a scoreless inning and a

1955
01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:18,679
Speaker 3: third with a strikeout. Good for him, my guy, Trevor

1956
01:40:18,760 --> 01:40:22,920
Speaker 3: Kunsel a scoreless inning tonight for the bats at in

1957
01:40:23,040 --> 01:40:26,679
Speaker 3: Lansing the Dayton Dragons. They win tonight in their opener,

1958
01:40:26,920 --> 01:40:29,960
Speaker 3: eight to seven, thirteen hits. Five different guys had at

1959
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 3: least two hits. Alfredo Duno in his debut at high

1960
01:40:33,160 --> 01:40:36,519
Speaker 3: A two hits, a double, two runs, three RBIs in

1961
01:40:36,560 --> 01:40:38,720
Speaker 3: a walk. I would get the date and to see

1962
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:44,599
Speaker 3: him quickly, just my suggestion. Carlos Sanchez, the shortstop, two hits,

1963
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:47,320
Speaker 3: a double and a run, and a Daytona the bummer

1964
01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:49,679
Speaker 3: of the night. Nicolodolo left in the third inning after

1965
01:40:49,720 --> 01:40:53,200
Speaker 3: forty pitches, suffering the return of the blister on his

1966
01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:57,920
Speaker 3: left index finger. No update from the Reds, And finally

1967
01:40:57,960 --> 01:41:00,400
Speaker 3: things that happened on this date In Red's Hit Street

1968
01:41:01,680 --> 01:41:03,760
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety four, the Cardinals beat the red six to

1969
01:41:03,880 --> 01:41:07,080
Speaker 3: four in Major League Baseball's first Sunday night opener. All

1970
01:41:07,200 --> 01:41:09,800
Speaker 3: did Marge not like that? She didn't even want to

1971
01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 3: acknowledge that game as the opener of the season on

1972
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:16,200
Speaker 3: a Sunday night nineteen ninety six. This was the the

1973
01:41:16,640 --> 01:41:20,160
Speaker 3: rescheduled game after John mcsherry's tragic death. They played the

1974
01:41:20,200 --> 01:41:22,559
Speaker 3: next day. They beat the Expos four to one. Chris

1975
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:26,599
Speaker 3: Sabo drove in three nineteen ninety eight, four days after

1976
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:29,160
Speaker 3: being traded to the Red, Sean Casey struck in the

1977
01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:33,840
Speaker 3: face during an infield drill before the game. He would

1978
01:41:33,880 --> 01:41:37,800
Speaker 3: miss nearly a month. At the time, there was a

1979
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:43,519
Speaker 3: fear that it might end Sean's career. Fortunately he was

1980
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:46,720
Speaker 3: back after a month. But man, what a what a day.

1981
01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:49,120
Speaker 3: I'll never forget that, and won't forget this one two

1982
01:41:49,160 --> 01:41:52,960
Speaker 3: thousand and seven, Cincinnati Mayor Mark mallory ceremonial first pitch

1983
01:41:53,040 --> 01:41:56,439
Speaker 3: before the reds opener lands about thirty feet wide of

1984
01:41:56,520 --> 01:42:00,600
Speaker 3: home plate. The best part of that entire exchange was

1985
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:04,879
Speaker 3: the look of bewilderment. Bewilderment on the face of Eric Davis,

1986
01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 3: who was catching the ceremony of first pitch. And Eric

1987
01:42:09,240 --> 01:42:11,559
Speaker 3: was dressed that day, and I mean dressed, but he

1988
01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:14,120
Speaker 3: has that look. He does a double take like what

1989
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:18,360
Speaker 3: the hell is that? And finally, this date two thousand

1990
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:22,679
Speaker 3: and seven. We'll forget this one. Josh Hamilton, the Red's

1991
01:42:22,720 --> 01:42:26,120
Speaker 3: twenty five year old rookie, receives a twenty two second

1992
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:29,439
Speaker 3: standing ovation from fans at Great American Ballpark as he

1993
01:42:29,520 --> 01:42:32,639
Speaker 3: makes his major league debut on opening Day. The former

1994
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:36,120
Speaker 3: number one draft pick lined out as a pinch hitter

1995
01:42:36,360 --> 01:42:38,960
Speaker 3: in the Reds five to one opening day win over

1996
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Speaker 3: the Chicago Cubs. That'll do it. Thanks to Russ Jackson

1997
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Speaker 3: for producing. Thanks to you for listening in the input tonight.

1998
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Speaker 3: My goodness, I got pay I think I would have

1999
01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:50,679
Speaker 3: done tonight's show for free. I had so much Don't

2000
01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:52,639
Speaker 3: tell him I said that, but that's how much fun

2001
01:42:52,680 --> 01:42:54,800
Speaker 3: I had tonight. Let's do it tomorrow. I got a

2002
01:42:54,800 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 3: weird one. I'm on after the Reds game that starts

2003
01:42:57,400 --> 01:43:00,479
Speaker 3: at four oh five. It's going to be sports like

2004
01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:04,320
Speaker 3: seven to nine o'clock tomorrow night, and then it'll be sterling.

2005
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Speaker 3: So let's talk about the Reds win over the Rangers.

2006
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Speaker 3: Stick around Dan Carroll's next. This has been RNL Carrier

2007
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Speaker 3: Sportstock presented by Kelsey cherblat seven hundred WLW.

2008
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Speaker 2: News Traffic and Weather News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.

2009
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Speaker 28: Another firing within the Trump administration with the nine o'clock report,

2010
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Speaker 28: I'm Sean Gabliger breaking down Pam Bondi today, becoming the

2011
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 28: latest member of President Trump's cabinets be ousted by him.

2012
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Speaker 28: Within the last month, Bondi, as Attorney General, faced scrutiny

2013
01:43:35,240 --> 01:43:38,600
Speaker 28: from both Trump over her ability to bring prosecutions he

2014
01:43:38,640 --> 01:43:41,679
Speaker 28: wanted to pursuit against his political opponents, and from Congress

2015
01:43:41,680 --> 01:43:44,320
Speaker 28: and the public over the Department of Justice's handling of

2016
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Speaker 28: the Epstein files.

2017
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Speaker 29: Bondi had gone to the White House promising transparency but

2018
01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:52,759
Speaker 29: handing out mostly old Epstein files, leaving many of Trump's

2019
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:54,840
Speaker 29: MAAGA supporters underwhelmed.

2020
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Speaker 2: And there was this moment on Fox News.

2021
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Speaker 19: The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's climates.

2022
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Speaker 2: Well, that really happen.

2023
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Speaker 5: It's sitting on my desk right now to review.

2024
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Speaker 29: But DJ later trying to shut down the release of

2025
01:44:08,600 --> 01:44:12,400
Speaker 29: the Epstein files and acknowledging there was no list. White

2026
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Speaker 29: Our chief of Staff Susie Wilde said on the record

2027
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Speaker 29: in a Vanity Fair interview the Bonding quote completely whiffed

2028
01:44:19,439 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 29: on Epstein.

2029
01:44:20,240 --> 01:44:23,360
Speaker 28: ABC News Chief Justice correspondent Pier Thomas tom blanched, the

2030
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Speaker 28: Deputy Attorney General, also one of Trump's former