Full Transcript for 3/8/24 - The Mo Egger Show

at three forty five, an hour from 30 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.240 now. James Rapine will be on this show. You know, the many 31 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:23.080 outlets that James contributes to. I want his sort of free agency primer. 32 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:29.199 We all have different ideas for what the Bengals should do. We have different 33 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:32.719 opinions about what the Bengals can do. I'm interested in James take really on 34 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:37.800 both and so we'll do that. Coming up at four to five. FC 35 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.800 Cincinnati loses what was for a one nil match, a wildly entertaining game. 36 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.000 I'm not sure the better team won. Pat Noonan after the game was thrilled 37 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.479 with how his team. Not thrilled, but he was happy with how his 38 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.400 team played, and he should should have been fun game last night. Brandon 39 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:59.360 Vasquez with the U I guess if you're a CF Monterey fan, the storybook 40 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.919 goal that provided all the scoring in that game last night. The Orange and 41 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:07.240 Blue will turn their attention to Sunday's home tilt against DC United, and we'll 42 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.240 chat with one of the broadcasters from that match, a friend of the show 43 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:13.879 who's up been with us before. Kindred d Saint Aubyn is gonna be with 44 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.439 us. She is calling Sunday's tilt for Apple TV. Plus. Red's played 45 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:21.240 last night, played to a tie in a game that was broadcast nationally, 46 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.719 and so we had a chance to watch Hunter Green last night. There was 47 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:30.639 some good, there was some not so good. It's interesting when Hunter Green 48 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:38.319 pitches. There's there's something that I get that I don't get when any of 49 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:42.319 the other young starters pitch. We'll get to that in just a second. 50 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.520 Joey Vado has a team. I don't know if Joey Vado is gonna have 51 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:47.800 a job. It's twenty days away from opening day, but Joey Vado has 52 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:53.240 a team. He has joined the Toronto Blue Jays as a non roster player. 53 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:59.120 Congratulations to Joey, and I'm thrilled for Joey. I'm thrilled for Joey 54 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:03.360 Vado. Fans like myself, you know, we've God knows for a guy 55 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:05.680 who's not on the Reds. I'm not sure there's been a player that we 56 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.520 have talked about more than Joey Evando, and I like, I get it, 57 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.319 and there's no no need to kind of rehash that. We had some 58 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.680 fun with a social media post where he has been openly pining in a very 59

00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:20.800 tongue in cheek way for someone to sign him. I have found it amusing 60 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:27.040 and I have found it revealing, and I have found it refreshing. I 61 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:31.439 am rooting like hell for Joey Evano. Look the way last year ended, 62 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:35.720 the way last year ended for iconic players, and you may disagree, but 63 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:41.879 I consider Joey an iconic player. The way last year ended and the way 64 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:46.959 his Red's career ended, that's more normal than the storybook ending. It is 65 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:53.079 right that there are storybook endings. John Elway wins back to back titles, 66 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:57.199 his last game as a super Bowl. Peyton Manning's last game is a Super 67 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.319 Bowl. Derek Jeter gets the walk off hit final home game in his last 68 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:09.399 at bet in Yankee Stadium. But typically the end comes rather unceremoniously, and 69 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:13.439 it comes with the player no longer performing at the level that they used to 70 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.920 last season. The ending for Joey Vada was the opposite of storybook. Amid 71 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:23.839 the Reds pushing for the postseason, Joey was an afterthought, which is why 72 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:28.920 what the Reds chose to do with him was not at all surprising. I 73 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.040 mean, the Reds are playing some of their biggest regular season games in years 74 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:34.959 late September, and Joey was barely playing in them. So also he got 75 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:41.240 kicked out of Game one sixty two last year. So I've been rooting for 76 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:46.920 him to get a chance to play and perform at a high enough level that 77 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:51.079 he's a productive player and a player who is contributing, and a player whose 78 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:57.560 performance is more representative of the player that he has been for what I think 79 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.920 is a Hall of Fame career than what we saw last season. I just 80 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:06.439 was totally okay with that last year or that next season not coming with the 81 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:11.480 Reds. You could root for, you could want multiple things. It's not 82 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.839 that I didn't want Joey on the Reds, but I understood there, thinking, 83 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:16.879 here, they're trying to win a division, they're trying to get to 84 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.879 the World Series. That may seem like a far fetched goal, but it's 85 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.920 a goal, and it's a goal worth pursuing. And so if that's the 86 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.160 goal, well the ideas should be to put together a roster with the best 87 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.720 twenty six players right now, not the best twenty four players, and then 88 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.600 well one guy who was really good in twenty sixteen and another guy who was 89 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:39.319 really good in twenty eighteen. Like, no, the best twenty six now. 90 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.519 And you might make the argument that Joey still would have been one of 91 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:46.639 the best twenty six on this year's Reds. I gotta be honest with you, 92 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.160 I have a hard time. I have a hard time believing that just 93 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:54.160 based on what I've seen, based on what I know. What I know 94 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:59.959 is typically athletes once they hit forty aren't that good anymore. There are exacts. 95 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.680 I'm hoping that Joey proves to be the exception. In an ideal world 96 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:11.040 for me, the Reds have a great year, their death pays big dividends 97 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:15.439 and it has a chance to and the season plays out and we don't second 98 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:19.439 guess anything that they did or didn't do in the off season. Meanwhile, 99 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:26.160 running parallel to that, Joey Vado in his hometown not only makes the Toronto 100 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.720 Blue Jays, but performs well and helps them win. That's if you're a 101 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:36.079 Joey Vado fan. That's a win win. Look, there are there's an 102 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:44.399 endless list of iconic players across sports who have ended their careers in uniforms beyond 103 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.959 the one that they spent most of their career in. If Michael Jordan and 104 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:55.079 Tom Brady, and I hate to say this, Joe Montana and Jerry Rice 105 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:00.839 can finish their careers in uniforms other than the ones you became used to them 106 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:05.199 being in. So can Joe Evado? Will it look weird? Yes? 107 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.920 Yes, yes, when he's in a Toronto Blue Jays uniform, it'll look 108 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.120 weird. Whether it's during spring training workouts or if he makes the team once 109 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:18.720 the regular season gets here, it's gonna look weird. And is there something 110 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.879 cool when an athlete spends their entire career in one uniform. Sure, but 111 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.879 if Joe Morgan can bounce around after he leaves the Reds, and if Tony 112 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.279 Perez can play for other teams, and if Pete Rose could play for other 113 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.759 teams and each be welcome back and thought of his primarily Reds, well, 114 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.440 guess what we can do this with Joey Evado? And so the sincere hope 115 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.360 I think should be I know it is for me. The Reds without Joey 116 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:46.759 Evado do great. Joey Evado makes the Blue Jays

and in his hometown, 117 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.799 authors a story better than last year, and maybe he helps the Blue Jays 118 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.720 get to the postseason, and he gets an opportunity for the type of postseason 119 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:01.519 moment that has thus far eluded him. At the very least he's gonna be 120 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.000 given a chance. Look, there are a lot of folks who think that 121 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:07.399 Joey Vado is a healthy offseason away from being resurgent. There are a lot 122 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:11.799 of people that think that Joey Vada was washed up. I'd like to have 123 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.200 evidence to support one argument or the other, or maybe something in between. 124 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.159 We don't get that if he's not playing baseball this year, and so we'll 125 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.200 see how the next few weeks unfold. He is a non roster guy. 126 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:26.279 He might not make the Blue Jays, and maybe he decides, yeah, 127 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.200 go ahead, send me to trip Ala and I'll get at bats there and 128 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.120 work my way up. He may say pound sand to that idea. I 129 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:39.120 don't know. But at least we're gonna get a chance to see if there's 130 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.679 any life left in the bat, and even to a degree, if the 131 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.480 Reds got it wrong. So I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled like this is as 132 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.279 somebody who lists Joey Evado is among his five favorite Reds players of all time. 133 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.519 This beats watching him post on social media, and I was a fan 134 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:56.720 of the social media posts. So there you go, Joey Vado, Toronto 135 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:03.440 Blue Jays it's gonna hap and he's got to make the roster fourteen after three 136 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.480 o'clock. There's a lot of other stuff to get to. The NKU game 137 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:13.919 last night was beyond thrilling, and it occurred. I think I don't I 138 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.960 think it's fair to call NKU and Wright State rivals. They've played some heated 139 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.279 contests. They've been some of the better teams in that league for a while. 140 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.879 They've played in the postseason. They played a great game last night with 141 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:30.360 a terrific ending to regulation. Which feels like it never happens in favor of 142 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:33.799 the team that I'm rooting for. It did at the Nutter Center last night. 143 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.879 I thought the game in the soccer stadium in the West Dennis Cincinnati was 144 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:41.720 terrific last night. A tough loss, a frustrating loss, lots of opportunities 145 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.759 there for FC Cincinnati. Brandon Vasquez came back and scored a goal, and 146 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.960 I thought was awesome in his comments based on what I watched the game was 147 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.559 on FS two. I don't think he got booed, and if he did, 148 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:58.759 I didn't hear it. We're going to spend some time on FC Cincinnati 149 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.799 with Kindred. DC had all been Coming up. In just a few minutes, 150 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:05.639 Hunter Green pitched last night's It's fascinating to me. Hunter Green was not 151 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:11.279 great last night by any stretch. Hunter Green is I think starting to get 152 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:18.240 what comes when two things, when two things become your reality. And I 153 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:22.360 promise I will put that in a far more eloquent way. Coming up in 154 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.919 just about twenty minutes plus James Lapine on the Bengals and free agency, which 155 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.559 is getting underway. We've got the loaded college basketball slate. If you're a 156 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.360 UC fan, I'm gonna I'm gonna make you, I'm gonna I'm gonna give 157 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.159 you a choice. I'm gonna give you a choice. You could either be 158 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.399 the Bearcats or you could be this other program will do that coming up a 159 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:46.960 little bit later on. And one more time, we've got Kevin Hart tickets 160 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.799 for Andrew J. Brady Music Center nine days away. The show is on 161 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.639 the seventeenth. I got confirmation to that today. One more pair to give 162 00:11:54.639 --> 00:12:01.360 away. I have put the question I I've put I've put it on a 163 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.720 on a Twitter poll. Should we play yes the foot right now? Fifty 164 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.799 five percent of you say yes, I will. I'll let the voting I'll 165 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.799 let the voting go till four o'clock at Moegar, which you could also find 166 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.080 our show preview, which is a service of Emery Federal Credit Union, your 167 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.759 credit union with Heart since nineteen thirty nine. We are loaded today, I'm 168 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:26.399 not loaded yet. Maybe you are. Five point three seven four nine fifteen 169 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.000 thirty is our phone number. We'll talk. FC Cincinnati, Kindrick, DC 170 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:35.480 and Auben joins us next twenty one after three ESPN fifteen thirty. My name's 171 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:39.120 Maulegar. After their cocka CAF Champions Cup Round of sixteen loss last night, 172 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:45.240 FC Cincinnati turns its attention to MLS regular season play a home match, a 173 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:48.200 rare daytime home match on a Sunday. I guess the home opener was a 174 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.639 day game as well, but

they play at three o'clock on a Sunday afternoon 175 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:58.320 at TQL, hosting DC United on the call part of MLS Season Pass on 176 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:01.759 Apple TV. As somebody who was nice enough to join us last season in 177 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:07.120 November because she was on the call for the FC Cincinnati New York Red Bulls 178 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.120 MLS Cup playoff series and nice enough to join us again. Kindred d st. 179 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:15.080 Auburn is with us. It is good to have you as always. 180 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.960 Kendra. How are you? I'm great? How are you doing doing well? 181 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.879 You called that series last year, which meant you had the call of 182 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:26.320 Game two, which was one of the most nerve wracking in a season of 183 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:30.919 nerve wracking moments for FC Cincinnati. That might have been tip of the iceberg. 184 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.320 It was controversial, it was weird, it was bizarre. It ended 185 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:37.600 with a thousand penalty kicks. What was that night? Like? That was 186 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.559 absolutely insane. It was crazy about that is like just when we think we 187 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.120 have every rule nailed down, every scenario, you know, we've gone through 188 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:50.080 them before the game, I'm like, what happens with this and with that? 189 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.639 And then the miasga stuff, We're like, you know, texting some 190 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.399 reps that we know in the middle of the game, trying to find out 191 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.879 like what does that mean if he gets a call? You know. It 192 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.759 was like it was just like, aside from the game itself, it was 193 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.279 just complete mayhem. Which is why we love sports so much, is the 194 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:09.279 unpredictability of it, you know, and the adrenaline nature of it. And 195 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.519 we have the benefit of not having a horse in the race, so we 196 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:16.519 could just enjoy the ride as opposed to like actual fans of Cincinnati or Red 197 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.240 Bulls who had to like live and die with every moment. Well, now 198 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.440 I feel better because you're in the broadcast booth doing that, And I was 199 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.039 doing the same to people I know who like work in soccer, where I'm 200 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.639 texting them going, can you explain to me what's going on right now? 201 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:31.399 So now I don't feel so bad. Yeah, no, no, we 202 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.559 were right there with you. And just try not to sound stupid on live 203 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:37.360 air. You know, you know how that deals when you're live on air, 204 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.120 sometimes just trying to sound like you know everything but in fact you don't. 205 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.440 You know, I fight the daily battle of trying not to sound stupid. 206 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.399 Let's talk about this year. Obviously, you know you saw up close 207 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:50.960 the playoff run last year. It fell just short of them making the final. 208 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:56.919 Based on what we saw last season obviously was with some changes to the 209 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:01.120 roster this year, what should the expectations for SC Cincinnati B this season? 210 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.919 Well, I think, first of all, the business at this front office 211 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.679 and Pat Newton have done to get a player like Miles Robinson within the league, 212 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.639 to get a player like DeAndre Yelllin you know, just the other day, 213 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.240 and then he steps in and plays last night. To get those kind 214 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:22.120 of players within the league in this window and to get them to come join 215 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.399 f C Cincinnati, in particular, if you look at Miles Robinson, I 216 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.440 mean, hell, all things are pointing in the fact that he wanted to 217 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.000 go to Europe and he's clearly on the men's national team and in the mix, 218 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.360 and then he chooses f C Cincinnati, and I just think that, 219 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.600 you know, credit to them for getting this team and filling some of those 220 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:43.600 holes. I still think there's going to be, you know, some situations 221 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.399 with the schedule early on in the season, and you look at the amount 222 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:50.519 of games that are being played in a short amount of time. You can 223 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:54.120 rotate players. When you beat you know, that Jamaican side handily, you 224 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.279 can rest those guys in the second leg of that game. But then as 225 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:02.440 this MLS grind continues, you have some stiff competition against Monterey last night. 226 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:06.039 Now you've got to go on the road and play them in that second leg. 227 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.519 And oh, by the way, you're hosting DC United, which is 228 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:12.639 very different than last year's DC United on Sunday afternoon. So I think the 229 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:17.360 expectation should be high once again, because the core group is still the same. 230 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.879 You have a player like Lucio Acosta who anytime you have him on the 231 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:23.279 field, you have a really good chance of winning, regardless of who's around 232 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:26.799 him. Bupenza, who hopefully finds a way to stay in some of his 233 00:16:26.879 -->

00:16:30.840 opportunities. You've got a back line that should not give up a lot of 234 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:36.399 goals, a goalkeeper that's phenomenal even though he's still young. And then Obino 235 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:37.679 Wolbodo, you know players like that in the middle of the pitch. You 236 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.879 got Kubo who you can flat in just about anywhere. I think the expectations 237 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.600 should be high, the excitement should be right up there. They've got to 238 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.559 just weather this storm and hopefully get some of those other guys. I heard 239 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.279 it. Haglin's back in training, so who knows that he can work his 240 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.080 way back in to the mix and get some more depth in that outside back 241 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:59.559 position. But I think as long as they put away some of their chances, 242 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.360 they are looking pretty good and they should feel just as good about it 243 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:06.440 and hopefully bring home some kind of silverware from one of these compositions that they'll 244 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:07.759 be in this summer, it would be nice. You know, you mentioned 245 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.480 Yedlin and watching last night. I mean, I think it's a credit to 246 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.200 him, but I also think it's a credit to what they've built here that 247 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.559 a player like that can play the workload that we saw him take on last 248 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.440 night, and it looks like he's been there for years. It didn't look 249 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:25.200 like a guy who had just met first hand all of his teammates a couple 250 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:29.000 of days ago. It's funny that you say that, because literally, we 251 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:30.839 just had a call with Pat noon in at one point thirty and it wrapped 252 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:34.400 up basically before I got on a call with you, and I asked him 253 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:37.759 that exact question. I'm like, is that just a nature of his professionalism? 254 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.839 You know? And he's been around, He's played in Europe, he's 255 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.119 played with the national team, He's played at a high level. He was 256 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.279 just playing with Miami where you know, clearly a lot was asked of him 257 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:51.119 in that outside back position, and you just see that work rate and that 258 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:56.039 instinctiveness and how he reads the game. And Pat noon And was very you 259 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.319 know, a little bit disappointed in how the game started last night, that 260 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.039 they didn't hold on to the ball more to, you know, so their 261 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:07.000 outside backs didn't have to work so much because every time they tried to

get 262 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.680 forward the ball turned back over again. So he was saying, Jedlin just 263 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.559 kind of picked and you know, picked his moments on when to go forward, 264 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.200 had some great balls and you know through the box to try to find 265 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.359 he he reads when to make the run behind or when to kind of pinch 266 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:22.920 inside so Lucho can find him. I mean, this is a really great 267 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:27.119 addition for this group. And I just again, like I just when I 268 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.160 saw that trade, I'm like, you got to be kidding me, Like 269 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.960 how did they pull that off? You know, like just after getting Miles 270 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:37.799 Robinson to join that back line as well. Heading into the season, it 271 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.440 just felt like they're making the right moves in the right ways. And yeah, 272 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.279 I mean DeAndre Yedlin, he'll be a huge asset for this team to 273 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.960 this season. To play a DC team on Sunday that has picked up four 274 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:53.640 points in two games. The nature of the Eastern Conference has changed because MLS 275 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:56.960 is going to have and Inner Miami is going to have Messi for the entire 276 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:02.759 season. How does that change the dynam to the East. Well, I 277 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:07.200 think the East is so strong, even before you know Messi and Suarez and 278 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.519 Busquets and Alba, and you know mc got on the list of who's who 279 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:15.359 Miami has acquired and has on their roster, and the fact that Cincinnati's going 280 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:17.519 to have to face them a few times. I mean, we saw what 281 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:21.559 Miami did last night if you watch the game against Nashville. So everybody in 282 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:26.440 the East is having to contend with not just Messy but everything else that it 283 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:30.319 brings along with it. The attention, the fanfare, the media focus, 284 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.240 the scrutiny, the sold out crowds, everything. But if you're a soccer 285 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.680 fan, there is nothing you want more than that, that kind of hype, 286 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:42.200 that kind of attention on the league, that kind of next level to 287 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:48.039 MLS, which is it's been working so hard through its entirety to get to 288 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.799 this point where players and coaches want to join this league when they are still 289 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.920 in the position to be successful. And I wouldn't say Messi's in his prime, 290 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.319 but he was coming off a World Cup win when he joined them last 291 00:20:00.359 -->

00:20:03.680 year, you know. So I think these are all good things, and 292 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.519 the East is incredibly challenging. It's really difficult. There probably isn't one single 293 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.240 game on your schedule that you can look at and go, hmm, yeah, 294 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.759 we can probably take this day off. And when we saw Cincinnati struggle 295 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.839 against Chicago, I mean, look at the home opener against Toronto, who 296 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.119 won the Wooden Spoon, and everybody in Cincinnati knows what the wooden spoon is, 297 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.680 so you know, I mean, this is this is like, this 298 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:27.960 is a real difficult league. And I think that's what makes it so much 299 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:30.880 fun is you never know who's gonna win every night. Yeah, good early 300 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:36.400 season contest on Sunday. Enjoy it. We'll be watching. Thanks so much. 301 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:38.839 Awesome, Thank you so much. Have a great day. I appreciate 302 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:44.759 you doing this. Kindred Decent Auben is a color analyst for MLS Season Pass. 303 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:49.240 She has the match on Sunday three o'clock for Apple TV. It's three 304 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:52.000 thirty. Our numbers are five one, three, seven, four nine, 305 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:56.519 fifteen thirty and eight sixty six, seven oh two three seven seven six. 306 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.640 MKU head coach Darren Horn will be on the show coming up in in fifteen 307 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.920 minutes and James are peen at four oh five. In an hour. We're 308 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:08.279 giving away Kevin Hart tickets. We're getting some dissent. I you know this 309 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:11.880 is this really is the people show. We're letting, we're letting our audience 310 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:17.759 choose how we're giving away these tickets. And so don't blame me if we 311 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:21.279 play guess the foot. We can do some other things, but you've got 312 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:22.799 to vote at Moleger. Go ahead and do that. It's a three point 313 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:30.279 thirty on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, Cincinnatis Chevrolet home of lifetime powertrain 314 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:36.640 protection and guaranteed credit approval from their family to yours for life kelseyshev dot Com. 315 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.680 Joey Vado has agreed to a non roster He has accepted this. That's 316 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:45.039 the better parlance. I just went with parlance. That's a dollar in the 317 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:51.279 fine Cup. He has accepted a non roster invitation to Toronto Blue Jay's spring 318 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:52.720 training. So he's going to make the team. It's a tryout. Joey 319 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.759 Vado's from Toronto. You might have heard he

used to play for the Rets. 320 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:00.680 Case you didn't know, congratulations to Joey. Ooey's former team is taken 321 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.839 on the Dodgers tonight in Glendale. That's the Arizona, not the town. 322 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:11.200 That's by Sharonville eight oh five Tonight seven hundred WLW Cincinnati reassigning to minor league 323 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:15.240 camp and optioning to Louisville. Righty Casey Legumina, Righty Christian Roa, Righty 324 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:22.400 Carsons, Buyers, alfielder Rees Hines, and alfielder Jacob Herdebes. There are 325 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:26.039 now forty seven players remaining in a Big league camp. College basketball Tonight, 326 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:33.039 dayton is hosting VCU. Miami is home for Ohio. Tomorrow you see home 327 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:37.519 for West Virginia, Xavier hosting Marquette, Kentucky's at Tennessee live on ESPN fifteen 328 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:42.440 thirty. Sunday ats Ohio State at Rutgers, and Indiana hosting Michigan State. 329 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:51.240 Monday, the Horizon League Semifinals will feature the NKU Norse in Indianapolis taking on 330 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:56.240 Milwaukee. Winner of that game will play in the championship tilt against either Cleveland 331 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:02.960 State or Oakland FC. Cincinnati on the pitch on as they host DC United. 332 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:07.480 That game at three o'clock on ESPN fifteen thirty. And the Cyclones play 333 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:12.400 hockey tonight because they're a hockey team on the road against Toledo. You can 334 00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:17.839 send me a tweet where you could just look at my Twitter feed at Moeger 335 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:21.599 Thanks to our friends at Delta Dental. Delta Dental is building healthy, smart, 336 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:26.359 vibrant communities for all good at Delta Dental, oh dot com. So 337 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:32.599 we have the Kevinhart tickets that were giving away and we have a poll question. 338 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:36.759 You know, we yesterday we played Know Your Celebrity Kevins. We played 339 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:40.759 two different games, two different games of Know your Celebrity Kevins. And then 340 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:45.640 on Wednesday it was too truth and a Lie that was great. And then 341 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:51.559 on on Tuesday we did beat Tarren Bland. Do you know more about Kevin 342 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:55.640 Hart movies than Tarren Blant? So we've we've run the gamut today. You 343 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:59.599 know, years ago we introduced the great game of Guests the Foot, and 344 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:02.400 when whenever we play Guests the Foot, there are people who enjoy it, 345 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:07.119 there are people who don't enjoy it. And so this show being a democracy 346 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.559 so to speak, we decided to put it to a poll. And so 347 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:15.720 I've got fifty six percent of you voting on Twitter. We're going to leave 348 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:21.039 this open until four o'clock. Fifty six percent of you say, let's play 349 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:25.880 Guests the Foot versus something more highbrow. Now, I you know, I 350 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:30.680 have an email address mo at ESPN fifteen thirty dot com. One of our 351 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:34.200 frequent callers is Mike from LA. He has sent an email and he is 352 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:41.400 not a proponent of Guests the Foot. He says, quote this contest kind 353 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:49.799 of blows. I have another email here from Chris who says whenever we play 354 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:55.480 Guests the Foot, he turns us off. I'm not in the business of 355 00:24:55.519 --> 00:25:00.119 making people turn away. So all I could say is it's you. You 356 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.359 can't complain if you don't vote right. It's just like politics. What account 357 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:06.480 of that? How many people turn us on? Right? How many people 358 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:11.640 have been waiting all day for us to play guesst the Foot? So you 359 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.519 know, it's the majority rules on this show when it comes to whether or 360 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:19.279 not we play Guess the Foot, And right now, with about twenty minutes 361 00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:23.519 to go, the majority says, play Guess the Foot for Kevin Hart tickets. 362 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:26.880 We'll play at four thirty three. Whatever we decide to do, it 363 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:30.720 might be something really high brow, but we're gonna give away the tickets. 364 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:38.039 If the voting continues as is, we'll play Guess the Foot. Uh you 365 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:40.880 think? What do you think? Darren Horn wants us to do you think 366 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:44.559 Darren Horn likes to play guess the foot? Shall we ask him? Let 367 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:48.079 me ask head coach of the Norris joins Is Next on ESPN fifteen thirty, 368 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.319 he writes, State four point four seconds to go, Robinson back to the 369 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:57.079 line. Let's see what he's gonna do. It's three thrill short rebound. 370 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:03.880 Luth Pettis turn too well, half a second to go. He tied the 371 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:08.960 game. Randall Petis off the miss short by Dray Robinson. A battle in 372 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.119 the lane for the rebound. Petnis grabbed it kind of turned and I don't 373 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:17.839 know if he even saw the rim, but he took the shot, tied 374 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:22.440 the game at eighty nine. It looks like this game maybe going to all 375 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.440 overtime, and it did. An NKU outlasted Wright State in a great game 376 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:30.000 at the Nutter Center in

the quarterfinal round of the Horizon League Tournament ninety nine 377 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:34.759 to ninety seven. Randall Pettis the second with the game tying bucket at the 378 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:38.480 end of regulation in a play I said this earlier, and I say it 379 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.400 unscientifically. It feels like, whenever you need that to work, the down 380 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.319 three make a free throw, miss a free throw, get the rebound and 381 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.400 put it in. It feels like it never works. It did last night 382 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:53.000 for the Norse and they advanced to Indianapolis and the Horizon League semifinal round will 383 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:56.920 take on Milwaukee on Monday. Always kind enough to join us when we ask 384 00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:02.920 the head coach of the Norse, Darren, that that play like you practice, 385 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:04.559 that you practice the down three, make one, miss one, put 386 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:08.680 it back. How often does it work? We actually don't mow. And 387 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:11.920 to be honest with you, but but by the way, how about the 388 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.200 legendary Jim Kelch on the college. Obviously I don't ever, I don't ever 389 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:19.079 listen to the radio. That was great to hear it, but we don't. 390 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:23.200 And in that situation, oddly enough, we thought there was enough time 391 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:27.119 we did not want to miss on purpose. It's it's like the up three, 392 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:30.839 down three, right. The one thing about fouling up three is that 393 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.519 technically brings losing into the situation. And as long as you don't foul three 394 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:40.039 point shooter. We felt like, because we're so under maned right now, 395 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:42.920 L J. Wells has filed out. Kean Tizery was on one leg. 396 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:45.680 That's a play where you got to tap it out and hope Mark Quz work 397 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:49.240 or somebody can grab it and put it in. Uh. We wanted to 398 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:53.160 get the point and then try to steal the ball with four and a half 399 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:56.559 seconds, enough time to make it play and finish or foul quickly and still 400 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.640 have hopefully you know, two and a half three seconds to run a full 401 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:03.640 court play the other way if needed. But the one thing we do do 402 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:08.200 is a free throw play. Every single play at a free throw and we 403 00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:11.920 told our guys, guys, we're running our free throw play in case there's 404 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:15.519 a miss. And give Randall Pettish credit. What's amazing is he didn't actually 405 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.759 really get the rebound. He kind of took it from the right

state did 406 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.160 who was a fifth year senior and laid it in. So really, you 407 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:25.240 know, kudos to Randall Petish for a big time play from a freshman in 408 00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:29.480 a huge moment. Is what is the line of demarcation? How much time 409 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:33.480 has to be left for you to run the free throw play? I think 410 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:37.759 it's got to be under three because because again your factoring in, do I 411 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:41.920 have time to steal the ball, maybe take a dribble or make a pass 412 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:45.079 and get a basket on a press if you make it or if I foul 413 00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:48.519 quick enough, do I still have at least two and a half seconds or 414 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.240 more to catch and be able to make a pass if I need to? 415 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.119 Full court? Game tips off at eight o'clock last night. That's my daughter's 416 00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.920 bedtime. We brush our teeth, we put her to bed them downstairs. 417 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:07.279 It's seventeen to two. What are you thinking then? I'm thinking, man, 418 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.799 right, State's playing really well. If we're not. They were a 419 00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:14.200 boss solid And let me say this, we have so much respect for Scott 420 00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:18.279 in his program and how good they are. I felt like coming into the 421 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:21.720 game that they were the most dangerous team in our league because of their ability 422 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:25.319 to score the ball so well. I felt like, as long as we 423 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:30.079 could get back to single digits by half, it would be a basketball game. 424 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.720 You know, we had a similar thing happened Saturday night when we played 425 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:36.440 them. Similar thing happened when we played in the time before. There's just 426 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:41.079 a team that's capable of unbelievable runs, and you know, wanted to see 427 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.200 where our guys were and fighting back. It was too early to be in 428 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.279 panic mode by any stretch, and our guys did that, and we did 429 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:48.799 it the way we've done it always here. We did it with defense and 430 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.000 rebounding to get back in the game and cut it to single digits and then 431 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:55.440 make it a game the second half. So you kind of took my question 432 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.039 because you'll do as a coach the thing that we as fans do. You're 433 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:00.880 down, you know, double digits early, and his fans will go, 434 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:02.960 you know what, cut it to nine, get it to seven, get 435 00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:06.039 it to something manageable by halftime, and then regroup. That's that's what you 436 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:11.400 that's what you're thinking. Yeah, No, absolutely, especially because again some 437 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.960 familiarity with them and how the previous games with them had gone. You know, 438 00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:18.839 we we we felt like they're they're capable of great runs. But they 439 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:21.640 but they'll you know, we think you can get some on them as well, 440 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:23.559 and and and and quite honestly, but we were not. We just 441 00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:26.200 weren't playing well, you know, and give them credit, of course, 442 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.359 but we just weren't playing well. We missed like three layups, and you 443 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.480 know, Wark didn't seem like himself early on, especially in terms of aggressiveness 444 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.000 on the defensive end, and and uh, you know, so I felt 445 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.559 like we could play much better and then let's see what happens. He played 446 00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:42.279 like himself in the second half. I mean, is that Do you have 447 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.799 a conversation with him? Do you just go look? Uh? Are our 448 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.759 schools all time leading scorer is gonna flip the switch and we're gonna be okay? 449 00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.240 What's that like? Uh? No, we have some pretty direct conversations 450 00:30:52.279 --> 00:31:00.119 at halftime prayer because they they weren't playing in the way and and and and 451 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.880 again, not just about scoring and making baskets, but just playing the way 452 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.160 you need to play in those kind of games. And you know, hey, 453 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:08.640 guys, if you're not going to do it, don't I can't ask 454 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:11.640 these freshmen to do it, you know. I mean, well, we 455 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:14.400 played seven guys last night. Two of them are freshmen, and one of 456 00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:18.039 them is a guy that's about sixty percent with one leg, And so you 457 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:19.200 know, if you're not gonna do it's gonna be really hard to get me 458 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:22.920 to get the other guys to do it. I have Rick Boring on my 459 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:26.119 show every week, and we talked about your team and leading up to the 460 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.480 right State game, it felt like. And the one hiccup was the close 461 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.599 loss at Milwaukee right who you're going to play on Monday. But it has 462 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.920 felt like for weeks that your club has been really trending in the right direction. 463 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.759 And looks it's the Horizon League. You got to win the Horizon League 464 00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:45.200 tournament to make the NCAA tournament. It has felt like, despite attrition, 465 00:31:45.319 -->

00:31:48.440 despite injuries, despite who you haven't had available, like your team has been 466 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.920 heading in the right direction, giving you hope to win this event. Yet 467 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.000 again, is that a fair assessment? Yeah, we felt good about how 468 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.960 we were playing, and as you said, the Milwaukee you know game was 469 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:02.319 the one hiccup, you know, no shame in loosing on the road to 470 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.759 Wright State in the season finale, and we just felt like individuals are continuing 471 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:09.920 to play much better. And some of it is honestly, you know, 472 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:15.880 you're just just trying to regroup and figure out how can you be good and 473 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:19.000 what are guy's role is going to be? And then once we figure that 474 00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.279 out, how can we get them confident in and and comfortable to do it 475 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.799 because of as you mentioned, the injuries and attrition and some things, and 476 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:29.720 so, you know, we felt like we were ahead of the right direction. 477 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:31.279 You know, again that guarantees nothing you got to show up and play 478 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:36.039 the game, especially in March. But we we definitely felt good about the 479 00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:38.400 direction we were headed heading into the tournament. Now, I'm sure at at 480 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:43.400 every turn over the last couple of months, you get asked about Marquez Warwick. 481 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:45.359 You know, he sets the record most points in the history of the 482 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.519 program. We get him on and it was it was great to talk to 483 00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.920 him. Just just walk me through what it's been like to watch him go 484 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:57.960 from a guy who was like built like a flagpole and couldn't guard anybody, 485 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:02.640 does somebody who has become such a foundational piece of of everything you do well. 486 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:07.000 I mean, I think, first of all, give Marquez the credit. 487 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:12.480 Uh, He's done all the work. He's an incredible worker. He's 488 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.200 a high character guy. He's a great teammate. Uh, he's a guy 489 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:19.799 that wants to be coached and wants to be good. And I think what 490 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:22.480 I'm most proud of and and and proud for him, I think is that 491 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:27.200 he came here as a guy that was a little overlooked, as you mentioned, 492 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:30.480 because he was skinny, because he wasn't very physically tough, because he 493 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:32.839 didn't defend well, seeing as only kind of a shooter and a score, 494 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:39.079 and he's gone from that with a lot of question marks to a bonafide superstar 495 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:44.039 winner that people are going to look to for generations and say, hey, 496 00:33:44.200 --> 00:33:45.880 if you not only want to be a great player, but you but you 497 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:49.079 want to be a winner and be all about the right stuff, that's what 498 00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:51.400 you need to be like. And uh, you know, it's just a 499 00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.480 testament to him and his character and his work ethic. I think, walk 500 00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:58.000 me through this weekend because you know, I mean, how how are you 501 00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.599 practicing like you can? Can you go five on five? What is that 502 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:06.640 like? It's hard? We're five on five with the walk Ons and maybe 503 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.960 a coach in there. Yeah, if we have to not a ton of 504 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.920 love stuff. Although I'll say this, mo, I think we do more 505 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:15.800 live stuff this time of year than most people do. I just kind of 506 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:20.639 feel like that's how the game's played, and we want to stay sharp, 507 00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:25.079 but practices will be very condensed and short. We're actually off the day. 508 00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:30.519 We'll get back to work tomorrow and kind of treat Monday like a normal two 509 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:34.559 day prep and then just you know, for fortunate enough to get that game, 510 00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.199 I just let it all hang out and try to dig deep and find 511 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:39.079 a way. On Tuesday, I can get up and down maybe four times. 512 00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:43.840 If you need some help this weekend, Hey, don't say that. 513 00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:45.519 We may put a call it, but but if I catch it, it's 514 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:51.039 going up. So just just keep that in mind. That's all right. 515 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:52.719 I've been telling Sam for weeks. I may just stick him in the corner 516 00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:59.920 and let him all right. Well, I'm counting on doing this again on 517 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.519 Wednesday after you win two more. It's a tradition. But last night's game 518 00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:07.679 was was so much fun to watch, so thrilling, and it was great 519 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:09.039 for you, for your kids, it was great for Marquez, great for 520 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:13.840 your program, and wanted to get you best of luck in Indianapolis. Hopefully 521 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:16.679 we're chatting middle of next week and waiting to see where you're gonna go a 522 00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:20.920 week from Sunday. Thank you as always, that would be great. Thanks 523 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.400 for the North love as always, anytime you got it. Darren Horn, 524 00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:28.760 great game last night. I mean legitimately,

whether you like nkau big fan, 525 00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:32.960 follow him, you know here and there, just a terrific college basketball 526 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.280 game last night and legitimately, like in my house, was on ESPN plus, 527 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:40.920 Go upstairs, put cross to bed come down at seventeen too, and 528 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.519 they had just played him on Saturday and had a hard time guarding Right State, 529 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:47.880 and it's like, oh boy. And in the second half of that 530 00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:51.000 game, you know, they got it to seven and a halftime, you 531 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.599 felt like they had a chance, and work in the second half was unbelievable. 532 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:59.000 They outlasted him in overtime and advance in an event they've been very good 533 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.079 at now for a while. On Milwaukee. Norse beat them by eighteen here 534 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:07.400 and lost to them by a point where a kid hits a three with just 535 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:09.519 over a second to go up there, and only lost in the last seven 536 00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:15.280 games leading up to that last regular season game against Wright State. Monday night, 537 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:20.079 they play the second half of the semi final doubleheader. Oakland and Cleveland 538 00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:23.320 State will play the first game, and then the Norse and Milwaukee game two, 539 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:28.280 with the winners advancing to the title tilt on Tuesday. Awesome stuff, 540 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:31.800 Darren Horn, always accommodating whenever we ask. It is five minutes away from 541 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:37.800 four o'clock. Free agency is about to start in the NFL, and it's 542 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.039 interesting, you know, we've talked a lot about how the Bengals used to 543 00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:44.320 be behind the times, and now when many respects, they're kind of ahead 544 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.800 of the curve. Right. So you've seen there's a piece incbsports dot com 545 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:51.239 today about how teams are looking at safeties, going, yeah, we're not 546 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:54.159 paying big money for safeties. It's kind of what the Bengals did. Now, 547 00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:59.320 the downside to that is you have what the Bengals had in the defensive 548 00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:01.880 backfield last year, which was a group of dudes who gave up a ton 549 00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:07.239 of deep passes. Safety is going to be perhaps a focus of free agency, 550 00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:12.079 so we'll a whole bunch of other positions. James Rapeen is going to 551 00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.440 join us at four h five to give us a Bengals free agency primer, 552 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:20.320 so to speak. We are looking forward to that. It's four minutes away 553 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:24.440 from four o'clock on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati sports station. This report BN 554 00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:30.920 fifteen thirty, an iHeartRadio station. She's outed serious. Hi, I'm Mullger. 555 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:36.039 This is ESPN fifteen thirty. I hope you're having a marvelous Friday afternoon. 556 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.000 Guess the foot wins. We're playing Guess the foot not now, not 557 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:44.400 not now. We're in like thirty minutes. We have Kevin Hart tickets to 558 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:49.239 give away. I'm also going to ask which college basketball program would you rather 559 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.079 be a fan of? And we are still waiting on something when it comes 560 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:59.039 to a very important red and we're going to spend some time on that in 561 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:00.719 in just a bit. It Uh my name is Malegger. If I didn't 562 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:04.960 already say that, and uh, we have James is James with us? 563 00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.760 Am? I am I interrupting something? Tarran? Were you and James talking 564 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.519 about something important? I was talking about giving, uh, given Joe burd 565 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:14.599 to my Vikings. You want Joe? You want Joe Burrow to play for 566 00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:16.480 the Vikings. I mean that's what James was talking. So, I mean 567 00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:21.119 I know you would want Joe Burrow to play for the Vikings, James, 568 00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:25.079 the Bengals gonna trade Joe Burrow to the Vikings. No, I actually said 569 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:29.840 that. He said he wanted Russell Wilson. Oh, he's a Viking's quarterback, 570 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:30.960 can I And you know what I said? Yeah? I said, 571 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:37.199 well, enjoy losing in a loud card round. That's it's rough, and 572 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:38.840 he's wishing Joe Burrow was on the phone. Okay, all right, I 573 00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:42.400 didn't I didn't know if there was something going on that I hadn't been paying 574 00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.239 attention to. I wasn't sure if there was a trade eminent between the Bengals 575 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:51.400 and Vikings sending Joe to to Minneapolis. No t for for Jefferson? Straight 576 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:54.719 up sound good to me? Signed, Sign me up for that, James 577 00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:59.119 or Pines with us? Maybe a couple of cop picks, Yes, yes, 578 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:05.360 all angles dot com locked on Bengals Cincinnati Bengals talk on YouTube, entered 579 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.159 the Jungle as the book, any other any anything else? I got a 580 00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:13.079 plug? Well, that's perfect. I appreciate it any any time. All 581 00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:15.800 Right, free agency is about to begin. Who is the one free agent, 582 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:22.880 realistic free agent that I should want? Oh? I like this one. 583

00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:25.719 I'm glad you said realistic because I would have easily said Chris Jones. 584 00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:31.679 Right, you know, Chris Jones would be the one to me this free 585 00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:37.760 agency period. It's weird because I'm not sure there's just one. It's easy 586 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:40.719 to say Michael and Len who But I don't even know if the Bengals view 587 00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:44.559 him as a tackle. So can I say he's the best right tackle on 588 00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:47.360 the market? When they made you jonah as that and I don't think that 589 00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:51.639 the door is really open for him to coming back. But I almost think 590 00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:57.480 it's a strategy of multiple defensive tackles, because I could say Christian Wilkins as 591 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.239 well, But I don't think that that's realistic. I'm not going to I'm 592 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:02.440 not going to pretend that they're swimming in those waters. So to me, 593 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:07.960 it would be multiple defensive tackles that completely boost that defensive front. Tierre Tart 594 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:12.719 would come to mind. He's not going to blow you away name recognition wise, 595 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:15.880 like Chris Jones well or like Christian Wilkins. But I would say that 596 00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:22.800 that they they find their Mike Hilton Chittobe Augier from twenty twenty one at the 597 00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:25.880 sense of tackle in twenty twenty four. That's what they need to do and 598 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.760 that has to be their primary goal over the next week or so. Yeah, 599 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.000 you went there, and that's where I was going to go first, 600 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:37.360 because, yeah, everybody salivates over Christian Wilkins and everybody would love Chris Jones, 601 00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:38.920 and those players are great, they're not realistic. When I look at 602 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:44.960 the mid tier defensive tackles, I think there's enough there to make this unit 603 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:51.000 at least somewhat significantly better. Oh yeah, there is, but there's no 604 00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:54.599 doubt, and it's a matter of a couple of things. One are the 605 00:40:54.639 --> 00:41:00.840 Bengals how hard are they going to push to resigned DJ Reader and will they 606 00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:05.920 bring him back? A lot of the defensive tackles in this class are pushing 607 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:09.920 thirty, are just over thirty, and that doesn't matter to some teams, 608 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:14.360 but to the Bengals, they've had success going after the guys going into their 609 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:19.039 second contract in their mid twenties, and there aren't a lot of options if 610 00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:22.360 you just narrow it down to that exclusively. So I do think that they'll 611 00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:25.920 have to bend a little bit. I think Tier Tard is one of those 612 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:31.119 guys that does meet that criteria. Now there are some questions he was released 613 00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:34.559 by the Titans last year, but the Bengals did put in acclaim form, 614 00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:38.360 so they clearly liked him at that point. I do wonder Javon Kimlall's another 615 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:45.000 one that I could see Ashawn Robinson, but again twenty nine, so how 616 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.599 close are you age wise to that? Raekwon Davis? So to me, 617 00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.519 the question isn't about Wilkins and Chris Jones. It's about how do they view 618 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:55.840 DJ Reader and Do they think DJ Reader can be back week one? Are 619 00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:00.599 they willing to pay him enough to get the deal done soon? Ish doesn't 620 00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:02.840 feel like it's going to get done before free agency starts. And if not, 621 00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.599 do they have to meet their normal age requirements? Because if not, 622 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:10.800 I like Daikwon Jones, I think that Shelby Harris has something left in the 623 00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:14.559 tank, but he's thirty three. He's going into his age thirty three season. 624 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:16.880 Are they okay with doing a one year deal with some of those guys? 625 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:20.159 I think they should be open to it, especially if it's just a 626 00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:22.840 one year deal at a position of need like defensive tackle. There's a billion 627 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:29.000 of them out there. Now. Are they signing a safety? I think 628 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:35.039 they kind of have to now, And it's there are just so many right, 629 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:39.079 it's wild, Like it really stinks because if the safety market was like 630 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:44.199 this last year, yeah, they might have just stumbled into von Belligan like 631 00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:47.400 and being able to re sign him on the cheap and so it not had 632 00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:52.239 to go down the Knicks guy Nick Scott pipeline. But yeah, there's so 633 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:57.239 many guys, and I think there'll be one that meets there that the age 634 00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.960 requirement, the second year con you know, the second content track type requirement 635 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:05.280 that they look for and have had so much success with. Here's my concern 636 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.079 about safety, is them looking at it and saying, oh, well, 637 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:10.840 let's go get the best one. We had such issues at safety last year. 638 00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:15.480 They've invested a lot in safety. First rounder in Dak Sell, fifth 639 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:17.880 rounder and Tyson Anderson the next year, third rounder in Jordan Battle. You 640

00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:21.920 have the Nick Scott money, and then it's going to be whoever they sign 641 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.679 this year. I don't need them going after Zager McKinney necessarily. I think 642 00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:30.840 going after one of these mid range guys is going to give them a ton 643 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:35.760 of value. And maybe it starts with Jordan Fuller, who's also a RAM 644 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:39.599 safety, but maybe he's what they're looking for and he fits Tshan Elliott's out 645 00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:44.880 there is twenty seven years old. I think Darnell Savage is certainly someone that 646 00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:47.960 they could target. Maybe a Cincinnati native if they wanted to go like two 647 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.519 three million dollars a year. Mike Edwards could be someone that they could start. 648 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:54.559 So there are a lot of guys out there, and I didn't name 649 00:43:54.639 --> 00:44:00.599 the eight thousand that were released this week, including Justinson, until I know 650 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:04.840 a lot of people are on board with yeah. Yeah, Is there a 651 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.360 corner who might make sense? Is there like a new version of Eli Apple? 652 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:13.159 Who's not Eli Apple? You don't want Eli back? No? Oh 653 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:15.400 man, Well no, I mean from from the standpoint of from the standpoint 654 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:20.840 of Eli being immensely entertaining. Sure, from the standpoint of wanting to watch 655 00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:23.840 someone not have the ball go over their head. No, that's fair, 656 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:29.480 No, that's fair. I think I do think that they will look at 657 00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:32.840 the veteran corner market because because why not that they have the money, and 658 00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:37.159 I think that's that's part of what's interesting here is the Bengals. They have 659 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:43.199 plenty of room and plenty of flexibility to spend, and there's no obvious, 660 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:47.039 clear cut, huge Orlando Brown junior type signing that I expect them to make. 661 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.280 So at corner, like, do they go after Christian Fulton is out 662 00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:53.840 of Tennessee. You know he's probably going to get a one year deal. 663 00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:58.280 I think he's projected to get He is twenty six years old, almost twenty 664 00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:01.840 six. I think Robertson from Las Vegas, jeff A. Kudah former Top 665 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:05.880 five picks from the lines, I think he was third, right, So 666 00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:09.119 do they go that first round corner pedigree kind of like the Eli Apple Train 667 00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:14.280 the Reclamation project. I could see them doing that. I can also see 668 00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:19.360 Chobei Luzia going out there not getting what he was hoping to get and coming 669 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:21.880 back because he is a good fit. And I do think they like Cheeto. 670 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:25.840 Yeah, I just think it's there's a difference in what they value or 671 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.239 the way they look at him right now given the injury and how he played 672 00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.840 last year versus what he's hoping to get on the market. Yeah, it's 673 00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:36.000 second time you've done this, you read in my mind. That was my 674 00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:38.119 next question, Like, does it have to be a foregone conclusion that Cheeto's 675 00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:43.280 not here in twenty twenty four. No, not at all. I think 676 00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:46.920 he's I think you could compare it to Jermaine Pratt to a certain extent last 677 00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:51.400 year, where it felt like it was the end to Jermaine, like he 678 00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:53.559 was just going to go elsewhere, And it feels that way with Cheto, 679 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:58.719 Like I do think I'll likely sign elsewhere just because the Bengals aren't going to 680 00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:01.199 give him a ton of money. At the same time, let's say they're 681 00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:05.840 offering him four million bucks or something like that for one year. If he 682 00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:08.360 goes out there and he only has a bunch of one year offers, he 683 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:13.679 knows what he's getting here, and yeah, the playing time could be up 684 00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:15.960 in the air a bit, but he also knows the competition that he has 685 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:20.079 to beat out for playing time. So I can certainly see him picking around 686 00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:23.519 and there's certainly a path to him returning. James Rapine Allbengals dot com, 687 00:46:23.559 --> 00:46:29.559 Cincinnati Bengals Talk on Twitter, lockedw Bengals podcast on Twitter at James rape And 688 00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:32.920 I watched your commentary on the two former Bengals tight ends who have been let 689 00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:37.760 loose this week, and the internet has had a lot of fun speculating about 690 00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:40.440 cj Uzama and Hayden Hurst. Hayden Hurst a reunion there, I'm all in 691 00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:46.159 cj Uzama does not a ton for me. Let's say let's say it's neither 692 00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:52.280 of those guys for whatever reason, and let's just say they're not going to 693 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:57.800 bring back Irvsmith, who's a free agent Titan that would make sense, that 694 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:01.760 could still allow them to find a long term end in the draft. Are 695 00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:07.000 you saying you don't want to Smith the return? Come on, he runs 696 00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:13.000 like me, So no, No, I think I think one thing that 697 00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:17.199 really hurt. It's a pretty

thin tight end market in general, and the 698 00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:21.360 draft isn't great at tight end. We talked about brock Powers, but this 699 00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:22.920 isn't the tight end class like it was last year. It's not a great 700 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:27.239 tight end class there, and free agency wise, it's how two guys are 701 00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:30.159 gone Hunter Henry and Dalton Schultz. Henry signed to day with the Patriots. 702 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:34.199 So I look at it Noah fans. I think he's going to get ten 703 00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:36.639 million plus a year, And I know a lot of people have looked at 704 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:39.519 him as like a former first rounder. Has had crappy quarterbacks in Denver and 705 00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:44.880 Seattle. Bring him in. He's a perfect answer and long term answer to 706 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:49.199 the Bengals tight end issues. Are you paying him ten million plus because it's 707 00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:52.280 not like he had eight hundred yards last year? And maybe he ends up 708 00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:54.480 being good, But I just don't know if it's worth that type of investment. 709 00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:59.159 I don't think the Bengals will go there. Gerald Everett's interesting, he 710 00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:04.599 is thirty. Will they go that route? One name that I like, 711 00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:08.159 and he might be a guy that would almost sort of replace Drew sample. 712 00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:10.000 He may give you a little bit more in the passing game, but as 713 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:15.519 a quality blocker as well as Kobe Parkinson from Seattle to the other Seattle tight 714 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:17.400 end. I think that's someone that they could potentially target on a low end 715 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:22.840 deal. But I'm talking about Kobe Parkinson that quick for a reason, most 716 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:24.320 because there's not many out there. Mike is SICKI is a name that a 717 00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.880 lot of people know. I think he could go for maybe a Hurt Smith 718 00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:30.960 type deal two two and a half million dollars, But they didn't go after 719 00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:35.599 him last year. It didn't feel like so if it's not him, it 720 00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:38.280 really might be Hayden Hurst and Tanner, Hudson and Drew Sample. He might 721 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:42.760 bring back the band, so to speak, and hope to get one in 722 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:44.840 the draft. That might be the best bet at this point. Yeah, 723 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:49.440 noms, that seems plausible in two weeks, not two months. In two 724 00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:53.480 weeks, what is the best case scenario for how the depth chart looks at 725 00:48:53.559 --> 00:49:02.320 running back? It is younger, deeper in wide open. I think the 726 00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:07.559 Bengals they need to get cheaper there. That matters. It matters because you 727 00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:12.320 are going to be spending If it's me at GM. They are investing in 728 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:17.800 two defensive linemen, at least one right tackle, at least it's certainly a 729 00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:22.159 safety corner. You know, all these other positions, you're investing in those, 730 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:25.239 and so why not get younger, get cheaper at running back and use 731 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:29.679 that. Maybe that is the difference and going after Noah Fan. I would 732 00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:35.239 rather have Noah Fan than bargain bin tight end and Joe Mixon on the roster 733 00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:37.519 for an eight million dollar cap hit. So to me, I think it's 734 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.599 going after one of these under the radar running backs. I don't even know 735 00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:45.559 if I want to say that, but like a Zach Moss, someone in 736 00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:52.000 that range that as some explosion has done it in a committee is going to 737 00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:55.159 come in with no ego and also leaves the door wide open in the draft 738 00:49:55.199 --> 00:50:00.519 because I think this draft, in rounds two through five through if you want 739 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:02.679 to include the cop picks especially, I think the Bengals can have two backs 740 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:07.880 in this draft pretty realistically and have a true running back by committee where it's 741 00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:09.960 not oh, you're the passing down back, You're you're the guy that's going 742 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.400 to run the ball, You're the guy that's going to pass block, No 743 00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:16.880 find out a real committee approach, and so I think that's the best that 744 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:21.800 it's not going after Derek Henry or Sayhorn Barkley and spending huge money. But 745 00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:25.840 it's getting younger there and it's getting cheaper to use those resources elsewhere. I'm 746 00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:30.159 sure you have other things to do at four twenty on a Friday afternoon, 747 00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:34.119 So I do appreciate your time, and I'm sure I'll be bugging you often 748 00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:37.119 in the coming weeks. Thank you as always, I appreciate you. Thanks 749 00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:40.719 for having me well anytime. That's our buddy, James Rapine. Check out 750 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:44.480 his work. It's all over the place, all Bengals dot com, his 751 00:50:44.599 --> 00:50:49.800 YouTube channels insanely good Cincinnati Bengals Talk. He's part of the Lockdown Bengals podcast, 752 00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:52.440 and if you haven't bought his book, Enter the Jungle. What are 753 00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:57.880 you waiting for? Cincinnati Bengals book dot com. Basically, spend all your 754 00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:02.199 time on the internet consuming James Rapine content. It is seventeen

minutes after four 755 00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:06.360 o'clock. By the way, the people who voted for guests the foot one. 756 00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:09.440 So we're gonna play. We're gonna play in about fifteen minutes. Sometimes 757 00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:14.760 a game against the Foot lasts like three minutes, and sometimes it takes like 758 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.360 the better part of ninety minutes. So you know, we had a chance 759 00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:22.159 to not play Guess the Foot. I personally love playing Guess the foot to 760 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:27.079 right, We enjoy it. But for those who hate it, well, 761 00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:30.000 number one, you could have come up with a better idea. Number two, 762 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:32.760 you could have voted. You could have created fake Twitter accounts and voted 763 00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:36.840 multiple times, but you didn't. So we're gonna play Guess the foot. 764 00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:40.239 But first we're gonna talk about Hunter Green Honty. Yes we have what Oh 765 00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:45.119 no, that doesn't sound good. We'll talk about it doing the next segment. 766 00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:49.480 We have Breaking Red's News. Yes, oh no, not good. 767 00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:53.599 Oh no, we have Breaking Red's News, and I'm told it's not good. 768 00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:59.960 Noelve Marte is that what I'm looking at here? Yes? Noelve Martin 769 00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:04.679 has been suspended eighty games for violating the PED policy. This according to a 770 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:10.519 Charlie Goldsmith, who tweets quote, the Reds fully support Major League Baseball's drug 771 00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:15.079 policy in its penalties. We will have no further comment. Noel A. 772 00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:22.199 Marte suspended half a season for violating the ped policy. That's that's it's gonna 773 00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:25.480 be interesting. It's gonna be interesting. Now I'm looking at the official release 774 00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:31.960 from the Reds. Noelve Marte this is from the Reds receives an eighty game 775 00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:39.639 suspension without pay after testing positive for bold End, known a performance enhancing substance 776 00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:44.519 bold End known b O L d E n O n E bold n own 777 00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:50.519 bold n own. The suspension becomes effective at the beginning of the twenty twenty 778 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:53.320 four seasons, so he misses half of the year. And so when noelve 779 00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:57.440 Marte puts together a Hall of Fame resume, we're going to revisit this and 780 00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:00.480 go, you know what, he cheated. That's tough one. Noelve Marte, 781 00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:02.960 who had a hit in his last sixteen games at the end of the 782 00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:08.400 season last year. That's not good. We'll spend some time on that and 783 00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:14.400 talk Hunter Green. Next. ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports station, Boo 784 00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:19.760 Clock. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. My name's Mulleger. So noelve Marte 785 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:24.480 eighty game suspension. By the way, I googled here this drug that he 786 00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:29.840 took hang on. I got a lot of tabs open. Noelve Marte. 787 00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:36.679 He's obviously sort of earmarked, perhaps to be the starting third baseman for the 788 00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:40.280 Reds. He's been tested positive for bold and own. Bold and own? 789 00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:44.199 Is it bold and own? Look, man, I'm not an expert on 790 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:52.000 PDEs. Bold and Own. It's an anabotic, in abotic, anabolic androgenic 791 00:53:52.079 --> 00:54:00.199 steroid and synthetic derivative of testosterone that was originally developed for veterinary use but has 792 00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:05.480 since become one of the more common performance enhancing drugs that athletes test positive for 793 00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:09.639 in sports. I'm reading this from the US Anti Doping Agency's website. So 794 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:16.280 boy, that sucks. Now from a baseball perspective, you know, Jonathan 795 00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:24.199 India is still on the Reds. They signed Jma or Candelario. I guess 796 00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:29.880 I would imagine that Candelario is now going to play a lot more at third 797 00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:37.079 base. Jonathan India as a depth piece suddenly moves up the depth chart. 798 00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:39.519 I think one of the things that's interesting is we've talked a lot about the 799 00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:45.079 possibility of the Reds trading Jonathan India pros and cons and going back to the 800 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:50.079 trade deadline last year. What I don't know and what I don't want to 801 00:54:50.119 --> 00:54:55.239 be irresponsible in speculating, but what you can't help but wonder is did when 802 00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:59.920 did the Reds? When did the parties involved find out? Was it the 803 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:04.880 morning, was it yesterday? Was it months ago? And did they find 804 00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:09.960 out during a time in which they were considering trading Jonathan India? And did 805 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:13.119 they go, well, wait a minute, something could be coming down the 806 00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:15.599 pike with noelve Martin And I'm I'm just wondering. I'm not. I don't 807 00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:17.760 want to get to a point where I'm going, Hey, here's what's happened. 808 00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:22.880 I'm a lot of things that aren't good, but I'm I'm not irresponsible, 809 00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:27.719 but I don't I'll be completely honest. I don't know how. I 810 00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.599 don't know the timing of how these things come down. I don't know if 811 00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:31.599 this is the sort of thing that came down,

you know, two hours 812 00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:36.119 ago and the Reds had to send out a statement and noelve Marte gets canned 813 00:55:36.119 --> 00:55:39.880 for half the season. But it cuts into their depth. I mean that, 814 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:44.519 dude. You know, during a period of time where the Reds were 815 00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:49.360 not simply just playing out the string, noelve Marte, in a very limited 816 00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:53.960 amount of time, played thirty four games, did nothing but hit, nothing 817 00:55:54.280 --> 00:56:00.639 but hit, And you know he was among the many reasons. We're excited 818 00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:06.719 about the team this year. So that's that's bad news. On a Friday, 819 00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:09.199 Noel V. Marte suspended eighty games, and we'll see what the fallout 820 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:14.920 is. The Reds play a night game tonight against the Dodgers in Glendale. 821 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:19.480 We leave the air at six o'clock. I haven't seen anything from David Bell 822 00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:23.199 or Nick Crawl or anything like that. The only statement the Reds have made. 823 00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:27.199 They've made is an organization which basically says, we support you know, 824 00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:31.079 what baseball's doing here. But eighty games for you know, half season for 825 00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:36.320 a guy who's considered I think most of us would consider to be a big 826 00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:40.079 part of this club's foundation moving forward, and the guy for me, at 827 00:56:40.159 --> 00:56:43.760 least if I had to say, he would be the starting third baseman every 828 00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:45.719 single day. Now, that can't be the case for half the year. 829 00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:50.800 Eighty games. I mean, the Reds have a lot of young pieces, 830 00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:53.719 a lot of depth, but you're you're starting the season. We're three a 831 00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:59.480 little bit less than three weeks away from opening day, and we are we're 832 00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:04.880 starting with that news that here's a now at least here you know the definitive 833 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:07.760 end date. It's eighty games. Like, if it's a guy who gets 834 00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:09.960 hurt, we go half the season. Suddenly that turns into the entire season, 835 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:14.280 or it turns into one hundred and twenty games. But you're finding out 836 00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:17.840 weeks before opening day, this key guy is gonna miss half the season. 837 00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:24.800 Not great, not great. So Noelle marte eighty games. More on him 838 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:29.559 specifically here in a bit, And if we get anything specifically from Arizona in 839 00:57:29.559 --> 00:57:32.599 regards to people like David Bell or others, will pass it along to you. 840 00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:37.440 The Reds played a night game against the Cubs

that was aired on MLB 841 00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:43.679 Network. They carried the Cubs broadcast. The game ended in a two to 842 00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:46.639 two tie. Hunter Green was not sharp, walk three guys in three innings, 843 00:57:46.679 --> 00:57:50.719 gave up a homer. He did strike out five. He wasn't sharp. 844 00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:54.599 We all know Hunter Green has a lot of upside. When he has 845 00:57:54.639 --> 00:58:00.360 a rough outing, there's a reaction to that that is different than if it's 846 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:05.559 Graham Ashcraft or Andrew Abbott or anybody else. And I understand why the expectations 847 00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:08.760 for Hunter Green are higher, and to a degree should be higher. He's 848 00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:13.320 also, in many respects very much the face of the franchise. He's the 849 00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:16.840 guy they've invested in Hunter Green. He's a guy that at this starting staff 850 00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:21.280 is going to take a major step forward. It is going to start with 851 00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:25.400 him. Now, you might go, well, overreacting to a spring start 852 00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:30.199 or two is silly, and to a degree that's the case. But Hunter 853 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:32.960 Green came off the injured list last year and posted an ERA as six point 854 00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:37.440 fifty two over his last eight or nine starts, and one of those starts 855 00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:42.239 he was dominant in September. Remember the fourteenth strikeout game against the Twins. 856 00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:47.519 Take that out and the ERA is just one metric is obscenely high. So 857 00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:53.039 I think it's unfair to lose your mind and make conclusions about Hunter Green based 858 00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:59.280 on a start. I also think it's reasonable when you see him go through 859 00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:04.920 some struggle to wonder if that's indicative of a guy who's not yet ready to 860 00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:10.400 ascend to a place of reliability. There is still when any of these young 861 00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:15.239 starting pitchers take the mound, and I hope, I hope, sincerely, 862 00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:19.519 I hope that this is not the case mid By the midway point of the 863 00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:24.400 season. There is still when any of these guys is set to start a 864 00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:31.480 game. And unpredictability in regards to how they're going to do. Now, 865 00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:36.920 even reliable and good starters have clunkers. Right, everybody's allowed a bad start. 866 00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:42.480 I've watched Johnnyquato get his head kicked in, I've watched Luis Castillo get 867 00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:46.159 destroyed. I mean, it happens. But we are still with so many 868 00:59:46.199 --> 00:59:52.239 of these guys. For all the talent and upside they have, we are 869 00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:55.280 still dealing with guys who, when they take the mound, you kind of 870 00:59:55.320 --> 01:00:01.599 have no idea what you're gonna get. And until that's not the case, 871 01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:08.880 meaningless starts. More is going to be read into them than they would be 872 01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:15.280 for a picture who has achieved reliability. Hunter Green hasn't. And I think 873 01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:20.159 that's if you're gonna sit on your hands with this club. I think that's 874 01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:24.000 the main reason why. Right, even the guy who is in many respects 875 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:28.079 the face of the franchise, and you might argue it's Elie de la Cruz 876 01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:31.800 whatever, and in many respects, Hunter Green is the guy that they've decided 877 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:35.519 this is our dude. He's the guy that got the coin, he's the 878 01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:40.599 guy they invested in. He's the guy whose arbitration years were bought out starting 879 01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:50.039 pitching improvement in twenty twenty four. Starts with him. He's unreliable sounds harsh. 880 01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:54.280 Unreliability is part of youth, right, I mean, it just is. 881 01:00:54.559 --> 01:01:01.239 The unreliability is a byproduct of youth. But we're asking these guys to 882 01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:05.480 grow up in a very short amount of time. If we're going to expect 883 01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:08.119 this team to win the number of games we hope they can win, right, 884 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:13.880 And so you know, I was hanging out last night and a gentleman 885 01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:15.960 came up to me and we started talking. He goes, how many games 886 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:16.880 think the Reds are going to win? And I go, I got them 887 01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:22.760 between like eighty and eighty four, eighty and eighty five, which doesn't have 888 01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:23.639 them that far away. And he's like, come on, man, what 889 01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:27.880 about a hundred green? And I'm like, your guess is as good as 890 01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:30.880 mine, Like, I don't know. The upside and the talent are there, 891 01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:34.639 but I don't know what his year is going to look like. And 892 01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:38.079 unfortunately, you could say that about so many of these guys. There's just 893 01:01:38.599 --> 01:01:42.599 on a given night, Graham Asscraft is getting the ball. Are they winning 894 01:01:42.599 --> 01:01:47.559 tonight? I hope so, but I don't know. And in my lifetime 895 01:01:47.559 --> 01:01:52.639 when the Reds have been good. Admittedly, I'm referring to for the most 896 01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:57.119 part, a stretch of time where pitchers were expected to go deeper into games. 897 01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:00.280 But when they've been at their best, you kind of knew this. 898 01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:02.840 You know who. Aaron Harang's pitching tonight, Damn

good chance to win, 899 01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:07.440 right, Luis Castillo is pitching tonight, Damn good chance to win. Bronson 900 01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:12.800 Arroyo is pitching tonight. Damn good chance to win. With the Reds, 901 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:17.159 We're not there with any of these guys. That has to change, and 902 01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:22.039 until it does, I think starts like last night, a little bit more 903 01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:25.199 is going to be read into than they would be if Hunter Green was a 904 01:02:25.239 --> 01:02:35.960 more reliable starting pitcher. It's twenty eight away from five o'clock. Shannon's with 905 01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:39.079 us to rave about the Nkunrse Shannon Minor, we had Darren hornon did you 906 01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:46.719 hear that? Did you hear anything? I didn't listen? Oh? Well 907 01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:51.800 good apparently? So how's it going? Usually? You know, I come 908 01:02:51.880 --> 01:02:53.800 on after a break, come before the break. I didn't want to make 909 01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:59.280 you wait through a break. Man. That's awesome that you're treating n KU. 910 01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:04.280 You know better and better each each year we win, we MKU win. 911 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:07.199 You know I heard attorney earlier day. I knew you know, I 912 01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:10.639 sent you the text that this is what Cincinnati needs, a hero like Mark 913 01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:15.119 wes Ward. Yeah. Does it make you feel does it make you feel 914 01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:19.000 bad that you have slid down the list of NKU greats because of Mark west 915 01:03:19.039 --> 01:03:22.599 work every year? I was hanging with one last night through McDonald and wow, 916 01:03:22.719 --> 01:03:27.400 And it's good. If there are people that come after me that are 917 01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:30.920 better than me, that's great because that means the program is getting better and 918 01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:35.719 better every year, getting further and further more consistency, you know. And 919 01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:37.559 I think I talked to you a little bit about this, you know before 920 01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:42.679 with Darren Horne. It's a shame they give the coach a year out so 921 01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:45.960 early. Not that the coach camp doesn't deserve it at Oakland, but hey, 922 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.639 I'm telling you what if NKU can make it to the championship game and 923 01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:52.880 knockoff you know, I'm assuming it'll be Oakland, What a great story that 924 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:57.920 would be for college basketball for the Tri State. When it was seventeen to 925 01:03:57.960 --> 01:04:00.400 two last night, how did you feel? Not good? I mean, 926 01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:03.320 I'm sitting there and actually my wife is at home. I'm texting her. 927 01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:08.280 You know, good thing I wasn't the coach last night because I already felt 928 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:11.360 I've felt like, you know, it was going in the wrong direction. 929 01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:15.119 But you know what, well, that run can go on in the middle 930 01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:16.719 of the game as well. You know, it just so happened to be 931 01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:20.159 that that run was at the beginning of the game and kind of set the 932 01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:25.480 tone. And you know, NKU stuck with what they did. And I'll 933 01:04:25.519 --> 01:04:28.559 tell you what, they only have about seven guys that they can play right 934 01:04:28.599 --> 01:04:31.519 now with injuries. And Ken did not look good last night. He was 935 01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:35.079 hobbling up and down the court, maybe played ten minutes. Hit a big 936 01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:38.199 shot at the end of the game though in the middle of the lane. 937 01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:41.360 I mean a lot of big shots last night. But the poise that the 938 01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:45.199 team played with last night, the coaching staff being under control of Darren Horne, 939 01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:46.920 making some great calls at the end of the game, getting the ball 940 01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:50.639 to his best player where he needs to get it. Him scoring seventy four 941 01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:54.280 points in two games against the same team. I mean, it's just an 942 01:04:54.360 --> 01:04:58.599 unbelievable story in a time where you know, we talked about this before was 943 01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:02.880 Zavier and you see maybe strong a little bit, have an Nku, you 944 01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:06.119 know, win right now. And the way they're doing it is it's exciting 945 01:05:06.199 --> 01:05:10.440 for for this area. Yeah, it is. So as as a player, 946 01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:14.000 I literally turned the game on and it was seventeen to two, and 947 01:05:14.039 --> 01:05:16.159 so they get it to seven at halftime. And so the stretch of game 948 01:05:16.199 --> 01:05:19.039 that I saw, NKU was the better team, and I'm thinking, all 949 01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:25.000 right, what I just watched can overcome seven points over the next twenty minutes. 950 01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:28.920 As a player, when you have faced that deficit, are you targeting? 951 01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:30.159 Look, let's get it to eight, Let's get into double digits. 952 01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.679 That sort of thing you are. You know, as a coach, always 953 01:05:33.679 --> 01:05:36.159 want to try to win those four minute wars. You know, each coach 954 01:05:36.199 --> 01:05:40.679 always talks about, you know, the TV, the media timeout at sixteen, 955 01:05:40.719 --> 01:05:43.119 at twelve, at eight, and so you're always going in that hole 956 01:05:43.119 --> 01:05:45.119 as a coach. All right, we're down seventeen, let's get it to 957 01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:46.400 thirteen. All right, now, let's get it to eight. You know, 958 01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:49.079

let's try to win this stretch. And you know, Drew McDonald brought 959 01:05:49.119 --> 01:05:51.760 up a good point last night. If we can hold him under forty points, 960 01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:55.920 I think he said forty two points in the first half. Then we 961 01:05:55.960 --> 01:05:59.119 got a shot. I think they had forty they being Right State, and 962 01:05:59.159 --> 01:06:01.400 then he looked at me, turn around and said, hey, look if 963 01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:03.960 in K you can get the lead, and they did in the last maybe 964 01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:08.840 two minutes, I guarantee they win. And he was right. You know, 965 01:06:08.840 --> 01:06:11.719 I thought about this, is it easier or harder to play from behind? 966 01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:14.199 Like a lot of times I would rather be up seventeen to two, 967 01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:17.079 But at times I think your team becomes complacent. I'm not saying that's what 968 01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:20.519 Right State did, but I think maybe and K you pressed a little bit 969 01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:25.159 more in terms of not pressing full court. I'm saying press to like make 970 01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:28.719 shots and to play better. And they're you know, they just came out 971 01:06:28.760 --> 01:06:30.559 and played a lot better. But as a coach, yes, you want 972 01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:32.800 to make sure that you're cutting that lead down as you go. Each time 973 01:06:32.840 --> 01:06:35.840 out that you have, you're telling those guys to motivate them to cut that 974 01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:40.280 lead and get it small and smaller by halftime. Will you be in Indianapolis 975 01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:44.239 on Monday night. I'm going to try to be there earlier if I can, 976 01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:47.280 but I will be there. I'm spending the night there. I'm going, 977 01:06:47.360 --> 01:06:51.320 I can't wait. Excited about it. I know the team is. 978 01:06:51.679 --> 01:06:55.599 I know I thought to Mitchelle earlier today and he's excited. You know. 979 01:06:55.639 --> 01:06:58.400 Obviously he doesn't get out there and play, but you know he feels a 980 01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:01.000 part of it and being in a huddle and trying to motivate those guys from 981 01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:05.000 the bench. I think everybody has a role on the team and and it's 982 01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:09.480 very exciting now to see them get into where they are and kind of having 983 01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:12.880 those ups and downs this year but getting through it. You know, it's 984 01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:15.760 a you got a one seed of five or six and the seven, so 985 01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:17.519 right now, you know, NK, you've got a really good shot. 986 01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:21.440 It's all over the place, all right. Congrats to the Norse and I'm 987 01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:25.079 sure if they keep winning, we'll talk to you some more. Thank you 988 01:07:25.119 --> 01:07:28.000 so much. I appreciate it. Thanks mom, There you go. All 989 01:07:28.079 --> 01:07:31.880 right. So there's Shannon and then we had the Noelve Marte news and then 990 01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:36.079 me babbling about Hunter Green sod tarn. We are way late. What does 991 01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:40.800 what does this mean for our game of guess the foot? Oh man? 992 01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:44.360 Maybe one round and then if they don't get into one round, we might 993 01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:46.639 have to. All right, well, let's let's do this. We'll reset 994 01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:49.760 here the foot. We have the picture up. I haven't put it on 995 01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:53.320 social media, but it's on my website. Remember when I used to have 996 01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:57.880 a blog that that website still exists. I don't write blogs anymore, but 997 01:07:57.960 --> 01:08:00.719 I do. I do. I do put you know, the podcasts and 998 01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:04.159 stuff up on it. But we have the picture. If you go to 999 01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:11.199 ESPN fifteen thirty dot com slash mo, you'll see it says guess the foot 1000 01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:15.719 to win tickets to see Kevin Hart and click on that, and there's a 1001 01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:18.880 picture of someone's foot and if you could identify whose foot it is. And 1002 01:08:18.960 --> 01:08:23.000 I think this is pretty easy. I think I've made I think we've made 1003 01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:27.720 all the contests this week reasonably easy. Five one three, seven, four 1004 01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:30.800 nine, fifteen thirty eight six six seven oh two three seven seven six And 1005 01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:34.840 the first person who can guess the foot will win a pair of tickets to 1006 01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:38.159 go see Kevin Hart. And by the way, don't be like that guy 1007 01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:41.760 who called yesterday who already won, Like if you already won Kevin Hart tickets, 1008 01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:45.159 don't don't don't be that person. Don't be greedy. Five one, 1009 01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:46.399 three, seven, four, nine, fifteen thirty out. I'll send the 1010 01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:50.159 link out here and we'll play guess the foot for Kevin Hart tickets. We'll 1011 01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:54.720 do sports headlines, and somehow, some way we'll get back on time on 1012 01:08:54.960 --> 01:09:00.239 ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station. Which players will love it? Which 1013 01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:02.840 players will go? All? Right? Here? Least us a look at 1014 01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:08.560 the free agent frenzy brought to you by Plumb Type Plumbing, heating, cooling 1015 01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:15.560 and Dreams and Centinadi Asphalt. No, here's Moegger. When the Bengals signed 1016 01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:18.119 DJ Reader as a free agent in twenty twenty, it proved to be one 1017 01:09:18.119 --> 01:09:23.640 of the better signings in team history. Reader ended up anchoring the defensive

line 1018 01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:27.479 during the team's deep playoff runs in twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty two, 1019 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:30.079 Reader, though, is set to hit free agency, but he's doing 1020 01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:34.439 so after suffering a major quad injury toward the end of last season. Will 1021 01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:39.720 Reader be back in Cincinnati and will the injury make him more affordable? Can 1022 01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:44.159 the Bengals bring back Reader and add a defensive tackle in free agency? Could 1023 01:09:44.199 --> 01:09:47.199 the Bengals move on from Reader and sign multiple de tackles. There might not 1024 01:09:47.239 --> 01:09:51.760 be a position with more questions and possibilities than on the interior of the defensive 1025 01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:57.640 line. For more on the free agent Frenchy, keep it here on ESPN 1026 01:09:57.760 --> 01:10:02.600 fifteen thirty, the official home of Them Bengals. We are way late here. 1027 01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:06.359 I'm not sure how that happened. Quarter to five on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1028 01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:11.159 I have put the link to the foot on Twitter. We're playing guests 1029 01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:15.319 the foot sorry at Muleger and click on the link, look at the foot, 1030 01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:19.039 examine it, study it, peruse it, and then call us and 1031 01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:24.119 if you can correctly guess whose foot it is. I think this is easy. 1032 01:10:24.439 --> 01:10:29.520 You'll win Kevin Hart tickets. Before we talked to some of our contestants 1033 01:10:29.560 --> 01:10:32.239 already waiting on hold five win. We're not doing Twitter like. You can't 1034 01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:34.960 reply on Twitter. This is a does a radio contest. You have to 1035 01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:40.479 pick up the phone and call and talk to another human being five point three 1036 01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:43.119 seven four nine, fifteen thirty before we do that, even though we're late, 1037 01:10:43.319 --> 01:10:45.119 I gotta do sports headlines. They're a service of Kelsey chevid Lay Home 1038 01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:49.279 of lifetime power training, protection and guaranteed credit approval from their family to yours 1039 01:10:49.640 --> 01:10:55.399 for life. Kelseyshev dot com rads Thord Basement. Noel ve Marte popped eighty 1040 01:10:55.479 --> 01:11:00.560 games for Peds. Suspension starts on opening day. He'll miss half the Seasonoevado 1041 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:05.239 accepts an invitation to join the Blue Jays as a non roster player. Best 1042 01:11:05.239 --> 01:11:09.000 of luck to Joey. Meanwhile, the Reds play a game tonight against the 1043 01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:15.640 Dodgers in Glendale, Arizona eight oh five tonight, seven hundred WLW. Reds 1044 01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:18.960 have also sent some dudes to a minor league camp. Casey Legumina, Christian 1045 01:11:19.079 --> 01:11:25.760 Roa, Carson Spyers, Rhese Hines, and Jacob hurd Abes Jacob Herdibees college 1046 01:11:25.800 --> 01:11:30.159 basketball tonight, Dayton's hosting VCU, Miami is hosting Ohio, and the Lasso 1047 01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:34.640 play basketball tomorrow. You see home for West Virginia's Xavier home for Marquette. 1048 01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:41.079 Kentucky's at Tennessee. On Sunday, Ohio State battles Rutgers in Jersey and Indiana 1049 01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:45.760 will host Michigan State MKU awaiting Monday's tilt in the Horizon League semifinals against Milwaukee. 1050 01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:50.439 F C Cincinnati plays DC United on Sunday, and the Cyclones plate tonight 1051 01:11:50.479 --> 01:11:55.439 on the road against Toledo Tarran. Are you excited? You ready? I'm 1052 01:11:55.479 --> 01:11:59.479 ready. How do you feel about the I've informed you of whose foot it 1053 01:11:59.479 --> 01:12:01.720 is. You think this is on the harder scale or on the more more 1054 01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:06.439 easy scale. I'm training more harder, hard, more difficult. Okay? 1055 01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:12.560 Do we have any production for Guess the Foot of Okay? And now time 1056 01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:21.600 for another edition of Guess the Foot the iconic voice of Dave Cutdahey, all 1057 01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:27.600 right, we got music. Here we go. There are, like I 1058 01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:30.520 think, the next time we play this, we're gonna have protesters outside. 1059 01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:33.680 There are people who listen to this show, and I'm extraordinarily grateful for their 1060 01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:40.199 loyal listenership who hate this game, which I hate to say makes me love 1061 01:12:40.239 --> 01:12:43.399 it even more. We'll give it a better idea, all right, yeah, 1062 01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:45.079 give us a better idea. Hey, Gary, can you guess the 1063 01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:50.159 Guess the Foot? I'm going, mister perfect Tom Browning? Is it? 1064 01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:54.000 Mister perfect Tom Browning? Town? No, I'm sorry, Gary, Thank 1065 01:12:54.079 --> 01:12:59.159 you very much. A link available on Twitter at moegger, or you could 1066 01:12:59.199 --> 01:13:01.319 just go straight to my page at ESPN fifteen thirty dot com. All right, 1067 01:13:01.359 --> 01:13:05.199 Tom Browning was the guess not the correct foot. Uh, Brian, 1068 01:13:05.319 --> 01:13:13.479 can you guess the foot Don Gullet? Is it Don Gullet who passed away 1069 01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:15.239 about two weeks ago? No, Brian, thank you very much for playing 1070 01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:18.000 guess the foot. Numbers are five win, three, seven, four, 1071 01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:21.279 nine, fifteen thirty at eight sixty six, seven oh two, three seven 1072 01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:27.359 seven six logan. Can you guess the foot? I'm going Randy Meyer, 1073 01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:31.319 Randy Myers. No it is not Randy Meyers logan, but thank you. 1074 01:13:31.560 --> 01:13:34.199

All right. Lines are open five win, three, seven four nine, 1075 01:13:34.279 --> 01:13:39.800 fifteen thirty eight six six seven oh two three seven seven six. Uh. 1076 01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:43.800 The Andrew J. Brady Music Center is playing host to Kevin Hart. He's 1077 01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:48.439 playing two nights now. Saturday is sold out. Sunday I'm told is close 1078 01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:51.760 to a sellout, but tickets are available. This is going to be on 1079 01:13:51.800 --> 01:13:56.439 the seventeenth and this is the performance that we are giving away tickets to. 1080 01:13:56.600 --> 01:14:00.680 Kevin Hart coming to the Andrew J. Brady Music Center. If you don't 1081 01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:02.840 want to buy him, you can win them, but you gotta guess the 1082 01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:08.479 foot. Go to Twitter at moegger, go straight to my website ESPN fifteen 1083 01:14:08.439 --> 01:14:12.520 to thirty dot com slash moll. Click on the link study the foot call 1084 01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:15.159 us five, one, three, seven, four, nine, fifteen thirty. 1085 01:14:15.239 --> 01:14:17.479 I think we have a lot of Kevin harton I think the Kevin Hart 1086 01:14:17.479 --> 01:14:20.800 fans in our audience. Well, we had the one guy who tried twice 1087 01:14:20.840 --> 01:14:25.159 to win. Then we had the one guy who already won and then tried 1088 01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:28.279 to win. Oh look, man, all I can do. Maybe if 1089 01:14:28.319 --> 01:14:31.560 nobody wins the tickets. Here's the deal, Tarn, this is our last 1090 01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:35.079 show of the week. It is okay, So by six o'clock tonight, 1091 01:14:35.119 --> 01:14:39.319 if we don't have a winner of these Kevin hert tickets, do you know 1092 01:14:39.359 --> 01:14:45.720 who wins them? No? You? Oh wow, you will go see 1093 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:49.359 Kevin Hart. Wow. All right, so we'll see it's now now the 1094 01:14:49.399 --> 01:14:54.079 game could be take Terran's tickets because right now they belong to Tarran Bland. 1095 01:14:54.520 --> 01:14:57.000 But you got to be able to guess the foot. Ten away from five 1096 01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:00.079 o'clock. We'll actually do some inane sports talk topics as well well on ESPN 1097 01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:05.680 fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. It's a mystery. Will and see it's seven 1098 01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:10.760 away from five o'clock If you missed it. Noelve Marte suspended for eighty games 1099 01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:15.159 for doing PD some drug that I have not pronounced successfully eighty games half the 1100 01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:16.800 season. Joey Vado is going to Toronto to play for the Blue Jays at 1101 01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:20.520 least for the next couple of weeks because he's a non roster invitee. I 1102 01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:24.479 just I caught you up with all the news, even though you asked about 1103 01:15:24.479 --> 01:15:27.680 the NFL. Now we have a few minutes here, Tarry, do you 1104 01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:30.399 think we'll do You think we'll give away the Kevin Hard tickets before five o'clock. 1105 01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:32.560 No, even though I want to go to Kevin Hart, I hope 1106 01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:36.000 we do. Okay, you know, because you're such a giving person, 1107 01:15:36.039 --> 01:15:41.760 the winner of our tickets, it could take you. It'd be kind of 1108 01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:44.640 fun. That would be nice. That would be nice. All right. 1109 01:15:45.079 --> 01:15:47.800 Do we have any other production you want to play? Yes? Okay, 1110 01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:53.680 so here you go. All right, nobody's guessed it yet, so it's 1111 01:15:53.720 --> 01:16:00.000 time for you to try again to guess the foot. There's there's such a 1112 01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:06.560 nostalgia whenever I hear that voice. Very good. All right, Uh, 1113 01:16:06.600 --> 01:16:11.039 what do we have? Let's start and start here? Let Larry. Oh, 1114 01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:12.640 by the way, I got I guess I should tell people. You 1115 01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:15.119 go to Twitter and click on the link and look at the foot and guess 1116 01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:18.640 it. Larry, do you know whose foot it is? Is it a 1117 01:16:18.680 --> 01:16:23.760 rolled at Chapman? It's not a rollers Chapman. But thank you very much. 1118 01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:27.680 The guesses so far have been quite good. Uh, Jim, can 1119 01:16:27.720 --> 01:16:31.880 you can you guess the foot? I am riding with a guy that was 1120 01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:35.720 an automatic win every time he went out to the mound? Don gall it? 1121 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:40.199 Don Gullet? Do we have Don Gullet? No? Don, that's 1122 01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:44.279 the second Don Gullick. Guess we've had topical Don unfortunately just passed away a 1123 01:16:44.319 --> 01:16:47.319 couple of weeks ago. But no, it's it's not it's not Don Gullet. 1124 01:16:47.359 --> 01:16:51.039 Unfortunately, I guess or I don't know. It's just it's not Don 1125 01:16:51.079 --> 01:16:55.439 Gullet. We've now had to Don gully guesses, which might speak to his 1126 01:16:55.520 --> 01:16:59.960 popularity. Steve can can you can you guess the foot? Well? Well, 1127 01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:02.079 I can tell it's the left handed pitture and he's not the biggest shoes, 1128 01:17:02.159 --> 01:17:05.680 So I'm gonna go with Andrew abbot Can I get Andrew Abbotts? No, 1129 01:17:06.319 --> 01:17:12.479 Steve, thank you so much for playing guess the foot? Uh? 1130 01:17:12.560 --> 01:17:16.159 Corey, Corey, can you can you guess the foot? So Charleton, 1131 01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:19.760 do we have Norm Charleston one of the Nasty Boys? No, but thank 1132 01:17:19.800 --> 01:17:24.880 you very much. At what point, Taren, do we have to start 1133 01:17:24.880 --> 01:17:29.000 giving hints? Uh? Probably at the end of this segment, I think. 1134 01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:30.680 So yeah, is that

because you just want this over? Yes? 1135 01:17:32.640 --> 01:17:35.880 I mean, I mean this is I'm just taking our show. So it 1136 01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:40.840 is. It's hijack the show. Correct, But look, I put it 1137 01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:44.560 to vote. Who wants to we have to give away these tickets? Okay, 1138 01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:47.239 if we have to, We're told by the promotions department, you have 1139 01:17:47.279 --> 01:17:50.880 to give away these tickets. Okay. We did all these other silly games 1140 01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:54.720 all week long, and so now it's the end of the week. It 1141 01:17:54.800 --> 01:17:59.279 was guess the foot or something else? And I put because this show is 1142 01:18:00.119 --> 01:18:02.520 it's a democracy, yes, right, and I so I put it to 1143 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:06.520 a poll and fifty six percent said yes, Mo, play guess the foot. 1144 01:18:08.399 --> 01:18:11.880 That's how it works, man, you know majority rules. The cleanest 1145 01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:15.479 election you're ever gonna find was this one. So don't complain about the results. 1146 01:18:16.359 --> 01:18:20.640 Uh, guy online one already play? Yeah? It was Logan from 1147 01:18:20.680 --> 01:18:24.439 early. He did guess earlier, even got it wrong. Okay, are 1148 01:18:24.439 --> 01:18:27.760 you allowed to guess twice? We didn't have a no limp. How many 1149 01:18:27.760 --> 01:18:30.920 times there's no rules that say you can't guess twice? Right? As long 1150 01:18:30.960 --> 01:18:34.359 as you can through logan? Can you guess the foot? Yeah? I 1151 01:18:34.479 --> 01:18:38.479 guess again? He said, I could. I'm gonna go Danny Jackson. 1152 01:18:38.560 --> 01:18:42.279 Danny Jackson. No, Danny Jackson would have won the cy Young Award in 1153 01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:45.520 nineteen eighty eight if not for Oral Hersheiser, who was unbelievable that year. 1154 01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:50.079 Chris, can you can you guess the foot? I got you though, 1155 01:18:50.119 --> 01:18:55.640 I only need one guest too. It's John Franco? Is it John? 1156 01:18:57.079 --> 01:19:01.479 Chris? John Yale? John? Now there were some good guesses. For 1157 01:19:01.520 --> 01:19:06.000 instance, somebody as Randy Myers. Randy Myers was acquired in a trade with 1158 01:19:06.039 --> 01:19:13.079 the Mets in exchange for John Franco. John Franco still among the Reds all 1159 01:19:13.119 --> 01:19:15.920 time leaders in saves, and a guy who I still think has a pretty 1160 01:19:15.920 --> 01:19:18.680 good chance of making the Reds Hall of Fame one day. Guy who was 1161 01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:23.439 a mainstay in the Reds bullpen for the late eighties, all those teams I 1162 01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:26.720 had with Pete Rose managing, and then they trade him away to New York 1163 01:19:26.720 --> 01:19:30.079 where he pitched forever. Red's got Randy Myers, and yes, the picture 1164 01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:36.600 is of John Franco's foot. Thank you to everybody who played a very stirring, 1165 01:19:36.680 --> 01:19:42.960 stirring game of guests the foot. And if you hate the game of 1166 01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:46.800 guess the foot, it's over and now we'll present to you a free hour 1167 01:19:46.880 --> 01:19:51.399 of unbelievable sports talk radio. Kevin Hart is coming to the Andrew J. 1168 01:19:51.560 --> 01:19:59.760 Brady Music Center. Tickets remained for his show on Sunday, March the seventeenth. 1169 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:01.920 Can get him at ticketmaster dot com. Good luck, and thanks to 1170 01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:04.960 the folks at the Andrew J. Brady Music Center for providing us with tickets 1171 01:20:05.000 --> 01:20:10.399 to give away to go see Kevin Hart. Terren's probably begging that dude to 1172 01:20:10.399 --> 01:20:14.439 go take into that show, and maybe that'll work out all right. Between 1173 01:20:14.439 --> 01:20:16.279 now and six o'clock, here are the amazing things we have to cover. 1174 01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:19.319 We have Noel ve Marte is going to miss half the season because he did 1175 01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:23.560 PDEs. We have Joey Vado is now going to go play for the Toronto 1176 01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:28.199 Blue Jays. We have the Reds in Arizona with Hunter Green pitching well last 1177 01:20:28.279 --> 01:20:31.479 night. We have free agency happening in the NFL, and we are coming 1178 01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:36.039 up on the final weekend of college basketball's regular season, unless you root for 1179 01:20:36.039 --> 01:20:40.880 a team that is already in its conference tournament, like NK you the Norris 1180 01:20:40.920 --> 01:20:45.439 Big winners last night. Darren Horn joined us earlier today. I have a 1181 01:20:45.560 --> 01:20:50.239 question about a program in the league that you see used to be in. 1182 01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:56.439 We're going to spend some time on that as well, and a handful of 1183 01:20:56.479 --> 01:21:00.399 other things, including FC Cincinnati, a well played loss last night, that 1184 01:21:00.479 --> 01:21:03.640 was a good soccer game. Brandon Vasquez comes home, so to speak, 1185 01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:09.600 and net's the only goal in Monterey's one nil victory over FC Cincinnati and the 1186 01:21:09.800 --> 01:21:14.119 COCKA CAF Champions Cup Group of sixteen. So we are loaded. We are 1187 01:21:14.159 --> 01:21:17.439 just we are we are we are just loaded with stuff and topics. And 1188 01:21:17.479 --> 01:21:20.479 you could tell I'm filibustering until we get to the top of the hour, 1189 01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:25.520 and we are there. It is five o'clock on Moegar. This is ESPN 1190 01:21:25.600 --> 01:21:30.800 fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's sports station. At five o'clock sports, I'm Kevin went 1191 01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:34.520 to breaking news out of the NBA this afternoon. An MRI on Steph Curry's 1192 01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:40.720 right ankle spring comes back clean, sources to tell ESPN J

Juterbo Darowski no 1193 01:21:40.760 --> 01:21:44.880 structural damage, but a clearer timetable on STEP's return is not going to come 1194 01:21:45.199 --> 01:21:47.479 to the over the next few days. Seeing how STEP's ankle respond to the 1195 01:21:47.520 --> 01:21:54.560 expectation is that Curry won't miss many games. The Warriors next playing Tomorrow night 1196 01:21:54.560 --> 01:21:58.600 at home against San Antonio and then visit the Spurs on Monday night. Steph 1197 01:21:58.600 --> 01:22:02.279 suffered the ankle injury late last night's lost to the Chicago Bulls second round of 1198 01:22:02.279 --> 01:22:05.479 the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. Now, for those of you trying 1199 01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:10.159 to figure out which event this is, here's the easy explanation, because I'm 1200 01:22:10.199 --> 01:22:14.000 sure you've all seen the video. This is the event where years ago our 1201 01:22:14.079 --> 01:22:19.159 golfer walking down the fairway walked up to a sleeping alligator, intacted the alligator 1202 01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:24.680 on its tail, sending the reptiles scurrying into the water. Probably don't recommend 1203 01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:28.720 that, but yes, it's this event all right. As for today, 1204 01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:31.600 Shane Lowry hed deck you mat to Yama, Russell Henley, Brian Harmon all 1205 01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:35.840 shared the lead atop the leaderboard at seven underbar NBA. Tonight we got a 1206 01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:40.279 doubleheader t Wolves and Calves, followed up by the Bucks in the Lakers starting 1207 01:22:40.279 --> 01:22:42.960 to get seven thirty eastern. Hey, it's a rather than Super Bowl champ 1208 01:22:43.039 --> 01:22:45.359 Chris Kenny coming up Monday with the legal tampering windows set to open. I'll 1209 01:22:45.359 --> 01:22:48.680 tell you which free agents you should be paying attention to. It's on sportsman 1210 01:22:48.760 --> 01:22:53.960 Like six am Eastern right here on ESPN Radio, ESPN two and ESPN U 1211 01:22:58.880 --> 01:23:04.560 Cincinnatis a PM fifteen thirty traffic from the UC Health Traffic Center. Uc Health 1212 01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:10.880 has been performing life saving transplants and providing second chances in Greater Cincinnati for more 1213 01:23:10.920 --> 01:23:15.479 than fifty five years. A crash on two seventy five eastbound before I seventy 1214 01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:18.119 one takes out the right hand lane. Emergency crews are there and traffic is 1215 01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:21.960 stopping. Go from Mostellar Road. You've got stopping go. Traffic on seventy 1216 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:28.239 five northbound Mitchell to Paddock, seventy five southbound Hopple Street to Fort Washington Way 1217 01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:31.920 finally cleared. The crash on US fifty eastbound past I seventy one. I'm 1218 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:36.319 faith Asovich with traffic all right here we go late start to the hour today. 1219 01:23:36.359 -->

01:23:40.800 Brnana mall Edgard. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Appreciate you listening. 1220 01:23:40.840 --> 01:23:45.000 Hopefully your weekend is off to an unbelievable start. We've been busy today playing 1221 01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:49.760 games of a guest the foot, and dealing with breaking news. Noelve Marte 1222 01:23:49.800 --> 01:23:55.520 has been suspended for eighty games and this I just remembered this, And like 1223 01:23:55.640 --> 01:23:59.800 when I say I just remembered this, I didn't have time to go look 1224 01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:05.119 this. So Noelve Marte has been suspended for eighty games because of a violation 1225 01:24:05.239 --> 01:24:12.279 of Baseball's PED policy. The exact specifics of what he took you can go 1226 01:24:12.319 --> 01:24:17.479 find for yourself. It really doesn't matter eighty games. I might be mistaken, 1227 01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:21.600 but I mean literally, as I like snap my headphones back on, 1228 01:24:23.159 --> 01:24:30.800 I seem to recall that in the policy that Baseball has regarding peds that was 1229 01:24:30.840 --> 01:24:38.239 collectively bargained with the union that if you are suspended for PEDS, you may 1230 01:24:38.399 --> 01:24:43.000 come back and play in the regular season. So for Marte that would be 1231 01:24:43.920 --> 01:24:47.279 late June early July and play in the second half of the season. But 1232 01:24:47.319 --> 01:24:51.800 if the Reds were to make the playoffs, and I'll look this up or 1233 01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:56.920 somebody can correct me or confirm either way, but my understanding is he would 1234 01:24:56.960 --> 01:25:01.039 be ineligible to play in the postseason because of this suspension to play in the 1235 01:25:01.079 --> 01:25:06.199 postseason this year. And I want to say, there was a player over 1236 01:25:06.239 --> 01:25:10.640 the last year or two who dealt with something similar, and who that is 1237 01:25:11.239 --> 01:25:14.199 I can't remember off the top of my head. Literally, I'm sitting here 1238 01:25:14.359 --> 01:25:17.640 getting ready to jump back on the air, jotting down some notes, and 1239 01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:21.520 then I remembered. I think that is still a thing. I think that's 1240 01:25:21.520 --> 01:25:25.760 still the policy, so that a guy like Marte is going to have to 1241 01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:29.680 miss eighty games, he can come back. He could play every single day 1242 01:25:29.720 --> 01:25:32.239 for the rest of the regular season. Now, obviously we're getting a little 1243 01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:35.239 ahead of ourselves putting the Reds in the playoffs. They have to get there 1244 01:25:35.279 --> 01:25:39.079 first, and it goes without saying they have an uphill battle getting there, 1245 01:25:39.760 --> 01:25:46.840 and this particular development doesn't help. But as an added gut punch, you 1246 01:25:46.880 --> 01:25:50.159 can correct me if I'm wrong. It's happened billions of times, and it 1247 01:25:50.199 --> 01:25:55.760 will happen many, many, many more times after this. I think the 1248 01:25:55.800 --> 01:26:02.479 policy states that when he comes back when the regular season ends, his season 1249 01:26:02.600 --> 01:26:08.119 ends. So that's a gut punch in the short term. Look, the 1250 01:26:08.159 --> 01:26:14.319 Reds do have a billion infielders, so Jamrk. Candelario can play some third 1251 01:26:14.319 --> 01:26:17.119 base. He was already going to play some third base. Spencer Steer can 1252 01:26:17.159 --> 01:26:21.520 play some third base. Elie de la Cruz could play some third base. 1253 01:26:23.359 --> 01:26:29.079 Jonathan India could play some third base. There are there are plenty of options. 1254 01:26:29.119 --> 01:26:30.439 I mean in terms of like, oh my god, there's no third 1255 01:26:30.439 --> 01:26:34.159 baseman. We just spent weeks months talking about how the Reds have a thousand 1256 01:26:34.199 --> 01:26:40.960 infielders, and so to me is it's not so much about well, you 1257 01:26:40.960 --> 01:26:45.319 don't have anybody to play third now you do. It does in the short 1258 01:26:45.399 --> 01:26:47.720 term and not even short term for the next well for the first half of 1259 01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:57.520 the season. It cuts into their depth. It could maybe slightly stifle Noel 1260 01:26:57.600 --> 01:27:00.079 Vea's development. And by the way, it's been a weird kind of off 1261 01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:04.079 season for him, right because he makes his major league debut, he does 1262 01:27:04.119 --> 01:27:08.279 nothing but hit, He goes and plays winter ball, he suffers a hamstring 1263 01:27:08.319 --> 01:27:13.359 injury, it's an issue throughout spring training, and then there's this. It's 1264 01:27:13.920 --> 01:27:18.239 it's just been a rough I was gonna say unfortunate, but I'm gonna guess 1265 01:27:18.399 --> 01:27:21.800 he knew what he was putting in his body, and if he didn't well 1266 01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:27.079 in this case, negligence isn't forgivable either. And look, you know, 1267 01:27:27.760 --> 01:27:32.680 I I don't know the specifics of what happened here, but for the Reds 1268 01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:36.199 in the short term, yeah, there are other guys who could play third 1269 01:27:36.239 --> 01:27:45.680 base. But what was supposed to make this team potentially so competitive was the 1270 01:27:45.880 --> 01:27:51.199 volume of players, right, the volume of guys where you understand that, 1271 01:27:51.840 --> 01:27:56.039 you know, not everybody's gonna be great, Not every young player who was 1272 01:27:56.079 --> 01:28:00.640 good last year is going to take a step forward this coming season. And 1273 01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:04.840 so if you if you if you shave a guy from that collection of players, 1274 01:28:05.479 --> 01:28:11.800 well, now if there are injuries or if there is a player who 1275 01:28:11.920 --> 01:28:15.159 you know doesn't perform, you don't have

noel A Marte. Right. It 1276 01:28:15.359 --> 01:28:19.239 just I'm being kind of ineloquent here because I'm frankly trying to look up the 1277 01:28:19.399 --> 01:28:24.439 p D policy too. But anyway, noelve Marte and and again like it 1278 01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:26.640 just it means he's not a part of the mix in the first half of 1279 01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:29.399 the season, and they have other guys who could play third base. But 1280 01:28:30.640 --> 01:28:33.960 that's uh, that's bad news on a Friday afternoon. There's no there's no 1281 01:28:34.039 --> 01:28:36.199 two ways around it. And and you know, Look, this was a 1282 01:28:36.199 --> 01:28:40.840 guy who was going to play a lot. He was going to maybe get 1283 01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:44.520 the majority of the starts at third base, assuming he was going to be 1284 01:28:44.600 --> 01:28:50.159 fully healthy here, uh at least soon, and uh now not so much. 1285 01:28:50.800 --> 01:28:54.680 So it does cause a bit of a shakeup. They at least have 1286 01:28:54.760 --> 01:28:58.800 some time to prepare long term. What this is going to mean for Noelve 1287 01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:01.720 Marte and his repute and the standing in the organization. I'm gonna guess there's 1288 01:29:01.720 --> 01:29:04.279 gonna be no major impact on that. But they do have other guys who 1289 01:29:04.319 --> 01:29:10.000 could play third base. But the most interesting thing to me just about the 1290 01:29:10.039 --> 01:29:14.359 policy. And again it's collectively bargained. So the best of my knowledge, 1291 01:29:14.399 --> 01:29:16.640 you get suspended, you can come back and play. You are ineligible for 1292 01:29:16.840 --> 01:29:20.840 postseason play. So there's that. Also, if you've been waiting for joe 1293 01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:24.520 Evado to get a job, he's got one. It's not what the Reds. 1294 01:29:24.600 --> 01:29:26.720 Was never going to be with the Reds, at least as a player, 1295 01:29:26.760 --> 01:29:31.920 but the Toronto Blue Jays have offered him a non roster invitation. It's 1296 01:29:31.920 --> 01:29:36.600 basically a tryout. Joey Vado has accepted that invitation, so he is going 1297 01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:43.760 to report to Toronto Blue Jays spring training. He obviously has no guarantee of 1298 01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:46.720 making the roster, but he gets a shot. He gets a shot to 1299 01:29:47.279 --> 01:29:50.760 in a big league camp show what he can do. He gets a shot 1300 01:29:50.840 --> 01:29:54.720 in a big league camp to show what he can do, even at his 1301 01:29:54.920 --> 01:29:59.319 age, but with the benefit of going through an offseason where he hasn't been 1302 01:29:59.399 --> 01:30:04.840 rehabbing and injury. I feel like we've talked more about joe Evada, who's 1303 01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:09.239 not in goodyear, not with the team, more than we have almost anybody 1304 01:30:09.279 --> 01:30:14.079 who's on the team, and I kind of get it. And we've also 1305 01:30:14.119 --> 01:30:16.760 had some fun with his social media posts, which I think had been funny 1306 01:30:16.960 --> 01:30:25.279 and to a degree even touching. But it certainly has always made sense to 1307 01:30:25.319 --> 01:30:29.479 me why the Reds would move on from Joey Evana, right. I mean, 1308 01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:33.760 if you were genuinely shocked by the Reds moving on, you weren't paying 1309 01:30:33.800 --> 01:30:39.479 attention to how they didn't use him in September. And so, you know, 1310 01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:42.279 we say this all the time on this show. There's room for multiple 1311 01:30:42.319 --> 01:30:45.000 truths over here. One of the truths is the Rights are trying to field 1312 01:30:45.720 --> 01:30:50.319 a team that can win the division, which means there's no real room for 1313 01:30:50.479 --> 01:30:55.159 a feel good story that just to try to tell a feel good story. 1314 01:30:56.239 --> 01:30:59.840 Every roster spot matters, every game is going to matter. The idea is 1315 01:30:59.840 --> 01:31:03.479 to the divisions of the ideas to put together the best twenty six man roster 1316 01:31:03.600 --> 01:31:09.279 you can. And you're being reasonable if you think that a forty year old 1317 01:31:09.279 --> 01:31:12.399 first baseman who's been hurt a bunch and hasn't been really good in a couple 1318 01:31:12.439 --> 01:31:15.760 of years, there's no room for him. That's fair. What the Reds 1319 01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:20.079 have done with Joey Vado is fair, But there's also room for what's over 1320 01:31:20.119 --> 01:31:24.119 here, which is I don't want to see Joey as a fan of his, 1321 01:31:25.159 --> 01:31:28.920 as a guy who, through many, many, many lean years, 1322 01:31:30.479 --> 01:31:33.239 found Joey as one of the few reasons to really be excited about this team 1323 01:31:33.279 --> 01:31:38.119 and pay attention for somebody who handled himself very well for his entire time in 1324 01:31:38.199 --> 01:31:43.399 Cincinnati, for someone whose best years often were wasted by the Reds, I 1325 01:31:43.399 --> 01:31:46.359 don't want to see him go out like that. I kind of want to 1326 01:31:46.399 --> 01:31:53.039 see, just for curiosity sake as much as anything, what can this look 1327 01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:57.760 like for Joey in whatever role the Blue Jays would give him if he made 1328 01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:00.800 the team. And I I can only speak for myself, but I'm gonna 1329 01:32:00.840 --> 01:32:02.960 root like hell for him to do well. I'm gonna root for him. 1330 01:32:03.079 --> 01:32:08.439 I'm gonna root for two things to run parallel. The Reds without Joey Vader 1331 01:32:08.439 --> 01:32:12.680 to have a great year, and for Joey Vadu to author, if not 1332 01:32:13.039 --> 01:32:18.159 a last chapter, but maybe one of the last chapters that just individually goes 1333 01:32:18.199 --> 01:32:23.640 better. First of all, he's healthy, and then in whatever role he 1334

01:32:23.800 --> 01:32:27.640 is cast, if he makes the team, he thrives. Whether it's as 1335 01:32:28.520 --> 01:32:31.640 solely a pinshitter, a guy who occasionally starts in DHS, a guy who 1336 01:32:32.199 --> 01:32:36.640 finds himself in the field, I don't know, but I think there would 1337 01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:43.640 be a few things cooler than Joey Evado coming back and having a quality year 1338 01:32:43.720 --> 01:32:47.119 with his hometown team and maybe that helping them get to the postseason and even 1339 01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:51.399 advance. I think there's room for both. I think if the Reds fail 1340 01:32:53.079 --> 01:32:57.079 to reach expectations, it's not going to be because we look at god, 1341 01:32:57.199 --> 01:33:01.000 Joey Vada would have made the difference. Hopefully they play well, hopefully they 1342 01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:04.079 have a great season, and then you know, running concurrent with that, 1343 01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:09.680 Joey goes to Toronto, and he's a better player there than he was his 1344 01:33:09.800 --> 01:33:14.239 last couple of years here, and then where things go beyond twenty twenty four, 1345 01:33:14.520 --> 01:33:15.920 I have no idea. First things first, he's got to make the 1346 01:33:15.960 --> 01:33:19.800 team, and he's got less than three weeks to do that. So, 1347 01:33:20.039 --> 01:33:24.439 you know, in the short term, let's just see if the life in 1348 01:33:24.479 --> 01:33:28.159 that bat that he has talked about. Let's just see if all the offseason 1349 01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:32.079 training, which to be fair, has come this go around without him coming 1350 01:33:32.079 --> 01:33:39.520 off an injury or rehabbing an injury. Let's see if he can frankly defy 1351 01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:43.520 the odds. I mean, we are talking about a guy joining the team 1352 01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:46.239 three weeks before opening day, who's forty years old, has been hurt a 1353 01:33:46.239 --> 01:33:49.600 bunch, and hasn't been good the last couple of years. That's an uphill 1354 01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:54.279 battle. I don't care how good you've been, I don't care what your 1355 01:33:54.319 --> 01:34:00.399 resume is. The odds are not in his favor, but I certainly wouldn't 1356 01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:05.239 count Joey out from being able to defy those odds. So we've got that, 1357 01:34:05.439 --> 01:34:09.960 We've got noelve Marte, and uh, we've got room for you at 1358 01:34:09.960 --> 01:34:13.319 five point three seven, four nine, fifteen thirty eight six six seven oh 1359 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:17.439 two UH three seven seven six at Moe Egger on Twitter. Thanks to our 1360 01:34:17.479 --> 01:34:21.279 friends that Delta Dental. Delta Dental is building healthy, smart, vibrant communities 1361 01:34:21.279 --> 01:34:27.239 for all. Good to Delta Dental, oh dot com. Uh last night 1362 01:34:27.359 --> 01:34:31.359 was busy A great NKU game that was just a terrific basketball game. As 1363 01:34:31.439 --> 01:34:36.439 good of an individual effort as you will see last night from Marquis Warwick, 1364 01:34:36.520 --> 01:34:43.039 especially in the second half. They're shorthanded, they play seven guys, they 1365 01:34:43.079 --> 01:34:46.960 fall behind seventeen to two early in the game. Season is on the line. 1366 01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:53.359 You know, it's it's Horizon Lely Tournament or bust. You've you've you've 1367 01:34:53.399 --> 01:34:57.279 got a you've got a team that you know LJ. Wells fouls out. 1368 01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:04.039 It's, I mean, everything that could work against Marqus Warwick last night was 1369 01:35:04.279 --> 01:35:11.960 he had help. Michael Bradley had seventeen points, Trey Robinson had seventeen points. 1370 01:35:12.560 --> 01:35:15.920 They get to play at the end of the game on the Pettis basket 1371 01:35:15.279 --> 01:35:18.920 after the miss free throw close to the horn that sends it to overtime. 1372 01:35:19.439 --> 01:35:25.119 But the story of the game last night, when they needed everything from arguably 1373 01:35:25.159 --> 01:35:28.520 the greatest player in the history of the program. Markus Warwick gave it to 1374 01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:30.199 him. They keep their season alive. They go to Wright State, they 1375 01:35:30.279 --> 01:35:34.399 win and beat a team that had beaten them twice. They'll play Milwaukee on 1376 01:35:34.479 --> 01:35:40.159 Monday night. FC Cincinnati loses. Brandon Vasquez comes back and scores the only 1377 01:35:40.199 --> 01:35:45.560 goal for FS for CF Monterey, I thought FC Cincinnati Pat Noonan said the 1378 01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:47.640 same after the game. I thought they played well, plenty of chances to 1379 01:35:47.680 --> 01:35:54.039 score. Couldn't cash in hosting DC United on Saturday. All of this with 1380 01:35:54.199 --> 01:36:00.199 a free agency getting underway on Monday, the legal tampering period, and it's 1381 01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:03.119 been quiet from a Bengals perspective. I don't think that's going to be the 1382 01:36:03.159 --> 01:36:08.520 case next week. There are a lot of things on the table, plus 1383 01:36:08.800 --> 01:36:17.159 Senior Night for UC and Xavier tomorrow. Have you paid any attention to what's 1384 01:36:17.159 --> 01:36:20.319 happening in the league that you see used to be in. We will spend 1385 01:36:20.319 --> 01:36:28.560 some time on that and more and take your phone calls on ESPN fifteen thirty 1386 01:36:28.560 --> 01:36:33.520 Cincinnati Sports Station, all right, twenty six after five o'clock, YESPN and 1387 01:36:33.520 --> 01:36:38.800 fifteen thirty. By the way, yes, yes, I got confirmation that 1388 01:36:38.880 --> 01:36:44.760 if the Reds make the postseason Noelle de Marte will be ineligible if you're just 1389 01:36:44.880 --> 01:36:48.640 joining us. He is being suspended for eighty games to start the season for 1390 01:36:48.880 --> 01:36:56.159 violating MLB's ped

policy, and if the Reds were to make the playoffs, 1391 01:36:56.239 --> 01:37:01.439 he would be ineligible to participate. I got that confirmation, also saw it 1392 01:37:01.479 --> 01:37:06.640 on MLB dot com. There you go. By the way I'm reading, 1393 01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:10.920 here are our friends at the ESPN affiliate in Cleveland. You know, if 1394 01:37:10.920 --> 01:37:13.720 you're mad at us for playing guests the Foot, at least we're not making 1395 01:37:14.199 --> 01:37:17.960 we're not angering the wives of Hall of Fame Baseball players, which is not 1396 01:37:18.039 --> 01:37:23.600 the case for the contest they have at the ESPN affiliate in Cleveland. Suddenly, 1397 01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:27.359 I'm just reading this myself. Go check it out for yourself if you 1398 01:37:27.399 --> 01:37:31.079 want. But our game suddenly seems a little bit nigh. Mike, you're 1399 01:37:31.119 --> 01:37:35.399 on ESPN fifteen thirty. Alright, Well, guess the Foot? What a 1400 01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:44.680 what a novel idea? It's definitely different. I will say that I just 1401 01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:50.479 want to ask you two quick questions about and I'll drop the subject about your 1402 01:37:51.079 --> 01:37:55.760 your ice chests broadcast the day you were there. Did you have like a 1403 01:37:55.880 --> 01:37:59.680 have on or you're wearing your shorts that you typically wear. Were you're smiling 1404 01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:01.920 in a bad mood? I got a guy working on a sketch for you. 1405 01:38:01.960 --> 01:38:05.279 I was. I was wearing shorts, I was wearing a hat. 1406 01:38:05.359 --> 01:38:10.079 I was. I'm always smiling. I was. I would I would categorize 1407 01:38:10.079 --> 01:38:14.000 myself as I wouldn't say I was in a bad mood. I was. 1408 01:38:14.880 --> 01:38:16.600 I was. I was too busy to be in any kind of mood, 1409 01:38:17.560 --> 01:38:20.640 okay, because you know what I was. I was. I was well. 1410 01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:26.199 For sometimes I was sitting on a curb, and then somebody brought me 1411 01:38:26.399 --> 01:38:29.880 some stools, and then I was and one stool was for my equipment and 1412 01:38:29.920 --> 01:38:32.239 the other stool was for me to sit in. But you know, Mike, 1413 01:38:32.279 --> 01:38:38.520 I was. I was my own engineer, producer, driver, promotions 1414 01:38:38.560 --> 01:38:42.399 person. And then I had to try to you know, broadcast and perform 1415 01:38:42.439 --> 01:38:45.720 and do the show and stuff. So I didn't have time to really be 1416 01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:49.119 in any kind of mood. Yeah, thank god you had that production background, 1417 01:38:49.239 --> 01:38:54.560 right, are you. That's right? Well, they would, I 1418 01:38:54.560 --> 01:38:57.000 guess they would have sent somebody with you, but you never know, you 1419 01:38:57.079 --> 01:39:00.520 never know. Hey, I realized something yesterday to share with you. Opening 1420 01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:05.399 Day,

the Reds are playing in that's right. Yeah, And this might 1421 01:39:05.439 --> 01:39:10.520 be one day when the Reds fans might want to root for the Dodgers because 1422 01:39:10.560 --> 01:39:15.279 they're starting a three B with the Cardinals. And wouldn't that be nice if 1423 01:39:15.319 --> 01:39:18.039 the Cardinals could lose three games right off the jump. It would be nice 1424 01:39:18.039 --> 01:39:25.399 if the Cardinals lost all one, d and sixty two games. But I've 1425 01:39:25.439 --> 01:39:29.880 heard you say so many times over the years that their continuity goes without saying, 1426 01:39:29.960 --> 01:39:33.000 and that is true. The other thing I found out yesterday was Nolan 1427 01:39:33.119 --> 01:39:38.880 Aronato. This was the first year he didn't win the Gold Galog since twenty 1428 01:39:39.000 --> 01:39:42.800 twelve in the National League at third base. That's an incredible run. It 1429 01:39:42.960 --> 01:39:45.920 is. It is, although, and I say this without looking it up, 1430 01:39:46.319 --> 01:39:50.439 it feels to me with that award, once you win it, it's 1431 01:39:50.479 --> 01:39:55.000 really hard to wrestle it away from you, you know what I mean? 1432 01:39:55.000 --> 01:39:58.079 And I know it's now they have finalists and they do it a little bit 1433 01:39:58.079 --> 01:40:00.880 differently, But like Ozzie's Smith when when I was a kid, won the 1434 01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:05.079 Gold Glove every year, and obviously more often than I deserved it, But 1435 01:40:05.119 --> 01:40:08.640 it felt like it got to a point where, even if he wasn't the 1436 01:40:08.640 --> 01:40:11.640 best shortstop in the National League. It was just it was hard to take 1437 01:40:11.640 --> 01:40:14.800 away from him. Keith Hernandez at first base, Greg Maddox had pitcher. 1438 01:40:15.479 --> 01:40:17.720 Uh, sort of the same way that the same guys would win it almost 1439 01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:20.840 every single year. That has always felt to me like an award that once 1440 01:40:20.880 --> 01:40:26.079 you win it, you you hang onto it. And Nolan Aeronato hung onto 1441 01:40:26.119 --> 01:40:29.640 it for a decade. Yeah. And again not to say that he wasn't 1442 01:40:29.680 --> 01:40:30.720 deserving. I mean, I'm not going to say that in a given year 1443 01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:34.199 somebody else should have won it, but you know, typically once you win 1444 01:40:34.239 --> 01:40:42.239 it, once you know that there there are relatively few amount of one time 1445 01:40:42.399 --> 01:40:45.520 Gold Glove winners relative to maybe some of the other some of the other awards 1446 01:40:45.520 --> 01:40:49.520 you can win. Guess what they said though for twenty twenty three it was 1447 01:40:50.039 --> 01:40:56.920 there were thirteen first time winners and three and three rookie pretty cool. So 1448 01:40:57.159 --> 01:41:01.640 that was very unusual phenomenon, evidently the way they described it in the article. 1449 01:41:02.039 --> 01:41:04.640 And I know you got to go. But next time I talk to 1450 01:41:04.680 --> 01:41:10.239 you, you remember that guy called the other day talking about the Bearcats. 1451 01:41:11.239 --> 01:41:14.079 Wish you a lot of calls on that, but he was talking about the 1452 01:41:14.640 --> 01:41:18.920 Bearcats were pre perennial top ten, top fifteenth team. That's not true. 1453 01:41:19.279 --> 01:41:25.239 What he said there is definitely not true. But I don't call anybody saying 1454 01:41:25.279 --> 01:41:28.720 that. Yeah, no, he was saying that in his discussion with you 1455 01:41:28.760 --> 01:41:32.000 about I guess you know it was about the Cats, so I can't remember 1456 01:41:32.000 --> 01:41:36.159 the context. But you know, what would be fun someday because you have 1457 01:41:36.279 --> 01:41:45.560 the knowledge to just go over what you consider the great cat teams Bearcat teams 1458 01:41:45.600 --> 01:41:47.399 over the last you know, since you were watching, like you said, 1459 01:41:47.399 --> 01:41:50.279 since you were a little kid. I think that'd be interesting to hear you 1460 01:41:50.319 --> 01:41:56.680 talk about that, like the best teams they've had. Yeah, yeah, 1461 01:41:56.720 --> 01:42:00.760 the best team. Yeah, in your opinion, the best. But what 1462 01:42:00.760 --> 01:42:05.159 what he would consider really great, great or superior teams, not just in 1463 01:42:05.199 --> 01:42:09.520 the tournament? Well yeah, I mean, if you're using the metric of 1464 01:42:09.600 --> 01:42:13.840 the tournament, ninety two would be Since I started following in the late eighties, 1465 01:42:13.920 --> 01:42:15.600 ninety two would be the best. I tend to think the ninety three 1466 01:42:15.640 --> 01:42:20.239 team was better, and they played in the Elite eight, went overtime against 1467 01:42:20.239 --> 01:42:25.600 the eventual champion Carolina team, the two thousand squad with Kenyon Martin. I 1468 01:42:25.680 --> 01:42:30.399 certainly believe if I had to pick one team fully healthy to win the national 1469 01:42:30.399 --> 01:42:32.880 title that year, I would have taken the Bearcats. They had everything you 1470 01:42:32.880 --> 01:42:36.039 could ask for. They had the player of the year, but they also 1471 01:42:36.159 --> 01:42:40.199 had you know, Pete Michael was an All conference guy. Damar Johnson was 1472 01:42:40.199 --> 01:42:43.399 a sixth overall pick in the draft. They had good point guard play. 1473 01:42:43.479 --> 01:42:45.399 They can beat you from outside. They were stifling on defense, they had 1474 01:42:45.399 --> 01:42:50.279 great rim protection. I think the most underrated team and the one that we 1475 01:42:50.439 --> 01:42:57.279 kind of don't talk about that had NCAA tournament's success was the ninety sixteen or 1476 01:42:57.399 --> 01:43:00.960 Danny Fordson was a sophomore. They go to the Elite. They were upset 1477 01:43:00.000 --> 01:43:04.159 by Mississippi State.

That was a terrific team. They didn't have a very 1478 01:43:04.199 --> 01:43:10.600 long rotation, but Fordsuon was the best player in Conference USA. Darnell Burton 1479 01:43:10.680 --> 01:43:13.199 was the sixth Man of the Year. He can make shots from outside. 1480 01:43:13.520 --> 01:43:16.600 They had a point guard in Keith Lagree who was just the perfect distributor, 1481 01:43:16.600 --> 01:43:19.960 don't turn the ball over type of guy. They had a playmaker on the 1482 01:43:19.960 --> 01:43:25.920 wing and Damon Flint, good center in Art Long and yeah, they they 1483 01:43:26.039 --> 01:43:30.479 they were really really good. A little bit more one dimensional in terms of 1484 01:43:30.479 --> 01:43:32.079 how they played because they just threw it to Danny Fordson in the block. 1485 01:43:32.920 --> 01:43:36.359 Those are the better teams now since two thousand. Like I think the twenty 1486 01:43:36.479 --> 01:43:41.960 eighteen team was terrific that lost in Nevada in the in the second round. 1487 01:43:42.000 --> 01:43:45.159 With Gary Clark and Jacob Evans a first round pick, and Kyle Washington and 1488 01:43:46.199 --> 01:43:50.840 Jared Cumberland, you know, just terrific on defense. They could kill you 1489 01:43:50.880 --> 01:43:56.479 on the glass better offensively, I think than people remember. Good amount of 1490 01:43:56.520 --> 01:44:00.479 depth with guys like Trey Scott coming off the bench. Those are really really 1491 01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:02.159 good team. That was a team that I think would have fit in with 1492 01:44:02.319 --> 01:44:08.359 any that I just mentioned. I am astounded with your memory with this. 1493 01:44:08.600 --> 01:44:14.960 I'm astounded, And uh, that's so because you're bringing up names that I 1494 01:44:15.000 --> 01:44:18.039 have totally forgot. I'm a nerd. Were probably dumb players. I'm a 1495 01:44:18.079 --> 01:44:21.520 nerd. Yeah, that's okay, you're a nerd because you just made my 1496 01:44:21.640 --> 01:44:26.159 day thinking. Keep agree. I loved his name. I don't care if 1497 01:44:26.159 --> 01:44:29.159 he could make a shot. He was not a good shooter. He played 1498 01:44:29.159 --> 01:44:31.239 at Louisville, then he played at UC He also played minor league baseball in 1499 01:44:31.239 --> 01:44:34.880 the Twins organization. Yeah, I'll never forget that. Thanks for the time. 1500 01:44:34.920 --> 01:44:39.239 Than have a great week. Thank you most definitely you do the same. 1501 01:44:39.279 --> 01:44:46.520 Thank you. It is twenty six away from six o'clock five point three, 1502 01:44:46.640 --> 01:44:50.199 seven four nine, fifteen thirty eight six six seven oh two three seven 1503 01:44:50.319 --> 01:44:57.560 seven six sports headlines and a quick college basketball thing next since when it's the 1504 01:44:57.560 --> 01:45:02.159 service of Kelsey Shevard Leigh home of lifetime power train protection and guaranteed credit approval 1505 01:45:02.199 --> 01:45:10.880 from

their family to yours for lifekelseyshev dot com. Noelde Marte suspended eighty games 1506 01:45:10.880 --> 01:45:15.239 by Major League Baseball for violating the Sports ped Policy. The suspension will begin 1507 01:45:15.520 --> 01:45:18.560 to be served on opening day and then he'll be eligible to come back, 1508 01:45:18.600 --> 01:45:21.479 and then if the Reds make the postseason, well, he can't play in 1509 01:45:21.520 --> 01:45:26.520 those games. Bummer for the Reds. They played the Dodgers tonight in Glendale 1510 01:45:26.560 --> 01:45:30.600 eight o'clock on seven hundred wl W. Joey Vado agrees to a minor league 1511 01:45:30.640 --> 01:45:34.399 deal with his hometown Toronto Blue Jays. Opening Day is less than three weeks 1512 01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:40.760 away. Meanwhile, college basketball tonight in the area, the Miami RedHawks are 1513 01:45:40.760 --> 01:45:45.640 hosting the Ohio University Bobcats. The Dayton Flyers hosting BCU. Tomorrow, it's 1514 01:45:45.920 --> 01:45:53.000 UC and West Virginia at Fifth Third, Xavier and Marquette tangle at the Centas 1515 01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:57.199 Center. Kentucky on the road against Tennessee Sunday, Ohio States at Rutgers, 1516 01:45:57.239 --> 01:46:03.000 Indiana hosting Michigan State. The NKU nor preparing this weekend for Monday's Horizon League 1517 01:46:03.039 --> 01:46:08.760 Tournament semi final tilt against Milwaukee. That is the second of the semi final 1518 01:46:08.800 --> 01:46:13.199 double header in Indianapolis. Cleveland State and Oakland will play the first game. 1519 01:46:14.079 --> 01:46:17.039 FC Cincinnati, coming off their loss to Monterey last night, turns back to 1520 01:46:17.520 --> 01:46:23.039 MLS regular season play on Sundays. They host DC United at the Soccer Venue 1521 01:46:23.079 --> 01:46:27.119 on the West end of Cincinnati. Game live on ESPN fifteen thirty starts at 1522 01:46:27.359 --> 01:46:33.000 three o'clock. In hockey, tonight, the Cyclones are skating at Toledo. 1523 01:46:35.640 --> 01:46:44.079 We talked a lot this week about the Bearcats and the loss to Oklahoma and 1524 01:46:44.199 --> 01:46:50.760 the frustrations we all feel. And you know, I think most things in 1525 01:46:50.800 --> 01:46:57.319 life operate in the gray. I think this UC basketball season operates in the 1526 01:46:57.319 --> 01:47:03.279 gray. It is hard to call it a smashing success, right. They're 1527 01:47:03.399 --> 01:47:09.239 likely not going to make the tournament, They're going to finish near the bottom 1528 01:47:09.239 --> 01:47:16.119 of the Big Twelve. It's hard to call it a smashing success. I 1529 01:47:16.119 --> 01:47:19.920 also think you're being dramatically unfair if you call it an unmitigated failure. I 1530 01:47:19.920 --> 01:47:24.319 think there are some truths within that that are frustrating. I don't think this 1531 01:47:24.359 --> 01:47:28.520 team has improved that much from what it was a couple of months ago. 1532 01:47:28.640 --> 01:47:30.640 Chad and I had a good discussion about this, and for the record, 1533 01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:36.439 he disagrees. And much of that might be just a reflection of the limitations 1534 01:47:36.439 --> 01:47:40.640 of the roster. Much of it could be a reflection of just how good 1535 01:47:41.119 --> 01:47:46.600 the league is. I do believe, and I don't think I'm referencing the 1536 01:47:46.640 --> 01:47:53.439 majority here, but I do believe there are folks who genuinely care about UC 1537 01:47:53.600 --> 01:47:59.720 basketball who weren't quite ready for what the Big Twelve was going to throw at 1538 01:47:59.720 --> 01:48:06.039 it. You know, maybe New Kansas is always good, but weren't quite 1539 01:48:06.199 --> 01:48:10.640 ready for what the Big twelve is gonna throw. Look at Kansas this year. 1540 01:48:12.720 --> 01:48:16.720 Kansas has beaten Kentucky, they have beaten Tennessee, they have beaten Yukon. 1541 01:48:17.920 --> 01:48:23.600 Say what you want about this. They have a road victory against Indiana. 1542 01:48:25.039 --> 01:48:28.439 I like Tennessee has got a chance to be a top two seed in 1543 01:48:28.840 --> 01:48:33.039 the tournament. Connecticut might be the best team in the country. Yukon, 1544 01:48:33.359 --> 01:48:38.720 I'm sorry, uk Is, I think are rung below those teams, but 1545 01:48:38.960 --> 01:48:44.720 offensively as dangerous as anybody in the country. Kansas also has a victory over 1546 01:48:44.840 --> 01:48:51.279 Houston and a lopsided one. They've beaten three teams that have a chance to 1547 01:48:51.279 --> 01:48:56.880 be a one seed. They've also got to win against Kentucky. They've lost 1548 01:48:56.920 --> 01:49:06.880 seven games in the Big Twelve. Seven I'm not sure. I'm not sure 1549 01:49:06.920 --> 01:49:11.880 that everybody who cares about UC basketball was ready for what the Big Twelve is. 1550 01:49:12.319 --> 01:49:15.840 It's more than just Kansas, and by the way, I think what 1551 01:49:15.920 --> 01:49:17.720 Houston has done is remarkable. I'm rooting for the Cougars who win the national 1552 01:49:17.800 --> 01:49:24.239 championship twenty seven to three. They move seamlessly into the Big Twelve, and 1553 01:49:24.279 --> 01:49:30.600 they're in first place going into the last weekend, legitimate chance to win the 1554 01:49:30.680 --> 01:49:34.079 national title. Maybe the best they've had during this run where they've been really 1555 01:49:34.079 --> 01:49:44.760 good all these years. I wonder like the league that you see left completely 1556 01:49:44.840 --> 01:49:47.319 understandable. If you're like, look, we're done with the American Athletic Conference, 1557 01:49:47.319 --> 01:49:51.000 so I'm not going to pay attention. The team with the longest winning 1558 01:49:51.039 --> 01:49:57.720 streak in the sport right now are the USF Bulls from the American Athletic Conference, 1559 01:49:58.840 --> 01:50:00.319 which is made up of a lot of the

schools that you see was 1560 01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:04.760 competing against, like SMU and Memphis and ECU and Temple and Tulane, but 1561 01:50:04.800 --> 01:50:13.199 also they've added Rice and Texas San Antonio and Florida Atlantic and UABS in that 1562 01:50:13.319 --> 01:50:20.199 league North Texas Rice, I say Rice twice. USF is twenty three and 1563 01:50:20.319 --> 01:50:26.199 five. They have run away with the regular season title in the American Athletic 1564 01:50:26.199 --> 01:50:30.760 Conference. They're ranked number twenty four in the major polls. They have a 1565 01:50:30.880 --> 01:50:36.920 fifteen game winning streak. Over their previous eleven seasons, USF has gone one, 1566 01:50:38.079 --> 01:50:48.319 twenty seven and two seventeen, one twenty seven and two seventeen and this 1567 01:50:48.479 --> 01:50:53.319 year they run away with the American Athletic Conference. Now, Amir abder Raheem 1568 01:50:53.359 --> 01:50:55.720 has done a very good job with that team, and I've actually had a 1569 01:50:55.760 --> 01:50:58.199 chance to watch them, and they're they're good. They're really fun to watch. 1570 01:50:59.359 --> 01:51:01.640 But here as an example of somebody had to win the league, Houston 1571 01:51:01.720 --> 01:51:05.079 leaves, Cincinnati leaves, and the Bearcats haven't been weren't great in the American 1572 01:51:05.119 --> 01:51:09.079 Athletic Conference the last couple of years. But the league opens up when Houston 1573 01:51:09.159 --> 01:51:12.119 leaves, opens up a little bit more when you see F and Cincinnati leave. 1574 01:51:13.119 --> 01:51:18.199 Who would you rather be right now? A team playing in the Big 1575 01:51:18.239 --> 01:51:25.720 Twelve that has to scrap and claw and fight and just to have a chance 1576 01:51:25.760 --> 01:51:33.119 to make the tournament or USF. If the answer is USF, why were 1577 01:51:33.159 --> 01:51:38.119 you that excited about the Big Twelve? Like again, like anecdotally, I 1578 01:51:38.119 --> 01:51:42.000 can get frustrated about a lot of things I see, but I think some 1579 01:51:42.079 --> 01:51:45.000 are taking the conversation to a place where it's like, what did you expect 1580 01:51:45.000 --> 01:51:49.279 this league to present? Now? The Bearcats have been complicit in their record, 1581 01:51:49.640 --> 01:51:53.239 and they were complicit in their own demise. And I don't think this 1582 01:51:53.279 --> 01:51:57.399 team has improved as much as maybe they could have. Maybe they could have. 1583 01:51:58.520 --> 01:52:01.079 But the Kansas thing, I'm not the first person to point this out 1584 01:52:01.079 --> 01:52:05.279 by any stretch. Look at who have they look at who they've beaten, 1585 01:52:06.479 --> 01:52:10.720 look at the number of losses they have in this conference. That's Kansas. 1586 01:52:11.520 --> 01:52:15.720 Now, this Kansas team isn't quite as on par as some of the squads 1587 01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:20.279 that Bill self has had.

That's Kansas the gold standard in the Big Twelve 1588 01:52:20.319 --> 01:52:25.199 for decades, really since the league became the Big Twelve. This season they 1589 01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:31.399 lost seven games. Hell, U s played them tough. I think we 1590 01:52:31.479 --> 01:52:35.039 knew this was going to be a league that was more prestigious and more lucrative 1591 01:52:35.159 --> 01:52:43.720 and more difficult. I'm not sure everybody really realized how hard this is going 1592 01:52:43.760 --> 01:52:46.840 to be. Now. Look, the Bearcats also lost to Xavier, and 1593 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:50.159 there's fatigue with that, and I get it. And they lost to Dayton 1594 01:52:50.239 --> 01:52:54.279 by fourteen points, and as good as Dayton is this year, that was 1595 01:52:55.159 --> 01:52:59.800 very, very frustrating. But the big Big twelve play, which was always 1596 01:53:00.000 --> 01:53:03.119 going to determine whether or not this team finally made the tournament, Like, 1597 01:53:03.720 --> 01:53:08.920 did we not understand how hard this was going to be this year? Now 1598 01:53:08.920 --> 01:53:11.119 the idea is for them to get better next year, so it's not quite 1599 01:53:11.119 --> 01:53:13.600 as hard, and even better the year after that, so it's not quite 1600 01:53:13.600 --> 01:53:16.880 as hard. But I don't know, man, I didn't enter this thinking, 1601 01:53:18.199 --> 01:53:20.239 well, God, within a couple of years they'll be competing for Big 1602 01:53:20.279 --> 01:53:24.239 Twelve championships. I just I think that's gonna take a really long time. 1603 01:53:25.039 --> 01:53:28.239 That's gonna take a really long time. Now, within that time, you 1604 01:53:28.319 --> 01:53:30.760 still have to be competitive. You still have to make tournaments, You still 1605 01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:32.399 have to get wins that matter, You still have to win games that move 1606 01:53:32.479 --> 01:53:39.159 the meter. But I do, and I again, I share a lot 1607 01:53:39.159 --> 01:53:43.680 of frustrations that people feel about how the team has played this season. But 1608 01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:46.920 like the alternative is you stay back in the American Athletic Conference, which nobody 1609 01:53:46.960 --> 01:53:50.079 wanted, and you know, maybe this year they stick around, they're running 1610 01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:55.479 away with the league. I don't think any of us really had an appetite 1611 01:53:55.520 --> 01:53:57.199 for that. Well, if we didn't have an appetite for that, then 1612 01:53:57.199 --> 01:54:00.359 you had to deal with something that was gonna be really really hard. This 1613 01:54:00.399 --> 01:54:08.640 is really really hard, and the difficulty isn't just entering the league. It's 1614 01:54:08.960 --> 01:54:14.000 getting the kind of players that populate the league. And that's going to be 1615 01:54:14.079 --> 01:54:18.359 really hard, and it's also going to cost a lot of money. And 1616 01:54:18.399 --> 01:54:21.479 so I'm not saying don't be frustrated. I you know, went on a 1617 01:54:21.560 --> 01:54:27.960 rant about the loss on Wednesday, right, it was frustrating, is all 1618 01:54:28.000 --> 01:54:30.520 get out? Man? Like I share it. I don't think this team 1619 01:54:31.359 --> 01:54:35.840 has improved at the rate that I thought they could have. I'm okay saying 1620 01:54:35.880 --> 01:54:43.239 that, But were we in the final analysis of the win loss record? 1621 01:54:43.880 --> 01:54:46.960 Were we really expecting anything dramatically different? Now you might say, well, 1622 01:54:47.000 --> 01:54:50.520 things beyond the win loss record matter, and I kind of agree with that, 1623 01:54:50.680 --> 01:54:59.560 But is is the win loss record that far beyond what you expected if 1624 01:54:59.600 --> 01:55:04.560 you really knew how hard this league was going to be? Ten minutes away 1625 01:55:04.560 --> 01:55:09.000 from six o'clock, This is ESPN fifteen thirty cents, an ice sports station. 1626 01:55:09.800 --> 01:55:14.560 Hey right, yes, yes, yes, yes, anything you might 1627 01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:18.039 have missed, iHeartRadio app podcast page of ESPN fifteen thirty dot com that included 1628 01:55:18.279 --> 01:55:23.840 Darren Horn on his Norris winning last night, James Rapine on Bengals free agency, 1629 01:55:23.960 --> 01:55:28.039 Kindred d c at Auburn, on FC Cincinnati getting set to play DC 1630 01:55:28.199 --> 01:55:31.239 United on Sunday. We're done, show us over, we have to go. 1631 01:55:32.840 --> 01:55:36.640 We're back at it Monday three five, and we'll have an entire weekend 1632 01:55:36.680 --> 01:55:44.119 of sports to discuss, debate, Go Tennessee and analyze Terren's rooting for Tennessee 1633 01:55:44.199 --> 01:55:47.920 to bet UK. So the Wildcats play on Thursday in the four or five 1634 01:55:48.000 --> 01:55:53.520 game, which would mean we get the day off, Big Blue Nation. 1635 01:55:53.920 --> 01:55:59.039 You can get mad at Tarren Bland. Have a great night. Thank you 1636 01:55:59.079 --> 01:56:02.199 for listening, and we'll talk to you Monday. Thanks to Tarran for producing, 1637 01:56:02.199 --> 01:56:05.600 and thanks to you for listening. This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports 1638 01:56:05.600 --> 01:56:25.319 Station. This report