October 8, 2024: George Lehner and Dave Cecutti

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the press Box with Marty Banister, the latest
on all local sports from right State to the Dayton Flyers,
from the Reds and Buckeyes to the Bengals and Browns.
Called Marty now at nine to three, seven by three, one, six,
one seven zero the press Box on Fox Sports nine

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eighty WN eighty.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And we've lost games like this before as well, maybe
not this exact game, but you know, we're resilient.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
We're gonna fight.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
We're gonna fight right back on Wednesday. That's Stephen Vote,
the manager of the Cleveland Guardians, after yesterday's heartbreaking loss
in Game two of the American League Division Series to
the Detroit Tigers. Welcome to the press Box on Fox
Sports nine eighty W O and E. I'm Marty Bannerster.
Big show coming up for you today and we're glad
you're with us here this afternoon. Kelly B's producing the program,

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she's alongside for the ride, and you have us up
until five o'clock today. A lot to get in today.
We're kind of gonna veer just a little bit away
from sports in the first segment. Normally we like to
keep it everything sports related because you're tired of everything
else that's going on in the world. But this story
is one that is without a doubt captivating a lot
of people. And of course it's the hurricane that is

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bearing down on the Gulf of Gulf coast of Florida
right now, the western edge of Florida. If you remember,
back in November, we had George Laner in studio with us.
George loorked for many, many years on the air in Columbus.
He and I were competing radio stations back in the
day when competing radio stations actually meant competing radio stations.
We didn't like them, they didn't like us, and we

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had the Ohio State games. His station didn't. But George
and I became friends regardless of that, and it was
a fun and interesting time. And George I've known each
other for many many years. And in fact, we had
Georgian studio back. I want to say it was Michigan
week last year, or maybe the weekend before, and he
came on and he covered Ohio State for many, many years.

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At any rate. To make a long story very short,
George Laner now lives in the western half of the
state of Florida, and he is going to come on
with us at about three twenty and just kind of
talk to us about what's going on right now, the
preparations for this mammoth hurricane which is bearing down on
the state of Florida. The videos, if you're watching and

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keeping up to date on these things, are remarkable, and
we're gonna talk to George about a lot of this
when he joins us. But the thing that is so
staggering about all of this is we're just what two
weeks from Helene, two weeks from moving.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Not even like seven days, nine days, and.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
The amount of debris that is still on the streets
and in towns in Florida that is going to be
tossed up into the air and adding to the disaster
that's to come is just phenomenal. And we're gonna talk
to George about the preparations and what's going on and
just get his thoughts as to what he is seeing.

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So again, as I said, we normally don't venture away
from that, but to me, this is just such a
such a mammoth story right now. And when you have
somebody who was on site and has some first hand
look at what's going on, I think it's always interesting
to do that, so we're gonna have George come on
again about three twenty next hour day Scoutie will visit
Z talk a little college basketball. A lot going on

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as we close it on the start of the basketball season,
which is a little less than a month away as
far as college basketball is considered. The NBA is just
what two weeks away. The hockey season starts tonight, which
which is just for those of us who are hockey fans,
it's just fantastic. I'm so glad hockey is back. We're
trying to line up Dave Metzel to come on the

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program as well too and talk a little Blue Jackets hockey.
They open on the road Thursday at Minnesota against the Wow.
Tomorrow on the program the second hour of the show,
talking a little Ohio State football, We're gonna preview the
big game coming up Saturday in Eugene between the Buckeyes
and the Oregon Ducks. Former Ohio state wide receiver Dane
Sanzenbacher will be our guest and hour number two of
the program tomorrow. I'm sure many of you remember Dane

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from his days. He was on the Tattoo Gate team,
the twenty ten team whose season doesn't exist according to
all the records, although those of us who were there
know that it does exist because we were I was there,
I covered it. I was on the sidelines during that.
But Dane will visit with us tomorrow, looking forward to that.
Dane now does a radio work, as I think every

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ex buck Eye does now in Columbus on radio. I
don't know that there's a if you're an ext buck Eye,
you've got a radio job waiting for you at one
of the various radio stations.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
That's nice, that's honestly, that's I'm sure. I think that's
I would I would push that if I was Ohio State.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
See, that's all you have to be. That's all you
have to be. Former buck I have. I'm over here, Yeah,
and they're going to bring in studio and let you
have a show. But Dane will visit with us tomorrow.
Dane's a good guy and does a lot of He's
done some TV work in the Toledo area where he's from,
and has some interesting insight into the Buckeye's going on
the road Saturday as they travel to Ore again to
face the Ducks. That is one of our two fan polls.

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What you're up for you this afternoons, we'll give you
where we stand with those. Also, by the we have
Trans Sibery and Orchestra tickets to give away. We'll do
that a little bit later on in the program as
well too. We did get We never mentioned the winner yesterday.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
We did right at the end. It was Paul. Paul
calling from Dayton and he was the first caller. That's
how you win.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Gratulations, that's right, But you can't win today, Paul, or
the next thirty day. Sorry, those are the rules. Those
are the rules. But congratulations, and I hope you enjoy
the concert of Trans Siberian Orchestra December seventh at the
Another Center. All right, our two fan poles that are
up for you today. It is, without a doubt, Ohio
State's biggest test of the season the game Saturday at Oregon.
So we're asking you what happens in Eugene on Saturday night.

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Ohio State wins by double digits, Oregon wins a close game.
Ohio State wins a close game, or the Ducks win
by ten or more. And right now it's a dead heat.
Ohio State by double digits and Oregon wins a close game,
each getting forty percent of the vote right now, and
we're also asking you today, the Guardians, Well, we're also

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asking our other fan poll today. Alabama and Tennessee were
top five teams to lose this past weekend. How many
losses can a team afford and still be considered for
an at large bid in the college football playoff? Two
is the maximum three, but it depends on the team
or Big Ten and SEC teams can afford two losses.
Everybody else can only afford one, And right now that

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and two is the maximum, each getting forty percent of
the vote. So you can vote on both those poles
again right up until next hour of the program for
forty five or so, so we have all that too.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
I am shocked actually that for the Ohio State pole,
it's either Oregon blows them out or or sorry, Ohio
State blows out Oregon, or Oregon just wins, not even
Ohio State wins by a close game.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Is you know what I mean that?

Speaker 5 (06:46):
I feel like it's two different camps, two totally different
camps here.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Sure, so that's interesting.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
I think if Ohio State goes in there and drups Oregon,
then you can go ahead our print and playoff tickets.
I agree, I agree one thousand, because that's going to
be that's going to tell you an awful lot about
this Ohio State team's makeup. If they go in there
and pluck all the feathers off the ducks, this team

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set up for a heck of a run.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
I agree with that, and it's updated.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
You want some other things going on in the world
of sports, Red's manager Terry Francona has wasted a little time.
They fired three hitting coaches today, so the turnover has
started in Cincinnati. Hey, I have nothing wrong, I see.
I hate to see anybody lose a job. Sure, but
new regime, new time, new way of doing things. That's
the way it works. By the way, Francona his uniform

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number will be seventy seven with the Reds. Don't know
if you notice that or not. I did. I did.
I heard the reasoning for that today. What's the seven
plus seven is fourteen? Pete Rose. I'm a huge Pete Rose.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Fan, man.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, so the guy gets it. The guy gets it.
He understands Cincinnati Baseball. So nice to finally have somebody
who understands what's going on.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
That's really good.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah. So there the Guardians yesterday lost a thriller and
a heartbreaker all at the same time. In the second
game of the Division series yesterday, Tiger scored three runs
in the top of the ninth off of Emanuel Class
and beat the Guardians three nothing. Game two, the or
Game three the series is tomorrow. Now the series takes
on an entirely different feel now that Detroit won yesterday,

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because I had said on the area yesterday I thought
if if Cleveland won yesterday, they were gonna win the series,
because they would they would have beaten schoobl Tek Schooble
be up two to oh knowing they have a fifth
game back home. Now it's one one, You're going to Detroit,
and it takes on an entirely different feel. And again,
remember this is just a best of five, it's not
a best of seven. So these next two games are

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gonna be some great great baseball. Last night, Kansas City
held out and beat the Yankees in Game two of
that series, which again puts that series in an entirely
different field because you're going back to Kansas City now
for two games, and did you right that game ended,
I immediately flipped over to the football game because the
football game was in Kansas City, and within ten seconds
the crowd in Kansas City Neverhead went wild because the

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Royals had just won, and you could it took about
that long for everybody to catch up. People had their
phones out and everything, and it was just h It
was just wild to see.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
But sorry, I was gonna say, probably nice to be
a Kansas City fan right now.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
It's nauseating too people. By the way, the Chiefs did
wins their five and zero. Uh and and I get
all these ridiculous conspiracy theories are flying around again today.
The NFL is I just I just don't know how
people well, all you have to do is look at the
well I don't even get in to the politics how
people can follow conspiracy theories. But nonetheless, that's not the

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way this works. I just not the way that it works.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
I'll say that the people that believe that there's a
script in the NFL, some of the most hysterical people,
completely one hundred percent wrong. But the I mean, the
creativity coming out of those folks.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh, it's unmarkable. It really is, it really is, it
really really is unmatched.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
I wish I wish there was a script because then
I can give some notes, you know.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
I can't. If there was a script, we'd all be
making it. We'd all be rich, yeah, because we would know,
we would know.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
But there's no Unfortunately, no script, no script.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Unfortunately, see exactly exactly. National League Division Series resume tonight
Mets and Phillies in about two hours in New York,
and then later on tonight Dodgers padres in the National
League Division Series. Some sad news out of the world
of baseball today the passing of Louis Tiant, the pitcher
who had that mesmerizing wind up where he would almost

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turn his back completely to home plate before he would
then turn and deliver a pitch. Of course, we Reads
fans remember him from the seventy five World Series, how
he dominated the Reds in his first appearance in Game
number one. Then Tony Perez took one of those. It
wasn't his ephis pitch, but it was another pitch later
in the game later in series off of Bill Lee.
But Louis Tiant was a big part of why the
Red Sox jumped ahead in that series. In nineteen seventy five,

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tiont also pitched for the Cleveland then Indians went twenty
one to nine, nineteen complete games and nine shutouts in
the nineteen sixty eight season. Nineteen complete games. We're never
going to see that again. No one's going to throw
nineteen complete games maybe in their career. He had nine
shutouts in that sixty eight season, including four in a row.

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His earn run average was one point six oh that year,
the best in the American League in half a century.
He was the son of a Negro League star. Louis
Tiant in his pitching career, was two hundred and twenty
nine and one hundred and seventy two with a three
point three to zero earned run average. He had a
career of one hundred and eighty seven complete games and
forty nine shutouts six seasons in Cleveland, eight with the

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Red Sox. Louis Tiant died at his home in Maine
today at the age of eighty three. We mentioned the
hurricane at the top of the show of the Tampa
Bay light And who were scheduled to open up the
National Hockey League season this weekend, have already left for Raleigh,
North Carolina, their game they were set to open on
Friday night. The Lightning have left to get set and

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get out of town ahead of that. The Tampa Bay
Buccaneers have done the same thing. They have already left
for New Orleans. They're slated to play in New Orleans
on Sunday. The American Athletic Conference has announced that the
game between Memphis and South Florida, which was scheduled for
Friday night and Tampa, has been moved to Saturday, and
South Florida is relocating its football game its football team

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to Orlando later in the day today that according to
their head coach, now, UCF is supposed to host Cincinnati
this weekend. Bearcats are supposed to play there on Saturday.
Don't know, We're gonna still wait and see how that
all kind of plays itself out, if that indeed does happen.
Because the way the path of the hurricane right now,

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they're saying right now it's expected to hit Orlando as
a Category two in Orlando is many many miles inland,
and it's expected to be a category two when it
hits Orlando.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
So that's it is, it is.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
It's it's an enormous, enormous storm.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
It's oh, so I was gonna say, it's it's kind
of wild that it's safer to be in New Orleans
during a hurricane right now, like for this storm. You
never say that. No one's ever said that. That's that's
where we are. That's him, Like, wow, these are new storms.
Tampa never gets hit by hurricanes.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
I have family there.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
They don't get they they pretend to prep They're like,
it's not gonna hit us, and then it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
So this is new. This is new.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Also today, the as you heard the top of the
hour of the New York Jets become the first team
in the NFL season to fire their head coach, Robert
Sala let go after a two and three start. Apparently
everyone in New York unhappy with Sala. They were losers
over the weekend in London to the Vikings. So they're
now two and three, and I imagine everyone's upset. But
the one who's probably upset the most is Aaron Rodgers.

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And we know what that carries.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
I think, do you think he's mad that Robert Sala's gone?

Speaker 4 (14:03):
If you saw his face in the postgame press conference.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's exactly. I don't know, if I don't know how,
I don't.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
I don't think he's completely upset. Yeah, this has happened
that this has happened.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, I don't think he's upset.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't think he's upset at all. There you had
that again, Baseball five oh eight. First pitch in New
York Mets Phillies. And then a little bit after nine
o'clock to I dodgered podrays out on the left coast.
When we come back, we're going to go down to
the Gulf coast of Florida. Our friend George Laner is
going to be kind enough to give us a couple
of moments and tell us just what the feeling is like.
Then there's the breaks for this monumental hurricane which is

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bearing down on the west coast of Florida. It's the
press box worth you right up until five on Fox
Sports nine eighty W and eight.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Get on the press box called Marty now at nine
to three, seven by three, one, six, one seven zero
the press box on Fox Sports ninet eighty WN eighty
having back.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
With you here on this Tuesday afternoon, three nineteen. It
is the press box. It is Fox Sports nine eighty
wne IM Marti Banerster, We're go ahead, you're with us
Service afternoon. Kelly B's producing the program one Bengals roster.
Note before we move along, the team has announced officially
that Dax Hill is headed to the ir with the
ACL injury, so his season is over. The Bengals have

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also signed offensive tackle Andrew Stuber to the active roster.
He was on Atlanta's practice squad. He's a six to seven,
three hundred and thirty eight first year player out of
the University of Michigan. Originally was drafted in the seventh
round by New England. Spent most of his rookie season
on the reserve non football injury list, So obviously the
Bengals are a little concerned about Amarius Mims right now,
even though he did come back into the game on

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the Sunday against the Ravens did play. Still, I would
imagine some more offensive line depth is never a bad
thing as well either, so we'll see how much that
plays into it all right, of course, the big story
dominating just about everything, including the world of sports. We
mentioned some of the schedule changes that are coming up,
as the Hurricane Milton, which is on its way towards
the western edge of the state of Florida, and as

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I intro at the top of the hour, our friend
George Laner has been kind enough to give us a
couple of minutes in amidst all the preparations to do
whatever they have to do to evacuate things along those lines. George,
first of all, I appreciate your time. Where are you
as far as the state of Florida is concerned right now?
And what is the situation like there now?

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Well, I'm about First of all, I'm Marty, and it's
always good to talk to you. You know, last time
you and I were together on the air, I was
in the studio with you.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
So that's right exactly.

Speaker 6 (16:49):
But I yea for those people that may know Southwest Florida,
I'm ten minutes from the Fort Myers Airport, the Regional Airport,
Southwest Florida Regional Airport, So we live pretty close to
the water, about four miles away, and we have decided
to move inland on the other side of seventy five,

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east of seventy five, and we just pulled into our
friends driveway, so we are in the process of unloading
two cars and getting settled in for the long haul
because you know, it's an awful, awful hurricane and they
all are. But it's after the hurricane when you really
get affected to because just about all the time you

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have power outages, and these power outages go for ten, fifteen,
twenty days. Sometimes it's awful. It's just horrible. So that's
the worst part of the storm is post hurricane. But
you know, this is I think something like the third
most powerful hurricane in the Gulf this time of year.

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So it's you know, it's a concern obviously. And I
didn't see the cone as of three o'clock the update,
but I've seen them before that time, and you know,
everybody's taken this seriously. This is I think our third
hurricane since we were here, since we've been here in
twenty sixteen, and people remember the devastation of Hurricane Ian

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just a couple of years ago. And from what I'm seeing,
people are really taking the necessary precautions. They're not taking
anything for granted. They closed Fort Myers Beach yesterday afternoon
at three o'clock, and every vet's like a ghost town. This,
I'll tell you, this whole area, Marty kind of reminds
me in a weird way of like Christmas Eve. The

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stores are all closing at three o'clock. You know, everything's
going to be hung. Everybody's gonna be hunkered down. You
can't You're not gonna be able to go anywhere or
buy anything, get anything until after this thing comes through
and it's taken. It's good old time. It looks now
like it's going to be an overnight hurricane, which you know,
that's no fun having a storm go through, no matter

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what it is, in the middle of the night. But
it looks like it's probably going to be sometime late
Thursday or Friday before we really know anything about the damage.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
George, what's the feeling like knowing that something like this
is coming. I mean, you know, you're from the Midwest.
You spend a lot of time in Ohio. I mean,
you know when we would prepare for, oh, I don't know,
a snowstorm or a blizzard. Is there any is there
any Is there anything that that that's Is it similar
in any way?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well?

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Yeah, I mean, you know, you're you prepare for a calamity,
you know, or a possible devastating event, and it's the same,
you know, no matter what it is. But you know,
for you know, ten eleven months a year, Florida is
just so beautiful and paradise. They call it paradise for

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a reason, but Florida is not for every and hurricane
season really kicks into high gear. It's a six month
season from May to the end of November, but it
really kicks into high gear August, September, October. Hurricane this late,
this late in the season is rare, especially one this
this severe, but you know it's going to happen, and

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that's part of living down here, and you just you
just know that that's always a possibility, and you have
your hurricane kit and you know what you're going to
do and where you're going to go, and you hope
you never have to do it. But that's that's part
of the price of being down here. And a lot
of people feel that way. But you know, there's there
are other people that live out on the beach, that

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live along the coast and they've had to replay repair
everything and rebuild after Hurricane Ian, and now Milton's coming
and they're saying, enough's enough. We're not We're not going
to rebuild again. We've had enough, And so.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
You do have that sure, I would imagine he is
one of the real legends and such Ohio Radio certainly
and across the state of Ohio from his days at WTVN
and Columbus. Our friend George Laneer is visiting with us
right now. He is in the Fort Myers area of
Florida as a hurricane Milton bears down on that part
of the state of Florida right now. Georgie talked about
people who sometimes can't I mean, they've kind of decided

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that's enough that they're going to get away from all
of these things. What about those people that ignore the
evacuation orders. I've already seen some things where some of
the FEMA people and the safety people, first responders and
whatnot are telling these people. I saw a report earlier
where they're telling some of these people who are staying,
write your name, your address, you're next of kent somewhere

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where we can find it. I mean, how sobering is
that when you hear that? But do you do you
understand those that want, let's say, well, we're going to
ride it out.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
Well to a degree, these storms, the last several have
been so powerful and they really hadn't had that here
for a number of years. And there are those people
that are long time Floridians that say, hey, I've written
out hurricanes before. This is not a big deal. This
is just another one. And you know, I guess I

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can understand that. But you know, I've heard people say,
write your name on your arm and your phone numbers
so we can identify the body. I mean, it's and
it's and it's serious stuff. I mean, when when Ian happened,
there were people that were found that they didn't know
who they were. Some of those people weren't found for

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several weeks. And you know what happens to the body
after several weeks. And you know it's when they say evacuate, evacuate,
it's it's just it's nothing to mess around with down here.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
M h yeah, exactly exactly. And George Laneter on the
line with us right now as a hurricane Milton approaches
the coast of Florida. The other thing in the preparations
when when you when you decide to pack up and leave,
you have to be very I guess you have to
be very uh careful with what you take with us.
You can't take everything obviously you load. Yeah, yeah, you

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have to be you have to be very picky, don't
you And that I think that would be a hard
thing too.

Speaker 6 (23:16):
Well, we decided to bring supplies for about five days,
recognizing that after this is done, we'll be able to
get back home in another day or so. And we're
only we're less than ten minutes from the house that
we're staying in right now, so we'll be able to
go home and see what the dammage estament is at

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our house, and hopefully there isn't anything, but we'll be
able to get inside and take things that we need,
you know, for the next few days. And so in
our case, yeah, we we didn't take things for very
manute and I say take supplies, medicine and so forth
for three days. We did it for five and a

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lot of it's going to depend on the power. But
I'm telling you power outages will be widespread, and some
of the circuits get on before others because they help
help with evacuations evacuation areas, and you know there's there's
a couple arenas that are you know, people can go

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and wait this storm out and they'll get they'll get
power return to them sooner than than other people. And
you know, that's that's the thing is I said, it's
after the hurricane that that really messes you up.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Right. The other part of this too, George. And I'm
sure you're aware of this, as you mentioned earlier, just
a couple of weeks after Hurricane Helene went through, there's
still so much degree and damage all over the place
down there. That's another added aspect of this that I
think makes this one a little different than past storms,
doesn't it well?

Speaker 6 (24:56):
And I think Marty, that's why people really left so
quickly with this, because they're still trying to recover from
the effects of Helene. Now this coming storm and Helene
really hurt the area north of where we are in
southwest Florida more than here. But people along the coast

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still had devastating damage with Helene, and they will have
devastating damage with Milton, storm surge, flooding, and so yeah,
these people aren't messing around from what I see. And
you can. All you have to do is dial up
a traffic camera at I seventy five and you'll see
traffic is backed up, bumper to bumper all the way

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through the state.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Do you sense, George. And I'll leave you with this
that I mean everybody talks about how the populace is
these days everywhere that everyone always uses the term where
a divided nation right now. You hear that a lot.
Do you sense a different you amongst just everybody when
something like this happens. It's more of a hey, we're
all in this together. Now, we know we we can't

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be wild, we can't let we can't let other things
divide us. Now we have to look out for each
other in this. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
No, there's no question. Now everybody, everybody helps everybody this
time of this time of a crisis. Yeah, everybody pitches
in and helps one another. It's it's really nice to see,
you know how how there's such a bond with everybody
in Southwest Florida. People will go out of their way

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to help other people. You've seen it already and you
saw it after Helene went up the coast and uh, yeah,
And there's so many volunteer organizations that are out helping
people and neighbors helping neighbors, churches helping neighborhoods, you know,
volunteers going out to try and do whatever they can

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to provide food and comfort and housing. And yeah, it's
there's a real strong bond between the people that live
in Southwest Florida, especially at a time like this.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Well, George I appreciate you spending some time with us.
I know you're trying to get to a safe area,
and I thank you for coming on just kind of
giving us a feel for what this is like. You know,
we're thinking of your pal and hopefully you'll be able
to get back home soon. And we just wanted to
check in and give folks here are kind of someone's
as to what's happening down there. I appreciate your time.
Stay safe, my friend. We're thinking of you.

Speaker 6 (27:28):
Okay, Marty, thanks for your time and your interest. We
appreciate it. And say hi to everybody back in Southwest
or back in now Ohio for us.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
We'll certainly do that. George, thanks again, George Lane are
visiting with us again. As I mentioned that, Thank you. George,
longtime radio broadcaster in the central Ohio area and one
of the real radio legends and that part of the
state and in our status for his years on the
air in the Columbus area, now has retired to the
well the western coast of Florida. As he said, he's
in ten minutes from the Fort Myers Airport, which is

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shut down. Fort Myers, as he said, is a ghost
town right now. Is a ghost town. So wow. And
as he said, go find some of those pictures of
traffic cameras like I I seventy five and some of
those others. Boy, you think an afternoon trying to drive
home on six seventy five is bad?

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Can't touch what they're doing in Fla.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Oh goodness, Oh goodness, it's completely different, all right. Again
thanks to George. We appreciate this time. It's the press
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Speaker 1 (28:50):
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Speaker 4 (29:03):
And I'm back with you here on this Tuesday afternoon,
Fox Sports nine eighty w Olne. I'm already banned. Great
taboo is here in the press box again with you
right up until five o'clock and again thanks to our
friend George. Later again I know, as I, as I
like to say a lot, we don't try to deal
with things outside of sports, if at all, on this show.
But I just thought to me that's this storm is
a historic and it is. And when you think about

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all the things that are still on top of what
they're trying to do to clean up in that part
of the country. Now you got another one two weeks later,
and some of the video and some of the pictures
coming from those areas of Florida where they're trying to
get all the garbage and all the debris cleaned up
from Helene. This is going to be a mess, I
mean of an unmitigated disaster. Yeah, no question about that.

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It's remarkable, really.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
It's And the thing is, it's not even just the debris.
It's they have to rebuild roads, bridges. There's a bunch
of videos online of like pre and post Helene, and
you'll see a video of a road, a house, a
shed and the only thing left is dirt, like in

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the same exactly, and it's it's baffling, it's so sad,
it's so I mean, it's beyond just the debris. They
have to rebuild the infrastructure of parts of that area.
And that's beyond me. I mean, that's exactly.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Well, it's not only yeah, and it's not only that
part of the southeast of you get up into North Carolina,
which obviously Ashville is a disaster right now. Just uh,
I mean, I don't that that that town. I mean,
I don't know how that it's going to take them
forever to recover from that.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
I actually think decades, like and I'm not being facetious,
like the numbers, the amount of money that they're talking
about estimating it's I don't I don't even have the words,
and I have a lot of words for a lot
of things.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
That much is true.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
That much we know, that much we know, so I'm
just I'm really shocked by just how much devastation. And
I learned actually that it's because that area kind of
acts as a bowl, like it is a mountainous region,
but it's like the lowest mountainous region in that region,
so it kind of acts as a bowl for North Carolina.
So they got all of the water that poured out

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in North Carolina. And that's unreal.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
The other interesting thing about it is too Florida officials
are telling those that are still there, time's running out
for you to evacuate. And that's why I asked George
about the You've heard these reports that they're telling people
who are staying behind, well, you better write your name
and all your next of ken and all these other things.
Better write it somewhere and to attach it to your body.

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Write it on your body because once the deadline passes,
you're on your own. Yeah, we can, and that's that's
a frightening right thing to have to to tell people.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
But the first also have to protect themselves exactly exactly.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
They have to be available to come in and help
people after this goes through. And it's just one of
the things too. When I when I when I we
first brought George, I asked him about, Uh, I mean,
he's from the Midwest, he's from Masslin, so he's obviously
big masks.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, yeah, he loves it.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
But I asked him about when we get ready for
snowstorms and blizzards and things like that. People race out
to the stores milk and bread and everything, go whisk
off the shelves and we see all that. But that's
a little different because you know, once the snow goes through,
well they got plow the roads. It takes a couple
of days to plow the roads. Most of the time.

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Knock on veneer would whatever you want to knock on,
the power stays on and you get through it. This
is he said, it's ten fifteen days before people are
going to get power back. And it's not as if
I mean even though it's October, Howard, Florida might as
well be June here because it's not it's not any coal.
And they're not out of this yet. I mean they're

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still they're still right in the middle of this hurricane.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, they're still that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
They're still right in the middle of cleaning up pouline
and now they have to take cover again. It's it's insane,
it's insane. Probably the only person having a worse day
is Robert Salah.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
I mean, yeah, yeah, probably, so, the head coach of
the New York Jets was fired earlier today. Uh and
so now that is that he is the first coach
to be shown the door during this season. And of course,
with what happened Sunday in Cincinnati, there were a lot
of all over social media, Hey Bengals are gonna it's

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time that Bengals have to make a move now, and
and this and that and the other thing. And believe me,
I'm a Bengals fan. I get it. I understand, and
I think there are a lot of Browns fans who
probably feel that some changes need to be made there
as well too. But I don't necessarily know that it
falls to Kevin Stefanski because I think the majority of

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their fans think he's stuck with this albatross. That albatross
being Deshaun Watsons. He didn't want him, but he's got him,
and he's got to make it work. Okay. The difference
in Cincinnati is, and we kind of touched on this
a little bit yesterday about generational talent is going through
the door now and here you are. You're just what

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how long can how long can you continue to do
the things that you are doing and see things that
happen and go, oh, everything's fine, Because remember this is
a franchise that kept Marvin Lewis in charge for fifteen seasons,
and really it took it to get to complete rock

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bottom to make a move. And by rock bottom, I
mean you had people on your roster who, let's face
it just weren't very good human beings, and that it
had just spiraled out of control to the point where
nothing Marvin Lewis could do. He had obviously lost the
locker room, he had obviously lost the team. So they

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just they were and and and they had lost the
fan base too. The fans were I mean, I know,
we were done, just done with that franchise because of
what they were trying to do. Now, I wonder about
Browns fans. We referenced it yesterday as well, too, Are
you done with the team for this year? Because if

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you compare the two teams with what the end. Again,
I'm not trying to come across as being all box
of chocolates and roses here for what's left of the season.
But the Bengals, they have the Giants this week now,
right now, there's no such for this team. There's no
such thing as a winnable game. Okay, but I think

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there are better teams than the Giants. I'll say it
this way. They're a better team than the Giants. And
there's no reason why they can't win that game Sunday night.
There's just no reason they can't. One of the worst
offenses in the NFL belongs to the New York Giants. Yeah,
they did win in Seattle, but they got defensive scores too.
They've blacked a field goal, ran it back for a touchdown. Okay,
that game's winnable. The game in Cleveland, that's a winnable game.

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Two now will they win it? For whatever reason? It's
an AFC North game. And we know what the Browns
do to the Bengals. They for whatever reason, they have
just scared the you know what out of Zach Taylor
and it just doesn't it just hasn't worked very well.
But with the Browns spiraling out of control right now,
and if they go to Philadelphia Sunday and get dusted, yeah,

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you have to think that thing's a complete and utter
train wreck. Now, so that's a winnable game there. So
if for whatever reason, you're able to get it back
to what would that be three and four, that becomes
part of the problem again because now all of a
sudden you can say, well, okay, wait, we're kind of

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back in this thing. Now we're at three and four
because after the Browns, you've got the Eagles in Cincinnati.
Then you've got the Raiders in Cincinnati. And again, I
know the Bengals haven't won a home game yet this year.
I know that, But I mean again, I know it
probably sounds like I'm trying to put trying to spin
it into a positive right now.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Well it's not a positive, but there is there is there.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
The possibility is there. There's still yeah, the possibility is
there that by the time you go to Baltimore a
week from today on a Thursday night, that you could
be And I hate to say this because I know
it won't happen, but there is the very real possibility
you could be five and four. It is there. It

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is there because you can outscore every one of these
teams on the schedulehead these next four teams, you can
outscore every one of them. And none of these teams
are offensive juggernauts, especially the next two you're going to play,
the Giants and the Browns. Neither one of these teams
are gonna come out and throw thirty five points on
the board against you.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
That's exactly what I was gonna say.

Speaker 5 (38:13):
I was gonna say that they are not gonna they
can outscore everyone, which is why the Bengals and Joe
Burrow are still always in it because that boy five
touchdowns Like it's it's hard. It's the losses that this
team is taking this season are every single one of
them is heartbreaking because Joe has been playing so well.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
You still got hope. You still got hope.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
Four losses by a grand total of fifteen points.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. You still
got hope again.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Every time I say that, every time I say that
the New England Patriots show up and you get beat
sixteen to ten, I'm just to someone up. I'm just saying.
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Speaker 1 (39:08):
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Speaker 4 (39:21):
As we were along here on this Tuesday afternoon, it's
the press box Fox Sports nine eighty Wolanie. We were
talking about what's ahead for the Bengals right now. It
brings up another interesting question with t Higgins and the
trade deadline approaching. Here you are at one four now,
the trade deadline is the end of this month. If

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you get to the end of the month, and as
I just mentioned prior to the break, you find yourself
anywhere south of five and four if you're three and six,
which is a distinct possibility. Again, because this defense, it's
it's right now. Although I did think that getting bj

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Hill back on Sunday did help somewhat because they kept
the Ravens in check running the ball until Derrick Henry
decided that it was time to win the football game
in the overtime session. It is if Sheldon Rankins comes back,
and now you have a little bit of depth up there,
if McKinley, Jackson, Miles Murphy was a bonus, Joseph Osai

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played well on Sunday, so you got a little depth
up front. But the problem is the back end right now,
with Dax Hill now out for the season. If you
could shore that up somehow and just keep people from
gashing you constantly, then you might have a chance in
these next games. But the point of this is circling back.

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If you're anything south of five and four, which again
I mean that's a distinct possibility. I'm not telling you
they're going to be five and four. When it comes
to that end of the month when you hit the
trade deadline, what do you do with T Higgins? Do
you keep him if you're if you're two and seven,
if you lose all all these next games, which you
could do, as the sergeant in The Good Morning Vietnam said,

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And if.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
You do, and if you do, I love that movie.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
That's a positive. It's a great movie. That's a possibility.
Do you have to trade T Higgins? Because I mean
I would have to think he's not coming back. He's
a free agent after this year. And I think it's
kind of obvious the Bengals aren't going to resign him
or try to resign him. So do you trade him?

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Do you get something before he walks out the door?
And by something I mean you've got to go to
somebody and say, T Higgins, Okay, he's worth it. Draft
picks and some help on the back end. We need
somebody from your defensive backfield. Find somebody that's available in
that regard. And again, and here here's the hard thing

(42:00):
about it though. Again, if you're five, let's let's play.
Let's spend positive. Here you're five and four and you're
kind of on the fringe, but you know you've still
got issues in that defensive on that defensive side of
the ball, and in the back end. Do you keep
him and think, well, we can make a run here?

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Are you playing with fool is that fool's gold? Are
you playing with house money? Are you what is the mindset?
The Bengals normally don't make trades mid season. That's something
they just haven't done for whatever the reason. But you
put yourself in a very interesting situation. I think because
of the fact, if you're two and seven, I trade him.

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You've got to do something. If you're three and six,
you trade him. If you're four and five or five,
four and five and four, then I think in the
back of your mind, you're thinking, if we keep him,
we've got eight games left. If we somehow manage to
win six of most of them, yeah, we're in the mix.

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Now that's last six. It's the Steelers twice, it's the Cowboys. Whatever. Again.
You can do this to your blue o the face.
But I think the Bengals find themselves in a very
interesting position come October thirtieth, and I think a lot
of it depends on what the record is. If they're
five and four, then I don't think they would entertain

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the trade because I think in their minds, the front
office's minds, there'll be see we're back where we were,
right back in this thing, right now here we are
despite still having a truckload of issues. On defense.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (43:41):
I mean I think that it's gonna I actually think
it depends more on how they win than if they win.
So if the defense continues to be the greatest liability
in the history of liabilities. Then I think that you
know that even if you get to the playoffs, it's
not it's because in the playoffs, you know what matters

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the most, all of a sudden defense. You can outscore
a lot of teams in the regular season.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Let me say this, if this team somehow, somehow turns
this around, they're not going to New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
They're not going to New Orleans.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Maybe I'm not fooling myself here.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
Maybe next summer, you know what I mean, there's a vacation,
but it will not be in den By the.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Way, it's November five, I'm sorry, November five.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
November.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
Well, let me just start by saying, the Washington Commanders
would love to take T Higgins off your hands. And
there's a number of teams because T Higgins is a
one in almost every other team in the NFL. He's
a one. He's a one guy. So I'm sure a
lot of teams would want him, and I'm sure the
interest is there. If I'm the Bengals, though, and I

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know that I'm not paying him next year, I want
to get something for him because he is a one,
and teams would give up so thing, something notable, a
second round pick, for a one right now that could
play right now, a second round one. So if I'm
the Bengals and I know that I need a safety,

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I know that I need a cornerback, I know that
I need to bolster my linebacker unit, I want that
second round pick more than I need to Higgins immediately.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
So if you're one of these teams that are on
the fringe that are making a playoff run, and here
you have a two and seven team in Cincinnati that
has this all pro wide receiver, he could be what
could get you over the edge if you're if you're Buffalo,
if you're Heaven for Big Kansas City, if you're I mean,

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look at the AFC. There are a number of teams
right now.

Speaker 5 (45:47):
I mean unless kind of everyone except for the Texans,
even the Ravens could use the.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
Texans would even consider it.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
I mean, what's got that they got? They got? They
got fire though in there, and the wide receive the room.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
But I mean see, but the thing is t Higgins
is not a problem.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
No, he's an upgrade.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
He's not a problem locker room wise. He would be
a welcome addition in more ways than one.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
He's a professional.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Yeah, absolutely so. I think there are a lot of
teams that would go, Okay, we're willing to make this deal.
And and I bet again as I said, and I
apologizal Sayinger two. It's November fifth. But if that date
rolls around and Cincinnati is floundering three and six, two
and seven, I think the emails are going to fly,
the text messages are going to fly to the Bengals

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front office, and they should be very receptive to just
about everything that anybody offers them, because you can't just
let this guy walk away for nothing. You just can't
do it. So I mean, next year you lose Mike Hilton.
He's got one year left on his deal. But what
we're seeing as well too right now is guys like

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Hilton von Bell obviously is not the von Bell of
two years ago. We saw that on Sunday. He's obviously
lost a step maybe two. He brings a lot of
leadership in that area. But leadership can undo the inability
to make tackles, which they have a lot of that
back there. So and when we come back after the
top of the break too, the same thing can be

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said for what's going on in Cleveland right now, because
now you have to start thinking long term there as
well too. And there are some guys that you have
on your roster that you have to think about. Sure,
So we'll get into that when we come back after
the top of that. Also, next hour, our friend Dave
Secuti will visit with us. We'll Here's some comments also
from Dan Lanning, the head coach of the Oregon Ducks, who, oh,

(47:39):
by the way, play host to Ohio State on Saturday night,
in case you had not have heard that one will
kick off oh a little bit after seven thirty on
Saturday night, So imaginere'll be a lot of attention focused
on that game.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
Would you think, Yeah, I'm stoked about that game? Actually,
I mean you're stoked.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
Stoked?

Speaker 5 (47:56):
Yeah, because first of all, I like, I mean, Ohio
State football is fun. I love to go to a
bar and watch it with people. And these first contests
have just been a little the competition's been a little.
So I'm really excited that a really good team.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
That word again, well you know, like, oh okay.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
So yeah, and so I'm excited about a good game.
I think it's going to be a good game.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Well all right, then, well see there you have it.
So Kelly has said it's going to be a good game.
So now you know it will be a good game.
So if she says it's going to be a good game,
then it's going to be a good game. There will
be a couple of good baseball games on Tap four
today in roughly one hour, Phillies Mets Game three of
the National League Division Series in New York and City
Bank Field, and in San Diego Tonight a little bit

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after nine o'clock it's Pod Rays Dodgers Game three of
that series. Tomorrow, all four series will be in action.
Guardians and Tigers have their first pitch just after three
o'clock tomorrow, and everyone else plays as well. Two would
be a big day of baseball on Wednesday. It is
the top of the hour. Next hour, Dave Sacrudi and more.
The press Box, Fox Sports nine eighty, Wing eighty.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Welcome to the press Box with Marty Banister, the latest
on all local sports from Wright State to the Dayton Flyers,
from the Reds and Buckeyes to the Bengals and Browns.
Called Marty now at nine, three, seven, by three, one, six,
one seven zero The press Box on Fox Sports nine eighty.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
W strong in all three phases.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
You know as a team when you watch them, you
really don't.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
See a weakness.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
They're really strong across the board, and this will be
a great challenge for us, and I know our fans.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
Will be great. Dan Lanning the head coach of the
Oregon Ducks, who welcome in the Ohio State Buckeyes on
Saturday night in the primetime game, the big game in
college football coming up this weekend. Welcome back to the
press box, Fox Sports nine to eighty w A. I'm
Marty Benaster. We're glad you're with us here this afternoon.
As we continue with you right up until five o'clock.

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A lot to get into. We were talking last hour
little NFL Bengals and what they have to do trade
deadline wise, we'll get into the Browns here in just
a couple of moments. Get updating you on what's happening
baseball wise, Phillies Mets at five o'clock today, Dodgers Pod
Raise a little bit after nine o'clock tonight. Tomorrow all
four series will take place, starting with the Guardians and
the Tigers at three o'clock tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, this program, tomorrow,

(50:52):
Dave Metzel will join us from Bally Sports. I guess
they're still Bally Sports. I have to ask Dave about that.
It's going out of business there, it seems like with
a lot of baseball teams. But he's part of the
Blue Jackets broadcast team and he'll join us tomorrow to
give us the previous CBJ open up on Thursday in Minnesota,
and Day will visit with us tomorrow as they make
their way towards Minnesota. Also tomorrow second hour of the program,

(51:16):
Dane Sanzenbaker, former Ohio state wide receiver, will join us
talking a little Buckeyes football. As mentioned, they get ready
to head to the West Coast for a Big ten game.
Did you catch that? The West Coast for a big
ten game?

Speaker 3 (51:29):
It's weird.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
It's still it's it's past weird. It's just well anyway, well, I.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
Mean, hey, if you want, if you want to see
the best of what the ACC has to offer, just
head on to you know, cal stand.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
There you go, that's right, that's right. Miami and col
played last week and it was it was a conference game.
Conference hey y yeah, yeah yeah. But anyway, that'll be
tomorrow and I'm looking forward to that, So hope you'll
join us tomorrow. A couple of fan polls are up
for you to vote on, and those both stay open
for about another forty five minutes or so. Today we're
ask you number one, it's Ohio State's biggest test of

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the season, without a doubt, the game and Oregon Saturday.
What happens in Eugene. Ohio State wins by double digits,
Oregon wins a close game, Ohio State wins a close game.
Nobody going with the Ducks winning by ten or more.
Right now, Ohio State by double digits, getting almost thirty
seven percent of the vote in that category. The new says,
from what I've seen so far of Oregon, I don't

(52:23):
see them at all winning by ten or more. Ohio
State's offense looks pretty darn good, So my vote would
be for ten or more Buckeyes win. So there you
have that. So again that we'll kick off a little
bit after seven point thirty on Saturday evening. Also, we're
asking you today Alabama and Tennessee were top five teams
to lose this past weekend. In this new era with
the expanded college football playoff, how many losses can a

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team afford and still be considered for that large bid
in the CFP CFB playoff, two is the maximum three
but depends on the team or Big ten and SEC
teams can afford two losses while everyone else can only
afford one, and right now two is the maximum is
getting forty seven percent of the vote right now. So

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there you have that, all right, So and again his
polls open for about another old forty minutes or so. We
were talking prior to the break about what the Bengals
will be facing as we close in on the trade deadline.
It's a very similar situation, I think in some regards
in Cleveland, because here you are at one and four
and as bad as that is, and it's it's funny

(53:29):
because I think the one and fours are different. I
think in some regards. I mean, everyone you always hear
your record. Your record is your record says what you are. Yes,
both teams are one and four, but as I mentioned,
the Bengals four loss have been by grand total of
fifteen points. I mean, it's the very easily could be
four and one right now. It could be five and
oh right now with a little bit of luck. The Browns,

(53:49):
on the other hand, I mean, you got drilled on Sunday,
and they have lost. Their games have not been complete
and utter routes, but they haven't lost four games by
fifteen points like Cincinnati has. They lost by sixteen to
the Cowboys, by six to the Giants, by four to

(54:10):
the Raiders. So they could They're one and four, could
easily be three and two, very easily could be three.
B Yeah, but their problem becomes it's their offense. Where
in Cincinnati it's the defense. In Cleveland, it's the offense.
Trying to figure out what you're going to do. So
you have some interesting situations. You have Amari Cooper who
wants a new contract. Yep. You have a guy like

(54:34):
Miles Garrett who could bring significant value on the trade market.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Oh significant is an understatement.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
But do you want to deal him?

Speaker 6 (54:42):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Absolutely not. He's kind of the f think so of
their franchise.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
But but again keep in mind, he's not exactly getting
any younger. His snaps are have been have been down
of late, and again, don't believe me. He almost to
say what I'm saying. He is still a dominant, dominant factor.

Speaker 5 (55:02):
He's been kind of injured, but I do not think
it would sit well with it. Not a single Cleveland
Browns fan, so heap Deshaun Watson and get let Miles
Garrett go anywhere.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
Oh no, yeah, I'm not saying they're going to train him.
I just think that if somebody were to come to
you and knock you off your socks with an offer,
I mean you have to. I mean there are only
a few untouchables I think right now. Obviously, Patrick Mahomes,
Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Daniels. Jaden Daniels is an untouchable,

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no question about it right now. But I think after that, yeah,
you can hear some conversations. You could hear conversations, sure,
And if if someone were to approach the Browns and say,
what do you think of this? And if you're one
in seven or one in eight, hmm, okay, maybe that's
worth taking a look at. I don't think it's time

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to blow everything up on either end of the state eight.
You hear that term you use a lot. But I
think the Browns have some serious things to think about,
depending on where they find themselves. Like the Bengals, when
this happens, when you get close to that trade deadline,
A lot of it's going to depend on your record.
The Browns this week play at Philadelphia, then they come

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back home and back to back weeks host the Bengals
and the Ravens now Neither one of those are gimme
games at all, and then they host the Chargers. I
mean there are three games coming up where with their
current state of offense right now, they're not outscoring any
of those teams. They're not going to come down. I mean,
the only one of those three that they have a

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chance to move the ball up in the field against
will be the Bengals because their defense is so bad.
I could see that game being a thirty five to
twenty eight type game something like that. Hopefully Cincinnati wins it,
but it could be that type of game. And with
the way the Browns are playing right now, twenty eight
points would be an offense of explosion on in that game.

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But I don't know that they win Sunday in Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
I'm well, I don't know, because well, I don't know. Floundering.

Speaker 4 (57:16):
Yeah, as we say right now, you really don't know.
With this league. You just don't know what you're getting.
The Eagles are two and two, they're one and one
at home. They have beaten the Packers, did that in Brazil,
they beat the Saints and then lost to the Buccaneers.

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Their losses have been by one point and then the
Buccaneers beat them by seventeen. Then they had their eight
week last week, so they're gonna fresh coming into this game.
So it's yeah, So again I don't know. And with
with everything that's going on in Cleveland right now, you
just have to wonder where their mindset is because I think,
as we talked yesterday, I think from a mental standpoint,

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they checked out of that game on Sunday they checked out.
I don't think and again, as I said, I don't believe,
I don't buy players quit. I don't think that that happens.
I think they mentally quit, and that does lead to
appearances of not hustling and things along those lines.

Speaker 5 (58:20):
Yeah, they were ready to be done with that game.
They were ready to be done, and I understand, I
get that. I don't think. I think at this point,
the only tangible change that's gonna maybe breathe some life
into this situation is sitting Deshaun Watson.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
And I don't even mean benching him forever.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
I just mean right now, the Browns need a reason
to believe and starting Jameis Winston. We know we're not
gonna get excellent from Jameis Winston. A lot of times,
you're gonna get the same amount of interceptions as touchdowns.
But we know he can move the ball a little bit.

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And right now, Deshaun Watson cannot. He just cannot. I
don't know why. Obviously there's a lot of off the
field issues going on, but they're there. Doesn't feel like
anyone is lining up on the offense or the defense
believing that Deshaun Watson is part of the answer. And
so I think even if he starts again next season

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or later in the season after, you know, we see
Jameis Winston for a little bit, I just think that
no one wants to play for this team the way
it is configured right now. Nobody there wants and no
and I don't think Kevin Stefanski wants to coach this
team the way it is right now.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
I don't know that. I don't know that I would
say no one wants to play there. I think I
think no one wants to play with this guy.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
Yes, yeah, I'm not saying that guy.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
I think it's more th It's more that right now,
just and in some ways of thinking, I would imagine
that this type of if you do something like that,
if anything, it just breathed some fresh air into the rot.
It just kind of lifts that that cloud or whatever

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it is it's hanging over the franchise. The negative to
that is, we all know because of the money, he's
your quarterback. I mean, if Jameis Winston, say, for example,
they were to do that, they were bench and they're
not going to They've already said Shawn Watson's our quarterback.
But if Watson, if Jameis Winston were to come in
Sunday and play at Philadelphia and just be Joe Flacco

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from last year, then what do you do? I mean,
then what do you think the fan base? The fan
base would be enamored with that. I think the team
would be enamored with that. But what about the owner.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
Here's the thing about the owner, though, if you to
make a lot of money, to make billions of dollars,
you must have lost some millions at some point, like.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
You must have, and I don't. I think the owner here.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
Really needs to sit with the fact that hey, I
was wrong, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
I was wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
That's not going to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
I know that this guy talking, and I don't think
ever gonna happen. But sometimes you're just wrong and you
just have to eat it and move on. And right
now he's gonna destroy I mean, have you heard you
You've heard of what's going on in Cleveland media. They
are it's it's shredding. They're tired of everything. They've given

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up on the team. So why why cannibalize literally cannibalize
your own fan base, your own organization, your own team
because you made one mistake about one guy, even if
like literally ninety million people were like, hey, this is
not the right move.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
But it's also I think greater than that, because what
this has done is it has galvanized the rest of
the league's owners against Jimmy Haslam because that deal, that
deal spiraled everybody else that had to go to that level.
And not that they wouldn't have gotten there at some

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point it was coming, but when they signed him for that,
Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes, Trevor Lawrence, Oh yeah, okay, you're
gonna pay him that pay that guy that literally what
has he done? Hey, you got to give me that.
And I'm sure that the owners went and they're not

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gonna anything to help the Browns. They're not gonna come
to have. As I said earlier, if somebody comes to
you with a big deal, I think you gotta listen.
I'd be stunned if anybody, certainly, no one's gonna come
to them and say, hey, we want this guy now.
No one wants this guy. No one. They want him
in Cleveland, want him in Cleveland right now.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
So you make a great point.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
The owners are You're in a tough, tough situation. It
doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Here's the
stat of the day, by the way, as you heard
her at the top of the hour of the latest
allegation against Watson, the lawsuit's been settled. He has more
settled lawsuits twenty three than touchdown passes nineteen since being
traded in the rounds.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
And that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
And that's why, that's why I'm saying what I'm saying, because.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
Out of the day, come on, there's just of the day.
Come on. Okay, wow, all right, we'll switch gears talking
about college basketball when we go back. Oh goodness, our
friend Dave Secoutie will join us. Bring a little Sandy
to the proceedings. It's the press box Fox Sports nine
eighty w ol.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Name get on the press box called Marty now had

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nine to three seven buy three one six one seven
zero the press box on Fox Sports ninet eighty WN.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Four twenty the time. As we roll along with you
here on this Tuesday, everyone says that it's football weather
right now, but heck it was in the forties overnight.
That's basketball weather. As far as I'm concerned, visiting this
right now on the live lines, our good friend, our
basketball analyst who always enjoy our visits with the one
of the only, Dave Secudi. Dave, would you trade t
Higgins right now? No, I'm just.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
And you know, Will, I will say this about you too.
You need a little breather from football. I'm glad we've
got a chance here to talk a little basketball because
as I was making my final notes here, I thought,
lots it isn't see what their conversation is like. And
I'm like, man, it's a good thing. I'm coming on
here a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
That's right from the oblong to the round ball. And
it's that time, yes, sir, And that's the great thing
about it, right now is that it is the seasons
have really overlap for a number of years right now,
but you can kind of sense the field right now.
Teams are practicing right now, and it's an exciting time,
and you get that feel about college basketball, don't you,
no question, Marty.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
You know, probably the most kind of interesting thing is
every coach right now. Obviously you haven't played any games.
There are probably eight, nine or ten practices into the season,
so everybody's in a pretty good mood. Not sure there's
a lot of moving parts going on with their teams,
but you know, everybody in the state of Ohio and
across the country or are deep in it right now,
because in about thirty days, actually one month, four weeks

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from last night, both Dayton and Ohio State open up
their basketball season. So you're right, we're right upon it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
And it's one day before election day. So to help
maybe soothe your anxiety about that, you have college basketball
on that Monday to a kind of kind of calm
you down a little bit. But you made a good
point about teams being on the practice for and just
eight or nine days into this right now, you know
from your coaching days, Number one, how important are these

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first eight to nine days, not that the remaining thirty aren't,
but are these days where you what do you try
to get done these fors at couple of days of practice.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Well, you know the way the schedule and kind of
the NCUBA moving parts schedule is right now. Obviously you
have official practices now they're eight or nine days into it,
but you have so many days that you could work
with your players, but you kind of get to know
them a little bit. But now it's serious business now
because you don't have a whole lot of time leading

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up into your openers. And obviously there's some exhibition games
and charity games rolling in as well, but yeah, it's
these eight or nine practices you try to find your
moving parts, try to figure out kind of who is
kind of going to be in that eight nine man rotation,
and trying to get some newcomers involved obviously, and you

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hope your veteran players have had a good offseason and
they come back healthy and they can help you along
as well. And I know that's the case. I've had
a chance to see High State practice a couple of times,
and really close to the Dayton folks right now in
terms of what they're going through. So I think all
of these teams are trying to figure each other out
right now.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Marty, I don't think there's any question. Dave SECOUTI visiting
with us our basketball and as as we talk a
little college hoops with the season a little less than
a month away. One of the interesting things about college
basketball now, and you see this happening all across the landscape.
You see reports of teams hiring general managers now to
help manage rosters and do all the things that you

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need to do these days, nil transfer portal and things
like that. Something unheard of ten years ago that you
would have hired a general manager. But that's the lay
of the land right now in college basketball, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
It really is if you look across the country. Obviously,
well Joe from the ESPN, he made us move to
Saint Moni with Mark Schmidt in that capacity you were
talking about. And I think every staff right now, I
know Ohio State assigns one assistant coach to college management rosters.
So in other words, they're watching every day the portal.

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Of course, portal is not open right now in college basketball,
but they are watching every team in hopes that maybe
down the road there's going to be somebody that they
want to try to get involved with. But yeah, the
staffing situation is totally different. I know, it's totally different
than when I was at a Higo State Marty, And
it is really different.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
You got people that are concentrating on other things besides
coaching basketball, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
And that's I think one of the biggest if sea
change is the word to use in this Dave, that
fits where the game is at right now. You have
to have those people on your staff to do this
or you fall behind everybody else, don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
That's right. Then it's a skill set too. You look
at some of the assistant coaches or are handling those responsibilities.
They have to be skilled to know what they're looking for.
Number one. Second of all, they have to have good
relationships with high school and college coaches because obviously most
of these players work for high school so they're probably
trying to figure out, well, he may be at University XYZ,

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but you know what, we'll find out a little bit
more about him. We'll contact them and see what's going on.
But it's just just different. And I know you use
the word change so do I. But I mean change
is hard on people, and I know staffs right now
are trying to figure that out. And at the same time, though, Marty,
you've got to pay attention to what you got on

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your staff and also your player roster. You got to
know who you got and take care of them because
you've got to go through this twenty twenty four twenty
five season and you got to be ready.

Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
To go absolutely. Date Secuity visiting with us on the
live line, our basketball analyst. We are a little less
than a month away from the start of the college
basketball season, Dave. The Atlantic ten has had its preseason
media day. The ud Flyers again one of the favorites
in the A ten. It's a different looking team that
Anthony Grant is going to roll out this season. It's
hard to lose some of the talents that they lost

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from that team last year, but again in a very
good league. This is one of the I think, certainly
one of the brand names in the Atlantic ten right now.
I know there's a lot of excitement about Anthony Grant
and his team coming.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Up this season, no question about that. Mary. You know,
think about this though in the last two seasons, not
yesterday's media day, they were picked first to win in
the Atlantic Ten. Obviously, PCU was picked first yesterday and
the Flyers came in second, so maybe that's a that's
a good omen for them. But I agree with you.
I think the depth of the league in the Atlantic

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ten is very good, and I think Dayton kind of
follows that suit very very well because, excuse me, Mary,
they got some veteran players that are going to respond
I think very very well for them. Obviously, when you
think about Nate Santos, you talk about a transfer in
Posh Alexander, who here's I know you're a stack, so

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I'm gonna throw a give you a good stat on
pos Alexander here, but you know he led the Big
East and Steals four straight years. Three of them were
in Saint John's, the last year was in Butler. So
that will give me an indication about what Posh Alexander,
a fifth year player from Butler's all about. And then
you throw in the Enix Cheeks and you got some

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other young players and I think be very important to
I think Anthony Grant, who starts his eighth season here
with the Dayton Flyers, so I think there's a lot
of good things for Dayton basketball right now, but you
still got lads come up, stay healthy, and get it going.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
On the other side of town, Clint Sargent starts his
first year Wright State, and I think it was a
pretty solid hire by the folks at the right State.
We've had him on the program and I've enjoyed my
conversations with him and his mindset as well too. But
those teams in that Horizon League, and you and I
have had this conversation before, but I mean, you really
have to be ready to play those teams, don't you,

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Because especially early on in a season, those Horizon League teams,
they're a handful, aren't they.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
No question? And you and I have talked about this, Marty.
I think most teams right now, we're trying to get older,
they're trying to get more experienced. We're trying to find
a way to be competitive right away. And coach Sargent's
first year, I mean, he wants to have a good year.
He's not going to put high school seniors coming in
as freshman on the floor, so he'll he'll have his

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hands full. But the Horizon League is one of those
leagus just got to keep an eye on for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
With Dy. Let's go back to Anthony Grant for a moment,
and this is something that has been a big, big
part of Anthony Grant's message, I think the last few years.
But it deals with with the mental health part of things,
and it's been a big part of what he's done.
The exhibition games that they've played in the past and
that they're playing this year. It means so much to
him and he's a real champion of that cause and

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I think obviously we know the reasons why, but it
means a lot to him. And it's nice when you
have a guy Dave that has that kind of visibility
and that kind of over lack of a better term,
hammer to carry when something like this it helps get
it helps to get that message out and it is
very important.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Well, it's nice to have a platform that Anthony Grant
has obviously, but when you think about Marty along with
his wife Chris been through a tragic situations a couple
of years ago with his daughter. But I think more importantly,
they're trying to shine a positive spotlight and it kind
of starts tomorrow night in you the arena and hopefully
your listeners and all the people in Dayton can kind

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of get over to you the arena, because I really
think what he has done is spearheaded a strong movement,
and I think there's got to be more attention paid
to that. Then you and I stay close to the
high school Sceenie here, I have some families, very close families,
and had tragic situations happen, and it's just a shame
that it happens. And then but you've got to move

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forward and try to find a way to help yourself
and help your team. But I think Anthony Grant is
the right guy to make a spearhead and move him
and his wife Chris to make an impact, especially in
the city of Dayton.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
Absolutely, Dayton has that exhibition game coming up on Wednesday
night at the UD Arena. These exhibition games, and I
love the fact that they play these games, Dave, and
obviously the reasons they do them are big, But there's
a part of me too that just says, I mean,
why can't we play these regular season wise? And I
know why, but I think, and again, don't misunderstand a

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word that I'm saying on this. I get it. The
awareness this raises all those things are positives, no question
about it. But darned these will be fun regular season games,
wouldn't they.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Well, it'd be fun because they count towards the regular season, obviously,
but at least I'm looking to move to try to
have some of these interstate rival games played, and obviously
for charity purposes, but I think they're really important, Marty.
I think they really give the teams an indication of, hey,
if Farxy Miller is going to bring his team to

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play me, and why don't we try to do this
in the long term in a regular season contest. And
I think that would be very healthy for college basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
There's no question about it. First four year for Jake
Diebler as o Hives States head coach. Took over in
a very difficult situation last year, and I think is
it fair to say he surprised people day with what
he did with that team last year?

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Well, I think he brought a new found energy to
that team in the last nine games, Marty. I think
that's what's secured him the job when Ross Buick had
to make a decision along with Jeane Smith, to make
him their next basketball coach. But yeah, I mean, he
got them to play at a high level against some
really major programs and had some big wins. So that's

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what you have to do, no question about that. But
they're new too. Excuse me, Marty, but when I walked
in there right now, they don't even give their players
practice gear, so no numbers. They're wearing black green jerseys.
They gave me a photo roster to figure out who
in the heck is on this roster. But they got

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some good people. Obviously a lot of people are going
to think about Bruce Thornton and Mieti Johnson in the backcourt.
Real strong backcourt there, but they got a lot of
work to do up front. The transfer from Kentucky and
also the transfer from Duke Sean Stewart are really good players.
But they're still young. So he's gotten a little bit older,
but they're still young, so they're going to have to

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try to make them move. But I like what Jake
Diebler has done in terms of his roster management. He's
also got five grand new assistant coaches on his staff
as well. One of them who you're familiar with, Dave Dickerson,
was there previously. But he's got new coaches, he's got
new players, he's got a lot of new things going
on with the Highest day basketball. But I think when
it's all said and done, they were picked in the

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preseason eighth in the pre conference poll. That's probably a
good spot from them. I bet you if Jake diegle
that told Jake Diebler right now, you'll finish seventh or
eighth in the Big Ten, he'd probably sign up for
that right now.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
Did the success when he took over, is it fair
to say? Did it buy him some extra time with
the fan base?

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
No? Ohio State fans so impatient, you know, no.

Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
No, no, I had noticed that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
I notice, but you know it's going to take some time.
You know, they may have a little bit of a
leeway with him, but they're going to force this team
to be good, look good. You got to look good
while you're with it, and that's the important thing for
high of state.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
Basketball and the challenging schedules. Well for the Buckeyes this
coming seasons well too. It should be a fun out
college basketball season. It starts in a little less than
a month. Dave, always a pleasure, my friend. I appreciate
you checking in with us and giving us an update,
as we always do. We'll have you on during the
basketball season as we moved through it, which will be
here before we know. Appreciate your time as always my

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friend again, Marty. All right, and next time we have
you on, we'll talk a little football.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Okay, sure, I'm pretty good at that too. I can't
I can't get a job besides you, next to you,
but I'm pretty good with it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
Well, that just tells you where my career is at.
All right, Thanks Dave, appreciate it's always my friend, every buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Take care.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
Dave's the goody joining us our basketball analyst. All right,
four to thirty four is the time we'll we'll step aside.
Continue along some comments from Dan Landing, the head football
coach at the University of Oregon. Yeah, more football. It's
the press box, Fox Sports ninet eighty w O.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
three seven by three one six one seven zero the
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Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
And welcome back to the program four thirty nine at
the time, and again thanks to Dave security for visiting.
What was talking a little college basketball as we close
in on the start of the regular season a little
under a month away. On Monday night, November fourth. We
need to do some checking. I'd been told that the
folks out at the Athletes and Action Facility to John
Wooden Arena there, we're going to have a number of

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Division one basketball games coming up on November, the fourth
day of the season opening up. We need to get
back in touch with those folks and double check where
things stand as to whether or not they've got that
line up, because there was supposed to be a number
of mid major teams that were going to come in
and play a series of games two in the afternoon,
two in the evening, almost NCAA tournament like noon two o'clock,

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and then again at what is it, probably seven and
nine something along those lines. But a great facility out there.
The Wooden Center was out there back and it was
back in August that Stevens and I were out there
for the grand opening and the dedication of the facility.
You have to hook back up with those folks and
make a note to do that. So we'll have that
coming up for you. Get a little update on that

(01:23:38):
for you as well too. As we move along. We
do have tickets to give away for the Trans Siberian
Orchestra concert coming up on December the seventh, at the
Nutter Center at Wright State University. I know when you start,
when you say those words Trans Siberian Orchestra, it just
tells you that, I mean, Christmas is two months and
eighteen days away. Yeah, have you started shopping? I'm sorry

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to be the one. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 6 (01:24:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:24:02):
Me, I'll start when there's eighteen hours to.

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
Go, exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
And I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'd almost
guarantee you that I'm not the only one. But again,
but when you hear those words that you think right
away Christmas, you think holidays, you think this time, that
time of the year. So we're gonna give away pair
of tickets and we make it very simple for you
to win these tickets to see Trans Siberian. In order,
if you get a pair of tickets or you have

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to be the first caller at nine three seven five
three one sixty one seventy nine three seven five one
sixty one seventy first caller wins a pair of tickets,
and uh, you introduce yourself to Kelly. She will get
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or anythings that you have to uh hand over to
her because she loves to cook, so you can do

(01:24:54):
all that cook or grill. I probably more grill, I
would guess than anything. Definitely, there you go, So there
you go. So she'll look too, though I just want
to say I didn't. I didn't do that for a second.
Didn't not that for a second. So some interesting news
out of the National Football League in the last couple
of minutes or so, the Philadelphia Eagles have released Devin White, linebacker.

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They signed a free agent deal just didn't work out.
So right away with my mind thinks, hey, he hasn't
played this year, he's been hurt. But if he's ready
to go, my mind right away thinks, boy, he'd be
a nice fit in Cincinnati at the linebacker for because
I mean Jermaine Pratt. I'm still not I still I'm

(01:25:39):
not saying he's done or anything on those lines, but
it'd be nice to have another athletic linebacker. Keem Davis
Gather has played very, very well this year, and I
just I wouldn't mind having a little extra help back there.
That's just me. Won't happen, but just the thought, just
the thought. So baseball starts in about twenty minutes or

(01:25:59):
so in New York, where the Phillies and Mets played
Game three of the National League Division Series, with the
set even at a victory a piece. And then later
tonight it will be the Dodgers and Podrays a little
bit after nine o'clock tonight in San Diego for Game
three of the Nation League Division Series again nine three
seven five three sixty one seven. If you'd like to

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win a pair of tickets to see Trans Siberian Orchestra
at the Nutter Center on December the seventh, first caller
to dial those numbers correctly, because if you dial them
in correctly, you'll get someone else. But if you dial
the numbers correctly and talk to Kelly, she will be
more than happy to give you information and take your
information and give you a pair of tickets to see
Trans Siberian Orchestra. Updating. You want some other things going

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on around the world of sports, The SEC has fined
Tennessee or Vanderbilt rather and Arkansas for their fans storming
the field after their big wins over this past weekend.
Vanderbilt got hit the hardest. I think it was a
quarter of a million dollars. The Vanderbilt leg department was fined.

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I'm sorry it was Arkansas. It was fine because I mean,
there's been no reason to storm the field that Vanderbilt.
They all kind of know that until this weekend when
they beat Alabama. I believe they're fined with something. And
they were like one hundred thousand dollars Arkansas I had
hit with a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine.
The next time this happens, it's a half a mill
that Arkansas will be fined. And I think that's the

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same find that the folks that Vanderbilt will incur as
well too. And I've heard a lot of people say
things like, oh, I act like you've been there, so
on and so forth. The Vanderbilt fans tore the goal
post down, carried them through downtown Nashville, and dumped the
goalpost in the Columbia River. They went into the river.

(01:27:48):
Some of the first responders at Nashville recovered the goalposts,
cut them up, and I think they're donating them to
charity or something along those lines, are putting them on
an online auction or something along those lines. But it
got me to thinking, I mean to find Vanderbilt for
the fans storming the field. I mean, it's Vanderbilt. They're

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not going to beat Alabama every year. They're not going
to win a game like that every year. Couldn't at
least once have gone, hey, congratulations, Just do a better
job of maintaining some sort of semblance. I mean, we
talked about the field storming and the court storming in
the past, and don't get me wrong, these can be

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very dangerous situations. I'm not oblivious to that. One year
when we were calling Ohio State basketball games, we were
court side at the Breslin Center when Ohio State was
unbeaten with Jim Jackson and Treig Lee and Perry Carter,
and that was the first game they lost, was at
Michigan State to Sparti, and I had people stepping over

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me to get onto the floor, stepping on top of
our equipment onto the court. There's just no way to
police that. And I don't know, I don't know by
telling a school we're going to find you half a
million dollars that that's going to do anything to stop it.

(01:29:22):
But to act like you've been there, well, the Vanderbilt
fans haven't been there. They don't know what that's like,
so give them. I mean, I know again, it could
it could quickly evolve into a dangerous situation. I'm not
oblivious to that, but I mean, at least just maybe
a slap on the wrist or something from the SEC. Now,

(01:29:43):
the Arkansas thing is a little different because they've won
games like that before, but their fans joined the atmosphere.
They beat the Tennessee's a big rival, so I kind
of get that a little bit. But still, I mean,
as I said, Verybo's not gonna win another game like
that for a long long time, certainly at Nashville. But

(01:30:08):
I guess we have to lay down some kind of
laws or to be just total chaos. WO wasn't there?
It's the press box Fox Sports nine eighty w own

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get on the.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
Press box called Marty now at nine to three seven,
buy three, one six, one seven zero the press box
on Fox Sports nine eighty WN.

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
Eighty Welcome back to the program. Four fifty. As we
hit the stretch drive of the program, hits the press
box Fox Sports nine eighty w on it. We're gonna
hold the Dan Lanning comments till tomorrow. The University of
Oregon coach and get his thoughts on Ohio State. We'll
do that tomorrow. We have Dane Sanz and Bicker coming
on tomorrow as well, former Ohio State wide receiver. He
joins us an hour number two and also Dave Metzeld

(01:31:04):
will be with us tomorrow from the Blue Jackets television
broadcast crew to help us preview the National Hockey League season.
So we have all that coming up for you during
the program tomorrow. One of our fan polls has gone final.
Ohio State's biggest test of the season obviously this game
at Oregon on Saturday. We asked you what happens in Eugene.
Thirty eight percent of you go with Ohio State wins
it by double digits over the Oregon Ducks. Now that

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could be ten points, could be thirty five. I don't
think it's going to be that many, but that wins
Oregon wins a close game at Ohio State wins a
close game. Both finished tied for second with twenty eight
percent of the vote. And our other poll this afternoon
as well, we asked you today with Alabama and Tennessee

(01:31:46):
losing over the weekend, they were two top five teams
that went down. How many losses can a team afford
and still be considered in that large bid? Are still
considered four in that large bid. I should say in
the college football playoff two is the maximum. Got forty
six percent of the vote in the category, followed by
Big ten SEC teams can't afford two losses, everyone else

(01:32:07):
just one. And I think that's a pretty accurate assessment
of it as well too with the Collge football playoffs.
So there you have that. We talked earlier again, Thanks
to all of you who participated, and we thank you
for voting. By the way, gratulations of Brad from Belbrook.
He called in and got the tickets to the trans
Iberian Orchestra performance on Saturday, December the seventh at the
Nutter Center at right date. Congratulations, We hope you enjoy

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the show. We talked about the hurricane, our number one
Hurricane Milton. A little surprising. I saw this across a
short time ago. Both Disney World and Universal Orlando are
staying open. Really yeah, are staying open. I'm a little
surprised at that, but maybe they're just hedging, maybe staying

(01:32:53):
open today and then maybe seeing what happens tomorrow. Track
it takes, but I.

Speaker 5 (01:32:58):
Mean, I feel bad for the people that are working,
though I do too, that's the I mean, I don't
care if you guys are open, but nobody should be
working there.

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
Send your people home in the six. But the dollar,
the dollar is important to the mouse obviously.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
So listen, that is that mouse is the most expensive
mouse that we've ever heard of.

Speaker 4 (01:33:21):
That that place is just one great big debit card.
That's all that it is. It's just one great big
debit card. And it's it's fun to go there once,
maybe twice, but you don't want to go any more
than that. Especially the prices are just staggering. And that's

(01:33:42):
I mean. The last time we were there, we took
our youngest daughter there. I think she was five, five
or six. So that's been ten years and my bank
account still hasn't recovered from that trip.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
I believe that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
So interesting story coming out of Australia Quantus Airlines, which
is the Australian airline. It's reported that during the flight
a flight to Los Angeles, the flight the movie on
the flight somehow an R rated movie was played on

(01:34:21):
the flight going from I think it was Sydney to
Los Angeles. The movie and I haven't seen this movie.
I don't know what it is. It's called Daddyo, which
features Dakota Johnson as a woman who takes a cab
from JFK Airport and strikes up an extended conversation with

(01:34:41):
her driver played by Sean Penn on our way back
to Manhattan. The two discuss anything from what it takes
to be a New Yorker to relationships in fidelity, notably
her character's current affair with a married man. The film
carries an R rating for language throughout, sexual material and
brief graphic nudity. Social media posts muses who claim they
were on the quant A flight so they were uncomfortable

(01:35:01):
by the nudity and sexting featured in the film, seon
what is that sexting? Is that texting? Is that what
it is? Oh? Okay? Particularly for families and children who
were on board. So can you imagine being being on
a flight and that pops up? And I don't know

(01:35:22):
if the whole movie aired, I mean, someone would have
had have had the common sense to stop it, don't
you think.

Speaker 5 (01:35:27):
It took almost an hour before they were able to
switch it to a more kid friendly movie. But you know,
people had their families on their Hey mom, wats that? Yeah, exactly,
and that's exactly what was happening. There's no real way
to block out the screen on an airplane. It's right
in front of you. Yeah, if you have more than

(01:35:47):
one kid on the flight, you're doomed.

Speaker 3 (01:35:49):
You've lost the lost the battle, you lost the war.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
Well, most most flights, these are most when you travel
these days, you're not really watching that movie anyway. I mean,
because you've got your own you've got your laptop, you've
got your phone. I mean, I know when I the
times that I fly now, I don't really pay much
attention to the in flight movie.

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
I love the in flight movie.

Speaker 4 (01:36:14):
Well, it depends on what it is. I mean, you
get to choose.

Speaker 5 (01:36:17):
Typically on movies, they have like a whole interface at
this point. It's kind of like their own little Netflix
that you get to pick through. This was a some
sort of technical error that they're trying to figure out,
you think, because usually everyone, even on a quantas flight,
gets to pick their own movie.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
But something went wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
And yeah, just a little bit, just a little bit.
But I know, the last I'm trying to think, the
last commercial flight I took, I can't think it because
most times when i'm when I've had to fortune to
travel with teams, well, I know when you're when we
were going with when Ohio State was traveling out to Arizona,

(01:36:59):
when we flew commercially, Yeah, we flew commercial. The broad
they said, the broadcast crew commercial. And the n flight
movie on the way out to Phoenix was The Martian,
which is a tremendous one. I love that movie. Yeah,
tremendous movie. But you had to do some editing because
there are some there's some there's some somewhat harsh language
in there being used. But that was one of the
I remember that movie was on one of the flights,

(01:37:23):
but I can't. I can't. But none of them stand
out for me that I can remember on commercial flights.
But as I said, most times i've got I have
things downloaded on a laptop or have things downloaded on
a phone that I watch, I just don't pay much
attention to the movie. But I mean this one would
have got my attention though, But i'd never heard this movie. Daddy,

(01:37:45):
Oh had no idea what that was, isn't Dakota Johnson,
Don Johnson's daughter, Don Johnson and Melanick Grie But I
think that I think that's Don Johnson's are we well
it fell if you follow highway you know who Sean
Penn is obviously.

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
Yes, that the daughters of Don, the daughter of Don
Johnson and Melanie Griffin.

Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
Okay, there you go. So, yeah, that'd been fun to
want to fly, wouldn't it to? Hey mom, Hey mom,
why are those people doing that? Well? What what is this? Y?

Speaker 2 (01:38:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:38:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well flying is dangerous for a lot
of reasons. Now, honestly, if the movie is naughty, that's fine.
Just get my plane from A to B without any issues.
At this point, I don't care like I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
Just make sure the plane lands.

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
I've got the.

Speaker 5 (01:38:34):
Doors are flying off, wheels are flying off mid air.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
It's it's insane up there.

Speaker 5 (01:38:39):
So if you got to put on a naughty movie
to get me from A to B in the in
the air.

Speaker 4 (01:38:45):
A naughty movie, do what you gotta do. Because naughty movie. Yeah,
now I might have to see what this daddy thing is.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
I mean, even the title, it's it's It's gonna be
the ache a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
I can't lie. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
I'm not sure, my good I'm glad I saved this
for the last thing. Sorry, that'll do it definitely. I
wonder if Sacuti has seen date Daddy.

Speaker 5 (01:39:17):
Oh, even jumping all over talking football, that's what we
should talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:39:22):
We have, Dave, I'll ask you last in flight movie
you watched tomorrow on the program. Dave Metsol will visit
with us. We're talking a little hockey. Our number two
uh Dane Sanzenbarker, former highest state wide receiver, visits with
us as we talk. Buck Eyes and Oregon will also
try and squeeze in some of the comments from Dan
Lenning if you probably should have done instead of talk
about Daddy, but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
And more tickets to tso.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
All that tomorrow right here, that's Kelly be At Marty Basher.
Thanks for being with us. Thanks to George Leonard, George
Will thinking of you. Stay safe down there, my friend
joining us from the hurricane area in Florida. We appreciate that.
Thanks to Dave Succuti as well. To back with you
tomorrow three to five the press box, Fox Sports nine eighty.

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