October 9, 2024: Dave Matzeold & Dane Sazenbacher

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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,
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
The best you know team at focusing and honing in
on you know, their job, you know usually does a
great job in the game as well. Those the words
of Oregon quarterback Dylan Gabriel as he gets his Ducks
ready for the Bucks this coming Saturday night in Eugene,
organ has to be Readcare for how you say those things.
Welcome to the press Box, Fox Sports nine eighty w

(00:44):
own A. I'm Marty Banister, and we are so glad
you're with us on this Wednesday afternoon, or were you
right up until five o'clock? A lot going on in
the program today. We'll talk a little hockey coming up
here in a few minutes. Our friend Dave Metzel will
visit with us from the Columbus Blue Jackets Television Network
to CBJ open up there part of the National Hockey
League schedule tomorrow night when they play at Minnesota, So

(01:05):
we will talk to Dave coming up in a little
bit next hour. Looking forward to this conversation. Dane Sanzenbacher
will join us, the former Ohio state wide receiver who
is now doing some TV and radio work. As we
joke yesterday, most Ohio State former buck Eyes are doing
that at some level or another. And Dane will join
us in the second hour of the program tomorrow, help
us preview the game and just talk a little Buckeyes football.

(01:27):
Dane does a very good job on aeron. We're looking
forward to that next hour. When I was doing the
sidelines on Ohio State football games way back in the day,
Dane was always the go to guy in the locker room.
You knew you would get a good interview out of Dane,
and we always made sure we try to get Dane
on as often as we could during those postgame shows.
But they're looking forward to talking to Dane coming up.

(01:50):
That'll be next hour. We're also hear more from Dylan
Gaberl Kelly Be's alongside producing the program this afternoon. We're
kind of running a little bit in the dark, so
to speak, in the program today. What have your phone?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I woke up and here's the worst part. I woke
up early. I woke up right before my alarm because
I just felt like I was getting too good of sleep.
And basically I looked at my phone. It was at
one percent despite being on the charger all night long.
So I look at it. I'm like, what's going on?
At dies immediately, so I run to another charger, even

(02:24):
though I was using the official phone charger. I'm not
gonna say the brand, but okay.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
And you were using the official phone. No, that's a
backup or not the unofficial one. The official phone.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
This is the one they they tell you to buy.
It's very expensive and you have to only get theirs
so that you get if there's a problem, you can
go to them and be like, I only got your stuff.
So I I plug it up. It charges a smidge
enough for me to like get into the phone, and
it says battery not recognized. At that point, I'm like,

(02:58):
I Google that. They're like, oh, you have a defective battery.
You need a new battery. So I can't just go
to anyone and get a battery. No, I've got to
go to the people who have the thing, and I'm
only using their stuff and they tell me, oh, it's
that will take three to five business days, And I said.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
What business days to get you a new battery?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
A new battery?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
They don't have the How can they not have those
things in stock?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Apparently store everything is on back order. So then I'm like,
maybe I'll just go to my phone carrier and just
get a new phone. It's been two years, I'll just
get a new phone. So I go to the store
and I'm like, can I have a new phone? Please?
I will pay your absorbent prices, just please give me
a phone. And they say, actually, we don't have. Every

(03:47):
phone in store is spoken for. Everything's on back order,
so it will be two hang on.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Every phone is spoken for, Every.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Phone is stats with the man at the store. And
I'm not going to say the name of the.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
About to ask you where were you at Bob's phone.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
All of these are premiere, Premier brands. And so two
days they said two days. Even though I went to
the store to buy the phone, I was there. I
was in front of a gentleman. He said two days.
I said, what's in the back?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Then? Is there a guy on a corner selling him
out of the back of the truck.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Or something.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Can I know that direction?

Speaker 3 (04:33):
So, no phone. It's weird. I feel I feel like
I'm forgetting something all the time.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's the term is naked. You've heard that when you
forget your phone people. So I feel I just feel
naked without my phone. I don't know that I've ever
felt naked without But you feel, You're right, you feel
like you've lost something. I mean, you're so you're so
hooked on the silly thing.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
At all, morning patting. I'm just oh, oh, yeah, I
gave I gave it to a guy who I hope
will and in two days time return to me with
a new phone.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
So, oh my goodness, you said that made me think
right away. You know how my mind works. I automatically
go to movies, and I was thinking as soon as
you said, I thought of that line from Ocean's eleven,
the remake, when they were trying to find out who
who did the robbery and George Clooney told the Andy
Garcia character, I know a guy in prison, and Garcia
just looks a him and goes.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
You know a guy, yeah very much? That energy.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, well, hang in there. I know it's not a
perfect situation at all. And again, you do you feel
a little lost without having that thing in your hand
or on the table next to you or somewhere near you.
And it's I mean, it's a very disconcerting.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
It's a literal key to get into the building.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
So that's right, that's right. We had to make sure
there were enough people in the building to get Kelly
in today.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
That was part of the issue. It's like, and I
so you guys are out there like, oh, these millennials
need there. No, I can't get to work without the phone, folks.
I'm okay without it. I just was like, I can't
get in anywhere, so I can't get in the building.
It was it's a literal key, so it is.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
It is. Well, I'm glad you were able to figure
a way to get in the building today and help
with the show. So good to have you here. I
know what you're I feel you. I understand what you're
going through today. As mentioned, big show for you this
AFTERO and again, Dave met sold in about ten minutes
or so, we'll come out and talk a little NHL
with us, and the next hour Dane sanzenbachers with them
to talk Buckeyes football. University of Dayton football team back

(06:42):
home this weekend. They have the Davidson Wildcats in for
a noontime kick over at Welcome Stadium. Quarterback Drew van
Vliet named the Pioneer Football League Offensive Player of the
Week as well as the stats performed National FCS Freshman
of the Week. After their win over Maris, Flyers have
been on a buy. They were four seven to fourteen
winners over Mariston on September the twenty eighth, and that game,

(07:04):
Van Vleet was twenty three to thirty five for three
hundred and twenty three yards, five touchdown passes and was
picked off once. Those are pretty familiar numbers. Five touchdown
passes and an interception where we heard that lately. Sunday,
so Van Vliet again named the conference player of the week.
So Flyers back home on Saturday. Of course, a lot
of attention now being focused on what happens in Eugene, Oregon.

(07:26):
On Saturday night. Went Ohio State heads there to take
on the Oregon Ducks, and again we'll have comments from
their quarterback Dylan Gabriel. We still have Dan Lanning in
the fold, the head coach of the Ducks. We'll get
his thoughts on the Buckeyes that they will face. So
they'll have the team that will face coming up on
Saturday night, and again that one will kick at about

(07:47):
seven thirty or so. There's football all over the place,
seemingly as always, there was college football last night. There's
a game. I think, what are we? We're in that
span of what fifty two consecutive days where there's a
game just about every night of the week. Delicious it is,
it's not. There's nothing a whole lot wrong with that game.
Friday is a big twelve game Utah Arizona State. That's

(08:08):
one of the big games coming up to kind of
kick the weekend off. The Ohio State Oregon game again
is a seven thirty kick on Saturday night, so I'm
ready for that. We mentioned the National Hockey League opened
up play last night. The defending Stanley Cup champion Florida
Panthers were winners. The Utah Hockey Club played its first
game last night before a raucous crowd in Salt Lake.

(08:30):
They beat the Chicago Blackhawks five to two. So hockey
underway and to get in the Blue Jackets in action
tomorrow when they travel to Minnesota and again, Dave Metzel
joins us here shortly. Baseball playoff full slate of games today, Mary, Yes.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
One second, I just wanted to take this time. The
Seattle Kraken introduce their new head coach, Jessica Campbell to
the Ice, the first woman coaching NHL.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, we were gonna mention that, and that's fantastic. I
think it's it's not too much longer before we're going
to see a a woman coach an NBA team. I
don't think we're too far from that quite Frankly, Becky
Hammond seems to be the one that gets the most
attention to that. But I think certainly, at some point
here soon, I think we are going to see that.

(09:16):
I don't know that we'll see it in football. I
just don't think we're ready for that.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Maybe a maybe POSI like a I mean we've we've
got a position coaches, like a coordinator. I think we're closer.
We're closer to a coordinator.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I don't. I just don't know that the NFL.
When I say we're ready for I think it's the
NFL more than anything else right now. But I think
you're absolutely right. I think we'll see a position coach,
a wide receiver, coach something along those lines. I think
we'll see that, and I think in baseball too, we're
going to see that too in baseball. But again I
don't know that we're we'll see a manager anytime soon

(09:52):
or a head coach anytime soon. So, but the baseball
playoffs hard a way full slate of games today, including
the Cleveland Guardians in a tough situation at Detroit today
in the American League Division Series. Again, there are four
games today. Last night there were a pair of games,
the Phillies and the Mets, and again just the atmosphere

(10:13):
of these games is fantastic. The Phillies and the Mets.
The Mets winning last night to one, they can eliminate
the Phillies today, and the Podres can eliminate the Dodgers
tonight out on the Left coast. That series is so
full of intensity, I think you could use hatred. I
don't think either one of those teams liked the other one.
I don't think there's any question about that, the Podrais

(10:34):
and the Dodgers, and it has been full of animosity,
and you kind of like that in the postseason when
you have that, that's that little extra edge to it.
Royals and Yankees will play tonight seven to eight, the
scheduled first pitch out in Kansas City, So we'll keep
you updated on all that. The Guardians game is underway.
They were at the top of the first with the

(10:55):
Guardians at bat again, that series is level at a
victory a piece, and I think there's some nervous folks
in cling even right now. Well for a lot of reasons,
but this is probably right near the top of the
list right now with the Guardians, and many times they've
been down that road before when you've seen them play
well early on and then suddenly find themselves in a hole.

(11:16):
So we'll see how that plays out. We'll keep updated
on for you as well. We have a couple of
fan polls up today for you. Connor Stallions is back
in the news again. Netflix documentary has dropped. Yeah, and
during the documentary or during afterwards, with all the talk
about the documentary, he was on a podcast again. I
met a guy the other day who didn't have a podcast.

(11:37):
That tells you how many of those things are out there.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
The one guy.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, that's right, you met a guy. But Stins was
on this podcast and he claimed to the hosts that well,
just about everybody steal signs, and I don't think anybody
really doubts that that has happened at just about every level.
I don't think we're naive enough to think that that
hasn't happened for some reason. But so we thought we'd

(12:06):
ask you today. In response to Connor, Stallions claims that
many teams he even pointed the finger, as you might
well imagine at Ohio State. He talks about during the
podcast interview how the buck Eyes quote unquote stole signals
before they played Michigan State in twenty twenty one. He
is a Stallions is claiming the buck Eyes coaching staff

(12:26):
or someone in affiliated with the program did that. Whether
it's true or not, again, it's it's all up for
how you, I guess, react to all of this. But
he claims that that has happened. So we asked you.
We thought we'd ask you today, opponent, do team steel signals?
Is he right that this goes on everywhere? Yes, they
just aren't getting caught some but not all do it?
Or just simply it's always happened, or just Michigan did.

(12:49):
And right now fifty six percent of you are going
with yes, everyone does it. They just simply aren't caught
well as with all And we're gonna talk about this
a little bit when we come back. The ESPN NFL
schedule strength is out, and I usually don't pay a
lot of attention to those things. My favorite is always
the ESPN Victory predictor when the game there's like a
minute left in the game and they'll pop up the

(13:11):
ESPN Victory Football Power Index or whatever the heck it's called,
gives the team that's ahead in a game a ninety
eight percent chance of winning. Well, thank you, good eyes,
but exactly. But their NFL schedule strength is out of
the and they list all thirty two teams and it's

(13:32):
based one through thirty two, with one being the easiest
schedule and then descending order. Second on that list are
the Cincinnati Bengals, the second easiest schedule the rest of
the way out. So we thought we'd ask you today, Well,
the Bengals finish over five hundred, No, the season is lost, Yes,
but they won't get into the playoffs. Or yes, they

(13:53):
will finish over five hundred and make the playoffs. And
right now, yes they will get over the five hundred,
but won't make the playoffs. Is just a slight voter
to ahead of No, the season is lost, and yes
they will make the playoffs. So we have those fan
pulls up for you today. Some other news update you
on quickly before we roll long NFL related I believe

(14:14):
it or not, there's more going on than Aaron Rodgers
and the New York Jets, although it's hard to believe
if you listen to anything other than a national show.
Nico Collins of the Houston Texans is on injured reserve.
We'll spend four games there with a hamstring injury. He's
the NFL leader in receiving yardage with five hundred and
sixty seven yards. You heard the news as well too
at the top of the hour, but the New York
Giants defensive end came on the Thibodeaux having to undergo

(14:37):
surgery on his wrist. Of course, they play the Bengals
on Sunday night, so Cincinnati did get back today. Practice wise,
dj Ivy returned to the practice field today and Sheldon
Rankins is back practicing for the Bengals, so some good
news there. Deshaun Watson says he will do whatever is
asked of him as far as if he's benched. Whatever,

(14:58):
It's all about the team, according to Deshaun Watson, and
he has complete confidence in Kevin Stefanski as the Browns
play caller. That coming out earlier today. We'll hear more
from Watson as we roll along as well too in
the program when we come back. The NFL schedule Strength
is out one through thirty two. Run down that and
give you some thoughts on that. Also. Dave Metzold this

(15:20):
hour talks a little NHL for us. It's the press box.
Great to have you with us on this Wednesday Fox
Sports ninet eighty w O. Will need.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Get on the press box called Marty now at nine
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Speaker 2 (16:02):
And we're back with you on this just sensational Wednesday afternoon.
As you heard in the forecast a moment ago. Again,
we've had a great run of weather here for our area.
Right now and with you right up until five o'clock
the press box, Fox Sports nine eighty w O. And
he still to come. We'll hear from Dave Metzold in
a few talk a little NHL. Next hour. Former Ohio
state wide out Dane Sanzenbacher will join us and we'll

(16:22):
talk Buck Eyes, Oregon and just college football in general.
So we'll do that with Dane coming up next hour.
I referenced the weather, and boy, I tell you if
again we had this in the opening segment yesterday when
our friend George later visited with us from just outside
of Fort Myers, Florida. All the hurricane has done is
get stronger. I mean, that's just just remarkable. What this

(16:47):
thing is doing. Is it bears down on the coast
of Florida a number of as we referenced yesterday, a
number of teams have moved practices and some have already
left the Tampa area. For example, the Tampa Bay Lightning
of already headed to I think it's Charlotte where they're
opening up. Also as well, too, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

(17:08):
have already left. They're supposed to be. I think they're
playing New Orleans this weekend, and they've already a bolted
town as they should now. The University of Cincinnati is
slated to play Saturday night against UCF in a Big
twelve game, and as of what is it's three twenty
one now as of about noon today, school officials are

(17:29):
all monitoring the situation. But if this thing does what
it is supposed to do, I don't know how you
could even make any sense out of trying to play
a football game, even though it's Saturday, because of all
of the damage it's going to have to be dealt with,
Because apparently from every indication, Orlando is right dead center

(17:51):
in the middle of this thing. And with all the
disinformation that's being thrown around by certain people about the
abilities of FEMA, which is just ridiculous, that doesn't underscore though,
the importance of getting help to people and things along
those lines, and to try and utilize some services just

(18:14):
to play a football game really to make a whole
lot of sense, And quite frankly, and I know there's
a lot of money involved in this, and I get
all of that, but at this point of the deal,
wouldn't it just be easier is to say, we're gonna
try this game, We're not playing this weekend, let's just
forget this and let's try to get some let's try
to do it later in the season or whatever. But
to sit around right now and just kind of go, well,

(18:36):
let's see what we can do and maybe maybe we'll
wait till Friday and make it. That part of it.
I don't understand. I again, I know I'll say this, Kelly.
I know that because of the TV and the money,
and believe me, I understand all of that. I know schedules.
I'm not oblivious to any of that. But at some
point doesn't just good old common sense have to jump
to the forefront of them.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
You want to hope, you want to hope. I think
that they even if they don't cancel the game, I
think they should have been working on moving it. Like
neither of your teams, Yeah, neither of your teams need
to be there right now, So use someone else's stadium,
even even if it's not Cincinnati, like a neutral spot.
That's fine. I just like the idea that you're gonna

(19:19):
wait and see is goofy because even best case scenario,
like we are hours out from this same hitting land,
it hasn't gotten any smaller. So it's not like it's
gonna be better than you expect. The damage just might
not be as bad, but there's gonna be damage. I

(19:41):
don't understand question. Yeah, yeah, why we're dragging our feet
with this? Either move the game or cancel the game.
But wait and see, that's I don't think that's even
an option here.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, and to come up with this, we're monitoring the situation,
but we all are monitoring the situation.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I mean, goodness sakes, it's been intense.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
As I said, I understand top to bottom why everyone
is kind of in a waiting position right now, because
of the TV money, because of scheduling, because of the
things that that that factor into this. Because let's face it,
if you would decide to postpone this game, uh and

(20:21):
try and play it at a later date, I'm gonna
try and call up uh, Cincinnatis and you see, and
try to call up Cincinnati schedule here real fast while
we're talking about this again, because I know you have
to start factoring in bye weeks and whatnot. But looking ahead, Cincinnati,
UH do to do? They do not have? They have
a bye week on the second of the On the

(20:42):
second of November, they have an open date there. Uh,
And just a quick checking ahead to see what UCF
has available. Uh they have a game that day, so
that that wipes that out. But that so obviously that
that factors into it. But again, at this point, just
say simply, hey, we're gonna play it at Cincinnati, or

(21:03):
we're gonna play like you said, anywhere, go to Atlanta
and play. Yeah, go to Jacksonville, because apparently that that's
going to the hurricanes is not going to hit that
area of Florida. But just to sit around and continue, well,
we're just gonna wait and see what happens. I don't
understand that that mindset.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I will say that, yes, the hurricanes is not gonna hit,
but there have been reports of tornadoes and other weather
events happening in South Florida and North Florida like super
you know that aren't even necessarily in the eye of
the storm, but they're I mean, the storm is storming, okay,

(21:38):
it's it's not lightening up at all, so.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
It's not it's a it's a ferocious looking storm. When
you have hurricane hunters. When you see the video of
those individuals who have flown over the storm, their reaction
has just been one of just awe of shock and
all you heard that. You've heard that term used a lot,
but that's what they are doing right now as they
look at this thing. It's just it's just remarkable and

(22:05):
so hopefully hopefully some sanity would prevail in all this
right now, But again, we'll see, and I imagine they're
probably going to wait till it's probably sometime Thursday after
the because it's supposed to hit what landfall late tonight,
first thing in the morning, something along those lines. So
but yeah, to me, again, it's just remarkable they just
simply haven't said we're gonna go play somewhere else. Let's

(22:27):
just do that and be safe, yea, and yeah, at
any rate, all right, let's move on right now. As
I mentioned, the NFL strength of schedule rankings for the
rest of the season are out, and it's based on
the ESPN Power Rankings. Like I said, I don't really
pay much attention to their power rankings. I think those
I mean, they're done for those of you who bet
and things along those lines, and that's fine. But I

(22:49):
did find it interesting that they listed one through thirty
two the NFL teams, and the easiest remaining schedule is
number one and one through thirty two. The easiest remaining schedule,
according to the ESPN Power Rankings, belongs to the Buffalo Bills.
And what are they three and two right now? So okay,

(23:10):
if you're Buffalo you're three and two, You're atop the
AFC East in first place. You've got the easiest remaining schedule,
least according to the Power rankings. I haven't looked at
I'm gonna call it Buffalo's schedule right now as I
look at it. Here, as we move ahead, here, they
have the dysfunctional Jets coming up this weekend. Then they

(23:32):
play the Titans. Then they say they go to the Seahawks,
Dolphins at the Colts. They have the Chiefs forty nine Ers, Rams,
Lions on the road, Patriots, Jets, Patriots. So okay, yeah,
I can see that. I can see that the second
easiest schedule belongs to the Cincinnati Bengals, according in to

(23:53):
the ESPN Power Rankings. And again, as I said, you
can take these for what they're worth. But this kind
of goes back to some of the converse we were
having yesterday about again, as I said, with the NFL,
to me, I think you base a lot of things
on the schedule and what you have left to play
and where you play next. And again, I think the

(24:16):
way the season has gone so far, you might say, well,
you can throw all that out the window, because because
no one thought that Cincinnati would be one and four
right now. No one thought the Browns would be one
and four right now. But that's kind of where we're
at right now with all of this. But Cincinnati schedule
at one and four. After they have the Giants this week,
then they go play the Browns, Then they have back

(24:36):
to back Eagles Raiders, and then a short week the
Raiders on Sunday, November three, and then on Thursday, November
the seventh, they have to go back into the Ravens
den take on Baltimore on the November the November the seventh,
and then they get ten days off before they have
to go to Los Angeles and play the Chargers on
a late Sunday game. So, but if you look at
their schedule, if you're basing this strictly on the power rankings,

(25:00):
I honestly know if that's the second easiest schedule, I mean, well,
I'll run down four. I'll just run run it down
for a real fast at Giants at Browns, Eagles, Raiders
at Ravens at Chargers, Steelers at Cowboys at Titans, Browns,
Broncos at Steelers. Well, I don't know, does that sound easy?

Speaker 3 (25:22):
I don't. I don't know how they're ranking easy. I
I really don't. I mean, those are those are some
tough defenses they are, I don't.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I don't, And you have to take into account something
for example, like the Bengals. Obviously they're struggles in the
AFC North. They don't play well against the AFC North.
But fortunately they've they've been able to win games outside
the division. So and but they have five division games left.
I'm so the struggles they've had there. But I think

(25:55):
the other thing you have to keep in mind some
of the teams are playing with the strong. If the
struggles the Bengals are having on defense a lot of it,
you have to think they'd be favorite, like for example,
their favorite Sunday Night in New York against the Giants.
What is it three and a half or something like that. Again,
I guess I don't. I don't look at those, so
I go on what I hear on those. But the Giants,

(26:18):
the Browns neither one of those teams. If you want
those team scores thirty or more gets Cincinnati, then you
know that defense isn't a lot of true.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, then it's it's kind of you've got to do
something significant. I actually I just want to float this idea. Well,
we're about to go to break, but I just want
to float this idea. So Robert sala is looking for
a job, and he's been a notable defensive coordinator, and.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
You're not the first one to go down go down
that rabbit hole. I thought of it too.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Just say I thought.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Of it too. The Browns, Oh, by the way, and
we'll talk about that when we come back. Their strength
of schedule number twenty five Oo.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
They don't need that on them right now.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
They're not toughest. The toughest remaining schedule belongs to the
Chicago Bears.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
They don't need that either.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Your beloved Washington commanders are at number twenty two.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh, I wish we were higher. Actually hoping, friends in
that one.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
You wish you had that number two or number one schedule.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
He definitely did that.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Phil's won Bengals two, Dolphins, three, Eagles four, the Michigan
Chargers five, Saints, Patriots, Colts, Jets, Cardinals. That's your top ten.
More the program in the press box, Fox Sports nine
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Speaker 1 (27:46):
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 nine eighty WN and.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
We've we are back with you here on this Wednesday afternoon.
It's Fox Sports. That's right. I'm trying to hip up
a little bit. Okay, Well, if I tell the MBZ story,
you'll know there's no way I can hip up again.
I might break a hip, but I'm not gonna do
the other. That's as closely again again, that's as close

(28:21):
as I'm gonna get. There's no question about that. But
we are back in the press box Fox Sports nine
eighty W eight. The Detroit Tigers will put a round
on the board in the bottom of the first as
they take on the Cleveland Guardians in Game number three
of the American League Division Series. So the Tigers are
up one nothing as that game goes to the top
half of the second inning. So the nervousness level has

(28:41):
a shot up tremendously in Cleveland right now, So down
series even at a victory peace. But again it's a
situation where it's the best of five, it's not a
best of seven. So the next two were in Detroit
and this one, well it's yeah, one nothing Detroit now
as they go by them. The first also tonight Tigers.

(29:04):
After the Tigers Guardians game, Phillies and the Mets at
a little bit after five o'clock, then the Yankees and
Royals a little bit after seven o'clock out in Kansas City,
and then a little bit after nine o'clock out on
the left coast, it's San Diego and the Dodgers in
that very bitter series. Those two again, as I said,
those two teams really just don't care for one another.
I don't think no one's hiding it either in that series.

(29:26):
They just don't like one another. And as I said,
that's kind of a fun thing when you get to
this point of the schedule. We're talking about NFL schedules
prior to the break, with the Bengals having the second
easiest schedule remaining based on the ESPN Power Rankings. The
Browns are at number twenty five in what they have
left to play this season, so at one and four.

(29:47):
That was again, as I said, you look at these
schedules and you just try to get a handle on
them a lot. The Browns will play the final of
a three game road swing Philadelphia at Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon,
and of course, the Bengals play in New York against
the Giants on Sunday night. But then after that, the
Browns get three in a row at home Bengals Ravens Chargers.

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So wherever they are at, you would have to think
if they somehow are able to find a way to
win on Sunday. And the Eagles aren't the Eagles that
went to the Super Bowl a couple of years ago.
There's no doubt there. They're not an offensive juggernaut at all.
But with the way the Browns are struggling right now,

(30:31):
I mean, who knows. You just don't know what you're
going to get on Sunday. I think that's a pretty
fair assessment. But then you come home and three straight
at home Bengals Ravens, Chargers, you have a chance to
get back into this a little bit. Again. As I've
said before, for whatever reason, the Bengals just can't win

(30:52):
in Cleveland. I don't know what it is. They just
simply can't do it up there. They even the year
they went to the Super Bowl, and whenever they lost
game of the regular season again it didn't mean anything
at that point. But that's always just been a house
of horrors for Cincinnati trying to win a football game
up there, the Browns have had Joe Burrow's number, if
you want to say it, that that's the case. So

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if I'm Cleveland, if I somehow come away with a
win on Sunday, knowing the Bengals are coming in next,
I think the level of confidence takes an immediate turn
to the to the good side of things, you would
have to think. So when you're knowing that you're two
and four coming home against the team you've had a
lot of success against. And again that's I think that's

(31:36):
how That's just how fast things change in this league,
which it's a what is it you've said before, it's
a it's a game by game league.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Week Yeah, week by week.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
It's very accurate. Yeah, it's very accurate.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Everything changes so quickly. I mean just ask Robert sala
Uh yesterday he was preparing, you know, for for this
coming Sunday Monday, rather and now here we are everything
like in the whole AFC. Now, not that the Jets
were necessarily up, you know, necessarily gonna cause a lot

(32:10):
of issues, but now you might you might be able
to just knock them all the way off. The Jets
are a non factor in the AFC now, so the
Bengals actually do maybe stand a better chance with the
easiest schedule in making some sort of run if they
can be a part of you know the run.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, I think right now it's there are a couple
of teams that you could probably look at. I know
we're five games in, or some of them just played
four because of a bye week, but I think there
are certainly some teams you can look at and say
they're already thinking a draft position. The Patriots, Carolina Panthers,
I think certainly fall into that category as far as

(32:50):
what's ahead for them the remainder of the season. If
you look at some of the other even well, I
don't know, they're coming off of buy they're one and three,
and I still think Brian Callahan's very good football coach.
I just called up their schedule real fast, and they're
coming off that went over the Dolphins. They have the
Colts at home, then they go to the Bills, go
to the Lions, so they get a tough stretch coming

(33:10):
up here.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
And though it's the two less Dolphins, so that's important.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
To enough fair enough, But for Tennessee, it's as I
mentioned Indianapolis on Sunday at Buffalo at Detroit home for
the Patriots, and then they go out and dick on
the Chargers. So it's a that's a very difficult stretch
coming up there for the Titans. But I don't think
I would put them in that category just yet. The
next couple of weeks, I think we'll certainly determine that category.

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And I gotta wonder about Jacksonville right now, they're one
and four. Who knows what you have there? You go
over to the AFS or to the NFC. As I
mentioned Carolina, they're one and four. The Rams are another
one of those one and four teams. You look at
them and you go, how are they one and four? Yeah,
with the amount of talent that they have, And I
don't think you can complete scratch them off the off

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the list of teams that could make a run here.
I think there's a lot of talent with the Rams.
Their strength of schedule is twenty first right now, so
they have the Raiders this week, then they have the Vikings,
then they're at Seattle. It's not it's not a a

(34:22):
murderer's road with what's left for them they have at Seattle.
They have the Dolphins, and they have they go have
to come clear across the country to play the Patriots.
Then they have the Eagles on a Sunday night. Then
they're at New Orleans and Buffalo, and then well they
have to make they have to make two trips to
the East Coast. Uh, they have to go to they
have to complete the Jets on a Sunday to twenty second.

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So but I wouldn't I wouldn't eliminate the Rams from
any of this as well too right now, so by
other any rate, Now, as I said, I kind of
think that's where we're at right now with this and
and obviously for both the Bengals and Browns, they have
chances to win games this weekend, which I think could
do a lot from a a confidence standpoint, from a hey,
we're not as bad as maybe we think or everybody

(35:05):
thinks we are. Although everybody tells you that we don't
listen to what goes on outside of the room, then
at that I don't believe because I know they hear it.
They can't not, I think from that standpoint. So, but
these games are certainly very well, everyone's important, But these
games this week, especially knowing you're going to be facing

(35:25):
each other the following week. I think takes on entirely
different feel. It's coming Sunday, you could conceivably start to
kind of play yourself back into this thing. Whether or
not there's any hope for that, I don't know. As
I said, the Bengals do do have Sheldon Rankins back
practicing today, David and Jok who's back practicing in Cleveland.

(35:46):
And we'll see about Nick Chubb. As I said before,
I almost guarantee you the Browns are running out when
the Bengals come into town on Sunday. He'll be out
there carrying a football and whatever they do with what
they call him Batman up there or whatever it is,
he'll be smashing guitars, whatever the heck is they do
before games, and that place will be on edge. And
I'll almost guarantee you Nick Chubb plays in that game,
almost guarantee you that he plays in that game, and

(36:08):
the atmosphere will be, uh, we'll be just off the
off the charts up there for that one. So all right,
three forty three is the time we'll take a time out.
When we come back, we'll turn our attention to the
National High League. Our friend Dave Metzel will visit with
us and we'll talk about the Columba's Blue Jackets who
open up on the road tomorrow night in Minnesota. We'll
do that when we come back. Baseball continues this afternoon
as the American League Division Series first game is underway

(36:32):
in Detroit and the Guardians and the Detroit Tigers are
tied in the series at a victory a piece. The
Guardians have fallen behind one nothing as that game goes
to the third inning in Detroit. Will keep you updated
throughout the afternoon in the press box Flax Sports ninet
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Speaker 1 (37:02):
Get on the press box called Marty Now at nine
to three seven buy three one six one seven zero
the press box on Fox Sports nine to eighty WN
Wednesday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
The National Hockey League season is underway. It started last
night with a number of games, including the first game
for the new Utah franchise. The Columbus Blue Jackets open
up on Thursday on the road at Minnesota, and we
always enjoy our visits to talk a little hockey with
our friend Dave Metzel from the Columbus Bluejackets television broadcast team.
Getting ready to head to Minnesota as we speak, Dave,
I always appreciate your time. I know days like this

(37:36):
or very hectic when you're getting ready to go get
out on an airplane. How excited are you for this
start of the season and how different is this start
to maybe some of the others because of some of
the changes with the Blue Jackets.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
Well, I was very excited to see the start last night.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
I was hoping we'd see a better goaltender matchup between
Yonas Corposalo and serge Vebrowski.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
That didn't pan out.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
You always like watching the former Jackets play, but great
to have hockey back, of course, and it's going to
be a very interesting year for the Columbus Blue Jackets
because most of the experts don't see this being a
very good year for the Columbus Blue Jackets. However, there's
an asterisk by it because so much of that is
based on the fact that there's so many young players
they just don't know about. And the other asterisk, of course,

(38:17):
is surrounding what has happened to this team in the offseason,
the tragic loss of Johnny Gadrou and then Patrick Lioney
leaving the team via trade, and now two injuries that
look like they could be long term to Dmitri Vankov
and Boone Jenner.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
So what does all of that mean in terms of
where this team could go.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
We'll find out Thursday night. We'll find out how eager
those young players are, and we'll find out how motivated
they are to dedicate this season to Johnny Gadroua.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Let's expound on that for just a moment and the
tragedy that that is and still continues to kind of
hover around the franchise. Was the preseason did you sense
I don't want to say a Paul hanging over the team,
but what was the sense you got from the players
as they tried to get their mind on hockey?

Speaker 5 (39:02):
I did not sense a pall, that is for sure.
I think that one of the things that I learned
about Johnny Gudreau after his passing was how positive of
a guy he was and how much he didn't let
the little things in hockey bother him. And I think
the players who knew him best, the teammates who knew
him best, want to carry that forward. They want to
be positive, they want to be happy that they're playing

(39:24):
National Hockey League hockey every night. That they get that
opportunity and go into it with that kind of joy
because that's what I've learned, That's what they all learned
from Johnny Goudreau, and to not let some of the
little things get at them and just remember how great
it is to have the opportunity to play that game
for a lining. So I think that's what they're trying
to carry forward as best they can. Certainly, there will

(39:46):
be lots of moments of emotion, lots of moments of sadness.
You know, Minnesota is going to open the night tomorrow
night by honoring Johnny Goudreau, and there will be a
lot of reflection at that time, and certainly next Tuesday
at Nationwide Arena, there's going to be a lot of
reflection at that time and a lot of them.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
But it's how the team channels that emotion and how
they use.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
That in a positive way because and it sounds almost cliche,
but because that's what Johnny wanted.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
You know, when you lose somebody.

Speaker 5 (40:11):
Like that, they all say, look, this is what this
is what Johnny wanted, This is what Grandpa would have wanted,
this is what Uncle.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Said would have wanted.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
Whatever, whatever the case may be, you want to move
forward in a way that honors the person who's no
longer with us.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Absolutely, Dave Metzel visiting with us one of the members
of the Columbus Blue Jackets television broadcast crew. The CBJ
open up on the road tomorrow night at Minnesota, then
on Saturday go to Colorado. With everything that is surrounding
the team, you and you did a very good job
of kind of running down those a moment or so ago.
I think there is one thing to kind of look
at as let's take this as a positive. After these

(40:45):
first two games on the road, they then play what
is it six of their next seven at home? Or
Am I right on that? And I mean, if you're
looking to get out of the gate fast, my goodness,
there's not a better way than that right there, to
have it lined up that way? Is there?

Speaker 4 (40:57):
That's absolutely true?

Speaker 5 (40:59):
And again using the emotion and each one of those nights,
they're gonna have each.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Night be a different kind of a night.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
It's gonna be a Johnny goodro knight on opening night,
the next one is going to be more of a traditional.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Opener, and then the third home game is going.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
To be kind of a kid's opening night, especially, you know,
specifically targeting the young fans who are coming in. So
there's gonna be a lot of emotion in the building
on those first three home games, and man, they could
really get a good jump start by taking advantage of that.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Now, the flip side of that is that first games
against the Fanning Stanley Cup Camp at Florida Panthers, who.

Speaker 6 (41:29):
Looked really good last night.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yeah, they're also going to.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Have to bring their a game on the ice. It
can't all be based in emotion.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
No, no question, but there is. And you and I
have seen this for years. I know you've seen it
more than a lot of us have. Sometimes the early
part of the schedule is far from kind of this franchise.
This is that this helps a little bit, doesn't to
get all the moving pieces of new coaching staff, all
those things with this man and home out of the gate.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
Yeah, I think there's no question about that. And I
think that's what focusing on too, is trying to take
advantage of that and not dig themselves a whole early.
We've seen that before with this franchise. We saw last
year not make excuses.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
You know.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
Dean Evison was asked the other day after practice about
the loss of Boom. Jenner Dmitri Veronkov and he said,
you know what, Boom came in and spoke to the
key to the team, and he said, let's not dwell
on these things. Let's try to find a way to
turn any of these negatives into positives that try to
not dwell on the negative.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
And I think when you do that.

Speaker 5 (42:30):
You look at some of those young players who you're
expecting to have breakout seasons, led by Adam Fantilly, who
should be amazing hockey player in his second year. So
I think that's where the focus is for sure.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
All right, do you mention you mentioned Dean Everson coming
in as the head coach. What have you liked, what
have you seen that stands out for him? The way
he has implemented his system here through preseason getting ready
to open the open the regular season tomorrow night.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
I really like his expectations. I really like the fact
that he's trying right now to give every player the
same opportunity, whether they're a veteran player or whether they're
a rookie trying to really make an impact. If you
look at some of the guys who've been given opportunities
through camp Owen Cylinder who ultimately was sent down to Cleveland,
Michael Petua Petilla, who is going to get an opportunity

(43:18):
on the starting lineup on Thursday. These are guys who
have been given opportunities because.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
Of their hard work.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
And that's exactly what Evanson promised was He's going to
give these guys a chance to be on the roster
come opening night, and they certainly have lived up to that.
The other thing that I like about him is he's
he's no bs man. He doesn't pull any punches on
any of us, a little bit like a John Tortorella,
only not quite as caustic when he meets with the media.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
And I like that about him.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
I like his honesty, I like his candor when it
comes to assessing his team, and.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
I like the fact that he's expecting it to.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
Be a team first, physical, defensive minded hockey team that
takes the on Thursday night.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Let's let's go plus is what do you like from
what you've seen about this team right now?

Speaker 5 (44:05):
I love the play of Adam Van Tilly, I love
the play of Ken Johnson. I love the leadership of
Zach Larinsky, especially now in the absence of Boon Jenner,
and I got to say, and I hope that this
holds through the entire season. Elvis Mrs Lincoln's is a
much better goaltender. He looked sharp through preseason. He looks
like a guy who knows he's going to be given

(44:27):
the opportunity to be a full time starter, who gets
most of the starts for this team. Now let's see
what he does with it. So those are the things
I like. I also like the additions of James Van
Rumsdike and Sean Monahan because they certainly bring some veteran leadership,
and they just picked up two guys off the waiver
wire who are going to fill that role as well.
So I think it's a good balance of young and

(44:49):
old here and let's see where they go with it.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Your biggest concerns as we get ready to drop the
puck on.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
Thursday, Exactly what I just said. I'm mix of young
and old.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
I mean it could go either way, right, I mean,
these young players really need to step up. Adam Fantilli
needs to step up, Cole Sillinger needs to step up,
Ken Johnson needs to step up. David Yuricek a first
round draft pick who's made the roster on this club
and has a lot of question marks about his game. Defensively,
he really needs to step up, step up and play
like a first round pick. So farther, the jury's out

(45:22):
on that. So there's a guy who has been given
an opportunity here on a team that's got a lot
of good defensemen who are waiting to get opportunities.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
He's been given one. Let's see what he does with it.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Expectations, I know it's never a fair question to ask
when you're a franchise. It's just trying to get itself
pointed in the right direction. We all know how difficult
the Metropolitan Division is. We all know how tough the
Eastern Conference is. Realistically, Dave, what are you looking for
this year?

Speaker 5 (45:50):
I'm looking for a team that can find a way
to be competitive in.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
February and March and.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
April, because a lot of people don't think they're going
to be there. People think that by the time we
hit the Christmas break, they're going to be way out
of the conversation. I don't think this team's going to
win the Stanley Cup. I'm not sure they're going to
make the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
But I want them to be competitive and make.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
People believe that the future is not very far away
for this team. That's what I want to see. I
don't think they're in the category of a Florida Panthers
or an Edmonton Oilers right now. I just think they've
got too many places that they've got to improve in.
But I think they can show people that they're going
to be And that might be something that Blue Jackets
fans are tired of hearing about, but given what this

(46:33):
team has gone through, I think it's understandable.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Is the foundation solid now or or was that a
fair question?

Speaker 5 (46:40):
The foundation is solid because I think the changes they've
made in leadership.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Are rock solid.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
I think Donlaldell is as good as they come, and
just look at the way that he handled some of
the things that he was thrown.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
You know, Patrick Lyney wants to be traded.

Speaker 5 (46:55):
Oh well, I got to figure out a way to
get something for Patrick Lione and he did.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
Boon enter and Dmitry Bronkov went down. Oh man, I
got to find a way.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
To fill those voids, and he did by going out
and getting Askton Reese and Kevin Lebank. I mean, he's
really answered some major challenges, the biggest of which, of course,
is trying to guide a team through the tragic loss
of their best player. And I think he has answered
the bell on every one of those challenges.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Dave menzeled, always a pleasure. I appreciate your time on
a travel day. I'll always enjoy your work on the
between periods and all the interviews, and thank you for
your time. And I'm sure we'll be talking hockey as
a season for rolls long. Appreciate your time as always.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Thanks Martie.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
Let's see if I can remember how to do it
tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
It's like ride to bike. It's just as as they
said in the movie Airplane. It's just harder to put
bicycle cards or to put the put cards into bicycles pokes.
That's all it is.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
That's exactly right, that's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
All right, it's the press box. We'll continue after this
time out Fox Sports nine to eighty Nobody Owe the Names.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
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 WNA.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
I'm rocking with whatever coaching decision is.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
Like I said, we don't listen to the outside well,
regardless of what it is.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Deshaun Watson talking to the media early today about the
Cleveland Browns quarterback situation and the play calling. Welcome back
to the press box, Fox Sports nine eighty w and E.
I'm Marty Banners. So we continue along with you here
on this Wednesday afternoon, and it is a great day outside,
WEATHERWI spectacular. As we move along here with you this hour,

(49:18):
Dane Samsenbaker will visit with us. Former Ohio State white
out will join us coming up at about four to
twenty talking Little Buckeyes football as Ohio State hits the
road on Saturday to go to Oregon to face the Ducks.
So it's update you one to baseball right now. The
Tigers have tacked down another run and lead the Cleveland
Guardians to nothing. Now that game is in the top
half of the fourth at Comerica Park in Cleveland. In

(49:39):
about an hour. It's Philly's Mets game number three, Game
number four, I should say of that series with the
Mets up two games to one. Yankees Royals tonight in
Kansas City, Game three of that series level at a
win apiece. Podrais Dodgers tonight in San Diego with the
first pitch just after nine o'clock tonight, with that series
in favor of San Diego two games to one. So

(50:02):
that's what's happening right now as far as baseball is concerned.
Thanks again to Dave Metzel to visiting with us. We
always enjoyed Dave's visits with us as he talks a
little hockey with us. The Blue Jackets open up tomorrow
night in National Hockey League play again. Tiger's up to
nothing now that game in the top half of the
fourth inning at Comerica Park. Let's update you as well.
Two in our fan polls right now, we have a

(50:22):
couple of those up for you. This afternoon, we asked
you a couple of questions. Number one, we talked about
the ESPN schedule strength rankings, which are out. We thought
we would ask you today based on that the Bengals
have the second easiest remaining schedule least according to the
ESPN Power Index that's based on one lost records. Will

(50:43):
the Bengals with that easiest schedule finish over five hundred. No,
the season is lost twenty three and a half percent. Yes,
but they won't make the playoffs as getting fifty two
percent of the vote. And Yes, and they will make
the playoffs getting twenty three percent of the vote. Right now,
in that vampole, we do have a response. So Steve
in Crowtown says, I'm not devoting any more on my

(51:03):
weekends to watching unless major changes occur. My time is
too valuable to waste watching sub standard football. I can
put myself in a bad mood. I don't need a
millionaire football players to do.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
It for me.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Yeah, you get in.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
I understand completely. Where are you coming from, Steve? I
get it completely. I don't and I don't disagree quite frankly.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
There's been many seasons, many seasons where I, you know,
by week six seven, I'm just like, you know, there's
a there's something probably more fun happening outside of my home,
and I'll go do that. Sometimes I'll cut the grass
or take out the trash or you know, just something
more fun than watching my team lose horribly exactly. You know,

(51:46):
watch paint dry. There's a lot of other activities. Yeah,
that I you know, so I get it. I'm not
I can't even argue.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Yeah, Steve, I checked up his Twitter avatar and it's
a picture that I that I have had as actually
as a screensaver. I had that for a number of years.
It's the picture of the Bengals mascot with his head
stuck into the goalpost in despair.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Exactly, exactly.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yeah, there was a great photo floating around a couple
of years ago and I used it as well too.
I remember when everybody on Facebook or wherever you are
social media, they were putting those googly eyes on everything.
Look a surprise. Oh there was one of the Bengals
tiger mascot that had those googly eyes. After they had
I think they think they went the year they went

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two and fourteen before bringing Burrow in and that was
the reaction there. So but Stephen Crowtown, I'm not sure
where Crowtown is, but again I understand. I get your paint.
Believe me, I get your paint. And thanks for participating
in voting in the Proland poll. We think we thank
you for that. We also asked you today with Connor

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Stallions again back in the New somewhat appearing on a
podcast claiming that many teams, including Ohio State, have stolen
and do steal opponent signals. He in specific pointed out
a game that Ohio State played against Michigan State in
twenty twenty one. He claims that he pushed some of
these signals that Michigan State uses towards people who knew

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people on the Ohio State staff to help the Buckeyes
because that would in turn help Michigan. If Ohio State
beat Michigan State when the two would play later in
the season, that would clear the way for those two
teams to be at the top of the East Division
and play for the Big Ten East Division championship and
move on. And that's what Stallions claims. So we thought

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we'd ask you today. Is he right that basically everybody
does this? Yes, they just aren't caught some but not
all do it. It's always happened, and only Michigan did it.
And right now sixty almost sixty three percent of you
say yes, but everyone just those they're doing it just
haven't been caught yet. I tend to think that now

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you obviously don't want to make accusations against coaching stabs
and things on those lines, because really we don't know
those of us on the outside looking in. But you
would have to think at some point some schools, and
you hear this term renegade programs used a lot for
programs that are found guilty of doing things the wrong way,

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that at some point down the line they were bending
or breaking the rules when it comes to stealing signals
and trying to I mean, why else do you think
these days, every coach, every player, they hold up the
play card in front of their mouth and try to
cover up whatever they're saying. Maybe I It always used

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to amaze me when I first started seeing that. I
always thought, well, how does if you're a head football coach,
with all the different terminology used, how would another team
know what thirty seven trap Wright Dog Blue Tuesday underscore nine?
Omaha mean, I mean, but well, I actually currently do

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know what that means.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Well, that's the thing. I actually think that in part
of the Connor Stallings Stallions documentary, he was talking about
how he would categorize signals and how he made all
of those like thousands of little videos copying people's signals.
I really do think, especially before there were helmets, or
microphones and helmets and all this other stuff that, Yeah,

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there were people dedicated to deciphering, decoding, and so I
think that this has existed, but it's clear he took
it too far. By hanging out on other people's sidelines.
That's different. That's when I see you on the other
team's sideline, that's a step too far. But if you're
watching just like I am, and you can decipher that,

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that's a skill. I'm not mad at that. But you
can't cheat. You can't. You can't hang out and because
you're gonna if you're on the if you're on the
other team sideline, that's a that's well, that's just cheating.
I mean you just can't do that.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Yeah, no, no, no question, no question. But and we've
seen though over the years that the cheating part of this.
I mean, all you do is go back to the
World Series. What was the twenty seventeen to Houston Astros.
I mean they were stealing signals, they were what was
they were they doing banging on plastic garbage cans or
something along those lines to tell their hitters one tapman

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of fastball, two pounds on the can man occur or
whatever it was those things have obviously, I think I
think they have gone on for a long long time.
In any sport you're trying for that competitive edge. What
do they say, Nascar? If you ain't, if you ain't,
if you ain't, how does that go? If you ain't cheating,
you ain't race, Or that's golf, if you ain't. If

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you're not cheating, you're not you're not playing, or whatever
something like. But yeah, something along those lines. But so again,
I think it's probably gone on at just about every
level for years. It's just as we said, some have
been caught, others haven't been caught. And but but I

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don't know that you can simply say, well, we I
pushed information to somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody
at Ohio State. I mean, if you're Ohio State, do
you I don't think that Ryan Day does that. Yeah.
But at the same time, as if that information were

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to be presented to you, do you automatically discard it?
I don't know. I mean, if it's if it comes
to you from a clandestine source or whatever, I don't know,
But it's it's a it's an interesting part of all

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of this. And and again I mean The thing about
Connor Steyn's is he's to the point now where his
reputation is so bad that I think just about everybody
is taking anything he says now with a grain of salt,
or that he's simply it's almost sour grapes with him
right now, wouldn't you think, Yeah, anything that he brings up,

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he's just trying to thrust the air of guild off
of him right now. So it's I haven't watched the
entire Netflix documentary yet. People I know have and they
obviously from an Ohio state standpoint, they had a tough

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time stomaching it. But I have to give it a watch.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
Again and just say, it's definitely a vibe.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
No, it's a vibe.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
You learn a lot, but it humanizes Connor in a
way that I didn't expect it to. So I was
kind of caught off guard by that, because yes, it's giving,
it's giving more than one element, So you know, it's
a vibe. Okay, I'm we're gonna we're working on the slang, Marty,
We're working on it.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
I'm how hard it's gonna be a lot. We'll be
one of the toughest things you've ever done. Uh, let
me come back. We will talk a little college football.
We will visit with Dane Sands and Barker former whip
of State Wide Out. Kind of have to give us
some time on this Wednesday afternoon talking a little college
football with Dane. Also, a couple of prominent well one

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prominent player, one prominent coach are complaining about their travel
to games. We'll tell you about that when we come
back as well too. And also after the break Dane
Sands and broker business with pd update on baseball squall two.
Great tag with us here on this Wednesday. It is
the press box. It is Fox Sports nine eighty w
in eight.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
to three seven by three, one six, one seven zero
the press box on Fox Sports nine eighty wn eight.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
And welcome back to the program. We're with you on
this Wednesday afternoon with you right up until five o'clock.
It's the press box Fox Sports nine eighty wne as
we talk sports with you and other things as well too.
Again Detroit leading Cleveland again by the score of two
nothing as they continue in the American League Division Series.
We'll keep you updated on that game as the afternoon progresses. Again,

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We're with you right up until five, Game two, Game
three rather of that series underway right now and also
coming up a little bit later on will be a
game number three in the Royals, Yankees, Dodgers, Podreys, Mets, Phillies,
all those series still to come. All right, let's switch gears.
Talk a little college football right now. Always good to
catch up with this individual. I had a chance to
cover him for a number of years when I was
part of the Ohio State football radio broadcast crew. He's

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not doing a lot of radio and television work in
the Columbus area. Former Buckeyes white out Dane Sansenbaker visiting,
was on the liveline right now, closing in on your birthday,
aren't we Dan? Am I correcting that?

Speaker 6 (01:01:22):
Marty? How'd you know that?

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Did you Google? No? I did not, No, I did
not no idea, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
We are.

Speaker 6 (01:01:29):
We're closing it on thirty six for me coming up
on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
I think it is wow, thirty cents. Well, we're glad
you're with us and spending some time with us here
this after and we had a chance to catch up
a couple of weeks back. We were talking a little
high school football. What's life after football been like for you, Dan?
What has kept you busy?

Speaker 6 (01:01:46):
Oh, it's been a journey. I was done. My last
year was twenty fourteen with the Bengals. Actually went right
into media after that. I was working in Toledo at
at WTOL the CBS affiliate, So did a couple of
years of TV there. My wife's work brought me back

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to Central Ohio, worked in the banking industry for a
little bit and UH and made the switch actually most
recently to UH getting back into the media world, and
and also working down here with some of my former
teammates at one of their businesses. So it's been a
it's been a journey, but it's taken me back to Columbus,

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which which I've loved absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
When you look at the Ohio State program now, Dane,
as compared to when when when you played, of course
you played for Jim Tressel and on some very good
Ohio State football teams. When you look at this team now,
how good is this team? I know you've had a
chance to kind of watch them from close and from afar,
but what you see right now, how good is this
football team?

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
It's been said obviously throughout this entire season, in preseason,
and it's it's been justified how talented this team is.
I mean, I think the different you know, would be
looking at like what a really good Columbus high school
team would be verse I don't know, one of the

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one of those prep academies that basically has an all
star team of kids from all over the place. I mean,
I think this team is that they've brought in the
best talent from across the country and really across the board.
I mean, they're just loaded it at many, many positions,
and it took them a couple of weeks it seemed

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like to really get gelling. But I think at this
point they're on the same page and they're they're putting
that talent together on the field and they're they're going
to be a handful for everybody this this year and
in Oregon.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
This week absolutely Dane saans Obocer visiting was fromer Ohio
state wide receiver now doing some broadcasting work in a
Columbus area among other things. As you heard, were glad
Dane's been able to spend some time with us here
this afternoon. Let's talk about the wide receiver position. At
Ohio State. Of course that's what you played. But now
it's almost as if Brian Hartline, who I know you

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know very well, the job that he has done with
the recruiting aspect of that, it has really taken it
to a different level. Right now when you watch that,
what's your reaction to seeing the kind of talent that
they bring in out that wide receiver spot.

Speaker 6 (01:04:20):
Yeah, it's a year year and year out right over
the past few years of having having the top top
five star guys, it's become a kind of a staple
of that program. He's done an outstanding job, which isn't surprising.
I mean, he was always kind of a detail oriented guy,
always had that coaching gene. You know, some guys have

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it and you can see it early. It's been a
heck of a recruiter. And yeah, year after year you
have guys that you know would be starters at a
lot of other teams in the country having to wait
their turn at Ohio State until until they can be
the guy. And then you have guys like your Amiah
Smith that come in year one and are the guy. So,

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I mean, it's the talent you're seeing, It's it's rare
to have this happen year after year at any program. Really,
Ohio State's a little bit spoiled in that wide receiver
room right now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Well, yeah, I think there's any question about that. When
you see a guy like a Jeremiah Smith do the
things that he is doing right now, has has a
wide receiver position. I don't know if it's a fair
question or not for you, but it is. Has it?
But I'm going to ask it anyway. Has the has
the wide receiver position changed? Certainly it has an Ohio
State because in your day, obviously did throw the ball around,

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but now it's it's a vital part of what they do.
Has a position changed?

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
It has? Part of it's been the philosophy has changed
in the Ohio State offense. Obviously there's been different coaches
with that, different coordinators, and there's definitely more of an
emphasis on on the passing game. Uh now, again they're
playing that. You can afford to have that emphasis when

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you have the talents that they have, and I think
the talent is just at a different level. I mean,
I you know, I played with a lot of good players.
There was a lot of talent that came through. But
but year after year, having first round draft picks at
the position is just not It's not that normal. So
I think at some point after a few years, of course,

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you're going to make that it staple of your offense
is throwing the ball when you have the playmakers around
to do it. So, yeah, the you know, the offense
has changed a little bit. They still want to establish
a round, but it's definitely changed since since I was there,
and the players have changed, I think from I think

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it's a changed in the culture of college football too,
because we've seen multiple, you know, freshman wide receivers across
the country this year having an impact that you just
didn't see ten years ago. I don't know if that's
the training, the emphasis in high school, what it may be,
but I think we're in kind of a new world
of college foot posts because I feel like every week

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I'm saying, you know, when Jeremiah Smith makes some of
these catches, or is it Ryan Williams down in Alabama
make some of these plays, I'm just saying, I don't
know what I'm looking at here, because that does not
look like a freshman. So it's a strange and exciting
world right now, in the world of college football, especially
at the wide receiver position.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
It is also, Dane a strange and exciting world in
college football off the field now with nil with the
transfer portal and things along those lines, and that is
certainly the biggest thing I think that's changed. I mean,
we can talk about realignment till we're blue in the
face what a mess that is right now in that regard.
But from that standpoint, let's talk about that for a moment.

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Because you were part of a team that I mean,
we know that was the tattoo gates stuff, if that's
the right term to use back deering that time. That
what these players are doing now, Uh, they're able to
make money off the field now, and you know that,
and with what they're doing. What's your reaction to that
now when you see that? Is it? Do you understand

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where the players are at right now? Is that Hey,
if you can do it, go get it right now.

Speaker 6 (01:08:19):
It's to be honest, Marty, it is. It's hard to
it's a little hard to comprehend. And that is in
putting it into perspective of the college football that I
played in. It is very on one. On that aspect,
it is very, very different. The the player end of it,

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you know, going from being a you know, it was
just kind of assumed you were kind of like a
college student. You were, you were, you were going to
struggle with the same kind of things most college students
do to turn into kind of like a semi pro
and you can make the money.

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:08:58):
I've almost had to separate it to kind of stick
to the football side because that side is so strange
to me and still so uncharted. I mean, I think,
you know, obviously we're watching it play out in real
time as the NCAA and Big ten in the SEC
and all in these universities figure out what the heck
they're doing with it. I mean, it's a it's a

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crazy thing to watch and is a little hard to digest.
So honestly, I try to keep my focus on the
x's and o's and what games are coming up in
the matchups, because it's like, if you go too down
far down that rabbit hole, you know, college football starts
to look a little unrecognizable.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
Are you Are you bitter at all? No?

Speaker 6 (01:09:43):
I don't think so on that end. I mean, I
think this was a long time coming. I think that
you know, this could have been handled the only way
this was would be handled differently is if you know,
thirty years ago, when when those big TV deals start
to get made, the NCAA and the powers that be
don't decide to tighten down and go the route of, hey,

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this is how we're going to do it, and we're
going to ultra enforce this amateurism and we are going
to you know, like, there's probably a world where you
could have loosened it a little bit over time and
you didn't have to do this all at once, big change.
So I think it's in the right place now. It's
just figuring it out. But I don't feel I don't

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really feel bitter about it. It's just different. And I
don't know how well I would have fared in a
world like this. You know, I don't know if I
would have been even an Ohio State guy. Yeah, we
just talked about that receiver room. I was not a
five star player. I don't know, in a world of endorsements,
nil like big it's basically you know, a big money

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sport where I fall would fall in that. So I
almost feel like, you know, I caught Ohio State at
time when this was you know, we had a ton
of kids from Ohio. You were in a world where
you could a coach could take chance on you, like
coach Tressel took a chance on me. Right. You don't
take many chances flyers on three star guys anymore. So,

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if I were to be bitter, there's another side of
that coin that could also say, well, you were lucky
to have it when you did, because it gave you
an opportunity to be part of this program and get
a chance that otherwise you might not have gotten.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Absolutely, Dan Samslbarker visiting with his former Buckeyes wide out
and again doing broadcasting work in the Columbus area. Now,
as he mentioned among other things as well too, you
were on a very good football team. I mean, all
the teams you were on were very good obviously at
Ohio State. That twenty ten team, though it kind of
holds some thoughts with fans because the season was vacated.

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I'm not telling anything obviously, you don't know. I mean, heck,
I was there on the sidelines. I was there. I
saw how good that team was. Do you look back
at that team and go, man, what if I mean,
because that was a very good football team, that twenty
ten team.

Speaker 6 (01:11:58):
Yeah, we were a very talented team, you know, and
I think we were you know, when those were anymore,
we would have gotten a chance in the playoff, right,
But it just was we lost it in an inopportune time.
I think we only lost one game that year, right,
you can correct me, Marty, but I'm pretty sure it was,
you know, put we we lost at Wisconsin, right, and

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I don't think there was another one so that that
put us put us in the Sugar Bowl in twenty ten.
But yeah, we were a really talented bunch and among
the among the top that year. You know, I don't
I don't know, I didn't. I don't really see it
as any kind of Yeah, I guess the wins got vacated.
It got messy at the end. I was already kind

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of gone by that time. I mean, by the time
Sugar Bowl was over, it was you know, I was
in combined training, and the news of Trust being fired
didn't come out for another couple of months, right, So
you know, it got messier in hindsight, but it was
a your time. But also looking back on it now,

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it's you know, it also seems just kind of ridiculous,
the the lengths that you know, the story that I
guess it turned into over what we're talking about, you know,
like we're not talking about any real advantage on the field.
It was you know, guys that they clearly were doing
something they shouldn't have been, you know, so like whatever

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came down on them, those were the rules at the time,
and that is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
What it is.

Speaker 6 (01:13:28):
But yeah, I don't I don't know. Maybe I've put
blinders on, but I don't look back at it in
any other kind of way. Then we had a really
good season. We were probably we were I think we
were a championship caliber, but lost when we shouldn't have
and and ended strong with a good sugar Bowlin. I mean,
I that's just that's that's how I see it. I

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don't really look back on it with too many, too
many asterisks, right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Because you could drive yourself crazy thinking about that all
the time, couldn't you about what what should have been?
What could have been? In that? And you're right, just
one loss that year, the game at Wisconsin on October
the sixteenth of that year. Buck guys go out to
Oregon this weekend for they're really I think no one
would argue it's there. It's their stiffest test coming up. Uh,
take me through the mentality of going to play in

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a game of this magnitude. You played and you played
in those during your day. Well, what is this like
to go, uh, to play a game like this for
a team that has so much attention around it, so
much pressure on it, to go play a game like
this and really your first big test about five games in.

Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
It's strange that it's you know that that's the scenario,
right that we're in, you know, week six and just
now getting that test. The Ohio States had a couple
but nothing that is really made anybody too nervous, right,
They've had a couple a couple blips, But yeah, I
think going across the country takes a different kind of focus.

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It's it's always hard to switch those time zones to
to make that about there and still play at your best.
I think obviously that's a huge advantage for for Oregon,
But then again, they had to do it here a
couple of years ago, and they've found all kinds of
success in beat Ohio State in Columbus, So I mean,
I think there's focus there. I think you have a

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team this year that's that's really ready to handle it.
You know. Part of what I've been impressed by on
this team is that even within all of the changes
in the sport and more. I mean, we have multiple
millionaires right on the field everybody. It's no joke like
or it's no secret. We know these guys are making
a lot of nil money. But if you hadn't told

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me that, I wouldn't see. You know, you would think
that would come with some kind of complacency, or these
guys are going to be divas. Now I haven't seen
that at all. On the field, I've seen guys that
are playing as if they haven't won anything, because truly,
the group that's there hasn't. I mean, you've struggled with Michigan,
you haven't won the big ten titles. So I think

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you have a bundle of talent there that also has
the perfect storm of they've not tasted a lot of success.
So I mean, I think the challenge in these games
going across the country is always focused, right, It is
always making sure everybody is prepared and can keep their focus,
can keep even headed. I think you've got a group

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of guys that to this point have have shown us
that and if they show up and continue to be
the Ohio State that they have been for the first
five weeks. I think they're going to have a really
good chance against Oregons.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Dane Sansenbaker, former o High state wide. A pleasure catching
up with you, my friend. Enjoy you get a chance
to see again. A couple of weeks back we had
that conversation about high school football, and I hoping we'll
get a chance to work together here coming up soon
with the OHSA stuff. I appreciate you spending some time
with us this after and who continued success in the
broadcasting and I'm sure we'll be in touchdown the road here.
Thanks again for your time today.

Speaker 6 (01:16:55):
That sounds great, Thanks Marty, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Dane sans and Baker visiting with us. I think a
very interesting interview right there. And I love some of
the things he said about the football program and the
nil days. And as I mentioned, he was one that
Ohio State team that went twelve and won that year,
but all those games were vacated because of the scandal
surrounding the tattoos and paying for things off the field,

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and Dane was on that team. I mean that was
again as he said, that was a very good football team.
I was just back while he was talking, looking at
some of their wins. Boy, they were only challenged. I
mean the game they lost at Wisconsin. Other than that,
there was a twenty to seventeen win at Iowa that year.
They hammered Michigan, beat a very good Arkansas team. It
was a very good football team, that twenty ten Buckeye

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team that he was on his senior year. When we
come back, we'll react to some of that and get
you updated on baseball as well too. The press box
rolling along here on this Wednesday, Fox Sports nine to
eighty w in name.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
to three, seven by three, one six, one seven zero
the press box on Fox Sports nine eighty wn eighty and.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Welcome back to the program on this Wednesday afternoon, Fox
Sports nine eighty woe in Again, we thank Dane Sanzenbiger
for visiting this. I don't know about you, but I
really enjoyed talking to him and listening to him talk
about just college sports and college football in general, and
that twenty ten Buckeye football team that because if you
think about it, when I asked him about it, are

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they is he bitter because I mean that team went
twelve and one, it lost one game, yeah he did. Yeah,
And because and now if you look at what players
are doing off the field monetarily, well that that's what
those players were doing. Yeah, on that team.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
I mean, I got in trouble for it, but trouble
for not even to that level. You know, right, we're
talking about some some free tattoos and some just is
goofy stuff. So exactly, it's nobody like you know, the
Utah Utes scholarship player on the football team all got
brand new trucks. They all got brand new twenty twenty

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four trucks. We're talking about tattoos.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
It's it's remarkable, it is, it really is. And to
see and and and I don't I mean, for me,
it would be kind of hard to not be bitter.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
About I think he's like I, I honestly look up
to him because I I'm bitter for you. I'm I
don't know how I'm i'd be. I'd be mad to
this moment.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
So very ground very grounded. Young man to absolutely And
I say young man because he's a lot younger than
I and his birthday is Sunday, by the way, so
I think I called him off guard at the beginning
of that when I just happened to discover that his
birthday was coming up. So but again, thanks to Dan,
we're gonna have to have Dane on again. We get it.
Probably he's got we get closer to Michigan. We great insight,
and it was really interesting to.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
Talk to a unique perspective.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Truly, absolutely absolutely baseball. It's update two. They go to
the sixth inning. It's Detroit to Cleveland, nothing and game
number three of the American League Division Series, Game number
three or game number four rather of the National League
Division Series Phillies Mets. First pitch is in about twenty
five minutes from City Bankfield in New York after seven
o'clock to night, Yankees Royals after nine o'clock tonight, Dodgers

(01:20:35):
Podres and other games in the Baseball Division Series afternoon playoff. Baseball.
There's nothing in the world like it, and it's a
great thing if you're a baseball fan. So those games continue.
As I mentioned prior to the break, a couple of
high profile athlete slash coaches are complaining about their travel

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and what they have to do to go to games.
Now one thing I always tell every broadcast class that
I have ever taught, and I've taught a number of them.
I tell every prospective broadcaster who is looking to get
into this business at some level, some way, shape or

(01:21:18):
form on the air, do not complain about where you
have to broadcast from, how long it took you to
get to the game, how hot it is, all those things,
because you, as a listener could care less. You just
want the game. That's what you're after. No, it doesn't

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matter to you if I'm uncomfortable. That has actually nothing
to do with any of this. So I think at
the same time, you have to kind of take this
to another level when you're a player or a coach
complaining about something like this. The two examples I bring
are these. One is Lebron James, who and again this

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is not about who's the best player, who's the greatest,
who's the goat all those other things. It's Michael Jordan,
by the way, but this has nothing to do with them.
With that, Lebron James was posted on Twitter earlier today.
The Lakers have an exhibition game in Milwaukee tonight, and
he tweeted, why are we loading up a plane and
flying to Milwaukee to play an exhibition game.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
Well, that's where the Bucks play, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
Yes, And that's your job. That's what you're being paid
to do.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
I'm sorry he asked why why they were getting Wait.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Yes, now, it's probably in the aspect of what good
does playing one exhibition game do us? Okay, fine, m
I don't necessarily buy that, but this doesn't. This just
doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Does he know who's on his team? Also? Because they
need that extra extra exhibition game. I mean, all jokes side,
This Lakers squad hasn't done anything since last season except
draft Brownie James, who's scoring scored it all of zero
points I think two points so far that he scored

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in twenty nine minutes of play, which is also outrageous
for the fifty fifth draft pick of anybody's draft. So you,
I mean, Lebron no offense, bro, But the Lakers need
If you got to go to Seattle, if you got
to go to Portland, if you got to go to Canada,
your team needs those extra games, sir and.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
SAE will imagine he's getting absolutely eviscerated.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
As well he should.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Some of the responses are flat out hilarious. One says,
probably because it would be a really long walk. Another
one from something called Mount Saint Helen's time to hang
them up, probably because it's a twenty nine hour drive.

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I'll do it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
I'm sure the coaches have thought about this, And as you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:07):
Said, someone named nets Muse responded, I believe that's where
the Bucks play if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Just like, I, what do you mean? Why are we going?
Like that's where the game is.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
You're getting paid sixty million a year and you are
complaining exactly exactly. I so, Lebron, Yeah, yeah, And there's
another one we're gonna get to when we come back
as well too, and it's Big ten related. But Tom, yeah,
I don't understand yet. What what are you complaining about?

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
And you get to travel with your son, it's gonna
be a great time. Like you're you're living the dream.
Two days ago you were like, I can't even believe
my life, and now you're whining, and.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Now you're about having to just to fly to Milwaukee
free you on a charter flood exactly that you'll have.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
I mean on today, of all days, when I don't
even have a cell phone, I don't want to hear
the bron.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
And there's a Category five hurricane bearing down on millions
of people. This is why you're complaining about the press
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Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
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Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
Four forty nine. As we continue along here on this Wednesday,
it's the press box Fox Sports nine eighty w O one.
We'd like to thank Dave Metzel for visiting with us
a little bit earlier talking to the Little Columbus Blue Jackets hockey,
and also Dane Sanzenbaker former Buck Eyes White Out for
visiting with us as well. We have tickets to give
away to Trans Siberian Orchestra. They're big performance coming up
on December of the seven at the Ervin J. Nutter

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Center over at Wright State University, and we will give
those tickets away now by simply having you be the
first caller at nine three seven five three one sixty
one seven oh nine three seven five three one sixty
one seventy get you a pair of tickets to see
Trans Siberian Orchestra and again they will be performing their

(01:26:22):
Christmas Holiday Spectacular at the Nutter Center on December seventh.
So again nine three seven five three one sixty one
seven zero first caller to dial in and say hello
to Kelly, you will get those tickets. So congratulations to uh.
We've already had a couple of winners this week, and
hopefully we'll have another one here in the next couple

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of minutes. We were mentioning prior to the break about
how Lebron James was complaining as to why they're flying
to Milwaukee to play an exhibition game tonight. Okay, another
interesting comment about travel came from Penn State head football
coach James Franklin. His Nitney Lions play at USC this
coming Saturday in one of the big games of the

(01:27:06):
college football day on Saturday. It's not the biggest, of course,
The biggest is in Eugene, where Ohio State and Oregon
are going to the tangle on Saturday night. But James
Franklin's Penn State football team has to leave on Thursday
to go to USC. Now that's not uncommon in this

(01:27:27):
era now of all the travel that we have to
deal with. By the way, I saw a story where
Ohio State spending. I think it's two million dollars on
travel this year something along those lines. Some absurd number
for travel because of the expansion of the Big Ten,
but this all kind of factors in. James Franklin was
complaining because the Penn State football team has to buss

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about an hour or so to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to fly
out of Harrisburg on their way to the West coast. Now,
the reason they can't fly out of State College is
because the airport the runway isn't big enough. Because the
airplane that they will be flying in, their charter craft,

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needs more fuel. It's a bigger airplane and the runway
isn't big enough for this charter flight to leave State
College room. If you've ever been to State College, it's
about the size of what would be a a good comparison.

(01:28:30):
State College is about the size of Oxford, if you're
thinking college towns in that area. Ten twelve thousand people,
maybe a smidge more. The biggest structure in the town
is Beaver Stadium, where Penn State plays their football games.
That's the biggest structure in town. So they haven't had

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to upgrade all of this over the years, and now
with the arrival of expansion into the Big Ten that
they are probably Penn State is probably the State College
is probably smallest. I think it's I think it State
College is the smallest UH city location in the Big

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Ten as far as population is concerned. I was just
kind of running through my mind from a metropolitan standpoint. Yes,
State College is the smallest. So James Franklin was complaining
about the fact that they haven't that they have to.
They're going to have to spend some money to extend
the runway at the airport as State College. I've flown

(01:29:37):
in there a number of times as I reference my
days with Ohio State. That's not an easy place to
fly into. You're flying in between the mountain, nitney, the winds.
I mean, it's every every trip in there has been bumpy.
Every single time we've flown in there, it's been a
bumpy flight. Again. I'm again, I'm not complaining about travel.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that, but it's
just it's just it's just a hard place to get into.

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State College is. But his point I think has some
validity to it because they're spending millions upon millions to
renovate Beaver Stadium and if this is what they're going
to do, and now he spun it as well towards
it helps the community, it helps our area, bigger airport,
more flights. He referred to it as State College International airport.

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Was It's not State College International airport. You can't have
State College and international in the same sentence. It doesn't
work that way. But this was one of the things
that obviously got no play when the Big Ten expanded.
No one even thought about this. I almost guarantee you
they didn't consider this, or if they did, it's still

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another couple of years away. And I will say this.
You can can criticize James Franklin for a lot of things,
his inability to win big games. If you're a Penn
State fan, it's right at the top of the list.
But I don't think he's wrong on this one. And
this is not so much a I think a complaint
about travel as it's a complaint about the expansion process

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and no foresight to understand what we have to do
to make this work for our program. I mean, the
money has to be there, doesn't it to expand I
mean I don't think about expanding runways or I mean
to me, you roll out of concrete, You roll out
of concrete, and you make it, you know, whatever, you
have to do nine hundred yards longer or whatever the
heck it is. But obviously they have to do it

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or else this is going to occur for their program,
their football program, every year, because this won't be the
last time that they have to fly out West. So
I think he does have a legitimate I don't want
to say gripe, but he does have a legitimate concern.
I think when when you think about this, So, but

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that's just the error we're in because and again, as
I said, when you think about it, Penn State State,
that's the only place that doesn't. And I've flown into
every big ten stop except for the new ones. This
is the only one that doesn't have the needed space
on its runway. Nor is it in a metropolitan area.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
Yeah, it's kind of in the Boones, kind of in
the Boone.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Oh no, it's not kind of in the Boons. It
is in the Boons.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
I'm trying to be nice, Marty, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
I mean, after that you're talking, you're talking West Lafia
and Indiana. I mean, produce an aviation program, so they
obviously have the room there to handle these things. Iowa
City is a rather large it's not a metropolitan area,
but I want to say Iowa City, it's probably close
to probably close to one hundred thousand people. And Cedar
Rapids is like twenty five miles to the north. So

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you fly out of Cedar Rapids when you fly into
Iowa if you have to take one of those larger
So that's what twenty five minutes, twenty five miles. That's
not that's like waiting in traffic in Columbus or Dayton
trying to go someplace. So but yeah, so I think
it's a legitimate thing to bring up. I do. People
but are obviously criticizing him for it. But I think

(01:33:03):
he's got a point. I think he's got a point.
So interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting. Let's see where are we at? Two?
Nothing now is the score as they play bottom of
the six, Detroit still holding that lead over to Cleveland
Gard Did we get a winner on a ticket?

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
We did? Yeah, congratulations to Sandy from Centerville, thank you
for listening. And for those that called that I did
not get to we got tickets tomorrow and Friday, so
never fear. You still have opportunities to win.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:33:29):
You just got to be the first caller. And let
me tell you the first You gotta.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Be quick, that's right. You gotta be quick, exactly right.
Fast fingers, yeah, fast fingers. So congratulations Sandy from Centerville.
We're happy for you. Enjoy the show, and thank you
for listening as well too. That's what we really are
happy about that you're a part of the program. We
thank you for that again. Updating, you want some things
going on in the world of sports as we start
to put a rap on it today. The Bengals today

(01:33:52):
back practicing. Dj Ivy back practicing some helping the defensive backfield.
Sheldon Rankins back practicing today. That's very good news as
far as the defensive front is concerned. The columbost Blue
Jackets open up tomorrow night at Minnesota. Nicocollins of the
Houston Texans has been put on injured reserve. The NFL's
leader in receiving yardage for you fantasy football fans five

(01:34:13):
hundred and sixty seven yards. He's on IR. He'll miss
the next four games as part of that. So that
new is coming down a little bit earlier today let's
see what else is going on. Kavon Thibodeau, the standout
defensive end for the New York Giants. The Bengals will
play there on Sunday Night, is now considered week to week.

(01:34:34):
According to head coach Brian Dable, He's expected to miss
some time as his Wookie as his rookie wide receiver
Elite Neighbors. He's getting closer to return from a concussion.
Neighbors worked on the side with the trainer at Wednesday's practice.
He did not play in the win at Seattle twenty
nine to twenty over the weekend. Thibideau suffered a fractured
scaphoid bone during the win over the Seahawks. Did finish

(01:34:56):
the game, but underwent surgery. The Giants do think that
we'll be back. He has a dozen tackles in two
sacks in five games this season, and of course, the
Bengals go to New York on Sunday night to face
the New York Giants, so if Thibodeau can't go, that's
certainly a plus as the Bengals try to deal with

(01:35:16):
that side of the line for the Giants. Amarius men
is also practicing today two for the Bengals, so with
an ankle injury, Deshaun Watson says that he has no
problem with whatever decision the Browns make about whether they
bench him or play him. He simply says, we want
to win. I want to win, just paraphrasing. And he's
also very happy with Kevin Stefanski as his play caller.

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Thinks he's the best in the game. So there you
have that, all right. We will be back with you
tomorrow from three to five. We will as promised, we'll
get into Ohio State Oregon. We'll bring you some comments
from Dan Lanning, We'll hear from Dylan Gabriel, the head
coach of the quarterback of the Oregon Ducks, and will
also hear from some Ohio state side of things as
well too. Tigers have up there, lead to three nothing

(01:35:59):
over the Guardians in the bottom of the six with
one down in game number three of the American League
Division Series. Thanks to Kelly b Thanks to day SAMs
and Biker. Thanks to Day That's Old. Thanks to you
for being with us. We're back tomorrow three to five.
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