Cincy 360 TalkBacks -- 6/25/24

Austin takes your TalkBacks about the most memorable sports games and performances in Cincinnati history, on ESPN 1530!

Episode Transcript

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not back to the phones, let'sgo to talkbacks. I'm all over the
place today. Here go, hey, Audie, Kevin and Orthkentucky. Here.

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Wow, what an absolute moon shot. I mean a laser being.
I mean he crushed it. He'sthe most up ball I'm talking about steam
Boat Ellie. Congratulations to the volunteerson winning the College were a series,
I becoming national champions. Congratulations ofFlorida Panthers on winning the Stanley Cup.

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I have a fantastic day. EverybodyAlways remember thank you. Kevin. Yes,
Kevin tweeted at since the shirts,He's like, we need Steamboat l
t shirts. Since the shirt said, here you go over the last seven
games, Elie day La Cruz hittingthree seventy nine two home runs, absolute

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moonshot to the top of the boat. I think we should sit him down
to the minors letting play baseball.Yeah, I really got to send him
back down. You know this isyour inner voice, insight, your head.
The reds boat raced, the piratesteamboat raised. But it's a trick.

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Don't start hoping. Don't start hoping. It's a trick. You don't
have to start hoping. You canjust enjoy the fact that some cool stuff
happened at the ballpark last night.Don't forget Atlantis, Morrisett and all the
highlights of last night. She candefinitely still get it. Okay, chill
out, relax. Box Miller,Box Miller, Wayne box Miller is the

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goat. Yeah. I'd probably saythe most memorable sports moment for me is
the Sam Hubbard return fumble return fora touchdown. I was at that game
and the whole stadion and you canjust feel the energy was shaken and knowing
that we're probably gonna lose that gamewith Tyler Humbley scores that touchdown. And

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then I got another one in herefor you, Austin, That JT.
Barrett, Ohio David game, thefourth and one. Yes, I'll never
forget that one. Yeah, thatthat game, the overtime game at the
Shoe. Both incredible games, orit was the same game. It was
the overtime game the fourth and one. JT clearly got the first and then

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Curtis Samuel walks it off in overtime. Chris Fowler with the great Ohio State
wins call. It's one of thegreat calls. But yeah, the fumble
in the jungle, the immaculate rejection, the rumble in the jungle, the
Hubbard yard dash, whatever you wantto call it, that's one of the
best. You know, one wehaven't mentioned yet, Jermaine Pratt interception broke
the drought. Sorry for the doubledip Boston. What about the fifteen percent

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of individuals for whom the squatty pottydoesn't work? Did they end up in
the hospital or something like that?I don't know, man, Hey often
Marcus from the groove, Come on, I tell you what. Jonathan India's
knuck up on a quiet two sixtieshot right now. When I saw that
last night, we're under tonight's nineruns. I think that's kind of inflated

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by a lot, just because ofwhat these two pitchers did last week.
But I do got a question,Yes, two days for a relief pitcher
too extreme to get him some work, because why was Fernando Cruz into the
in the game last night. Youknow, Marcus, I had the same
thought. I because I had likestarted flipping to the other stuff and started

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watching that. I came back tothe Reds and I realized Fernando Cruz was
in the game, and I waslike, why is he pitching? Did
not pitch great? Obviously. Ithink he thrives in those environments where it's
you know, the the intensity.Uh, And this is a guy that
you are going to rely on alot over the course of the season.
I was a little bit confused byhim pitching in the in the game last

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night as well. I'll give youthat one. Hey, it's God,
what's up Lord Tuesday? Everybody?Hey, is that what you call one
step forward? Or maybe since theyscored eleven runs, it's one and a
half steps forward? And are wewaiting for the two steps backward today and
tomorrow? Let's hope not. Let'sgo red so let's get this series,

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all right? Yeah, listen,the history would tell you you should be
prepared for the steps backward. Inthe meantime, I'm just gonna enjoy a
fun game last night. Sorry aboutthe double dip. Oh, but my
most memorable sports moment both of themI was attending, so that's why it's
kind of more memorable for me.One was last year at the Bengals when

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I went to the Jacksonville game andthe Bengals did the unthinkable and upsetting Jacksonville
on my night football. That wasan unreal sight for Bengal fans. That
great in the game, and theReds moment. It's got to be when
Adam Dunn hit the Grand Slam againstCleveland. That was, ooh, how
did I forget about that one?Yeah? The done grand Slam. Uh,
one of the signature moments in thatballpark. Great call Pudi Bill in

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West Sster Memorial game for me,probably because I got to be there,
sat amongst a bunch of very coolPackers fans. Bengals jump out to like
a twenty eight point lead and thenstart being the Bengals. Aaron Rodgers starts
being Aaron Rodgers. I was atthis game. Packers end up in front
and then right at the end ofthe game, there's like a twenty two
man scrum midfield and somehow a Bengalsplayer pops out runs for a touchdown and

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Bengals went I think fifty or fortyfive forty four. It was nuts.
Yeah, it was at that game. Terrence Newman took it to the house.
Crazy game at Paul Brown Stadium atthe time. We know what I
remember about that game is the Redsand the Pirates were the Reds, Pirates,

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and Brewers were all competing for theNational League Central at the time.
It was September, and I getto Paul Brown Stadium, and I'm not
kidding you. There's twenty thousand GreenBay Packer fans there, twenty thousand of
them. If you've ever been toa Packers game, you know how well
they travel. Twenty thousand of them. And so both the Reds and the

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Reds were playing the Pirates, andthe Brewers needed the Reds to win.
So you've got all these Packers fanswho are also Brewers fans there, and
you've got all these Reds fans whoare trying to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates as
well. And at one point,during a break in the action, they
show on the scoreboard baseball Update andshowed that the Reds were beating the Pirates,
and the place went nuts, allsixty five thousand people screaming because they

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both needed the Pirates to lose thatday. That's one of my memories from
that game. That was an awesomegame. And even the Bengals Packers game
from two years ago. I wasat that one too, where they kept
missing field goals back and forth andMason Crosby and Evan McPherson. McPherson thought
he had won the game. Man, that was a great game too.
What if Audie Lnnie and Saint Louiscome online. I want to congratulate Tony

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Vitalo and Tennessee for winning the CollegeBaseball World Series last night. Tony was
a classmate of mine at the SmetHigh School in Saint Louis. I'll tell
you what that de Smet High Schoolcan crank him out, Tony. And
then a year behind us was PatNonan No kidding, I mean wow.
And then there's me regular listeners sincehe three sixty and occasional talkbacker. Well,

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how about the how about the dudefrom the Panthers and Jason Tatum,
both from Saint Louis went to thesame high school. Both won championships with
the Panthers and Celtics Saint Louis.Patti back to double dip. Come on,
I'm trying not to duties anymore,but I couldn't resist today. Best
memorable moments for me in Cincinnati,most reason Jermaine Pratt getting intercepted against the

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Raiders, ending the thirty one yearplayoff draft to come back against the Chiefs
and the ASC championship game a fewyears ago. My all time favorites probably
Peter Edward Rose. There you goingforty one ninety two great memories in this
town heard. I wish, Iwish I would have been alive for the
Pete Rose thing. I bet thatwould have been cool watching him chase down
Ty Cobb. I mean, thatwould have been awesome. There is some

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embarrassing video of me from when JermainePratt picked off that football, but happiest
moment in my life. So waita minute. It was a year ago,
right about this time that Ellie stolehome and then that one guy,
that old guy, I can't rememberhis name, called your show and said,
why is everybody making such a bigdeal of this? And everything?

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That was a year ago? Holymackerel, Time fly. It's probably like
fifty weeks ago. I think it'slike two weeks from now is the anniversary
of that Audie DJ from Union,come on, diech a great show today.
Thank you. As far as memorablesporting events, two that I can
think of that I attended both ofthem. Second game of the nineteen ninety

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World Series Joe Oliver hits a chopperin a test inning Bridge win five to
four, Billy Bates scores. Andthen January nineteen eighty two, the Freezer
Bowl. We'll still cold from that. You're doing a great job. Keep
up the good work, Deets.Thank you, my brother. What's up
Austin. Oddly enough, my favoriteRed's moment was in two thousand and four

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Opening Day. Oh and that waswhen the Reds were down two in the
bottom of the ninth against the Mets. The Joker and Adam Dunn hit a
two run shot to tie it up. Yes, and then Joe Randa comes
in and hits the walk off homerun. And ever since then, I've
been a diehard fan of this disappointedfranchise. Right or die. The Joker

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Joe Randa authored one of the bestmoments in Opening Day history. That's a
great one, walks it off.I remember watching that game. I remember
that being a big deal because itwas on ESPN. Yeah, the bathroom
that I was in at the FreezerBowl. If the urinals weren't spraying water,
they were huge three four hundred poundice sickles hanging on the wall.

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My gosh, the floor was yellowslush about six to eight inches deep.
It breached most people's shoes and Idon't know where all the steam was coming
from, but you could barely seein there. It was, Oh,
my gosh, I can't possibly imagine. That's insane. What's good? Audi?

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Ronnie ron represent the Natty from theNatty. I'm home for another week
or so. Win was fantastic,that blast from Ellie Jesus Christ. I
can't believe that. Love to seestuff like that. Yes, far as
a trophy, h Super Bowl trophy, I think it's the coolest, the
most dominant one, and it speaksfor itself. It just looks gorgeous.

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Love to have one orange and blackconfetti sharp coming soon. Yeah, we
can talk about that a little bit. Later on, there was a Sports
Illustrated analyst that picked the Bengals togo back to the Super Bowl back one
more time with a little dick mygood round represent the Natty from the Natty.
Audi doing a great job, broHold it down you. Congratulations my

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brother. I haven't been on herein a while for a hot second,
been traveling playing w KRP because Imissed my city. But uh, I
just wanted to say give a shoutout to my city saying what's up.
Doing a great job Audi represent Ronnieron thank you very much. A little
disappointed you in comment on the Bensonproject, but you know what, that's
all right? Hey, awesome,what's up? Jeff and Indy great,

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while Tony's away man doing great sportsmoment Indiana and Duke two thousand and two
NCAA tournament and rep Arena. Iwas there. It was amazing. I'm
a huge Indiana fan. Got totalk about David Bell on the Reds real
quickly. What are they doing withthese injuries? TJ Friedel should have never
played with a hamstring injury as acenterfielder, and the Lodolo should never pitch.

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Now they're both on the injured list. I feel like though both of
those could have been prevented. Whatare we doing here? Yeah? You
know, this is kind of oneof the undercurrents of the season is there
are some injuries that are unavoidable andsome that you feel like are avoidable.
I'm trying to keep it lighthearted today, but we are going to talk about
it a little bit in the secondhour of the show because the lodolo thing
just stinks, and you know,Ashcraft is probably going to come up and

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fill that spot he was supposed tostart tomorrow. Yeah, I mean between
the Strand and Stevenson wrist thing fromearlier this year and now the hamstring and
the blister and so on, Ihave legitimate questions about the Red's medical staff.
It's Loveland. So Austin just wantedto give you your flowers for hosting
and producing solo these last couple weeks. I think you've kicked but we're gonna

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be happy to get Tony back tomorrow. But you've filled in quite admirably in
his absence real quick. Three sincehe sports memories that I've been blessed to
attend. We'll go one each sportMessy and Cincinnati last year for the match
Bruce walk off home run, andof course the Bengals in the Super Bowl.
Have a good one there you go. Thank you for the kind words.

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Yet SU's are great, Hey,Austin, Steven Montgomery, great job
holding down the plane. Thanks Steveopportunity leave one call that Marty did that
I was actually at the game,and I got to Europe repeatedly on the
way home. Was Adam Dunn's walkoff Grand Slam against the Indians. That
was outstanding. And the game thatI when most crazy for was when Billy

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Bates pitched hits and gets on basisJoe Oliver Knox him in. I had
to be at morning practice for swimmingthree hours later, I was screaming my
head off. I can't imagine howI would be feeling about a walk off
in the World Series. I betthat's gotta be the best feeling ever.
And they go up two to ohgoing to Oakland, Oh my gosh,

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that's got to be an unreal feeling. I mean, I remember, you
know, Bengals first drive out ofhalftime in the Super Bowl and Burrow connects
deep ball to Higgins on the playwith Ramsey, and how excited I was
for that. I can't imagine likea World Series walk off, I would
have lost my marbles too. HeyAustin, Jeff, and you Richmond,
you got an awesome job as always. Hey, I just wanted to chime

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in about my two favorite sports moments. Number one would be Evan McPherson's field
goal a couple of years ago thatsent us to the Super Bowl. I
was outstated, and then I wouldsay my other one was earlier this year,
the first FC Cincinnati game when theyunveiled the supporter shield in the stadium.

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That was really cool as well.Yeah, cool, that's a great
one. Yeah. Hey, AustinPosita, Paul here, I'm on a
bit of information. I still can'tbelieve. I have a good friend of
mine the place to five dollar betback in January that Boston Yukon and the
Florida Panthers we're gonna win their respectedtitles. Man, And it was something

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A five dollars bet won him ninehundred and seventy two dollars. I just
felt like I needed to share thatwith That is insane, dude. Yeah,
that's awesome. I saw somebody lastnight and do a same game parlay.
They put thirty dollars on O'Neal Cruzand Ellie Dala Cruz each to record
five plus total bases on Spencer Steerto hit a double the Reds to win

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on the money lane in the overof nine and a half runs. It
was a thirty four three and oneodds plus thirty four to three to oh
one. They put thirty dollars down. They won ten point three g's.
That is unreal. Looks like Kateleft one, but it's silent. Sorry
Kate. For me, the mostmemorable sports moment my lifetime didn't come in

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one game. It came over acouple of weeks span. It was the
time where Martin McGuire and Sammy Sosawere going back and forth on home runs.
I remember being a kid and justrushing home, turning on the TV
and just watching and loved every minuteof it. Hey devoth teams, but
loved every minute those Yeah, there'sa great thirty for thirty documentary on that
too. And you know, probablyone of the most memorable ones for me

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as a kid the Steve Bartman gamethe Cubs and the Marlins and the NLCS.
I think that was three maybe,uh in, Steve Bartman and Moys
salou Man Happy Tuesday, Austin.My favorite sports memory as a kid was
going to my first UC basketball game, which also happened to be the opening
game for what then was called theShoemaker Center. Was also at the beginning

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of the Bob Huggins era, anda guy by the name of Steve Sanders
hit a corner shot at the buzzerto beat Minnesota. There you go with
me as a Bearcat for life.Close second is watching Tony and all the
rest of the Bearcats get their buttsbeat in the Sugar Bowl. You know
what, It is an absolute travestythat it is one for five in the

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afternoon and nobody has yet said Piketo Bens. Now, you know Tony
would have started the show off withthat if he was here, But Pike
de Bens has got to be onthe list as well. Hey it's positive,
Paul. I'm gonna double dip here. You're gonna love this. I
actually missed Corey Dellon breaking the rookierushing record because I went to a Toby
Keith concert that night at the SilverSaddle in Kentucky. A few years later,

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I was at the game where hebroke the rushing record against the Broncos.
So I mean, yeah, Imissed the first one, but you
got already met. That was agood second one. That's pretty good.
Isn't There a story that Toby Keithwas late to his concert because he was
at the Bengals game. Isn't thatsomething that happened, Hey, Audie Ken
from Lex series candle aside on thePete Rose breaking the Ty Cobb's base hit

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record. That happened on the sameday that Andrew Thornton jumped out of the
airplane, thus creating the story ofCocaine Bear. Oh. I'm probably the
only person on earth who knows thator realizes that, but I thought i'd
bring it up since I was theCocaine Bear guy. Yeah. Ridge,
that's so funny. You talk abouta full circle moment bringing Cocaine Bear back

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with Ken from the Lex. Hey, Audie Brian from La So Brian.
There's so many, so many Cincinnatisports things that I loved. My two
favorite moments are are run to thesuper Bowl and uh your boy money Mac
hit the two game winning Googles.I've never been so happy, just two

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weekends in a row feeling that way. Yeah. Hard to beat that one,
Hard to beat those. This isKate from a Camery trying again.
Kate that sometimes I believe he stopsme from recording and I am not technical
enough to figure out why. Anyway, my thought for the day is why
why do we not see Jonathan Indiaas the face of Captain Morgan's role.

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I think I really need to seethat this summer, and I guess it's
obligatory now to say, hey,you're doing a great job by what you
really are well, Kate, thankyou very much. Yeah. I think
that's a huge marketing opportunity for thefolks at Captain Morgan to get Jonathan India
on the label there. Yeah,thank you, Kate. And that does

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it for talkbacks. We'll come backwith a touch and go back to your
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