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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is back on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
We got hack Ryan, Hello.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
The stars over talk.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Back show rights weld.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Rights, Well, welcome back in. Since he's sixty, it's time
for talkbacks. Talkbacks, of course, brought to you by Sincy shirts,
and not a bunch of them today, but we've got
plenty of time for them. And let's see what we
got on the docket.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Hey guys, it's Reggie and Marymonti a wet blanket. But
the home stand against the Marlins and the Rockies going
four and seven. That doesn't feel like a wind to me.
That feels like a push. The road trip we had
before that was rough, and we're kind of right back
to where we were. We're we're always right here. Every Monday.
It feels like we're right bay, you know, we got hope,
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and then it just kind of slips away. And we
grab it back. This has been a bipolar season for sure,
but I still have hope. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah. I mean, they can't get more than four games
over five hundred. They can't. They haven't gone more than
four games under five hundred. It's just kind of been
swaying back and forth between those two things, and it
does feel like every Monday it's on the right side
of the sway. Listen, I was. I was at a
concert on sat and I really was trying not to
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think about sports for a little bit. I was trying
to unplug. My friend says to me, the Reds are
losing again. I'm like, oh crap. And so while instead
of enjoying the concert, I pulled my phone out and
I'm watching every pitch thinking, gosh, Monday is gonna be
miserable if they lose to the Rockies, if they lose
a series to the Rockies, Like, no, they're not gonna
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do this. And thankfully they they turned it around. But
to me, you know, I always thought about that ten
games going into the home stand or going into the
All Star break, because it was like, yes, the seven
game homestand with Miami and Colorado, but the three in
Philadelphia beforehand, I thought was a good test against a
veteran team who's going to be in the playoffs and
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is a difficult team to play it. Obviously, Zach Wheeler
was one pitch away from a perfect game. Chase Burns
struggled a little bit at times, and there was you know,
up and down, but all together in that ten games
they went five and five, which is just indicative of
who they are, right like, kind of who they've been
all season long. Can they get anything or anywhere or
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someone or something to get them to get over that hump?
I don't know. Yeah. Shout out to my new favorite
talkbacker peg Leg Peep.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
That's right, repping long John Silvers, I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Fish like food. Shout out to part time Pike and.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Talk Back God, vacation buddies hanging out and see us
the key dach Rey Deck.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Tony's like, I don't believe in tipping. I don't want
to tip.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Talkback God's like, I got you brow magically makes gratuity appear.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, I would, you know, waiting on you know, any
sort of correspondence from Tony. I mean, I try to
give the guy a space, but I you know, I
normally at least get one picture from Tone as he
celebrates vacation.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Often almore, standing on the business, everybody got to ask
you a question there, Austin, if you can create some
local pro sports content this week, what would it be
The Reds make a move that makes sense, the Bengals
give an extension to Trey Henderson or Shamar Stewart sign
his rookie deal, take care of Ebody, and always remember.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh, that's a good question. That's kind of like a
start bench cut of things hanging over the sports teams.
I would like the if I could pick, I would
start Shamar Stewart signing his rookie deal. I would bench
Trey Henderson getting an extension, and then the Red's making
a move, solely because I think I don't think the
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Reds will make a move until later in the month.
I don't know if teams are wheeling and dealing quite yet,
but I would like to get the other two things
shirt up prior to training camp starting in nine days.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Austin, what's up? It's ice here?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
What I do?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
A great job as always when T Pike's on the
CA awesome, awesome news. I'm so happy you guys are
doing more local programming. Theltoniam Football Show during Bengals training
camp from ten to Noon's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Hopefully this turns into something permanent.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
We get more local sports talk Red at the break.
Are they contenders or pretenders? What's your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I think right now they are pretenders. They're just too
inconsistent for me to think they're contenders.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Guys, we've only got twelve more days of this ice
Q Big three commercials. Man, it's really gonna be a
shame when it's gone only twelve more days.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Cherish every moment it's right. Make the most of it
because you're three on three basketball.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Austin, hope you had a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
On this date, in nineteen eighty nine, yits in Loveland
was born. He wasn't born in Loveland. He was born
in christ Hospital. But I digress. It's traditional where I
can from that you get blessings on your birthday, So
I will bless Tony Austin and talkback nation. Everyone should
have a year full of health and happiness and all
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the things you want, including a Bengal super Bowl victory.
I won't get too greedy A Red's Playoff appearance, have
a good.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
One, wow Y's thank you and happy birthday, Audie.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
At the top of this hour, you're asking, as a
Reds fan, can the Reds prove that they're trying to win?
My frustration in watching and listening to them is they
either play up or down to the level of their competition,
and that's very frustrating. I don't know if it's because
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they're young or they just don't have a killer instinct
on beating people they should.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, I feel that for sure. Like you know, they
don't always win those games, but it feels like they're
a lot more competitive against good teams. And I don't
really know why that is. I don't have any really
exploit explanation for it. But that's exactly what we're talking about.
It's like, can you get to a level of consistency
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that says this is our standard of play instead of like,
all right, hopefully we find a way to win today. No,
they go out and kick somebody's.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Butt as always, flexing and repident Natty out here, it's
Sonny very hot. Come on, Ron, what a boddie yo?
You're riding solo? I see, oh, I hear that's good.
That first hour straight Power with Jeff Carr. Fantastic information
far as the ri is this homestand was for real,
let's just be real disappointing a little bit. You finished
off with the two game wins, but I'm not as
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confident on how y'all finished. But the front office do
something about this, because if you don't, man, we tire
of this. Do something, front office.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, I really really just don't want to have like
all these conversations again, as much as like people are
exhausted about talking about Trey Henderson and Shamar Stewart, like
I'm exhausted to be like, oh, the Reds really didn't
go for it, Like I don't want to doubt how
badly my team wants to win. That is a terrible
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place for a fan to be. Oh yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Back for a double dip when you gotta get this
one off my chest? This for this team right here? Man,
how in the world. I'm so sick of the colors
yellow and black. I can't stand it. I really can't
stand it. Literally, Columbus crew really CC we had two
nothing to lead on him to zip I turned around
next thing, you know, we took an al. It sucks
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little to that team up there. It really sucks. I
want to bury that team so bad. That's all right, though,
We'll be back. We still run the East. We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, that was a disappointing result. We'll get into that
a little bit in the third hour as well. It's
salt in the wound that it happens at the hands
of your biggest rival. It's also in the wood that
it happens again at your home stadium where Columbus, you know,
scores four unanswered to beat you, and the hell is
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real Derby. That is tough stuff for f C Cincinnati,
especially the way they started. We'll get into that a
little bit later on. But yeah, gut punch loss for
the Orange and Blue.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, I know I'm gonna sound like a broken record,
but they they just really really need to make a move.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Man.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
They need a powerheader so bad. If they don't go
get a good bat, I think even with the good
starting pitch and they have, it's just not gonna it's
just not gonna be enough for him.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, it's it's I'm.
Speaker 11 (09:48):
Right there with you, Austin, Ryan Milford, how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Something great?
Speaker 11 (09:56):
Great interview with Jeff and the other gentleman, I forgot
his name. Could you like winning the home run Derby tonight?
It's either Cal Raley or Byron Buxton for me. I
wish the Reds would consider training for him. But ye, dude,
anyway day, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I would love Byron Buxton. I mean, I'm still seared
in my memory the way he dominated the Reds when
the Twins were here a couple of weeks ago. I
think four homers in three games. I think my top
two are Matt Olsen and Byron Buckston. Those are the
two that I'm rooting for in the home run Derby.
But I was talking to Jeff about this off the
air a little bit. He said that Junior Cameron Aro
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from the Twins is like the guy nobody's talking about,
Like watch out for him to just show up.
Speaker 12 (10:41):
Austin. I agree with you. The Reds are on the
verge of doing something incredible it's never been done in
the history of Major League Baseball. Therefore, and signing an
executive order placing sanctions and jerffs on all the thirty
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one remaining major League baseball team, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
As long as there's a heritage.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Bason will be back next summer.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Basketball.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Baby, everyone in the iHeartRadio studio shows up to a
little league baseball field and you have a home run derby,
five outs per person, three innings.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Who walks away with the trophy?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Me?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I would, And then I'm gonna go DJ Hodge second.
And after that. Hmm. It's a good question. I'm trying
to think of like a top three, you know, like
who's gonna be on the podium. I'm gonna say me
number one, just sheer power, I mean, little league field
launching those. I'm gonna say DJ number two. And I
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don't want to I don't want to say Pike would
come in third, but he is. He's still pretty athletic.
But he talked. I would never want him to find out.
I spoke highly of his ability to hit a baseball,
even if it's, you know, like home run derby type
of stuff. But I think it would be him. Yeah,
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I say me, DJ Hodge, Tony Pike. Give me one.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Give me one male and one female to win.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
One male and one female. Well, I'm gonna take me,
uh as the male. I'm trying to think who we got. Hmm.
I'm gonna say Marcia, Marcia Capele. She she would win.
All right, that's our last one. Nobody knows what I'm
talking about, but that would be I've tried, actually, you know,
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I've tried to. I asked our bost one time. I said,
what do you think we just play some wiffleball in here?
He said no. So I thought about maybe asking for
forgiveness instead of permission, but I don't know how well
that would go over. All right, we'll take a break,
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