June 8, 2026 • 37 mins
How much longer does Nick Krall get? A judge misses the point of punishment and Mo talks with UC lineman Evan Tengesdahl.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fifteen thirty Cincinnati's sports An.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
All right, there we go. It's five minutes after four.
This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Mo Wager, thanks so much
for listening. Hopefully your week is up to an unbelievable start.
Brendaman and Jones on baseball is coming up later on
this hour and which had with UC offensive lineman Evan
Tengestal coming up in thirty minutes and more on the
Brendan Sorosby thing because the judge who ruled on his
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eligibility completely misses the point of punishment that in fifteen minutes,
we started the show by discussing the weekend series in
Saint Louis, which could not have gone more poorly for
the Reds. They're now two under five hundred. This season
has felt for two weeks or so like it has
been circling the drain, and they've done nothing to change
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that narrative. Maybe that'll change slightly tonight. I feel like
for the first time since he became the Reds President
of Baseball Operations, this is the first time that Nickkral
has seriously been in the public's crosshairs. And you know,
when they were really, really, really bad in twenty twenty two,
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it felt like, Okay, this is the franchise hitting the reset.
Once we hit reset, and you know, you give Nick
a chance to get some players in exchange for the
guys they trade away. Within three or four years, it'll
be time to judge him by the results he achieves.
So far, the results he is achieving aren't great. I
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keep coming back to this, the elied Dela Cruz night,
the night he made his big league debut. That felt
like the beginning of something. Certainly didn't feel like it
was the beginning of something that was guaranteed. The beauty
of sports is nothing is guaranteed. But it felt like
the beginning of something. Felt like the beginning of the
Reds being able to have a stockpile of players, of
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core foundational pieces that they could maybe win with, that
they could get to a point where they're at least
getting to the postseason on a somewhat consistent basis with
and maybe they still do. It's just startling to me,
relative to how excited everybody was about the direction of
the Reds three years ago, it's kind of startling how
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few foundational pieces the Reds actually have. It's deeply frustrating.
I also feel like you can't help, but like, look
at a lot of things that Nick Krawl has done,
and a lot of things that he has done have
just they haven't made much sense, and maybe he continues
to get the meat shield of ownership that is still
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very unpopular. But I can't help but do this. I
go back to the summer of twenty twenty three. The
Reds in mid June win twelve consecutive games, and they
go from a team that was like seven hunder five
hundred to one that was leading the National League Central
for a chunk of the summer. And I remember this
well because it was a fun summer. Folks were energized
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about the Reds. People were in gaging with the product.
I said often that year that it was fun when
we talked about baseball to actually be talking about baseball
instead of why you're not going to games or how
much you hate Bob or Phil Castelini. Instead it was
about the team, the games, the players, the strategies, and
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maybe what could be done to make the team's chances
even better. And there was this summer long conversation that
year about the trade deadline, and there was a lot
of pushback to the idea that the Reds needed to
go get help at the deadline. I never understood. The
pushback to me it was, you don't pick when to contend.
Contention sometimes picks you. The Reds clearly were in contention
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that year. Clearly were in contention that year, but they
were in contention with a horrific pitching staff. I did
not understand then, and I don't understand three years later
the arguments against making a trade. They had a horrific staff,
and Nick Krawl did nothing to make it any better.
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And the explanation that you heard many make for the
Reds was, well, see they're ahead of schedule. They're ahead
of schedule, so don't do anything rash. They're really not
supposed to be in. My counter to that was like, dude,
you have a chance to win, now, go win now.
They didn't, and they paid for it, and you know,
remember it was, well, Hunter Green's hurt, he's going to
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come back, and nickoladolo'll he's hurt, he'll come back. And
they missed the postseason. They missed the postseason by two games.
Who knows what a deadline acquisition would have gotten, But
it made no sense as far as I'm concerned at
least for them to not go and address their biggest deficiency.
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They handicapped that team, they handicapped that manager, And yeah, man,
there were folks trying to sell the narrative that when
not making a trade was the right thing to do
because the clubhouse is so happy, and it's like, okay, man, whatever,
So the guys in the clubhouse didn't want a better
chance to win, But yeah, whatever, whatever you want to say, Dude,
that's fine. Not getting help for a clearly deficient starting
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staff made no sense. Then it's more regrettable now because
at the very least, then you could say, well, we
want to keep what we have intact because we're going
to be really good in the coming years.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Were they really good the next season?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Were they really good last year? No?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Are they really good now? Well the answer is yes.
Your definition of really good is different than mine. The
next season, twenty twenty four, the Reds add Frankie Montas,
and that was kind of it, right, And I again
might have been the minority. I'm certainly not the only
one who said this, though, but I remember going, well,
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wait a minute, are we are we sure that this
team is ready made and good enough to kind of
not really do anything to it to.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Contend.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And what happened that season The Reds were bad, David
Bell lost his job, a team that wasn't made any better,
ended up trading away It's opening to a pitcher at
the deadline, not making not making moves to make that
team in twenty twenty four better than the twenty twenty
three team didn't make any sense. That team that year
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was getting dudes like Mike Ford early in the season
just to try to get something out of them. Last
year at the trade deadline, last year, a year ago,
not even a year ago. The Reds last season had
major offensive deficiencies. Now, they did go get Miguel Andrew Harr,
but the big acquisition, at least among position players was
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for key Brian Hayes. Key Brian Hayes is a bad
major league hitter. It didn't make any sense. So you'd
like you just you add up these things that just
continued to not make sense. Now, there are some things
that have happened to this year's team that I don't
really believe you can blame anybody for. I was among those,
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and by the way, dead raw it turns out, but
I was among those who thought Nick Crawl did a
decent job with the bullpen this offseason. Now, as it's
turned out, a lot of guys that we thought were
going to be better haven't been very good. The bullpen
has been historically bad, and nobody could throw strikes. Nobody
can be counted on late in games. It totally hamstrings
and handicaps the manager, like it's it's got to be hard.
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It's got to be hard to look at a game
like yesterday where Het Lauder gives you three and you go, okay,
I've got to get maybe six as many as six
outs or six innings worth of outs from this group
of relievers.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's really really hard.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
But there were still some things this offseason that didn't
make a ton of sense, the seemingly half hearted pursuit
of Kyle Schwarber leaving holes in the outfield that subjected
the Reds to using a guy in right field who
had barely played the position, the backup behind him being
a guy who started the season in Louisville, having Jj Bledet,
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who was terrific in the spring not begin the season,
and since an it's like there's just individually a whole
bunch of things that you look in nick crawl and go,
this doesn't make sense. And you could excuse it because
maybe not every decision is gonna work out, maybe not
every move is one that you agree with or understand
the thinking behind. But when you start stacking them, you
start stacking the things that just don't make a lot
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of sense. At some point you have to ask how
much longer are we gonna go with a dude who's
running a baseball operations department who continues to do things
that don't make much sense, Like, okay, fine, this year's
team is not great. Okay fine, this year's team has
been sort of unlucky. Okay fine, this year's team doesn't
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have maybe it's best starting pitcher, it's starting shortstop, it's closer.
But when you look at how it was constructed, and
you wondered about the things that went into roster construction,
like not getting a more established player to play a
corner ralph field position, like not having a at a plan,
be a good plan, be at second base in case
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Matt McLain fell flat in his face, Like having a
guy in Kei Brian Hayes who's got a back issue
and can't hit on top of all of those other
things I just talked about, can you really have that
much faith and a dude running your baseball operations department
who continues to do things that are really kind of
hard to understand, especially when the result of him doing
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all those things that are kind of hard to understand
is a team that at mid June is two games
under five hundred and nine and a half games at
a first place. Five point three seven four nine fifteen
thirty is our phone number. It is exasperating. It is
completely and totally exasperating. And this is not an overreaction
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to a bad weekend in Saint Louis. It's not a
bad reaction to a few bad weeks. It's a reaction
to a team that, no matter what the year is,
no matter who the manager is, the team on the field,
the roster itself feels the same year in and year out.
The ceiling is always low, the results are always basically mediocre.
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Right now, That is what has come to define the
Cincinnati Reds as a franchise. Yes, Ellie Dela Cruz is
fun to watch and immensely likable.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yes they have some decent players.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yes, in many respects, they're better than they were in
twenty twenty two, better than they were during that long
stretch twenty fifteen through twenty nineteen, but over the last
three years, and again this is supposed to be when
the getting is good. Over it the last three years,
from the beginning of what felt like the start of
something really good to now, the results are the same.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Not awful, not.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Great either, no peaking, no valleying, And so you can't
help but ask, how does this cycle end? How does
this cycle of just unending the same themes every year?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Are we buyers? Are we not buyers?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
How long is it going to take to get some
of these dudes who are hurt back, like after so
much time of the same themes and the same types
of teams? When do you make a change in the
front office? I hate to say that, man, but when
do you make a change in the front office? It's
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not just this weekend, it's not just this season. It's years.
It's it's year, it's decades, and man, maybe the Reds
today are in a better place than they were four
years ago. Maybe they have a better baseball team than
they did in twenty twenty three. Maybe they have a
better baseball team than they did in all those post
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Dusty Baker years in the twenty tens. There's still two
hundred five hundred seemingly going nowhere. No fixes are in
the offing. There's not a prospect or to in Louis
right now that you're thinking they they can give this
team a little jolt, they can maybe be a savior.
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It's and I know you agree, incredibly frustrating. And it's
not just frustrating because the play on the field is
not great. It's frustrating because it feels like there's no
fix in the offing via trade, via call up, even
via coming somebody coming off the entry list. By the way,
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I fully expect when some of the guys who are
hurt get back for this team to perform better. How
huge of a hole would they be digging out of?
By the time that happens, seventeen minutes after four o'clock, your.
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Phone calls are coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Five point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty eight sixty
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on Twitter, the Brandon Soresby judge totally misses the point
of punishment.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
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I was reading here that the Brendan Soresby thing, that
the judge ruled that Soresby's attorneys demonstrated that he will
suffer a probable, imminent and irreparable injury if he's unable
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to play for the Red Raiders.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Isn't that the point of punishment?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
If I violate some sort of FCC rule and I
say something that I shouldn't, I will be punished. That
punishment would probably make me incur, probable, imminent and irreparable
injury if I break an iHeartMedia workplace rule that would
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subject me to termination. Yes, I will suffer a probable,
eminent and irreparable injury because that's what punishments do. If
you go out and commit a crime and you get
caught and you end up having to go to court
and you get convicted and there's jail time involved, well,
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that is probable, imminent and irreparable injury. That's what punishment is.
Punishment is the forfeiture of things. For Brendan Sourersby had
he been declared ineligible, which the NCAA did, that probably
I would imagine would have met the forfeiture of five
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to six million dollars he was due in nil money
from Texas Tech. Because that's what a punishment is. Punishment
takes away earning, potential, can take away freedom. Punishment causes harm,
which is why we don't want to break rules, because
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we understand that punishment causes harm. What a just absolutely
stupid statement. He will suffer probable, imminent and irreparable injury
if he can't play college football for the Red Raiders
in twenty twenty six, right, because the punishment is designed
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to cause probable, imminent and irreparable injury.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yes, you are correct, these things will happen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I am a big believer in accountability. If you do
something that you're not supposed to do, and there's a
very clearly established rule against what you're doing, and violation
of rule carries with it unambiguous and very clear punishments,
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and you steer clear of them, there's no accountability here.
And like, there are certainly court cases where somebody is
acquitted and they've pled not guilty, and you might wonder,
we'll wait a minute, the evidence seems stacked against them,
and yet they were found not guilty, and so there's
going to be no punishment here. And so there's maybe
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a lack of accountability. Okay, those things happen here. Nobody
is questioning Brendan Sorosby's attorneys aren't questioning whether or not
he actually wagered on college football games.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Like it's well established that he did it. His own
lawsuits that he has filed or that his lawyers have
filed on his behalf. There is an acknowledgment I did this,
This broke a rule. Breaking the rule can trigger this punishment,
lack of accountability, and so Brendan Sorosby is going to
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play college football against this year. He's going to make
the money that comes with being able to play college
football this year. I have no reason to wish him
any ill will at all.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And I do think there's something noble about getting help
when you have an addiction problem. And I hope he's
gotten the help that he needs and I hope he
benefits from it. But oh boy, Like why should he
not gamble again? I don't know if there are specific
terms prohibiting him from doing that as outlined by this
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injunction being granted. But let's let's say he gambles again.
Well if he gets punished and the incident of alized,
Like all right, well you gambled. You gambled on a
on a game involving a team that you're a part of,
so we're gonna punish you. Is that not gonna cause probable,
imminent and irrubbable injury? Like when does the accountability begin?
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And I don't know, Like maybe Brendan Soresby people are arguing, well,
he you know, he's it's gonna hurt his draft stock,
Like there's there's some accountability there, and I don't know
it just this misses the point of what rules are
supposed to do, established guidelines for you to behave within
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and if you don't, there's the threat of punishment, and
the punishment does cause harm, causes it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It is such a sad day for accountability, and it
is maybe the final death blow to the NCAA. By
the way, you might argue that the NCAA sucks so
hard that it's a good thing to have something that
provides just a fatal blow to that organization, But come on, man,
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this there is no purpose in having rules if there's
no punishment for violating them, and if an organization can't
enforce its own rules, that organization can't continue to exist.
This is as black and white to me as the
rules that prohibit sports wagering by college athletes. I do
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wonder like, if you're a college athlete, now, why not wager?
Twenty nine minutes after five o'clock. Evan tankes Doll is
one of the foundational members the UC Bearcats.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
He joins US.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic from the UC Hill
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UC football season tickets went on sale today Go Bearcats
dot com slash tickets and for a while now he
strength of this team, a strength of this football program
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has been the offensive line. They have enjoyed great continuity
there and that is going to continue in twenty twenty six.
Where back for another season with the Bearcats is a
player who is a third AP third team All American.
He was on the Pro Football Focus All Big Twelve team.
He was an All Big twelve second team performer from Dayton, Ohio.
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One of the anchors in the offensive line, Evan Tengstahl,
is with us. Evan, It's great to have you. Good afternoon.
How are you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Great? I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I appreciate you joining us. What uh you know? The
offensive line? I know you and I have talked about
this for years. There have been mainstays like Gavin Gerhardt,
Luke Candra, yourself, you bring back Taran Tayo, Joe Cotton.
This unit this year, the continuity with you three guys,
what has it been like preparing for the season.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, it's been amazing, just kind of getting this O
line unit together, getting guys that were back of last
year stepping up into new roles, kind of get them
on the same page with us, kind of meshing as
a group, building I think connections we had the previous years,
and just try to keep keep that that big twelve standard,
keep it going. Mentioning with all the new guys coming
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on the team, the new transfers, it's been. It's been
an amazing experience helping with my leadership and all the
other two as well. We feel like we've been leading
this team very well and just we're really getting ready
for this season. We feel really good about Boston College.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
What is it like building on the sort of season
that you wasn't in the Vigil had last year.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, So I had an amazing year last year. Blessed,
blessed to be able to keep playing. It looked look
to have the same year, if not better. I have
my mistakes I made last year, and I know the
things I need to work on, So I kind of
just building on and stacking days on what I what
I've been working on last year. Got coached a ton
from a lot of different people, a lot of different
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coaches and things like that. So I've just been training
on the things that people told me I need to
work on to get to get to the NFL and
just get better as a player as a whole. So
I'll just kind of been working on the little things
and just kind of lead and be a captain for
my team.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
The players who come from other programs. We can apply
this to the offensive line, we could apply it to
the team as a whole. I'm sure you were paying
very close attention to what was going on in the
transfer portal, But what do the new guys bring to
your program?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, the new guys bring a ton, including Coach Woody
bringing in all the new defensive guys. We have a
whole new scheme and added a dog position and basically
a whole new defense, brought back a lot of different
d line and linebackers. But all these new guys are tremendous.
We're seeing defensive guys make plays that we haven't seen
in years. So it's just been a tremendous to watch.
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And these guys on those sides of the ball are
making tons of huge plays. A lot of all the
wide receivers are bought in a great, big, big wide
different variety of running backs that all can do a
bunch of different things. So they've been really tremendous to
watch and tremendous to lead and show them the standard
we have that you see, yeah, with the quarterback play
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and the running back play on the offensive side of
the ball, it's just been amazing to watch. You think,
click and how smooth everything has been.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
We've heard and read a lot about jay z French.
What do you like most about him?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh, seeing him coming and were recruiting him to seeing
his film, that quick release and how he can make
plays on his feet and with his arm. He has
everything you need to be to be a really good quarterback.
He's made a lot of tremendous plays. He's already has
that big leadership voice and the role on the team.
A lot of guys are already looking up to him,
seeing him as a captain as a leader. So he's
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played a big roles. He's helping all the guys in
offense click. He's done a great job getting ext work
with the wide receivers, making sure everybody's on the same page.
He's done a great He's just done a tremendous job
helping leave this offense alongside of us US alignment.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Do you do you think there are things you guys
will will be able to do offensively that maybe you
and you guys offensively did a lot of really good
things last year, But do you believe there'll be some
things you guys could do better offensively that that you
weren't as as capable of doing last season.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah. I feel like we had an amazing offense last year,
just sometimes towards the end, we didn't always close out
a game. And I feel like we're still gonna have
an amazing offense or we're gonna come back this year
and so that we can close out games and do
the same things we did not did last year, but
do them better. I feel like we have a great
a great group of guys. We're all rallying around JC
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and the line, and I thinel he's gonna be a
great year. But yeah, we're gonna definitely fix with some
of the mistakes and things lacked on last year. I
feel like we kind of filled those gaps. So yeah,
we're gonna have a great second half of the season
and great first half of the season. Just kind of
build on the things we need to needed to improve
on last year.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So, yeah, you you referenced the season that you had
last year, and individually, you're right, it was terrific. What
has it been like getting some of the accolades that
have come your.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Way, It's been it's been really a blessing. Didn't didn't
know I can get those things going into the season,
just kind of my first year starting. I wanted to
just go out there, played ball to the best of
my ability, and it just happened to all those things
came out way. I just kept building on those things,
just had to stay humble with all the guys on
the team. My coach kept me humble, just kept working
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and building all those things. You can't get satisfied with
those types of things. But it's been an amazing and
been into blessing to be have all these different titles
and people see me how I am. So it's been
really really amazing to have these have these.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Titles and and along with that, I mean, you played
with Gavin Gerhard and toward the end of the season
last year year, you know, listening to people unprompted talk
about you know, not just what he did on the field,
but his leadership qualities. It's got to be really cool
that people talk about you now in the same vein,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, it's amazing to be compared to Gavin. Gavin was
a tremendous leader, and to even be near his leadership
means you're a great leader. He was the best leader
you could have.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
On the team.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
He was the definition of leadership and the captain. He
doesn't get no bene than Gavin. To be to be
in the same conversation as him is really a blessing.
And yeah, He's taught me a lot of different things
that I'm going to keep throughout my whole life and in.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
This game of football.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Now beyond preparing for the season, you're gonna get some downtime,
I guess before fall camp begins. What sort of things
do you do with your offseason downtime?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, so I love. I love to go out and
golf with the guys. Definitely, cook at home with my girlfriend,
go hang out with family. But yeah, but me and
the guys go do a lot of different things. He
we I definitely train. We went and trained a little
bit in the off season time. But besides that, outside
of training. I just kind of going to golf a bunch,
going a lot of different places down here in Cincinnati.
There's a lot of good, good golf spots and country clubs,
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so golfing, bowling, finishing, kind of all those outdoorsy sports
you can do. I kind of do a lot of those.
With the guys.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Who's the best golfer that you play with?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I think it's gonna be a kicker, Steve. He's definitely
the best guy on the team for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
All Right, what about among the offensive linemen?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I like to put myself up there, but it's definitely
me or Grant Edgington, a guy a walk on that
I came in with my freshman yor he earned his
way up to a scholarship, So definitely, definitely he's probably
up up the top of the line. And then act
for a second.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, Well, I hope you get a lot of
good rounds in between now and fall camp. It's it's
a big year for the Bearcats. Great opportunity for yourself.
You had an awesome year last year, and watching you
come into your own not just as a starter but
an all big twelve player, seeing you get written about
and talked about around the country.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Was awfully cool.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Continued success, best of luck this season, and enjoy enjoy
the golf courses in the downtime.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You do get this, summer man, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yes, really appreciate you having me on. Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
You got it anytime. That's Evan Tengstahl from Dayton, Ohio.
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first of three in San Diego. Reds are struggling, Padres
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Speaker 1 (28:49):
W College football.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Former UC quarterback Brendan Soresby, a Texas judge has granted
his preliminary injunction that presents I'm sorry, prevents the NCAA
from punishing him for violating that organization's rules on sports gambling.
He is going to serve a two game suspension and
then as of right now, eligible to play for the
Red Raiders this upcoming season. Tonight at Madison Square Garden,
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it's a Game three of the NBA Finals, New York
is going to be an absolute zoo tip off a
little bit after eight point thirty. Next lead the series
two games to none, MSG hosting its first NBA Finals
game since Game five of the nineteen ninety nine NBA
Finals one on an Avery Johnson jump bird that gave
the Spurs the NBA crown. There you go, seventeen away
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from five o'clock. We are guest free for a while.
There's been a lot going on today. The Reds frustration
is real, and I think the frustration is I think,
more than anything has to do with the fact that
there's there's just seemingly nothing that's really going to be
done right. And then I say that not to be critical,
it's I don't know how you fix this. I don't
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know if if you're Tito, if you're Terry Francona, what
you can do to fix this. And in the short term,
I don't know, if you're Nick Crawl, what you can
do to fix this. And I don't know how until
the offseason the franchise can get out of this just
unending cycle, hamster wheel of mediocrity that I think has
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come to define this franchise. More on that coming up
in the five o'clock hour sixteen from five Brendanman and
Jones on Baseball ten minutes away. This is ESPN fifteen
thirty Cincinnati Sports.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Station, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
From the UC Health Traffic Center, and it's Game three,
makes have a two low series lead.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I do wonder this about the crowd tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And this is not a political statement, but when the
President of the United States show up anywhere, it creates complications,
creates complications in terms of what people can bring to events,
creates complications in terms of, you know, people going through
security and all that sort of stuff. And so Donald
Trump is going to attend Game three tonight, which is fine.
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I don't talk about politics on this show, and I'm
never going to, but I do wonder this. I wonder
if the weirdness, the unevenness, the security around the venue
is going to compromise everybody's enthusiasm, or if it's going
to ratchet the environment up just a little bit. I
think that's going to be an interesting factor. I think
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it's going to be extraordinarily loud the first five to
six minutes. And I think if you've watched the NBA
playoffs over the last couple of years, you've seen the
Knicks lose some absolutely crushing games at home where I
feel like that atmosphere has amplified some of the visiting
players Irese Halliburton, Andrew Nemhard the last year obviously most notably,
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and so we will see that environment is going to
be extraordinarily unique tonight.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
My question is when does he enter? Does he inter
at the beginning of a game, or like does the
game already start?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Well that I don't know, And I also don't know,
like you know, people make a big deal about the
celebrities on court side. I don't know if he's going
to sit court side or if he's going to be
sitting in a suite some like I have no idea,
But like, what was already going to be an extraordinarily
call it volatile atmosphere is going to be made even
more volatile.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I care about one thing. Does it help the home
team or hurt the home team?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I have no idea, but it's it's a dynamic that
makes an already interesting venue and setting all the more interesting.
And again, if it plays to their favor, then I'm
all for it. If it plays maybe against him a
little bit, and I could see both sides of it.
I think just the environment tonight, it has been talked
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about for a while what would msg be like if
the Knicks got to the NBA Finals, And then once
they did, it kind of felt like folks were glossing
over the first two games in San Antonio, which.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
By the way, seemed raucous.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Now there were a lot of Knicks fans there, but
there's been a lot of focus on like what is
it going to be like? And then you add to
it the fact that they won the first two games.
There's not going to be any watch parties outside Madison
Square Garden, which I think is maybe makes the overall
environment a little bit less festive, a little bit less fun.
But inside the arena itself, I'm fascinated to see what
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it's like, and I'm fascinated to see if the Knicks
are a little bit too amped up. I'm fascinated to
see if the Spurs are at all intimidated. I don't
think they will be. I think maybe more than anything
with this game. Look, san Antonio came back down from
fourteen and was in a position to win the game
on Friday night. But there have been times where it's
been very easy to tell the difference between one team
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that's really rested and another team that's not. So there's
an extra day between games two and three. How much
does that help san Antonio? And I guess the other
one for me tonight is the nixt up two. Oh,
Jalen Brunson has had one good quarter. At some point,
don't his shots have to start falling?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
We will see. Have you seen outside of the arena?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Have you seen photos of outside of the arena? Yeah,
it's like a cage. Yes, they've put up so much
security and like, this is what happens when the president
decides to go somewhere. Lots of extra security measures are taken.
I do I feel bad for those folks who have
been going to those outdoor garden parties or watch parties
outside the garden, because that looks like a lot of
fun and they're not going to be able to have
those And that's understandable.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
That's when the night Gate case coming down.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
This is coming down.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Is he going to game four?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I doubt it because if he's just going to Game
three and they win Game three, if they're lucky enough
to win game three, then you know, I guess all
bets are off.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
We'll see. I don't know it's gonna be faster threep
down that they win to night Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, if they do, there's probably gonna be people with uh.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
With guns waiting to see him and waiting for him.
So I don't know it's gonna be h.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I've seen the ticket price and somebody asked me what's
the most that I would spend? And I can't even
wrap my brain around that those whole question. Yeah, I
don't know. I don't Here's the thing, Like Number one,
I could stay with people that I know. Number two,
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I know the cheaper places to eat in New York City.
But as much as I would love to be there,
I love the idea of sending my kid to college more.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I like, if I was single, all right, fine, I'll
borrow or i'll I don't know that I could go
to my wife and say, hey, work, I'm gonna I'm
gonna slide over. I'm looking at it right now. There's
you can get in for eight k. Their payment plans
like eight thousand dollars. I'd never paid unless it was
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for a car. I've never paid eight dollars down payment
of my house eight thousand dollars for it. Now, I
just I got like my car this like last month.
My car is six years old. I want to get
into ten years. So I did all this like you know,
maintenance and got some stuff. It cost me thirty five
hundred dollars. I hated putting my card in the machine
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for that. I cannot imagine paying more than double that
for a ticket to a game, although and if I was,
if I was single, I'd probably justify it with myself
and then not eat for six months.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
And doesn't an outcome like way like way, how your
reaction if they lose, so you spent that money?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, yes, one hundred percent, one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's also like not a clinching game, so it's like,
you know, let's say they were to win tonight, Game
four could be a clincher that changes things. Or if
it were to get to a game six and they
have three wins that could change things.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I've had a dozen or so people ask me like,
are you going to try to get to New York?
And I've never even considered it. I haven't just it
has seemed so otherworldly expensive that, like, I have people
in my life who could afford that, none of them
have stepped up to say, you know what, MO will
send you to MSG So.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
I have a clip where you fulfill a promise. If
something happens, I won't play it too on Friday or
whenever the next clinch you made a promise on this
radio station. I have the clip.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I can't wait to find out what that was. Where
Late Brendivan and Jones on Baseball is next
Fifteen thirty Cincinnati's sports An.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
All right, there we go. It's five minutes after four.
This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Mo Wager, thanks so much
for listening. Hopefully your week is up to an unbelievable start.
Brendaman and Jones on baseball is coming up later on
this hour and which had with UC offensive lineman Evan
Tengestal coming up in thirty minutes and more on the
Brendan Sorosby thing because the judge who ruled on his
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eligibility completely misses the point of punishment that in fifteen minutes,
we started the show by discussing the weekend series in
Saint Louis, which could not have gone more poorly for
the Reds. They're now two under five hundred. This season
has felt for two weeks or so like it has
been circling the drain, and they've done nothing to change
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that narrative. Maybe that'll change slightly tonight. I feel like
for the first time since he became the Reds President
of Baseball Operations, this is the first time that Nickkral
has seriously been in the public's crosshairs. And you know,
when they were really, really, really bad in twenty twenty two,
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it felt like, Okay, this is the franchise hitting the reset.
Once we hit reset, and you know, you give Nick
a chance to get some players in exchange for the
guys they trade away. Within three or four years, it'll
be time to judge him by the results he achieves.
So far, the results he is achieving aren't great. I
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keep coming back to this, the elied Dela Cruz night,
the night he made his big league debut. That felt
like the beginning of something. Certainly didn't feel like it
was the beginning of something that was guaranteed. The beauty
of sports is nothing is guaranteed. But it felt like
the beginning of something. Felt like the beginning of the
Reds being able to have a stockpile of players, of
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core foundational pieces that they could maybe win with, that
they could get to a point where they're at least
getting to the postseason on a somewhat consistent basis with
and maybe they still do. It's just startling to me,
relative to how excited everybody was about the direction of
the Reds three years ago, it's kind of startling how
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few foundational pieces the Reds actually have. It's deeply frustrating.
I also feel like you can't help, but like, look
at a lot of things that Nick Krawl has done,
and a lot of things that he has done have
just they haven't made much sense, and maybe he continues
to get the meat shield of ownership that is still
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very unpopular. But I can't help but do this. I
go back to the summer of twenty twenty three. The
Reds in mid June win twelve consecutive games, and they
go from a team that was like seven hunder five
hundred to one that was leading the National League Central
for a chunk of the summer. And I remember this
well because it was a fun summer. Folks were energized
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about the Reds. People were in gaging with the product.
I said often that year that it was fun when
we talked about baseball to actually be talking about baseball
instead of why you're not going to games or how
much you hate Bob or Phil Castelini. Instead it was
about the team, the games, the players, the strategies, and
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maybe what could be done to make the team's chances
even better. And there was this summer long conversation that
year about the trade deadline, and there was a lot
of pushback to the idea that the Reds needed to
go get help at the deadline. I never understood. The
pushback to me it was, you don't pick when to contend.
Contention sometimes picks you. The Reds clearly were in contention
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that year. Clearly were in contention that year, but they
were in contention with a horrific pitching staff. I did
not understand then, and I don't understand three years later
the arguments against making a trade. They had a horrific staff,
and Nick Krawl did nothing to make it any better.
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And the explanation that you heard many make for the
Reds was, well, see they're ahead of schedule. They're ahead
of schedule, so don't do anything rash. They're really not
supposed to be in. My counter to that was like, dude,
you have a chance to win, now, go win now.
They didn't, and they paid for it, and you know,
remember it was, well, Hunter Green's hurt, he's going to
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come back, and nickoladolo'll he's hurt, he'll come back. And
they missed the postseason. They missed the postseason by two games.
Who knows what a deadline acquisition would have gotten, But
it made no sense as far as I'm concerned at
least for them to not go and address their biggest deficiency.
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They handicapped that team, they handicapped that manager, And yeah, man,
there were folks trying to sell the narrative that when
not making a trade was the right thing to do
because the clubhouse is so happy, and it's like, okay, man, whatever,
So the guys in the clubhouse didn't want a better
chance to win, But yeah, whatever, whatever you want to say, Dude,
that's fine. Not getting help for a clearly deficient starting
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staff made no sense. Then it's more regrettable now because
at the very least, then you could say, well, we
want to keep what we have intact because we're going
to be really good in the coming years.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Were they really good the next season?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Were they really good last year? No?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Are they really good now? Well the answer is yes.
Your definition of really good is different than mine. The
next season, twenty twenty four, the Reds add Frankie Montas,
and that was kind of it, right, And I again
might have been the minority. I'm certainly not the only
one who said this, though, but I remember going, well,
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wait a minute, are we are we sure that this
team is ready made and good enough to kind of
not really do anything to it to.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Contend.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And what happened that season The Reds were bad, David
Bell lost his job, a team that wasn't made any better,
ended up trading away It's opening to a pitcher at
the deadline, not making not making moves to make that
team in twenty twenty four better than the twenty twenty
three team didn't make any sense. That team that year
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was getting dudes like Mike Ford early in the season
just to try to get something out of them. Last
year at the trade deadline, last year, a year ago,
not even a year ago. The Reds last season had
major offensive deficiencies. Now, they did go get Miguel Andrew Harr,
but the big acquisition, at least among position players was
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for key Brian Hayes. Key Brian Hayes is a bad
major league hitter. It didn't make any sense. So you'd
like you just you add up these things that just
continued to not make sense. Now, there are some things
that have happened to this year's team that I don't
really believe you can blame anybody for. I was among those,
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and by the way, dead raw it turns out, but
I was among those who thought Nick Crawl did a
decent job with the bullpen this offseason. Now, as it's
turned out, a lot of guys that we thought were
going to be better haven't been very good. The bullpen
has been historically bad, and nobody could throw strikes. Nobody
can be counted on late in games. It totally hamstrings
and handicaps the manager, like it's it's got to be hard.
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It's got to be hard to look at a game
like yesterday where Het Lauder gives you three and you go, okay,
I've got to get maybe six as many as six
outs or six innings worth of outs from this group
of relievers.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's really really hard.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
But there were still some things this offseason that didn't
make a ton of sense, the seemingly half hearted pursuit
of Kyle Schwarber leaving holes in the outfield that subjected
the Reds to using a guy in right field who
had barely played the position, the backup behind him being
a guy who started the season in Louisville, having Jj Bledet,
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who was terrific in the spring not begin the season,
and since an it's like there's just individually a whole
bunch of things that you look in nick crawl and go,
this doesn't make sense. And you could excuse it because
maybe not every decision is gonna work out, maybe not
every move is one that you agree with or understand
the thinking behind. But when you start stacking them, you
start stacking the things that just don't make a lot
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of sense. At some point you have to ask how
much longer are we gonna go with a dude who's
running a baseball operations department who continues to do things
that don't make much sense, Like, okay, fine, this year's
team is not great. Okay fine, this year's team has
been sort of unlucky. Okay fine, this year's team doesn't
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have maybe it's best starting pitcher, it's starting shortstop, it's closer.
But when you look at how it was constructed, and
you wondered about the things that went into roster construction,
like not getting a more established player to play a
corner ralph field position, like not having a at a plan,
be a good plan, be at second base in case
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Matt McLain fell flat in his face, Like having a
guy in Kei Brian Hayes who's got a back issue
and can't hit on top of all of those other
things I just talked about, can you really have that
much faith and a dude running your baseball operations department
who continues to do things that are really kind of
hard to understand, especially when the result of him doing
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all those things that are kind of hard to understand
is a team that at mid June is two games
under five hundred and nine and a half games at
a first place. Five point three seven four nine fifteen
thirty is our phone number. It is exasperating. It is
completely and totally exasperating. And this is not an overreaction
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to a bad weekend in Saint Louis. It's not a
bad reaction to a few bad weeks. It's a reaction
to a team that, no matter what the year is,
no matter who the manager is, the team on the field,
the roster itself feels the same year in and year out.
The ceiling is always low, the results are always basically mediocre.
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Right now, That is what has come to define the
Cincinnati Reds as a franchise. Yes, Ellie Dela Cruz is
fun to watch and immensely likable.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yes they have some decent players.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yes, in many respects, they're better than they were in
twenty twenty two, better than they were during that long
stretch twenty fifteen through twenty nineteen, but over the last
three years, and again this is supposed to be when
the getting is good. Over it the last three years,
from the beginning of what felt like the start of
something really good to now, the results are the same.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Not awful, not.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Great either, no peaking, no valleying, And so you can't
help but ask, how does this cycle end? How does
this cycle of just unending the same themes every year?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Are we buyers? Are we not buyers?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
How long is it going to take to get some
of these dudes who are hurt back, like after so
much time of the same themes and the same types
of teams? When do you make a change in the
front office? I hate to say that, man, but when
do you make a change in the front office? It's
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not just this weekend, it's not just this season. It's years.
It's it's year, it's decades, and man, maybe the Reds
today are in a better place than they were four
years ago. Maybe they have a better baseball team than
they did in twenty twenty three. Maybe they have a
better baseball team than they did in all those post
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Dusty Baker years in the twenty tens. There's still two
hundred five hundred seemingly going nowhere. No fixes are in
the offing. There's not a prospect or to in Louis
right now that you're thinking they they can give this
team a little jolt, they can maybe be a savior.
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It's and I know you agree, incredibly frustrating. And it's
not just frustrating because the play on the field is
not great. It's frustrating because it feels like there's no
fix in the offing via trade, via call up, even
via coming somebody coming off the entry list. By the way,
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I fully expect when some of the guys who are
hurt get back for this team to perform better. How
huge of a hole would they be digging out of?
By the time that happens, seventeen minutes after four o'clock, your.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Phone calls are coming up.
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on Twitter, the Brandon Soresby judge totally misses the point
of punishment.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
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I was reading here that the Brendan Soresby thing, that
the judge ruled that Soresby's attorneys demonstrated that he will
suffer a probable, imminent and irreparable injury if he's unable
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to play for the Red Raiders.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Isn't that the point of punishment?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
If I violate some sort of FCC rule and I
say something that I shouldn't, I will be punished. That
punishment would probably make me incur, probable, imminent and irreparable
injury if I break an iHeartMedia workplace rule that would
(14:37):
subject me to termination. Yes, I will suffer a probable,
eminent and irreparable injury because that's what punishments do. If
you go out and commit a crime and you get
caught and you end up having to go to court
and you get convicted and there's jail time involved, well,
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that is probable, imminent and irreparable injury. That's what punishment is.
Punishment is the forfeiture of things. For Brendan Sourersby had
he been declared ineligible, which the NCAA did, that probably
I would imagine would have met the forfeiture of five
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to six million dollars he was due in nil money
from Texas Tech. Because that's what a punishment is. Punishment
takes away earning, potential, can take away freedom. Punishment causes harm,
which is why we don't want to break rules, because
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we understand that punishment causes harm. What a just absolutely
stupid statement. He will suffer probable, imminent and irreparable injury
if he can't play college football for the Red Raiders
in twenty twenty six, right, because the punishment is designed
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to cause probable, imminent and irreparable injury.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yes, you are correct, these things will happen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I am a big believer in accountability. If you do
something that you're not supposed to do, and there's a
very clearly established rule against what you're doing, and violation
of rule carries with it unambiguous and very clear punishments,
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and you steer clear of them, there's no accountability here.
And like, there are certainly court cases where somebody is
acquitted and they've pled not guilty, and you might wonder,
we'll wait a minute, the evidence seems stacked against them,
and yet they were found not guilty, and so there's
going to be no punishment here. And so there's maybe
(17:01):
a lack of accountability. Okay, those things happen here. Nobody
is questioning Brendan Sorosby's attorneys aren't questioning whether or not
he actually wagered on college football games.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Like it's well established that he did it. His own
lawsuits that he has filed or that his lawyers have
filed on his behalf. There is an acknowledgment I did this,
This broke a rule. Breaking the rule can trigger this punishment,
lack of accountability, and so Brendan Sorosby is going to
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play college football against this year. He's going to make
the money that comes with being able to play college
football this year. I have no reason to wish him
any ill will at all.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And I do think there's something noble about getting help
when you have an addiction problem. And I hope he's
gotten the help that he needs and I hope he
benefits from it. But oh boy, Like why should he
not gamble again? I don't know if there are specific
terms prohibiting him from doing that as outlined by this
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injunction being granted. But let's let's say he gambles again.
Well if he gets punished and the incident of alized,
Like all right, well you gambled. You gambled on a
on a game involving a team that you're a part of,
so we're gonna punish you. Is that not gonna cause probable,
imminent and irrubbable injury? Like when does the accountability begin?
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And I don't know, Like maybe Brendan Soresby people are arguing, well,
he you know, he's it's gonna hurt his draft stock,
Like there's there's some accountability there, and I don't know
it just this misses the point of what rules are
supposed to do, established guidelines for you to behave within
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and if you don't, there's the threat of punishment, and
the punishment does cause harm, causes it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It is such a sad day for accountability, and it
is maybe the final death blow to the NCAA. By
the way, you might argue that the NCAA sucks so
hard that it's a good thing to have something that
provides just a fatal blow to that organization, But come on, man,
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this there is no purpose in having rules if there's
no punishment for violating them, and if an organization can't
enforce its own rules, that organization can't continue to exist.
This is as black and white to me as the
rules that prohibit sports wagering by college athletes. I do
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wonder like, if you're a college athlete, now, why not wager?
Twenty nine minutes after five o'clock. Evan tankes Doll is
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there and that is going to continue in twenty twenty six.
Where back for another season with the Bearcats is a
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He was on the Pro Football Focus All Big Twelve team.
He was an All Big twelve second team performer from Dayton, Ohio.
(20:53):
One of the anchors in the offensive line, Evan Tengstahl,
is with us. Evan, It's great to have you. Good afternoon.
How are you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Great? I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I appreciate you joining us. What uh you know? The
offensive line? I know you and I have talked about
this for years. There have been mainstays like Gavin Gerhardt,
Luke Candra, yourself, you bring back Taran Tayo, Joe Cotton.
This unit this year, the continuity with you three guys,
what has it been like preparing for the season.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, it's been amazing, just kind of getting this O
line unit together, getting guys that were back of last
year stepping up into new roles, kind of get them
on the same page with us, kind of meshing as
a group, building I think connections we had the previous years,
and just try to keep keep that that big twelve standard,
keep it going. Mentioning with all the new guys coming
(21:43):
on the team, the new transfers, it's been. It's been
an amazing experience helping with my leadership and all the
other two as well. We feel like we've been leading
this team very well and just we're really getting ready
for this season. We feel really good about Boston College.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
What is it like building on the sort of season
that you wasn't in the Vigil had last year.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, So I had an amazing year last year. Blessed,
blessed to be able to keep playing. It looked look
to have the same year, if not better. I have
my mistakes I made last year, and I know the
things I need to work on, So I kind of
just building on and stacking days on what I what
I've been working on last year. Got coached a ton
from a lot of different people, a lot of different
(22:23):
coaches and things like that. So I've just been training
on the things that people told me I need to
work on to get to get to the NFL and
just get better as a player as a whole. So
I'll just kind of been working on the little things
and just kind of lead and be a captain for
my team.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
The players who come from other programs. We can apply
this to the offensive line, we could apply it to
the team as a whole. I'm sure you were paying
very close attention to what was going on in the
transfer portal, But what do the new guys bring to
your program?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, the new guys bring a ton, including Coach Woody
bringing in all the new defensive guys. We have a
whole new scheme and added a dog position and basically
a whole new defense, brought back a lot of different
d line and linebackers. But all these new guys are tremendous.
We're seeing defensive guys make plays that we haven't seen
in years. So it's just been a tremendous to watch.
(23:12):
And these guys on those sides of the ball are
making tons of huge plays. A lot of all the
wide receivers are bought in a great, big, big wide
different variety of running backs that all can do a
bunch of different things. So they've been really tremendous to
watch and tremendous to lead and show them the standard
we have that you see, yeah, with the quarterback play
(23:32):
and the running back play on the offensive side of
the ball, it's just been amazing to watch. You think,
click and how smooth everything has been.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
We've heard and read a lot about jay z French.
What do you like most about him?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh, seeing him coming and were recruiting him to seeing
his film, that quick release and how he can make
plays on his feet and with his arm. He has
everything you need to be to be a really good quarterback.
He's made a lot of tremendous plays. He's already has
that big leadership voice and the role on the team.
A lot of guys are already looking up to him,
seeing him as a captain as a leader. So he's
(24:04):
played a big roles. He's helping all the guys in
offense click. He's done a great job getting ext work
with the wide receivers, making sure everybody's on the same page.
He's done a great He's just done a tremendous job
helping leave this offense alongside of us US alignment.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Do you do you think there are things you guys
will will be able to do offensively that maybe you
and you guys offensively did a lot of really good
things last year, But do you believe there'll be some
things you guys could do better offensively that that you
weren't as as capable of doing last season.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah. I feel like we had an amazing offense last year,
just sometimes towards the end, we didn't always close out
a game. And I feel like we're still gonna have
an amazing offense or we're gonna come back this year
and so that we can close out games and do
the same things we did not did last year, but
do them better. I feel like we have a great
a great group of guys. We're all rallying around JC
(24:54):
and the line, and I thinel he's gonna be a
great year. But yeah, we're gonna definitely fix with some
of the mistakes and things lacked on last year. I
feel like we kind of filled those gaps. So yeah,
we're gonna have a great second half of the season
and great first half of the season. Just kind of
build on the things we need to needed to improve
on last year.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So, yeah, you you referenced the season that you had
last year, and individually, you're right, it was terrific. What
has it been like getting some of the accolades that
have come your.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Way, It's been it's been really a blessing. Didn't didn't
know I can get those things going into the season,
just kind of my first year starting. I wanted to
just go out there, played ball to the best of
my ability, and it just happened to all those things
came out way. I just kept building on those things,
just had to stay humble with all the guys on
the team. My coach kept me humble, just kept working
(25:42):
and building all those things. You can't get satisfied with
those types of things. But it's been an amazing and
been into blessing to be have all these different titles
and people see me how I am. So it's been
really really amazing to have these have these.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Titles and and along with that, I mean, you played
with Gavin Gerhard and toward the end of the season
last year year, you know, listening to people unprompted talk
about you know, not just what he did on the field,
but his leadership qualities. It's got to be really cool
that people talk about you now in the same vein,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, it's amazing to be compared to Gavin. Gavin was
a tremendous leader, and to even be near his leadership
means you're a great leader. He was the best leader
you could have.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
On the team.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
He was the definition of leadership and the captain. He
doesn't get no bene than Gavin. To be to be
in the same conversation as him is really a blessing.
And yeah, He's taught me a lot of different things
that I'm going to keep throughout my whole life and in.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
This game of football.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Now beyond preparing for the season, you're gonna get some downtime,
I guess before fall camp begins. What sort of things
do you do with your offseason downtime?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, so I love. I love to go out and
golf with the guys. Definitely, cook at home with my girlfriend,
go hang out with family. But yeah, but me and
the guys go do a lot of different things. He
we I definitely train. We went and trained a little
bit in the off season time. But besides that, outside
of training. I just kind of going to golf a bunch,
going a lot of different places down here in Cincinnati.
There's a lot of good, good golf spots and country clubs,
(27:09):
so golfing, bowling, finishing, kind of all those outdoorsy sports
you can do. I kind of do a lot of those.
With the guys.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Who's the best golfer that you play with?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I think it's gonna be a kicker, Steve. He's definitely
the best guy on the team for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
All Right, what about among the offensive linemen?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I like to put myself up there, but it's definitely
me or Grant Edgington, a guy a walk on that
I came in with my freshman yor he earned his
way up to a scholarship, So definitely, definitely he's probably
up up the top of the line. And then act
for a second.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, Well, I hope you get a lot of
good rounds in between now and fall camp. It's it's
a big year for the Bearcats. Great opportunity for yourself.
You had an awesome year last year, and watching you
come into your own not just as a starter but
an all big twelve player, seeing you get written about
and talked about around the country.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Was awfully cool.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Continued success, best of luck this season, and enjoy enjoy
the golf courses in the downtime.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You do get this, summer man, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yes, really appreciate you having me on. Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
You got it anytime. That's Evan Tengstahl from Dayton, Ohio.
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(28:36):
first of three in San Diego. Reds are struggling, Padres
are struggling. Something's got to give. Andrew Abbot pitches against
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Speaker 1 (28:49):
W College football.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Former UC quarterback Brendan Soresby, a Texas judge has granted
his preliminary injunction that presents I'm sorry, prevents the NCAA
from punishing him for violating that organization's rules on sports gambling.
He is going to serve a two game suspension and
then as of right now, eligible to play for the
Red Raiders this upcoming season. Tonight at Madison Square Garden,
(29:14):
it's a Game three of the NBA Finals, New York
is going to be an absolute zoo tip off a
little bit after eight point thirty. Next lead the series
two games to none, MSG hosting its first NBA Finals
game since Game five of the nineteen ninety nine NBA
Finals one on an Avery Johnson jump bird that gave
the Spurs the NBA crown. There you go, seventeen away
(29:37):
from five o'clock. We are guest free for a while.
There's been a lot going on today. The Reds frustration
is real, and I think the frustration is I think,
more than anything has to do with the fact that
there's there's just seemingly nothing that's really going to be
done right. And then I say that not to be critical,
it's I don't know how you fix this. I don't
(29:59):
know if if you're Tito, if you're Terry Francona, what
you can do to fix this. And in the short term,
I don't know, if you're Nick Crawl, what you can
do to fix this. And I don't know how until
the offseason the franchise can get out of this just
unending cycle, hamster wheel of mediocrity that I think has
(30:23):
come to define this franchise. More on that coming up
in the five o'clock hour sixteen from five Brendanman and
Jones on Baseball ten minutes away. This is ESPN fifteen
thirty Cincinnati Sports.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Station, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
From the UC Health Traffic Center, and it's Game three,
makes have a two low series lead.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I do wonder this about the crowd tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And this is not a political statement, but when the
President of the United States show up anywhere, it creates complications,
creates complications in terms of what people can bring to events,
creates complications in terms of, you know, people going through
security and all that sort of stuff. And so Donald
Trump is going to attend Game three tonight, which is fine.
(31:19):
I don't talk about politics on this show, and I'm
never going to, but I do wonder this. I wonder
if the weirdness, the unevenness, the security around the venue
is going to compromise everybody's enthusiasm, or if it's going
to ratchet the environment up just a little bit. I
think that's going to be an interesting factor. I think
(31:40):
it's going to be extraordinarily loud the first five to
six minutes. And I think if you've watched the NBA
playoffs over the last couple of years, you've seen the
Knicks lose some absolutely crushing games at home where I
feel like that atmosphere has amplified some of the visiting
players Irese Halliburton, Andrew Nemhard the last year obviously most notably,
(32:06):
and so we will see that environment is going to
be extraordinarily unique tonight.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
My question is when does he enter? Does he inter
at the beginning of a game, or like does the
game already start?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Well that I don't know, And I also don't know,
like you know, people make a big deal about the
celebrities on court side. I don't know if he's going
to sit court side or if he's going to be
sitting in a suite some like I have no idea,
But like, what was already going to be an extraordinarily
call it volatile atmosphere is going to be made even
more volatile.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I care about one thing. Does it help the home
team or hurt the home team?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I have no idea, but it's it's a dynamic that
makes an already interesting venue and setting all the more interesting.
And again, if it plays to their favor, then I'm
all for it. If it plays maybe against him a
little bit, and I could see both sides of it.
I think just the environment tonight, it has been talked
(33:02):
about for a while what would msg be like if
the Knicks got to the NBA Finals, And then once
they did, it kind of felt like folks were glossing
over the first two games in San Antonio, which.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
By the way, seemed raucous.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Now there were a lot of Knicks fans there, but
there's been a lot of focus on like what is
it going to be like? And then you add to
it the fact that they won the first two games.
There's not going to be any watch parties outside Madison
Square Garden, which I think is maybe makes the overall
environment a little bit less festive, a little bit less fun.
But inside the arena itself, I'm fascinated to see what
(33:36):
it's like, and I'm fascinated to see if the Knicks
are a little bit too amped up. I'm fascinated to
see if the Spurs are at all intimidated. I don't
think they will be. I think maybe more than anything
with this game. Look, san Antonio came back down from
fourteen and was in a position to win the game
on Friday night. But there have been times where it's
been very easy to tell the difference between one team
(33:57):
that's really rested and another team that's not. So there's
an extra day between games two and three. How much
does that help san Antonio? And I guess the other
one for me tonight is the nixt up two. Oh,
Jalen Brunson has had one good quarter. At some point,
don't his shots have to start falling?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
We will see. Have you seen outside of the arena?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Have you seen photos of outside of the arena? Yeah,
it's like a cage. Yes, they've put up so much
security and like, this is what happens when the president
decides to go somewhere. Lots of extra security measures are taken.
I do I feel bad for those folks who have
been going to those outdoor garden parties or watch parties
outside the garden, because that looks like a lot of
fun and they're not going to be able to have
those And that's understandable.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
That's when the night Gate case coming down.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
This is coming down.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Is he going to game four?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I doubt it because if he's just going to Game
three and they win Game three, if they're lucky enough
to win game three, then you know, I guess all
bets are off.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
We'll see. I don't know it's gonna be faster threep
down that they win to night Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, if they do, there's probably gonna be people with uh.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
With guns waiting to see him and waiting for him.
So I don't know it's gonna be h.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I've seen the ticket price and somebody asked me what's
the most that I would spend? And I can't even
wrap my brain around that those whole question. Yeah, I
don't know. I don't Here's the thing, Like Number one,
I could stay with people that I know. Number two,
(35:33):
I know the cheaper places to eat in New York City.
But as much as I would love to be there,
I love the idea of sending my kid to college more.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I like, if I was single, all right, fine, I'll
borrow or i'll I don't know that I could go
to my wife and say, hey, work, I'm gonna I'm
gonna slide over. I'm looking at it right now. There's
you can get in for eight k. Their payment plans
like eight thousand dollars. I'd never paid unless it was
(36:11):
for a car. I've never paid eight dollars down payment
of my house eight thousand dollars for it. Now, I
just I got like my car this like last month.
My car is six years old. I want to get
into ten years. So I did all this like you know,
maintenance and got some stuff. It cost me thirty five
hundred dollars. I hated putting my card in the machine
(36:34):
for that. I cannot imagine paying more than double that
for a ticket to a game, although and if I was,
if I was single, I'd probably justify it with myself
and then not eat for six months.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
And doesn't an outcome like way like way, how your
reaction if they lose, so you spent that money?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, yes, one hundred percent, one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's also like not a clinching game, so it's like,
you know, let's say they were to win tonight, Game
four could be a clincher that changes things. Or if
it were to get to a game six and they
have three wins that could change things.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I've had a dozen or so people ask me like,
are you going to try to get to New York?
And I've never even considered it. I haven't just it
has seemed so otherworldly expensive that, like, I have people
in my life who could afford that, none of them
have stepped up to say, you know what, MO will
send you to MSG So.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
I have a clip where you fulfill a promise. If
something happens, I won't play it too on Friday or
whenever the next clinch you made a promise on this
radio station. I have the clip.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I can't wait to find out what that was. Where
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