6/25/26 - The Mo Egger Show w/Chad Brendel

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One covers the Bengals like ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Here we go The Moegger Show, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Not Moegar. Still Chad Brendel Bearcut Journal dot Com in
the driver's chair. Thank you for choosing me. Our long

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journey over the past seven days is nearing its closed. Terran, Boy,
did we lunch over the past week? We lunched, and
we lunched, and we lunched. New one today tarn CM

(01:12):
Kitchen Korean fried chicken. Pretty good, pretty good. We did
not have a bad lunch from last Friday all the
way through today. We went with some staples, some tried
and true. We know it's gonna be awesome. We tried

(01:32):
some new stuff. We have a lot to live up to.
Although I guess when I'm back for a week in
July and you're only here for like half of it,
so I don't have to bring my a game for
five days straight, we'll make it. We'll make it. Jab

(01:56):
Brendall INFROMO. We'll be back tomorrow and then I think
he leaves again. It won't be me. I'll be in
the Convention Center in Orlando watching volleyball.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well it won't be me tomorrow either. I'm out tomorrow too.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh you're out tomorrow too. So Mo comes back, but
no Terran fair enough. Guess what tarranidal? The Reds lost
last night. Of course, they did, six to five. They

(02:36):
got down big. They tried to mount a little bit
of comeback in the in the seventh and eighth, but
the six to one deficit was too much to overcome.
The Reds had an offensive explosion yesterday, meaning they had
eleven hits and eleven eleven hits, eleven walks. They only

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scored five runs. Second inning. This is this is it.
It was a rap from here. Terran. Second inning, second
and third, no out, second and third, no out, Marte

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strikes out, Stevenson gets a walk to load the bases
with one out. McClean pops up, done, strikes out, no runs,
Second and third, no out. It goes back to what
we've been talking about all week. Situationally, this team stinks.

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Second and third, no out, strike out, pop up, strikeout
are the three outs with a Stevenson walked mixed in.
I was counting on. I had penciled when Stevenson walked
that McClain was going to hit into a double play.
That seems like it's what happens when McLain's up and

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there's the ability to do some damage. Far more often
than not, it's a double play. He managed to pop up,
he didn't get it into the outfield far enough to
get that run home. And then in the third inning,
first and third one out, Steer hits into a double
play that kills a rally. The Reds had a chance

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to take over this game early and offensively, they're just
not good enough. And Misowski wasn't on the mound. You're
not asking for a ton, you're asking for one or
two productive at bats. The guys in front of you

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did their job. They put you in position to be successful.
Five runners on with one out or less between the
second and third inning, the Red scores zero runs. Like

(05:25):
I said, they did get a little bit of offense late,
mainly Suarez and Stewart and Steer that that kind of
carried the way. Sorez with two hits, he was I
think one for his last twenty two, twenty one, twenty two,
something like that. So he comes out of the slump

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a little bit with a pair of doubles, a walk
and RBI. Stuart with two hits, a double, a walk,
and RBI steer a home run, two RB eyes. Blake
Don had two hits on an RBI, so at least
they showed a touch of life late in the game offensively.

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Eleven hits and eleven walks and you score five runs,
twenty two base runners, twenty two base runners and you
give five runs. They are now five games under thirty

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seven and forty two. They are seventeen and thirty one
since that twenty and eleven start that feels like a
century ago. They're now two and sixteen against the NL Central.

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They're twelve and a half games back of first place,
and we haven't even gotten to Terry Francona bases loaded
in the sixth, three to one game. The Brewers are leading.
If you can get out of this jam, maybe you

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give yourself a little bit better chance. Sam Mall on
the mound, who's a lefty, pitches to Andrew Vaughn. Andrew
Vaughn came into the game hitting four fifty five versus
lefties with a thirteen twenty eight OPS. You might need.
There's probably cases you could combine three reds hitters to

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get to a thirteen twenty eight. Ops, I'm exaggerating slightly.
Terry Francona leaves Mall in Mall gives up a basis
clearing double. It goes from three to one to six
to one, and that's pretty much a rap. And guess

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what now, Ellie's back, you know, Hunter Green, maybe one
more start, he's going to be back. Emilia Pagan he
might come back. Brandon Williamson, he might, doesn't matter, It
doesn't matter. We need to wait, We need to hang around,
We need to tread water until we can get all

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our guys back. Well, you sunk, you sunk. I mean,
I guess you can't call them all the way dead yet.
The concrete is tied to the ankle and they've been
thrown in the water. And I don't think it's one

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Houdini can get out of. I think by this time
next week or by the end of the weekend, those
four games that are coming up in Milwaukee next weekend,
they can't win in p We know that, and Milwaukee
is their dad. I mean, what two and five is

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maybe best case scenario in this stretch. The way that
they've played on these two against these two teams, especially
on the road. It feel pretty good about two and
five at this point. They got two whole wins, So

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it doesn't matter that Elie's back, It doesn't matter are
they are they? Do you think they'd actually trade Hunter Green?
I don't. If you get him back and let him
run out there for a couple couple starts between whatever
the date is, he comes back in ten, twelve days,
whatever it is, and you give him until the All

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Star break to show that that he's good enough to
help somebody, I don't think they'll do that. I don't
think they'll move him. They won't move Alley, they won't
move Chase Burns, they won't move South Stewart. Those are
the only people with any actual value to this franchise
right now. And I just I mean, you're not going

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to trade Burns and Stewart. That doesn't make any sense.
You're not going to trade Ellie at this point. Maybe
a year from now, but that doesn't make a whole
lot of sense. Green. Why would you trade him? You've
got him on a team friendly contract that's not costing
you a lot of money, and with his injury history,

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what exactly would you get back from him? I don't
know the frustrating part is it's not gonna matter what
they do with any of those guys because they're not
gonna make the playoffs this season. You know that the

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smoke and mirrors worked last year. Hold the line, We're
just gonna ride it out and we're gonna hope the
Mets have just an epic disaster in the final month
of the season to let us back into the playoffs
with eighty three wins. Then we're gonna get easily dusted

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off in the first round of the playoffs, and we're
gonna call the season a success. Gross, But boy, I
think we'd all take that a million times over this year,
because it's starting to look like this is much more
of a seventy two win team than an eighty two
win team. It's deflating. It's deflating, but it's gonna be

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better than next year, Tarran, because there's not going to
be baseball next year. Jesse Rodgers from ESPN covers MLB
says in its next CBA, the league is proposing a
max contract link of five years for free agent players
switching teams six years to retain their own players, no
deferred contracts, qualifying offers gone, and also five years to

(12:23):
free agency for players thirty or older. I don't think
the Players Union is gonna get Players Association is going
to go for any of those things, not at all, Taram,
What are we going to talk about next load management season?
NBA Draft? We will, We'll have a whole show on
the NBA Draft. You'll be responsible for, like for getting

(12:45):
Zach Lowe, Jonathan GAVINNI. We're we're going all out on
the NBA Draft next Yune. Others off going around sports today,
Kean Nixon going to join US. Bobby Miller drafted thirty six,

(13:06):
the number six overall pick in the second round last night,
goes to the Clippers. I think that's a good landing
spot for him. I think they're trying to go younger,
they need productivity at the forward spots. So I think
a really good spot for Boba Miller. Dylan Mitchell, former

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Bearcat win a couple picks after that. So good for Dylan.
Loved having Dylan here in Cincinnati, So happy for him.
I've reached a point, Tarin, like Cincinnati Sports is in
the worst possible spot right now. I don't think there's

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anything where I think where Cincinnati Sports is at right now,
is worse than everybody being like truly bad, Like everybody's
kind of just just there. Bengals, three years without the playoffs,
there's excitement. I hope it's right. I hope this team

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clicks and they get back into the playoffs and they
make a run and they get this city excited about
something again, because everybody's cranky right now. Cincinnati football, it's
been a three year slow grind for Scott Saderfield and company.
They've got a tough schedule. Getting the seven eight wins

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is going to be very, very challenging for that group
next year. I know there's optimism with Richard Patino and
Jared Calhoun for UC and Xavier men's basketball, but for
both of them, you got to see it. You need
to see proof of concept, and we haven't yet. The Reds.

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That's where the Reds are at right now. See Cincinnati
kind of kind of in that same boat as everybody
else this year? Is there anything worse than just boringly average? Tarran?
If you're bad, there's things to you get high draft picks.

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You you're maybe you're gonna fire a coach, you know,
maybe there's there's things on the horizon that that give
you some hope, that give you some optimism where everything's
at right now in Cincinnati. Oh, it's depressing. I might
even just scrap this topic because it's too depressing.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
It does not be depressed on our last day.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Also, Tarran, Uh, what is going on with the w
n B A and Caitlin Clark? What do you mean?
And you didn't see yesterday? I watch I know they
didn't review it. They didn't like there's no punishment. They're
just just punching her throat, punching her. That's your biggest

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star and not anymore? What do you mean not anymore?
Who's the biggest star in WNBA?

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Pick one?

Speaker 1 (16:19):
You got as with Kaitlyn Clark, Age Becker's you got
the rookie Olivia Miles, She's going crazy.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
I love Olivia Miles, the afro, of the glasses, She's
got vibe.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
I think Caitlyn missing that last year with injury kind
of kind of hurt her.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
But I still think that people tune in for Kaitlyn Clark,
people show up in the seats for Kaitlyn Clark. You're
gonna let her just get beat up again. You know
why she was hurt last year? Because they let people
just beat the hell out of her. I don't think
it's a good way to treat uh, potentially the face

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of the league. I don't think she should should get,
you know, preferential treatment, but she should at least get
fair treatment. They wouldn't let that happen to anybody else
what they did to her last night.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
What happened already. Angel Reesk got treated like that too
her rookie year.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Kaitlyn Clark's not a rookie anymore. Brother, I get that
she's a veteran. That is kind of the face of
the league.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Debatable.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
You're a hater. You're a Kaitlin Clark hater, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Bitching?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
She's complaining because they're beating the hell out of her,
and nobody says anything. We'll get to this later. You
and I are going to have a heated Kaitlyn Clark
discussion later, which, on a daylight today, is desperately needed.
Let's take a break. We'll get to everything after this.
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Speaker 4 (17:54):
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Speaker 2 (18:09):
I heard radio party people not.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
Except let's get killed.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Let's right.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
Calling your flu when it comes to.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Down, don't say the last n. I've been too much time.
The cat listen, you know how to pick me up?
Terren Like it's a little, I'm a little. The energy
is a little low to that.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
It's not a cat.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
The Reds, the Reds aren't. You need teammates that are
energy givers, not energy takers. And I feel like the
Reds are an energy taker right now as a teammate.
Terrence har all right, we got a Keithan Nickoson coming
up here in just a few minutes. Let's try to
get a phone call or two in to help clear

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the lines. Eric in Middletown, Eric, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (19:03):
My brother not a holder?

Speaker 7 (19:05):
Hey, I just had a question. I was curious about
this MJ. Collins situation. Yeah, I hear he also going
So how would he be eligable to play at UC
this year?

Speaker 2 (19:16):
He'd have to win his lawsuit. So what's happening is
the NCUBLEA is instilling a new age based system on eligibility.
So it used to be you had four years, right,
five years to play four years of athletics. They are

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changing that to five years to five years. The group
that's getting left out of this is the twenty twenty
two recruiting class. The guys that didn't red shirt. They
played four years straight through and now they're not getting
that fifth year that the NC DOUBLEA is going to
be giving to everybody else going forward. They have brought
forth a lawsuit in Ohio looking to get a temporary

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injunction to at least reinstate them to be able to
come back to practice and start practicing. So there's a
long way to go on this. I think based on
some of the things I've heard, there's a decent chance
that they win. But until then, you know, he's not
a part of the team. He hasn't been a practice,

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he's not at you know, any of the team activities.
But if they do win, it wouldn't surprise me to
see MJ. Collins come back, you know, come back to
coach Calhoun and play another season with the Bearcats. But
there's there's a ways to go before any of that
would happen.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
Did he transfer here or no.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
He's still he entered the transfer portal okay, but he
hasn't committed anywhere. Like I said, he's not with the
team likes. It's contingent upon him getting another year of eligibility.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
Who's Kobe King? He's also a Utah player.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
He was a Utah State player. He's listed in the lawsuit.
I can't say a whole lot on that one yet.
I think it's more likely.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
MJ.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Collins than both. But I don't know the full story
on Kobe King yet. He did play. He was a
reserve for Calhoun last year at Utah State. It would
be a very crowded backcourt if you added both of
those guys.

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Yeah, so, and that's what I was asking. So with
the rosterary Bnfield, how would that work? Would they have
to get rid of somebody?

Speaker 2 (21:32):
No, they have two open spots, so you have fifteen spots.
They've only got thirteen players right now. Coincidence, we'll see.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
But hey, I really hope it happens because that MJ.
Tollins on he was a pretty good ball.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, average seventeen points a game. He was very good
last year in Jared Calhoun's system. Yes, but thank you, thanks,
appreciate it real quick. To Brian and for Thomas, Brian,
what's up?

Speaker 6 (22:03):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (22:03):
Not too much. How do you doing today, chance, I
think your your mood is just just blessing the airways
of your postivities.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
I'm trying, I'm trying. But the Reds make the they
you know, like I just said, you need you need
your teammates sometimes to be energy givers, and the Reds
are an energy taker. Right now, Well, I'm.

Speaker 9 (22:23):
Not gonna talk about the Reds because that's that's a
that's a broken record. The organizations were broken. They accept,
they accept mediocrity excuses.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
They strive for mediocrity, and they aim for mediocrity.

Speaker 9 (22:38):
But we're done with that. Let's tell about toptivity. The
Bengals I think are going to this is the do
or die season for this They are set up as
a success. If they don't, sus think this year, it's
not happening. I mean, at least to some extent. And
what about the CINCINNTI bearcast I think I feel like
that that they had the best chance to win in

(23:00):
a long time, during the best Great League. I think
their coach is legit. They got that recruit, the guy
that committed coming out of the Cincinnati area forever. I mean,
I'm high on those two things. I think, I really
think there's any the basketball team is gonna come back
and they're.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Gonna be good, Like yeah, but we're not there yet.
The Bengals haven't had that season yet. The bear Cuts
haven't had that season yet. The Bengals have missed the
playoffs three years in a row. The Bearcuts have missed
the NCAA Tournament seven years in a row. Like it's
it's just not a fun place to be in. Winning
is a lot more fun, Brian, Yes.

Speaker 9 (23:37):
What when is more fun than hope?

Speaker 6 (23:39):
But at least we have hope.

Speaker 9 (23:41):
With the Reds there is no hope.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I agree.

Speaker 9 (23:43):
So I'm gonna lead into my my two other my problems,
and you know I love it. Well Born and Bury's
so good Bengals, I mean, the Reds stake, there's nothing
to say about it.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I agree, Thanks, Brian, appreciate the call. All Right, all right,
we're way late. Let's get to a break. Uh Keegan
nickoson coming up right after this. Since Anti's ESPN thirteen thirty.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
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Sports station.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Mean I mean, I mean mean me, what mean I mean?
Roll along? I number one mean I mean, I mean,
I mean, I mean it's like a remix turn what's
the song with the Tungle Patrol and this like to
be the k the Knockouts?

Speaker 9 (24:43):
Wait man, just wait, we're going to talk about Buddy
on this.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Let's get to our first and only scheduled guests of
the day, Kegan nikoson Bearcat journal dot com. Keegan, how
you doing.

Speaker 8 (24:57):
I'm doing great. Only scheduled guests. I can't believe I
mean that much to you.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
You do. I spread it out this week. I went
you know, I've been talking to the people a lot
more this week. Haven't gone to the guest route as
much in the summer because there's not a lot to
talk about right now on the Red Stink Yep, you
can't confirm, So we'll talk about bobon Miller in this space. Uh, Kegan,

(25:23):
when when you first saw Bobby Miller at Cincinnati, when
you first heard of your commitment, his commitment, what was
your initial response and then how did that change over
a season of covering him?

Speaker 8 (25:39):
Yeah, I mean, naturally, when guys commit late in the process,
you aren't really expecting much from him, because often it's
guys that were just looking for a home for the season,
and you know, maybe it's a coach taking a chance
on him kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
But well, to be fair, he was he pulled out
of the NBA Draft, that's why he was available.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
Then yeah, I know, but he still came late.

Speaker 10 (26:03):
So I didn't know what the entire process was or.

Speaker 8 (26:09):
Like the in depth reasons behind it. So I remember
asking Wes about him, and Wes is basically telling me
like he's he's really really good, and he's gonna fit
well with the entire team. He doesn't take anything away
from anyone. It's basically just kind of a plug and
play thing. And then like you turn on his film

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and it's okay, this guy has legit, Like he has
an NBA ceiling like that long of a guy who
can move like that offensively and score like that, and
then he can step out and shoot the three, which
he could at Florida State and Port Atlantic. You see
it didn't really work. You start to get excited, and
then I remember you telling me when he was at

(26:53):
practice like this is probably like this guy's playing the
best right now over the summer, and then you get
to the season and it's there's a a a deep
gap or a long gap in between Baba Miller and
the next best player on the team. And it was very,
very quickly apparent how hard he played, how well he.

Speaker 10 (27:16):
Played offensively, and what he wasn't a slouch.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
Defensively at all.

Speaker 10 (27:23):
And like you get into the middle part of the
season and it's like.

Speaker 8 (27:26):
Holy crap, this guy is gonna like almost average a
double double for you see, which hadn't been done since
Trey Scott did I think in twenty twenty one. And
like when you look back on the season he had
and you watched last night him getting dressed by a Clippers,
it just makes you scratch your head and makes you
even more angry that there were two guys drafted last

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night that played for West Miller and there wasn't a
single NCAA tournament appearance in five years. So I loved
love covering Baba.

Speaker 10 (27:59):
I think if he can kind of he doesn't.

Speaker 8 (28:01):
Have to be dangerous at the three point shot in
the NBA, but if he can be more reliable, he.

Speaker 10 (28:07):
Could turn into a really, really good player who could
play for a long time.

Speaker 8 (28:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I think people like when they hear you talk about
this guy, this guy's not a shooter or whatever. I
don't think anybody's saying Boba needs to be a forty
percent plus three point shooter, Yeah no, But if he
can be thirty four percent three point shooter, which he
was at Florida Atlantic two years ago, all of a sudden,
you've got a guy that I mean, I don't know.

(28:35):
Usually it translates Kegan. I have not seen somebody be
as good on the defensive glass as Bob a was
last year, I think in my entire twenty years covering Cincinnati.

Speaker 8 (28:49):
Yeah, he was awesome. And I think the other thing
in which that just kind of translates to the Hey,
I'm gonna come out and I'm gonna play as hard
as I possibly can see what happens, and then when
you match that with his size, it's going to translate
into stats. And then on the other end of the floor,
he's getting to the.

Speaker 10 (29:09):
Line a ton, and he's shooting.

Speaker 8 (29:10):
A ton of free throws and like it like he
wasn't making a ton of great plays offensively to score,
and you just see him like there's a sixteen point night,
there's a seventeen point night. He reached twenty, there's twelve, thirteen, and.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
It makes you again, it makes you.

Speaker 8 (29:28):
Wonder why weren't Dade Thomas and Gisel James like trying
to do that? Why how did they not see that
he was doing it and maybe try to copy that
a little bit more. And I know, like how long
he is gives him an advantage to get fouled more
and just just getting to the rim was kind of
his game.

Speaker 10 (29:45):
But yeah, his success is almost.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
Confusing when you look at the twenty twenty five twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Season p se Yeah, I mean you know he was
he was for a forward, an outstanding passer. I mean,
if you go back and compile, like these are the
ten best passes of the season for Cincinnati, what would
he have seven of them?

Speaker 8 (30:08):
Probably he loved that wrap around pass.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah. Oh, him and Jared Calhoun. They'd have been boys
like Jared Calhoun and he loves that wrap around pass.

Speaker 8 (30:20):
Yeah, absolutely, And.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Bob Bob, I could have absolutely played for Jared Calhoun.
Any have you have you talked to anybody you think
the Clipper is a good fit.

Speaker 8 (30:35):
I mean, I I'm not really sure. I've got some
I got a buddy who covers them. But he didn't
really go to in depth on it. I really think
in a way, he kind of fits with any team
because he's just he's a long scorer who can rebound,
and like those guys are very very valuable in the NBA.

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And like, if you think about it, if he had
had that reliable free point shot last year.

Speaker 10 (31:01):
He's probably a lottery pick because he can just do
so much.

Speaker 8 (31:06):
So I just hope that he get I hope he's.

Speaker 10 (31:09):
In the right system with the Clippers.

Speaker 8 (31:11):
I hope that they have a plan for him and
can use him in a specific way because he's a
very very good player.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Five for five Kean MJ. Collins has been connected himself
to a lawsuit in the state of Ohio trying to
get another year of eligibility from the twenty twenty two
class for being left out. What have you heard on
this potential situation. I don't think UC is really overly

(31:46):
involved until they get a decision. Probably, I know it's
probably not. I don't think any athletic department right now
loves going back to court, But at this point, it
is what it is until it isn't, I guess.

Speaker 8 (32:05):
Yeah, absolutely, And like I mean this, J. Collins is
very very good and like when you look at his film.
You see the jump that he made from I think
it was Vanderbilt, played at Virginia in Sex for two years,
played at Vanderbilt and then transferred to Utah State to
play for Jared Calhoun, just like a slashing shooting guard.

(32:26):
I think he shot thirty six percent from three And
everything that I've heard isn't like he's a alpha, Like
he's a huge leader as well, and maybe that's something
that they could use. But yeah, this is a really
interesting situation because very rarely does do our players listed

(32:47):
in a lawsuit. And it's like he intends to play
for this university, and all of a sudden, it's like,
hold on, what.

Speaker 10 (32:53):
Like this, Yeah, okay, we have to actually follow this.

Speaker 8 (32:56):
You think it's like, oh, maybe he's gonna get like
elegible and then he'll figure out where he wants to play.
And he's just out there saying now like I want
to play for UC if this works. So yeah, the
the university is in an interesting spot. But I would
be shocked if if he didn't get that eligibility, if
Jared Cahun didn't take advantage of it and play with him,

(33:18):
And that gives you a leading score and maybe the
best and most proven player on the roster if he's
able to get that extra year.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
You had media availability today with Manny Robinson and a
couple players. Anything jump out at you from that those
conversations today.

Speaker 8 (33:40):
I thought it was very funny that many brought up
how he sseudo locked down Lance Stevenson and says third
Arena when he played U See when he was on
Winthrop and watching him in practice, it doesn't shock me
because I mean, what is he He's probably forty.

Speaker 10 (33:58):
Early forties, late thirty and he's.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
That would have been what two thousand ten, twenty eleven,
so fifteen years ago, late thirties sounds about right.

Speaker 8 (34:11):
Yeah, and he's locking down these kids in practice and
like playing really really hard defense. So that doesn't shock me.
But Elijah Perriman spoke with him, and.

Speaker 10 (34:24):
I'm very very I've been very very impressed.

Speaker 8 (34:26):
With him and what I've seen in the practices I've
been able to attend so far this year, And it
was kind of like I asked him, hey, like when
you got in the portal, was there was there any
doubt that you were going to go to U See?
And he was basically no, like I was following coach
Calhoun like everything that he he late. He laid the
groundwork my true freshman season, and I understood the system

(34:50):
and his plans for me, and I was fully, fully
on board with it.

Speaker 10 (34:54):
And then you see, basically just didn't mess up.

Speaker 8 (34:56):
The visit that they had him on. So I think
you see, I think you see, fans should be excited
about this kid, and they should definitely expect a lot
of noteook passes. I feel more would likely be the
backup point guard this season, and I think he could
be one of the better backup point guards the entire
Big twelve, just how he facilitates, how hard he plays

(35:17):
on the defensive end, and he's also a pretty good
shooter as well.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
How what is your levelite of excitement for football before
I let you go? Like where about a month from
camp starting, are you getting excited for football or are
you still caught up in the buzz of like a
new basketball coach and getting a new situation.

Speaker 8 (35:42):
I am still really caught up in the buzz of the.

Speaker 10 (35:45):
New basketball coach and getting to see practice and.

Speaker 8 (35:48):
Thinking, Wow, these guys are pretty good and the system
is very different, and there's a high ceiling that they
could reach. But with football like, the new scheme is
interesting and the I mean the player I'm looking forward
to most to play in the season is Mark Wes Parker.
By far, I think he could have a great year

(36:09):
with maybe eight nine sacks like to that level, maybe
get the double digits if he can have a crazy
good year, because this is the scheme he originally committed
to under Brian Brown and then spent two years in
a three three five. But like, you just don't have
that really dynamic quarterback leading your offense. And that's not

(36:30):
to say that J. C. French isn't going to be
good like the things that you've told me about. Look,
he takes the first read a lot, and there were
times when Soresby didn't take that read and it got
him in trouble. There are times when it worked, but
there's also times that it got him in trouble. Maybe
that's what they need, And I do think that having
that kind of fear field general guy who excels in

(36:51):
the play action and has a really really good receiver
corps from what we saw in spring, can do a lot.
It's just in aparently less intriguing not having that really
really interesting leader of the offense. And then you think, okay,
well you don't have toers b and then you're playing
a very, very tough Big twelve schedule. This could get interesting.

(37:16):
So I think you'll find out pretty quickly what kind
of team you have because there are a few games
early that are really going to test this UC team.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
I looked it up. Keegan Manny Robinson ten point seven
rebounds in that game. Lance Stevenson eight points four rebounds
in that game. So all right, man, appreciate it. Go
enjoy some time off on vacation for college. As your boss,
I'm gonna let you take some vacation time. How's that.

Speaker 8 (37:48):
Okay, sounds good looking forward?

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Thanks man. All right, so let's take a break. Our
number two coming up. Since that He's ESPN fifteen thirty.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the UC Health Trip
you found. Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Here we go, Hour number two. Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Moegger Show, Chad Brindle, one more day, one more day.
Thank you for choosing me. I appreciate all of you
that have tuned in over the past week. It's been

(38:50):
fun sitting in this chair, tarn It. I don't know
if I could do this full time, Like I'm sure
during the like you know, football season and basketball season.
This job's not This job's not that that difficult, but

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you get into the heart of the summer, especially in
a year where the Reds are falling short of expectations.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Which seems like every year, which.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Seems like every year, well, I mean like last year.
They like for them, they were right at expectations last year,
like right, they don't. They don't want to be too high,
they don't want to be too low. No peaks, no valleys.
This year, it's it's been a peak. Right twenty and
eleven that was a peak, and there's been quite the valley.

(39:46):
To go from nine games over five hundred to now
five games under five hundred, fourteen games seventeen and thirty one,
fourteen games is under five hundred since the start of May.
That's peaks and valleys.

Speaker 8 (40:04):
Is it not.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
The definition?

Speaker 2 (40:07):
It's the definition of peaks and valleys. Nine games over
right there in the race, in the hunt for first
place in the in nol Central and then that's what
the last two months have been. That's what the last
two months have been We'll get We'll get to more

(40:28):
of that, I guess because we have to. I don't
want to, but I gotta fill three hours. We could
talk Kaitlyn Clark for a while, Terran. There is a
suspension now for the incident last night.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
And rightfully deserve. I mean, I'm not saying that it
was a bad fil so.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's a dirty place like I think that's the thing.
It's like, for whatever reason, they have decided they are
going to be very rough with Caitlin Clark. I think
people look at it and say that doesn't happen to
star players in any other league. But it works. Of
course it works. They beat the hell out of her

(41:09):
outside of the rules. Well then till her teammates to
get her back. Yeah, I mean, Sophie Cunningham has her back.
That's about it, right. She's the fighter. I don't think
i'd mess with her. She seems like she could fight.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Still. Two one fifteen.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Reds are off today, thankfully. Thankfully, The Reds are off today.
Back at it tomorrow in Pittsburgh, where they have had
just as much trouble with the Pirates lately as they
have had with the Brewers. So Team USA ten o'clock
tonight they take on Turkey. Turkey A have you ever

(41:59):
seen it that before? Spelled like that?

Speaker 8 (42:03):
No?

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Never until this World Cup. There's there's a couple that
are like what huh, I've never seen it spelled like that,
pronounced like that before. But Turkey A tonight interesting situation
for Team USA as they have locked in first place
in the group. Not a lot of of there's not

(42:26):
any drama really for Team USA tonight. You want to
get a win, but it is expected that they will.
They will not play anybody that has a yellow card,
which is smart because you don't want to lose them
for the knockout rounds, which it looks like they'll play
Bosnia Herzegovina in all likelihood in the first round of

(42:50):
the knockouts in the round of thirty two. The interesting
one is what will they do with Christian Polisic. He
says he is a very to play tonight. He has
not played since the first match against Paraguay, So how

(43:11):
will they handle that? If I had to guess, the
most logical choice from what I've seen is he will
not start. They will bring him on some point in
the second half to get him some action, just to
get him back and in the flow of things to
get ready for the knockout rounds. Because he's your best player.

(43:34):
I don't think you want to have him sit for
a couple of weeks and then throw him out there
in the knockout rounds and him maybe not be at
his best. So that part will be will be quite
interesting tonight from Team USA. You know the other how
do you handle the other starters who you don't want

(43:57):
to get a yellow card, get a red card, get
some kind of you know, nagging injury that bothers them
into the knockout rounds. That's always it's always that weird spot, right.
You see it a lot in the NFL Week Week seventeen,
Week eighteen. Are we going to rest our starters? Who

(44:19):
are we going to sit? How long are we going
to have them out there? We are, our place is
locked up, our position is kind of solidified. We don't
want to get rusty, but we also don't want to risk,
you know, catastrophe in a game that essentially doesn't matter.

(44:42):
Just don't want to stay sharp sti't want to play well.
So that'll be really the most interesting part of tonight.
Where are they at tonight? Are back in l Yeah,
back in Inglewood. All good in Inglewood, Yay yay. Sofi Stadium,

(45:09):
that'd be. That's gotta be an awesome atmosphere. Maybe Boba
I'll be there now, a clipper I imagine, coming from Spain,
big soccer guy, big football guy, Baba Miller. Maybe he'll
find a way into Sofi Stadium tonight. Ecuador in Germany

(45:33):
tied at one right now, ongoing, and then curs Allen
Ivory Coast Ivory, Coast up won nothing on that one.
Both of those games early on Ecuador Germany at two
goals in the first thirteen minutes, first ten minutes. Really

(45:55):
that one could be high powered. And then Japan and
Sweden at seven tonight, as well as Tunisia and the
Netherlands at seven, followed by Paraguay Australia at ten, and
then Turkey a Turkey and the United States also at

(46:17):
ten o'clock from Sofi Stadium. You can stay up and
watch that tonight, Aaron, You're off tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Maybe I might flipping back and forth.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
But what else you're gonna have? Wnba on yep, any
good games tonight, Gotta put up schedule fast. I'll know
they do that doubleheader on Prime Video every Thursday. Okay,
let's get to some Bengals. I didn't do a whole

(46:50):
lot of Bengals yesterday, and Paul Dayner did a story today.
It's kind of been one of the bigger talking points
of the last couple of weeks, the Bengals wanting to
be more explosive, wanting the offense to be and some
of the numbers are actually a little surprising that the

(47:15):
team's been good on third down. You know, they've been
good in a lot of different areas, but they haven't
been overly explosive the last couple of years. And in reality,
I know we focus a lot on the defense for
good reason. The defense has been bad, and I think

(47:39):
especially this offseason you're returning all eleven starters. There's really
no drama on offense. There's really nothing that jumps out
at you as like, hey, on the surface, the offense
is fine and doesn't need a whole lot of attention.

(48:03):
But when you when you really start getting down into
the numbers, this is a team that's not super splashy.
This is a team that that doesn't uh really hit
a lot of home runs, a lot of doubles, a
lot of triples, but not really not really you know,

(48:29):
the take the top off the defense unless you know,
you catch Jamar running free or whatever. And a lot
of that conversation has been under uh the Bengals and
and Joe Burrow getting back under center or getting under center.
It is not something that the Bengals have done, and

(48:50):
it often is described as something that Joe Burrow is
just either not comfortable with or or doesn't prefer. He
likes to be in the shotgun. He likes to have
that extra space to look and read a defense before
the snap. But around the NFL, there has been a

(49:12):
direct correlation to what your explosive percentage is, what your
explosive play rate is compared to teams that are going
under center and using play action and the Bengals under center.
The percentage of snaps taken under center last year they

(49:34):
were thirty first in the NFL, and the play action
plays taken from under center they were thirtieth. If you
don't take a lot of snaps under center, you're not
gonna have a lot of play action snaps under center
as well. And also if you're only using under center
for play action. You're not tricking anybody. You're not fooling

(49:58):
anybody at that point in time. Oh they're under center,
it's going to be play action. You know, to safety shell,
don't get don't get sucked up, and stay stay at
home on Jamar Chase and t Higgins and keep the
Bengals from going over the top. It makes things a
little bit easier on the defense if you're telegraphing what

(50:23):
you're going to do in those situations. For me, I
think the first place my mind goes to is this
is a Joe Burrow thing, like, Okay, you're not comfortable
under center. That doesn't if if that's what's working in

(50:43):
the NFL. If that's if you look at the teams
that are having success in the NFL, and those teams
are doing so under center, play action, disguise the run game.
It's copycat league, right, We talk about that all the time.
I'm why aren't the Bengals copycatting? And it can't be

(51:04):
as simple as Joe just doesn't like it. Because Joe
Burrow's job is to win the Super Bowl. And if
your chances go up to be a successful offense by
getting under center, running the offense from under center more,
giving the defense a different look, giving the defense a

(51:25):
tougher decision on do we have to watch the run game?
Do we have to watch the rpo? Do we have
to watch Joe Burrow, you know, pulling the ball and
pushing the ball down the field. The defensive coordinators are
already stressed about a lot when they play the Bengals.

(51:50):
Why not give them even more to stress out about,
and even more to stress out about would be Joe
Burrow under center and not making it because how many
times it like ah, would you know? Well, we're seeing
a cover two, right, Tarn, I've heard Tony complain about

(52:10):
this a lot. We're seeing cover two not going to
be able to push the ball down the field. Well,
isn't it your responsibility to find out how to get
teams out of cover two? Isn't it your responsibility to
find whatever the best way possible is to break them
of those tendencies to make a defense have to think

(52:33):
more when you have the football in your hands. The
numbers would say the Bengals aren't doing that enough. That
doesn't mean that they have to all of a sudden
be you know, Boomer asiasin who had one of the
best play action moves in the history of the NFL.

(52:55):
But it does mean that there needs to be some variety,
and that's on Joe. And it'll be interesting because a
lot of these things. You'll hear about it now, you'll
see it at the start of training camp, maybe you'll
see it in the first two games or so. But
then Joe gets back into his comfort zone and next

(53:15):
thing you know, he's taken seventy five eighty percent of
the snaps whatever it is, from the shotgun. Not giving
the defense is a different look. All of a sudden.
They teams are bracketing Jamar and t and you're not
giving that versatility to your offense to utilize. I mean,

(53:37):
how many teams out there have better weapons in Cincinnati
from quarterback to wide receiver to running back to tight end.
In terms of skill positions, the Bengals are up there
with just about anybody that's on Joe to let go

(53:57):
of that I'm a shotgun quarterback because they're gonna do
what makes him comfortable. He has to make it known
I'm comfortable under center, handing the ball off play action,
making defenses think as much as we humanly possibly can
because at times they've sat on the Bengals tendencies and

(54:23):
they've become predictable at times talented enough to still overcome that.
But Joe has to make that change. Joe has to
make it known. I'm good. Just take a break through
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(54:44):
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Speaker 4 (55:08):
It's been all around the world.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
I misshotch.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
We've been all.

Speaker 12 (55:24):
Around the world.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Underground was so good. So you know what, Terry, Let's
go to the phones for the rest of the hour.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
When I hang around with the Underground, the frown singh damn.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
When I come around. You haven't had a lot of
calls this week. There's been a lot going on, a
lot of you know, lot of reds to complain about.
Let's go to Mike in l A. Mike, how are you.

Speaker 6 (55:52):
Appreciate you?

Speaker 13 (55:54):
Nice tooth TV? I love that hamm of bee tree
organ wherever I can get it. Brother, it's the greatest
rhythm instrument in the history of mankind. And not to
mention the most popular instrument used in churches.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
That's a shot G who was the main guy for
Digital Underground. He was also Humpty, played both characters, but
he did pretty much all of the instrumentals, played all
the instruments, like came up with all the arrangements. Not
something that was very common in hip hop. It still
isn't very common in hip hop. Shock to You was

(56:33):
a legend.

Speaker 6 (56:35):
Yeah, Like I said that, the bull sound of the
Hammond you know what I'm talking about? What organ with
Borwick so speakers that's spinning around when they're playing. They
got the fullest sound and that's why it's the greatest
rhythm instrument. People think guitars are Nope, they're not. Him
and B three's are and they're still in there today.

(56:56):
Well today, let me catch my breath, all right, don't.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Get stuff worked out. Was not back until tomorrow. Well
I know, I know, I know.

Speaker 6 (57:10):
Blood pressure issues. You have breathing.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Sometimes, Mike, you know, I know, I know.

Speaker 6 (57:17):
Yeah, Yeah, okay, thanks, This is my forty six, This
is the day of my forty sixth anniversary being in Soco.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
You heard me wrong yesterday. You thought I was saying
I preferred Florida over California. That that is the farthest
thing from the truth.

Speaker 6 (57:38):
Stupidest thing.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I hate Florida.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Yeah, I hate Florida too. It's flat, it's boring, desert.
The ocean is not nearly as pretty as the Pacific Ocean,
not nearly as dramatic as a Pacific ocean. It's and
it's hot, humid. Bugs They have the equivalent of bugs
there that are in Vietnam almost close.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
The only thing I'll say I do the oceans is
a lot warmer in Florida. I'll give them that. That's
about it. That's all I got.

Speaker 6 (58:10):
It's all you got because the waves suck, Yeah, a
little bitty little baby waves the little kids to ride.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Yeah, But I don't have to deal with uh fins
coming up when I'm trying to surf, because you can't serve.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
Actually, well you can't until five years ago. I did
it all my life.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Well, I mean in Florida, others, it's not you don't
the waves really it's not fun surfing.

Speaker 6 (58:33):
No, No, it's fine. I mean it's Okay for the
guys that want to serve, at least they got something
to you know, get on a free footer or maybe
a five footer when there's some storms. But the sharks
are just everywhere anymore. They're getting worse. Yeah, I never
got encountered with one, but when I lived on the
north shore Kawaii, there was a lot of guys. You'd

(58:54):
see what the heavy duty guys that would serve thirty
footers and stuff. They'd be walking around with half a leg.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Yeah, that's why. That's why when I saw the first
time I saw a fin come up next to me
while I was trying to surf, I said, I have
learned enough to know that surfing probably isn't my thing.

Speaker 6 (59:16):
Sometimes that's true, but sometimes it could be a tarfin,
it could be a dolphin.

Speaker 10 (59:20):
I know, got thin.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
You freak out, But.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
That one time it's a shark is big trouble, Mike,
it's big trouble.

Speaker 6 (59:29):
He's hungry. If he's not, then he'll doil you off.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Well, the worst part about sharks is they don't like
the taste of human, so they don't finish you off.
They just take a giant chunk out of you and
keep it moving.

Speaker 6 (59:42):
It's an over dir. It's like you going in order.
Look at that. Oh that Chad's got a nice camp.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
No, I like my calf where it's at.

Speaker 6 (59:55):
I'm sure you just but you know what really are wrong?

Speaker 8 (01:00:00):
Not until.

Speaker 6 (01:00:03):
When I moved to LA in eighty It was Magic's
rookie year that the Lakers won the championship beat the Sixers.
Karen my friend and Magic had forty two, twelve and
ten played for Kareem and played center as a rookie
and beat Doctor J and the Sixers. Incredible. That's when

(01:00:23):
I saw this, This is the dude right here. Well
he changed the basketball with no passes. But you know,
I started listening to Vinscully and chick Hern, the greatest
basketball announcer ever who coined the phrases such as slam, dunk,
air ball, dribble, drive, give and go google chick Hern. Yeah,

(01:00:47):
there's about fifty phrases that he coined that are to
have been used forever. And I don't know how he
did it because she certainly was a little guy. He
wasn't a basketball player or anything, but they guess he was.
I don't know, he was just creative. Have you ever
listened to Jim Rome.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Yeah, I used to listen to Rome all the time.
Not as much lately, but back in the day when
he was you know, back in the Chris every Days.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that was dramatic. But
but Lo even says to this day that he thinks
Jim Roman is the goat when it comes to sports.
Christ he created the whole wingo, which was his listeners,
clones and smackoffs, and he's he's a soap helth thing
with guys.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Do you know his connection to Cincinnati right now?

Speaker 6 (01:01:39):
I have no clue.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
He owns horses with Mick Cronin.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
Well. I knew he was in the horses. Oh how cool.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Yeah, they they are both investors in the same group.
When I was out in La I tried to get
a hold of Mick. As I was I was in
Westwood and he was at del Mar getting ready for
one of his horses to run.

Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
Tell him about del Mark Stick.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
One of one of the most gorgeous places on the planet.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
On the Peeanice at the coast Highway, right across from
the beach.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
One of the most gorgeous places I used to back
when I was in my younger days. I used to
work at turf Way and we would simulcast obviously, and
uh you'd see del Mar and you'd just be like, man,
what am I doing here? Why am I here when
I could be there?

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
Exactly? I got you here. I got a Bengals thing
I want to hit you with, because all right, let's
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
We gotta get moving. I got to get to a
break here. We we've been rambling for like eight minutes now.

Speaker 6 (01:02:47):
Really another great start last night again.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Okay, he's gonna win the cy Young.

Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
I hope he does. That's his goal. Orlando Brown is
my biggest concern with the more than the linebackers. The
depth on the offensive line is nothing, and he's older.
And his PFF ranking last year was sixty point six.
That was sixty fifth out of eighty nine offensive tackles

(01:03:15):
that caught, left, tackles that qualified or no, just tackles
in general.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
Just tackles.

Speaker 6 (01:03:20):
Yeah, that's not good. Chip, that's not good.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
It's not good.

Speaker 8 (01:03:25):
One.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
The one place I don't take PFF ultra seriously is
offensive line rankings because I just don't know how accurate
it is. I've seen some that I agree with. I've
seen some that I'm like, I've watched that guy, and
I don't think that makes sense at all, both good
and bad. But but I get it. I mean, you're

(01:03:46):
gonna be worried.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
I just don't. He's older now, to chit.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
He's older now. Yeah, But I guess for me, Mike,
I hear a lot of the like the Bengals. The
Bengals have bad depth on the offensive line. You know
else has bad depth on the offensive line. Everybody, everybody,
So maybe the Bengals don't have a great replacement if
something happens to Orlando Brown. But I mean when you

(01:04:11):
look around the league, everybody needs line depth. That that
is not a Bengals specific thing. So I just I
don't worry about it as much as I think most do.
But I get why they do.

Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
Yeah, well, that's just because that's Joe's dude. Man, that's
that's his mama.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Yeah, it's blindside.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
I got it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:34):
And if he because he has got to get a
complete season and said he has just got to I
don't know how he's gonna do it. But he can't
keep getting hurt. This just can't keep happening.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
I agree, I got around. Thanks Mike, day Up, Dick
Don We'll get to you right after that. Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
Thirty Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty Traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Did you listen to the Luda freestyle from earlier this week? Yep,
pretty good. Still got it, still got it, still got it?

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
Skirt?

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
I mean he started with a skirt.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
Underrated.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
Yeah, everybody thinks it's party songs like Luda could go.
We got about sixty seconds left. I have managed this
hour miserably, digging Dayton. I'm sorry to cut short. You
got about a minute. Let me have it, Dick, let
me have it. I'm great.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
I just wanted to say something.

Speaker 14 (01:05:44):
You did a really good job of talking about the Reds.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
It's really good, you know.

Speaker 14 (01:05:50):
And the thing that we want to base this thing
that I just hope they're not real bad at the
All Star break, but yeah, maybe like last but it's
been kind of disappointing for the Reds fans.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
You know. Well, here's the thing, Dick, and I appreciate
the call. Thank you. I hope you have a great
weekend and Milwaukee plays how we want the Reds to play.
It can be done. I think that's the frustration when
the Brewers come to town. Is watching a team that's in
the same financial situation, a team that has the same
constraints that the Reds has have, and over the past

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three years, that team's fifty games better than the Reds.
That's what's annoying. That's what's infuriating when watching the Reds
play the Brewers infuriating. That's it, all right, Let's take

(01:06:48):
another break. Brennanman and Jones on Baseball up next, and
then my final hour of the week since nat He's
ESPN fifteen thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
He's ESPN fifteen thirty Traffic Bank.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
Like ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
There we go our number three, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Moeggar's show. I'm not Mowegar, I'm Chad Brindle. I Mo

(01:07:43):
will make his triumphant return tomorrow. But thank you for
listening to me over the last five shows last Friday
and then then through the week Today, Tarren, we're almost there.
You're off tomorrow. Is mo is Mo doing one man
band tomorrow? Is he producing himself?

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
No, no, no, no, I think it's mowen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Okay, mow in Austin. All right, what do you think
I should lead off the road trip with? Tomorrow's a
what's a good like a good start to a road trip.

Speaker 12 (01:08:28):
Song?

Speaker 15 (01:08:29):
It could be a whole album. You said you're leaving
like two in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
I think we've actually changed that. I think we're gonna
leave a little earlier, drive for like six seven hours,
hey six seven, and then crash for a little bit,
and then get back up in the morning and go
the rest of the way. I think I'm too old
to do twelve hours straight. Actually, it's like the thing
that pushed it over the top. It's like thirteen and

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a half hours to the resort without traffic, and then
you gotta stop to get gased like four times, three
times whatever it's gonna that would be like a fourteen
hour drive.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
That's too much, and hopefully you avoid Atlanta traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna be a Saturday morning. I'm
sure it's still gonna be bad, but not like you know,
rush hour on a on a Wednesday. So I think
I'm gonna break it up. I was, I was looking
at it. I'm like, I just don't think I have
that in me. Anymore, even if I didn't have to

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drive the whole time. I just don't think I have
that in me anymore. I'm gonna need to get out,
stretch my legs, you know, lay on a bed for
a little so earlier. So so what's that like like
six seven o'clock. See I did it again? Probably like
probably like seven. I would guess like five hours in,

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get it right around midnight and then and then crash
for a little while. It's up for to be I mean,
you know, now that I've decided I'm leaving early, we
could leave it anytime on Friday. I could just be like,
all right, throw everything in the car, let's go, we're leaving.

Speaker 15 (01:10:19):
Maybe some try. I'm trying to take this because you
want something smooth the start. Yeah, I agree. You don't
want to get too hyped up, like right away.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
Yeah, then you won't be able to sleep right Yeah, yeah,
I don't know. We're just getting through this hour. I'll
let you know right now if you want to talk
like and just chew the fat phone lines are open
five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifteen thirty. I'll just
talk like to somebody for the rest of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
We'll go back and forth and talk about Kaitlyn Clark.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
We talk about Kaitlyn Clark. I mean, I you know,
we do have my friend Don. On hold, let's go
to Don first. Don wants to talk some rats. Don
welcome in. How are you? Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:11:05):
I'm doing great? How you guys do it good?

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
I'm ready to be done, Like I'm not used to
five shows in a row on top of the Bearcat
Journal stuff. I think I've talked for a total of
like thirty hours since Friday. I'm ready to shut up
for a while.

Speaker 12 (01:11:20):
Well, I'll tell you this. As soon as you get
to the highway, you gotta throw ludacer move get out
the way.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Yeah, that's a good one. That's the official you.

Speaker 12 (01:11:30):
Get to the highway, because it doesn't doesn't work when
you're pulling out of the driveway and you're going down
twenty miles.

Speaker 8 (01:11:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
If terror makes a good point, though, Luda, you might
just like you might have to save Luda for the
entire Atlanta metro area.

Speaker 12 (01:11:44):
Great point, great point.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
And outcast Ludacris and outcast, like a mix of those two.
As you drive through Atlanta to pay homage.

Speaker 12 (01:11:53):
Right as you're bumper to bumper tray, it. Do you
go the loop around or do you go right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Through it or it's just going to depend on what
things look like when I'm assuming it's going to be
early tomorrow, early Saturday morning, so hopefully it's not too
too bad.

Speaker 8 (01:12:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:12:08):
Well, I'm going to tell you this. Trust your gut
on that call. Yeah, because the GPS is wrong every time,
every time. Dis trust me every time. Because we used
to go down to Orlando, uh when Nickelodeon was still
there in Nickelodeon Sweets and that was a great time.
But speaking of great time, you mentioned Monday. The one

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thing that the Reds do good is the play area
and that's what I'm calling about. I know it sounds crazy, right,
the play area. Do you remember mentioning this on much?

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Yeah, Like when my daughter was little, we would go
to Reds games and that's really all she cared about.
She didn't care about anything else. We couldn't get her.
You get her to sit down and watch like maybe
an inning and a half and then it was like
all right, like I did your thing. Now we're going
to the play area. It's a great little park area.

Speaker 12 (01:13:02):
Yeah, And what I did was I estatised, like at
the bottom of the fifth, we're going to the play area, right,
So she doesn't know anything about the game. She's still
small when is the fifth, But I said, you know
how to count the five?

Speaker 8 (01:13:17):
Quit it?

Speaker 12 (01:13:17):
You know, right? You know, so going in sequence there, right, one, two, three.
But anyway, so it's the best baseball memory we have,
which I know is sad for everybody listening here that
involves the play area.

Speaker 6 (01:13:32):
But what can I say?

Speaker 12 (01:13:33):
They haven't won a playoff game, so right, I was,
I was in diapers. I'm kidding, but you know what
I mean. So but anyway, so we get to the
play area that night and it's mascot night and we're
just inundated, I promise you, with a minimum of twenty
five mascots just walking around the play area to this day,
she's twenty four years old. We talk about the Reds game, Dad,

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that was unbelievable, you know, And we talk about that
night and we had no idea going into it that
it was even a thing. Right, Every mascot you can
name was there, including the Cincinnati Waterworks water.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Was the Florence yall there? Or that wasn't a thing
yet that long ago.

Speaker 12 (01:14:15):
That was before they existed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so every yeah,
all of them were there. Crazy but yeah, believe it
or not. That's what I was calling about, just to say, hey,
the Reds do when it comes to the kids and
all the activities there, they do have that far down
the lucially for us adults.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
You know, don much, isn't that One of the most
frustrating things is that they do so much right the
community fun Reds Fest, like the stuff to get your
family to the ballpark, like, they do so much right,
and they don't know how to win baseball games. Like

(01:14:54):
it's infuriating because and this happens every time the Brewers
come to town, because you watch the Brewers and you
go that we can't we do that. It can't be
that hard to do that. And we're so bad at
everything that the make the Brewers good right now. And
it was before them, it was the Cardinals where the

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Cardinals did that stuff. If a guy went down, they
always had a guy ready. Who's the next guy ready
for the Reds. It might be somebody in that play area, right.

Speaker 12 (01:15:29):
And just one last thing, when you guys are talking
about del Mar, you and Mike, oh yeah, we drove
we did a cross country trip with the kids when
they were younger, and we drove to California and back,
which a lot of people thinks insane but awesome. And
by the way, hey, I'm gonna tip my cap to
my wife here right, so I'm not kidding you. We

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left on a Friday night. She drove straight through from
here to Yuma. Believe it. I kept saying, you want
me to take you breaking no, no, no, no, I got it.
I got her, guy, Guy Dae Wildwick. So we get
We finally pulled into delmar lady sees the plate and
she goes, boy, you drive a heck of a long

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way for a horse race.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Yes, we did.

Speaker 6 (01:16:16):
That's what you did.

Speaker 8 (01:16:18):
Man.

Speaker 12 (01:16:18):
What a beautiful place that is.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
It's amazing, Like just that piece of property in and
of itself is one of the best in the world.
It has to be.

Speaker 8 (01:16:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:16:28):
Yeah, we were there when they had just was generated
demolish Hollywood Park back in twenty sixteen to build the
Ram Stadium and all that stuff. So uh yeah, but
it was wow.

Speaker 6 (01:16:39):
Yeah that And.

Speaker 12 (01:16:41):
Really, I mean, come on, man, I mean, there is
nothing like San Diego.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
You know, it's my favorite town in America. Buy a
pretty wide margin just everything about San Diego is awesome
except for the price. Like it's it's expensive, but it
should be expensive.

Speaker 12 (01:16:57):
Yeah, you should have to pay up to get any
two in Sonny every day.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
You got right, Like, there's a lot of places in
America that are expensive that you're like, why is that
place expensive?

Speaker 8 (01:17:09):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
San Diego? Might it might it might need to be
more expensive.

Speaker 12 (01:17:13):
Don Yeah, well it's been ten years, so yeah, it
probably is way more expensive. But yeah, the Jack in
the box and everything out there, Yeah, it was all
all good. Now they've got all that stuff here now.
But back then, you know, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
If you've if you find your way back, you have
to go to Dukes.

Speaker 8 (01:17:31):
Burger's Dukes Burgers. Okay, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Top three burger I've ever had. My daughter says it's
her favorite. The girlfriend says it's the best burger she's
ever had.

Speaker 12 (01:17:43):
Oh nice, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
They do they die it's in San Diego. There's two
and they do like the Oklahoma smash where they set
it on the flat top and then they put the
really thinly sliced onions on top and smash it into
the grill.

Speaker 12 (01:17:59):
Oh like Fenn Station actions.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
So then when you flip it the onions fry in
the fat from the first half of the burger cooking.
Oh wow, it's excellent. It's it was so good.

Speaker 12 (01:18:15):
Yeah, I definitely have to check that out when we
get back out there. I'm definitely going back. It's been
a while, but I'm not driving back out there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Mike taunts me because where he's at, there's a Duke's.
The one of the Dukes Burgers is right there by
La Jolla, and they get it all the time at
the place that he's at, and every time they do,
he make sure to let me know we had Dukes today.
And I'm like, thanks, Mike.

Speaker 12 (01:18:39):
I really yeah, he would be he would be a
riot to run around, but he would be just endless
information now at that part of the world.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Oh yeah, he helped me out quite a bit. We
were going to hang out and he was. He's unfortunately
having some medical issues that day, so we didn't get
to connect. But San Diego is amazing. It's so good.

Speaker 12 (01:18:59):
Yeah, in and out burger as well is what we
were all drawn to. That That wasn't I think that
was in.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
La But well, yeah, I'll tell you this, here's how
good Dukes is. My daughter is a die hard in
and out fan, like she just loved like we would
go like her aunt lives in Tennessee. My late wife's
sister lives in Tennessee and Nashville, and she would they
would like sit like when in and out just opened,
like three out, Like I'm going and we're getting in

(01:19:26):
and out whether if I got to sit there for
four hours or not. And we went to Dukes and
she didn't get She didn't ask for in and out
the entire trip until we were the day we were leaving,
and I was like, do you want to in and out?
She's like, Dad, in and Out's kind of mid.

Speaker 12 (01:19:44):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (01:19:44):
No.

Speaker 12 (01:19:46):
The longest ever waited for anything was the Dueling cheese
steaks there in Philly.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:19:52):
And I resume up there, I get a great parking
spot and I get out and I'm like, well it's
line ain't that long? Or like the line is down right?
You get down and walking around the thing, I'm like, well,
which one's which? You know I'd only get in the
wrong line. Yeah, that was a long started away, like
three hours for a cheese steak. But I mean, come on, man,
you're on your way back from New York. You stopped

(01:20:12):
in there. You've seen the Liberty Bell, You've seen this,
You've seen that, and you're like, what are you gonna
do not get the cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
Steak we had? Uh the I think the first year
we went to Nationals in Orlando, we had a layover
in Philly and I was like, I'm in Philly. I'm
getting a cheese steak in the airport because they have
like three cheese steak places in the airport. So we
were trying to get to our connecting flight and my
daughter is freaking out the other We're gonna miss our
connecting flight. We're not going to get to Orlando because

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you're fat. You know what needs a cheese steak. And
I was like, you're right, Oh god, you're right, my
fat you know what needs a cheese steak. And we'll
get to Orlando eventually.

Speaker 8 (01:20:49):
Honey, another plane, right exactly.

Speaker 12 (01:20:54):
Oh that's that's great. That is great. Well I'll let
you go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
Man, appreciate it. Man, good talk. Don you have a
good one? See that? Just call me and we'll talk
about stuff for the next thirty minutes. I've talked enough sports.
I've talked enough about the Reds over the past five
five shows enough. I don't want to do that anymore.

(01:21:21):
Let's take a break. Since Anti's ESPN fifteen thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
From the UC Health traffic, get out the way, get
the waves.

Speaker 8 (01:21:43):
Get out?

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
Was that freestyle at an iheartstation turned out? You're gonna
play that this weekend? Have you played it like in
the mix yet?

Speaker 9 (01:21:54):
Yet?

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
I love how he ended it, still didn't move lights out.
This is more like this. I don't think this is
a start the trip drive terren No, no, no, no,
not even like I think what this is is like
the eyes start to get a little heavy. Right, you're

(01:22:20):
like five out, four or five hours in.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
This is Atlanta. Listen.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
I know it is the streets, but I'm saying, like,
you know you're in Georgia. You've been going for like
five six hours. This is a good one to like
wake you back up, Oh for sure? Right? Like you
need you need to have a couple songs on the

(01:22:47):
road trip playlist that are gonna re energize you. And
that'll do it. That'll do it. You're screaming at the
car next to you. We got a good, old good
one in East Rutherford Taran Ecuador in Germany tied at one,

(01:23:10):
and if Ecuador can win, they advanced to the round
of thirty two.

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
Would that be an upset?

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
I believe so. Yeah, Germany's first in the group. Like
they're advancing. It's just a matter I think of it
their first or second standing. I've not been paying much attention,
So I believe Germany beat Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast and

(01:23:45):
Ecuador tied. I think that's right. Yeah, Germany beat Ivory Coast.
They beat the you know what out of Kurasow seven
to one, so Germany is moving on. It would definitely
be an upset if Ecuador won. But if I mean,
if they win, they advance. So and we had goals

(01:24:11):
in the second minute and the ninth minute, we are
now in the sixty eighth minute. We have not had
any further goals. It's been a good one that was
tigned for hydration brick. Yeah, I mean, how hot is

(01:24:35):
it I'm looking right now? How hot is it? New Jersey?
Why does it not just give me New Jersey? It
gives me New Jersey, New Brunswick, Canada?

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Eighty one?

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
Do we really need a hydration break at eighty one?
Like when they were in was it cutter four years ago?
It was like one hundred and twelve, Like, okay, take
a hide to get some water. Why can't they do?
Like uh, like you just run past the sideline and

(01:25:29):
somebody gives you a cup. Like there's a kind of
some dead time in soccer.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
Oh, plenty of others guys just standing around right Like.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Do we have to take a whole hydration break?

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
I mean, then Hill, then when when guys being following
the ground acting.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
Go get some water. So here's the thing, Tarn. If
they wanted to sell this to Americans, there's an easy
sell to sell what's happening to Americans. You just call
it a TV timeout? Right halfway through the half, there's
a TV timeout, and we sell some ads and we

(01:26:07):
go about our business. But no, they sell it as
a water break, and it's gonna make Americans. Man, we
don't take water breaks, Tarren. It made you mad for sure.
I've talked about it all week again, Like if it's ninety,

(01:26:28):
if it's if they're playing in Orlando or Miami and
it's super high humidity and it's hot as hell, Yeah,
I get that you're going to dehydrate a little faster.
These guys are world class athletes, and they were just
in the locker room for fifteen minutes twenty minutes ago.

(01:26:49):
I think they probably hydrated, don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
I'd hope so.

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
So twenty minutes later, do they really need to go
get their sippy cup? Sippy cup, sippy cup, get my
sippy cup, give me a uppy. World class athletes, they

(01:27:16):
run ten miles a match. I get it. I'm not
bagging on soccer. I just I just think everything's about
packaging in America. You gotta you gotta make sure it's
presented the right way. And I don't think we want
to hear about hydration breaks twice a match. Oh mmmm,

(01:27:44):
that was close. I'm pulling for Ecuador here. I want
to see him get in. I want to see him
get in. I just like it. Sell it as a
TV time out, sell it as anything but like, because
soccer in America already has that like connotation, right, like

(01:28:04):
the orange slices, and you know, like you're not doing
a good job fighting stereotypes. Play quarters instead of halves.
How about that halfway through each half you get a

(01:28:25):
quarter break?

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
The diehos soccer fans has just turned us off.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
They have they have. I'm just trying to help them
with marketing in America. If you're gonna have the thing
in America, you got to market it to Americans. That's all.
Tommy G is ready to punch me. I wonder what
Tommy G thinks about hydration breaks in eighty two degree weather.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
I watched they added to American soccer next year MLS
hydration breaks.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Well, they said they did it. It's not a normal thing,
Like I think that's the like it's this isn't something
they do around the world in soccer. It is something
they've added to the World Cup because America is too hot.
And every time I look, it's like seventy seven to
eighty four degrees wherever they're playing. Maybe in Mexico it's hotter, maybe,

(01:29:29):
you know. I'm sure there are places that it's been
very hot that they're playing, But every time I've looked,
it has not been that hot.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
So shouldn't football be complaining when it's too cold, Like, oh,
we need we need a twenty minute warm up break.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
Yeah, we need twenty minutes under the jet engine heaters
over on our sideline. We're gonna go sit on the
heated benches, and we're gonna warm up, We're gonna fall
out because it's dangerous. We don't do that. We take
TV timeouts to hear, and that's when we do those
things to the soccerpe. I'm kidding, kinda, kinda Just take

(01:30:16):
a break. One more episode to go. Phone lines are
still open. Five one, three, seven, nine, fifteen thirty.

Speaker 8 (01:30:22):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
One more episode?

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
One more segment to go episode. I don't know where
episode came. It's been a long it's been a week.
I'm ready to get out it, like I'm ready. I've
still got one more Bearcat Journal show to do tonight,
but Aaron will do most of the talking on that show.
I'm just ready to be like, I'm ready to be
done talking for a couple of days.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
Yeah, it starts singing Only Way to Orlando.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
I'll do everything via song. I'm sure Liz would love that.
For the next like six days, everything is communicated via song.
I could do it too. I could do it too.
Let's take a break. Final segment after this Cincinnati's ESPN

(01:31:07):
fifteen thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:31:08):
Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the UC Help, ESPN
fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports station.

Speaker 16 (01:31:32):
That's true. Thanks, that's thanks, Tarn.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
We got we got a guy out here, number twenty
for Ecuador kind of looks like he's cramping.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
The hydration break coming.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
I mean, is that a is that a sign like,
right coming out of a hydration break, he cramped that?
Like maybe the hydration breaks are not, you know, necessary
all the time, or is it a sign that maybe
they should we be stopping every ten minutes so these

(01:32:16):
guys can drink some water.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
Yeah, maybe every five minutes. Who knows.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
I mean, when people are running marathons, they basically just
like throw water at them. Those people are running twenty
six point two miles. I don't know, It's going to
be interesting as we get through this next phase of

(01:32:43):
the World Cup, because I think so far, I would
say the World Cup has already been a rousing success
in America. Like the foreign fans seem to be having
an amazing time in America. They're discovering all kinds of

(01:33:06):
American things. I think the biggest hit in America so far, Tarn,
has been Texas Roadhouse. They're legitimately like, you're giving us
this basket of rolls for free, Like for real? Wait,

(01:33:26):
you fry your you deep fry your onions here. This
is amazing to Texas Roadhouse. Yeah, they're getting a lot
of love. BUCkies gets a lot of love. Can't wait
to go in a few weeks. Can't wait to go tomorrow.
Tomorrow some BUCkies action. Uh, but you're gonna get into

(01:33:53):
the knockout rounds. And I think this is thing is
gonna go even more turbocharged than it already is. We've
kind of talked about this all week. With the Stars
playing at the level the Stars are playing so far,
I think the buzz nationally about the World Cup has
been pretty awesome. If the US can win today, go

(01:34:17):
to three and oh in their group even you know
they're not they're trying to win today, but they're being
smart about it, or that's the expectation. When they play
at ten o'clock tonight, You're not going to run anybody
out there that's got a yellow card. You're gonna keep
an eye on Christian Polisic, probably not start him, Probably

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bring him in at some point in time in the
second half and let them get a little run in.
But if they can go to three and oh and
then and then let's say they they take down Bosnia.
Are they playing Bosnia or Herzegovina. Do they have to
play them both? That sounds bad. If you have to

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play them both Bosnia and Herzegbana, that's two countries against one.
I don't think that's really Do you see any of
these other countries they get to be two countries? I don't,
But I digress. If they can get to the round
of sixteen, where then you're you're really dealing with like

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the heavy hitters are competing to win the World Cup,
I think it can be electric. I'm thinking I think
round of Round of sixteen is probably about like good,

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there's one G one G. Well that in New Zealand
is in Group G. But but they're not gonna advance.
It doesn't look like wow. Really they've played two matches,

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they've got to draw and a loss. They're minus two
in gold differential and they've only got one point. Humh
Elite eight tearn Elite eight run for Team USA.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
That fait, Let's just win the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
I mean, I'm trying to be realistic, trying to be
who's in the other who's in the who's h oh? Yeah,
it probably comes to an end in the elite like Spain.
It looks like Spain would be in the Elite eight.
If I'm if I'm picking USA or Spain and soccer,

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I'm probably gonna take Spain. Probably gonna take SPA. Ecuador
up two to one on Germany. About two and a
half minutes left before stoppage time. A brilliant goal by
Ecuador Terran to get the two to one lead. Guy

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just just behind the play right before the goalie made
the cardinal sin arran right, you got to play the ball.
He waited on the ball to get to him, and
somehow a little you thought it was an own goal live.
It kind of looked like an own goal live. And
it turns out a guy from Ecuador just kind of
kind of got that left boot in there and tipped

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it into the net. Ecuador trying to advance. Maybe Ecuador
is my team for the rest of this thing outside
of the United States. I don't know. Well, Terran, it's
been a heck of a run these last five days.

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
The dog days are summer. But we'll have it any
other way. With my French ad.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
Brandon, you know, I can just talk to talk and
eat to eat. We had a good lunch week this week,
I'll do it. My legg are back tomorrow thanks to
Tarren Bland. I'm Chad Brendel since Nat EASYESPM fifteen.

Speaker 17 (01:38:27):
Thirty, and I'm listening to the radio. I'm listening to
a sad girl say about got a turn row.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
I just want me something not too wrong. When you're alone,
it gets sidy.

Speaker 7 (01:38:51):
Don't act visit, you talk.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
Let me play with her.

Speaker 17 (01:38:56):
I'm working late, I said, I'll soon be home. All
the while the girl was home. Then let me tell
you what she cried for.

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Why? Because I'm flying?

Speaker 8 (01:39:08):
He super flying, Nake, I'm flying.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
You know he's super fly, but Na, I'm super duper
and I'm super duper fly Fly.

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