8/4/25 - The Mo Egger Radio Show - Mo Egger

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Real live radio station. What's Up? How We doing malagor
ESPN fifteen thirty. Thanks for listening today. Very quickly, I
want to say three things here at the top of
the show. Number one, thank you to Chad Brendle, who
filled in on this show on Thursday. Number two, thank
you to James Rapine who filled in on this show
on Friday, and I just said this to him. I

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was not here on Thursday. It was actually driving to
Norris Lake and Tennessee, thankfully not Bristol, Tennessee. Listening to
Cine found out that Tony Pike is going to be
going into the James P. Kelly Athletics UC Hall of Fame.
And you know, if you have listened to this radio
station for the last ten years. We love to give

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each other a hard time, but I think it comes
across how much I thoroughly enjoy Tony's work, how much
I like him as a person, how much I'm I
admire him as a person, and what a fan of
him as a football player I was and am. And
so congratulations to him on an awesome honor coming up
in October. He and the other six men and women
who will be going into the UC Hall of Fame

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all deserve our congratulations. But the one that I work
with is a guy who just signed off the air,
Tony Pike, And I wasn't here for that on Thursday,
and so I wanted to say that at the top
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your credit union with heart since nineteen thirty nine. Check
out EMERYFCU dot org. Major League Baseball and the Bristol
Motor Speedway embarrassed themselves. And if I if I owned
the Cincinnati Reds, I would be livid. If I was
Phil Castellini, I would be beside myself because my organization's

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name is attached to that event. The Boston Red Sox
are not, the Seattle Mariners are not, Pittsburgh Pirates are not.
The New York Yankees are not. The Cincinnati Reds and
Atlanta Braves are now neither organization is necessarily at fault
for what went down on Saturday and Sunday. You've heard,
I'm sure by now you've seen the stories on social

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media what people have written. Major League Baseball made a
big deal about this, and I'm all for and we
should all be if you care about the sport, all
for MLB having these one off events right that promote
the sport to bring it to other people. That they
should be in the business of creating events, and they've
created some really awesome events, and this event had awesome potential.

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But it felt like what they were focused on was
being able to brag about setting an MLB attendance record,
which they did, right, I guess, the most people at
a baseball game since nineteen fifty four. Congratulations on that. Unfortunately,
it feels like that's all they really cared about. It
doesn't feel like they cared about giving the people who

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paid tickets who drove from a far amount of distance away.
It doesn't feel like they cared at all about giving
people a good experience. How in the hell do you
run out of hot dog buns? I'll admit to you, man,
I've never staged an event like that, But hell do
you run out of hot dog buns? I guess they

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ran out of hamburgers too? How do you run out
of hamburgers? Even acknowledging it became a two day event.
We had raine ripping on seats, we had people who
paid for unobstructed view, us who got obstructed views. We had,
we had a big crowd, we had a cool visual
on Fox. We had the rain itself, which you obviously

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can't do much about. But whether it's Austin Elmore, who
I'm gonna bring back here in about ten minutes because
I want him to relate his experience attending that thing,
or any of the people that I have watched on
social media or a handful of people that I have
talked to, I haven't found anybody who has conveyed or

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related a pleasant experience. In fact, most have relayed or
related a very unpleasant experience. Now, there's certain things you
can't do anything about right. It rained, and it rained
a lot, and that's unfortunate, and that's mother nature and
it sucks and it's baseball, and you can't do anything
about it. You can't control the weather. You can control

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the hot dog bun count. You can control the staffing
issues that apparently had people waiting in line for two hours.
That caused some people to miss the pregame concerts they
thought they were gonna see. Now for my money, If
you pay for a pit Bull concert and don't get
the pit Bull concert, then I think you've got your
money's worth. But that's neither here nor there. Like there's

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two ways to do business, man. There's this way of
doing business, which is we're gonna take your money and
that's all we care about. And then there's this way
of doing business, which is we're gonna take your money,
but we're gonna ensure that you get a good experience
for your money, that you get return on investment, that
you get on some level what you're paying for. There's

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always an inherent risk, right, like I might have to
wait at a long line. There's a difference between waiting
in a long line and waiting for ninety minutes in
a line. There's a difference between waiting in line and
waiting for ninety minutes in a line and then finding
out when you get to the front of it, I
can't get a hot dog because they've run out of buns.

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Major League Baseball did not care about giving peace people
a pleasant experience, did not make people. Did not care
about making people feel like I got what I paid for,
I got something for my money, that experience was worth it.
Baseball didn't do that. I have seen nothing from Major

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League Baseball I've seen. I look on MLB dot com
and I read about how neat it was that they
had a car going around the track when people hit
home runs, and how the players enjoyed the experience of
playing at a racetrack, and how cool Tyler Stevenson's catcher's
gear was. I've not seen anything acknowledging what a lot
of people dealt with in terms of time, what they

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went through. We had folks sitting in seats while the
rain was just cascading down on them from the drain
pipes above. Major League Baseball put that on. Major League
Baseball put that on, and should be ashamed of itself.
This is not the fault of the Reds the Braves.

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But when your name is attached to something, it kind
of becomes yours, right like we have at times here.
We moved into this studio that we're in, what three
four years ago, and we had growing pains and the
phones didn't work and just we had all sorts of issues. Now,
like there's a big, big part of me that understands

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like there's gonna be growing pains. But like when the
stuff doesn't work and it's happening on my show, hell yeah,
I get pissed off because my name is on the show.
So when the phones don't work, by extension, that makes
me looking sound bad. It makes me looking sound minor league.
And trust me, I don't need any help sounding minor league.
If I was Phil Castellini, I would be beside myself today.

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So we had an event. Lots of folks from our
geographic market went to that event to watch our team play.
They would not have gone to that game if it
was Braves Pirates or Braves Phillies or Braves Tigers or
Braves Cubs or Braves, White Sox or Braves and anybody else.
They went to watch the Cincinnati Reds play in that event.

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Did they have a good time at the event. It
feels like overwhelmingly so the answer is no. If I
was Phil Castellini, I would be beside myself today, my team,
my brand, that event. Now the two are linked forever.
So what you're gonna do about it? I know the

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pushback I'm gonna get is, well, it's not darrously. You know,
they didn't stage the game of gabp Okay. Cool, all right, Cool,
that's fine. That's if that's if that's what you want
to hide behind, that's what you want to go with
by all means, or you can do right by the
people that chose to drive. In some cases, what's six seven,

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eight hours to go watch your team play? Sat through
the rain, sat in the long lines, weren't able to
buy merch, couldn't buy hot dogs, maybe couldn't buy year,
Maybe couldn't even stay for the game yesterday. Like our
guy Austin, I don't know, man, You tell me you
you ran the ball club, would you would you want

(09:12):
to feel like, you know what, even though it's not
our obligation, even though this event wasn't our faults, We're
gonna find a way to do right by them. It
ain't hard to figure out where people bought their tickets from.
It ain't hard to find out how people got tickets.
It ain't hard to round up people who had tickets.
How you gonna be rite by them? So far from

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neither franchise. Let's not make it just about the Reds,
because if I own the Atlanta Braves, I'd be equally horrified.
Wait a minute, our name was on that event there
it was Braves on our jerseys. That's our that's our
those are our logos, that's our brand. I wouldn't wait
for Rob Manford to make it right. Rob Manford has

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moved on to whatever's next in his world. What can
the Reds and Braves do to me make it right?
I don't know what it is, not paid to know
what it is. I do know we have about two
months where the baseball games left. We host eighty one
of those bad boys next year. I don't know I'd
figure out a way. So far, radio silence from both franchises.

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It's kind of interesting. I rarely tell people how to
run their sports organizations. All I could tell you is
how I'd feel if I ran one of those organizations.
I'd be horrified our name is attached to that absolute
dreadful minor league display. I'm not interested in how you're

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going to make it up to me. I'm interested in
how we're going to make it up to our customers
and our fans, people who support us. By the way,
if there's a franchise that could use the goodwill that
came with making things at least somewhat better for people
who went to that game, it's the Cincinnati Rads. We'll
see sixteen minutes after three o'clock. Five point three, seven

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four nine, fifteen thirty is our phone number. The way
the baseball played out, look, Tino Francona could have known
on Saturday, maybe I'm not gonna put Chase Burns out there,
and we'll save him until Sunday and if we get
the game in okay, that's cool. We have saved Chase Burns,
whose innings we're gonna limit this year. Anyway, he chose
to use Chase Burns now that does not let MLB

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off the hook for not knowing how weather radar works.
The whole thing was a cluster, and made more so
by the fact that the Reds lost the game, and
by the way, Uh, they came inches away from tying
the game on the McClain home run that got batted
back into the field. They had a thousand opportunities to
get runners in. Like, I'm not blaming baseball for the
Reds losing the game. It happened. They had a thousand

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chances offensively to make antent into the scoreboard and did not.
As a result. Though the kind of back up against
the wall tonight in Chicago with having used a whole
bunch of pitchers yesterday. Uh, there are four games out
of the wild Card. The math is not impossible by
any stretch. Four games fifty to go is not insurmountable.

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But you do wonder how much of a hole can
they dig, how much of a deficit can they allow
to build before the math gets really really hard. We've
got some Bengal stuff to get to, a really encouraging
theme emerging from training camp, a really discouraging theme emerging
from training camp. And I'm just simply going to try

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to talk some sense in to Trey Hendrickson coming up
here in just a bit. An interesting soccer game last
night FC Cincinnati and Lee's Cup play, which we'll get
to in the five o'clock hour with our guy, Bradley
Wright Phillips from MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, and
the Bearcats have bolted higher ground. Scott Springer at practice
during all of those workouts, also at Nippert Stadium this morning,

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He'll join us to talk some UC football coming up
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Speaker 2 (13:41):
Hey Camp tomorrow morning the AE doorn Window, Tony and
Mode Training Camp show ten o'clock. Let's see last Thursday
rain punted the team inside send Tony to Kenwood. So
it's been been a week or so since I've been
out there. Can't wait there. Our shows have been a
lot of fun broadcasting from a train of camp. But
don't forget Thursday night preseason opener Bengals and Eagles Live

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on ESPN fifteen thirty. This show, he is going to
start pregame coverage at three oh five. So we talking
about the fiasco in Bristol, Tennessee. Our guy Austin Elmore
was there one half of since e three sixty and
so I know you've talked about this already, but for
the benefit of my audience, just since we're talking about this,

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just help me, help me get an idea of what
the scene was like down there. First of all, like
you you went Saturday, you could not stay for the
resumption of the game yesterday, which was basically eight plus innings,
So you don't get a rain check, right, I don't
think so. No, So you saw less than an inning
less than an inning couldn't stay for yesterday, right, and
you don't get any sort of refund. Now.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Honestly, I didn't take point for this trip, Okay, I
was kind of just following along. One of my other
friends organized that did the whole thing, so he's trying
to figure that out.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
But I don't believe so. So separate the rain from
the overall experience, because the rain is one thing you
can't control that God does what he does fine, but
like the fan experience, I I will admit to being
somewhat skeptical about this going in me too, and I
don't know why. Yeah, I was. I was sad to

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see that so many people had such a miserable time.
You apparently are among them. Why was it so bad
on Saturday?

Speaker 5 (15:22):
I need to go back and find my old tweets
because when they announced it, I said, there's no way
this is going to work. Yeah, And I didn't think
of it as I thought of it as sitting in
a seat watching a baseball game.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Right. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
But I figured that they would at least figure out
the logistics, and logistically it didn't make any sense. First
and foremost, one hundred thousand people. I can count on
one hand. I can probably count on two fingers how
many security guards I saw. Really, there was no security.
There was no police presence that I saw at all.
We get down to we got to Bristol at noon
and we started tailgating and drinking and hanging out. We

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walk over to the fan fest at like three something
like that, and our group had gotten split up. There
was six of us, and so I get up to
the gate to get into the fan zone and they're like,
you need to have your ticket to the game. And
I was like, oh, okay, So I like go around
and try to get my buddy's attention who's in there.
And then twenty feet away at another interest, the guy goes,
you can just come in, and I was like, I

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don't have to have my ticket and they're like no,
And so I'm not kidding. Those people were twenty feet apart.
One group checking bags and tickets, another group just letting
people walk into the fan fest.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Is the fan fest inside the racetrack? It is not
inside the race track, Jason.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
It is right out like basically turned a smaller parking
lot into the fan fest. Okay, okay, And so first
thing you see when you get in the fan fest
is a line a mile long for merchandise okay, wrapping
throughout the FanFest, which that's the first instance of like, okay, this,
I don't know about this, but the FanFest itself was
not bad other than the lines being long, and they

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were very, very long. There was cool stuff, There was
the Legacy Walk, there was rets fan there was a
concert Jaco actually was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
I enjoyed that.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
Right then you turn to go into the stadium into
a Bristol Motor Speedway and you're walking up a giant
hill and it's just a massive people and there is
no organization whatsoever. And is it raining at this point? Yes, okay,
it is raining. It's uncomfortable. It's been spitting rain the
whole time.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Walk in.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Eventually finally get up this huge hill, get through, you
walk into Bristol Motor Speedway to your right, and this
is just my experience. There's a mound of dirt that
goes all the way into the earth, basically, which I
guess is what the track is built on. And it's
just I'm thinking, okay, well, if that gets wet, that's
gonna stream mud down in through here. There's dripping water
everywhere because it's coming down from the stands above. The

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lines for merch inside are just as long as outside.
The concession stand lines are wrapping in and up and down,
just ungodly long. And so we're thinking, Okay, how do
we want to do this? We want to try to
get food? Do we want to try to get something?
But we have plenty of time between now and the
start of whatever. So eventually we go up all the

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way to our section, which is almost at the very top,
and we decide we're gonna get some food there.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
And this is.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
Five thirty okay, ish games at seven fifteen games at
seven fifteen. I was in that line for almost an
hour and a half. This is just to get like
just to get consults, like regular food, regular food. And
you can tell, like you go up there and they
have like a whole new thing. It's like this is
major League Baseball at this Speedway Classic, and your options

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are hot dogs, nachos, nacho dogs, popcorn, kettle corn, and
then like candy and snacks pop like that. Right, It
took forever for that line to get through, so five thirty. Now,
the game itself got delayed five thirty. You walk in
and get in line. By seven fifteen, which is when

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the game is supposed to begin, you're still in line.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I get to my seat right around seven.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
So took an hour and a half. Yeah, how not
staff inexplicable? There was like, I guess not enough staff.
I have no idea, and so like we're seven people
away and that's when they announced that they've run out
of hot dogs. Okay, so now I'm pissed because I'm like,

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I wanted two hot dogs, like a coke.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
You've waited nearly an hour and a half for hot
dogs and you can't get.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
And so I settled for a bag of kettle corn,
a coke zero, and M and ms.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Did they have people like walking around selling hot dogs
and stuff? No, none of that.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
No.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
When you go to a typical race, and I know
very little about NASCAR racing, but I know I've been
to the Indy five hundred, you could like bring a
cooler rant. So is this like a deal We're hed
when we host a race, people can bring their own
stuff in or we're not used to these long lines,
Like why do you know anything about the experience you
had on Saturday versus what it's like if you go
to a car race at Bristol.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
I don't I think it was. I know it was
an MLB clear bag policy, which I know Faus familiar with. With
the NI you're not bringing stuff in it's a clear bag, but.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
You can bring in at a Reds game, you can
bring it out like a soft side of cooler. Yeah,
could you do that?

Speaker 5 (20:06):
I don't believe. So could be wrong, but I don't
believe you could. So they run out of hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I read Gordon Wittmeyer who wrote yesterday that for the
game that they actually played yesterday, they ran out of
Hamburger's well before first pitch. Yeah, how are they so
poorly staff? They knew how many tickets they were touting.
We had no idea we're gonna have eighty thousand people.
They ran out of food. Here's my thought. Okay, ninety
thousand people ended up being there. I think the total
was ninety one something. Half the track is basically shut down,

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right and people can't get to it, right, and so
you have seventy five percent of the stadium's capacity in
fifty percent of the room. Oh and you know, Okay,
So to me, that's like Okay, this the math doesn't
add up right as to how we're going to be
able to do this. And then I truly think, you know,
it's one of those tent pole jewel events from Major

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League Baseball. I think they brought their own people in, right,
So I don't think the people ran the concessions typically
work Bristol Motor speedway races. Huh.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
So here's the other part. Rain Obviously it makes everything worse.
We get to our seat and we're in the first row,
like under the awning at the very top, and so
I'm thinking, this is great, we'll stay dry, like cool,
and above us is like a faulty gutter that's rusted out,
and water is just pouring onto our seats. We had
six seats, and three of them you couldn't sit in
seriously because it was a waterfall onto them. So this

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was my other friends were at the seats as we're
waiting in line. We get there, I'm like, what's going on.
I talked to the guy and he said he's a volunteer.
It's the first time he's ever been here, and he
said his advice to him was just see if somebody
else moves and sit in their seats. Okay, I'm like
I was at this point. I was running hot because

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I had been in line. Yeah, and so I was like,
I'm just gonna sit here and eat my kettle corn
and try to settle down. But if it were me,
I would have been like, we pay two hundred bucks
for these seats. You better accommodate me better than this,
no question. But at that point where like, okay, other
people had left, we made it work. We were just
sitting there. Everything was fine, and rain was starting to

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lighten up. They were doing this starting the pregame ceremonies,
and then in the midst of the pregame ceremonies, is
anybody was watching on TV saw that the rain was
getting heavier, and I'm thinking, this is going to be
a really long night.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
So, like, I get it. They have Fox as a
TV partner, you have all these folks who have gotten there.
You want to try to get the game in. But
when they started playing baseball, I'm like, I'm watching on
TV and I'm looking at my radar and I'm like, dude,
this isn't this. This isn't gonna fly, this is gonna work.
Field's not going to be playable. Was when they started

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the game, were you guys looking at each other like
what are we trying to do here? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yeah, I was like, well, we'll see how this goes, because, like, honestly, God,
the other part is with all those people there, your
service is spotty, so you don't know exactly what the
radar is saying and like how it's gonna update. But
like for the week leading up to it, and really
even that day, it didn't seem like the rain was
going to affect the game. It was like, Okay, it'll rain,
but they'll they can play through it, no big deal.

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And then it just kind of settled over that little
valley that Bristol Motor Speedway is in and it just
got worse. And that I think made it even worse
because all those people that don't want to sit in
the rain go up into the concourse and they're like, okay,
well I'll get something to eat or whatever.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
It just got worse. So the biggest issue for you
was they they weren't ready to staff the event. Given
that they cut they cut it off and shoved everybody
into one area of the track. Yeah, it was basically
it That's how I saw it. Yeah, And I mean,
are people the entire time like looking at each other like, dude,
what are we doing here? That kind of thing. Yeah,

(23:48):
did you see any fights? I didn't see any fights.

Speaker 7 (23:50):
Fight.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
I did hear that that was happening, right, We really
mostly stayed in our seats the entire time once we
got there because we were dry.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Do we know why people were fighting?

Speaker 5 (24:00):
I don't, but I would imagine there was a lot
of drinking and I'm waiting around. Yeah, and not a
lot of baseball being played. Now the concerts, Yeah, were
those good? I mean they missed all of them because
I was in line.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
So you were in line, Well, Pitbull and Tim McGraw
are playing, you don't see any of them. I got.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
I got to my seat as Pitbull was doing like
his forty five seconds prior to the start of the stuff.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Gotta be honestly, that's about as much pit Bull as
I could down. But Dad said, and you pay for
the ticket, you understand the two concerts are included. It'd
be nice to not be in the concession line while
the concerts are taking place.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
See.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
I can't stress how far away Tim McGraw was from me,
Like that was on the other side of left field
from where I was at right, so like, yeah, you
could hear him, but you really couldn't like enjoy much
of a concert. Okay, I'm showing you a photo right
now that's zoomed in. I'm showing moa photo that is

(24:53):
zoomed in from where I was at. And so it
was so far away at first pitch. Obviously not every
but he was in their seats, but enough people were
in their seats that I thought on TV at least
it looked cool. I think it got pretty close and
the environment was actually sick, it looked it was awesome.
We were a part of the big card stunt with
the American flag, like we were holding those up and

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those plastic bags they came in ended up being huge
for us over the course of keeping ourselves dry, and
that was cool. The flyer was cool, like all like
the players coming around the track. The whole pregame we loved. Well,
it was awesome, really well done. Fans were into it,
like enjoyed it, and even from where we were at
it was pretty cool. And I've said, like I didn't

(25:35):
think the view was going to be great, but the
view was actually good.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
When the red scored their run in the bottom of
the first inning. That was loud, like that sounded awesome,
That sounded really cool on TV. Yeah, and then getting
out is that a big deal?

Speaker 5 (25:48):
Like it was awful? Yeah, it took us almost two
hours to get out as well.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
And then you couldn't stay for the game yesterday and
couldn't stay for the game. Yes, So obviously, like I
get it, it rains. There's only so much you can do.
But I there's a lot of folks who can't stay
at a Sunday m hm. And like yourself, you don't
get made whole by Major League Baseball. They don't say, hey,
come to a future you live in Cincinnati, go to
a future Reds game.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
Yeah, that's kind of croppy. Yeah, I mean, I have noise.
It was the worst event that I've ever been to.
I mean, I think we did the math while we
were sitting there for hours just doing nothing. I think
what eighty five thousand tickets times two hundred bucks a ticket,
seventeen million dollars something along those lines. Yeah, so obviously
it's obvious costed put the whole thing on.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
But yeah, no, I just what I don't like about
it is A, you had a bad experience. B. There's
gonna be a lot of folks who are like, see,
that's stupid to even try something like this. I don't
think it is. Baseball typically does these events really well.
And again, like I thought, watching on TV, it looked cool.
I didn't have a huge interest in going, but it
looked cool on TV.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
It's especially difficult too, when the weather in Cincinnati is
seventy five degrees. It's perfect, and people are like, we
skipped out on a home game for this. But also,
here's my other theory too, is so the game starts
at nine forty, they play that half inning, and then
by ten fifteen we're in another delay. I think around
ten forty five they totally said all right, we're doing

(27:10):
this tomorrow. Really from ten forty five on it didn't rain.

Speaker 10 (27:15):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
And so my thought process is they were probably right
with the forecast about starting it around ninety five, but
things had gotten so bad in the concourses that they're like,
we can't play this game right now. We can't do
this for another eight innings, is my guess.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Wow. And I wonder, I wonder what role Fox played.
I don't know any answer. I wonder they did play
a big role. I wonder what role well that sucks.

Speaker 7 (27:41):
Man.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
I was looking on social media yesterday morning and I
saw Sault folks who were like you were not the
first person that I saw describe it as firefast yeah right,
which the famous documentary the jaw Rule thing. But I
saw that often.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
They ran out of like hot dog buns, and by
the time we got to the front of our line,
the nacho cheese you could tell was like fresh out
of the bag.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
It wasn't even warmed.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
And then eventually they ran out of the nacho cheese,
and so they're just giving people nachos. It was like
the photos were actually they looked just like Firefest.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah not good man.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
And so I I tweeted like I was angry when
I tweeted originally, and then I was like, you know what,
I probably shouldn't have said that, like I'm here and
it's cool.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
And then but see it's not cool because you paid
I don't know what you paid, but you buy a ticket.
There's a certain level of expectation that Major League Baseball
should be able to meet.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yeah, I will say, like I didn't pay an outrage
my total price. We had six people. We split it
up two nights at an Airbnb in Virginia. The tickets everything,
total price was probably three hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
All right, But so you buy a ticket for something,
there is a baseline level of expectation that includes making
sure you don't run out of hot dogs.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Yeah wow, And apparently they got like some food in
So I don't know how they did that. I truthfully
have no idea how. I don't know if they went
into a freezer for the NASCAR races and said, all right,
we'll just take everything out.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Like I can understand Sunday there being some logistical issues
just with folks who weren't planning on working on Sunday.
Now you got to call them back to work. And
I mean I understand that to a degree. I do
not understand running out of hot dogs and nacho cheese
and buns and things today, run out of beer.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
I believe some places did. Yes, I think so well done.
All right, man, thanks, no problem. Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
That's our guy, Austin. We are way late. His partner
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Bengals players are not practicing today. They are, however, they are, however,
meeting and we're playing John Cena's music. Maybe that's because
Tony Pike is wearing George today. I have no idea, Tony.
It's awesome to have you. How are you.

Speaker 10 (30:51):
I'm so excited to be here, mel to talk about
a team opportunity where we're able to have some meetings
this afternoon. And you know what better way to kick
off the week than with meetings where we played football
this week?

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, practice tomorrow, travel on Wednesday, play the Eagles on Thursday.
Let's talk about something that happened while I was away. No,
not you being announced as a UC Hall of Famer,
but the Bengals citing Noah Fan. This is something you
and I discussed the possibility of on day one of camp.
It has become reality. He is the latest in a
long line of tight end so I think is going

(31:22):
to get paid next year because he plays with Joe
Burrow this year.

Speaker 10 (31:26):
Listen from a football nerds standpoint, I'm all about it
because it was it two years ago. All the talk
we had was Tampa two. How to figure out a
Tampa two. I'm going to talk so much this year
about twelve personnel You're going to be sick of it.
But in reality, Noah Fan gives the Bengals exactly what
they need. You see the stat out there, there were

(31:47):
only eight teams last year that operated out of twelve,
more than the Bengals, and they did a majority of theirs.
When Eric Hall was still healthy. So think of what
that number would have looked like at Eric Hall played
a full season twelve personnel. It puts so much pressure
on a defensive coordinator because they've got to make a
decision do you match the personnel and do you go
bigger with size, which means you create more bodies that

(32:09):
can be physical, but you also lose a coverage aspect.
And you got Mike Asiki and you got No a
fan who are both pass catching guys, or you roll
the dice and you play small and I know that
No a fan of Micah Sicki aren't known for their blocking,
but I do like their blocking ability against a safety
or a nickel that's in the game, or a dime
player that's in the game. So how do you want
to defend it? From a defensive coordinator, how do you

(32:32):
want to match it? It allows you to be more
versatile in the running game because it gives you more
lanes to run through. You can also a play action passed.
It is going to be a nightmare for defenses to
try to navigate. And then you see No a fan
of what he can do yards after the catch is
such a big thing here. Let Joe Burrow, get him
the ball in space, let him do some work. You
got two great pass catching tight ends, you've got two

(32:54):
all world wide receivers, and you've got a guy in
Chase Brown who will demand attention in the rome. I
don't know how teams play one high safety against the Bengals,
because then you open yourself up to the deep ball.
I see two high safeties and I think them being
able to do whatever they want down the field.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Let's talk about somebody who from a pure football perspective,
we have not spent much time on that since late
April when he got drafted seventeenth. Overall, we've discussed Shamar
Stewart's contract and his holdout and why he didn't sign
contract language. We haven't talked much about his impact on
the field, and by all accounts, his impact on the
field in practice in his first week as a as

(33:33):
an NFL player easy for me to say has been noteworthy.

Speaker 10 (33:38):
I like what I've seen because it's all the football
stuff you want, physical, fast, the power and the strength
off the ball, the fast twitch muscles. You see the
explosiveness at which he possesses. Now, can you figure it
all out and be the complete player? That's the next step.
But even now, Golden spoke about his versatility, how they
liked the explosiveness. It wasn't caveat that. He's still need

(34:00):
to get in football shape, which we talked about a
little bit because of the time he missed. But when
he's on the field, he's already made an impact in
plays at practice. So can you get that to translate
into the game, which I think they can do. But
if so, it helps round out this Bengals defense, and
you can see why they took a chance on him
at number seventeen.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I am looking forward to chatting again coming up at
four forty five, because we have to discuss Amarus Mims,
his hand and the cast his hand is in. I
look forward to a Tony thanks so much, Thanks Mo.
That's the Hall of Famer? Do we have to call
him hall of Famer? Every time? Like every time we
introduced who's on this radio station every day? Do we
have to refer to it's the Hall of Famer?

Speaker 11 (34:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Take that under advice? I think so, you think so?
So every time? Like if I'm with Tony Pike on
a Monday at twin Peaks for the Tony and mo
Football Show, And every time I say moegar with Tony Pike,
I now have to say, with Hall of Famer Tony Pike,
no just no, just one. It's a guest on you.
When he's a guest on our show, he's Hall of
Famer Tony Pike. Yes, okay, very good. It is ten

(35:05):
minutes away from four o'clock. Speaking of UC, Scott Springer
has been all the UC practices. He's going to join
us at four to twenty. We'll work in some phone
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Excuse me, this is ESPN fifteen. Aready, I'm owager. Thank
you for listening today. I did mention this at the
top of the show. Hope you had a great weekend.
Your phone calls are coming up right after the top
of the hour. On the part of this weekend that
the Reds could have controlled, Terry Francona could have chosen
to not use Chase Burns on Saturday night, and frankly,

(36:18):
you know Brian Snicker, didn't you, Spencer Stryder, Atlanta is
out of it. As much as Brian Snicker didn't like
reporters framing it that way, Terry Francona could have said,
we're not going to burn Chase Burns on Saturday. So
I don't think he should be let off the hook
for that decision. I do not know, though, how you
could have a working knowledge of weather radar and make

(36:42):
the decision to try to start that game on Saturday
when they did also, and you heard Austin just talk
about this. You know, about forty five minutes after they
banged the game, the rain was mostly gone. I just
how do you not earlier in the day go ahead
and make the decision. We're not going to play today.
More on that coming up on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2 (37:33):
Kay, wait, what's up? Four minutes after four o'clock? This minute,
the next sixty seconds free, absolutely free. I'm allegar. This
is ESPN fifteen thirty. Scott Springer's going to join us
in fifteen minutes. He's been at like every UC practice,
tells us what he's learned about the Bearcats of it
the last week or so. Coming up in fifteen minutes.

(37:53):
And we also have our guy Tony Pike. Let's talk
about a Marius mems In this weird hand injury, and
I'm going to make an ironclad guarantee that I think
is going to be paid off. Between six and seven
point thirty tonight on the station down the Hall, and
that coming up in just about thirty minutes. I was

(38:15):
last on. I took Thursday and Friday off. I was
not on the day of the trade deadline, but I
was on the air on Wednesday when we found out
the Reds have acquired key Brian Hayes. I know he
hit a home run in his first game. He also
made a big air in his first game. I'm certainly
hopeful that he could help his defensive bona fides are

(38:38):
without question. I still don't. I don't love it, mainly
just because it doesn't address their biggest issue. They've kind
of leaned into being bad offensively, at least with that
particular move, and having him for the rest of the
decade when he has acknowledged he as a back issue
is a questionable decision. Just really quick as a head's up.

(39:01):
The Reds are not gonna bar you from entering the
ballpark if you are not in love with every trade
or acquisition they make. Just FYI now, the Zach Lttel deal,
that's a good one because it's a little bit more
rotation depth and it enables the Reds assuming that Hunter
Green is gonna be back sometime soon. By all accounts,

(39:23):
he threw the ball, okay for Louisville last night. You're
gonna be able to take Chase Burns, and you're gonna
be able to take Nick Martinez and use them in
roles that are better for them right now, especially Chase Burns,
who I would love to see get some high leverage
opportunities and in the bullpen my guessing as he does.
And the Miguel Andulhard move, that's a really good one

(39:45):
because they needed somebody who can crush lefties. He's a
platoon guy. But that's okay. I just I wonder do
the Reds as they're currently constructed make you feel any
better about their playoff chances? Understanding the math involved now right?
It does. If it's a race, it feels like a

(40:05):
two team race. Quite frankly. The Cardinals don't seem equipped,
the Giants don't seem equipped. It feels like, if it's
not the Padres, the one challenger to them is going
to be Cincinnati. Four games is not insurmountable. It's also
not insignificant. But to you, do the Reds look and
feel better than they did when we woke up last

(40:25):
Wednesday morning. We'll spend some time on that. Five one, three, seven,
fifteen thirty. Let's take some phone calls. Scott and Dayton.
You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Scott, good afternoon. How are you?

Speaker 9 (40:38):
I'm fine.

Speaker 12 (40:39):
Th and yourself.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
I'm doing well. What's up?

Speaker 9 (40:44):
Did you have a good time at the lake?

Speaker 2 (40:46):
A very good time at the lake? Yes, that's great.

Speaker 12 (40:50):
Hey, So my son was at the Bristol game.

Speaker 9 (40:56):
And probably the only thing worse than what Austin had
described is having your wife and a two and a
half year old along with you.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Oh man, how long were they there for?

Speaker 12 (41:14):
So he has an RV.

Speaker 9 (41:16):
He drove an RV down. They stayed about twenty minutes
away from Bristol, and they got to Bristol probably I
think I got a text from him with a picture
of you know, you probably saw all of these. That
pitch was a strike blue. Yeah, yeah, well he had

(41:39):
one of those because he was in dead center field.
But he was there at two thirty. They finally threw
in a towel at it was right around tennis because
they had to get to the boy home to sleep,
and they the cheapest uber that they could find was

(42:04):
one hundred and forty six dollars.

Speaker 13 (42:08):
And it was just terrible.

Speaker 9 (42:11):
He was he he was there because I think I
told you this before we grew up with the Murphys,
and so he was there because he wanted to watch
Sean play, and plus it was just a cool.

Speaker 11 (42:25):
Venue and to do that.

Speaker 9 (42:27):
And the little boy really got into the race cars,
and so all in all, it wasn't a horrific event
for them. Food wise, they weren't. I mean, he didn't
say he stood in line. I asked him to get
me a jersey. You how much of his jerseys were

(42:49):
going for much two twenty.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
I should have asked Austin this, and I did not.
Did did your son tell you how long the lines
for the restaurant were?

Speaker 9 (43:01):
He did not, He did not. But again I haven't
read anywhere that that was an issue because they probably
had plenty of restrooms in Yeah, you know so.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
But did they stay? Did they go back for the
game yesterday?

Speaker 8 (43:17):
Yes? They did?

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Okay, all right, that worked out?

Speaker 10 (43:20):
Okay, yeah, I worked out.

Speaker 12 (43:22):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (43:22):
Again, they had to find a ride from to.

Speaker 13 (43:25):
And from their RV, but sure it was a lot.

Speaker 9 (43:28):
Less expensive than it was when they were trying to
get out of them.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
So there are certain things that I could I could
jive with, like I've heard people describe, Look, I went
and I didn't realize the sidelines weren't going to be
as good. Well that's on your right, or hey it rain, well,
I mean the rain like, that's whatever. But what you
can control is you can control, you know, understanding them.

(43:52):
When you go to have a sporting event, you might
wait in line right like I'm I'm you know, if
I go to a sold out Reds game, I'm going
to wait in line. I'm not going to wait for
an hour and a half. When you are staging an
event and people are waiting for ninety minutes to get
something that you have run out of, that's irresponsible and
that's inexcusable. When you have people sitting in seats that

(44:14):
have excess water being poured on them because of you know,
some sort of structural issue, that's not acceptable. That's that
is completely and totally inexcusable. I have an eight year
old daughter. I cannot imagine what it would have been
like being at that event, standing in line for something
to eat with an eight year old waiting in line
for an hour and a half. I'm sure there were

(44:35):
a lot of people who actually did do that. I'm
not sure how much that change is given the age
of your grandson, but oh boy, you know, two and
a half, they're eight hours. God love them for doing it.
They at least got a chance to go to the
game yesterday. And I understand something like that, like ubers
are going to be expensive. I've gone to gone to
major events where you know, like I'm gonna go to
the Voa Country Fast this week, I'm not driving there.

(44:57):
I know ubers are gonna be a lot. That doesn't bother.
But if you run out of hot dogs, you run
out of the basics. Like if you host an event,
it is your job to not run out of stuff,
especially something as basic as hot dog buns.

Speaker 9 (45:11):
Right, totally totally true.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Though.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
The one the one byproduct of this is my son
now loves race curse.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
That's good. That's at least a positive.

Speaker 9 (45:26):
Probably way more so than the baseball itself.

Speaker 12 (45:29):
So yeah, it was it was quite an experience for him.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Well I hope they got back safely.

Speaker 12 (45:36):
Yeah, well they're they're on their way all right.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Good deal, Scott, Thank you for the for the phone
call like you you understand, you understand. There's going to
be some some just built in obstacles. There are expected
eighty five thousand people there. You're probably not exactly going
to be able to just walk up to a concession
stand without any line whatsoever. Nobody's asking for that ninety
minutes in some cases two hours running out of stuff,

(46:00):
the fan fast lines being completely unreasonable, the people running
the ticket scanning at fan fast not knowing who's allowed in,
who's not allowed in. Come on, what are we doing?
What are we doing? He emailed me last week and
said he would never listen to the show again because
I didn't take his phone call yet. Here he is, Hi, Mike,
Hi you rasc you. How's it going?

Speaker 12 (46:24):
Well, I'm pretty good, although I feel bad for all
those people that went down to Bristol. But you know,
it's funny because everything's relative, right. It's a national event.

Speaker 8 (46:36):
We know that.

Speaker 12 (46:38):
But I talked to a couple of my buddies different
places around the country and they said, did did you
see it? And they said yeah, and they said, you know,
some of them thought it was kind of funny in
a way. They still felt sorry for people. They thought
it was kind of funny that mother Nature leveled the
boom on it, and then and then the MLB didn't

(47:00):
really maybe plan it out quite in some way, as
it was a comedy of errors, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Well, sure, but you and I could laugh at it
because it's not our money, it's not our time. There
are there are folks who drove for quite a while
to go to that event and didn't get what they
paid for. And that is not Again, I cannot emphasize
this enough. That is not the fault of the Cincinnati Reds.
But like it or not, the Cincinnati Reds name is

(47:25):
attached to that. And if I ran the Reds, if
I own the Reds, I would be livid and I
would want to do something for my fans who attended
that event to go watch my team play.

Speaker 12 (47:34):
Well, use your influence and get Castelaney to do something
nice for the fans.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Uh like you are dramatically, you are dramatically over stadium.
I have never had less influence over anything in my life.

Speaker 7 (47:48):
Well, I was hoping you did that though. Hey, you know,
my highlight of my weekend was the NFL Hall of
Fame inductions. It was just such a classy, well Douce Show.

Speaker 12 (48:01):
In my opinion. But what came up yesterday, which was something, well,
they were talking about salaries in baseball, and it's easy
to forget. The kirk Flood rule and Jackie Robinson's eligibility
to play in an all white league is the biggest
event in baseball history, obviously, without question, and luckily it

(48:27):
was my Dodgers who helped that happen. But and and
and the kirk Flood issue occurred, the kurk Flood rule
occurred as a result of that. Ultimately, but because the
owners couldn't own people anymore with the ten to five rule,
the reserve clause.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yeah, took baseball all the way to the Supreme Court.

Speaker 12 (48:48):
Yes, But what bones me out is Kirk Blood's not
in the Hall of Fame. Okay, you can say, well,
look at his stats. His stats aren't bad. He's almost
a three hundred hitter, seven gold gloves, played on the
sixty four and the seventy eight World Series team that
won for the Cardinals. And then they tried to play

(49:08):
him trading to the Phillies and that's when it all
went down. But here's the actions and his agents' actions
at that time changed baseball forever, and just for that alone,
I think the guy warrants some kind of notoriety in
the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Well, what I would say is this, if if Marvin Miller,
who you know, was obviously the Players Union president for
years and years and years, he is in the Hall
of Fame, and deservedly so. If Marvin Miller is in
the Hall of Fame, then Kurt Flood, who by the way,
was an All Star, what four or five times, led
the league in hits, won Gold Gloves, you know, got

(49:46):
MVP votes in certain years, if you combined the baseball
which he was obviously not a Hall of Fame caliber
player statistically, but not a bad player by any stretch.
A lifetime hit or close to three hundred if you
take that, and you add to it his influence when
it comes to free agency and helping baseball shed itself
of some of its more archaic rules that dominated the

(50:08):
sport for basically its first century. I concur I believe
that Kurt Flood should be in the should be in
the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 12 (50:16):
Yeah, I can't imagine an argument, I guess that.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
I mean, I would say this, I believe Kurt Flood
has been more influential in the sport of baseball than
Bud Seelig was, and Bud Selig is in the Hall
of Fame. I think Kirk Flood's influence was wide, wider
spread and did more for the betterment of the game
than anything that Bud Seelely was involved in.

Speaker 12 (50:38):
And maybe more more influential than Charlie Finley was with
the age, and he was very influential. Yeah, I mean
things with Marvin Miller and the whole deal, like you
we were talking about earlier.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Yeah, yeah, no, I would again, Marvin Miller's in the
Hall of Fame. I put Kurt Flood in the Hall
of Fame.

Speaker 12 (50:54):
Yeah. Did you get to see any of the Hall
of Fame while you're on vacation?

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I did. I watch it this morning. I love Hall
of Fame inductions.

Speaker 10 (51:01):
Oh I do too.

Speaker 7 (51:02):
And I thought the Antonio Gates they saved it to
the end, and how appropriate because I had forgotten, completely
forgotten all the only guy, and.

Speaker 12 (51:11):
You know on the site, the only guy to play
in the NFL that didn't play a down of college football.
I mean, that's incredible when you.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Think about Yeah, it was a terrific basketball player at
Kent State. Long career with the Chargers ends up in
Canton is a no doubt. I believe first ballot Pro
Football Hall of Famer. I thought Sterling Sharp was well overdue.
Jared Allen was obviously one of the pre eminent pass
rush not specialists pass rushers of this century. But when

(51:39):
I was a kid man, I used to love to
watch the Philadelphia Eagles because of Randall Cunningham and the
best player they had on defense at times. And this
and this is with Reggie White and Clyde Simmons and
Seth Joiner and Andre Waters. But Eric Allen was awesome.
And when they announced that he was getting into the
Hall of Fame thirty years or so after he returned,

(52:02):
I would have lost money assuming he was already in.
And so he got in, and I did watch the
ceremony and it was very well done. Mike, I gotta run.
It's nice to talk to you.

Speaker 12 (52:12):
Yeah, thank you so much more. Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
All Right, what have we learned about the Bearcats in
their first week or so in practice? Scott Springer tells us.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

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The three weeks from Thursday, U see opening up the
season with a home game in Kansas City against Nebraska.
Season will be here before you know. At the Bearcats
practice last week at Higher Ground and stayed for just
a week. They've now moved back to campus at Knippert Stadium.
Obviously they have their own indoor facility now, and so

(53:25):
I guess on some level it makes sense. Scott Springer
covers UC sports on the football beat for The Inquirer
and Cincinnati dot Com. Was that all those workouts at
Higher Ground? Was that practice this morning? And kind enough
to spend some time with us this afternoon. How's it going, Oh,
pretty good?

Speaker 8 (53:42):
All sorts of stuff going on, a lot of football.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Though, a lot of football, a lot of football. What
over the first week or so fall campus stood out?

Speaker 8 (53:50):
Well, they just look better, I've said all along, and
they expect to be better. This is year three. They
made it pretty clear big twelve media days, even John
Cunningham this is like making the turn in the golf
tournament and you're in the round three and you're expected
to do well. Scott Satterfield has said they've pointed toward
this year. So I like a lot of the transfers

(54:12):
that they have. I think on the offensive line, maybe
they don't miss a beat. I think on the defensive line,
if you've got Dante Corleone healthy and happy, that's a
good thing. Plus you get two guys that would have
started last year that were injured and they're back. The
linebackers are strong. Tight ends obviously strong. So you know,

(54:32):
maybe one question mark in the defensive back to the secondary,
but that's because you just don't know the guys yet,
and I've talked to some of them, haven't seen them.
I will say it seems I don't know, the throwing
game maybe has the upper hand, but those receivers are off.
The good defense has won a practice before up at

(54:54):
higher ground. I think it was last Wednesday. The defense
had the edge so at the end the offense had
to run the gas. So you know, Matthew McDoom is
a guy that can fly twenty three miles an hour
on that catapult device, which, for lack of a better term,
it looks like a sports brawl they put on them,
but I'm not going to tell him that. But twenty

(55:15):
three miles an hour, that's like a sub four three forty.
So that's like, that's like your steed.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Very very similar. Yeah, very very close. Yeah, no question.
Are you getting a sense of some things they'll be
able to do offensively that we didn't see them do
last year.

Speaker 8 (55:32):
I think they're going to be able to stretch the field.
I mean, you got Jeff Caldwell, who you know a
six' five was undiscovered at Lendon. Wood but you know
there's a guy that is junior year in high. School
he's five. Eight you, know that's that's the growing spurt
that a lot of us didn't, get you, know and
he did and he can go get the. Football and
Then Caleb goody stretches it pretty. Good Cyrus, ALLEN i

(55:55):
haven't seen him drop a whole. Bunch and these are
all new. Guys those are three new guys that very
easily could. START i don't. Know they don't put out
a depth. Chart this is not the sec WHERE i
think they're doing that, now but they sure look. Good
And Noah jennings another guy looks good. Geocontosis true Freshman

(56:15):
Jim kelly was at practice today AND i, said look at,
that you, know six two two ten, freshman nice looking
body and going and getting the. Ball and there was
a day at higher ground last week he had three.
Touchdowns so the throwing game has looked. Alright and you
Know Tabie, WALKER i like the way he. LOOKS i
think he's faster than people. Think you, know eight hundred

(56:35):
and ninety four yards Of wisconsin last year ten, touchdowns
had more touchdowns Than Corey kiner in less. Games, now
there's a lot of reasons that may or may not have.
Happened you can't really compare the. Tube and then you
have prior back and some other, guys and you know
the sores of his body looks, excellent so you figure
he's gonna. RUN i, mean you're the quarterback And scott sadderfields,

(56:57):
offense you're gonna. Run so a lot of good. Things
it's just. Okay now you got this team that you're
playing first game out of the shoot That's nebraska and
It's Matt. Rule and you, know someone came down from
a mountain with a tablet that, SAYS i hereby declare
that in year, Three Matt rule will will prevail because
that's what he did At temple AND. Baylora so that's

(57:21):
a talking point. There it's tough game to, start you,
KNOW i think it gives you great momentum if you
can pull. Away it reminds me a little bit of
you were, there you, know The Rose bowl AGAINST u.

Speaker 12 (57:34):
C L.

Speaker 8 (57:34):
A coming off With Luke pickles first, year where you
didn't really think much of that staff or that team
at the time because that first year was just but.
Ugly and then suddenly these guys are tough and can,
play and maybe that. HAPPENS i don't. KNOW i THINK
i think the game is going to be better than people.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Expect does it Impact? Campital you know last, year right
you're preparing for, this but your first game is against
AN fcs, opponent same for two years. Ago that's typically the.
Case has has it been addressed or have you seen
and obviously we're still weeks, away but but has opening
up against on a neutral, field A big ten caliber,

(58:17):
opponent A big ten, opponent has that changed at? All
the urgency of, camp the, tempo how they use, guys
that sort of.

Speaker 8 (58:24):
Thing the last couple of days Of, seymore you, know team,
activities you, know offense versus. Defense SO i haven't seen
any you, know specific type, things and obviously those are
things that they don't necessarily want the media to. See
but uh, YEAH i think there's a sense of. Urgency
but the guys seem confident and then you, know not

(58:46):
not necessarily, cocky BUT i think they they think they're
decent and they look the, part and we're just to
have to wait and. See Like, nebraska you, know the
two teams are really similar in a. Way if you
look at In Matt rule's first, year they go to and,
Ten Scott satterfield goes three and. Nine you covered The
sadderfield three and nine season easily could have been six

(59:09):
wins there because there was a very you know, what
five games or seven points or. Less then you get
to last year And rule gets to six wins and
gets into a ball and they win the bowl Against Boston.
College so they come away seven to six and feel
a little bit. Better, well you, see could have easily
been in that. Position you, know five and two should

(59:30):
have been six and one because of the pit. Debacle
but five and, two you think you're on your way
to a, bowl and they didn't make. It had they,
been they'd been, in you, know similar situation As. Nebraska,
so and everyone's looking For nebraska to go, up and
same WITH uc, so a lot of. Similarities you. Know

(59:51):
obviously it's The Big, ten and everyone knows more About.
Nebraska SO i haven't really heard a lot of the
so called pundits saying a whole bunch about Cincinnat but
And i've heard probably more About. Nebraska but maybe that's
a good. Thing maybe that's the way you want to
go into this, game you, know in the weeds a
little bit and see what. HAPPENS i think they're. BETTER

(01:00:13):
i think they need seven, wins eight wins, though to
kind of turn the public.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Around, Yeah AND i you, Know i've talked about the
parallels between The nebraska game this year in twenty. Eighteen
you want to make people perk, up want to make
people pay, attention want to make people feel like this
is going in the right. Direction don't wait until the
big twelve. Starts go get that win against Against nebraska
AND kc and the dynamic is not dissimilar from twenty.

(01:00:37):
Eighteen that game Against Chip kelly's FIRST ucla.

Speaker 8 (01:00:40):
Team, right and then they beat him the following year,
too showing you it was No. Fluke so, yeah that
would be quite the head turner for both. Teams probably
doesn't make or break the season for, either but it's
just it is what it.

Speaker 14 (01:00:52):
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THE rnl carriers inside pitch at seven oh. Five he's
on the air at. Six i'm guessing a good five
segments tonight From lance On Lonnie anderson's passing THE wkrp In.
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i know no one who loves that television show more

(01:03:34):
Than Lance. McAllister that show was not on in first
run distribution WHEN i was old enough to know WHAT
i was watching on, television so that show was on
from like seventy eight to eighty. Two BUT i certainly
became very familiar with it is as a kid when

(01:03:55):
it was on in syndication in the mid. Eighties and
when you're a you, know and a nine year old,
boy a ten year old, boy and your dad HAS
wkrp In cincinnati on And Jennifer marlowe shows up on the,
screen you tend to perk. Up Lonnie anderson came to
the radio station like in two thousand or two thousand and,

(01:04:16):
one AND i don't. Remember we were In Mount adams
at the, time AND i don't remember exactly what she
was here, for BUT i whatever she was here, for
we booked her on The Jim Scott, show and she
came to the, studio which happened the sort of thing
that happened a lot more frequently than as opposed to.
Now and she still had her, fastball so to. Speak

(01:04:38):
AND i don't know THAT i have ever seen a
radio personality look as excited As jim did the day
THAT i told Him Lonnie anderson's going to be in,
studio AND i don't think it is. Possible we joke sometimes,
here like when we Have red's players up here During
Red's fast to The. Caravan you see folks that kind

(01:05:01):
of hang around the studio that typically aren't anywhere near the.
Studio the Day Lonnie anderson Joined Jim scott in, studio
in the control room THAT i was in producing the,
show we must have crammed like twenty five like guys who,
are you, know just getting to, work typically aren't caught
anywhere near the, studio suddenly had a vested interest in

(01:05:23):
Watching jim do his. Show and this is two thousand
or two thousand and, one so it's if you wanted a,
picture you, know you had to like take it with a.
Camera AND i brought the camera to work that. Day
and Because i've moved so many damn, TIMES i have
lost a lot of my photos from that. Era BUT
i got my picture With Lonnie, anderson and that was

(01:05:45):
a pretty big, deal and she was really nice and
posed with. Everybody everybody got their, photos some people got
some stuff signed and she was awesome and just stunningly.
Gorgeous so she passed. AWAY i saw that last, night
a day AFTER i posted a photo of her in
relation to the racetrack game because she was In stroker.

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Race Burt, reynolds who became her, husband But, Lance i'm,
sure is going to talk about her extensively and, exhaustively
AND i can't blame. Them Annie Anderson Jennifer marlowe passes
away at the age of seventy. Nine No bengals practice.
Today they're back at it. TOMORROW i Think i'm gonna
look this up as we. SPEAK i think tomorrow is
the last training can practice that is ACTUALLY i guess

(01:06:33):
that is not open to the. Public tomorrow practice from
ten to, noon BUT i don't see it on the
public schedule for, Tomorrow so you're up to. Here you're
on your own if you want to go watch The
bengals practice. TOMORROW i don't see it on The bengals
Dot com. Schedule they have two more for season ticket
holders and for club. MEMBERS i don't see tomorrow's practice

(01:06:56):
as one that is list that is open to the,
public So i'll assume it's, not but we'll have it
for You we're broadcasting from camp tomorrow starting at ten
am and looking forward to. IT i THINK i also
Saw Kay adams is going to be there. Tomorrow we're
going to Getting Kay adams on the show WITH Us
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hall Of Famer Tony. Pike is that a real?

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Thing?

Speaker 10 (01:08:39):
Uh you, KNOW i think between you know now and
maybe just the event In, october that would be.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Fair, Okay so until Your hall Of fame INDUCTION i
have SO i have for the next two and a half,
MONTHS i have to refer to you As hall Of
Famer Tony. Pike.

Speaker 10 (01:08:54):
Yeah i've had a lot of people in ready mo
since you talked, about you, know admission into The hall
Of fame and things like, that that have already reached.
Out so we may want to double whatever is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
EXPECTED i UNDERSTAND i might have to add auxiliary. Seating
let's talk about a storyline that has started to unfold here,
recently and that is one Involving Marius. Mims, now we
all Think Marius mims has a chance to be, really really.
Good you AND i were at practice last week when
he kind of got pulled aside and missed the last few.
Reps now dealing with a hand. Issue he's got a

(01:09:25):
cast on. It this is. Troubling this is also.

Speaker 10 (01:09:28):
Weird, YEAH i think more weird than. Anything you, know
when he first came, out you AND i were down.
There i'm, like, okay this is. Smart allow other guys
to get reps in case someone were to go down
in a. Game and then he missed a couple. Practices
he was back practicing. Yesterday for what it's, worth but
it's the way in which he talked about, it And Scott,
peters who essentially, said it's part of the. Game you're

(01:09:50):
going to have to play while you're. Hurt we need
you out. There And Marius mims essentially came out and, said,
hey this is Something i've got to learn how to play.
With and it wasn't like it, was in my, opinion
sound like it was going to heal up in a
couple of. Weeks it sounds like this is an issue
that he'll now have to navigate as the season, goes
and maybe a different, position you're not as. Concerned maybe defensive,
line maybe, linebacker but in a position at tackle especially

(01:10:15):
he plays right, tackle and it's the right, hand mo that,
is if you envision, it that's the hand that is
protecting your outside leverage to Protect Joe. Burrow so that's your,
punch that's your, grip that's your. Hold that's a lot
to have to navigate for a guy who already doesn't
have a ton of reps under his, belt and a
guy that we really haven't talked about much as an.

(01:10:35):
Issue we've talked about questions on the offensive. LINE A
Marius mens was always slated in there as that solid.
Piece it is it's. Concerning is it panic? Button, no
but it does make you think more about the offensive
line than the potential lack of depth that they.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Have, yeah no question about. It and, frankly as much
as we have talked about the defense playing with, confidence
the defense winning at the point of, attack it's not
like the offensive line is winning rave reviews with its
performan so far during.

Speaker 10 (01:11:00):
Camp, yeah it's the hardest thing to navigate watching practices
or watching videos from practices and, say Man Chris jenkins
had a good, rep McKinley jackson had a good. Rep
joseph Thought Miles. Murphy so you feel good about that
sense and then you look and, say, well that was
a bad rep From Dylan. Fairchild that was a bad
rep From Orlando Brown. Junior so it's hard to. Navigate

(01:11:24):
is it good on the defense or is it more
troubling on the, Offense.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
No question about. It, Tony, well chat again coming up
in just under one. Hour thank you so.

Speaker 13 (01:11:32):
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Major league basebaul, decided we care about the attendance, number
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uh Michelob, Ultra Superior, Taste superior Light. Beer we did
not get a chance last week because The bengals got
the deal done WHEN i was. Off they Signed Noah
Fan and it's, interesting you, know sometimes sometimes the first
people to to start to chirp about something that's going
to happen or not the people you want to pay attention.

(01:13:12):
TO i have found this in life that at times
the first people to weigh in are not the folks
who have the correct. Perspective they just they want to be,
First they want to be. Loudest so we found out
on the first day of training camp that The bengals
were interested In Noah fan bringing him in for a,
Visit and instantly it was, yeah but he doesn't play. Guard, okay,

(01:13:38):
no he. Doesn't did a guard equivalent Of Noah fan become?
Available because if the answer is, yes of course they
should be. Interested does the safety equivalent Of Noah fan
become available in the coming. Weeks if the answer is,
yes well sure they should be, interested maybe even bring

(01:13:58):
him in for a. Visit but no A fan plays tight.
End and then it kind of felt like everybody else
reminded all those other people guys remember the twenty twenty
four draft when The bengals took two tight, ends one
of whom can't play this year and the other of
whom really hasn't done anything to establish himself as AN nfl.

(01:14:22):
Player and then those first people who chimed in were, like, oh,
yeah that's, yes tight end was in. Need then those
two guys are either not healthy or not that, good so,
yes tight end is still a position that they could.
Fortify and then the really smart people or, like, hey

(01:14:42):
by the, way, guys remember last year The bengals like
to have two tight ends on the. Field quote twelve,
personnel and THAT i think everybody started to, realize, yes,
yes this is a good. Signing this is a good
signing for me for one simple reason BECAUSE i think at,
times you, know you hear this when it comes to the,
draft you, know focus more on. Positions even like with,
baseball The reds took a seventeen year old shortstop In

(01:15:05):
round one of the. Draft i'm not gonna lie to,
you my first thought, was, geez you know you're trying
to win in the coming. Years couldn't you have taken
somebody who, can you, know better enhance the chance that
you do that as opposed to a seventeen year old
guy who's not going to be here for a. While
but The reds, said you know, what we're gonna incur the. Risk,

(01:15:26):
also we don't care about which position he. Plays if
we have enough good, players we'll find, spots we'll be.
Okay and so you know they draft the. Shortstop even
what they did with Keep Brian. HAYES i don't love
The Key Brian hayes trade because to, me you're just
leaning into being bad offensively at a position where you
usually have a good offensive. Player but there's another part

(01:15:49):
of me, that, cause, Well Sal stewart could play third,
base but you're not sure what's gonna happen with. Him
you know, what get as many good players and then
figure it. Out they didn't allow what they have and
they didn't allow what they're going to have to keep
them from getting a player they, valued even if me
personally unvalue him that. Much by the, WAY i hope

(01:16:09):
he proves me. Wrong and he seems like a nice
guy with a very good. Attitude and he hit a
home run in his first game and that's. Awesome also
made a big error in his first. Game we'll ignore
that The Noah fan. Thing you should always be looking
to get. Better it doesn't matter which. Position you should
always be looking to get. BETTER i don't think teams
are as guilty of this as we as fans. Are

(01:16:29):
And i'm pointing the finger at. Myself, hey they HAVE,
x so they don't need why BECAUSE x AND y
play the same? Position, well is why better THAN? X?
Does why spice up the? Competition? Do? Does why give
them a little bit more? Flexibility? Does why make them
a little bit more difficult to prepare? FOR i think

(01:16:52):
in the case Of Noah, fan the answers are, yes, Right,
like you mean to tell me there's not room for
a guy who's averaged fifty catches during HIS nfl career
who you could use in a role that we all
agreed The bengals needed to expand upon last, year which
is that second tight end on the. Field by the,
way just thinking about this Because John, schneider who's THE
gm In, seattle said today that after the organization was pretty.

(01:17:15):
Coy when asked about why they let go Of Noah,
fan he said it was just pure a pure cab.
Casualty those are his, words, quote pure cab. Casualty, now
whether or not he's telling us the whole, STORY i
have no, idea but that kind of seemed to be the, case,
Right like we've when they Let Noah fan go In
seattle and we saw The bengals had interest and we're
going to bring him, In like it it ain't hard

(01:17:37):
to find a lot of people who cover The, seahawks
and they were all, confused, like didn't think it was
a personality thing or a behavioral. Thing it was a cab. Casualty, okay,
well nothing that says the guy can't. Play he's still
just twenty seven years. OLD i like the fact that
The bengals didn't look at noa fan and, go he's
not a guard and we're fine a tight. End they,

(01:18:00):
said wait a, minute that's another, option it's another, piece
it's more. Competition it's somebody who's got SOME nfl bona.
Fides and, oh and by the, way we needed a
tight end a year and a half, ago and we
really haven't figured out a way to fill that. Need
here's a guy that's got a track record and so good.
Signing good, signing by the. WAY i also like this

(01:18:23):
and do what you want with, it because it's just.
Practice Shamar stewart became very well known for reasons that
don't have nearly as much to do with, football during
the course of his training camp holdout and during the
course of his whatever you want to call, it during
the course of his standoff with The. Bengals and you

(01:18:43):
may have agreed with everything that he had to, say
BUT i think for a lot of, us you, know
it wasn't the best way to approach his introduction to professional,
football popping off on his franchise in the short, term
at least damaging the relation between he and the team
that he's working for the back and forth between the

(01:19:03):
team and the, Agent, like none of that was. Good
fortunately it had a pretty quick. Resolution BUT i give
the dude, credit, man because if you have paid attention
at all during his first week as a professional football,
player all you've read is about his, impact about his,
teachability about how hard he's, working about how he looks

(01:19:26):
the part about how he's made plays in. Practice, like
good for, that, dude, Man like the conversation About Shamar
stewart for, weeks for months was about stuff that had
nothing to do with. That neither you OR i have
any idea how good of a pick he's going to.
BE i am going to lean on the pressures and the. Disruptions.
Right he had thirty nine pressures last year At TEXAS

(01:19:46):
a AND. M not an insignificant. NUMBER i think among
the best forty pressure totals in all OF fbs college
football last. Year that is not. Insignificant but with a
lot of focus on, him not just because he was
taken with a seventeenth overall, pick but because of how
his contract situation, UNFOLDED i think he has very quickly

(01:20:10):
taken the conversation away from that to what his potential
is what his role might be in the defense and
what kind of impact he might have this. Year, look
when you removed all the back and forth and the
bad feelings and the fact that everybody wanted to take,
sides at the end of the, day this is a
very very important. Player it's a very very important. Player
how does The bengals pass rush get better Without Shamar

(01:20:33):
stewart making an? IMPACT i don't. KNOW i don't know the.
Answer AND i can, go, well What Miles murphy's going
to be? Better, eh, okay count on. That, Well Trey
hendrickson's going to? Do what have more sacks than this coming? Season, like,
legitimately as much as we've talked About Shamar, stewart and
as much As Shamar stewart gave us a lot of

(01:20:54):
gifts during summer when there's typically not a lot going
on and gave us things to discuss and debate and argue,
about we haven't talked. Much we haven't talked much about
his football. Impact And i've watched him practice. Once now
we'll see him work out, tomorrow. Hopefully but every account
coming From bengals training, camp on top of just the

(01:21:17):
overall progress of the, defense has been about his ability
to make plays in a training camp. Setting So thursday
night there's a chance for us to watch him play
a football game and you, know get a glimpse into
what he can or can't. Do but he's extraordinarily important
to this football. Team if you're like me and you
believe That Trey hendrickson is still going to, play whether

(01:21:38):
it's on a long term, deal WHICH i still feel
like is going to get, done or under his current,
contract WHICH i refuse to believe he's not going to
play under if a deal doesn't get. Done even if you,
believe no matter, What Trey hendrickson will play for The
bengals this, year for this pass rush to improve and
for it to improve, SIGNIFICANTLY i have a hard time
believing that happens If Shamar stewart doesn't make an. Impact

(01:22:00):
and in his first week as a pro football, player
it felt like he made an. Impact take it with
a grain of, salt contextualize. It it's in a practice.
Setting it's not worth making a big deal. About but
good for that guy for almost instantly changing the conversation
and hopefully that continues On thursday and into the. Season
for all that we talked, about that guy for non football.

(01:22:20):
Reasons it cannot be overstated how important he is for
this team this. Year this is not a four year.
Project this is not a red shirt. Year this isn't
one of those deals where, hey they drafted him and
he can get his feet wet playing some non important.
Snaps uh. Huh they need a better pass. Rush they
Drafted Shamar. Stewart he's got to help make their pass

(01:22:42):
rush better this. Year maybe he's taken the early steps
toward helping them do. That quarter after five we got
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Speaker 10 (01:24:54):
Nick.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Nick you're ON espn fifteen. Thirty what's, Up? Nick how are?

Speaker 5 (01:24:57):
You?

Speaker 12 (01:24:58):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (01:24:58):
Mo how you?

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
Doing i'm, well, man what's?

Speaker 11 (01:25:00):
Up?

Speaker 16 (01:25:02):
SO i just ordered my uh MY i Survived BRISTOL
t shirt from HIS.

Speaker 12 (01:25:06):
T shirts and it's. Fantastic did you?

Speaker 16 (01:25:10):
THERE i was, There, YES i could not stay for
the game YESTERDAY i GOT i had a buddy come
down From. MILWAUKEE i had another one come down From
New jersey and we met In bristol and, UH i
don't know if you, know maybe perhaps some of your
other callers who provide this, insight but you'll be pleased to,

(01:25:31):
know for for, one That pitbull actually only did like
one verse of A tim mcgrassaw and that was the
that was the extent of Pit.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Bull that's more Pit bull THAN i would have. Liked
but that's. Okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:25:44):
Yeah we were, like, well where is he gonna come?
Out and he, yeah he did come. Out it was
like one one verse of A tim McGrath song and
then he was, Gone so you would have appreciated that very.
Good second of, all we. Waited so the concessions thing
we we, uh part of the issue was so many
people were packed in into a small, space as your

(01:26:04):
other callers are alluded, to and the bar we were
at ran out of. Beer we went, down we walked
all the way down to the other side really to
try to find a concession stand with a shorter. Line
we waited probably about thirty five forty minutes and heard
that they were out of hot. Dogs so we just
we just got out of. Line SO i never did
get food at the end of the. Night and then

(01:26:25):
worst of, all they ran out of toilet. Paper what so.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
They ran out of toilet, Paper, yeah the.

Speaker 16 (01:26:33):
Bathroom there was really not a line for the. Bathroom
for the men's. Room at least they had plenty of,
urinals being you, know a. Racetrack, yeah opious amount of
alcohol are. Consumed but, yeah they ran out of toilet
paper in the men's.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
Room so we're not talking about like portal let's we're
talking about like a full fledged men's. ROOM a normal
facility was saying, urinals toilets and all. That they ran
out of toilet.

Speaker 16 (01:26:53):
Paper, correct an actual bathroom inside the. Facility, yeah, no toilet.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Paper. Yeah so so you're at a you're at a
bar in the race track that runs out of. Beer,
yes they.

Speaker 16 (01:27:08):
Had all they had left were those surf side uh
like icy and vodka.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Things but what you were looking, For but you were
looking for beer at a baseball, game at a racetrack
where you would think they understand there's gonna be a
lot of beer. Drinkers and they ran out of.

Speaker 16 (01:27:22):
Beer, yes, yeah that particular bar ran out of. BEER
i don't know about the other ones in that, area but,
yeah that one was.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
Gone so they ran out of, Beer they ran out
of hot, dogs and they ran out of toilet. Paper
is there anything they didn't run out?

Speaker 16 (01:27:34):
OF i don't think they ran out of complainers by
the end of the, night so there were plenty of.

Speaker 12 (01:27:43):
THOSE i.

Speaker 16 (01:27:45):
Am then on top of, things, yeah and then on
top of, things it took us just under two hours
to get out of the.

Speaker 6 (01:27:51):
Lot.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
Uh look that THAT i, UNDERSTAND i, MEAN I i
that And i've Never i've never been to that particular.
VENUE i don't know that is. Abnormal but it seems
like just understanding where it, is like the expectation would
be getting in and out would be not the easiest.
Thing that that, Correct that wouldn't bother me as. Much
i'm willing to pay the. Freight i'm willing to pay the.

(01:28:15):
Money understand where it. Is uh deal with taking forever
to get. Out if While i'm, there you don't run
out of the basics like, uh toilet, Paper.

Speaker 16 (01:28:26):
Yeah, yeah just just completely gone from that particular.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
Bathroom so uh, Well, nick welcome. Back i'm sorry you
had such a bad. EXPERIENCE i appreciate the car.

Speaker 16 (01:28:37):
You were on a boat.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
Elsewhere, Nick thank We we we did not run out
of beerau though we came pretty damn. Close thank you very.
Much i've never put on a major event like. That
i'm not an event. Planner but if You're Major League
baseball and you're telling everybody days in, advance, hey we're
gonna set a new attendance. Record we're gonna have eighty five.

(01:29:00):
PEOPLE i have no idea how you don't have, enough
especially toilet, paper and maybe not every men's room ran
out of toilet, paper but you can't have one that
does you just. Can't you cannot run out Of and
if you run out of toilet, paper it's, like all,
right the toilet paper guy screwed. Up but when you

(01:29:21):
run out of toilet papers and hot dogs and hamburgers and,
beer it's as, if and maybe this isn't the, case
but this is how it comes. Off it's as if
they were more concerned about the attendance total and it
looking cool On fox than delivering a satisfying experience for their.

(01:29:44):
Customers that is not. Acceptable there's two ways of doing.
Business take your money and forget about, you or take
your money and ensure that you're getting what you paid.
For there's no guarantee that it's not going to, ring
guarantee that the game is gonna be, good there's no
guarantee that your team is gonna. Win but what should

(01:30:06):
be inherent is that we're not gonna run out of the,
basics that we're not gonna have lines the last ninety,
minutes and that we're not gonna run out of toilet.
Paper that might be a poll. Question what's worse to
run out of toilet, paper hot dogs or? Beer unbelievable

(01:30:28):
cod storg toilet? Paper right, way grocery stores running out
of toilet. Paper we Had we had people like camping
out of grocery stores waiting for the toilet paper truck to.
ARRIDE i do remember. THAT i remember a buddy of
mine coming to my house because he couldn't find toilet paper. Anywhere,
yes we let him in our house DURING covid so
he could get SOME. Tp how do you do?

Speaker 17 (01:30:47):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
Man and LIKE i brought this up at the top
of the, SHOW i Know i'd come off Like i'm
blaming The reds that this was a Major League baseball.
Thing this was A Bristol Motor speedway. Thing but, man
IF i am, IF i Am Phil, castellini my franchise's
name is attached to that, event which was a disaster
by so many. ACCOUNTS i am. Livid a'm, livid AND

(01:31:12):
i want to do something for my team's fans who.
WIN i don't know how you do. That phil's a smart.
Guy they got smart people down there at the. Ballpark
figure it. Out try to make people feel better about
driving five six hours to go watch my team, play
maybe not even seeing the game because they couldn't hang
around Till sunday and being at a at a venue

(01:31:32):
that runs out of toilet, paper, beer hot, dogs, hamburgers
and have lines that last ninety minutes of two. Hours
i'd be livid twenty nine alfter five, o'clock more of
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Buddy Bradley Wright phillips on a disappointing night FOR Fc.
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Speaker 2 (01:32:35):
Stations so interesting match last night in A League's cup
FOR Fc. Cincinnati by the, way we'll get to sports
headlines in just a. Second The orange And blue losers
To juarez on penalty. Kicks hey get a point in The League's,
cup but in trying to advance to the knockout, stage
we're gonna need some. Help first of, all they could
start by winning on furs And night Against. Sivas Bradley

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Wright PHILLIPS mls season Past APPLE tv with US a
rough night last? Night where do we begin with the
performance BY Fc? Cincinnati how are you?

Speaker 12 (01:33:07):
Doing first of, ALL i wouldn't called it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:09):
ROUGH i understand That cincinnati they set themselves.

Speaker 12 (01:33:12):
A really high, standard you know WHAT i.

Speaker 17 (01:33:14):
Mean when you're playing against this, opposition it's always going
to be. Difficult, Listen you've got the point you, needed
so for the last, game you have a real. Opportunity
it's in your. Hands you know you can win that
game and you go through to the knockout. RIGHTS i think, so,
yeah it wasn't beautiful on the, eye but they show
great fight to come back At vander doing what he normally,
does putting the team on his. Back there's a lot
of positives to take on that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
RESULT i, Think, yeah you know what the thing is
if they figure out a way to win that match on,
pks we're talking about maybe not the signatory vendor, performance
but pretty damn. Close, YEAH i agree with.

Speaker 17 (01:33:45):
You, yeah if you can just get over the line
with the penalties and imagine A vanders the one that.
Misses you, know Normally i'm putting EVERYTHING i have on
him to put that in the top, corner you, know
and it just wasn't meant to. Be BUT i still
think if you're if you're getting seven, points would probably
be in a good point in a good.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Play all, right how do you break down their match
they have On. Thursday it's a pretty quick, turnaround it.

Speaker 17 (01:34:07):
Is but, Listen chivas Is hiva's, Right, Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:34:10):
Chievasah they haven't.

Speaker 17 (01:34:11):
Impressed they haven't impressed, Me i'll be.

Speaker 12 (01:34:13):
Honest in this.

Speaker 17 (01:34:13):
Tournament, yes they come with a big, name they have
huge pressure coming out Of League air, mehws but just
What i've seen In League's. CUP i Watch cincinnati every
weekend and on the FREE Cty. Show so it's a
TEAM i know on their day they can, beat but
they have to defend. Better WHEN i Watch cincinnati normally
throughout the, years you, know when they've been, good they
defend the box very. Well they're very you, know attention to,

(01:34:34):
detail it's very difficult to get any opportunity to get through.
THAT i didn't see that in the game Against, warred
so that will have to be better if they play
at their best. DEFENSIVELY i don't see them having a
problem getting a free point here Against.

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
SHIVA i would imagine That Pat noonan's personnel usage is
going to change a little bit On thursday night as.

Speaker 17 (01:34:49):
Well, YES i Know Kevin dank's been in. Training If
i'm being totally, honest the team looks a little different without.
Him you need that last little killer instant in the
final third. Part, again no disrespect to, ANYONE i think
that the defense is a better place Where Miles robinson
is in there MEAs. SO i Know Miles robinson starting

(01:35:10):
the last. GAME i expect to see him in the
start in, eleven just to show up that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Backslide we've talked a lot about The League's cup, format
it being altered this. Year we are more than a
handful of matches. In do you think it is achieving
the intended? RESULT i love.

Speaker 6 (01:35:26):
IT i love.

Speaker 10 (01:35:26):
It if you just look at the.

Speaker 17 (01:35:27):
Stats, Now i'm not sure as a toll how many,
goals but there's been so many goals and just we
know that emnef me getting. Met these rivalry that comes
from the national teams playing each. Other when you have
these teams playing head to head throughout the group, stage
it's a beautiful thing because the rivalry is. Organic nothing is.
False when needs, to we needs, To leeds meet each,

(01:35:48):
other nothing's. Less out on the, field they empty the.
Tank they want to. Win its, chippy there's, fights there's,
goals there's sending. Off it has everything a great football.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Match, needs very well, said should be interesting and. Fun
On thursday, again a quick. TURNAROUND Fc cincinnati versus As,
chievas third game of The League's. Cup if they get
to seven, POINTS i think we both like their. Chances
hopefully they. Do, bradley as, ALWAYS i appreciate the time,
man thanks.

Speaker 13 (01:36:15):
So, much thanks for having, me and good luck much For.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
Prisday, yeah they're gonna need. It thank you so. Much
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Ninth red's enter played tonight four games Behind San diego
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(01:37:47):
seven walked. One forty two of his sixty six pitches
were for, strikes And, Texas Ohio, State Penn, State, Georgia
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here BECAUSE i meant to do this at the top

(01:38:08):
of the hour AND i did, not AND i don't
want my work to go for Not so if you
were listening To brennanman And jones on, baseball they were
discussing you, know if you remember a few weeks ago
and That friday night game against The Colorado, Rockies Ellie
Dela cruz was intentionally walked three. Times Austin, hayes has
otherwise been a positive addition for this, team had an awful,

(01:38:32):
night zero for, five struck out every time they Walked
ellie for, him he struck out four times in the,
game hit into a double, play and they were talking
about the night in nineteen, ninety or maybe it was
the day in nineteen ninety when Lou panella Walked Andre
dawson five times in the, game and they were talking about,
that but, they by their own, admission didn't have the

(01:38:54):
information as to who was batting Behind Andre dawson in
that game and what became of the at. Bats right
After Andre dawson was walked five times in a game
by Lou, panela the game wins sixteen. Innings the hitter
batting Behind Andre dawson in the starting lineup was one
time Read lloyd, McClendon who in that game went oh for.

(01:39:17):
Six he was replaced in the fourteenth inning after they
Walked Andre dawson By Dave, clark who the first time
they Walked Andre dawson in front of, him struck out
to end the fourteenth. Inning in the bottom of the sixteenth,
inning With Scott scudder on the, mound they Walked Andre.

(01:39:40):
Dawson there were runners on first and third with one.
Out they Walked Andre dawson and Then Dave clark ended
the game with the base hit looked like an infield,
hit and so that's what happened in that, game and
maybe you weren't there at four fifty five when the
segment was, airing or maybe you heard the segment and
you didn't, care but it piqued my curiosity AND i

(01:40:04):
wanted to share that information with the. Audience and you're
in the, audience so Is. Bob, Bob you're ON espn
fifteen thirty High, bob how are you?

Speaker 12 (01:40:13):
Well doing? Great?

Speaker 6 (01:40:15):
HEY i was surprised to hear about the news From.
Bristol i've actually been there twice and the last time
was actually two thousand and, three and it's kind of
kind of an interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:40:29):
Story Kurt, busch.

Speaker 10 (01:40:31):
WHO i think is still racing.

Speaker 6 (01:40:33):
Nowadays he won that particular race was called The sharpie five,
hundred and the week Before kurt had been in a
fight with a guy Named Jimmy. Spencer, okay and a
lot of times THE nascar guys aren't real. BIG i,

(01:40:53):
mean they're not jockey, size but they're not for the most,
part they're not big. Guys Jimmy, Spencer Jimmy spencer was
a big man.

Speaker 10 (01:41:02):
And he kind of tore cart.

Speaker 6 (01:41:05):
Up and When kurt got introduced before the, race biggest
Booze i've ever heard for any, driver and when he,
won it was. Worse and the place, ITSELF i mean the.
TRACK i love the. TRACK i think FOR, nascar its
just couldn't be more. Perfect BUT i WAS i was

(01:41:28):
kind of surprised to hear all the news at THE.
Uh the guy who went came up with the only
THING i can, figure the mow on the beer end
is FOR. Nascar they let her bring it in and
maybe they, maybe maybe maybe they planned on that. HAPPENS i.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
WAS i was talking about that before With austin BECAUSE
i have never been to A nascar. RACE i have
been to The indy five hundred a couple of, times
and what stood out to me WHEN i went to
The indy five hundred more than anything else WAS i
was on a bus trip and everybody could pack a,
cooler and SO i was. SURPRISED i didn't know. THIS
i don't really follow cart, racing BUT i go to

(01:42:05):
The indy five hundred and everybody packs up a cooler
and goes in and we were drinking from the, cooler
And i'm, like, man this is pretty. Cool so that
was my thought as. Well but if you know that
fans can't bring in, beer like you knew how many
fans you were going to, get you knew they couldn't
bring in, Beer you had ample time to. Prepare it's
not like this game was just cobbled. Together it was

(01:42:27):
announced nearly a year. Ago like running out of, beer
running out of toilet, paper running out of running out of,
anything for an event of that significance is.

Speaker 13 (01:42:38):
Inexcusable it makes absolutely no, sense and you hate to
say it kind of shows sometimes the inaptitude Of Major
League baseball.

Speaker 8 (01:42:50):
Leaders but, look.

Speaker 2 (01:42:52):
Look they've put on a lot of one off of
one off events that have been. Awesome i've talked to
a lot of people who went to The field Of
dreams game In chicago three years ago and said it
was incredibly well. Run you, KNOW i think that most
of the one off events they stage have been really.
Good i've heard very few. Complaints this was a, disaster

(01:43:14):
and to, me if you have that many people who
walk away from it feeling, unsatisfied either because of how
long they had to wait in, line amenities being cut,
short running out of, stuff being uncomfortable in their, seats
even acknowledging you could do nothing about the. Weather if
you have a lot of people who expressed that amount
of dissatisfaction, that in my, opinion is a is a.

(01:43:36):
Disaster are you are you excited The cardinals offloaded all
the pictures you? Hate?

Speaker 6 (01:43:40):
YEAH i, Am, well they didn't get rid of all of,
them but they did their.

Speaker 12 (01:43:43):
Best.

Speaker 6 (01:43:44):
Yeah now you know, what, though IT'S i could tell
probably maybe not quite a month, ago but it was
close to that that things weren't going to go the
way that everyone was, hoping or at least everyone out
there was hoping they would. Go AND i kind of
found it. Interesting have you ever watched A reds game

(01:44:06):
hoping that they would?

Speaker 8 (01:44:07):
Lose?

Speaker 11 (01:44:08):
No, no, NO i found myself doing, that and AND
i guess it was more around THE i just think
so many things there are, broken That mosaic as leaving
that for this year is over and Thank god for.

Speaker 6 (01:44:26):
That AND i don't really think The Ali marmal thing is.
Working AND i would love to See YadA Or molina
come back in there and manage our.

Speaker 12 (01:44:35):
Team BUT.

Speaker 6 (01:44:37):
I found myself just, Saying, GOD i don't even want
them to. WIN i hope they lose these games because
it gets so ridiculous that they have to just basically clean.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
House you, know, Yeah, NO i think a lot of, Fans,
bob thank you very much for the phone. CALL i
think a lot of fans can relate to. That i'm
sure a lot of folks can hear as. WELL i
am not shedding a tear for the same of those. Cardinals, However,
tarren how are we on? Time two? Minutes CAN i
give those two minutes To Jason? Jason you're ON espn
fifteen Thirty High, jason how are, You, Jason? JASON i

(01:45:15):
hear background. NOISE i do not Hear Jason. Jason i'm,
sorry we have to go to my. Apologies, tried. Tried
hopefully we hear From Tony pike latest from training, camp
which they're not practicing, today so there's not really anything
new and late breaking.

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Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
Toby tomorrow is The bengals final practice before they play
a game On thursday against The Philadelphia. Eagles it's hard to.
Believe we've talked a lot About bengals players playing more
in preseason games. Now typically you expect offenses to be,
vanilla defenses to be basically. Nondescript but if you're emphasizing
the preseason this, year does that dynamic.

Speaker 10 (01:46:44):
Change, yeah because the emphasis of this team in this
offseason has been about starting fast and whatever has been
done in the past has not. Worked so on that hand, alone,
yes it changes. Things, Two Joe burrow has been vocal
wanting to. PLAY i think he needs to be in
there In. Three there are rookies that are going to
be relied on for this team to Start Demetrious, Knight Dylan.

(01:47:08):
Fairchild they need as many game reps as absolute possible
before the regular season gets. Here and if You're Dylan,
fairchild That's Miles barrett and. Company so those reps for,
Them Shamar, stewart the defense as a. Whole you've got
a new, decordinator you've got a new, scheme and you've
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this prove it level of their. Career they need as

(01:47:29):
many reps as. Possible, now best case, scenario offense gets the,
ball they go, down they score, touchdown you take the guys,
out and you move on to the next.

Speaker 6 (01:47:36):
One BUT i.

Speaker 10 (01:47:37):
Think it'll be interesting to navigate how long the offensive lineman,
play what does the defense look like from a starter,
standpoint because this team does need these reps that are
very valuable from a preseason, standpoint especially when you think
about them not having the ability to have those joint
practices this year as.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
Well, yeah and, look we've talked a lot about how
good the defense has. Looked it's playing with. Confidence Al
golden seems to be thrilled with what he's getting from
some of the individual. Players it's one thing to say
that in a practice. SETTING i want to see the
defense take a step forward On.

Speaker 10 (01:48:07):
Thursday, yeah you, know the one kick in the armor
came yesterday for the defense because by all, accounts when
they went, unscripted the offense moved the ball extremely. Well
Joe burrow was something along the line of twenty or
twenty one of twenty four multiple, touchdowns and it was
the first time the defense had looked that. Votable it
was also the first time that they hadn't scripted. Plays you,

(01:48:28):
know a lot of practices are scripted on offense and.
Defense you know what's. Coming you know the situation when
you go, unscripted that's the sense of what you're. Doing first,
down you run a play whatever that play, games you
move on to second, down and that is the worst
the defense has. Looked so the reps on the field
are going to be. Valuable the reps in a game
setting that aren't charted are extremely valuable For Al golden

(01:48:50):
in this.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
Defense all, right there you, Go Tony pike with us
on The Ray Saint Clair Roofing. Hotline he AND i
are back tomorrow for THE Ae dor And Window tony
And Mo Football show beginning at ten. Am Then tony
has since he three sixty at, noon and we are
back tomorrow at three oh. Five our show, today, however is.
Over thanks To taran for, producing and thanks to you for.

(01:49:12):
Listening have an awesome. Night this IS espn fifteen Thirty
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