9/25/25 - The Mo Egger Radio Show - Mo Egger

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:35):
Man.

Speaker 5 (00:35):
That guy's voice. I hear that guy do promos every
single day, every single day, and I never don't enjoy
his voice, and I'm never not envious of that guy's voice.
What's up, Mulagger, ESPN fifteen thirty. Thank you for listening
back in studio today. They kind of had to show
me around. I had to get reacclimated. All right, we

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are loaded this afternoon. In just about ten minutes, we're
gonna chat with JB.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
Long.

Speaker 7 (01:01):
JB.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Long is one of the voices of college football on TNT.
They have the game on Saturday, UC versus Kansas Bearcats.

Speaker 8 (01:08):
Didn't play last week.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
The week before they played a school that didn't belong
in the field with them. We still have no idea
how good the Bearcats are. They've kind of drifted to
the background a little bit because there's been so much
going on. I think this is an enormous game for
UC football. Of that coming up in just about eight minutes.
Bengals back at work today, getting set for Monday night
football against the Denver Broncos. We have that covered as

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Speaker 5 (01:44):
Obviously, we've got the Reds game on in here, and look,
I'm not stupid. Okay, well you might argue that's not true,
but I'm not stupid. I know you can go and
listen to the game, and maybe some who typically would
be in our audience are doing that right now.

Speaker 8 (01:58):
That's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
We're all in the same iHeartMedia family, but we'll certainly
keep you up to date on what's happening at GABP.
Nickelodolo has been awesome today. He is pitching in the
top of the fifth inning. It's a scoreless between the
Reds and Pirates. Nicolodolo has nine strikeouts. He has been awesome. Unfortunately,
Braxton Ashcraft has been pretty good as well, and he

(02:19):
danced out of trouble in the third inning. For Pittsburgh,
Reds are obviously trying to not get swept.

Speaker 8 (02:25):
Late last night, it felt like they got a stay
of execution.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Reds blow a lot of opportunities in the game against
the Pirates, and we could talk about some of the
decisions that Terry Francona may last night. By the way,
Niicolodola just struck out his tenth batter. He hasn't walked anybody.
He has been awesome. Today they're headed bottom five, scoreless
Reds and Pirates. But it kind of felt like a
little bit of a stay of execution, so to speak.

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The Mets were destroyed by the Cubs last night. Those
two teams played this evening at Wrigley Field, and then
late last night after the Dodgers' bullpen in floded again.
They use Clayton Kershaw in relief at one point last night,
which I think is going to be a thing during
the postseason. They blow a four to one lead and

(03:09):
still figure out a way to win in the eleventh inning.
That was major because we talked yesterday the Reds cannot
afford to lose ground, and so yes they lost the game,
and yes they lost a date on the calendar, and
those dates are precious right now. But there were, at
least in terms of the games behind column, right where

(03:30):
they were yesterday afternoon. And so I've put this on
social media every day over the last week or so,
their playoff odds on fan Duel, and I know there's
different projections and cool standings and fan grass showing their
playoff percentages.

Speaker 8 (03:46):
I care about the betting odds.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yesterday morning, the Reds were at plus two to eighty
to make the postseason. This morning, right now, Actually, these
these odds get pulled once the game's actually start at
most sportsbooks. But this morning the Reds were at plus
two ninety, so not much movement. So we'll see. I
think we can throw away the hey, is this a

(04:12):
must win game angle? We've asked that often this year.
Lots of different games this season have been framed as
must win games, including the one they're playing right now.

Speaker 8 (04:22):
They have four to go. They're in a three team race.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yes, today is a must win, and so is tomorrow,
and so is Saturday, and my guess is so will
be Sunday. We will see, but you can't get swept
by the pirates. Hopefully they can find some offense. Arizona
plays at three forty today against the LA Dodgers. Will
obviously keep you up to date on how that game
is unfolding as well. Today's game, if you don't know,

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they had about an hour and twenty minute rain delay.
So what we were hoping for was the game would
be maybe just about ending right when we got on
the air. That is obviously not the case. Sun is
out at GABP and it looks pretty good. Hopefully some
Bundy can scratch across a run for the good guys
and the Reds could avoid getting swept and put at
least a little pressure on Arizona and New York. We've

(05:09):
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Speaker 8 (05:14):
Some Bengal stuff a little bit later on, but JB.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Long is going to join us next eleven minutes after
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Speaker 5 (06:06):
I think it's gonna be a really fun game on
Saturday noon, kickoff at the News Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas,
Cincinnati Big twelve opener against KU. The Jayhawks beat West
Virginia pretty handily last week and they're big twelve opener.
It's a TNT game. Kicks off at noon. JB Long,
who is also the voice of the La Rams, which
means he probably has a Super Bowl ring for that

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game where they beat the Bengals. Is on the call
along with Mike Golig Junior and kind enough to give
us a few minutes.

Speaker 8 (06:33):
It's good to have you, JB. How are you no?

Speaker 10 (06:36):
Thank you for the invitation. It's true what you said.
Please don't hold it against me. I've always enjoyed being
around the people in Cincinnati, including my time hanging around
some of the best Bengals, including Dan Hoorg. So apologies
for all that. It was a very special memory here
in Los Angeles. I'm sorry it came against the Bengals expense.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Just hearing your voice, I think of Aaron Donald and
it's giving me chills. So nonetheless, let's talk about something
much more pleasant. I think, on what is a really
good college football Saturday, you have a sneaky game and
a sneaky good game in front of you at noon.

Speaker 10 (07:07):
I'm glad you said that. It's almost like we compared
notes ahead of time, which we didn't. I kind of
see this as the winner of this game becomes the
dark horse challenger in the Big Twelve. We know who
the top teams are based on the polls and the
results so far. But I think the winner of Cincinnati
and Kansas gets the right to think that they can
challenge if things break their way. And I think a
large part of that is because the way their quarterbacks
are playing and the weapons that they have on offense.

Speaker 11 (07:29):
So I would not be.

Speaker 10 (07:30):
Surprised that this is a high scoring affair, and I
think both of these teams have the firepower win healthy
to challenge some of the teams at the top and conference.

Speaker 8 (07:38):
From a Cincinnati perspective, on Saturday, what's going to be
your biggest storyline?

Speaker 11 (07:44):
Oh? Weather too? At Noses playing?

Speaker 10 (07:46):
I mean that defensive captain and the Godfather is quite
literally the biggest story going into Lawrence. But whether or
not he does play, I think Cincinnati is at least
prepared to counter some of what Kansas does best.

Speaker 11 (07:58):
And then the other thing I have on my mind is.

Speaker 10 (07:59):
Like, look, they've played a couple of capable teams and
an SCS team, and I'm going to give them a
pass for Week one for a variety of reasons. I
credit them with going out and challenging themselves. I think
they learned a lot about themselves at Arrowhead against Nebraska,
they're probably one decision away from being three and zero potentially,
But the way they've gone about their business in the

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two games subsequently, I think built a lot of confidence
and health along the way.

Speaker 11 (08:25):
Combined with their.

Speaker 10 (08:26):
Bye week, I'm anxious to see if Soorsby and some
of these new receivers can go out and put it
on display against a contending team in conference on the
road in their Big twelve opener.

Speaker 8 (08:36):
That's the thing for me.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
You know, they played the Nebraska game, almost won it,
Bowling Green, it kind of felt like they ran in place.
I'm not sure we learned anything about the Bearcats in
the FCS game against Northwestern State, but when I think
of their one game against a name brand opponent, I
think of their wideouts not being able to get open,
and so to me, you know, more than anything else,
I want to see if that turns out to be
an anomaly or if that's something they can improve upon

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on Saturday.

Speaker 10 (09:00):
I believe in the speed, I believe in some of
the pieces they've added. I think one game at full
speed against an opponent that can hit and tackle probably
change the math on them a little bit. That's the
reason why that was the most oppressed passing game of
the season for.

Speaker 11 (09:12):
Storesby so far.

Speaker 10 (09:13):
But Moile, I think it's true in the other direction
as well, in terms of the pass defense, with the
Bearcats aligning almost like eighty percent completion through the year
to their FDS quarterback opponents right Rayola Andrew Pine with
Bowling Green. So I think that too, especially when you
consider the mobile ability of Daniels in the quarterback. In
the offense they're going against this week, Kansas has a

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ton of window dressing their personnel. The way they move
pre and post snap, it really stresses the defense and
I think that will be an equally big challenge for
the Bearcat.

Speaker 11 (09:44):
JB.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Long Is with his TNT He's got the game on
Saturday at twelve o'clock in Lawrence. You mentioned what Kansas
does well. I'm sure you're going to have viewers in
this part of the country who haven't seen the Jayhawks yet.
I did watch them against West Virginia, and what stood
out to me more than any is how well they
blocked up front. Studying the Jayhawks. What can my audience
expect from them?

Speaker 11 (10:06):
Yeah, I think it starts at center for them.

Speaker 10 (10:07):
I mean, they've got an all conference center in Bryce Foster,
and I think he takes a lot off of a
six year quarterbacks plate, not that Jalen Daniels needs it.
Emmanuel Henderson Junior is probably the first name to watch
in their passing game. He's also a weapon on special teams.
He had the ninety four yard kick return to open
the second half and last week's win against West Virginia.

Speaker 11 (10:27):
But someone who had five star.

Speaker 10 (10:29):
Talent at Alabama kind of got lost in one of
the most talented position groups in all of college football.
He's found a home in Lawrence, and I think him,
along with the way they utilized their tight ends as well,
this is a great tight end game. If you love
tight end play, I think this is the game for you.
So we'll see about the health of their running back room,
whether it's Daniel Heishaw, who I think was questionable or

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maybe even doubtful in the first injury report of the week,
or the way that they've been able to run it
with Leshawn Williams as well, both the quarterback run dynamics
and theons with the big arms through the air and
the personnel packages that both of these offenses can throw
at their opponent. I think it makes for a fascinating
tactical matchup that my partner.

Speaker 11 (11:08):
Mike Goal at Junior, is really going to be able
to dig.

Speaker 8 (11:10):
Into noon on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
You mentioned the door opens for one of these two teams,
whoever wins on Saturday, to perhaps be a dark horse
in the Big Twelve. It is very early in the league, obviously,
but give me an assessment of the league to this point.

Speaker 10 (11:25):
Yeah, I've seen Texas Tech in person and then watch
their game on the road at Utah. Their non conference
was soft by any measure, but that's not really the point.
I think the players that they bought in in the
trenches give them a chance to compete at the highest
level of the sport. I think Arizona State is still
a team to watch at home against the ranked TCU
program this week. Jordan Tyson is one of, if not

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the best receivers in college football and in the Star
Studed Quarterback Conference. I think Levitt is as good as
just about anyone. So those are the two teams that
I would highlight first, but I still think, like you said,
it's very early, like we'll learn more about BYU. For instance,
this week, Iowa State has really flown under the radar,
even though they got the highest ranking next to their names.

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So I think it's a really deep conference at the
top in terms of the contenders, and I think maybe
in terms of who goes to Dallas, it might be
who can avoid.

Speaker 11 (12:19):
That fatal mistake, who can avoid.

Speaker 10 (12:21):
Stubbing their toe and losing to a quote unquote lesser team,
manage their schedule get to the conference championship game, because
I think both those teams, whoever winds up there is
going to be worthy of playoff consideration.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
Well said, have a great call on Saturday. I appreciate
you carbon had some time.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
JB.

Speaker 10 (12:36):
Thanks so much Again, don't hold the Super Bowl thing
against me. Golick and Lauren Jabara, our sideline reporter, are
wonderful people, and I truly hope that the Cincinnati faithful
will be impressed with the care factor that we bring
to their conference and their team and the production quality.

Speaker 11 (12:53):
It's really going to blow you away.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah that, and I think it's going to be a
cool setting with the new stadium there and Laurence looking
forward to to a JB. Thanks a lot, Manop. Most
most definitely that's JB. Long TNT the game noon Saturday.
His play by play is a color partner I should
say is Mike Golick Junior and Laurene Barra is on
the sidelines.

Speaker 8 (13:15):
That is at noon in Lawrence, Cincinnati versus Kansas. JB
also the voice of the la Rams.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
We got, we got action a gabp. Pirates are kind
of starting to play like the Pirates. So it's two
nothing good guys in the bottom of the fifth inning
and the Reds are still batting. So I'll quickly lay
out how this unfolded. So Key Brian Hayes got on
base on what they ruled an infield single. I'm not
sure that was the correct scoring decision. Nonetheless, TJ. Friedel

(13:43):
doubles to center Key Brian Hayes on a bang bang
play slides in at home. He's originally ruled safe. They
do a replay review, which felt like it took about
an hour and a half. Ultimately, the call was overturned
based on on what I saw, and I'm kind of
busy doing stuff here, so I will trust their judgment

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there in New York. But I'm not sure just based
on the two times that I saw it, that that
play should have been overturned. But again I'm not looking
at it nearly as closely. Key Brian Hayes. I guess
hurt himself, Taran, Did you see what he did?

Speaker 11 (14:20):
No?

Speaker 8 (14:20):
But they, according to John, said that he's been dealing
with a back injuries. He's been dealing with the back issue.
So have they taken him out of the game. Obviously
the Reds are still batting.

Speaker 12 (14:28):
I'm not sure we know he came back to the clubhouse,
but not sure if he's officially at ruled out.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
All right, So that was kind of deflating. And then
what highlights can we play? What do you got for me?

Speaker 12 (14:36):
Tarren?

Speaker 11 (14:36):
Well, we have both of the RBI sy.

Speaker 8 (14:38):
I go ahead, give me give me Noelva Marte driving
in the go ahead run.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
Two balls, one strike, the pitch to Martin, there's a
bullet pass short that's in the left center for a hit.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
Friedel up to third base.

Speaker 13 (14:51):
He's being waved around.

Speaker 8 (14:53):
Here's the relay to the plate. This time it is.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
Gonsales and the throw gets away on the second base Marte.
Now the Reds take a one nothing lead.

Speaker 8 (15:02):
All right, Terry, gimme give me that. You got the
other way got Gavin Lucks now the one one ooh, swinging.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
There's a ground ball through the right side base hit
Marte around third. He's headed home. The throw from Reynolds
is cut off. Two nothing Reds. Gavin Lucks with an
RBI single to right.

Speaker 11 (15:21):
Four hits.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
All right, there's a Tommy Thrall, who was on the
show yesterday, and Jeff Brantley.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
If you miss Tommy on the show, go listen to
it on.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
The iHeartRadio app podcast of the show, a service of
long Neck Sports Grille. The Reds have been retired in
the bottom of the fifth, so it's two nothing Cincinnati
Pittsburgh getting set to come to the plate in the sixth.
Nick Lotolo has been outstanding today, five shutout innings, striking
out ten. He has given up just two hits. I
am assuming he is back out for the sixth. He
certainly should be. He's only thrown sixty five pitches. Again,

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this is a game the Reds absolutely must have. Arizona
and the Dodgers get underway in about fifteen minutes and
Cubs play one more time at Wrigley Field tonight again,
two nothing Reds top six at g A BP.

Speaker 8 (16:08):
We've been on the.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
Air for twenty minutes. It feels like, we've been on
the air for three hours that game on Saturday. We're
just talking about it with JB.

Speaker 11 (16:17):
Long.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
If this is ever gonna get going, If and when
I say this, the UC football program under its current leadership,
if this is ever gonna get going, it really sort
of starts. It has to start happening now. And you know,
I know, it's the fourth game, it's the Big twelve opener,
they're on the road, they're underdogs. But if you want

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to make people start to feel like, you know what,
this program is on the right path trajectory, the program
is a good one. Coaching staff should remain in place.
Program is in a good place. You gotta start challenging
in your conference. You gotta start winning road games. You
got to start delivering the sort of victories that make

(17:02):
people perk up. You gotta do more than just tread water.
I think, frankly, you have to do more than just
go six and six. So, all right, the Nebraska game
unfolded the way it did. What I want to know
on Saturday is quite simply, does the Nebraska game turn
out to be an outlier where you know what? By
the way, ke Brian Hayes is back in the game

(17:22):
playing third base. The Nebraska game is an outlier, and
they're better on the outside and more explosive offensively than
they were last season. Even if the Nebraska game didn't
prove that well, then on Saturday and Lawrence, then they
should be able to throw the ball downfield. Brendan Soursby

(17:44):
doesn't have to, you know, throw for four hundred and
fifty yards. It's got to throw for more than sixty nine.
So do we see more of the same in that regard.
If the answer is no, they got a shot. Kansas
is good. Kansas is really good on the offensive line
West Virginia. I watched that game last Saturday. West Virginia
was I think fourth or third or fourth in FBS

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college football in sacks. They were dominated upfront. So we'll
see if Dante Corleone plays on Saturday, you see gonna
be dominated up front. And are they gonna be able
to throw the ball deep? Are they gonna be able
to have explosiveness and can against a good team or
at least a P four team. Can they take more

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advantage of Joe Royer than they did against Nebraska, where
he had three catches for eleven yards, Like you want
to make people feel like, hey, this is this is
gonna work, and this program is worth paying attention to,
and this season can be a successful one that people
feel good about. It's it's got to start in a
game like this, and if it doesn't, you just you

(18:47):
keep waiting. And the longer you're waiting, the more people
throw up their hands and go, all right, it just
ain't gonna happen. So we'll see twenty nine after three
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Speaker 8 (21:19):
Lee, What is up?

Speaker 11 (21:21):
Have a good question for you?

Speaker 14 (21:22):
Would you have suicide bunted bottom of the fifth yesterday
with Matt McClain.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
With Matt McLain, I would have pinched it for him,
but I would rather him bunt than swing the bat.

Speaker 11 (21:37):
Yeah, I agree, he got He's.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
Their ninth place hitter, and so you have other guys
who could play the same position. The ninth place hitter,
I treat like I would a pitcher. And I know
he's a better hitter than in your average picture would
be before everybody had the DH But last night I
would have treated him like a pitcher and taken the
bat out of his hands. Now for some that might
mean bunt, Okay. For me, more than anything else, I

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would have used one of the bullets on the bench.

Speaker 14 (22:06):
Okay, I would have I would have suicide squeezed. So
he came up with a couple of my friends watching
the game.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
He came up multiple times last night, and every single
time I thought, like, man, I like, Matt mcclaney's had
a rough year. But dude, that's that's not a guy
that I want with uh. With the game hanging in
the balance, let's uh, let's talk about some big.

Speaker 11 (22:27):
Game back in the day.

Speaker 14 (22:29):
Back in the day, ninth place hitter has to be
a good bunner.

Speaker 8 (22:33):
Right, yeah, And he is. That's the thing. Matt mcclan
is a good bunner.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
Like if you were to ask any if you were
to ask anybody on the team to lay down a
bun he's one of those guys you would say cool,
like yeah, I would have had no issue with that
because I think he could have gotten it done.

Speaker 11 (22:48):
Yep, me too, all right, Paramount.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
Sports dot Com, let's start in Lawrence, U se goes
on the road. They're getting points against Kansas, and not
an insignificant amount lea.

Speaker 14 (23:00):
Nope, Yeah, they are a lousi four and fourteen straight
up in Big twelve play the last two seasons five
twelve and one against the spread, but bye week. I
like the fact that Kansas, I mean, they think it's
easy now played West Virginia after the beat Pitt. West

(23:23):
Virginia could lose fifty five to nothing last week and
they'd still feel good about the last couple of weeks.
They cruised to an easy second half win. They're already
up twenty seven to three mid third quarter. I think
that they're gonna come in Lucy Goosey. I love the
three editions here at wide receiver that Cincinnati's brought in,

(23:45):
new running game, new running back. I think they're gonna
catch Kansas napping here wrong tam favored Finnati stromed up.

Speaker 11 (23:56):
Here at thirty four to thirty.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Wow Lee picking the Bearcat to pull off the upset.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
We're off to a good start, all right, Cincinnati coming
off of by Ohio. State's also coming off of bye,
laying more than a touchdown against Washington.

Speaker 14 (24:11):
So the look aheadline was thirteen last week. One week ago,
I made this line ten and a half. It's been
bet down to eight eight and a half. And I
do think that Washington has some weapons. Demon Williams at
quarterback five eleven, about one hundred and ninety five pounds,
dripping wet. He can certainly present some problems for any defense. Also,

(24:34):
receiver Denzel Boston will be a top two round pick.
Joonah Coleman at running back, but their defense just isn't
good enough. They have a couple decent cornerbacks, but this
defense gave up twenty one and twenty four to Washington State,
two bottom feeders here. So I think Julian's saying with
his trio receivers here, Smith innocentate will eventually.

Speaker 11 (24:56):
Take over here.

Speaker 14 (24:57):
The right team is favored of State thirty five to
twenty four.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Yeah, we're on the same page there at Lee Sterling
Paramount sports dot Com. Let's talk about Monday night. The
line is more than a touchdown. Bengals coming off that
showing against Minneapolis is a part of me that surprised.
It's not a little bit more. What do you like
on Monday?

Speaker 11 (25:17):
Well, Denver hadn't done much this season.

Speaker 14 (25:19):
I mean, you know, they should be three and oh,
but they end up blowing the game last week, and
most of the time I think from eight minutes left
to left in the game, they were at least a
ninety chance of winning that game. Obviously, the game before
that defensive tackle goes into the snapper on the sixty
yard try, they could easily be three and oh here.

Speaker 11 (25:40):
So and they haven't.

Speaker 14 (25:41):
Looked good yet. They have not played close to their
best game, so I think their defense is scary good.
Bengals two in one, tied for the first place, not bad,
but they're two plays away from being zero to three.
I think the road is a bad place to play
this Denver game. Here the Cincinnati team. I hate to

(26:02):
say it, I like Denver here twenty seven to seventeen.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
See, but that's what we liked about you. You're not
just playcating the audience. You're not just playcating me. You're
being honest. Even if I don't like to hear it.
You're game of the week and a pair of one
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Who would ever think these two teams are one and
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Turling Paramount sports dot Com. Uh, it's two nothing. Reds
Top seven. Nicko Lodolo has been awesome today, Taren do
we know why? Tomas Vera, the Reds trainer is walking

(27:12):
out to the mound to talk to Nick Lodolo.

Speaker 11 (27:15):
I will give you word as soon as I find out.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
Nick is talking into his glove. Uh, there's Terry Francona.
Terry Francona could read lips. He just said, what happened?
This would this would be bad, This would be this
would be this would especially be bad for their their
prospects moving forward. It's two nothing, reds top seven one out.
Nobody on. Nick Lodolo is talking with the trainer. Derek

(27:38):
Johnson just walked away with a disgusted look on his face,
and they're taking Nick Lodolo out of the game.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
So that's not great. All right. We'll keep you up
to date. Chad Brendle on the Bearcats.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
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Speaker 8 (28:40):
To Chad Graham.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Ashcraft came on a relief of Nicko Lodolo and retired
the last two hitters in the seventh. The speculation tarn
is monitoring the radio broadcast. I flipped on the audio
on the TV broadcast, so it looked like he kind
of landed funny throwing a pitch and Jose Trevi and
you notice something. Jim Day on TV was saying it.

(29:04):
He's speculating, and it's just speculation. It might have been
a groin issue. Nick stayed in the dugout, like sat
down next to Hunter Green and watched the rest of
the seventh inning. So it's not like they took him
right to the clubhouse or anything like that. They I'm
sure will here very very soon. But that's what's going on.
More important, the Reds are winning the game too. Nothing
as they get said to come to the plate in
the top or I'm sorry in the bottom I'll get

(29:24):
that right some point in the bottom of the seventh inning.
I only been watching baseball for like forty two years.
Chad Brendel's with us bearcatjournal dot com, the host of
a watch party at the Holy Grail on Saturday for
the noon kickoff Cincinnati opening Big twelve play against Kansas.
On Twitter at Chad Brendel, what's up.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Chad, Nothing, I'm tracking this Reds game the same as
you and I. Lodolo obviously has one of his best
days ever, and then out the growing we'll see Lucy
just keeps taking the football away.

Speaker 11 (29:57):
Maw.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
That would be if you got there, that would be
your game two starter. Hopefully it's nothing too serious. Yeah,
we will agree. They got to win this game on Saturday, Chad, Like,
if this thing's ever gonna take off, you gotta win
games like this. Sorry, go beat the Jayhawks and open
up Big twelve play with a win.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah, I mean, well, they have to win one of
these first two, Like, you can't go into you know
that UCF Oklahoma stretch oh and two and need those
games to get even, so you gotta win one of
these two. Iowa State I think is a good deal
better than Kansas. So in terms of matchups, yeah, Kansas

(30:39):
is the more likely of the two games that you're
gonna win. I think Kansas is pretty good, but they're
not a juggernaut by any stretch. It was, you know,
one of those things. It felt a lot like Nebraska
in doing the prep this week for Kansas, where I
you know, I was impressed by Kansas early in the
season the Miszoo game. You know, they started hot and

(31:01):
then basically got blown out over the last two and
a half quarters. And then West Virginia. Their numbers don't
look great, but they dominated the game, and I think
part of that is just West Virginia's offense is dreadful.
Kansas is good, but they don't blow you away. Like
their rushing game is a struggling. Their number one back

(31:21):
is hurt. He's listed as questionable. Jalen Daniels is good.
It's his you know, thirty seventh year in college. He's
going to be a problem. But yeah, other team's gonna
have good players. Like, You've got to go in there
and figure out a way to get over the hump
and get this thing moving in the right direction. Because

(31:44):
I'm tired of doing the whole like, well, technically season's
not over yet. Well, technically they still got a chance, Like, no,
get out.

Speaker 11 (31:52):
In front of it. Win early, yes, and then you know,
let it, let it happen late.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
But it's it's frustrating. It's frustrating, and.

Speaker 11 (31:59):
They need Yeah, uh.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
They have it's it's it's so simple. Gotta start winning
football games, man, Go win what on Saturday. Go prove
that what happened against Nebraska in terms of the inability
to throw downfield was an outlier.

Speaker 8 (32:15):
Uh, and don't.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
Show me more of the same. Make me feel like
this is gonna work. And the best way to do
that is to go on the road and get a
win in a game where you're where you're getting points.
Is is basketball doing the same thing at media day
where there's no preseason poll.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
I don't know. In basketball, it doesn't matter as much
like you know, it's.

Speaker 11 (32:35):
It's kind of a relevant.

Speaker 15 (32:36):
Football proved that they were right, yeah, because Kansas State
would have been one or two in that preseason pole
and they have tanked, and Arizona State would have been
one or two in that preseason pole, and.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
They look like they're probably kind of middle of the pack.
So they were right in football, but it carries too
much weight in football. In basketball, it's a long, long,
long season, and those things tend to iron themselves out.
So but I'm trying to remember last year. I think
it's a coaches poll in basketball, it's a media poll

(33:10):
in football.

Speaker 8 (33:12):
Where should I'm going to look that up on the
fly here, But where should you see if they do
a poll, and if they don't, an imaginary pole, where
should you see be slotted?

Speaker 4 (33:24):
I mean, here's the This is the part that UC
fans probably aren't going to like. But there's probably at
least six teams that start the season ahead of them
in the conference Houston, Texas Tech, Arizona, Kansas, Iowa State,

(33:45):
and DYU seven or eight somewhere in there. Now, I
should still get you in the tournament pretty comfortably. But
again that already tells you from the jump your wiggle
room is going to be a little bit smaller than
maybe people want to believe, because if you're finishing seventh
or eighth in the conference, you might not be on

(34:06):
the bubble, but you're you're gonna be bubble adjacent, right.
But the thing is, well, much like in football, but
they have Houston twice. That's the only team in that
top six that I mentioned that they played twice in
West Virginia twice. They got UCF place. You got to
go three and one in that stretch and then you've
got to find a way to win a game or

(34:27):
two against those teams that are slotted above you. And
they just haven't done it in their two years in
this league with with enough frequency and what three times?
Maybe they beat b Yu at EYU the first year,
they beat BYU at home. Last year, they beat Baylor
last year. I can't think of any other like teams
that were supposed to be ahead of them that they've beaten.

(34:52):
So you got to show you could get a couple
of games off, you know. You know, I'm not expecting
them to go win you know, go four and two
in those games or whatever, five and three, but like
you've got to win some of them, and they haven't
been able to do that enough.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
For context, they were picked six last year and it
is a poll of the sixteen.

Speaker 11 (35:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (35:12):
So uh the non.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
League schedule, because I when the schedule came out last year,
I had no issue with it. They were going on
the road three times they played a Dayton, you know,
as close to a high major as I guess you
could get on a neutral floor.

Speaker 8 (35:29):
They had the Xavier game. I don't know that that
schedule prepared them for Big twelve play well this year's I.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Mean sure, I mean you do. I think I think
Georgia Tak's going to be decent. I think are Georgia
is going to be decent. Sorry, I think Clemson's going
to be decent. So those should give you a tap.
Louisville should be really really good. Dayton I don't I

(35:58):
have no idea, no idea to think about that.

Speaker 8 (36:00):
Neither is anybody with the program.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
And think Zamier is gonna be rough. But winning a
Centas you know, it's been there, chrystonite. So they could
put you know, like the Newport High School, they could
put the Scott High school team in Xavier jerseys, and
they give Cincinnati a game at the Centas Center.

Speaker 11 (36:20):
Like it just feels like that, right, So.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
You know the Louisville game, you're gonna get a marquee, high,
high profile opponent. I think, like I said, Georgia and
Clemson are going to be fine.

Speaker 11 (36:32):
Tests.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
You get five high quality games and if you're looking
at it, they're looking at like twenty a little twenty
or so quad one, quad two games out of your
thirty one. I mean, the schedule is going to be fine.
And I don't think it was the schedule that didn't
have them ready for Big twelve play. I think it
was the roster. Yeah, it wasn't good enough for Big

(36:55):
twelve play. I mean that it would be different if,
like they were bumpy at the beginning of the year
then they got hot at the end of the season.
I could buy into that a little bit more. But
they were inconsistent throughout the entirety of Big twelve play
last year. And I think that's more the roster was
poorly constructed in terms of too many pieces that were

(37:18):
kind of the same or had the same you know,
pluses and the same minuses, and that doomed them, I
think a lot more than the schedule.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
Saturday at noon, Chad will be at the Holy Grail
hosting a Bearcad Journal watch party Cincinnati versus Kansas.

Speaker 8 (37:32):
It will be fun as it is talking with you
every week. Thank you as.

Speaker 11 (37:35):
Always, Thanks the Gamo. Talk to you, Tom, You're the man.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
Chad Brendel bearcad Journal dot Com. It's two nothing Reds
Tony santianas on in the top of the eighth inning,
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Speaker 8 (38:33):
So we're we're gonna have to sweat this out now.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
Pittsburgh scores one in the top of the eighth off
Tony Santian, so it's two to one Reds. They're headed
to the bottom of the eighth Finnan. This is excruciating. Thanks,

(38:58):
I do have the camera rolling in here. Yes, I
do have the camera roll.

Speaker 8 (39:03):
May need to create a clip with you off air.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
So it's two to one Reds bottom of the eighth inning.
It would be delightful if the Reds could plait another run.
They've got Spencer Steer, Elie de la Cruz and Miguel
Andrew Harr coming up in the in the bottom of
the eighth up by a run. By the way, we
do have good news from Phoenix, the Dodgers. The Dodgers

(39:29):
are probably gonna have to score sixteen runs for us
to feel good about this because their bullpen is awful,
but they did score four in the top of the
second inning. Arizona is batting in the bottom of the
second inning and La leads that game for nothing, so
that's obviously big for reasons. The chances are you already know,
but it's I guess bears outlining for maybe the uninitiated

(39:53):
Reds and Diamondbacks are currently tied with each other, both
one game behind the New York Mets. For what it's worth,
the La Dodgers are trying to wrap up the National
League West, which they can do.

Speaker 8 (40:08):
I think they can do with a victory.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
See now, I believe they have the season series over
San Diego. The Padres do not play tonight. They have
a two and a half game lead. Dodgers are playing
for something. I'll go find that as well. We're doing
a lot of on the fly research. But the Rads
are winning. It's two to one, bottom eight and the
Diamondbacks are losing four nothing bottom two. The Mets play

(40:30):
the Cubs later tonight. Speaking of the Cubs, Jake Zivin
is a big Cubs fan. He's also lead MLS season
pass voice Apple TV. FC Cincinnati's in the Sunday night
slot against Orlando. Big game for FC Cincinnati, big game
for Orlando as well. He is going to join us
also our guy Robert Wintrop and the Bengals coming up
in just about ten minutes. Dan Klaskin's on fantasy football.

(40:52):
By the way, we were talking with Lee Sterling. He
does not think the Bengals are going to cover the number.
Now it is worth mentioning since he is getting seven
and a half. Maybe I'm trying to talk myself into this.
I have a hard time picking the Bengals to win
this game. But seven and a half points Number one

(41:12):
feels like the back door flies open. It feels like
a lot to lay and feel comfortable laying. Understanding how
unevenly the Broncos have played this season, it is worth
mentioning that Zach Taylor three times has had a non
Joe Burrow quarterback in prime time three times, and he's

(41:36):
won outright twice as a double digit dog. So and
I believe those games are Pittsburgh his second season, the
Ryan Finley game, and I don't recall them being nearly
as as heavy an underdog as maybe they were against
Jacksonville when Jake Browning played two years ago. But twice

(41:59):
without Joe Burrow, he's been a double digit dog. I'm sorry,
three times a double digit dog. He's lost, but he's
won two outright. Also this century, teams that have lost
by twenty eight or more points and then the next
week are underdogs of four points or more have covered

(42:19):
sixty one percent of the time. Those facts, in and
of themselves maybe aren't reasoned to bet on the Bengals.
I have a suspicion they're going to cover the seven
and a half. That game on Sunday was awful and
Zach Taylor and the Bengals schemes and the inability to

(42:39):
get anything out of the running game have been under
the microscope this week, and understandably and deservedly so we're
going to talk about this with Robert in just a
few minutes. He does have a track record of kind
of fixing stuff on the fly. He's gonna have to
get some stuff fixed on the fly very very quickly.
We will see I forget that game on Monday is

(43:03):
at eight fifteen. We are the pregame show starting at
three o'clock. I'll be broadcasting from Denver. Tony is doing
the show with me. Tony here, I'll be at iHeart
and Denver, looking forward to that, looking forward to my
first ever visit to the Mile High City. But it
is true with Zach Taylor, it's I completely believe two things.

(43:26):
Number One, firing him right now I don't really think
accomplishes all that much. Number Two, his job performance this
year should completely and totally be up for review at
the end of the season. And you know, his job
performance by the Bengals, by the people who run the franchise,
has been under review at multiple times during his tenure

(43:48):
in Cincinnati. I was on the Growler podcast with Paul
and Jay earlier this week, and like, my take on
Zach Taylor is, I just don't feel that strongly if
they moved on from him, I wouldn't think, oh my god,
they just let just a generationally good coach get away.
And if he's the head coach for the next four

(44:08):
or five years, that's probably okay too. Like I don't
feel that strongly about him, I do feel strongly that
it's worth examining his role with the offense, and it's
worth examining whether or not the offense can function better
with somebody else calling the plays allowing Zach to do
some of the other stuff in game. I also think
he has a lot of really good attributes that we

(44:29):
have seen play out over the last six and a
half years that a lot of people don't want to
at least publicly recognize. But one thing he has been
for the most part pretty good at is getting stuff
sort of fixed on the fly in terms of you know,
the Jake Browning sudden change in twenty twenty three, you know,

(44:49):
even some of the stuff they did schematically with two
tight ends twelve personnel last year before Eric All got hurt,
all the stuff that the COVID season threw at them
in twenty twenty even some of the COVID stuff that
got thrown at them in twenty twenty one, having to
game plan around just awful offensive lines in the postseason,
doing a good job of accounting for players being hurt.

(45:12):
He's had to design game plans around not having t Higgins.
So they have a very very big fix in front
of him, because they've got to make the running game better.
But there's at least a little bit of a track
record of this head coach being able to fix stuff
on the fly. We'll talk about that with Robert in
just a few minutes. Rads do not score in the eighth,
We're headed to the top of the ninth inning. Red's
clinging to a two to one lead over the Pirates.

(45:35):
No update on Nick Lodolo, who was outstanding but taken
out of the game after six and a third just
brilliant innings because of what appeared to be some sort
of leg injury. I'm sure we're not going to hear
anything until after the game. If you look ahead to
next week, if they can get there, and that's obviously
a huge if. Hunter Green's in line to pitch on Tuesday,
which would be game one, and Nick Lodolo then would

(45:56):
be in line to pitch Game two. Andrew Abbott is
supposed to pitch Saturday's game, and so I'm doing the
math here, he would not pitch on Tuesday or Wednesday.
So I'm guessing that would be wouldn't be Brady Singer
because he's pitching on Sunday, so Zach Lttel, Nick Martinez
bullpen game, Chase Burns bullpen game. We'll see Amelia Pagan

(46:18):
on top nine. Reds up two to one on Pittsburgh.
Robert win Trump next on ESPN fifteen.

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Speaker 6 (47:17):
Here is the gone three zero pitch swung on and
there's a drive hye in the air, deep bright Marte
back at the track, at the wall.

Speaker 8 (47:26):
He leaps and he caught it.

Speaker 17 (47:29):
Oh, no way, what a grab Nolbie Marte.

Speaker 8 (47:35):
He robs Brian Rynolds.

Speaker 17 (47:38):
Of the game tying home run of the ninth.

Speaker 13 (47:40):
He was way up there. Wow, that made my heart
skip a beat.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
Tommy thrawl Red's Radio Network and seven hundred WLW with
the call of a remarkable catch by a guy who
just started playing right field. Noelve Marte robs, robs a
home run, takes it away and preserves a two to
one Reds lead, and then Emilio Pagan and Noel A.

(48:07):
Marte would finish it off.

Speaker 8 (48:11):
Swinging another fly ball deep right field.

Speaker 6 (48:13):
Marte going back on the track, he runs it down
and that's it. Reds win it two to one. They
beat the Pirates and take the finale.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Incredible again, Tommy throw all Reds Radio Network. In seven
hundred WLW, Bryan Reynolds had a home run. That ball
was out of the ballpark. Noel F. A. Marte brought
it back. I'll quickly do the parallels here because Robert
win Trump is waiting Game six against the Pirates nineteen
ninety two to one game. Carmelo Martinez hits a ball
to right field and with one out, Glenn Braggs made

(48:44):
the catch. Same score, same inning, same number of outs.
Maybe not quite the same stakes, but thirty five years
later there are parallels. Reds win the ball game two one.
Our guy, Robert win Trump is with US Bengals column
for Cincinnati Magazine right now, this one every week, He's
got one up right now at Cincinnati Magazine dot com.

Speaker 8 (49:03):
Robert, how we doing well?

Speaker 18 (49:05):
I'm great now As a long time Mets hater, I'm
all in for the Reds and well that's two nights
have been rough, but that almost makes up for it.

Speaker 11 (49:14):
And of course my name is Rob.

Speaker 18 (49:15):
I'd love to see the game ending. Got a robbed
home run with a spectacular way to intro me.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
Thank you, very well done. All right, well, hopefully hopefully
the Cubs can help us tonight.

Speaker 8 (49:25):
You get the pleasure.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
I guess you get the assignment of being the latest
to try to fix the Bengals running game.

Speaker 8 (49:33):
The floor is yours?

Speaker 11 (49:36):
Do I get paid for this?

Speaker 18 (49:37):
I feel like I should. I'm going to take over
the Bengals running game. Lord knows, nobody else has been
able to make it happen. I mean, listen, it's a
combination of factors. If it was one easy fix, they
would have done it by now right. And I still feel,
you know, sort of counterintuitively, perhaps that the real issue
is that they got to make defenses respect their passing game.

(49:58):
And if Jake Browning can open the field up by
completing ball downfield to Jamar and t which he certainly
is capable of doing, and he's done it in the past,
you know that can only help the running attack. It'll
lighten up the boxes, it'll let the defenses not be
so aggressive coming downhill. And you know, it's it's terrible
to see. We've seen it under Joe Burrow, and obviously

(50:20):
he can make passes. They've struggled in this for so long,
and it's so unusual to see because even when the
Bengals were going through their terrible years, they could always
run the football. They always had great minds, They always
had running backs. Rip Rudy Johnson, by the way, terrible
news for him, and but that's just a perfect example.
They always found running backs, they always had running games.
It's really bizarre to see the fact that it's been

(50:42):
all these years of the burroughware and they just can't
find any openings consistently. But you know, you still got
to pass the ball to winning this league. You run
to Berservia leads, but you get the leads by passing.
And I really think that if they can, you know,
be consistent and not turn the ball over every play
like they did in Minnesota, and you know, open up
that passing attack, they'll find at least a little bit
of running or for Chase Brown, maybe just enough to

(51:03):
win some games.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
You write about how Zach Taylor has a good track
record of making mid season adjustments, adjusting midstream, I think
is how you put it?

Speaker 8 (51:13):
Run through that for me?

Speaker 18 (51:15):
Well, yeah, you go back speaking a running attack. I mean,
you go back to his first year it Joe Burrow
when they were a terrible team in twenty nineteen as
we know, and they had a lot of the same
issues in the first half of the season, they could
not run the ball at ball if you could remember,
Joe Bixon was getting pounded in the backfield three yards
behind the line of scrimmage almost on every play. And
then they got to the bye week ranked dead last

(51:38):
in the league and rushing change some things up. I
don't want to get too detailed and the blocking technology there,
but I mean they changed up the way they were
attacking defenses on the running attack, and they wound up
averaging I think four point six yards per carry and
we're eighth in the league in dboa over the second
half of the season. Then that's just a typical example.

(51:59):
We see you talk so much got every year about
how they couldn't win in September. You know, what's Zach doing.
He's terrible at the start the season, and yet of
course every year they were awesome down to stretch. You know,
a lot of the reason why they had such great
success in the second half of the season. I know,
we hate to give Zach Taylor any credit, but a
lot of it was because of what he did and
his staff too, and adjusting to what the team does well.

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Things that didn't work, they flushed out of there and
the team always improved under him in the second half
of the season. I think we'll see that to a degree.
It's obviously a lot harder without Joe Burrow in there
to make your carefully laid plans look great on the field.
But you know, I think it's it's a track record
he has now over six years. That's that's, you know,
worthy of giving him a chance to do it again.

(52:44):
And I think we'll see some of that to this
point this season as well.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
Robert windrub Is with a Cincinnati magazine dot Com. Your
thoughts on those who use the performance on Sunday Jake
Browning was not good. When I think of that that performance,
I think of a lot of independent factors or factors
independent of Jake Browning, but a lot of that A
lot of folks use that performance as a reason to
kind of go back and say that this is why
they should have traded for Kirk Cousins, or this is

(53:08):
why they should go trade for Kirk Cousins or Jameis
Winston or go get Russell Wilson. Your thoughts on that.

Speaker 18 (53:13):
Ground, Well, first of all, they do they know what
team they're rooting for? I mean, did the Bengals ever
do anything like that. I mean, come on, that's not likely.
And second of all, you really want that, you want
the corpse of Russell Wilson in their backfields. I live
in Atlanta. I saw Kirk Cousins up close. He couldn't
complete a path beyond the line of scrimmage last season.

(53:34):
And it says that the Falcons, you know, Michael Pennick
is not lighting up the league either for the first
three weeks. Who says they're even going to trade them.
I just think it's, you know, it's it's fun talk,
it's it's content, as we say in the modern day era,
and it's you know what you do best of course,
it's what you make it a living doing. But I
just don't think it's very realistic. And you know, Jake,

(53:55):
I think is as you said, it certainly wasn't his
fault that they fumble the ball in three out of
six plays at the end of the half and put
that game away. You know, after thirty minutes last time,
they give the guy a chance. And you know, let's
not constantly be looking for outside sort of fixes to
what's really an internal problem the defense.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
And you wrote about this wasn't bad last week, I'd
stop well short of saying it was good, but it's
gonna have to be at some point this season because
of what's happening on offense. Have you seen anything over
these first three games that would indicate that that that
can happen.

Speaker 18 (54:32):
Well, I know over in South ben they're definitely missing
Al Golden.

Speaker 11 (54:36):
That's all they could talk about.

Speaker 18 (54:38):
So that's at least something to keep them going. I guess,
uh yeah, Like you said, it's not like Sunday's game
had really anything to do with the defense. It was
untenable for them. Basically they weren't great, but you know,
through three games, they're twentieth in the league in Dvoa.

Speaker 11 (54:51):
Not awesome.

Speaker 18 (54:51):
But what we sort of always have said, you know,
it's like, can they be just a top twenty defense
that's good enough with this offense. Probably have to a
little bit better than that now with Burrow out, but
they're certainly capable, and I think, you know, you have
to give Al Golden a chance to at least get
these guys going, and the players themselves, I think we've
seen flashes out of some of the guys. He was

(55:13):
brought in sort of specifically to light a fire under
and make those hot draft pay forth. While at Miles
Murphy or Chris Jenkins and the corners have played pretty well.
I mean, you know, it's a very small sample size,
but I haven't been discouraged by what we've seen so far.
And listen, well, we've talked about it each week. They've
made the plays they had to make in crucial situations

(55:34):
over the first two weeks. Didn't really get a chance
to do that on Sunday, so it doesn't even really matter.
Let's see what they can do and playing Denver. Yet,
you think it'll be a game a lot like the
one they played in twenty twenty one up there, which
was fifteen to ten, and you can remember Khalead Kareem
of all people that they play end that game for
Cincinnati's win. And you know, it could well be a

(55:56):
situation where we see something like that again, a tight
game in whichever defense makes the big play in the
crucial situation will come out on top. Hopefully there'll be
another unlikely hero for Cincinnati. It'll be a tough ask,
but you know, I certainly haven't given up and thrown
my hands in the air at the defense yet. It's
way too early.

Speaker 8 (56:14):
For that well said, Go Cubs, go rob Thank you
as always.

Speaker 12 (56:18):
Let's play two.

Speaker 5 (56:19):
Let's play two channel Ernie Banks. There you go, our guy,
Robert wintrub since anamagazine dot Com.

Speaker 8 (56:24):
You're the best. Thanks man, Thank you. I am.

Speaker 5 (56:27):
I am watching the Noel Marte catch. If the Reds
get to the postseason, that's the play I think that
we're gonna remember when we talk about the Reds run
to the postseason in twenty twenty five. That's the play.
Noel Marte today played his fifty first game as a

(56:48):
professional baseball player in right field.

Speaker 8 (56:50):
He has had he's had his ups and downs.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
Call it what it is, as you would expect from
a guy who just got thrust into that position. He
just made the play of the season, Ryan robbing Brian
Reynolds of what would have been a game tying home run.
The story of the game up until that point was Nicolodolo,
who was terrific. Today we're gonna have some audio for
you from Great American Ballpark. The most important thing is
the Reds win. Nick got taken out of the game.

(57:15):
It looked like some sort of leg issue. We'll hear
from Terry Francona in just a bit. But the final
home game of the season, which the Reds had to
have Noelve Marte, And this wasn't one where you're looking
at it like, well, what would that have been a
home run?

Speaker 8 (57:29):
Would it have hit the top of the that's a
home run?

Speaker 5 (57:32):
And Noelve Marte made a great play to record the
second out and then made a nice running catch to
end the ball game with Emilio Pegan nailing down. We
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Speaker 5 (58:49):
Night twenty five Away from five o'clock reaction from GABP.
In just a few minutes, FC Cincinnati is on the
Sunday night soccer slot MLS Season Pass Apple TV in
a big game for both teams. Orlando trying to possibly
earn a top four seed in the East f C
Cincinnati obviously trying to catch Philadelphia earn the supporter shield

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get the top seed in the Eastern Conference. The game,
as I mentioned MLS Season Pass Apple TV, the great
jig Zivin from MLS Season Pass Apple TV is with us.
I want to talk about the game, but first, man,
you're a Cubs fan. Can your guys beat the Mets
again tonight?

Speaker 11 (59:26):
Absolutely, let's go.

Speaker 19 (59:27):
I mean, I hope. So the Cubs are playing well,
I'm excited. I live out in Portland, Oregon now, so
it's hard to follow, you know, day by day like
I used to when.

Speaker 11 (59:36):
I was growing up in Chicago.

Speaker 19 (59:38):
But once once postseason time comes, I get excited and
let's go.

Speaker 11 (59:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (59:43):
I'm sorry for the Mets fans, what a collapse it spin,
that's fine. Were we are You at'll Cincinnati, You're happy
about it.

Speaker 5 (59:48):
We needed to continue and we need we could use
the Cubs help tonight. So I'll put my faith in
your team. You're gonna get a really interesting game on
Sunday night. FC Cincinnati Orlando. The supporter shield race has
gotten tight. Philadelphia seemingly is never gonna lose. What's the
biggest storyline in this game on Sunday.

Speaker 19 (01:00:10):
Yeah, I think it's two very good teams in the
Eastern Conference. They're both gonna make the playoffs, obviously, and
the question just is kind of where the seeding is
gonna be. This is the best conference I think we've
ever seen in the history of Major League. There's gonna
be an incredibly good team that's gonna finish eighth in
the East. I'd have to host that wild Card round game.

(01:00:31):
But in this league, it's all about peaking at the end,
right and we have time and time again seeing teams
kind of be inconsistent throughout the regular season, figure it
out in the final month of the year, and go
on a big run deep in the playoffs. The New
York Red Bulls did that last year and they made
it all the way to MLS Cup in a surprise.
In the East, now, Cincinnati has not foune that I mean,

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haven't been inconsistent throughout the year.

Speaker 11 (01:00:52):
They've been great.

Speaker 19 (01:00:53):
But because of how good the East is, it's gonna
come down to just who's able to turn it on
and be at their best at the end of the year.
So I think for both Cincinnati and Orlando, for Pat
Newton and Osca Pereja, it's about seeing that from their
teams because now's the time with three games Like Cincinnati,
now's the time to be at their best, get that
momentum going into the playoffs, which and look at one

(01:01:14):
tu in row they've looked great. Continue that on and
then try to.

Speaker 11 (01:01:17):
Make a run.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
And know how good Martinohita has been, I've seen how
good Evander has been. Could this game on Sunday play
a factor in the MVP race?

Speaker 11 (01:01:27):
Two weeks ago, I would have said yes. I think
line Messi's got to wrap up for a second straight year.
You know, he's just he did it again last night
in New York.

Speaker 19 (01:01:34):
It's the field in front of a sold out city field.

Speaker 11 (01:01:37):
Speaking of the Mets.

Speaker 19 (01:01:38):
And it was it was it was an electric of
a crowded city field. You know, couldn't see even even
when the Mets are good. I just think his numbers
are two good. He leads the league in goals, he
leads the league in goal contributions.

Speaker 11 (01:01:50):
He's on fire. At the end of the year. He's
Lionel Messi.

Speaker 19 (01:01:53):
It's unfortunate because Andres Tryer in San Diego, Evander and Cincinnati,
Martino Hada in our Orlando.

Speaker 11 (01:02:00):
They've had incredible years that deserve recognition.

Speaker 19 (01:02:03):
I don't know if if anything anybody does over the
next few weeks is going to be enough the Paslano
Messi in the MVP race.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
If FC Cincinnati is gonna get three points on Sunday,
what about Orlando's team beyond Martino Heata, will they have overcome?

Speaker 20 (01:02:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:02:18):
Uh, their attacks really good with with Ojeita, with Marco Pasholich,
with Luis Muriel. I mean, they have a big three
that rival with any team in MLS, including Cincinnati's now
big three when you throw Brenner in with Kevin Denke
and Evanders, so they're gonna have to keep them in
check and then they're gonna have to to figure out

(01:02:38):
how to score on a really good back line. They
have one of the better center back pairings in Major
League Soccer. They've got a great young right back and
Alex Freeman, who's you know now kind of blown up
this year on the national team in his first year
as a starter. And they've got a really good midfield
as well. So yeah, they're gonna have to shut down
the kind of the trident that the Trio and the attack,

(01:02:59):
and they're gonna have to.

Speaker 11 (01:03:00):
Figure out a way through.

Speaker 19 (01:03:01):
But I think will be the best defense, you know,
that they've seen in a few weeks, right, I mean
the Galaxy, But Cincinnati's attack looked a great last week
and Vanders pulled the strings. The Galaxies don't have a
very good back line. Now Cincinnati have elite attackers, so
they can do it against Orlando.

Speaker 11 (01:03:17):
It's just going to be a little more difficult.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
Should be should be a fun match, great atmosphere, standalone
game on Sunday night, FC Cincinnati hosting Orlando, a key
game in the Eastern Conference, and might see these two
teams again here in a few weeks. Jake Enjoy the
broadcast have a great call, hik You and best of
luck tonight at Wrigleyfield.

Speaker 19 (01:03:36):
Thank you, best of luck to the Reds and all
your Reds fans out there.

Speaker 11 (01:03:40):
Hope to see you in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
Most definitely, you got it, Jake, Thanks so much. Twenty
minutes after five o'clock two won the final score. By
the way, the Dodgers with their bullpen. I'm not sure
this is going to be enough. It's eight to nothing,
La Dodgers are still batting in the top of the
fourth inning. By the way, Yes, my original suspicions proved
to be true. The Dodgers can clinch the National League

(01:04:04):
West with a win in this game. Obviously, this would
be This would be a tough blow for the d
Backs because you're trying to catch the Mets. You'll fall
a game behind the team you're tied with. Hopefully this
score holds. Obviously, all eyes on the game tonight at
Wrigley Field. Do we have tearing some audio from a

(01:04:25):
GABP that we could shair.

Speaker 8 (01:04:31):
Who give me? Give me?

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Noelve Marte with interpreter Reds trainer Tomas Vera talking about
his amazing ninth inning catch.

Speaker 8 (01:04:43):
The hand of the hour, What a catch? What are
your emotions?

Speaker 21 (01:04:46):
Right now as you stand here, when you saved the
day and perhaps the season.

Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
Come at the moment.

Speaker 22 (01:04:58):
And the on.

Speaker 7 (01:05:06):
The first and always thank Gap for give me the
chickens to make this. But to me, this is what
this is to me one of the best plays.

Speaker 11 (01:05:16):
I ever made.

Speaker 7 (01:05:17):
I mean, as right now, I never think I've done
something better than this.

Speaker 21 (01:05:21):
We've talked a lot about your move to right field.
Obviously you were comfortable on that play. Can you talk
us through what went into making that incredible catch?

Speaker 11 (01:05:32):
Came you to field?

Speaker 7 (01:05:38):
Come for process, the.

Speaker 22 (01:05:45):
Frio and okay ta momento, the sycam Lisa.

Speaker 7 (01:06:01):
I've been taking a lot of input from DJ. TJ's
been teaching me how many steps I have before I get.

Speaker 11 (01:06:07):
To the fence.

Speaker 7 (01:06:08):
So I've been doing it and this mom and I
put it in practice and I think it's I mean,
it's the reason why and thank God that I make
that call.

Speaker 8 (01:06:16):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
There's Tomas Vera helping to interpret Noelle Marte with Jim
Day on the fan Duel Sports Network.

Speaker 8 (01:06:23):
That is a great catch.

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
If it happens in the fourth inning of a five
to one game in May, it is all the more
greater because of the stakes the situation, what the Reds
are playing for, the mood it would have created had
that ball clears the wall, like, that's the play of
the season. Play of the season leads for this club.

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Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
I'm in two leagues and one. We have twelve teams.
We have three divisions, four each. In one division, there's
a guy who's three and zero, who has scored this
season forty four fewer points than me, and yet I'm
zero in three and in last place.

Speaker 8 (01:08:02):
I think my league is rigged.

Speaker 11 (01:08:04):
It is. Maybe you're just jinked.

Speaker 12 (01:08:07):
The black cloud follows you everywhere, my friend, But you
know what I mean.

Speaker 23 (01:08:11):
It brings us into odds and.

Speaker 12 (01:08:14):
At oh win three, at least according to Yaho and
a tweet they put out on based on yes or
last year's results yesterday, twenty one point eight percent chance
of you making the playoffs based off last year's results.
That's roughly one in five teams. You start winless. You
gotta know how many teams make the playoffs in your
fantasy league. If it's six out of twelve teams in
your own three, it's not as big of a deal.

Speaker 11 (01:08:35):
The key really is staying engaged.

Speaker 23 (01:08:36):
Making those smart moves, knowing that hey, it's.

Speaker 11 (01:08:39):
Wide open in there.

Speaker 12 (01:08:40):
A single win next week and really swing things as well.
And again, stay active, not desperate. H You got to
start streaming those defenses and quarterbacks. Instead of forcing this,
bands starts looking ahead the matchups and bye weeks are
starting up here. I'm obviously stay active on waivers. It's
a long game, fourteen plus week's usually before get to

(01:09:00):
the playoffs, so let's not panic, but you do need
to sort of be honest about your roster. In some
cases it's definitely worse than others.

Speaker 8 (01:09:07):
My roster is awesome and I'm Owen free.

Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
By the way, it's also worth mentioning bye weeks are starting,
so's international games. We've got one in Dublin this week
starting at nine thirty on. Something that always gets fantasy owners.
Don't let that happen to you. Let's take a look
at it. Yes, thought, I've had it. I've had it
where it's like I I wake up games on and
it's like, oh yeah, this is typically when I set
my lineup.

Speaker 12 (01:09:29):
So there was a situation literally, yeah, I think it
was two seasons ago. Alvin Kamara, a pretty big fantasy
come out of the no previous indication of injury or anything,
and he got.

Speaker 11 (01:09:41):
Scratched at eight thirty in the morning, and he was
in so many lineups. It was a big, big, disaster.

Speaker 5 (01:09:47):
Uh yeah, it's happened. Happened to the best of us
and the worst of us. Let's take a look at
some critical Week four injuries, starting in Dallas.

Speaker 12 (01:09:56):
Yeah, I mean the big buzz kill of the week
in fantasy last week with Ceedee Lambley and off the
field likely headed to high r multiple week injury here
has an ankle issue. In his absence, obviously, we're downticking
back and a lot of that passing attack maybe this
week against the Packers especially, not really liking those matchups.
Mike Evans another big name receiver limping off the field

(01:10:18):
a hamstring injury. He's not going to go on ir
but definitely going to miss a few weeks. The Bucks
are hopeful maybe Chris Godwin gets back from this ankle issue.

Speaker 23 (01:10:25):
Amika Kabuka, the sensational rookie.

Speaker 12 (01:10:28):
Will likely be leaned on a little more than they like.
But a tough matchup here as well with the Eagles
on tap. Another big name receiver on the list is
Terry McLaurin, a quad issue. Not at practice today for
a second straight day. I don't think he's playing this week.
We'll wait and get official confirmation on Friday and that's
likely when we hear official confirmation for the Commanders. On
quarterback Jaden Daniels been a limited participants with Denie.

Speaker 23 (01:10:50):
He's got to get cleared by doctors.

Speaker 12 (01:10:52):
Is optimistic though a potential return here a matchup against
Atlanta on tap Rock.

Speaker 11 (01:10:57):
Purty looking like he could return for the nine years.

Speaker 12 (01:11:00):
He's dealing with the tow issue a lesser degree than
Burrow with his turk tow, but a painful injury nonetheless,
So we'll see. Dustin Field's not clear from concussion pro
call for the Jets, but he did practice in fool
today so that's likely a formality. He's trending in the
right direction as well. We know Carson Wentz is in
for this week and probably a couple more as JJ

(01:11:20):
McCarthy deals with that ankle issues. There's still plenty of
fluidity at quarterback, and then the running back injuries really
the big ones of the week. James Conner out for
the season with the foot, Nazi Harris with an achilles issue.
I was watching both of his injuries live and there's
things where they just didn't show the highlights again for
a minute, so that was pretty sad to see.

Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
But man it's a Marion Hampton season in LA.

Speaker 12 (01:11:41):
The rookie is gonna get an action thereon Trade Benson.
Don't love him tonight against that tough Seattle defense as much,
but certainly a fantasy comeout of the down stretched Tyrone
Tracy another running back out three to four weeks for
the Giants with the shoulder.

Speaker 11 (01:11:53):
My guy Cam.

Speaker 12 (01:11:54):
Scattabo loved him at Arizona State, loved the way he
runs and suddenly getting on that flex RB three radar
in that Giants backfield.

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Speaker 8 (01:12:09):
Give me your studs, duds and sleepers.

Speaker 11 (01:12:13):
Yeah, love me some Bucky Irving this week.

Speaker 23 (01:12:17):
I mean not that I think he's going to be the.

Speaker 12 (01:12:18):
Top running back, but he's certainly in line to be
a top ten running back. I expect the Bucks to
get back Tristan works.

Speaker 11 (01:12:24):
We mentioned, We definitely mentioned that you know they're gonna
not be without.

Speaker 12 (01:12:30):
The receivers, so I expect them to even lean Onim
Moore in the passing game.

Speaker 11 (01:12:33):
Tyreek Hill another receiver. I know that you know it's
been pretty disappointing, but man, he.

Speaker 12 (01:12:38):
Did pass the eyeball test for me a week ago.
Right now he is healthy. I'd expect it to be
a pretty high scoring game with Miami in one with
the Jets in Miami and one, I think the Dolphins
will win. I think Tyreek Hill has his best day.
I got him in my top twelve for the first
time all season. On the dud side, I mean, I'm
sitting Trevor Lawrence until further than there. Seed's got to
play his way into the lineup, but I'm not sure

(01:12:58):
he ever will again. I have my doubts, a little
bit of bitterness two mode, because I was buying into
him on a sort of some props and some different things.
But at San Francisco this week, not inside my top
twenty and.

Speaker 23 (01:13:09):
Covin Ridley, I mean Tennessee now only they have a
tough match.

Speaker 12 (01:13:12):
Up here against a winless Houston team where the defense
is still pretty good. But I mean Elick Amanar has
been awesome the rookie with cam Ward Ridley Knackett in
the target, so he's on the bench, and then a
couple of sleepers we're going to throw out. Drake May
He's going against Carolina, especially in there's one QB league
where you're streaming quarterbacks. If he's out there, he's a
top ten play this week and I got him beat

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some crow on the Colts. I mean, I like the defense.
I was skeptical of the offense, but that's back when
I thought Anthony Richardson was going to be the quarterback
or the old version of Daniel Jones. But man, they
look good on offense. And Michael Pittman Junior two out
of three games, fourteen plus PPR points.

Speaker 11 (01:13:48):
I like him this week as a wide receiver three.

Speaker 12 (01:13:50):
Play versus the Rams in a game, I expect the
Colts to win flat out.

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Up and learn more there.

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
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Speaker 8 (01:14:46):
We'll talk again next week.

Speaker 11 (01:14:49):
All right, let's go Tubby, get this win tonight and
go red.

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
Like words I typically do not say, Go Cubs, Go Dan.
Thanks so much. We'll have more from Great American Ballpark.
Brendan Jones on Baseball's Next.

Speaker 8 (01:15:03):
This isn't just a game, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
A well, the mood is slightly different than it was.
Let's see what that thing end about nine forty five
last night. I'm not sure I could do this myth
because I'm a public high school kid from Kentucky. Seventeen
nineteen and a half. What a what a mood change
from last night, after the Reds losing extras, and after

(01:15:28):
Terry Francona frankly subjected himself to a lot of second guessing.
The Reds win today two won the final score over
the Pittsburgh Pirates. We'll we'll play the audio from a
gabp here in just a bit. Terry Francona on the
game itself. Nicolodolo, Reds win the ball game two one. Well,
let's let's be totally honest. Okay, if you are listening

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to me right now, if you are listening to a
sports talk radio show in Cincinnati, there's a very good
chance you already know what happened at Great American Ballpark today.
I think we can dispense with Is today a must win?
Is it a must win game? These are must win
games coming into today, four to go one behind New
York even with the Diamondbacks. These are all must win games.

(01:16:13):
Friday tomorrow must win game. Nick Lodolo today in a
must win game was spectacular. He was better than Hunter
Green was last night. Hunter Green last night was good.
Paul Skeins was awesome. Nick Lodola was awesome. Today had
the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Palm of his hand six
plus innings of shutout baseball, strikes out twelve, gives up

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just two hits, only had one walk. Came out of
the game in the seventh inning. And you'll hear Tito
here in just a bit talk about Nicko Lodolo, his
performance and what he's dealing with. But it looked like
it looked like and Jose Travino noticed it immediately. He
looked like, in the course of throwing a pitch he
landed kind of weird. They brought him out of the game.
Nick Lodolo sat on the bench for a few outs, exited.

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Graham Ashcraft came in relief. He got the rest of
the outs and the seventh inning. Reds had a two
to nothing lead at that point because they scored both
runs in the fifth inning Noel f Marte with a single,
Gavin Lux with a single. Reds also had a run
that was taken off the board after key Brian Hayes
was initially called safe on a bang bang play at
the plate.

Speaker 8 (01:17:17):
On review, they called him out. They took a two
to one lead.

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
After the Pirates scored a run off Tony Santina in
the eighth inning, they took a two run lead, two
to one lead into the top of the ninth inning
and Brian Reynolds hit a ball that would have been
a home run off Amelio Pagan with one out and
Noelve Marte brought it over back into the field of
play and made a game saving and perhaps season saving catch.

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Pegan would get the final out, Noel F Marte with
a nice running catch to end the ball game, and
the Reds picked themselves off the mat. You can laugh
at this, you can roll your eyes at this. You
could say this is Hoki look man. Last night felt
like a death blow to a degree. Maybe two day
and night felt like a death blow. The last two

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nights felt like, Okay, this is the beginning of the end,
and these are missed opportunities that we're gonna rue when
they play a full one sixty two. And maybe that's
the case, but it's been the case so often with
this team. Aided by the fact that the Mets are
in free fall, the Diamondbacks aren't great, this team has
managed to hang in there and every single time you're

(01:18:24):
about to count them out, they figure out a way
to stay in the race. They've done that today a
two to one Red's victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. We'll
have a bunch of audio for you here. In a
few minutes. We'll play the call of Marte's catch. You'll
hear Terry Francana. We played some Noel A Marte just
a few minutes ago. We'll have Amelio Pagan as well
a few other particulars if you're wondering, and I'm sure

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you are. The Diamondbacks are playing right now. So the
Mets lead came into play today leading both Arizona and
Cincinnati by a game. Arizona is playing right now. They
have just wrapped up the fifth inning, and the Dodgers
with a chance to clinch the National League West, which
would put them in a position to host the six
seed next week. Dodgers lead that game eight to nothing.

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Now it's worth mentioning LA's bullpen the last two nights
has blown leads against Arizona. Dodgers did still win the
game in xtra etings last night, but they haven't had
an eight to nothing lead, and so hopefully Dave Roberts
can figure out a way to navigate the last four
innings and have his team clinch the division and deliver
what would re a really, really, really tough blow to

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the Arizona Diamondbacks. Meanwhile, the Mets, who got clobbered ten
to three last night, play their final game at Wrigley Field,
finale of that three game series. It's obviously not their
final game. They played the Cubs tonight, and so a
Chicago win and the Reds go into the final weekend
series of the season, even with the Mets obviously owning

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the tiebreaker and back in the driver's seat. Obviously, if
New York wins, then the Reds are going to have
a little bit more work to do in Milwaukee this weekend,
and they will need some help from the Miami Marlins,
who host the Mets Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 8 (01:20:10):
So, uh, there you go. We're guests free for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:20:13):
So uh five point three, seven four nine, fifteen thirty
and eight sixty six seven zero two three, seven seven
six are your phone numbers, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:20:24):
I my take on the season all season long.

Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
This is not me patting myself on the back, because
I think most of us have had a peg this way.
My take on the season before it started was that
the Reds are going to be an eighty three win team.
Today they won their eighty first game. They may get
to eighty three wins. If they do, it may be enough.
The question is can they win one more game than

(01:20:48):
I predicted? The answer is yes, they could sweep the Brewers.
I'm going to guess that regardless of what happens tonight,
the Reds are a playoff team next week.

Speaker 8 (01:20:59):
Now. You don't want to have to sweep the Brewers.
And you know Milwaukee is still they still have work
to do.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
They're still trying to clinch the number one seed. The
Phillies play the Marlins tonight, and so if Philly loses
that game, Milwaukee then has nothing to play for this weekend.
That game between Miami and the Phillies starts at six o'clock.
If the Marlins beat Philadelphia, then the Brewers are the
one seed.

Speaker 8 (01:21:28):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
I don't necessarily expect Milwaukee to put it in cruise
control this weekend, in large part because Pat Murphy strikes
me as the kind of guy that, hey, there's something
at stake in this series. So we're not just gonna
take a dive. We're not gonna be like the Kansas
City Chiefs Week eighteen last year. Also, they're not gonna
play a game game one of the NLDS which the

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Brewers will play in they get a first round by
is Saturday. I cannot imagine that they just tell their
main players over the course of the next three days,
sit back and relax. I think one of the things
that teams are still trying to figure out in this
playoff format is how to kind of manage rust versus rest.

Speaker 8 (01:22:11):
So we will see.

Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
My take on the team all season long was eighty
three wins. If they get to eighty four, which means
they sweep the series, they're a playoff team. Will eighty
three be enough? We'll see. My other take on the
team has been I think the starting pitching is good
enough to get them close to the finish line. I
think their offensive deficiencies are too big for them to

(01:22:33):
cross the finish line first. If that makes sense, we'll see.
It's the question about this team, every game, every series,
all season long. Will they hit enough? They really didn't
hit enough today. They certainly didn't hit enough last night.

(01:22:53):
God knows, they didn't hit enough on Tuesday. Hell, they
barely hit enough on Sunday when they won one nothing.
Will they hit enough this weekend against Milwaukee? Not gonna
have Hunter Green use that bullet last night. You might
have him in a relief appearance on Three Days Rest.
I guess not gonna have Nick Ladolo. And now you
wonder if they're gonna have him if they're playing next week,

(01:23:17):
can they get through the finish line and can they
hit just enough to get through the finish line before
Arizona and before the New York Mets.

Speaker 14 (01:23:26):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:23:26):
I'm looking at the call screen.

Speaker 5 (01:23:27):
He's been on Jeff Carr, locked on Reds and locked
on Bearcats podcast. I assume you called because you wanted
to talk on the radio.

Speaker 8 (01:23:34):
Noelvie, Marty, I've been waiting to say that forever.

Speaker 11 (01:23:39):
B he's a right fielder.

Speaker 20 (01:23:42):
Yes, let's go.

Speaker 8 (01:23:44):
I think he might be the greatest right fielder in
Red's history.

Speaker 24 (01:23:47):
It's unquestionable since the twenty twenties, there's never been a
better right fielder than the Cincinnati Reds, at least since
the twenty twenties. I I was sitting in the right
field corner in Vowed Territory watching that catch, and I
tell you why, that was probably the best player I've
ever seen.

Speaker 11 (01:24:04):
That was amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:24:04):
You know, I said before, that's a great catch.

Speaker 5 (01:24:08):
If it happens in the fourth inning of a five
to one game in may you go, Wow, what a
great catch by Noel A.

Speaker 8 (01:24:13):
Marte.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
Add to it the fact he's played fifty games as
a professional baseball player in right field. Add to it
the stakes, ninth inning, two to one, must win game, like,
because of the circumstances, because of what was at stake
in that moment, that is one of the greatest catches
in the history of this franchise. That sounds like hyperbole.

(01:24:34):
There might be more physically difficult catches to make, there
might be more physically challenging plays to make. But given
everything you know, I've equated it to Glenn Bragg's Game six,
nineteen ninety, same opponent, same score, basically, same scenario, two
to one, one out in the ninth and Glenn Braggs
made his catch against Carmela Martinez with a guy on

(01:24:56):
first base. But because of where it was, and where
was in the game, and which game it was, and
how close the game was, we remember that catch thirty
five years later, that catch today not dissimilar at all.

Speaker 24 (01:25:10):
That saved the season. And to be honest with you,
when you watch how he tracks that ball, that's something
that it felt like his first teamful of games he
really had a hard time doing. Yeah, and even up
until this past couple of games, like you could watch
him turn his head multiple times, and they always teach
him never to do that in the right field, Like
you find it and you just move your body, you

(01:25:30):
don't move your head. And he was able to track
this ball perfectly. And I don't think that he could
have jumped any higher. I don't think it could have
stretched any further. That was literally the limit of his
physical range just to get to that ball.

Speaker 11 (01:25:46):
And then it was hilarious too that.

Speaker 24 (01:25:48):
Oh, by the way, like the very next pitch, another
flyball sins at him that he has to range over
to catch and he still makes that play as well.
Give the save to him. I know, we don't give
saves the position players. He's just more than Emilio Pegan.

Speaker 5 (01:26:01):
Yeah, I put on Twitter Emilio Pagan should buy noelve Marte,
a Japanese samurai sword, the kind of Joe Robie for
his offensive line. You're right, I'm looking at a photo
from Jeff dean Uh and the credit goes to him
and Getty Images noelve Marte with his left arm extended.
I don't think he could physically extend another inch. Like

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you see catches where you know, a guy goes back
and he makes the catch at the yellow line, and
then you wonder like would that have gotten out or
you know, he'll catch it and it would have barely
scraped the wall. I mean, this was the degree of
difficulty on this catch, much less the circumstance just amazing.
It is one of the greatest defensive plays in the

(01:26:44):
history of this franchise.

Speaker 24 (01:26:46):
And it's crazy to think too. Coming into this game,
he's been in a slump. He had an RBI single,
He had a moment where you're like, Okay, maybe he's
breaking out of the slump. Maybe he's going to finish
the year. Well, now he's finishing it in a way
like people were. People were saying in the stands like, yep,
right fielder next year, no question about it.

Speaker 11 (01:27:04):
Write him down. That's who he is.

Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
There was there was a play last night on on
the Ball where Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh scores their first run and
they ended up getting the out of third base. But
it felt like, all right, he didn't handle the carrem
quite properly. He didn't handle the carem the way he
will if he plays, you know, another season's worth of
games in right fielder just gets more work out there,
and you're kind of saying, like, God, you know what
next year, hopefully we're not doing this where we're we're

(01:27:30):
trying to fit square pegs into round holes in the field. Noelve, Marte,
as far as I'm concerned, as a lifetime right.

Speaker 24 (01:27:36):
Fielder, those edges just got a lot more rounded off.
And it's man, Milwaukee, Milwaukee's gonna be tough.

Speaker 11 (01:27:45):
I know it.

Speaker 24 (01:27:45):
I heard a stat from our lockdown Brewers guy that
Quinn Priester's pitching on Friday and the Brewers have won
their last nineteen straight games that he has pitched. So
the only thing that I got to say to that
is sounds like he's due.

Speaker 11 (01:27:58):
For a while.

Speaker 8 (01:28:00):
Yeah, Like it's we will if they do this.

Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
Okay, let's say they're playing and we're talking about the
National one of the National League Wildcard Series and the
Reds are off to LA.

Speaker 8 (01:28:10):
We're gonna ask are they gonna hit enough?

Speaker 5 (01:28:14):
If they if they somehow get to the next round
n LDS best of five where they would get some
home games, We're gonna ask will they hit enough? It's
and so you could ask it on a game to
game basis. You could ask it about a certain series,
you could ask it about a certain opponent, you could
ask it about the entire season. And we have for
one hundred and fifty nine games this weekend in Milwaukee,

(01:28:36):
where you're not gonna have Hunter Green starting unless they
do something we don't expect where you're certainly not gonna
have Nick Lodolo. Are they gonna hit enough against the
Milwaukee Brewers.

Speaker 24 (01:28:46):
I think that's going to be a tough question because
I don't felt like they hit enough in either of
these two these last two series, they hitched enough, right,
and that that's kind of what you want to do
as you're heading into the playoffs. But man with with
the Marlins playing the Mets, like, I kind of don't
know what I expect from that because I hear a

(01:29:06):
lot about how the Mets struggle when they face the Marlins,
But I just don't know that in three games, if
they somehow beat the Cubs tonight and they maintain that
one game lead, you're talking about the Reds pretty much
have to sweep the Brewers at that point. So that's
going to be the tough part. And I think that
you've really got to lean on somebody's got to get

(01:29:27):
that power back, because we saw it against the Cubs.

Speaker 11 (01:29:30):
It went away.

Speaker 24 (01:29:31):
Against the Pirates, and that's the differentiator that we all saw.
The Nick carl is the only one that didn't see
it this year, but we saw the fact that this
team needs power and when they hit for power, they win.

Speaker 5 (01:29:43):
Yeah, the Marlins have lost. They lost last night, got
pounded by the Phillies. They've lost two games since September ninth,
and so there's a part of me fearful that Number
one New York's offense does get going because they have
a lot of stars. Number two, that the Marlins cool off,
we'll see. I just you need across three games. You
need what the Reds got on Tuesday. That should have

(01:30:05):
been the story. Elie dela Cruz goes three for three
with a walk in a homer. Tyler Stevenson gave it
to him last night. I would grape that he should
have played today, Like, across those three games, could I
get free superlative?

Speaker 11 (01:30:18):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
Granted Ellie de la Cruz, as awesome as he was,
it wasn't enough to carry them to victory. But over
these next three games, can can I get free standout
performances that just give them some baseline level of productivity
and then and then you kind of fill in the gaps.

Speaker 8 (01:30:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
I mean, trying to predict what this team's gonna do
offensively is obviously very very difficult. And you're right, they
did not hit a lot in this Pittsburgh series. They
certainly weren't great with runners in scoring position until the
fifth inning today, a ton of missed opportunities, all the
double play balls. They won the game, won nothing on Sunday.
It's not like they, you know, drubbed the Cubs. They
won two of those games. Games won nothing. Are they

(01:30:58):
gonna hit enough? The question we've wondered for an entire season,
The entire season comes down to whether or not they
can answer that question.

Speaker 8 (01:31:06):
Will they hit enough? This weekend?

Speaker 24 (01:31:08):
Ain't it great to be talking about though, how the
Reds can continue the season. I mean, we haven't talked
about that in a long time.

Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
It kind of feels like it's great to look at
my inbox and I get the email announcing that National
League Division Series tickets are now on sale.

Speaker 8 (01:31:22):
That's what I like to hear.

Speaker 24 (01:31:26):
The one thing and I can't get over this, and
I'll hang up with Elizabe after this.

Speaker 11 (01:31:31):
Is that all right?

Speaker 24 (01:31:32):
If the Reds make the playoffs, did they feel vindicated
in how to build a team?

Speaker 11 (01:31:37):
I ain't worried about that. It just makes the playoffs, dude.

Speaker 8 (01:31:40):
I will worry about that when they're done playing. Jeff.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
I was eighteen years old when they last advanced in
the postseason, and obviously if they got there, they'll have
an uphill battle. I just I want that to go
away once and for all. I want to stop talking
about what the price of gas was in nineteen ninety five,
how OJ had just gotten acquitted when the Reds were
in LA to play the Dodgers. I want to talk
about when I want to stop talking about when I
was a freshman that you need driving down to buy

(01:32:04):
tickets for the Brave Series because they had won. I
want to forget nineteen ninety five and talk about twenty
twenty five, and so I'll worry about what they think
about the construction of the roster in next year when
they've played their final game, which I hope isn't on Sunday,
Locked on Red's podcast and the Lockdown Bearcats podcast, which
I was a special guest of Jeff Carr. You're the man,

(01:32:24):
thanks for calling in.

Speaker 11 (01:32:26):
Hey, thanks, Bob, go right there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
Twenty three minutes after five o'clock, still late, nothing, Dodgers
beating the Diamondbacks during the sixth inning in Phoenix.

Speaker 8 (01:32:35):
All right, well, play some audio.

Speaker 5 (01:32:37):
You'll hear Tommy Thrall's call of the noelve Marte catch,
which was terrific. Tommy Thrall called a no hitter in
twenty twenty one, right, the Wade Miley no hitter against
the Guardians. I think this is probably his first signature call, though,
Like if you're a play by play person, over the

(01:32:59):
course of a law long stretch of time in any
MLB market, you hopefully get an opportunity to put together
some signature calls. God knows, Marty Brenneman has dozens of them.
I thought Tommy Thrall rose to the occasion the same
way Noelvee Martin did. You'll hear that. You'll hear Tito

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Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
And here is Begun's three to zero pitch swung on
and there's a drive high in the air, deep right,
Marte back at the track at the wall.

Speaker 8 (01:34:29):
He leaps and he caught it.

Speaker 17 (01:34:32):
Oh, no way, what a grab, No one, Marte. He
robs Brian Reynolds of the game tying home.

Speaker 13 (01:34:42):
Run of the night. He was way up there. Wow,
that made my heart skip a beat.

Speaker 5 (01:34:51):
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I said this before the break a specifically a radio
play by play announcer, because you have to be more descriptive.
I think ultimately they're judged by how they rise to
the occasion or whether they don't in the biggest moments.

Speaker 8 (01:35:11):
Marty Brenneman made a Hall of Fame career out of that. Right.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
It's one thing to be a great storyteller and descriptor
of the action when it's you know, eight to one,
game number seventy four. It's something else when the game
is hanging in the balance, and when the season is
hanging in the balance. This is what makes Dan Horde great.
It's what makes Joe Sunderman great, It's what makes Tom
Gletter great. We're really lucky here. Tommy Thrall rose to
the occasion there. I know that's maybe not as important.

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big shoes to fill and maybe hasn't had many of
those moments to call, he got one today and he
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Speaker 5 (01:36:00):
Y one Winners, Nick Lodolo, You're gonna hear Tito Francona
in just a second. Nick was outstanding today six and
a third dominated the Pittsburgh Pirates, surrendered just two hits,
struck out twelve walked a guy taken out in the
seventh inning what looked like a little bit of a
leg injury. Dodgers continued to lead the Diamondbacks eight nothing.

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Cincinnati and Arizona came into play, both one game behind
the Mets. New York gets underway in just about two
hours in Chicago against the Cubs. I'll give you the
Bengal stuff here in just a second. Injury report and
all that, but I do want to play the audio.
Here's a Tito Francona in the aftermath of today's game

(01:36:40):
with the assembled local professional baseball media.

Speaker 25 (01:36:45):
So that's one under the circumstances, that's one of the
best players ever seen. I mean, taking the time of
the game, the time of the season, how high he
got up and after Marte the guy. I'm probably happiest
for us Colin because he's worked so diligent with Lee,
with him for the last three months, and that's pretty cool.

Speaker 10 (01:37:09):
What is that movie done to thee our Chand.

Speaker 25 (01:37:13):
Well, it's it's not just it's freed him up, which
is good, but it allowed us to get Hayes at third,
So we.

Speaker 11 (01:37:19):
Got a gold glover at third.

Speaker 25 (01:37:21):
We got a guy we think is good and going
to be really good in right. So it's it's really
helped him.

Speaker 26 (01:37:28):
Terry touchway, watching Marte make that play, it looked like
he knew he had it all the way he slowed down.
He was kind of thinking about going over the wall.
It's almost like he had it figured out as he.

Speaker 25 (01:37:40):
Was, Oh, you might be one or two steps ahead
of him and me. I think he did a great
job getting in position where he had a chance to
make that play. I mean, he went a long way
and it's kind of up over. I don't know if
anybody knew they had it, or if they're fibbing if
they said they did plays like that.

Speaker 10 (01:37:58):
Sometimes they kind of magic the team he's to get
in the playoffs.

Speaker 11 (01:38:01):
Just gotter that you can do to kid yourself.

Speaker 25 (01:38:05):
I don't care what adjective you put with it, magic, desperation,
you know. I mean, you know that game's tied, that's
that's taking a run off the boarder man and scores
two to one. So you know you can do the
math even I can't. I think he's okay. We just
spent some time talking to the trainers and doctor Kremchek,

(01:38:28):
and they think that when we got him out, he's
gonna be okay.

Speaker 8 (01:38:35):
All right, there you go, h Terry Francona, Now he's
gonna be okay.

Speaker 5 (01:38:39):
You could do what you want with that. Look, here's
I don't know. Here's maybe where my focus is. Nick
Lodola was going to be a bystander for this series
in Milwaukee. Obviously, we want him to be healthy. The
Reds want him to be healthy. If you do look ahead,
you know he would be on line. If you're thinking
Hunter Green pitches game one on Tuesday and then you

(01:39:00):
have Nicolodola ready on Wednesday, just because of how the
rotation has fallen. We'll see if he's able to make
that start. And we'll see if he makes that start
and if he's capable of being anywhere close to as
good as he was today. I don't know about you.
My focus is on this weekend in Milwaukee. Quickly here
before we grab another phone caller too. Bengals injury report

(01:39:23):
no offense still in protocol. Did not go today, Samaj
p Ryan a full go, Dalton Riisner a full go.
Shamar Stewart did not participate. Zach Taylor didn't totally rule
him out, but my guess is Shamar Stewart's not gonna play.
Cam Taylor Bridd also not totally rolled out, listed as
limited in his participation that today's practice Bengals and Broncos

(01:39:45):
on Monday kick off at eight fifteen, live on ESPN.
Excuse me, ESPN fifteen thirty. I am all screwed up
with the breaks, Tarren, How are we right? Should I
get a break? I want to take Luke's phone call,
but I don't. I don't want to make thank you mad?
What should I do? You could say, lou gotcha, Luco ahead,
thanks for hanging on. You're on ESPN fifteen thirty.

Speaker 27 (01:40:07):
Yeah, Harry, it's great to be on the line. I
was one among twenty four thousand down there enjoying the
three dollars beers.

Speaker 11 (01:40:16):
It was great to.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
See a win.

Speaker 11 (01:40:20):
I was yelling at for God to throw a strike,
and then.

Speaker 27 (01:40:22):
When that ball went out to right field. I was like,
not that kind of strike, but Marte saved me from
having to you know, Crow, that was great. The only
thing I got to say is the Reds, with the
back of their team baseball card, says that the Brewers
on them and I hit her there. But I think
it's an eighty one and eighty one like two because

(01:40:46):
I think they have a better chance of getting into
the playoffs with that record.

Speaker 11 (01:40:50):
But it's tough, man.

Speaker 20 (01:40:54):
I hope that the Mets lose tonight. It would have
been better.

Speaker 27 (01:40:58):
If they won this game last night, but I'll take
a win today.

Speaker 11 (01:41:01):
I'm riding high.

Speaker 27 (01:41:03):
On the back.

Speaker 18 (01:41:04):
Yeah, you know, it can only watch what happened.

Speaker 5 (01:41:07):
It's it's survive in advance, you know, so to speak.
And I can't tell you, Luke, thanks for the phone call.
I can't tell you how devastating it would have felt.
It would have been bad to lose, but to lose
where you blow a lead in the ninth inning, you know,
who knows, Maybe they the Pirates tie the game in
the Red score the winning round of the ninth inning,
and you know it's the same outcome. Who knows, But well,

(01:41:30):
just imagine losing that game. Look, they're they're gonna have
to get over I don't have. I don't have in
front of me the streak of futility that the Reds
are in the middle of when it comes to their
head to head performances against the Milwaukee Brewers before this season.
But they have been needless, to say, a thorn in
the side of this franchise for a while.

Speaker 8 (01:41:51):
I'll put a to you this way.

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
One of my best friends is a die hard Brewers fan,
and every year we make a wager on the season
series between the two teams, and the Stags are like,
take one guy has to take the other out to dinner.
So we went to the Montgomery and Boathouse because the
Brewers beat the Reds last year. One year it was

(01:42:13):
pick up a day's bar tab on a college football Saturday,
and so it's a friendly wager. It gets paid off
during the offseason. I don't think I have one since
twenty seventeen. I last won in twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen.

(01:42:35):
I want to say it was twenty seven. This is
obviously something I could look up, but it's based on
the head to head series.

Speaker 8 (01:42:42):
So it's been that many years.

Speaker 5 (01:42:43):
Since the Reds beat the Brewers and a head to
head series across the course of an entire season. This
year Milwaukee is seven to three. So we said it yesterday.
You don't want to have to go to Milwaukee and
need to sweep the Brewers. It's going to be extraordinarily tough.
And that's putting it mildly. We saw how hard that

(01:43:05):
team is to beat when they were here a month ago.
The Saturday night game that they should have won, the
Friday where Ellie throws the ball away, the Friday night
game that they should have won, where they had an
eight to one leading. I could torture you by going
through all the games. But they're gonna have to overcome
the easily their biggest challenge of the season, and depending

(01:43:27):
on what happens that night in Chicago, maybe get some
help in order to do this. We'll see, We'll see
and look. If they don't, then they they should have
been better during the season. But we'll see if they
can hit enough this week. In a Milwaukee twenty one
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Speaker 5 (01:44:35):
I mentioned before that as of this morning, the fan
dual odds and the Reds making the playoffs was at
plus two ninety. Now these odds get pulled. Individual teams
get pulled once they're in action. Although the Arizona game
is so lopsided that FanDuel actually has the Diamondbacks odds up.
Now it's that game's eight to nothing in the eighth

(01:44:55):
inning in favor of LA. It was at two ninety
this morning. Reads to make the playoffs plus two ninety.
It is currently plus one seventy two. That will adjust
obviously based on what happens with the Mets and Cubs
tonight in Chicago, but was plus two eighty yesterday afternoon.
They were actually minus odds for the first time all

(01:45:17):
season after Sunday's action so on on Monday morning it
was like at minus I think it was at minus
one thirty, was at plus two eighty yesterday morning, was
plus two ninety this morning, and currently sits at plus
one seventy two. Threads to make the playoffs say yes,
plus one seventy two, and again will adjust based on

(01:45:39):
what happens at Wrigley Field tonight. We don't have a
ton of time, but we do have time for Tommy
and Montgomery. Tommy, you're on ESPN fifteen thirty.

Speaker 8 (01:45:48):
What's up.

Speaker 20 (01:45:49):
No, it's always a pleasure to talk to you, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:45:52):
Nice to have you Tommy. What's up?

Speaker 4 (01:45:53):
Though?

Speaker 20 (01:45:54):
So I wanted to tell you I went to the
game Tuesday night with my daughter and it was the
most boisterous crowd i'd been to in September on a
Tuesday night, school night that I've been to in a long,
long time. It kind of reminded me of a riverfront stadium,
fifty thousand stands every night night crowd. It was loud, Yeah,

(01:46:16):
it was crazy. It was an atmosphere I never heard
before in my life.

Speaker 5 (01:46:21):
You know, there haven't been many games in that ballpark,
certainly in recent years where the crowd was hanging on
every pitch. And I was at the ballpark on Tuesday,
and I was there last night. What was fun about
both games, and you know, granted they lost, was crowd
was into it on every pitch. I mean, there was
an intensity to the crowd. And on Tuesday night, and

(01:46:41):
I said this yesterday, the crowd kept waiting to explode.
And unfortunately, like with every force out or every double play,
it got more and more deflating. But I kept thinking
all night like this crowd is ready to go, and
unfortunately they they couldn't explode the way they wanted to.

Speaker 20 (01:46:58):
Now the other thing is too So let's say the
Marlins win the night, which would make the Brewers, you know,
pretty much locked up one seed, don't field advantage. Now,
they'll probably rest the players, granted maybe not all of them.
But if the Mets lose to Night and the Reds
win Friday and Saturday, they're in, right pretty much, Uh,

(01:47:21):
will be any could be a tie.

Speaker 8 (01:47:22):
The Reds win all So you're saying, if the Mets.

Speaker 20 (01:47:26):
And Saturday and the Mets lose to Night, I think
we're in.

Speaker 5 (01:47:29):
So yeah if they if they well know, so, if
the Mets lose tonight, they're even. If the Reds. Even
if the Reds win the next two and the Mets
lose the next two, then they're golden.

Speaker 8 (01:47:38):
They're in.

Speaker 20 (01:47:40):
They're in.

Speaker 5 (01:47:40):
Yeah, yeah, if they if if the two tides, if
the two teams finish in a tie, then the Reds
go to the postseason.

Speaker 8 (01:47:48):
And so tonight tonight is mess.

Speaker 20 (01:47:50):
All three Yeah, they actually all three could still tied.

Speaker 5 (01:47:54):
They have the tiebreaker with the Diamondbacks now the third tipe.
The tiebreaker for a three way tie goes to intrad
division record, right, it's the head to head no longer matters,
it goes to intrad division record. I think I think
the Diamondbacks would have us edged.

Speaker 20 (01:48:13):
Out then yeah, that's interesting, but.

Speaker 8 (01:48:16):
But you know, but.

Speaker 5 (01:48:20):
Yeah, they're going to snow if San Diego is If
this Dodger score a hold, san Diego is not necessarily
locked into the five yet, because I believe Chicago still
has to win a game. But look if Arizon, if
this game ends the way it looks like it's going
to with l A winning, It's one thing to be

(01:48:41):
two behind the team you're chasing. It's something else now
to have to leap frog two teams. And Arizona, regardless
of what happens with the Mets, is going to have
to figure out a way to leap frog two teams.
If if we'll see h today's results so far.

Speaker 20 (01:49:00):
Actually root for the Marlins and Cubs.

Speaker 8 (01:49:01):
That's all. Here you go. We'll be rooting for the
Cubbies tonight. Tommy, thank you so much. We're done. Show's over.
That was fun. That was fun.

Speaker 5 (01:49:11):
U we I was gonna say, since he Threety sixty,
our show gets bumped for Bengals pep rally off to
Kansas for u SE Kansas on Saturday. Tony Pike and
I will both be there. We're back at it Monday,
We're the pregame show before Red's Broncos. Tony and I
are going to do that together. Tony here, I'll be

(01:49:33):
in Denver looking forward to that. Anything you might have missed,
go find on the iHeartRadio app. Podcast of this show
are a service of Long Neck Sports Reel.

Speaker 8 (01:49:43):
Thanks to Tarrem Bland for producing, Thanks to you for listening,
Have an awesome night, and go coubbies. This is ESPN
fifteen thirty Cincinnati sports station

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