October 28, 2025 • 10 mins
Tommy joins Lance to react to FC Cincinnati's massive win over the Columbus Crew.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There it is hey full time whistle, Hey win against
their arrival. That's Cincinnati take a one game advantage here
in the first round of the MLS Cup playoffs. They
are dancing in the bailey tonight here in the.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Queens City, go baby sounds of victory before twenty three
thousand and three seventy one. Last night, FC Cincinnati defeated
the Columbus Crew one nill in the MLS Cup playoff,
the opener of the series, best of three at TQL Stadium.
The breakthrough goal in the seventy eighth minute from Kevin
Denke sent the Orange and Blue ahead and on to victory.
(00:41):
The Orange Blue now head to Columbus on Sunday one
went away from advancing to the Eastern Conference semifinals. For
more on that, let's go straight to the source. You
just heard his voice. Now let's hear more from the
voice of FC Cincinnati. That would be the man they
call Tommy g Temmy, go lender.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Tommy.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How are you Lance, I'm doing. I got some chicken
on the grid tonight. Yes, Cincinnati won last night. I
mean the weather's still holding out pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Life is good, my friend, no doubt, And it seems
only fitting that a guy who delivered game winning goals
throughout this season delivered a mighty big one last night.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean you could see kind of the hunger in
the way that he was playing throughout the match. Kevin
made it a comment I think it was late in
the first half about how impressed he was the way
that Kevin was holding up the ball in the attack,
and you know, he was getting the ball with his
back to the goal and doing a good job and
letting the rest of the attack try to do their job.
(01:38):
And you know they hadn't seen the result on it,
but there were positives there.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And it was look at the first.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Playoff game for Kevin Denke in his MLS career, and
you could.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Tell that he wanted it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And man, he scored a bunch of game winning goals
during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And he missed one.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
If you remember, early in the second half, there was
that ball across that he's kind of just timed poorly
and got too late actually and missed on it, and
it should have been a tapping and and a lead
earlier in the half, and instead he gets that one
a bit later in the half, and uh, really set
that place on fire.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It was. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And uh yeah, a very worthy game winner for number nine.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Over the years, the crew has had a pretty annoying
habit of finding ways to get back in and make
the comebacks. But the D, the Orange of Blue d
locked them down last night.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, I think annoying thing is a is a really
good way to put it, you know it. I often
feel like, listen, if I'm calling the game, the people
who are tuning in, they don't want to hear about
the history. But it's also my job to explain the history.
Right the Eastern Conference Final, a two nail lead evaporated.
There was a lot of two nail leads, Yes, that
had evaporated as recently as July, So listen there, that
(02:52):
wasn't gonna happen last night. And and but still in
the back of everybody's heads, they're a little bit concerned
about it, and rightfully so, because Columbus had had a
pretty good record at six previous games and Tikio Stadium
they only lost once, three draws and two wins, So
you know, when you factor all that in, you're like,
all right, the defense often sets the tone for this team,
(03:13):
and I thought they did last night. The back line
was very very good Roman Cell and Tino gets his
fifth clean sheet in ten career playoff games. Think about that,
every other game in his playoff career, and it's it's young,
only four years in he's had ten games, but every
other game he's had a clean sheet basically. So you know,
if you're FC Cincinnati had to be really happy with
(03:35):
what they did defensively, and I think it's important to
remember that they did it no Matt Miosga, No Lucas Engel,
who's been playing at left wing back and at left
center back, so he's an important part of the defensive unit,
and no Luca or Asano, who generally plays at left
wing back.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So you know, three.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Guys who really could have been starters in this match
were not available for pat noon and I know Luca
was on the bench, but he did not feature. So
I think all things considered, it was the effort that everybody,
as they watched the film today should feel pretty good about.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Alvis Pwell, big sub in the seventieth minute, and you
just referenced the moving parts and injuries. And I talked
with Chris Albright on the show last week about how
the depth assembled has certainly continued to pay off for
this club.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, it has.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And that's his job, right and that's what he's been
working so hard on is figuring out all of the
right pieces for this f C Cincinnati team. And I
think he knew, you know, going into the summer window,
that there were some holes and some places where seasons
I needed some more depth. Now, Alvis wasn't one of
the guys who came on, but Alvis is the guy
(04:41):
that he brought back in twenty twenty two after I
was left in twenty nineteen, you know, not on good
terms obviously with a different you know, different group running
the club at the moment. But when Alvis left and
then when I was you know, tipped off that he
was coming back, I remember my reaction, I went, what why?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Like the way he left? How? What? But what are
these new guys doing? Well?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Man shows why they're in their seats and I'm in
mine up in the booth lance. But you know, the
depth has been great, and listen, I give all the credit.
I think I put it out on my social media today,
like the Alvis pile to be able to come in
and I had talked to Omar Cummings earlier in the
day also from Jamaica with what's going on there today
with the hurricane, and to have the focus and I
(05:23):
think Caleb no from CALA nine did a good job
of telling a story last night. But listen, like to
come in and know that your family is all back
in Jamaica and facing one of the most catastrophic storms
that country has ever seen, if not the most catastrophic storm,
you know they've ever seen, and to come in and
have your focus on the match for fifteen to twenty
(05:43):
minutes and help your team win. Man, big, big love
for Jamaica and Alvis Pole at this moment.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You mentioned Roman cellentitle. That was his second match back
from that quad injury he suffered in US national camp.
No ill effects continue to show up, and he was
certainly on it last night.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, he looked great, didn't he. You know, he's been
he just continues to be great in his fourth year.
You know, we talked about it during the pregame show
last night because they honored Alec Cann before the match,
and Alex was brought in to be the starter for
FC Cincinnati. This was his big opportunity coming to Cincinnati.
You know, they had had some goalkeeping issues. Alex was
(06:19):
going to stabilize all that, and to be fair, he
did through seven matches and then he was warming up
to be the backup for a US Open Cup game
back in what there was that April of twenty twenty two.
He had just had a clean sheet against Atlanta and
he got hurt warming up, and so Pat had a
decision to make for the next game. Are you going
(06:40):
to go with you know, Kenneth Romire, who was in
the mix of the second stringer, You can go to
your third string guy, Roman selling Ton will give him
a chance against LAFC. And he went with Roman, and
Roman was so good and Alec had a little bit
of a setback. Was unlucky that by the time that
Roman came back, or I mean by the time Alec
was healthy, there's no way you could say Roman and
that's nothing you know to say about ale of can
(07:03):
but Roman was that good and he never looked back
at four years later. He's a guy who has five
playoff shutouts and you know, ten starts. So yeah, I
think Roman, you know, just just keeps getting better and
better and you kind of forget he's still young, you know,
as far as goalkeepers are considered in this league, but
yet I'd still refer to him as a veteran goalkeeper.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
We heard the roar of the crowd on that highlight.
I bumped in with, how about the energy of twenty
three thousand plus last night?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, it was pretty fun. Lance. You know, it's just listen.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All the games of Tiko Stadium are fun because our
fans here in the city are unbelievable. But that playoff
energy and then you bring in Columbus on top of it.
You didn't crank it up one notch. It was like
six or seven notches. I would say as far as
the energy was turned up last night, But no, I
think listen, these fans are so so important to the players.
(07:56):
They feel that energy that place erupted when when the
goal scored, And listen, we're gonna continue to need it
right whether you know there's a game three or the
next game is not for a couple of weeks at home.
I know a lot of people, my families making them
drive up north one hundred miles, will be there on
Sunday at six thirty for game two. And the players appreciate,
the coaches appreciate that everybody evolved does.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And man, it sure makes those highlights sound sweet, doesn't it. Man,
it absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Look ahead, give me a thought on Sunday, a chance
to close it out in their house would be sweet
and beneficual.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I think you know you don't
want to come home now.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You got to find a way to replicate the game plan,
as Pat Newton said, and get back to Cincinnati and
then you get some rest. You still, you know, Mami
Asa it sounds like he's gonna be out for a bit,
but then you can start to get some guys healthy,
right and ready for what would you know, potentially it's
not guaranteed that it's Miami, but we know that that's
(08:51):
what's kind of lurking there, right and we could see
Miami in that conference semi final.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
But the good news is it will be here.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Right then we'll see what happens if they win that one.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And how it plays out.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
But I would say for this Sunday, like now, Columbus
is feeling the pressure and they didn't score in the game,
so they're gonna have to try to find a way,
you know, to get better opportunities in front of the
goal and Listen, they're one of the best coach teams
in the league. Will for Nancy does a fantastic job.
They'll tweak a few things. They're not going to stray
from the game plan. I don't think they're gonna make
any wholesale changes, but I do think the pressure is
(09:25):
on the crew on Sunday night, and if every Sea
since then even go in with that same mentality and
follow the game plan like they did last night, then
they should be able to go get the win. They're
the better team and you know, come back, celebrate and
enjoy a little bit of time off before they continue
that stretch of the playoffs that hopefully goes all the
way to the first week of December.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Final thought, Did I detect?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Did I spy a double high five between you and
Kevin and the booth last night?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah? He just caught that right as he came on
the air.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Huh, Yes, a double I mean, listen, come on, Kevin
Denkake scored that late in the match to win, you know,
potentially a score game winner against your arrival. I mean,
I just spelled like sometimes you gotta you gotta go first.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Kevin was happy that I didn't try to body check
him out of boot like Aple weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So he was. He was very happy that that there
was no charges of assault or anything along those lines.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
For now, the Devil High five, we'll see, we'll see
where things land going forward, especially uh, if the ones
of Blues can get this win on Sunday, we'll take
the booths cam North for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I like that very much.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Hey, I appreciate you making time as always, always enjoyed
the conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Thank you anytime. Lance, appreciate you all right, take care
There it is hey full time whistle, Hey win against
their arrival. That's Cincinnati take a one game advantage here
in the first round of the MLS Cup playoffs. They
are dancing in the bailey tonight here in the.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Queens City, go baby sounds of victory before twenty three
thousand and three seventy one. Last night, FC Cincinnati defeated
the Columbus Crew one nill in the MLS Cup playoff,
the opener of the series, best of three at TQL Stadium.
The breakthrough goal in the seventy eighth minute from Kevin
Denke sent the Orange and Blue ahead and on to victory.
(00:41):
The Orange Blue now head to Columbus on Sunday one
went away from advancing to the Eastern Conference semifinals. For
more on that, let's go straight to the source. You
just heard his voice. Now let's hear more from the
voice of FC Cincinnati. That would be the man they
call Tommy g Temmy, go lender.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Tommy.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How are you Lance, I'm doing. I got some chicken
on the grid tonight. Yes, Cincinnati won last night. I
mean the weather's still holding out pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Life is good, my friend, no doubt, And it seems
only fitting that a guy who delivered game winning goals
throughout this season delivered a mighty big one last night.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean you could see kind of the hunger in
the way that he was playing throughout the match. Kevin
made it a comment I think it was late in
the first half about how impressed he was the way
that Kevin was holding up the ball in the attack,
and you know, he was getting the ball with his
back to the goal and doing a good job and
letting the rest of the attack try to do their job.
(01:38):
And you know they hadn't seen the result on it,
but there were positives there.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And it was look at the first.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Playoff game for Kevin Denke in his MLS career, and
you could.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Tell that he wanted it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And man, he scored a bunch of game winning goals
during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And he missed one.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
If you remember, early in the second half, there was
that ball across that he's kind of just timed poorly
and got too late actually and missed on it, and
it should have been a tapping and and a lead
earlier in the half, and instead he gets that one
a bit later in the half, and uh, really set
that place on fire.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It was. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And uh yeah, a very worthy game winner for number nine.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Over the years, the crew has had a pretty annoying
habit of finding ways to get back in and make
the comebacks. But the D, the Orange of Blue d
locked them down last night.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, I think annoying thing is a is a really
good way to put it, you know it. I often
feel like, listen, if I'm calling the game, the people
who are tuning in, they don't want to hear about
the history. But it's also my job to explain the history.
Right the Eastern Conference Final, a two nail lead evaporated.
There was a lot of two nail leads, Yes, that
had evaporated as recently as July, So listen there, that
(02:52):
wasn't gonna happen last night. And and but still in
the back of everybody's heads, they're a little bit concerned
about it, and rightfully so, because Columbus had had a
pretty good record at six previous games and Tikio Stadium
they only lost once, three draws and two wins, So
you know, when you factor all that in, you're like,
all right, the defense often sets the tone for this team,
(03:13):
and I thought they did last night. The back line
was very very good Roman Cell and Tino gets his
fifth clean sheet in ten career playoff games. Think about that,
every other game in his playoff career, and it's it's young,
only four years in he's had ten games, but every
other game he's had a clean sheet basically. So you know,
if you're FC Cincinnati had to be really happy with
(03:35):
what they did defensively, and I think it's important to
remember that they did it no Matt Miosga, No Lucas Engel,
who's been playing at left wing back and at left
center back, so he's an important part of the defensive unit,
and no Luca or Asano, who generally plays at left
wing back.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So you know, three.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Guys who really could have been starters in this match
were not available for pat noon and I know Luca
was on the bench, but he did not feature. So
I think all things considered, it was the effort that everybody,
as they watched the film today should feel pretty good about.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Alvis Pwell, big sub in the seventieth minute, and you
just referenced the moving parts and injuries. And I talked
with Chris Albright on the show last week about how
the depth assembled has certainly continued to pay off for
this club.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, it has.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And that's his job, right and that's what he's been
working so hard on is figuring out all of the
right pieces for this f C Cincinnati team. And I
think he knew, you know, going into the summer window,
that there were some holes and some places where seasons
I needed some more depth. Now, Alvis wasn't one of
the guys who came on, but Alvis is the guy
(04:41):
that he brought back in twenty twenty two after I
was left in twenty nineteen, you know, not on good
terms obviously with a different you know, different group running
the club at the moment. But when Alvis left and
then when I was you know, tipped off that he
was coming back, I remember my reaction, I went, what why?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Like the way he left? How? What? But what are
these new guys doing? Well?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Man shows why they're in their seats and I'm in
mine up in the booth lance. But you know, the
depth has been great, and listen, I give all the credit.
I think I put it out on my social media today,
like the Alvis pile to be able to come in
and I had talked to Omar Cummings earlier in the
day also from Jamaica with what's going on there today
with the hurricane, and to have the focus and I
(05:23):
think Caleb no from CALA nine did a good job
of telling a story last night. But listen, like to
come in and know that your family is all back
in Jamaica and facing one of the most catastrophic storms
that country has ever seen, if not the most catastrophic storm,
you know they've ever seen, and to come in and
have your focus on the match for fifteen to twenty
(05:43):
minutes and help your team win. Man, big, big love
for Jamaica and Alvis Pole at this moment.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You mentioned Roman cellentitle. That was his second match back
from that quad injury he suffered in US national camp.
No ill effects continue to show up, and he was
certainly on it last night.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, he looked great, didn't he. You know, he's been
he just continues to be great in his fourth year.
You know, we talked about it during the pregame show
last night because they honored Alec Cann before the match,
and Alex was brought in to be the starter for
FC Cincinnati. This was his big opportunity coming to Cincinnati.
You know, they had had some goalkeeping issues. Alex was
(06:19):
going to stabilize all that, and to be fair, he
did through seven matches and then he was warming up
to be the backup for a US Open Cup game
back in what there was that April of twenty twenty two.
He had just had a clean sheet against Atlanta and
he got hurt warming up, and so Pat had a
decision to make for the next game. Are you going
(06:40):
to go with you know, Kenneth Romire, who was in
the mix of the second stringer, You can go to
your third string guy, Roman selling Ton will give him
a chance against LAFC. And he went with Roman, and
Roman was so good and Alec had a little bit
of a setback. Was unlucky that by the time that
Roman came back, or I mean by the time Alec
was healthy, there's no way you could say Roman and
that's nothing you know to say about ale of can
(07:03):
but Roman was that good and he never looked back
at four years later. He's a guy who has five
playoff shutouts and you know, ten starts. So yeah, I
think Roman, you know, just just keeps getting better and
better and you kind of forget he's still young, you know,
as far as goalkeepers are considered in this league, but
yet I'd still refer to him as a veteran goalkeeper.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
We heard the roar of the crowd on that highlight.
I bumped in with, how about the energy of twenty
three thousand plus last night?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, it was pretty fun. Lance. You know, it's just listen.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All the games of Tiko Stadium are fun because our
fans here in the city are unbelievable. But that playoff
energy and then you bring in Columbus on top of it.
You didn't crank it up one notch. It was like
six or seven notches. I would say as far as
the energy was turned up last night, But no, I
think listen, these fans are so so important to the players.
(07:56):
They feel that energy that place erupted when when the
goal scored, And listen, we're gonna continue to need it
right whether you know there's a game three or the
next game is not for a couple of weeks at home.
I know a lot of people, my families making them
drive up north one hundred miles, will be there on
Sunday at six thirty for game two. And the players appreciate,
the coaches appreciate that everybody evolved does.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And man, it sure makes those highlights sound sweet, doesn't it. Man,
it absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Look ahead, give me a thought on Sunday, a chance
to close it out in their house would be sweet
and beneficual.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I think you know you don't
want to come home now.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You got to find a way to replicate the game plan,
as Pat Newton said, and get back to Cincinnati and
then you get some rest. You still, you know, Mami
Asa it sounds like he's gonna be out for a bit,
but then you can start to get some guys healthy,
right and ready for what would you know, potentially it's
not guaranteed that it's Miami, but we know that that's
(08:51):
what's kind of lurking there, right and we could see
Miami in that conference semi final.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
But the good news is it will be here.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Right then we'll see what happens if they win that one.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And how it plays out.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
But I would say for this Sunday, like now, Columbus
is feeling the pressure and they didn't score in the game,
so they're gonna have to try to find a way,
you know, to get better opportunities in front of the
goal and Listen, they're one of the best coach teams
in the league. Will for Nancy does a fantastic job.
They'll tweak a few things. They're not going to stray
from the game plan. I don't think they're gonna make
any wholesale changes, but I do think the pressure is
(09:25):
on the crew on Sunday night, and if every Sea
since then even go in with that same mentality and
follow the game plan like they did last night, then
they should be able to go get the win. They're
the better team and you know, come back, celebrate and
enjoy a little bit of time off before they continue
that stretch of the playoffs that hopefully goes all the
way to the first week of December.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Final thought, Did I detect?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Did I spy a double high five between you and
Kevin and the booth last night?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah? He just caught that right as he came on
the air.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Huh, Yes, a double I mean, listen, come on, Kevin
Denkake scored that late in the match to win, you know,
potentially a score game winner against your arrival. I mean,
I just spelled like sometimes you gotta you gotta go first.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Kevin was happy that I didn't try to body check
him out of boot like Aple weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So he was. He was very happy that that there
was no charges of assault or anything along those lines.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
For now, the Devil High five, we'll see, we'll see
where things land going forward, especially uh, if the ones
of Blues can get this win on Sunday, we'll take
the booths cam North for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I like that very much.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Hey, I appreciate you making time as always, always enjoyed
the conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Thank you anytime. Lance, appreciate you all right, take care
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