July 23, 2025 • 53 mins
It's BMP time!
Andy Nagel is back and we are loaded today!
First we talk to Nasty Boy Rob Dibble about the Sports Stag in September.....YES THAT ROB DIBBLE!
Then Big Moe Barrett and Andy talk to the new head soccer coach Tony Ripberger.
Things are heating up on the BMP
Andy Nagel is back and we are loaded today!
First we talk to Nasty Boy Rob Dibble about the Sports Stag in September.....YES THAT ROB DIBBLE!
Then Big Moe Barrett and Andy talk to the new head soccer coach Tony Ripberger.
Things are heating up on the BMP
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
W m Oe and the Mola broadcasting that way probably
was that The Big Mo Podcast. The Big Mo Podcast
is brought to you by Craftsman Electric and Revy Landscaping
and now your hosts Andy Nagel and Big Mow Barrett.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Eddie your back.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You're back, man. You took about a one month hiatus.
Nice to meet you in Nice. What do they sabbatical?
You run a sabbati one. No, but you had a wedding.
You had some well deserved off time. Do you feel
reduced and ready to rule?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I am buddy, I missed you. I know Daniel has
has taken over my seat. I felt like Wally Pip
for a minute there.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
If you don't get that reference, look it up. But
thank you for for Daniel for filling in. I know
he did admirably easy for me to say. But uh,
he's gonna be a good one. I mean and know
you journalism guy and uh interning with Big Mo Barrett, He's.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Going to be pushing out some stre reason in the
next few weeks before he heads back to Anthons and ou.
But yeah, a lot of stuff to talk about. Of course.
The highlight of the show is coming up as Rob
Dibbel Formers Cincinnati read. Is he a Red's Hall of Famer?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I should probably, I think I think all three of them. Mark, Yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Have to look that up. But Rob Dibble, the Nasty
Boys nineteen ninety what bothers me most, in large part
because it just shows how old I am is. When
I talked to some kids here at Moeller about Rob Dibble,
about the Nasty Boys, and they go with their eyes crossed.
Who I'm thinking? Come home?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
If you're from Cincinnati and you even fashion yourself remotely
as a Reds fan, you gotta know who the Nasty
boys are. Rob Dibble, Norman Charleston, Randy Myers. They're coming
to Big Mo on September twenty fifth, and Rob Dibble
is coming to the Big Mo podcast today. How cool
is that going to be?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You know, both you and I are baseball guys, and
we love the Reds, and we watch the Reds and
we suffer through the Reds, and that was a good
time in our lives that nineteen ninety season. I can't
forget that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
When they win, it's special.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is this is a baseball town, and you know
at the Bengals are doing well now. But when the
Reds win, it's special down on that riverfront, for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It is. It's a long season. There's nothing like a
hot summer day at the ballpark. It's just something unique
about it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And when they do win, they pack the place, you know,
and unfortunately when they don't, you know, you may get
ten to twenty thousand people there and it's and you
feel bad for that. But win Man put a good
product on the field.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You and I both said before we went on our
respective vacations that when we come back, it's officially go time.
You are already getting ready, putting together all the halftime celebrations,
the Mode Towns talk about where we're going to be
taking Marv on the move this fall, not just a
motowns but alumni events.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, it's exciting. We had a couple of meetings this
past couple of weeks to kind of plan our year out.
And you know this this falls, I mean August twenty third,
opening opening game against Princeton Football is a month away,
and we're gonna honor you know, we've put together over
the next week. We're gonna roll out those special teams
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that are celebrating anniversaries that first game We're gonna celebrate
the first undefeated football team at Moler, the nineteen sixty
five team that started it all undefeated. We're gonna honor them.
And we're gonna honor the nineteen seventy five football team,
the first football state championship team. They're gonna celebrate their
fifty year anniversary at that game as well. But you
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know you talked about Marv taking them on the road. Obviously, Ironton,
we're gonna be on the road the second I think
it's a second week August thirtieth, we're gonna be an Ironton.
That's an official, unofficial home game for Molar. We'll have
Marv there September eleventh, big date. We're going to have
a regional alumni event in Nashville. The Crusaders play football
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on September twelfth, the following night, so we're going to
have We're gonna meet with all of our Nashville area
alumni on September eleventh, and then we're going to have
a tailgate on September twelfth for the football game. Same
thing in Cleveland. The Crusaders take up or take on
Saint Ed's I believe October eighteenth and I think we're
(04:30):
going to have a Cleveland regional event October seventeenth. So
it's it's exciting putting all this stuff together and putting
all these groups that are be celebrating their state championship
anniversaries place.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I don't think there is yet on the website where
people can go, and just.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Working on a watar, I thought that, yeah, yeah, it's
it's a big list. We're bringing back some some new
older events that we haven't had in quite a few years.
The father Son Molar Breakfast Mass and Breadthakfast, which is
always a big Sunday during the year. And now that
we have third generation Crusaders, we're going to be called
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a Legacy Day if you want grandfathers, fathers and sons.
That'll be February first, I believe, so very exciting, very
exciting times.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Andy, grab your hat, grab your glove, hit the field,
helm and your helmet because Rob Divil's coming up next
on the backside of a break. It's all about baseball
and then soccer. Tony ripperd Oiler soccer also on the show.
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Big Mo beared along with Andy Nagle and we have
the Sports Day coming up on September twenty fifth. Andy Nagle,
I'm exuided for miss odd and one of the guys
that we're gonna have here as a part of that
the Nasty Boys, is Red's icon Rob Dibbil. Rob is
a born back in January sixty four. Was drafted by
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the Cardinals in the eleventh round of the nineteen eighty
two MLB Junior Amateur Draft from Southington High School I
think that's in Connecticut and the Cincinnati Reds in the
first round twentieth of the overall the eighty three MLB
June Draft Secondary Phase from Florida Southern College and Lakeland, Florida.
I was a part of the stay. I got another
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rival school and got to meet Rob and I'm a Andy.
Put your helmet on. Rob Dibble, Welcome to the Big
Mo Podcast.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Now, Rob, you got your own podcast up in Connecticut,
which is you were born and raised. You got the
Rob Dibble Show. I believe that's on ninety seven to
nine up in UH So this isn't your first podcast.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
No, I've been doing radio on TV for twenty eight years.
I've done National, Fox, Nationally, ESPN. Now it's the local
show on Fox Sports Radio up there in Connecticut where
we cover all the Yukon sports with a flagship for
Yukon Sports and cover the Yankees and the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Rob, You're you're unbelievable as good as you were on
the mound. I love listening to you on the radio
and I often watched you on TV as well. Rob.
I first want to kind of go back a little
bit Molar High School. You're coming to Big mo. I
don't want to assume this, but Molar with Ken Griffy
Juniors being an alum, Barry Larkin an alum, the Bell
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family and alum. Have you heard of Molar High School before?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Of course everybody in the country has. It's one of
the most prestigious high schools there is. Anthony Munno's and
his kids went there. I used to work out at Lakota,
so you know you've got Molar and lakotas to the
powerhouse schools. But I mean, going back fifty years, Moeller's
been pumping out some of the best athletes in every
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sport possible in this country.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It's a special place, no doubt about it. Anthony Munho's
two grandsons actually are starting molar this fall, so that
Minos connections and they're about as big as he is. Rob.
It's unbelievable, enormous. Rob, I'm going to start off. There's
so many things we could talk about. We're only gonna
keep this to about ten minutes or so, and it
always sometimes I'll go a little bit longer. But Cincinnati,
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you're you're up in Connecticut. You played for the White Sox,
of course, the Reds, and I think one other team.
I don't have it in front of me, the Brewers.
The Brewers, that's right, you end up with the Brewers.
But Cincinnati, I gotta believe, is your professional home in baseball.
What does Cincinnati? What does Cincinnati mean to Rob dibble Well?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I mean, first, I played eleven years in the organization,
four in the minors and seven in the majors, and
Cincinnati to me is not only one of the best
sports towns, it's one of the best places to live.
I lived in Loveland, Ohio for seven years.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
That's where I'm at now.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah, and and loved it there. Lived right down the
street from the high school, and it's just it's a
special place. I mean, you know, whether you're going to
Bengals team, whether you're I used to go to all
the the hockey games there and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
You have.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Universe of Cincinnati, you got savior and you know, being
someone that's followed a lot of Cincinnati sports over the years. Now,
my wife of the past twenty years is a big fan,
big Joe Paro fan, big Reds fan. We just saw
the Reds and the Red Sox up here at Fenway.
It's just it's part of you. It's it's part of
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your life, it's part of your family. And you know
it was. It was seven of the greatest years of
my life, not just because of the World Championship, but
the way they treated me. You know, being a Connecticut native,
you know, people are kind of a little bit rough
around the edges here. I mean, they want to get
in your face all the time. Now there, they're wonderful
blue collar people, farmers as salt of the earth people
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and will send a hand to help you anytime. So
you know, I can't say enough about my time in Cincinnati,
and that's why we come back every year. You know,
Norman Randy Uh, you know, Randy lives up in Washington State.
Normalans in Texas and we'll always be brothers and and
to me, every year we try to get back to
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Cincinnati at least once or twice a year, just just
to get that feeling of family.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Rob Anenagel here, you know, a big Reds fan. I mean,
so obviously this is a this is a joy and
a treat. You know, we're celebrating that nineteen ninety World
World Series championship here thirty five years ago. And then
you know, having this stake, go back a little and
you know you've hit it now on the head. This
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is a baseball town as good as the Bengals are
right now with Joe Burrow. When the Reds win, there's
nothing better than going down to the ballpark and having
a packed house.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But go bast the last time they won.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Go back to that ninety year and you brought up
your other two teammates. I know, you know it's a
different game back then than it is today. Was it
a work hard, play hard roster that you guys back then?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Absolutely, you couldn't get away with what we did today
with social media the way it is and the way
people follow people around now, it's different. So you know,
going into spring training, listen, you know Pete had gotten suspended.
Lou Panello was their new manager. We had just traded
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for Randy Myers, and you know, I'd been setting up
John Franco for the the two years earlier, and it
was a totally different vibe. We had made some great changes.
Bob Quyn, the general manager, was amazing. He brought in
guys like Jose Rijo and Danny Jackson, and uh we
had Ken Griffy Jr. Knt Graf Senior shoot me on
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the team for most of the year. And you know,
all the guys that were brought in were veteran guys.
Some had been in the playoffs, some some just had
the pedigree that that we really had in Cincinnati. I mean,
we had such a great nucleus. I came up in
the minor league with uh, you know, Barry Lark and
Paul O'Neill, Chris Savo, Joe, Oliver Norman and I were
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roommates from Double A on and so it was a family.
You know, once we got to the major League, and
it was all about winning. It wasn't it wasn't who
won the game, it was how we were gonna win
the game. You know, Tom Browning had come down to
Nashville and stayed with me for a couple of weeks
while he was working on some stuff, and went right
back up to the big league. So you know, we're
we're you know, so intertwined with coming up through the
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minor league, all the guys that we had played against
that were now our teammates that you know, what happened
in eighty nine, we were not gonna let happen in
nineteen ninety. So did we know, you know, we were
gonna win a championship? No, but we were locked out
in ninety People forget that the owners locked us out.
So we were working out of my old college down
in Lakeland, Florida, at Florida Southern, and there'd be twenty guys,
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twenty two guys a day that are working out, hitting, running, pitching,
you know, doing all the all the spring training stuff
because we weren't allowed to do that. So, you know,
right when the season started, we got off to I
think a nine no start. We we got to jump
on everybody. And and I don't think anybody uh expected
us to be as as tight knit a unit as
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you would expect with a new manager, uh, some new
players and and you know, just being locked out of
spring training, being being forced to work out on our own.
But when you're a grown man, you know, you know
what it is expected of you. And I think that's
that's where we really bonded. And I'll give you a
thing about Lou. Lou found us where we were because
he lived in the Tampa area. It's about forty five
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minutes away from uh Lakeland, Florida. He came up and
he's like, you guys need anything, I'm not allowed to
talk to you by the way the balls or passed
or anything like that. And and we're like, no, we're good.
We were good. Chuck Anderson was the head coach of
Florida Southern. He gave us the run of the college
and the and the baseball facility. So we we had
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to jump on everybody.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You know what I love about that that nasty boys
and you rob I mean, And I think, for for
my is just my opinion, my unsolicited opinion this current
Reds team. And I think for some years now, they're
missing an alpha dog. Uh, somebody that can say, you
know what, what is happening out in that field, it's
got to stop. As a Reds fan, I always like
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to look at a player because we're a small town
right Cincinnati, and you're looking for that guy that's gonna
take the team on his shoulders and say we're gonna
win here, and we're gonna we're gonna be pretty damn good,
and just that swag. I don't know if you understand
what I'm talking about. We had three of those guys,
Norm Charlton, Rob Dibble, and Randy Myers. You guys had
that swag. Greg Vaughn's the last name I could think
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of going back on a relatively recent team as a
good leader in the locker room, the guy that you
knew as a Cincinnati Reds fan. This dude wasn't going
to back down to anybody. How did that organically come
about with you? Now, you said you roomed with with Norm?
I think, but did that organically come about? That? That
swag that you guys brought to every single game every
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single night.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yeah, because you know, when you when you're coming up
in the minor league's so It was totally different back then.
You know, you're you're always like a week away from
bad outings or being cut. Every spring training there was
one hundred and eighty guys going for one hundred and
twenty jobs in the minor league. That was just a
minor league side, so you know, but listen, everybody was
like that. We had nothing but alpha dogs. Yeah, from
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Paul O'Neil to Ron Oser, it was. It was almost
a fight in the locker room every day with a
pack of wild dogs that we were, you know, to
because if you failed, you didn't fail. You didn't fail yourself,
you failed the pack. And you know, you had to
look those guys in the eye and it wasn't easy.
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Eric Davis was was like, you know, not only my brother,
it was like a father figure to me. So Eric,
you know, if I had a great game, he come up,
he say, hey, don't be satisfied with that. You got
to do better the next time out, you know, I mean,
so they you couldn't rest on your laurels. You couldn't
sit there and feel great for yourself when you had
good doubting. You were expected to be great and you
know that, and really that a lot of that came
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from Pete and Lou. I remember what you know, brought
up here in Connecticut watching Lou Panel. He's one of
the most clutch players that ever played. He doesn't get
credit for that. I mean people think of as many
that it was a hell of a player. And so
I I used to watch the Yankees Red Sox, and
so when you watch people like that and Pete Rose
and guys like that, when you walk into clubhouse, you
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got to be ready to kick ass. You can't be
sitting back, you know. And you know, thank god we
didn't have cell phones, because I know it's a cell
phone generation. I still coach sixteen U travel baseball. We
go around the Northeast and we play a bunch of
really good teams. And these guys are way more interested
and in how people perceive them than how they act.
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I try to get these guys to act like men.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
It's like, listen, you have to you have to expect
greatness out of yourself. I I have great people to
listen to, from Gino Orima to Dan Hurley and they
and they put it on you. You you can you know,
we didn't we like the one thing Geno Orama always says,
I love it. He's like, we didn't expect. We didn't
bring you here to be good. We probably here to
be great. So think about that. When I put that
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red uniform on. Even in the in the minor league,
they hated us. Everybody hated us, from the from the Mets,
the Exposed Organization, the Brewers, the Cubs. I played against
all the guys I would play against the in the
major leagues in the minor league, and we had nothing
but fight. We couldn't ban them. And I'm telling you
there's a couple of things that have really bothered me
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over the years. Inner league play is one, because we
used to think we were superior to the American League.
You know, the umpires thought they were superior to the
American League umpires, so, you know, kind of mixing all
that together, it has kind of watered down the mentality,
not the talent. The talent's amazing watching Major League Baseball
today that the middle infielders are so good. I don't
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think people can understand how good some of these guys are.
But the mentality is different, where we're all buddies, we're
all friends, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Screw that. I mean, back then, we we had problems
with each other in the locker room, then we take
that on the field. And as long as you didn't
you know, cross us, because you could cross you know
that line. You know we're gonna fight you at any turn.
So that's that's the difference in our mentality back then
as the mentality today, where you know you didn't you
didn't want to fail your teammates.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Hey, dibbs, what wasn't it didn't you get fined if
you actually were co mingling with the other players on
the field, Like if you met in center field and
you're talking to so and so. It was that a
kangaroo court find? Or was that an MLB?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
How was a.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Kangaroo court find? What if the coaches talked to doing that?
I mean they crawl right up your buts, I mean, listen,
but that but it should be that way, right, you
know it? You know in football, I remember growing up
playing football and if and if some guy walked across
the line, even hockey, I mean I grew up playing
hockey on the East Coast. So you know, if you
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if you skated towards our bench, we're gonna light you up.
And that's that was the great I still hate to die.
I watched I loved their Their players are amazing, but
I can't stand that color. Yeah, and it's like that's
the way I was, you know, that's the way I
was built. I was built that way, you know, from
from you know, when I was eight years old, and
I think, you can't you know, I always hear this,
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and it is you can't put it in them. You
can't take it out of them.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
And I can't make you like I was. Even when
I'm coaching my players that their parents are like, well,
you know, could you make them a little bit like
you know, I can't. It's just listen. I had two
older brothers used to kick the crap out of me,
and I used to fight with them all the time.
That's what made me strong. And and then when you
get into the locker room where everybody's like that, you
you can't wait to get to work every day because
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that's everybody, everybody across the board. If I could, if
I could go through my whole team, every guy was
like that. From like Ron Oster lighting me up in
eighty eight when I we lost, we had a we
had a game in Philadelphia, I'll never forget it. And
I was feeling good for myself because you know, back then,
I you know, it was told a you got two
weeks in the big leagues and you go back to
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the minor league kind of stuff. And I've pitched well,
but we lost. Ron Oster got right in my face
and say, hey, listen, you know, when we win, we
win as a team. We lose, we lose the team.
Nobody's smiling, nobody's happy. Nobody's happy when you lose the game.
So from that moment on, I had nothing but respect
for Ron Oster and always will because he was willing
to step across that bus and say say what he felt,
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and it was the right right message to said.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And that's healthy. Having those stats and having those arguments
with your with your family, that's healthy. Man, Rob.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I want to I want to there's a story because
I'm respecting your time, and I know there's going to
be a lot of stories that we want to say
for the Sports Tag, and I'm sure Randy and Normal
will have some additional stories. But I want you to
tell a short story from your perspective, and I will
give you a hint. Last week we had on the
show Hal McCoy and George Luisam George Vogel, you talked
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about the locker room. You know what I'm talking about.
Let's hear the Rob Dibble version of one of my
favorite Dibbs stories in the locker room with Louke Panela,
because I know you guys are good friends. So that
that was just one night, but I got to hear
the story from your perspective.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Well, it all started before the game.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
And I'm sure, I'm sure you get all the time.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
No, because people people don't understand that Lou and I
hated losing more than we love winning, and and so
we're very similar in personality and and so anyway, Lou
Lou was asking me how my arm felt, and I
basically said it felt like crap and I could use
the day off. And he kind of jumped my you
know stuff, and actual, I can't swear on the podcast,
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you know, but he did it. But he did it
in front of a bunch of of my peers. He
did it in the players lounge, and so I was
kind of you know, tick talk about that, and so
he said, just don't dress out. So I didn't dress
out for the game, and I'm in the locker room,
and I know it's just like two or three guys
to close out the game. We won the game, by
the way, this is this is how we roll, because
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we win the game and we're still fighting. So anyway,
you know, uh, I don't remember what reporter came up
to me, and it could have been how, it could
have been somebody else, but but said, hey, how how
why weren't you out there for the ninth inning? Blah
blah blah. But I was like listen, I said, you know,
I just needed a day off. I'll be fine. And
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so they went back into lou and Lou's like, oh, no,
Bibble's hurt. You know, he couldn't pitch the night. And
so they came back to me and I was like, no,
that's an f N lie And so then they ran
back to Lou and they're like, oh, Dibble's calling you
an FN liar, which wasn't true. That wasn't that wasn't
what I said. But again, you know, it's like it's.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Like are you are you? Are you telling me the
media is mixing up a story that never happened.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
So anyway, they go back lou Is Irene. Now remember
I'm in my street clothes. I'm ready to walk out
the door and go home. And that that's why you
see me dressed in street clothes when losing in his uniform.
Still because it happened so quickly. It was like right
after the game and we should have been celebrating Scott
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Scudder forgett this first big league day. And anyway, long
story short is that lou Lou comes after me. We
rest a little bit and that's that's it. The next
day I pitched in the game, Louke comes out in
front of like thirty five thousand people. He throws me
some fake blows to the gut and it was over.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I mean, Lou and I will always be family, will
be best friends. I love Lou and you know, but
people to this day are like you guys don't like
each other. Like it's it's like saying, you know, like
my two older brothers, I love them, I love them
fills right, It's it's one of those moments with a
family that is around each other every day for six months.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It's healthy, healthy, and it's healthy.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Yeah, it's totally healthy, Yep, totally healthy.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We are excited.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
It's this day every time we get together, they laugh
about it because FIfF Roberts just got traded to us,
and the look on his face, his terror. You've got
Hall of Famer Barry Larkin in a half powel that
he's trying to break up the fight. You've got Tim
Beltzer's screaming at people. You know, I mean, everything that
transpired after that moment was worth it. It really was.
(26:28):
It was hilarious. Rob.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'm excited man, September twenty fifth, getting you guys in there.
It's it'll be a packed house here at moul Or
High School, the Nasty Boys coming to Cincinnati. Always great
to have you back, Rob, where we all think you
belong right here in the Queen City. And looking forward
to it. And really, I know your schedule is busy
on the radio up there in Connecticut. Thanks for taking
some time this morning, dope here on the Big MO Podcast.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Hey, thanks a lot for having me. I can't wait
for September twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
It's gonna be awesome. That's Rob Dibble, former Cincinnati Red
Nasty Boy. That dude's legit.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Man, that dude, I'm exit and you're a baseball guy.
I'm a baseball guy and I still remember that World Series,
and I remember where I was when they clinched. It's
just I mean the Eric Davis home run off of
Dave Stewart in Game one that kind of set that table.
I'm so pumped for this stag Mollar family. If you're
(27:25):
not fired up for this, especially after listening to Dibbs,
and we got Norm Chardon and Randy Myers coming up
in the next couple of weeks as well, buy your
tickets now, you gotta be there.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I thought about asking them that locker room question, because
we don't want to tell all the stories right, and
Dibbs has a boatload of him that one. Or on
July twenty third, nineteen ninety one, when I love it
when he took a bunt and threw it directly into
the back of Doug Decenzo. That was another one I
was going to ask, but I didn't want to burn
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them all on the Big Mo podcast, you got to
come to this stage.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
He also threw the ball out of Riverfront Stadium, out
of the stadium, not to the red seats, unbelievable out
of the stadium because he was so mad.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I have heard all three of these guys speak before
and it is money well spent. Obviously you're supporting Mohler.
That should be enough. But to be in the presence
of the nasty boys to hear their stories. You heard
a little bit of that swag and the way he talked.
I do believe not just the Reds, but professional athletes
across the board could learn a little something from that
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as well.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Well, you're right, and and the he made a great point,
the acceptance of losing. It's unacceptable and it just seems like, Okay,
we lost, you know, let's get a shower and go
out to eat and we'll try again tomorrow. And they fought.
They fought in the clubhouse because it's not acceptable. And
I don't you made a great point, Barrett. I don't
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see an alpha on this Reds team, but Terry Francona.
And he can't go out throw it and hit it,
you know, And and and he may be too soft.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
He's getting there, and we're not knocking the Reds. There
are some nice guys on the Reds team, some great dudes.
But I feel I feel like you need an out
on any team. You need that dude that says this
is unacceptable and to hold accountable the other guys in
the team and so yeah, I mean deb Will certainly
filled the bill for that one. Him and they had,
(29:25):
like he said they had O'Neil had a bunch of
fit that bill a lot of fun and he uh,
we have I think Norman Charlton. We're working on nailing
him down. Randy Myers is on the back side of
the moon, so we gonna find we gotta find him.
I'm gonna put some camouflage on. I'm gonna head out
west and we're gonna find and hunt down, hunt down
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Randy Myers. Hopefully I see him before he sees me,
and we will get him on the Big mo podcast
here in a couple of weeks and shoot you like
a bear. Not good party, not good.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
In the green room we're talking Moeler's side. Is Tony Rippberger,
the new head soccer coach at Moeler. Andy and I
are going to pull him off of those Montgomery and
ribs in the green room and we'll be back after
this break talking some bler soccer and the future of
our men of Molar On the pitch. It's Andy Nagel,
Big Moo Bear. In the best coverage of high school
(30:18):
sports in Cincinnati. It's the Big Mo Podcast and the
Moller Broadcasting Network.
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Speaker 3 (30:37):
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MOOE and the Molar Broadcasting Network, not gon a Big
(31:04):
Mo Podcast, Big Mo Bear to along with Andy Nagel.
You're finally back back for interviews, which is fun. But
we got ahead a new head soccer coach in studio,
Tony Ripberger and Andy. Tony brings some winning with him
over twenty years of coaching experience Timolar High School, having
recently served as the varsity head coach at Madeirra High School,
(31:25):
where he was named Ohio Small Coach Small Coach, Small
School Small Coach. He's short Ohio Small School Coach of
the Year Division three Public School Coach of the Year,
chl Coach of the Year, and Choir Coach of the Year,
and is dedicated to creating a positive and competitive environment
that led his team to multiple district and regional championships.
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Tony's coached for Cincinnati United for the past twelve years,
as well as the US Soccer Olympic Development Program Classics,
Hammer and King's and addition, has served as president of
the Southwest Ohio Scholassic Soccer Coaches Snociation and it is
on the leadership board.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's a resume.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I think that's a pretty good resume to make you
the new head coach of Molar Soccer. Welcome to Molar,
but most importantly, welcome to the Big Mo Podcast. I
you're just so excited to be on the air, aren't you.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yeah, happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
What's it been like so you? Before I get into that,
you were announced as the new head coach at least
on let's go Big Mo back on February twenty first,
so you fast forward now you've had a few months
under your Belt's what's your first impressions of not just
Mollar Soccer but Molar High School been like for you?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Really positive? Everybody here is just top notch. Everybody is
super helpful. The students are amazing, you know, yes, sir,
open doors like all that great. The small thing yeah yeah,
the small things for sure, which makes me think, like this,
this process is going to be better because I expect
my athletes to be good men, and you know, I'm
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walking into a good matt So that helps.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
When I got hired here, I had to go through
no less than fifty interviews. It was a two or
three month process. I thought I was going for a
job with the FBI. Was your job application the same?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Yeah, I guess kept coming back. Yeah, I think I
came in here four times. Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So you're taking over a program with under Mike Welker,
who had a lot of success. Obviously, you guys are
all comrades in the soccer scenes. So Muller knows what
Madeira doing what Midea knows what Muller's doing. Moll It's
not like you're taking over a program that has been
in shambles. I mean, this is a team. You could
make an argument, a strong argument, that this has been
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one of the most highly successful athletic teams in recent
years here at Muller High School. What's your first step
as you come in the door in that transition, because
you're not looking to be like Mike, you're looking to
create your own path. I'm sure how do you go
about doing that?
Speaker 5 (33:57):
It's a couple different things. First off, I want to
keep the traditions alive that made the program what it is,
as well as put my own flavor on things. You know,
a couple of things I added right away that didn't exist.
The boys lift now, you know, and they notice, Yeah,
(34:17):
they were craving that, so I'm used to that. So
they're in the gym four days a week lifting speed
and agility, things like that.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Just and those guys love when Chris Gray puts them
on the Instagram on the Bowlder Strength pages. Guys see
themselves wearing their blue T shirts more soccer T shirts,
and they start sharing it that the guys love that stuff.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Yeah, for sure. And Coach Gray and Coach Chiefs and
have been great for us and just fitting ess in
the schedule because you know, however many years we haven't lifted,
So creating a spot for us to lift with you know,
football and all the other space constraints that we have
in the weight room was was a big task. So
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I appreciate those guys.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
You've got a talented team coming back now that I know,
there were some things that happened in the off season
where some guys moved on and I'm not even knowledgeable
or educated enough to explain how that all that worked.
Something to do with FC or the yeah, talk about that.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
That's a landscape that it's kind of in as like Barrisson,
we're just kind of learning about that where if a
player wants to play for a club team, those seasons
coincide with with high school teams.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
So you're you're you're battling that.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Not called a club team though, is it. It's called
it's FCS.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Academy or so sort of with that. So let's let's
take it back five six, seven years when FC Cincinnati
first started their academy programs. They started pulling kids that
were really really talented off of their high school teams
and offering them spots to potentially be a proe exposure
(35:54):
to college things like that. There was there was a
couple of guys here that have done that go on
that Pathrret, I know Kate Teppi is one of them
and great and his brother Bentley is obviously here. We
had a couple of Madeira that went the same route.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Is that tough? I mean? And that's the thing talking
to Mike Welker in the past, It's kind of like,
if we had that one little if we had that
one piece, if we hit those two pieces, they could
have taken us to that chance.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
And I'm anxious to hear your perspective because you want
these kids right to go on and do great things
and to develop and to potentially play at that highest level.
But selfishly, you want the dudes on your own team.
So how do you mentally work through that process?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
So so the landscape now is actually a little different
than the f C Cincinnati landscape back five years ago.
Since then, f C Cincinnati has pushed out most of
the local talent and brought in kids from other areas,
so they're at top notch academy program, one of the
best in the country. And then what Cincinnati United has
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done is taken their top it's called Cup Gold team
and offered them spot to now play year round. Whereas
typically all of our guys play club soccer in the
Spring only, and that's how it's been forever except for
the few kids that played at C Cincinnati. Right, So
they're given this opportunity to play at a really high
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level and be exposed to the same games, the same
college coaches, the same environment as the f C Cincinnati guys,
just a tear lower. So they're getting major college exposure,
potential college opportunities. I as a coach, you know, it's tough.
It's tough to deal with, you know, possibly losing kids,
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but you know, you're trying to create the best thing
for the kid. And I told all the boys that
were in this situation. We had fourteen of these guys,
which is way more than any other school. We had
fourteen of these guys that had this option.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
And you know I told them all, like, hey, come,
did you know that.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
When you were coming into the application of the job,
you knew it was on the table and what was
potentially at risk? Right, Okay, I did, which is helpful.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Yeah, for sure, I knew that that was happening.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
But I still wasn't like you took the job and said, hey,
ninety percent of your team's gone, now you know what
I mean?
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Well, and that was fine, because I wanted to be here.
This is, in my opinion, this is the best best
job in Cincinnati, the state, one of the best jobs
in the country. So I wanted to be in that environment.
But you know, we offered to meet with We as
a staff offered to meet with all of the boys
that are in this situation and help them decide what's
(38:43):
best for them, not to be like, hey, please stay
you know because of this this the like tell me
your goals, tell me what you want to do, tell
me your feelings, and let's work through at We have
a couple of since I and I coaches besides myself
on staff too, so we can help guide these guys
to the best.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh, is it hard to get guys to come on staff?
Kind of clean? You have a couple guy hangovers. I
think Stockham and those guys.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
We cut everybody, you know. Yeah, My my thought is
surround yourself with greatness, and those guys are awesome. Coach
NERO coach Stockham, even.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Though he's a Mason guy. I thank you. You think
he's amazing guy, right, Yes, looking at your team here
you got coming back. I'm a little partial because my
son hangs out with all the soccer dudes. My son's
a rising senior. But some of the dudes that you
got coming up, you know, te Monifo, you Noah Phillips,
one of my favorites, Frankie Jeras Pride to Saint Margaret
(39:42):
of York. Uh, you got Carson Lang of course, who
you know, one of the top soccer players in the city.
Jose Stefano. You go down the line. I'm sure I'm
missing a few guys. Tiago, that's right, Thiago as well,
Thomas Oliver, he's out, he's gone. See I don't haven't
got and the updated ones, the updated roster on the
Let's go bigmo dot com. But you got some, You
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got some dudes. It's not like you're coming in with
a with a and then you got the same cast
of characters. Saint Charles, Beaver Creek, those teams are going
to be what they are every year. You know what
you're up it get maybe not, I mean, Madere's maybe
a little bit different from a competitive level, but it's
beaver Creek State Shaw. You know about them? Oh yeah,
how does this team fit in? What's the DNA of
(40:25):
this soccer team? As you guys with these new rising seniors,
these new leaders, how does that fit into that? You
know what you want from a vision standpoint. Moving forward
to you in your first year.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Well, with adversity comes opportunity for guys that maybe weren't there.
We still have really high level athletes. Even the guys
that are coming back. The guys are fantastic. It's just
figuring out what pieces to plug where to make it
all work. We do have a couple of guys that
had that opportunity to got a cup of golden chose
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that that wasn't the path they wanted to go, which
is major props to that. I mean, basically playing here
is like playing into small college. We're going to play
on seven college fields this year, so we'll have that environment.
But those guys decided, hey, this is not for me.
I want to be I want to be in it
this in high school. I don't want to regret anything.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So that's the thing that I look at is these
are your high school years, man, And you know, I've
talked to parents over the past, and you know, people
have asked, Hey, what what are your feelings about playing
multiple sports?
Speaker 6 (41:28):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
This is your four years of high school that you're.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
Never going to get back, absolutely do it.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
And I think you know, with the club season being
you know, opposite of your season, the traditional club season,
kids are still going to get exposure. There's still opportunities
to play at the next level, whether you play your
high school years and you're with your friends, you're with
your guys, or you're just you know, playing basically professionally
(41:55):
if you want to call it that, I mean that's
they eat, drinking, you know everything soccer. I just yeah,
that's that's the path I would choose if it were
my son. Play for your high school team, are enjoy it?
Enjoy that time?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Yeah, my son just graduated this past year from Madeira.
I coached all the way through his high school years,
and yeah, I wouldn't have let him ride this path.
But you know, it's different for everybody, and sure, you know,
whatever they want as best and honestly, like, we have
a lot of guys that play on that second that's
Cup Black, that second tier, and they're actually going they
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won't start until November until we're done, but they're going
to the same exact events that these Cup Gold guys are,
but they're going to play like the second tier. So
you're getting the best of both worlds by playing cup
black and for Moler.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I got a question for you. You just mentioned your
son graduated from Madeira, as you knew, probably knew being
an outsider coming in myself seven years ago. I know
Molar is the big bad wolf around Greater Cincinnati, for
better or worse. It has been that way since. I
haven't a double day coach Faust since back in his days.
It is what it is having a son who played
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for you at Madeira, graduated, played for his dad, and
now his dad leaves Madeira to go to the big
bad wolf. What was your your son's thought process through
that all that?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Well, you know I asked a lot of the people
that I had trust in your circle when I was
when I was offered the job, what do you think?
And you know, I went to him, what do you think?
And he thought about for literally two seconds, and he's like, go,
this is not an opportunity that you should let go.
(43:40):
And you know, even my assistant coaches at Madeira, they
were all super supportive. They were like okay, And there
was always one job. Like I mentioned before, like I
would not go to any other school. I would have
stayed at Madeira and just wrote it out for another however,
many years and had a great time and created great men.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Now what do you do full time for a living?
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (44:05):
I'm a director of a software engineering group at a fintech.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Very cool, flexible schedule.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yes, that's good.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
That's a good thing, right, it's a good thing. I'm excited.
I don't know. I looked on Let's go big mode
dot com. The schedule is it's not out. However, Max
Preps always got everything covered. I don't know if this
is accurate or not. But you open up against Saint
Henry on August sixteenth? Is that accurate?
Speaker 5 (44:30):
I just actually added all that.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
You knew I was going to reference.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
There was one edition there I think I had in
Centerville the other day.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
So, but do you open up against St. Henry on
August sixteenth? Thanks for doing that, And then I'm looking down.
You got your typical cast of characters. The Mason game
is always a big game, Sycamore because it's a backyard rival.
You got St X the GCL, But but the ones
I look at here, Saint Charles here on September thirteenth.
You want to you want to pack to Jerry for
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that one. That's always a big one. I don't see
you going. I don't see Beaver Creek on the schedule.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
So there are scrimmage or there's scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Okay, how does it's always good to scrimmage? The team
is talented? Is Beaver Creek? How does the schedule look
to you? I mean, how do you what is your
overarching goal? Obviously you want to win a GCL championship
and all those things, but as coach speak, but what
are you looking for in year one?
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Uh? To figure out where we fit, to figure out
who fits where? You know this, you know, I take
it back to my days at Madeira. We we're generally
a small fish in a big pond. We always played
a D one schedule. We played the hardest teams we
could possibly play to set us up for the Division
three tournament of the time. Now it's the vision far
because they expanded everything, which set us up really well.
(45:44):
So that's the same philosophy. I want to build my
schedule towards just play the best, you know, and hopefully,
you know, we get better from playing the best, so
that when we hit the actual season, which is the postseason,
we're ready Everything that we do in the regular season
is really just prep for postseason play, right, So I
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will take on whoever wants us to.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Has any of our guys impressed you in the summer
workouts so far? Anybody stick down? Anybody you're really looking
forward to maybe taking that next step in their in
their process.
Speaker 5 (46:18):
Yeah, I mean Jose Stefano is an outstanding defender.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
I think it doesn't like to be interviewed though, just
for the reaither do I that's true, that's true. But
you're doing a great job.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
But yeah, he's one of the ones that had a
Cup Gold opportunity and he decided, Hey, I want to
go into engineering college. Brilliant student, brilliant kid, super respectful.
But yeah, I'm looking for big things from him. I
think he's he's awesome. Just watching, you know, we were
like probably we lifted for all of June with open
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fields and things like that, and then we're three weeks
into stuff in July here and boys are out there
training nearly every day. It had cuts yet no August
first us first. That's as a coach, that's a difficult days.
It is, it is, for sure. I'm not looking forward
to it, but.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
But we got big things ahead for the twenty twenty
five soccer season. We got coach Tony Ripberger here, Saint
Henry leading us off on August sixteenth. Some scrimmages beforehand,
but it kicks off August sixteenth.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Are we here?
Speaker 3 (47:20):
I was just gonna, I was just looking at it.
That's here. Nope, that's right here at the at the
Jerry What other college?
Speaker 6 (47:27):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (47:27):
Nku. We're gonna be at NKU again.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
This year, so we're trying to focus on staying at
Xavier University for all of our weekday games. But availability,
we don't always hear it right, So our secondary is
to fall back ten k you. We are playing also
at right State. That's where we're playing St. Charles officially
home game.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
That'll be a good one.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
But uh, that's where we played them in the shootout
at the end last year. So yeah, I think that'll
be a cool environment. Always meet a neutral site there
and not have to travel pack rights.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
That'll be a lot of fun. You were very nervous
coming up here. We walked you up from the courtyard
and I wasn't sure you were gonna make it up
to the studio. You're that nervous, but did a hell
of a job. Great job. We're excited to have you
in the Muller family. Tell your son the smaller family's real.
Whether he likes it or not, He's now part of
the Moller family. So we got to get him some swag. Yeah,
for sure, I got some soccer swag already.
Speaker 5 (48:22):
I think he took a shirt from.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
Whether you gave it to him or not, he's got
a shirt. Tony. Thanks a lot. We'll be hopefully catching
up throughout the year getting updates from me. You have
a couple of guys on the show as well. Did
a great job. Welcome to family.
Speaker 5 (48:34):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Hap that's Tony rock Coach. That's Tony Ripperger, the new
head soccer coach here at Mueller High School. We've got
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Speaker 1 (49:34):
Times of Chains and Times of Strange comb.
Speaker 6 (49:43):
Mama, I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Not a bad show for our first time back in
the saddle after a long break.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
Right, It's just like riding bike.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
It is just like riding bike. You get robe about
rob Man.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
That's just the first of the I mean, this is
gonna be a fun There's gonna be no hard stop
on that stag. That could go along long.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Get those guys telling some of those stories, and I'm
hoping to maybe have some plants in the crowd. I'm
working on that. We'll see how that works out. But
Mo Agger will be our mc mo knows those guys
will too. He knows what buttons to push on those guys.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. We're hoping to
again get Norm Charlton next in the next week or so,
(50:29):
have him on the podcast, and then follow that up
with Randy Myers, and then you got Molar Soccer. You know,
Molar is what Molar is almost no matter who the
head coach is, there's an expectation of success winning championships.
We talked about it with Rob. There is only one
option here at Moeler and Nets. Whether it's in the classroom,
in the chapel, on the field, it's win. And I
(50:52):
like what he says. I like the direction. He's not
a Mike Welker in the sense that he likes to
be on the micer or I shouldn't say likes, but
his come being on the microphone like likes comfortable being
in front of the camera. But he wants to make
it about the kids. We talked after the after uh
he went off the air in the green room. He
wants to make it about the kids. And you got
(51:12):
to admire that.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
I didn't bring it up to coach, but you do
realize that this soccer program over the last two years
is forty two.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
And oh, I didn't want to put that pressure on it.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Not counting obviously all the the state championship finals and
and and a couple of ties that that are in there,
but forty two oh, and I think five ties or something.
Speaker 3 (51:33):
Not bad, Marty not bad.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
That's a that's a and it's funny. We were texting
back and forth the other day and you had you
had a text that said, it's hard to believe that
Moeller Soccer has not won a state championship yet, and.
Speaker 4 (51:48):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
There's been some unbelievable soccer players that go through here,
some unbelievable soccer teams. So wish Tony the best. You know,
talking to him and you're reading his resume, it's pretty
darn good resume. So excited you may not hear it
in his voice. He's not. He's not like you said,
he's not a Mike Welker and he's his own self.
(52:10):
But but he's gonna put out a good product. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Wait, we will see everyone on the pitch. Remember to
back the boys a soccer team. Sometimes I think if
you asked the guys, they'd like to get more people
to their games. So let's try to make that happen
this year. To back the men of Mueller wearing the
blue and gold. Andy, another great show.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
Happy to be back.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
I'm already excited. I'm excited to have you back, but
I'm also excited to get Norman. It'll be good to
get his perspective on some of what Rob said as well,
maybe we can play some clips, and I'm sure hold
feed right off that.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Yeah, I mean you talk about Norm. The one thing
I remember about Norm Charlie is the collision with Mike's
Osha when he was running.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
The base wearing the old red starter j Yes, these
guys are nuts.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
I mean, you know Dibble and then Charlton, if you
want to call him a quiet a say, and I
mean he trucked Mike's Osha down.
Speaker 3 (53:02):
And Mike's Osha is a bad dude. Man.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
These guys are unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (53:07):
It's awesome, Andy. If people want tickets, they can go
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Eddie your back.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You're back, man. You took about a one month hiatus.
Nice to meet you in Nice. What do they sabbatical?
You run a sabbati one. No, but you had a wedding.
You had some well deserved off time. Do you feel
reduced and ready to rule?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I am buddy, I missed you. I know Daniel has
has taken over my seat. I felt like Wally Pip
for a minute there.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
If you don't get that reference, look it up. But
thank you for for Daniel for filling in. I know
he did admirably easy for me to say. But uh,
he's gonna be a good one. I mean and know
you journalism guy and uh interning with Big Mo Barrett, He's.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Going to be pushing out some stre reason in the
next few weeks before he heads back to Anthons and ou.
But yeah, a lot of stuff to talk about. Of course.
The highlight of the show is coming up as Rob
Dibbel Formers Cincinnati read. Is he a Red's Hall of Famer?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I should probably, I think I think all three of them. Mark, Yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Have to look that up. But Rob Dibble, the Nasty
Boys nineteen ninety what bothers me most, in large part
because it just shows how old I am is. When
I talked to some kids here at Moeller about Rob Dibble,
about the Nasty Boys, and they go with their eyes crossed.
Who I'm thinking? Come home?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
If you're from Cincinnati and you even fashion yourself remotely
as a Reds fan, you gotta know who the Nasty
boys are. Rob Dibble, Norman Charleston, Randy Myers. They're coming
to Big Mo on September twenty fifth, and Rob Dibble
is coming to the Big Mo podcast today. How cool
is that going to be?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You know, both you and I are baseball guys, and
we love the Reds, and we watch the Reds and
we suffer through the Reds, and that was a good
time in our lives that nineteen ninety season. I can't
forget that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
When they win, it's special.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is this is a baseball town, and you know
at the Bengals are doing well now. But when the
Reds win, it's special down on that riverfront, for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It is. It's a long season. There's nothing like a
hot summer day at the ballpark. It's just something unique
about it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And when they do win, they pack the place, you know,
and unfortunately when they don't, you know, you may get
ten to twenty thousand people there and it's and you
feel bad for that. But win Man put a good
product on the field.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You and I both said before we went on our
respective vacations that when we come back, it's officially go time.
You are already getting ready, putting together all the halftime celebrations,
the Mode Towns talk about where we're going to be
taking Marv on the move this fall, not just a
motowns but alumni events.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, it's exciting. We had a couple of meetings this
past couple of weeks to kind of plan our year out.
And you know this this falls, I mean August twenty third,
opening opening game against Princeton Football is a month away,
and we're gonna honor you know, we've put together over
the next week. We're gonna roll out those special teams
(03:25):
that are celebrating anniversaries that first game We're gonna celebrate
the first undefeated football team at Moler, the nineteen sixty
five team that started it all undefeated. We're gonna honor them.
And we're gonna honor the nineteen seventy five football team,
the first football state championship team. They're gonna celebrate their
fifty year anniversary at that game as well. But you
(03:47):
know you talked about Marv taking them on the road. Obviously, Ironton,
we're gonna be on the road the second I think
it's a second week August thirtieth, we're gonna be an Ironton.
That's an official, unofficial home game for Molar. We'll have
Marv there September eleventh, big date. We're going to have
a regional alumni event in Nashville. The Crusaders play football
(04:08):
on September twelfth, the following night, so we're going to
have We're gonna meet with all of our Nashville area
alumni on September eleventh, and then we're going to have
a tailgate on September twelfth for the football game. Same
thing in Cleveland. The Crusaders take up or take on
Saint Ed's I believe October eighteenth and I think we're
(04:30):
going to have a Cleveland regional event October seventeenth. So
it's it's exciting putting all this stuff together and putting
all these groups that are be celebrating their state championship
anniversaries place.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I don't think there is yet on the website where
people can go, and just.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Working on a watar, I thought that, yeah, yeah, it's
it's a big list. We're bringing back some some new
older events that we haven't had in quite a few years.
The father Son Molar Breakfast Mass and Breadthakfast, which is
always a big Sunday during the year. And now that
we have third generation Crusaders, we're going to be called
(05:08):
a Legacy Day if you want grandfathers, fathers and sons.
That'll be February first, I believe, so very exciting, very
exciting times.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Andy, grab your hat, grab your glove, hit the field,
helm and your helmet because Rob Divil's coming up next
on the backside of a break. It's all about baseball
and then soccer. Tony ripperd Oiler soccer also on the show.
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Big Mo beared along with Andy Nagle and we have
the Sports Day coming up on September twenty fifth. Andy Nagle,
I'm exuided for miss odd and one of the guys
that we're gonna have here as a part of that
the Nasty Boys, is Red's icon Rob Dibbil. Rob is
a born back in January sixty four. Was drafted by
(07:35):
the Cardinals in the eleventh round of the nineteen eighty
two MLB Junior Amateur Draft from Southington High School I
think that's in Connecticut and the Cincinnati Reds in the
first round twentieth of the overall the eighty three MLB
June Draft Secondary Phase from Florida Southern College and Lakeland, Florida.
I was a part of the stay. I got another
(07:57):
rival school and got to meet Rob and I'm a Andy.
Put your helmet on. Rob Dibble, Welcome to the Big
Mo Podcast.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Now, Rob, you got your own podcast up in Connecticut,
which is you were born and raised. You got the
Rob Dibble Show. I believe that's on ninety seven to
nine up in UH So this isn't your first podcast.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
No, I've been doing radio on TV for twenty eight years.
I've done National, Fox, Nationally, ESPN. Now it's the local
show on Fox Sports Radio up there in Connecticut where
we cover all the Yukon sports with a flagship for
Yukon Sports and cover the Yankees and the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Rob, You're you're unbelievable as good as you were on
the mound. I love listening to you on the radio
and I often watched you on TV as well. Rob.
I first want to kind of go back a little
bit Molar High School. You're coming to Big mo. I
don't want to assume this, but Molar with Ken Griffy
Juniors being an alum, Barry Larkin an alum, the Bell
(09:04):
family and alum. Have you heard of Molar High School before?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Of course everybody in the country has. It's one of
the most prestigious high schools there is. Anthony Munno's and
his kids went there. I used to work out at Lakota,
so you know you've got Molar and lakotas to the
powerhouse schools. But I mean, going back fifty years, Moeller's
been pumping out some of the best athletes in every
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sport possible in this country.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It's a special place, no doubt about it. Anthony Munho's
two grandsons actually are starting molar this fall, so that
Minos connections and they're about as big as he is. Rob.
It's unbelievable, enormous. Rob, I'm going to start off. There's
so many things we could talk about. We're only gonna
keep this to about ten minutes or so, and it
always sometimes I'll go a little bit longer. But Cincinnati,
(09:53):
you're you're up in Connecticut. You played for the White Sox,
of course, the Reds, and I think one other team.
I don't have it in front of me, the Brewers.
The Brewers, that's right, you end up with the Brewers.
But Cincinnati, I gotta believe, is your professional home in baseball.
What does Cincinnati? What does Cincinnati mean to Rob dibble Well?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I mean, first, I played eleven years in the organization,
four in the minors and seven in the majors, and
Cincinnati to me is not only one of the best
sports towns, it's one of the best places to live.
I lived in Loveland, Ohio for seven years.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
That's where I'm at now.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah, and and loved it there. Lived right down the
street from the high school, and it's just it's a
special place. I mean, you know, whether you're going to
Bengals team, whether you're I used to go to all
the the hockey games there and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
You have.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Universe of Cincinnati, you got savior and you know, being
someone that's followed a lot of Cincinnati sports over the years. Now,
my wife of the past twenty years is a big fan,
big Joe Paro fan, big Reds fan. We just saw
the Reds and the Red Sox up here at Fenway.
It's just it's part of you. It's it's part of
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your life, it's part of your family. And you know
it was. It was seven of the greatest years of
my life, not just because of the World Championship, but
the way they treated me. You know, being a Connecticut native,
you know, people are kind of a little bit rough
around the edges here. I mean, they want to get
in your face all the time. Now there, they're wonderful
blue collar people, farmers as salt of the earth people
(11:32):
and will send a hand to help you anytime. So
you know, I can't say enough about my time in Cincinnati,
and that's why we come back every year. You know,
Norman Randy Uh, you know, Randy lives up in Washington State.
Normalans in Texas and we'll always be brothers and and
to me, every year we try to get back to
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Cincinnati at least once or twice a year, just just
to get that feeling of family.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Rob Anenagel here, you know, a big Reds fan. I mean,
so obviously this is a this is a joy and
a treat. You know, we're celebrating that nineteen ninety World
World Series championship here thirty five years ago. And then
you know, having this stake, go back a little and
you know you've hit it now on the head. This
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is a baseball town as good as the Bengals are
right now with Joe Burrow. When the Reds win, there's
nothing better than going down to the ballpark and having
a packed house.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But go bast the last time they won.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Go back to that ninety year and you brought up
your other two teammates. I know, you know it's a
different game back then than it is today. Was it
a work hard, play hard roster that you guys back then?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Absolutely, you couldn't get away with what we did today
with social media the way it is and the way
people follow people around now, it's different. So you know,
going into spring training, listen, you know Pete had gotten suspended.
Lou Panello was their new manager. We had just traded
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for Randy Myers, and you know, I'd been setting up
John Franco for the the two years earlier, and it
was a totally different vibe. We had made some great changes.
Bob Quyn, the general manager, was amazing. He brought in
guys like Jose Rijo and Danny Jackson, and uh we
had Ken Griffy Jr. Knt Graf Senior shoot me on
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the team for most of the year. And you know,
all the guys that were brought in were veteran guys.
Some had been in the playoffs, some some just had
the pedigree that that we really had in Cincinnati. I mean,
we had such a great nucleus. I came up in
the minor league with uh, you know, Barry Lark and
Paul O'Neill, Chris Savo, Joe, Oliver Norman and I were
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roommates from Double A on and so it was a family.
You know, once we got to the major League, and
it was all about winning. It wasn't it wasn't who
won the game, it was how we were gonna win
the game. You know, Tom Browning had come down to
Nashville and stayed with me for a couple of weeks
while he was working on some stuff, and went right
back up to the big league. So you know, we're
we're you know, so intertwined with coming up through the
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minor league, all the guys that we had played against
that were now our teammates that you know, what happened
in eighty nine, we were not gonna let happen in
nineteen ninety. So did we know, you know, we were
gonna win a championship? No, but we were locked out
in ninety People forget that the owners locked us out.
So we were working out of my old college down
in Lakeland, Florida, at Florida Southern, and there'd be twenty guys,
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twenty two guys a day that are working out, hitting, running, pitching,
you know, doing all the all the spring training stuff
because we weren't allowed to do that. So, you know,
right when the season started, we got off to I
think a nine no start. We we got to jump
on everybody. And and I don't think anybody uh expected
us to be as as tight knit a unit as
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you would expect with a new manager, uh, some new
players and and you know, just being locked out of
spring training, being being forced to work out on our own.
But when you're a grown man, you know, you know
what it is expected of you. And I think that's
that's where we really bonded. And I'll give you a
thing about Lou. Lou found us where we were because
he lived in the Tampa area. It's about forty five
(15:31):
minutes away from uh Lakeland, Florida. He came up and
he's like, you guys need anything, I'm not allowed to
talk to you by the way the balls or passed
or anything like that. And and we're like, no, we're good.
We were good. Chuck Anderson was the head coach of
Florida Southern. He gave us the run of the college
and the and the baseball facility. So we we had
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to jump on everybody.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You know what I love about that that nasty boys
and you rob I mean, And I think, for for
my is just my opinion, my unsolicited opinion this current
Reds team. And I think for some years now, they're
missing an alpha dog. Uh, somebody that can say, you
know what, what is happening out in that field, it's
got to stop. As a Reds fan, I always like
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to look at a player because we're a small town
right Cincinnati, and you're looking for that guy that's gonna
take the team on his shoulders and say we're gonna
win here, and we're gonna we're gonna be pretty damn good,
and just that swag. I don't know if you understand
what I'm talking about. We had three of those guys,
Norm Charlton, Rob Dibble, and Randy Myers. You guys had
that swag. Greg Vaughn's the last name I could think
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of going back on a relatively recent team as a
good leader in the locker room, the guy that you
knew as a Cincinnati Reds fan. This dude wasn't going
to back down to anybody. How did that organically come
about with you? Now, you said you roomed with with Norm?
I think, but did that organically come about? That? That
swag that you guys brought to every single game every
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single night.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yeah, because you know, when you when you're coming up
in the minor league's so It was totally different back then.
You know, you're you're always like a week away from
bad outings or being cut. Every spring training there was
one hundred and eighty guys going for one hundred and
twenty jobs in the minor league. That was just a
minor league side, so you know, but listen, everybody was
like that. We had nothing but alpha dogs. Yeah, from
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Paul O'Neil to Ron Oser, it was. It was almost
a fight in the locker room every day with a
pack of wild dogs that we were, you know, to
because if you failed, you didn't fail. You didn't fail yourself,
you failed the pack. And you know, you had to
look those guys in the eye and it wasn't easy.
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Eric Davis was was like, you know, not only my brother,
it was like a father figure to me. So Eric,
you know, if I had a great game, he come up,
he say, hey, don't be satisfied with that. You got
to do better the next time out, you know, I mean,
so they you couldn't rest on your laurels. You couldn't
sit there and feel great for yourself when you had
good doubting. You were expected to be great and you
know that, and really that a lot of that came
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from Pete and Lou. I remember what you know, brought
up here in Connecticut watching Lou Panel. He's one of
the most clutch players that ever played. He doesn't get
credit for that. I mean people think of as many
that it was a hell of a player. And so
I I used to watch the Yankees Red Sox, and
so when you watch people like that and Pete Rose
and guys like that, when you walk into clubhouse, you
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got to be ready to kick ass. You can't be
sitting back, you know. And you know, thank god we
didn't have cell phones, because I know it's a cell
phone generation. I still coach sixteen U travel baseball. We
go around the Northeast and we play a bunch of
really good teams. And these guys are way more interested
and in how people perceive them than how they act.
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I try to get these guys to act like men.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
It's like, listen, you have to you have to expect
greatness out of yourself. I I have great people to
listen to, from Gino Orima to Dan Hurley and they
and they put it on you. You you can you know,
we didn't we like the one thing Geno Orama always says,
I love it. He's like, we didn't expect. We didn't
bring you here to be good. We probably here to
be great. So think about that. When I put that
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red uniform on. Even in the in the minor league,
they hated us. Everybody hated us, from the from the Mets,
the Exposed Organization, the Brewers, the Cubs. I played against
all the guys I would play against the in the
major leagues in the minor league, and we had nothing
but fight. We couldn't ban them. And I'm telling you
there's a couple of things that have really bothered me
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over the years. Inner league play is one, because we
used to think we were superior to the American League.
You know, the umpires thought they were superior to the
American League umpires, so, you know, kind of mixing all
that together, it has kind of watered down the mentality,
not the talent. The talent's amazing watching Major League Baseball
today that the middle infielders are so good. I don't
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think people can understand how good some of these guys are.
But the mentality is different, where we're all buddies, we're
all friends, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Screw that. I mean, back then, we we had problems
with each other in the locker room, then we take
that on the field. And as long as you didn't
you know, cross us, because you could cross you know
that line. You know we're gonna fight you at any turn.
So that's that's the difference in our mentality back then
as the mentality today, where you know you didn't you
didn't want to fail your teammates.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Hey, dibbs, what wasn't it didn't you get fined if
you actually were co mingling with the other players on
the field, Like if you met in center field and
you're talking to so and so. It was that a
kangaroo court find? Or was that an MLB?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
How was a.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Kangaroo court find? What if the coaches talked to doing that?
I mean they crawl right up your buts, I mean, listen,
but that but it should be that way, right, you
know it? You know in football, I remember growing up
playing football and if and if some guy walked across
the line, even hockey, I mean I grew up playing
hockey on the East Coast. So you know, if you
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if you skated towards our bench, we're gonna light you up.
And that's that was the great I still hate to die.
I watched I loved their Their players are amazing, but
I can't stand that color. Yeah, and it's like that's
the way I was, you know, that's the way I
was built. I was built that way, you know, from
from you know, when I was eight years old, and
I think, you can't you know, I always hear this,
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and it is you can't put it in them. You
can't take it out of them.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
And I can't make you like I was. Even when
I'm coaching my players that their parents are like, well,
you know, could you make them a little bit like
you know, I can't. It's just listen. I had two
older brothers used to kick the crap out of me,
and I used to fight with them all the time.
That's what made me strong. And and then when you
get into the locker room where everybody's like that, you
you can't wait to get to work every day because
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that's everybody, everybody across the board. If I could, if
I could go through my whole team, every guy was
like that. From like Ron Oster lighting me up in
eighty eight when I we lost, we had a we
had a game in Philadelphia, I'll never forget it. And
I was feeling good for myself because you know, back then,
I you know, it was told a you got two
weeks in the big leagues and you go back to
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the minor league kind of stuff. And I've pitched well,
but we lost. Ron Oster got right in my face
and say, hey, listen, you know, when we win, we
win as a team. We lose, we lose the team.
Nobody's smiling, nobody's happy. Nobody's happy when you lose the game.
So from that moment on, I had nothing but respect
for Ron Oster and always will because he was willing
to step across that bus and say say what he felt,
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and it was the right right message to said.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And that's healthy. Having those stats and having those arguments
with your with your family, that's healthy. Man, Rob.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I want to I want to there's a story because
I'm respecting your time, and I know there's going to
be a lot of stories that we want to say
for the Sports Tag, and I'm sure Randy and Normal
will have some additional stories. But I want you to
tell a short story from your perspective, and I will
give you a hint. Last week we had on the
show Hal McCoy and George Luisam George Vogel, you talked
(23:00):
about the locker room. You know what I'm talking about.
Let's hear the Rob Dibble version of one of my
favorite Dibbs stories in the locker room with Louke Panela,
because I know you guys are good friends. So that
that was just one night, but I got to hear
the story from your perspective.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Well, it all started before the game.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
And I'm sure, I'm sure you get all the time.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
No, because people people don't understand that Lou and I
hated losing more than we love winning, and and so
we're very similar in personality and and so anyway, Lou
Lou was asking me how my arm felt, and I
basically said it felt like crap and I could use
the day off. And he kind of jumped my you
know stuff, and actual, I can't swear on the podcast,
(23:47):
you know, but he did it. But he did it
in front of a bunch of of my peers. He
did it in the players lounge, and so I was
kind of you know, tick talk about that, and so
he said, just don't dress out. So I didn't dress
out for the game, and I'm in the locker room,
and I know it's just like two or three guys
to close out the game. We won the game, by
the way, this is this is how we roll, because
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we win the game and we're still fighting. So anyway,
you know, uh, I don't remember what reporter came up
to me, and it could have been how, it could
have been somebody else, but but said, hey, how how
why weren't you out there for the ninth inning? Blah
blah blah. But I was like listen, I said, you know,
I just needed a day off. I'll be fine. And
(24:29):
so they went back into lou and Lou's like, oh, no,
Bibble's hurt. You know, he couldn't pitch the night. And
so they came back to me and I was like, no,
that's an f N lie And so then they ran
back to Lou and they're like, oh, Dibble's calling you
an FN liar, which wasn't true. That wasn't that wasn't
what I said. But again, you know, it's like it's.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Like are you are you? Are you telling me the
media is mixing up a story that never happened.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
So anyway, they go back lou Is Irene. Now remember
I'm in my street clothes. I'm ready to walk out
the door and go home. And that that's why you
see me dressed in street clothes when losing in his uniform.
Still because it happened so quickly. It was like right
after the game and we should have been celebrating Scott
(25:15):
Scudder forgett this first big league day. And anyway, long
story short is that lou Lou comes after me. We
rest a little bit and that's that's it. The next
day I pitched in the game, Louke comes out in
front of like thirty five thousand people. He throws me
some fake blows to the gut and it was over.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I mean, Lou and I will always be family, will
be best friends. I love Lou and you know, but
people to this day are like you guys don't like
each other. Like it's it's like saying, you know, like
my two older brothers, I love them, I love them
fills right, It's it's one of those moments with a
family that is around each other every day for six months.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It's healthy, healthy, and it's healthy.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Yeah, it's totally healthy, Yep, totally healthy.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We are excited.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
It's this day every time we get together, they laugh
about it because FIfF Roberts just got traded to us,
and the look on his face, his terror. You've got
Hall of Famer Barry Larkin in a half powel that
he's trying to break up the fight. You've got Tim
Beltzer's screaming at people. You know, I mean, everything that
transpired after that moment was worth it. It really was.
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It was hilarious. Rob.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'm excited man, September twenty fifth, getting you guys in there.
It's it'll be a packed house here at moul Or
High School, the Nasty Boys coming to Cincinnati. Always great
to have you back, Rob, where we all think you
belong right here in the Queen City. And looking forward
to it. And really, I know your schedule is busy
on the radio up there in Connecticut. Thanks for taking
some time this morning, dope here on the Big MO Podcast.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Hey, thanks a lot for having me. I can't wait
for September twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
It's gonna be awesome. That's Rob Dibble, former Cincinnati Red
Nasty Boy. That dude's legit.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Man, that dude, I'm exit and you're a baseball guy.
I'm a baseball guy and I still remember that World Series,
and I remember where I was when they clinched. It's
just I mean the Eric Davis home run off of
Dave Stewart in Game one that kind of set that table.
I'm so pumped for this stag Mollar family. If you're
(27:25):
not fired up for this, especially after listening to Dibbs,
and we got Norm Chardon and Randy Myers coming up
in the next couple of weeks as well, buy your
tickets now, you gotta be there.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I thought about asking them that locker room question, because
we don't want to tell all the stories right, and
Dibbs has a boatload of him that one. Or on
July twenty third, nineteen ninety one, when I love it
when he took a bunt and threw it directly into
the back of Doug Decenzo. That was another one I
was going to ask, but I didn't want to burn
(27:57):
them all on the Big Mo podcast, you got to
come to this stage.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
He also threw the ball out of Riverfront Stadium, out
of the stadium, not to the red seats, unbelievable out
of the stadium because he was so mad.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I have heard all three of these guys speak before
and it is money well spent. Obviously you're supporting Mohler.
That should be enough. But to be in the presence
of the nasty boys to hear their stories. You heard
a little bit of that swag and the way he talked.
I do believe not just the Reds, but professional athletes
across the board could learn a little something from that
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as well.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Well, you're right, and and the he made a great point,
the acceptance of losing. It's unacceptable and it just seems like, Okay,
we lost, you know, let's get a shower and go
out to eat and we'll try again tomorrow. And they fought.
They fought in the clubhouse because it's not acceptable. And
I don't you made a great point, Barrett. I don't
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see an alpha on this Reds team, but Terry Francona.
And he can't go out throw it and hit it,
you know, And and and he may be too soft.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
He's getting there, and we're not knocking the Reds. There
are some nice guys on the Reds team, some great dudes.
But I feel I feel like you need an out
on any team. You need that dude that says this
is unacceptable and to hold accountable the other guys in
the team and so yeah, I mean deb Will certainly
filled the bill for that one. Him and they had,
(29:25):
like he said they had O'Neil had a bunch of
fit that bill a lot of fun and he uh,
we have I think Norman Charlton. We're working on nailing
him down. Randy Myers is on the back side of
the moon, so we gonna find we gotta find him.
I'm gonna put some camouflage on. I'm gonna head out
west and we're gonna find and hunt down, hunt down
(29:46):
Randy Myers. Hopefully I see him before he sees me,
and we will get him on the Big mo podcast
here in a couple of weeks and shoot you like
a bear. Not good party, not good.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
In the green room we're talking Moeler's side. Is Tony Rippberger,
the new head soccer coach at Moeler. Andy and I
are going to pull him off of those Montgomery and
ribs in the green room and we'll be back after
this break talking some bler soccer and the future of
our men of Molar On the pitch. It's Andy Nagel,
Big Moo Bear. In the best coverage of high school
(30:18):
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(31:04):
Mo Podcast, Big Mo Bear to along with Andy Nagel.
You're finally back back for interviews, which is fun. But
we got ahead a new head soccer coach in studio,
Tony Ripberger and Andy. Tony brings some winning with him
over twenty years of coaching experience Timolar High School, having
recently served as the varsity head coach at Madeirra High School,
(31:25):
where he was named Ohio Small Coach Small Coach, Small
School Small Coach. He's short Ohio Small School Coach of
the Year Division three Public School Coach of the Year,
chl Coach of the Year, and Choir Coach of the Year,
and is dedicated to creating a positive and competitive environment
that led his team to multiple district and regional championships.
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Tony's coached for Cincinnati United for the past twelve years,
as well as the US Soccer Olympic Development Program Classics,
Hammer and King's and addition, has served as president of
the Southwest Ohio Scholassic Soccer Coaches Snociation and it is
on the leadership board.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's a resume.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I think that's a pretty good resume to make you
the new head coach of Molar Soccer. Welcome to Molar,
but most importantly, welcome to the Big Mo Podcast. I
you're just so excited to be on the air, aren't you.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yeah, happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
What's it been like so you? Before I get into that,
you were announced as the new head coach at least
on let's go Big Mo back on February twenty first,
so you fast forward now you've had a few months
under your Belt's what's your first impressions of not just
Mollar Soccer but Molar High School been like for you?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Really positive? Everybody here is just top notch. Everybody is
super helpful. The students are amazing, you know, yes, sir,
open doors like all that great. The small thing yeah yeah,
the small things for sure, which makes me think, like this,
this process is going to be better because I expect
my athletes to be good men, and you know, I'm
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walking into a good matt So that helps.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
When I got hired here, I had to go through
no less than fifty interviews. It was a two or
three month process. I thought I was going for a
job with the FBI. Was your job application the same?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Yeah, I guess kept coming back. Yeah, I think I
came in here four times. Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So you're taking over a program with under Mike Welker,
who had a lot of success. Obviously, you guys are
all comrades in the soccer scenes. So Muller knows what
Madeira doing what Midea knows what Muller's doing. Moll It's
not like you're taking over a program that has been
in shambles. I mean, this is a team. You could
make an argument, a strong argument, that this has been
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one of the most highly successful athletic teams in recent
years here at Muller High School. What's your first step
as you come in the door in that transition, because
you're not looking to be like Mike, you're looking to
create your own path. I'm sure how do you go
about doing that?
Speaker 5 (33:57):
It's a couple different things. First off, I want to
keep the traditions alive that made the program what it is,
as well as put my own flavor on things. You know,
a couple of things I added right away that didn't exist.
The boys lift now, you know, and they notice, Yeah,
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they were craving that, so I'm used to that. So
they're in the gym four days a week lifting speed
and agility, things like that.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Just and those guys love when Chris Gray puts them
on the Instagram on the Bowlder Strength pages. Guys see
themselves wearing their blue T shirts more soccer T shirts,
and they start sharing it that the guys love that stuff.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Yeah, for sure. And Coach Gray and Coach Chiefs and
have been great for us and just fitting ess in
the schedule because you know, however many years we haven't lifted,
So creating a spot for us to lift with you know,
football and all the other space constraints that we have
in the weight room was was a big task. So
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I appreciate those guys.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
You've got a talented team coming back now that I know,
there were some things that happened in the off season
where some guys moved on and I'm not even knowledgeable
or educated enough to explain how that all that worked.
Something to do with FC or the yeah, talk about that.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
That's a landscape that it's kind of in as like Barrisson,
we're just kind of learning about that where if a
player wants to play for a club team, those seasons
coincide with with high school teams.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
So you're you're you're battling that.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Not called a club team though, is it. It's called
it's FCS.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Academy or so sort of with that. So let's let's
take it back five six, seven years when FC Cincinnati
first started their academy programs. They started pulling kids that
were really really talented off of their high school teams
and offering them spots to potentially be a proe exposure
(35:54):
to college things like that. There was there was a
couple of guys here that have done that go on
that Pathrret, I know Kate Teppi is one of them
and great and his brother Bentley is obviously here. We
had a couple of Madeira that went the same route.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Is that tough? I mean? And that's the thing talking
to Mike Welker in the past, It's kind of like,
if we had that one little if we had that
one piece, if we hit those two pieces, they could
have taken us to that chance.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
And I'm anxious to hear your perspective because you want
these kids right to go on and do great things
and to develop and to potentially play at that highest level.
But selfishly, you want the dudes on your own team.
So how do you mentally work through that process?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
So so the landscape now is actually a little different
than the f C Cincinnati landscape back five years ago.
Since then, f C Cincinnati has pushed out most of
the local talent and brought in kids from other areas,
so they're at top notch academy program, one of the
best in the country. And then what Cincinnati United has
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done is taken their top it's called Cup Gold team
and offered them spot to now play year round. Whereas
typically all of our guys play club soccer in the
Spring only, and that's how it's been forever except for
the few kids that played at C Cincinnati. Right, So
they're given this opportunity to play at a really high
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level and be exposed to the same games, the same
college coaches, the same environment as the f C Cincinnati guys,
just a tear lower. So they're getting major college exposure,
potential college opportunities. I as a coach, you know, it's tough.
It's tough to deal with, you know, possibly losing kids,
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but you know, you're trying to create the best thing
for the kid. And I told all the boys that
were in this situation. We had fourteen of these guys,
which is way more than any other school. We had
fourteen of these guys that had this option.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
And you know I told them all, like, hey, come,
did you know that.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
When you were coming into the application of the job,
you knew it was on the table and what was
potentially at risk? Right, Okay, I did, which is helpful.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Yeah, for sure, I knew that that was happening.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
But I still wasn't like you took the job and said, hey,
ninety percent of your team's gone, now you know what
I mean?
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Well, and that was fine, because I wanted to be here.
This is, in my opinion, this is the best best
job in Cincinnati, the state, one of the best jobs
in the country. So I wanted to be in that environment.
But you know, we offered to meet with We as
a staff offered to meet with all of the boys
that are in this situation and help them decide what's
(38:43):
best for them, not to be like, hey, please stay
you know because of this this the like tell me
your goals, tell me what you want to do, tell
me your feelings, and let's work through at We have
a couple of since I and I coaches besides myself
on staff too, so we can help guide these guys
to the best.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh, is it hard to get guys to come on staff?
Kind of clean? You have a couple guy hangovers. I
think Stockham and those guys.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
We cut everybody, you know. Yeah, My my thought is
surround yourself with greatness, and those guys are awesome. Coach
NERO coach Stockham, even.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Though he's a Mason guy. I thank you. You think
he's amazing guy, right, Yes, looking at your team here
you got coming back. I'm a little partial because my
son hangs out with all the soccer dudes. My son's
a rising senior. But some of the dudes that you
got coming up, you know, te Monifo, you Noah Phillips,
one of my favorites, Frankie Jeras Pride to Saint Margaret
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of York. Uh, you got Carson Lang of course, who
you know, one of the top soccer players in the city.
Jose Stefano. You go down the line. I'm sure I'm
missing a few guys. Tiago, that's right, Thiago as well,
Thomas Oliver, he's out, he's gone. See I don't haven't
got and the updated ones, the updated roster on the
Let's go bigmo dot com. But you got some, You
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got some dudes. It's not like you're coming in with
a with a and then you got the same cast
of characters. Saint Charles, Beaver Creek, those teams are going
to be what they are every year. You know what
you're up it get maybe not, I mean, Madere's maybe
a little bit different from a competitive level, but it's
beaver Creek State Shaw. You know about them? Oh yeah,
how does this team fit in? What's the DNA of
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this soccer team? As you guys with these new rising seniors,
these new leaders, how does that fit into that? You
know what you want from a vision standpoint. Moving forward
to you in your first year.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Well, with adversity comes opportunity for guys that maybe weren't there.
We still have really high level athletes. Even the guys
that are coming back. The guys are fantastic. It's just
figuring out what pieces to plug where to make it
all work. We do have a couple of guys that
had that opportunity to got a cup of golden chose
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that that wasn't the path they wanted to go, which
is major props to that. I mean, basically playing here
is like playing into small college. We're going to play
on seven college fields this year, so we'll have that environment.
But those guys decided, hey, this is not for me.
I want to be I want to be in it
this in high school. I don't want to regret anything.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So that's the thing that I look at is these
are your high school years, man, And you know, I've
talked to parents over the past, and you know, people
have asked, Hey, what what are your feelings about playing
multiple sports?
Speaker 6 (41:28):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
This is your four years of high school that you're.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
Never going to get back, absolutely do it.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
And I think you know, with the club season being
you know, opposite of your season, the traditional club season,
kids are still going to get exposure. There's still opportunities
to play at the next level, whether you play your
high school years and you're with your friends, you're with
your guys, or you're just you know, playing basically professionally
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if you want to call it that, I mean that's
they eat, drinking, you know everything soccer. I just yeah,
that's that's the path I would choose if it were
my son. Play for your high school team, are enjoy it?
Enjoy that time?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Yeah, my son just graduated this past year from Madeira.
I coached all the way through his high school years,
and yeah, I wouldn't have let him ride this path.
But you know, it's different for everybody, and sure, you know,
whatever they want as best and honestly, like, we have
a lot of guys that play on that second that's
Cup Black, that second tier, and they're actually going they
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won't start until November until we're done, but they're going
to the same exact events that these Cup Gold guys are,
but they're going to play like the second tier. So
you're getting the best of both worlds by playing cup
black and for Moler.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I got a question for you. You just mentioned your
son graduated from Madeira, as you knew, probably knew being
an outsider coming in myself seven years ago. I know
Molar is the big bad wolf around Greater Cincinnati, for
better or worse. It has been that way since. I
haven't a double day coach Faust since back in his days.
It is what it is having a son who played
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for you at Madeira, graduated, played for his dad, and
now his dad leaves Madeira to go to the big
bad wolf. What was your your son's thought process through
that all that?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Well, you know I asked a lot of the people
that I had trust in your circle when I was
when I was offered the job, what do you think?
And you know, I went to him, what do you think?
And he thought about for literally two seconds, and he's like, go,
this is not an opportunity that you should let go.
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And you know, even my assistant coaches at Madeira, they
were all super supportive. They were like okay, And there
was always one job. Like I mentioned before, like I
would not go to any other school. I would have
stayed at Madeira and just wrote it out for another however,
many years and had a great time and created great men.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Now what do you do full time for a living?
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (44:05):
I'm a director of a software engineering group at a fintech.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Very cool, flexible schedule.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yes, that's good.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
That's a good thing, right, it's a good thing. I'm excited.
I don't know. I looked on Let's go big mode
dot com. The schedule is it's not out. However, Max
Preps always got everything covered. I don't know if this
is accurate or not. But you open up against Saint
Henry on August sixteenth? Is that accurate?
Speaker 5 (44:30):
I just actually added all that.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
You knew I was going to reference.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
There was one edition there I think I had in
Centerville the other day.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
So, but do you open up against St. Henry on
August sixteenth? Thanks for doing that, And then I'm looking down.
You got your typical cast of characters. The Mason game
is always a big game, Sycamore because it's a backyard rival.
You got St X the GCL, But but the ones
I look at here, Saint Charles here on September thirteenth.
You want to you want to pack to Jerry for
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that one. That's always a big one. I don't see
you going. I don't see Beaver Creek on the schedule.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
So there are scrimmage or there's scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Okay, how does it's always good to scrimmage? The team
is talented? Is Beaver Creek? How does the schedule look
to you? I mean, how do you what is your
overarching goal? Obviously you want to win a GCL championship
and all those things, but as coach speak, but what
are you looking for in year one?
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Uh? To figure out where we fit, to figure out
who fits where? You know this, you know, I take
it back to my days at Madeira. We we're generally
a small fish in a big pond. We always played
a D one schedule. We played the hardest teams we
could possibly play to set us up for the Division
three tournament of the time. Now it's the vision far
because they expanded everything, which set us up really well.
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So that's the same philosophy. I want to build my
schedule towards just play the best, you know, and hopefully,
you know, we get better from playing the best, so
that when we hit the actual season, which is the postseason,
we're ready Everything that we do in the regular season
is really just prep for postseason play, right, So I
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will take on whoever wants us to.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Has any of our guys impressed you in the summer
workouts so far? Anybody stick down? Anybody you're really looking
forward to maybe taking that next step in their in
their process.
Speaker 5 (46:18):
Yeah, I mean Jose Stefano is an outstanding defender.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
I think it doesn't like to be interviewed though, just
for the reaither do I that's true, that's true. But
you're doing a great job.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
But yeah, he's one of the ones that had a
Cup Gold opportunity and he decided, Hey, I want to
go into engineering college. Brilliant student, brilliant kid, super respectful.
But yeah, I'm looking for big things from him. I
think he's he's awesome. Just watching, you know, we were
like probably we lifted for all of June with open
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fields and things like that, and then we're three weeks
into stuff in July here and boys are out there
training nearly every day. It had cuts yet no August
first us first. That's as a coach, that's a difficult days.
It is, it is, for sure. I'm not looking forward
to it, but.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
But we got big things ahead for the twenty twenty
five soccer season. We got coach Tony Ripberger here, Saint
Henry leading us off on August sixteenth. Some scrimmages beforehand,
but it kicks off August sixteenth.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Are we here?
Speaker 3 (47:20):
I was just gonna, I was just looking at it.
That's here. Nope, that's right here at the at the
Jerry What other college?
Speaker 6 (47:27):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (47:27):
Nku. We're gonna be at NKU again.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
This year, so we're trying to focus on staying at
Xavier University for all of our weekday games. But availability,
we don't always hear it right, So our secondary is
to fall back ten k you. We are playing also
at right State. That's where we're playing St. Charles officially
home game.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
That'll be a good one.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
But uh, that's where we played them in the shootout
at the end last year. So yeah, I think that'll
be a cool environment. Always meet a neutral site there
and not have to travel pack rights.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
That'll be a lot of fun. You were very nervous
coming up here. We walked you up from the courtyard
and I wasn't sure you were gonna make it up
to the studio. You're that nervous, but did a hell
of a job. Great job. We're excited to have you
in the Muller family. Tell your son the smaller family's real.
Whether he likes it or not, He's now part of
the Moller family. So we got to get him some swag. Yeah,
for sure, I got some soccer swag already.
Speaker 5 (48:22):
I think he took a shirt from.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
Whether you gave it to him or not, he's got
a shirt. Tony. Thanks a lot. We'll be hopefully catching
up throughout the year getting updates from me. You have
a couple of guys on the show as well. Did
a great job. Welcome to family.
Speaker 5 (48:34):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Hap that's Tony rock Coach. That's Tony Ripperger, the new
head soccer coach here at Mueller High School. We've got
more in depth team coverage on the back side of
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Speaker 1 (49:34):
Times of Chains and Times of Strange comb.
Speaker 6 (49:43):
Mama, I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Not a bad show for our first time back in
the saddle after a long break.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
Right, It's just like riding bike.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
It is just like riding bike. You get robe about
rob Man.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
That's just the first of the I mean, this is
gonna be a fun There's gonna be no hard stop
on that stag. That could go along long.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Get those guys telling some of those stories, and I'm
hoping to maybe have some plants in the crowd. I'm
working on that. We'll see how that works out. But
Mo Agger will be our mc mo knows those guys
will too. He knows what buttons to push on those guys.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. We're hoping to
again get Norm Charlton next in the next week or so,
(50:29):
have him on the podcast, and then follow that up
with Randy Myers, and then you got Molar Soccer. You know,
Molar is what Molar is almost no matter who the
head coach is, there's an expectation of success winning championships.
We talked about it with Rob. There is only one
option here at Moeler and Nets. Whether it's in the classroom,
in the chapel, on the field, it's win. And I
(50:52):
like what he says. I like the direction. He's not
a Mike Welker in the sense that he likes to
be on the micer or I shouldn't say likes, but
his come being on the microphone like likes comfortable being
in front of the camera. But he wants to make
it about the kids. We talked after the after uh
he went off the air in the green room. He
wants to make it about the kids. And you got
(51:12):
to admire that.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
I didn't bring it up to coach, but you do
realize that this soccer program over the last two years
is forty two.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
And oh, I didn't want to put that pressure on it.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Not counting obviously all the the state championship finals and
and and a couple of ties that that are in there,
but forty two oh, and I think five ties or something.
Speaker 3 (51:33):
Not bad, Marty not bad.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
That's a that's a and it's funny. We were texting
back and forth the other day and you had you
had a text that said, it's hard to believe that
Moeller Soccer has not won a state championship yet, and.
Speaker 4 (51:48):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
There's been some unbelievable soccer players that go through here,
some unbelievable soccer teams. So wish Tony the best. You know,
talking to him and you're reading his resume, it's pretty
darn good resume. So excited you may not hear it
in his voice. He's not. He's not like you said,
he's not a Mike Welker and he's his own self.
(52:10):
But but he's gonna put out a good product. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Wait, we will see everyone on the pitch. Remember to
back the boys a soccer team. Sometimes I think if
you asked the guys, they'd like to get more people
to their games. So let's try to make that happen
this year. To back the men of Mueller wearing the
blue and gold. Andy, another great show.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
Happy to be back.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
I'm already excited. I'm excited to have you back, but
I'm also excited to get Norman. It'll be good to
get his perspective on some of what Rob said as well,
maybe we can play some clips, and I'm sure hold
feed right off that.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Yeah, I mean you talk about Norm. The one thing
I remember about Norm Charlie is the collision with Mike's
Osha when he was running.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
The base wearing the old red starter j Yes, these
guys are nuts.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
I mean, you know Dibble and then Charlton, if you
want to call him a quiet a say, and I
mean he trucked Mike's Osha down.
Speaker 3 (53:02):
And Mike's Osha is a bad dude. Man.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
These guys are unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (53:07):
It's awesome, Andy. If people want tickets, they can go
to Mollar dot org and up on top there's a ribbon.
You click that ribbon and you will be off and
running to secure yourself a seat at the Moller Sports
Segment's unbelieveable.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Out of the back.
Speaker 3 (53:21):
It's gonna be awesome for Andy Nagel big Bo Barrett
on another remarkable edition of the Big Mo Podcast on
w MOOE and the Mole Broadcasting Network. Go Big Mo.
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