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This is seven hundred w l JABA. You the home of the Cincinnati Red

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All right, Summer begins at four
to ten today with Frankie Mantas and Ziah

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Gray. Here we go, boys
and girls, Here we go. Who's

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ready for a Reds playoff run starting
in just a few Yeah. Yeah,

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Scott's loan here, Mo Eggar from
ESPN fifteen thirty. The show begins live

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here at the Holy Grail Bank,
So hope you can make it down.

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We have I think maybe one or
two seats available, but lots of standing

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room and a bigger crowd. I
think that we give ourselves a round of

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applause, like the biggest crowd I
think we had in two three years we

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have. We had like twenty people
outside. I got here at like eight

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twenty. It was unbelievable, just
wrapped around to get here to the grail.

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But there is plenty of room for
anybody who wants to come down.

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Right. Still little standing room there. Cincinnati, home of the Reds,

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and a bunch of degenerates is still
drinking at eight thirty in the morning.

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My kind of people, Yeah,
my people right there. So Mo,

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we've got all sorts of guest today. Later on the show, Sean Casey'll

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jump in the mayor will court today
it's Mayor's Court for about a half hour,

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and then the Dmitri Young and Pokey
Reese the parade. Grand can't wait.

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And of course, right now,
thinking of our good friend, our

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dear friend and colleague, Jim Scott, We've got to get into the Opening

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Day parade as we start right now. And so great day for Jim to

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do what he loves to do.
No greater day on his calendar. So

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mister Opening Day he is. You
know, I think back when the game

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used to be at one to ten, we would post up and broadcast at

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five am. His excitement. Jim
was always excited about being on the radio,

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but there was something about Opening Day
that brought out the most in him.

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We all know what he's going through. He has been looking forward to

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this day so much, and we
hope he has a great experience. A

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lot of folks are gonna wave and
showed love to him, and it's deserved.

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And I just I hope he and
his his family have a great day

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because I know how much Opening Day
means to Jim, and I know how

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much Jim means to Cincinnati. And
we're there with you in spirit, brother,

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love you. So mo, let's
get into it. Last season,

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the Reds were, yeah, looking
like the Reds, and then this guy

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named Ellie day La Cruz shows up
there and literally lights a bonfire in the

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middle of a great American ballpark.
In every park, it's just so fun

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to watch. The team was inspired
by him. They started playing like Ellie.

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They go on a tear, they're
in first place for like a month.

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What yeah, and miss the playoffs
by just a couple of games.

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Now, you've got some real pressure
this year for this ball club to build

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on what they did last year.
What's the likelihod of that happening? Major

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expectations? You know, every year
I sit here with you, and I

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feel pretty confident in kind of,
you know, picking a range of wins

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the Reds will finish with. They
can win ninety games this year, they

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can't. They could lose ninety games
this year. Neither would be surprising.

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A couple of things I would first
of all, say, if you're looking

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at statistical projections, you know one
of them said, well, the Right's

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gonna win seventy nine games, throw
that out the door. These guys don't

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have a long enough track record to
project what they're going to be. You

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know, we can look at the
LA Dodgers, or the Atlanta Braves and

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or the Philadelphia Phillies and say,
well, based on these players and what

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they've done, here's how good we
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With the Reds. You can't do
that because nobody has a track record.

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But the upside that so many of
these players have is immense. And you

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mentioned Ellie deler Cruz. But what
was so fun is last year, every

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time somebody came up, somebody contributed. Unfortunately, some of those guys aren't

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going to be available and it's kind
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of the season. But Jonathan India
is gonna spell Matt McClain. Now think

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about that. A lot of teams
lose their opening day second baseman. Can

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they replace them with a guy who
was the Rookie of the Year three years

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ago. Jonathan India has a lot
to prove. The starting pitching has to

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be better, but if it is, what I think the sneaky cool part

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about this team is, I think
David Bell is going to have a really

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good bullpen at his disposal. If
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last year, this bullpen, I
think is gonna be really good. They

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got to get through not having TJ. Friedel the first six weeks, but

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the expectation, the excitement is through
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Ellie dela Cruz and Andrew Abbott and
Christian Strand. Spencer Steeer was the Rookie

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of the Month for the month of
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it. They have so many guys
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the same time, they have a
lot of guys who don't have much of

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a track record. So what are
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no idea, but I can't wait
to find out. Yeah, exactly.

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It's just exciting to be here and
think, hey, you got a chance

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this year. Frankie Montes goes today
as the opening day starter and certainly looked

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like the team's best pitcher this spring. But last year third worst rotation in

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Major League Baseball. I believe too
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much batting practice thrown. But the
problem is you got no McClain, you

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got no freedom. Marte is out
for eighty games. Yeah, and so

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there's more pressure then. That's starting
rotation, the standing games longer because you're

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not going to the run support.
Yeah, no question. I mean we

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talked all off season. Okay,
the starting pitching has to be better.

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Everybody will acknowledge that. David Bell
will tell you that the starting pitching has

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to be better. Now it probably
has to be even better because it's gonna

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have to do more based on who
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era was terrible last year of these
starting pitchers. But I would also say

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this, there's a lot of teams
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starting pitching has to be better.
That don't have a guy with the upside

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of Hunter Green, that don't have
a guy with the upside of Andrew Rabbit,

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that don't have a guy with the
upside of of Nick Lodolo. Everybody

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acknowledges the talent. The raw talent
is immense. Can these guys put it

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together and can they stay healthy?
I think if the starting pitching is league

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average league average, this team's gonna
be pretty good because I do think they

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have the ability to hang a lot
of runs on people. I think that

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what they did last year and taking
advantage of the rule changes stealing a lot

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of bases, forcing the issue with
their team speed is going to carry over.

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And I think they're gonna score a
lot of runs. But is the

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starting pitching gonna you start with health? Right? Yeah, Lodolo got hurt

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last year. Ashcraft got hurt last
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For what it's worth, Frankie Montas
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these guys stay healthy? And if
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improvement. The question is how much
better? How much more improvement do we

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see from that group? Yeah,
that's a good question. Slowly and moe

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here this morning live Opening Day twenty
twenty four. We got all the people

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rolling. I got Austin Elmore with
his name tags here. You got Rip

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from Yellowstone shows up, we got
damn we got everybody in this place right

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now here. This is increased to
Tony benderwing hard to make sure nobody has

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a good time. We are,
We're alive, the Holy Grail Banks and

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of course continue all the way till
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WLW, the home of your Cincinnati
Reds. I'm that too with Hunter Green.

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You know great last year? Okay, this guy flashes, looks great,

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and then something happens in spring training
where David belldon likeing it. He

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makes Frankie Mantos the opening day starter, and he's certainly earned it. It's

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a meritocracy in spring and so what
is that? How much pressure is at

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one hundred Green to figure that out? And now I guess he's added a

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couple of pitches, right, He's
worked on stuffs out too, and is

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he ready to grab that crown back
this season? Well, the first of

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all, I like what they did
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You mentioned it. It's a meritocracy. You got to earn things like

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that. Hunter hasn't earned it,
right. There are times if you took

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Hunter Green's best seven or eight outings
over the last two years and put him

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together, you would think, God, this is the best pitcher in baseball.

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And yet if you took his worst
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this is a batting practice pitcher.
Here's what I'm curious. Number one?

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Can he stay healthy? I keep
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a huge thing last year right now? Yeah? Number two? Last spring

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we heard about, well he's learned
to change up that. He never threw

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it. This spring. It's different, curveball, split fingered fastball. Great,

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do we see it? Does he
turn into a guy that has multiple

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pitches? We know he can throw
a fastball with the best off, but

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guess what if this level one hundred
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So he learned to change up last
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The pitches he has worked on this
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good enough for him to trust them? And can he throw them with efficiency

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and throw them for strikes. If
the answer is yes, and he stays

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healthy, then you would expect big
things. Look, he still is,

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for my money, the face of
the franchise. He's the one guy that

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they've signed pseudo long term. I
think if Hunter Green doesn't take a major

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step forward, you have a hard
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takes a major step forward. How
much pressure isn't our David Bell this season?

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Because you know the injuries eight I
mean facy Now He's got a lot

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of tools in the toolbox, and
I think you know, you talk about

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pressure on guys like maybe Jonathan India
to come back to form or Hunter Green,

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but David Bell's a guy's like you
two games short last year, you

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got more talent this year. I
think this is a big, big deal.

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I think David Bell did a great
job last season what he had,

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but you're right now he's managing where
there's not as many deficiencies and his individual

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moves. Look, this team's margin
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is likely going to be very tight. If the Reds make the playoffs,

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chances are it's only going to be
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so much more of a premium on
the manager pressing the right button. I

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come back to the bullpen, where
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I think is how do they manage
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inning. What David Bell had to
do last year was often good to the

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bullpen in the fifth inning. It's
really hard to ask the manager to do

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that. So if the starting pitching
can give this team on average eighteen outs,

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David Bell I think has enough relievers
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I think the other thing is I
talked about this with Sam Lequier. The

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chemistry last year was awesome. Does
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has a major role in that too. My hold that thought. We'll get

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Live from the Cincinnati Tax Resolution Area, powered by Tave Sheldon. We

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are here with Charlie Frank, the
executive director of the Reds Community Fund.

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It's like an annual thing with you, isn't it. It is the state

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of the Union, It's the state
of the What's the state of the Community

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Fund, Senator, the state of
the Community Fund is strong. Good,

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All right, sounds fair enough.
He congratulations. I know you won a

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weight major award suitable for framing last
year from the Commissioner of Major League Baseball,

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The Bud Sealig Award for Philanthropic Excellence
went to you and the rcfteam.

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Yeah, that was the Thanks for
bringing that up, Sloany, that was

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a nice moment for us. Yeah, you know, I mean it's work

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that we have done for a long
time, and you know, so we

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aren't exactly sure those metrics how it
works, but you know what, you'll

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take the hardware. Yeah, right, absolutely, Yeah, it's and you

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know what, there are a lot
of teams that are raising a tremendous amount

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of money and doing incredible work.
So, you know, to be recognized

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as the a is one of the
best is is a great honor and it's

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a tribute to obviously a lot of
people our staff board, the Reds leadership

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who are so committed to what this
mission is and it it was a nice

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moment. Good. Why we'd have
to play that music like the oscars when

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you're a checking something the hell up? You know, it's awesome. You

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and I talked about the initiatives you
guys have all year long. But it's

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it's cool to me when when folks
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volunteers, players, former players,
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It's a real, real testament to
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it's nice. I mean, it's
I appreciate that. Mo. You

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know, this block party that our
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virtually all night setting up for I
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become a layer, irreplaceable layer of
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I mean, if they're showing a
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lot of times, it's the aerial
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We launched that in twenty twelve to
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class, the Reds Youth Academy.
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event continues to help our operations,
and we're dedicating a renovated field there and

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later in April. So you know, it's the work is complicated, you

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know, and you know, growing
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and doing the right things. It's
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but you know, I think the
point of the block party being a

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you know, a community fund contribution
to opening day. I think people do

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kind of recognize the brand now and
they see our logo on ball fields,

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and hopefully the mission is simple enough
that people that congrasp it that we need

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to invest in the game. Charlie
Frank what's the count now? How many

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fields? How many renovations? Oh
my goodness. You know, we've been

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to over five hundred diamonds since the
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and really highlighted this as a big
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to scale it back because instead of
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dollars contribution to a field that might
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trying to build more partnerships and install
more synthetic fields. We're going to be

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celebrating one in Augusta, Kentucky on
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at the Academy with our stadium field. On April twentieth, we're going to

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be doing one in bond Hill this
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and then Marty Brenneman Field at Jules
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synthetic surface at Anderson Parks is leading, but we're a part of that and

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that'll be dedicated probably late April's.
This is going to be the first opening

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day without Joey Vado in a Red's
uniform, and there have been a number

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of tributes, you know, ever
since it was announced that he's not going

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to come back, and obviously we're
all wishing for him to have a great

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season with the Toronto Blue Jays,
but kind of take us through the way

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that Joey ingrained himself with the work
that you guys do while he was here.

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You know, I don't as much
work as Joey has done to tell

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his story on social media the last
handful of years to his credit. I

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still think a lot of Reds fans
don't necessarily realize what a fixture he was

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at our academy. And he wouldn't
come out there for media, and most

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of the time he made it known
that he didn't run any media. He

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was there to work. And he
also and you guys will probably you know,

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understand his thinking here. I mean
he he would tell us too,

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I don't want you to stop practice. I don't want it to be a

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fifteen minute fly by where people take
photos. And he was happy to take

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photos. Afterwards, he said,
I want to come and work. I

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want to be there and help.
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coaches and he, you know,
he to say that he was an integral

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part of our twenty one senior boys
team winning their first championship still our only

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RBI title is an understatement. He
sent me a video at about two in

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the morning to show that team before
they played at nine in the morning in

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Vero Beach, Florida, and to
hear from those kids and those coaches what

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that video meant on the bus.
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you know, we didn't have any
activities on the field that year due to

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COVID restrictions. Still, Joey went
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The very next day when they came
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and be a part of the Reds
pregame, he went into the stands to

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be with them and because a lot
of those kids were leaving for college right

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away. I mean, these are
moments that you know, those young men

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and women will never forget. I
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guy and after his career has done
whatever that is Toronto and beyond that.

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I hope that the organization, if
not the community, if I'm able to

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somehow get him back into the picture
because what he means in the city to

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Cincinnati baseball, but because of stuff
like this. I mean, it'd be

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such a great ambassador for baseball,
but in particularly the Cincinnati regilarter say,

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yeah, you know what, And
I'm so curious to see where he goes.

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Yeah, and I don't know broadcast, but he could do a lot

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of stuff he could. It's sort
of like when Bronson retired, if Bronson

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wanted to coach, If Bronson wanted
to broadcast, you would have had job

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offers there. I'm sure Joey will
as well. I could see Joey,

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you know, going off the grid
for a while, you know, I

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could see that, sure, I
hope not Where is the guy you just

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yeah whatever you had never happened to
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this grind for twenty years, for
guys that don't have to stay in this

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grind and have earned their way out
of it for a while. All the

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all the credit in the world.
You know, this team is so young

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and so many guys came up last
year made a big impact on the field.

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So when when you have a young
team like this, is there do

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you have to work a little bit
harder to explain to these guys, Look,

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this is a part of the club, is a part of what we

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do, and here's how you can
help. You know, that's a great

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question, mo, and I got
to give credit to manager David Bell.

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He gave us the opportunity down in
a good year in February to present to

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the team, and you know,
and we had an opportunity over a few

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days there and then again in March
to visit with each individual player. So

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you know, we've already got great
traction. I mean, guy like Will

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Benson is so committed to our mission. He was out at the Academy for

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a couple of events last year.
We've had a number of guys, whether

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it's you know, Steer and McClain
and Freeley was out at the Academy for

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an event last year. So I
think they're getting, you know, getting

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the point awfully quickly, and as
you could ascertain, it's it's an incredibly

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grounded, humble, easy group of
guys to work with. So we think

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we're going to have tremendous traction there
all right. Opening Day twenty twenty four

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on the Home of the Red seven
hundred WW Scott's Loan, along with mo

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Egger and Charlie Fak from the Reds
community, find here for a little while

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longer talking about everything Reds Baseball and
the mission behind the scenes, because it's

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such an important thing you guys have
been doing to the point where other teams

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are copering what you're doing. What
is the split the pot up to today?

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Do we have a number on?
It was up to seventy six It

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was seventy thousand when I arrived this
morning early, and last check it was

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already over seventy six thousand, so
it's growing. I mean, our STEP's

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done a great job. We've added
this year are some early bird prizes we've

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been given away, like an Ellie
signed ball. This week we are giving

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away a Jonathan India signed City Connect
Jersey around the first pitch today and if

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you win that prize, you're still
entered in the drawing for the jackpot,

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which we hope we'll get up to
about two hundred thousand dollars today. So

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it's it's you know, we're not
the only team that really utilizes, you

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know, a fifty to fifty raffle
for the greater good. I don't know

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where we'd be without this from a
fundraising standpoint. We're so grateful to Reds

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fans for being a part of it. And you know, back in twenty

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nineteen, fortunately we finally cracked the
code and went online and allowed for credit

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card sales, because if that hadn't
been the case in twenty twenty, right,

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right, we would have been stuck
splitting any polit And make sure today

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because it's a block party, you
look around, there's gonna be all sorts

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of volunteers from the community fund get
to split the pow ticket. Absolutely,

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watch that thing get up. It's
gonna be huge today. Or if you're

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listening and you're over the age of
eighteen and in the state of Ohio,

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when you play, you can go
to Red's fifty to fifty dot com.

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Uh and we have a jackpot going
all the time. Well after today's drawing.

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We start drawing at the end of
every home series, you know,

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and this is a chance for us
to maybe shame him because you know I

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worked Split the Pond DoD last year. Celebrity. At least we can maybe

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get Sloany. I'll do it with
them. Well, I'll have to let's

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go, Okay, get it down. Absolutely. She had me yesterday in

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the show or Monday, rather talking
about on hot dogs, you should have

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like like celebrity hot dog vendors yelling
and what would your what would the hook

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be? You know about wanting meat
and stuff like that. God, I'm

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down. I think we'll stick this
flick. Who needs me? But they

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do? You give you a megaphone. That's the best part. Yeah.

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I like having the megaphone. It
is fun. Yeah, it's a good

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time. Charlie Frank from the Redgs
Community Fund, I've been doing this for

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a long time and honored last year
from Major League Baseball. Is the premier

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philanthropic organization in Major League Baseball for
twenty twenty three. Is fantastic And you

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know we got the Red Legs run
you the poker tournament at Red's Fast and

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you're just so much more anything new
you're adding this year, you know,

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not something new necessarily, but I
did want to mention too. Mike's Car

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Wash has been doing a promotion with
us, and they've been doing it now

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for over ten years. It has
raised It's raised phenomenal money for us.

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And if you go to Mike's Car
Washing any Tuesday or Wednesday, they will

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get five dollars out their top two
watches and then on Wednesday for those watches,

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a dollar goes to the REDS Community
Fund. So that's something for anybody

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could do. At forty locations of
Mike's Car Washer out the region, so

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we're grateful for them. Charlie Frank, executive director, Redg's Community Fund,

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no better organization and Cincinnati. It's
been tied to baseball obviously, but the

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stuff that you guys do behind the
scenes is incredible. I'm glad the MLB

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has recognized it and you had so
much more to our city than could be

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expected. Thanks Buddy for salting Monny, Thanks so much. Mo really appreciate

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it absolutely. All right, we'll
get a break in and check news and

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then when we return coming up later
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Live from the Holy Grail Banks.
This is seven hundred WLW, the

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home of the Cincinnati Reds. Welcome
to it Scott's loan along with Moe Egger

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from ESPN fifteen thirty. Here on
the Big One, the home of the

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red seven hundred WLW summer beginning at
four to ten today, Frankie Montas gets

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the ball and hopefully the Reds walk
away with a win. All rise because

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the Mayor's Crop is now in session. Yes, the Honorable Yes Sean casey

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oh Man, oh yay, oh
yay, oh yay. It is so

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good to be I mean, look
at the fans out here. Already ready

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to roll. I mean, oh, so great, it's awesome, so

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grateful to be back here in Cincinnati, and like I think, the buzz

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being at Redsfest this year and seeing
the buzz with this team, it's real.

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And to see the crowd out here
already. I know, I was

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in my hotel room right here at
jac I swear to god, six am.

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Somebody was like, here we going
six am. They're starting already,

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so let's go. Well, here's
what I'm excited about. Frankie Montass's pitching.

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We got him out of those ugly
Yankee pins frights, and we got

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you out of those ugly yeah right, well listen. I was like,

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it was like Red Central was with
Aaron Boone. We were kind of like,

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you know, so it was my
dad work out for him. It's

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hard to believe twenty six years Opening
Day ninety eight, we trade our opening

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day starter, Dave Burba, and
we're gonna get Sean Casey from the Indians.

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At my dad and I are going
to the game, and I can't

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quote what he says specifically, but
he goes, who the blank is Sean

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Casey? And twenty six years later, you're a Reds Hall of Famer,

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You're a legend. You're back.
It's unbelivas for twenty six years. Wow,

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incredible, How time flies? You
have a twenty three year old young

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bluck back then, and yeah,
it's a crazy you know, just thinking

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back to that time, you know, getting traded from the Indians to the

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Reds on opening Day. Yeah,
just really turned out to be the greatest

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thing that could ever happened in my
career. And you know, playing here

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for eight years, and you know, I always I was just over at

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the Red's Hall of Fame walking through
with Rick Walls coming over this way,

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00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.240
and uh, I honestly have so
much gratitude for this city, in this

406
00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:11.240
in this organization. That the fact
that I got a chance to play,

407
00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:17.880
which I think is the greatest storied
organization in in uh in major League Baseball,

408
00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.359
you know, the first ever organized
uh you know, baseball team.

409
00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:25.559
And I'm just so grateful that I'm
I'm part of this legacy. That's awesome.

410
00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.440
And Red's Hall of Famer too,
three time All Star for the Red

411
00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.400
Legs, and I know that you
know, no one you not want to

412
00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.599
talk about this, but I know
you're also here to do a little work

413
00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:36.559
with the team because I guess you're
working with la ed La Cruzy. You

414
00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.480
need to get him out of the
box faster when he's running. Maybe if

415
00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:41.799
you can get like, I don't
know, yeah, three miles an hour

416
00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.640
faster because I know people don't think
about it, but you're sneaky quick.

417
00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.440
Yeah, yeah, you're sneaky.
That's a big thing, is that day

418
00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:49.799
La Cruzman. I we at the
same speed. So when I look at

419
00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.480
him, I'm like, I relate
to him. Yeah, he hits the

420
00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.839
ball in the gap and gets the
third. Yeah, yeah, how to

421
00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:00.640
stretch it out? So Dimitri Young's
in town. Yeah, I just saw

422
00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:04.039
that. Helchy Reese here. So
now you talk about going back twenty five

423
00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:10.519
years ago, cherished team then reds
Yes, so what memory comes up first?

424
00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:14.960
Like the season itself, not Game
one sixty three. I work with

425
00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:17.799
Alt Lighter. I still tell them
I still hate you. I still hate

426
00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:23.160
you so nasty that day, you
know that team. I have a podcast

427
00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:26.480
called The Mayor's Office, and I
have a lot of the guys on it

428
00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:30.200
from that time, and I always
ask guys from that team like they've played

429
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.359
elsewhere, And every guy of that
team probably has played elsewhere, and I

430
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:37.240
said, hey, what was your
favorite team? You know, and to

431
00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:40.079
a man, everyone says that ninety
nine Reds team. There was just something

432
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:45.640
about Greg Vaughan and Barry Larkin and
Pete Harnish and Denny Nagel and the veteran

433
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:49.559
guys and then you know, and
then me and Pokey and Dimitri and Boonie

434
00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:53.839
and and there were just so many
and we just messed so incredible that summer.

435
00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:56.759
And I really feel, as a
matter of fact, I feel like

436
00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:00.240
this team has kind of some of
that vibe, some veteran guys, a

437
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:04.440
lot of great young players that the
Reds have developed. And you know,

438
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.519
there's something about last year with that
energy they had, that youth, full

439
00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:11.680
enthusiasm kind of brought this city alive
and the crowd started coming out and selling

440
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.720
them that place out. So you
know, when I see this team now

441
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.319
and I think about that ninety nine
Reds team, I just see a lot

442
00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:21.440
of similarities. Yeah, it's to
go again. The Mayor Sean Casey on

443
00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:26.119
the show this morning on seven hundred
WW live from Holy Grail Holding Court in

444
00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:29.240
the Mayor's office for a little while
anyway, Yeah, I mean, you

445
00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:30.519
think of that ninety nineteen and it
was so long ago, and you know

446
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.599
the playoff running all that stuff.
And I know you just had recently Matt

447
00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:37.799
McClain on the podcast, right,
Yeah, and you guys get you get

448
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.599
in depth about hitting and stuff like
that. You see a guy like that,

449
00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:44.599
obviously you see'son not starting the way
we wanted to with the injuries and

450
00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:47.839
stuff like that. Talk about that
relationship and talking to him and what you

451
00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:49.240
learn from Matt McLain. What kind
of guy is he? Yeah, Matt

452
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:53.279
McLean's a great guy. I have
such a great That podcast was so great,

453
00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:56.920
you know, our talking and I
love talking hitting with him because I

454
00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:59.799
mean, you talk about a student
of the game. I always feel like

455
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.319
the guys that are the best players
up here, they got a philosophy.

456
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:04.400
There. There's a podcast will listen
to if you want to learn him by

457
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:08.799
hitting and thank you. It's like
it's like you it's like a graduate course.

458
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:12.559
I love talking the guys. I
love talking about the mental side of

459
00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.279
the game. But Matt, Matt
talking about Hey, when I'm at my

460
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.160
best, I try to hit the
low line, drives to the opposite way

461
00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.240
and then opens up the pool side
for me. But you know, just

462
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:25.359
to hear how much he loves the
game, and and and and his his

463
00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:27.960
enthusiasm for this team in this city. You know, it's a bummer that

464
00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:30.319
he's hurt. But at the end
of the day, I mean, you

465
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.680
know, this is a game and
you gotta grind sometimes. I mean,

466
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:36.400
at times you're gonna be injured at
times, you know, but you just

467
00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:38.359
got to keep bouncing back. And
you know, obviously hopefully, you know,

468
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:42.119
Maddy McClain comes back sooner than later. But that I mean, the

469
00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:45.480
Reds are very very fortunate. A
great job drafting that guy, yea,

470
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.880
and they gotta, they gotta,
they got a star player. For a

471
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:51.559
long time. We talked Elie de
la Cruz. He comes up and he

472
00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:53.880
hit everything. September he couldn't hit
anything. So the league caught up to

473
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:56.720
him, right, walk us through
the adjustment that now he has to make

474
00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.079
to the league adjusting to him.
Yeah, I think the biggest thing the

475
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.759
big leagues that you can't teach experience. This isn't triple A, this isn't

476
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:06.359
double A. This is the big
leagues. These guys are the sharks,

477
00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:08.640
They're the one percenters. There's a
reason these guys are here, there's a

478
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:11.839
there's not a break. There's not
a break when you're facing guys in the

479
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.039
mound, there's not a break.
I mean you're facing top notch guys and

480
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.279
the best in the business. So
I think, what tough phil you do?

481
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:22.519
It make? So yeah, So
I think the biggest thing with with

482
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.480
with Ellie is that, Yeah,
it's that adjustment back right, So you

483
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.319
start to realize how they're pitching you. You know, what are they throwing

484
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:32.559
your early? Are they trying to
wipe you out? Are they trying to

485
00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:33.759
get ahead with the heater? Are
they trying to wipe you out with their

486
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.839
secondary pitches? And where are they
pitching you? Do you have a hole

487
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.200
in it? Can? Can they
execute there? So I think the greatest

488
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:44.400
thing about a guy like Elie de
la Cruz, he's had so much success

489
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:45.759
in the minors that shows a lot
for me, like, well, how

490
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:51.240
he's going to be in the big
leagues And this guy's tool set is unmatched.

491
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:53.960
I think if you look at Ronald
Acuna who went forty seventy last year,

492
00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:57.920
the only other guy I think you
have a chance to do that might

493
00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:02.599
be Ellie Dela I mean, just
with how fast he is and the kind

494
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:06.160
of power he has, so I
think he's gonna gonna adjust. I really

495
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:08.079
think Mo, he's gonna be a
superstar in this game. Well you're I

496
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:11.319
mean last year looking at on the
Reds change. But we were talking at

497
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:15.519
the opening segment MO and I about
how he changed the entire dynamic of the

498
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.480
team. He comes on and was
just a force multiplier for this club,

499
00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.119
but especially Disruptor, and everyone started
playing like, yeah, I've never seen

500
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:23.599
that. Yeah, Oh, I
think there's a the energy's real. Yeah.

501
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:26.359
And when you get a guy like
day La Cruz that was so hot

502
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:30.680
and Miners and the Reds brought him
up at the perfect time to kind of

503
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.559
spark that run. Uh you know
the guy's feed off it. Yeah,

504
00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:37.920
especially especially at that time of year
where you know you're kind of you're you're

505
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.000
like, oh my gosh, we
got a three months left, and then

506
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:44.200
you bring up a young stud like
that that you know, and there's something

507
00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:45.960
about guys that can run too.
I remember, like playing with Dion or

508
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:51.480
playing with uh, Jacoby Ellsbury when
I played with him in Boston. Some

509
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:53.039
of the like Pokey Bees, some
of the guys that can really run.

510
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.000
Man, they hit a ball,
it sparks something. So when you have

511
00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.920
those kind of guys in your team
and you watch Elliott, didn't you don't

512
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:01.880
you agree? Whenever you'd see him
hit one in the gap, You're like,

513
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.400
oh, here we go, you
know, so triple triple yeah,

514
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.240
and so yeah, it was great
to see the spark that he brought for

515
00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:12.680
this club last year. Well,
and the brand of ball they played,

516
00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:15.440
you know, taking advantage of the
rule changes where you can you can even

517
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:21.480
steal some bags now right, Yeah, maybe not. Maybe he led the

518
00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:24.400
league in bags stolen, forcing the
issue, going for first to third,

519
00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:30.160
the aggressiveness that they played with,
I think really it made it fun to

520
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.400
watch. But you can tell the
guys really enjoy being you know, hey,

521
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.400
look we want you to run,
want you to force the issue,

522
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.440
want you to force the defense to
make a play, right, I think.

523
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:39.279
I think David Bell does a great
job with a One thing I love

524
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:43.839
about Belly. I had a chance
to be with his dad when I first

525
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:45.519
came up in the big legues with
the Indians, and just that old school

526
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:50.599
mentality, and that's what I love
about David Bell is that like, hey,

527
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:52.000
we're gonna run, We're gonna run
in guys' faces. We're gonna go

528
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.000
first to third, We're gonna take
the extra base, We're gonna do small

529
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:58.480
ball, We're gonna have we have
to find ways to win every night.

530
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.440
So I love that David Bell is
that mentality to this team, and I

531
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:05.960
think they all bought in case rubber
or front of mount I've gotta go to

532
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:10.160
the rubber, baby, Yeah,
to the hill, to go to the

533
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:14.640
hill, to the top. God, please do better than Mark Mallory.

534
00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:20.240
Oh my god, it would get
me out of the Hall of Fame if

535
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:24.079
I can't throw a better mayor pitch
than Mark Mallery. The pressure's real,

536
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.960
folks, the pressure is real.
Case great to see you, see you

537
00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:31.920
guys, man, appreciate brother,
follow him at the Mayor's office. You

538
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:36.519
got the podcast, and of course
today he is your Sarah Muller first pitch

539
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:38.440
guy. Home of the Reds seven
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540
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:40.680
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541
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:45.480
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the parade of celebrities continue, Moegger, this is awesome. Ninety nine to

550
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:27.719
two thousand and one era Reds.
This is awesome. This is cool,

551
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:32.159
Pokey Reason, Dmitri Young here,
how you doing? Hell? What's of

552
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.840
that law? Right? Happy Opening
Day? Damn, I'll welcome back to

553
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:38.559
back, come back, Holos.
Last time you guys are here. Oh

554
00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:45.920
probably later last year I was home
in summertime. We did a fantasy camp

555
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:49.679
thing up here, so I came
back to that for me. Over a

556
00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.199
couple of years, I was doing
the home based program at the Urban Youth

557
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.880
Academy with Charlie Frank. Charlie was
here earlier talking about that and the great

558
00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:00.000
stuff that they've done. And I
mean, it's fantastic to see younger people

559
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.000
get into baseball, especially in the
urban areas. We need that, You

560
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:05.519
need that, and guys look up
to you. So that's that's awesome,

561
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.920
all right, Dmitri Young is part
of Opening Day history. There are three

562
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:13.679
players in the history of the Big
Leagues, okay, who have three Opening

563
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.920
Day home runs in the same game. Now it's four and now hour,

564
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:22.159
so we got last ties. Toughie
Roads, Matt Davidson. Yep, to

565
00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:25.639
meet you, Young, Yes,
give me the fourth, the fourth and

566
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:30.679
the very first person was George Bell. George Bell did Toronto Blue Days.

567
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:35.760
It was with the Tigers two thousand
and five. But what a memory.

568
00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:38.320
Oh yes it was, and my
memory is fading fast. All right,

569
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:43.559
all right, smart guy, you
got any Opening Day trivia for for Punk,

570
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:47.079
for Pokey on Opening Day? Do
we have to you got a sense

571
00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:52.039
of humor Pulk? Of course?
Four errors Opening Day nineteen ninety seven.

572
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:57.000
Yes, yes, I definitely remember
that day. I remember it too because

573
00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:02.840
I was booing you and saying,
get get this guy. Do we the

574
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:08.519
Tracy Jones Worst Opening Day awardslier for
the Reds but it only got better from

575
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:10.880
there, Yes, exactly, yeah, right exactly. I had to go

576
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.920
ahead work better and that's what I
did. So, you know, last

577
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:19.400
our case was just did you guys
get you meet up? Yeah? All

578
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.320
right, that's that's that'd be cool
to be getting back together going. Man,

579
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:23.880
you know, we're old heads now, and it's like it seems like

580
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:30.559
just yesterday every down playing here right
right, and we've all made it this

581
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:32.800
far exactly. Yeah, it's awesome. Let's talk a little bit about this

582
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:36.719
team and and I mean starting out
of the gate here with the injuries that

583
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:38.559
that's always gonna be hard coming out
of camp. Question for you guys,

584
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:44.079
because you know you played the game
a while. You know, I heard

585
00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.679
the rumblings this year with the Reds
injuries that spring training is too long,

586
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:50.760
that that you need to shorten spring
training because guys are coming in in much

587
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.199
better shape today they did when you
guys were coming up so much more.

588
00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:58.519
They're working with trainers and coaches and
everything year round. Does Pokey, does

589
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:01.679
opening day need be I'm sorry,
does spring training need to be shortened a

590
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:05.280
little bit? Maybe then if the
season longer, or give a couple of

591
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:07.039
days and I'm sure the playoffs is
like that. Yeah, they would contract,

592
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.400
they want to get paid. But
yeah, like I said, these

593
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:13.519
kids are coming in and say they
got they have own personal trainers, So

594
00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:16.000
I mean, why not. They're
making all these rule changes, why not

595
00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:17.719
change it for them? You know? Yeah? Yeah, And it just

596
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:21.440
seems like I know it's just a
redsting. But you look around Major League

597
00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.079
Baseball. There's been some injuries in
spring and g mean, do you think

598
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:27.639
that's that's part of this too?
Well, I mean it's been talked about

599
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:30.400
forever. Yeah, that spring training
is too long. They're talking about shorten

600
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:35.559
it, but yeah, it hadn't
been shortened yet. And they're also starting

601
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.840
games a lot quicker too. You
guys report and two days later they're already

602
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:42.400
starting game. We would at least
have a week or a week and a

603
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:47.960
half of just training and getting ground
balls and hidden before we actually started game.

604
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.840
So they're starting to games a lot
quicker. And yeah, I mean,

605
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.719
I mean you're talking almost two hundred
games in six months. That's a

606
00:37:54.760 --> 00:38:00.599
lot. That's a lot of baseball. It is, so this tea Seawan

607
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:02.800
was talking about it before a lot
of comparisons to the ninety nine squad,

608
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.840
which we all loved, ninety six
wins. Do you do you guys see

609
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:10.719
those similarities between this bunch and that
team you guys had twenty five years ago.

610
00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:16.840
If they show that they have an
identity as a team that it didn't

611
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.719
matter who was gonna be the hero
that day. That was the mentality that

612
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:23.599
we had because we were supposed to
be a fourth place team that year,

613
00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:30.679
and we stumped everybody's ass, and
it didn't matter who it was gonna be.

614
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.280
It was gonna be Greg Vaughan one
day, ok, Doll, Sean

615
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:39.039
Casey, myself, Jeffrey Hammond.
Somebody was gonna be the hero that day,

616
00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:45.000
and everybody took took that upon themselves
to I'm gonna be a hero.

617
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:50.719
I remember that September Sunday afternoon,
the poke, the homer of the walk

618
00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:52.400
off, I think in the eleventh
inning, right in the middle of that

619
00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:55.639
Pennant race, which was awesome.
What do you remember about that? I

620
00:38:55.760 --> 00:39:00.920
remember Ricky Btalico, Yeah, Oh, he's just tried to get get me

621
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:04.880
over slider and I was just looking
to get a pisty hit on the first

622
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:07.760
pitch. I didn't think it was
gone, but you know, it went

623
00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:08.920
out for me and it was a
big, big win for the team.

624
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:13.440
Yes. Yeah, And it's been
a while for Reds fans regination in ninety

625
00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:15.400
nineteen. You know, we saw
it happen on San Francisco flirting went the

626
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:20.159
playoffs elimination game, just hasn't gone
their way. How well equipped do you

627
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:22.280
think this team is to go to
the postseason? Well, I mean they

628
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:25.000
have pitching. You know, it's
about pitch. For me, it's about

629
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:28.840
pitching and defense. I mean,
when you play pitching a good defense,

630
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:30.199
you're gonna win games. So,
I mean, they're gonna score runs.

631
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:32.639
They got a you know, guys
can hit the ball out of the park,

632
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:36.599
they have speed, So I mean
I wish him. I wish him

633
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:38.280
well, and you know, go
get him starting today. Yeah, and

634
00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:42.159
how fun is it to watching la
Dayler cruise. The guy is just such

635
00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:44.519
a game changer. I mean,
the guy jumps in there and you're like,

636
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:46.840
holy crap. He literally changed his
team just by showing up. I

637
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:52.000
never saw that before, No,
nobody's seen that BeForever And it's quite impressive

638
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:55.800
to see what he can do in
the entire year. Forget about the struggle

639
00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:59.679
he had the second half. That's
you know, that's just being a big

640
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:02.320
league. They gonna, you know, they're gonna make adjustments on you,

641
00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:07.000
and it's up to him to make
those adjustments. And he had a nice

642
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.360
off season, decent spring training,
and spring train doesn't mean anything anyway.

643
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:15.639
It's gonna start as soon as this
game begins today to the end of the

644
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:19.039
season. And I mean they were
a couple of games from the playoffs last

645
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:22.559
year. I'm pretty sure in that
locker room is playoffs or bust. Yeah,

646
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:27.239
yeah, Poky, you wish you
would have played in this era where

647
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:30.480
you could only throw the first base
three times? Yeah, I could take

648
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:36.400
off. I'm not saying I'm ronal
A Coula, but I would have bigger

649
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.239
basis and you can only throw over
twice. I mean, hey man,

650
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:42.280
yeah, you know why not with
this team did a good job of taking

651
00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:45.000
advantage of that last year with all
the steals, right, So I mean,

652
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:46.599
if you know someone's just got two
times to throw it and try to

653
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:50.679
get of course, I'm gonna widen
my league and I'm gonna go. So

654
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:53.559
de la Cruz may break the record
this night if he stays healthy, you

655
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:55.639
know what I mean? Yeah,
yeah, Well, you guys came up

656
00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:59.440
when a couple of years of each
other. Opening Day. Take it through

657
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:01.119
your first time and he in Cincinnati, because all you hear is how special

658
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:04.679
it is here. No one does
opening day like Cincinnati. You're looking at

659
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.119
a crowd that showed up. I
think they were here at the end of

660
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.400
the season last year and they've been
here ever since. You go to Cincinnati,

661
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:13.840
you go, wait, they got
a parade, you know, I

662
00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:15.280
mean, it's a whole different vibe. You guys played in other cities.

663
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:20.800
What's Cincinnati like an opening Day?
Well, for me being a cardinal by

664
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:23.920
nature and then coming over here,
we didn't see all of this. We

665
00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:30.519
were on the field. We saw
a lot of elephant dunk, worse crap,

666
00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:35.000
shot sea poop, and so we
didn't we didn't get the experience any

667
00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:38.599
of this and get to appreciate.
We got the you know, we got

668
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:43.800
the cool stuff, but y'all got
this is awesome right here. But that's

669
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:46.760
what we got to see was elephant
pooping and shopping poop. Yep. Pretty

670
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:50.280
much. Yeah, that was it. Nick, It's better from there.

671
00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:52.880
Raised coming up in the organization,
you know, I used to hear all

672
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.800
about opening Day and uh. I
told my wife. I was like,

673
00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:00.119
this is one of the biggest opening
days in baseball, you know, to

674
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:01.280
me. So she's happy, you
know, to be here with me.

675
00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:06.519
So I can't I can't wait.
I'm looking forward to guys, Pokey Reese

676
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.800
and Dimitri Young back together. Casey
was here earlier, and it's just it's

677
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:13.599
a great reunion. Glad to see
you guys. Welcome back fall, Thanks

678
00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:15.559
for having me. Thank you so
much, Thank you, appreciate you.

679
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:21.280
We got to get a time out
in and we're continue to broadcast at twelve

680
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:25.119
oh six today. We've got Lance
McAllister and Eddie Fingers for a wild and

681
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:31.079
Willie and Sagar bouncing in here too, and summer begins officially. I don't

682
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:35.639
care what the calendar says, but
we've got winter, and we've got we

683
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:38.599
got baseball season two seasons in Cincinnati, and summer begins. At four to

684
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:44.199
ten today, Frankie Montaze goes to
open the campaign here on the home of

685
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:45.840
the red seven hundred ww De sents, now, this is your boy,

686
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:51.840
Brandon Phillips. Opening Day happens on
the Home of the Reds seven hundred WLW.

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