WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:09.000 Home by Colony Clowning has a perfect game. Nati won the World Japan Show. 2 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:17.519 The nineteen ninety World Championship belongs to the Cincinnati Redhead Junior. What there 3 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:22.280 comes daily cruise be to the Why. This is the seven hundred w L 4 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:30.760 w RNL Carriers opening to hennecon Wayback. RNL Carriers partner with a family owned 5 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:36.719 LTL provider at RLC dot com, presented by your Greater Cincinnati Toyota Dealers. 6 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:42.000 You're Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota deal Find current offers at Toyota dot com. 7 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:47.560 Ortho since the Orthopedics and Sports Medicine for sports work and everyday injuries and cruise 8 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:53.679 development Shoes, Cruise Cruiz Cruizdevelopment dot Com. We're at the Cincinnati Tax Resolution 9 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:58.439 powered by Toke Sheldon Broadcast Area, live from the Holy Grail Banks. This 10 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:07.599 is seven hundred when telling you the home of the Cincinnati Reds. Hilly Cunningham, 11 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:11.280 the Great with Segment and Jeff Brantley. We're here at the host Rail. 12 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.079 The crowd has packed, the sun is shining. Yeah, right with 13 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.040 the world. Jeff Brantley, It's a pleasure to have you here. In 14 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.079 fact, you were watching every game in Arizona, every which way. Look 15 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.959 in the eyes of these desperate Reds fans, you can see they're hungry for 16 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:32.959 victory. They have not tasted victory since nineteen ninety five in a playoff game 17 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:36.599 when you were on the team. It's Ben Shaw, we say, thirty 18 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.200 four years as the Reds have won the World Series? Which may I make 19 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:44.959 one other statement before we go to you? Sure, between nineteen seventy five 20 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:49.799 and nineteen ninety the Reds won twenty percent of all the World Series that were 21 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.560 played. Since nineteen ninety it's spelled a little bit down. Things are up 22 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.400 and good, but I sense in our conversations brighter days lie ahead. What 23 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:01.319 do you see and what can can you tell these desperate Reds fans who need 24 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:06.920 glory that this year's team is going to be better than last year's team and 25 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.680 better than the year before and better than the year before. What do you 26 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:15.400 see that their prognosticators do not see? And finally, what is wrong with 27 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:20.039 Hunter Green? Why isn't he starting answer one of those questions? Please? 28 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.360 Well, let's start with the first new blood, new energy, new results. 29 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:30.159 You asked me if I was ready, I ask you are you ready. 30 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.439 They're hungry, They're hungry for Reds Baseball. They're starving. I'm hungry 31 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.199 right with them. I'm excited about this group. I think they've got a 32 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:43.360 lot of talent on this club. We saw just a glimmer of that last 33 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.319 year. Now they ran out of gas in September. Look, the tank 34 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.560 is full. These guys are ready to play. This should be an awfully 35 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.840 fun year. Segm Man's been quite negative as always. He's talking about TJ. 36 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:59.680 Friedel, He's talking about Marte, He's talking about a but not doing 37 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.479 the best. He's talking about McClean. McClain has hurt. Matt McClain maybe 38 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:07.360 for the entire year, maybe one third of the starting lineup is not on 39 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.159 the field. But you still have hope. Why do you have hope? 40 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:13.879 Well, I think when you start talking about all of those guys and you 41 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.159 put them all in the same locker room, what ends up happening in the 42 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.159 beginning of the season is it takes them a long time to get that timing 43 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.240 down. But what what is happening now? Even though you have some injuries 44 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.680 to some high energy players, you're getting guys that are gonna be in the 45 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:30.199 lineup every day and they're gonna get that timing down. I mean, there's 46 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:35.400 nothing worse than having Jonathan India having to sit on the bench or not being 47 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.560 able to play every day. He's back in his regular spot. I tell 48 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:40.520 you what, he's got the ass. He's ready to play. He's passed 49 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:44.759 off what you're saying. I think that's the kind of player that you want 50 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:46.240 out there, is to prove a point, to say, hey, this 51 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.199 is my spot. I deserve to be where I'm at. I was the 52 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.319 rookie of the year. Why would you take my position away? Now he's 53 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:57.599 I mean, he is focused. Thank god that didn't trade India to Pakistan 54 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.080 in the off season. Now about Dela Cruz, one thing I loved about 55 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:05.840 Barry Larkin is that in the major leagues he wanted to learn Spanish. He 56 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:09.960 said, a lot of the guys I'm playing with don't speak at the English. 57 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:14.360 Dela Cruz went down to the dr got under the wing of Jose Blame 58 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:18.560 it on Rijo the guy speaking English now better than Joe Nuxhall ever. Ever, 59 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:24.000 Ever, Dela Cruz tell the American people that are so hungry for glory, 60 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.879 Dela Cruz, he can speak English. He speaks. I think he's 61 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.959 gonna speak Swahili at some point. The guy speaks everything. How important is 62 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:35.199 dela Cruz and why is he batting sixth? I think the reason that he's 63 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:38.879 batting six is to take a little bit of air out of the balloon, 64 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.240 so there's not so much pressure on him to carry this ball club. I 65 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.079 think that's unfair to a first year player. What I will say about de 66 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.519 la Cruz when we got to spring training, the first thing that I noticed 67 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:53.439 was a shorter stance, a shorter path to the baseball. He centered up 68 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.519 the ball a lot more. He wasn't trying to hit the ball seven hundred 69 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:00.240 feet. Look, there's not a seven hundred football in any ballpark that we 70 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.240 play in. All you gotta do is hit at four hundred. He could 71 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.279 do that in his sleep. So all he's done is shorten up a little 72 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:09.480 bit. He doesn't have that big high leg kick. He's barreling the ball 73 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.959 with regularity. And to me, for a guy with that kind of talent, 74 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.040 and then you add him the adrenaline of playing in front of these folks, 75 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.839 he's gonna be afre all right. Turn things over to the segment this 76 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:23.720 team will go as far as pitching will take it. Now Milwaukee Brewers are 77 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.800 getting rid of all their pitchers. Saint Louis, believe it or not, 78 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.079 stinks. The Cups are picked to win everything, and the Pittsburgh Pirates will 79 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.680 always be the Pittsburgh Pirates. You always compare the Reds against someone else. 80 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:38.759 The Reds are picked to vent anywhere from first to fourth by the so called 81 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.160 experts. Talk about Hunter Green. If somebody said to you in February, 82 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.399 who's the Reds opening day pitcher? You would have said Hunter Green because he's 83 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:48.480 got all the money, he's got the he got the jewels, he's got 84 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.839 the cars without a window in it. But that's a different story. So 85 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.639 why isn't Hunter Green the starting pitcher for the Reds. Well, I think 86 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.759 everybody has that expectation. When you're a number two in the country, you 87 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.360 throw one hundred plus miles an hour, everybody throws it out there, says 88 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:08.360 this should be automatic. He's still twenty three years old and still trying to 89 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:13.079 learn the pitching acumen of the game. And in our game today, everybody 90 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.360 hits velocity. So you've got to be able to locate that high velocity fastball. 91 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.399 Once he does that, I think he's going to take off quickly. 92 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:23.920 Let me make one suggestion before I things over to the segment. As you 93 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.279 know, was a great pitcher with Thomas Funeral Home. Here's to bury our 94 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.560 opponents. I didn't have a lot of speed, but I had movement on 95 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:33.199 the ball. What doesn't Hunter Green have moving on the ball? You're a 96 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:38.079 pitcher, you're not a big guy, but nonetheless you had moving on the 97 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:42.720 ball. Why don't Why doesn't Hunter Green move the ball? He needs moving 98 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:46.160 on the ball and location. He's got the velocity. Why doesn't have movement? 99 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.240 I think a lot of guys would throw the ball as hard as he 100 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:54.959 does, don't have that visual movement that you see the ball moving like you 101 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:59.079 do some guys that throw in the lower nineties. I think for him it 102 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:02.839 comes down more to location than it does specific movements. Some guys just throw 103 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:06.079 the ball straight and but he throws the ball hard. That's not enough though, 104 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:10.160 That's not enough. Well, it is enough if he's located. Gott 105 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.639 to locate the ball and throw the ball in the middle of the play segment. 106 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.879 I two did I located with one and one? One? Two, 107 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.439 three, four is one five? Tell Brentley what was one? The Express 108 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:26.800 two? Lord Charles three knuckles, FOURDS, screwball five change of pace? 109 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.439 You like that? I was just catcher. As long as it gets about 110 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.319 I like anything. But sack Man asked a question that makes some sense. 111 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:36.360 Well, yeah, cowboy, you've been playing all over this country. What 112 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:43.319 about what makes opening Day so special here in the Queens City. Look. 113 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.040 I played in Saint Louis, I played in Texas, I played in Philadelphia, 114 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.920 out in San Francisco, there is no Opening Day like this joint in 115 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:58.079 Cincinnati Rocks. I walked out of the stadium that that road right there is 116 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.879 filled all the way. Wall the wall. Don't even think you could get 117 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.240 down there. This place is jamming. I mean, this is what Opening 118 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.399 Day is all about. And how does that make the players feel when they 119 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:09.959 get out there and all of a sudden they see a packed house, They 120 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:13.319 see people wanting to want to win and everything else. This is day one 121 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:16.959 when it starts to count. I think it translates directly to the field. 122 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.920 When when these folks come out to the ballpark like this, it makes all 123 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.040 the difference in the world for the players. Because your skin is tingling, 124 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.920 your skin's crawling, your heart's beating out of your chest, and then that's 125 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:33.559 what makes you put forth that last little bit of effort, especially when you're 126 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.919 tired and you kind of run out of gas, and you are the gas 127 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.679 that keeps them going. Jeff, I have some notes here. See my 128 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.799 notes from last night. I do see that. I'm watching CMT Country music 129 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.360 television, as you know, I like that. And player games lost. 130 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:52.519 In twenty twenty three, the Reds led the major leagues and games lost. 131 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:58.440 They lost six hundred and fifty games to injury. Last year. We're starting 132 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.440 off with seven guys on the DL. They've got a good start already, 133 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.440 maybe twoy three hundred games. Why do the Reds have so many injuries? 134 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.120 Playing baseball is not like soccer or football. On lacrosse, it's all like 135 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.320 other games. You're running like crazy, banging into each other, and you 136 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.600 guys hardly ever touch anybody. How come players get hurt? Here's the list 137 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.879 of them. There's another list of them. How's that possible? I think? 138 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.240 I think when you play with a high bit of intensity, there there's 139 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.000 a there's a general expectation that you're going to get hurt. And and these 140 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.679 guys play hard. I think you're going to see a tremendous amount of stolen 141 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.240 bases. You're going to see a lot of dives, a lot of excellent 142 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.440 plays. The one thing that I think that we have confidence in going into 143 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.639 this year is you're not gonna have to pull guys from double A and A 144 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.039 ball to come to the big leagues to be a starting pitcher. I think 145 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.200 we've got that covered at least to this point. I mean, you you 146 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.039 have five starting pitchers right now that I think are pretty good anyway, and 147 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.039 you haven't even added Nick Lodolo or the likes of Connor Phillips, and both 148 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.519 of those guys can f out pitch well, I'll tell you what the starting 149 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.360 lineup looks good. The fans are hungry for action. I think the Reds 150 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.440 have sold over two million tickets off. We're all hungry, hungry, hungry 151 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:13.600 for action. And it can't be more excitable to be in Cincinnati. Plus, 152 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.919 Jim Scott, the Living Legend, completed the parade, which were very 153 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.960 thankful for that. As you know, he contracted Luke Garritt's disease and Jim 154 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.480 Scott's a great man. So when you get ready for the opening day game, 155 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.679 announcing and the shoes of Joe Nuxall. Is it different than some other 156 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.559 game? You play a game again on Saturday? When you get ready for 157 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.159 this game? What does Jeff Brantley do? Get up early, have some 158 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.960 Montgomery in, slap down some unif What do you do you get ready? 159 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:43.559 Well? I did have a little barbecue sauce on my eggs this morning. 160 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:48.879 I will say, really, Barbaria. You know, we do things a 161 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.639 little different where I'm from, as everybody knows. But I will say this, 162 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.559 there's nothing better. And I was talking to Mark when I pulled into 163 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.320 the parking lot. There's nothing better than Opening Day. I'm I don't care 164 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.799 how long you've played, or how long you've been around, And even when 165 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.639 you're retired and you're you're sitting in a broadcasters booth chair, I still get 166 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:11.840 nervous. I still get excited. And I mean that's what gets you to 167 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:13.559 the ballpark. I mean, that's what makes it fun. Give me your 168 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:18.200 prediction. Give me how many wins with the Reds have this year. Last 169 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:22.399 year they went eighty two and eighty. I made some notes on this ninety 170 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.399 one. I'm not done with the question ninety one. I got the question 171 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:31.840 ninety one, ninety one. What could I write down there? Ninety one 172 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.080 That's what I said, ninety one. Unbelievable. Jeff Bradley, Thank you. 173 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.279 Let's continue with more. Keep playing pickleball, Cowboy, kickleball. Don't 174 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:43.840 get hurt, don't get hurt. Let's continue with more from the Grail. 175 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:48.840 Bill cunning into Great American Live at the home of Saint Henry's Qually Post News 176 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:54.519 Radio seven hundred WLW, ACR Gunny Pools six eighty three, seventy seven nineteen 177 00:11:54.639 --> 00:12:01.360 Call Today Swim this year. 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It is here, Marty Brenahan forty six years Marty, 186 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:54.039 last night I got a bunch of questions for you to ask it, 187 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.799 Billy, A lot of good questions, would you agree? Yeah, yeah, 188 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:58.679 I'm sure there are questions I've never heard too. But you have gone. 189 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:05.480 You went to Arizona to touch the hem of Reds Baseball. You'll rint 190 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.120 the dugout. You're in the locker room, you're a throwing batting practice, 191 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.759 in the strategy sessions, talking about the team inside and out, every which 192 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:18.840 direction. What look in the eyes of these desperate Reds fans? They're desperate 193 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.200 right now for glory. Why do we have hope that this year's team is 194 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:26.960 going to do what the seventy six Reds did won one hundred and two games, 195 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:30.759 what the ninety ninety Reds did, who won ninety one game, got 196 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.399 a shot, got a shot at that. Why do you think that's going 197 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.639 to take place? Why is this team better, more exciting? We've waited 198 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.360 for ten to twelve years to be exciting in the offseason to get ready for 199 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:43.559 Reds Opening Day. Well, right now they're not as good. They're not 200 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:48.080 as good. Well, they got people hurt. You can't be going if 201 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:52.360 you don't have Matt McLain. You got that and TJ. Friedel and all 202 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.559 the rest of these guys who are nursing injuries. When they get those guys 203 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:00.159 back, the biggest thing they've got to do now is pray to guy that 204 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.639 the people that are going to be replacing these guys can get them through the 205 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.799 first month of the season. In April, they play I think fourteen or 206 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.200 fifteen games against clubs on the West Coast. Oh, and that is really 207 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:16.120 tough. They've got to get McLean healthy. They've got to get Freedo healthy. 208 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.879 They've got to get Hunter Green pitching like Hunter Green should pitch and has 209 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.559 it yet he's got the ability. Well we'll see. Why is any of 210 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.639 the red starting pitcher right now because he's making all the money fifty or sixty 211 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:31.240 million dollars. Well, thank god, the people that make that decision didn't 212 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:33.480 say, well, since you make the most money, you're going to pitch 213 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.399 opening Day. That's not the way it works. So Montesa kind of earned 214 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.600 it. Yeah, And I say, the guy that's pitching opening day to 215 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:46.240 day Montas he earned it. It'll be his third opening day start, albeit 216 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.519 the first one. Here. He knows what this is all about. And 217 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.519 he's pitched well enough to be out on that mound today at four ten. 218 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:56.919 Let's look at the rest of thirty five thousand feet. Are you ready? 219 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:03.240 I guess I am drink. In twenty twenty three, if the Reds lost 220 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:07.440 six hundred and fifty player games six hundred and fifty in one season to lead 221 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:11.759 the majors. This year, they're starting off strong. They're gonna have several 222 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:15.559 players. Are you probably gonna miss one to two hundred games this year? 223 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:18.120 I can't imagine. Why is it? You've been around a long time, 224 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.519 used to come to the Reds games, and like a horse, you've been 225 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.120 around a long time. Why is baseball today dominated with so many injuries? 226 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:30.840 I can't answer that question? Why can't you? You should have Tim Krimchek 227 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.360 sitting in this chair, not me. I don't know. I have no 228 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:37.080 idea. All I know is I talked to a couple of guys a few 229 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.039 days ago, one of which were number fourteen on the telephone for an hour 230 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:45.440 and he said, you know, he said, think back to seventy five 231 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.279 and seventy six. You know what he buyed It has a serious injury. 232 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:52.919 I said. The only player, Don Gullett, was the only one. 233 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:56.279 Don Gullett was the only one. Everybody else played, and they played hrs, 234 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:58.879 didn't They play one hundred and sixty one hundred and sixty two games. 235 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.559 The only time Bill Plumber played he was a back up to bench and the 236 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.080 only time he played was second games, the doubleheaders. And those guys aren't 237 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:10.240 as well tuned. Don't have the diet, they don't have the medical care, 238 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:12.399 they don't have the massages, they add none of that. Well, 239 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:17.480 I think it's an industry problem right now, not particular to this club. 240 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:19.840 I think I don't know what you do. I have no idea what you 241 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:25.840 do, whether it's a medical approach or a philosophy that you feel secure and 242 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:30.519 in conducting whatever needs to be done relative to keeping your players healthy. But 243 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.000 I mean, I think it's an industry problem. I'm watching the ESPN last 244 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:38.679 night getting ready for the season. The Dodgers have spent on two players over 245 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:44.039 one billion dollars. Then they sign up the catcher, they sign up the 246 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.919 catcher, some shots are being administered in the crowd, and I don't mean 247 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:51.639 by needles, but that's a different issue there. And they just signed up 248 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:55.720 a catcher for like one hundred and twenty million. And what is the idea 249 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.480 is? Can you buy a team? Because the experts are picking the padres 250 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.279 to beet the But when you spend over a billion dollars for two players the 251 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:07.480 Reds have, I think if one or two players signed past this season, 252 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.000 what does that say about the game of baseball. What it says is you 253 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.319 can predict all you want to based on how much money a team plays. 254 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.200 But that's why they play one hundred and sixty two games. It makes no 255 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.200 damn difference if you say the Dodgers, who is shoe in because they spent 256 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.759 more money than anybody? Go out and play the game. Let's see if 257 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:30.519 they're the best team. And Milwaukee's taking apart their roster. The starting pitching 258 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:36.000 is gone, the reliever's gone. Milwaukee's going down tubes. Saint Louis, 259 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:40.279 thank god, I can't imagine those boys are rising. Pittsburgh is going to 260 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.640 be Pittsburgh. The Cubs have gotten better in fact, the only team that's 261 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:47.400 gotten better other than the Reds and the division is the Cuts. I think 262 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:48.880 that. I think if you had the Cardinal people up here, they say, 263 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.839 no, we're better. I don't believe that, because they're gonna feel 264 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:57.160 the pangs of having maybe the oldest team in the National League Central. They 265 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:00.240 got a bunch of old guys on that club. They've got to go out 266 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:06.200 and do it for six months. This is the most winnable division there is 267 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:11.119 in baseball, I think, because there's no overpoweringly dominant team in this division. 268 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:17.079 In fact, I think to win this division you can probably win eighty 269 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.359 eight to naughty games and win the division. What does the Hall of Famer 270 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:25.680 miss? You spent forty six years in the game? Perfect timing gone out 271 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:30.039 in October of twenty nineteen, just before all hell broke lose. What does 272 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.640 the Hall of Famer miss? If anything about baseball? Then I'm going to 273 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.359 turn you over to the segment here in a moment. I got one more 274 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.839 question after this one? What do you miss about baseball? Do you miss 275 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:41.799 the grind? Do you miss the travel, the fan fan locker? You 276 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.480 missed the fan ban do you miss the banana phone? What do you miss 277 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:52.480 about rex Baseball? I miss the people, the people. I don't miss 278 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.319 the game. You don't miss the game. My wife said to me the 279 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.319 other day. Am other said, why did you even retire? Because of 280 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.200 all the other stuff I've got going on here in Cincinnati. Even though I'm 281 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:07.480 four years removed from the broadcast mood, I retired from the thing I wanted 282 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.759 to retire from, and that's broadcasting day. Forty six years is long enough. 283 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.480 I mean, nobody enjoyed it more than I did. But at the 284 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.720 same time, when I saw Joe retire, Joe waited too long to retire, 285 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:23.279 and there were things that Joe wanted to do that he could not do 286 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.920 physically when he retired. And I said, that ain't gonna happen to me. 287 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.839 And I walked five miles a day. I don't have any health issues. 288 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:38.279 I'll be eighty two in July, and I'm hooked up with Tri State 289 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:41.240 Men's Health. I want to talk to you about I want to talk ya 290 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:48.839 mana about that a man is not a man has got thumbs up. Tracy 291 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:51.559 Jones is out of shape. Some guy said, is that true? That's 292 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:56.000 exactly right. Tell me about Try State Men's Health. What's it meant your 293 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:03.799 life? Marron Chatty's arithmetic. I got you. You gotta be and you 294 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.039 promise your money back if you don't leave where we've got to be in save 295 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:10.160 harbor and say that if you don't, if you don't leave there, if 296 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.279 you don't leave their offices, and Charlie say, good shape, you get 297 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:15.640 your money back. I mean, if you're laying on your side, you 298 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.799 look like a pump tent. For God's sakes, you said that. I 299 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.240 didn't I know a pup tent. But a man is over there smiling. 300 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:29.640 She is shy's look at that wink. But other than other than that, 301 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.880 Tri State Men's Health, what are you doing at night? This is a 302 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:37.720 highlight of my day. Do you ever watch a ball game at night? 303 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:44.119 By you're too busy a Tri State Men's Health. Wait a minute, you 304 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:47.000 want your ball. I'm gonna change your subject. You matter change something. 305 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:53.119 The second best day game being played today, after this one across the street, 306 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:57.799 is at nine thirty nine tonight, when Carolina and Alabama getting going. 307 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.319 That's Carolina and Alabama. Where the world is a BBN by the way, 308 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.079 Oh that's right, they got their ass kipped into the second game, where 309 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.000 we go, You ain't live in Cincinnati, but you still love and respect 310 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:15.039 Carolina. I certainly do. I went to school there. Why would I 311 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.480 not, seg Man, the Hall of Famer is yours for the next thirty 312 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.519 seconds. Sounds like he's already taking my medication. What about fifty years ago 313 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:26.240 you walked in that place, they picked your name out of the bag of 314 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:32.799 tapes or whatever. Fifty years ago today you called your first game with the 315 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:37.640 Cincinnati Reds. That's correct. I mean, you do realize you look back 316 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.559 on that. I mean and then seven fourteen home run with Hank Aaron, 317 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.400 Yes, I say, with Joe four batters in, And when we finally 318 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.200 ended the inning and we're in a commercial break, and Joe turned to me, 319 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.519 where Bill's sitting there, I'm sitting here at Joe's are. Joe said, 320 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:53.519 what the hell do you do for an encore? I said, I 321 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:57.000 don't know. I have no idea bought him in the first I think Billingham 322 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.920 was on the mount hit a three run homer, and he's Jack Billingham and 323 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:04.640 his wife Joe Lee are dear friends of Amanda in mine. We we love 324 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:08.160 them to death. But every now and then, when he and I together, 325 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:11.000 I stick the needle in and I said, let me ask you a 326 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:15.680 questions. You fell behind the Henry Aaron three balls in one strike, and 327 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:21.039 you're you try to throw that weak ass fastball by him, and then he 328 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:22.119 hits it over the left field fence for a whole run. I said, 329 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.960 what the hell's that all about? Jack and I are dear friends. All 330 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.839 right, Well, Marty, congratulations, look forward to taking thank you to 331 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.200 al Michaels. Thank you, Marty Brendan. And it don't get much better 332 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:37.599 than that. Tommy Thrall, Jeff Brantley once again Hall of Famer. Good 333 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.079 luck tonight with a man. And by the way, God, thank you. 334 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:45.079 I don't need any luck anymore. You need no luck. I let's 335 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:51.079 continue with more. Don't coming in with the second man. Tri State Mental 336 00:22:51.079 --> 00:23:00.480 Health on news Radio seven hundred. If your jeeper truck needs it lift off 337 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.119 road does it? Visit the off road pros at Highlift off Road dot Com. 338 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.599 Gott Potholes Pinnacle Paving dot Com. No one should notice your parking lot 339 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:12.200 Pinnaclepaving dot Com. 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You're in charge of all business operations. You taught Phil Castelani 356 00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:52.799 everything. He knows. What three events do you think a long glory field 357 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.960 redsman should want to go see this twenty twenty four season. Okay, I 358 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:00.799 think people need to. You know, time is precious, right, so 359 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:04.000 I believe it or not, I'm going to tell you Saturday, even if 360 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:08.359 you don't come to the game, come at noon down to the ballpark because 361 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.680 we're going to have a parade of all the players Saturday. This Saturday is 362 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:15.880 the player parade on the red carpet. You don't need a ticket. It's 363 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:18.519 out on the street for the game. The games at four ten, and 364 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.799 yeah, there are some seats available because that's kids opening Day. We replicate 365 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:26.200 Opening Day, but kids style. But the key is at noon again, 366 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:30.799 four hours before the game. We lay carpet out here across the banks and 367 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:33.839 the players come out. Nobody needs a ticket and the players in their white 368 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:37.880 uniforms, all of them. They all march the carpet, wave, talk 369 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:42.319 to the kids, hand out stuff. It's it's really one of those days 370 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:48.000 where that's how you make Saturday. Plenty of tickets. Yeah, and the 371 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:49.599 games at four, but the parades at noon, and no one needs a 372 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:52.480 ticket for the parade. And you know nice hats. Yeah, exactly, 373 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:57.720 a great and it's that's supposed to be a kid's size. Seg what does 374 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:02.559 that mean? Yes, you're a kid at heart. So I go to 375 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:06.240 the website. It's called Kids Kids Opening Days. So I would say that's 376 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:10.640 one you absolutely can go to Karen's grandparents, bring your kids, go online, 377 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:12.839 get the tickets and look at a hat segment loves the hat. Not 378 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.920 give me Easter Sunday, right, okay? And then yeah, well that's 379 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:21.359 Saturday. Say but Sunday, Saturday, it's Holy Saturdays. He's said, 380 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:26.720 good Friday he does he eats only meat on Friday. He tells me, 381 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:30.440 no fish. So I got that Saturday. Okay, Now what the other 382 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.119 ones? I'm gonna tell you, believe it or not early because we're gonna 383 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:36.279 do a bobblehead on the Saturday and a Sunday their first two of the year, 384 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:40.079 and they are collectibles because we're doing seven bobbleheads and all the guys are 385 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:45.200 in the city connect so April six and seven, and that's coming up. 386 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:49.079 And the reason I say those is because the bobbleheads are epic. And the 387 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:53.559 first one is Jake Frayley and he is wearing the Viking helmet with the removable 388 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:56.319 cape. It is so good. Are they going to use that this year 389 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.240 again? Well, I don't know, but I do know that at the 390 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:04.240 end of last year they asked us to repair a horn. One of the 391 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:08.480 horns was broken, and then they let us have it at Redsfest on display. 392 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.279 That didn't want to be messing with it, and they wanted us to 393 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.000 be able to identify where it was should they decide they wanted to use it 394 00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:18.119 again. All right, So we'll have to see how today goes. I 395 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:22.000 really don't know. I'd like them to get behind today, not do well. 396 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:25.920 Come back in the eighth, score a couple and then of the ninth 397 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:29.759 have a walk off home run, Get out the cake, get out the 398 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:33.200 horn, Away you go. So April sixth and seventh or two bobbleheads, 399 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:34.839 those would yeah, those would be the days I would tell you are really 400 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:37.880 good. Those three I would do those right away because every month there's something 401 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:41.759 and you know, it's about time, like right now. Most people don't 402 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:42.839 know what they're doing in the middle of June, right, so you can 403 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:47.160 decide to go to a Reds game based on when they're home. Because the 404 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:48.599 cool thing about this new you know, you play every team every year. 405 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:53.519 We got Otani coming here, I mean, Otani's coming to Great American Ballpark? 406 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.599 Is it sold out yet? I think it might be. It's it 407 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:00.480 was like teetering, I know, I bet you it's gonna to be sold 408 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.680 out well. And the interest from the Japanese markets and you know the Dodgers. 409 00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:08.559 The Dodgers sold enough in sponsor dollars out of Japan to cover his salary. 410 00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:14.119 Oh right, I've read that. I was on Buster last night. 411 00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:18.039 It's unbelieved seventy million dollars. Yeah, it's it pays for itself. The 412 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:21.400 Angels never properly marketed him well. And you know, some of the changes 413 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:23.079 in the game they made are brilliant. You know that that pit the pitch 414 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:26.319 clock, don't you love it? Yeah? I mean, my gosh, 415 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:29.480 part thirty minutes off the game. There's so much more action, no more 416 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:33.799 shift all the and then every year, what did you say, shift, 417 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.799 shift, shift on? I thought I heard something else, but Otani? 418 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.279 Is he coming? When so Tawny coming? Yeah, Dodgers are coming in 419 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:44.640 June. I think it's June twentieth. Say he's got the schedule, do 420 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:49.160 you what is it? Get the tickets early? Yeah, June or May. 421 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.400 That's Indianapolis five hundred weekend, a Cincinnati weekend week Yeah, there you 422 00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:59.880 go. Yeah, you got part. So lots going on, and you 423 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:02.480 know, it's just fun. Our job is to make sure this city's proud. 424 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:03.680 And you know what I've been. I was all the way after the 425 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:06.720 parade started, all the way in the middle of the parade, all the 426 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:10.119 way back down here, got here at five fifteen this morning. The city 427 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:12.279 is proud. Fine, do you know what? It's just proud. Everybody's 428 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:15.440 proud to just be out and about the game. Is one of the things 429 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.400 happening because opening day transcends a four to ten start. First, you know 430 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.599 caring Ford, but after that it's about the reds. All segment deals with 431 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:27.119 this division, each other's throats. Republican Democrats. You got Trump, you 432 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:30.759 got Biden, I got a fighting city council, you got the stadium issue 433 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:34.240 with pay. The Reds kind of washed that out. And I don't care 434 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:37.920 who you are, even if you're a Democrat or liberal Democrat, progressive. 435 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.960 You want to be a Reds fan. You're a conservative Republican, you want 436 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.039 to be a Red don't care about politics. You want to You're on TikTok 437 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:47.119 all the time. You want to be a Reds fan. And when you 438 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.920 walk around out here right now, it's look at the ages of people out 439 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.000 there. No old people like Marty Brennan or segment. No old folks are 440 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.240 out there. You know. In the Nike City Connect jerseys that we came 441 00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:00.359 out with last year, we started developing those of twenty twenty one, and 442 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.559 so they are the right look for this next generation of baseball fans. It's 443 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.759 just part of the mix. Merchandise wise, it was almost forty percent of 444 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:12.079 our sales last year when we kind of memorialized the word Sincy on people's chest 445 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:17.359 and we took the wishbone ce for the first time since the fifties and created 446 00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:19.519 a new look of a primary mark. And so that to your point. 447 00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:23.599 You can't just rest on your laurels and you become a museum. You've got 448 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:26.920 to be about today and what's next. I'm listening, so we are what's 449 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.559 next. Some of the stuff in that museum is like, oh my, 450 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.319 John Cooper's frown and it's the best baseball museum in the country. Bar Nun, 451 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:37.359 bar Nunn. And you know the exhibit this year, it's going to 452 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.480 bring back all of these long ball hitters, you know, go in there, 453 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:41.880 all the long ball hitters of recent history. It's gonna be fine. 454 00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:48.119 The most important home right ever hit, though, was Tony Perez nineteen seventy 455 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.440 five to win the World Series. Jay Bruce, that was important, Johnny, 456 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:55.039 September twenty eight, twenty ten. And you're right. That actually kind 457 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.160 of was the you know when you pull the lawnmower and it finally turns over. 458 00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:02.039 Because they bought the team in os, that was really the spark plug 459 00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:06.279 that got it back into being and connected to it being competitive and championship level. 460 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:07.880 So that's an important one. But I agree with you. I watched 461 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:11.599 that Tony Perez one did my goodness, and the big red machine in George 462 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.359 Foster is going to be here today taking the game ball out of there. 463 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:18.480 They're great Number fifteen. Hey, Kendon, Red's compete against teams like the 464 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:23.359 Dodgers, who spend a billion dollars for two players. You gotta be scrappy. 465 00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:26.480 First of all. With live sports, anything can happen, yep, 466 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:30.640 because on any one day somebody could be outperforming, just like in golf. 467 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.279 You know, you can just be in the zone. I think that's part 468 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:36.240 of what's going to help us do that. And other than that, you're 469 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:40.039 right because going into the season, the odds are against us on payroll across 470 00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:42.680 the board, but they were last year. And so that's why we have 471 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:47.160 running clinic or we have speed running clinic. Every day. Those guys are 472 00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:48.400 all learning how to steal bases. I mean, the things we were doing 473 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.720 last year. That makes you scrappy. We got to be very scrappy. 474 00:31:52.559 --> 00:32:00.079 And I I saw some video this morning of the Diamond Club is believe and 475 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:04.680 what you and what you did for Rob Butcher when he as he was as 476 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:09.480 he is retired from the media relations director extraordinary that he is uh and and 477 00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:13.680 to honor him is to put the name on the interview room was great. 478 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:16.279 I thought that was a That was a class move for a class gentleman. 479 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:20.279 Well, I agree with you there, and we decided Rob's legacy. Rob 480 00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:22.599 Butcher always had the players backs, right, he was about the players in 481 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:25.319 the clubhouse. So that's what we mean when we went ahead and put his 482 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:29.240 first name on it, because you know, if you fast forward twenty years 483 00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:31.200 from now, when somebody's going to go to the Butcher room, it sounds 484 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:37.079 very scary, sounds like you want to butcher. I don't want to go 485 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.039 now. And I've already kind of heard it referred to as the Butcher So 486 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:43.279 we'll see. Okay here what I'm san, we'll see. But I'm glad 487 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.640 that you like that. Say he deserves Karen Ferguson, Yes, Baseball Operation, 488 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:52.160 those are listening. This coming Saturday is a big day, big day 489 00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:54.920 because the kids and then also the babble heads. Yeah, and also Tani 490 00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:58.839 yep, and I bet he gets strike sting. He struck out four times. 491 00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:00.240 Oh, I hope you're right. Oh, Tani, I think he's 492 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:02.759 overrated. I hope you're right. And you know what, he's got his 493 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.039 head's got to get back in the game because he's had other problems. He 494 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.000 got himself in some hot water. I don't believe what they're saying. It's 495 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.400 a different issue. But yeah, no, what segment could afford to lose 496 00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:16.519 four point five million and not missing at all? Okay, did you know 497 00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:21.559 Shaquille O'Neill's coming as a DJ this year? Tell me about that DJ deal? 498 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.400 Saturday, August thirty one. Now here's a question that size twenty two 499 00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:29.759 shoes, big fleet, big feet. Can Marty land in? You think 500 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:32.559 he'll fit in? Yes, you're gonna have Shaquille if Ruby gonna make one 501 00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:36.880 at the restaurant, probably, Okay, Shaquil Leo is gonna be rapping in 502 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.279 the Great American Vault. Oh, that game is like selling like wildfire. 503 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:44.400 How does he rap it? You know what he did doing Launch? He 504 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:47.799 he did some games and they sold out people. Everybody stayed because it's Shaquille 505 00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.519 O'Neal. I love that guy. Last night, it's gonna be NBA on 506 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.480 TNT is the best. It's gonna be a hot Saturday, and it's gonna 507 00:33:55.480 --> 00:34:00.079 be fun by Karen Ford. Good luck Business Operations, it's space Posty's good 508 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:05.200 hands. We cannot do any of this without WLW. The big signal of 509 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:08.480 the big one and the capable hands of one. No other person like Dave 510 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:12.840 Ya the armbrewster. Heave. Dave's the best company. I'm telling you, 511 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:15.960 that is an artisan. We are lucky to have them. And I'm glad 512 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:19.920 Bob did not rename the stadium the Great American If Phil honored to have a 513 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.719 stadium named after me, you know what I'm saying. Well, we got 514 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:24.480 a spot for your statue out there, ok. Fair, Yeah, that'll 515 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:28.239 be a surprise. It'll be a surprise. It'll be great. Unfortunately, 516 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:31.079 it's gonna be made of ice, so I don't know. Lasted about twenty 517 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.360 four hours, but it'll be good for a while. All right, Karen 518 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.480 Fogus, thank you very much. Let's continue with more Bill Cunningham and the 519 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:40.639 segment Live with Oli Grail on News Radio seven hundred w l DO Hi, 520 00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:45.239 this is Bronson Royal. Opening Day happens on the Home of the Reds seven 521 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:49.639 hundred WLW. If your GEP or truck needs it high Lift off Road does 522 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.920 it? Visit the off road pros at Highlift off Road dot com. Beacon 523 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:59.280 Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, proud sponsor of the Cincinnati Reds Genesis is Cincinnati's highest 524 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:04.239 standard of life, injury, and performance. From elegant design to exhilarating performance, 525 00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:07.800 Genesis is an exciting ride the g sitcom. When you're ready for a 526 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.840 haircut, check in online at supercuts dot com. Just send me a one 527 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:17.880 minute warning for saradh An hit it RIGHTL Carrier's Willie seven o WLW opening a 528 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:23.000 broadcast live here at the Holy Rail, presented by your greater Cincinnati Toyota Dealers, 529 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:29.280 Ortho Cincy Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and by Cruise Development Live for the 530 00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:34.920 Cincinnati Tax Resolution Broadcast Area powered by Tope Sheldon. All Right, sick man, 531 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:38.840 we have one of the three great fourteens and Cincinnati sports history. The 532 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:44.199 first one was Oscar Robertson, who was twelve, number twelve at u See 533 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:47.440 where he won three consecutive Player of the Year awards. But then we went 534 00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:52.840 to the Royals. He took number fourteen his second grade fourteen nineteen sixty three, 535 00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:59.199 when Peter Edward Rose from uh West Colts High School, the hit King 536 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:02.079 got a trip Bob friend who was pitching, as you know, for the 537 00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:06.360 Pirates, right, and that was in April of nineteen sixty three, yes, 538 00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:09.599 but next to us, here is the other great fourteen, the pride 539 00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:14.320 of Augustana College, Ken Anderson. How about a hand for Ken Anderson, 540 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:19.000 the newest member of the National Quarterback Club. Talking as a matter of fact, 541 00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:22.679 Ken Anderson, what the National Quarterback Club? Yep, they inducted me 542 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:24.880 into the Hall of Fame, a company belonging to football Hall of Fame. 543 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:29.360 Well, that's a quarterbacks are football, That's that's true. Yeah, So 544 00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:31.079 I thought that I was very nice. I was very proud of that and 545 00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:36.079 joined a lot of great guys that already inducted. Now, did you pick 546 00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:39.840 the number fourteen because of Pete Rose, Roscar Robertson or just it was handed 547 00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:43.920 to you? It was handed to me. Now that's the number I warn't 548 00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:46.440 college, and you know when I showed up, you know, that's what 549 00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:52.639 Tom Gray gave me. Of course they had to cut Sam Waitch to give 550 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.159 me fourteen because he had worn that before me. Sam Weiss, that guy 551 00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:59.000 was hilarious. Oh he was great. He was a great guy, and 552 00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:01.960 you weren't. With Pride. I had discussions earlier with Marty Brownahan and others 553 00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:07.079 about injuries. Now, when you played football, I can recall that you 554 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.960 had a wide receiver had his head turned sideways, kind of like beetlejuice. 555 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:15.880 In those days in football, guess what, there were no injuries. You 556 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:19.079 guys chewed things off. If you had a broken ankle, you chewed your 557 00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:22.199 leg off below the knee. And today with the baseball players, they're constantly 558 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.960 hurt. Have you noticed the change and injuries when it comes to sports today? 559 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:30.840 Oh? I don't know. I think there's always been injuries. I 560 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:35.840 mean, you know, I broke my hand on a helmet in nineteen seventy 561 00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.440 eight, I guess it was, and miss four games and got my head 562 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:43.199 turned around against Pittsburgh at eighty three and that didn't look good. No, 563 00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:45.519 and missed a month, and I had a knee thing that you know, 564 00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:49.199 miss times. I mean, I think you know that's in any athletics, 565 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:52.000 whether it's high school, college or the pros, there's going to be injuries. 566 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:54.079 You know, Joe Burrow, are you schooling him at all? Because 567 00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:59.440 he came to the Great American Ballpark and Joe Burrow hit home runs? And 568 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.000 do you two talking all? You and Joe Burrow? You ought to pick 569 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:06.159 your mind for the great issues in the Great Divide oh no, No, 570 00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:07.639 we talked some. You know, I see him down in the locker room 571 00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:09.880 a little bit. I know who you are. Oh yes, oh yes, 572 00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:12.960 yes. He treats me with a lot of respect. I got a 573 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:15.840 lot of respect for him. Who's been, you know, very nice to 574 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.719 me. But you know, I played baseball growing up. I want Augus 575 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.119 Dan was going to play baseball there and football kind of got in the way. 576 00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:28.960 And I started on the football team as a freshman on the varsity, 577 00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:31.400 and then I turned to basketball, started on the varsity as a freshman, 578 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:35.840 and by the time baseball came around, I was a little tired of didn't 579 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:37.880 play, so I was I was a catcher and I always told Bench, 580 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.000 if I'd have played baseball, they may never heard of him. Yeah, 581 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:44.519 Bench, because you would have taken a job away from Johnny Bench. Is 582 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:46.440 that correct? Well, you never know, you never know, and tell 583 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:50.320 you to tell it right, seg Man, you have a question for the 584 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.519 great number fourteen, Ken Anderson. You got to see this out here today. 585 00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.639 I mean you've been here opening days like this. I mean it's just 586 00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:00.960 one of the greatest days in all of Cincinnati in a year. Well, 587 00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:05.800 it is so unique, and I think that just shows what great fans we 588 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.519 have in Cincinnati, and you know, for the Reds, for the Bengals, 589 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:12.559 you know, for FC Cincinnati. I mean they sell out every game. 590 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:15.320 And I was just thinking, you know, if this is like this 591 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:19.280 for Opening Day, can you imagine what it's gonna be like when the Bengals 592 00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.360 have a Super Bowl parade and sang Super Bowl Parade? Oh ah, you'll 593 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:25.119 have to get down there tomorrow. Well, I think I think that, 594 00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:29.239 you know, and you know, now I like our team and as long 595 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:31.880 as Joe stays healthy, as he said, that window is always open. 596 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:36.920 As long as heason. The city throws super Bowl parades for losers. When 597 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:38.679 they lost to Super Bowl, we had a Super Bowl parade. Can you 598 00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:42.440 imagine if they won? Oh? I know it. Well, I wasn't 599 00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:45.199 at the first one because I went right to the Pro Bowl, So I 600 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:46.920 missed out on that parade. Ken Anderson, pleasure to have you here. 601 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:50.760 You got some knee problems right here. Well, I got a little surgery 602 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.079 coming up, you know, just too many years on AstroTurf. Let's continue 603 00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:59.039 with mart Phil Cunning into the segment. My speech is coming up on news 604 00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:04.199 radio seven hund WLW. Is there a special time you like to listen to 605 00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:07.119 Sconsloan. I like to listen while I'm eating waffles. Yeah, it sounds 606 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.280 like fun. I listen when I'm feeling down. Sloaney always parks me up 607 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:14.360 and now we tell OK. I like to listen when I'm painting my nails. 608 00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:15.599 I never would have thought of that. I like to listen while I'm 609 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:19.920 fishing. Ope, I'm not try that. I always listen during my pelvic 610 00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:22.719 exam. Me too. I guess anytime is the right time for Sloaney. 611 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:28.039 That's what we've been saying. Tomorrow morning at nine on seven hundred WLW, 612 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:31.199 and check out his podcast on the free iHeartRadio app. If your GP or 613 00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:35.800 truck needs it high Lift off Road does it? Visit the off road pros 614 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.639 at highliftof Road dot com. Beacon Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, proud sponsor of 615 00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:45.679 the Cincinnati Reds, the Independent Electrical Contractors of Greater Cincinnati is looking for Journeyman Electric