Speaker 1: By Billy Cunningham to Great America and there's a new
Speaker 1: Aircraft Harrier in town. His name is Terry Francona. He
Speaker 1: played for the Reds in nineteen eighty seven. He's been
Speaker 1: a Manager of the Year three times. He also has
Speaker 1: two World Series rings, three PENNANTCE, eleven playoff appearances. He's
Speaker 1: managed about three thousand, six hundred games, and for some
Speaker 1: reason he wants again to come out more or less
Speaker 1: of retirement and coach Baseball's I think best town for
Speaker 1: baseball and its oldest team that is the Cincinnati Resident
Speaker 1: Terry Francona. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show, and Terry,
Speaker 1: can you tell the American people? First of all, why
Speaker 1: are you doing this?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. That's kind of a loaded question.
Speaker 3: You know. I needed to take a step away from
Speaker 3: baseball because I was just so beat up and I
Speaker 3: really thought I was retiring. I didn't have the intent
Speaker 3: to come back, and it was a really good year
Speaker 3: away from baseball. But as I got healthy and then
Speaker 3: Nick and Brad came out to Tucson to talk to me,
Speaker 3: it just felt right, and I think I made a
Speaker 3: really good decision. But there's a way I think you
Speaker 3: do this job, and to do it right, you got
Speaker 3: to have a certain amount of energy, and I didn't
Speaker 3: have that before. And these guys have been good for
Speaker 3: me this spring. I've felt pretty reinvigorated and I'm having
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 1: You know, when I look at your medical history, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: At least fifty surgeries, you have two new knees, two
Speaker 1: new hips, other difficulties, all of which now is short.
Speaker 1: You're like the bionic man. You're the six million dollar manager.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable that you're doing this. And I harken back
Speaker 1: to other times in the Red's history. I know you've
Speaker 1: managed the Phillies and the Red Sox and the Indians,
Speaker 1: the Guardians and now the Reds. But in nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: there was a manager named Dave Bristol and Red's management
Speaker 1: management is how to get a new guy in town.
Speaker 1: And that guy Sparky Anderson, and went to the World
Speaker 1: Series that year. About twenty years later, we went through
Speaker 1: the Pete Rose situation. And we all love Pete Rose
Speaker 1: in this town. And you you played for him in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, and after that we got a new manager,
Speaker 1: Lou Panella went to the World Series and won it.
Speaker 1: So here's history repeating itself. New Manager World Series, New
Speaker 1: Manager World Series Champion, New Manager World Series Champion. What
Speaker 1: is the goal? If somebody would tap you on the shoulder,
Speaker 1: Terry Francona and say what is the goal for the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Reds, what would Terry say?
Speaker 3: I think it's always the same. It's show up every
Speaker 3: day ready to compete your ass off. That's how I
Speaker 3: always feel, because you don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 3: with guys going down. But if we show up and
Speaker 3: we play the game the way you're supposed to, I
Speaker 3: always feel like we'll end up what we're supposed to.
Speaker 3: And we obviously have high expectations we're supposed to, but
Speaker 3: I don't ever put the card ahead of the horse.
Speaker 3: I just try to, you know, we stay in a moment,
Speaker 3: play as good as we can today, and then show
Speaker 3: up tomorrow and see what we can play a little better.
Speaker 1: Are you an analytics kind of a guy? At one
Speaker 1: point I couldn't spell analytics. And right now, if the
Speaker 1: Reds are pitching and there's a batter up and there's
Speaker 1: two to one, if it counts two and one. He
Speaker 1: hits two ten against the curveball, three ten against the fastball,
Speaker 1: and you got the nine quadrants of a home play.
Speaker 1: Are you, as Terry francona analytics or do you do
Speaker 1: by the seat of your pants.
Speaker 3: I don't do it by the seat of my pants.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's fair to anybody. But the way
Speaker 3: I like to say it is I feel an obligation
Speaker 3: to know stuff because I don't want to guess. But
Speaker 3: you're dealing with people and you never can forget that.
Speaker 3: And I feel like you know. I've been in the game,
Speaker 3: I think forty six years. I feel like I know
Speaker 3: what I'm watching. And again, it helps to get information.
Speaker 3: I think you can get bogged down with information if
Speaker 3: you lay yourself as.
Speaker 1: Far as one thing, Michael Jordan. You managed Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time in basketball in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four with the Birmingham Barons, and then you were managed
Speaker 1: by Pete Rose. And when I think about basketball, I
Speaker 1: think about the passion the perseverance of Michael Jordan. Then
Speaker 1: I think about Pete Rose. I'd be loved character. Is
Speaker 1: there some connection in your mind between Michael Jordan and
Speaker 1: Pete Rose, how they're conducted themselves.
Speaker 3: I've told a lot of people that the very similar
Speaker 3: personalities where if you tell them no, they're going to
Speaker 3: find the They're going to find a way to make
Speaker 3: the answer be yes. You know, they're just so driven.
Speaker 3: I mean, most people that get to this level are driven.
Speaker 3: But then there's a few and you just named two
Speaker 3: of them that take it to of the anth degree,
Speaker 3: and that is Michael and Pete both.
Speaker 1: Well, how did you handle Michael Jordan? Because I saw
Speaker 1: some of the thirty by thirty stuff and you're in it.
Speaker 1: You if he stuck with baseball, would he have made
Speaker 1: to the major leagues? Of course, the owner of the
Speaker 1: White Sox wanted him to go and playing Comiskey Park.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Michael Jordan in a White Sox uniform
Speaker 1: and comisky? What was he? A major league baseball talent?
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan?
Speaker 3: What I've told people is it wasn't fair to judge
Speaker 3: until he got about a thousand at bats. But he
Speaker 3: could do some things. Now, I mean he stole thirty bases,
Speaker 3: you know, he he could do some things. In a
Speaker 3: lot of prospects, you know you need to do. He
Speaker 3: just hadn't played in so long. But I also, like
Speaker 3: I said, I found out if you told him no,
Speaker 3: he'd find a way to make the answer be yes.
Speaker 3: So do I think he'd have found his way to
Speaker 3: major leagues? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: What do you have been an everyday player? I don't
Speaker 3: know he had more developing to do, but I knew
Speaker 3: he was so respectful to the game of baseball. He
Speaker 3: made it really easy to be patient with him, and
Speaker 3: that was what I appreciated.
Speaker 1: As far as your year with the Reds in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven, your manager was Pete Rose. What did you
Speaker 1: learn about baseball from Pete Rose?
Speaker 3: Well, I'd played with Pete and eighty four in Montreal,
Speaker 3: and I tell a lot of people I've probably learned
Speaker 3: more playing cards with Pete about baseball than I did
Speaker 3: from a lot of other people. He just, you know,
Speaker 3: the game was in slow motion for him. And I
Speaker 3: know Pete brought me over here in eighty seven and
Speaker 3: I felt like I really let him down because I
Speaker 3: just I just didn't hit. I mean, I got some
Speaker 3: hits opening day and then it just went south, and
Speaker 3: I felt like I let him down and that killed me.
Speaker 1: Oh, you bat a two twenty seven for the Reds.
Speaker 1: You were twenty eight years old, pretty good team, and
Speaker 1: I think largely that same team three years later with
Speaker 1: Lou Panella won. What was the difference between the eighty
Speaker 1: seven eighty eighty nine Reds with Pete Rose that didn't
Speaker 1: win and then a new a breath of fresh air arrived.
Speaker 1: I saw this interview that Barry Larkin conducted about you,
Speaker 1: the great number eleven Hall of Famer. You're going to
Speaker 1: be a Hall of Famer. I pray to God Lou
Speaker 1: Penella becomes a Hall of Famer. But Barry Larkin said
Speaker 1: after the Pete Rose situation in August September of eighty
Speaker 1: nine was resolved and spring training started, he said, there
Speaker 1: was a breath of fresh air that we needed that
Speaker 1: we thought we were better than our record indicated. In fact,
Speaker 1: in eighty nine the Reds had a losing record. The
Speaker 1: next year they went to the World Series. And so
Speaker 1: how do you relate to the Reds team and Reds
Speaker 1: fans now saying this is a team that can win,
Speaker 1: it should win. It hasn't won. We can't go why
Speaker 1: it hasn't won in the past, but why will it
Speaker 1: win this year? And are you the breath of fresh air,
Speaker 1: the Reds and the baseball's oldest franchise, knees. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited about this, I can't stand it. Are you the
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air?
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever been called that. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm not here to try to piss anybody off. I
Speaker 3: think we all like to feel like we can make
Speaker 3: a difference, and we're certainly going to try. But I
Speaker 3: don't think I need to go make any proclamations. Like
Speaker 3: I said, I want us to show up and play
Speaker 3: our rear ends off every day, and if we do that,
Speaker 3: I always feel like we're gonna figure it out. That's
Speaker 3: how I've always felt, and I will continue to do that.
Speaker 3: And this is a good group. This is a fun group,
Speaker 3: and it's a group that's going to get better. We're
Speaker 3: not the finished product. That doesn't mean we can't win,
Speaker 3: but I think it means we'll get better.
Speaker 1: Let's say it's about seven pm an opening day and
Speaker 1: the Reds are winning two to one. You look down
Speaker 1: to the look out to the bullpen used to be
Speaker 1: down to the bullpen. You look out to the bullpen,
Speaker 1: and you got Rogers, you got Barlow, you don't have
Speaker 1: Alexis Das, Who does Terry Francona come in to nail
Speaker 1: down to win two to one victory and the ninth
Speaker 1: ending about seven o'clock on opening day? Who do you
Speaker 1: bring in?
Speaker 3: Well, I hope we're in that situation. Is a lot
Speaker 3: of us gonna depend on how we get there. You know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have to mix the match a little bit.
Speaker 3: And I've already talked to the bullpen guys and I've
Speaker 3: talked a little bit more. But you know, we'll see again.
Speaker 3: It depends on how long our starter goes, how many
Speaker 3: guys who went through, But we'll figure it out. And
Speaker 3: I guarantee you somebody to be out there. And like
Speaker 3: I said, though, it just depends who we use leading
Speaker 3: up to that, how.
Speaker 1: Would you say, Ladella Cruz, you're catching him in a
Speaker 1: second full year. We're just so excited about him. He
Speaker 1: could become the face of baseball. And you now spent
Speaker 1: about twenty five of thirty games with Elladella Cruz. What
Speaker 1: kind of character is he and what does he bring
Speaker 1: to the table for the Reds in twenty twenty five, Well, it.
Speaker 3: Brings everything to the table. I think that's why everybody
Speaker 3: you know likes him so much. Everybody wants to get
Speaker 3: a piece ofthing. And he's a great kid to boot.
Speaker 3: He plays a game right, he plays with passion, and
Speaker 3: he's only going to get better because he wants to.
Speaker 3: And you know that we're getting him at it. We're
Speaker 3: getting a lot of our guys at a good time
Speaker 3: where they've got a year or two under their belt.
Speaker 3: You know, they start to understand they don't just belong,
Speaker 3: but maybe they can thrive and compete because there's a difference,
Speaker 3: and I hope we'll get them at that time.
Speaker 1: In fact, you've been in baseball. I mean, your dad
Speaker 1: was in baseball fifteen years. You grew up in major
Speaker 1: league locker rooms. You've been there. You talk about in
Speaker 1: baseball forty some years. You've probably been in baseball sixty
Speaker 1: some years. If you take your time in various locker rooms,
Speaker 1: and from that, give me the one or two big
Speaker 1: changes you've seen in baseball just inside the locker room
Speaker 1: in the past thirty or forty years. He used to
Speaker 1: be you had a player and you knew they had him.
Speaker 1: But now a little bet of romance has to go on.
Speaker 1: You have to make sure the players want to stay
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati's a fabulous place to play because you're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna learn an opening day how important this is.
Speaker 1: But how's baseball changed the last thirty or forty years
Speaker 1: in your mind?
Speaker 3: Well, there's been a lot of changes. I mean one
Speaker 3: of the things, like you said in the locker room
Speaker 3: is we used to sit after games and you know,
Speaker 3: we played cards and drink beer, and now you can't
Speaker 3: do that. You know, life times have changed, and I
Speaker 3: get it, but it takes some of the some of
Speaker 3: the fun away. The game, though, is still baseball, and
Speaker 3: I firmly believe, regardless of how much money you guys
Speaker 3: are making or free agency, if you can get your
Speaker 3: players to play baseball, you got a chance. And that's
Speaker 3: what we're gonna try to do.
Speaker 1: Terry Farrek Conan, Do you feel like you're born again?
Speaker 1: Because the article is written about you and it feel
Speaker 1: like after you went through your health difficulties now came
Speaker 1: out the other side. And the involvement Marty Brownman was
Speaker 1: key to this. Do you feel like you're born again?
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd go that far. I am excited,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna have to keep an eye on
Speaker 3: my because I'm not a young pup, and you know,
Speaker 3: I've had a lot going on. But I get up
Speaker 3: and swim every day because I want to be a
Speaker 3: good manager. I want to have, you know, energy for
Speaker 3: these guys, and I try to keep my button on
Speaker 3: all day and then when I go home, I just collapse.
Speaker 1: Well, Terry, you're the best. I think you walk in
Speaker 1: the shoes of Sparky Anderson and Louke Panela in the
Speaker 1: sense that you're a lifer in baseball and you've come
Speaker 1: here and we're just honored to have you in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: after the year off. When this thing when Marty the
Speaker 1: story about Marty Brennan just briefly tell me that Marty
Speaker 1: Brennan connection that you had to get this job.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean when I was here as a player,
Speaker 3: Marty and Nuxy, Joey, they were so good to be
Speaker 3: and some people in this game he just remained friends with,
Speaker 3: and me and Marty have have been friends ever since.
Speaker 3: And he reached out to me earlier this year, and
Speaker 3: next thing, you know, Nick and Brad are find out
Speaker 3: the Tucson and like I said, it just felt right.
Speaker 3: And I mean I know what kind of baseball town
Speaker 3: this can be. You know, I saw it firsthand and
Speaker 3: we got it. We got we got some baseball to play.
Speaker 3: But if we do, these people will be excited.
Speaker 1: Lastly, would you like to enter the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: in a few years with Pete Rose? In memory of Pete?
Speaker 3: I'll never I can talk about Pete. I'll never talk
Speaker 3: about myself in that vein. I don't think that's healthy
Speaker 3: for any for a manager. With the manager, it's got
Speaker 3: to be about the players. It can never be about yourself.
Speaker 3: And when it becomes about you, I get really uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: May fourteenth is Pete Rose Day. Whill there'll be a
Speaker 1: tear in your eye for Pete.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'll cry, I'll be touched. I mean,
Speaker 3: I love the guy, Like I said, I played with
Speaker 3: him and for him, and I loved him to death.
Speaker 3: And I will be one of the proudest people out there.
Speaker 3: I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: Terry frank ConA, may you live long and prosper when
Speaker 1: about a hundred games and take the reds of the
Speaker 1: World Series where they belong. Between nineteen seventy five and
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, EDGE were champions in the World Series twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the time. Think of twenty percent of the
Speaker 1: time between nineteen seventy five and nineteen ninety the Reds
Speaker 1: with the World Series champion. Since then, the last thirty
Speaker 1: five years have been more difficult, and I think you're
Speaker 1: the Moses that may lead us into the promised Land.
Speaker 1: And Terry Francona, once again, thank you for coming on
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Terry.
Speaker 3: All Right, Bill and joy Man, Thanks God.
Speaker 1: Bless America. Let's continue with more. That's Terry Francona unplugged
Speaker 1: on News radio seven hundred WLW. All Right, Billy cunning
Speaker 1: in the Great American. We're going to have the words
Speaker 1: of Mike McConnell in about seven or eight minutes about
Speaker 1: his retirement in glory from this sacred radio station. What
Speaker 1: he said this morning and his last day, those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. We'll talk about that a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: But getting back to the Reds this year, I will
Speaker 1: look back in my memory banks, maybe you could come
Speaker 1: up with something different. Have the Reds ever hired a
Speaker 1: manager Don on other teams had multiple World Series titles?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Going back, I can't think of
Speaker 1: one and I look to the list of managers, this
Speaker 1: is unique and when you deal with Terry Francona. He
Speaker 1: went to Boston and in his first year there took
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox to the World Championship, the World
Speaker 1: Series win. Did it again a few years later four
Speaker 1: o seven. His first st it was with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 1: Spent about four years there, did okay, not good. Red Sox.
Speaker 1: Harem went to the Promised Land and after that went
Speaker 1: to the Indians slash Guardians, where he managed for about
Speaker 1: ten years. Because he played for the Indians. He played
Speaker 1: for the Expos, the Cubs, the Reds, the Indians slash Guardians,
Speaker 1: and the Brewers and now the Reds. It's his fourth
Speaker 1: managerial stint, likely his last. He's managed about three thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred Major League Baseball games. He also has those
Speaker 1: two World Series titles, which is pretty good. He also
Speaker 1: has three Pennance Championships, pretty good. Also had eleven playoff
Speaker 1: appearances as a manager. That's pretty good. And then, of
Speaker 1: course the record of nineteen hundred and fifty wins and
Speaker 1: and seventy two losses about thirty six hundred games. He
Speaker 1: wins fifty four percent of his time. He made the
Speaker 1: comment he feels like he's born again. He had lots
Speaker 1: of health problems, none of which are critical, but they're painful,
Speaker 1: such as he's had at least fifty surgeries. Both these
Speaker 1: are new, both hips are new, had blood clots, had
Speaker 1: heart problems, and all came down maybe chewing too much
Speaker 1: tobacco and not working out. Now he's got rid of
Speaker 1: the tobacci and he's working out, and he's a young
Speaker 1: sixty five years old. So have had it. Man, The
Speaker 1: Reds could not have made a better hiring decision than
Speaker 1: Terry Francona, who has said he spent about forty six
Speaker 1: years in the Major leagues. First, his youngest days, he
Speaker 1: was in the locker rooms of major league teams. His father,
Speaker 1: Tito Francona, in fifteen years in the Major leagues, and
Speaker 1: a young Terry was running around the locker room as
Speaker 1: a kid. And in nineteen eighty seven I did the
Speaker 1: extra inning show, and I was in the locker room
Speaker 1: a lot with Pete and the other players, and I
Speaker 1: barely remember Terry Francone is standing in the corner with
Speaker 1: Luis Kenonis, singing, have you seen her? Tell me? Have
Speaker 1: you seen they had a quartet and they would sing.
Speaker 1: There were people drinking beer, smoking cigarettes. That was nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven in Riverfront Stadium. Unbelievable. And now if somebody
Speaker 1: would have told that kid in nineteen eighty seven, by
Speaker 1: the way, at that point he was twenty eight years old,
Speaker 1: win so much of a kid. But he was a
Speaker 1: hanger on. But he did hit a home run in
Speaker 1: an opening day for the Reds. And after that season,
Speaker 1: Pete and the Powers have Me decided to release him
Speaker 1: and away he went to the Indians and the Brewers
Speaker 1: and then got into into managing with the Birmingham Barons,
Speaker 1: where Michael Jordan, the greatest of all time in basketball,
Speaker 1: hit two O two in nineteen ninety four and the
Speaker 1: rest show, we say, is history. So let's can anyway.
Speaker 1: Three years later, he's the manager for the Phillies. Let's
Speaker 1: continue with them more. We're going to play some of
Speaker 1: Mike mcconnald's words this morning and more at Trump of
Speaker 1: the Reds in the home of Terry Francona News Radio
Speaker 1: seven hundred WULW, Cincinnati. Well, our official holiday begins tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Reds Baseball unlike any in the world. Good to hear
Speaker 1: from Tito Francona about what he expects from this year's team,
Speaker 1: and we have expectations. We have a coming up later
Speaker 1: Tommy Thrall to talk about what he observed in Arizona,
Speaker 1: what he observed last night and Dayton McLean looked pretty
Speaker 1: good again. And what's going to happen this year with
Speaker 1: your Cincinnati Reds. That's coming. But I think an equally
Speaker 1: important announcement took play the place this morning with Mike
Speaker 1: McConnell for many forty years, my running mate right here,
Speaker 1: and we kind of came here more or less together,
Speaker 1: and at this point Mike has decided to retire. With
Speaker 1: the thanks of a grateful nation. We did our best
Speaker 1: to keep him, trying to talk him out of it.
Speaker 1: He could have picked almost any day shift to do,
Speaker 1: but Mike said he's done. And it's because next week
Speaker 1: will be his fiftieth anniversary in radio, starting in April
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy five in the Dayton area along with
Speaker 1: Eddie Fingers, another living legend. But this is what Mike
Speaker 1: McConnell said this morning, and Dave Keaton hit it.
Speaker 5: Hey, and that is that I am going to retire.
Speaker 5: Why because I'm old. I'll be here through next week
Speaker 5: and that will be it. I'm not taking any more
Speaker 5: time off. I'll be here every day through next Friday,
Speaker 5: and we'll pull the plug on it then. So thought
Speaker 5: about it for a long time, and I guess, like
Speaker 5: three years ago when I signed my present contract, pretty
Speaker 5: much made up my mind it was going to be
Speaker 5: the last one and told management over you a year ago.
Speaker 5: So I'll miss a lot of aspects out of it,
Speaker 5: but look forward to it. At the same time, I'll
Speaker 5: have no regrets because I've done this for a long time.
Speaker 5: I did the math realized I started doing this for
Speaker 5: a living in April of seventy five, so that's fifty
Speaker 5: years and that's enough. So I've enjoyed it, great job
Speaker 5: most of my life, and I will miss it, and
Speaker 5: we'll plenty of time to talk about it between now
Speaker 5: and then. But that's the announcement of the day. Next
Speaker 5: Friday is my last day on the radio. Michael kils Well,
Speaker 5: that was kind of it.
Speaker 1: And of course we knew here internally the last few
Speaker 1: weeks that it was going to happen, and most of
Speaker 1: us kind of thought, well, well, maybe something will change.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more constant in life than constant changes. There's
Speaker 1: nothing more constant than change in life. It's ongoing that
Speaker 1: sometimes the days roll by so slowly, but the years
Speaker 1: in the decades fly by. So it is with Mike,
Speaker 1: and we discussed it on the phone a few months
Speaker 1: ago and I said, would you like to do non
Speaker 1: am to noon? We'd like to twelve to three, four,
Speaker 1: three to six. What I was a note, I'm done,
Speaker 1: don't want to do it anymore, because he said, I'm old.
Speaker 1: I want to do other things. And a lot of
Speaker 1: it has to do with the fact that fifty years
Speaker 1: beginning in radio and a Dayton station is a long
Speaker 1: time in radio. I'm not sure many others could equal that,
Speaker 1: yours included. And to be here at the station where
Speaker 1: Jim Scott is honored yesterday as having a placard named
Speaker 1: after him a street corner there in OTR and Jim
Speaker 1: had been to more than fifty opening days and he
Speaker 1: walked everyone until his last one a year ago when
Speaker 1: he couldn't because of als. Then he passed away a
Speaker 1: few weeks later. He wanted to live long enough to
Speaker 1: be in that Findley Market parade and Lucan and other
Speaker 1: people down at OTR were just honoring Jim Scott because
Speaker 1: he gave so much to the community in which he
Speaker 1: loved deeply. And when we started together in nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 1: when I first came here in August of eighty three,
Speaker 1: the morning man was Gary Burbank, and then it was Mike.
Speaker 1: Mike mcconnaell was in production, and then Randy Michaels and
Speaker 1: Alan Gartner did middays from ten to two, and then
Speaker 1: two to six was Gary Burbank. And in the when
Speaker 1: I first thought it was Bill Gable and then it
Speaker 1: became Gary Burbank. And then of course we had Bob
Speaker 1: Trumpy for many years than Chris Collins, Ruth and Andy Furman,
Speaker 1: many others, and a night was yours truly, and here
Speaker 1: we are. I can't believe that forty two years have
Speaker 1: rolled by so quickly. And Mike McConnell announced this morning
Speaker 1: he's the most talented personality in radio that I've ever
Speaker 1: dealt with. Because Yours truly could not do the morning show.
Speaker 1: Gary Burbank did the morning show for a while. He
Speaker 1: said I can't do it anymore. He had a good
Speaker 1: afternoon drive and a lot of it has to do with.
Speaker 1: At three o'clock in the morning comes rather early, so
Speaker 1: at three o'clock in the morning, you got to get up,
Speaker 1: got to be on. And nobody did it better than
Speaker 1: Jim's got him and Mike McConnell, and I believe we
Speaker 1: have located a well known personality to continue with the
Speaker 1: morning show beginning I guess a week from Monday, which
Speaker 1: would be what April to seventh, And Mike McConnell said,
Speaker 1: I simply want to spend more time doing other things.
Speaker 1: He also said he's old, but I don't think he's
Speaker 1: that old. But nonetheless, there comes a time in life
Speaker 1: for all good things end, and even the sun, the moon,
Speaker 1: and the stars at some point will collapse into a
Speaker 1: black hole and all this will be gone. And all
Speaker 1: we can do is maximize the time we hear. And
Speaker 1: no one did talk radio, no one did the morning
Speaker 1: show better than Mike McConnell. And from the time I
Speaker 1: started in nineteen eighty three, here whether it was Gary
Speaker 1: Burbank in the mornings, and then about a year later
Speaker 1: it became Jim Scott, and then that went on for
Speaker 1: about thirty years, thirty one years, and then about seven
Speaker 1: eight years ago Mike McConnell picked up the banner from
Speaker 1: GN in Chicago, went up there for a stint about
Speaker 1: five years, came back, did the morning show, and he's
Speaker 1: done that. And now I believe we have a personality
Speaker 1: coming in that's quite well known to do that. I'll
Speaker 1: let him make that announcement, not me a week from Monday.
Speaker 1: I've said many times in many places that at least
Speaker 1: in my time here in the last fifty years, that
Speaker 1: the Mountain Rushmore of this radio station is Jim Scott
Speaker 1: and Gary Burbank and Mike McConnell and me. And now
Speaker 1: there's one Indian left standing. And I anticipate to be
Speaker 1: here the next few years, nonetheless, God willing, and if
Speaker 1: that happens, I still have the same passion I have.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be with you for a few more years
Speaker 1: and see what happens, go year by year in a sense.
Speaker 1: But I enjoy what I do, and at some point
Speaker 1: I can't think of another circumstance other than maybe Gary Burbank,
Speaker 1: who kind of left with his boots on saying you
Speaker 1: know what, I just don't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 1: And the same way with Jim Scott. He retired about
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's been seven or eight years since
Speaker 1: he retired, and he simply said, I want to do
Speaker 1: other things. Getting up early in the morning was a factor.
Speaker 1: Jim Scott, who lived in Indiana, would get up at
Speaker 1: two thirty am, two forty five am to make the
Speaker 1: drive here. And it can be a grind when not
Speaker 1: much as going on, but I guess I can say
Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere else. Mike and I got real
Speaker 1: close to going to GN together in twenty fifteen, and
Speaker 1: it just didn't feel right for me, and he went.
Speaker 1: I almost went and I didn't, And that was the
Speaker 1: best decision I made in my career is not to
Speaker 1: go in GN. I would not beat Bill Cunningham here.
Speaker 1: I am, and if I thought in my life can
Speaker 1: I and I could do the show remotely, but that
Speaker 1: would have been fair to Chicago. And I'm sure Chicago
Speaker 1: Wins would view Cincinnati as the second cousin once removed,
Speaker 1: and they have two personalities coming in. I might add
Speaker 1: for significant money. Randy Michaels ran the station at the time,
Speaker 1: the legendary Randy Michaels and I got real close and
Speaker 1: I just couldn't pull the trigger. I just didn't want
Speaker 1: to leave Deer Park. I didn't want to leave the Reds,
Speaker 1: didn't want to leave Covington, and I didn't want to leave.
Speaker 1: At that point, my restaurants had been sold largely. But
Speaker 1: I just loved being here. And I was born here,
Speaker 1: raised here, and I'm going to to die here. And
Speaker 1: Mike McConnell has a little bit different history. But to
Speaker 1: go back to his talent, it's unbridled. I agree with
Speaker 1: his politics about sixty percent of the time. But you
Speaker 1: never questioned this microphone when it was put in front
Speaker 1: of Mike McConnell. Sometimes it's a little bit risky to
Speaker 1: put the microphone in front of someone because you never
Speaker 1: know what's going to come out, and God knows over
Speaker 1: the years yours truly, he has gotten in a bunch
Speaker 1: of trouble a bunch of times for saying things I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have said. And the value of a Jim Scott
Speaker 1: or a Mike McConnell was simple. Hardly anyone would listen
Speaker 1: to those two guys and come away less informed than
Speaker 1: when they started to listen. Neither one of those two
Speaker 1: guys conducted radio in a way that they had any
Speaker 1: enemies or people hated them. Who can fairly say that
Speaker 1: Jim Scott was ever hated by anyone, or Mike McConnell
Speaker 1: not hated by anybody. News, whether traffic, in sports and opinion.
Speaker 1: He could quickly flow in between handing off the ball,
Speaker 1: news whether traffic, etc. Sports into a talker show format,
Speaker 1: the last hour of a show. For the last few years,
Speaker 1: eight am to nine am was out of morning drive
Speaker 1: and into a talk radio format, which he did expertly.
Speaker 1: For many many years he was on nine am to
Speaker 1: noon and I was on twelve to three. That lasted
Speaker 1: for about twenty some years. And I think the lineup
Speaker 1: that we had of Jim Scott and Mike McConnell and
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham and Gary Burbank and Bob Trumpy, Slash Chris
Speaker 1: Collinsworth and then in the evening Scott Sloan then overnight
Speaker 1: was the truck and Bozo was the big red machine
Speaker 1: of radio in this market, in fact any market those
Speaker 1: when I speak to those around the country, that is
Speaker 1: the formula that a great radio station will do. And
Speaker 1: at this point of course Jim Scott has passed on
Speaker 1: to rewards in Heaven that Jim Scott's not in heaven.
Speaker 1: There isn't one. And Mike McConnell is going to have
Speaker 1: about another eight days and that's it. Yours truly is
Speaker 1: still here. Gary Burbank lives but given up radio completely,
Speaker 1: and of course Bob Trumpy and Chris Collinsworth out of radio.
Speaker 1: And I don't know whatever happened to Chris Collinsworth, but
Speaker 1: I wished him well. And Scott Sloane is with us
Speaker 1: now every morning, nine amternoon and the truck and Bozo
Speaker 1: has given a way to Red Eye and away we go.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more constant in life than change, and the
Speaker 1: change happening here is handled properly. And I believe that
Speaker 1: our new morning man, along with Scott Sloane and myself
Speaker 1: and the legendary Eddie Fingers and the rock along with
Speaker 1: Lance McAllister. Every time I listened to Lance, I learned
Speaker 1: something I didn't know. The guy works hard than The
Speaker 1: evening is Gary Jeff, and the overnight, of course is
Speaker 1: Red Eye and we continue. One thing I've learned that
Speaker 1: right now we have more listeners than we've ever had.
Speaker 1: It may not be relatable to the talent as much
Speaker 1: as it does to the radio industry right now. We
Speaker 1: used to have live competitions in this market from five
Speaker 1: point fifty and thirteen sixty and fifteen thirty all do
Speaker 1: in the same stuff. There were newsrooms at five point
Speaker 1: fifty different than thirteen sixty, different than seven hundred, different
Speaker 1: than fifteen thirty. And now there's less and less and less,
Speaker 1: and there's more and more and more, which is why
Speaker 1: we have more listeners than we've ever had. Because there's
Speaker 1: less competition in the market. If you wanted to listen
Speaker 1: to talk radio or entertainment on the AM dial, you
Speaker 1: had many choices. Years ago, you had Jerry Thomas, you
Speaker 1: had Alan Browning, you had Rich King, and then you're
Speaker 1: Don Herman on fifteen thirty. Thirteen sixty stood alone by itself,
Speaker 1: and now there's only one. In fact, we own them all.
Speaker 1: So that's why we have more listeners. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: we have more talent than we've had before, but we
Speaker 1: have more listeners because there's less competition. But it's sad
Speaker 1: and Mike will sign off permanently a week from tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Then the new morning Man will pick up, well known
Speaker 1: in this community on Monday morning, April the seventh, and
Speaker 1: away we go for another run. It's managed in such
Speaker 1: a way that each of the so called stars leave
Speaker 1: sequentially and not not together, which is going back to
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. I know Mike McConnell would sign his deal
Speaker 1: with Randy and WGN in Chicago, and if I left
Speaker 1: a hole in this market at this station we turn
Speaker 1: nine am and three pm would have been significant. And
Speaker 1: I despite there's a lot more money involved, which I
Speaker 1: understand completely, but I'm a Cincinnatian. I was born here,
Speaker 1: raised here, and I'm going to die here. I got
Speaker 1: my plot at Gayta Heaven Cemetery, and Mike McConnell began
Speaker 1: in radio, and Dayton grew up in Philadelphia. Great connections
Speaker 1: to Chicago and back home. But he will be sorely
Speaker 1: missed from everyone everyone here at this station. So that's
Speaker 1: the way it is. And at some point I will
Speaker 1: sign off and someone else will pick up and hopefully
Speaker 1: do It's good a job, and I'm confident the next
Speaker 1: morning guy will stand in the in the long blue
Speaker 1: line of Jim Scott and Mike McConnell and our new
Speaker 1: morning guy and we can simply continue. We never stop,
Speaker 1: We simply continue. I will take some more time off,
Speaker 1: because time is something you spend you never get more of.
Speaker 1: It's a limited amount from the day you were born
Speaker 1: to the day you die. There's so many days you're
Speaker 1: going to live, so many hours you're going to live.
Speaker 1: And I want to spend a little more time off.
Speaker 1: And the station said to me and DJ Hodge and
Speaker 1: Tony Bender and Scott Renerd says, this take off whenever
Speaker 1: you can, just give us notice and we're good. Which
Speaker 1: is why the last two or three months, I've been
Speaker 1: off a lot, because I want to enjoy life and
Speaker 1: play a little golf and smell the roses. And when
Speaker 1: I come back from my trips to Florida, etc. And
Speaker 1: I come back here behind this microphone, I feel this
Speaker 1: is where I belong. I've been with you for a
Speaker 1: long time, and I love when I meet individuals on
Speaker 1: the street, sitting in a restaurant or whatever. They come
Speaker 1: up and say to me, I've been listening to you,
Speaker 1: not for years, for decades, and I appreciate it. And
Speaker 1: I hope I've had some impact having this community accept
Speaker 1: individual freedoms of economic liberty and self reliance and not
Speaker 1: left wing socialism which is creeping across the country. And
Speaker 1: across Western Europe to the detriment of average citizens. So
Speaker 1: that's what's happened. And that's not as some sort of prank.
Speaker 1: As you can tell from Mike's voice, he would not
Speaker 1: be involved in such things. We kind of knew it
Speaker 1: our Christmas spectacular that this was Mike McConnell's last Christmas
Speaker 1: morning show with Eddie Fingers and I and Rock and
Speaker 1: Scott Sloan. But Mike, Mike wanted to go do it
Speaker 1: his way, which was, you know, I want to announce
Speaker 1: it about a week or ten days out and that's
Speaker 1: it and so be it. And if and when I
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to say goodbye, I'd rather be several
Speaker 1: weeks instead of ten days. But everyone does it differently,
Speaker 1: and I wish nothing better than my broadcast partner. I
Speaker 1: call it like the Pete Rose that Johnny Bench, Butch
Speaker 1: Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid he and together between
Speaker 1: nine am and three pm was pretty good. But Jim's
Speaker 1: Goott on one end and Gary Burbank on the other,
Speaker 1: that's not bad. And then as sports talk, and I
Speaker 1: have more respect for Lance and I've had before because
Speaker 1: that guy works hard at what he does didn't have
Speaker 1: the star power of Bob Trumpy or Chris Colin, but
Speaker 1: Lance McAllister is eminently listenable and he is a good
Speaker 1: sports talk host. Then, of course in the even Gary
Speaker 1: Jeff Walker, I'm a fan of his plus Red Eye Radio.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens in the future. Nothing is forever
Speaker 1: but the sun, moon and the star is they anything
Speaker 1: constant in life has changed. We're gonna have significant change here.
Speaker 1: So let's continue with more after one o'clock today, put
Speaker 1: a call into Tommy Thrall, who's the course of the
Speaker 1: voice of your Cincinnati Reds. And later on next week
Speaker 1: we're going to celebrate the life and time so Mike McConnell,
Speaker 1: as we should do for someone a living legend in
Speaker 1: radio who spent fifty years total in radio and probably
Speaker 1: I don't know thirty five the thirty eight years right
Speaker 1: here at your home of the Reds and Terry fran
Speaker 1: Cone and by the way, lastly, i'll talk about it
Speaker 1: during sports. But did the Xavier make a mistake and
Speaker 1: hiring Rich Patino and saying no to Chris Mack. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I know Chris Mack wanted the job. I
Speaker 1: know he made calls. I know he was disappointed when
Speaker 1: he wasn't selected the all time winning coach at Xavier,
Speaker 1: all time winning coach who wanted to come back home,
Speaker 1: a sant ex boy who went to Xavier, and I
Speaker 1: hope they're right with Rich Pattino. I hope Minnesota did okay,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to play basketball at Minnesota. Did better
Speaker 1: at New Mexico, and they went outside the family to
Speaker 1: pick someone. So we'll see what happens with that. But
Speaker 1: the life and times of Mike McConnell, May he live
Speaker 1: long and prosper in retirement. A News Radio seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW Bill cunning in the Great American Edition of Mike
Speaker 1: McConnell's Retirement. No, this is not a joke, It's not
Speaker 1: a game. He announced this morning, Mike McConnell is retiring
Speaker 1: with the thanks of a grateful nation. On I think
Speaker 1: Friday of next week will be his last show. But
Speaker 1: until then, Tommy thrall, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 1: And Tommy, first of all, give us an overview of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Reds. I have more optimism than
Speaker 1: I've had the past several years. What is right with
Speaker 1: the Reds. You have observed them now for many years.
Speaker 1: Terry Francona was on about an hour ago, kind of
Speaker 1: filling in some of the blanks. But can you tell
Speaker 1: the American people why we should be optimistic?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's a lot of reasons, Bill. I mean,
Speaker 6: for one, this team's made some upgrades, and I know
Speaker 6: that the thought is, well, it didn't seem like they
Speaker 6: did a whole lot in.
Speaker 4: The offseason, but they actually kind of did.
Speaker 6: I think Austin Hayes is going to be a really
Speaker 6: nice addition for this team. You look at the addition
Speaker 6: of Gavin Lux, I think he'll be a really big addition.
Speaker 6: You've also got some internal guys that are coming back.
Speaker 6: Matt McLean's going to kind of serve the role of
Speaker 6: like a huge free agent signing, just having him back
Speaker 6: from injury. So I think that's a really nice addition.
Speaker 6: A rotation stabilizer and Brady Singer will certainly help provide
Speaker 6: some stability to the bulb or to the rotation as well.
Speaker 6: So I think for all of those reasons, with the additions,
Speaker 6: there's room for optimism. And that's not even to mention
Speaker 6: how big of an impact Terry Francona is going to
Speaker 6: make I think the impact that he and his staff
Speaker 6: will have on this.
Speaker 4: Team is extraordinary.
Speaker 6: You look at a lot of things that this team
Speaker 6: did last year. I think they made a lot of
Speaker 6: correctable mistakes, to be honest with you, and I think
Speaker 6: this staff is going to make sure that some of
Speaker 6: those things are corrected.
Speaker 4: And I think just having Tito.
Speaker 6: At the helm really kind of just lifts everybody a
Speaker 6: little bit. You know, you talk to guys that have
Speaker 6: played for him before, you talk to guys that are
Speaker 6: on this team now, and one of the reoccurring themes
Speaker 6: is nobody wants to let him down. Nobody wants to
Speaker 6: disappoint him. And I think that's a huge impact. So
Speaker 6: a lot of reason for optimism, and I think this
Speaker 6: is going to be a really, really fun year.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of a scene from Yellowstone, my favorite series,
Speaker 1: when John Dutton. Of course he was killed, but Rip
Speaker 1: said to him, none of us want to disappoint you.
Speaker 1: That's why we don't tell you bad news. And I
Speaker 1: think Tito Francona is it's the kind of guy that
Speaker 1: the players I don't want to disappoint him, and that
Speaker 1: wasn't the case in years past. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: mention the successes or failures to David Bell, who I
Speaker 1: taught how to hit when he was a young boy
Speaker 1: playing amateur baseball over Buddy's house. But nonetheless, there's a
Speaker 1: respect factor that is with Terry Francona. He's done it all,
Speaker 1: He's got World Series rings, been in the postseason eleven times,
Speaker 1: he's he's coached thirty six hundred baseball games, came out
Speaker 1: of retirement. What do you kind of put more meat
Speaker 1: on the bones about the respect factor? The players like
Speaker 1: Dela Cruz and McClain hit a home run last night
Speaker 1: kind of has for Terry that wasn't there, and other managers, Hey.
Speaker 6: A little spoiler alert would be nice there before you
Speaker 6: give out the ending the Yellowstone.
Speaker 4: So for sire that.
Speaker 6: I think when you look at it, when you when
Speaker 6: you look at Tito, the thing about him, there's a
Speaker 6: reason he's had all the.
Speaker 4: Success that he's had.
Speaker 6: Sometimes there's intangibles with guys, and look the things I've said,
Speaker 6: I mean, no disrespect dated at all.
Speaker 4: I mean there are not.
Speaker 6: Many guys in the history of the game that have
Speaker 6: the respect of a guy like Terry Francona.
Speaker 4: There's just something about him.
Speaker 6: He's got the hit factor that you can't teach to anybody.
Speaker 6: You just have it or you don't, and and not
Speaker 6: many people have what he has to the extent that he.
Speaker 4: Does, and it's just I think one of it, or one.
Speaker 6: Of the things, is the fact that he is incredibly
Speaker 6: honest and open with everybody. Other people can try to be,
Speaker 6: he kind of takes that to new heights. He's just
Speaker 6: he's incredibly genuine with everything he does. He is unabashedly himself,
Speaker 6: and I think there's and part of that is because
Speaker 6: he's so confident in who he is. Of course, success
Speaker 6: can certainly breed confidence as well, but there's just a
Speaker 6: lot of things about him that not many people have.
Speaker 6: There are a lot of traits that make him a
Speaker 6: really really good leader that not many people have, and
Speaker 6: a lot of the things that some people have to
Speaker 6: work at to be a good leader he just has naturally,
Speaker 6: and it's.
Speaker 4: Really incredible to see it firsthand.
Speaker 6: So I think those are those are the things that
Speaker 6: make him so successful at what he does.
Speaker 4: No matter where he's been.
Speaker 6: You look at right when he took over Cleveland, he
Speaker 6: turned them into a winner instantly. It was a disappointing
Speaker 6: Boston team that he took over and took to a
Speaker 6: World Series immediately and they won. Like I said, there's
Speaker 6: just a reason that he's had all the success that
Speaker 6: he's had. And we've only seen him during spring training
Speaker 6: and you can already see it. So it's it's incredible
Speaker 6: to see. It's really been impressive to witness it firsthand.
Speaker 1: This is history repeating itself. You might recall in the
Speaker 1: late nineteen sixties, the Reds manager was Dave Bristol. They
Speaker 1: brought in a guy named Sparky Anderson had great respect
Speaker 1: first year in Read's once in the World Series in
Speaker 1: seventy seventy two, won it all in seventy five seventy six.
Speaker 1: After the late nineteen eighties we had the Pete Rose manager.
Speaker 1: They finished second every year, never got to the top.
Speaker 1: And then after eighty nine, the debacle in August of
Speaker 1: eighty nine, here comes a brand new manager, Lou Panella.
Speaker 1: What happened right to the World Series and so I
Speaker 1: see analogies between nineteen seventy nineteen, nineteen twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: and with there's a breath of fresh air. In fact,
Speaker 1: Barry Larkin referenced that and the story that I read
Speaker 1: online that you know, after the debacle of what happened
Speaker 1: in August of nineteen eighty nine and the team was
Speaker 1: to unFocus, shall we say, here comes lou Panella who
Speaker 1: wasn't a Red although Fancono it did play one season
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that nineteen eighty seven under Pete Rose
Speaker 1: and he said it was just a new attitude. We
Speaker 1: had the same team basically, but it was the leadership
Speaker 1: that was different, especially when Rob Dibble and the manager
Speaker 1: was what was rolling around the carpet of the clubhouse
Speaker 1: and I was there for that. That was scary, who
Speaker 1: knows what, But that's the kind of guy that he was.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless than twenty twenty five, this is the breath
Speaker 1: of fresh air that Barry Larkin talked about that the
Speaker 1: Reds need badly and do they have the horses because
Speaker 1: right now a jockey is great. You gonna have a
Speaker 1: great jockey, but damn it, you need a thorough bread
Speaker 1: underneath you. Is there a thoroughbread underneath the jockey? Tito Francona,
Speaker 1: he's the jockey, who's the thoroughbred?
Speaker 6: Well, I think you've got a few of them, and
Speaker 6: I think that's part of what makes this team so exciting.
Speaker 6: I think Hunter Green took a huge step forward last year.
Speaker 6: He's looked great so far in the spring, so I think.
Speaker 4: He's kind of taken that next step.
Speaker 6: So I think he fits that description as far as
Speaker 6: the rotation is concerned. And then in the lineup, there
Speaker 6: are a lot of teams that would love to have
Speaker 6: an Ellie de la Cruz in their lineup. The Mets
Speaker 6: went out and backed up the brinkstruck for Juan Soto. Look,
Speaker 6: the Reds have their Won Soto, it's Ellie de la Cruz.
Speaker 6: He's a budding superstar and this very well could be
Speaker 6: the year that he just takes off.
Speaker 4: He had a great year last year. There's no getting
Speaker 4: around it.
Speaker 6: I know you can talk about the airs, you can
Speaker 6: talk about the strikeouts, but you look at the numbers
Speaker 6: overall and the entire body of work.
Speaker 4: He had an amazing year.
Speaker 6: And that was just his first full year in the
Speaker 6: So this is gonna be a second full year, his
Speaker 6: third year overall, and I think it's got a chance
Speaker 6: to be a phenomenal year. So when you talk about
Speaker 6: thoroughbreds and superstars on a team. I think the Reds
Speaker 6: really have a couple of them, and then you add
Speaker 6: in the other pieces that we talked about before. Eventually
Speaker 6: this team's gonna get Tyler Stevenson and Spencer steerback in
Speaker 6: the lineup.
Speaker 4: Those guys are going to be a big booth as well.
Speaker 6: But you've got some guys that have been brought in
Speaker 6: that kind of take the pressure off some of the
Speaker 6: other guys in the lineup, and I think it just
Speaker 6: gets so much deeper so quickly.
Speaker 4: And you have Matt McClain hitting ahead of.
Speaker 6: Elie, so he's gonna have more opportunities with men on base.
Speaker 4: DJ Friedel's healthy this year at the top of the order.
Speaker 4: It's just it. When I look at the.
Speaker 6: Lineup when it's at its best, it seems to be
Speaker 6: a very well balanced lineup. But at the same time,
Speaker 6: they're gonna have to stay healthy, and I think that's
Speaker 6: gonna be one of the keys for this team.
Speaker 4: I think they can weather.
Speaker 6: Some injuries a little bit more, especially from a starting
Speaker 6: rotation standpoint, than they have in the past, because they've
Speaker 6: got some exciting young arms that are going to start
Speaker 6: the year in the minor leagues. They're gonna get three
Speaker 6: arms back as the season goes, and then you got
Speaker 6: to figure out where you're gonna put them.
Speaker 4: Guys like Andrew Abbott's gonna be back in the rotation
Speaker 4: very soon.
Speaker 6: He's probably only gonna make a couple of starts before
Speaker 6: he's back and fully healthy.
Speaker 4: R Att Louder is going to be available again soon, yeah,
Speaker 4: and then in a month.
Speaker 6: Or two you're gonna have Wade Miley ready to rejoin
Speaker 6: the rotation. So where are you gonna put all these guys?
Speaker 6: That's a question for people above my pay grade.
Speaker 1: Well, David Bell didn't have that problem. But one connection
Speaker 1: Terry Francona has is with Michael Jordan, the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time in basketball, and Pete Rose, the greatest Reds
Speaker 1: of all time. Can you imagine Francona, a new manager
Speaker 1: handling the Birmingham Barons, hopefully at some point maybe get
Speaker 1: back to the major leagues. He's spent about ten years
Speaker 1: as a player with the Expos and the Cubs and
Speaker 1: the Reds and the Indians and the Brewers. But in
Speaker 1: walks in the locker room in Birmingham, the Barons, Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: and here's the manager Terry Frank kind of explain that one.
Speaker 4: You know, that's a that's a tough one. I'm even
Speaker 4: fath that.
Speaker 6: I mean, think about think about a guy of you know,
Speaker 6: because when you're used to the minor leagues, these are
Speaker 6: guys that are future superstars.
Speaker 4: They're not already established superstars. Uh.
Speaker 6: The the circus, and there's not really much of a
Speaker 6: circus around minor league teams, But what it is is
Speaker 6: the prospect of guys.
Speaker 4: I just can't even fathom having a guy like that
Speaker 4: around a minor league facility. They're not they're they're not
Speaker 4: equipped for that.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: And so I just think about like the security headache
Speaker 6: that would go along with that.
Speaker 4: And then you have this personality of the not just.
Speaker 6: The greatest basketball player of all time, but one of
Speaker 6: the greatest athletes of all time on your team with
Speaker 6: a bunch of kids that are still young twenties and
Speaker 6: late teenagers.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine, Well, Michael Jordan at that
Speaker 1: point after the ninety two Olympics, he was he was
Speaker 1: bigger than Mine Tanna, bigger than John Dutton. And here
Speaker 1: comes Michael Jordan. He said, look, we have the wrong
Speaker 1: food here. They had boloney sandwiches. He had steaks and lobster.
Speaker 1: We got the wrong travel. Let's get a fancy bus.
Speaker 1: So they got buses with all individual seats. And then
Speaker 1: and then the trips out two events. It's Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: and here's Jerry Reinsdorf begging, begging. Terry Francona has sent
Speaker 1: them up to the major leagues. I mean, the owner
Speaker 1: of the White Sox also the owner of the Bulls
Speaker 1: still is wanted to have a weekend of Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: in a White Sox uniform. And Terry Francona said he's
Speaker 1: not ready, He's not ready. And Terry Francona stood down.
Speaker 1: Jerry Reinsdorf not to put Michael Jordan in Camiskey Park unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine if you would have stuck with it.
Speaker 6: I have no doubts with his athletic prowess that eventually
Speaker 6: he might have been able to figure it out how
Speaker 6: to play bay.
Speaker 4: I don't know that he ever would have been a good.
Speaker 6: Don't you have to believe with athleticism, yes, at some
Speaker 6: point he could have at least.
Speaker 4: Made a roster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Terry Francona is the manager and then
Speaker 1: a few years later, I'm sorry. Six years earlier, he's
Speaker 1: in the Reds locker room in Riverfront Stadium as a player,
Speaker 1: and Francona in the first game, opening game of eighty
Speaker 1: seven season, hits a home run and he's he told
Speaker 1: me that he felt he disappointed Pete Rose. He didn't
Speaker 1: play up to the level that he should have played
Speaker 1: in eighty seven, and Pete Rose made the decision at
Speaker 1: the end of the season to say, you know, you
Speaker 1: got to get about your your life's work. And after
Speaker 1: that he went to the Indians and the Birth if Somebody,
Speaker 1: and I was in the locker room often then with
Speaker 1: Pete I was doing the Next Your Inning show, and
Speaker 1: I barely remember Terry Francona in the corner with Luis
Speaker 1: Canona singing in a quartet. Have you seen her?
Speaker 4: Tell me?
Speaker 1: Have you seen her?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, I wish I had a video of
Speaker 1: that going on. So his connection with Michael Jordan, Pete Rose.
Speaker 1: If somebody had tapped him on the shoulder in eighty
Speaker 1: seven and said, guess what, You're gonna be a Hall
Speaker 1: of Manager and you're gonna manage the Reds, nobody would
Speaker 1: have believed it nobody.
Speaker 6: It's funny the way things work out, and I mean,
Speaker 6: it's just it just kind of goes to show you
Speaker 6: you never know what somebody's capable of until they get
Speaker 6: the chance. And he's certainly made the most of his
Speaker 6: opportunity and just truly an incredible career as a manager,
Speaker 6: and really glad that and we're really fortunate that his
Speaker 6: career continues now leading the Reds.
Speaker 1: Tommy Thrall, are you ready for tomorrow? Are you prepared?
Speaker 1: Are you geared up?
Speaker 3: I am?
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 6: I will be fully prepared by four to ten tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 4: I can promise you that.
Speaker 6: Still certainly some things to look over and articles to read,
Speaker 6: but yeah, no doubt by tomorrow at fourteen, I'll be
Speaker 6: ready when the bell rings.
Speaker 1: And you and Brandley, it don't get no better than that.
Speaker 1: And Tommy Thrall, the voice of your Reds, once again,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Lastly,
Speaker 1: I want a prediction. It's now October the third, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Reds final record. Give it to me. I'm
Speaker 1: right down.
Speaker 6: Oh shoot, let's say ninety two wins.
Speaker 4: For the Red Legs.
Speaker 1: That's a lot seventy.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna stay very optimistic.
Speaker 1: God bless America. Tommy Thrall, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: I thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more. I'll get my prediction later, which
Speaker 1: I think this club is going to do exactly what
Speaker 1: the seventy Reds did, exactly exactly what the ninety Reds did.
Speaker 1: A breath of fresh air, new leadership, new manager, and
Speaker 1: they're going to go for glory and for some the
Speaker 1: judgment seat of God. I believe that Terry Francona is
Speaker 1: Moses who will take us to the promised Land. Let's
Speaker 1: continue with more. Talking about Mike McConnell's retirement from seven
Speaker 1: hundred ULW so.
Speaker 7: A media person. You just can't stand what's going on there, Paul,
Speaker 7: what do you know?
Speaker 4: Marty Brennaman way too No it all drive menus listening
Speaker 4: to him? Dave, what's up?
Speaker 6: Steve Rawley Channel nine, Let's roll with Steve Rawley does
Speaker 6: the web?
Speaker 4: The guy is a weather terrorist, Sammy, how you.
Speaker 8: Doing doing greatly? Every Saturday morning, Gary Jeff Walker brings
Speaker 8: me down. I have to work at five o'clock in
Speaker 8: the morning every Saturday, and I'd rather listen to the
Speaker 8: two Nature guys with Kip Hart and I can't remember
Speaker 8: the other guy's name. Sorry, Gary Jeff Walker just brings
Speaker 8: you down. It just ruins my Saturday. Every Saturday, j
Speaker 8: W last, What's up?
Speaker 9: Every time I hear Scott Sloan's boy, I think of
Speaker 9: Rachel mad L He's got the most irritating voice.
Speaker 2: He's an idiot, you know when you hear him say Hi,
Speaker 2: my name is Scotne, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 4: Tom, what's up today?
Speaker 3: It's gotta be Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 4: Really yeah.
Speaker 3: You know how they say some people have a face
Speaker 3: for radio.
Speaker 2: Well, Cunningham's got a voice for writing books.
Speaker 1: Hello, quiet skulls, I'm broadcasting second after two o'clock. I mean,
Speaker 1: aiminar thing. They love us. They were supposed to cut
Speaker 1: that last part out. I think, I think so, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what. He's got a voice for writing books,
Speaker 1: writing books? How's that happen? I don't know. I haven't
Speaker 1: written too many books. There's a lot of love what
Speaker 1: for Scott Sloan? Not good? A lot of love for
Speaker 1: Gary Jeff not good? So what do you do? I
Speaker 1: mean Steve Rawley? Not much? Steve Rowley? What's he doing?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but I may open
Speaker 1: up the lines after two o'clock he's doing about say
Speaker 1: you were here this morning when the living legend Mike
Speaker 1: McConnell held up his his microphone and hooked his spurs
Speaker 1: in the wall for the final time. Your reaction will
Speaker 1: he Mike McConnell is a true professional, and it's been
Speaker 1: an honor to work for him through through midday, through everything,
Speaker 1: and especially doing the sports here the last what almost
Speaker 1: a year with him. He's wonderful to work with. Well,
Speaker 1: what of about me? I just spoke to Scott Reinhardt
Speaker 1: and d J Hodge. What about William sag in the morning?
Speaker 1: Would that be something? That would be something? Boy, imagine
Speaker 1: the stude that we could do. What, Oh, let's see
Speaker 1: your f five to nine?
Speaker 4: You could do?
Speaker 1: We could do that's right, we could do four stoods
Speaker 1: or five six? How about Dave Lapham and Dan Hord
Speaker 1: in the mornings? No, that goes that one. How about
Speaker 1: Marty Brenahan in the morning along with Jeff b That's enough.
Speaker 1: That's that's enough Jeff Brantley at five am? How about
Speaker 1: Eddy Fingers back in the morning? No, jeez, what about
Speaker 1: Rocky boyman in the morning. Yes, oh, maybe that's the move.
Speaker 1: What about Lamb does that he'd have to leave it
Speaker 1: at two and am to get here? What about Lance
Speaker 1: mcallist out there? No about red Eye in the morning?
Speaker 1: Just continue red Eye? No no, no, no, no, no, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: there's a yes in there. Well sega, was I gonna
Speaker 1: go new? Uh? Red It said, said, do you listen
Speaker 1: to red Eye? Will he the st supporters approuch service
Speaker 1: of your local Tame Star heating and air conditioning dealers,
Speaker 1: tame Star quality you could feel on the beautiful east
Speaker 1: Side called Clement's Heating an air at nine three seven
Speaker 1: four four four forty four oh one? About Jennifer Catchmark
Speaker 1: in the mornings? Will he college basketball? I woke up
Speaker 1: this morning and saw they saw the the news. Richard
Speaker 1: Patino is the new head basketball coach at Xavier University. Yes,
Speaker 1: is that Rick Patino? No, Richard Richard his son. He
Speaker 1: turned down, by the way, the Villanova job to take
Speaker 1: Xavier because Chris Mack wouldn't. I guess didn't pursue Xavier
Speaker 1: at all. What bite reports? Let me give you the facts. Okay,
Speaker 1: you fishes in a magazine stand, thank you? Do you
Speaker 1: want the facts go ahead. There was a private plane
Speaker 1: leaving Naples, Florida, with the numbers being tracked by Xavier
Speaker 1: Faithful that went to Charleston. Was it Joe Sunderman and
Speaker 1: Byron Larkin pilot and co pilot can't say okay, and
Speaker 1: then to allegedly pick him up and bring him to
Speaker 1: Victory Parkway. Always Victory. That was all a bunch of bs.
Speaker 1: By the way, it didn't happen. They interviewed Chris Mack.
Speaker 1: Chris Mack showed great interest for the job. Great Christopher said,
Speaker 1: we'll get back to you. If they interviewed him. What
Speaker 1: kind of staff would you have? Who's the team going
Speaker 1: to be? We got this, you got that. He's got
Speaker 1: an eight year old boy. He wanted to want to
Speaker 1: go to Deer Park High School. And if he go
Speaker 1: to Deer Park, oh okay. The kids is saying, next,
Speaker 1: try to go to Deer Park. They can't get in.
Speaker 1: And so he showed great interest to give a yes.
Speaker 1: Well that's going on. Great Christopher has in his back
Speaker 1: pocket the name of Richard Patino, and they make a deal.
Speaker 1: And then Christopher called back Chris Mack and said the
Speaker 1: timing isn't right. We wish you well in all your efforts.
Speaker 1: Why don't you release first that you're staying at the
Speaker 1: College of Charleston. Why don't you release that an hour
Speaker 1: before we release it to make it look as if right?
Speaker 1: I see what you mean, But those are the facts
Speaker 1: as I know them to be at this point. The
Speaker 1: Lobos went twenty seven to eight this past season, and
Speaker 1: in four years with a Lobos eighty eight and forty nine,
Speaker 1: and he's bringing with him supposedly a couple of star players.
Speaker 1: Sounds good to me because I'm a Chris macfan. My
Speaker 1: wife hired him as the assistant freshman coach correct at
Speaker 1: Mountain Notre Dame High School. She started his pat the
Speaker 1: Glory and he's the winningest coach in school history. Correct,
Speaker 1: That's correct. And they turned him down for Richard Patino.
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Speaker 1: Frank Zi Bell. He's running a special cat. I just
Speaker 1: texted with Frank. He's a good man. Kentucky meets Tennessee
Speaker 1: Friday Night in Indianapolis and the Sweet sixteen. We understand
Speaker 1: the Big Blue Nation has arrived in the home of
Speaker 1: the five hundred. You mean Xavier, No, I'm talking about Kentucky.
Speaker 1: A lot of orange and big and blue. A good
Speaker 1: friend of mine is Kenny Smith, who lives in Louisville.
Speaker 1: His heart beats for Kentucky basketball. He and his wife
Speaker 1: Diane will be there in Indianapolis cheering on Mark Pope
Speaker 1: and the Wildcats. By the way, the Wildcats in Kentucky
Speaker 1: were named after the Deer Park Wildcats. Are you aware
Speaker 1: of that? Bengals update brought to you by Good Spirits
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Speaker 1: are the Bengals are now fully prepared to negotiate a
Speaker 1: new deal deal with Trey Hendrickson. The trade is off
Speaker 1: the table. They won Henderson and back, so I guess
Speaker 1: they're talking deal deal right now as we speak. And
Speaker 1: you know the last thing he did was talk for
Speaker 1: Deer Park High School. You aware that? Correct? Russell Wilson's
Speaker 1: getting a one year, twenty one million dollar deal with
Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants. Who's their quarterback?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: Any idea? I guess Russell Wilson at twenty one million bucks,
Speaker 1: you better play, but only twelve million is guarantee free eight.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe he might not be able to laugh
Speaker 1: at that. The free agent wide receiver receiver Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 1: It's going to the New England Patriots three year, sixty
Speaker 1: nine million. Red's Update. The Reds have just placed Austin
Speaker 1: Hayes on the injured list with a calf injury, a
Speaker 1: low grade calf injury. Hencer Spencer Steere is active, going
Speaker 1: to DH and play the outfield. So he's okay, didn't
Speaker 1: you play that? Didn't he hit? Last night? Right now?
Speaker 1: Ben Brady Singer and Tyler Stevens are going to ride
Speaker 1: in the opening day parade tomorrow. I understand they may
Speaker 1: come on the show with a tomorrow. Is that what
Speaker 1: you're saying? I don't know, Michael Anderson, is that what
Speaker 1: you're saying?
Speaker 4: More?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? More to night on the
Speaker 1: Hot Stove League get six oh five right here on
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW course. Our award winning opening day coverage
Speaker 1: begins tomorrow as the Reds meet the Giants at Logan
Speaker 1: Webb v. Hunter Green. By the way, Xavier got played
Speaker 1: again by a coach. Would you agree Miller played him?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 1: Was Miller time and he's off to Texas. Boy that
Speaker 1: the choir used that term betrayal, it's a little strong.
Speaker 1: Would you agree if what if somebody offered you double
Speaker 1: or triple your money? Would you go work at thirteen sixty?
Speaker 1: Are you crazy? Of course you would. Nine am Live
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Speaker 1: Miami University dot Speaking of Miami University dot com, Miami
Speaker 1: University Love and Honor is now the official university of
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. What does that mean joining one of
Speaker 1: the National Football League's most exciting franchises as an educational partner?
Speaker 1: Of course, Paul Brown graduated from Miami in nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: and he was a charter member of the Cradle of Coaches.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: So let's see, Miami students are going to have exclusive
Speaker 1: opportunities to be involved with the Bengals through internships, job shadowing,
Speaker 1: on campus speakers, and many other opportunities. That's good for Miami,
Speaker 1: the Cradle of Coaches and good for the Bengals segment.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of people dumping on the Bengals. It's time
Speaker 1: we rally around the flag. Boy, rally around the flag.
Speaker 1: Congratulations last night we'll lead to the Cincinnati Bearcats. Ay
Speaker 1: not baseball, Bearcats a knockoff number eighteen Louisville twelve to two. Well,
Speaker 1: and how about last night and golf golf? You see
Speaker 1: men's golf out in Eugene, Oregon, finishing sixth overall in
Speaker 1: the Duck Invitational part at the University of ore Again
Speaker 1: into Miami RedHawks golf team who were down here about
Speaker 1: a year ago or so. Remember them? Yeah, Miami RedHawks
Speaker 1: are going to compete in the championship match tomorrow against
Speaker 1: Seaton Hall into Sweeten's Cove Intercollegiate Tournament tomorrow morning in Tennessee. Well,
Speaker 1: what about good luck to them? I think good move
Speaker 1: the cradle with coaches. No college in America has more
Speaker 1: college football coaches come out in Miami, would you agree? Correct? Unbelievable. Well,
Speaker 1: you're not really talking those segment about Mike McConnell. You're
Speaker 1: ignoring the fact I said I was leaving. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: what any way you think I think I may do
Speaker 1: the morning show, and that is.
Speaker 4: That I am going to retire one.
Speaker 5: Why because I'm old. I'll be here through next week
Speaker 5: and that will be it. I'm not taking any more
Speaker 5: time off. I'll be here every day through next Friday,
Speaker 5: and we'll pull the plug on it then.
Speaker 1: So thought about it for a long time, and I guess,
Speaker 1: like three years.
Speaker 5: Ago when I signed my present contract, pretty much made
Speaker 5: up my mind was going to go last one and
Speaker 5: told management over a year ago. So I'll miss a
Speaker 5: lot of aspects of it, but look forward to it.
Speaker 5: At the same time, I'll have no regrets because I've
Speaker 5: done this for a long time. I did the math
Speaker 5: realized that I started doing this for a living in
Speaker 5: April of seventy five, so that's fifty years and that's enough.
Speaker 5: So I've enjoyed it, great job most of my life,
Speaker 5: and I will miss it, and we'll have plenty of
Speaker 5: time to talk about it between now and then.
Speaker 4: But that's the announcement of the day.
Speaker 5: Next Friday is my last day on the radio segment.
Speaker 1: Your reaction. Quite a fifty year career there. Well, they
Speaker 1: started at a gym, sety a date and playing records
Speaker 1: and with Eddy fingers yep, and has send it into
Speaker 1: midday greatness. After what After Alan Gardner and Randy Michaels
Speaker 1: took over. In between them is Pat Barry. He gotta
Speaker 1: do the weather. He's in heaven above, ye to doing
Speaker 1: the weather. And then then Mike McConnell took over, and
Speaker 1: then he went to Chicago, and then he came back
Speaker 1: and took over for the legend, mister Jim Scott, the
Speaker 1: living legend, correct, Mike McConnell, the dead legend, Jim Scott.
Speaker 1: And if he's not in heaven above, there's not a
Speaker 1: heaven above. Amen to that. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But there's nothing more constant segment in life than change.
Speaker 1: Do you want to get up at three? Well, I
Speaker 1: mean I live right there, right your proximity to the state.
Speaker 1: I live right there. You could walk here and be
Speaker 1: here in five minutes. I could get up at four
Speaker 1: point fifteen am instead of two forty five am, as
Speaker 1: Jim Scott did, Mike McConnell does. Yeah, Now I could
Speaker 1: be here by four forty five. I could get up
Speaker 1: at four thirty five, take a shower, get dressed, shave,
Speaker 1: and be in the studio at five o'clock, do five
Speaker 1: to nine, take a little break, then come back twelve
Speaker 1: to three. Then what I did after in the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties, cool to the extra inning show, then
Speaker 1: do that then come back. That wouldn't that be something
Speaker 1: sure would for no other No rais in money, of
Speaker 1: course not. I don't want. I don't do it for
Speaker 1: the money. I do it for the glory, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens, Okay. Segment I'm gonna spend
Speaker 1: two to two thirty talking about the life and times
Speaker 1: of Mike McConnell. Plus, I love that cut of listeners
Speaker 1: calling in criticizing the stars of the Big One, including
Speaker 1: one Scott Sloan and rip it on Gary Jeff. He
Speaker 1: does a good jeez, A living legend in his own
Speaker 1: mind too. Yeah, aren't we all? Yeah? Segment, Get me
Speaker 1: out of the Stude's Report and we're gonna open up
Speaker 1: the lines in about five minutes Willie and Hotter of
Speaker 1: a opening day Eve, here we are. Segment. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give a speech. I'm not gonna start in eighteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1: I never get past nineteen nineteen. I'm gonna start in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty to come us up to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: You won't get past nineteen sixty. Then see if I
Speaker 1: think you better just mention start now. Yeah, they cut
Speaker 1: me off in midstroke. Well that's your problem. We leave
Speaker 1: you with the immortal words of this stood report.
Speaker 3: I'm Pat Berry on news Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 4: Radio has no future.
Speaker 1: Well there you go. Radio segment has no future, no past,
Speaker 1: and no present. Okay, yeah, let's continue with more. And
Speaker 1: after two o'clock you and I are going to talk
Speaker 1: about Mike McConnell and the personalities here. And who do
Speaker 1: you recommend to take over the morning show? Willie and
Speaker 1: Sege's top of the list. It may be up to
Speaker 1: Sega John John John John possibly think about that. I
Speaker 1: think Kid Chris on a simulcast on seven hundred WLW,
Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham. Now it's time to hear from you. One
Speaker 1: a't you? You appear on seven hundred WLW Now by
Speaker 1: calling five one three, seven four nine seven thousand per
Speaker 1: pound seven hundred to respond to what's happening we just
Speaker 1: played about twenty minutes ago with the seg Man. Some
Speaker 1: of the comments of customers. In other words, you as
Speaker 1: a listener as to what's right and what's wrong, what
Speaker 1: should we do, what shouldn't we do? And Mike McConnell
Speaker 1: anounced this morning that he's retiring with the thanks of
Speaker 1: a grateful station a week from Friday, about nine days
Speaker 1: from now, and that'll be it. In my time here.
Speaker 1: The first morning man was Gary Burbank, the second one
Speaker 1: was Jim Scott, the third one was Mike McConnell. Now
Speaker 1: the fourth one is to be determined. I have a
Speaker 1: pretty good indication which direction it's going, but nothing is
Speaker 1: solidified yet. And maybe it's your time to time to
Speaker 1: kind of call in to talk about what you would
Speaker 1: like to see newsweather, traffick in sports, and so much
Speaker 1: more in the morning. Some have suggested that Willie and
Speaker 1: Seg do the morning talk show between five am and
Speaker 1: nine am. That's a possibility, of course. Eddie Fingers is
Speaker 1: the legendary radio personality that began with Mike McConnell some
Speaker 1: fifty years ago in Dayton area, and now he's doing
Speaker 1: afternoon drive quite well. He was always my replacement for
Speaker 1: Gary Burbank. When Gary gave it retired about ten years ago.
Speaker 1: I had Eddie Fingers pinch hitting constantly for Gary to
Speaker 1: get him ready, and he's doing a great job. He's
Speaker 1: a legend, and maybe it's time to return to Eddie
Speaker 1: Fingers of the Morning along with Rocky Boyman and rock
Speaker 1: Lives a Far Away. But let's face it, in today's world,
Speaker 1: wherever you are, you're broadcasting from. So we got that issue.
Speaker 1: Andy Furman, quality person, quality broadcaster, spent many years as
Speaker 1: a sports talk host. Maybe it's someone like Scott Sloan.
Speaker 1: He's a contractor, he's with the skilled trades. He's up
Speaker 1: every day anyway at four am, servicing his numerous apartments
Speaker 1: and projects he is and Mason and Warren County. Maybe
Speaker 1: that would fit his schedule better. We only succeed when
Speaker 1: we listen to the customers, and you, as a person,
Speaker 1: are a customer of this sacred radio station that I've
Speaker 1: had the honor of being out for the last forty
Speaker 1: two years and hopefully many many more years to come.
Speaker 1: When I lose the passion, that's when I'm going to stop.
Speaker 1: But us go to the calls and seven nine seven pounds,
Speaker 1: seven hundred to want to give Mike a proper salute.
Speaker 1: I think between now and Monday or Tuesday, things is
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit accelerated with Red Spaceball
Speaker 1: tomorrow picking up the pieces of opening Day, honoring Jim Scott,
Speaker 1: who went on to his reward in Heaven about a
Speaker 1: year ago. And then on Wednesday of next week, the
Speaker 1: Reds are off playing I'm off. The Reds are playing
Speaker 1: and I'm off. So it's your chance to be heard
Speaker 1: about what Mike McConnell has meant to you over the
Speaker 1: last almost forty years he's been here. And then also
Speaker 1: who you would recommend doing the morning show, because we
Speaker 1: listen to customers and you're the customer, you're the client.
Speaker 1: We don't talk to a one hundred thousand peace people
Speaker 1: in one location. We talked to one hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: a day individually, one to one. Me and you. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the calls seven four nine, seven thousand or
Speaker 1: pounds seven hundred through eighteen t Let's go to a
Speaker 1: Doug in Columbus and Marvin and Love in the Home
Speaker 1: of the Tigers, and uh, first of all, Doug, give
Speaker 1: me your criticism or compliment, and who do you think
Speaker 1: should do the morning show here?
Speaker 9: If anyone, Well, I really like Mike McConnell. I think
Speaker 9: you should do the morning show would be good. But
Speaker 9: what I really miss about WLWL a thirty five year listener,
Speaker 9: and I miss all I know you had Cobaca abb
Speaker 9: at one time, and I know he's passed, and Mike
Speaker 9: had Donald don Yeah and Rodwood.
Speaker 4: You guys don't do.
Speaker 9: Any of them characters anymore. I knew someone would plants,
Speaker 9: but I thought that was very entertaining you guys had.
Speaker 1: But Dick from Dayton is not a plant. Kabaka abba.
Speaker 1: The black man is for the black woman, the white
Speaker 1: man is for the white woman. He was a real person.
Speaker 1: I don't know about plants. I had Loo from Missouri,
Speaker 1: and I had a bunch of others, Glenn from Mason
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, it might be a character or two.
Speaker 1: But you think Willie and seg would do well in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 9: I think so.
Speaker 2: I think you do fine.
Speaker 1: Let me give that some thought. I like getting up
Speaker 1: early and I'm an early riser anyway. But uh, what
Speaker 1: do you say about Mike? What are you saying anybody
Speaker 1: with Mike Allen senior or junior? You don't like either
Speaker 1: one or both?
Speaker 9: I neither one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll pass that on. But Doug, thank you and Uh,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. We've had a run of morning
Speaker 1: talk show host here unprecedented and radio. When I came
Speaker 1: in eighty three, believe or not, the morning man was
Speaker 1: Gary Burbank, and then about a year and a half
Speaker 1: later it was Jim Scott, and then about thirty eight
Speaker 1: years later it was Mike McConnell. And now we're on
Speaker 1: to the next generation. And uh, you know, all I
Speaker 1: can say is it's been one hell of a run.
Speaker 1: And at this point, uh, you know, we everything ends
Speaker 1: at some point or another. And uh, at some point
Speaker 1: that tower one exists. You know, radio right now is
Speaker 1: on your cell phone, you at the iHeartMedia app, and
Speaker 1: you don't need a tower anymore. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: sad to see him go. And I want to interview
Speaker 1: Mike McConnell on uh on Thursday or Friday of next week. Uh,
Speaker 1: when when he's signing off? And uh, and uh, I
Speaker 1: have great respect he's on my Mount Rushmore. How about
Speaker 1: my Mount Rushmore? I got Gary Burbank, Jim Scott, Mike McCollum,
Speaker 1: me anyone else you put on there.
Speaker 2: Uh that's Tory strong.
Speaker 9: SAT's pretty strong.
Speaker 1: Well, right, that's not bad that's not bad.
Speaker 2: No, that's not bad.
Speaker 1: That's not bad.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 9: More is that Glenn, the Glenn guy called in all
Speaker 9: the time?
Speaker 4: Was that on your show? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was me, Glenn F. Mason was an angry black man,
Speaker 1: and uh he died. I was notified a few years ago.
Speaker 1: In fact, I go to the I go to the
Speaker 1: coroner's office. This is on fifteen years ago. I was
Speaker 1: still practicing law. I had a murder case and I
Speaker 1: went to get some autopsy notes and this guy comes
Speaker 1: up to me, test me the shorder. He says, willly,
Speaker 1: it's Glenn, and I'm looking at him. I said, well, Glenn,
Speaker 1: nice to know. I'm Glenn. Glenn from Mason worked in
Speaker 1: the Morgue. He handled bodies in the morgue. I said,
Speaker 1: are you serious? It was a black guy. And we
Speaker 1: laughed for a while, and I said, do you believe
Speaker 1: all the crap you tell me? He said absolutely.
Speaker 4: And I forget.
Speaker 1: I forget what happened to him. But Glenn from Mason
Speaker 1: worked in the morgue.
Speaker 3: Well, what that's funny.
Speaker 1: Well it's funny at the time. But Doug, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: You're the best thing. Let's move on out to Greg
Speaker 1: and Milford and many others, and Greg give a compliment
Speaker 1: or a criticism or a suggestion. What do you got, Lily?
Speaker 1: How are you, sir? I'm doing well? Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks So you're a short notice on getting our Morning
Speaker 2: guy replaced. But I heard you say the other day
Speaker 2: on the radio that you were on your last four
Speaker 2: year contract.
Speaker 4: Are you leaving after that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't you know. Tomorrow has promised to no one.
Speaker 1: And I signed a four year contrast extension about it
Speaker 1: about three weeks ago. And I and Greg, as long
Speaker 1: as you welcome me into your home, your car, as
Speaker 1: long as I have listeners, I have great advertisers, I
Speaker 1: have energy. As long as I want to do it,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it. And right now when I
Speaker 1: talk to those like Joe Dieters or Eddie Fingers, and
Speaker 1: I talked to individuals John Barrett, those guys, and they
Speaker 1: tell me you're not much different now than you were before.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I don't know that's good or bad,
Speaker 1: but I have every intention of being here forty six years.
Speaker 1: Like Marty Brenneman forty six years with the Reds. I
Speaker 1: want to be here forty six years. What can I say,
Speaker 1: we had an equipment malfunction, but we're back. And by
Speaker 1: the way, we had a caller criticizing Mike Allen Senior
Speaker 1: and Junior. That is misplaced. I love Mike Allen Sr.
Speaker 1: And I love Mike Allen Jr. They pinch it for
Speaker 1: me on Sunday nights on my syndicated show, and Premier
Speaker 1: tells me they're among the best hosts. They have taken
Speaker 1: over from me, So you'll never hear me say a
Speaker 1: bad word about the Allen clan. I think they do
Speaker 1: good work and God knows they're good lawyers. Speaking of
Speaker 1: those characters, we have Richard from Indian Indian Hill calling in.
Speaker 1: Richard from Indian Hill. Richard, how are.
Speaker 2: You, Willie? How you doing, my man?
Speaker 1: I haven't heard from you in a long time? Are you?
Speaker 1: And Tracy Jones still find private.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely the only way to fly, especially today in
Speaker 2: today's climate, for sure. But actually I've got a little
Speaker 2: bit of scoop here for you. So there is a
Speaker 2: rumor going around that that morning spot with McConnell's spot
Speaker 2: is going to be taken by Tracy Jones and Alan Cutler.
Speaker 2: It's going to be like sports and politics.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, Richard, you run around with Tracy. He's
Speaker 1: a cufflinker, he's a key shater. He's living the life
Speaker 1: of ease and comfort as a market manager. Would he
Speaker 1: would he agree to get up a three o'clock every morning.
Speaker 1: Tracy Jones, the great number twenty nine and let the
Speaker 1: ball go through his legs Opening day in left field.
Speaker 1: I still recall that I was in the left field
Speaker 1: bleachers and his ball was hidding Tracy Jones, the old
Speaker 1: number twenty nine. The ball went right through his legs.
Speaker 1: He thought he was playing croquet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the thing. Tracy's already up because he's
Speaker 2: trading on international markets and he's I mean, the guy
Speaker 2: barely sleeps. I bet he sleeps three hours a night.
Speaker 1: He's up and he's concerned about Asian markets early in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's all over global markets. I mean
Speaker 2: it's you know, he's trading currencies he's doing. I mean
Speaker 2: it's the guys. He runs it at net great speed,
Speaker 2: kind of like you you know. But don't you think
Speaker 2: him and Alan Cutler would be a good combo.
Speaker 1: I've always had great respect for Alan Cutler.
Speaker 4: I know that, And well, you're you're.
Speaker 2: One of a few, because I mean he's taken a
Speaker 2: lot of heat. I mean, I remember him and Tracy
Speaker 2: had some differences in the past, but I think they
Speaker 2: patched it up, and you know, I think he'll be
Speaker 2: I think they made you great combo, don't you whether.
Speaker 1: News rather traffick in sports? And you know, some of
Speaker 1: the best radio I hear is Tracy Jones with Marty Brenahan.
Speaker 1: They're pretty good. But let me make that list.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Well, what's your memories of Mike McConnell. Is not like
Speaker 1: he's gone yet, but he's leaving a week from Friday. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you think about Mike?
Speaker 2: Mike Mike was a was a great talent. I kind
Speaker 2: of liked him a little bit better before he left Chicago.
Speaker 2: I feel like he kind of went a little bit
Speaker 2: left when he went up to Chicago. But overall, I
Speaker 2: think he's pretty good. I mean, he's he's great. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's an icon, don't you a.
Speaker 1: Great He's on my Mount Rushmore here at least the
Speaker 1: last fifty years. I mean it's well, I got Gary Burbank,
Speaker 1: I have Jim Scott, I got Mike McConnell. And I
Speaker 1: have me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I would think that too. I thought
Speaker 2: you were going to say, Gary Jeff Walker.
Speaker 1: Well, he's one of the boulders in the background. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a boulder, he's there. But Garry Brett Walker,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he's been ready about forty five or
Speaker 1: fifty years. He knows everything. He can do FM, AM.
Speaker 1: Mike McConnell can do morning Drive on AM. He does
Speaker 1: FM like Edy Fingers did morning drive on FM, now
Speaker 1: doing AM. And both those characters can do anything they
Speaker 1: want to do and they keep doing it. I do
Speaker 1: one thing simple, but I have great respect for Mike
Speaker 1: because he did it for so many years so well.
Speaker 1: And believe it or not, Richard from Indian Hell, we
Speaker 1: have more listeners now than we've ever had before, and
Speaker 1: it's because we got rid of all the competition. In fact,
Speaker 1: in Tracy Jones's model, we bought the competition. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, we own right, that's what Tracy would do,
Speaker 1: just buy the competition. But I'm going to put a
Speaker 1: call into him when I get off the air to
Speaker 1: see how how interesting he is in alleys quick question fabulous.
Speaker 2: One quick question? How many wins do you think the
Speaker 2: Reds are going to have this year?
Speaker 1: I got my list here, I got Moegger said eighty three.
Speaker 1: Tommy Thrall said ninety two. I'm going I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: down my wins. I'm gonna say eighty six. I got
Speaker 1: on the last eighty. How many do you say, I'm going.
Speaker 2: To say ninety one. I'll bet you a hot Pudge Sunday.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you Jeff Ruby steak.
Speaker 1: I'd rather about a hot Fud Sunday at UDF. One
Speaker 1: of our advertimes, maybe a hot Fud Sunday and a
Speaker 1: Jeff Ruby stake.
Speaker 2: Ninety one is you know UDF has that Sicilian pizza which.
Speaker 1: Is great that they brought it in yesterday and I
Speaker 1: thought it was fabulous. You know, I love you. I
Speaker 1: love hometown companies in UDF, Jeff Ruby, Ron's Ruth Skyline
Speaker 1: that those are my hometown guys, and I always you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still with Cincinnati Bell Alti Fiber. I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1: I'm a hometown. I still shop with Kroger despite public.
Speaker 1: So I want to go to I want to go
Speaker 1: to Kroger. I want to be hometown, I said, Pee
Speaker 1: and Jam buy all their products, right.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't normally eat him and Agger food
Speaker 2: like that from a gas station, but I will say
Speaker 2: this that that Pacilian pizza that they have at UDF
Speaker 2: is top notch.
Speaker 1: Now, why did you call Tracy? And I'll call him
Speaker 1: and let's see what we can do about that.
Speaker 2: That sounds good. I'll reach out to him right now.
Speaker 2: I say we get Tracy jones On, maybe Allen Cutler.
Speaker 2: If he can't do it, so be it. Maybe he
Speaker 2: could be a guest like or something.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Andy Firman. Get Andy Furman in the morning.
Speaker 2: How about you. That would be a good one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what about normal Rashid bring somebody back from the TV days?
Speaker 1: Bring them back, unlike Xavier basketball, bring back the Goldies,
Speaker 1: bring and bring them.
Speaker 2: All back exactly.
Speaker 1: Richard. Good to hear from you, and you're a great America.
Speaker 1: Good luck with the new G seven you got coming.
Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1: Have a good one, God bless Let's continue with more
Speaker 1: two thirty Home of Your Reds and Mike McConnell's saying
Speaker 1: goodbye on News Radio seven hundred WLM.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: Anyway, long story short.
Speaker 7: To get up to this resort town, you had to
Speaker 7: do a big back and forth zig zag switch back
Speaker 7: all the way up the mountain, which wasn't sitting well
Speaker 7: with SEG's motion sickness, I guess. So we first determined
Speaker 7: it was better if Seg sat in the front seat.
Speaker 7: This was just to go home or to leave and
Speaker 7: go somewhere. He'd be in the front seat, and he
Speaker 7: was okay for a while, but then needed actual drama. Mean,
Speaker 7: now we had a driver, and it's like that, like
Speaker 7: to drive in the snow, and that's fine, he said.
Speaker 7: He took my advice because I said, if you're not
Speaker 7: good at it, just stay home.
Speaker 4: If you're good at it, go have a good time.
Speaker 7: He decided he wasn't good at it, and he stayed
Speaker 7: home the other day, and I salute him for that.
Speaker 7: But we had drivers there, so Seg had to take dramamine,
Speaker 7: and then instead of doing it more than once a day,
Speaker 7: he would just go down the hill once, go into Alberville,
Speaker 7: and then come back late at night, even though you
Speaker 7: had time to go back and forth. But he didn't
Speaker 7: like that switchback up and down the mountain. And the quote,
Speaker 7: which I remember countless. I'll tell people this quote many
Speaker 7: times of this day, was along the lines of the
Speaker 7: Hell with Korsheval. Give me cole Rain Avenue. I mean
Speaker 7: it was the most beautiful, one of the most beautiful
Speaker 7: spots on earth, certainly in the winter, breathtaking views, everything
Speaker 7: there was. I mean, you couldn't have afforded to stay
Speaker 7: there if Coca Cola wasn't paying for it. Everything about
Speaker 7: it was beautiful, Everything about it was spectacular, and seg
Speaker 7: had finally had it with the mountain.
Speaker 4: It was the Hell with Courchival. Give me cole Raine Avenue.
Speaker 1: Oh hello, bietmos, I'm broadcasting. You said, a minute, hang on,
Speaker 1: that is a I no, it's I do not remember
Speaker 1: saying that. In nineteen ninety two we had a great
Speaker 1: time Mike and call in Bert Bill Franks Mike twenty
Speaker 1: ten segment. In fact, you were having champagne with Jean
Speaker 1: Claude Keeley and you said, give me cole Raine Avenue.
Speaker 1: Remember that year, you know how, Jean Claude Keeley, we
Speaker 1: wanted to know if there was a ski resort there
Speaker 1: and you said, Hey, Sean Runky, you've been on Coleraine Avenue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a few times. One is more gorgeous Grenoble, France in
Speaker 1: the Alps, or shall we say cole Raine Avenue, Coleraine Avenue. Sorry,
Speaker 1: nothing against France, but that's the way it goes. So
Speaker 1: you're you're calling Mike McConnell. I didn't get that. I
Speaker 1: didn't have that much I have. I get air sick.
Speaker 1: I don't get car sick. We came down that mountain
Speaker 1: every day and every and every night. What happened? It
Speaker 1: was nothing. Did you not open your eyes and you
Speaker 1: see the beauty of the app I saw it, and
Speaker 1: you said, give me Colrane Avenue. We were right on
Speaker 1: the precipice of the Alps. Jean Claude Keeley, what's wrong? Yeah, France,
Speaker 1: you were there, the great one we passed, We passed
Speaker 1: the sign Grenoble, France. I got out and I laid
Speaker 1: on the ground. It's sacred ground in Grenoble, France with
Speaker 1: the great French skier. When you drive through Colrand Avenue,
Speaker 1: you do the same thing, get out and get on
Speaker 1: the ground. Yeah. But I say, I I I I uh,
Speaker 1: I sing the fight song. I bet Mike McConnell. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you leg he was years well. I mean stop
Speaker 1: at Jim City, the famous you know, his famous him
Speaker 1: and his famous Christmas message, pretty good show doesn't get
Speaker 1: any better than that. Now, not bad now. He was
Speaker 1: more or less conservative. He spent four years in Chicago,
Speaker 1: came back a liberal. Have you notice that infected with
Speaker 1: the virus of liberalism? I would say, I hate to
Speaker 1: say it, but yes, he's a liberal. I hate him,
Speaker 1: and I think Eddie's a little liberal too correct. I
Speaker 1: think Rocky is not as conservatives as you should be.
Speaker 1: I'll say that. But he's got He's all I hear.
Speaker 1: He's off for Green Township. Trustee, why you want to
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Speaker 1: Please continue logan web up against Hunter Green tomorrow and
Speaker 1: the opener seven hundred ww's coverage live Holy Grail nine am.
Speaker 1: The over under, by the way, is seventy nine and
Speaker 1: a half.
Speaker 3: Brentwin Spring Championship Baseball to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: He didn't say when. He did not say when. It's
Speaker 1: the r Arnel Carriers Opening Day spectacular. Will you be
Speaker 1: there with me? Segment yes, one to two, then Lance
Speaker 1: and made two to three. Yea, possibly, Sabo. We'll have
Speaker 1: a lot hopefully we have a lot of great guests,
Speaker 1: will you. I'm sure the Reds will help us out.
Speaker 3: I am so excited about this team. I'm just getting
Speaker 3: pumped up about it.
Speaker 1: Roster moves today at his opening day E don't tell
Speaker 1: me the I L. Austin Hayes on the I L
Speaker 1: with a low grade calf injury. According to Terry Francona
Speaker 1: doesn't know how how he did it. I don't know Spencer,
Speaker 1: So why we got one on the I L and
Speaker 1: Spencer Steer is back. He's on the active roster after
Speaker 1: that shoulder injury, the mystery mysterious shoulder injury. But he
Speaker 1: can play right. He played the d H at the
Speaker 1: start of the season. Hit last night, didn't he.
Speaker 9: Jack McKeon said, this year we got more mrit line.
Speaker 1: Stuart Fairchild has been designated for assignment. Stuart Fairchild, he
Speaker 1: was with them last year. Don't you pay attention to nothing,
Speaker 1: not really. Brady Singer and Tyler Stevens are gonna gonna
Speaker 1: ride in the Opening day parade tomorrow. He's got plenty
Speaker 1: of free time, is he off the d l on
Speaker 1: the iel Brady Singers? Okay, Tyler Stevens has got the oblique?
Speaker 1: What's an oblique? It's right there. It sounds like a
Speaker 1: French problem. It's what you did to that microphone a
Speaker 1: few minutes ago. Can you believe this thing popped out
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it didn't work and there
Speaker 1: was ninety five people come in this room. They think
Speaker 1: you were laying on the flour again. Do you need
Speaker 1: a Do you need a nurse? Yes? To sit here
Speaker 1: with you? You know I need Sarah Elise, That's what
Speaker 1: I need. You want Sarah. You get the nurse in
Speaker 1: the morning, don't you no? Because they're they're on vacation. Kid,
Speaker 1: Chris went to Disney World. Too many people here to
Speaker 1: take too much time off. I'll say that that's one
Speaker 1: right there, that's one. I'm just saying. Let's see, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a good, good dose to me the next
Speaker 1: several months, though, I guarantee the Los Angeles Dodgers are
Speaker 1: gonna meet it, gonna be honored at the White House
Speaker 1: April seventh. Are they consenting to go? Are they? I
Speaker 1: don't know that. I think they got war plans that
Speaker 1: they got want to set up in Yemen them in
Speaker 1: the Eagles. The Miami University Love and Honor has been
Speaker 1: named the official university of the Cincinnati Bengals. How about that?
Speaker 1: So the Bengals in Miami. That ties their run deep
Speaker 1: as Paul Brown graduated from Miami in nineteen thirty, a
Speaker 1: charter member of the university's famed Cradle of Coaches. Who
Speaker 1: was presidents segment in nineteen thirty one? And uh, don't
Speaker 1: tell me who it was? Coolidge? Tell me who it
Speaker 1: is Calvin Coolidge? No before or after? Can't say answer
Speaker 1: the question? Nineteen thirty one. Give me a hint. H h.
Speaker 1: Hubert Humphrey. No, not Hubert Humphrey, Herbert Hoover right there.
Speaker 1: You must have gone to Cole Raine. I just did
Speaker 1: that to make me no you, Yes, I did. What
Speaker 1: was Calvin Coolidge's president? What year? I have no idea?
Speaker 1: Nineteen twenty four to nineers. Here he is this broadcast tonight,
Speaker 1: This is who marks the beginning of the mobilization of
Speaker 1: the whole nation for a great undertaking nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 1: Security for those of our seems who throw during the
Speaker 1: coming winter. They're together segment. I hope Jim Nance what
Speaker 1: going to retire from calling the masters in twenty thirty six,
Speaker 1: the one hundredth anniversary of the Masters. He's got eleven
Speaker 1: more years. Yeah, Jim Nance, I'm announcing that Cradle and
Speaker 1: the Tiger is playing at a level unknown to mere mortals. Mortals.
Speaker 6: Now he is primed to take home this fifth green jacket,
Speaker 6: nor again his quest for the per master in the
Speaker 6: unit the years first major.
Speaker 1: He's going out with Trump's granddaughter. It didn't like any master. No,
Speaker 1: it's Donald Trump Junior's wife, ex wife. She's got five
Speaker 1: kids with him. Now he's got two or three we
Speaker 1: know about. So they got yours, mine and ours. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell the Tiger Woods has
Speaker 1: got now five kids all of a sudden, well, plus Chazz,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior's ex wife and him. They got divorced
Speaker 1: about three years ago. She had she's with Tiger and
Speaker 1: they said he was snuggling and humbling and like an
Speaker 1: hammock and put it on the internet. Did all this
Speaker 1: stuff and said, I want my privacy, having ten million
Speaker 1: people look at him, I want my privacy. He's like
Speaker 1: snuggling and like other people around here, like a little privacy.
Speaker 1: But you got the five kids on one side, the Trumpster,
Speaker 1: and then you got I think he's got two boy
Speaker 1: and the girl that we're aware of, probably got a
Speaker 1: couple of running around he paid off. That's a different
Speaker 1: story with that pancake waitress. I don't want to go
Speaker 1: in the background. So he's now hooked up with a
Speaker 1: Trump and Donald Trump Junior and Donald Trump Senior. The
Speaker 1: President has givin tiger. They're blessing. Have at it. Your
Speaker 1: comments please. Unbelievable. And where's that International House of Pancake Waitresses?
Speaker 1: I don't know where she was it ponter Vita, Florida.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't he don't she? I'm not sure where it was,
Speaker 1: but got a pancake order to go? Yeah, sure did? Anyway,
Speaker 1: what about it? What about these war plans? What can't
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the war plans that you like? What
Speaker 1: you what do you think like Yemen's gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: like do something about it. We can go over there
Speaker 1: and bomb them and they'd be they'd beat nothing. But
Speaker 1: you know what about five seconds? Well, you know they
Speaker 1: did not investigate the thirteen service personnel murdered at Heaven's
Speaker 1: Skate in Kabul, Afghanistan. Democrats want nothing to do with that. No,
Speaker 1: And they had a president for two or three years
Speaker 1: completely dysfunctional, national security problems all over the place, dysfunctional
Speaker 1: and able to talk using his auto pen. Now the
Speaker 1: Democrats have an issue, a little hooked hang their hat
Speaker 1: on as if it's a big deal. It's not. How mny.
Speaker 1: By the way, was it a successful flight? Was it
Speaker 1: a successful attack?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They put the bomb right in that guy, correct, the
Speaker 1: girlfriend's house in any service person not get hurt. And
Speaker 1: it's by by Loretta. They're looking for an issue to
Speaker 1: blast Trump about. That's all about me. That's amazing. How
Speaker 1: you can put a we can put a ball indo
Speaker 1: or a drone in a in a front window in
Speaker 1: the house. I guess, I guess kaboom. I guess Abdullah
Speaker 1: was visiting his girlfriend or something and they were lit
Speaker 1: up together. Now they're I guess they're with the seventy
Speaker 1: two virgins somewhere. Yes, so I'm not sure. And now
Speaker 1: the Democrats are unhappy with that. They ignored Tesla. Of
Speaker 1: course a problem with Tesla. In the attacks on Tesla,
Speaker 1: I saw somebody that they had one of those cyber
Speaker 1: trucks that he's selling. Yeah, and they had Toyota on
Speaker 1: the back of it. Like, what's that going to do?
Speaker 1: Then some guy took an axe to one of them
Speaker 1: in a parking lot. It didn't Dan Domestic terrorism segment.
Speaker 1: Domestic terrorism segment. You need to get one of those.
Speaker 1: I would look good in that, wouldn't I. I would
Speaker 1: never buy an EV I might buy one. Now, I
Speaker 1: might buy one. I'd like to roll around with that
Speaker 1: and just yell at people. I guarantee you like to
Speaker 1: yell you that. You would pull into the driveways it
Speaker 1: and one human being would tell you get rid of it.
Speaker 1: Who's that? Who might that be? Joseph Chevrolet Coran, the
Speaker 1: first lady of the Tri State would say, get that
Speaker 1: out of here. I want to surprise her with mister
Speaker 1: big boy, large statue in the front yard, getting that
Speaker 1: double decker and the batch of lights on it. I
Speaker 1: want to get a flying pig, get a pig in
Speaker 1: the back, and get mister big boy in the front.
Speaker 1: They're still in a cage somewhere in East Wanted Hills.
Speaker 1: I like, I've offered five thousand dollars. I won't pay
Speaker 1: more than that, and I'll pay to have a transporter.
Speaker 1: But then you can get a Dolly and get Dolly
Speaker 1: boy and a Dolly Dolly. Well, Dolly is his girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Well they had a divorce. Oh well, and she got
Speaker 1: the hand handle it. Yes, she got the hamburger and
Speaker 1: the cherry coch. You handle that with a magic man
Speaker 1: and everybody, Yes, the magic man and Randy freaking unfreaking believable.
Speaker 1: Andy mack Sega's added in Sports by the Wire, be
Speaker 1: you better want to be in Grenoble Friends more than
Speaker 1: Coleraine Avenue segment. That was nineteen ninety two, Willie, that
Speaker 1: was a long time ago. But thanks, we had a
Speaker 1: great time again A good sponsor segment. What about Izzyes,
Speaker 1: you forgot about izzies? Didn't you came in today? You
Speaker 1: got your izzy corn of beef? Yep, Mike, we got
Speaker 1: I got a beautiful roast beef sandwich. Willy, it was
Speaker 1: delicious about the big Joe Walder, We've got the pancake cake.
Speaker 1: Nothing better, nothing better, nothing better, pickles, everything else, you
Speaker 1: ate them all. You ate the styrofoama came in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was even good, just ate through it. Just put
Speaker 1: some mustard on there and had the Kmodo dragon just
Speaker 1: eating through it. Man, it's great, it's great. Thank you
Speaker 1: Izzies and pickles. I love the pickles. Oh delicious, great pickles.
Speaker 1: Everything on that menu. I could eat it all in
Speaker 1: one spot. And you do. Yeah. Tomorrow you and I
Speaker 1: wantn't we invite everyone to come down to the Holy
Speaker 1: Grill and why not? You and I will be there
Speaker 1: between one and two. Two to three is last on
Speaker 1: the pregame show. I think all the stars and the
Speaker 1: bigger one will be there. Are both of them? Got
Speaker 1: flown and Scott, Sloan and mo and don't forget you
Speaker 1: got Eddie, Eddie, and don't forget the rock Rock will
Speaker 1: be on her all they got they got to get
Speaker 1: up early. Eddies may be beginning up early in the future.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say much more than that. I can't say,
Speaker 1: can't say. It's say, be the dawn patrol a M.
Speaker 1: Don't use this signal app to communicate on who's the
Speaker 1: new morning man? Okay, don't use this signal app? Okay, okay, well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get congressional investigation, won't say, John John, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, John John. What morning man Tiff or maybe
Speaker 1: Tiff the morning woman? Maybe you and Elise in the morning.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something, Sarah? Elise would be something. She's gorgeous.
Speaker 10: Will you need a thinking.
Speaker 1: Don't look at me? What would the people's judge say
Speaker 1: about this? There'd be two questions, One, what do you guys?
Speaker 1: You would it all? You would need the magic man
Speaker 1: and a few others in there, and then you would
Speaker 1: be headed to Columbus in front of this.
Speaker 10: Oh so really you'll be like this time next year,
Speaker 10: Willy will be like, please, don't even look my way.
Speaker 1: I know that you're my age.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 10: When Willy stops checking you out, that's when you know
Speaker 10: it's over. I still need him to be a PERV
Speaker 10: with me. I need for myself.
Speaker 1: Lilly is a PERV with you? I've seen it first. Fine,
Speaker 1: I'm like coup in a few minutes there. Well, Sarah,
Speaker 1: if I were younger, I would I would gladly engage
Speaker 1: in coitus with you. What do you like to engage
Speaker 1: in coitus? But as soon as a dirty talk dirty
Speaker 1: to me? Willie say, coitus again, coitus. I enjoyed coitus.
Speaker 1: But once that's as I know, I'm screwed.
Speaker 10: But I think I did hit a point where I'm like,
Speaker 10: oh my god, dudes in like their sixties and seventies,
Speaker 10: or like, no, she's way too old.
Speaker 1: You're too old, you've aged out.
Speaker 10: Oh my god, eighties nineties death bad.
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Speaker 11: The whole town's daddy about sending Sinnati water team.
Speaker 4: Water team?
Speaker 3: What a team?
Speaker 11: We hope each man and a lady from one to eighty.
Speaker 11: How they scream, how they said, how they screamed?
Speaker 1: Sarah Elite.
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Speaker 11: Can tell you all I had?
Speaker 5: I had it?
Speaker 4: This year?
Speaker 11: It's Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: What a team? Lot a team?
Speaker 11: What a team?
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