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Reds
The Reds mustered up 3 hits yesterday afternoon against the arizona diamondbacks in the series finale
Andrew Abbott was excellent going 7 innings giving up 4 hits and only 1 earned run. He did strike out 4 as well.
Brandon Fahdt looked like prime Randy Johnson against this lineup. He went 7 innings as well only allowing 2 hits and striking out 9.
Santiago Espinal’s solo home run was the only run production of the game for the Reds.
Elly was benched and India was scratched with a migraine
The big news somehow wasnt the loss, it happened before the game when Nick Lodolo was put on the injured list for a groin injury.
The Reds are back at it tonight at 10:10 where Brent Suter will act as the opner against Tyler Glasnow
Around the league
Giants beat the dodgers 4-1to avoid the sweep
The angels win 7-2 over the cardinals to avoid the sweep
Astros win 3-0 over the athletics
Rangers shutout the guardians 4-0
Yankees shutout the twins 4-0
Cubs win a game against atlanta 7-1after being shutout the previous two nights
Rays win 4-3 over the red sox
Phillies crush the mets 10-5
White sox get their 14th win over the nationals winning 2-0
The rockies have won 7 in a row they finish finishing off the sweep over the padres 8-0
Brewres win 10-2 over the pirates
NBA
Celtics win the series over the Cavaliers 4-1 after winning last night 113-98 . Jason Tatum scored 25 points with 10 boards and 9 assists in the win. Al horford contributed 22 points in the win as well. No donovan mitchell proved difficult as nobody could produce any offense other than evan Mobley who scored 33 points.
The Mavericks won 104-92 to take a 3-2 series lead over the thunder. Luka dropped a 31 point tripe double in a bounce back performance. Derrick jones jr added 19 of his own to help the cause.
Tonight, game 6 of the nuggets vs timberwolves series heads back to Minnesota where the nuggets have a 3-2 series lead and are 2.5 point dogs
NHL
The Avalanche stay alive beating out dallas stars 5-3
MLS
FC cincinnati scored a goal off the header of Kevin Kelsy in the 7th minute to take a 1-0 lead.
That lead stuck all the way til the end and the orange and blue have won 5 consecutive games.
PGA
The pga championship is underway at valhalla golf club in louisville kentucky, and we have 5 guys off to an excellent start at 2 under par.
Doug Ghim, xander schauffle, rory mclroy, jordan spieth, viktor hovland -3and sahith theegala.
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e e and now the starting lineup of your favorite show at producer 511 from Blanchester the cow killer Casey mccollister and comic engineer standing at 48 the pride of the West Side Elliot rearing your host weighing 15 Bel so from Hamilton Ohio H fou all right here we go welcome in to Off the Bench presented by United Dairy Farmers I am Trace Fowler Elliot rearing case mcoll is in the house and I was told today that we were on tick tock tick tock oh yeah baby Ticky talk uh yesterday you uh you gave this a test Casey and uh about four minutes in it said that there was copyrighted material that uh they were no longer recommending the program and I just want to say that if that’s the case then it’s going to get copyrighted every day because just because our voices and I guess the set we’ll see how we navigate those Waters but uh congratulations to whoever it was you Jeremiah Elliot I don’t know who exactly ultimately figured out everything but uh yeah I’m glad we’re on Tik Tok good job yeah I mean uh I I feel like uh we we kind of made it right we’re getting yeah that’s our own content copyright we made it we made that’s what I get from that that’s right that’s what I’m thinking as well it wasn’t so much that we got a studio wasn’t so much that we started our own show it wasn’t so much that we got the ESPN Dayton on uh on the the home of the best sports coverage in the Miami Valley 1410 Wing a.m it has now been cemented that we are the uh that we have made it to the mountain top because we are on Tik Tock my Mountaintop moment wasn’t Tik Tock Casey it was actually Rumble once we I was we were going to R I knew I knew I was at the Pinnacle I knew I was at the peak Nick CW says avoid those Peaks and valleys well I say nay to that let’s go to the peak that is Rumble all the way up top yeah speaking of Peaks and valleys I’m sure we’ll have a discussion about the Cincinnati Reds at some point they they are finding themselves in valleys more more times than Peaks so perhaps to be fair to Nick crawl maybe that’s what he meant he was just trying to stay out of the gutter and he’s just he’s realizing that that’s where exactly where the red are right now and we’ll we’ll have discussion about that we have headlines as always uh the Bengal schedule we got some discourse I see some discourse online so people that are frustrated three games in 10 days we’ll have a discussion about that uh and then around the world you know we like we like to keep things uh geopolitical around here as we always do very very serious Sports Talk Show and on a very serious sport Sports Talk Show You must uh you must talk about all the things around the world so that’s on the headlines as well we have colins we’ll see where the show takes us I know one thing that uh that I am very very pleased to be is here and uh not at the uh PGA championships watching Michael block that’s right poor Michael block and this is a guy I think everybody kind of started picking on him because of his silly little reactions you know they told him he was paired up with Rory he cried they told him what what event did he make last year he got a lot of praise for all that I think people got I don’t think so I think they I think they’re picking on him now no no no they got tired they got tired of of just he to hear about him over and over again he started showing up in commercials it’s almost like the um with this weird social human Dynamic that we have right to where you can appreciate something that’s happened but then it’s almost like there’s a line that gets crossed at some point about too much popularity for somebody that doesn’t uh I guess quote unquote deserve it yeah Michael block somewhere along the lines had crossed over that line to where he went from the most beloved person in golf to where I guess some people in golf started to get tired of the ACT they get tired of the shtick and that’s okay listen I he had his run in the sun it was magical everybody loved it when it when he made what was the hole in one it was the hole in one he had yeah um he had a hole in one during the practice rounds as well did he really uh PGA yeah did he really he did this guy’s the greatest golfer of all time he might be better than Nicholas and that’s a fact and that’s why everybody hates him they hate him because the they ain’t him and that’s and that’s just where they are but oh I forgot to mention this uh driving in this morning uh another opt obstacle another obstacle yeah so right before right before or right after Ross high school they have added a traffic light right in the middle of the road right in the middle of the road well that’s usually where they put him Elliot well unfortunately this traffic light’s special because it’s only there for construction purposes which means that light isn’t a normal light it just goes whenever the hell they want it to go off so I was there sitting there today 10 minutes 11 minutes 12 minutes and 13 minutes go by and then finally the guy manually flips the switch manually flips the light to Green so that’s what I have to look forward to every morning but that’s a joy listen every day is a gift art lovely um all right so some some so there’s a stutter say it again stutter yeah I stuttered through that one listen sometimes you stutter when it’s early in the morning I guess 10: a.m. is not really early uh the Reds if you didn’t watch yesterday you were at work you were doing something important uh you just don’t like watching them I’ll tell you what happened the Reds mustered up three hits three hits um in the in the series finale against the Arizona Diamondbacks Andrew abbit was really really good he gave up uh one run on four hits in seven Innings struck out four as well for what it’s worth Brandon fought he looked like Prime Randy Johnson against this lineup he went seven Innings get allowed two hits struck out nine batters Santiago espanol a guy that I’ve been told is a really good player by Randy G on Twitter I’ve been told Santiago espedal is the next coming so Santiago espol is his solo shot was the only run production this team had uh good for him I guess he increases that average to 192 uh Ellie Ellie and India didn’t play Yesterday India was scratched due to a headache and we have Ellie DEA Cruz was benched I guess for rest Allstar Manager David Bell I wish you would have picked a different day to rest Ellie De La Cruz perhaps not on a on the on the finale of a series where you’d like to win it but uh to each their own to each their own the big news somehow was not the loss it was our starting pitcher Nick ldo he has been placed on the injured list due to a groin injury the reds are back at it tonight at Trace would like this 10:10 p.m. where Brent Suter will act as the opener against Tyler glaz now so shout out there um we do have some audio from David Bell we’ll play later uh but around the league uh the Giants they beat the Dodgers 4 to1 to avoid the sweep yesterday the Angels they win 7 to2 over the Cardinals to avoid their sweep the Astros the Houston Astros they won 3 nothing over the Athletics the Rangers Shut Out the Guardians 4-n the Yankees shut out the twins 4-0 the Cubs who had not scored a run up until yesterday in their series with Atlanta finally wins a game they scored seven they won seven to one um and good for them I guess another divisional team wins when we lose the Rays They Win 4 to3 over the Red Sox the Phillies they crushed the Mets 10 to5 the white socks get their 14th win of the season over the Nationals winning 2 I can’t even act like that’s uh a big deal anymore I can’t even be sarcastic with 14th win uh because they’re almost at with how many wins the Reds have which is 17 so I’m sure I’m sure the Reds will be last in the MLB by no time uh the Rockies talk about a team that was bad they have won seven straight games the Colorado Rockies have won seven in a row they finish off another sweep over the San Diego Padres so so it looks like even the worst teams in the league are getting how many do they got how many wins do they got um I think they got they went seven in a row my guess is uh you think they’re at 16 maybe I’m going go with 14 the Rockies have won seven in a row they are 15 and 28 wow so we we are bordering the last place the reds are 18 and 25 18 and 25 it’s just I mean um continuing on though uh the Brewers won 10 to2 over the Pirates top of the division gets hotter NBA last night Trace do you watch any NBA uh I actually did yes I watched the yeah yes I did I watched the the Mavericks they uh they played the Oklahoma City Thunder that’s right I watched a good amount of that that’s right a very good amount of it and U and I I actually turn it off with like three minutes left which was maybe a rookie mistake yeah because it was a little lopsided the score was just out like I think it was like a 12 13o game with two or three minutes left which to be fair in the NBA is is is not as crazy as a maybe a college basketball scho I think it’s worse I think it’s worse in the NBA because I think they give up I think they give up quicker in the NBA like College college kids College college it’s not outlandish college kids will keep fouling down eight yeah and I don’t understand that because they can’t score eight points in seven minutes if you give them a chance to well I’m just saying at least in NBA they have the ability to get three straight threes yeah they might drill three or four straight threes College it takes Virginia specifically it takes them about 12 minutes to get eight points well the Maverick shout out to the Virginia uh they helped me win my bet NC State against Nick Kirby um the Mavericks won 104 to 92 to take a 3-2 series lead over the Thunder as Trey said Luca dropped a 31o triple double in a bounceback performance Derrick Jones Jr added 19 of his own to help the cause tonight game six of the Nuggets versus Timberwolves series they head back to Minnesota nuggets have a 3-2 series lead they’re two and a half Point underdogs tonight the other game yesterday the Celtics they won the series uh uh 4 to1 they beat the Cavaliers Donovan Mitchell nowhere to be found I guess he was hurt 113 to 98 they win uh Jason Tatum scored 25 points 10 boards nine assists one assist away from the triple double Al Horford contributed 22 points as well um Evan Mobley for the Cavaliers was the only person that could score he had 33 points uh NHL Casey the Avalanche they stayed alive last night and they beat the Dallas Stars five to three that they did that they did um you know uh I watched the Reds game yesterday I watched FC Cincinnati yesterday yeah um didn’t have much energy to to watch the Avalanche my my avalan I I hate to admit that yeah but I was getting a little defeated because we have this group chat you me and Reed yeah and I just get bombarded every time the Dallas Stars and Avalanche go at it and uh it just always seems like they get down early and I just get got these texts like oh here come the Stars here they come right early goal here we go and I just give it a while I’m just biting my time waiting waiting box score watching and just patiently quietly waiting final score ends up being 5 to three and I don’t hear a peep from these guys after the first goal they just silent as that’s usually what Cubs fans uh do is that they get really excited at the beginning of things because they don’t have nice things usually now we can’t really speak a whole lot here in cinin about nice things but we’ll just keep it with the Cubs what they do is they get really excited at the beginning and then it all falls apart at the end it it really is a it’s a it’s a story it’s a story told every year yeah I thought after the second trimester I really did I really thought I thought the uh I thought I thought the the stars were going to pull it out but again I don’t care Reed cares I couldn’t care any less than I care about that series uh you said FC Cincinnati well guess what they played last night Wednesday 7:30 Peak Trace you were there uh was not I got busy again I I I promise I’m going to get down to tql not again no I promise I’ll get go I you know I’ve just been busy lately he’s been real busy I think he’s going to continue to be busy even when he’s not busy uh FC Cincinnati they scored a goal off a header by Kevin Kelce Casey’s guy in the seventh minute to take a 1 lead that lead stuck all the way till the end of the game orange and blue have won five consecutive games Casey I know they’re on a roll on a roll Uh Kevin Kel’s really provided a spark I think he’s still kind of working out some chemistry with the the wings oh yeah but that’s what I Noti too the difference is the chemistry he has with aosta um that that that has been the night and day difference with this team it’s kind of like Jordan and Pippen sure yeah yeah um yeah guys clean it up over there man damn we got we’re on the radio you guys are Elliot do you know anything about the radio you broke me on that one you broke you got me on that one listen every once in a while Trace gets me and that was a good one pleas Kevin Kelsey’s been the spark that we did moving on move on go on oh they won right yeah they won one n they won one n oh man what what an exhilarating game that would been scor the seventh minute nothing after well they just held on they Park they parked the bus I think that’s the phrase they use in in soccer and by soccer I mean football they had headlines before we break uh PGA Championship it’s underway as as Trace mentioned earlier Michael block is not in the lead uh but we do have five guys that are at two under par we have Doug gims Ander shafley Rory mooy Jordan spe and sah thala Victor havland my guy is three under through four and those are your headlines and that is your first segment that is our first segment on 14 wi 1410 Wing a sorry you know we had a perfect show going as we all know I mean it was perfect I just blew the perfect game speaking of blowing perfect games uh we’ll talk about the Reds offense right after this on 1410 Wing am all right welcome back in this is Off the Bench presented by United Dair Farmers Trace fower Elliot rearing Casey mccollister on your lovely Thursday Edition here on 141 wi a.m and uh we just got through headlines it was uh it was a little rocky I think that was great a little rocky we we we got through it though we had we had some situational awareness there where where it took us a couple minutes to reel it back in after uh Casey was going through our very pristine FC Cincinnati coverage but I look at the next headline and here we go again you know I gotta be honest I I I I I got to do a show every single day and I usually think first of all I should have done this at the top of the show I’ll do it now the top of the second segment please thank you to Tom for coming in here and really saving me um when when we talk about uh taking one for the team Tom took one for the team I really much appreciate that and uh I think I’ve already said this before out loud like I I I I am tired right now and I no excuses but I just I’m I’m worn out exuses I’ll be curious to see how you’ll be tomorrow yeah I won’t be here probably yeah iig there’s a really good chance of that I probably won’t be here uh 1010 start time tonight for your Le red legs if you’re going to stay up and watch them and uh you know here’s it’s the same same same song and dance and I just can’t believe that people want to tunee in and listen on YouTube and or 1410 W a.m. and listen to us do the same old song and dance like we just can’t do that today we can’t do that we’ll talk about the Reds for a minute but then I want to talk about the Bingle schedule talk about the NFL we’ll have some fun today that’s right because I mean there’s only so much fun you can have and when I mean so much fun I mean not fun at all talking about the Reds and it’s because of time and time again you you you see it like my thing is this and and I’m not here to like wave wave my hand in the air and say Hey listen I told you so that’s not what I mean by this but I I strictly say said right during that Philadelphia Philly series at home I said if the Reds can go 13 and 17 four games under 500 yeah which I thought was reasonable I thought you know what this is something I can we can aspire to do and have expectations that this should be the case you know when the sales manager comes in and they’re like you know I know I know your quot is a half a million a year but let’s be honest I really need a I need 275 out of you you can kind of you can kind of take that one of two ways some people think you’re going to take that and slack off some people take that and say you know what that motivates me because I actually have somebody I have something I can actually obtain sure I thought 13 and 17 was realistic boy was I wrong I mean I don’t know what they’ve been since but it feels like they’ve won a whopping maybe three games since I’ve said that yeah I think I think that is the number I think it is three games which is sad I I looked at the lineup yesterday after was scratched and I said this isn’t a major league team it’s not I I I mean no disrespect to Conor capable uh Jacob heres and who else uh we have Mike Ford hitting third uh Santiago espanol we have who who’s uh who’s T meeley Luke mey’s there too I mean that’s like what six guys I just rattled off that aren’t Major Leaguers that we have hitting in in in positions that they shouldn’t be hitting in so yeah I this this team is is not what we thought it was they can’t survive this stretch uh I I’m not I’m not down I’m just out I’m not I’m not down I’m just out and and you and realistically you take a look at the roster you you can’t see anything else it’s impossible for you to look at it and we’re taking we’re taking shots off the bow with nickola we’ll talk about that in a second injuries are killing TJ Fredo came back for a day it’s not a good it’s not a good team there’s there’s no bright side here and it’s and it’s not because the team stinks it’s it’s not because any of that and they do stink right now but it’s because we don’t have the roster that we thought we had coming into this season it’s not even close yeah nowhere close to the same roster I’d argue this roster would have a losing record in Triple A I’d have I I I’d argue that I know come that now the only reason that you can’t say that with a straight face is because of the pitching and that’s the most frustrating part of all this I would say is that it’d be one thing checking out or giving up or or just casting it off is a will worry about it next season I mean there listen reasonable Minds would maybe already be there but I also think that there’s this semblance of the most frustrating part of all of it is that not only do you have a situation where you look at the you look at the box scores not the box scores you look at the standings and you look at the record and you’re incredibly frustrated but then the most frustrating part to me is that you look at what the starting pitching staff has done yeah and you could not genuinely have asked for a better start to the season than the starting pitching you just you you find yourselves losing these one-run games every way imaginable it’s it’s the setup man that blows it it’s Fernando crw continues to get two outs in an inning and for whatever reason you get two outs you give up two three hits in a row and they score a run they let her run across heaven forbid the offense come in and save the day though just one time just one time just come in and score like maybe you give up two runs but then you score three runs that doesn’t happen what they ultimately do is they find a way to make it just close enough and then they rip the rug right from underneath you it’s like the old peanuts you know they they put the they put the ball on the ground you go to kick it they pull it away from you every single time and I I’m with you I’m not giving up on the season because they are only like this is the most ridiculous baseball thing that everyone does at the beginning of every season you ready for it they’re only two and a half games out of a wild card position right now and there’s like a billion games left to be played so I will say that the season’s not over but when you look at this roster and you look at the way this team plays on a night in Night Out basis it’s just not entertaining to watch like you only watch it because you’re a Die Hard you only watch it because you you like just love the game you don’t watch it because they’re entertaining right now they’re absolutely disgusting it feels like uh I I don’t I I I’d give a bad analogy right now but it it’s just uh we we’re all living through it and the question of the matter is is like is there an end of this tunnel that has light at the end of it and I don’t know if their answer is yes if we’re being honest know how you can say there I don’t know how you can say there is and I’m praying I’m knocking on wood if Ellie De La Cruz suffers any sort of setback any sort of injury that that involves him missing a week two weeks what is this team what are they cuz they’re not good yeah we have three guys hitting above 250 three we got one guy and I say this with love and respect with Will to will Benson you have 63 strikeouts 63 strikeouts on May 16th and you don’t play every day how is that fathomable I you have you lead the league in strikeouts lead the league you’re not it’s just it’s just one of those things where uh yes sure are we all in the are we all in a slump together are all these guys playing as bad as they can at the same time yeah but I’d argue the ceiling what you’re hoping they can be isn’t much higher and that’s and that’s my problem right now I can’t ask Conor capable to come up here and hit 300 can’t do it you can’t ask Santiago espanol to hit 450 300 not going to happen he’s got a play every day you got Lukey hitting a buck 30 a buck 30 a guy that I liked coming into this season a guy that I argue could have been the starting Catcher by the end of this season it’s just not what I thought it was the starting pitching has been what I thought it could be the starting pitching’s lived up to the height a realter named house uh chimes in here our brother Shytown although I changed the name so I can’t say it’s shy toown but he did say uh let’s all jump on the white socks hype don’t forget the Brotherhood of here eff the Cubs I don’t know what’s good for radio and not but I I don’t know if you can say that I eff you can say eff though yeah 100% but uh here’s the thing am I going to jump from the Reds to the to the to the white socks bandwagon no I can’t do that that’s a sad can’t I can’t jump bandwagons period but I’ll tell you this if I had my pick of the litter the white socks aren’t coming up first can I ask you that’s yeah they would be last I would say thetics they’re pretty close yeah let me ask at least at least the Athletics you got a new city to go to Sacramento too Ellie De La Cruz took his first game off yesterday he pinch hit in the game to be fair yes he did do you agree with that decision by All-Star Manager David Bell uh I said this yesterday I I think that for a guy that young I do consider that a day off I I get the logic of thinking you know if you’re going to give a day off he doesn’t play at all but this team’s just this team’s won struggling too much to maybe do that to where that’s the argument I think that could be had or made period is that when you’re struggling this much um does a guy like that get a day off period he hasn’t had a day off all season yeah you have a day game you’re going to La is he going to sit in La at a point no I mean he’s not going to sit for a for a night game in La um so you know I was fine with it I really was fine with it I mean at the end at the end of it all if if we’re relying on a 22-year-old basically rookie to to not be able to take a day off for you to be able to survive then you’re not worth surviving in the first place that’s that’s kind of my thought it’s uh you know I I think when you lose everyone wants to blame something or they want to point towards something to give it some blame the blame should just go St strictly to the fact that they don’t have enough good good big league players it’s it’s genuinely as simple as that I’m not going to make more out of this than than need be I know that you know on a talk show you’re supposed to speculate you’re supposed to try to keep things entertaining you’re supposed to try to make something out to be that it’s not from time to time I’m just not going to do that I’m not going to do that because I think that this team isn’t good right now and their lineup is trash and ultimately that’s what leads to scoring one two maybe three runs and by gosh if they get hot they’ll score five the lineup could not be worse so that’s where we’re at you have a problem with Ellie sitting yeah I did I I I think if you’re going to give him an off day a you do it you do it against a lefty in my opinion and then B you don’t do it in in a game where you can actually win a series get some momentum for your team I thought that was a bad decision by again All-Star manager David Bell I thought that was silly I thought that was nonsense and then it just got C and I think it once India once that India decision was made I think then you have to put him in that’s fair because once India was scratched due to again I’m not going to disrespect a migraine I’ve never had a migraine I know how bad they suck saying that having India get scratched due to a headache is brutal when you have an offense that legit can’t get on base whatsoever to save their life to save their life they can’t get on base and once that decision was made Ellie de la crw should have been back in the lineup because how are they supposed to I’m again I’m not going to go too much into it Trace just said it you can only beat this dead horse for so long it went will Benson the strikeout King he let off Jake fry very good hitter against righties very good he went over for four yesterday but very good he bat second Mike Ford is batting third no disrespect to Mike Ford but in what world after that you have Spencer steer struggling I mean there’s just no doubt about it ever since the first month I would say three weeks of the Season Spencer steer has been struggling you have cander who’s been playing better at the five spot I like that but then we get to this part of the lineup Conor cable Santiago espanol Luke meeley Jacob her Jacob herbes yeah I mean he just you can’t win with that there’s no there’s no team in the world that wins with that they scored two runs yesterday trace it felt like the Reds were never in it it felt like the Reds were that Santiago espanel solo shot to tie the game I was still like what do we I mean that was the first hit of the game what do we going to do after this what’s the what’s the plan you tied it who’s going to score next because they don’t hit with runners in scoring position they don’t get on base for anybody to hit them in and if they could hit them in they wouldn’t hit them in in anyway I I I I just I there’s there’s nothing be positive about you lose nickol Lolo to theil how soon before somebody else goes to the iil let me ask you this let me ask you this cu the starting pitching has been very good and we’ve talked about it what happens when they collapse because water always Finds Its level and there’s a chance that the starting pitching is not going to throw seven inning scoreless gems all right let me let me let me will you step back from that ledge my friend uh please sure shout out 988 if you need help text or call 988 um water will find its level we can’t so we can’t say that with the starting pitching and then not say it about the hitters so there’s that um I also think that this Bullpen has struggled during during the back end of games here recently and unfortunately that’s been the cause of a couple losses and you mix that up and you have an equation of a bunch of losses and I and I’m not saying that that there isn’t reason for concern but I don’t think that this is really a mystery as to why they’re losing that’s the good news yeah there’s no good news is is we kind of know the problem the bad news is is I don’t know if there’s help on the way uh Nick Lolo we’ll talk about him uh right after this on 1410 wing amm all right welcome back into what has become basically the uh the soundboard the the vent the therapy session for your Cincinnati RS that’s right uh Elliot I’m trying to talk him uh talk him down here uh trying to get him back into a place where he feels comfortable and confident in his Cincinnati Reds but I don’t think I can do it uh and one of the reasons that that I continue to find myself maybe being a little bit more and more less optimistic is because every single time you think you have some momentum you lose it and again we’ll talk we’ll find out what we all believe in this whole Nick Lolo thing but Nick Lolo he he enters uh basically the injured list for 15 days word on the street is that he expects to be back within the 15 days the problem is is it feels a little bit like the boy who cried wolf we all know the story you cry wolf you cry wolf you cry woof there’s not a wolf and by the time there actually really is a wolf nobody believes you and that’s where ultimately I find myself every single time someone goes to the iil for the Cincinnati Reds yep we’ve been told the same story before that somebody was going to be back in a certain amount of time and then they’re not back in that time or when they do come back they have another setback and they find themselves kind of uh in a waiting pattern but it’s not lost on me that Brandon Williamson the guy that You’ maybe maybe or maybe not remember from last season he came up during the rocky series the same series uh that Matt McLean came up for and he he was pretty serviceable and certainly was one of the better arms towards the back end of the year last year so Brandon Williamson was a bright spot coming into this spring training like many other guys yet Brandon Williamson was nowhere to be found but I just want to remind everybody that this is another organization and I know that somebody and I can’t think of an Epler took one for the team for the Mets the general manager went to Phantom iel for those that don’t know uh Billy uper I think is his name he was the general manager for the Mets he got suspended for a year in Major League Baseball because he was manipulating the injured list now I’m not going to say the Reds did the exact same thing but I’m going to say the Reds did the exact same thing last year there’s no doubt about it every single time there needed to be kind of decision making on the 40-man roster you’re going to have to DFA somebody or you’re going to have to make some kind of major move if you want to call it that sure who what’d you find somebody comes up on the old injured list Brandon Williamson here he comes right down the pike makes his first uh rehab assignment probably going to go make another rehab assignment and then all of a sudden there we have it Brandon Williamson might be ready and I don’t know maybe maybe six or seven days and who lo and behold now finds themselves on the is Nick Lolo now I hope that it’s a phantom I I’m not suggesting that it 100% is but I’m just leaving it out there and I’m just going to say I’m not going to overreact because I think that there’s a chance Elliot this is load management a little LeBron James a little what’s uh Kawhi Leonard for your NBA Association I think that’s what we might have I’m hoping that’s what we have maybe this is wishful thinking it better be what it is because if I’m going to be honest I had I had injury concerns about Lolo coming into this season just as I do with hunter green just as I do with just about everybody in the rotation saying that if if that’s the case if we’re just giving him a break and I think Kirby talked to me about that yesterday how essentially uh you know you pitch a lot of innings um when you haven’t really done that a whole lot in your career and you get here and you’re like okay let’s take a breather here give him give him a two games off I guess it would be two games two two starts off and then we’ll be back then we’ll be back at it so if that’s the case I’ll be I’ll be very happy but if he’s hurt if he is time um yeah I don’t I mean there’s we’re losing positives we’re we’re losing the the very few positives we have as Reds fans and speaking of that uh Casey I did have audio from David Bell our good friend um and this is going to get you fired up this is an Allstar Manager David Bell and he’s talking to you after the game and you got to listen to his words you got to heed his advice they’re a good team you just don’t know it yet that was tougher to take uh knowing the the pitching that Andrew Abbott gave you care today sure Andrew did a great job today um just really incomplete command against uh their whole lineup threw a lot of strikes got a lot of ground balls just a good good mix of pitches and you know it’s a good great game you know it came down to who was going to score first there late and uh the Diamondbacks were able to do it and uh that was the difference what was fought doing to keep you guys so off balance today yeah I mean made pitches um his ability to throw sliders um in the zone kind of in any count left right-handed hitter um was a big part of it but um you know he he’s good we’ve seen him before he’s been good against us seems like Cruz gets the two outs and then they can’t finish that last batter to get out of an inning it just it’s been like this a couple times now yeah he’s yeah he threw strikes today um got behind the Smith um and he had a nice swing on it but um got two strikes like you said three strikes they got two hits uh to win the game so um Cru is going to be continue to be good for us guys have seven games now the next 11 against the Dodgers and stuff it’s it’s the schedule just keeps getting harder but obviously you guys have prepared to deal with that for sure yeah I mean we we do we prepare for this and uh you we we’ve talked about that a lot um it’s very important to us as a team to me that you know our team doesn’t talk about that we expect to go out and win we know we’re good we believe we’re good and you know I think um because of that we don’t spend a lot of time talking about who we’re going to play next other than other than the preparation for the team um coming up but um yeah I mean we got to beat these teams so that that’s uh you know we’re no different than than every other team you know we play every single team in baseball and um you know it’s a good challenge yeah you know I mean the guy that uh the guy that threw the ball over the plate throw strikes um yeah that’s what made him so effective it’s a he’s a major league pitcher throwing the ball over a major league Strike Zone and we don’t have major league hitters I would like I mean just one time say something different I mean I know that’s not going to help anything but it just it’s just here’s the thing about our Allstar Manager David Bell um I everybody knows I i’ I’ve went on rant a couple rants on Twitter about this I’ve gone a couple rants on the show about it I don’t think the manager matters too much I can only bear with that monotone nonsense after can’t be like that the after I don’t know Bas we talk to Sam lur and I don’t I don’t I don’t think I don’t think I don’t think he’s much different than that I really don’t maybe he’s a good VI maybe if like if somebody need has a headache you go to David and you’re like David can I please have a hug I have a headache can you please hug me he’s like yeah I I’ll embrace you maybe that’s David’s role he’s just he’s just the uh the caretaker because I can’t do it for much longer I I’m I’m I’m not a fire David Bell guy I I don’t think Freddy Benitas is the answer I think if Freddy Benitas takes over this roster I think all the frustration you have towards him it goes right back to Freddy benovitz and nothing ever changes I think after the season um if the reds don’t improve and by God it doesn’t look like they’re going to improve anytime soon then yeah you look to replace David Bell which is unfortunate because you extended him last season but I can only take that monotone nonsense for so long I mean it is I don’t know what else I want him to say because he’s the manager of a team that sucks so I he he can he can only say so much he can’t say yeah our guys are terrible I’ve watched it night in night out I’m trying to do my best here but the guys on the field aren’t performing if he does that then the players hate him and then he really doesn’t have a job so right now he’s trying to stick up for his guys he’s trying to be calm clearly he couldn’t I mean he couldn’t be excited if if if you lit a firework in his ass do you do you do you ever think um I I see it both ways right like as a as a as a person that actually enjoyed playing for someone that didn’t get all riled up and yell and scream all the time and the Dugout like I I I actually played better under kind of a basically leadership style like that but I do think that there are certain players and this is the thing that you can’t judge David Bell on and you’ll never be able to judge any manager on because you don’t have privy or access to what it actually looks like behind the scenes and that’s what you’re really trying to judge right you’re trying to judge or base your opinion on something that you don’t get a chance to see at all you’d like to think that the personality traits that you see in the postgame press conferences probably you know somewhat emulate what you’d get behind closed doors but that’s never really been the case with David Bell people have said that that’s just uh that’s just the way that he is to the public he tries to make sure that he doesn’t step on anybody’s toes he doesn’t want to irritate anybody those types of things with the players and my question is is like we all I genuinely think we all actually perform a little bit better when unfortunately I don’t know why the psychology and the human brain is like this maybe not everybody but most people work harder they they they they focus better when somebody when somebody really gets on them yeah right like and that’s that’s the God’s honest truth if if I came in here and screamed and yelled about how everybody needs to show up at a certain time or I asked you super nicely there’s a good chance that that that that you would keep the mindset of making sure you’re here at a certain time longer if I screamed and yelled correct now why I why that’s the case I don’t know but I just know that it doesn’t mean that nice guys always finish last or anything like that but I do think that there is something to be said about having a little fire from time to time about just saying you know what I don’t know what it is that you guys got to do at the plate or what we got to do at the plate but it’s got to be better we can’t continue to hang out to drive these starting pitching uh because that’s the other thing the part of this that that that eventually will collapse winning fixes everything loses losing breaks everything yeah I really do believe that and I find ourselves in a position now where the red legs they got to find some momentum here soon otherwise the pitchers you can you can say whatever you want about the culture this that and the other I don’t know if you seen the other night but Justin Wilson was pissed giving the ball to David Bell now maybe that’s how it always is maybe if they were up 10 games over 500 he would have handed the ball off the same way to David Bell but what I’m getting at is that there’s going to be a breaking point between the starting pitching and the position players on figuring it out because if they continue to hang these starting pitching guys out the drive they go out there they give up one two runs hell heaven forbid three runs in a game and they continue to find themselves in a losing dis of their outing they are going to get frustrated yeah there’s no other way to do it well and and and here’s my thing too it’s you you’re right about the screaming and yelling thing and I I I I think there’s a time and a place to scream and yell and it seems like when you lose every single night that’s about the time when you’re like all right guys something’s got to change it’s the lack of urgency and I don’t know I hope he’s not like that in the locker room I hope he’s not like if he is like that in the locker room I will say and I’m sure you’re on the same page there that that I can actually be like all right I’m not a big fan correct correct because you’re just okay with it you’re just okay with losing it’s all right guys go out there try your best if you lose we’re all millionaires anyway so what does it really matter and it seems to me like like David Bell and and maybe it’s the culture that the Cincinnati Reds have have have just had over the past what six years now under David Bell it’s it’s a lack of urgency uh the last what I’m I’m going to read these off to you and I again I’m not this is not all on David Bell I I I’m I’m not a David Bell hater but these are the the last six starts under David Bell 2019 18 and 22 2020 18 and 22 2021 19 and 21 2022 12 and 28 2023 18 and 22 2024 17 and 23 how is it every single season you’re dealing with the same issue it’s it’s a lack of urgency and again I know half those teams didn’t have players that were worth a damn I get that but we’re at a point where how many of these seasons can rack up in a row where there’s just no urgency anywhere on the diamond because it seems to me like there’s nothing it’s just like yeah I think we’re good we got to believe we’re good so we’re going to be good I don’t know when it’s going to happen I don’t know when we’re going to show we’re good or prove we’re good or act like we’re good play like we’re good but hopefully it’s sooner rather than later and I think I think I think David Bell unfortunately the vibe that I get in every single monotone press conference he gets or gives is yeah it’s going to be okay eventually sure can’t get any worse but it gets worse every single night you lose like this it gets worse I know people were going to kill Fernando Cruz last night for giving up uh after getting two outs gives up backto back doubles he’s done it a couple times he’s done it a couple times he’s pitched in the most high leverage spots out of anybody in this Bullpen he’s been good for a majority of that time and he gave he gave up a run two good points in the chat really fast uh I’ll read them both and we can have a discussion around it um he says real Spirit cat says if he hasn’t streamed yet right or yelled yet or gotten fiery in the in the clubhouse yet there’s no sense in it now it’ll come off as it’ll come off as like uh he says is a bit but I would say unauthentic or whatever term you’d like to use that’s more that’s more than fair um and then and then the uh and then RM says David Bell has no problem yelling at the Umpire so I I think that those I I like those two comments because I David Bell there’s fire there like I mean you see it from an Umpire standpoint defending his guys more times than not and and I I just I want to believe maybe it’s naive thinking that I want to believe that he has that capability of making sure that he holds guys accountable because that’s all we’re really asking for when you when you’re saying yeah you know you want guys to yell or you want them to you know throw some bats or whatever dumb Antics that maybe that that us humans do from time to time to try to motivate people all were really begging for all were really asking for is that there’s accountability and right now the best thing to hold people accountable is depth and right now there’s not a lot of depth on this team to be fair no and that’s the thing that I would say if there was five people that could line up and do the same job that that that Casey or you or me could do and we knew they were lining up at the door and we knew that they would do damn near anything to take take our jobs there’s a there’s a sense there that we both have of knowing that we have to be a top performer same concept with anytime you have a backup or a quarterback situation in football Y which we’ll talk about on the next segment here on 1410 W a.m is that you know inevitably you must be accountable and you must show up otherwise you’re not going to have the position that you have now I do think there is some unhealthiness to the idea of always having someone look over your shoulder yep so there is this this delicate balance here but it does feel like the reds are in a position where things are going to have to change and they’re going to have to change fast and it almost seems like I don’t want to I don’t want to guarantee they need to do this but it almost seems like they’re going to have to sweep a team that they never had any business of even winning the series that let’s go let go Los Angeles let’s go so sometimes you can complain about playing tough teams right now but sometimes that’s the only opportunity to dig yourself out of a hole is to do something you never thought possible so hell why not take all four of them just take all four of them come back home and we’ll we’ll find a way to live another day that’s right all right when we come back on 1410 wi amm we’re going to get into the Bengal schedule we’ll talk about the NFL a lot of schedule releases get into that if you haven’t seen them maybe you should that and more on 1410 Wing am we’ll be right back I’m not very good at it I know that Casey can do it Casey’s a football guy give me one of the give me one of the jingles Sunday Night Football Monday night football Thursday night football the choice is yours take it [Music] away how about unb how about that unbelievable speaking of which we just got straight ripped off Tik Tok for that 100% we’ve done lost it yeah I think it was the David Bell clip that might have done it too either way doesn’t really matter shout out to anybody on Tik Tok yeah I do you see any speaking which Nick Kirby is going to be very very very upset at you guys yeah but I I don’t know I think he had like one rule it was like no clips yeah but there’s no other way to do it really because I think I got idea can I have an idea can I have a idea live on air here this little inside basball chatter box I say we just put up the picture we put up a picture of David Bell and we run the audio but I think the YouTube algorithm still gets that audio well we can at least try it you know we never know you don’t have to run the audio you just give a summary of what he said well no but I would I’d like to hear I’d like to yeah want to hear it here to be fair to be fair there’s a we’ll meet in the middle on this we’ll try the picture and if that doesn’t work we we could not have done that last segment if I just reiterated I could have done it I could have done it you give me the monologue you give me you give me the script I’ll do the monologue for David Bell from now on it’ll be you ready it’ll be this well you know we went out there we we played really hard we tried our best and uh you know the other pitcher he threw the ball over the plate you got to give him credit I mean he threw he threw a slider did you see the sliders he was throwing for strikes I mean those were strikes he was throwing what do you expect us to do any all right uh bingo schedule poor D um I don’t know how we want to do this I don’t know we have a we have a gra I’m sure you get a graphic up I want I by the way I want to end I know you’re going to talk real quick I’m going to end I want to end the show all three of us give record predictions early record prediction for the Cincinnati Bangals fa cuz I’m very excited wow what a tease that is now you can’t go anywhere we got you locked in you got to stay in for the rest of the remaining of the show so uh there is that there it is go ahead you were saying something before I interrupted no I was just going to say that the uh the Bengals releas are scheduled and it seems as if it’s uh it seems as if they have an opportunity because I’m going to say it like that I don’t think that they should I think that there are folks out there right now that are demanding that they get off to a quote unquote hot start uh but but the but the front third of their schedule sure looks looks like it gives them an opportunity to get off to a good start the other thing I wanted to mention that was very very important is the byee I don’t know if that’s something that’s been discussed a whole lot but the uh the bye there’s kind of a sweet spot for the byee right it’s like between weeks 10 to 10 to 13 and 14 that’s uh somewhere in there is when you want that buy that’s right uh the bingles they got a good buy they got a good by what is that week uh I’m not able to see it here you can put the schedule up let’s put it up and we’ll read it one by one yeah let’s do that for the radio audience if you’ve not got a chance uh Elliot I’m gonna let you read through this just largely because of uh you know I don’t have a 2020 Vision anymore I’m getting old so uh week one we starting off with the New England Patriots 1 pm love that start absolutely love it going have asked for an easier easier game week one week two it’s a quick little test with the Kansas City Chiefs everybody knows the Chiefs are rivalry with the chief and it is in Kansas City we knew that coming into yesterday I had a quick question before we go over the have they decided have they decided to to to not play divisional games weeks one and two anymore for the whole entire league or is this just a Bengals thing yeah well no we did it last year well I’m saying this year well I don’t we’ll dig through it we’ll see I I’ll look through some other schedules uh but going back to the graphic here the commanders are week three respectfully terrible team we have the Panthers week four respectfully terrible team uh you have the the Ravens in week five that’s Sunday at 1 pm uh and by the way that commanders game was it Monday I forgot to say that that was my bad uh the the Ravens play at 1: pm. that is week five and week six we have a Sunday night football game with the New York football Giants easy game now I’m going to stop right there real quick Patriots commanders Panthers Giants all in the first six weeks Trace if there is ever a year to not start two and four it is this year if they start two and four this season I’m going to call it over because at this point I mean what that that we couldn’t have been given a bigger gift by the NFL there’s always the chance though that you run into a team that is significantly better than what they’re advertised it’s 100% a thing in the NFL you never know who it’s going to be if you I was going to say let’s have a little bit of fun here we’re going to have some fun talking NFL because we don’t get a chance to talk about them a whole lot you know never does the NFL get brought up on this show no never um of the four teams that you just mentioned that you think are going to be terribl terrible which of the four actually proposes the most difficult task to win probably the commanders commanders or Giants one of those two I’d say commanders I would say I would I I would agree I think commanders are probably closer they’ve got a decent roster they’ve got a decent uh offensive roster that is so I I those that that’s my sleeper I don’t know who’s going to be quarterbacking the Giants because I think they’re pretty much out on Danny dimes Danny dimes has to be the guy he has to you can’t pay a guy I don’t know I they they’ve been they’ve been saying that they don’t like Danny dimes anymore so um they better like him you can’t pay a guy like that and then not like him to be fair to you Elliot um about the the two and four thing I don’t think the Bengals have ever started two and four with Joe bur that’s fair except for maybe his rookie year just a couple one and threes Yeah couple one and threes if you start one and three that might be worse than two and four one and three is abysmal one and three I mean there’s a real chance they could start one and three though like it’s it’s not like the season’s over if they started one and three yeah it’s not throw the let me let me throw this up but they’re one and three which which of the teams are they beating and which of the three teams are they I was thinking one and two to be fair but they could be one and they could be what one and three if they were to uh beat the Patriots no they’re not going to be one and three they’re not if they’re one and three it’s over man it’s not over they can rebound come on but no because that’s that’s that’s the thing that’s the thing where the Reds like eventually you are just two yard and if if you can’t beat the Patriots commanders or Panthers I’m sorry I I mean that’s brutal I was thinking to myself when I said one and three I was really thinking one and two my brain just wasn’t operating at the capacity that I would like it to but uh one and two is what I was thinking you could drop to the Chiefs obviously and then you you slip up against maybe Washington but again I I just don’t see it you’re playing Monday Night Football at home you’re gonna you’re GNA have some cool uh white out or something going to be cool does that matter you think like I don’t know it feels like it does what do you mean yeah it gets fired up yeah like a Sunday a Sunday at 1:00 game you feel more confident about than a Monday night football game when you got the stripes it feels like the Monday Night Football game you feel like you’re like you got it in the bag I think there’s more energy for the Monday night game 100% I think there’s a lot more energy for that which is kind of wild if you think about it because why because the gas prices are are are are are just the same on Sunday at noon as they are on Monday night and the other thing that’s wild about that is that most people have to actually go to work on Tuesday morning that’s right but here’s the thing if you’re if you’re within two games of a of a playoff spot and it’s octo or it’s September gas prices are even higher and that’s a fact shout out to the red it’s almost like they look at the MLB standings in September and they’re like go raise the oil prices you talk about bad attendance you’re about to see some bad attendance if they don’t take a game from this Dodgers yes they uh continuing on though after the Giants in week six that’s on the road for Sunday Night Football you have uh another road game with the Cleveland Browns Sunday at 1 p.m. um going from there you have the Eagles at home which I I I like a lot 425 game love it love it love it I’m sure that’ll be Fox right that’ll be no if it’s home it’ll be CBS so guess I’m wrong uh the Raiders at home right after them that’s a 1M game as well in week nine week 10 you have the Ravens again on Thursday Night Football in Baltimore yeah that’s tough brutal absolutely brutal how we get to and I don’t I don’t mean to spoil it but you can see it right there how we have two Thursday night football games against divisional opponents I’ll never understand it I don’t get it those are two very important games that you’re putting on a day which is unanimously known as to be the biggest joke in the NFL nobody wants to play on Thursday the players hate it the coaches hate it the media hates it everybody hates it but yet we have our two arguably of our two of our biggest games on that day whatever uh continuing on from there we have week 11 we have the San Diego Chargers on the road 425 game on Sunday then we have our bye and that is a great time for a bye I’m not going to lie there if you’re going to if you’re going to schedule a byee nobody wants a byee in that first 10 we stretch you want it for the second half the back half uh when the games get good so shout out to us for having a good bye week week 12 uh week 13 you have the Steelers at home that is a 1M game December 1st you travel on the road on Monday night to Dallas the Dallas Cowboys again five Prime Time games for the Cincinnati Bengals I did not think it would be five Prime Time games I my number was three I think you were going to get one of the each the the Thursday Sunday and Monday no we’re getting two Mondays and two Thursdays as well as a Sunday night uh and that’s without knowing what’s going to happen in the last uh uh week with the Steelers so uh continuing on we have the Titans uh on the road we’re going back to Tennessee that is a 1 pm game uh week 16 I believe that is do you have the Thursday night game I talked about against Cleveland another divisional game yep go ahead let me jump in here real quick cuz you um that that December 9th game versus the Cowboys starts a 10day stretch where they play three games in a row in 10 days Monday night Sunday and then Thursday night football against the Browns that is a brutal stretch tough opponents right there very very strong opponents there um I want to talk we’ll talk about that in a bit we’ll talk about that probably next segment because I want to I want your thoughts on it um cuz the Twitter vers was was fired up about it and and I think I am a little bit too uh so we have the Browns Thursday night football and that finishes off the 11-day stretch of hell as Casey just said you have and you finish off with and what I think are two winnable games with the Broncos at home Steelers on the road you don’t know when those games are yet uh they could be flexed speaking of uh the byee shout out to Caleb though uh something I took basically bookmarked find something I think’s interesting I’ll bookmark it but anyway he said the number one the thing to look for the NFL schedule release is placement of the byee by weeks can be anywhere from week 5 through 14 in the last 10 years every Super Bowl winner they had a bye between seven and 13 half half five of the last 10 have had a bye in weeks 10 or 11 weeks 10 or 11 is a sweet spot weeks five six and 14 is no man’s land so uh it is true because you find yourself in a position during the NFL season where guys get banged up you need a little bit of a break if you get it in week five it’s like way too early in the season to actually be able to take advantage of kind of there being some people banged up and then uh and then if you have it towards the very end of the season it kind of feels like all is already lost you’re kind of playing with men down Etc and uh you know there’s a there’s a little bit of a mental a mental bearing that comes with the NFL as well to where you you go you go too long in the NFL without getting a little bit of a chance of of a reprieve and you don’t play as well so you know shout out to Caleb no for for doing some research on that Bengals find themselves perfectly within that window they are I believe they’re what 11 there or 12 12 12 so they’re right around it right around it not perfect not 10 or 11 is a sweet spot but they’re pretty close so beats beats 14 all right when we come back we will talk about the three games in 10 days does the NFL actually even care about players that and more on 1410 way a all right Casey we are uh 1058 today by the way Su are saying not me not me of course Su are saying uh smooth show if we’re not throwing a perfect game we’re throwing we’re throwing a uh a one hitter that’s right yeah David Bell would be impressed David B David Bell would be impressed uh who do you think going back to your very first question in that first segment M uh do you think David Bell and Freddy Bonitas do you think they are the Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen of Cincinnati no I I’m afraid to say that Benny kind of uh uh he ruined that I would say so yeah benitz looks seems sounds acts like a great guy though not going to get on him Bing stretch the imagination he thrown in a tough spot he didn’t know he was going to have to manage David Bell got sick and they’re like hey Freddy you’re in in that’s right he wasn’t ready well maybe he was ready it just didn’t work out for him the uh the the iPad was was was frozen that’s right the iPad was indeed Frozen uh Casey we have some ads yeah we got some ads to do um let’s talk about onore Technologies they provide IT solutions for a data centered world with the sweetest services for mobile Computing desktop to Data Center supporting most centralized and work from home Computing modules to improve efficiency and p r o d u c t i v i t y productivity visit Encore dotech the path 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the show if I can if I can remember to to remember when the final segment is that’s that’s battle two more segments to go I do have one other thing to please in lightness we got our first chili on Tik Tok What really can you explain explain to me what a chili is a chili is like a a donation but it’s just a little little badge right they just send you a little thing there’s galaxies there’s chilies there’s whatever Reed Mouse says here’s a chili for Ellie Rue wow wow our own guys that’s right wait so our own guy gave us a chili yeah I feel like that’s a fake chili yeah that’s not a real chili but that’s okay it’s a chili reads a person too he just lost money on that yeah I mean that’s our first net worth of chatter boxes actually going down no actually that’s not true no it did I think it’s a good idea actually we here’s the here’s the here’s the business plan we’ll pay you guys then you pay us back yeah and then we’ll pay you it’ll be a never ending cycle we’ll always have our jobs yeah but the Tik Tok takes a little bit off the top so they take a little fee that’s what you’ll never get back to that’s the real problem they’ll never get back to as a guy that pays for the leader of men membership here I’m already doing that TR so you’re just getting your own money back baby that’s what I like to hear what can you do uh let’s get back into the show let’s do 5 Seconds of silence and get right back I’m silence sorry go all right back in hour number two on Off the Bench presented by United Farmers Casey do you know why they’re called the United Dairy Farmers no why why don’t you Enlighten us why they’re called the United Dairy Farmers because they’re farmers and they are all United you know where the dairy comes from where cows good ice cream oh well cows too yeah that’s kind of a big part of it yeah yeah you big Dairy guy you’re not lactose intolerant no I am not lactose intolerant I’ve been blessed very blessed in my life to have one superpower yeah the superpower is this uh I I last night I I uh got some snacks before I went to bed and I have to put them on my nightstand yeah I woke up this morning to my alarm I look over at my nightstand and I had a uh a giant box something that you would get no free ads like at Sam’s Club or Costco or you know one of them places where you just get a massive I had uh Peanut M&M’s no free ads and I also had I also had uh the uh the sweet tart miniu that I so Al also very very highly suggest yeah and I just woke up and I thought to myself you know I’ve done this my whole life I’ve eaten whatever I wanted I’ve not had any allergies I’ve never had to go into a restaurant and demand or ask for them to do something special yeah and all of those things are a blessing and I’ve been that’s my superpower I’ve been the same pretty much the same weight since uh my senior year of high school maybe you know I worked they they I don’t say I worked out they forced me to work out in college for baseball so I put on some some Mass there but uh you know I’m about a buck 90 Buck 95 every day of my life and there’s really nothing that that makes it fluctuate how about that uh listen I I hate to interrupt that story and shout out to you for being the world’s perfect human I didn’t say that we do have we do have breaking we have breaking news we do Casey uh informed me of this breaking news 11:04 which is probably do the uh let’s do the uh the radio calculation it is one something I mean I two something what time does our show start over there well let’s not do this on my live air we’re going to be way off I don’t it’s going to be at two yeah two two two4 I don’t even know if I believe it uh breaking news the name of the new joint streaming service for Fox ESPN and Warner Brothers Discovery venue Sports and and it will launch this fall so ESPN Fox and Warner Bros they are combining to make venue Sports nice that’ll be a brand new app which some would call Cable some would some would say that’s a monopoly right yeah like I’m not going to get into the Leeds of all this I’m not I don’t I just don’t care enough to probably uh consume enough of my brain power to figure out if it’s a monopoly or not a monopoly I will say I am very excited if it means I get all of my sports channels on one thing and I can drop cable that’s what it sounds like I’m not watching the Food Network I’m not watching almost quite honestly I’m almost not watching anything other than um TNT your local channels for sports that’s right and ESPN and fox am I missing anything no no I don’t think you think that they’re going to include do you think they’re going to include the rsns that is help me out RSN I have to help you out the regional Sports networks do you think that we’re g to get valys or that they will not they will not get that uh because I I think those are dead anyway right I I think that’s going to go somewhere else as well I I do think though that um if if you do this the ESPN plus and all that nonsense that just gets into this right or do I have to cancel that subscription I I think this is or is there going to be an ESPN you have to have the ESPN Plus as long with the V with the venue Sports no what’s correct I think what you’re gonna get is you’re gonna get ESPN plus FS1 um what are the other ones that are combining so the Warner Brothers is that it’s Warner Brothers Fox and Warner Brothers is uh TNT right so you’re going to get the TNT coverage of NBA and all that I’m guessing yeah right and they’re they’re pretty much taking all the major sports that have they have the the rights to those Sports yeah yeah and they’re putting on they’re putting them underneath one umbrella I would be shocked if ESPN plus is included in that I think this is going to be for the average the not average the vast majority of people that watch sports I think are professional sports Watchers they’re not watching ESPN plus more times than not that’s for the college crowd and for the parents of people that that probably want to watch they got NFL games on those now though they don’t I don’t have NFL games on ESPN plus they do they have they have well if it’s on ESPN plus it’s on ESPN that’s what I’m getting at it’s not behind the pay wall no but it is but it is it’s the Germany games I think those are on ESPN plus last year oh we also got another breaking news this the breaking news seg uh official release date for the college sports football game oh July 19th really so that’s coming up I got I got to figure out how to how to make that work here uh July 19th that’s big good for them yeah I I don’t know what the TV thing CU there’s also um I lost my train of thought just then as I as I started talking about it that’s not good how old are you and they have so the that’s the second stutter of the day Casey do we have a stutter do we have a stutter meter no no um they announced Netflix will be doing two games as well so now you will have peacock you will have Netflix you’ll have espm plus and whatever the hell is going on here with all this nonsense all right so we talk about time and time again here about how if you went and asked our great grandparents what sport was going to dominate for the for the for the rest of time yeah baseball was the sport without question right they would have never guessed in a million years that baseball would become as as least I say the least popular sport but they are they are dropping in popularity in this country there’s going to be a time I’m telling you because everything’s cyclical uh we all know this just been it’s been a story tried and true for too long that at some point the NFL is going to do something that people are just that it’s going to turn them off and something’s going to I don’t know what it is and maybe I’m wrong maybe they St the test of time maybe they’re like coca colola where they just it just powers on through they are Recession Proof there has not been a time where you thought Coca-Cola is in trouble not a single time so shout out to Coca-Cola free ad but maybe they are like that but I have a hard time believing that it will be that that case because the vast majority of the time 99.8% of the time things go out of business the NFL in my opinion this is where they’re going to get themselves in trouble they’re going to start losing it if well you get too greedy it’s you find yourself asking people to pay for six different services to watch all the playoff games yeah you’re going to lose some people I got to be honest I’m not signing up to watch the Dolphins play the Chiefs again yeah NE mind I’m just not doing it Nei I’ve seen enough of two as is I don’t need to see them anymore I agree and I think at some point you do run the risk of people get getting frustrated and in in just being like I just it’s too hard because the most important thing that I think that there is in all of business and all of uh essentially Sports business is how easy it is to watch baseball went wrong when they decided to try to make it so damn difficult to figure out how you can watch your favorite team play that now it’s like well you’re blacked out here you’re blacked out there oh you live five hours away doesn’t matter still can’t watch the games that’s a problem and it’s going to become a problem for the at some point and I’m not saying it’s this year yeah I’m not I don’t want to sound the alarm and act like this is a big deal that they got a game on ESPN plus here and a game on peacock here and a game on uh Netflix here and a game on Disney plus there I mean we can go down the whole laundry list of things Amon I forgot we forgot Amazon Amazon and I know that there’s joint ventures with Disney plus and and and ESPN plus and all that but my but but my point still stands you got to make the game in the in the in the product as consumable as possible to as many people as possible and the thing that you know they’re going the opposite direction that I said that I would go which is and I still think that you can kind of Teeter with this and and toy with the idea I thought when YouTube TV or Google for that for lack of a better term purchased the the the Sunday Ticket yeah I would love to see what they would do I mean think about the popularity of football and how popular it would become and maybe it’s impossible to make this much that much money back and they already are professionals at making money we know that but how much money would they have to sell an advertising to make it worth this but if you just put some of these games on YouTube just make them free to the world I you you would grow the game significantly really do you I I think you’re right I I do think when you add seven different streaming services and people are trying to figure out where to watch these games you’re going to have an issue at some point I think what’s going to eventually happen they’re going to make a deal with just one of these guys either Amazon or God knows maybe the NFL does it themselves maybe the NFL just says if you want NFL games you buy the NFL streaming package you’ll get any G you can either get your team’s games all of your team’s games or you can get every game in the NFL it’s it’ll basically be like the Sunday Ticket plus some and and I think that is probably where they’d go eventually in like 10 years I bet it’s just like there’s one a One-Stop shop where every NFL game is just on one single platform every game this season It Be Nice it’d be nice we have uh this is a Breaking News segment by the way breaking news we have more breaking news Casey [Music] you want me to read it uh Jared gof he has now the biggest signing bonus in NFL history at $73 million absurd that’s absurd um congrats though I mean I guess the Fords never really uh paid their their players to begin with anyways that’s why they sucked for as long as they did so they had all that money backed up and saved up for uh for Jared go they’re they’re they’re slinging them 150s everywhere what could you imagine what your reaction would have been if Joe burrow had a $75 million signing bonus I mean guaranteed money and signing bonuses I the signing bonus gets you out of the the cap stuff right is that is that right I mean I I know I’m not a big cap that can’t be right is that right I’m fairly confident it is you can get the that has nothing to do with the cap the signing bonus I believe has a different hit to the cap than a normal uh that’s correct contract yeah correct so it’s just uh once again with find ways to manipulate the system smart people really really intellectual big business people let me tell you you can write all the laws in the world if you want guess what they got law your friends and the law your friends are probably the ones that are making the laws in the first place right so there’s always going to be a loophole for somebody but Jared gol signing for that much money the question is is is that is that even anything to get worked up over I don’t know if it is and again here we find ourselves a position in the NFL where the quarterback position boy does it just continue to inflate and inflate inflate does this bubble ever burst are we I mean I thought the most Preposterous thing Preposterous thing that I was going to see this season at least over the next few months was that JJ McCarthy was going to get drafted in the first 10 picks of the NFL draft yeah and it turns out that no now we got a position where Jared gof a guy that literally got kicked out of his own building after going to a Super Bowl of all things left that building and then they won the Super Bowl when he left now finds him in a position where he gets the paid the most money in the NFL history for a signing bonus did you see the uh Colin coward segment yesterday no I only watched this show there was a good good plug there was a a segment on the Colin coward show yesterday where he was debating who would he rather have over uh um Jared gof and Joe Burrow’s name came up oh I did see this and and you know what he said I did see this he said Joe burrow is better than golf but golf stays on the field so I’m taking golf Reed’s not in here to to to go against his guy Colin coward here but I I I’ll say this I’ll say this I think that’s a silly take by Colin that’s a nonsensical take do I mean Jared G has proven though to be fair that he can get you to a position that allows you or gives you a chance to win a Super Bowl Gotta Have You Gotta Have a good team around him I mean that’s the thing you can’t carry yeah him and Brock py same guy let me let me correct something earlier that I said that’s not entirely true it does so the signing bonus does count against the cap but you the signing bonus isn’t money all upfront it’s just money guaranteed that can spread out throughout the contract even past the contract years so it’s probably going to be spread out throughout the so you can do it you can spread it out for like uh I don’t want to say un limited amount of years but I wonder if there’s like a a year could you imagine that being the next thing like you sign you could do the old Dodgers trick where you’re like yeah we’re going to sign him for a billion dollars and he’s got a he’s got a $980 million signing bonus uh that we’re going to pay him in cash now but it’s going to hit the the cap hit’s going to be 2 million for the next 150 years don’t know if that math adds up by the way but all right uh when we come back big news last segment of the day big news we’ll share it right after this on 1410 Wing a.m all right welcome back in for the last 15 minutes so we’re going to say it’s the best 15 minutes you will hear on the radio for the entire month of May I didn’t say that that’s what some saying that’s what some are saying we that we went that whole segment by the way without talking about the Bengals schedule which I thought was pretty pretty impressive oh that’s not true at alling we had a bunch of breaking news that’s not true at all we had breaking news left and right I didn’t get you guys I didn’t get your guys opinion on the on the three games in 10 days thing you said we were going to use my opinion on the three games in 10 days is that’s the part of the NFL and like I said before you get greedy you get greedy you get greedy eventually it breaks this is part of that this is part of that I think for a league that pre that preaches player safety I think having three games in 11 days is reckless and now you have now you have let me ask you something and now you have and now you have and now you have four days let me ask there four teams that are that are dealing with the same exact do you know what the NFL and a Walmart greet are have in common they lie they don’t care about how your day is okay disrespect that’s what Walmart told you that they had to say I think it’s disrespectful to a Walmart grader oh it’s not I’m just telling you the truth if you think genuinely that that person cares about how your day goes when you’re exiting Walmart you’re wrong and if you think the NFL gives a absolute any one iota care about how these players safety concerns go they don’t now they got to make sure they do the song and dance you know like you got to it’s it’s the old corporate model baby everybody dress up in suit and ties let’s sit around a mahogany desk and talk about our problems and we’ll figure out what everybody can act like they care about and then we all go home and complain to our spouse about our day behind the mahogany desk in our suits making a lot of money and we hate our lives sorry if that’s your life but I know I just explained it for at least 98% of Executives I mean that’s why you watch the show that’s the truth that’s fair so we’re not going to sit here and we’re not going to waste our time on this show talking about whether Roger gell and the NFL actually CL care even a single bit about player safety and they go to prove it by doing what they play three games in 10 days yeah that’s right at least at least at least they’re truthful about the their their their their gambling stuff they don’t care about gambling whatsoever like unlike the MLB who preaches that they care and then they sign all these deals with sports books but go ahead Casey yeah I mean the the one thing I’ll kind of just add on to that what Trace said is it would be one thing if it was one team dealing with this but there’s out of just the small little research I did the Steelers the Ravens and the Chiefs all have three games in 10 days just like the Bengals do um and I think it’s actually normal from what the the normal NFL schedule is to have an 11-day period where you play three games in which I mean I are we really going to fight over another like day taken away I guess I guess we can but like it’s just where the NFL’s going they just want more money and they’re going to stuff in uh these Prime Time games wherever they can Ravens Steelers they got stuck with the Wednesday games um which is a little bit different than I think that’s honestly a little more um brutal than than what the Bengals are going to have to do for the Thursday night stuff but saying that um those teams also get those mini by weeks with all those um Thursday night games that the Bengals have to play they get two now 10 game break or 10day breaks to prepare for those next games which is what I wanted to talk about Chargers versus and and the Broncos are the games that they would play after the those manyi by weeks so you can look at it like it’s a bad thing but you can also take the good from it and say like yeah th that’s couple mini by weeks here you get that week 12 bye there so it’s really like you get a break early your by we and then a break late so same amount of time off it’s just a matter of the windows of of the time that you get and I was going to say uh wait until you think it’s bad now wait until they got to go to bra Brazil and then Mexico City and then they’re going to have to go to to uh who knows where they’re going to go maybe they’ll go to Antarctica to play a game at some point they do that within like with they’ll do that within 12 days that’ be great Buffalo Bills playing the Antarctica game they lock that up they play great in the cold except when it’s in the actually I think the buff I think I think Cincinnati Bengals play the best in the cold really the best in the snow at least Bengals versus most memorable thing in Cincinnati in the last 10 years is that game Bengals vers bills the Battle of Antarctica so there’s that uh whoever wins has to stay that’s right or loses has to stay so here’s what so here’s what we’re going to do now Casey we’re going to pull up that schedule graphic I said we were going to do it what we’re going to do every single game of this schedule me us three we’re going to vote there’s going to be there’s the the you’re going to keep tabs on this I’m going to keep tabs on this the third vote is the deciding of what our record will be you understand what I’m saying enough let’s do it let’s do it let’s do it quickly so here we go here we go Patriots I’m going to vote we win that one yeah win so put a w in the win column okay then we take on the Chiefs Trace why don’t you lead us off there I’m going to say that you lose I’m going to say loss as well D all right one and one tough guys all right then we have the commanders that’s Monday night gotta win at home I’m gonna say win win okay we have the Panthers on the road in week four that’s a got to be a win too win got to be a win you can’t beat them it’s a bad bad start the season Ravens at home I’m gonna say that this is their one one of the first wins in the uh the AFC North I’m gonna say loss I’m gonna say loss yeah I just I mean they don’t beat divisional opponents uh Giants we have Sunday Night Football on the road that’s got to be a win too I think it has to be a win uh okay didn’t matter you would have said loss well I I I think that there was a chance all right Browns on the road 1 p.m. this I think is where they they lose their first AFC North game on the road I think they I think they they win this game I think they lose it so it’s a loss wow all right no faith in your team we have the Philadelphia Eagles at home 425 win I think this is the team that has the uh the biggest drop off in the NFL there’s always one team that everyone thinks is going to be good and then they’re absolutely terrible I think it’s going to be the Eagles I’m going to say that they lose or they they they beat they beat the Eagles the Eagles lose Raiders at home I’m going to say win that’s a win too all right then we have the Ravens Thursday night in Baltimore I mean if we didn’t give them the win at home earlier on I don’t see how we can win in Baltimore they’re like record in Prime Time divisional games at home is like uh 11 or 12 and two or something like that in the last couple years so I’m going to say this is an L I’m going to say it’s a big fat L as well I think they win that game Chargers on the road I’m going to say that’s a win I say this is the loss I’m going to go loss as well what are we doing Steelers at home Steelers at home one PM that’s got to be a win you got to win an AFC North game at some point loss this at home I’m G to say they they’ll win at home okay yeah uh Cowboys Monday Night Football in Dallas loss loss golly guys I mean this is a horrible prediction we’re doing fine still that’s pretty good Titans on the road it’s tough game this is a win what makes you so confident this has got this has got to be a win this is a team that picked in the top seven in the draft this year how’ you fair against them last year they didn’t score uh Revenge game for Callahan and Tyler Boyd Tyler Boyd oh yeah I for 14 catches 400 yards breaks the single game record Titans win that one you guys are a joke I’m going to say that they win that game Titans or Bengals Bengals win Bengals win Bengals win okay it’s good um Browns at home on Thursday night Browns I think that they lose to the Browns at home on Thursday night they’re gonna win they have to win a uh AFC North game at some point right that’s the thing though they don’t and they lose this one too uh so we move on we move on we move on to the Denver Broncos at home they win they win they win all right and then they lose in Pittsburgh okay hold on let me count our record before that so that’s 1 2 three four five 6 7 8 that’s nine wins we’ve had nine wins uh heading into that game so that game is a fight pretty much for the postseason um what a joke we’ll start with you Casey do you think we win that one to get into the postseason again one of the one of the things I’m I’m going to bring up stats and analytics here teams usually in the AFC North don’t play well at their opponent’s home stadium and uh I don’t think key word there is usually I just I don’t think I don’t think that I mean I’m I’m just going to say I’m going to just say that they win because if this is how the season goes Joe bur is going to show up and play I say they win this game they win okay so that’s 10 wins that’s a 10- win season by the Bengals and people in the chat are like you guys are ridiculous how dare you find 10 wins on this on this schedule guys they play in the hardest Division and they won one mercy rule game last season in the division that’s why I didn’t have them winning a division game because they quite literally didn’t win one last year are you telling me that they only improved by one Flippin game with the easiest schedule they’ve had in like years I think they I think the last I think they go one and five in the division again I don’t think that’s a crazy statement because they just did it yeah with with a backup quarterback they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers by like less than a touchdown Colton says 10 wins is the worst thing ever let’s be very clear here 10 wins is a good season okay it’s not a great season it’s a good season and the other thing I would want to add to this is I don’t think they’re going to go one and five in the division I I had them winning at least a couple of these divisional games but unfortunately it just added up to where when you said they were going to lose he said they were going to lose he he and I say he is an Elliott had them losing literally almost every game so it’s it became a little tough it is true in the division in the division you had them losing every game correct I had them losing every divisional game because that’s what they did last season and that’s a little ridiculous and they didn’t have Joe burrow for half the season little ridiculous they almost beat the Ravens at home last year like our lunch box we’ll come back to it we’ll come back to it RM and and others in the chat are asking what the big news is what’s the big news well how much time do do we have left on 141 here we have a my clockman as he’s locking this he’s literally locking this up so we know for sure what we all 254 um which means we got uh 6 minutes three three minutes 3 minutes 254 2 minutes 54 seconds Oh I thought you said it was like 254 that’s what time you were giving me no on the radio no I should have known your brain wasn’t going to be operating that fast my brain you the one you said how much time is left I said 2:54 yeah and then you’re like well what time what time is it in radio world let’s see maybe he gave me that and it’s like I thought you were saying it was 254 now we got 2 minutes what what’s the big news two minutes uh big news is uh for those that watched uh Off the Bench and watch chatter box sports last year a significant amount there’s a guy named Jacob tissit Jacob tissit went to Alabama which is not the greatest School in the world if we’re being honest but it is a school nonetheless and uh I like Jacob last year I thought Jacob came in he did a good job he’s a good culture guy good vibe guy and uh Jacob is going to join us Monday and uh he’ll be with us for the foreseeable future we see how long it goes but for the foreseeable future I’m going to call Luke today we got a name the guy named Jimmy colins showing up on Monday as well you know where he’s from not Dame boy is he real special fighting leprechaun let me tell I can only imagine how smart you had to be to get in a Notre Dame he’s gonna walk into the studio he’s going to find out that he went to Blanchester Toledo community college to be fair he went to South Bend you ever been through South Bend uh no but I know this lot of beautiful sites in South Bend Indiana I mean I don’t mean to be disrespectful but I mean but he is from the Irish so we’ll make fun of how this team’s basically a hasb been they’re like the uh they’re like the Radio Shacks of the world you know are they still around you know no Radio Shacks gone they’re gone they’re gone you know who made a roaring comeback as we keep giving free ads on the show Best Buy I thought Best Buy anywhere I know but I thought they were on the precipice of being dead I did I was like you know what they always have overpriced stuff now they do still have HDMI cables in there for like $75 it’s like who’s buying a $75 12 foot HDMI cable when you can get online and buy one for $2 yeah but Jacob tison he will be with us full time on Monday so you should probably add on to that the show will be changing a little bit with the format right correct the CH yes I was going to finish this and I was going to say this I am going to continue to be on Chatterbox Reds each and every single day as far as doing this show with Chatterbox Reds I will say it I’m not asking for sympathy it’s impossible for me to do the things that I need to do within my life and still do a good job on this show and I feel like for the last month this show has suffered mightily because honestly I’ve not been able to keep up and that’s just being honest will I be here will I be able to pop in will I be on the show from time to time on Off the Bench yes but uh from here moving forward to the foreseeable future which is the term that I like to use here because uh it’s almost like an indefinite amount of time it’s going to be uh it’s going to be the gang of the interns Reed Casey Elliot and uh we are going to kind of uh find our way through this uh this little bit of a corn maze that we’re going to go and bark ourselves on RM says that’s what Tom said too listen uh Trace Trace Trace will be here he’s Nate asked did you get fired can you confirm you did not you fire yourself can you confirm that did I fire myself yeah you didn’t get fired yeah I mean I well you did you did get fired kind of fired myself they’re asking who the host is the host will be um nobody because it’ll be a group effort it’ll be uh a different a different kind of uh way we’ve done the show we’ve never done it like this before so we’re going to try it out we’re going to see if it works and hopefully you guys like it it’s going to be more uh open discussion rather than one guy gives monologue and then we bounce off that for for the members think of what box lunch is right now but a little bit more organized little a lot more voices and on top of that um we are going to figure this out we’re well aware that many of you make this a big part of your day I also want to be very very clear and honest with all of you that this probably will change at some point we’re going to go 10 to something whether that’s 10 to 11:30 10 to 11 we will have OTB overtime memberships if you are a member we very much appreciate you um I’ll be very blunt and transparent the idea is obviously uh an our organization to keep things afloat make sure M things make sense we’re asking our guys to go out and do high school graduations to pay the bills around here from time to time so it’s you know again we’re not complaining by any stretch of imagination we love doing the show but we just got to make things make sense so it’s not going nowhere I don’t want anybody to think that it’s going anywhere but you know we’re going to find ways in which you know we can uh we can incentivize people to become members because we want it to be worth it yes we also want to make sure that we can keep obviously uh making sure you guys can keep your lights on at home and we’re going to do some fun things behind the pay wall to try to make sure that if you like us you support us we uh we are this isn’t a money grab or anything like that it’d be one thing if we were all millionaires that would feel different that would be great but uh yeah but we’re not uh for tomorrow’s show I know we’re running out running we’re out we’re out of time we’re out of we’re in a little bonus time but we got some minutes to fill here so we’re okay uh tomorrow’s show do you want that to be your grand finale or are you out today no this is going to be my grand finale this the thing this is the thing is that you know you can get upset about that just tune in to chatter box RS they’re calling you quitter Trace yeah and I might be I might be I might be uh but I will be back in here in the studio as much as I possibly can but unfortunately for me to to continue to uh to uh do things that somewhat of a high level something has to give before you take off radio listeners what are they what are they expecting are we still going to be on there as well yeah radio listeners nothing changes nothing changes you just get to hear uh some other voices that are probably much more intelligent than mine to give better takes than mine and probably be well more prepared than mine but maybe I’ll come back after the the red legs finisher season and I can reprieve somebody else like a tag team thing that’s why the open form was the the goal how many losses would it take for you to quit shedar boox rats if they lose 20 games in a row I’ll tell Nick we’re I’m going to tell Nick we’re going to take a vacation together together together together yeah together they got to lose 20 in a row two Z in a row okay that’s what if they win 48 games this year uh it doesn’t matter if they don’t lose 20 in a row that it doesn’t matter so all right uh this has been off the bench presented by United Dairy Farmers we love you and Dayton We Appreciate You Kenner and Kev is next take care and enjoy the rest of your day best wishes trace on your new Endeavor smart betters I do have one thing to say um stay tuned because Jacob and I are actually going to do a video together today uh about the Bengal schedule we’re going to react to it post it on YouTube so his debut is really today but on the show Monday Monday so it is what it is as I said it is what it is it is what it is it is what it is I like I said I’ll do my best to uh to come in here when when when when able but uh you know I really do care about trying to to do a golf tournament we’ve talked about doing a golf tournament for two years that’s right and it never gets done and the reason it doesn’t get done is because you look around the room and you realize that everybody’s doing too many things at once and uh in order to grow you got to make room for that and I’d like to do new things at CH box to try to continue to spread you know all the different types of avenues that we’ve gone down and uh one of them is do outside events and uh I think we have the capabilities of doing them better than anybody well I know that I I don’t think it I know we can do it better than anybody the matter the fact of matter is now you have to actually do it it’s one thing saying it it’s another thing doing it it’s time to start doing it so Randy what you just you’re you’re just having a ball over there go ahead the chat the chat the chat’s angry I mean the CH is just angry Randy says they mad at I for sure would not watch a video of Casey and Jacob unknown he’s out he’s out he’s Trac you killed him I mean we got guys leaving us nobody’s watching any of our stuff anymore they’re not going to watch me they’re not going to watch Casey they’re not going to watch Chatterbox Reds everybody’s out now because you decided to fire yourself listen I am well aware that I know I listen I know that’s say now you have time to fix the hole in your basement I don’t actually know I need to get up somebody over there to fix that in fact I what I’ve decided and and my wife’s not pleased about my decision- making at the house on on on a whole host of things but one of them is is that I’ve decided that I am not putting anything nice in my house until my kids are literally gone or when they’re old enough to where I think they’ll respect it so maybe in high school I don’t know when kids go from like just coloring on things or like just spilling sweet tea or spilling pop in the middle of a couch and then just not telling anybody about it and then you get over there and you realize like oh well I guess this happened 6 hours ago so now how are we supposed to fix this I got I got my couch looks like somebody spray painted all over it I I genuinely at this point have given up I’ve given up so what I’ve decided that I’m going to do and what my decision- making is is that you know what we leave everything be in about three four five maybe six years we’ll reassess we’ll figure out all the damage and then from there we’ll start fixing some things but there’s no reason in fixing something and then it getting brok and then fixing something and then they getting broken I’m not doing it so if you come to my house that’s the reason Colton says sounds like you need some electric collars boy I tell you uh that would put me uh permanently fired yeah yeah I think i’ find myself uh I think I’d find myself never doing a show again yeah yeah yeah you wouldn’t be able Doug got Le’s out here doing like five different jobs at once yeah well three it’s probably It Ain’t Easy six if you count credit card theft yeah well did you see you know when he put his shorts on backwards at Oklahoma State really I didn’t see that never seen that I never seen that yeah he walked out he walked out to play basketball game and he took his warm-ups off yeah and his shorts were on completely backwards so they had to like run him over there to the to to the end of the bench and change it he’s I don’t know it’s kind of fun uh fun little fun little deal do you think the reds are going to win tonight um no but you know what I’ll watch with Brent sud and I hope they will Casey’s asking if we want to do some call-ins um I’ll tell you what I’ll I’ll tell you what I’ll do call-ins uh you can open up you can open it up if someone wants to call in they can call in no problem but here’s the thing um we got about 10 more minutes on this show yeah Elliot has to leave to go to do Miami we got we got we got things to do well we got things to do we’ll we’ll appease the fans tomorrow I will open up phone lines tomorrow so you’re not opening up right now no I’m not going to open it up right now because I do know you got to go I’m sure Trace we got to go to the same place I I believe we’re all we’re all uh we’re all well I don’t know I think we’re all doing the same things yes okay so I will open them up tomorrow we’ll have a a full show planned me and Elliot and I don’t know who else is going to be on that show I’m going to try to get I’m going to try to get some experts in here I will also say uh as I as I depart this show um I’m also working on things behind the scenes to get us more content so if you think it’s all just you know hey we’re take doing less and less and less uh the opposite it would be true so hopefully we can find a way to bring more and more content I’m well aware that as we head into the fall it will be kind of the Prime season of sports talk right with football is King it is King it will always be king until uh until told otherwise so hopefully as we head into this fall we’ll have a plethora of people that can not only do you know Casey’s job because that’s some of it too Casey basically has to sit behind that computer more times than not so if we can find ways in which you know Jacob can help Casey out uh Casey could help Elliott out and Elliot can help me out you get this nice little circle of trust of being able to do certain things and then that allows you to start doing more and more things one thing that I do want to do though is uh as I do think that we need to uh start scheduling some uh members only stuff and I think the first thing needs to be like a maybe you can maybe you could take some suggestions from the members but uh putt putts one I want to wait until we get our interns in here to do that I want to make sure throw some darts you know yeah I got dart board not darts but axes they don’t kill each other I don’t want know if I want to throw axes we can do ax we can do you guys ever done like uh U you know uh shot guns at the uh the little discs that called at the range like the no talking about like the where they throw it in the air they shoot in the air disc shooting or whatever anyways I say I I got I got a brilliant idea we’re going to get guns I you want me shooting a gun I listen I think it’d be great content I also think what would be good is this when are the Summer Olympics they’re this summer it’s this summer yeah it’s this summer that’s what we do we do sum all the Olympic sports find a we find a way to do them not I don’t know if we can do them all cuz I’m not doing the the uh the jousting we’re not doing jousting yeah we are we are yeah all right well then I guess we are we got we got to find some horses for equestrian we’ll just do we’ll title The V video Elliot does pting Elliot does yeah Elliot does I don’t think I don’t think Elliot does ping I thinking does uh but that’s it that’s our show that is our show and I just want to say uh I’m not going anywhere this isn’t a good buy so I’m not doing that whole song and dance okay I’ll be around I’ll probably be back in the fall to irritate everybody about the the bingles CU that’s part of my job to say and with that I’m going to turn it over to Elliot to finish the show take care everybody I hate to
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Great show
Nice backdrop!
Mike Ford has NO RIGHT to gripe if/ when he is sent back down to the Minors. The guy pushed to make it back to MLB, and he STINKS. Put up or SHUT UP.
When Elliot started to sing at the end of the show, I began to cry. Not tears of happiness, but because the sound made my ears hurt.