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Willie's 2025 Reds Opening Day Speech

Mar 27, 20253 min
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Episode description

Join Lance McAlister and the Great American for Willie's annual Reds Opening Day Speech.

Transcript

Speaker 1

Sorry, back on the Arneale Carriers inside pitch, visit RLC dot. I'm gonna make RNL Carriers your global transportation provider. It is not Reds Baseball season until this takes place. I want to turn to my left to a broadcasting icon, a radio legend who will set the tone for Retch Baseball twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2

If you're ready to now, Bill Cunningham hit it.

Speaker 3

Before I formally get started, a Lance mcgaller. So you gave me some necessary information. I'm gonna talk about eighteen sixty nine, nineteen nineteen, nineteen thirty nine, nineteen forty nineteen seventy, nineteen seventy two, nineteen seventy five, nineteen seventy six, nineteen ninety and then twenty twenty five and the last ten years? How many times have the Reds had a winning record on May first of that season?

Speaker 2

One? When was that last year? So nine years before that did not have a winning record? Correct? How important is it for the Reds to start off in the right way? Do you think?

Speaker 3

And from March and eight bigger than John Dutton and Montana, bigger than the Yellowstone?

Speaker 2

Is that correct?

Speaker 1

Oh? Nice reference?

Speaker 3

Now here we go Sometimes I started in eighteen sixty nine because great American events, I say, make the Reds great again. Eighteen sixty nine, the boys came marching back from Gettysburg, you might recall, And what did they do in Cincinnati?

Speaker 2

They played baseball.

Speaker 3

In nineteen nineteen when the Doe Boys came back from France and World War One?

Speaker 2

What happened? Who won the world title in nineteen nineteen?

Speaker 3

Another great event? Which team won that the Reds? And now nineteen thirty nine and forty you might recall the Hunt was marching, Hitler was marching across Europe, and Herohito was building things up in Japan. We didn't like you might recall Herohito and Hitler. Thirty nine, the Reds lost to the Yankees. But in nineteen forty, getting ready for World War two, what happened in the World Series that year, Las mcgallis.

Speaker 2

The Reds one? The Reds one.

Speaker 3

Then in nineteen seventy five and seventy six, at the conclusion of the Vietnam War, sixty one thousand of my generation gave the life for this great country. They came marching back from Caysaun and to the Dang and what happened in nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 2

In nineteen seventy six they won, and then they won him again.

Speaker 3

Now nineteen ninety, getting ready for the Persian Gulf War, all of a sudden, at the B one bomber, George Bush throwing out the first pitch, et cetera. I think they won that war. But what happened in nineteen ninety to mark once again? The Civil War, Word War one, Word War two, and then the Vietnam What happened wire to wire Champion?

Speaker 2

Now here's my connection.

Speaker 3

There were two managers born within a few miles of each other a couple of years apart, in the great state of South Dakota. One was Sparky Anderson. And who was the other one? Terry Francona. Terry Francona DC the connection, dude, So here comes my prediction. Twenty twenty five will be like nineteen seventy when Sparky Anderson took over from Dave Bristol, nineteen ninety when pot Rose Loup Pannella took over from

Pete Rose. Now we got Tino Francona taken over from David Bell, marching for glory, and where is America now bombing the

Speaker 2

Hooties catch the area's best height

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