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got Now there's no excuses. Yeah, you got your shoulder fixed, you got your ankle fixed. You better get the game fixed. I'm like a Nascar The right side of my body has been I got to the left side. Now, Holy crap, just need an oil change. My search is like, yeah, you fully ruptured your tendon. It's gonna be a minute. Could you think of a moment when you did it? Because there a pinpoint I'm speaking of my my you know,

eight thousand vacation days. We were in Australia and I felt like a little pop and it hurt for like the better part of a day. But she said you probably did it before that it was something else. So I'd like, I don't know, man, I'm just stupid. Well, my younger my younger brother actually had surgery yesterday on his shoulder and they're like, you know, we fixed your shoulder, but apparently somewhere along line, you rupture your bicep. Completely had no idea. Nope, that's true, Like we just have

no money Badgers. I was watching and what was it. It was called Nova Can the guy who could Feel No pain. It's like that should be the nickname.

I didn't go down to that shop. You know, you're not that guy. I like that.

from ESPN fifteen thirty. El here, he and Tony Pike this afternoon, about noon talking about this and all these sports misery. We went in a short period of weeks when like FC was rolling. The Reds are in a historic run right now to close out the season, get in the postseason. You got the Bengals kick off, oh well, two and zero, and all of a sudden, in a few short weeks all, it all burned down. Yeah, from the time I left and came back, the whole city

burned down. What the hell happened? I wish I could explain it, I really do. Like, obviously, the Burrow injury changes everything for the Bengals, and the way that they performed in Minnesota, You're like, Okay, just got away from them, Surely they're not that bad. And then they confirmed that they are that bad with the way that they perform in Denver, and all of a sudden you've lost all expectations for the Bengals. And then with the Reds it

was the exact opposite. They played just good enough to outlast the Mets and get into the playoffs. Normally, an eighty three win team is not going to get you into the playoffs. The Reds were just enough better than the Mets, who had a historical collapse and the same and half of the season to get into the The Reds did not go on this surge of offense and pitching in defense to earn a spot into the postseason.

They simply didn't play as bad as the Mets. In all fairness, they played a really good series against the Milwaukee team was resting some guyst the Chicago Cubs swept the Cubs, so down the stretch they did some some and I you know people, well, yeah, you but Milwaukee's resting their starters and there. Yeah, but you still did something you haven't been able to do, I think since Kennedy was president, feels like and that was beat it. Take a series in Milwaukee, brothers in Milwaukee on top

of that. Yeah, but what does that mean?

we're not even getting into pitchers and everyone else. It is, Can the Reds actually compete on that stage? Now you look at that go, well, Cleveland's in there. There's some smaller market teams, smaller payroll teams that did really well. The Mets didn't do much or were the Mets right now. They've got a really high payroll. But at the end of the day, can you really compete at that level?

they do. They choose not to. So if you're going to operate that way, you better have the rest of your button, your operation buttoned up, and it doesn't feel like they have that entirely buttoned up right now because there was not enough development this year from young players. I think you feel really good about Noel vi Marte. I think you feel really good about salth Stewart. Awesome, but you're questioning Ellie de la Cruz defensively took a

step back. Matt McClain put together one of the worst offensive seasons in the history of the Reds franchise, and he played nearly every day. Austin Hayes one year deal, hurt all the time, Miguel andhar expiring deal, good acquisition. Maybe you consider bringing him back. TJ friedel red hot for the first seventy five games of the season, just a guy for the back half. Stevenson injured, Okay, not great, Jose Travino fell off a cliff, Gavin Lux not a

complete liability defensively. So there's clearly a lot of work that needs to be done on this roster. And I give Terry francona credit for all of what I just said. He did a good job with them of weathering the storm and keeping them competitive. He never let it unravel. That felt like that was the best that you could get out of this group of guys. Terry Francona got the best out of what he was given. Yeah, as

he always does. I would say that up until like the last two weeks of the season into the playoffs, I found myself second guessing him more than of Zach Lettel. Zach Lettel, I mean, I got it right here. So the whole idea of the Reds making the playoffs was they have Hunter Green, they have Nicolodolo, and they have Andrew Rabbit. Andrew Rabbit pitching the All Star Game this year, he didn't pitch in the postseason. Yeah, Niicolodolo last Night

fourteen was filthy. He threw fourteen pitches. Yeah, and Hunter Green did not meet the moment through sixty five pitches and got showed.

but did anyone expect to his credit? Okay, so he pitches zach Lytell, and he went why the hell would he not? Why is Loddole only getting a dozen pitches? Why are you saying having Abbott for a game three that may not happen. You know you've got to play for tomorrow. You gotta play for today, not tomorrow. I understand the second guessing he's a Hall of Fame manager. I give why birth to that, because he has a

track record of success where he goes. The zach Lytell start was certainly questionable, but you know to him going to you don't know what your game one day the next. The biggest evidence of that, as you mentioned, is Hunter Green. Did anyone expect Hunter Green in Game one to collapse as quickly and as easily as said? No one believed that.

is on the Reds coaching staff. He's there because he's really good at that picking up guys that are tipping pitches, both on the opponents and on themselves. Well, first of all, how many times have the Reds off exploded offensively? It makes you feel like, oh, the other team was tipping their pitches. Never happens. And how do you not have a self scout in there in your system to say, Hunter you're doing this with your glove when you throw a breaking ball. You're doing this with your foot when

you throw a fastball. Whatever it is like that sort of stuff is what I'm saying. You have to have that buttoned up because you don't have the talent advantage against the best teams in baseball.

sales Stewart. I love that guy for a rookie to show what he did at Chabez Ravine that clutch shit to drive runs in fantastic and I think it's unfair to him, but shows the kind of guy he's for hanging that loss on him and that that throwing here because there's a lot of other problems I had that was not at all on sales. Stewart, that's that. I look at what transpired in that regard last night and it just leaves me shaking my head, going, well, okay, you know, you got a great bullpen, you get to

the Dodgers billing and can't produce runs. I look at Ellie de la Cruz wearing that forty four, and we heard the story on the telecast last night million million times about how Rick Stobe but quet that number on him because he reminded him of Eric Davis. He has got a long way to go, a long way to go before he's at the level of Eric Davis. Is Ellie, you know, we talk about he's a superstar. He's a every commercial you see for mlbing a promo, Ellie's on there. Ay,

all well and good, but what's that guy done? Yeah?

until the last two weeks of the season. A difficult season for Ellie, but there were moments in which you were waiting for him to grab hold of it and to become that superstar and to match all the hype. I did an entire segment about this going into the game on Tuesday night, which is, yeah, Hunter Green is starting, and that's cool, but this is a chance for Elie de la Cruz to emerge, yes, and to.

makes him the Hall of Famer that he is. It was awfully tough to watch Game one because you know, it was out a hand early, and I think for a lot of Reds fans, did you have a sense like as soon as Otani hit that that jack jack that first, You're like, man, maybe this this run is over. You know what to do that to the first inning, the first pitch, But boy, you know that was an eye opening moment for me, and it got worse from there.

In Game one, you're hoping for a bounce back ten who it started that way, and you're like, we got to get more than two runs against this Dodger team, and they didn't until it was too late. Yeah, I mean I kind of figured once the home runs happened that the game one was over, just because I know the Reds don't have the ability to score a bunch of runs, So you know, that one I thought it

was over. But I legitimately thought the plan going into last night, if lttel can go through the order once and then get you through to Lodolo, you'll be good. Everybody on the planet knew that you can't leave Lodolo or Lattel in more than that batter in the fourth Yea and Francona did. There was, if I have any criticisms, there was times towards the end of this season where it felt like Terry Francona didn't have the feel for the game. And that's concerning to me. All right, off season,

Red's gonna We're gonna talk about this all offseason. And now a lot of this is it's not about Terry francne Is. It's gonna certainly be on the front off. It's going to be Bob and Phil in time to open up the purse strings, micause you got this far. My final point is this, Yes, you can be happy that the Reds made an appearance in the postseason, but you should at no point feel satisfied with what they accomplished. They shouldn't feel that way, Bob, Phil, Nick, Terry, every

player on that team. There was a sense of accomplishment in the clubhouse last night, and that's bs. They should not feel that way because this team underachieved. As far as I'm concerned, A lot left on the table and waiting for that moment to go Okay, good this this is a pause, and now we move forward.

appreciate you seven hundred WW. Every time there's a protest place like oh Portland, for example, and people are on the streets, and then the people in law enforcement wearing the helmets and have the batons out and the shields, and when these people get arrested for not they always start crying. You kind of knew it's coming. If you don't get out, you're surprised at you're crying that you're getting arrested. I just I don't understand it. I don't I don't get it. But that's part of old Agehoe

is getting all banged ups. Loney back on seven hundred WLW. All right, the ankle's making but we're making progress on the ankle. Three more weeks and I can put it. How about that good times to be had? You know this, I don't know, and I haven't listened at all because I've been kind of out of it. But the government shutdown. Get into that for a minute here before other stuff.

You know, it's the same tired political game that goes on, and if you're cheering for one side or the other, then you know, maybe you want to take pause and just listen for a second. Because everything you need to know about this shutdown comes from a headline from of all things, the athletic, and the headline is that what the athletic? What has that got to do with the shutdown? Here's your headline. Air Force versus Navy football will go

on as scheduled. The ongoing US government shutdown will not impact the playing of college sports games at Air Force Army and Navy. What does that tell you about the seriousness of those who are shutting our government down. It's all theater. If you manufacture a crisis and pretend it's the other side that's evil in doing this, and you get enough people to believe you, you win, because fear is the currency of power. The truth is how much has actually closed? Do you have an idea of how

you look at all the federal government? The eleventy billion eleveny what is it, eleven dy billion dot, whatever the hell it is, of how much money we spend every minute? The shutdown effects about eight percent of that federal budget. Eight percent of the federal budget is not funded currently because of the shutdown. In the order itself, it requires

it non essential departments shut down. What should enrage all of us, especially those of us who are either those of you who are really conservative Magget conservatives or lean to the right, or libertarian like me, because that means that the Maga Doze phonies consider ninety two percent of government to be essential. I thought, this is about shedding. We'll get to that in a second, because you may, just because of the nature of the way this is going,

shed some jobs here. But so that means that those who are going to shut this thing down, ninety two percent of government is essential. Well, what was Doze about then? And Dooze literally figuratively didn't do anything. So you have defense, you have veterans affairs, you have health and human services, and labor and education and energy, and a bunch of air traffic controllers, Transportation Security Administration TSA officers. My daughter's

flying today, so she'll be fine. Customers in Border Protection IRS FBI, all those agents are still on the job. About a quarter the FAA, though, is going to be furloughed, which again is just just enough, just enough disruption for someone to know. It's not going to shut the airlines down. I'm not gonna shut anything, but it's gonna be just a little more, a little more crowd, a little more slow, little more plotting, just enough to maybe get your tender.

You're still gonna get your student loan, You're still gonna get your Social Security, you're gonna blieve me, you're gonna be able to get your PLAVIXX. You're gonna be fine. But if you you know the thing is, if you really want to stop this BS, we're gonna shut the government down. Every time we don't get our way, or to send a message and bring America to its knees, which really doesn't have you really want to stop this, you know, Congress, the executive branch, the judiciaria. How about

you don't get paid during a shutdown? What you can't not pay us? How about your health benefits go away? Members of the Senate, members of the Congress, you get in it. You can't go to the doctor, you can't get You're gonna have to pay out of pocket for stuff when the government shuts down. I know, okay, we can't. We gotta pay these guys because it's constitutional, it's protected. But what about the benefits? Why don't we cut the spict off to that? Why don you guys vote on that.

Put that up there and say hello, and every time we shut the government down, we can't come with a budget and we'll get paid. But yeah, the healthcare of the perks, the car surface, all that stuff that they get that goes away. So we open things. But you don't think that would maybe we'd see a lot fewer disruptions like this. I would, because you know it's a temper tantrum. We want outrage for our cause. Not outrage

at the system that encourages it. You know, if you again on that note, if you want to hear from constituents and they you know, they want you maybe paying attention to all the government's shutting down. This is bad. We've got to get this thing together and on what's causing this whole thing. If you cut medicare off in social security, that get it people's attention, right and and but now it's like, well, okay, what's the narrative on

this thing, the shutdown? Well, Schumer really is under pressure from his base to show that Democrats are want to take the hammer to Trump and those the AOC who's been all over the place, the EOC is the world of progressives of the party are angry as Trump continues to get what he wants, and so like, hey, we'll shut things down and we'll use healthcare in this case as a pretext. And you know, the sad part about this thing is what we want. Okay, we need to

save Obamacare. That's what this is about. This is about saving We got to there's twenty two million people who depend on this, and I agreed, and the healthcare has been a mess for a long time and Republicans hold a majority, but Democrats are needed to move those funding bills in the Senate, And so now it's the party attacking Republicans is irresponsible for threatening shutdowns in the past, and now they're shutting things down themselves and throwing their

own temper tantrum, which further illustrates the silliness of politics. I will say, though, that as I look at this, maybe there's a chance that the federal workforce comes out and maybe it's a little bit smaller as result of this thing. Because you know Trump is and he's great at calling somebody's bluff saying okay, went after the Office of Budget Management and say, how about this, We'll start

permanent job cuts as the government shuts down. But we know the government really never shuts down, as I just pointed out, by only eight percent of government shutting down, ninety two percent is still fully functional and funded, and somehow, some way, within a week or two at the most, the two parties always work out in agreement. And what the agreement is is, hey, you know what, we're just going to kick the can down the road for a few more months and spend a lot more money doing it,

bankrupting America even further. That sound like a plan to you. That sounds like a plan, and that's what happens every stinging time. So the idea that somehow is like we're fighting for this guys who we're fighting for the American But they're fighting for yourselves. You're fighting for power and scaring people is the currency you spend to get what you want. And that's really how things work. That's how

government works. But helps like eight percent. Okay, you look at that, go wait, wait a minute, this is about eight percent of the government. Yeah, the important stuff, that is stuff important to them. It still stays open, some big deal. It's illustrated by that point. The Air Force Navy football game will still go on. Well why isn't that shut down. I'm not saying I enjoy Service academy battles, especially the Army Navy game. We didn't like that. It's

about as American as it gets. Tell you what, I've seen a game in Navy Marine Corps Stadium. It's a phenomenal play. I haven't seen anything at the other academies, but they're in Maryland. Absolutely, it puts a lump in your throat. It makes the hair in the back of your next ten. It's all of that. If you've ever been to a game there, it's fantastic to watch the midshipman come marching. It's really really cool. But okay, if we shut government down, why are we doing that? Well,

that's different, is it is? That doesn't seem essential? Yeah, but you can't. Really that's punishing the athletes of Yeah, but you're the ones guys shutting the government down, not them, not our soldiers and airmen and sailors. Well you don't understand. I understand perfectly. What you're doing is you're jerking our chain. Like if you really wanted to get stuff done in Washington,

if there's an impetus to do that, you would. But you know, we again it's the nature of politics because we took what works in sports, and that is you know this, this this rabid fan base that we have for you look at look at everything in sports are gone all right? You look at people buying Bengals jerseys

and helmets. You know, you see somebody wearing a I don't know, a Trump hat, or someone who has a bunch of you know, liberal bumper stickers on their Volvo driving on seventy five I mean, you're kind of buying that merch too. It's it's to we take in sports and just said, hey, you know what they worked for sports looking to rabbit. People are over sports. We'll just apply to the politics. That's pretty damn good. Let's do that. And we've kind of made a theater so you know,

we're the ones that encourageous behavior. If we want to stop the nonsense. And I don't know if that day is coming or we said okay, enoughs enough already, then we say, all right, we're going to make some changes on who we vote for and who we're going to send a wash into our bidding. But that's not going to happen for a very very long time, if any time in my lifetime are yours? But the shocking fact of the matter is ninety two percent of government still

operates just fine. It's the eight percent. It's kind of like, I don't want to I'm trying to look think at a really good metaphor for this kind of like let's say, I don't know, you show up to a place that you have business with and there's a front office and you go the doors are locked, and the receptionist desk is empty and it's dark. But meanwhile, in the back, if you kind of look around where the receptionist area is, you're like, there's people back there working. That's kind of

what this is like. It's like, I don't know, a company holiday or something like, yeah, okay, well the forward facing people, the receptionists, the janitors, the vendors that okay, you know what, we're not going to put snacks back in the vending machine this week or two weeks, but everything else is still going to work. Well, that's what this is. Government's still working, all the important stuff's getting done. It's just they're showing us just how silly the whole

battle is over. Well, what is this? This is over healthcare. I mean, you can negotiate this and not close the governm. But every time we have a shutdown, it's because of something, somebody trying to make a political point. And certainly they're fighting for the soul to the Democratic Party with the progressive Left and the Centrists and the you know, the Greg Lansman's against the others and so on, and that's all well and good, but I don't understand why you

need to do this to make your point. You know, healthcare has been in atrocity in this country for a long time. And maybe I'll get this at a later date in that top of my head. You know, if you look over the last even twenty years, the number of businesses that are offering healthcare benefits, and particularly it's it's small business are fewer and fewer.

stuff to stay comped. If you can't afford to do that anymore, and fear in fear companies, small companies and that'd be those who employ under two hundred, which are the bulk of employers in America, can't do that any longer. And we've heard from Democrats about how we have to save that for people. Okay, good, what's your plan. Well,

we've got this Affordable Care Act thing. Okay, how's that work? Well, it pays your itself, except for the fact that we have to subsidize about twenty two million people for them to be able to afford it, and then even the people who aren't subsidized really can't afford it all that much. That works really well when you have it, but it really cost a hell of a lot of money. So we have to take government money to fund the healthcare program that we passed in the first place because we

said it would save a lot of people. Well, then it doesn't pay for itself. It doesn't work. Well, it works, we just have to prop it up with subsidy. Well,

then it doesn't work. If that's the case, And that's what they're dying on the sol far right now, or at least I guess the theater of dying on the hill for you and I. Meanwhile, we've had Republicans in power for a while, and when they continue to shoot down the Affordable Care Acts for pointing out what I just said and other things, nod your head and you agree with them, then you go, well, what's your plan? Well, have you heard any plans. I mean, we spend a lot.

We're talking about spending on defense and ice and all these other things, not saying that those aren't bad causes, but healthcare is pretty important to a lot of us. And the older you got, the more important it is. Trust me, I'm the poster boy for that right now. It's not like Republicans are going, here's what we're going to do for healthcare other than oppose the ACA?

same thing. The promises made are never kept. Some of them are the big ones day we kind of forgot about. But by and large, you know, healthcare isn't getting any better. It's getting worse. Arguably, it's getting worse. For us, but shutting government down to make for some gestures just stupid. It's irresponsible, which is fairly illustrative of how politics work

for us, which is simply just not at all. But hey, the good news is Air Force and Navy are gonna play football this weekend, So the important stuff has been left open and saved by the federal government. And maybe we're a little bit cranky this morning because staying up late last night and getting fully invested in this Reds baseball team that bitterly disappointed us. Maybe there's another reason.

Maybe looking well, you know, we've got the now we don't have the Bengals this weekend, got the Lions coming to town against the Bengals. And if you thought that Minnesota was bad, you think, okay, maybe that's a one not a one off, that's a trend. And I don't think the Lions are going to come in here and lay an egg. Probably not. And so we've time to look for things to distract us and go we'll take my man off the pain in agony real life, get me something new in jail. We don't even have that

right now. I was tough watch last night. If you stayed up late to watch. I tuned out about the sixth seventh inning, said, I know how this movie is going to end. I guess I can watch the highlights in the morning, and I did, and I was like, yeah, I'm glad I got caught a few hours sleep last night. Reds get eliminated in LA at the hands of the

almighty Dodgers. Is it a payroll issue? I Austin Olmore was just don said no, not as much, because Milwaukee's doing just fine and they have very low pay one of the lowest in baseball. So is it all a payroll issue or is it a front office issue?

World Series, and we'll see what happens. Hopefully that is the case. In twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven for the Red Lags. Hopefully Joe Burrow heals in the offseason. I don't even know if he comes back in December, that's going to be enough the way this team is playing right now. But hopefully brighter days are ahead. I think that's probably true for our sports teams as well as this country. At some point we will wake up.

That's how it is. Scott Flown Show at five, three, seven, four, nine, seven tho eight hundred, Big One Talkback iHeartRadio app coming up at ten oh seven this morning. Here's an interesting story that kind of developed when I was out, and that is a truce between the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio. And in case you haven't heard the story, because there'sen a lot of important stories going, but I like to focus on the local

stuff too. As the Archdiocese apparently did a onoint eighty, the Girl Scouts are going to get kicked out because of their very leftist pro I don't know abortion policies. I don't think that's probably true at all with Girl Scouts, but that's what the previous archbishop thought. We got a new archbishop and looked at it and said, no, no, that's that's not what the Girl Scouts are about. The

Girl Scouts have been saved for our community. I think that is a wonderful thing, because if you don't believe me, and I know there are fewer kids and Scouting ever before, I think we need it now more than ever because if you look around at the bloodshed, the violence, the nonsense, and the problems that happened this summer throughout Cincinnati, I know the people that were doing that were probably not Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. We kind of need more

of them in these times, not fewer of them. Anyway. We'll get to that right after news update on the Home of the Bengals, the Home of the Reds, and other frustration. Seven hundred WWD Cincinnati. It's slowing off the DL and back on seven hundred w welw and it's good to be back after sitting around for a couple

of weeks. Jump right back into it. So one of the stories I followed We All Together, was involving the Archdiocese of Cincinnati ending there over one hundred year partnership with the Girl Scouts of America because the bishop, the Archbishop Denis Schnur, I guess the former bishop, I should say at this point, just kind of out of the blue center letter to parishioners about a year ago explaining that at the end of this year, being twenty twenty five,

every Girl Start Troope would be kicked off unless they converted to an American Heritage Girl Trooper leieve. And this had to do with some noise coming from the Girl Scouts nationally anyway, because out of you know this, but they kind of operate. They're like independent operators. They can pick and choose what type of things they want to teach and what they're gonna what programs are going to

offer girls, and that depends on where you live. Makes sense, right, And so the Girl Scouts wasn't high largely under the Archidives Cincinnati are Catholics themselves, and so the concern was they're going to teach a LGBTQ plus curricula to the girls, which was never happening in the first place. And now you have a new archbishop and Robert Casey, who read this, looked at it and said, yeah, they haven't been doing it before, and they came to an agreement although I

can't figure it out myself. If you come to an agreement on something you haven't violated and haven't been doing well, what was the point of this all? Exercise? Jo on the show this morning on seven hundred WLW, whos a Jennifer British? He's a west Side Derek Trupley a Girl Scout leader and joins the show once again to discuss well. First of all, congratulations Jennifer.

base of knowledge. You get to experience different things that you may consider for career or vocation, whatever it might be, It makes you a broader person, more into a person. So I have a fun place in my heart for Scouting, and it tore my heart apart as yours did to see what you've gone through over the last year and seemingly unnecessarily.

to operate in the community. And this is a big day, a big deal for our troops and Catholic leaders across the arch type.

we you know, we don't teach that stuff. We don't have an inclusive together patch we hand out, we don't really celebrate LGBTQ plus prime months and recommending watching movies that may violate Catholic doctrine because you and other leaders are Catholic, so you're not going to teach something that violates your sensibilities.

troop and what the troop wants to go after. This is not something that would ever enter into our troupe curriculum or programming. Our programming is really about strength and strengthen strengthening these women, these young ladies as the future leaders in our community, strong mothers, strong strong women who can advocate with themselves and and all of that. It's just not something that would ever enter into a programming.

So to take it away from the girls, to take away this opportunity from girls just really struck us in the heart because it was something that it's so special to us, and specially.

to differ all that much. I mean, maybe there's differences between Cincinnati and Columbus Girl Scouts, but again, those are the nuances of where you live and what the community values are and that's not going to fly here in Southwest Ohio. It never has and so that's what left most of us scratching our head. I guess who try to analyze us and go, okay, well, what's the endgame here?

What did Schnerr want? He just seemingly got some advice from I guess maybe at the national level and apply to to Cincinnati and even sitting down and talking with you folks, with you ladies, he wouldn't even listen to that. I mean, it was. It sounded like up until last minute it was a done deal until he was essential because of health reasons forced out.

as well. But yes, it was. You know, Archbishoptioner is now retired for health reasons, as I understand it, and we have the new Archbishop, Robert Casey, and he took another look at it and realized the good the Girl Scouts does for young women across as arch diocees and

not just young women that you know, women too. There's so many wonderful, amazing women who have dedicated their lives to Girl Scouts and getting back to the next generation of who were coming up, and we were all impacted severely. And you know, we talked last year, Scott, I talked about how these girls and my own daughter was looking at me saying, what did we do wrong? It just felt like such an indictment against us personally, that we had done something wrong or im moral that was obviously

not the case. And so now I really feel strongly and I'm so thankful and have so much gratitude to Archbishop Casey for taking another look at this and realizing that we can be Girl Scouts and Catholic at the same time and help with the formation of our girls in both. In both areas, we can be fully who we are and helped to pass along good values, good morals, the teachings of the Gospel to these girls through Scouting.

I think it's a good thing. I think this is a good thing Scott, because I mean, truth be told, I don't know that the church really understood what the girls of their parishes were doing or how they were

interacting outside of school and church. And now they're going to take an active look and they're going to be paying attention and they're going to see and this is truly what was so disheartening about the decision last year is I don't nobody at the archdiocese they asked some level, had come to a TRUP meeting or asked what we were doing, or really understood the programming that we were doing for our girls, and now they will. They have to and we have to and that dialogue, that interchange

is so valuable and so important. It gives us a voice, It helps us be who we are, It helps us be part of the broader church community, and that's huge.

a lot of emotional upheopal and here we are. The good that has come out of it is a broader understanding. I think of Girl Scout programming in our Catholic parishes and I think, like I said before, the archdiocese, parish leadership, pastor's priest will be more involved with the formation of the girls in other ways.

for their entire lives. So Arch Casey took a look at that, understood that, and realized that the full formation of girls is equally as important as just their spiritual formation, and gave us another shot. And I'm I'm just so grateful.

to just simply listening to another voice or outside. I don't know what Schner was listening to, if anyone seemed like his mind was made out about eliminating girl Scouts had been around for one hundred years in Cincinnati, and you know, as conservative and traditional as we are here in Cincinnati, you know, you start messing with things like the girl Scouts. To me, that's up there, scoutings up there with like baseball in the American flag in Cony dogs.

Scouts in troops where we're trusted adults. So, by the way, have to go through extensive training for the archdises just to volunteer for these for these troops and these positions trusted adults are not trusted in that way to take care of these girls. And so yeah, I mean it's it's it's been a conundrum that we've been wrestling with for quite some time. I think Archbishop Casey took another look at and said, you know what, we have to trust the women of our parish or leading these troops.

We have to have a little bit more oversight, we have to have a little bit better understanding, and they have to you know, prove what they're doing with on bass and property. That's not a problem for us. I'm always been more than open about sharing exactly what it is that we're doing. I think it's it's amazing that people want to know and want to care about what

it is that we're teaching girls. But to your point about just a change in what's happening in the art at the archdiopcy level, I'm so hopeful that Archbishop Casey has come in and taking a look at things and said, you know what, there's another way to do this. This is not an indictment for me on Archbishop Schner, but I think that there's always more than one way to get things done, and if we can be open minded enough and listen to each other enough and more we

can find a pass forward. And it's even the toughest, toughest things that we have to.

can strike a partnership. But I think that was one way street for so long. I don't know why and how it got lost in the in the mind of Schner. But Robert Casey sounds like a good guy in this regard and welcome to the girl scouts back. And I think too, if you look at this long brutal summer that we had large and a lot of a teen violence involved, and a lot of teens doing the wrong thing scouting and girls scouting in particular, or something. As

you mentioned, it creates virtuous, upstanding young women. We need more of that, not less.

of society. This is one of those programs that does it, you know, and the other thing that this whole situation is really done. I do think that there's some positivity that's coming out of it. When I share the news with my daughter, she was just so proud. The girls actually were advocating from themselves.

in their community. When I share the news with my daughter, she looked at me, up at me, and oh, tears in her eyes. This will get emotional. But we did it, mom, we did it. And I said, yes, we did. We did it as a community of women, faithful women who care about the people around us and the community around us and making a better day.

make this happen. So yes, it's an amazing opportunity for these young girls to see what advocacy and action can lead to. I can't tell you how many people Scott told me last year, You're not going to change any thing. That's impossible. This is what it is. Move on, and we didn't. The girls and the women of Girl Scouts in the archdiocese didn't move on. We didn't stop to continue to advocate for ourselves in the right way, in a positive way with this course.

because of health reasons. It certainly worked out for the Girl Scouts in this case because had he not, they would be done. And that is it's an abomination not to not to sit down at least listen to what they have to say. You have all the credit in the world to Robert Kaser for being that guy. Time out Mortifile Sloany seven hundred WLW.

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in London and of course in South America. That's part of this. If you found football all, you know this can't possibly be surprised as they tried to expand.

And look at the flag football thing. It's interesting. They really lean the flag football so they can get more younger people, kids, young women to play and get invested in the game of football, so they become customers in the future. That's what this is all about.

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be said about that too. Is we age? And you know when you retire and quit, there's some people at work and they just that's ther whole purpose in life, and they just keep on going. She's one of those.

of thet all right, appreciate you. Good to be back when you get a news update in and when we return. Speaking of those red legs, what's next after there? Should I don't think stunning is the right word. I would say the sobering wake up call of what big payroll teams are going to do to you doesn't mean you can't get it done. Look at the Milwaukee Brewers, but Red's got some work to do. The offseason chat with Jeff Cup from Lockdown. Reds just ahead on seven hundred WW.

Since then, do you want to slow me back on seven hundred WW? That's what I said back on seven hundred W dow Barring some ankle surgery, severed ten completely ruptured tendon that I'm dealing with, but you know what, that can be repaired. That can be Can the Reds be repaired? That's the question now. Sunday we had champagne. The hangover lasted till Wednesday, then sobriety hit last night. He looked in the mirror and go, what the hell

did I do when I was drinking champagne? Eight to four last night the final despite two early runs, they couldn't compete. The Cockerroaches have been exterminated outscore eighteen to nine, and the longest drought in professional sports continues. The agony of the Reds not advancing is going to be known at least another year on it As our buddy from Lockdown, Red's the only daily Reds podcast, that'd be Jeff Carr. He's gonna have a lot to talk about in the

offseason starting today, Jeffrey, Welcome, Hi you Ben Sony. It's been a wild ride.

answer was no. The Reds let us down. If any of those teams they'll face the Dodgers instead of US. I think that the Dodgers probably beat a lot of those teams, if not almost all those teams saved maybe I don't know, maybe New York or Boston. I think they could beat Cleveland. I think they could be Detroit. I think they could probably beat Chicago. It just happens we drew the Dodgers. That starting pitching is going to

be so hard for anybody to be there. I mean, the way that Yamamoto and Blake Snell were both dealing, didn't feel like there was a whole lot of lineups that could really hang with them. It's just the pitching side of things for the Reds ended up letting them down, which was the big twist that we were all not expecting.

and Andrew Rabbit threw zero of them. Those are the three guys that you were expecting to be a huge reason why the Reds could compete with anybody, and quite frankly, they were three of the least important players in this series, or at least you know, Green was one of the most important as far as negatively, and then Nickelodolo and Andrew Rabbit were next to Superpluis.

to use the splitter. He tried to throw it a couple of times, and he spiked it in the ground and his slider was not landing for strikes. It was starting on the plate and breaking off the plate, so Dodger sitters knew they could lay off of it. And then whenever he would go to throw his fastball, it just caught way too much of the plate. And so that was watching old Hunter Green pitch again. I think part of it was it's like, man, this is his first playoff start, and then they add all of this

other stuff onto it. Oh, you know, hometown kid. He's coming back home faced the team he watched growing up, and all this other stuff, and I think just everything just caught up to him the moment that show Heyo Tani hit that ball to the movie.

at this point. Keep in mind, and you mentioned Hunter Green, very young roster, A lot of guys have not seen postseason play, and a lot of those guys, wilted I thought it was surprising to show that contrast, as a guy like Hunter Green thought, man, he's gonna go out there and just dominate. He did not, could barely get out of the first inning. It is a guy in Matt McClain whose defense has been spectacular all season. His bat has been absent for most of the season, been

terrible at the plate. Had it not been for his glove, he would have been sent back down, I would think, or at least at least benched at the very least. And yet he comes out and he smokes a double. When is the last time he got a hit, let alone a double. He played pretty well, So you know, it's about getting those experience, those moments of experience, I think in the postseason, Jeff, and then of course we'll talk about this in a minute, that's him adding some pieces.

But the I think the youngness of this team, the youth of this club really showed up.

think that that's actually going to be a positive. They're going to get to a point next year where maybe they hit some struggles and they can draw back on this season where you know, the whole cockroaches thing, which quite frankly, I'm kind of glad that's done.

baseball game you've been playing all your life. And I think that that, more than anything, is going to be such a huge, a huge lesson for this team moving into an offseason that you know, they should be full of lessons based on what's happened this year and different things that they need to answer before twenty twenty six gets going.

play with. You know, a lot is made about payrolls, and we've always heard about is a three hundred and fifty million dollar Dodger payroll, Dodger payroll, this huge Dodger peril. Meanwhile, they're also a wildcard team. So how much of the cry about payroll disparity and that we're among the lowest MLBA is really relevant in this case? How much of that do you weigh on payroll?

in the bottom tier for a long time. It just feels like if they put a little bit more, not saying they got to put one hundred and fifty million dollars more, but like just a little bit more, maybe twenty thirty million more into the payroll than what they did this past year, then they will get everything that they need. And I mean, you're talking about twenty four

million coming off the books for Nick Martinez. You're talking about a couple of million more for some of the other guys that'll be leaving via free agency from the bullpen.

Obviously those guys need to be replaced, but it feels like they're going to have somewhere between thirty and thirty five million from what they spent this year to spend on free agents and arbitration contracts, and so if they add a little bit more to that, they could really go for something here, including you know everyone's favorite son from Middletown, Kylee Shwarber.

He was on base a couple of times in the first game by a walk and then he had a fielders choice that got an rv I. But that's it. Like there was no impactful moment for Elie de la Cruz, especially there in Game two where he comes up in the sixth thenning with the bases loaded, and it feels like this is a moment where he can make a name for himself, and he struck out, and I think that there's definitely a lot that he can glean. He's still very early on in his career, but yeah, you're right.

I mean he's not there yet. He still remains a bunch of potential rather than approven product.

baseball plays. I like Sales Stewart a lot, and I look at him and go, Okay, there's a guy that's going to be a cornerstone for a while.

sal brings to this team. I mean, he got caught up in the beginning of September and he provided a couple of homers for him down the stretch. Didn't look like, you know, oh hey kid, welcome to the big leagues. By the way, we're in a pennant race, and don't mess anything up here. And he didn't. He looked fantastic, and he's got a great personality to root for too.

I just I really hope that they commit to one position with him, because they keep doing this thing where, you know, so they get somebody on the roster and they're like, oh, well he could play anything. It's like, well, give him, give him a position, and I feel like he looked good at first. He's looked good at third

base in his minor league career as well. There's gonna be so many options open to this front office this off season because of guys like South Stewart, but they've really got to make sure that they have a plane in place next year and not this current roster that feels like it has a whole bunch of square pegs for square holes. But there's only so many holes you can fill, and they've got far too many pegs.

champions because they look that damn good. They just continue to come at you with play after play after player, and you know that too. Nothing lead that they had last night early like that, Well, they're going to have to probably quadruple that if they got a chance down the stretch, they did not, And long about after what the fourth or fifth inning, they started having to play from behind, and that's not a good when you're in the position the Cincinnati Reds are, but got to the postseason.

The goal next season is going to go much much deeper in the playoffs. And how much of that is retaining some of the core guys you mentioned We're gonna lose some guys in free agency, which all teams do, but also what they add, what do you think happens in the next what four and a half five months here?

a mutual option. I'm not sure how that one's going to go because the season has been sort of up and down for Austin Hey. There's a lot of injuries, some production, but none of it's super consistent, and I don't think that the Reds are going to pick up the mutual side of that option. Then you have Miguel Andrewharr who came over here from the A's and he's played the outfield a lot in his career. It's just he had a leg injury that was limiting him to DH only and so is he going to get healthy

in this offseason? Do you commit to him playing in the outfield for a little bit, maybe give him a one year proven deal or something like that. There's a lot of interesting options that they currently have in the house. But I also would really and the goal for me for Nick Crawl because there is you mentioned this early on when we started talking like how much pressure shifts

to the front office. This has to be the most pressure packed off season for Nick Crawl because they just showed that they could do this with the roster that they got, but they don't have enough to go much further than where they got, and they've got to get some help. I think that the first thing he's got to look at is somebody who can be an anchor

for this lineup. There was nobody in this lineup at any point this season that was a consistent like when we need a hit, he's going to give it to us, and when we need an RBI, he's going to give it to us. They've got to go find that guy, whether he's an outfielder or a d H or whatever he might be, or whether his name rhymes with Blorber.

I think that that was a Borber, But you know, whether that is the option or not, he's got to figure that out because there's definitely some boopen needs that he has, and you could argue that there's definitely some needs there on the bench as well. What is Will Benson to this team?

just a few months. Jeff Carr always enjoyed our chats on Monday, kind of recap in the weekend, look at a week aheads, and hopefully we'll both be around in a few months to be able to do that, Jeff Carr Lockdown ORIDGS only Daily Reads podcast, are gonna have a lot to talk about in the next four or five months, for sure, before things start ramping up out a goodyear and then the twenty twenty sixth version of this team comes to fruition, and I think we have

reason to be optimistic and excited. Provide to the front office, get some critical pieces in there. Jeff, have a great offseason, all the best. I've been appreciating you all these.

on some federal funding. That would be your government backed loans. Federal Housing Administration, the FAHA loans, the VA loans, USDA loans are all vulnerable for being slowed down during this process.

you about the government showdown for the now. If you're going through it, it's you know, life and death, because if you think about when we just bought a house, right, okay, so you have to sell your house to buy the new house, and then that person's buying a house, and if one person in that chain has an FHA or VA long or something like that, then that could come everything up and screw things up just enough to slow it down to a point where you're losing a lot

of sleep over it, which is exactly what they wanted. I was pointing out the first half of the show. But you know, the war of the government shutdown and who's really the blame here, And the fact of the matter is it's politics, right, So roughly you think it's

a lot more. But for total federal spending, only eight percent of the government to shut down and what they call non essential role, so ninety two percent of the government according to Democrats and Republicans who are empower may I point out think that ninety two percent of governments essential what gets shut down museums, national parks, the FHA, loans get slowed down, all that stuff. To make you squeeze.

You know, it's still going on though, But the Army, the Navy Air Force game on Saturday, just.

gonna slow down. We don't need any more slow downs in the real estate industry right now. We just don't need it. Because interest rates have been so high, they're starting to come down. They're supposed to come down even further. Everybody there. It's interesting because I keep hearing this recurring buyers saying, I think the interest rates are going to come down to three.

had for years. For years, it's been a seller's market. Now the market is kind of it's moving in a direction that it's more of an even playing field, and buyers have opportunities. Buyers have opportunities. Now, I'm never going to tell a buyer to go in and do that low ball thing go down like twenty thirty forty thousand dollars. You're only going to make the seller really mad, and

you're not being realistic. Let's be realistic. I know everybody's looks for a deal, but I personally think that there are opportunities. There are always opportunities in any situation. You know, when the stock market goes one way or another, there's opportunities. Same thing with real estate. This shutdown of the government could provide some opportunities for some people. It can also provide a lot of.

not quite sure. But of course, the Reds losing last night in LA kind of root in a sense, thinking, oh, this is a foregone conclusion because the other teams all took them to game four or game threes rather, and the Reds got swept out in Los Angeles last night. We had a chance early on, They're up to nothing, looks it was gonna hold for a while, and then LA does what they do with that big fat payroll of theirs and just steamrolled the Cincinnati Reds last night.

So the Reds have been eliminated and you can't kill them while they got killed in two games just like that. So we got lots to talk about that. Of course, the big story today, And if you're waking up this morning, you're a little hungover from watching the Reds and they had answer certainly basis loaded situations, couldn't get the guys around, and they lose in Los Angeles, eliminated from playoffs for

twenty twenty five. Now, the good news is, and I think the honest is on ownership here in the Castellini family, what moves you make in the offseason to get yourself to the point where you can advance in the postseason. Really, I mean, we talked about it all year long, how close they really were, felt like a five hundred team all season. They hovered around that. But what puts them over the top gonna be some bats, although we've seen

that before. You get bats in Cincinnati and Great American Small Park, and for some reason, batters come here and they still can't hit. So I don't know if there's a curse, if we have to have some sort of exorcism at Great American Ballpark, I'm not quite sure. But as bad as it is to get licked and whooped in Los Angeles against the team that quite honestly came off a World Series championship and just said they're payroll absolutely loaded, so I know it's going to be a

good twenty twenty six for sure. I know, I know. And we've got a long, long cold winter the way the Bengals are playing anyway, that and more coming up with Jeff Brownley the Cowboy. We'll get to news, and then Cunningham takes over twelve oh six. I'll see it back here to Martin. Nine oh six, got thrown back finally on the Home of the Red seven hundred WWD Cincinnati,