Quick Hits and Locks of the Night w/ Tony Pike, Austin Elmore, and Mo Egger -- 6/27/24

Tony and Austin chat with Mo about his show, the Reds, LOTN, and more on ESPN 1530!

Episode Transcript

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Two minutes since he three sixty continueson ESB in fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's sports
station. It's time for since thethree sixty quick hits on ESPN fifteen thirty.
It has been so long since Moand I have been together for for
quick hits, and here we aretogether for what feels like this in forever?

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Who were you? Were you on? What were you on the phone?
With the Knicks draft strategy. I'mtrying to see if I can get
them to trade for Archie Ryan Archidiyakana. Yeah, good move, good move.
He gave up earlier this season,but now they need another Villanova wildcat.
I saw legs today say the Celticsto pick before should take Brownie and
hold them hostage. That would befantastic. So that idea, I think

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was originally birthed by Bill Simmons.I'm in, but I love the idea.
It's not going to find anyone topick fifty four. No, your
roster's already stock, You've just wonthe title. Go ahead and hold them
hostage. See what you can getfor him? All right, Rob Polinka,
how bad do you want? Lakers? Blink lebron Lee. We're going
to ruin their franchise. NBA draftpick, who was the seventh man who
averaged what four point two points agame for a team that had a losing

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record. Yes, okay, IsaiahCallier's probably second guess in his decision.
Seventh man on a bad team.That guy is going to be drafted by
the LA Lakers. Anyway, what'scoming up on your show today, mo,
I'm gonna have two shows today,I do. You're like the Nick
Martin, We're like Brent souonter andyou're Nick Martinez today. Brent Sutter has
had a good big league career,Nick Martine. Yes, Nick Martinez has

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in the role of extended relief.What you're in today? Six straight?
You're the Nick Martinez versus the Dodgers. I had Nick Martini on the brain.
You're Nick Martinez against the Dodgers inthat spring training game. Yep,
that's gonna be our next banner.Uh. I have what I think is
the biggest question now about the Redseighty games in I'll ask it coming up

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at three oh five. An interestingtrade deadline suggestion for the Reds that we'll
get to doesn't come for me,but a tell you who it does.
Come from, and we're going todiscuss the Bengals' biggest weakness, because if
it is what ESPN says it is, this team is going to go fifteen
and two. Plus. You know, there are a ton of different injury

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issues, gosh, that we're dealingwith right now with the Reds. With
FC Cincinnati. Doctor Jonathan Slaughter fromOrtho Sinsei at four thirty three and Mark
Followell from Apple TV's MLS season passedthe talks to f C Cincinnati five to
twenty. At the age of twentytwo, Fernando Tatis signed a fourteen year
deal with the San Diego Padres.And there are other players on this list

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that early on in their career,in their early twenties, signed ten,
eleven twelve year deals. Bobby Witt, twenty three years old, just signed
an eleven year deal. This seasonis trending in a very wrong direction for
the Cincinnati Reds, But I thinka large portion of the fan base would
say that Ellie is performing in yeartwo of the way they had hoped.
Yes, and I know this isthe caveat because Boris is his agent,

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and Austin pointed out earlier Boris isthe agent for Matt McLean and Johnathan India.
If you're the Reds, are youtrying to lock down eight, nine,
ten years for Ellie? He's twentytwo? Lock him in for eight
years. He's free agent by theage of thirty eight years. On top
of the five he's already supposed toplay for them, m because everyone's like,
Wow, you're gonna lose him tothe Yankees in four or five years.

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So I did this topic this week. Yeah, here's the good news.
You get Ellie Dela Cruz for fivemore years. What's go they do?
So let's do this. Let's acknowledgethat the most likely outcome is Ellie
is playing for somebody else in twentythirty. Okay, that's in twenty thirty.
Yeah, how about this? Whydon't you win while you have them?
But this year was supposed to bethe one of the years they won.
If I said to you, theReds will sign Ellie Dela Cruz right

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now to a five and a halfyear contract, would you worry about where
he's gonna play in year six?No? So why are we doing this?
I want the team to get betterthis year. They say stay and
it's the only thing we can talkabout if the Reds win two World Series
between now and twenty thirty and Ellieleaves, fine, oh yeah, I'll
sign up for that. Let's justdo this. Let's just understand the most
likely outcome is in twenty thirty heplays somewhere else. So how about you

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do with Ellie what you didn't dowith Joey Vado and actually win with him.
But the good news is they getfive more years. What's five at
Austin? What's five times one sixtytwo? A lot here? I'm gonna
do it now. I got thecalculator. It's over eight hundred games times

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one sixty two plus another eighty twothis year Ellie te playoffs. Okay,
Ellie de la Cruz right now isunder contract to play in at least eight
hundred and ninety two more games forthe Reds. That's awesome, that's really
good news. Why are we worriedabout twenty thirty? Yeah, because we

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got nothing else to talk about theteam. This team stinks. Worried about
Ellie? Where he's gonna play into? Where does? How about let's let's
spend a week without anybody getting pickedoff base thrown out at the play,
running the contact play or lollygaging theball back into the infield. Let's fix
that before we worry about where Ellie'sgonna play in twenty thirty. Is it

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a David Bell problem? Think aboutthat. The election's happening this year.
We're gonna have another election. Gcan't wait for that between now and when
Ellie can play somewhere else. Right, whichever candidate you're rooting for tonight,
if the other guy wins your fearfor for four years, yeah, those
four years are gonna end before wehave to worry about Ellie playing somewhere else.
Might not be alive by the timeEllie's slaying this. What was her

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question? Is it a David Bellproblem? David Bell, we give we
give Zach Taylor so much credit forthe culture and the locker room. In
this locker room, when you hearthe CES story, Uh huh, he's
coming back. He's gonna he's gonnaget a second opinion. We're not worried.
He's on track. And then yousee the jam Or Candelario report yesterday,
and no one that follows this teamsays, you know what, I
believe that I'm gonna go about fourthirty today, we find out correct.

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So does it become a locker doesit become a David Bell locker room problem?
Because I know he's going for arecord of getting tossed from games,
but every time we hear him talkit's teams doing what we need to do.
Well. That's the thing. Iread the quote from Tyler Stevenson today
quote, I feel like we're allkind of like coming together, like ten

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out of fifteen games. The injurystuff David Bell should have nothing to do
with I have. I don't whattheir margin for errors is different because of
the injuries. Sure, but theinjury stuff David Bell should have nothing to
do with the way they have played. And I'm not talking about hitters go

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over four or go through batting slumps, the base running mistakes, the mistakes
in the field, the mental miscues. I've used the word sloppy to describe
five Reds games over the last twoweeks. You're taught in T ball,
if you're on third base and theballs hit back to the pitcher, you
don't go home. But oh,it's the contact play well wrong. They're

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aggressive. They're aggressive. You can'ttell me there's not room for you to
angle back to third base. Whenthe balls hit back to the picture,
or when the ball is hit rightin front of the plate, there's not
time and not a laser. Gee. You know what I should do is
probably run back to third base.So what I want David Bell to do
is fix the slop. It isnot his fault that guys have gotten hurt.

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It is not his fault that theguys who have gotten hurt have kind
of taken this weird path to thesurgeon's table or the injured list. I
hate that David Bell is required tospeak about injuries. What he should be
doing is keeping his team from shrinkingthe margin for error by cleaning up the
slop. And the fact that thathasn't happened has brought about some very i

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think fair skepticism about whether this teamcan really win with him at your helm.
Let's make some money, Hey,Degenerates, it's time for Lots of
the Night presented by Cincy's Shirts.Is it the stories in Hyde Park?
Love coming together coming together? Yeah, let's win. Graham Ashcraft goes five

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and a third, gives up sixruns and says, I'm about to kick
that door down. Yeah, I'vebeen hearing that about Graham ashcraft for a
while in Louisville, Columbus. ButNoel Marte is coming back. Toledo Martine
will be back. Here comes NoelA mart and his white horse. Did
you hear the stat about Noelvie Marteand Will Benson? No so. At

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this time yesterday. In each oftheir last forty nine at bats, Marty
and Louisville Will Benson in the bigleagues, they were both hitting one forty
three. Somebody Will Benson or NoelvieMarte is Will Benson and triple A.
A guy called me last night.I was in for Lance and I said
something about Noelve Marte comes back,and he brought up, what do you

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do when you can't play with himin the postseason because you know he's not
eligible to play in the playoffs?Right? I would rather worry about where
Ellie de la Cruz is going toplay in twenty thirty. I'll take the
Angels as a home dog tonight,like the Yankees minus a run and a
half plus one eighteen Guardians money lineat Kansas City minus one twelve. But
would you rather win an Olympic goldmedal or a title in your respective sport?

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If you're an elite athlete. Let'ssay you're an NBA player, Oh
title and myersex sport. Okay,yeah, that's what I said, all
right. Which when people bring upwhat Michael Jordan did in his career,
do they do they lead with twoto Jordan said, the gold medal means
more, right, because you're supposedto say that. Brandon Phillips, Adam
Dunn, Sean Casey, one ofthose players can go onto this roster who
helps him the most? Right now, Adam Done, and they need a

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guy who gets you wouldn't take fortyhome runs and an off Give me forty
home runs and an on base percentageof four hundred right now, I'll take
the mayor who really needs to dosome work in that clubhouse. Maybe he
could help them as a hitty leaderand a guy that can just hit.
The Yankees last year with hitting,Red's have been looking for a left fielder
since they traded Adam Done sixteen yearsago. Most Done used to spit in

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his glove constantly and then rub itaround with his off hand. Adam Dunnan
leftfield date with a woman that Iused to know, and did nothing but
clip his fingernails. Cadillac Ranch downtown. Oh no. Also, you've got
a big twelve schedule to talk abouttoday. Oh yeah, the opponents are
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