Cincinnati

Up.

So it doesn't matter if it's sometimes cold in Cincinnati because the line keeps going the [beep] up.

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Up.

They're very stubborn.

The Buccaneers and the Cincinnati Bengals, uh, reluctantly for me, as somebody born just south of, uh, Tampa, Florida Talking about this game, but hey, I wanna give credit to Cincinnati's offensive line, and I wanna give credit to their offensive line because it just feels like the narrative has been so old and tired that Cincinnati doesn't have a good offensive line, they've never invested in an O line, they, they, they can't protect Joe Burrow.

Look, this is a revamped Buccaneers defensive line that has some really good players on it.

And outside of Kalidou Khancy getting the better of Dylan Fairchild and quite a few one-on-one match-ups that they had, 'cause, 'cause Khancy was great in this game, I thought Cincinnati's offensive line played very, very well.

Outside of Fairchild, every other Bengals offensive lineman had a pressure percentage below 8.1% per Next Gen Stats.

Specifically, Amarius Mims, who we talked about as really maybe taking that leap as that top offensive tackle there on the team, only allowed two pressures on 37 total dropbacks.

Look, if you're gonna turn the ball fo- over four times, it's really hard to beat anybody.

I think the Bucs were, I don't wanna say lucky, because it was their own talent to, to come back in this game, but for them to even make it as close as they did with four turnovers is, um, a credit to them, but also a reality that you just cannot be doing that.

We'll talk about that.

But this weekend, the Brewers took two of three from Cincinnati.

They won Friday and Saturday night in some wacky games, right? Winning 20 to nothing on Friday night, 13 to nine on Saturday.

Just an offensive explosion for these guys, and then they come back on Sunday and they ...

They beat the Cubs, lost to the Dodgers.

I, I don't wanna put it that way that the Brewers owe this to fans, but certainly if you win, you win 100 games and you have to go seven and five in your final 12 to win 100 games, y- you at least gotta get to the World Series, right? And I know it's not easy, but you've established yourself as such a great team.

Have not lost a home series, the Brew- with the, with being Cincinnati this weekend, have not lost a home series since June, late June when it was still cold outside in Wisconsin or just getting warm.

Now it's getting back to being cold again, and the Brewers still have not lost a home series.

Passed away in the United States, where he became a citizen in 1998.

During his playing career, Melrose was a defenseman, played at 6'205 pounds, played professionally for 13 seasons from 1974 until 1987 in the NHL, WHA, and AHL for the following teams: uh, Cincinnati Stinger, which, uh, is something else that Louie got from a lady back in college.

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Nothing a little penicillin couldn't fix.

Amen to that, brother.

Amen to that.

Cincinnati Stinger.

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I love it.

I am last year in the game against Cincinnati when he had, I ran over a guy, he stiff armed a dude into the nether region of, of earth.

And then I think he ran over another player that might've been the greatest Darnell Washington highlight, but he just added another one.

I just think that that's awesome to watch big Darnell getting the play.

Dodgers tonight in Atlanta.

And Houston is now playing Cincinnati in Cincinnati where the Reds lead there 3-0.

The magic number in the West of the America, the National League, is down to 3.

Any combination of three victories by the Dodgers or losses by the Reds and it's all over.

But Oakland in the west for the American and Dodgers in the west for the National.

They're just marking time.

Cincinnati still leading 3-0 over Houston.

They've got to win them all and the Dodgers got to lose about four.

With San Francisco third, one game back.

And Cincinnati in fourth, three games back.

And on the scoreboard, it is three to two.

Montreal leading the New York Mets in the first game of a doubleheader.

Rain has hit parts of the east.

St. Louis and Pittsburgh rained out.

Houston at Cincinnati, a doubleheader.

Postponed because of rain.

Yankees won the first game 6-5.

Well, the Mets defeated Cincinnati 7-3.

Tom Seaver, the winner.

Stretch by Lolis.

Washington beat Cleveland 10-9, and Minnesota shall act the White Sox 10-2.

California leads Oakland 1-0 and to 4.

Mets beat Cincinnati 7-1.

Phillies over Atlanta 4-1.

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