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Oct 16, 2026
Seth ShanerHOST
Can we stop publishing reports? We've got a, we've got a work stoppage, we've got a work stoppage looming, we've got an ownership who doesn't wanna spend money.
Seth ShanerHOST
We've got a general manager/whatever his, his title is in Nick Krall, who doesn't wanna really make any trades, and he gets too nervous to pull the trigger on big signings.
Seth ShanerHOST
So especially with the work stoppage and then the other factors, can we just stop talking about possible free agent additions while the league championship series is still going on? Because that work stoppage is gonna happen, and we're just gonna have to forget about it all.
Chris GarberHOST
Yeah.
Jeff CarrHOST
Three and...
Jeff CarrHOST
You, you got a couple of question marks and you're like, "Okay, maybe if this goes right and that goes right and he does this and somebody goes super saying, then yeah, it's gonna work." But I, there, there's got to be more to it than Nick Krall just, you know, leans back in his chair and says, "Everything's gonna get better," because it's got to, right?
Tim DanielHOST
Right.
Jeff CarrHOST
It's gonna get better because he adds.
C. Trent RosecransHOST
But I also know that if you would've said that before the season, Joey Votto would've said, "No, I'm going to play, and I'm going to play well, and my goal is for me to play at a level where you don't make that decision early." That's Joey Votto.
C. Trent RosecransHOST
And so, in, in deference, again, I don't know whether those discussions happened or not, but knowing Joey Votto, knowing Nick Krall, knowing Bob Castellini, knowing Brad Meador, knowing the whole organization, uh, David Bell at the time as the manager, I just...
C. Trent RosecransHOST
I don't think that discussion like that would be had because I don't think it would've...
C. Trent RosecransHOST
Nobody was thinking about it that way, right?
Seth ShanerHOST
Like how bad was it for him with the Reds? And they didn't win here because in part of 2020, but, but I always felt like he was building towards something.
Seth ShanerHOST
Maybe now that we know some of the stuff that Nick Krall and his folks released to the media, maybe he was doing pretty well with a hand be- tied behind his back because of the ownership.
Ben BrownHOST
Yeah.
Seth ShanerHOST
But since he left, I don't think they've been able to make those moves with any confidence, and I-
Ben BrownHOST
No.
Seth ShanerHOST
So, so again, I'm not taking the ownership side.
Seth ShanerHOST
I'm not ta- I'm, but I'm definitely not taking Nick Krall's side.
Seth ShanerHOST
I'm taking my side, Ben.
Mason EstepHOST
Um, th- and this is a conversation, you know.
Mason EstepHOST
What, what, what do you think the Reds should do? If you're the GM right now, okay? If, if you're president of baseball operations, okay? You, you are now replacing Nick Krall and you have one day, okay? What moves do you make? Do you trade Elly De La Cruz? Do you offer him a, a 10-year deal, an 11-year deal before negotiations are completed and a deal is signed or do you wait until after? Does Elly...
Mason EstepHOST
And, you know, it's interesting too, with a salary cap, I almost wonder if that could hurt.
Mason EstepHOST
[chuckles] It sound-- It's counterintuitive, but I, I wonder if that could hurt the Reds because if There's a max amount a team can offer a player, and it's, it's the same across the teams.
Mason EstepHOST
That, that's not, that's not all it's gonna, uh, that's, that's not all it takes.
Mason EstepHOST
Um, Nick Cross said himself, you know, "We, we're, we're second home runs, last in runs scored," and, uh, we need to quote, this is what he says here, "We need to get on basebo- uh, on base more, no question, first and foremost.
Mason EstepHOST
We need to make more contact." And, um, yeah, I think [chuckles] that's, that's pretty evident there.
Mason EstepHOST
So it, it wasn't, it wasn't just power though.
Mason EstepHOST
You know, you, you, you do have a manager.
Mason EstepHOST
You do have other baseball guys.
Mason EstepHOST
Um, Phil Castellini was talking about that, um, in, in the, the meeting that he joined with Nick Krall and co.
Mason EstepHOST
He said that, um, they try to leave the baseball decisions to the baseball guys.
Mason EstepHOST
That that's not, that's not all it's going to, uh, that's, that's not all it takes.
Mason EstepHOST
Um, Nick Cross said himself, you know, we were second home runs, last and run scored.
Mason EstepHOST
And, uh, we need to quote, this is what he says here.
Mason EstepHOST
We need to get on baseball, uh, on base more, no question.
Seth ShanerHOST
Even if you spend money, you have to have people in charge who know what they're doing, and that's where the problem is with the Reds, too.
Seth ShanerHOST
Nick Krall and his team, the ownership butt heads, but then also Nick has never proven that he can trade for the right guys anyway.
Seth ShanerHOST
So here we are with a reluctant-
Derek CiapalaGUEST
Yeah
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Seth ShanerHOST
And the ownership would ask questions like, "Why aren't we like the Rays?" Or, "Why aren't we like the Brewers?" And the, the explanation in Ken Rosenthal's article was basically pointing to a board where it had been said, "We need to trade this guy and get pieces for him before it's too late.
Seth ShanerHOST
We need to do this, we need to do this, we need to do this," making the case, of course, that the management was not to blame.
Seth ShanerHOST
Um, but then the management ends up ta- holding a press conference, and Nick Krall talks, and we joke that whenever he opens his mouth, it's, it's just rubbish coming out of it.
Seth ShanerHOST
Um, he, he, it's a word salad.
Steven OffenbakerHOST
That's all you.
Steven OffenbakerHOST
Jeff and I have said, Tim and I have said, Nick Craw has his fingerprints on this entire organization from top to bottom, and it hasn't worked But what we learned from Phil Castellini is that Nick Krall's not going to be held accountable, that Nick and his eyes are doing a good job.
Steven OffenbakerHOST
I don't know what to do with that.
Steven OffenbakerHOST
Um, I said the other day I'm not going to let this Castellini ownership group, I'm not gonna let Nick Krall, I'm not gonna let Brad Mader thief my joy.
Steven OffenbakerHOST
I am going to go to the ballpark.
Steven OffenbakerHOST
I'm gonna watch baseball.
Steven OffenbakerHOST
It doesn't matter.
Steven OffenbakerHOST
If you're acknowledging you brought in the wrong players to fit this system, you gotta bring in the right players.
Mason EstepHOST
You know, um, I, Yeah, I'm thinking more tier of a guy like Mike Matheny, you know, that type of like, you know, former catcher type of guy.
Mason EstepHOST
But you go out and get to to Nick Cross credit that go out, flies out to Arizona and recruits Terry Francona.
Mason EstepHOST
Anyways, so you've got the war leader from that season, 2023.
Mason EstepHOST
He's gone.
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