Dialed In with Thom Brennaman

The Reds enjoyed an off day yesterday and lets face it….they need it. They have guys beat up….and nearly an entire lineup full of guys who arent hitting right now. They limped home from texas and san diego with a 2-4 record……they are 3-6 in their last nine with three straight series losses. Tonight they are back on the home front against the baltimore orioles in the first game of a three-game weekend set. The birds are 20-11 on the year, sitting atop the american league easwt after beating the yankees three times in the last four games. Left-hander cole irvin starts for baltimore tonight…….he didn’t allow a run in his first two starts. He’s given up 11 runs in his last 14 innings. Hunter AGreene gets the ball for the red legs coming off his best outing of the season in texas last saturday. Cincinnati sits in third place in the nl central….. 3 ½ games behind front-running milwaukee. 2 ½ behind second-place chicago. FCCincinnati looks for it’s third straight win this saturday night when they travel to orlando. FCC sits three points behind INter-Miami CF for the top spot in the east. NFL News, Dak Prescott will not face charges for sexual assault after Dallas detectives determined there was insufficient evidence from as case going back to 2017. Will Justin Fields return kicks for the pittsburgh steelers this season? Apparently if special teams coordinator danny smith has his way. Remember, the new kickoff rules state that the cover team cannot take off until the returner touches the ball…..and as far as running the ball is concerned, whio runs it better than justin fields….. Stay tuned. The steelers announced that they will not pick up the fifth year option on running back najee harris’s contract in 2025. The Chiefs will not exercise the fifth-year option on wide receiver Kadarrius Toney in 2025 Kirby Smart of georgia signs a new contract which makes him the highest-paid coach in college football. Smart signs a 10-year, 130 million dollar deal. NBA Playoffs…..the Indiana Pacers advance to the eastern semis with a four games to 2 win over the bucs. Infairness, milwaukee played without Yannis for most of the series. The Pacers will face the new york knicks after they eliminated the sixers 4 games to 2. This was a great series…..the average margin of victory was 5 points,including last nights classic 118-115 decision. Knicks star Jalen brunson averaged 42 points per game over the final four games of the series. He had 41 in the clincher last night. The Knicks havent been to a conference final in over 20 years. Tonight Cleveland looks to advancer tyo the second round with a win over Orlando. The cavs own a 3 games to 2 lead. The winner of that series will face the top-seed Boston Celtics. Out west, one semi is set with denver facing minnesota starting on saturday. Tonight, Dallas is atb home with a 3-2 lead over the clippers. A Mavs win and they will face top-seed Oklahoma City in rounds two. Watch Dialed In with Thom Brennaman presented by UDF Monday 9:05 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. LIVE on the Chatterbox Sports YouTube channel. Then later on Friday's for a Big Interview! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to ensure you never miss a thing.

What a weekend for the local nine….that’s two weekends in a row where the red legs pull off a series sweep. Last week they outscored the white sox 27-5….this week they sweep the angels out of town, outsourcing that bunch, 17-6. On friday night, — Elly De La Cruz hit a three-run homer, Nick Lodolo pitched 6 1/3 innings of one-run ball for his second quality start since coming off the injured list and the Cincinnati Reds snapped a three-game skid with a 7-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night. Besides the three-run shot in the eighth. De La Cruz manufactured another run with two outs in the second inning when he singled, stole second and third and scored on the errant throw to third by Angels catcher. Lodolo (2-0) allowed a run and seven hits while striking out six after giving up just one hit in 5 2/3 innings against the White Sox last Saturday in his first big league start in nearly a year. The 26-year-old left-hander exited in the seventh Friday with one out and runners on second and third. Fernando Cruz came on and struck out Jo Adell and Zach Neto to end the threat. Saturday night, tyler stephenson clubbed his first career grand slam…stuart failrchild knocked in two in a 7-5 win. Graham ashcraft gave up five runs in six innings but nick martinez was lights out, firing three shutout innings…..alexis diaz closed it out. So that brought us to yesterday…..scary moment when frankie montas took a comebacker off the right elbow and had the leave the game in the first inning…..turns out he’s okay, just s bruise. Brent sutter was fantastic over 3 ⅓ innings and the reds bullpen goes 8 ⅓ frames of six-hit shutout baseball in a 3-0 victory. In the nl central, the reds are a half game back of chicago for second-place. The white hot brewers, who swept the cardinals over the weekend, are two and a half games ahead of cincinnati. The pirates free fall has begun. Theyve lost six straight. The hottest team in the national league comes to town tonight to open a four games series. The philadelphia phillies have ripped off six straight and will send 3-0 lefthander ranger suarez to the mound against hunter greene. The reds right hander is still in search of his first victory of this young season. In the nba playoffs, winners in game one of four series were played yesterday….the winners were the clippers, celtics, the bucks wirth no Yannis, and the oklahoma city thunder held off the Zion-less pelicans by two. Tonight , cleveland looks to go up 2-0 against orlando. The same holds true for the defending champion nuggets against the lakers. And the knicks look for a 2-0 lead in their series against the sixers. In soccer, Luciano Acosta recorded one goal and one assist to help FC Cincinnati rally for a 2-1 victory over the host Atlanta United on Saturday night. The win puts fcc at 4 wins, two losses and three draws on the year and ends a three-game winless streak. In Golf, how about kelly korda? Yesterday she won the chevron championship…no big deal right? Wrong…. It was her fifth straight lpga win which ties the longest in history with anika sorenstam and the legenday nancy lopez. She goes for her sixth straight this weekend in LA. On the mens side, they knew bad weather was coming in hilton head, yet the powers that be refused to start the final round early….. The rain came, halted play, then they ran out of daylight with scott scheffler up five shots with four holes to play. Scheffler is looking for his fourth win in five weeks and would become the first pga player since Bernard Langer in 1985 to follow a masters win with a victory the next week.

What a weekend for the local nine... The Cincinnati Reds. As you and I talked last Friday, they were going to the south side of Chicago to face a bad white Sox team, and when I said bad… I didn’t think they were this bad! That team is awful. So the Reds did what youre supposed to do against bad teams….swept them! Cincinnati outscored the chicago white sox 27-5 over the weekend…….most people like talking about the 27….on dialed-in, we like talking about the five….five runs allowed. Andrew Abbott went seven on Friday night… Graham Ashcraft nearly six yesterday but THE story was THE RETURN of Nick Lodolo after missing basically a year with a broken leg. He is without question the best Reds pitcher when he’s able to take the ball. The TCU alum went 5 ⅔ innings, allowed only one hit, one walk, and strikeout ten batters. With the three-game win streak, the team sits three games over .500 at 9-6. They trail the co-leading brewers and pirates by a game and a half in the NL Central. The competition gets better starting tonight as the Reds open a three-game series in Seattle. A little bit better truth be told. The Mariners are 6-10 and are one of four teams yet to score 50 total runs this season… For comparison, the Reds have scored 90. Frankie Montas starts for the Reds… George Kirby for Seattle. Kirby has allowed 13 runs in his last seven innings. Congrats to the Pirates Andrew McCutcheon… He clubbed his 300th career home run yesterday against Philadelphia. 13th player ever with 2000 hits, 400 doubles, 45 triples, 300 home runs, and 200 stolen bases… that’s pretty solid. For the second time in three years, Scottie Scheffler wins the masters. The world’s number-one ranked player finished 11 under par to beat Ludvig Oberg by four shots. Tommy Fleetwood, Max Homa, and Colin Morikawa finished four under par. Scheffler joins Tiger Woods and the Goat, Jack Nicklaus as the only three players ever with multi titles at the player's championship and the masters. Scheffler had the best score of any golfer in the final round with a 68. NUT CUTTER The NBA playoffs start tomorrow night….four teams in each conference will start a play-in tournament to decide the eighth seed. In the east, the four teams are the Bulls, the Hawks, the Heat, and the Sixers. Out west, the lakers, pelicans, kings, and warriors. Boston is the top seed in the east, and Cleveland a fourth seed. Oklahoma City is the top seed in the west.

Today's episode of Dialed In with Thom Brennaman: the Miami Marlins Senior Director of Medical Services, Stan Conte discusses the rapid increase of MLB injuries with his decades of research into MLB injuries through Conte Injury Analytics. Watch Dialed In with Thom Brennaman presented by UDF Monday 9:05 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. LIVE on the Chatterbox Sports YouTube channel. Then later on Friday's for a Big Interview! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to ensure you never miss a thing.

John Calipari to arkansas? When i read it this morning, i wondered if it was april fools day and not solar eclipse day. No way that’s true right? Kentucky to arkansas? Apparently that’s going to happen. After 15 seasons where he won over 420 games, a national title, four final fours…..it’s bye, bye Cal. Elsewhere In college hoops….who do you like tonight…..defending champ UConn or Purdue? This is actually the game just about everyone hoped for when the season began…..a team that won it all vs a team that lost in the first round last year and had to play with that anvil around the=ir necks this entire tournament. Zach Edey has been the best player by far in this tournament so far and he will have to be at his best tonight. Tip off at 9:20 eastern on cbs. On the womens side, what a story book ending to a story book season……the most successful season by virtually every metric in the history of womens ncaa hoops. South carolina became the 10th team to go undefeated in an 87-75 win over caitlin clark and iowa. Remember the gamecocks were unbeaten when they lost to iowa in the final four a year ago. It’s the second straight season the lady hawkeyes lost in the national championship game. South carolinas bench outscored the iowa bench 37-0 . Clark finished with 30 points and ends her career 3951 points, the most ever in womens or mens division i basketball history. On to the reds…. The first full week of the season was solid. Two series wins over washington and philadelphia….a 4-2 record with some timely hitting and good pitching by and large. The start of week two…? Not so good. The new york mets did not have a single win until the day before arriving in the queen city for the weekend. Hunter greene was rock solid friday night but the reds lost 3-2. Saturday, Nick martinez was knocked around but his team railled for 5 runs in the eighth inning to win 9-7. Then came yesterday….. Series finale…rubber game….and the reds bats disappeared in a 3-1 loss. Over the weekend, the reds were 3-28 with runners in scoring position…..3-28!! Thru the first nine games, the team is hitting .242 with an on-base percentage of .319. AND They are averaging 10 strikeouts per game. In fact, of the 78 outs they committed this weekend, 32 came via the strikeout….that’s over 40 percent! So at 5-4 on the year, cincinnati sits 2 ½ games behind the pirates in the nl central. Milwaukee is in second place and guess who comes to gabp tonight? You got it…Milwaukee. The brewers beat the reds 10 out of 13 meetings last season, which was a big reason they won the division. Coming into this season, everyone says No Criag COUNSELL, NO Corbin Burns, and brandon woodruff….they’re done. Not so fast, milwaukee has a 6-2 mark to begin the year. Pitching matchup tonight has graham ashcraft for the red legs. Aaron ashby gets the ball for milwaukee.

It’s only one week into the season and so far, pretty good for the red legs…..4 wins in 6 games. While not earth-shattering, consider the fact that the team has not had a wining record over the first month of the season since 2013…… two years ago, they were 3-22. So how about we play, the good , the bad and the ugly. The good….. Frankie Montas. Through two starts he’s been everything you’d ever want…. Throwing strikes, being pitch efficient and getting outs. He’s pitched like a number one. The bad: The offensive starts for the entire team not named martini, steer or fraley. CES, Benson, Elly, candelario, stephenson. That’s gotta change soon. THE UGLY: The defense. The reds starting pitching was awful last year. The bullpen was overused and ran out of steam. The reason they didn’t make the playoffs was because of bad defense…number one factor. The defense stinks so far this year too. Granted, they are missing mcclain and friedl, but this is not a good defensive team. The team is back at it tonight as the new york mets come to town to open a three0-games series. The mets lost their first five games before finally winning yesterday, 2-1 over detroit. Jose Quintana, a lefthander starts for new york. Hunter greene is on the hill for cincinnati. The reds sit a full game behind first place pittsburgh and a half-game behind second place milwaukee in the nl Central. The womens final four is tonight in cleveland…. This is the kind of thing we miss out on by not having an arena. We lost out to cleveland for the republican convention four years ago…….now to THE LAND for a final four…..and lets be honest, there’s zero contest when comparing the two downtowns….NUN. In the first game , undefeated south carolina will take on NC State at 7 o’clock. Then at 9, its Caitlin Clark and the Iowa hawkeyes against UConn. The title game is sunday afternoon on abc at 3 eastern. The men take center stage tomorrow out in Glendale, Arizona. Cinderella NC State, an 11 seed, face Purdue in one semi at 6:09. Then the nightcap features defending champion UConn against the crimson tide of alabama. The winners will meet Monday night. Broony James entering nba draft and the transfer portal at the same time. Frosh year interrupted by a cardiac condition which limited him to 19 minutes per game once he was cleared to play. Aveg 4 and 2 . Duquense? Ohio State? FCC hosts the new york Bulls saturday night at TQL Stadium.

They call it march madness for a reason , but outside of an upset here….aka Kentucky and an upset there, most games in this years first round were rarely competitive. In fact, there were more games decided by 15 points or more in this years first-round games than any ncaa tournament EVER. We started with 68 teams…now we are down to 16. All four number one seeds are still alive….houston, carolina, purdue and defending champion Uconn. All four number 2 seeds are still alive….that is quite rare for a sweet 16. Two threes are still with us….In fact, there’s only one team, acc champion nc state , that’s higher than a 6-seed. The wolfpack will play marquette in the south region. Lets walk thru the matchups which begin on thursday night…. GRAPHIC Uc is still alive in the nit….the cats are in the elite 8 after they steamrolled bradley at fifth third arena on saturday and will next meet indiana state in terre haute on tuesday night at 9 o’clock. Ohio State is also still alive. The Buckeyes host Georgia on tuesday night at 7. A win by each and the next stop is madison square garden for the final four of the nit. The lady buckeyes were shocked in round two of the womens tournament by duke 75-63. Caitlin Clark and Iowa play tonight with a trip to the sweet 16 on the line. The hawkeyes face west virginia. In baseball, shohei otani will speak with the media for the first time since this bizarre story broke. At first, Ohtani’s interpretter told the world that the dodger slugger paid off all of his gambling debts for him…to the tune of 4.5 million dollars to an illegal bookie. A day later, ohtani’s lawyer said the interpreter stole the money from ohtani. The world we be watching and waiuting for ohtani’s comments later today. The Reds are on their way back from Arizona as spring training officially ended yesterday in goodyear. The reds lost to cleveland 10-7. Hunter greene went three innings and allowed a solo home run. Alexis Diaz was awful again as he gives up three runs in the cleveland ninth inning on two hits and a walk. Diaz has been fabulous in his role as the reds closer for the last two years although he did falter badly down the stretch last season. NFL News, nothing new on the bengals after a very fast start to free agency last week. Mike tomlin says russell wilson has the pole position to be the steelers starting quarterback this season. Justin fields will try and change tomlins mind. The chiefs traded star corner jaderius sneed to the tennessee titans for a third-round pick this year and a seventh-round drafy pick next year.

Thom Brennaman's LIVE Dialed In begins with the College Basketball. They call it March Madness for a reason and if the conference tournaments are a preview of the upcoming NCAA tournament, this is going to be complete and utter madness… Think of all the number one seeds that lost over the weekend…north carolina, houston, tennessee,and arizona, just to name a few. Even powers like Kentucky and Duke lost before ever getting to the tournament finals. That means that bids were gobbled up in many cases by teams that went into the weekend with very little chance to make the big dance….and we know those other teams are still going, right? So of your St johns, or providence, or oklahoma, or seton hall…youre out. Six teams forms the Mountain West Conference are in this tournament and some of those teams arent? Dayton is in as a 7 seed in the werst regions amd will play thursday against nevada at 4:30. A win and they probably meet the two seed arizona. Kentucky is in as a three seed in the south and takes on horizon league champion oakland thursday night at 7:10. There is enormous pressure on UK in this tournament. They’ve not been to the elite 8 since 2018, and havent been to a final four since 2014. We know that UC, Xavier and Ohio State will play in the nit. Xavier is on thew road at georgia tomorrow night. UC will host san francisco wednesday night and the buckeyes will host cornell tomorrow night. Lots more on the ncaa tournament coming up. Speaking of ohio state….all the talk about season miller or dusty may as their next head coach can be put to bed as the interim tag on jake diebler can be lifted. He got a five-year deal yesterday after leading ohio state to 7 wins in 9 games to close the season. Good for him. Soccer, FC Cincinnati won 2-1 yesterday at new england. FCC is 2-0-2 in the year. As for the reds…i gotta tell ya..im a little concerned about some very specific things with this team as we are less than two weeks from opening day. Lets focus primarily on the pitching. Its seems like every time we turn around, someone is coming up injured and for thse that arent, they’re just not pitching well. Montas, hunter greene and graham ashcraft have been average at best. ANdrew abbott was scratched from his start yesterday, son that meant a golden chance for brandon williamson. He wllaks three straight batters, hits another, while allowing four runs in two innings. As for nick martinez? He’s looked fabulous….when he’s pitched. Theyare telling nus he has a dispacled rib……..for a guy who’s a pitcher, do you believe for a second that sounds like it’s a day to day sort of thing. Bullpen lefties sam mole and alex young are hurt. Nick lodolo wont start the season on the opening day roster. Then the position players……devastating news on saturday when centerfie;der tj friedl broke his wrist diving for a ball in the outfield. Will Benson and stuart fairchild are expected to replace him in center. Then there’s matt mcclain……..I don’t get to unwrapped up in stats during spring training, but he doesn’t have a hit since returning from an oblique injury over a week ago.

Thom Brennaman's LIVE Dialed In begins with the College Basketball in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Bearcats beat West Virginia 92-56 over the weekend they will play them again in the Big 12 Tournament tomorrow to advance. If they do they play Kansas... Free agency doesn’t officially begin until weds at 4pm BUT teams can begin speaking to agents of free agent players TODAY. Things just got a whole lot more interesting in the AFC north as Russell Wilson is going to sign a one-year with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Last season, the nine-time pro bowler and super bowl champ[ion with seattle, threw for better than 3000 yards with 26 touchdowns against just 8 interceptions. He was benched for the final two games of the season. Baker Mayfield is rewarded by the team with a three-year, 100 million dollar contract with 50 million dollars guaranteed. Chiefs Defensive tackle Chris Jones isn’t going anywhere. He gets five years for 159 million dollars, 60 million guaranteed. The cap hit this year is only seven million bucks. On the business side of things, the Bears are spending 2 billion dollars to build a new, domed stadium next to Soldier Field in downtown Chicago. For Xavier, they lose on Saturday to number 8 Marquette 86-80. The Muskies play in the Big East tournament as the 9 seed against number 8 Butler, a team they split with during the regular season. That game is Wednesday at 4 o’clock. A win would mean a date with number-one seed UConn on Thursday night. Xavier has to win three games in New York this week to avoid ending a 27-season streak with a winning record…. Miami got beat by The Ohio University on Friday night. Dayton is the 3 seed in the A10 tournament in Brooklyn. The Flyers play Thursday night at 7:30. Kentucky got a huge win on Saturday at number 4 Tennessee. With that, the Cats are the two-seed in this week's SEC tournament in Nashville. They will play the winner of the Texas am/Ole Miss matchup Friday night at 7 Eastern. Northern Kentucky is looking for back-to-back trips to the big dance. Tonight the Norse play in the Horizon League semis against number 6 Milwaukee. The teams split their season series at a game apiece. A busy weekend for the Reds… Nick Lodolo made his first appearance since early last season and pitched two hitless, scoreless innings against Cleveland yesterday. Second baseman Matt McClain was in the lineup for the first time since injuring his oblique. Off the diamond, the team's number 1 Rated prospect just two years ago, Jose Barrero, was placed on waivers and was immediately swooped up by the Texas Rangers. The move was a little confusing considering the team wasn’t facing any 40-man roster issues and the kid is only 25. Of course, all of this was just white noise when compared to the news of Noelvi Marte. He’s the current number one prospect in the reds organization and was expected to be the teams opening day third baseman. Well…..we wont lay eyes on him until the end of june or early July…at least, after he was suspended for the first 80 games of the season for a banned substance. But here’s the kicker….not only does he miss the first three months of the season, if the reds make the playoffs, he can’t be on the post-season roster.

In this episode of Dialed In Thom Brennaman Interviews Justin Williams as they talk about Justin Career path and how he made it to this point. They get into the College football playoff format and talk about NIL extensively. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThomBrennamanTV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thombrennamantv

Thom Brennaman's LIVE Dialed In begins with the College Basketball in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Bearcats got into the win column for the first time at home in over a month, and its 17th win overall, with a 74-72 thriller over Kansas State. Xavier still clinging to post-season hopes as well after a wild 98-93 come-from-behind win against Georgetown. Cincinnati Bengals Quarterback Joe Burrow came out over the weekend with a timeline for his return and it’s good news. FC Cincinnati got its first win of this MLS season on Saturday with a 2-1 decision over Chicago Fire. FC Cincinnati is 1-0-1 to start the year. Cincinnati Reds starter Frankie Montas got knocked around in his second spring training start yesterday in a 7-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals. We bring in Charlie Goldsmith to talk Reds Spring Training and wrap up the show!

In this episode of Dialed In Thom Brennaman Interviews Barry Rozner as they talk about Barry's life and how he became a writer, talk about all things Chicago related and family life. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThomBrennamanTV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thombrennamantv

02/26/24 - Thom Brennaman's first LIVE Dialed In. College Basketball in Cincinnati is turning grim as both Xavier and Cincinnati lose devastating games that they desperately needed to win. We bring in Charlie Goldsmith to talk Reds Spring Training and wrap up the show! Tee Higgins Tag Official, and Reds Spring Training with Charlie Goldsmith

In this episode of Dialed In Thom Brennaman Interviews Chris Myers as they talk about Chris's life and how he became a broadcaster, How he got to Interview O.J Simpson, The biggest games he's called, and family life. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThomBrennamanTV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thombrennamantv

In this episode of Dialed In Thom Brennaman Interviews Chip Caray as they talk about Chip's life and how he became a broadcaster, why he moved from Atlanta to St.Louis, How the Cardinals are preforming, and what to expect going forward. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThomBrennamanTV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thombrennamantv

Super Bowl winning coach Brian Billick talks with Thom about the Kansas City Chiefs victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 58.

Thom talks with former Bears wide receiver Tom Waddle about his time in the NFL.

Former Big League pitcher Mike Krukow discusses his time in Major League Baseball, the state of the game, and his battle with inclusion body myositis.

Thom talks with Eric Davis about his life as a big leaguer as well as battling colon cancer.

Thom talks with Anthony Munoz about growing up in California, becoming a hall of fame player with the Bengals, and life after football.