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700 WLW On-Demand — Brennaman and Jones 5/1/2026. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Our 2026 I Heart Country Festival presented by Capital One Tickets are on sale now to see Luke Bryant, Kane Brown, Parker Lecala, Riley Green, Carly Pierce, Shaboozy, Dylan Skull, Russell Dickerson, Wretched Wilson, Chase Matthew, Lauren Alaina, Special guest George Birch, Saturday May 2nd, at the Moody Center in Austin, Stream Live on Disney Plus and Hulu.
United Dairy Farmers presents Prediminated Jones on baseball, Brought to you in part by Friends, Debtors, Kangaroo, and by Encore Technologies on 700 WLW, home of the Cincinnati Reds. Resurant Pittsburgh to kick off a road trip, big series tonight, big road trip. They play Pittsburgh three times, they then go to Rigglyfield to face a Cubs in a four game series beginning on Monday. I know this story did not escape you at all. And that dealt with a week or two ago, Milwaukee manager, a Cubs manager, Craig Council, waxing eloquent on the fact that the Dodgers are allowed to carry 14 pictures, the rule in Major League Baseball per team as you can't carry anymore than 13. However, the Dodgers get a break, because of a two way player by the name of Shohei Otani. Yeah, it's the Otani rule and I'm kind of, you're going to have to help me out on this because I don't know where this is coming
from. Why bring it up now? He knew about the rules going in the season. I think it's been in place for what two years, the Otani rule. No, it's been in place. Yeah, that's right. Yes, the Angels, right. Here's the bottom line here. If you can keep Otani in the game, it's good for Major League Baseball. Yes. Yes. And that's what it's for. But at the same time, I can understand Council or any other manager looking a scance at something that is, is unique to one team, a team that happens to be wins and losses over the last number of years in the second biggest market in the world in Los Angeles. See, here's my complaint is the red of the Dodgers have 14 pictures and they're all really, really good. They're pretty good. They're really good. So it makes it a little difficult for other teams. I agree with it. I want to pursue it a little bit more when we come back.
We're talking about the Otani rule, whereas he's a two way player. So the Dodgers catch a break, but they're allowed to carry 14 pictures. He haven't been won. And everybody else in baseball can only carry 13. Why is it so important that the Dodgers have 14 when he's a starting pitcher? It's really important that the Dodgers have 14. It's really important that the Dodgers have 14. It's really important that the Dodgers have 14 when he's a starting pitcher. If he were a relief pitcher, I could say, yeah, maybe I can understand that a little bit. But once he only pitches every five days, so what is that impact? They're bullpened at all. So explain to me what happened. So he gets taken out of the game. They don't lose his back. They do not. And that's. Well, yeah, pretty good. But someone made the point that the Dodgers have what? And that was wrong. I won't tell you who made that comment because the general manager of the Dodgers
came back and says, we have five starters and nine relief pictures. It was kind of. It's certainly. You know who that was. But it goes back to, I want to see a ton of play. And every fan that wants to go, if he's taken out because he's a starter, he still wants to see him hit. And the other part of it is we close this thing out. I'm a big fan of Dave Robertson. Very expected. And that is well, people got a problem with it. They already come up with their own two-way player. That's hard to do. It is. Special guest George Merge, Saturday, May 2nd at the Moody Center in Austin, Stream Live on Disney Plus and Hulu.
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