Mo Egger

Mo Egger is a Cincinnati sports talk show from ESPN 1530, and it deals more in argument than in recitation. Recent episodes come in two forms. Some are labeled as radio show hours, one of them marked as a second hour. Others carry a single guest's name, among them Robert Weintraub, Paul Dehner Jr, Apple TV's Danny Higginbotham and Justin Vaive, who is billed as a Cyclones legend. That lets a listener choose between a stretch of the show itself and one conversation. The Bengals exchange in the Paul Dehner Jr episode shows how the draft is handled here. The exchange allows that a top prospect may be the best player in the draft. It then insists the Bengals have not earned the right to take the best player available while the defense still needs playmakers. The dream, as it is put, is a roster good enough that a slight luxury pick would not matter. The shared verdict: not there yet. FC Cincinnati gets a guest of its own in Danny Higginbotham, welcomed 'as always' ahead of the club's Saturday meeting with Chicago. Asked how he is, Egger says he is doing slightly better because FC Cincinnati showed slightly better form against Toronto. It is a small line, but it shows how closely his mood tracks the results. Baseball arrives through money. In one radio hour, the talk turns to what a team is wagering when it locks in guaranteed money for a player with Sal Stewart's profile early in his career and buys out his arbitration years. The answer comes as a list: that he keeps improving, stays healthy, stays pointed in the right direction off the field, takes the craft seriously and performs at a very high level. Nothing is guaranteed in baseball, the segment adds. It also points to Stewart's appearance on the Baseball Tonight podcast with Buster Olney and notes that the subject had come up a lot that week. The Cyclones get the stakes of a final weekend: a shot at the playoffs, two home games that must be won and help needed from elsewhere. The register is conversational and insistent. Points get restated until they land, as in the run of clauses about what a team is betting on with Stewart. For draft talk, start with the Paul Dehner Jr episode. For FC Cincinnati, the Danny Higginbotham conversation is the one to try. What comes through is Cincinnati sports reasoned out in the open, with the roster math shown rather than assumed.