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09/08/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Who's ready to dominate a new week. Welcome in to
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: the Tuesday edition of the huddle feels like the Monday edition.
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  Speaker 1: Cause Monday was Sunday. We're post labor day. We're on
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  Speaker 1: to football season. We're on to fall. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: welcome in five o'clock clubbers. Glad to have you aboard
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  Speaker 1: on nine 20 Milwaukee, 10 70 Madison worldwide on the
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  Speaker 2: I am drew Olson joined by Mr. Bill Schmidt. Great
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  Speaker 2: to be back in the saddle again, brother. How you
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  Speaker 2: feeling here? I'm good. I'm resting ready. Had a good weekend. Relaxing. Tranquilo,
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  Speaker 2: as they say. Oh, I like that. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Armand Sarian's behind the glass pushing the buttons and monitoring
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  Speaker 1: the NicoletLaw.com. Talk and text line 877-794-1973. How are you doing, Armand?
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  Speaker 2: What's up, boys? Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a great week. We had a great
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  Speaker 3: weekend in falls here. Football's here. Football is here.
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  Speaker 2: The pennant race is in full swing. The Cubs are
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  Speaker 2: in town.
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  Speaker 1: Now, my logic, I must admit, I have to call
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: myself out when my logic is flawed because I thought
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: that the Brewers split. And then again, had they won
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: that that getaway game last week at Wrigley, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I would have taken the starch out of the Cubs fans.
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  Speaker 1: You're walking the dog around my neighborhood yesterday morning and
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  Speaker 1: I was stunned. They were among us by the number
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  Speaker 1: of Cubs jerseys and families. Family's walking around. Well, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the sad thing is that it's now been bred
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  Speaker 1: into society. Indoctrinating the kids. Red and blue, yeah. Just,
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  Speaker 1: it was an army. Now, post-game, not so much. And
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  Speaker 1: then I thought to myself, wow. Man, these people are,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they are better fans than we give them credit for.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe they're not frontrunners. Maybe they are into it.
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  Speaker 1: Or they committed to this trip before.
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  Speaker 2: They knew what was going to happen. Or the money
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  Speaker 2: was spent. They didn't want to. The hotels were bought.
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  Speaker 2: And I anticipated that for a Labor Day because the
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  Speaker 2: day was off. And that was the thing. The two-month
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  Speaker 2: ramp-up problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was the thing. You had time to
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  Speaker 1: plan for this. It's kind of the last hurrah of summer.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of those people own vacation properties. I have areas, yes,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And then I was thinking to myself, well,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm a Chicago fan and I see the calendar,
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  Speaker 1: And I can do the Lambeau am fam double header
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame play Wisconsin at Lambeau on Sunday night and
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  Speaker 1: then hook over. maybe stay in Milwaukee, come back to
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee or whatever, and then get to Brewers Cubs. That's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty damn fine weekend. It works out pretty well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I think there were a lot of Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: fans that stayed in the Paper Valley. There were a
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  Speaker 1: lot that were hanging out in the Appleton area from
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  Speaker 1: the reports that I got from our friend Mike Heller
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  Speaker 1: there on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: There were a ton in the area. It was a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good sports weekend. And, I mean, Sunday night at
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  Speaker 2: Lambeau was postcard. Like, it was... As gorgeous as it
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  Speaker 2: could be from a weather perspective. And yesterday was a
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  Speaker 2: banner day at am fam too. So at least they
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  Speaker 2: got a good run and got to enjoy some nice days.
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  Speaker 2: Door County weather before, you know, that toll booth hit
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  Speaker 2: him in the tailpipe on the way back to Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: And they throw that two 80. Hey, you don't actually
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  Speaker 2: throw the two 80. Now you just got to deposit
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  Speaker 2: it on the way home. Yeah, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Or when you get home, pay it online? The iPass.
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  Speaker 2: You just got the iPass now, and then you pay
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  Speaker 2: it at the end of the month. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: what it is. Or if you don't have one, you
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  Speaker 2: just pay it out. You just drive through. Drive right through,
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  Speaker 2: and then wait for them to send you the bill.
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  Speaker 3: Drive through and see what happens, yeah. Well, everyone's taking
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  Speaker 3: pictures of everything these days, but you're right. You know
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  Speaker 3: that iPass, you just drive right through. But, yeah, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 3: when we have days off, we stay around our place.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when they have days off, they come to
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  Speaker 3: our state and our town, and they go up to
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  Speaker 3: Door County, and they go up to Lambeau, and they
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  Speaker 3: come up to– American Family Field, but hey, it is
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  Speaker 3: what it is. But boy, it felt like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you had the you had the picture perfect night at Lambeau.
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  Speaker 3: At least it seemed that way, Billy. Stuff you were
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  Speaker 3: sending me and saw it on TV. The weather seemed good.
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  Speaker 3: They had that kind of like mystic fog in the air,
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  Speaker 3: that little mist.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you call it. It was kind
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  Speaker 2: of like fog. It was kind of like. It just
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  Speaker 2: gave that sort of like old-time aura. Sounds like what
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about is a haze.
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  Speaker 3: A haze.
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  Speaker 2: A haze is good. I like that. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that there was a haze up there, but maybe, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it was. There was a lot of cigar haze.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of cigar smoke being burned up
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  Speaker 2: in the parking lot. So maybe that was the haze
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  Speaker 2: that you were catching there on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: And the haze was the halftime score of the hopes
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  Speaker 3: and dreams. You were allowed to– I felt like the
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  Speaker 3: halftime score, it gave you hope.
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  Speaker 2: You dared to dream at halftime. It's the one that
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  Speaker 2: kills you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're hanging in this thing. We got the
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  Speaker 3: game plan working. We're down three. And then it didn't last.
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  Speaker 3: But we wanted them to be competitive into the fourth.
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  Speaker 3: They gave us two quarters anyway, I thought. And that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of the way I looked at it. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: your perspective on it, Billy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Billy was there.
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  Speaker 1: Billy was hard down, taking in the sights, the sounds,
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  Speaker 1: and the smells of the Badgers opener.
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  Speaker 2: And that bright red uniforms, man. I guess dark, bright red.
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  Speaker 2: Not as bad as the numbers on either side. Hard
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  Speaker 2: to tell who was who. Yeah, it wasn't great. Our
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  Speaker 2: friend Matt said, if they just take these uniforms, put
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  Speaker 2: them in the basement and never go back in there.
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  Speaker 2: Poor guy. Just leave those things in the storage room
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  Speaker 2: and never go back. It's an interesting day for us,
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  Speaker 2: as mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Monday. It's a Tuesday that feels like the Monday.
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  Speaker 1: So we miss game balls and kicks. I think we
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  Speaker 1: owe it to our folks to let them open it up.
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  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Game balls and kicks, buying and selling. We'll mash it
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  Speaker 1: all together today. We'll have a little stew. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart join us at 725 to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Brew Crew. But is the lead story of the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the Badgers, you know, half-decent performance? Is it
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers losing a series in Cincinnati and then coming
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  Speaker 1: up off the mat and beating the Cubs head-to-head? Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: at AmFam, winning the season series. and moving ever closer
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  Speaker 1: to their goal as the magic number dropped by three.
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  Speaker 2: It was a triple up yesterday. Yeah, that was the
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  Speaker 2: perfect one.
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  Speaker 1: Because by winning the season series, they add another game
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  Speaker 1: because the Brewers win a tie, so the Cubs can't
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  Speaker 1: tie the Brewers. So the magic number to win the
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  Speaker 1: NL Central is nine. To clinch the number one seed,
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  Speaker 1: it's 16. To win a bye, it's 15. And just
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  Speaker 1: to clinch a postseason berth, they'll do that probably by
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  Speaker 1: the end of the week.
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  Speaker 2: That's six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Drew, I think it's yesterday. Just the way it transpires,
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  Speaker 2: the way it happens. You have Murph maybe kind of
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  Speaker 2: almost addressing the cushion, almost talking about the lead that
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  Speaker 2: they've built up. And this is kind of why you
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  Speaker 2: build yourself up a lead to withstand and weather the storm,
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  Speaker 2: I think, was his trademark in the moment. As he mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: you got to weather this. You got to weather the
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  Speaker 2: amount of injuries that they have. The pitching staff that's
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  Speaker 2: really starting to slide. Kyle Harrison is going to need
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  Speaker 2: a piggyback next time he goes out there to be
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  Speaker 2: able to have any trust that he can get you
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  Speaker 2: through a game. And you're sending Bobby Gasser out on
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  Speaker 2: the mound against the Cubs. He shoves. However, Boyd's even better.
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  Speaker 2: And you end up winning it by Brewers in the
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  Speaker 2: ninth inning or in the eighth inning. The way they
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  Speaker 2: came back and finished off Boyd. got into the Cubs bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: hammered a couple of their cats. I thought that was
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  Speaker 2: the perfect crew game and the perfect way for you
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  Speaker 2: to finish off this run because much like game two
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  Speaker 2: of that four-game set, Cubs had to sweep that four-game
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  Speaker 2: set to have a chance to win the division, right?
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  Speaker 2: All four at Wrigley Field or at least three of
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  Speaker 2: four to then roll up here and have a chance
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  Speaker 2: to win three games. When you won game two, having
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  Speaker 2: Miz on the bump in game three, that felt like
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  Speaker 2: as much of a dagger as it could. Yesterday, going
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  Speaker 2: and stealing that thing back in the eighth inning, having
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  Speaker 2: PCA be able to hit a solo shot in the
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  Speaker 2: ninth and it be just mathematical at that point. With
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  Speaker 2: no dressing. That was a massive, massive game. And I
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  Speaker 2: think the biggest shot that you could have had, other
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  Speaker 2: than putting the T-shirt on after the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just to do it against that team with
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  Speaker 3: that crowd there, feeling that way. Because, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you more credit, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: You veteran scribe, you called it right.
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  Speaker 3: The Brewers after that series, you, I remember you saying
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  Speaker 3: last week, I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't drop
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  Speaker 3: two or three in Cincinnati and it happened, unfortunately. So
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  Speaker 3: the way the pitching struggled all weekend in the queen city,
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  Speaker 3: if they're still calling it that, I think so. You know,
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  Speaker 3: then you're down against the Cubs. You don't want to
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  Speaker 3: drop three and you're like, Oh, well, you're not really nervous.
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  Speaker 3: But then again, they could cut the lead down, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to six. And it's like, are you going to get
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  Speaker 3: nervous about that? And then to come back and win
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  Speaker 3: it like that yesterday was just awesome. The catch by Lara,
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  Speaker 3: Jackson Turio sliding to catch.
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  Speaker 2: That one to end it. And, you know, just the
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  Speaker 2: energy in the ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you could feel it, you know, even watching
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  Speaker 3: on TV if you weren't there. And to get one
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  Speaker 3: back over on them when they thought they might get you. And, boy,
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  Speaker 3: did that feel good or what? So that was the
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  Speaker 3: true dagger, I would say. And that was the best
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  Speaker 3: part of the weekend. And there were a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Cubs fans in the house. Now I wonder, will that
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  Speaker 3: trend continue today and tomorrow? Because, you know, life. Now
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  Speaker 3: I would anticipate it.
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  Speaker 1: Life, you know, Cubs fans. It's kind of you got
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  Speaker 1: to kind of get back to the grind. This will
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  Speaker 1: be a tough one, I think, for them to fully
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  Speaker 1: load up here tonight. It's a Tuesday night. Even the Marquette,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Cubs fans, the Carroll University Cubs fans.
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  Speaker 2: Take that, Norberts. Like, depending on where you live or
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: if you were just a WGN watcher, maybe you get
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  Speaker 2: a Tuesday or Wednesday night ticket. But this is a
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  Speaker 2: transplant night, I think, for the only Cub fans that
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  Speaker 2: are going to be there. My mother-in-law, very wisely yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: as her dad, lifelong Cubs fan, he loves absolutely every
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  Speaker 2: single game, living and dying with every single one. She
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  Speaker 2: had bought the ticket. She's like, wait a second, this
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  Speaker 2: is amazing. A Monday day game? They never do that. Well,
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: there'd be a Monday day game. Didn't necessarily put it
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: together that it was Labor Day, that it was going
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: to be like 60% Cub fans. So they switched the
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  Speaker 2: tickets to Wednesday because she said, I have to sit
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  Speaker 2: next to one. I'm not putting up with 100 in
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  Speaker 2: the section. So let's move it to Wednesday because I
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: think the logic was the same there. This one might
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: be 70-30 coming up. Especially if you're on that third
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: base side, right? That's where they... It's hilarious. It was another.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had the blowout a week ago, a
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  Speaker 1: week before yesterday. And then we had you know, mostly
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  Speaker 1: decent competitive games.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Really good games, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: In what is shaping up as the best rivalry, not
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  Speaker 1: only in baseball, but one of the best rivalries in
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  Speaker 1: the national sports scene at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at the moment. And it's because it only to
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  Speaker 2: Western Michigan, Michigan. No kidding. Well, I mean, like Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox has the history, has the passion and the
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  Speaker 2: years and years of it. But like Yankees, Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers and Cubs are meeting in big time spots.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes it. Fan bases don't like each other,
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  Speaker 2: but you got to play meaningful games.
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  Speaker 1: It's also the proximity. It's just the and the like
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  Speaker 1: we said, the spillover. Like people in Chicago, they summer
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. They avail themselves of the cheese castle, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and the broad stop. And they seep over the border
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But even Packers and Bears had taken a significant step
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: back over the last 15, 20 years. For sure. Now
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: there's one year of legitimate competitiveness between the two.
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  Speaker 1: And it's hotter than it's ever been. It'll ride the
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: coattails of this rivalry. And it'll waken it up. And
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  Speaker 1: I've said it for years. You can say what you
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: want about the Vikings. The Bears are the rival. Have
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  Speaker 1: been forever. Going back to Lambeau and Hallis. And they're
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  Speaker 1: going to, you know, they're still the number one to me.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just a matter that the Bears sucked for
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  Speaker 1: so long they became irrelevant.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 1: And now that they are good and they've got, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a little, they're feeling themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They need to be put down this year. That'll happen.
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  Speaker 2: Now the wind is in the sailboat. Now we need
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  Speaker 2: to get some Rocky waters. It'll happen.
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  Speaker 1: But it's funny. I, we don't care that much about
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  Speaker 1: like the Cubs inner workings and their, you know, their
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  Speaker 1: day to day.
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  Speaker 2: Cause they're, they're about to be vanquished in the division again. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But a council's wearing it from Cubs fans because they
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: finally get a pristine start.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: They let the guy go into the eighth. He gives
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: up a walk in the first time all year. Taking
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: them out. Have you seen that bullpen? I was going
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: to say. Have you seen what they're like? I couldn't
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: wait for them to get to them. Can you understand his.
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  Speaker 1: Hesitance to remove a guy who's mowing down the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday?
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  Speaker 2: It's a real Sophie's choice, right? Because if he takes
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: them out and they give up the runs, he's screwed there, too.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: If he takes them out and then the reliever gives
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  Speaker 1: up a walking double, what the hell are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You can't read the room. Bowen's pitching great. And so
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: it's like one of those damned if you do, damned
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  Speaker 1: if you don't.
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  Speaker 3: And then just the imagery and, like, the optics are
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  Speaker 3: bad for him, too, because he looks.
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  Speaker 2: So annoyed all the time with the face.
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: When he knows it didn't go well and he has
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: to go right to the phone and start banging on
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  Speaker 3: the phone to make sure they get the guy up.
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  Speaker 2: And they're getting as many bullpen camera shots, dugout camera shots.
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  Speaker 2: As many as they can. Now that's the slow-mo shot
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  Speaker 2: of him. Ugh. It's like four to five times as
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: many times as they pan into the Brewers dugout. Totally.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: I'm even getting Brewers fans going, God, you see how
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: miserable he looks?
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  Speaker 2: He did the.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing when he was in the other dugout. That's
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: just the way he looks. It makes it a lot sweeter.
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  Speaker 1: As a player, I said his nickname as a player
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: was the Grumpy Rooster because he would show up in
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: the morning with his hair all messed up and he
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: was grumpy.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, he's the Grumpy Rooster. There was never
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  Speaker 2: anybody that looked more annoyed in the batter's box than
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: Craig Council. Totally. The deep breath and the sigh of...
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  Speaker 2: I guess I got to do that again.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's a two Oh count.
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  Speaker 1: I got to get into this painful pre-pitch stance of
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  Speaker 1: mine again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. But it does it. You can see
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  Speaker 2: how many fans on both sides are in loving the
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: fact he was wearing it, but Zephyr hand Zephyr hand
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  Speaker 2: who they grabbed from the angels. He's given up a
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  Speaker 2: run in every other, every two appearances that he's had
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  Speaker 2: since he came over. And a lot of the guys
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  Speaker 2: that they, they bring into starters and Gosman and Holmes,
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: they're They've been good. They tried to fix the bullpen
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  Speaker 2: and just have had no luck with it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Their starting acquisitions have been good, but the bullpen has
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: been a struggle for them and it continues to be
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: their soft underbelly.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: Haas and Pfeffer or whatever the guy's name is.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed the bullpen or the dugout shots of Matthew Boyd.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: Very mad though. Once he came out of the game.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: He was coming up on 90 pitches in the eighth, right?
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, I think he had 88
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: after seven. Yeah, like, what are you doing?
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: But that's why every pitcher says, I want it. Let
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: me stay in the game. I want this game and stuff.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's better to leave on a high note.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: You know what? I've done my best joke here. I'm out.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Get me off the stage here. But yeah, because it
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: was his first time going to the eighth inning all year.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: You kind of understood why they wanted to do it.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: It was a big game. He was huffing and puffing
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: coming off in the seventh. I had a feeling he
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: was going to try to campaign for it. I'm glad
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: he did.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, like the Cubs, their fans after yesterday, they're like,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: council should be fired. His seat should be blazing hot
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: They've had all kinds of injuries. They're going to win
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: 90 games and might win a playoff series. They've had
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: a good year. Another one. And it's a really good team.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: The problem is when they compare it to the guy
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: that's going to win 90 games.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: But when he's the number one, he's the highest paid
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: manager in all of baseball. And they were expecting a
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: certain level. They haven't gotten to that point yet. Like
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: that's the, that's the interesting juice worth the squeeze. Say
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: they do lose it to Philly in the three game
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: wildcard series. Definitely not getting fired. I would think the
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: seat would become somewhat hot rolling into next year. Cause
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: he's rolling a five-year deal. He's going into year number
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: four of the contract. Yeah. And like you, they're either
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: extending him or, or letting him go at the end
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: of the year.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: At a certain point though, the evaluators know that they
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: didn't give him good groceries to make a good meal
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: in that bullpen.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: And they've had the injuries and stuff. It's like, Oh,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: but they may move the deadline. I mean, they did.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, they had a million dollars for Alex Bregman.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: They made more moves this year than they have in
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: five to seven years.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: And the response could be, Hey, look, and I'm winning
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: 90 plus and going to the playoffs.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: So it's, it is a tough thing.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: When you, when you said, right, Billy, you want a
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: certain reason, a lot of right.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: You want a certain level of success. They're caught with
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: a bad bullpen. That'll kill you. The tough thing is, though,
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: and this is where you set a standard, and now
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: the Badgers messed this up. Now they showed us that
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: they can play the half football they did in the
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: first half. Now you've done set the standard. Now you've
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: got to live up to the standard. The standard for
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: counts coming in was... Well, you did way more with
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: less anyway. Look at what he did, and look what
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: he was doing in Milwaukee with this bullpen that he
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: had there, rolling bullpen games left and right. You should
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: easily be able to make this work. We'll give you
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: some chicken and make some chicken salad.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: So that's the weird part is the expectation is, well,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: we could just give you crap, and you'll be able
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: to turn it into something good. Why have you not
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: done that here? Maybe it was the whole organization in
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee that they didn't account for.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: That is the thing that follows you when you have
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: success in a market like this.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Not to mention Stearns and all those guys. Yeah, exactly.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Why can't they recreate the Milwaukee juice? Just bring Milwaukee here.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: We have more money for you.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Also, the type of years ago, the Burrs hired Dean,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Dean Taylor to be the general manager. He was going
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: to bring the winning mindset from Dean Taylor, from the Braves.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: And that winning mind. You got the assistant from the Braves.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: They won. Come on. Bring that up.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: That easy.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Come on. I blame myself. People have been doing that
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: in New England for years. Just week. Well, he was
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: with Belichick. It'll totally work here. Totally translate. Well, he
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: didn't have his employee ID once. I didn't give him
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: the employee discount at the store. And everyone made fun.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Of me the rest of the year when I was
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: like 19 years old. So I blame myself on the
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Dean Taylor one.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: So I'll take the blame. Didn't have his employee. You
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: didn't recognize him? You didn't recognize him?
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: I said every once in a while, that was Dean Taylor.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, he didn't have his ID. He's supposed
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: to have his ID for the day.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: He didn't care. Oh, you were just being a hard ass? Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I think I couldn't believe I didn't believe it was him.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe he didn't look like him or I didn't know
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: what it was. I'm in the R.A. I really don't
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: know why. But then ever since then, I thought it
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: was Tim Conway coming in. Yeah, well, it was my fault.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: They used to call him. Take the L, Armin.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four, one, ninety, seven, three.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: We'll break it all down for you. Things are good
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: with the Brewers. Rough weekend in Cincinnati. Couple of some ugly,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: ugly events in Cincinnati.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Those Reds play hard, too, man. And they're coming back
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: here this weekend, aren't they? Yeah, and they went out
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: to L.A. They were scrapping last night. Yep, yep.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: So we're on to football. Oh, by the way, it's
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Packers-Vikings weekend.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Golly, thank goodness we're finally here.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Finally, through the wilderness, we got two professional tackle football games.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: And this is the first week of the huddle live
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: at Pottawatomie Sportsbook. We're in the annex Thursday from 5
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: to 7 p.m. The 5 o'clock club p.m. version will
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: kick off on Thursday. We'll talk more about that. We
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: are into it now. We've turned the page. We said
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: farewell to summer. Well, we're going to hang out to
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: it for a little bit, but we mostly said farewell
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and we're on to the good stuff.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. High
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: drive into deep right center field. Lara going back. Lara
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: leaps in. This kid is a star. He makes another
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: great play. You've got to be kidding me. My goodness. Lara,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: how many times has it been?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Would not.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Have been a home run.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe it would.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: It was close.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Certainly took away extra bases. I mean, he is playing
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: huge out there in right field. My goodness. Take a bow, Luis.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: 21 years of age. Tracking down these balls.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: From Brewers TV yesterday, Brewers beating the Cubs, courtesy of
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: some late clutchness on both the hitting side.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And the fielding side. The game-ending catch by Churrio was fantastic.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: pretty good, too. That's another one I got ready to go. Suzuki,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: it was pretty good. Good theater yesterday.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Brewers taking a heated game against a rival on a holiday.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Does it get any better than that? This rivalry delivers, man.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: It really does. I feel bad for other fan bases
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: and other sports that don't get to enjoy rivalries like this.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: There are some teams where you just fly into the night,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: like the Phoenix Suns. They have a really passionate fan base.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: They are the number one team in that arizona area
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: who's their rival yeah i know right right like they
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: clippers no they don't like a lot of teams yeah
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: they they do they don't like being they don't like
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: those but the lakers don't give a rip Right. Like
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: a Lakers fans couldn't care less. The Warriors fans don't
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: care about them. There is not the true back and forth.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: We are here and you're here. So we might as
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: well hate each other and climb up the mountain together
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: and then punch each other at the top of the ladder.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of teams, a lot of fan base
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that just don't have that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: And like there are other, you know, locales and fan
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: bases that vacation in that area. So I don't know
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: why this doesn't work, but you're right. Like the true
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: nature of any good rivalry. And I thought about this
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: for a long time. is the geography, like the existence
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: of both fans existing in the other space and annoying
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: them with their presence.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And that's what you have with Chicago, Milwaukee.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: You have it with two good teams, but you have
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: the personal interaction so much like there were so close.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: There are so many Cubs fans here and there's so
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: many Brewers fans and they're so they're always interacting and
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: they're always annoying each other. And that's the reality of
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: any good rivalry. And we just have it. Like, this
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: rivalry does deliver. It has it all right now. You know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: you have the little guy versus the big guy, the
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: small city, the small town. It has all the existence
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: of what makes a great story. And thankfully, we've gotten
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: the better end of it over these years. And really, man,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I mean, these are emotionally exhausting games.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: For a lot of fans. Yeah, it really is wired
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: like arm and it can be exhausted.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: They are, which is, you know, I think then that's like, Drew,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: you've always tried to ask the question, like, why do
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: you guys, why do you want to avoid them in
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: the playoffs? And you've always had that, like, don't you
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: love the energy? I think for some fans is that
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: matters so much, they get emotionally exhausted by it. And
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: they don't want to have to deal with that sort
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: of burden in their mind. This is what they think.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Although I think in my older age, I'm coming around
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: more to your end of it.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: And, and Billy, you've talked about it too, which is like, no,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: embrace the moment, embrace the energy, embrace.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: The opportunity to send them home and make them drive
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: through the toll booth.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: As a loser.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Cause a lot of, I think a lot of fans,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: and maybe this is like the Eeyore side will feel like,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: you approach these games and you, you know, so much
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: is on the line. Cause like, what if we lose
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: and like, well, life does go on when you lose.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: So I think it's, once you understand that and you
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: get older, it becomes something you can enjoy more in
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: some way.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: You can, you just look back fondly on it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Remember those great games, even the ones you lost, they're
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: going to, they're going to go into this bucket of
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: great memories.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Cause it means something. Right.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: So back to the Badgers, we get Jeff and Fox
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: point member of the five o'clock club.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Hey guys, I went to Lambeau for the game. The
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: first half was the best half of football in the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: fickle era.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Agree, disagree. A lot of folks that said the same thing.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: The second half, Notre Dame showed why they are a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: top five team. For me, it was nostalgic hearing all
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the Notre Dame game day traditions go on since it's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: been 20 years since I've been to an Irish home game.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I used to go to South Bend with my dad
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: when he was alive. He was a huge Notre Dame fan. Anyways,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Badgers need to build off the first half. We will
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: see what happens this season. Well, the first half highlighted
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: by a great punt.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Great pun. Punt for the ages. A sweet double move
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: for a touchdown. Badgers, yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Colton Joseph had some moments in the first half. And
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the Badgers, they came at it. They were physical. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: figured that defense would be okay because it was okay
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It's better this year, and it was good. And it
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't completely overmatched. Got a little overwhelmed in the second half.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: But my thing is, I'm watching this like, okay, credit
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to the Badgers for the first half. It was the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: first half. No preseason in college football. Notre Dame had
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: some kinks. They got a punt blocked. That ain't going
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to happen, right? That's not the rest of the season, probably.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Would that have happened if it had been week three?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Would the Badgers have been better served playing the two
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: directional schools first and then playing Notre Dame? Or did
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: they catch Notre Dame at the right time? And this
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: result was inevitable because Notre Dame is just more talented
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and better.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Well, they're a boa constrictor, right? Like Notre Dame is
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: an absolute python and they're just going to suffocate teams
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: all year long, right? Like I saw a lot of
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame fans freaking out in the first half. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: don't know what you expected them to do. Well, it
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: was the first half, but that's the thing. Like they're not,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: they're not a team that's going to come out LSU
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: style and throw the ball 55 times a game. They're
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: going to wear you down with their offensive line. They're
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: going to wear you down with their front seven and
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: then take advantage of every time you put the ball
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: on the turf. And that's exactly what they did. They
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: scored two touchdowns in 91 combined seconds on your own turnovers,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a pick six and the ball that bounces off of
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Bordelotti's chest. And again, I don't miss as frustrating and
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: disappointing as it was. It's kind of exactly how you
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: anticipated the game would play out. There were three touchdown
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: underdog for a reason.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: And right in the final two minutes, it was right
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: on the, it was right on the, right on the line.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: It's right on the number. And then James makes a
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: great play on the outside and runs right down our face.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: And we were sitting right there on the, in the
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: end zone. So he ran right into us on that
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: last touchdown and you could feel it, that it was
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the wearing down and the significant body blows that Notre
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Dame is going to do. I think two things are true.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I think Wisconsin throughout the year is going to be
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: more like the team that played in the first half.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I also think Notre Dame is going to be a
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: lot more of the team that played in the second
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: half all year long. And the tough thing about the
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: timing of it, drew, maybe they would have been better,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: but much like this is sobering reality. Much like a
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Mac school, like Western Michigan, the healthiest and best and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: easiest chance for them to sneak up on somebody is
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: probably week one, where they are the healthiest, where they
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: do have a lot of energy to build the one spot.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: And that was kind of what you saw in the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: first half. But the thing is, the Badgers need to
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: play a clean half. They played a good half, not
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: a clean half, though, in that first. No, not at all.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And you can skew it, right? It's like, okay, so
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: then what's the expectation? I want to see them against
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Penn State and UCLA.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Big time. Yes.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Like I said, it was the first half for Notre Dame.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: They're not going to get many punts blocked. They're not
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: going to have some of the mental mistakes that happened
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in first games.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Sure. And Notre Dame is a legit top five team.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: They are a legit unquestioned team. You mentioned Penn State, UCLA.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I think they're top 25 teams. And I think that's
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: where you can be battling in. Those are the streets
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you want to be on. Is the ultimate goal to
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: win the national title Yes. Is that where you're punting
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: right now? Absolutely not.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: First, you want to get back to that level at
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the winning top 25 team and getting you won.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Four games a year ago.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: So like there has to be building. There has to
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: be something that you're ramping up with. And I thought
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: there were legitimate building block signs in that first half.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Tough thing was postgame. That second half was two hours
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: long and that was the last thing you saw. So
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: it was difficult even for me in the patented positivity
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: to be all that positive about whatever it just had transpired. Yeah.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: It was a bludgeoning. That second half was bludgeoning. This
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: was destruction. And it was exactly what Marcus Freeman and
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame does and what they're going to do to
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of teams though. That's a tough thing. And
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: the nice part about the schedule is that's the one
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: that you have on the schedule, right? Like at last year,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: when you got boat raced by Alabama, uh, Then you
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: looked all into October. and saw that March that you
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: had to roll through. It's a lot different, but there's
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of teams that you, I do still feel
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: like are, you're going to be able to surprise later
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: on into the year. Johnny cribbage on YouTube batters.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: You need to take the huge step and win the
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: trio PSU, MSU, and UCLA easiest schedule is key. Yeah.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's, that's easier said than done, right. Just
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: to walk in and beat all those teams. But I mean,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: that would be the sign of success, right? The stepping stone.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Well, the UCLA game is going to be underratedly tough
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: because Iamali Ava was, really good in week one and
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: i think uh chesney is on people are going to
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: ask who's going to be the next kurt signetti when
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: somebody asks you that stop the conversation with that person
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: just like stop just don't don't converse with somebody that
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: said so who's going to take the next worst program
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: of all time to a national title in two years
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: It ain't happening again. But Bob Chesney comes from JMU
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: and is a phenomenally handsome young man and has won
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: everywhere he's gone. I think they're going to be better.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Penn State looked the part this week. They played Marshall,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: who I think lost 39 players last year. So they
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: got absolutely gutted through the portal and they looked the part.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Those are big ones. The other one that I think
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: is going to be the most telling and the most important,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: mostly because of the schedule in college football, And the
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: decisions that got to be made that trip to Iowa
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: on the 31st of October. I'm not saying you have
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to win the game. You have to be within three scores, right?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Like they've gotten 30 pieced by Iowa in the last
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: two years while they were trotting around with the bull.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: That's the problem. That's the problem. That's the problem, and
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: that needs to be a one-score game. They put up
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: a 40-piece this weekend, so they look like they are
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: in ripe condition to be playing.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: And that is a bull, not a pig. It's always
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: good to remind myself of that because I always think
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: it's a pig.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I've gotten caught too many times. It is not a pig.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: It is a bull. Not a pig.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: What was the vibe like? It was technically like a
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame home game, right, Billy? So they had all
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: the home, like, their stuff. They got to run out
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: of the Packers tunnel. I saw some people kind of
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: confused and griping about that.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Was that– Could you tell? They had the better locker room, right?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: They had the locker room and all that stuff, right?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: They had the better locker room, but they didn't have
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the Packers locker room. They went, Drew, into our little area.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: They went up those steps into the auxiliary other locker
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: room up there. So it was strange, Armin, but I'll
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: tell you this. I've been lucky enough to be at
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Lambeau so many times for a lot of incredible events.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: That was amazing. one of the most impressive showings by
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Lambeau Field. That's awesome. I've been there now, again, luckily enough,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: for a couple of NFC title games. Been there for
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: a number of different playoff games, a lot of Monday
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: night games, a lot of cool events. That one was different.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: It was as truly split 50 50 as it probably
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: could have been now into the fourth quarter shockingly so
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: it was 80 20 because the folks in red decided
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to beat the traffic rightfully so um but it was
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: it was loud the first half every single play there
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: was a pop because of the 50 50 split and
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: again it was just like a It was as beautiful
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: of a night as it could be. It was glorious
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: It felt like they were doing theater seating, lighting, I mean, almost,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: in a way. The field felt lit up, and the
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: stands felt a little darker, but that might have been
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: just the way it looked on TV.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Might have just been the reflection off the metallic numbers.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: And that's what it was, probably, just shining in my
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: face the whole time with the haze. I know a
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: lot of my friends watching were complaining about that fishy
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: in the first half. I don't know if that was
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: like a, like a thing people were talking about Billy
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: or not miss PI. There wasn't, you know, when you're
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: a fan, you always find ways to say you were wronged,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: but I'm not really sure if you noticed any of that.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: It seemed like a well-played game in that. Yeah. Well,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: and that was, that was the part of it. They
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: played a good first half. However, when you give up,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: they give wrap the only touchdown that the Irish score
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: in the first half where you give them the ball
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: at the 13, it's about to be third and 10
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: at the eight. but they whistle Posa for the personal
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: foul on sportsmanlike conduct. When you take him off the ground,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: you're kind of, it's kind of wraps from there, right?
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Like once he picks him up for the German suplex,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter that you don't slam him to the
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: ground and credit Williams. I mean, he just dead weighted it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: He realized where he was. He just dead fished. It
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: made it look as bad as possible. And they give
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: him the 15 yards or the, you know, reset of
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: downs and half the distance to the goal. And two
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: plays later, the Notre Dame kid and the Green Bay
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: kid Flanagan's in for a touchdown. So they give wrapped
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: them the touchdown. And then they they were unable to
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: stop anything in the second half and three drives, three scores,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: throw in there a pick six. And that's a recipe
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: for a runaway. But Wisconsin is going to reemerge. Badgers
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: are going to reemerge here. And it just might be
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: at that Penn State game. Look out for them to
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: be a lot more competitive than they were a year ago.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Let's see them win comfortably in the next two. They
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: drew and that was not necessarily the case last couple
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: of years. Right.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: So that's the progress, though, because I'm looking around and
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: with the glaring exception of Western Michigan trying to pull
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the Appalachian State at the big house, everybody else like, OK,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: these teams that they got hosed, these.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Teams that open with cupcakes, though, they're up 31 to three.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: They're up.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: They take care of it. It's not like let's play
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: with our food. It's right away from the get go.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: We're going to stomp them. And that's generally what happened
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: across the board, except for in Ann Arbor.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Except there. And I read this stat on postgame a
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: couple of times. Colton Joseph's 217 passing yards. The most
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: against any power four team would have been the most
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: against any power 14. The Badgers threw for last year.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: They were 131 out of 136 in FBS and passing yards.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And they had Danny O'Neill throw for nearly 300 against
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: middle Tennessee. So they were as anemic passing the ball
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: as you could be. And they still put up 40
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: against one of the directional schools a year ago. So, yeah,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: that's got to be the starting point against the Leathernecks
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: coming up at the Celebrate Agriculture game.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Let's get it. Oh, there's so much to get to today.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we can do it in three hours,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: but we're going to give it a good shot.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: We've got to kick the ball. Kick some. Game balls
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: and kicks. Let's fire that up. Fire it up now.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. In the
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: air to left field. Churrio over.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Churrio slides.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: He's got it. Jackson Churrio. Makes the catch to end
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: It was a dying quail out there.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: And Churio snatches that bad boy. Beautiful.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, great day at the ballpark yesterday. American Family Field
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: rocking on a Labor Day. Brewers beating the Cubs.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: That is the one game that had the triple whammy.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: It was like a three-piece. I like three-piece combos. Because the, yeah,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: that was the head-to-head. In terms of the magic number.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: And then the Brewers win the season series and any tiebreaker.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: So the Cubs now have to beat them by a
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: full game. So that adds a game onto the lead
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: in theory. It was a glorious day for the Brewers.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Glorious weekend for most of us. And we want to
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: hear from you.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: As long as we're talking baseball, Hunter's going to join
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: us at 725. But let's take a listen to what
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Hunter posted for us regarding yesterday's proceedings with the Brewers
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and the Cubs.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Take it away, Hunter.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Thanks guys. Another thrilling game between the Brewers and the
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Cubs yesterday. It seems like every single one of these
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: is a thriller between these two and the Brewers come
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: out victorious four to three. Of course, the ninth inning
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: defense ended the game on a quite a high note, right?
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: You got Luis Lara with the catch against the wall.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Jackson Churio with a sliding catch to end the game.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Christian Yelich talked about how difficult that Luis Lara catch was,
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: even though Lara makes it look so easy.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: They've been awesome all year, especially Lara. You know, he
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: makes that play at the wall. look really, really easy,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: and it's not an easy play, especially in right field
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: because kind of how it slants in and goes back and.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Just like a funky area over there.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: He makes it look easy. That's a huge play, obviously.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: If he doesn't make it, then potentially a tight ball
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: game may still be out there. So big defensive plays
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: and really just a great team win today.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: And Garrett Mitchell was in center field for that ninth inning.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: He gives his perspective on the Lara catch.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: What an incredible catch.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: My perspective on it was I saw the ball up.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Thought I had a chance and when I looked over
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I saw him starting to track it and I know that.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Those I could see his eyes.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, OK, this is like this is
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: going to be a close one type play and obviously
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: it was awesome.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: So how about this? The Brewers last four wins against
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: the Chicago Cubs have all been come from behind victories
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: and those can be a little sweeter, can't they? Brewers
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: are eight games up with 17 to play. game two
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: of the series. Jacob Mizorowski on the mound tonight, 640
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: first pitch. I'll have you for the baseball pregame show
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: at 530 this evening on Fox Sports 920 and our
• 35:36
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• 35:44
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• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Back to you guys. Thank you, Hunter. Thank you, Import Minded.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Brewers beating the Cubs in a thriller. This series, this
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: rivalry is getting sweet. All these games are good. Like
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Hunter said, it's just Stop us if you've heard this before. Yeah,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: they don't play. They don't play snoozers. That's for sure.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: No.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, everything has been entertaining. It's been good. And
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: the come from behind victory, like he mentions, a little sweeter.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: I also think it's a little bit more agonizing on
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: the other side.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Like where you do believe you have it. Not maybe
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: in the bag. I don't know if any team is
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: going to feel like they have something in the bag
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: against the Brewers.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: But.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Gives you a lot of confidence also going into the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: postseason that you're going to be able to hopefully put up.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, like as much as JV versus varsity as
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: those Dodgers games felt like in the NLCS, you almost
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: forget about the rally that puts the winning run. I
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: believe it second base in game one for terrain, like
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: with an opportunity to punch it through. They still have
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that mindset and they've been able to not full woodpecker
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: from a year ago, but that's going to be how
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: they're going to have to be able to score multiple runs.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: and get a big inning and a crooked number most
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: likely during the playoffs. And will the strength of this
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: team remain that way? I think that's like another big question.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: The bullpen's been great, but the starting pitching, you know,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: has some questions now. So once the business of clinching
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: gets done, I think that's going to be the number
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: one question. Can Miz stay as dominant?
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: And can Harrison get back to anything what he was
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: or even be a starter is the next question.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: That's the storm cloud. It's like the Harrison thing. He's
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: fallen off. They brought Drone back and put Anderson on
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the aisle.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Which Robert Gasser's been good. Thanks for that. Gasser's been good.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: You need a starter. You need Dustin May to make
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: something positive happen. You really need Dustin May to make
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: something happen.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of questions.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Short start for him when he catches the short straw
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and the rain delay. So he can come back, you think, sooner, right?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: But he's got to get rolling before the playoffs. You
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: want him to be dependable and pencil you in for five.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Because does it make sense drew do you see may
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: and harrison being like a piggyback option in the playoffs
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: like harrison's on my playoff roster to be honest like
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: the way he's throwing the way he's throwing and the
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: way that he is has been unable to guide anything
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: i don't think so i'd rather almost see like a
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: drone or a coleman crow or somebody well and that's
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: where i was wondering because now they bring up sproat
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: and he's going to get some he's going to get
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to be the piggyback potentially for harrison Crows
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: look good. I know they did one Thomas Pannone start,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: but my man goes perfecto in the minors. I can
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: imagine folks online are going to be saying, how about
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: we get this guy a chance to go see what
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: he can do?
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, game ball to Thomas Pannone. Perfect game in AAA.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: That very rare.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: They said first one since 2016, 2017.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, 17.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: It's like the fifth in the 140-year history of the league.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on. Early leader for a superhero of
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: the day. That was pretty awesome. Yeah.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you got to look at it like,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: You ever think of that? You know, you're in AAA.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: You throw a perfect game. Then you say, man, what
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: if it came in the majors?
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: That would have been. But you can't think of it
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: that way. You get one shot at greatness usually in
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: your career like that. You can't think of it that way.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: And then this guy goes on. First thing you say
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: on the radio about it is, wow, it could have
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: been in the majors, guy.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: It was great. I mean, pitch is a great game.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Way to go and everything like that.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: But you ever think like he might wonder that when
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: his head hits the, I'm just asking the questions that
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: someone else might be thinking.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: No, I think at some, at some point when he's
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: about 54 and he's sitting at a campfire, somebody will
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: say probably one of his kids, friends, We'll say, hey, Mr. P,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: what if you would have thrown that perfect game in
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the majors?
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I get it. And I'll say, yeah, you see where
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: we're sitting here at this campfire? This house that we're
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: sitting at would have been twice the size if I
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: would have done that in the major league.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I just hope he's not one of those guys that
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: thinks that. I hope he thinks more like it was
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: great when I did, not what.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Could have been. Because that can get you down. It
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: probably doesn't until certain people bring it up to him.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's listening to me right now. So
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: that's the one. one thing I can take solace in.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: It's saying, hey, Arvin, you scored. Yeah, it's on JV.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I never scored on varsity. See, but we never do that.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Only you bring up the fact that it was on JV. No,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: because I wonder. When we talk about being on teams,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: and you're like, yeah, but I wasn't. I'm like, you're
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: bringing that up. We're not bringing that one up.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I just hope he doesn't, because it was a great accomplishment,
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: and I think, you know. Early leader in the clubhouse
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: for a superhero of the day, I would think.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, definitely. Definitely was. Your call, William, but I
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: would think he's in the mix. A couple of good
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: ones on the talking text line, 877-794-1973. Bob and Baraboo. Morning, men.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Hope you all had a phenomenal holiday weekend. Good Brewers
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: win yesterday. Been spending my last 11 days going through
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: the house in the big shed, throwing stuff into my dumpster.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Amazing what you accumulate over the years. Oh, that is
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: a big time for a purge. Big purge time.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: But it can be a fun thing to do in
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: some ways, and you feel accomplished once you do it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: It's hard to part with stuff. It's the whole Marie
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Kondo joy. It can be fun, though, when you see something,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: and then it brings up the memory. You get a
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: couple of little moments and throw them. Then, all right, sweet.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: That was fun. Now let's send that thing into the dumpster.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: That's what I love about it, is you go through
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: the memory again.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: You can enjoy that. But then it's like, hey, come on,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: get going. Let's work faster here. It's like, well, no.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: This is going to be a long process. I have
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: to see something, remember the memory, try and talk about
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: it for a while.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Wipe away the tears. Yes, and then throw away my
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: 1991 top set. Like, that's how that goes. Oh, don't
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: do that. Don't throw away the cards. I got all
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: the binders. Don't throw away the cards. Download a couple
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: of apps and go see what them things are worth.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I was good. I separated them by team, Billy. Oh,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: I was good back then. You put any sleeves on them?
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: They were all in the plastic sleeves, yeah. Oh, giddy up. See,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I would... You might want to go and check some
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: of those out. The 90s are the overpopulated time. That's
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: the problem. But you got a chance. I'd check out
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: what you got in there. All right.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: First hours in the books. We're just getting rolling. It's
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the Tuesday edition of the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.