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04/15/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 3: You look at this play.
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Speaker 1: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 1: a seal here, and to try to run this play
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Speaker 1: in the hour.
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Speaker 3: Let's go on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they can play be right all the way
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Speaker 1: outside Why left Banks three ninety sick bag be in se.
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Speaker 3: Talk is not long enough for you watch it to
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Speaker 3: be party of professional. It's a great professional out there
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Speaker 3: and playing this ball game like I know you can
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Speaker 3: play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 1: Armand sorry. Ready, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 5: We are on the air, which is a victory in
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Speaker 5: itself as we dig out from day two of severe
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Speaker 5: storm damage in the good Land and the area around
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Speaker 5: the Megaplex, the Milwaukee area, the entire state been buckled
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Speaker 5: by some bad weather. But baby, we're here. Welcome into
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Speaker 5: the huddle, Drew Billion, Armon bringing it to you from headquarters.
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Speaker 5: Oh baby, you Insomniac's early risers. People getting a taste
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Speaker 5: of what it's like to think about our life keeping
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Speaker 5: an eye on the weather. At least it wasn't the tornado.
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Speaker 5: Sermons went off at seven instead of two am.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you fast forward at about seven hours makes
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Speaker 7: it a little bit better. And and get I mean,
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Speaker 7: let's be honest, it was like primetime viewing Mark Baden,
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Speaker 7: Drew ber Coin. I mean, it was just everybody in
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Speaker 7: the Milwaukee area. The meteorologists were having themselves like a
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Speaker 7: Tuesday night war in the old wrestling days, being able
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Speaker 7: to showcase every different graphic they possibly had.
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Speaker 3: It was all hands on deck, is buckling the seat
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Speaker 3: belts and getting ready to go.
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Speaker 8: And at least it was, you're right in a regular
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Speaker 8: kind of primetime ish slot where their schedules hopefully weren't
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Speaker 8: too messed up.
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Speaker 3: But you know, it was really great.
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Speaker 2: You know, I was.
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Speaker 8: I was flipping around watching Mark, who was on his
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Speaker 8: feet for it must have been three hours.
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Speaker 3: I mean, just just get through all the all the cams.
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Speaker 8: The weather cams was battling a little bit with the
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Speaker 8: computer that wouldn't zoom in on the right reflectivity.
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Speaker 2: And it was.
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Speaker 8: Then then one of the weather cams was starting to flood.
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Speaker 8: It was out in the forty three somewhere, and he
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Speaker 8: was like, Dot, I hope you're listening. You gotta shut
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Speaker 8: this one down.
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Speaker 3: Shut down the road down.
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Speaker 8: People sending in quote unquote tornado pictures or spout pictures.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, that's a scud cloud. All right,
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Speaker 3: I know what a scud cloud? Lying.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I just love the way he did it,
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Speaker 5: all right. It reinforces the import of our local media
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Speaker 5: off sirens went off again. Rman, did you venture down
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Speaker 5: to the basement again? Well, I did for a second,
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Speaker 5: but I didn't do it till like a state, but
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Speaker 5: I didn't. I was just checking on the water heater.
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Speaker 3: I was just you know, okay, I'll say this.
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Speaker 8: I did what you do when you take a flight,
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Speaker 8: all right, you go through security, You walk in there
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Speaker 8: to make sure your gate exists, right, make sure that
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Speaker 8: number is sure D fourteen is still there hanging around
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Speaker 8: like all right, you know what, it's there if I
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Speaker 8: need it, when I need it, then I'm going to
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Speaker 8: go back up and venture to mycoutrements, you know, my food,
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Speaker 8: my drink, whatever I need to do. And that's what
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Speaker 8: you in the airport, right, I mean, once you once
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Speaker 8: you check in, go through security, you make sure you're
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Speaker 8: at the gate.
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Speaker 3: But you're not gonna sit you know, you know what.
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Speaker 8: I don't need to sit here for an hour and
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Speaker 8: a half waiting with baited breath for group one to
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Speaker 8: be called.
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Speaker 5: You know what, I'll be fine. I know how to
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Speaker 5: get there quickly a foot away from it. Yeah, that
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Speaker 5: makes sense.
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Speaker 3: I do like that. You say that that's what you do,
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Speaker 3: That's what you do because I do.
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Speaker 5: That's what you do over there sometimes, you know, you
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Speaker 5: don't want to be one of the you know, I
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Speaker 5: grew up watching uh, what was that show an a
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Speaker 5: the airline where some guy got too drunk in the
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Speaker 5: bar and missed his flight and then they had to
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Speaker 5: go tell me, Hey, your flight's gone.
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Speaker 7: That is what I would worry about, Drew, is Army
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Speaker 7: getting too drunk before the flight?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't know that that one is high.
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Speaker 3: But felt confident we could get downstairs in a hurry
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Speaker 3: if need be.
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Speaker 5: I got a text from my daughter and she's like, yeah,
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Speaker 5: she's she and she had taken her kiddies down to
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Speaker 5: the basement and she's like, oh, I'm like that's very responsible.
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Speaker 3: She's like, are you uh. And I'm laying on the couch,
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Speaker 3: I'm looking at it outside and I'm watching I had.
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Speaker 5: I had the weather on for a while and then hey,
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Speaker 5: brewers are starting, and I did see, but I was
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Speaker 5: watching Baden at the same time. I think Armin was
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Speaker 5: like those low clouds, the scud clouds, and then he uh,
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Speaker 5: for some reason, something that Master Control screwed up and
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Speaker 5: they went to like an entertainment tonight commercial in the middle.
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Speaker 3: Of his feet, Like it was like, oh, it's not easy.
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Speaker 5: We're in breaking news and something fired and we know
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Speaker 5: what that's like a break fires and like what happened?
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Speaker 3: How are we you know? Some macro fire?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, some macro fire that it wasn't that they didn't override.
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Speaker 5: And then my daughter like, Oh, that's really responsible of you.
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Speaker 5: I'm proud of you.
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Speaker 3: Like me, not too much. I'm okay, I'm hard down
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Speaker 3: on the couch.
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Speaker 5: It's like, uh, it's a little bit like the fire
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Speaker 5: alarm at the hotel at three in the morning.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Perfect.
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Speaker 5: If I don't smell or see smoke or even see
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Speaker 5: like a fire truck, I just figure some drunk jack
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Speaker 5: waffle pulled an alarm or something and.
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Speaker 3: I'm not getting dressed and ready to get out. Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Also felt like if you you know, you hear the
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Speaker 8: alarm or you hear the sireen, I should say and
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Speaker 8: you know, oh, okay, warning does exist or for this county,
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Speaker 8: but it's issued for counties or parts of counties. So
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Speaker 8: if you are like in the southern part of the
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Speaker 8: county and you're paying attention and you know that you're
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Speaker 8: really not a threat, you're like Okay, so I know,
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Speaker 8: even though we got the siren, I'm not a threat
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Speaker 8: whereas I'm the northern part of Milwaukee County or waukeshiw
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Speaker 8: or Washington. They had a lot bigger issues. They were
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Speaker 8: right in the thick of it. They were kind of
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Speaker 8: under the gun in that sense. So you just have
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Speaker 8: to know a little bit more than just the sirens off.
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Speaker 8: It's like, okay, well, where's the warning, what county?
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Speaker 3: What part of it?
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Speaker 8: Are you watching the radar? Are you watching our friends?
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Speaker 8: You know, Mark Baden and everybody else. So that's part
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Speaker 8: of it too. But they got hammered on the northern
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Speaker 8: part of the county last night.
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Speaker 5: They did, and some of the same spots that we
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Speaker 5: floated through Billy on our memorable trek back from Lambos
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Speaker 5: fight it out pretty good. Something's wrong with the drainage
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Speaker 5: around I forty three. They do something around there.
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Speaker 7: You know, it's not great. Yeah, And just to see
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Speaker 7: that definitely gave some flashbacks. It is pretty remarkable when
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Speaker 7: they go into all the different graphics. Now, granted, I
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Speaker 7: mean it is twenty twenty six. I did think we
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Speaker 7: were gonna have flying machines at this point. I was
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Speaker 7: watching the Jetsons, but we don't have that, but we
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Speaker 7: got radars that legit can show you the difference if
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Speaker 7: it's wind or debris like that was impressive last night.
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Speaker 7: To see all the different changes in microcosms of the
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Speaker 7: of the graphics and what they were doing on the
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Speaker 7: green screen there last night, it was pretty impressive. I
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Speaker 7: also was watching Fox six guys at one point when
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Speaker 7: I mean the storm was going right to their studio.
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Speaker 7: Sirens are going off. My man Toms is having the
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Speaker 7: news director come in.
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Speaker 3: Should we have.
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Speaker 7: Everybody going into the basement. Yes, everybody going to the base,
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Speaker 7: and we need to practice what we preach. So they
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Speaker 7: were live funneling everybody into the basement, firing up their
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Speaker 7: backup studio.
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Speaker 3: It was I saw wild.
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Speaker 5: I saw a still photo of that, and our boy
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Speaker 5: Tim van Vooren didn't look happy to be stuck in
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Speaker 5: the hallway. It seems like people are sitting down with
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Speaker 5: their laptops and Tim's just standing there chilling, going when
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Speaker 5: can I go back to work?
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Speaker 7: Come on, I've been doing this a long time, guys.
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Speaker 7: It's the third inning, all right. I'm trying to see
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Speaker 7: if they're going to break the losing streak. And at
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Speaker 7: the risk of being that guy.
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Speaker 8: You know, that's all opportunities for content, you know, you
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Speaker 8: get Oh yeah, we'll take a po Tim Van Bourne's phone.
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Speaker 8: But hey, Mark was giving Brews a score updates as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: so hey, you got to appreciate that a little bit.
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Speaker 8: And and it does remind you, speaking of baseball, it
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Speaker 8: does remind you the glory that is the roof this
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Speaker 8: time of year.
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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, I'm wandering and I was not at
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Speaker 5: the ballpark last night, and I have not talked to
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Speaker 5: Hunter bomb Guard, who's got a report for us from
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Speaker 5: the ballpark.
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Speaker 3: We'll be spinning through that later.
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Speaker 5: I'm wondering what it was like in there, and if
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Speaker 5: people were even aware, if you're oblivious, because I've been
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Speaker 5: in there in the past, when you could kind of
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Speaker 5: if the panels are open, you could see the lightning
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Speaker 5: and stuff, and you can kind of sometimes hear it
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Speaker 5: or almost feel it.
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Speaker 3: But it's your you know, blissfully unaware. It'll it'll get
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Speaker 3: real sticky in there.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 7: Army was talking about people's body odor that that rolls
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Speaker 7: through Family Field yesterday.
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Speaker 3: It was a memorable discussion yesterday.
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Speaker 7: Yes, but it definitely does Drew, you can feel the
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Speaker 7: air change a little bit when you're in there. I'm
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Speaker 7: I wasn't, and I was thinking the exact same thing.
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Speaker 7: We were also wondering, and my wife was immediately wondering.
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Speaker 7: So I know that service level is pretty impressive because
9:08
Speaker 7: were all down there for the clubhouse sale. I don't
9:09
Speaker 7: think it can hold twenty one thousand, right, Like, I
9:12
Speaker 7: don't even know where the safest part would be. We
9:15
Speaker 7: jokingly said and thought that it ended up probably being
9:17
Speaker 7: on the field, like, so I was, I was very
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Speaker 7: skeptical as to what exactly they would have to do
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Speaker 7: in case of the storm rolling right there. Yeah, because
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Speaker 7: it looked like it was in line and then kind
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Speaker 7: of veered up or a little bit south.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 7: But you know, instead the tornado just came out of
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Speaker 7: the Brewers bullpen. Yeah, unfortunately, that was oh my goodness.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe a rain out would be, you know, not
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Speaker 5: be the worst thing the way the Brewers and that's
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Speaker 5: what the losing streak extends Brewers eight and eight and
9:44
Speaker 5: you know what, you know, we'll break with tradition today.
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Speaker 5: A lot of times on the show, we get our
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Speaker 5: shooting shirts on and we start whatever feature we're doing
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Speaker 5: at seven, I mean at six o'clock in the six
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Speaker 5: o'clock hour, we might as well start fire up the
9:55
Speaker 5: hot take hump day machine, right like that deal like
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Speaker 5: eight seven, seven, four, one ninety seven to three, fire
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Speaker 5: it up, arm and let's go, because oh there's so
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Speaker 5: much unpack.
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Speaker 3: Brewers scuffling mightily, and it's the area.
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Speaker 5: Of the team that we didn't worry about right going in,
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Speaker 5: Like everybody was like, oh the rotations thin, I lost
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Speaker 5: Freddy and miss ready to be the as, Oh what's
10:17
Speaker 5: woodrof status? Do they have enough pitching up front? And
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Speaker 5: then it was like, oh, what are they gonna do
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Speaker 5: with third base? You know, how are they gonna how
10:24
Speaker 5: are they going to ride out the Tario and Vaughan injuries?
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Speaker 5: And now it's the bullpen that's employee, which has been
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Speaker 5: the backbone of this team for many years, the one
10:31
Speaker 5: thing that you could always depend on.
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Speaker 3: We talked about it countless times.
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Speaker 5: In recent years about how the Brewers the reason they're
10:37
Speaker 5: able to come back in games is because the bullpen
10:39
Speaker 5: holds teams down, They hold the fort and they keep
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Speaker 5: the score where it is and give you chances to
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Speaker 5: chip away. The woodpecker thing it wouldn't have woodpeckers without
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Speaker 5: the bullpen holding up the tree.
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Speaker 3: Yep, something's got to be the foundery.
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Speaker 5: Now it's off the rails and teams derive their confidence
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Speaker 5: from the back of the bullpen, and there's no confidence
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Speaker 5: at all right now with Trevor McGill, who can't get
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Speaker 5: a swing and a miss who can't get guys out,
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Speaker 5: he's not as effective.
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Speaker 3: He needs a time out. You need to park him.
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Speaker 5: He gets booed last night because the results, which is
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Speaker 5: compounding with interest because of what happened Friday and the
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Speaker 5: losing streak in general, fans are unhappy. Murph is unhappy
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Speaker 5: that people are booing his closer that you know was
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Speaker 5: an All Star last year and it was such a
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Speaker 5: big part of things. It's like, hey, man, I know
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Speaker 5: it's not Murph's first rodeo, and I love that he's
11:22
Speaker 5: caping up for a player. But if you paid your
11:24
Speaker 5: money and you want to boo, that's the time.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what they're gonna hurle when it's gonna fly.
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Speaker 7: When not only do you wake up and have to
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Speaker 7: get one to win it in the in the top
11:36
Speaker 7: or the bottom half of the ninth inning, you got
11:38
Speaker 7: to get two to tie it. And I mean, granted
11:40
Speaker 7: they still had the opportunity and lo and behold twenty
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Speaker 7: twenty six the exact same deal as twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 7: Joey Ortiz is just gonna show up with the bases loaded,
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Speaker 7: an awesome deal to see as many pitches as there
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Speaker 7: were base runners at the time. But Drew at least
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Speaker 7: like there's different levels to it with McGill. There there
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Speaker 7: have been times where you see a guy clearly just
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Speaker 7: not be able to find the strike zone. He's finding
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Speaker 7: the strike zone, he's just finding way too many barrels
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Speaker 7: as well that are going into it. And it was
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Speaker 7: death by paper cuts on Friday night, and you could
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Speaker 7: see how frustrated he was during the flips of the
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Speaker 7: ball back towards Contreras or the lack thereof towards Contreras
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Speaker 7: and more hitting towards the backstop. Last night, it was
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Speaker 7: a little bit different last night. It was a lot
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Speaker 7: of loud contact and hard contact. And it feels like
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Speaker 7: if it's a thing almost like a kicker, if it's
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Speaker 7: a different miss, that concerns me more than you got
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Speaker 7: to type. If you're missing wide right every single time
12:39
Speaker 7: at least we can adjust that when it was varying
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Speaker 7: degrees of inability to get out of your own way.
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Speaker 7: That was a moment for McGill last night, where after
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Speaker 7: u Rebay gave you your own heart palpitations in the eighth,
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Speaker 7: you just knew it wasn't going to be clean.
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Speaker 3: In the ninth.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and just a little frustrating because you go into
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Speaker 8: that thing knowing, hey, we need to win. We gotta
13:01
Speaker 8: get this thing started off on the right foot. We
13:02
Speaker 8: gotta get Opti s I Boom Bauers, you know, gets
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Speaker 8: the big dinger, and you're like, all right, we're on
13:06
Speaker 8: our way. And then once again in all crumbles and
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Speaker 8: you're kind of like, get me off this, give me
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Speaker 8: off this boat ride. It's not feeling good this week,
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Speaker 8: and take it often.
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Speaker 5: But the Brewers are living up to my mantra of
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Speaker 5: when you're a good team and you suck. Your floor
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Speaker 5: is five hundred and they're now eight and eight with
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Speaker 5: a six game losing streak to get to eight and eight, Yeah,
13:26
Speaker 5: that's why you build up that eight and two. That's
13:27
Speaker 5: why they eight and two starts great and nothing's getting
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Speaker 5: away from them. The Pirates are ten and seven, atop
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Speaker 5: the division.
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Speaker 3: No, so the Brewers are now.
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Speaker 5: Looking up at Saint Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in the division,
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Speaker 5: and the Cubs are creeping up on them, taking out
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Speaker 5: from their own bad start, right, so too really to
13:44
Speaker 5: be looking at standings and stuff. You can look. You
13:46
Speaker 5: look at how you're playing. And that last ten games
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Speaker 5: number is three and seven for the Brewers. That's not great,
13:51
Speaker 5: but it can be rectified. And you start a new
13:54
Speaker 5: ten game block today and it's just the roller coaster.
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Speaker 5: But the bullpen thing is alarm. Last year, when the
14:01
Speaker 5: starting pitching was crumbling, they went and got Quinn Priester.
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Speaker 5: Where's the relief coming from? No pun intended for this group.
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Speaker 5: Anybody they want to bring up, and I don't want
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Speaker 5: to hear anybody, and we'll probably get some people positing today.
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Speaker 3: I got an idea.
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Speaker 5: We got a lot of starters, why not just put
14:16
Speaker 5: miz in the back end of the right. I don't
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Speaker 5: think that's gonna happen. Appreciate the idea to think outside
14:23
Speaker 5: the box. But where does the is there anybody in
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Speaker 5: Triple A throwing lights out? Is Craig Yoho healthy yet?
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Speaker 5: I don't even know what his stat That was the
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Speaker 5: one that I was thinking, if there anybody Doddler has
14:33
Speaker 5: been following Nashville a lot here on the comments, so
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Speaker 5: we can deposit Yeah, we can task him to find
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Speaker 5: out if there is.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, he did, he did. That's a good point.
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Speaker 8: Sometimes there's no answer in that sense, there's no except
14:46
Speaker 8: for your own guys that have to perform better.
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Speaker 3: You got to find a way to have things break
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Speaker 3: your way.
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Speaker 8: I'm not sure it might be a guy down there
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Speaker 8: that can come up, but I doubt there's any sort
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Speaker 8: of you know, middle relief savior that's going to come
14:55
Speaker 8: up and all of a sudden turned things around.
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Speaker 3: But you never really our boy Hardcourty.
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Speaker 5: What the Brewers need to do is beat the craw
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Speaker 5: If somebody won to nothing right and you know well
15:02
Speaker 5: pitched game that you know.
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Speaker 3: One of those.
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Speaker 5: Because offense hasn't really been a problem Joey Ortiz aside,
15:07
Speaker 5: but they're scoring.
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Speaker 3: Enough runs to win games now and then you know,
15:11
Speaker 3: there was a over the weekend.
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Speaker 7: It felt like in the midst of the frustrations in
15:17
Speaker 7: Boston was where the offense really took the dive. But
15:20
Speaker 7: you're right after Saturday, they score six on Sunday seven yesterday.
15:24
Speaker 7: That should be enough to win a game. The other
15:26
Speaker 7: thing is it's equal opportunity. Right as McGill is the
15:30
Speaker 7: is in the line, like is he's always going to
15:32
Speaker 7: be in the ninth inning. Well, it was going to
15:33
Speaker 7: be in the ninth inning. The tough part of it
15:36
Speaker 7: is Drew like the easy fix was just gonna be
15:39
Speaker 7: well abnerary Rebay boom, That's why we.
15:41
Speaker 3: Have to That's why we have abny Rebay.
15:44
Speaker 7: So you just toss him in here and those innings
15:48
Speaker 7: have been as nauseating as any on Hell's Arapa starts
15:51
Speaker 7: out hot, he's gonna end up in the not category here.
15:54
Speaker 7: So like the the amount of last week feels like
15:58
Speaker 7: we're saying, three guys all nails, tough to beat the
16:02
Speaker 7: team when you have to play six innings. Now, one
16:05
Speaker 7: week later, as it flips here in April fifteenth, we
16:07
Speaker 7: get a tax day and we're paying some taxes there
16:09
Speaker 7: in that ninth inning. Do you think that it's some
16:12
Speaker 7: of could be from the workload that all of them
16:15
Speaker 7: had a year ago?
16:17
Speaker 3: Oh? No question.
16:18
Speaker 7: Is it just like a wear and tear thing for
16:20
Speaker 7: how much the Brewers utilize the bullpen because maybe that's
16:23
Speaker 7: Drew where the fix and it's not a quick fix,
16:27
Speaker 7: that's for sure. If indeed you're trying to get a
16:30
Speaker 7: little bit more out of the middle of that relief
16:32
Speaker 7: or more out of your starting cores to be able
16:35
Speaker 7: to try to take less workload from these guys, but
16:38
Speaker 7: they're gonna pigeon high leverage spots. You're too good of
16:40
Speaker 7: a team to have your back end guys not be
16:44
Speaker 7: necessary on a night in. A night out Basis explains
16:48
Speaker 7: a lot more, though, Why when in it's a three
16:51
Speaker 7: to two game and you're down one and there's two
16:53
Speaker 7: on and one out, you're sitting here saying give it
16:56
Speaker 7: to your rebait, get out of this thing and give
16:57
Speaker 7: yourself a chance to win. Formula and the amount of
17:02
Speaker 7: volume of pitches they threw last year, I think they're
17:04
Speaker 7: starting to pay the price here a little bit earlier.
17:05
Speaker 3: I agree those.
17:08
Speaker 5: It's miles on the tires, it's dollars on the credit
17:11
Speaker 5: card when you're pitching guys like the Brewers have in
17:14
Speaker 5: the past, and it's because it's worked.
17:16
Speaker 3: The formula works. Yep, you're right.
17:18
Speaker 5: But we've talked about Vaughan and Turio, and we can
17:21
Speaker 5: talk about you know Yelich now right, anybody mentioned Jared
17:27
Speaker 5: caneing at all.
17:28
Speaker 3: It's a good one.
17:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's out and he's been nails, and they used
17:31
Speaker 5: him a lot ton last year, a lot last year well,
17:35
Speaker 5: and we used to got like Nick Meers a lot
17:37
Speaker 5: last year and he's not around anymore either.
17:38
Speaker 3: So you have to kind of film those holes.
17:40
Speaker 8: The one thing I would agree with is, you know,
17:42
Speaker 8: we walked into this season thinking the bullpen WHI should
17:45
Speaker 8: be a strength with good reason, with all the information
17:47
Speaker 8: we had at our disposal, we thought that.
17:49
Speaker 3: But the one thing is a year to year. It
17:51
Speaker 3: does seem like that is the one area that's tenuous
17:54
Speaker 3: that you can.
17:55
Speaker 5: And another Doug Melvin theory that if he was going
17:59
Speaker 5: to go get a real who had been solid and
18:01
Speaker 5: then coming off a bad year.
18:02
Speaker 3: Well he's due to bounce back.
18:04
Speaker 5: And a lot of times guys who had good years
18:06
Speaker 5: when we're used a lot like Canning pitched seventy two
18:08
Speaker 5: games and way better every other damn day. Like the
18:12
Speaker 5: human body can only take so much and there's regression
18:15
Speaker 5: and you'd be solid for a year. Stands a reason
18:18
Speaker 5: that there would be a market correction, right, So they're
18:20
Speaker 5: they're going to ride that, but it's going to be
18:22
Speaker 5: a test of their depth.
18:24
Speaker 3: And you didn't expect this.
18:25
Speaker 5: Put it this way, with the peror score six or
18:28
Speaker 5: seven runs, you expect them to win games because of that.
18:30
Speaker 3: The way the bullpen's been, we've.
18:32
Speaker 5: Been conditioned to expect them to win six or seven
18:34
Speaker 5: games and not have to sweat it out.
18:36
Speaker 8: But here we are, and I still think they will
18:39
Speaker 8: most often. But here we are, and it's still it
18:41
Speaker 8: is still early in the season, and whatever I always
18:44
Speaker 8: say this, you know, there's a lot that's going to
18:46
Speaker 8: happen that will erase our memory of these of these times,
18:48
Speaker 8: right God, for better or for worse.
18:51
Speaker 3: But there will be a lot that still happens.
18:53
Speaker 8: So it's just a matter of trying to plow through
18:55
Speaker 8: it right now, trying to find answers within, and who knows,
18:58
Speaker 8: maybe guys' performance will change with the bats will pick
19:00
Speaker 8: up the bullpen while they're trying to still figure it out.
19:03
Speaker 8: But we've we've still got a long, long season ahead
19:06
Speaker 8: of us, so trying to okay, trying to try not
19:08
Speaker 8: to get two panics. We're, yeah, the same thing, you're
19:12
Speaker 8: a ten of the season. Yeah, you know, they're sixteen
19:14
Speaker 8: games in eight and eight.
19:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, the tough one last night too.
19:17
Speaker 7: And and guy that doesn't anticipate didn't anticipate being into
19:21
Speaker 7: the leverage spot. Gran Anderson has just been so good
19:24
Speaker 7: in every different role that he was in, he was
19:26
Speaker 7: bound to have a moment like that. And it's a
19:28
Speaker 7: tough part about the bullpen because it's obviously so amplified
19:31
Speaker 7: because you only get to pitch one to two innings
19:33
Speaker 7: a night, and when you do, generally it's in the
19:37
Speaker 7: most the highest of leverage spots. You also just difficult
19:40
Speaker 7: when you're in a slide when your best guy goes
19:44
Speaker 7: gives you a decent amount and you're not able to
19:46
Speaker 7: come out there with the dub because you're looking at season.
19:49
Speaker 7: And Patrick Corbin at times has been like the worst
19:52
Speaker 7: starter in Major League Baseball. That times was also on
19:55
Speaker 7: a World Series team for a reason and was one
19:57
Speaker 7: of the big reasons why so, and seems like he
20:00
Speaker 7: uh has kind of found himself maybe a little bit
20:02
Speaker 7: with Toronto after his is stopping in Texas. So the
20:06
Speaker 7: next two days are not going to get a whole
20:07
Speaker 7: lot easier for you. And in the midst of it,
20:11
Speaker 7: you get the off day on Monday Drew, it's hard
20:14
Speaker 7: to be looking at off days when you just got
20:15
Speaker 7: one because you're worried about when you can give your
20:17
Speaker 7: bullpedal ress the easiest way to get him arrest, kick
20:21
Speaker 7: the crap out of them. One to nothing gives them
20:23
Speaker 7: the confidence. Nine to nothing would allow you to throw
20:26
Speaker 7: a Jake Woodford out there. Hey, maybe Jake Woodford some
20:29
Speaker 7: high leverage innings. Yeah, we'll see see you if for
20:31
Speaker 7: a Woodford reserve. It does feel like it's going to
20:36
Speaker 7: be wide open as to who's going to take over
20:38
Speaker 7: that spot.
20:38
Speaker 5: Eight seven seven seven, nine four three. We've broken the seal.
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Speaker 5: Hot take hump day.
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Speaker 3: A lot of the comments already, guys, we'll get to
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Speaker 5: If you're a friend of ours, socialists, we can discuss
20:57
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Speaker 5: the maybe the beginning of the end of the Diana
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Speaker 3: Give us your hottest of hot takes.
21:45
Speaker 5: It can be about food culture, ready for those music, movies, television, sports,
21:52
Speaker 5: of course, grilling Blackstone tips always appreciated.
21:57
Speaker 3: All right, Billy, Billy likes to Billy likes to throw
21:59
Speaker 3: some meat on the smoker once in a while. I
22:01
Speaker 3: love to love to brisket action some biscuit.
22:05
Speaker 5: Man.
22:05
Speaker 3: That's a great question.
22:07
Speaker 5: Next week it let's throw one out of the smoker,
22:09
Speaker 5: get a good bark on it, and bring that in
22:11
Speaker 5: and armand and I will judge it.
22:14
Speaker 3: Beef prices though, I mean, we're asking Billy just to
22:17
Speaker 3: bring it. I've been I gotta fire up.
22:19
Speaker 5: I got to hang out the shingle again and get
22:21
Speaker 5: some more judging gigs because I had a couple in
22:24
Speaker 5: my past. I've had some good judging gigs. I got
22:26
Speaker 5: to judge a like a bacon contest. Oh that's a winner, okay,
22:30
Speaker 5: judge there. I got to be a creative use as
22:32
Speaker 5: of bacon. I got to judge a a Manhattan contest
22:36
Speaker 5: where that was run a tab.
22:38
Speaker 3: How many rounds did you last? I tasted about ten
22:43
Speaker 3: different Manhattans that night, it was, and trying to remember
22:46
Speaker 3: them all.
22:46
Speaker 5: Its funny, It's like, that's such an unfair just talking
22:49
Speaker 5: about Woodford, the Brewers Reliever.
22:51
Speaker 4: It was.
22:51
Speaker 3: It was sponsored by Woodford.
22:54
Speaker 5: Now the Bourbon Company, and these guys were coming in making,
22:58
Speaker 5: you know, their own bidders, and they were and.
23:01
Speaker 8: To a bunch of guys that, by the torches by
23:03
Speaker 8: number three, couldn't differentiate one.
23:05
Speaker 4: No, I was.
23:06
Speaker 5: I was trying hard, but yeah, it was some of
23:09
Speaker 5: the them. They were all pretty delicious. I'm not a
23:10
Speaker 5: big vermooth guy, but the Manhattan thing was. It was
23:13
Speaker 5: a great night.
23:14
Speaker 7: Gonna be a hard one to turn down, Yeah I was.
23:16
Speaker 7: I was a judge for a couple of Halloween costume contest,
23:19
Speaker 7: which is never a bad one. Never never a bad
23:21
Speaker 7: one to be able to especially the right situation.
23:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't a judge.
23:25
Speaker 5: But I did a couple of times MC the Hooters
23:28
Speaker 5: bikini contests uh in Greedy Gold Uh. And that was
23:33
Speaker 5: a rough gig. Man, I was gonna say, that's uh
23:35
Speaker 5: all the wings you can eat. I think I did
23:37
Speaker 5: it like two or three. I think I brought KB
23:39
Speaker 5: with me one time. I took Adobe with me one
23:42
Speaker 5: time too, and it was like, it's three hours on
23:45
Speaker 5: the mic. I got to interview these girls and they
23:48
Speaker 5: weren't exactly easy interviews you've seen interviews. It was his
23:52
Speaker 5: interview for girls who's not who aren't practicing for the
23:55
Speaker 5: interview portion.
23:56
Speaker 3: Of No, it was a good practice for you to interview,
23:58
Speaker 3: Nil gives. It was yeah, rough, but chance to make
24:02
Speaker 3: you know.
24:03
Speaker 5: I got to be like backstage, behind the scenes, hanging
24:05
Speaker 5: around beautiful women in bikinis, and it's something that you
24:07
Speaker 5: dream of as a kid.
24:08
Speaker 3: And then I'm there going how long do I have
24:09
Speaker 3: to be here next year? I got to ask for
24:13
Speaker 3: more than one hundred dollars to do this because it's
24:16
Speaker 3: and the cooking it over and then yeah, I hooked
24:20
Speaker 3: some you know, I hooked the buddy up to be
24:22
Speaker 3: a judge. I'll be a judge, be a judge. Yeah,
24:24
Speaker 3: you sit there and they shovel all the wings you want.
24:27
Speaker 3: I like those Daytona wings.
24:28
Speaker 5: Bring another two dozen, crush and then but I'm on
24:31
Speaker 5: stage sweating like an ugly stripper.
24:34
Speaker 3: And it's it was. It was hard, man. It was
24:36
Speaker 3: not an easy gig.
24:37
Speaker 7: Every time you grab one of those beautiful breasts or
24:40
Speaker 7: thighs to be able to eat what, oh you met
24:42
Speaker 7: the chicken.
24:43
Speaker 3: Yeah you met the chicken.
24:44
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, they gotta go right back up on stage.
24:47
Speaker 7: That's a difficult thing.
24:48
Speaker 2: Armond.
24:50
Speaker 8: Armond just heard the money. Wait a second wave, I
24:52
Speaker 8: have to I'll be there there there now. No, I
24:55
Speaker 8: never got a chance to do one of those. They
24:57
Speaker 8: It's sort of like the first time we got to
24:59
Speaker 8: riding a parade. You really felt like, hey, I'm in
25:01
Speaker 8: local radio. I'm in a parade now, So once I
25:04
Speaker 8: get to judge a contest, I'll feel the same way.
25:06
Speaker 3: I am a local.
25:06
Speaker 5: Salmon was so excited about that parade, and I almost
25:08
Speaker 5: made your ride solo, but we did it together.
25:10
Speaker 3: I got through it. There Waking Christmas Parade. Oh man,
25:14
Speaker 3: what were you here as a ten year anniversary of that? Yeah?
25:18
Speaker 5: That was It was actually that long ago you slaps
25:20
Speaker 5: can be in the back of the parade, you know,
25:23
Speaker 5: riding Downtown Dolphin Dolphin their station.
25:26
Speaker 3: First car done before we even got in our car
25:31
Speaker 3: convertible to ride in the sleet when.
25:33
Speaker 8: We used toe me for breakfast at the Ramato, which
25:35
Speaker 8: doesn't exist more, much to George Costanz's chagrin.
25:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a good memory, though, that was a
25:42
Speaker 3: good memory.
25:42
Speaker 5: A right hot Take first bullpen implodes. They've lost six
25:45
Speaker 5: in a row to fall to eight and eight, and
25:48
Speaker 5: folks would think that the uh, you know, the walls
25:50
Speaker 5: are closing in on this team.
25:51
Speaker 3: Urf doesn't know what he's doing.
25:53
Speaker 5: He's this is just off unacceptable, like okay, well hashtag
25:56
Speaker 5: baseball in some manner. But Hot Takes McGill literally needs
26:00
Speaker 5: to be parked because he can't. He's you know, he's
26:03
Speaker 5: lost his mo yet let it give him some time.
26:05
Speaker 5: And the thing with the Brewers, and we've said this
26:07
Speaker 5: in the past, their bullpen hasn't struggled often, but when
26:09
Speaker 5: it has. The thing the way the Brewers are constructed
26:13
Speaker 5: into the woodpecker thing, they don't play and it's to
26:16
Speaker 5: their credit they don't play that many lopsided games, so
26:20
Speaker 5: they don't have that many low leverage innings. They don't
26:23
Speaker 5: have a high leverage Yeah, the mar everything is, everything
26:27
Speaker 5: is a grind like they have.
26:28
Speaker 3: They grind it out basically ninety victories. There are a
26:31
Speaker 3: couple where.
26:31
Speaker 5: You got to put your feet up, but in the
26:32
Speaker 5: most part, every game is an act of Congress to
26:36
Speaker 5: push through the legislation and get twenty seven outs with
26:39
Speaker 5: the lead. It's just it's not easy, and it's not
26:41
Speaker 5: easy to win the big leagues. But the Brewers, when
26:44
Speaker 5: the guy goes sideways like this, where do you send him?
26:47
Speaker 5: You come up with an injury and send him into
26:49
Speaker 5: Nashville for like some low pressure thing.
26:51
Speaker 3: Drop what do you flex throw? Use him as an opener,
26:56
Speaker 3: jump his role a little bit. I'm not really sure
26:59
Speaker 3: that actually might be the best.
27:00
Speaker 5: Thing is like micguil, you're gonna take couple of days off, say,
27:03
Speaker 5: and then you're gonna open the game and we're gonna
27:05
Speaker 5: be pitchinating. Right.
27:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the playoffs they've done it.
27:08
Speaker 7: I was just gonna say, I think I opened them
27:09
Speaker 7: on Thursday for sprout right, like find find a way.
27:13
Speaker 5: One inning, one inning, blow gas. It's like the other
27:17
Speaker 5: team's not in a sweat. Yet they're not gonna be
27:19
Speaker 5: They're not gonna be ready. We are gonna face the
27:21
Speaker 5: top of the order. So you're gonna get the best
27:23
Speaker 5: talent half and you know what, we're gonna do, the
27:24
Speaker 5: super cool entrance.
27:25
Speaker 7: From the from the bullpen. Run out like normal and
27:30
Speaker 7: treat it as such. But then give yourself a little
27:32
Speaker 7: bit of lead time to be able to get back.
27:35
Speaker 7: I think that's the easiest way because when you see
27:38
Speaker 7: guys have a little bit of a shift in their role.
27:41
Speaker 7: Granted it was the playoffs last year, was now six
27:43
Speaker 7: months ago, but it was one of the last times
27:45
Speaker 7: he pitched into a game and he fired them up
27:48
Speaker 7: to a different level. But also just to give yourself
27:51
Speaker 7: a little bit of confidence, like Jevin fox point said,
27:53
Speaker 7: why is Murkkey putting McGill out there? He's been terrible.
27:56
Speaker 7: Your rebate should be the closer now. Well, your Reba's
27:58
Speaker 7: giving up runs in three of his last four games
28:01
Speaker 7: as well. That's why last night I think was like
28:03
Speaker 7: the final straw. And when you watch how it transpired Drew,
28:08
Speaker 7: you could tell the confidence seems to be shaken.
28:10
Speaker 3: You got to give him a little bit of a run.
28:12
Speaker 7: But I think the opener is the easiest way, because
28:14
Speaker 7: it's that feels to me like an easier way to
28:17
Speaker 7: sell the excitement and energy and try to have it
28:21
Speaker 7: somewhat Even then bringing him in in a seven run
28:24
Speaker 7: game in the fifth inning, that one's gonna be a
28:26
Speaker 7: tough one to be able to get your amp yourself
28:29
Speaker 7: up to like you would be if you're coming in
28:31
Speaker 7: to be able.
28:31
Speaker 3: To close the thing out for the final three out.
28:33
Speaker 4: Yeah.
28:33
Speaker 8: And then the next question is, you know, are the
28:35
Speaker 8: guys healthy that are struggling out there, And that's another
28:37
Speaker 8: difficult question that trainers and doctors and organizations have to
28:41
Speaker 8: manage because sometimes it can become so difficult to identify
28:44
Speaker 8: health issues, identify those things. Guys will always tell you
28:47
Speaker 8: they're good, they're feeling good.
28:48
Speaker 3: Maybe they're not.
28:48
Speaker 8: Then the pitching lab gets in, so you know, not
28:51
Speaker 8: sure if there's an injury or not, if he's totally right.
28:54
Speaker 8: That's the question I got a lot of. Is McGill
28:57
Speaker 8: doesn't seem right. Well, the results aren't right, I'll tell
28:59
Speaker 8: you that now. Whether or not he just you know,
29:01
Speaker 8: is not executing right now guys are hitting good pitches,
29:04
Speaker 8: or maybe he's just you know, not feel one hundred
29:07
Speaker 8: percent those are all questions. It's the Brewers job to
29:09
Speaker 8: solve them, and they've done really good in the past
29:11
Speaker 8: and they so I trust that they'll still do their
29:14
Speaker 8: best to do it. I also had someone tell me
29:16
Speaker 8: that this proves what happens that you can't win on
29:19
Speaker 8: smoking mirrors when you have a cheap owner.
29:22
Speaker 3: Now.
29:22
Speaker 8: I don't know about you guys, but the last five
29:24
Speaker 8: years the Brewers have won ninety plus games four times,
29:27
Speaker 8: they won eighty six together year. I don't think just
29:30
Speaker 8: because you win with a strategy, which what the Brewers
29:32
Speaker 8: have done the last five years consistently, that means it's
29:34
Speaker 8: smoking mirrors. So my hot take is just because you
29:37
Speaker 8: win close games and you've done it being able to
29:39
Speaker 8: be economical and do different methods, it's not smoking mirrors.
29:43
Speaker 8: It means you've succeeded consistently at the job you've done.
29:46
Speaker 8: I don't think you can do smoking mirrors for five years.
29:48
Speaker 8: So I would reject that hot take that I saw
29:51
Speaker 8: early on Love It.
29:53
Speaker 5: Get Your hot Takes in eight seven, seven, seven, ninety four,
29:56
Speaker 5: one nine seven three hot take away from the Brewers.
30:01
Speaker 3: The Ascension.
30:04
Speaker 5: I think if if you can even call it that
30:05
Speaker 5: the career arc of LaMelo Ball MMM fascinating one. Probably
30:10
Speaker 5: has a lot of people fading back into the hedges,
30:12
Speaker 5: like Homer Simpson. He rooted against him because of his dad,
30:15
Speaker 5: and silently he's become a very effective NBA player. Yeah,
30:18
Speaker 5: who showed some huevos last night as he propelled his
30:22
Speaker 5: team to victory over Miami.
30:24
Speaker 7: Well, and he went from the goat to the goat
30:26
Speaker 7: because he after Tyler Hero had a Reggie Miller esque moment.
30:30
Speaker 3: They're down, they eat down five in overtime.
30:33
Speaker 7: They had choked the thing away because they'd been winning
30:35
Speaker 7: the entire game and Charlotte looked completely lost for a
30:39
Speaker 7: majority of the night. Charlotte's about to win the thing
30:42
Speaker 7: in overtime. There's twenty five seconds to go. Hero hits
30:44
Speaker 7: a crazy catch and shoot three in the corner. They
30:47
Speaker 7: steal the ball before half court. Hero dribbles the ball
30:50
Speaker 7: into the corner and LaMelo Ball, for no reason at all,
30:54
Speaker 7: Drew comes over and smacks that son of a gun
30:56
Speaker 7: right on the wrist to the point where Tyler Hero
30:58
Speaker 7: is getting picked up walking the free throw line laughing.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
31:02
Speaker 7: And as LaMelo Ball said in the interview, after the
31:05
Speaker 7: game with Cassidy Hubbard on Amazon Prime. How did you
31:09
Speaker 7: how did you know and that you were ready for
31:11
Speaker 7: the moment? He goes, well, I basically dubbed the game,
31:13
Speaker 7: so I had to go win it.
31:14
Speaker 3: Had to go win it. I had to go win it.
31:16
Speaker 7: I have duped the game, so I had to go
31:17
Speaker 7: win it. And he won that thing right off the dribble,
31:21
Speaker 7: took it clean, finished to the cup. That Hornet team
31:23
Speaker 7: was electrifying to watch for the final part of the year.
31:27
Speaker 7: It felt like we would have been cheated if we
31:28
Speaker 7: wouldn't have gotten to see them have at least.
31:30
Speaker 3: One more game.
31:32
Speaker 7: But Drew, he's walking off the floor. He's getting interviewed
31:35
Speaker 7: on Amazon Prime. You want to talk about technical difficulties
31:38
Speaker 7: fellas thirty eight seconds to go in overtime last night,
31:43
Speaker 7: scream goes black.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, we got the lol Amazon tweet from you.
31:46
Speaker 2: I know, all of a sudden, All of a sudden,
31:48
Speaker 2: Amazon pops up a technical difficulties box in the middle
31:53
Speaker 2: of their best game and most important game they get
31:56
Speaker 2: in the package.
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Speaker 7: We lost him for about ten to fifteen seconds. Hot
31:59
Speaker 7: take uh liddiar cable having themselves a late comeback maybe
32:03
Speaker 7: in the night.
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Speaker 3: Now, it might, it might in that scene. Maybe maybe
32:05
Speaker 3: Trevor McGill pitching for the streamers.
32:07
Speaker 5: But yeah, Billy, yes, anybody with DirecTV lose reception last night.
32:12
Speaker 3: I got that happens every time it rains hard. I
32:14
Speaker 3: was gonna say, I got a feeling that by him
32:15
Speaker 3: in the case, I was just a customer of theirs
32:17
Speaker 3: for a while. But I'm watching.
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Speaker 7: He just had a game winner in the playoffs, playing
32:24
Speaker 7: turnament whatever we want to say.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm.
32:26
Speaker 7: Waiting for LeVar to be walking right into the locker
32:30
Speaker 7: room with him, and he was nowhere to be found.
32:32
Speaker 3: Letting LaMelo be the star, because he definitely is.
32:34
Speaker 8: The funny thing about the whole fading into the hedges thing, No,
32:37
Speaker 8: LeVar has done that more than anybody.
32:39
Speaker 3: And this we thought he would crow And I told you,
32:42
Speaker 3: I told you, you know so their first and it
32:43
Speaker 3: was it was postseason.
32:45
Speaker 5: Whether you want to call it playoffs or not, it
32:46
Speaker 5: was postseason and it was their first one in ten years. Now, hot,
32:50
Speaker 5: take anybody out there thinking that maybe Charles Lee would
32:52
Speaker 5: look good on the Bucks bench, Oh, really good Lee.
32:55
Speaker 5: Now he's got got it going. In Charlotte, they you know.
32:59
Speaker 7: Maybe he had some onions sitting Canipple for the entire
33:02
Speaker 7: the final five minutes in an over time hot take.
33:06
Speaker 5: The postseason is different than the regular season. Con K
33:08
Speaker 5: Nipple very strong case said he's the rookie of the year.
33:11
Speaker 5: He looked like a G league scrub last night and
33:13
Speaker 5: spent the fourth quarter in overtime on the pine getting
33:16
Speaker 5: reaction shots of him cutaways of him not playing. Yeah,
33:19
Speaker 5: the entire fourth quarter was just showing him have I
33:22
Speaker 5: don't think he had many nights like that during the
33:23
Speaker 5: regular season.
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Speaker 7: No, I don't think he went o of six much
33:26
Speaker 7: during the regular season. He just looked lost and got benched.
33:30
Speaker 7: Now he can still win Rookie the Year because it's
33:32
Speaker 7: a regular season award. But it was that was like
33:34
Speaker 7: one of those oh, well, the league will still come
33:37
Speaker 7: at you. I was just gonna say, that's a welcome
33:39
Speaker 7: to the NBA, welcome to the NBA playoffs moment, because
33:41
Speaker 7: last night was a rewelcoming to all of us and
33:44
Speaker 7: definitely me. Damn, this game is fun when they all try.
33:47
Speaker 7: I mean, this league is really really good when invested
33:52
Speaker 7: and everyone's invested, and last night, I mean it it's
33:55
Speaker 7: hard to fake. You can't mimic that kind of desperation
33:59
Speaker 7: when it's a one game for your entire season and
34:01
Speaker 7: you were just playing all eighty two as normal. But
34:06
Speaker 7: Tyler Hero did everything he could to be able to
34:08
Speaker 7: break those hearts last night. I thought he was gonna
34:10
Speaker 7: I thought he was gonna be the ultimate villain, and
34:12
Speaker 7: I was so here for it. I was ready to
34:15
Speaker 7: thump come in with a Whitnell hat on right after that,
34:19
Speaker 7: maybe paying a fourteen on a white T shirt h
34:22
Speaker 7: as it hangs from the rafters there and what is
34:24
Speaker 7: going to be a sweet new gym at Whitnell High School.
34:27
Speaker 7: My man was on one last night. And then all
34:29
Speaker 7: of a sudden, the Trailblazers and Drew Holliday officially into
34:33
Speaker 7: the playoffs.
34:34
Speaker 3: That's ironic. That's a tough one.
34:37
Speaker 7: That's a tough one to see when the Phoenix Suns
34:39
Speaker 7: were supposed to be left for dead.
34:41
Speaker 3: Or maybe it's hope.
34:43
Speaker 7: Maybe it's a better thing to look at Drew as
34:45
Speaker 7: a Bucks fan going into what could be the worst
34:48
Speaker 7: summer that the Bucks have ever in a long time.
34:51
Speaker 7: Portland traded their superstar a couple of years ago. We
34:53
Speaker 7: all know how that transpired. They just got him back
34:56
Speaker 7: and now we're into the playoffs. Yeah, Phoenix and everybody away.
35:01
Speaker 7: They could not have had a worse situation with the KD.
35:05
Speaker 7: Devin Booker trial. They keep Devin Booker. They throw in
35:09
Speaker 7: a bunch of different random guys, bringing Jordan Ott after
35:12
Speaker 7: they couldn't lure tom Izzo to the NBA, and now
35:15
Speaker 7: they have a Now they're in.
35:16
Speaker 5: Then they got a punchers chance, you know, Puncture's chance.
35:20
Speaker 5: It's plenty of fertile territory. Eight seven seven seven nine three.
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Speaker 5: We broke the seal on Hot Takes for hot Te
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Speaker 5: comp Day Hunter Bombguard's recap of the Brewers. Rough Night
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Speaker 5: is gonna be next, and we're gonna talk some draft
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Speaker 5: at six and Billy get ready, let's go.
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Speaker 7: And I got a and I got is gonna pop
35:37
Speaker 7: on Let's go Reeges. And I also got an answer.
35:40
Speaker 7: I got an answer as to who could be filling
35:42
Speaker 7: that uh that void in the ninth inning. If we
35:44
Speaker 7: want to have an old friend get called up from
35:46
Speaker 7: Triple A. All right, we love it. We're off and running.
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Speaker 7: It's the Wednesday edition of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio,
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Speaker 7: nine twenty Milwaukee ten seventy, Madison, everywhere on the i
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Speaker 7: some uh our our first foray in a draft conversation.
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Speaker 7: We talked about it week, so we've nibbled around the edges.
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Speaker 7: But our buddy Reegs, rob Rieger, who contributed to the
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Speaker 7: chiefs Head TV Draft Guide, which is incredible, landed in
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Speaker 7: my inbox last week and I'm just working through it. Oh,
36:23
Speaker 7: it's a it's comprehensive, it's exhaustive, it's exhilarating.
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Speaker 3: It it's everything you want and more. Yeah, and my man, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it was pretty good.
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Speaker 7: And my man Newt Weston doing some phenomenal work on
36:35
Speaker 7: that cheese Head TV draft Guide. And when you got
36:37
Speaker 7: a name like Newt, you gotta get shot.
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Speaker 3: I thought.
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Speaker 5: A Reegs is a Brian god truther. He is not
36:46
Speaker 5: a fan of his work, but traditionally because he's never
36:49
Speaker 5: made a bad pick.
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Speaker 3: And we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it with
36:52
Speaker 3: with Reriggs. We'll fire it up.
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Speaker 5: We're taking your hot takes at eight seven, seven, seven, nine,
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Speaker 5: four ninety seven three, hoping for robust conversations on the
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Speaker 5: nicolay lot com talking text as well as on the
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Speaker 5: YouTube stream.
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Speaker 3: We can see those comments.
37:02
Speaker 5: You're not just conversing with us, You're conversing with each other,
37:05
Speaker 5: but we're kind of eavesdropping, which is always fun.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Hunter Bomgart was.
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Speaker 5: At the ballpark boots on the ground for us last evening,
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Speaker 5: and he always does a recap for us, brought to
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Speaker 5: us by import minded Hunter what happened at the yard?
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Speaker 1: Thanks guys.
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Speaker 6: Brewers lose their six straight game, longest losing streak since
37:21
Speaker 6: twenty twenty three. They fall to the Blue Jays final score,
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Speaker 6: nine to seven in ten innings. They had a four
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Speaker 6: to three lead in the ninth inning, but Trevor McGill
37:28
Speaker 6: blew the same three runs scored by Toronto in that
37:31
Speaker 6: ninth inning.
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Speaker 1: I ended up fighting back.
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Speaker 6: In the bottom of the ninth to make it six
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Speaker 6: to six, but I ended up losing in ten innings.
37:37
Speaker 6: Big question to Burrs manager Pat Murphy after the game.
37:40
Speaker 6: Will Trevor McGill remain in the closer role.
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Speaker 3: We'll see. Yeah, I don't know for sure. I'd like
37:44
Speaker 3: to talk to other people about it. I mean, obviously
37:46
Speaker 3: you can't have a guy who out there six times
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Speaker 3: and three times not do the job. I mean, the
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Speaker 3: way he's throwing about now, he doesn't deserve it.
37:52
Speaker 6: So we'll have to wait and see who gets that
37:54
Speaker 6: ninth inning next time out. But on the starter side,
37:57
Speaker 6: Jacob Asarowski went five and the third struck out five
38:00
Speaker 6: and feel well for basically his whole start.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you had to be blean like I felt.
38:04
Speaker 3: I goes in throw off.
38:05
Speaker 4: The whole game didn't feel great. Yeah, And when I
38:07
Speaker 4: tried to throw the curveball, I tried to get you know,
38:09
Speaker 4: talking try and get as march out of as I can.
38:12
Speaker 4: And when I do that, you kind of like, you know,
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Speaker 4: tight me outs and then shot it up and so
38:17
Speaker 4: it didn't feel great. But yeah, that was basically the
38:20
Speaker 4: whole game. So it wasn't fun to pitch in.
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Speaker 3: But you know, we made it.
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Speaker 6: So the Brewers go back at it tonight six forty
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Speaker 6: an American family field. Chad Patrick on the mountain for
38:29
Speaker 6: the crew, so they try to snap the six game
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Speaker 6: losing streak. I'll have the Baseball pregame show with five
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Speaker 5: Back to you, guys, Thank you, Hunter bombgart. I don't
38:43
Speaker 5: know if it was Spencer Williams, was his camera manler
38:46
Speaker 5: or not. Last night, somebody coughed in the beginning of
38:48
Speaker 5: his hit, like yeah, surprise. He didn't just say all right,
38:50
Speaker 5: take two, cannot cough.
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Speaker 7: Cloud forward like the pro that he is and a
38:56
Speaker 7: hunter phenomenal, love him, but love love Jacob Azarowski didn't
39:00
Speaker 7: feel great, but you know, it felt like puke.
39:03
Speaker 5: Well, forget those things, guys, things, Hey, these aren't machines
39:07
Speaker 5: out there.
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Speaker 3: Murph just said it. He did say it. Those aren't machines,
39:09
Speaker 3: all right, So as town a.
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Speaker 7: Voice a little different though if you listen to that
39:13
Speaker 7: than just reading the reading the quote, isn't it on
39:16
Speaker 7: miguil Oh?
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Speaker 3: For sure, he did go out.
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Speaker 5: He did say we have the best fans, you know,
39:20
Speaker 5: but that was also that was a Murph version and
39:23
Speaker 5: he hasn't had to have it to me when you
39:25
Speaker 5: win ninety seven games, like you don't have that much tumult.
39:28
Speaker 5: But that was the Murph version of Counsels saying we're
39:30
Speaker 5: gonna have a conversation about that, yes, yep, which means yeah,
39:33
Speaker 5: he's not he's not closing. I like to I like
39:35
Speaker 5: to talk about we're gonna talk, we're gonna we're gonna talk,
39:37
Speaker 5: talk it through and that. But anybody watching knows you
39:40
Speaker 5: can't send our idea of using McGill as an opener
39:43
Speaker 5: Thursday morning as good as anything.
39:44
Speaker 3: I think.
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Speaker 7: I think it's perfect and and easily said by Murph
39:48
Speaker 7: of just like, uh, yeah, he knows you can't do that.
39:51
Speaker 7: The way he's throwing it right now, he clearly doesn't
39:53
Speaker 7: deserve it either, So like that that's his Uh, that's
39:55
Speaker 7: as blunt as we've heard Murph b in that setting
39:59
Speaker 7: and in that situation.
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Speaker 3: But you're right, Drewi's kind. I mean, there there's been
40:03
Speaker 3: some times.
40:03
Speaker 7: There have been some uh, some stumbles throughout obviously the
40:06
Speaker 7: first two months of last year. There were some questions,
40:08
Speaker 7: but it's been pretty smooth sailing for IRF. There hasn't
40:11
Speaker 7: been a whole lot of questions that he's had to
40:13
Speaker 7: answer throughout much of this that have been negative. I
40:16
Speaker 7: did like though the uh it's been I thought it
40:18
Speaker 7: was in poor taste. But I've also done things in portaste.
40:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was great.
40:22
Speaker 7: You know what really didn't taste good? Giving up three
40:25
Speaker 7: in the ninth Like so I like that. Murph the
40:27
Speaker 7: understands and probably felt the exact same way. It's been
40:31
Speaker 7: poor taste. But guess what, you're not supposed to spit
40:33
Speaker 7: in certain spots. If something tastes nasty, you're spitting it out.
40:36
Speaker 7: I understand what happened.
40:38
Speaker 8: And he every time he talks, it's the thought experiment,
40:40
Speaker 8: and it's logical, and it's truthful and honest. And that's
40:43
Speaker 8: why I love hearing from IRF because he'll say.
40:45
Speaker 3: It like that thought experiment.
40:46
Speaker 8: Yeah it is. He's just he's kind of working through
40:48
Speaker 8: it in his own mind. Like you know what, I
40:50
Speaker 8: forgive everybody. I understand.
40:51
Speaker 3: I get it.
40:52
Speaker 8: I've done some things in bad taste before, but you
40:54
Speaker 8: know he's done a lot for us as well. Maybe
40:55
Speaker 8: you shouldn't boo them, which I kind of agree with
40:58
Speaker 8: a little bit, but I also agree that frustrating.
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Speaker 3: I'll get to you, that's what makes us human, you know.
41:02
Speaker 5: And the armchair analysts who are like, why did he
41:05
Speaker 5: send him out there? You know he's struggling. Well, if
41:07
Speaker 5: they had sent someone else out there, Grant Anderson pitch
41:09
Speaker 5: the night. Why isn't mcgillan there, he's your closer. It's
41:11
Speaker 5: like you get to have it both ways. And for
41:14
Speaker 5: Murf to say, you know, he doesn't deserve it, but
41:16
Speaker 5: he can earn it back. He's like, what are we
41:18
Speaker 5: gonna do? Who's throwing the ball good out there? Like
41:20
Speaker 5: he's saying what we're saying is like options.
41:23
Speaker 8: The truth is, for this bruise seem at least you
41:26
Speaker 8: would think for this birs em to do what you
41:27
Speaker 8: want to do, mcgil has to be that McGill you
41:30
Speaker 8: thought he'd be, and he has to be good in
41:31
Speaker 8: that role. So it's easy to say, well, we have
41:34
Speaker 8: to just move him out. But then it's like you
41:35
Speaker 8: didn't give up on forever. Eventually you want to get
41:37
Speaker 8: him right, get him back to being exactly they were.
41:39
Speaker 7: They were kind of sounded like openly trying to trade
41:42
Speaker 7: him in the offseason, like I wonder if I wonder
41:45
Speaker 7: if there was some thought from the front office that
41:47
Speaker 7: this could be around the pike, But that's that would
41:49
Speaker 7: be anybody's skepticism because of how many innings he logged
41:52
Speaker 7: last year and just how good he was a year ago.
41:55
Speaker 7: How about uh Peter Stres lucky old friend threw in
42:00
Speaker 7: inning of scoreless baseball in the eighth last night, including
42:02
Speaker 7: a strikeout or south Pauw Brian Fitzpatrick closer for the
42:06
Speaker 7: Nashville Sounds as they beat the Woo Socks or the
42:10
Speaker 7: Woo Socks the last chance, but Fitzpatrick shut the door
42:15
Speaker 7: in a nine to four Sounds win. So shout out
42:17
Speaker 7: to our friend Dobbler giving a couple of those names
42:19
Speaker 7: in there. But Peter Stress like you'd be fun. I
42:21
Speaker 7: don't know in the ninth inning, but maybe maybe you
42:23
Speaker 7: see him up here and some more ammunition for that
42:26
Speaker 7: back end alter outs.
42:27
Speaker 5: I still think it's probably Rebay, but he hasn't pitched
42:31
Speaker 5: grade either, but he's probably the next in line.
42:33
Speaker 3: He would be the next Yeah, I think he'd be
42:35
Speaker 3: the next in line. And listening. Can't can't be worse, No,
42:38
Speaker 3: at this point, can't be worse.
42:39
Speaker 5: Scuffling, scuffling eight seven, seven, seven, nine to four one night.
42:43
Speaker 7: The only closer that had a worse night than your
42:45
Speaker 7: Rebay last night was Hoffman over on the other side.
42:48
Speaker 3: I mean, in all reality, the only guy that was
42:50
Speaker 3: worse was the Blue Jays.
42:51
Speaker 5: You just didn't finish two aces, going two closers, Pete
42:55
Speaker 5: down their leg. It was not not a brilliant night
42:58
Speaker 5: and Toronto won an ugly game. What are you gonna do?
43:00
Speaker 5: It's a stormy night at the ballpark, no doubt, no doubt.
43:02
Speaker 5: When we come back, we're gonna talk draft. Rob Rieger
43:06
Speaker 5: our buddy from Chee Sad TV. He's part of the
43:09
Speaker 5: geek squad we assembled years ago to follow the draft.
43:11
Speaker 5: He is gonna help us out as we get started.
43:14
Speaker 5: It's a week and a day away Round one. Oh,
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Speaker 5: it's coming up soon now on the clock. Draft Talk
43:20
Speaker 5: with Riegs comes up next. You're listening to the Huddle
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Speaker 5: on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.