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10/30/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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  Speaker 1: you love.
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  Speaker 2: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 2: You know exactly what we got to do.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some shit.
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  Speaker 1: One, two, three. That's a big play.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell's going on out here? Yellow Weasel. We're
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  Speaker 2: calling the plays.
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  Speaker 4: All right? It is time.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you're doing? With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 5: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 5: your respect.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick. And
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  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian. Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Huddled up with.
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  Speaker 4: You on the greatest victory friday this state has ever
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  Speaker 4: seen and a beautiful scene it is by the lakefront
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  Speaker 4: in milwaukee i'm billy schmidt armin sarian over there your
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  Speaker 4: world champion milwaukee brewers celebrating and parading through the streets
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  Speaker 4: of milwaukee and our friend drew olsen in the belly
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  Speaker 4: of the beast at American Family Amphitheater. He's going to
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  Speaker 4: join us coming up when he can. We're going to
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  Speaker 4: bring you, if you missed it, if you're just flowing
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  Speaker 4: out of the Summerfest grounds now, if you are, you're
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  Speaker 4: kind of missing one of the better parts that's happening
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  Speaker 4: at the moment. Because the boys are back on the
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  Speaker 4: huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin right now. But in
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  Speaker 4: all reality, the boys are still up onto the stage.
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  Speaker 4: They're still celebrating like nobody is leaving. There's a swarm
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  Speaker 4: of folks that have departed, but nobody else wants to leave.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody else wants to end the celebration. Armin, you were
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  Speaker 4: in it today. We'll talk about all the great parts
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  Speaker 4: of it. We'll bring, as I mentioned, the podium audio
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  Speaker 4: coming up in about 15 minutes or so from right
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  Speaker 4: now and want to hear everybody's reaction and stories of
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  Speaker 4: being in there. But- The celebration and the euphoric moments
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  Speaker 4: at that podium throughout the day, it was a cathartic
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  Speaker 4: celebration through the city of Milwaukee here today, man. Cathartic
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  Speaker 4: is a great way to put it, Billy, and it
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  Speaker 4: was truly a moment for history.
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  Speaker 2: And you said something interesting just now. Excuse me. Been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of yelling today. Yeah, you're getting choked up.
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  Speaker 3: It makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: Been a lot of yelling today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You said something interesting about not wanting the celebration to end.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of that. People want to
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  Speaker 2: just hang around and be part of it for a while.
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  Speaker 4: And I noticed something today, and I felt something from
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  Speaker 4: the people today being out there. And on that same vein,
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  Speaker 4: they didn't want this season to end. Like, we've never
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  Speaker 4: experienced a baseball championship.
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  Speaker 2: We've never experienced a World Series championship. We've witnessed.
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  Speaker 4: Seasons ending in heartbreak or in ways that we don't want, right?
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  Speaker 4: Unless you win the championship, usually that's only one team's happy,
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  Speaker 4: that whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: We're used to seasons ending and feeling unsatisfied.
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  Speaker 4: And this is uncharted territory for fans here is that
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  Speaker 4: the season ends in a World Series victory. And it's
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  Speaker 4: almost like it's over. We got to go home now
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  Speaker 4: from summer camp. This ride has to end. People don't
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  Speaker 4: want it to end. They want to watch this team
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  Speaker 4: play baseball and be together forever. And as happy as
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  Speaker 4: a day this is, it's one of the happiest days
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  Speaker 4: here ever. That part, I think, is a little bit
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  Speaker 4: wistful for some people. It's a little bit bittersweet that
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  Speaker 4: this season has to end because it's been such a
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  Speaker 4: special seven months for everybody that truly loves this team
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  Speaker 4: and loves Milwaukee Brewers baseball and sports in this town.
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  Speaker 2: Loves everyone. Loves the community. Loves the happiness. Loves what
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  Speaker 2: it can do to us. And, Billy, you saw it.
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  Speaker 4: A lot was made about the 82 parade because they
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  Speaker 4: didn't win the World Series. And it was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they lost, but it was a great year. They won
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  Speaker 4: the pennant, but everyone always looks back at history like,
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  Speaker 4: A parade for a team that lost.
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  Speaker 2: One of the only.
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  Speaker 4: Parades for a team that didn't win the title since
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  Speaker 4: the first ever World Series parade, which was actually for
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  Speaker 4: a team that lost the championship. Yeah, and Paul Molitor's
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  Speaker 4: famous quote back then was, did we win or did
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  Speaker 4: we lose? We can't tell, you know, talking about how
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  Speaker 4: great the crowd was. Let me tell you, Billy, you
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  Speaker 4: could tell today who won. You could tell today who
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  Speaker 4: won the World Series. That's genuine love for a ball team.
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  Speaker 4: That's genuine love what you saw today from the people.
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  Speaker 3: To the Brewers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you can see it from those guys as well,
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  Speaker 4: as they brought a number of the Hall of Famers back.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Molitor, Robin Yount, Raleigh Fingers, Ted Simmons.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Ted Simmons had some phenomenal words in a couple of
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  Speaker 4: great interviews. Robin Yount got us choked up throughout it.
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  Speaker 4: I was flipping back and forth through all the different
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  Speaker 4: coverage from Fox 6, which did a wonderful job. Ted
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  Speaker 4: Perry and our guy Tim Van Voren was phenomenal. And
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  Speaker 4: into the different stages of it, I thought one of
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  Speaker 4: the most moving moments was when everybody was able to
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  Speaker 4: celebrate and be in front, slow down and park. Right
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  Speaker 4: in front of the Bob Buecher mural, where as the
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  Speaker 4: procession and the staging of the cars might not have
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  Speaker 4: been at the most opportune as the players came right away.
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  Speaker 4: So it got hot and heavy instantly. I mean, Bernie
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  Speaker 4: came through with the fire truck. And then I think
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  Speaker 4: the first bus had.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the.
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  Speaker 4: Executives on it, I saw some of the support staff
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  Speaker 4: on there. And then boom, it was the trophy with
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  Speaker 4: almost all of the players on the first two buses.
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  Speaker 4: And then I mean, Pat Murphy was like 25 minutes
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  Speaker 4: behind hanging out in the back of a car. And
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  Speaker 4: as he said, had to pee like nobody's business sitting
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  Speaker 4: on that lawn chair. But in the flow, you got
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  Speaker 4: our guy Rock, Bill Schroeder was in there, amazing. All
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  Speaker 4: the radio team, Jeff Levering, Lane Grindle, Josh Maurer in
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  Speaker 4: there as well. But all of a sudden, there's the
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  Speaker 4: Robin Young car. And here comes some of the other
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  Speaker 4: great Brewer alumni. I mean, Jeff Jenkins was up there.
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  Speaker 4: Our guy Kuz, Marcus Handel. I rocked the Marcus Handel
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  Speaker 4: jersey at game three in celebration.
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  Speaker 2: And that was awesome to see him there. Eric Thames
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  Speaker 2: looking like... Just a monster.
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  Speaker 4: There were eight trucks of staff showing how many people
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  Speaker 4: are behind the scenes to be able to get you
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  Speaker 4: to a world title. And then ultimately, Pat Murphy at
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  Speaker 4: the back end of it, rounding third and heading for
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  Speaker 4: home and heading for the Summerfest grounds where the celebration
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  Speaker 4: really took over. And that's where our guy, Drew Olsen,
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  Speaker 4: as he rounded third, headed for home and gets back
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  Speaker 4: to stately Olsen Manor from inside of the amphitheater. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to play the audio, Drew, coming up in about
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  Speaker 4: 15 minutes from inside the amphitheater that you just saw.
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  Speaker 4: A celebration like no other. And my goodness, I thought
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  Speaker 4: Ferg's had a lot of Miller Lite drank out through
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  Speaker 4: the last couple of days down in Tampa. Looked like
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  Speaker 4: those boys were drinking plenty of Miller Lites because it
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  Speaker 4: was a well-lubricated stage there at the American Family Amphitheater.
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  Speaker 5: Holy cow, Billy, they were getting after it today. Kudos
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  Speaker 5: to the Brewers, the stamina they showed for partying in St.
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  Speaker 4: Pete.
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  Speaker 5: Getting on a plane, flying, going to the Lambo, doing
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  Speaker 5: the Lambo leap, all that, and then keeping it going.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of what we call the shampoo effect
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  Speaker 5: where you go to bed kind of still drunk and
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  Speaker 5: you wake up and you feel okay. And then you
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  Speaker 5: have that first beer and it's like, boom, right back
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  Speaker 5: to being. 22 on the scale. During this playoff run, Kurt.
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  Speaker 3: Hogue would set his phone with a decibel meter.
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  Speaker 5: On the ledge in front of his seat at AmFam
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  Speaker 5: Field so he could see how loud the crowd was.
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  Speaker 5: It got up to like 110 decibels, like a jet
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  Speaker 5: plane during key moments of the World Series and of
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  Speaker 5: the playoff run. Why would I have liked to have
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  Speaker 5: seen a blood alcohol breathalyzer to see what this was?
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  Speaker 3: Because these guys were lubricated. They had a blast.
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  Speaker 5: Um, I got a text from a buddy of mine
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  Speaker 5: who said it might have been the greatest event in
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  Speaker 5: the history of Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: You got to think about it. It's like, okay, like,
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  Speaker 3: come on, let's recency bias.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 5: What's better than this outpouring of love and affection for
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  Speaker 5: this team? My neighborhood here, which is close to the
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  Speaker 5: Summerfest grounds, started to fill up like at six this morning.
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  Speaker 5: And the Summerfest grounds opened at eight. There were people
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  Speaker 5: lined up to get in just to watch on TV.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what I did. I went to the Summerfest grounds.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't get there at eight. But I went and
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  Speaker 5: stood at the Generac stage and watched the video, Fox
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  Speaker 5: 6's presentation of the parade as it made its way.
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  Speaker 3: And the place was packed.
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  Speaker 5: It was like a crowded Summerfest night from 1998. That's
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  Speaker 5: how busy the grounds were. And people were, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just cranking out High Lifes. And the Goolsby's cheeseburgers were flowing, Billy.
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  Speaker 5: I just had one on the way home.
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  Speaker 2: You gave me that, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Like there were some concession stands open. And people were
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  Speaker 5: just having a blast. And those were the smart people
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  Speaker 5: and the people on the route. And then people on
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  Speaker 5: the route tried to get into Summerfest, like people as
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  Speaker 5: the parade went past.
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  Speaker 3: And then they tried to get in.
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  Speaker 5: And at a certain point, I think it was capped
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  Speaker 5: that we were, sorry, 100,000. We hold comfortably 100,000 people here.
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  Speaker 5: And we were at capacity, plus another 25,000 in the
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  Speaker 5: amphitheater who were getting ready for that party. And yeah,
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  Speaker 5: BA and Sophia were emceeing that. That was spectacular. I
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  Speaker 5: knew Milwaukee knows how to throw a party, right?
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  Speaker 3: We get it. We know.
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  Speaker 4: Especially a parking lot party that involves beer, the team
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  Speaker 4: that's named after the people that brew the beer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do know how to celebrate, especially on a Friday.
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  Speaker 2: No question.
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  Speaker 3: And this was what this was.
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  Speaker 5: It had the vibe of opening day, only better. Opening
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  Speaker 5: day is its own entity concept. This was different. This
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  Speaker 5: was like, ah, this was closing day. This is our
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  Speaker 5: farewell to the baseball season. When your team gets tapped
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  Speaker 5: on the shoulder. I was waiting for somebody to tap
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  Speaker 5: Murph on the shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: I was waiting for it, too.
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  Speaker 3: And say, no more games to play, Murph. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: do that.
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  Speaker 5: But the speeches were electrifying, lubricated, as you can imagine.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to spin through some of those. It was
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  Speaker 5: pretty good. The program in the amphitheater was great. I
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  Speaker 5: talked to my friends from Summerfest. And Summerfest knows how
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  Speaker 5: to throw a party, obviously. And they got involved in this.
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  Speaker 5: But the dates were fluid. They didn't know when it
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  Speaker 5: was going to wrap and when they were going to
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  Speaker 5: have the party. And I think once the Brewers got
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  Speaker 5: up 3-0, they had a pretty good idea.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, here we are. This is happening. This is what
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be. And it looked like, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: I am at the front of the line when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to criticizing our elected officials and our infrastructure and
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  Speaker 5: some of the things that happened.
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  Speaker 3: But they pulled this off.
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  Speaker 2: They did it right.
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  Speaker 5: And having MPS be off and a lot of school
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  Speaker 5: districts around.
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  Speaker 3: Saw a lot of kids today. Saw a lot of
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  Speaker 3: kids today. And it was special. It's one of those
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  Speaker 3: things people are going to remember for the rest of
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  Speaker 3: their lives.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean, the uncontrollable factors were also mitigated
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  Speaker 4: all day, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the weather, was it a little chilly early?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, it got nice enough
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  Speaker 4: for Bryce Durang, Sal Freelick, and Jake Bowers to rip
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  Speaker 4: their shirts off. uh, and go tarps off on the
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  Speaker 4: final staging of it. And Drew, you could tell the
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  Speaker 4: moment at the end after when BA says, you know,
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  Speaker 4: this was going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Our last thing.
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  Speaker 4: It was almost like the end of the last day
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  Speaker 4: of school when you're in like fifth grade, when you
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  Speaker 4: actually like signing the yearbooks, you actually don't want to
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  Speaker 4: leave all your buddies for the next three months or so. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: and you can tell all the guys were looking around like,
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  Speaker 4: Does that mean we got to go home?
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: Does that mean we got to go home? Because in
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  Speaker 4: all reality, in the next two to three days, they
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  Speaker 4: are going home, right? Everybody's going to their off-season home.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's going this, that, and the third. This team for today,
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  Speaker 4: this is the last day this group will ever be
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  Speaker 4: together again in this exact current form. Now, they will
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  Speaker 4: be brought back in so many different celebrations throughout history.
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  Speaker 4: But for right now in the present, this is the
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  Speaker 4: last moment for them. And you could tell there was a... damn,
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  Speaker 4: this ride has been so good. I don't want it
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  Speaker 4: to end where they're, you know, picking Sal Frehlich up,
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  Speaker 4: bouncing him around on the stage and taking pictures with
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  Speaker 4: Euchre's motorcycle for 25, 30 minutes. There was a, we're
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  Speaker 4: going to hold on to this as tightly as possible
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  Speaker 4: because the city showed out. It was a phenomenal atmosphere,
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  Speaker 4: phenomenal day. And I thought my favorite scene, the one
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  Speaker 4: I didn't expect, but should have been prepared for, and
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  Speaker 4: kudos to the folks that thought of it, Man, lining
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  Speaker 4: the parking structures was genius.
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  Speaker 2: You were not getting any better view.
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  Speaker 4: Even the television cameras couldn't have gotten the kind of
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  Speaker 4: shots that those folks up on the fifth deck of
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  Speaker 4: the parking structures were getting. It looked phenomenal lining it
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  Speaker 4: down the line.
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  Speaker 2: On Wisconsin Avenue. It really made it feel like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to describe it. Don't say a real city. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: I would never say that. I only make fun of
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  Speaker 4: Oklahoma City like that, Billy. By the way, we did
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  Speaker 4: not have to start this over again. That's how big
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  Speaker 4: of a city. No, it felt more iconic and epic
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  Speaker 4: of a ticker tape, like the old-time ticker tape parades
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  Speaker 4: where people were hanging out of windows and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: You saw a lot of people climbing up on trees
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  Speaker 4: and poles. People were telling me to get up on
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  Speaker 4: a tree. I wasn't about to try that disaster.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we did not need.
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  Speaker 3: Any of that.
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  Speaker 4: But it was awesome. I was at the front of
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  Speaker 4: the parade on 4th and Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 4: Um like at the beginning it came out hot and
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  Speaker 4: heavy like right away uh the players were on the
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  Speaker 4: on the first couple buses with the trophy and that
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  Speaker 4: was so awesome then you had all the staff which
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  Speaker 4: was great i know a lot of people see them
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  Speaker 4: and they're like what were these people we don't know
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  Speaker 4: but they they work hard and they deserve to be
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  Speaker 4: there and then you saw coming in the cars you
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  Speaker 4: know just like they did in 82 there was robin
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  Speaker 4: there was paul there there was ted simmons there was
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  Speaker 4: raleigh man it was just fantastic to bridge the past
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  Speaker 4: to the present and then murph Just chilling in the
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  Speaker 4: back of that truck on the lawn chair to finish
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  Speaker 4: the parade off.
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  Speaker 2: It was just perfect. It was just perfect.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, seeing the guys stop impromptu and just getting off
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  Speaker 5: the buses and high-fiving people and sharing drinks. And everybody
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  Speaker 5: stopping in front of the Euchre mural was special. And
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  Speaker 5: it's a little bit like back when the U.S. Bank
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  Speaker 5: Championship was played at Brown Deer. It's like you tune
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  Speaker 5: in and you'd say, oh, well, here's a PGA Tour
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  Speaker 5: guy that I follow and that I cheer for.
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  Speaker 3: Playing the same course that I play, right?
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  Speaker 5: And seeing these vistas, like you didn't, it's views of,
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  Speaker 5: and Fox 6 did a good job of presenting it,
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  Speaker 5: but the views of the of the city.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just like, Oh man, like, look, Oh look,
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  Speaker 3: look at that. Doesn't that look cool?
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  Speaker 2: There's the Pfister.
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  Speaker 3: There's Wisconsin. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It showed off the city and it was, you can't
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  Speaker 5: help but feel pride in that. Like, and then it's like, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: they're getting off on Jackson street. Well, that's the exit
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  Speaker 5: I get off on all the time. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Billy dropped.
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  Speaker 3: Me off last night. That's the exit we got off on.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like, Oh, here they come.
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  Speaker 5: And like, they're passing this building or this, you know,
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  Speaker 5: that's where my buddy works or that's where, you know,
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  Speaker 5: my wife used to park her car in that, that structure.
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  Speaker 5: And it's just that, that kind of, It's that kind
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  Speaker 5: of totemistic thing where you're, oh, the landmarks and just,
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  Speaker 5: and to show off the city and just to have it.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't think there were any mass incidents. I
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: didn't hear any gunshots or anything.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I heard zero and saw zero. I was
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: waiting for some fireworks, to be honest.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, especially on Wednesday night, as many as there were,
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: I thought there might be some, but no, no, nothing bad.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: And frankly, Drew, I just think it's starting, right?
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: Like everybody that was, that was hanging out and getting
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: ready at 7 a.m. for today was, It's 2.15, it's
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: not like anybody's going to work now, right? So everybody
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: is rolling into the great city of Milwaukee, having themselves
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: a phenomenal time. Whether you came from, I believe, and
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: I firmly believe there were, from Sheboygan to Alcanto to
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Eau Claire to Menominee Falls to Manaqua. I think there
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: were folks coming all over the state, coming from all
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: over the state to enjoy it. And I know people
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: that were enjoying it over at the Pottawatomie Sports Play.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: They were showing it on the big screen in there.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: And I saw a couple of pictures of that place
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: decently littered through. So- It's just starting the celebration into
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: the town. And for this group, man, they're going to
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: be celebrated for a long time, as they absolutely should be.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: But when you start thinking of the tie-togethers that you got,
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: you got William Contreras immediately on stage trying to bring
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Aaron Ashby down today on the podium.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: You'll hear it in a couple of minutes.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: He answers one question, get Jackson Cherry over here. Let's
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: defer it. Let's pass it off to somebody else. I
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: don't know it was just Drew because they wanted to
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: keep the line moving. I think there was some self-awareness
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: like Jake Bowers had. You guys better get me off
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: this stage before I say something real stupid.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely. You better get me off this stage.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: I've been having far too much fun, and I think
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: it's only beginning.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: I heard Brian Anderson curse. I couldn't believe my ears.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: He got to town, and I don't think I've ever
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: heard him swear.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I could not believe my ears.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: When he introduced the 82 guys and he said, you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: the 12-year-old me is bleeping my pants right now, I
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: lost it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I just, I'm like, whoa. And I was standing next
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: to Todd Rosiak and we both said, whoa, BA. Like,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: this is unbelievable.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: It's a reminder of one of the many reminders of
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: one of the many great parts, how lucky we are
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: to have BA. Of course.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: And being here and being excited about it because he
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: truly loves it. He loves being here. He was at
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: one of the games. He's a fan.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: It's so, you know, I mean, he's one of the
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: great broadcasters in the world and he loves being here
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: and working with us and being with us and being ours.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: You know, I saw Lev come by, you know, I mean,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: and Josh Maurer and those guys. They're as big a
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: part of it as anybody. That's the fabric. You mentioned it, Billy.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: The accomplishment is made, and you win a tangible thing,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: a trophy, a championship, a banner, an accomplishment. But what
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: you really achieved is that iconic bond forever, that inseparable bond.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: They'll be connected now forever, and they'll stay together through reunions,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: through memories, through people talking. when one of them is
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: mentioned now in that group, they'll be mentioned together as
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: a part of a special unit. And that's really the
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: most special part of it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Amazing.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: It's, it was quite the day that a lot of
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: the guys, and you're going to hear it when we
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: play the podium sound that they said it was the
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: greatest day of their lives. Better than winning the championship
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: was this, the celebration. And, you know, I know it
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: was last year's slogan, the power of friendship, but they,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: a bunch of them said, these are my best friends.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: And Kristen Yelich has said, we hang out together off
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: the field and, Everybody does everything together. And that's a
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: special quality that you don't often find. And these guys are, like, Billy,
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: you're right. They're going to be forever linked with this
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: team and with the city. And some of them are
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: going to move on to different places. Baseball happens. There's
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: roster churn. Guys are going to go sign elsewhere and stuff.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: It is going to be, but this is forever. This
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: is the 26 Brewers are going to be forever.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: And it's going to be awesome. Yeah, and it's not
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: going to be easy when they start moving off. It's
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: not going to be easy when Pat Murphy's joke to
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Jake Bowers potentially comes true.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know that it's going to happen to
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: that horse bleep team.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: But some organizations are going to start grabbing anybody they can.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: And, I mean, Matt Arnold's group.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Is already going to get plucked out in Houston as
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: they're trying to grab somebody to run their operations. Everybody
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: wants a piece of horse. the recipe and the soup
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: that the brewers were able to cook up here this year.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: And a lot of it is the special moments and
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the special stories we're starting to hear about. Jeff Passan's
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: story up at ESPN.com, a phenomenal piece, not only about
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: the blazing in the clubhouse and in the batting cages
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: of a couple of heaters every once in a while
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: that you potentially have to have, but just the unique
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: conversations of what you got. Sometimes the most important question
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: is to throw it out there and let somebody answer
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: it for you. Pat Murphy said it. Yelly told us
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: we're going to win the World Series, so we all
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: better start believing. Those stories of how this 162 games
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: and then into the postseason came together starting to leak out,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: and they are really, really good. Let's bask in all
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: of it. Let's enjoy it. Drew's at Stately Olsen Manor.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: We're back here inside the Megaplex, and we got a
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: motherload of audio from the podium for you.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: We're going to go to it.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: The celebration, the one-hour-way celebration inside American Family Amphitheater just
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: wrapped up.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: If you missed any of it, don't go anywhere. No flipping.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: You got Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, and it's coming your
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: way next.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Huddle up with us.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: We are going to huddle up with wayne larry coming
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: up drew i don't know if you noticed in the
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: celebration you heard baggers got someone fired last night big
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: time baggers got someone fired last night we will talk
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: about that little football game that your world series champion
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: brewers showed up at last night at lambeau field as
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: well huddle up with us and hear the celebration for
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: your world champions next fox thank.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: You guys we love you man.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I got two quick things. Good things come to those
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: who wait.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: We waited long enough.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Last thing I'm going to say, the next time I'm tired,
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: I'm going to take a nap.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Congratulations.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Paul Molitor.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, hold on. I thought, hold on, hold on.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: All right, pause that up here. Pause that up here.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: All right, Drew, I apologize here. Now, when I thought
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: we were going to the podium, I thought we were
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: gonna start it right there at the beginning.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that I was gonna lead in.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: And all of a sudden, it was just gonna start
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: middle of the framing of a Hall of Famer delivering
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: an absolute bar. That was rude and inconsiderate of me
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to not be able to frame that up and set
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: it up. I apologize to disrespect Paul Molitor in that
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: form and fashion.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I thought I had BA.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: For some reason at the start there. Sorry about that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: It was kind of correct. But yes, that was Paul
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Molitor's start.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: That was Paul Molitor. Armin, do you have the start
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: of it?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Do you have the start of it or do we
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: not have the start of it?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Is that where you started?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: No, I thought I did. I'll have to go back
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: and check this out. Okay, here we go.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: All right, Armin. That's correct.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Here we go. That's par for the course.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Mid-season championship producing.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: That is 2026 championship caliber.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: He was halfway through the program, Armin. If that's where
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: you started.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll get what I can here. I'm trying here.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Get what I can here. Oh, my Lord.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Armin hit record, and he thought he was catching the
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: beginning of the ceremony, but it was actually a half
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: hour in.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: But that's all right.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: That is tremendous. Doug Russell was there. Doug Russell was there.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: We'll have the full sound. Don't worry about it, Armin.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: We'll get it later, and we'll play it at a
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: different point in time when we have the actual audio.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: We'll do it that way, then.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Much to the delight of my dogs, Hunter Baumgart has
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: arrived at Stately Ocean Manor to start processing some social
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: media stuff because he's pinned into the neighborhood here.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: No one's leaving. Guys, the program's over. They want to
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: shut down the Summerfest grounds for not just today, but
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: for the winter.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Good luck at the 3 o'clock deadline.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: And people, they don't want to leave because they just
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: want to hang on to this. And to see this
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: many people, and the only thing, it had an opening day.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Vibe because of the weather.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: It's gray and a little chilly this morning, but it's fall,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: not spring, end of winter. And all the people in
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: their Brewers gear, people, I mean, you know it's a
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: big event, Billy, when you see guys selling the bootleg gear.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: They were, I mean, those guys take Venmo now.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they're not messing around. Cash card or Venmo.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Cash card or Venmo for them.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not messing around at the tents anymore. You
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: also could sell, and I think the opening day that
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: you and I have joked about, Drew, over the last
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: year or so, That is definitely not the same vibe,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: the same demand, the en vogue social capital moments. And
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: it was a social capital moment across the city of Milwaukee.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: It appears that if you were not there, too cool
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: for school, then you thought you were.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And you missed out because everybody, it appears.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Was inside the city limits and inside downtown third ward area.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: And there's only going to be more and more that celebrate.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, beautiful, beautiful shot of the pooch here.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Onto the huddle and to be able to celebrate it
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: that way and to have all walks of life high
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: five and celebrating it was pure pandemonium the exact way
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: that you would think and dream.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Of it to be my mom's dog Willow making her
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: radio debut today she barked at Hunter the other pooch
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: that's here all the time still trying to figure out
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: what's going on guard dog right.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: She's enjoying the show so far but yeah, we'll get
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: to the whole thing.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Cause BA did open the show and it was, um, actually, um,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Mark Richards gave kind of like a 42nd warning and
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: then they, they, they launched into it and the staging
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: of it. I have to say that the Brewers pulled
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: this off. It was, I've seen some cringy. I mean,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: when it's your team, it, maybe it's cringe proof.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Cause everything, everybody says is like, Oh, that's so cool. Oh,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: he's so funny.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: But I've seen some of these before in other markets
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: where you just go, ah, you know, ah, it seems excessive. And,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's because it's like maybe it's the Lakers or
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: somebody that we don't really.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: But the affection and it was almost like a concert
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: because when the concerts are good, the energy that's exchanged
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: that radiates from the stage and is met with the
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: audience energy and it kind of creates this this vibe.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: That's what we were in in the amphitheater today. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: wish everybody could have been there. Obviously, the space limitations.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: But I was standing next to some of my friends
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: from Summerfest and some of my media brethren, including Hunter.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: And just to drink that in was pretty cool.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: And B.A.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Set the tone, and a bunch of players hit the
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: right notes, especially starting with Jelich, the captain, and Brandon
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Woodruff especially. Brandon Woodruff had the line that I think,
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: you know, when you go early in the program, it's
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: fresh powder.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: But he said, hey, this is fun. Let's win a
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: couple more.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Let's do this a couple more times. Let's win a
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: couple more.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Let's win a couple more.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: And that made people just go crazy because of everything
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: he went through and all. He said, all the bull
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: crap I went through with the injury, I did it
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: for you guys. I did it for you guys, and
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: I'd do it again, I heard him say earlier today.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: And then it was perfectly well done.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: I also thought Miz's comments were phenomenal, as Sofia gave
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: the little.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, you guys want to hear from the Cy Young? Oh, wait, sorry,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: they haven't told everybody yet.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: We already know it's probably going to be unanimous coming up.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: And to hear his just... pure youthful exuberance that you
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: always hear and just being uh as pure to himself
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: as you can be i.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Just love you guys so much like.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Just the full forest gump effect that you got and
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: you said in the first segment i was waiting when
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: b8 when when murph dropped the wait we don't play
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: tomorrow i thought that was the tap him on the
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: shoulder moment and say hey i think it all worked
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: out for you Some different parts of it, though, that
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: were phenomenal to be able to see. I mean, you
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: really got a couple of great shots of Jojo Romero
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: having himself an absolute ball.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Andrew, I didn't know that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, Summerfest has had some tremendous acts play on
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: that stage. Have they had anybody try to sing Stacey's
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: mom like Daniel Vogelbach tried to?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: That was a mess.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I expected him to shotgun a beer, too.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Well, it looked like that's what they were asking him
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: to do when they walked the beers out to him
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: and cracked them for him.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: But he was already too far deep at that point.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I felt like he was gone.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: I just love that he really thought people might want
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: to hear him sing that thing. Now, I wouldn't call
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Vogelbach's speech as more of a collection of noises, but
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: it was pretty funny.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: It's like a Chris Farley show. But it was, that
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: was one we'll remember. That's for sure. Absolutely.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: So if you were at the event, if you watched it,
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: we want your thoughts.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973 to the NicoletLaw.com target text line. It was, you know.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: People who, like Johnny K on the YouTube comments, got
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: high fives from Bowers, Freelick, Ortiz, and more.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: He's never going to forget. He's never going to wash
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: his hand again.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: That's what you feel like.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I can't remember which of the outlets, as I was
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: kind of double-barreling the TV action, was an interview with
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: a young man that got a picture of Bowers walking
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: with the trophy right behind him.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: It was right next to me.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: And again, those memories were everlasting.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: And they did.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: They really let you roll through. And the guys got
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: out of the cars and buses as much as possible
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: to soak it in. The Euchre mural I thought was
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: going to be the only time everybody got up out
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: of the bus to be able to go and take
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: pictures and celebrate. It happened like three or four more times,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: even when the tarps came off towards the end.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: So it was phenomenal.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I didn't even know how deep they were going to go, Drew,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: with the former Brewers. I mean, the Brewer alumni tank,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: there was some great collections.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Saw Jeff Jenkins, Casey McGee was there. It was just
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: so good. Marcus Hanel.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Our guy Rock had his own car, which was well-deserved.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: But you saw how many people this meant so much to,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: and I like they were able to tie in all
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: the different generations of the organization.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, Kent Somerfelt had his own convertible.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: As he needed one, yes.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: As he deserved.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Sammy deserves that. I think it's interesting.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: John Infante wants to know how it compared to the
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Buck Celebration. I see a couple people doing this.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Jesse said this is better than the Buckshot. Comparison is
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the thief of joy. I don't know why we have
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: to do this. I don't want to do it. I
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: don't want to try and say this was better than this.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: It was probably bigger. There's no question about it. I
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: think both were fantastic, but I don't know. Well, I
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: also think to what Drew's point when you were making
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: about the amphitheater and how you could feel both sides,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: the stage to the crowd.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you get that as much.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: If it's in just a big park area with a
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: stage and everybody standing up. The intimacy of it gave it,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I think, that reverberation. And knowing how people watch it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: to get into and around the celebration, I think, added
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: more and more folks trying to get out there. It
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: was definitely slower than the Bucks parade, which was appreciated.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: The cars were definitely slower paced.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: And it lasted a little bit longer than that one
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: did because they were moving on that one.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Well, the 82 Brewers Parade and the Bucks Parade went
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: in the opposite direction, didn't it?
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: This one headed east down Wisconsin Avenue.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Which was a little bit different and starting on 4th Street.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: I like the route.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I was watching at the Summerfest Grounds because, well, it's
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: right by my place. And I just saw the crowds
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: and the throngs of people. And I said, well, I'm
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: going to go to the Summerfest Grounds. I'm going to
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: be in the amphitheater anyway. So I watched with thousands
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: of people watching the parade. And it was like you
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: were there. I feel like I was at the parade,
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: though I wasn't. You know, it's almost better. It's like
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: being at a golf tournament. You can only see like
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: the hole you're on and that's it. But if you
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: watch it on TV, you could see everybody shot, shot, shot,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: different holes, different locations. It's impossible to be everywhere at once. Armin,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: you had your perspective right from the, like, fourth in
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Wisconsin or third in Wisconsin, right?
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of what I felt, too, because in
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of ways, unless you're, like, 6'10, you feel
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: a parade. If you're rows back, you feel a parade
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: more than see it. Now, we all have our phones,
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: so everyone sticks their phone in the air, and then
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: you see what you got, kind of. Or if you're
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: lucky enough, you know, to find a ledge to stand
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: on or something to stand on, but you see it,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: but you feel it as much, because when there's so
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: many people there, that many rows deep... you're going to
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: miss some of it, but you're right. You almost like when, when,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: when everyone passed, it was almost like, should I run
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: somewhere else and start this over again? Like, you know, the,
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: the trophy comes past and it's exciting, but, and you're like, boy,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: it's over now.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I want to go do this again. Let's run it back.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Um, but it was pretty awesome. And I liked the
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: way they did it. Uh, I liked the way they
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: spread it out. Everybody was in a great mood. Um,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: but it was, it was a front loaded, you know,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: players trophy right away. Uh, basically two buses, uh, And
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: you're right, Billy, it went slow enough. I appreciate that.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: They weren't kind of zooming by. But you do realize, okay,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: you can't be everywhere in.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: This parade at once.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: So I remember I found myself wondering near the end,
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: then we saw Murph, but you knew the front of
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: the parade with the trophies at a different location now.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: What are they feeling there? So it's great because it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: one of those things you're going to go back and
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: watch and soak in again if you can. So you
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: do get that. Everyone's going to have their own experience
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: from this, which is kind of cool.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, people who took the morning off of work or
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: the kids were out of school. I saw a lot
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: of families enjoying this because I think people, especially those
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: of us who are around at 82, realize that you've
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: got to savor this while it lasts because you think, oh.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they can be back. Well, see you next year.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: And next year took 44 years to arrive.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: So it was stark.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Now, I agree with Armin that the comparisons, like is
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: this better or worse than the Bucks parade?
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: It's different.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: And they're both great. They were both great events. And
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: we were thirsty for a title when the Bucs won theirs.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: And now we might start getting a little greedy. Packers
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: are back on the clock. And they won last night.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Billy and I were there doing Packers OT.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: You got one to win, too.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: We got Micah Parsons coming back to practice when they
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: return from this mini-bye.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: So life is looking up on that front.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: They got a coach fired that Billy alluded to earlier,
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: which that was kind of a shocking report from Rappaport
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: in the middle of the Brewers stuff this morning.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they were cleaning up as Ivaro is now out
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: as D.C. in Carolina after the Packers put up four
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: TDs on him. I mean, they did force three three
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: and outs. And Drew, if that game lasted another 15
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: minutes of game time, I think the locals would have
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: potentially started some hoobirds. How frustrated it seemed like folks
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: were with the offense late. Sputtered a little bit, but
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: we'll get to it throughout the day, especially when.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larrabee joins us.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Right now, Drew, inside the amphitheater, they're still trying to
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: clear everybody out. Kyle Malzahn of Channel 5 in Green
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Bay is there, and he's got a video. They're just
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: throwing the empty beer cans out. out into the crowd.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: And it's like throwing raw meat into a sea of wolves.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: It's just incredible. People pouncing for any bit of the celebration.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: I saw so many people collecting little bits of confetti
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: throughout the celebration. It was something that you did. You
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: tried to cherish and hold on to because it was different.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: The relationship with the Brewers, And the state is different,
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: I think, than the relationship with the Bucs and the state.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: The Bucs are truly, I think, the city's team. And
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: people from around the state are absolutely Bucs fans.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: But it doesn't have that same resonance of in the summer,
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: on weekends. How many people would have lacrosse stays coming
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: down to a Brewers game or buses coming from Lake
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Geneva to bring people here? People from Platteville come to Brewers.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: That part of it is way too unique that, I mean,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: I know there are folks here that were laughing at
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: the suggestion of, they were thinking maybe 400,000 people.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: There's no way that's going to be that many. I'm like, well.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: It's not just folks from Milwaukee or the five counties
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: that are going to come roll in here to celebrate it.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Everybody from across the state wanted a piece of this
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: thing here today. And putting it on a Friday, thankfully
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: they won it in five.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: And we're not playing a game here tonight.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: And they were able to make it the kind of
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: long weekend that people in Wisconsin are always going to
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: be about.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: And that's representative of this fan base.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, one of the biggest things the roof did
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: was guarantee a game for people coming from 30 miles
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: or more to Milwaukee to see a Brewers game.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Which is a hallmark of this fan base.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: It stretches wide into the state of Wisconsin. So it
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: stands to reason, of course, that they're going to come
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: for the parade too from that far out. I think
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: that's why the tailgating culture has always been important, the
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: parking culture. You just look before and after the Brewers
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: built a stadium with a roof with the attendance numbers.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: There's no question that it's important because people drive a
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: long way on a normal basis compared to other markets
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: to see a game. And Billy, you're right, for a
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: parade as well. I think it stands to reason. Now,
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: do we think we can get Hunter on a headset
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: once he starts processing some of that audio to.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Give us some stories? We will absolutely do that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: We'll have Hunter jump on, and then we'll have Armand
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: effort to get the entirety.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Of the ceremony.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: We'll get some. One way or the other, we'll get some.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: We'll cobble it through for us. And we'll do it
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: that way. That'll be amazing. And then Wayne Larrabee's joining
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: us at 425, right, Billy? Yes, sir.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: 425 for Wayne Larrabee, the voice of the Green Bay Packers.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: A basket and somewhat glow of a 27-19 win last night.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Would have been a lot better if it was 27-10.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Would have been a lot better if it was maybe 34-17. Like,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: it looked like it was about to be a couple
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: of different times. We'll get into it, and we have
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: plenty of time for it. But way more time to
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: discuss your world champion Milwaukee Brewers. Huddle up with you,
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: celebrating the greatest victory Friday this state has ever seen.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: It's Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: A.E.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: And in the state of Wisconsin, it's the huddle Fox
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billy Norman with you and our
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: jet setter, Brewers reporter and insider Hunter Baumgart joins us
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: now live from just outside of the celebration that took place.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: at the Summerfest grounds at St.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Lee Olsen Manor.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Hunter, you got to see a lot of celebrations throughout
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: the last month and a half. How did today's match,
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: what you watched that team do inside different visiting locker rooms?
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that might have topped it, honestly, today, just because
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: seeing them be able to connect with the fans in
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: that way. You know, usually they're playing a baseball game
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: and sure there's, you know, they may look at the
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: crowd when they hit a home run or at the
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: end of the game there, there's a couple of waves,
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: but to be able to like, just come on a
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: stage and know that like everybody was there to honor
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: that team was just really cool to see that interaction
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: between the fans. Obviously the fans love that opportunity to give,
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: you know, an applause to all their players while they
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: talked and things like that.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Um, so that was just neat.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: And it's just wild to think you, you start a
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: season on the first day in Maryvale and then, you know,
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: you end your season with a, with confetti falling at
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: the amphitheater on summer, on the summer fest grounds. Like
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: it just, it, it, it comes to an end fast,
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: but like this ending was obviously the best ending you
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: could ever dream of. And so it's just, it's, you,
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: you just try to, I don't know if it even
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: has settled in yet, but it just continues to, to,
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: to amaze really.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're 200 games in, right? They've played like 200
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: games this year. Counting spring training and the playoffs and everything. Yeah,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: it's pretty crazy. And I think the thing, you know,
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: every player has their own personalities. Cooper Pratt is now
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: Cecil Cooper. It's the Coop chant. It's the John Coon chant.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: That's going to be his thing now. It's like they're
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: going to chant Coop every time he comes up. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: if you're old enough to remember, you might just think, oh,
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: it's because it's Cooper Pratt. Oh, it's a throwback to
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: Cecil Cooper in the 80s. it's going to be a
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: part of the lore. And some of these guys are just,
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, just getting started in their careers. And other
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: guys like Yelich and Woodruff, we obviously have known for
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: a long time. And Billy, like, you know, you're, Your
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: son's first jersey, wasn't it a Yelich jersey?
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Isn't Yelich the, you know, the touch point?
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: And, I mean, he's the start of a lot of
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: this era nine years ago. But when you really think
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: about the different iterations of it, this is a different era,
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: a different window of the succession.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: And, Drew, you're right.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, the real core guys here are kind of
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: still just getting started. Now, that does, you know, lend
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: itself to the next conversation, which... flared up on the
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: foul territory show today of how much would you potentially
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: sign William Contreras to?
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Cause that's the exciting conversations.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: That we already get into this close, but you got,
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: a Jackson Chirio who just finished his third year in
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: the big leagues.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Luis Lara, who's up there celebrating.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: I don't even know the second direct deposit from that
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: contract he signed earlier this year has even hit the bank.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: And he's already a World Series champion. It's pretty remarkable
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: to think how early in some championship windows you would
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: think this is. But, I mean, I'm old enough to
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: remember 10 years ago. when a 2016 parade was being
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: held about 90 miles South. And immediately the next conversation was,
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: how does this group not win like three or four?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: How does this team not win like two or three more? Well,
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: one guy turned out to be the worst player in baseball.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: The other guy they traded, uh, ended up having a
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: season where he was the worst player in baseball and
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: a Contreras brothers, almost the best player out of the group.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: So it's crazy how fleeting these moments are.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: You think like Ted Simmons said, you know, we all
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: thought we're going to be back.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: We're going to be back.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Well, it took 44 years and another group to finally
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: get him back. It's a remarkable feat of what they
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: were able to accomplish. Yeah, I must have already had
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: like 10 people bring that up to me. It's like
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: this team can contend for a while. And are we
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: going to re-sign William? And what's the issues? And that's
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: right where you go. And I get it.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: You're right, though. It's so hard to do this.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: You can be as good as this team was and
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: still have hit a trap door somewhere. They had to
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: win close games. They had to have moments go their way.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: It's so hard to win a World Series. It does
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: look like the future is bright for this team, but
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: you're right, Billy. You never know when you're coming back.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: You have to appreciate every moment when they come. Like
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Dan Campbell said, fellas don't know. I can't do it
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: as well as Billy. I don't know, fellas, if we'll
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: be back.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: You know, that's pretty good.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: He's not wrong.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: And Hunter was there in Pittsburgh when they clinched, and
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: it was a muted celebration, right?
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a celebration, but, yeah, it was like
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: we got more things.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Clinching the best overall record.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: I think that the guts of this postseason was born
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: of that period after they clinched.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: And continued to win and continued to, like, there was
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: no let up at all.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: Like, whether they were driving for the best overall record
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: or 100 wins or both, In that point, in that interim,
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: in that month of September when Yellich became the captain,
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: everything coalesced.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: But the fact that they did not stop. And what
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: was their record?
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: Something ridiculous over the last 42 games with 36-6 or
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: something like that?
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like, well, they only lost five games
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: after Labor Day, including the playoffs.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: That's insane.
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: That's September 7th, too, and today's October 3rd.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: To play at that level for that long is insane.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: And they just kept rolling. And that's where it could
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: have gone off the rails. And that's where even... sometimes
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: veteran teams oh we have the switch and when we
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: kind of shut it down then playoffs came and we
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: turned it back up kind of like the dodgers have
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: tried to do right and it's like that to me
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: it's like that was kind of the guts of it
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: when they started winning and hunter was there for every
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: celebration i don't know i think the one when they
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: beat the dodgers and turned that place into a dance
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: club that was epic and when we saw uh you
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: know debbie adonacio dancing with.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: That's about as good as it's going to get, right?
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: That's going to be a hard one to beat.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: The other night, that was kind of the pinnacle, I think.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: But the field celebration was muted for a pennant. You
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: just swept the Dodgers, and that was what was neat
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: about these guys. They truly felt like they expected to
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: win those games, and they were like, all right, this
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: is just daily business for us. I also think, Hunter,
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: you heard a couple of the guys say it in
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: the end of it, in the week leading up to
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: the World Series of, They watched the Dodgers do the
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: exact same kind of celebration to them last year.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: And Jake Bauer said, wait, that's how you do it. Oh,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: you just shake hands like it's the middle of June. Damn.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: We thought this was something.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: And instead they played it to a different way.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: I did just go to a baseball reference.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: And if you guys haven't done this for just the
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: baseball nerdy fans of you, you already look up into
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: the corner on the 2026 Brewers that has World Series champions,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: National League pennant.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: I love that. Different little thought.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: For as many times as I went to this website
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: and looked up however many random Joe Maurer stats I
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: possibly could or any random hillbilly guy I found on
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: an 84 baseball card, pretty cool to be able to
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: see World.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Series champs sitting right next to him.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: To never see on that franchise history list, WS winner,
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: you know, World Series winner.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: One World Series.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: And pretty awesome to be able to see the celebration
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: that happened inside American Family Amphitheater. We're going to play
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: it for you when we get it, when we can,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: coming up soon. But we're going to continue the celebration here.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: Hunter and Drew are outside of the Summerfest grounds. I'm Billy.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: That's Armin. It's Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Huddle up with you.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: More conversation on the crew coming up. Wayne Larrabee in
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: an hour and a half from right now.