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09/23/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: We've reached the middle of the week. It's the Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: edition of the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: 1070 Madison, everywhere on the iHeart App, streaming live, Facebook, X,
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  Speaker 1: and YouTube. I'm Drew Wilson, joined by Bill Schmid. What
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  Speaker 1: are we doing this morning? How are we feeling? And
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  Speaker 1: Armin Sarian. Happy hump day, fellas. Doesn't it feel like
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  Speaker 1: a Friday? Oh, man, I wish it was Friday. Feels
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  Speaker 1: like a game week. Come on now, let's roll. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: because the Packers play tomorrow, it feels like.
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  Speaker 2: I said to myself this morning when the alarm, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and you're fighting the alarm and it hit and you're like.
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  Speaker 1: That's not real.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you do that Tiffany Gomes thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, at least it's the, I don't know. Wait,
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  Speaker 2: it's just hump day. It's just a lot of Tiffany Gomes, uh, references. Well,
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  Speaker 2: AI memes coming out. I mean, a lot as NFL
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  Speaker 2: season is firing up. I've seen Josh Allen be, uh,
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  Speaker 2: be that individual. A lot of different times hanging out
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  Speaker 2: in the back of the plane.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Because of that.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm McConnell and Dajon love who, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I saw love.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good day. John was back in the headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Please let the story never die. Please.
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  Speaker 2: Now, not that I want people to get scammed. It's
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  Speaker 2: not funny, but it is kind of, the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: was kind of funny. I saw that he's back in
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  Speaker 2: the news, I guess. I guess they said a woman
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  Speaker 2: contacted the Niners by the team website way back in
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  Speaker 2: December that there was somebody impersonating them.
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  Speaker 1: But it was like the guest services thing. Just called
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  Speaker 1: the front office?
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  Speaker 2: Sent in an email or put it on the message
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  Speaker 2: board or the website guest services board or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: The contact us page? Listen. Hey, people read those. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten a job off one of those. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: then there you go. You never know.
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  Speaker 3: Dajon Love didn't get a job off of it. He
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  Speaker 3: actually lost his fake job because of that posting. But
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  Speaker 3: it is Hot Take Hump Day. It is Wednesday, and
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  Speaker 3: we're off and running.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Get us your hot takes as soon as you'd like. 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Or just check in, because it's the 5 o'clock club
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  Speaker 1: in the huddle. 5 a.m. Yeah, I would have had
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  Speaker 1: a good sleep score last night, according to my ring. Jet,
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  Speaker 1: wake up. She didn't wake up. We had, for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what the event was. It was
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  Speaker 1: like the Autumnal Equinox fireworks display.
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  Speaker 2: There's always some fun things happening in your neighborhood like that.
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  Speaker 2: There's always some sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Party going on. And it was not your average, like, okay, one, two, six, wham, bam,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, ma'am. Ethnic festival. We got to have fireworks
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  Speaker 1: for 10 minutes here. People are leaving. It was the
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  Speaker 1: Bartolotta special. It's like they dumped the entire leftover supply
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  Speaker 1: of fireworks for the year. Whatever we have left over,
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  Speaker 1: let's run it in. And it was like a 30-minute thing,
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  Speaker 1: and my dog just freaks out. I basically have to
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  Speaker 1: hold her down like you're holding down a bank robber
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  Speaker 1: or something. Wasn't it the birthday as well? It was
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  Speaker 1: her birthday as well. So that would have been great.
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  Speaker 1: They brought the fireworks for the birthday. Instead they realized
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  Speaker 1: it's not the right. At a certain point this summer,
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  Speaker 1: my wife and I, we've, we tried to get her
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  Speaker 1: outside before the fireworks and we were outside during a
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  Speaker 1: fireworks display. Cause there's fireworks in my neighborhood. A lot
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  Speaker 1: live downtown. I get used to it. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: get used to it. The dog doesn't freak out. And
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  Speaker 1: we found out that it's better when she's outside than
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  Speaker 1: when in the condo, maybe when you can, See the lights.
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  Speaker 1: See that there's not terror. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was better, but I didn't think of that, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know there were going to be fireworks
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  Speaker 1: last night. They woke me up out of REM sleep,
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  Speaker 1: and then the dog was beside herself for a half hour,
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  Speaker 1: and then it took me another half hour to fall asleep.
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  Speaker 1: So I lost an hour of rack time. Thank you, fireworks. Oh, bastards.
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  Speaker 1: What are we even doing? Son of a gun. How
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  Speaker 1: are we going to– I can't believe that.
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  Speaker 2: There were– and the thing is– A private party hosted
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  Speaker 2: in conjunction with the Harley dealers.
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  Speaker 1: It was, yeah, the Harley Dealers Association. So they were
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  Speaker 1: all Harley people. They had bands down at the Summerfest
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  Speaker 1: grounds and stuff. I'd rather have a trinket than fireworks.
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  Speaker 1: So they crushed it. They spent a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't skimp. They revved it up. I know the
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  Speaker 1: lawyers and dentists aren't buying as many motorcycles as they
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  Speaker 1: used to. And Harley as a brand is– they're at
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  Speaker 1: this introspection because– In addition to not drinking alcohol, the
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  Speaker 1: people in Gen Z and whatever we're calling the people
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  Speaker 1: behind them, they ain't buying motorcycles. No, not many. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: they should because gas prices being what they are. Good point.
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  Speaker 1: Smaller tank and might be more economical. Boy, I had
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  Speaker 1: to fill up. That was a punch in the face. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking at a minimum $ 50 fill up now, right?
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  Speaker 1: It was over 50 bucks for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I don't really drive anything crazy. As you
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  Speaker 2: guys know, I was Kia. But yeah, it was over
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  Speaker 2: 50 bucks. So it's a shot in the, it's a
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  Speaker 2: punch in the face.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So you got to find a quick trip over
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  Speaker 1: there in New Berlin.
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  Speaker 2: 376.
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  Speaker 1: What? Absolute steal. When was that?
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I spent like $ 4. 39. Yeah. Oh, I'm so mad. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I used to check the websites. Yeah, I used to
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  Speaker 1: check around. I used to be that guy. We have. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're a gas buddy. Armand's your gas buddy. The one
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  Speaker 1: time I wasn't. Wow. Well, I appreciate it. Well, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a, apparently, I just heard on the news channel,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know why the news channel was on
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  Speaker 1: in my car in the roll in, but there's a
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  Speaker 1: refinery somewhere, I think like in Illinois or something. There's
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  Speaker 1: like a refinery that went offline because they lost power.
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  Speaker 1: And this is like a $ 12 million a day deal,
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  Speaker 1: and they can knock you out for like– it sets
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  Speaker 1: you back like a week or something. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: there was a quick spike in the upper Midwest. In
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  Speaker 1: addition to, oh, you know, the war's going on and
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  Speaker 1: the straightforward moves being closed and Russia, Ukraine bombing all
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  Speaker 1: of Russia's refineries and all the other reasons they have
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  Speaker 1: to jack the gas prices. But somebody hit the power cord. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: someone just messed up.
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  Speaker 2: Airplane deal in New York.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, the Harley dealers, though, they had this party,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know who the bands were. It was
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  Speaker 1: a private affair, and it was otherwise quiet. But then
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  Speaker 1: the damn fireworks, dude, like– I flashback as I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to hold the dog. She's clawing at me and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I flashback to– I'm like, all right, how many people
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  Speaker 1: are at this thing and how many people live within
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  Speaker 1: a couple miles? Are they entertaining more people than they're inconveniencing?
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  Speaker 1: What's the PNL here? What's the statement look like? What's
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  Speaker 1: the balance sheet? That's what I would think. I'll never
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  Speaker 1: forget this. I was covering a WISA basketball tournament back
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  Speaker 1: when there was a private school division in the public
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  Speaker 1: school division. I used to play at the arena, which
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  Speaker 1: is the Panther arena where you guys work with the
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  Speaker 1: admirals and the historic building on the building of my youth,
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  Speaker 1: where I grew up watching the bucks and. Great building,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. Great building, historic building, love Panther arena.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, it's in my DNA to go watch games.
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  Speaker 1: They're done some incredible read. It is. It's incredible. We
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  Speaker 1: used to sit courtside and just, it was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: covering that game was you're sitting courtside and, It was
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  Speaker 1: like being at a bucks game. Like you're, you're right
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  Speaker 1: there and you can hear everything. You're right next to
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  Speaker 1: the bench. You can hear the referees and hear the
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  Speaker 1: players talking to each other. And it was a cool setup,
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  Speaker 1: but it was an early morning game, like a nine o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: 10 o'clock AM tip. And I was probably hung over
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  Speaker 1: cause I was a cub high school reporter. And there
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  Speaker 1: was a guy who from a Fond du Lac radio
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  Speaker 1: station trying to broadcast his team's game just it was
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  Speaker 1: like saint mary springs girls i love this whoever saint
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  Speaker 1: mary springs girls and the guy is like he's getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to this is his big broadcast sonics the state
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  Speaker 1: tournament oh yeah this is the game this is and
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  Speaker 1: his broadcast equipment's not working oh no and so i'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting next to him and jim hayne my buddy who
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  Speaker 1: you guys probably know from the brewer's press box a
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  Speaker 1: longtime stringer and a freelance guy are you trying to
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  Speaker 1: help dude well jim hayne and i were we're sitting
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  Speaker 1: next to him and we try to help him, but
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing we could do. And he's just, he's crawling
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  Speaker 1: under press row as the game's getting underway. And we're
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  Speaker 1: like lifting our feet and he's like crawling, like, Trying
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  Speaker 1: to see what's unplugged and stuff. Has no clue what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: And the game's about to start, and he's got that
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  Speaker 1: panic in Armin. You can relate, Billy. You know what
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  Speaker 1: it's like having your equipment fail. Especially when you really
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  Speaker 1: care about the broadcast. And I'm sure he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: bring it to the people. Of course. He wanted to
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  Speaker 1: bring it. They sold sponsors into it. It's a title game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a 10 a.m. It's a state playoff game. Sportswriters
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  Speaker 1: from all over the Midwest. And Hayne hit him with
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  Speaker 1: the most brutal line. Like, here he is. A Fond
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  Speaker 1: du Lac radio station. I don't know. KFIZ. Does that
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  Speaker 1: sound right? Or something like one of the. I believe
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  Speaker 1: you hit the call letters perfectly. Yep. And Jim Hain goes,
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  Speaker 1: you just inconvenienced more people than you have listening to
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  Speaker 1: your broadcast. Oh, man. Shot right between the eyes. Emotional damage.
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  Speaker 1: There were at least two different parents that were going
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  Speaker 1: to be listening. Of course. Well, his logic was not flawed.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to say. You know, these small towns. This is
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  Speaker 1: the pre-streaming days. Right. And if you cared about that game,
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  Speaker 1: you were more than likely at that game. Could have
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  Speaker 1: been there, yeah. That's true. And so it's like, who's
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  Speaker 1: out there listening at 10 in the morning to a girls'
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  Speaker 1: high school basketball game?
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  Speaker 3: But 10 a.m., people got to be working. So I
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  Speaker 3: got to hear this guy's elite call of the game.
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  Speaker 1: That is awesome. You've seen Hoosiers? That was such a
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  Speaker 1: kill shot. It was like the meanest thing anybody's ever said.
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  Speaker 1: You just inconvenienced more people than you have listening to
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  Speaker 1: your brother. I'm surprised he didn't get swung on with
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  Speaker 1: a comment like that. The guy was just freaked out.
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  Speaker 1: You know how it is. You get the flop sweat
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  Speaker 1: and you're trying to get on the air. There's one
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  Speaker 1: of those where you could say just about anything and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to hear much of it. Didn't that happen?
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  Speaker 3: I will hear it in about an hour and a
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  Speaker 3: half when I start really stewing about that.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't something like that happen famously to Ken Levicka, who
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  Speaker 1: was the FAU announcer when they were in the.
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  Speaker 1: Look it up. Yeah, something happened. He was on broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: when they went to the Sweet 16 or maybe in
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  Speaker 1: the Final Four. Look up Florida. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic.
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  Speaker 3: The one that I think of at the court side
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  Speaker 3: is our boy Matt Menzel. at the Horizon League tournament
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago. Didn't he get thrown out
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  Speaker 3: of the game by the refs?
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  Speaker 1: He got tossed. Now, I don't know. Was it the
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  Speaker 1: Horizon League tournament? He got tossed by the refs.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it was the conference tournament because I believe
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  Speaker 3: he had to talk to the people from the conference.
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  Speaker 3: And they ended up putting him back on the call.
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  Speaker 3: They were like, hey, that's some baloney over here. You
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  Speaker 3: get back over there and do your job.
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  Speaker 2: And someone filled in for him, like the Cleveland State guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say, like, you know, he might have said something
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  Speaker 2: about the officiating. That happens all the time. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: get tossed by a ref because of that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think? They didn't get a warning.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not even sure the ref has that sort
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  Speaker 2: of authority. I guess they probably do to make sure
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  Speaker 2: anyone gets out of there. But, I mean, that's wild.
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  Speaker 2: When the umpire threw a fan at Miller Park out once, right, Drew?
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  Speaker 1: That happened.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bob Davidson did that. Yeah, that's wild, but man,
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  Speaker 2: that's emotional damage. More people have inconvenienced more people.
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  Speaker 1: That one's going to go right in between your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: True Pro, he probably didn't even hear it. Did he
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  Speaker 1: ever get on air? Yeah, I think he did. But
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  Speaker 1: he missed all the pregame stuff. He missed the sponsor stuff,
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  Speaker 1: which probably was the most important stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he made it up. It could have been worse.
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  Speaker 2: You always rebuild those breaks. You can figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: You have to look at it like, hey, I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: the best I can. I'm going to deliver the game.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have some guy in the press room making
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  Speaker 1: snarky comments. That's good stuff. Going back to the buffet.
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  Speaker 1: You want snarky comments, hang around a press box. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is. But that is, wow, what
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  Speaker 2: a story. It reminds me, hey, you never know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you guys have seen Hoosiers. Dennis Hopper was in the
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  Speaker 2: hospital listening on the radio. Not all of us have
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  Speaker 2: seen Hoosiers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not all of us. Some of us. Armand's seen
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  Speaker 1: enough for you, Billy. Yeah, Ken Levicka is the Florida
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic play-by-play guy. An Elite Eight game against Kansas State,
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  Speaker 1: March 2023. 18.6 seconds remaining. Florida Atlantic on the verge
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  Speaker 1: of clinching their first ever Final Four berth. The entire
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  Speaker 1: Ethernet connection on media row at Madison Square Garden crashed,
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  Speaker 1: cutting his Comrex broadcasting unit entirely off the air. Oh,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: they lose power, yeah. Or they lose Internet. Facing every
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster's worst nightmare, Levicka spent four minutes completely disconnected, scrambling
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  Speaker 1: to find a way to get back on the air
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  Speaker 1: before the game ended. He initially tried using Ethernet cables
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  Speaker 1: from fellow journalists nearby, but they failed to work. Kansas
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  Speaker 1: State scored a quick layup and immediately called a timeout.
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  Speaker 1: This paused the game clock and brought Levicka roughly 45
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  Speaker 1: seconds to a minute of critical real-world time to troubleshoot.
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  Speaker 1: He spotted a live Ethernet cord on Meteor Road directly
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  Speaker 1: behind him. Because it was taped down tightly to the
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  Speaker 1: table and too short to reach his desk, he had
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  Speaker 1: to physically rip the cord free, plug it into his machine,
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  Speaker 1: and have a nearby colleague hold the unit steady. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: to his quick thinking, the connection restored just in time
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  Speaker 1: for him to capture the final 15 seconds of game action.
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  Speaker 1: That is amazing. Physically rip it.
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  Speaker 2: He rescued history by doing that.
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  Speaker 1: He delivered an iconic career-defining call. at that juncture saying Houston,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: you have a problem. Florida Atlantic is coming to town
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  Speaker 1: looking for a trophy. Oh my goodness. Finest hour. Finest
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  Speaker 1: hour came amidst the chaos. That's like that final four
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  Speaker 1: was chaotic too. I'll tell you that much. That's the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: every like journalist has a story. Like every print hack,
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  Speaker 1: like me, when you used to in the, in the
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  Speaker 1: pre-internet days and when it was hard, when you transmitted
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: stories on these little, these little, prehistoric kind of laptops. Deadlines, Drew,
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  Speaker 1: are you filing your stories? We had to pull over
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  Speaker 1: and I sent it from a phone booth and I
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: sat and wrote the story on the curb outside a
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: phone booth. Then I went to the phone booth and
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  Speaker 1: I had to hook up these little plastic couplers to
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  Speaker 1: the receiver because that's the way we used to have
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  Speaker 1: to send it.
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  Speaker 2: I had to log in, I think, on a laptop
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: in a car once to fix something. Technology makes it
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  Speaker 2: possible but also puts you in a position where you
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  Speaker 2: depend on it and that's not good either.
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  Speaker 1: These things happen. In our industry, it's part of the
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  Speaker 1: fun of it, I guess. Yeah, things like this happen,
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  Speaker 1: but it's less frequent now. And you think about technology.
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  Speaker 1: When has technology failed you guys? Like, Armin, you've seen
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: it with SoundPlus. Just when you need it. SoundPlus. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just when you need it. Well, things happen in almost any... Like,
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: any system can have sound functions. Just Sunday, we all
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: watched the Packers and got Bears-Vikings audio for a big
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  Speaker 1: chunk of a pivotal moment. Like, what are we doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Well, people wonder with AI, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: that was an AI thing, so I'm not comparing it,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm saying... As we move on and try to
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  Speaker 2: have automated systems more, people wondered like, okay, those things
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  Speaker 2: with less humans on board can have more failures, right?
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, technology has a double-edged sword in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there's two ways to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they've talked about airplanes and cars being based
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  Speaker 2: on the mechanics are more computer now, right? So if
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  Speaker 2: the computer goes down, it becomes a more complicated thing.
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  Speaker 2: So things can still happen. I mean, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: just because technology advances, it also, you know, you try
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  Speaker 2: and streamline systems to make them more convenient, easier to use,
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  Speaker 2: but that has its own, you know, its own pitfalls
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: and perils.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I mean, that's what it is, right?
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's, you know, hopefully that doesn't happen to us,
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: you know, in the near future, but it could happen
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: any day, any time.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Nothing better, though, when equipment was at the most important,
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: level in broadcasting i mean now anybody with a phone
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: can figure it out right like at this point now
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: uh a number of years ago when when i had
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: uh one job while i was looking uh for for
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: some work uh i had i was asked do you
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: have like a home studio with a comrax connection unit
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: absolutely absolutely you let me know of course what to
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: dial into and i will have that done that was
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: a $ 10 app on my phone that made it very,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: very much not good enough. But the video game headset
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: that I also still had in the living room did
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: make it somewhat decent enough so also I didn't have
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: to hold the phone up to my ear to do
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: the whole four-hour radio show. That made it a lot easier.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: But there's a lot of different ways where, hey, man,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: you got to figure it out. You got to fake
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: it until you make it. Well, we've done broadcasts that way.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you have to.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Arming over by the oranges. Yeah, absolutely.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: That was definitely the worst. While you and I were
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: hanging out at Pick and Save... trying to figure out
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: how to go from 11 to two, um, with not
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: just the interference of the internet, but the interference of
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: people just generally wanting to know if it was fixed yet,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: but not being able to fix it makes it difficult
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: to check.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Is it working yet? Right. No working yet. No, it's
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: actually not working yet. Yeah.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: If you notice the sweat on my brow and the, uh,
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: villainous look on my face and the actually exasperated look
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: on armin's face that would signify no it's not working
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: yet but we're figuring it out and we're getting.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: We're trying you just trying to make the best of
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: any situation that's the other thing.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I think we did make the best of it when
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: you were given those deals in the produce aisle that
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: day it.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Was actually a lot of good deals so i was
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: gonna about to grab one of those bags myself and
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: start measuring you know in those anybody still use those
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: things in the produce section those big scales My dad
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: does it, you know, to balance his scale at home,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: to compare it, to make sure it works.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding you right now. Wait a minute.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: To make sure he's getting the broccoli that he paid for? No, no, no.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: The fruit scales, right?
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: My dad has his own scale, you know, because he's
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: a coin collector.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: He's used that scale to compare things that he's weighed
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: at home to make sure his home scale is accurate.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Weighing coins, huh? How do you know? I don't
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: know why. He told me. He's like, oh, yeah, those things.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: As long as the gram thing works, you should be fine.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: That's what I said. I was like, well, aren't those
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: for fruit? That's what you got to be counting. They're
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: not as specific. Sorry, the family busted for meth lab.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: As long as it gets up to like 13.5, then
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: you can make powdery residue on the scales. Yeah, you
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: know my dad. The only pottery resume you're going to
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: find at this house is satar spice. They've got these
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: really small bags. They're for coins, Drew. That's what those
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: small bags are. Those are coin bags. I think he's
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: measuring out his hummus olives. I always call it a dime.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Hummus and olives. All right. We're off and running. A
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: little sluggish today again. I blame the fireworks. That's not parsley, bro.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: That's oregano. I don't want to hear any Katy Perry
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: fireworks songs.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I won't.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I won't. We are in the club, so I'm getting
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: the energy up, but I will not play fireworks.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: It's hot take hump day. We've made it to halftime.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: It's the day before game day, so it's actually kind
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: of Saturday. It's Christmas Eve. Packers home opener tomorrow night
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: against the Falcons. Oh, and by the way, meanwhile, among
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the tired strip club as Brewers lose a game in Philadelphia.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Interesting game. Interesting decisions. That's for sure. Brewers lose and
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: yet still celebrate the fact that they have one of
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the two first round buys. And they have a very
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: solid chance still to finish ahead of the Dodgers and
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: be the number one overall seed. It's all chaos in
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the rest of the standings and much of the playoff bracket.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: We're going to spin through that next. What's going on
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: is crazy. And people who didn't like the expanded playoffs
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: because they thought it would water it down, I've got
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: to say, how do you like me now? Because there
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: is chaos going on outside of the Brewers' kingdom. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: we want to hear from anybody who availed themselves of
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the Brewers' watch party outside on the plaza. Brewers lose
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: last night in the opener of Philadelphia. Is this the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: night that Murph said, win tonight is just a suggestion? Yes.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, is that optional tonight? It
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: just was a weird thing. They started Dustin May on
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: short rest, knowing that it was going to be a
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: short turn, but they want to get him right. They're
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: tuning up. They're using this last week to tune up.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Tinker toys right now. And as it turned out, they
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: lost the game, which was actually a decently compelling game.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: They lose six to four. That was fun, yeah. There
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: was a lot in there. Yeah, there was a lot
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: to chew on in this game. They're down early, and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: it's looking hopeless because they're facing Wheeler, and Wheeler's dealing.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Wheeler strikes out the first seven guys in a miz-like performance.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Which apparently hadn't happened since 1900, which shocks me.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: But they got to Wheeler in the sixth, pushed across
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a couple of runs, and they tie the game. Wheeler
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: ended up going five and two-thirds, struck out 11 guys,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: including the first 70 face, which was daunting. But it
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: wasn't enough. I mean, he had a chance to get them.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: One walk, five hits. Because you're right there, tie the game. Yeah.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: That was the thing about it. Those are the first,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: they squeaked across a run in the fourth and then
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: they tied it with two in the sixth. And then, um,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the burst pitching thing was kind of like, you knew
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: may was going to go short and he did. And
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: then they brought in Kyle Harrison. Try that again. Try
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that to get him straight now and he gives up
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a run in an inning with three hits my man's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: just going through it right now.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: He got the first he got schwarber out now i'm
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: fist pumping now we're going baby now we roll.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I said and then you never gave up and all
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: this stuff and i'm shaking.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: You know in comes the lefty the lefty colton gordon
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: colton gordon the great colton gordon colton gordon Who looked
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: him up? Everybody raise your hand if you looked him up.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: He rolls in, and it's like, okay, well, he's just
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: going to. And he gave them five innings, and he
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: was dominating, pushing. Legit chance to win. He was shoving
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: until he wasn't, until the Phillies scored three runs on
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: him in the eighth.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the Phillies have magic number to worry about to
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: clinch their berth, and they're wondering, who is this.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Guy that's beating us? What is this Gordon that's coming
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: up here? Gordon saved the bullpen.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Wasting our start from Wheeler. five innings. He ends up
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: getting a loss, but the Brewers lose, and then they
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: end up, you know, the Braves lose, and they end
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: up getting, they clinch a bye, which was their next goal.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And the next goal that remains, the only goal that remains,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: is to finish ahead of the Dodgers, which they can do.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers did win last night, right?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Dodgers ended up beating the Padres late into the night.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: So, it's getting wild. Outside of Milwaukee, we've been, you know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: had our feet up and comfortably, the Brewers are trying
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to manipulate things and get everybody fresh and ready, and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: they have their goals in mind. Other teams are still grinding.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: The standings are an absolute mess. A lot of close
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: races out there. The Guardians and White Sox are within
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a game of each other for the lead in the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: AL Central.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: What impresses me about that race is, you know, obviously
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the AL Central has kind of been a struggle all year.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: There's been no great teams.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: But as this race has now heated up the last
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: couple weeks, both teams are winning every game. The Guardians
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: have won six in a row. Sox won three in
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: a row. The White Sox were sliding for a minute.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: They were sliding, and they won three in a row.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So they made everything look decent. Somebody's going to win
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: that division. Somebody has to. Guards are a game up
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: right now. And the White Sox aren't in dire jeopardy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Whoever wins the division obviously is in a better spot
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: than the last wild card team. The Rays clinched last night.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: On the second part of a doubleheader, which, Drew, I
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: was fascinated to see what would happen if they would
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: have won the first game of that doubleheader at Yankee Stadium.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: What do you do then?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Because how do you just hold off on that celebration,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: knowing that I've got to get dressed in this locker
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: room in 20 minutes?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: They did it the right way, vanquishing the Yankees. They
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: are right now six games up on the Yankees in
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the division, so they clinch. The Astros... Just a mess.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: You think the AL Central's a mess? Look at the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: AL West. Hold my beer. Will we get a 500
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: division winner in the West is the question. I'm betting
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the under on that.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Texans and the Astros are both tied at 78 and 79.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: So it's a race. It's fun to watch, but they're
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: not good teams. You can't convince me of that. Now,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's not interesting.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: No. It's going to come down to the last game.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: The Astros and Texas are tied, but the Astros have
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the tiebreaker, so they're basically up one. Yeah, no more
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: game 163 anymore. Cleveland has a one-game lead over the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: White Sox, but Chicago has the tiebreaker. So they got
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to hold off. And so whoever doesn't win is likely
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: going to get in the playoffs in the wild card spot. Yeah, comfortably.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: The Brewers are a game ahead in the standings of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in the race for the best record in
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the number one overall seed. But they own the tiebreaker,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: so it's basically two-game lead with five to play.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: And the Padres are still pushing because they're right now
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: in a neck-and-neck race for the wild card with all
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: three of those teams.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And that's where the real fun is, is the National
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: League wild card race where the Cubs, Phillies, and Padres
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: have identical 87 and 70 records. Now, the Diamondbacks have
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: fallen out. They've won three in a row now. They're
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: four back now, yeah. They're four behind. They're about to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: get eliminated. They're cooked. Yeah, they're cooked. So that's the thing.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Somebody's going to have the home field in this, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: somebody's going to be falling out of favor here. The Cubs, Phillies,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and Padres all tied.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: And somebody's going to have to go play Atlanta and
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: then be on the other side of the bracket. That's
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: one of the most appealing parts of this, of figuring
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: out who is going to finish out in front of who.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: And San Diego has had such a late push that
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: it would almost feel wrong for them to have to
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: go to Atlanta. But then you have a clean opportunity
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: of San Diego, L.A., And we're looking at this of
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: playoff matchups like they do in college football where you
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: start trying to look up the most appealing matchups for television.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: That's the one the networks would definitely like to have.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: As much as Brewers-Cubs is a phenomenal rivalry, that one
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: out west is just as good.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Hate each other and they i mean san diego almost
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: knocked la out of the playoffs what was that two
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: years ago in the nlds i think they were up
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: two games to none if.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken sounds right yeah yeah so when you
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: consider that plus the fact that you might you're gonna
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: well you have yankees red sox you're gonna have some
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: banger rivalries to be uh to be in series here
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: now really quick interesting thing about the nl wild card
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: for me a guy like me that you know you know,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: run differential sometimes because my becomes my God, good reminder
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: that it's not all it's cracked up to be when
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: you have the Cubs Phillies and Padres. I found this interesting.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: All of identical records. Phillies are plus 31 run differential.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Padres are plus 34. The Cubs are plus 146. That
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: is an absurd difference to have the same record.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Absurd.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: It goes to show you that there, there might be
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: some things and I'll admit this, that might've might be
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: flying that, um, that secondary statistic.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: These days it's a snapshot you know.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Well you know you have pitchers you know you know
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: position players pitching and things well of course yeah the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: thing with the brewers and the run differential is that
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: we talked about this on the beyond the booth podcast
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: with wayne lerby and todd rozak was our guest yesterday
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: shameless plug.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Look for where you find the podcast beyond the booth
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: wayne lerby i sit in with him and love todd
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: we talked to todd and tr was we're talking about
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: run differential and i'm like yeah well they had a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: couple of The thing is, the Brewers have had a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: couple of those 20-0 laugher wins where they put up huge,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: huge crooked numbers, and they don't get blown out very much.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: When they lose, it's generally like last night. Even their
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: non-competitive games, they lose like 8-4 or something. They don't get–
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Within the margin, yes. They haven't had many of those
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: where they get beat by 20. They've had one or two, right,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: but not– A lot. No, not a lot.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: And, I mean, even in the one that it looked
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: like it was about to be a runaway, I think
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: they ended up having the tying run on deck against
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the Giants, where they were down like 16-2 at one
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: point and started scrapping through. The other one is, like,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: look at the Pirates. They would be one game out
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: of the wildcard spot in the AL. They've been eliminated
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: for damn near a week.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: A week. Yeah.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: And they'd be in it. And they'd be right.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: In the thick of it and in a shot to
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: be able to get one of these spots. where this
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: has definitely done what baseball was hoping for, made this entertaining,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: and given them at least a fighting chance to grab
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: some more conversation on networks going in this week from
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: the NFL. But the reason why it's captivating is because
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: we've now seen it quickly, Drew, of these teams actually
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: go from the last team in to playing for the title, right?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: It was the Phillies in 22, the Diamondbacks in 23.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: The Nationals? The Nationals in 19.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Now, I mean, that was before the bigger expansion, but
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I mean... The Texas Rangers won 86.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Games a couple of years ago and won the whole thing.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: It was something like that. It was not more than 90,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: was it?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think. Yeah, you're right. You're right. They just
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: got hot. It's just the way it goes.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: But college football folks want to try to convince me
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: that that's what the next expansion will do in college football.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: When you go from 12 to 24, there will be
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: so many better games and so many more opportunities to go.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: You don't have a chance to actually win it if
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: you're the 23rd team in. You actually have a chance
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: if you're the last team in on this one. Baseball
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: is more random.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt. Baseball, if you're playing a five-game series
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and you win game one, you're in the driver's seat.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the odds are, what your record was.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: You're in a good spot. So, Armin, here's your statistical god, though.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: The Brewers and Dodgers atop the baseball world within a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: game of each other, two with the Brewers with the tiebreaker,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: and they have identical run differentials of plus 200. The
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: next best team is the Cubs, plus 146. And then
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, who think they're a World Series contender, even
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: though they just watched their arch rival celebrate on their
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: home field last night. Yankees, plus 134. And then Braves,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: plus 116. That's a pretty big delta between the two
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: top teams and everybody else. I like that word. But
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the bottom of it, the Athletics are the worst. They've
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: sunk well past the Rockies. The Athletics are minus 221.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: As excellent as the Brewers and Dodgers are, They've been
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: worse on the other side. Man, how do you do that?
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Some of the bottom feeders in the American League, especially
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: in the West. How do you do that? Just by
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: having a crappy offense and a bad pitching stat. My goodness.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I want to know is how the Angels have
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: a two-game worse record than them, and their run difference
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: is only minus 89.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I know. But that's even... Yeah, so it's not a
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: tell-all stat. It tells you some stuff. Right, it's not.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: It's an indicator, but you want to talk about a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: culture of losing. And the Rockies, who've been the bottom
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of the barrel... They're minus 182, looking well ahead and
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: laughing in the general direction of the A's, who are
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: minus 221. We don't fully saw. Insane.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: That's why even though, I mean, it's been kind of,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: you know, the AL Central, how about them?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: It's not been dominating.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: I think it's impressive what the White Sox have done
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: because against all odds, they've kind of had this nice season.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: They're going to be in the playoffs. And you can't
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: tell me anyone expected the White Sox to be a
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: playoff team. And, you know, with kind of everything they
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: deal with and ownership and things they don't like, They
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: might even get a new stadium. They might get a
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: new stadium. They might make a playoff run in the
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: American League. I mean, they might make a run. I mean,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: you just don't know. So that part of it is
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: fun about the expanded wild card and the expanded playoffs.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I will admit that is that you do have stories
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: and you do give hope to teams that previously would
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: have not had hope. Now the White Sox had to
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: earn their spot, but even if it wasn't for the central,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: they'll still be comfortably in the wild card. That's just
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: what's so weird about the American league. It's just such
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: an NL heavy league this year, MLB this year. And that's,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: it's just, it goes that way sometimes. But yeah, when
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: you look at some of the bottom feeders as well,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, man, there are really some, some bad teams.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Mike on the talking text line, the remaining five
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: games are going to be like this. Like last night,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: brewers are setting in place the pitching staff, And in effect,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: getting some guys a rest, navigating each guy differently. Other
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: teams are going balls to the wall, trying any which
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: way just to get in. So we're going to see
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Sunday lineups for Milwaukee. Just hope we hit 100. They
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: have to win two more games out of five. The
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: coveted round number and the best overall record. So it's
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: important to our success moving forward. I like that. I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: like that, Mike.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Now, as long as they're going to lock up because
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: the Rays are two games back of them. We were
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: talking to one of our friends at the coffee pot
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: a couple of minutes ago, Drew.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: And just giving them the full lowdown on it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: So as long as they finish out in front of
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: the Rays, then if it is the small market World
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Series that the Players Union is craving.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. They're praying for that to be the case.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: As long as the Brewers finish ahead of them, not
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: only would they have the home field advantage for the NLCS,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: they would also for the World Series, which would be
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: a beautiful thing. Make sure you jump on them tickets quick.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Just make sure you jump on them tickets quick. They
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: were flying there yesterday, and there were a lot of
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: folks left out of the dark. Man, you click a
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: couple of those little circles, you think that you hit
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: buy seats, and all of a sudden, boom, it's going
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: to take you to the portal.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: You got left out in the cold yesterday.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: You're going to need like six devices to make sure
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: you're able to get these World Series tickets when they
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: finally make it.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to have it all spread out
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: like everyone's phone. It's going to be crazy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: You're going to have to look like air traffic control
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: trying to get in there.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I've got to get this in YouTube, Marty Griffin. Morning Fellows,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: am I the only one that thought Colton Gordon looked
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: a bit like Armin?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I think you're the only one. You pack on like
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: 40 pounds. I can see it. I don't know, man.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: You pack on him. Become a lefty and be 6'4
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and put on 40 pounds. Is that like 40 pounds?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I still think Sal Freelick's my doppelganger.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Eight inches, no paws? Yeah, paws. Yeah, you think Sal's
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: your doppelganger. You think Sal's your doppelganger. No one else does.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of also wishing for it. You know, it's like, hey,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: do you guys think I'm a... Did you ever notice
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: back when people would put their doppelganger up like 10
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: years ago?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Grow a mustache and we could call you David Hamilton.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: We can make Armand look like anybody. I was going
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to say, this guy's a little bit of a chameleon.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I worked with a guy years and years and years ago.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I thought I looked like Frank Zombo, the linebacker.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you're way off, buddy. Oh, my. Frank Zombo
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: is like a male model. I was going to say,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I would have taken that one and ran with it.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: In face, but not in body type. No, no, no.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Not in body type. No, not in body type. All right,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: so we spun through it. There's just chaos. I think
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: it's good. Because, again, I grew up in an era
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: when the Brewers would win 97 games or 95 games
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and be in third, fourth place and not even have
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: a sniff. And it's like, oh, they had a bad season. Yeah,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: they won 95 games, and they finished behind the Red
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Sox and Yankees, who were 98 and 100. And, again,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: it adds to what we actually like. We want rings.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: We want championships. And it gives a lot of people
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: a chance. Yeah.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: That's the one thing about the labor strike that we're
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: going to have a lot of time to be able
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: to discuss this year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: You've got a chance. I want to talk about that, too,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: because you mentioned the Players Association probably rooting for that raise.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: They're the only people. The networks probably aren't. All the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: networks would be great baseball. The nerds would love it.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: The Buster Olneys and the Jeff Passans. They'd love the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: change of pace, not having Yankees-Dodgers. The owners and networks
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: want Yankees and Dodgers. No doubt. Praying for it. No doubt.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: But does that indeed help their case? And what is
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the essence of what we're going to be arguing about?
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I hate to look at the cloud, you know, because
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: it's like, let's enjoy the ride here in the brewer's.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Let's say the Brewers win or make it to a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: World Series, and then there's no season next year for
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: them to defend. That's what I'm saying. That would suck.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Go win this thing. Oh, I'm looking at it differently, Drew.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Longest 10 years. Yeah, there you go. Champions of all time.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Celebrate for longer. They'll throw two parades if they don't
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: have a season next year. I don't know, man. Who
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: won a series in 93? Was it the Phillies? No, no,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays beat the Phillies. Blue Jays beat the Phillies. Yeah,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: that was a Joe Carter. Joe Carter, highlight their playing style.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Then there was no series in 94, and so they
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: got to hold it until the end of 95. They
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: got to hold that title again, yes. They got to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: hold it for two years. Palmolive MVP. Yeah. All right,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: we will talk about that when we return. We're also
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: going to dive into, oh, Packers-Falcons, some things to watch,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: some interesting notes. I guess the big drama is, at
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: what point or at all will the Falcons have an
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: offensive snap in the red zone? Because they've not done
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: that in their first two games, which is... For all
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: this run differential talk and stats talk, that is an
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: absolutely stunning stat to play two NFL games and not
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: have a snap in the red zone. And I don't
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: know which one I'd like worse, to not have snaps
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: in the red zone or be as bad as the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Packers have been in the red zone. Yeah. There you
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: have it. Something's got to give. Talk about the duality.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Something's got to give. I think both will change tomorrow.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: We are in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. That's
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: why the stream comments are even better. It has its
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: own life. It has its own little sidebar. It's like AI.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: It's like their own community. It's a little sidebar. For sure.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: All right, so we've been talking about the Brewers and
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the way they're going about things. Dustin May trying to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: tune up. Is he going to be in the rotation?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I would assume so. I got to think he is.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: I got to think he is with some kind of
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: left-handed follow-up option, and that's where I thought the Harrison
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: thing made a little bit of sense yesterday. Now, we
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: talked about it with Drohan maybe being that guy with
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Hunter yesterday, but goodness gracious, they're giving Kyle Harrison every
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: opportunity to grab that life preserver.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Really good. quickly though because it came up the the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: prospect of their shutdown like it's depending on who you
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: talk to i think i don't know most of the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: guys that i know and guys that are covering it
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and talking to owners of they're very pessimistic about baseball
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: next year and the prospects of them overcoming this and
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: that at the very least spring training will be truncated
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: if you for sure if you're planning a trip to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: arizona like arizona florida i'm like There's a lot of
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: pressure points in this and deadline spur actions and stuff.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: And the owners have the bigger war chest and the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: owners are prepared to wait it out. If the owners
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: in the owner's minds are thinking, well, April is not
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a big month for us. We don't do big numbers.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: It's not till school, especially around here. Still school gets out.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: So April was talking about that last night on the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Phillies broadcast. We have to sacrifice April. And then, then
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the players like war chest will dwindle and the players
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: will start to get nervous. And not all players are,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you know, Bryce Harper and stuff. There are guys who
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: live more check to check than, Oh yeah. There's not even,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: we fantasize.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: There's a lot more guys that are making under a
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: million dollars a year than people would give real credit to.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: And the bees generally beat the M's in these conversations.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: No doubt. No doubt. But then it's like, okay, so
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: what does it do if the Dodgers win in the
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: world series and the court of public opinion and in
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: terms of making your case to the people, or what
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: does it do if it's brewers raise or if it's,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you know, And what if it's raised Dodgers or, you know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: if it's Yankees Dodgers, they're going to be like, look,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: see big money teams. But the thing is, and you
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: look at the core, everybody, like the owners are pushing
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: for a salary cap. Players have never had one and
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the game's never really been better. And it's pretty healthy
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: right now. Really good. Without a cap. Really good. What's
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: going on with these playoff races. And we just talked
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: about how crazy it is and it's fun. And yeah,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: there are markets that suck. And the A's are still
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: playing in no man's land. And they're still like, stuff
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to iron out. It's not without its problems. But the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: game is robust and healthy. The turnstiles are clicking. Eyeballs
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: are up. Interest is up. It's holding its own with
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the NFL. So you ask yourself, why the push for
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: a cap? And it's because of the offseason stuff, the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: trade deadline stuff, Scooble, the Dodgers going and getting everybody.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: And that's pissed people off. So there's an appetite for
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: it among fans who say, well, it sucks that we
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: can't keep, like, when the Brewers can't keep Corbin Burns
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: or they did a good job drumming it up with
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the television ads during the MLB broadcast too.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: So it's not one side. There's that, but why else
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: do you think the owners want to have a salary cap? Well,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: it's for a, so when they sell off, they make
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: more money. Yeah. They want to keep, they want to
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: keep more of their money.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Like,