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02/20/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: I'm all for someone huddling if you have something to
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Speaker 2: say right into the.
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Speaker 1: STA's time to wake up and talk about the teams
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Speaker 1: you love. Nobody with the guys you love. It's just
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Speaker 1: about hitting the group together.
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Speaker 3: I need you, you need me today. Let's keep touching
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Speaker 3: each other. Let's make sure we feel each other. Let's
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Speaker 3: make sure we.
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Speaker 1: Smell each other for a watch us on YouTube, Facebook
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Speaker 1: and act.
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Speaker 2: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to correlay with a
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Speaker 3: Take the cameras off the field and.
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Speaker 4: Their final hubble.
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Speaker 1: Now gather around because it's time to huddle up. West Leftlott.
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Speaker 4: We think we watch stick on one ready to be learning.
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Speaker 2: You look at this play. What we're trying to get
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Speaker 2: What you do? He God? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: And they can play be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 2: Punk Is that long enough for you.
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Speaker 4: Watch it to be proud of a professional.
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Speaker 2: It's a great professional about Damn played this ball game
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Speaker 2: like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure.
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Speaker 4: Schmid, Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 4: Armand sorry, don't get scared ready.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air. Got yourself
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Speaker 1: always sank you all right?
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Speaker 5: Strong to the finish hour number three of the huddle.
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Speaker 5: Huddle up, everybody across the state of Wisconsin. It's Fox
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Speaker 5: Sports Radio Wisconsin on Bill Schmid alongside Hunter bombguard in
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Speaker 5: once again for Drew Olson, who will return from a
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Speaker 5: sun splashed I should know this. Costa Rica, no Mexico, Mexico.
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Speaker 4: He was Mexico. Yeah, all one of those. Yes, he's
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Speaker 4: in Mexico. I apologize. Costa Rica is the next trip
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Speaker 4: that bardon me that we go. Yes, I believe that.
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Speaker 4: But we talked about all of them, talk about all
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Speaker 4: the excitement.
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Speaker 5: Listen, it's a great time to go out and enjoy
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Speaker 5: some much deserved and earned time off and Hunter bombguart
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Speaker 5: his work is just beginning. The Milwaukee Brewers baseball begins tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: First televised game coming up on Sunday. Now, this is
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Speaker 5: not technically hunter, correct me if I'm wrong, Arman Sarians
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Speaker 5: here as well. I apologize, not gon o it out
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Speaker 5: one more time. I am so proud of you for
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Speaker 5: making it all the way.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. Now, don't rest on your laurels because we're
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Speaker 4: not done yet. Now, we're not one more hour.
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Speaker 6: Not like that.
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Speaker 5: Just like the hockey team, can't think that the job
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Speaker 5: is finished yet. We still got two games to go.
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Speaker 5: We're not even the gold.
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Speaker 4: Medal one yet, but we can't rest. We're getting close.
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Speaker 5: But this will not be a full Brewer's TV production
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Speaker 5: that we get to see coming up on Sunday, if
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Speaker 5: I'm mistaken. This will be an opposing teams video and
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Speaker 5: call that we will get access to. But we will
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Speaker 5: get to see players playing baseball in Brewers uniforms on
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Speaker 5: television on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Right, if you yes?
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Speaker 1: If you remember, also on FanDuel Bally Fox, they would
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Speaker 1: have the other team's broadcast during spring training games. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: it'd be the Brewers broadcast team, sometimes it'd be the
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Speaker 1: other ones, so they kind of switch off. So Sunday
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Speaker 1: they play the White Sox, you'll see the White Sox
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Speaker 1: broadcast team. Monday they'll play the Padres, you'll see the
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Speaker 1: Padres broadcast team. And then the first one involving the
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Speaker 1: Brewers broadcast team, which will be be a or which
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Speaker 1: will be whoever is calling that game I guess, will
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Speaker 1: be February twenty eighth, a week from tomorrow against the Reds.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, this is going to be basically eight games
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Speaker 1: will be streamed on Brewers TV, which is free with
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Speaker 1: a valid MLB dot Com account in the MLB app and.
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Speaker 4: You don't have to from one again.
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Speaker 1: I read you don't even have to put your credit
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Speaker 1: card in yet, right, I believe that's the trial or
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Speaker 1: get these spring training free ones. To get the spring
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Speaker 1: training free ones, and then obviously you'll you'd have to
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Speaker 1: pay the the Brewers TV subscription for the season, which
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Speaker 1: is ninety nine ninety nine. But then eight additional games
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Speaker 1: will be just live stream to Brewers dot Com. They've
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Speaker 1: done that in years past where they just do the
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Speaker 1: online stream, which is kind of cool, just a different
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Speaker 1: way to do it. So there's going to be, yeah,
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Speaker 1: eight and eight, so that's what sixteen games. That's a
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Speaker 1: significant amount of the schedule.
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Speaker 4: Probably half like if not, if not right about there
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Speaker 4: post half.
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Speaker 5: And you also get certain mounts that are just on
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Speaker 5: the on the radio call, so there'll be a lot
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Speaker 5: of access to Brewers games over the next month. But
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Speaker 5: they'll start playing the greatest strip tease games of all time.
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Speaker 5: Like you think you think NFL preseason is, but now
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Speaker 5: it's not even a tease, right because now you fully
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Speaker 5: know what you're going to see, and it is very
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Speaker 5: much not the pro football that you're generally watching, like
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Speaker 5: the lack of players and any significant players.
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Speaker 4: You will get a little taste of those guys.
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Speaker 5: You'll get a number of Christian Yelich at bats, but
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Speaker 5: you better see the first of the second one because
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Speaker 5: there probably won't be a third, right Like in those games,
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Speaker 5: there'll start being a little bit of a blend in.
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Speaker 5: But I'm int did one hunter if there will be
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Speaker 5: a lot more of the stars playing early, the headline players,
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Speaker 5: frontline players playing earlier because they are going to get
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Speaker 5: ready for the WBC.
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Speaker 4: I think so.
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Speaker 1: I think Joey and Bryce you'll see more of them
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Speaker 1: in the first few games, and then they'll go off
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Speaker 1: to their respective you know, camps, for the World Baseball Classic.
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Speaker 1: I would think that'll happen probably in less than a week,
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Speaker 1: maybe next Wednesday Thursday they head over to their camps
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Speaker 1: for that, So then I would think this weekend and
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Speaker 1: in the next week you'll see more of Ortiz and
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Speaker 1: Tray and then you'll see more obviously when they leave,
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Speaker 1: more the Jet Williams more, the David Hamilton more, the Renheethos,
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Speaker 1: more of the you know, all those guys and the veterans.
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Speaker 1: You know, from what I remember, it's usually it takes
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Speaker 1: a little while for a guy like Yelich to start playing,
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Speaker 1: although they've they've been careful with the back in years past,
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Speaker 1: so interested to see how much Garrett Mitchell plays as
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Speaker 1: well some of these guys who are coming off injury.
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Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell said he's only been cleared for two weeks now.
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Speaker 1: It's good that he's cleared, obviously, like fully cleared, but
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Speaker 1: it has been two weeks, so I have a feeling
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Speaker 1: they're going to be a little cautious. And he also,
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Speaker 1: I know we talked about yeah, right, I would think
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Speaker 1: that it might have been a little earlier. Bought a
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Speaker 1: long injury for him. Yeah, at he's got he's had
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Speaker 1: two shoulder surgeries now, and one of the things he
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Speaker 1: talked to toadd Rosiak about this week was he he's
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Speaker 1: not going to be a different player, but he's going
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Speaker 1: to change a little bit of the way he has.
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Speaker 1: He's going to play because he has to. It's making
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Speaker 1: smarter decisions when diving for balls, diving into bases, maybe
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Speaker 1: sliding feet first more on the bass pass or more
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Speaker 1: in the field. Like he's gonna have to be a
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Speaker 1: little conscious about that, and it's it's unfortunate because you
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Speaker 1: want to play with your hair on fire all the time.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be a significant setback
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Speaker 1: for him, but I'm interested to see how he adjusts
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Speaker 1: to that and if there are any any of those
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Speaker 1: plays in the outfield where it's a oh boy, oh yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: and then there's you know, a little indecision there because
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Speaker 1: it there's that one extra second that goes through your
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Speaker 1: mind of I've had two shoulder surgeries and I don't
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Speaker 1: want to do that again. So I do wonder how
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Speaker 1: much that changes and if that changes him defensively. Offensively,
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Speaker 1: I think he can still be very productive, but.
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Speaker 5: I think it's something to keep it keep I thought
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Speaker 5: the same thing, Hunter, and not like Again, it's not
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Speaker 5: that I have much understanding as to how on earth
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Speaker 5: it would go through your mind or how quickly it can.
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Speaker 5: But I just can't imagine adding thought, right, adding necessary
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Speaker 5: thought in a sport where you're gonna have to make
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Speaker 5: such rash decisions. I don't know that that helps you, however,
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Speaker 5: Like it's it's probably so much more in the planning,
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Speaker 5: and once the lights come on, I think it's gonna
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Speaker 5: be difficult in all reality to change how you've always
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Speaker 5: played the game.
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Speaker 4: Like so maybe it does.
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Speaker 5: Maybe it is a a conscious thing, and you start
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Speaker 5: noticing differences in his play style. But I mean again this,
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Speaker 5: I don't think this might sound this might sound harsh,
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Speaker 5: but I don't know that we've seen enough of him
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Speaker 5: to fully understand and know all of his plays out
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Speaker 5: he might know a lot more of those, like it'll
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Speaker 5: be a lot more of a conscious thing or subconscious
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Speaker 5: though you will I've understood like where I'm starting to
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Speaker 5: make potential concessions, And I don't think I'll be interesting
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Speaker 5: to follow up with him throughout the year with.
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Speaker 1: For sure, And you you look at his Jack Stern
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Speaker 1: pointed this out yesterday. Who's there down in spring training
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Speaker 1: for Buru fanatic right now? His betting stance is different.
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Speaker 1: He actually has his hands higher than they were in
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Speaker 1: his final game last year, which is obviously very early
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Speaker 1: in the year. But you've seen a little bit of
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Speaker 1: adjustment in that. What that has to do with I'm
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Speaker 1: sure someone will ask him. Maybe we'll get that information
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Speaker 1: here soon. But you've seen, you know, a little bit
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Speaker 1: of adjustments. Everybody has a little bit right when you
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Speaker 1: come into spring training and trying to tweak some things.
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Speaker 1: So that's one of them that we've already seen with Mitchell.
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Speaker 5: You feel bad for a guy that has to go
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Speaker 5: through all those difficulties in your career. Now, first off, handsome.
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Speaker 4: Son of a gun. That dude looks like Bradley Cooper
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Speaker 4: these days. Did he look cool? Yes, that's why he
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Speaker 4: just has the star power like I just I does.
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Speaker 6: He can be the matinee idol that There's no doubt
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Speaker 6: about it, and that's why it's frustrating.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, it's the talent. I mean, he's had so much talent,
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Speaker 4: so much potential.
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Speaker 6: It's frustrating to see him struggle with the injuries and
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Speaker 6: stuff and and the other thing I think about when
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Speaker 6: you talk about changing your game, you don't want to
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Speaker 6: take away from the real heart of what you do.
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Speaker 6: You don't want to have to start thinking about things
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Speaker 6: out there in the field. You know totally if his
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Speaker 6: talent and superpower as natural ability was tied up in
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Speaker 6: some of those things, I guess you worry about that still.
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Speaker 4: But he needs time.
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Speaker 6: He needs time to play, to stay healthy, to play
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Speaker 6: for a while, to see what he can do, not
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Speaker 6: just for two weeks in a stratch, in for three.
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Speaker 4: He needs to day right right.
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Speaker 6: He needs time to be entrench at a position, staying
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Speaker 6: healthy and playing for a while.
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Speaker 4: That's the biggest thing for him right now.
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Speaker 5: Do you think that there's a possibility that he actually
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Speaker 5: that he's the everyday guy out there or like, do
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Speaker 5: you think that there's a a hard job for him
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Speaker 5: to fully earn that many reps? Other because you also
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Speaker 5: are playing Blake Perkins off the spot, right.
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Speaker 1: You are, so I think, hmm, yeah, I mean maybe
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Speaker 1: it depends on how spring goes. I I I would
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Speaker 1: like it. I think it's going to be I don't know,
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Speaker 1: Like there's been times where he's played less than we
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Speaker 1: think and when he's been healthy. And see, that's a
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Speaker 1: really good point. And that's why I'm starting to think
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Speaker 1: of there's a lot more Mitchell in this lineup. Like
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Speaker 1: we've we've asked that question before.
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Speaker 5: Just rolls for a two for four, day off of
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Speaker 5: for five with a bomb, and all of a sudden
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Speaker 5: you're sitting like, Okay, maybe that's just the cooler Craig
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Speaker 5: council at work. But I think you've seen it more
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Speaker 5: times than now. You're right, just the the day in
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Speaker 5: and day out in the lineup, and maybe that's something
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Speaker 5: of where you are trying to protect him from himself
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Speaker 5: a little bit. But at some point you do need
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Speaker 5: to know what the player and what the asset is
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Speaker 5: and like there's there's got to be some kind of
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Speaker 5: let him run and see what he can do vibe
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Speaker 5: to it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's gonna be some easing into it
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Speaker 1: a little kind of like Yellich we saw a little
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Speaker 1: bit last year or whenever. You know, these these guys
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Speaker 1: need to be eased into it, but you also have
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Speaker 1: that's what spring training is for. So I hope that
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Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell plays, you know, a significant amount and regularly
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Speaker 1: into the season, but I just will.
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Speaker 4: Have to see it to believe it. Kind of Ye,
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Speaker 4: fans are that spot too, especially with not just.
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Speaker 1: Because the injury, just because what because number one, I mean,
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Speaker 1: because Blake Berkin is a good baseball player, is really
10:59
Speaker 1: good defensively, and we all know how much Pat Murphy
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Speaker 1: likes him and so and the organization as a whole.
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Speaker 1: So I and uh, we'll see what a keel bado
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Speaker 1: how much playing time he gets his ball? Yeah, right, exactly.
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Speaker 5: So coming over when Shambi says it in MLB the show, like,
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Speaker 5: you know, it just sounds good. It sounds good. I'm
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Speaker 5: excited to be able to see and hear that in
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Speaker 5: a Brewer's uniform. But you know, Eric hits us up
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Speaker 5: on the talking text line, I'm just worried about Garrett
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Speaker 5: Mitchell this year. If he has another injury, we just
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Speaker 5: need to start a public career search for him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you might have to.
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Speaker 5: As the old NCAA commercial said, time to go throwing
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Speaker 5: something other than sports. Like I think Garrett Mitchell is
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Speaker 5: still a little ways away from that because the potential
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Speaker 5: will always be there and we'll get him an opportunity.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it is.
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Speaker 5: No one was breaking news to Garrett Mitchell when he
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Speaker 5: spoke yesterday. He knows it more than anybody. This is
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Speaker 5: the the year for his career, right like, this is
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Speaker 5: a this is a career turn time for him and
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Speaker 5: I I personally hope the best for him. Uh and
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Speaker 5: again you're you're right, Hundre, he's got the star power.
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Speaker 5: Now maybe again it's just the kid's so handsome. It's
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Speaker 5: just so unfair. Manil is there in front of the
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Speaker 5: n you said it online, he looked like Bradley Coo,
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Speaker 5: like a mops.
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Speaker 1: Like Ron a little bit like there's just there's you know,
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Speaker 1: there's Yeah, there's it's in there. He's got two more
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Speaker 1: years of control after this year, so he's he's under
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Speaker 1: control through twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 4: But as that beard, he's going the beard in more,
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Speaker 4: you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Let me ask you a maybe really dumb sports question,
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Speaker 5: and maybe I'm like Brad Pitton moneyball, where I'm asking
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Speaker 5: around Washington, how hard is.
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Speaker 4: It to play for? It's not that hard, it's incredible.
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Speaker 4: It's incredibly hard.
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Speaker 5: One of these guys go over and play first base,
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Speaker 5: Like if Andrew Vaughan does not continue to stay in Milwaukee, right,
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Speaker 5: now that one's all that is a little bit of
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Speaker 5: a wrench into the plan Brewers having a first basement
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Speaker 5: that they had last year.
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Speaker 4: That's a brand new type.
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Speaker 6: And I don't think it's just if he stays in
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Speaker 6: trench there, like you know, he has to stay effective there.
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Speaker 4: That's the next question.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, because I'm listening to Bryce Harper the last
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Speaker 5: couple of days he was on with the Bustle with
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Speaker 5: the Boys guys, and and he famously made a move
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Speaker 5: from now he was started as a catcher.
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Speaker 4: Sports illustrated as his sixteen year old, sixteen.
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Speaker 5: Year old quitting high school to go play college baseball
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Speaker 5: and use a wood bat and like I'm gonna be
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Speaker 5: a study and kind of ish and then go to
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Speaker 5: the outfield and now, and you know, Bryce Harper, rather
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Speaker 5: sure of himself, was like people questioned if I could
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Speaker 5: play first base. When I'm in my negotiations, I told
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Speaker 5: teams I can play first base. They're like, can you
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Speaker 5: really play first base? And now I'm top three in
13:42
Speaker 5: Gold Glove every year, Like shocking how that happens? Like
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Speaker 5: I do wonder if there is a possibility for we
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Speaker 5: always talk about yellli.
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Speaker 4: I feel like that's always the easiest name to it.
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Speaker 4: If he was gonna do it by now, I think he.
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Speaker 3: Would have Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't think yeah because he's tall, though, I mean
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Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense.
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Speaker 5: Tall makes sense. I feel like we've been talking about
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Speaker 5: before years. It just seems like we've been talking about
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Speaker 5: it forever. Now, listen, you're not doing Jackson Curio is
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Speaker 5: twenty one years old. He's not moving. Sal Frielick's a
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Speaker 5: gold Glover. They're trying to move in to a third base.
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Speaker 5: He ain't playing first base at five foot eight, But like,
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Speaker 5: would there be a possibility that one of these guys
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Speaker 5: could make a move of a position that we're not
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Speaker 5: thinking of, because it does still feel like as much
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Speaker 5: as we're noticing this logjam of young players on the
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Speaker 5: left side, and you know, Redifo might be a little
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Speaker 5: bit more of a Scott stop gap and some pressures
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Speaker 5: on due Joey Ortiz.
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Speaker 4: Is there anything else anybody else?
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Speaker 5: Give us some pressure to Andrew Vaughan because, like Arman said,
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Speaker 5: you do still need to produce there even though are exciting.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Bowers, is this forgot about? Jake Bower is
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Speaker 1: a significant factor here. I think and and I think
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Speaker 1: people like him. I think he's he's I love him
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Speaker 1: in the role that he's been in because he's really
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Speaker 1: good off the bench and he can come in in
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Speaker 1: any situation and be ready. The playoffs, he was huge,
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Speaker 1: totally absolutely home run at Wrigley, I think yes. So
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Speaker 1: I do think there's gonna be some platooning there. I
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Speaker 1: don't think Vaughan is you know, six out of seven days.
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Speaker 1: I think it's if there's a righty on the mound,
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Speaker 1: Jake Bowers might just be in that lineup so as
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Speaker 1: and we'll and obviously Vaughan will if he if he
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Speaker 1: tears the cover off the ball or if Jake Bowers
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Speaker 1: tears the cover off the ball, one of them will
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Speaker 1: get maybe more playing time against those other sides of
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Speaker 1: the pitchers, so to speak. But I do think that
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Speaker 1: that puts some pressure on Andrew vaugh which could be
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Speaker 1: good and push him to be even better.
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Speaker 4: But I do think that is.
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Speaker 1: Going to be not necessarily even I would say Vaughn
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Speaker 1: will probably play a little more, but Jake Bower is
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Speaker 1: going to be a factor at first Now.
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Speaker 5: Jake Bowers has the uh the incredible ability to whenever
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Speaker 5: the pressure is on and whenever you're really wondering when
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Speaker 5: they're going to get somebody else and potentially send him down.
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Speaker 4: Talking about bombs and forty.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, when whenever the Brewers actually, yeah, whenever he needs
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Speaker 6: it the most for his career, he always has a
16:01
Speaker 6: big stretch, had that big monster moment, you know against
16:05
Speaker 6: the Mets. You know we didn't hit a homer again
16:07
Speaker 6: in Game three against the Mets, too, am I going crazy?
16:09
Speaker 6: The one right before he hit the one right before soul, right,
16:11
Speaker 6: so you hit them to go at homer. It was
16:13
Speaker 6: huge against the Cubs. You know, he does have that
16:15
Speaker 6: that kind of flare for the dramatic in that spot
16:17
Speaker 6: where you I remember saying last year, we can't take
16:19
Speaker 6: Bowers out of the lineup in the playoffs, so you
16:21
Speaker 6: got to give him a shot to do something. So
16:23
Speaker 6: you're right, Billy, when when he needs it the most
16:25
Speaker 6: for his career, does feel like when anyone tries to
16:27
Speaker 6: tell him about going prone some other than sports, it's like, no, no, no,
16:30
Speaker 6: I'm want to say my career real quick. Yeah, fine, okay, fine,
16:33
Speaker 6: I guess I'll get serious on this act test.
16:35
Speaker 4: All right, let's go, and then he does it, So
16:38
Speaker 4: I don't think it's out of the realm.
16:39
Speaker 6: But you know, a lot of times in sports we
16:42
Speaker 6: get wrapped up and I think in the in the
16:45
Speaker 6: logical trap of when a guy played well last year,
16:48
Speaker 6: that means he's a finished product to perform like that
16:50
Speaker 6: every year. Sure, it's still fair to say, we don't
16:52
Speaker 6: know if Andrew Band can consistently absolutely what he's done, right,
16:56
Speaker 6: So it's good to have the other option in Bowers
16:57
Speaker 6: at first base. But down the road may might be
17:00
Speaker 6: somebody else. It's hard to you know, hard to say,
17:02
Speaker 6: but it sure seems like especially when you start playing
17:05
Speaker 6: fantasy baseball and you think of all the great guys
17:07
Speaker 6: that Brewers have coming up in the minor league, rags
17:09
Speaker 6: abilities guys. I was like, well, maybe one of these
17:11
Speaker 6: guys and we put them at first base and we
17:13
Speaker 6: can have this super team.
17:14
Speaker 5: Like that's how that's how you always think of it.
17:16
Speaker 5: My buddy uh plays this baseball simulator computer game.
17:20
Speaker 3: Again.
17:20
Speaker 4: I got some really cool friends.
17:21
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I knew those games were big, Like ten
17:24
Speaker 6: twenty years ago, people were still playing those. Apparently they're
17:27
Speaker 6: way better now, like because of the advance, would say, I,
17:30
Speaker 6: and like, apparently it's pretty solid.
17:32
Speaker 5: I remember Buddy loved that stuff. Yeah, my man's moved
17:35
Speaker 5: like four different guys into positions.
17:36
Speaker 4: So, like I'm interested to see, he said.
17:38
Speaker 5: William Contreras's first base run was pretty spectacular. I don't
17:42
Speaker 5: know we get to see at Milwaukee, but like I
17:44
Speaker 5: just I do wonder if that's a spot because we
17:46
Speaker 5: look at so many different players. Fisher Wilkin both are
17:50
Speaker 5: over at third base. You know, if both of those
17:52
Speaker 5: guys hit, only one can hit over at third base, so.
17:55
Speaker 4: Maybe one would bump over.
17:56
Speaker 5: And maybe that's a future uque conversation to have. But
17:59
Speaker 5: for the competitive window of this year, they got a
18:02
Speaker 5: lot of bats that you want to get in the
18:04
Speaker 5: lineup in that outfield you do, it will be interesting
18:07
Speaker 5: to see how they're able to do it on a
18:08
Speaker 5: day in and day out basis.
18:09
Speaker 6: As Chris and the Benn says in the text line,
18:10
Speaker 6: first base seems like a decent spot for a guy
18:12
Speaker 6: with shoulder issues who shouldn't be diving for balls in
18:15
Speaker 6: the outfield anymore.
18:16
Speaker 5: That was why the name kan, that was why I
18:17
Speaker 5: thought about h Like, I mean, if Garrett Mitchell would
18:20
Speaker 5: need to chill himself out on some of those like Hey,
18:24
Speaker 5: pretty pretty athletic. I think you could pick a baseball
18:26
Speaker 5: pretty well, right like I think I think he might
18:28
Speaker 5: be able to backhand stab very very well.
18:31
Speaker 4: And you want a.
18:31
Speaker 6: Friendly guy at first base, remember Sean Casey, I think
18:34
Speaker 6: the mayor the mayor. You want a friendly guy at
18:36
Speaker 6: first base that's gonna make everyone approachable.
18:38
Speaker 3: Guy.
18:38
Speaker 4: I think he's that guy from the Brewers.
18:40
Speaker 6: You know, your posting guys get the first base, they
18:42
Speaker 6: get relaxed a little bit because they're talking to this
18:44
Speaker 6: nice guy, good looking guy. You know, Oh wow, I'm
18:46
Speaker 6: not gonna play this hard now. You made me feel
18:48
Speaker 6: good about myself. You know, you're a friendly guy. You know,
18:50
Speaker 6: there's a little subconscious I believe in that currently joke,
18:53
Speaker 6: but I kind of believe.
18:54
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, but currently the Brewers have a guy
18:56
Speaker 5: that might make everybody remember like their grade school jan.
19:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that's true.
19:01
Speaker 3: You do have that.
19:02
Speaker 5: Like I mean, if you put fifteen keys on a
19:04
Speaker 5: ring and put it on Andrew Vaughan's pants, when he
19:07
Speaker 5: takes that hat off and the thinning right there in
19:09
Speaker 5: the middle, you're gonna tell me that he was not,
19:11
Speaker 5: you know, being able to move out the folding cafeteria
19:15
Speaker 5: tables before the dance in the cafeteria later that night.
19:18
Speaker 6: That's right, gets gets the Carhart and Dicky's discounts for
19:21
Speaker 6: the pants and stuff like that. Yeah, you know, they
19:24
Speaker 6: always talk about how the catcher is the future man
19:27
Speaker 6: catchers the smartest guy in the field. It always seems
19:29
Speaker 6: like the first basement is the friendliest guy in the field.
19:31
Speaker 6: I don't know if that's just a coincidence or what.
19:33
Speaker 4: I don't know.
19:33
Speaker 5: I just thought of that, Bryce Harper did say, and
19:35
Speaker 5: I had not thought of first base, uh brought into
19:38
Speaker 5: this way or thought of this way, and it was
19:40
Speaker 5: it was an interesting one. He goes, My job is
19:42
Speaker 5: to make everybody else as good as they can be,
19:45
Speaker 5: right like, Because if I don't scoop the ball that
19:48
Speaker 5: I probably could get, he gets an error. I don't,
19:51
Speaker 5: right like, So if he is going to have the
19:53
Speaker 5: best fielding percentage, I need to be good for him.
19:56
Speaker 4: That's true. That's a good point. I mean, that's a you.
19:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're kind of doing it for your teammates at
20:01
Speaker 1: that point, and especially if you make a move to
20:04
Speaker 1: first base, and obviously it helps your career because it
20:06
Speaker 1: can prolong it if you're late in your career Matt
20:10
Speaker 1: City Bruce saying Yellis should be a full time DH
20:12
Speaker 1: and maybe play outfield if needed.
20:15
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I think.
20:16
Speaker 1: That's where most especially totally, especially because you have that
20:21
Speaker 1: much talent in the outfield. I would think that Yelich
20:24
Speaker 1: plays most of the time, just like last year he played.
20:26
Speaker 1: I would think he played mostly. Yeah, he played most
20:27
Speaker 1: of the time at DHU. Maybe play outfield here and
20:30
Speaker 1: there if needed, but he I would think he is
20:33
Speaker 1: going to be the DH. And if the DH wouldn't
20:35
Speaker 1: have come to the National League, I wonder if we
20:37
Speaker 1: maybe would have seen Yealis try a first base move
20:40
Speaker 1: at some point, But since the DH is in the
20:42
Speaker 1: National League, there's really no need to move him there.
20:44
Speaker 5: I'm fascinated to see if if as locked in the
20:48
Speaker 5: corner spots are as I think they should be. Right,
20:51
Speaker 5: Maybe you just let Sal Freelick be a gold Glove
20:53
Speaker 5: calider right fielder, yep, and you let Jackson Curio be
20:57
Speaker 5: a left fielder and figure it out and you just
20:58
Speaker 5: get better.
20:59
Speaker 3: Right.
20:59
Speaker 4: He's twenty one year old going on twenty two.
21:01
Speaker 5: I saw some ridiculousness of people saying I think I
21:04
Speaker 5: need to see more from him. I think maybe you
21:06
Speaker 5: need to watch him as a six plus war player
21:09
Speaker 5: in two years. He's twenty one years old, he's got
21:11
Speaker 5: two twenty twenty seasons. Go off, Bill, Yeah, I mean,
21:13
Speaker 5: come on now, like my guy, just let me be smarter.
21:17
Speaker 5: Like I like, maybe we just be smarter.
21:19
Speaker 1: I think this conversation, this is the point though, you know,
21:22
Speaker 1: third year in the league where he could really take off,
21:24
Speaker 1: and this where you could really see that really high
21:27
Speaker 1: ceiling that he is thirty to one.
21:28
Speaker 5: At the Potawatami Sportsbook to win the MVP. Now that
21:30
Speaker 5: isn't a one is in a league that show Tani
21:33
Speaker 5: exists in.
21:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
21:35
Speaker 5: Show he is gonna only be able to play about
21:37
Speaker 5: one hundred games for that award to be anybody else's.
21:39
Speaker 1: But we'll see, we'll see. I need the Bill Belichick
21:41
Speaker 1: era for coaches, you know, where it's like we need
21:44
Speaker 1: we need some voter fatigue. We need people to get
21:47
Speaker 1: Otani fatigue. And uh, I don't know that that one's
21:49
Speaker 1: gonna happen. However, we'll be here all year to be
21:52
Speaker 1: able to see if it does.
21:53
Speaker 6: You are correct, and for people wondering an issue and
21:55
Speaker 6: you get you know how we are in this market
21:57
Speaker 6: about contracts and money, wondering about the money's war. He
22:00
Speaker 6: has been his money's worth so far this year in
22:03
Speaker 6: his career. Give me the money's worth. The r o
22:05
Speaker 6: I is pretty good, definitely, it is if you look
22:07
Speaker 6: at the way the market rate is for wins and
22:09
Speaker 6: things like that.
22:09
Speaker 5: Little guy was wanting to watch some baseball games. The
22:12
Speaker 5: most electric moments of the season. Guys, I know what happened.
22:17
Speaker 5: It happened in the moment that son of a gun
22:19
Speaker 5: through ten had ten strikeouts and three home runs against
22:23
Speaker 5: us in that game. Four.
22:25
Speaker 4: Wow, that's disgusting. You can't do that in MLB the show.
22:29
Speaker 4: He did it to go to the world. That's disgusting.
22:31
Speaker 4: That's disgusting. So that was unfair. That was unfair. Now
22:34
Speaker 4: we're gonna play baseball hopefully, when you.
22:36
Speaker 1: Know, when when Otani hit the home run off Chair
22:41
Speaker 1: Patrick in the NLCS, they heard Chad Patrick interviewed and
22:43
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, that ball that I threw to
22:47
Speaker 1: him had been a rollover the first or the right
22:49
Speaker 1: side of the infield, Like every time I threw that
22:51
Speaker 1: pitch and then put in the l a night, he's.
22:54
Speaker 4: A different was unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, Chad Patrick look on
22:58
Speaker 4: his bagage. He's like, well I tried.
23:01
Speaker 1: He's like, I didn't even look at it.
23:02
Speaker 4: I didn't even look at it.
23:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, I packed Boss Dobbler, Welcome home, Billy wish
23:08
Speaker 6: Hunter could be on every day. Absolutely, and not only that.
23:11
Speaker 6: Let's hear for Dobbler with the picture change. He's got
23:13
Speaker 6: a picture up now.
23:14
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, is that a Byron Munich kit? Looks like,
23:20
Speaker 4: all right, let's ride. That's what I'm talking about. Eight
23:21
Speaker 4: seven seven seven nine four one nine seven three.
23:24
Speaker 5: On the other side, we talked some Badgers basketball, maybe
23:28
Speaker 5: a ticket football, also a lot of road at night.
23:30
Speaker 5: When we are joined by the voice of the Wisconsin Badgers,
23:33
Speaker 5: Matt lape He huddles with us next Voice of the
23:36
Speaker 5: Wisconsin Badgers on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Right after this,
23:49
Speaker 5: even though I don't know, there were a lot of
23:51
Speaker 5: Badger alums at the Margaritaville Resort in Fort Myers when
23:55
Speaker 5: this thing came home. People were jumping at the pool
23:58
Speaker 5: and all I could think is they were reming of
24:00
Speaker 5: Matt Leapey given a touchdown Wisconsin with the Badgers going
24:03
Speaker 5: up thirty one fourteen at home. Yes, you know insert
24:08
Speaker 5: whatever upon it could be Western Neillan, oh, I could
24:11
Speaker 5: could be Michigan, whatever it wanted is, whoever it is,
24:14
Speaker 5: we will be excited whenever the Badgers are taking one
24:17
Speaker 5: of those big leads.
24:17
Speaker 4: Michigan State could be an interesting one. Very excited for it.
24:19
Speaker 4: Matt Lapey joins us now on the huddle.
24:21
Speaker 5: I'm Billy Hunter bombguard in for Drew Rols and there's
24:24
Speaker 5: armand sorry and not going ode out for one more
24:26
Speaker 5: half hour. As the Winter Olympics conclude this weekend. Matt Lapey,
24:30
Speaker 5: appreciate the time as always, and I'm excited for you
24:35
Speaker 5: to be before we talk about the team on the
24:37
Speaker 5: floor and everything that's happening out. Very excited for the
24:42
Speaker 5: continued release and more people to get their eyes on
24:46
Speaker 5: a road at night, and even more excited for you
24:49
Speaker 5: to be in the greater Milwaukee area coming up for
24:53
Speaker 5: a viewing and a post viewing discussion coming up tomorrow.
24:57
Speaker 5: Love that more people are going to get an eye
24:58
Speaker 5: on this, and very very thankful for you to be
25:01
Speaker 5: making the trip up here coming up tomorrow afternoon.
25:03
Speaker 3: Well, the crowds have been great here in Madison. They've
25:07
Speaker 3: extended the run here in Madison for a road at night.
25:10
Speaker 3: I mean the theaters were patched last weekend. They've continued
25:14
Speaker 3: that way from what I understand. And then tonight but
25:17
Speaker 3: it's Patrick Kurb, Durell Moore, Howard's son, and Charlie Wills,
25:21
Speaker 3: a former Badger, will be there. And then tomorrow the
25:24
Speaker 3: screening is at four with the with the panel to
25:28
Speaker 3: follow at the at the Majestic Cinema, Brookfield, and then
25:32
Speaker 3: it'll be Ben Brust, who was recruited by Howard. It'll
25:37
Speaker 3: be part of the story that Ben will tell. And
25:39
Speaker 3: Brian Bulletch, who played when Howard was on O. Ryan's staff.
25:44
Speaker 3: So it's as we said multiple times because it's true,
25:48
Speaker 3: it's very emotional. And what some of the feedback I've
25:51
Speaker 3: had from those who have been in attendance is at
25:54
Speaker 3: the end of the movie, there they're drained. You know,
25:57
Speaker 3: you don't know what to do. And I think when
25:59
Speaker 3: you're there, when they're our panels, it can help some.
26:02
Speaker 3: But it's just it's so powerful, it's so it's important.
26:06
Speaker 3: I mean, is it a grab, you know, grab the
26:07
Speaker 3: popcorn and sit back. I wouldn't put it in that category.
26:11
Speaker 3: It's just a really important movie and you know, you'll
26:15
Speaker 3: probably cry a little bit, but hopefully you'll you'll walk
26:18
Speaker 3: out of there feeling pretty good about some of the
26:21
Speaker 3: best in people that have come out. And then, nearly
26:24
Speaker 3: seven years after that accident.
26:25
Speaker 6: Well, sometimes sorry that those are Sometimes those are the
26:28
Speaker 6: better experiences you want to talk about, deciding whether to
26:30
Speaker 6: come out and see it, and those type of things.
26:32
Speaker 6: You know, sometimes those are the most in a weird way,
26:35
Speaker 6: enjoyable experiences because you're moved, and you feel fulfilled by
26:39
Speaker 6: being moved by emotion and in those sense, and and
26:42
Speaker 6: you you get lessons of perseverance and and the enduring
26:46
Speaker 6: power of friendship and brotherhood that you you you maybe
26:50
Speaker 6: needed or didn't feel like you you thought about until
26:52
Speaker 6: you saw it again. So in a weird way, Jimmy,
26:56
Speaker 6: Jimmy ve sent it right in a speech. It's three
26:58
Speaker 6: things that we should do every day. Yeah, every day.
27:00
Speaker 6: Number one, laugh, you should always laugh every day. Number
27:02
Speaker 6: two you should think. And number three you should have emotions.
27:05
Speaker 6: You should be moved to tears, you should laugh, you
27:06
Speaker 6: should think, and you should cry. And that's a full dime.
27:08
Speaker 4: And I've heard people talk.
27:09
Speaker 6: About it like the act of being sad and crying
27:11
Speaker 6: is not necessarily, on the surface level, a enjoyable thing
27:15
Speaker 6: in the moment, but it can make you feel better
27:17
Speaker 6: in certain ways, from being fulfilled and from what it means.
27:20
Speaker 6: And it has like this Cathark experience. So I would
27:22
Speaker 6: encourage people they can to go see it for those reasons.
27:25
Speaker 6: Don't don't avoid it because you're afraid of a sad feeling,
27:28
Speaker 6: you know, look for the look for the positives, look
27:30
Speaker 6: for the silver linings, and look for the reasons, to
27:33
Speaker 6: look for a deeper kind of meaning and things like that.
27:36
Speaker 6: So it sounds like this documentary provides all those things.
27:40
Speaker 3: It does. I mean, we all know that we live
27:41
Speaker 3: in a world right now where everybody's mad at everybody, yes,
27:44
Speaker 3: you know, and we can't agree that the sunsets in
27:47
Speaker 3: the West or that today is Friday. This movie is
27:50
Speaker 3: the opposite of that. This is where you see under
27:54
Speaker 3: you know, we've mentioned this before, under the very worst
27:56
Speaker 3: of circumstances, you see people at their best, and continue
28:00
Speaker 3: to see that to this day with the crowds that
28:04
Speaker 3: have been you know, in the theaters here in Madison,
28:08
Speaker 3: and what we hope and believe will be over in
28:11
Speaker 3: your area over there at Brookfield, So yeah, it's one
28:17
Speaker 3: of those. And just to see all the former players
28:20
Speaker 3: and fellow coaches and who have come out and here
28:23
Speaker 3: in Madison, some of the other teams have been out.
28:26
Speaker 3: The volleyball team came out earlier this week. I think
28:29
Speaker 3: the softball team has been out for meet and greets,
28:32
Speaker 3: but show and support because there isn't anybody on those
28:36
Speaker 3: teams or you know, we're talking college age, it's you know,
28:40
Speaker 3: how this happened before they were in school, but they
28:44
Speaker 3: understand the story. The basketball team, the current basketball team
28:47
Speaker 3: was there last Thursday night for the premiers, So you
28:50
Speaker 3: see support from all different directions and it's just been
28:54
Speaker 3: heartwarming to witness.
28:56
Speaker 5: We talk about family in sports so much and it
29:00
Speaker 5: embodies that to a different level. Matt, And I think
29:04
Speaker 5: like when I think of team and you think of
29:06
Speaker 5: the people that mean the most to you, a lot
29:09
Speaker 5: of them and the people that went through stuff with
29:11
Speaker 5: you and to be able to see I love that
29:13
Speaker 5: and I would I mean I would urge any team
29:15
Speaker 5: in high school team that they would be able to Again,
29:17
Speaker 5: like you mentioned, it's the heavy thing. It is a
29:19
Speaker 5: very very heavy moment and it's something that deserves and frankly,
29:24
Speaker 5: it's appropriate to have discussion after because if you don't,
29:27
Speaker 5: I don't know that you're fully grabbing, you know, grabbing
29:30
Speaker 5: and grasping everything that happened. And it's something that I
29:34
Speaker 5: would really really urge a lot of coaches to be
29:36
Speaker 5: able to have their their teams talking because we talk
29:37
Speaker 5: about culture and there's buzzwords and love and family and
29:42
Speaker 5: when you need those that love you the most, when
29:45
Speaker 5: you're at your absolute lowesst This is a remarkable story
29:50
Speaker 5: of those galvanizing and celebrating and being around somebody that
29:53
Speaker 5: they all From what we've heard from everybody that's spoken
29:56
Speaker 5: to us about the story, Matt, they said if this
29:59
Speaker 5: was one of us, Howard would have led the charge
30:02
Speaker 5: for all of us.
30:03
Speaker 3: Yeah. The interesting thing here, and I've thought about this
30:05
Speaker 3: a lot, particularly with the with the documentary being out
30:09
Speaker 3: there again, is like the normal progression of life is
30:13
Speaker 3: that you know, when you're in college age, you're a
30:15
Speaker 3: certain way and as you get older, you get more mature. Theoretically,
30:20
Speaker 3: I'm still waiting for that one. Yeah, I'm working on
30:22
Speaker 3: that myself. But Howard is one of those who got
30:24
Speaker 3: to write the first time he would ask you in college,
30:27
Speaker 3: how are you doing? And he's not asking you that
30:29
Speaker 3: as he's as he keeps walking. It's not a dry
30:32
Speaker 3: by question. He wants to know, and he seems he
30:34
Speaker 3: would know, particularly with teammates, if things weren't quite right. Hey,
30:39
Speaker 3: come on over. There's a there's a part of the
30:42
Speaker 3: documentary where Andandy Kilbrid was struggling and and Howard said, Hey,
30:46
Speaker 3: come on over it let me let me cut your hair.
30:48
Speaker 3: And Andy was saying, well, I don't have any hair,
30:51
Speaker 3: but it was I don't have a lot of hair
30:53
Speaker 3: right now, but come on over anyway, because Howard sensed,
30:57
Speaker 3: you know, it could sense that something is up by
31:00
Speaker 3: the way to see him. And I think I mentioned
31:02
Speaker 3: this last Friday. Howard was there for the reception at
31:06
Speaker 3: the premiere last Thursday, and you know, he was so
31:10
Speaker 3: excited to see everybody, but as I think Andy Kilbright said,
31:14
Speaker 3: he was even more thrilled, like it lifted Howard to
31:17
Speaker 3: this day is lifting up others and that's just that's
31:20
Speaker 3: who he is. As Stambay and Gunny is saying, the
31:23
Speaker 3: line of the documentary is there are exceptional people and
31:25
Speaker 3: then there's Howard Moore and that is that's a fact
31:28
Speaker 3: that's done an exaggeration that is absolute truth by one
31:32
Speaker 3: of the pastors, as he says in the documentary.
31:35
Speaker 5: I love it and to be able to see it.
31:37
Speaker 5: I'm very very excited that it's coming out this way.
31:40
Speaker 5: And frankly, the more people negotiate it, it needs to
31:42
Speaker 5: be in more theaters and we'll continue to as more
31:45
Speaker 5: people go to it. So I'm very very excited to
31:49
Speaker 5: be able to see it now. And the Majestic Theater
31:51
Speaker 5: is a beautiful, beautiful spot. What also is a beautiful
31:54
Speaker 5: spot the Coal Center when it's rock And now I
31:56
Speaker 5: don't know exactly what this Iowa team that comes in
31:59
Speaker 5: on Sunday is matt because all of a sudden, as
32:02
Speaker 5: I watched them get absolutely molly WoT by Purdue, then
32:06
Speaker 5: they go out and beat Nebraska, who you know, they
32:09
Speaker 5: play the kind of game that they want to this
32:11
Speaker 5: is is this about to be an old school Badger
32:15
Speaker 5: Hawkeye basketball? And when I say old school basketball, and
32:17
Speaker 5: that means like pre Fran McCaffrey, where that was the
32:20
Speaker 5: most up tempo team maybe in the Big Ten, And
32:22
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, now we're playing Iowa no shot
32:26
Speaker 5: clock basketball.
32:27
Speaker 4: It feels like with the Hawkeys coming in here on Sunday.
32:30
Speaker 3: It is a lower possession type of team for sure,
32:33
Speaker 3: and it's it's going to test the age old theory
32:37
Speaker 3: in basketball it's easier to slow a team down than
32:41
Speaker 3: it is to speed a team up. Wisconsin likes to
32:44
Speaker 3: play at a faster tempo. I mean it's not racehorse,
32:47
Speaker 3: but certainly a faster pace than what than what we
32:50
Speaker 3: had seen for the longest time. And Iowa it's a
32:53
Speaker 3: lower possession game in the fifties against a really good
32:56
Speaker 3: Nebraska team earlier this week on Tuesday Night. But they
33:01
Speaker 3: did have a couple of higher scoring games. They had
33:03
Speaker 3: a game at Washington a couple of weeks ago or
33:06
Speaker 3: you know, it was like forty eight to forty two
33:08
Speaker 3: at the half, and then they hold Washington to twenty
33:10
Speaker 3: six points in the second half. You know, they put
33:13
Speaker 3: the clamps on. They are a good defensive team. They
33:16
Speaker 3: have a star in Starts, Ben Starts, who was terrific
33:20
Speaker 3: at Drake last year and he's a do everything type
33:23
Speaker 3: of players. So there's the star right there. But they
33:25
Speaker 3: have a lot of other pieces, so almost entirely new
33:28
Speaker 3: roster Ben McCollums doing a great job there. So and
33:32
Speaker 3: you know Iowa. You mentioned Iowa was kind of funky.
33:34
Speaker 3: Well so is Wisconsin. You know, losing by thirty at Nebraska,
33:38
Speaker 3: being handled by Purdue, being handled by BYU and quite
33:42
Speaker 3: honestly being handled on Tuesday night at Ohio State. And
33:45
Speaker 3: yet there's three top ten wins on the resume as well.
33:48
Speaker 3: So this is it's huge. It's a really intriguing matchup,
33:51
Speaker 3: not just in terms of style, but both teams when
33:54
Speaker 3: they've looked good, like, oh, look at these guys, and
33:57
Speaker 3: then you know, for Wisconsin, there was Tuesday night when
34:00
Speaker 3: it was the opposite.
34:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was the old Ted I remember the old
34:02
Speaker 6: Ted Davis line about the twenty I think eighteen or
34:05
Speaker 6: nineteen Bucks when they were young and exciting but coming
34:07
Speaker 6: up and playing well and playing you know, it was
34:09
Speaker 6: it was they're really good until they're not, and they're
34:11
Speaker 6: really bad until they're great, you know, And that's just
34:13
Speaker 6: the way they would they would vacinate back and forth.
34:16
Speaker 6: The Badgers were had been more consistent obviously before Ohio State.
34:19
Speaker 6: But you're right, both of their profiles are similar in
34:22
Speaker 6: that they're kind of in that same economy. You know,
34:24
Speaker 6: probably that seven to eight seed right now, where you
34:27
Speaker 6: have great wins and you have some losses that make
34:29
Speaker 6: you look towards So I think when you do face
34:32
Speaker 6: teams like that, it tells you a lot about yourself
34:34
Speaker 6: and it tells the committee about yourself a lot. So
34:36
Speaker 6: that's what can make this a you know, a big
34:38
Speaker 6: opportunity here for the Badgers on Sunday, Billy.
34:41
Speaker 3: They're going to be the Badger's gonna be interesting for
34:43
Speaker 3: you as you you know, survey investments say in March
34:46
Speaker 3: madness because Wisconsin was to be a team that could
34:50
Speaker 3: make a really deep run or or not yeah, really early.
34:56
Speaker 3: But the guard play, which is like you could say
34:58
Speaker 3: that about pretty you know, most of the team the tournament,
35:00
Speaker 3: but I think with Wisconsin it makes more sense. But
35:03
Speaker 3: the guard play, like okay, these guys you know with
35:07
Speaker 3: with Blackwell and Boy, that's yeah, guard play kind of
35:10
Speaker 3: can carry the day. So came Braden, Yeah, yeah, and
35:13
Speaker 3: you know, Brad Carrington, you got Nolan. Once you're in
35:15
Speaker 3: the front line. That that's the question is will when
35:19
Speaker 3: you get to that point, will the good Wisconsin be
35:22
Speaker 3: there multiple times once they get into the tournament.
35:26
Speaker 5: Well, it's funny you mentioned that Malapay because crazily so
35:28
Speaker 5: I know, I know you're stunned by this development. I
35:30
Speaker 5: did research that a little bit while I was in
35:32
Speaker 5: a state in which investments on the local team are allowed.
35:36
Speaker 5: That in the state of Florida, on an app that
35:38
Speaker 5: is not nearly as good as the one that the
35:39
Speaker 5: Patawadmi Sportsbooks about to put out. Come on, Come on,
35:43
Speaker 5: Big vote today, Big vote today in Madison, Big vote
35:46
Speaker 5: today in Madison on sports game, sports gaming around the
35:49
Speaker 5: state of Wisconsin.
35:50
Speaker 4: More on that coming up.
35:51
Speaker 5: But thirty to one to make the final four after
35:55
Speaker 5: the loss on Tuesday night, Matt so like there was
35:58
Speaker 5: a spot for certain individual rules that checked it and
36:01
Speaker 5: it was twenty to one before the game that did
36:04
Speaker 5: end up waiting until Wednesday morning to be able to
36:07
Speaker 5: make the investment. I think it's a fascinating one because again,
36:10
Speaker 5: when you're talking about being able to play the best teams,
36:12
Speaker 5: they've played up tall of the competition. And as much
36:15
Speaker 5: as people like to say, well they played down to
36:17
Speaker 5: the competition, I think you hit it on the head.
36:19
Speaker 5: It's more about you than a lot of times. People
36:22
Speaker 5: will always make it that they're playing towards the opponent. Well,
36:24
Speaker 5: they just might be a little bit up and down,
36:26
Speaker 5: a little bit streaky. But if you have fifty two
36:28
Speaker 5: percent in you, like Ohio State did from three, and
36:30
Speaker 5: we've seen the Badgers have from three, yes, you.
36:33
Speaker 4: Know that you're going to be able to probably play
36:34
Speaker 4: with just about anybody.
36:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the you know, the Tuesday night game.
36:37
Speaker 3: Oha State really needed to win it. It was pretty
36:40
Speaker 3: close to a desperate kind of game for the Buckeyes,
36:43
Speaker 3: and they had a couple of couple of guys who
36:46
Speaker 3: couldn't hit water from a boat until they did.
36:48
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
36:49
Speaker 3: You know, Devin Royal was zero for fifteen from three
36:51
Speaker 3: over the last half dozen games. And then Bank Bank Bank,
36:54
Speaker 3: He's knocking down shots Amari bind Them, who's a very athletic,
36:57
Speaker 3: very gifted player, but three point shooting isn't really part
36:59
Speaker 3: of the resume. Tuesday night of what and it was
37:02
Speaker 3: just and it wisconstant maybe made it easier for them,
37:05
Speaker 3: you know, they got confidence early. But this is like
37:09
Speaker 3: I always hear people. Butcher and I were talking like,
37:11
Speaker 3: you know, baseball nuts, well that's baseball, Like well, because
37:15
Speaker 3: that's sports, that's it just happens. You know, it's not
37:18
Speaker 3: just a baseball thing. It happens everywhere. You just have teams.
37:22
Speaker 3: Hot guys got cold, Cold guys got hot. Ohio State's
37:26
Speaker 3: a decent team. I don't think it's a great team,
37:29
Speaker 3: but it's good. Was really good, and they got help
37:31
Speaker 3: from sources in ways that they just don't get most
37:35
Speaker 3: of the time.
37:36
Speaker 6: Yeah, the idea three point variants now is a big thing,
37:38
Speaker 6: is more favorite thing. Yeah, as more teams shoot a
37:41
Speaker 6: lot of them, it's inconsistent results and you just never
37:44
Speaker 6: know what's going to happen from game to game.
37:46
Speaker 5: Now, I can't wait to put the three point variance
37:48
Speaker 5: T shirt on once we get to market.
37:49
Speaker 2: Got that.
37:51
Speaker 4: That's my favorite shirt for March.
37:54
Speaker 3: So you got that, you got three true outcomes in
37:56
Speaker 3: baseball lost, I I got home run three point variants.
37:59
Speaker 3: So it's it's a whole lot of that analytics. It's
38:02
Speaker 3: not just a baseball Yes, I'm.
38:03
Speaker 6: Gonna have to that point various on the back. It's
38:05
Speaker 6: gonna say progress is not linear, and.
38:07
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm just excited for at the end of
38:09
Speaker 5: this tournament when we do just like they did in
38:11
Speaker 5: the NFL, when they do in the NFL playoffs. Ever,
38:13
Speaker 5: You're like, man, it's crazy. It's like getting pressure with
38:15
Speaker 5: four wins. Oh, it's like we just started watching football.
38:19
Speaker 5: Just discovery, just start with you hit threes and you
38:21
Speaker 5: have good guards that that ultimately wins and bat and
38:23
Speaker 5: like I just I do. Like when we go back
38:25
Speaker 5: to Matt, there's no dv Oway or points per possessions
38:29
Speaker 5: that we're going to talk about.
38:30
Speaker 4: It's that guy was hot, he was the best player
38:33
Speaker 4: on the floor.
38:33
Speaker 5: Crazy that he made shots, crazy that he made shots. Matt,
38:36
Speaker 5: I can't wait for tomorrow. It's gonna be a phenomenal,
38:39
Speaker 5: phenomenal event and urge everybody through the twenty fourth in
38:44
Speaker 5: Madison through the twenty sixth. Here a road at night
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38:51
Speaker 5: On Tuesday night, just so you know, it was a
38:52
Speaker 5: little later for me. I was in I was in
38:54
Speaker 5: the Eastern time zone. So you guys did put me
38:56
Speaker 5: to bed on Tuesday night, but I didn't. I didn't
38:59
Speaker 5: sleep with you guys.
38:59
Speaker 4: I do nicely. They take them very very nicely. On
39:02
Speaker 4: the call on the Varsity app and.
39:04
Speaker 3: You got it, you said you're four myers. I stay
39:06
Speaker 3: fairly close to where you were staying this week in
39:09
Speaker 3: one of the condos in a general facinity Fort my Beach.
39:13
Speaker 3: That's well done building.
39:15
Speaker 4: Everybody's there.
39:16
Speaker 6: That's funny said, that's why they're number one in the
39:18
Speaker 6: Olympics ratings spot.
39:21
Speaker 5: Now, man, hopefully you don't get any hot water with
39:22
Speaker 5: the ho a spot like I may have got my
39:24
Speaker 5: folks into.
39:25
Speaker 4: I'm excited.
39:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll fill you in on that one with a
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Speaker 5: with a cold one because that's a that's a good
39:30
Speaker 5: story to be able to have.
39:31
Speaker 3: That's a good tease. Yeah, I look forward to that
39:33
Speaker 3: over a couple of cold beverages.
39:35
Speaker 5: See weekend having Drake call coming up on Sunday. There
39:38
Speaker 5: he is voice of the Badger's Matt Lepe hanging out
39:40
Speaker 5: with us here on the huddle. They're going to be
39:43
Speaker 5: a powerful, powerful night, powerful powerful.
39:45
Speaker 4: Afternoon coming up tomorrow and I can't wait.
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41:24
Speaker 5: Be following outside of just all the hockey that's happening
41:27
Speaker 5: later on today, A bipartisan bill to legalize online sports
41:32
Speaker 5: betting in Wisconsin sailed through the Assembly in what was
41:35
Speaker 5: likely the chambers final day of session on Thursday, though
41:39
Speaker 5: it's future beyond Thursday's vote is unclear. The bill passed
41:42
Speaker 5: on a voice vote with a handful of objections. Lawmakers
41:45
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41:48
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41:51
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Speaker 4: We're getting close, but we can't count our chickens just yet.
42:15
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42:17
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