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09/29/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armin, bringing it to you. Without Billy,
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  Speaker 1: Dobie Maxwell sitting in today. Comedian to the stars hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with us. Dobiemaxwell.com. The fourth man award. Usually the
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  Speaker 1: sixth man award. I listen to you guys, but it's
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: more fun because I know you.
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  Speaker 2: But it's still a great show. I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm up early, and a lot of times I am,
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: I love to dial you in.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting your steps in. What's your streak out of
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  Speaker 1: 10,000 steps? It is 1,637 days of today.
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  Speaker 2: Seven days a week. But I need some advice on
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  Speaker 2: a technicality. I had some issues. My roommate is not
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  Speaker 2: doing well and he's in a hospital. I did 9,999.
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  Speaker 2: That definitely counts.
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  Speaker 3: That counts. It's literally one step away. You took one
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  Speaker 3: step by accident somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that didn't record.
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  Speaker 3: You put your phone down. You did it. You did it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I've been averaging like 14,000 to 15,000 steps for the summer.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, starting on Memorial Day. If anyone in the
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  Speaker 3: world didn't count that, I'm sorry. It's absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially since most days you're at 15 and the
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  Speaker 1: average is up.
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  Speaker 3: You took one extra step going to bed or something.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you put your phone down and it didn't record.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes that does happen. You know, you walk to the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom or whatever. Yeah, you don't have your phone with you?
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  Speaker 3: But I looked. It was 12.05. I took a little nap. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's 9.99. Well, it's the principle of the idea. I
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  Speaker 3: know that you're like, man, that was my streak, but no,
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  Speaker 3: you did it. No, the streak is... It's funny, because
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  Speaker 3: I saw David Bakhtiari talk... tweet yesterday that he did
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  Speaker 3: a 72-hour fast. I know you've committed to the walking.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever tried one of those fasts?
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about doing that, too. It's supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: really good for you.
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  Speaker 3: Bakhtiari completed the 72-hour fast, ended up doing 82 hours
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  Speaker 3: because I was done at 9 p.m. last night. Easy
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  Speaker 3: to fast while sleeping, so I decided to break it
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  Speaker 3: this morning. It was a blast. Ask me anything. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't ask him anything yet on Twitter, of course.
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  Speaker 3: So you can imagine the comments. How much weight did
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  Speaker 3: he lose is the question. That's the main question. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: did you lose a lot in just a three-day period?
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  Speaker 3: Is it mostly water? But fasting is interesting. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know that I could do it. My brother-in-law did it.
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  Speaker 3: He said the second day was hard. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: How about intermittent fasting? Well, that's a different deal totally.
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  Speaker 2: First meal at noon, last meal at 7 p.m., two
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  Speaker 2: meals a day.
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  Speaker 3: Popular weight loss tactic for a lot of people. That's true. Well,
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  Speaker 3: so is decapitation. That's true. Well, now that it was MPC. Decapitation. Decapitation.
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  Speaker 1: How many days, how long is your non-soda streak? Because
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  Speaker 1: you gave that.
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  Speaker 2: Up years ago. Now, here's the thing. It was September
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  Speaker 2: 1st of 2019. So it was seven years, and I
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  Speaker 2: went to Costco, and I said, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to have a Coke, and I did. So
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  Speaker 3: I had one. Outstanding. And that was it. So seven years.
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  Speaker 3: How did it taste? It was delicious. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that I was going to be in
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  Speaker 2: Betty Ford. I told people around it, I did this,
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  Speaker 2: and I was with some friends, and I said, I'll
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  Speaker 2: Try to go another seven years. And no offense, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: moderation is everything, but I don't necessarily trust myself, so
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  Speaker 2: I am not going to go back.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Statman, Steve just hit us up because we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Brewers and the playoff run, which will
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  Speaker 1: start Saturday. Playoffs start today with the quadruple header, Cubs
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  Speaker 1: at Padres, the game that we're focused most on because
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  Speaker 1: the winner of that series is going to face the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers on Saturday at American Family Field. Statman, Steve just
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  Speaker 1: sent us a screen grab of what the prices are
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  Speaker 1: for a potential game seven at American Family Field of
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  Speaker 1: the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: $ 4, 666.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a great deal.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not a good deal. $ 5, 555 for Section 240.
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  Speaker 1: These are the 200 level. And then for Section 126,
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  Speaker 1: Row 26, $ 7, 569.
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  Speaker 3: Now, look, this is still Milwaukee. So I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: The market would settle somewhere else. I don't care what
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  Speaker 3: anybody says. The market would still settle, I think, lower.
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  Speaker 3: But you do wonder because, okay, the NBA Finals was
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  Speaker 3: five years ago. and the bucks.
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  Speaker 1: I bought, I bought rafter seats, 500 bucks, right?
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  Speaker 3: I got, I paid 800. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that was for rafters for game six. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a potential clincher.
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  Speaker 3: Game four was five something. So you said worth it,
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  Speaker 3: but like you do think you're talking about like the
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  Speaker 3: valuation in sports and how inflation happens. What that price
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  Speaker 3: be that much more inflated today. Like you thought back then,
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  Speaker 3: I remember thinking spending 600, 500 for a game. That's
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  Speaker 3: like crazy, but that's like a, probably the cheapest finals ticket.
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  Speaker 3: Like I can't imagine what they go for in the
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  Speaker 3: garden for the Knicks one, you know, thousands. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then you see these prices. Would you get enough
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  Speaker 3: people to spend 7,000 for a ticket for a Brewers
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  Speaker 3: game for even if it's a world series game seven?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, people that never saw it. I understand the,
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  Speaker 3: the thirst for an experience driven economy, experience driven, you know, generation, but. Man,
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  Speaker 3: that's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: In 82, I could have gone to World Series for $ 50.
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  Speaker 2: They'll go back again. I'm not spending $ 50. And if
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  Speaker 2: they go now, I'm going to sell a kidney to go.
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  Speaker 2: I waited this many years to go. I kicked myself
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  Speaker 2: yearly for not going. Now your kidney might not be enough.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care. Yeah, exactly. A kidney, could you throw
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  Speaker 3: in a lung and a couple of toes to be
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  Speaker 3: named later? And Dobie's like, don't worry. They'll be back
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: in 83. Raleigh is going to be healthy. Well, then
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: Latchman came on, and it was just downhill from there.
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  Speaker 3: And it's bad. Man.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right about the experience. I think you've got
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 3: I know, but I know there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: that there's no way you can justify that cost. Even
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  Speaker 3: if you could pay it literally, even if you had
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  Speaker 3: enough money in your bank account to drain the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that goes to the whole thing of like,
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  Speaker 1: would you rather be at that one event or buy
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  Speaker 1: season tickets for a couple of years?
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  Speaker 3: And I know it's a World Series, so it's different
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  Speaker 3: than any other game. It is. But when you're in
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  Speaker 3: your seat, it's still a baseball game. It might not
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  Speaker 3: be the same. It's different, but it's still a game. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Although, being inside Pfizer for Bucs game
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  Speaker 3: six was unforgettable.
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  Speaker 1: That's tough. Yeah, I was glad I got to spend
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  Speaker 1: that with my Sprout. Got to go to that game.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see a championship in my hometown. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really cognizant when the Bucs won their championship.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't really cognizant. I would like to know
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  Speaker 3: who's still cognizant. I'm sure there are many when the
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  Speaker 3: Braves won in 57. Not many. You know, my dad
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  Speaker 3: was nine. A few, yeah. Loved it, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember when the Braves, when they had the
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  Speaker 1: 50th reunion of that Braves team, I was able to
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  Speaker 1: take my dad to some of the festivities there, and
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  Speaker 1: he got to see some of his heroes there.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: But, yeah, the 82 team, I didn't go to any
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  Speaker 1: of those games because I was a teenager, early teens,
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  Speaker 1: and my dad was out of town on business that fall.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And so I didn't go to any of those games.
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  Speaker 1: My mom didn't take me to games back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: And I wasn't like old enough to go by myself
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  Speaker 1: or with my buddies and stuff. So I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to go watch it all on TV in 82. Lived
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  Speaker 1: and died with it on TV.
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  Speaker 3: It's fantastic. Watched Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell. Yeah. Back
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  Speaker 3: in the day. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I remember being on Wisconsin Avenue and the parade was there.
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  Speaker 2: And I had a truck. It was a pickup truck
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  Speaker 2: with a cap on the back. And my nephew was
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  Speaker 2: three or three and a half years old.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a little guy.
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  Speaker 2: And this guy came up. He was a biker. African-American guy,
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  Speaker 2: mean-looking dude. You wouldn't even talk to him. And we
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  Speaker 2: passed a three-and-a-half hole, and he was on the guy's
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  Speaker 2: back on the motorcycle.
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  Speaker 3: We're high-fiving.
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  Speaker 2: He brought the whole world cultures together. I'll never forget
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  Speaker 2: that as long as I live, how cool that was.
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  Speaker 2: We were Brewers fans. That was all that mattered.
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  Speaker 3: They seem to talk about that parade and you've seen footage.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't obviously alive. Never been something like that for
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  Speaker 3: a team that lost the series. I know. Exactly. They
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  Speaker 3: talk about how busy it was downtown and how the
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: cars couldn't get through. It just shows you the genuine
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  Speaker 3: love this team, this ball team has in the community.
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  Speaker 3: You'd love to see it again for a winner. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if today's sports culture would show out again
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: for a loser. I shouldn't say loser because I don't
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  Speaker 3: believe that, but A team that lost the series. Won
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  Speaker 3: the pennant, lost the series. But what was the famous
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: line from Paul Mahler? Did we win or did we lose?
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  Speaker 3: We can't tell today. The way the outpouring of support
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  Speaker 3: was is legendary now. You saw it in the documentary
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  Speaker 3: and they talked about it. How awesome that parade was.
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  Speaker 3: And then Young came out of the motorcycle. Chills. Well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we'll have another shot at it this year. This
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  Speaker 3: is a shot.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: 877-794-1973 to the NicoletLaw.com talking text line. Speaking of the Brewers,
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: they'll start working out today. Last evening, a handful of
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  Speaker 1: the boys were availing themselves of the WWE event. It
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  Speaker 1: was Monday Night Raw at the Fiserv. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? So, yeah, I saw Terang, Miz, and
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  Speaker 1: somebody else, a couple other guys. Any of our smart
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  Speaker 1: and good-looking listeners who attended, I'd like to hear a review.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I saw Taylor Jenkins was there, too. I
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  Speaker 3: could be wrong. Oh, I wouldn't doubt it. I thought
• 8:34
  Speaker 3: I saw our old buddy Thunder, I think, had a
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  Speaker 3: tweet about that. Those are big events. Oh, yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess Joe Hendry was making the rounds.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't get a WWE guest because we didn't want
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: anybody to have to get up that early to join us.
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  Speaker 1: Only Dobie we asked, right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wrestling's not the same either. I know I'm old, but
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  Speaker 2: I used to be Now they're just talking. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: do the whole storyline. It's a soap opera now, right?
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: It's a soap opera. Thank you. Not that it's bad.
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  Speaker 3: People do go for the storyline.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. But the matches used to be
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: the storyline. It used to be the actual, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting. It's like you always get the joke about, oh,
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: it's fake or it's not. It's fake. But they're still
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  Speaker 3: doing impressive athletic movements. It's not fake. It's predetermined. It's predetermined.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like choreographed. Very athletic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Very athletic, yeah. Uh, that's the way I'm too. It's entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: I maintain that it's not sports though. It's athletic kind
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  Speaker 1: of the way, um, I look at WWE and this
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: is a, this is a Dan needles reach. I might
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  Speaker 1: pull a, my, my shoulder out of the socket, like cheerleading.
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  Speaker 3: It's athletic.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a sport? Like they have competitions and they
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  Speaker 1: like have judges and The stuff that's judged, and Armin,
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  Speaker 1: you're our Olympics guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, gymnastics, skating.
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  Speaker 1: Gymnastics and diving and the stuff that's aesthetically judged. It's athletic. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a competition. But when it comes to like cheerleading, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess they compete, but it's, it was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: invented as a sideline thing to actually lead cheers and
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  Speaker 1: crowd engagement and stuff. And now it's evolved into tumbling
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  Speaker 1: and aerial and it's amazing what they do. It's evolved
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  Speaker 1: into a sport of its own, but it's also like,
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  Speaker 1: are we keeping track? Like when you cheer, nobody's keeping
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  Speaker 1: track when you cheer.
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  Speaker 3: At a game.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: On the sideline. Right. Right.
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  Speaker 1: There's no score or anything like that. And we turned
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  Speaker 1: it into a sport and the aerial stuff. And again,
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  Speaker 1: the athleticism is incredible. The gymnast, the tumbling, the skills
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  Speaker 1: and guys and girls that do it. Tip of the cap.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be athletic to do it. But is
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  Speaker 1: it a sport I would watch?
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  Speaker 3: No. Sorry. Listen, but that's true. I mean, some people
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: even say that about golf. that it's a game, not
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: a sport. I'm not saying that, but yeah, bowling. Bowling
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  Speaker 3: is not a sport in my eyes. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're playing pink table tennis. They're playing table tennis at
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  Speaker 3: the Olympics. Yeah, that's also a sport. The lines can
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  Speaker 3: get blurred.
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  Speaker 1: If you keep score, it's a sport, but like with
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  Speaker 1: the wrestling, the pro wrestling, it's... Well, it's.
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: Not that simple. We keep score in sheep's head. We
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  Speaker 3: keep score in crib. My bad part is I bet
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  Speaker 3: on it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, right, exactly. Can you bet
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: on it? And you can bet. You can bet on anything.
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  Speaker 3: You can bet on it.
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  Speaker 1: You can bet on which plane's going to land first,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: and Armin's Mr. Flight Aware over there, so he's checking
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: out all the flights. At the Diplomats Club, one of
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  Speaker 1: the great episodes ever. Yeah, so it can be one
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  Speaker 1: of those things. Alex Bykowski is a true athletic movement
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  Speaker 1: in wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there definitely is. But they were out and about
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  Speaker 3: last night, those guys.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I was at the paper, and it was the old
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Journal went, Back then newspapers had space, but you
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  Speaker 1: made the editorial decisions. Like there were some days when
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: space was tight and we didn't run all of the
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: golf stand. And people would call and complain because they
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: wanted to see like who didn't make the cut. And
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: my first job in the business was the agate page.
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  Speaker 1: It was basically score taker. And you were in charge
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: of the scoreboard page, which was a page that they
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: had with the box scores and all that. You had
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: to put that together and you'd run the local bowling
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: scores and Golf honor scores or a hole-in-one. If someone
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: had a hole-in-one, they would get like two lines in the,
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: you know. Dobie Maxwell had a hole-in-one at Curry Park
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  Speaker 1: on hole number seven. He used a three iron.
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  Speaker 3: Get in the paper and then someone's framing it in
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  Speaker 3: their basement.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get in the paper and it was the
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  Speaker 1: little tiny type. And so I was in charge of that.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to make the editorial decision. So I
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: would go up and it would be like, all right,
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: so what are you going to cut?
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: You're a little long here.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: And it's like, well, let's cut the bottom half of
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: the John Deere classic. And then invariably someone would call
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  Speaker 1: because they had a relative and they wanted to see
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: how he did.
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  Speaker 3: And the score is cut off.
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  Speaker 1: After the guy says shot 78 or something like we
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  Speaker 1: cut it off and they'd complain. Well, at a certain point,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: the decision was made editorially that they were going to
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: stop running the wrestling results, like stop running stories on
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  Speaker 1: the wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: Events because they didn't consider it to be, because.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't consider it to be a sport.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: People get upset about that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Then people were mad and it's like, well, it's not
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  Speaker 1: a sport. It's the outcomes predetermined. And you would tell
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  Speaker 1: people that and be like.
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  Speaker 3: No, come on. Yeah. Clue, phone, line.
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  Speaker 2: Dobie was a wrestling promoter for a while. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: a ring announcer.
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  Speaker 3: And it's funny. My buddy's talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: He said, okay, now, ten times you get slammed, eight
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: of them go really well. He goes, in the ring,
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  Speaker 2: I can tell because the heels hit first and then
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  Speaker 2: the back.
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  Speaker 4: Ba-boom.
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: You hear that.
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  Speaker 2: But if I hear one thud, I know that I missed.
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  Speaker 2: So I got to mug the crowd and let the
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: guy have some time to recover. And all those two
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  Speaker 2: bad ones over the years, that's why those guys can't
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  Speaker 2: walk at 40.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's really, it just adds up. Yeah. It's
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  Speaker 3: like anything, you know, any other contact sport. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not the, but like, it's about repeated blows to
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: the head with football and stuff like that. Pretty interesting.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: But even as a kid, I think, you know, boxers
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: fight three times a year. Wrestlers fight, you know, wrestle
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: seven nights a week. That's not unusual to you. I mean,
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: you're working all the time.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: And the local circuits are actually the backyard-y type stuff
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: and the local shows and the stuff that goes on.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: You used to put it on, the Waukesha Expo Center.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: Waukesha Expo, yeah. Yeah.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: There's something about that, the organic part of it. And
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: then there's the major leagues, and then sometimes you go
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: see the Milkmen and have a good evening of entertainment.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: You can have fun and entertainment, too. Yeah.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Or the Lake Country Dockhounds. Not the same as the
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: major leagues, but it's still- It's.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Funny to me, though. As a promoter, the guys would
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: call me up and say, hey, Dobie, it's the mauler.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: No, you're Jerry. I'm not calling you the mauler. You're Jerry.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: That's the in character on the phone with me.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to be the maestro. Can I take the
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: title belt to work? I want to show my friends.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: You didn't call me Mahler. No. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: because you're just the guy from West Allis at George
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Webb with me. That's right. We're eating breakfast here.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: All right, so will some of our wrestling Denzians weigh in?
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: None of us watched the event. Dobie didn't know it
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: was on.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: I didn't know it was on.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I knew that the Brewers were there, and I knew
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: it was at five serving. Always draws a big crowd.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: It always does.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, those things always draw crowds. Not cheap either.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Big ticket prices. Yeah. One of the wrestlers was run
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: over by a car. As a bit? On the way
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: to work.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: It was run over by a car. No, it was
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: in the.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: Bowels.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: It was in the show. That was last night. Who
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: was driving the car? The highlight. Vince McMahon. Ms. Parker
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: was driving. I thought maybe it was a local celebrity involved.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did a stunt, and it was in the
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: bowels of Fiserv.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Fiserv, yeah. It's kind of funny.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: That's the highlight of the show. Like that happened outside
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: the purview of the audience. Cause when I heard some
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: of the W thing was hit by a car last night,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what? They drove a car into the ring. Like, well,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: how did that happen?
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Right. Right.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: No, it was in the, uh, did you get the
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: license number?
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: The trucks are and stuff. So, but anybody who watched
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: the show or attended it, I'd love to hear from you.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, and I know, uh, I've heard from people
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: who say, like, go into one of those raw events
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: or go into a SummerSlam or something like that.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: It's like the Indy 500.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: You've got to go. You've got to go to Kentucky Derby.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: You've got to check the box. You've got to see
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the spectacle of it, even if you're not into it. Like,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: even if you hate auto racing, you can go to
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: the Indy 500, and you'll, like, see, appreciate how cool
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I'll say like that. Maybe that's the case. Billy likes it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: You know, it's like it's never been my thing, but
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I did go once at the Bradley Center when it
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: was the Fast Lane event. Like Steve, one of these guys.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: It wasn't Steve Austin, but it was 2017. Obviously, we
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: got tickets from the station here, and I went with Thunder.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: It was pretty funny to observe. But I thought the
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: crowd was more fun to people watch than the actual
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: wrestling in some ways. I'm watching people, and it's the
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: best people watching. I'll admit that. They're buying it, too.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Buying it. The signs are funny. Yeah. The way people
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: get into it, it's like, wow, okay.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I do like the... The lingo and the way it permeates,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: they'll be like, what's a jabroni?
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: What's a jobber?
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: A jobber is a guy that gets paid to lose. Oh,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Now they call it enhancement talent.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: But he used to be called a jobber. You do
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: the job and a jabroni.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: It's an inside. Yeah, you're the Washington Generals, right?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's a very good analogy. The buck rock
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: and roll Zumhoff. From our day. Yeah, who's in prison
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: now for life.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I heard that. That did a bad thing.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Or George Scrap Iron Gadaski. Scrap Iron Gadaski, all the
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Kenny Sodbuster J.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the jobbers. All the jobbers and all
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: the different lingo is interesting.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I used to like the jobbers. I used to root
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: for them, and they never won like the Washington Generals.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I used to root for Bob Coluccio, too.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Well, the Generals, for a while, the Generals,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I don't think they still are, were coached by Sam Worthen,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: the former Marquette great.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: That's the best job ever. You have zero expectation to win. Oh, man.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: They don't fire the guy. The guy's always 748. It
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: was a traveling road show. The thing I noticed, I'll
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: say this, when I was at the live wrestling event,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: the thing I noticed as a big production was it's
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: almost like being at a three-act play. The people are
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: shuffling around, changing the mat, doing everything, changing the props.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: It's pretty interesting to watch. It's definitely an impressive operation.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Poor man's opera. Yeah.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: It's good versus evil is the story that goes with it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: And when it's going well, there's nothing like it. I mean,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the crowd's into it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: It's fun. Very into it. The electricity for the final match,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: when the crowd started rising, I was like, wow. I
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: was promoting it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: We did a show in Palmyra, Wisconsin, Palmyra High School,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: and we didn't have a manager. The manager guy didn't
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: show up. So I was the ring announcer. So it's like, okay,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: we'll get another ring announcer. You have to be the
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: manager today. So backstage, there was a wheelchair. So I
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: got in a wheelchair, and I put a blanket, covered
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: my legs, and my guy was the Texas hangman. Why
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: do you call himself the Texas Hangman? Because the Wisconsin
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Hangman doesn't sound nearly as mean. He wheels me out.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I get on the mic at Palmyra High School, and
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I said, I would like to thank all the nice
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: people in Palmyra for having me here. A man in
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: my condition can participate in professional sports.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: So, of course, the referee's got his back turned.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I get out of the wheelchair, stomp on the good guy,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: get back in the wheelchair, put the blanket back over my...
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I had to have the Palmyra police escort me out
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: of the high school because the people hated me so much.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: That's so funny. Oh, my goodness. That's a true story.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: True story.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: And it's one of the highlights of my life because
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking... I like to think I'm a pretty nice guy.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: And they just vicious hate and... spitting and throwing beer,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and always the bad guys in the ring are always
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: the nicest guys outside.
• 19:12
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• 19:14
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• 19:50
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Hunter Baumgart's going to join us.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: We will talk to him as the Brewers get ready
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to work out. They're going to do some simulated games
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and stuff. They've got to stay sharp during this little interim.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: It's like another all-star break. And the Brewers have got
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to be ready to rock and roll come Saturday. Who
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: will they play? We'll find out. The playoffs start today.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart joins us next.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: You're in the huddle.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Wilson, Dobie Maxwell in for Billy.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Armin Sarian kicking it on a Tuesday in the good land.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Happy to welcome to our party Hunter Baumgart, our baseball
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: go-to guy.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Hunter, are you ready?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Do you have the requisite snacks and everything to get
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you through the four playoff games today?
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: You know, the buy, you know, affords us to kind
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: of prepare in our own right for the Brewers playoffs
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: while also just enjoying some stress-free baseball, which, you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: is nice this week. And we can enjoy these quadruple
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: headers the next couple of days, and then we'll see
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: what happens on Thursday.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, I'm excited.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Look, there's nothing like the playoffs in baseball, and it
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: all starts today. And even though, you know, you can
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: argue about different things about.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: How it's set up as far as the playoff.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Bracket goes in baseball, These three days are a lot
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: of fun every year to see who can best the
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: other team in three days.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: That's a great point. I mean, October's not technically here,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: but it is now in terms of baseball. And it's
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: funny you mentioned enjoying the break because I think fans
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: take these games maybe as a lot more of an
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: emotional burden than maybe years past, generations past. So we
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: do see it that way sort of as a little respite,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: a break when the Brewers have this off time now
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: how the players are going to handle a five-day break
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: because since the all-star break they haven't had one this
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: long right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: No it's true and i think pat murphy and the
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: whole organization learned from last year and i think to
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: a lot of degree to a great degree it worked
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: last year right they came out and won the first
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: two games against the cubs they scored what was it
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: six runs in the first inning against the cubs and
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: and pat murphy said over the weekend like it seemed
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: like it worked last year because we came out firing
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: on all cylinders. I think the biggest thing that he
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: stressed to us that he wants to do this week
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: is make sure these guys are not just going through drills,
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: going through the motions, but practicing with intent and having
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: intent with whatever they do and keeping that intensity up,
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: whatever it happens to be. I don't know many details
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: about what they're going to do, but obviously they're going
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: to work on all the little things, the pitcher covering
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: first and all the different stuff. They're going to take
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: ground balls, BP, all that. And then they'll have some
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: live sessions throughout the week as well and make sure
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: their pitchers are, are continuing to throw and be in rhythm.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: You know, Miz said to us after his start on Sunday,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: like this week, is it going to be very different
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: for me? I'm just going to go about my four,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: you know, five days of rest and be ready to
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: go on Saturday. So for some, for the pitchers, it's
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: going to be mostly the same, especially those who pitched
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: in this last weekend, but otherwise, yeah, it's just keeping
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: up that intensity and also paying attention to the Padres
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: and Cubs. And I'm sure the, the organization as a
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: whole is going to be scouting and doing their thing
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: to try to get ready for that series.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Padres Cubs Brewers face the winner rematch from last year
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: in last year's series, the six starting pitchers combined to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: throw 19 innings in the series.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: In three games, not a lot. So in, in a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: three game series, you win game one, obviously you're in
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the driver's seat and that I like whoever wins game one,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: but I was looking at sports illustrated, um, preview and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the experts are going with the Padres. And the theory
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: is because their home field advantage is so pronounced, they
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: may have won this series in the last couple of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: weeks when they vaulted to the top of the wildcard
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: standings to be able to play this at home.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Totally. I, I, I think the Padres are, are, I
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: would be honestly, I think at this point I'd be
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: surprised if the Padres don't win this series.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: They're a really hot team. I think the Cubs are,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: they're a hot team. They're at home.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: The Cubs are just, they're vulnerable in too many spots.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: They have guys who can hit home runs, yes, on
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: the offensive side. They have PCA, but that bullpen is just,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: it's hard to go on a run with a bullpen
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: like that. Now, if they win a three-game series, can
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: they then win a five-game series with that bullpen? And
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: they don't really have that dominant starter either. The Padres
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: obviously have the bullpen. They have the guys in the
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: back end. They've had some starters that have been well,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: and then they have the offense to go along with it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: And like you said, the home field advantage is so
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: pronounced for the San Diego Padres. At this point, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: would be surprised if they don't. Now, I think the
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: better matchup probably for the Brewers is the Cubs, right?
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: They went 9-4 against the Cubs this year. They went
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: 2-4 against the Padres and got swept in San Diego.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I think the better matchup probably for the Brewers is
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: the Cubs. Now, will it, would a loss to the
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Cubs hurt more than a loss to the Padres?
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Probably.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: So you can kind of pick your poison there. Uh,
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: but I do think the Padres are in prime position
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: to win.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: A first round loss is going to sting to the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: point where a lot of people say it would negate
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the 103 win season, which I disagree with, but yeah, um,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: that's the soup we're in. But one thing about the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: atmosphere though, the Brewers got a little rattled going to, um, uh,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: The Brewers got a little rattled going to Chicago last year, right?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And that was pronounced. And the Cubs fans come to Milwaukee.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Padres fans aren't going to travel to Milwaukee.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Not with 20,000 people. It's not going to be half
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and half. It might be 200.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: But in their own right, the Padres also have a
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: very tough home field. They do. Yeah. They do. And
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: the Brewers experienced that. But the fans themselves were right.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: The environment wouldn't be the same.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Well, and that's and that's why I'm fascinated to see
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: what they do in game three for a pitcher, because
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: do you go with a younger guy in Robert Gasser
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: who has pitched better than Dustin May as of late,
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: but doesn't have as much experience as Dustin May has?
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Or do you have a Dustin May start that game
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: three because of his experience? It probably depends on the
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: lineup you're facing and maybe the matchups and maybe you
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: go a couple of guys, obviously, for a couple innings
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: here and there. But not that I think Robert Gasser
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: is going to get flustered, but I don't know if
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: he could have predicted Quinn Priester to get flustered last
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: year in Wrigley Field. So I think you also have
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: to pay attention to that, and I think experience can
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: go a long way. I think that's one of the
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: reasons you've got Dustin May at the trade deadline, regardless
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: of how he's pitched in the last month. And it
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: doesn't give you a ton of confidence going into the postseason,
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: how he has pitched in the last month. So I
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: don't know if he'll necessarily be a six-inning guy in
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: the post season, but he'll, he'll fit in somewhere, whether
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: it's out of the bullpen or, or as a starter,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I would think. Um, but yeah, I, so that, that
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: I think is where that comes in is who, who
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: do you start game three because of what you saw
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: last year? Now there's, uh, you know, some people may
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: be saying, Oh, what, Hey, Henderson's done really well. And
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: no matter what environment the guy's in, whether it's Wrigley
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Dodger stadium, whatever, do you wait and pitch him a
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: game three?
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: You want a two old lead. You put your best
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: two pitchers forward. in games one and two, get your
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: 2-0 lead, hopefully with those guys, and then take your
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: chances on the road. I think a 2-0 lead is
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: more important than trying to see who's going to stay
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: calm in a game three. But Wrigley, Petco, wherever they go,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: it is going to be a raucous atmosphere. And you're right, though.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: The home field, I think, will be even more of
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: a home field if you play San Diego. So that's
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: a possible reason for Burris fans to cheer for San
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Diego here.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Any other.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: you get any other inklings? Like I'm looking at these
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: projections and Tom Vernucci, whose opinion I've really value as
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a baseball scribe and, and a TV guy asked to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: pick his world series combatants and the world series result.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Hang on to your, hang on to your wig. Granny.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's got Brewers beating the Yankees in seven games.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: How great would that be? Oh my gosh. I just,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: 1957 revisited. 1981 to 2026. Remember, they played in the playoffs,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: not the World Series, but they played in the playoffs.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: The Brewers didn't win that one.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: 57 and 58, but Brewers beating the Yankees in the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: World Series. There's a general thread that whoever wins the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Yankees-Red Sox series is going to win the American League pennant.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Easily could happen.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Could, or they could get boat raced by somebody else.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: It's a sexy notion, too, right? Because it's Yankees-Red Sox.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Tampa's a good team. They are, but good teams don't
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: always win, as we saw last year.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Of course, but they're not going to be pushed around.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Imagine the Brewers, as the manager in Chicago said as
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: they were toasting with champagne, it's hard, it's supposed to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: be hard. Imagine the Brewers vanquishing the Dodgers and the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: LCS and then beating the Yankees in the series. And
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: then we go into a winter where the owners say,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: small market teams can't compete, we need a salary cap.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: All righty then.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and make that case when the Brewers are,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I would think the small market teams would cheer for
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the Brewers to pull it off. Well, maybe not.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: A lot of people think that they're.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: That's why Detroit didn't trade Scooble to Milwaukee, because they.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Wanted the cap. The players want the Brewers to win,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: in theory, right? Because they don't make it. It hurts
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: the case. But that would be just spectacular, though. And
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: for the Brewers, if you're going to win the World Series,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: do it against the Yankees.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: That would be unbelievable.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I can't even wrap my brain around it. I'm getting
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: my middle fingers ready now.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: It's hard enough to imagine, for me, the Brewers winning
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a World Series.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Because, again, if you grow up in Europe.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Dolby in my vintage, that's like saying, yeah, I'm going
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to take the space shuttle to Mars and have lunch
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: with Santa Claus.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I'm going to stop in Uranus. But let me tell
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: you something, and I'm going to say this comparing it
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: to like in 96 when the Packers won, they didn't
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: beat the Cowboys. Everybody's thing was like, we're going to
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: vanquish the Cowboys at Lambeau. And then when, and we
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: didn't get the Cowboys. Let me tell you something. It
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: feels just as good. It does. So it doesn't matter
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: who you beat. But it would be, let's put it
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: this way. A lot of times now in the sports
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: fan landscape, with the way we do our narratives and things.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: We talk a lot about earned championships versus Mickey Mouse
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: rings and all that. That would be definitely one of
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: the great earned championships. If you had to go through
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: whatever the Brewers will face in the first round, two
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: really good teams, Padres and Cubs, then Dodgers, then Yankees.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: You talk about like vanquishing all these great teams. People
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: talk a lot about Dirk Nowitzki's run with the Mavericks
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: and how he beat, you know, the big three heat.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: He had to beat really great teams in the West.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: That would definitely be one they would talk about as like, okay,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: a very earned ring, right?
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think probably the preferred, if you're going to
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: go the fan side of it, is beat the Cubs,
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: beat the Dodgers, beat the Yankees.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: All of your biggest foes.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Right, that would probably be the top.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: I tell you, though, with this team, I see the
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: most common question, the most common discussion point right now is,
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: what makes this year different? Why is the vibe different? And, oh,
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: this year just feels different. Okay, to me, and last
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: year was more of a feeling thing. They're good, for sure.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: They got the best record in baseball, but they also
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: went on these long winning streaks and the Euchre magic,
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: and there was something little magic in the air last year.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: This team, the vibe isn't what I'm paying attention to.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: This team is a really, really, really, really good baseball team.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: At the end of the day, to win 103 games,
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: you have to be a really good baseball team top
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: to bottom. Your lineup has to be good. Your bullpen
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: has to be good. Your starters have to be good
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: consistently throughout 162-game season.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: That's what the Brewers have.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: So it's not just like, oh, we're just going to
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: believe in them because it's fun and because it's.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: A magic carpet ride.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: No, this is a really good baseball team, the best
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: out of 162-game season. Their regular lineup has two guys
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: under 260 batting average. Their starters have shown it all
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: season long. I think their bullpen is in a better
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: shape than maybe it was last year or years past,
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: maybe since you had the whole hater can able Jeff,
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: you know, maybe that bullpen. I think this bullpen is
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: just top to bottom, really solid, whoever you throw out there.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: And Pat Murphy's a hundred games over 500 in the
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: regular season. And as all he's done is win since
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: being the manager and Matt Arnold's done what he's done,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: obviously as the front office guy. So I think top
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: to bottom, that's what makes me believe in this team,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: that they can go and do what Tom Verducci just did.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: That's a great point, Hunter. The greatness in this team
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: is not that there are any magical storylines or movie
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: storylines or destiny or... George Webb streaks, it's consistent, dominant performance. Yeah,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: that's a great point.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: They would be the first team to win the World
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Series with less than 199 homers since the Royals in 2015,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the last small market team.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: But that's a good comparable, yeah.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: It is, because both of those teams had lights-out bullpens.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And I think the Brewers' bullpen is their strength And
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it's just a, maybe it's just
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: regional bias because of us.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a, you know, no, I get it. I
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: get it countrywide, but, but yeah, you, you travel.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: But the thing to me is looking at the slate
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and we're going to get the delicious buffet today. The
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: best series in this first round is Padres Cubs to me.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I know a brave Phillies are in the division stuff,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: but the Phillies are kind of dinged up and they've
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: sputtered down the stretch.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Braves.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, Padres Cubs is to me the most, because
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you got the MVP and, Crow Armstrong, the Cubs have
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: an incredible defense. They have a shaky bullpen. The Padres
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: are the hottest team. Like to me, that's the best series.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Like if I'm looking, you know, series by series, if
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I could only watch one, that's the one I would
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: watch regardless of the fact that the winner is going.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: To play in Milwaukee Saturday. Good point. Your logic is
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: not flawed, as you say.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Well, Yankees-Red Sox are always going to get the juice, right?
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Nationally.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But in terms of the ball, I prefer to see
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: what the storylines come out of San Diego and Chicago.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Two fantastic teams this year. Division winners in the AL, obviously.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: They would have both won their divisions. It'd be nice
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: to beat the Braves, though. Go way back. A little
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: revenge there.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Even of recent vintage, the Braves won a series against
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the Brewers.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: It'd be nice to beat anybody, actually. Yeah. I'll be
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: the milkman. Yeah, but you're right. There's a great story
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: with any one of those teams.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Hunter, in your brain, who are the starters that the
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Brewers will roll out? And will there be any surprising
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: omissions from the playoff roster when we get that later
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: this week?
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: I think the two questions in the playoff roster are,
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: did Kyle Harrison do enough at the end of the
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: year to get a spot? I think it was probably
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: too little too late. Um, but I, I think that's
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: the question. Who gets that last bullpen spot basically, right? It's,
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: is it Bryce Wilson? Is it a Garrett Stallings? Do
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: you bring him back? Is it a Kyle Harrison? Um,
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: I think that's kind of the fight for that last spot.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: And then what do they do on the position player side?
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Do you keep three catchers and go with Bo Naylor?
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: So you can have flexibility with Gary Sanchez to pitch
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: hit him whenever you want and still have a catcher
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: to back up Contreras. Or do you bring on a
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: guy like a Lockridge? But I think they kind of
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: have that Lockridge guy. on in the infield side of
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: david hamilton and i think that's kind of your speedster
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: off the bench as long as joey ortiz is healthy
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: of course and he we talked to him on sunday
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: he he was like oh i'm gonna be great i
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: there's no problem and he is so confident that he's
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: gonna be fine pat murphy said he takes after the
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: sal freelix school of healing so he's just like you
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: know you're gonna play through anything and at this point
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: of the year you know there everybody's a little banked
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: up but Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: So I think those are the two questions there. And
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: then I think you got Ms. Henderson games one and two.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: And then I think it's just interesting because, you know,
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: I was pretty confident that they were going to go
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Dustin May in game three, but then after this last outing,
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: it sounded like Murph and they were maybe a little
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: less confident than they have been just, just kind of
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: reading between the lines a little bit. Maybe we'll get
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: a little more insight as the week goes on and
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: the weekend goes on, but that's probably the toss up
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: in game three. But I think that game three is
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: more so okay, how did games one and two go?
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Did you get enough out of your starters? Who's available
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: out of the bullpen? Could you see an Ashby start?
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't put that out of the question. We saw
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: McGill start game five last year. All these different things
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: happen in the playoffs, so don't be surprised if maybe
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: one of those things happen.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: You go May with Ashby behind him at the first
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: sign of trouble.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Something like that.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Or does Gasser get the ball if you're up two?
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: There's some interesting options there.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Tragedy. For sure. Yes, for sure. All right.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: So you'll be covering a workout today, Hunter.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Yes. Covering the workout.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: We'll get some interviews to play, uh, tomorrow morning on
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: the huddle as I'll be joining, uh, you guys tomorrow
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: for the full three hours. Looking forward to that.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: You, me and Dobie against the world. Yeah. Armin takes
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: a day. Yes.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: It's going to be awesome. Absolutely. All right, Hunter.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Thanks for getting up and we'll
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. Enjoy the workout today.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: You bet. Thanks guys. Hunter Baumgart joining us. Dance party tomorrow.
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• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Back in the day. Back in the day.
• 36:46
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• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Muchas gracias, amigos. Absolutely.
• 37:01
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  Speaker 3: All of it. In that order. Oh, what a classic.
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  Speaker 3: Start with one thing and then do the rest. Start small,
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  Speaker 3: get big. What a classic.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: So the baseball buffet today, again, is bountiful. We've got
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the quadruple header, which I used to argue with Mike
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Heller about. He thought it was a travesty that they
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: played all these games on the same day and.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: During the day. How do you split it up? People work. Exactly.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: And the NCAA tournament operates this way, too. Phillies Braves
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: get us started. One o'clock start. Then we roll into
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: White Sox Astros. I like the Astros in that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: That's interesting because that's like the one everyone's like, oh,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: that's good. I like the Braves to.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Beat the Phillies because the Phillies have been sputtering, and
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Chris Sale is like the perfect guy to shut down
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the Braves. If you win game one at home, you're
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: probably going to win the series. Red Sox-Yankees, well, you
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: got the Schlitter thing. That dude is pretty good. Tonight,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: that's a 7 o'clock first pitch, and then Cubs-Padres, 9
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: o'clock on Peacock.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Peacock.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Cubs fans can start your bitching about that. It's a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: 9 o'clock start central. I won't be up at the
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: end of that game. I might make it to the
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: first pitch.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: But then I'll see what happens.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Is this old time thinking on my part? Because my
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: first thought is, wow, they got the marquee game. They're
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: on at night. They're the latest. But 9 is so
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: late and Peacock is streaming only. Is that kind of
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: shoved aside? What is the marquee slot now these days?
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Good question. I don't know. It's not network and it's
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: not Really, primetime, it's later than primetime in some ways.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Well, Red Sox-Yankees at 7 o'clock on NBC.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: That's the one. That's the big one, yeah. And you
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: would think the two best teams are Cubs and Padres,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: but who knows? Phillies-Braves could be too in some ways.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: That's a daytime game. People are at work. They're going
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: to be aware of it. In a way, Cubs games
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: are pushed aside.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: If you like the number one seeds, you're cheering for
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Brewers Rays.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Okay. That would be for sure. Brewers anybody. Yeah, exactly.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, neither team has won a champ. Brewers and Padres. Padres,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: they came into existence the same year, right? Padres and
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Mariners came in. I mean, Padres and Pilots. Padres and Pilots,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I think both entered in 69. And neither team has
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: won a World Series.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: No, Padres went to a couple, right? Well, look at 84.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: It was Cubs-Padres, and Cubs were overwhelming favorites.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: 84, and then they lost to the Yankees in 99-ish. Guardians-Padres.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: The Guardians have had many years of stumbling in the woods.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: They haven't won one yet. If you're a Chicago fan,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: are you cheering for White Sox-Cubs World Series?
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: That would be fun. I don't know that you're cheering for... Yeah,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: that'd be fun. I mean, everyone would think that a
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Subway series would be. There'll be murders and fights. Like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I don't want it to happen.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Red Sox Braves, the chalkiest of chalk would be Yankees-Dodgers.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: In the World Series. Yeah, that's what the league wants, probably.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: The teams that moonwalked their way in and stumbled and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: hacked their way in would be Astros-Phillies.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: That's the boring one.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: That's where the teams that barely made it in would
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: rise up and win. It all starts today. The fun begins.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Brewers are just sitting at home, chilling, getting ready to
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: go at it on Saturday. We'll do it again tomorrow. Armin,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: enjoy your day off. Hunter will be in. Dobie will
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll see you at 5 a.m.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: In the huddle. Peace.