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