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06/29/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Fine, armand sorry, We're ready.
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air, rolling through
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Speaker 2: Monday in the good Land.
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Speaker 3: It's the huddle of Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew Wilson, Armond,
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Speaker 3: sorry and bringing it to you. Billy schmid Off this
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Speaker 3: week enjoying some VAK with the family and then getting
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Speaker 3: away for a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, good honest week. Good on them, good good
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Speaker 1: time and take some summer baka and a very summer
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Speaker 1: mak feeling type of week.
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Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt. The heat is coming. Summer is here.
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Speaker 3: It's funny too, because all right, so we'll complain about it.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna last for a couple of days and read
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Speaker 3: back to normal, back to normal summer stuff. We probably
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Speaker 3: do have it good here in the Upper Midwest of
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Speaker 3: the summer. We do because I have a family, and
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Speaker 3: I'm sure you would do, two family and friends who
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Speaker 3: live in Arizona. And I love Arizona. I've spent many
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Speaker 3: wonderful marches there because March is like their march is
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Speaker 3: kind of like our summer. It's just perfect right for
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Speaker 3: the most part. But right now they're in hot. It's relentless,
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Speaker 3: and it's like you go from your air conditioned house
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Speaker 3: to your air conditioned car, and then you have to,
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Speaker 3: like I have to decide whether you're going a sprint
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Speaker 3: to the grocery store from the parking lot if you park.
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Speaker 3: The dilemma there is you have to park in shade
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Speaker 3: or indoors if possible, correct, because if you leave your
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Speaker 3: car out, it becomes a hot box and it's like.
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Speaker 1: To the point where you can get burned, but just.
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Speaker 3: Physically burned by anything you touch in your car.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, rutal stuff.
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Speaker 3: So the thing is if you a lot of people
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Speaker 3: will park in shade and then have to walk, you know,
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Speaker 3: fifty yards more than they would or one hundred yards
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Speaker 3: more in the heat, but they would rather do that
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Speaker 3: than park in the sun and be closer to the building.
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Speaker 3: And then when you let's say you go to the
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Speaker 3: grocery store and you're coming from outside and you walked
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Speaker 3: one hundred yards and you're hot. You hit that sixty
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Speaker 3: eight seventy degree air conditioning, you almost need a sweatshirt
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Speaker 3: to carry with you to go inside because there's no relief.
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Speaker 3: It's either way too cold inside or or way too
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Speaker 3: hot outside.
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Speaker 1: It's very similar to if you ever have been to
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Speaker 1: Vegas and the dead of summer when it's one hundred
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Speaker 1: and ten, and you know, you get that that intense
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Speaker 1: desert heat. It's the same thing because they pump the
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Speaker 1: acs so hard, so you're either yeah. You're constantly battling
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Speaker 1: the dichotomy of yeah, bar yeah.
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Speaker 3: It's a weird deal. And and your house, even if
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Speaker 3: your house is seventy five and it's a hundred outside,
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Speaker 3: you feel cool.
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Speaker 1: You feel cool, but if you need to.
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Speaker 3: Their summers are not unlike Wisconsin winters when it's below zero,
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Speaker 3: like you just don't want to spend any time at
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Speaker 3: all outside. Minimize it as much as you can.
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Speaker 1: Which we can't imagine, right, because we love being outside
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Speaker 1: exact So in a lot of ways we have a
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Speaker 1: good Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I always dream about going to someplace with a temperate climate,
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Speaker 3: and I think to myself, like, if I lived in
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Speaker 3: Arizona or even Florida, I would have a hard time,
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Speaker 3: you know, on an NFL Sunday when it's eighty degrees
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Speaker 3: outside being a cheeser, I have to be outside. I
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Speaker 3: have to go outside and do something outside and enjoy it.
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Speaker 3: Because we we are taught and it's in our DNA
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Speaker 3: to relish that weather.
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Speaker 1: Because it doesn't come around all.
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Speaker 3: So I'm like, why would I sit inside and watch football?
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Speaker 3: Well that's what you do, but like I would be
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Speaker 3: compelled to. And I wonder, I wonder how long it
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Speaker 3: take me to lose that? But well tomorrow I'll be
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Speaker 3: good too. Who cares?
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Speaker 1: Get used to it? Yeah, take it for granted. I
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Speaker 1: don't think. I don't know that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how long it would take me. Probably
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Speaker 3: about the amount of time like the blood thins. And
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Speaker 3: I talk to people who move to Arizona or Florida
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Speaker 3: and they're like, oh God, like even like fifty degrees
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Speaker 3: now is freezing for me.
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Speaker 1: Sure, it's probably the same amount of time you get
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Speaker 1: used to.
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Speaker 3: Like I think I could live in Phoenix with just
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Speaker 3: like a Champion sweatshirt a hoodie, and.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably I'm good now as opposed to like southern California,
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Speaker 1: where it does get cold at night even though the
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Speaker 1: temper is nice. Yeah, they get the wins and they
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Speaker 1: get it. But the thing, it's sort of like I
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Speaker 1: think it's sort of like being a Braves fan in
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Speaker 1: the nineties or if I could, uh, if I could
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Speaker 1: indulge you on this. Drew it's like being a Brewers
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Speaker 1: fan in the twenty twenties, where you've won so much
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Speaker 1: in the regular season, you're kind of getting used to it.
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Speaker 1: And here we are now fifty and thirty one point
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Speaker 1: of the season, winning with such regularity that one series
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Speaker 1: loss feels like as it's felt this weekend, total disaster.
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Speaker 1: What really it isn't. I mean, if you lose two
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Speaker 1: or three, this is normal for baseball teams, but for
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Speaker 1: Brewers fans it hasn't been normal. So we've won so
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Speaker 1: much the last few year, we're kind of used to
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Speaker 1: this and being entitled to the regular season wins in
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Speaker 1: a way.
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Speaker 3: And again, like Dolph said, there's a Cubs multiplier because
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Speaker 3: the frustration mounted and it's been it's been you know,
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Speaker 3: we're going on ten days of the Burrs offense just sputtering. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: pitching has been incredible, so they've been keeping their heads
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Speaker 3: above water.
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Speaker 1: But especially with the runs and scoring positionsw that's that thing.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's it, I mean, yeah, that's well, that's how's rallies,
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Speaker 3: that's how runs are scoring generally.
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Speaker 1: Speaking, unless you're in a lot of homers, that's it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna hit four solo homers for something. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I gotta gotta have it. So, yeah, it's been abysmal.
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Speaker 3: You get the bases loaded with a chance to win
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Speaker 3: the game. I say, I couldn't come through. Just rough,
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Speaker 3: rough situation, rough situation. So that was Yeah, that was
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Speaker 3: Moments just couldn't script it. Contreras has the you know,
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Speaker 3: the message to Venezuela written on his chest protector. They're
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Speaker 3: wearing the VS on the hats and it's just you
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Speaker 3: can tell that their thoughts are with their country and
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Speaker 3: some of the videos I'm seeing of Venezuela, just the devastation.
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Speaker 1: Earthquakes just awful. As natural disasters going weather, earthquakes are
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Speaker 1: always some of the worst because of their residual effect
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Speaker 1: on the community and how long it takes some times
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Speaker 1: So it's definitely difficult for those guys to try and
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Speaker 3: Here's another curve Ball for your superhero the day Linda Cohne. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: ESPN legend saying goodbye, you said goodbye, hosted our last
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Speaker 3: Sports Center.
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Speaker 1: Had the chance to move on, didn't want to move
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Speaker 1: back to Bristol. Right, is that the story?
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Speaker 3: She was on Sports Center for thirty four years, amazing,
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Speaker 3: five five hundred episodes, one of the one of the trailblazers, indeed,
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Speaker 3: and one of those voices and faces that we've grown
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Speaker 3: accustomed to when growing up doing during what we think
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Speaker 3: of as the golden age of Sports Center.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: I heard around with Dan Patrick last week and it
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Speaker 1: was a fantastic conversation and kudos to her. Congrats on
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Speaker 1: a fantastic career. Not sure if it's totally over. I
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Speaker 1: think it's it's over with ESPN, right, But she might.
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Speaker 3: She's sixty six. I don't know what else she wants to.
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Speaker 1: Well, maybe she might do a little you know, everyone
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Speaker 1: does a possible She didn't want.
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Speaker 3: To move back to Bristol.
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Speaker 1: Right, I get and contract up, so they said, like.
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Speaker 3: You know, you want to move back to Bristol. No,
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Speaker 3: she likes living by the beach in southern California.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, why not? She said, it's a mutual parting of ways. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's going to do YouTube.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, her and Stan Varrett their contracts are up, so
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Speaker 3: they were told you can move to Bristol or.
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Speaker 1: Adios nice to have it, and they can probably do
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Speaker 1: their own You can do her own venture, like you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: if she wants to her in her time. So it's
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Speaker 1: crazy to think that that she I can't believe she's
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Speaker 1: that old in some ways.
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Speaker 3: I kind of yeah. Well, yeah, she started on Sports
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Speaker 3: Center in ninety two, so that's right in the teeth
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Speaker 3: of your fandom.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean basically through my consciousness. I grew up
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Speaker 1: watching her with that group. You know, obviously the great
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Speaker 1: Sports Center rankers, Patrick, you know, Rich, Stuart Scott, Charlie Steiner,
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Speaker 1: all those guys. She's part of that. Tarko even and
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Speaker 1: a Trailblazer. I mean that that that was the golden
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Speaker 1: generation for a lot of people in Sports Center. Oh
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Speaker 1: yeah history.
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Speaker 3: So right, heple as a young buck so yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: you see what happened in the Algeria Austria match in
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Speaker 3: the World Cup. Briefly, it was one of these deals
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Speaker 3: where both teams advance. All they needed was a draw,
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Speaker 3: and it looked like they were it looked like they
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Speaker 3: were just gunning for that, like it was raw. It
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Speaker 3: looked like that neither team was trying. And then they
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Speaker 3: get the xt time and both teams scored goals, so
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Speaker 3: it was still a draw. But for almost like you know,
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Speaker 3: for most of the play, it was like nobody was trying.
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Speaker 1: They were just kind of giving.
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Speaker 3: It was just it was just paddy cake. It was
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Speaker 3: absolutely from the sixty fifth minute to the ninety first Algeria,
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Speaker 3: this is and here's a soccer staff for you, for you,
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Speaker 3: you know analytics people. So from the sixty fifth minute,
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Speaker 3: like basically the whole second half, right, Algeria completed two
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Speaker 3: and seventy nine of two hundred and eighty two passes,
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Speaker 3: which is good, right, You're like Austria completed eighty of
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Speaker 3: eighty five, which means only two shots were attempted. It
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Speaker 3: was like they were just okay, we're just scores even
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Speaker 3: let's just let's just run the clock. Yeah, they were.
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Speaker 3: It's like watching a team. So a basketball game where
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Speaker 3: both teams are in the four corners right and there's
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Speaker 3: no shot clock.
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Speaker 1: Used to be a bigger problem, I think in the
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Speaker 1: eighties and nineties when teams were awarded two points for
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Speaker 1: a win and one point for a draw, if I'm
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Speaker 1: not mistaken, And then when they started giving the third
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Speaker 1: point for a win, it really changed the game to
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Speaker 1: the for the better. Where you don't see a lot
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Speaker 1: of this anymore. But there are some teams drew as
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Speaker 1: we get closer to qualifying for the knockout stage that
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Speaker 1: if they need a certain position, they're happy to take
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Speaker 1: it with a little gentleman's agreement. You see this in
10:36
Speaker 1: a weird kind of comparison. You see this in poker,
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Speaker 1: where you're in these big tournaments, they get closer to
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Speaker 1: the money and everyone tightens up just to try and
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Speaker 1: you know, just to try and sail through.
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Speaker 3: So then like Algeria's scores and it's we're in stoppage
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Speaker 3: time and they score and it's like, oh, it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be a great victory.
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Speaker 1: And so the thing is.
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Speaker 3: That Iran got screwed because Iran needed not a draw
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Speaker 3: to get through, right, kind of sitting there, and then
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Speaker 3: austri scored in the like the final minute of stoppage time,
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Speaker 3: when stoppage time in soccer is a little bit hanky,
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Speaker 3: right when the referee decides to blow the whistle, he
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Speaker 3: blows the whistle.
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Speaker 1: We saw that in the USA Turkey.
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Speaker 3: So this was like the worst It's like, it's a
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Speaker 3: weird roller coaster of a game. It went from being
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Speaker 3: like the worst game anybody's ever seen, like the paint drying,
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Speaker 3: the crazy finish. So it's just absurd how that happened.
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Speaker 3: But no one's really paying attention because it was kind
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Speaker 3: of like it's Algeria in Austria. Right, Yeah, it's all good,
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Speaker 3: but you know, meanwhile, Canada is becoming a darling. The
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Speaker 3: hosts are still alive, although wouldn't be surprised if Mexico
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Speaker 3: gets a challenge on in their next match the US.
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Speaker 3: The US expectations are high. I didn't like what the
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Speaker 3: US did against Circuit. You guys talked about.
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Speaker 1: It didn't need to win, but didn't didn't need a
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Speaker 1: flat line either.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't inspiring. So now they have to get the
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Speaker 3: mojo back and.
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Speaker 1: With their starters because they were They had nine to
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Speaker 1: eleven guys started that weren't regular starters. They I think
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Speaker 1: the mojo started. Now you obviously in the knockout stage.
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Speaker 1: No room for air. I think a lot of Americans
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Speaker 1: that like tournament play, this is your time.
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Speaker 3: But Canada winning and that's the biggest win for Canada.
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Speaker 3: And I think the US wins.
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Speaker 1: If the US gets to like the semisould be epic,
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Speaker 1: would be awesome. They's been a while, so yeah, so
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Speaker 1: we have one kicking the ball. John Curza on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: How the heck would let so many Cubs fans in
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Speaker 1: Beta m fan this weekend? Embarrassing? Here we go again,
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Speaker 1: Here we go again. You can't stop it, manop.
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Speaker 3: When you so you took it to Brewers fans, well
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Speaker 3: you put them up on stubhup. You can't dictate who
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Speaker 3: buys them.
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Speaker 1: If you're a Brewers fan, you have to go and
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Speaker 1: outspend and outgo and not avoid. That's just it's the
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Speaker 1: same old thing. If you don't want Brewers Cubs fans there,
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Speaker 1: you have to take those seats. And if a lot
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Speaker 1: of you do it, and one here and two here
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Speaker 1: and two here. That's thousands that eventually turn the tide.
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Speaker 1: Otherwise this is what's gonna happen.
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Speaker 3: It didn't seem more pronounced yesterday did because I think
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Speaker 3: a lot was it like on Friday for you fifty.
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Speaker 1: But still a very pronounced cup.
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Speaker 3: I mean it seems seventy five twenty five to me yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I think it was more on Sunday. It is what
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Speaker 1: it is the weekend days, especially when the cups are.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure when Churio hit the first pitch homer.
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Speaker 1: On Saturday night, it was pretty loud. I would think. So,
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Speaker 1: I think you'll get a lot and you'll get louder
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Speaker 1: voices both ways.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because everyone depending on the floor of the game.
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Speaker 1: When Pete crow armsong was introduced bo it was boed
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Speaker 1: and cheered and booed. It was just incredibly loud both ways,
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Speaker 1: because those are the lightning rod moments, so we know
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Speaker 1: the drill. I'll say this, we didn't hear that in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. So when the games were important
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Speaker 1: without that, these aren't. But when the games were most important,
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Speaker 1: Brewers fans were there. I think Brewers fans just say
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Speaker 1: I'll avoid this one. Not worth it money. Wise and
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Speaker 1: emotion wise, So you're gonna get it, so, John, I
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Speaker 1: had nothing else to say except that's the way it
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Speaker 1: is unless Brewers fans go Yeah, it's just the way
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Quick kicking the balls here. I didn't
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Speaker 1: mention this yet this show, but I'll take one of
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Speaker 1: all the bruises the I got over the weekend because
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Speaker 1: of this, The worst was the ego. I fell down
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Speaker 1: the stairs. So I'll take a kick of the balls
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Speaker 1: for that. I fell fell down the stairs at home
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Speaker 1: this weekend at home. Yeah, luckily didn't have anybody with me,
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Speaker 1: like a child in my hands or anything, but that
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Speaker 1: that's a bruise to the ego if you ever fall
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Speaker 1: down the stairs. Just slipped on the carpet on the
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Speaker 1: right in the butt, so and I slammed right into
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Speaker 1: the baby gate.
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Speaker 3: Better doing it there than an amfam fielder in front
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Speaker 3: of people.
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Speaker 1: I just wish it was yeah, for sure. I just
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Speaker 1: wish I had tape running so I could have got
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Speaker 1: some content. No security that I could have posted.
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Speaker 3: Someone would have hacked it anyway.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Not that I could have posted it because
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Speaker 1: it was hacked, but that might have given me some
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Speaker 1: at least.
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Speaker 3: Did you at least like you just step on a
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Speaker 3: lego or something or is there something else?
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Speaker 1: No, I slipped on the carpet on the stairs and
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Speaker 1: whoop back just a few stairs. It wasn't that bad, nothing, Bruce,
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Speaker 1: except your ego. I got a couple of bruises and stuff.
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Speaker 1: The worst is the ego. There's a little little rugburn
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Speaker 1: for you. You can't really tell, but yeah, that was
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Speaker 1: That was one this weekend where I'm like, Wow, this
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Speaker 1: really just happened to me, so listen. It could have
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Speaker 1: been a lot worse. Don't don't everyone please go slow
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Speaker 1: in your stairs when you're getting older. I just, you know,
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Speaker 1: like you just things that happened and you're like, how
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Speaker 1: did I do that? What am I doing?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 1: Just unbelievable Johnson, I'm working the game Friday. Definitely more
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Speaker 1: Cubs fans than Brewers, at least sounded that way. I
15:24
Speaker 1: think the weekend has a big factor in that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: clubs fans would rather come up on a weekend, enjoy
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Speaker 1: our stadium, enjoy our park, and enjoy the relative ease
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Speaker 1: of American.
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Speaker 3: Field downtown on uh for the weekend. I did see
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Speaker 3: a lot of people pregaming, you know for night games.
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Speaker 3: Now now there's a question for you too, and it's
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Speaker 3: like it ties in with Summerfest because it was a
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Speaker 3: busy Like I think the Cedarburg wasn't Cedarburg Strawberry Festival
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Speaker 3: this weekend. That's a big deal, big deal. You had Summerfest,
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Speaker 3: which draws a lot. You had the Brewers and Cubs,
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Speaker 3: which draws a lot. There's you know, tons of stuff
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Speaker 3: going on. Always is we pack a lot in the
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Speaker 3: summer because we have to, right, But I did hear
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Speaker 3: people say, like that Bruce Cubs game on Saturday, you
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Speaker 3: make that at three o'clock first pitch or a one
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Speaker 3: o'clock first pitch. People can go to Summerfest after. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's a good Wisconsin doubleheader, would be nice, one of
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Speaker 3: the best. And then I have a friend of the
16:15
Speaker 3: program was complaining that, you know, he hates the Summerfest
16:19
Speaker 3: setup now because it doesn't hook into Sunday night because
16:22
Speaker 3: at last Yesterday would have been perfect day to go
16:24
Speaker 3: to the Brewers game and then go to Summerfest.
16:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sunday, and they're dark on Sunday. Sunday night was
16:28
Speaker 1: always a great Sunday, fun day Summerfest day.
16:30
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, so it would be nice if they
16:31
Speaker 3: brought back a Sunday, like, you know, hook it over
16:34
Speaker 3: to Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sunday.
16:36
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that, dreve, no doubt, I don't
16:38
Speaker 1: mind it.
16:39
Speaker 3: I mean, you do that three weekends and then you're
16:41
Speaker 3: you're your plus one days because it used to be
16:44
Speaker 3: eleven days.
16:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the controverty not controversy, but the debate is
16:48
Speaker 1: always if you're nostalgic about the old festival format, the
16:52
Speaker 1: straight run. But we just liked that you could take
16:53
Speaker 1: two weeks off and just go out with bender. But
16:56
Speaker 1: then it's like, if you're doing a weekend only, do
16:58
Speaker 1: you prefer Thursday Saturday or Friday to Sunday. Yeah? For me,
17:02
Speaker 1: it's nice to have all three days to say, I'm all, like,
17:05
Speaker 1: you know, Thursday night is tough because you're gonna work
17:07
Speaker 1: on Friday. Now, obviously you do the same Monday morning.
17:09
Speaker 1: I get it, but you know you can manage your
17:11
Speaker 1: time a little bit differently and.
17:12
Speaker 3: Yeah that yeah, no, it's no perfect system, right, exactly right.
17:18
Speaker 3: Summerfest is one of Milwaukee's favorite things to experience and
17:21
Speaker 3: complain about.
17:23
Speaker 1: That's a perfect way to put it through. Can we
17:25
Speaker 1: sneak in one more? Yeah? Six before from the seven
17:28
Speaker 1: one to five? Uh sneaking this text before we gets
17:31
Speaker 1: to the breaking at the HUNTERD Morning Man. Disappointing loss.
17:33
Speaker 1: Yesterday a playoff scenario game. They had opportunities that weren't
17:35
Speaker 1: capitalized on, and that's exactly what happened in the playoffs
17:38
Speaker 1: when von trippled the start off at inning and their
17:40
Speaker 1: approach to get a fly ball was abysmal. The visional
17:42
Speaker 1: game in Murphy's sid the Sunday lineup was bull crap.
17:46
Speaker 1: Sanchez had the pass ball at the rebate that costs
17:48
Speaker 1: the run. Contrast makes the play so just lamenting all
17:51
Speaker 1: the things that happened. I pushed back against the playoffs
17:55
Speaker 1: and days ball. Yeah. I think he meant uh Ashby
18:00
Speaker 1: spiked the curveball. That's not a pass ball.
18:03
Speaker 3: It's not a pass ball. All bounced like three people
18:05
Speaker 3: three feet in front of the plate. Yeah, there was
18:07
Speaker 3: not much of a chance you could do anything that.
18:09
Speaker 1: What I would push back is why is yesterday a
18:12
Speaker 1: playoff scenario but not the fifty wins they had those games?
18:15
Speaker 1: Every game is potentially quote exactly playoff scenario. These were
18:19
Speaker 1: all did they not?
18:20
Speaker 3: Didn't they sweep a series earlier this year?
18:23
Speaker 1: Yes, didn't. Didn't didn't they play well against a lot
18:25
Speaker 1: of good teams. They've done that. So obviously we've grown
18:29
Speaker 1: to understand now that what happened in the regular season
18:32
Speaker 1: has no indication of the playoffs. It doesn't indicate success
18:36
Speaker 1: or failure either way. So I always pushed back on
18:40
Speaker 1: the whole that was a playoff scenario thing, because I'm like, well,
18:43
Speaker 1: so or so is every game. Every game is a
18:45
Speaker 1: baseball game, and a lot of times the Brewers have
18:48
Speaker 1: come through to this year.
18:49
Speaker 3: We've said, and the Wayne Larvy it's not who you play,
18:52
Speaker 3: it's when you play them. The Cubs just played the
18:53
Speaker 3: Bers and the weekend when the brus couldn't buy a
18:55
Speaker 3: hit with the Rodgers and scoring position.
18:56
Speaker 1: Unless the Brewers won one hundred and twenty games and
18:58
Speaker 1: going to feed in the playoffs, there's always going to
19:00
Speaker 1: be negative moment. Yeah, I mean exactly, that's just the
19:03
Speaker 1: way it is, exactly. I think you just got to
19:05
Speaker 1: try and get through this tough time.
19:07
Speaker 3: Try and like I said, the Yankees just got swept
19:10
Speaker 3: by their bitter rival in a last place Red Sex
19:13
Speaker 3: the Braves just went one and five on a West
19:16
Speaker 3: coast trip and lost to the horrible Giants. So just
19:19
Speaker 3: getting ready for the fire sale of all fire sales,
19:21
Speaker 3: like a little perspective. Those are the two. Those are
19:24
Speaker 3: two of the teams punching in the Bruis class right now.
19:26
Speaker 1: In terms of cool Sunday lineups. Managers do not think
19:29
Speaker 1: of the way the game, the season the way you do,
19:33
Speaker 1: the way that we do as fans is every moment
19:35
Speaker 1: is important, like the last you know, so important to
19:38
Speaker 1: win every game, and yes, Murph Watson win every game,
19:40
Speaker 1: but you have to think about the season as a whole.
19:42
Speaker 1: Did the Sunday lineup bother you?
19:44
Speaker 3: If the Bruise had win one nothing on a Gary
19:45
Speaker 3: Sanchez homer totally happy about that. And Contreras can't play
19:49
Speaker 3: every inning. He needs days off, Yes he needs some
19:54
Speaker 3: load management. Like a day off a week isn't the
19:55
Speaker 3: worst thing for a catcher who catches and the gets
19:58
Speaker 3: beat up by foul tips, I think, And you gotta
20:02
Speaker 3: have guys ready, right. Plus you know Mitchell didn't play
20:05
Speaker 3: because he cramped up the night before and like whatever
20:08
Speaker 3: I mean, people's I just don't understand.
20:12
Speaker 1: I do that fire you up. Hunter is up next,
20:15
Speaker 1: we'll talk to him.
20:16
Speaker 3: We'll talk to him about his FOMO, about Russell Dickerson
20:18
Speaker 3: and more. Hunter Bomber joins us. Next, You're in the Huddle.
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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Ballso kicks on the Balls edition of the Huddle.
20:36
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20:43
Speaker 3: joined by our pal, Hunter Bombguart fresh from the ballpark,
20:46
Speaker 3: Brewers Cubs.
20:47
Speaker 1: Hunter, thanks for getting up early with us.
20:50
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, it was a It was quite an atmosphere
20:53
Speaker 2: all three days, obviously, lots of Cubs fans, lots of
20:56
Speaker 2: Brewers fans. The series are always close, and it was that.
21:00
Speaker 2: Of course, this series came down to a tenth inning
21:03
Speaker 2: and who could score more and Cubs scored one more
21:05
Speaker 2: run than Brewers, they took the series.
21:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people asking, commenting about it seemed
21:10
Speaker 1: like more of a Cubs crowd, louder for Cubs fans.
21:13
Speaker 1: I think that was true in your experience, Hunter, Was
21:15
Speaker 1: it just that they were louder or they are a
21:17
Speaker 1: more number of Cubs fans than what we saw maybe
21:20
Speaker 1: last year for the playoffs for instance.
21:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think maybe a little more than the playoffs.
21:25
Speaker 2: I think, you know, I think the Brewers fans are
21:28
Speaker 2: ready for the playoffs and wanted to go and go
21:31
Speaker 2: and see their team.
21:31
Speaker 1: Sure win that series.
21:33
Speaker 2: I think this weekend was, Yeah, there were a fair
21:36
Speaker 2: amount of Cubs fans in there, and looks it's tough
21:39
Speaker 2: because the last two games there was a little more
21:41
Speaker 2: to cheer about for the Cubs, especially offensively, and that's
21:44
Speaker 2: really when the crowd gets the most wild is when
21:47
Speaker 2: something you know happens offensively, so that you know, I
21:51
Speaker 2: think the last two nights kind of showed that last
21:53
Speaker 2: two games, and especially in that tenth inning yesterday when
21:56
Speaker 2: they were able to score those three runs at the
21:58
Speaker 2: top of the tenth inning got re allowed in there.
22:00
Speaker 4: So that's something we know with the rivalry.
22:03
Speaker 2: Look, I mean, Brewers fans are really loud at wrigularly
22:05
Speaker 2: when they went and swept them earlier this season. So
22:07
Speaker 2: it's something we know that happens in this rivalry.
22:11
Speaker 4: You know, I.
22:13
Speaker 2: Brewis fans. If you don't want it to happen, I
22:15
Speaker 2: guess just go in there. And buy all the seats.
22:17
Speaker 2: But I don't know what else to what else to
22:19
Speaker 2: say that's gonna that's gonna happen, And that's part of
22:21
Speaker 2: this rivalry and that's part of what makes it fun.
22:24
Speaker 1: Hunter.
22:26
Speaker 3: In terms of producing with runners and scoring position, the
22:28
Speaker 3: numbers are ghastly. It's been a kneemic for two weeks,
22:31
Speaker 3: and yet the Brewers are still five and five in
22:33
Speaker 3: their last ten games. My question is like, how, I know,
22:36
Speaker 3: it's been great pitching, but they're scoring just enough to win.
22:40
Speaker 3: Like Friday night wasn't exactly an offensive onslaught. What are
22:44
Speaker 3: you seeing from this offense? And what are you gathering
22:47
Speaker 3: from talking to guys in the clubhouse.
22:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's just it's I mean,
22:53
Speaker 2: what Yelich said yesterday is basically like these these types
22:58
Speaker 2: of things happened throughout a season when you go through
23:00
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two games, Like I've been thinking
23:02
Speaker 2: about this more recently, like there are gonna be there's
23:05
Speaker 2: just so even if you're a really good team and
23:07
Speaker 2: the Brewers are, there's just gonna be ups and downs
23:09
Speaker 2: because of such a long season. Like you're like in football, Okay,
23:14
Speaker 2: you play seventeen games. There's just way less of a
23:17
Speaker 2: sample size for things to happen, for things to go wrong,
23:20
Speaker 2: for things to go great. Like that's just and it's
23:22
Speaker 2: as fans, it's like we get upset because you want
23:25
Speaker 2: your team to do great every night, but over one
23:28
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two, even if you're a really good team,
23:30
Speaker 2: you know, Drew, you say this, even if you win
23:31
Speaker 2: one hundred games, there's sixty two nights where you'll lose.
23:34
Speaker 2: So like that's I think the mentality and what Christian
23:36
Speaker 2: Yelich is always kind of first to say when we
23:39
Speaker 2: talk to him in these stretches, it's like, there are
23:42
Speaker 2: gonna be these times.
23:43
Speaker 4: We know we're a good team. Brandon woodriff that goes same,
23:46
Speaker 4: you know sentiment yesterday.
23:47
Speaker 2: Those two guys have been in the league the longest
23:49
Speaker 2: in that clubhouse, and so it's just been, uh, you.
23:52
Speaker 4: Know, as far as on the Brewers.
23:54
Speaker 2: So it's just it's they know that there are gonna
23:56
Speaker 2: be ups and downs throughout a season. They've done a
23:58
Speaker 2: lot of good things, right. The starting pitch has been
24:00
Speaker 2: phenomenal over the last six days. That's why they're four
24:03
Speaker 2: and two in their last six but Unfortunately, the runners
24:06
Speaker 2: in scoring position has been where they've faltered. I mean
24:09
Speaker 2: that tenth thinning is a great example of it. Yesterday
24:11
Speaker 2: and they went five for twenty eight with runners in
24:14
Speaker 2: scoring position against the Cubs. Over the week they went
24:16
Speaker 2: six for fifty one. But overall, you look at June,
24:19
Speaker 2: they have ten losses in June, the Brewers do, and
24:23
Speaker 2: eight of those are by one or two runs. So
24:26
Speaker 2: it's they've only been blown out once and that was
24:28
Speaker 2: Saturday night and the six run loss. The other one
24:30
Speaker 2: was a three run loss. Otherwise it's been losing by
24:33
Speaker 2: one or two runs. This team has been right in
24:35
Speaker 2: it every game. It's either been bullpen or not able
24:37
Speaker 2: to come through, and a combination of both. Yesterday, even
24:41
Speaker 2: though the bullpen was really really good, you know, through
24:44
Speaker 2: the through the ninth inning yesterday, especially Rebay going one
24:46
Speaker 2: and two thirds for the first time this season, his
24:48
Speaker 2: longest outing since last July's really good. Yeah yeah, and
24:53
Speaker 2: McGill as well, and then you know, Coonell just could
24:55
Speaker 2: not find it after recording the first two outs, so
24:58
Speaker 2: it you know that they're I think this team will
25:01
Speaker 2: bounce back. I don't think this is indicative of what
25:03
Speaker 2: the rest of the season is going to be. I
25:05
Speaker 2: think they're a little bit of a slump right now offensively,
25:08
Speaker 2: but they're still able to tread water at five and
25:10
Speaker 2: five in their last ten because they're starting pitching. No
25:13
Speaker 2: matter who they throw out there right now is getting
25:15
Speaker 2: the job done.
25:16
Speaker 1: It.
25:17
Speaker 3: Terang got a couple of hits yesterday. He's been cold,
25:19
Speaker 3: like Yellows and Terang, to me, were the guys that
25:21
Speaker 3: were cold and need to get going right because it's
25:24
Speaker 3: they're kind of the engine, right you got on them. Yeah, yeah,
25:27
Speaker 3: those are the guys you expect, and Yellis especially. Is
25:29
Speaker 3: it as simple Hunter and I haven't looked at any
25:32
Speaker 3: box scores, but I see it with Yellich. Is it
25:35
Speaker 3: as simple as they're not getting as many walks?
25:38
Speaker 1: Good question could be because.
25:40
Speaker 3: To me, it's like, I know, Yelich is like he's
25:42
Speaker 3: been punching out a lot lately. He's not drawing walks
25:44
Speaker 3: and the Brewers are notorious for grinding and drag them
25:47
Speaker 3: and like get the having good at bats. But it
25:50
Speaker 3: seemed like maybe in this CUB series, I wasn't paying
25:53
Speaker 3: extra close attention, but it didn't seem like they're drawing
25:55
Speaker 3: as many walks as they do usually, And I'm you know,
25:58
Speaker 3: what is that it's a good pitching? Is it just
25:59
Speaker 3: you know that? That's something that stands out to me
26:02
Speaker 3: is because every multi run rally generally has a walk
26:06
Speaker 3: or two sprinkled in. We've seen it with the Brewers.
26:08
Speaker 3: God knows, Ashby Patrick. You walk somebody, you're in danger, right,
26:13
Speaker 3: and it's the walks have come back to bite Brewers pitching.
26:16
Speaker 3: And people are complaining about the bullpen and stuff, and
26:19
Speaker 3: that's a part of it, but it just seems to
26:20
Speaker 3: me the offense one of the things missing is walks.
26:22
Speaker 3: They're not that exciting, but they sure are effective. And
26:25
Speaker 3: if you're gonna put up crooked numbers, you're gonna need
26:28
Speaker 3: a walk or two sprinkled in because it's hard to
26:29
Speaker 3: string together four or five hits totally.
26:32
Speaker 2: I mean, yesterday they looked like they had four walks,
26:35
Speaker 2: and the day before they had won, and the Friday
26:38
Speaker 2: night game they had five. So the game that they
26:40
Speaker 2: had the most walks in they wanted the series, Like
26:42
Speaker 2: I think it just yeah, so.
26:43
Speaker 1: That leads to traffic.
26:44
Speaker 3: Now, granted, you can get guys on and if you
26:46
Speaker 3: don't get them in especially wasting a leadoff triple by
26:49
Speaker 3: Andrew Vaughan. You know that those are unconscionable, but it
26:52
Speaker 3: just seems like that maybe it's something when they start
26:55
Speaker 3: drawing walks, will start to see multi run innings.
26:58
Speaker 1: Especially a team that doesn't a lot of home runs.
27:00
Speaker 1: All that on base is very important. Your logic not
27:03
Speaker 1: flawed by the way, Joe, they're tied for second and
27:04
Speaker 1: major League Baseball and on base percent interage, of course
27:07
Speaker 1: is a big indicator. Right. The Dodgers are one tied
27:10
Speaker 1: for second with the Pirates, which is kind of surprising.
27:12
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have expected that. But yeah, but and to that,
27:17
Speaker 1: and you know, when you have a lack of home runs,
27:19
Speaker 1: which the Brewers are not a big home run hitting team.
27:21
Speaker 1: We know that they probably are gonna get their share,
27:25
Speaker 1: but not a lot. It magnifies it a little bit, right, Hunter,
27:28
Speaker 1: When you don't have the runners and scoring position base hits,
27:31
Speaker 1: you know, right, that magnifies it.
27:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just didn't seem like they were having those
27:36
Speaker 2: team at bats that they're so good at doing a
27:38
Speaker 2: lot of the times. I mean, this is that's one
27:40
Speaker 2: of the things this offense prides itself on, is getting
27:43
Speaker 2: team at bats getting into the next guy. Mitchell had
27:45
Speaker 2: a great at bat. I mean he went up there
27:47
Speaker 2: looking to just do what he could to get it
27:49
Speaker 2: to the next guy. And then Powers comes up there
27:51
Speaker 2: when you clearly see this guy struggling and Wicks has
27:54
Speaker 2: not been good for the Cubs as Era was over
27:56
Speaker 2: fifteen coming into that appearance.
27:58
Speaker 4: Only a couple of couple of outings.
28:00
Speaker 2: But still and Bowers comes up there and swings at
28:03
Speaker 2: the first pitch and pops it up like that's.
28:05
Speaker 4: Where it went wrong? Like that, you like, is it?
28:08
Speaker 2: He threw four out of five balls coming into the
28:10
Speaker 2: game against Mitchell, and then you swing at the first
28:13
Speaker 2: pitch like just you know, take a strike in that sit.
28:15
Speaker 1: Well, you know it's we.
28:16
Speaker 3: Were talking about that before hundred. You know it's going
28:18
Speaker 3: to be a strike because he doesn't want to walk.
28:19
Speaker 3: He wants to get ahead. If he slaps that off
28:22
Speaker 3: the wall, no one's ripping him for swinging at the
28:24
Speaker 3: first pitch. It's a little bit like I guess if
28:27
Speaker 3: you're gonna swing, you know, don't get cheated and don't
28:30
Speaker 3: like guess fastball and then pop up a change up.
28:34
Speaker 3: But I don't mind that if it's I'm looking dead red.
28:37
Speaker 3: This guy's gonna throw a fastball for a strike because
28:38
Speaker 3: he wants to get ahead of me. And then just
28:40
Speaker 3: you know, if you line out at somebody, it's different
28:43
Speaker 3: than a pop up, you know, it's it's a lot
28:44
Speaker 3: of it as results based on that.
28:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well his job there too is just
28:49
Speaker 2: to get the ball to the outfield, yes, me, so
28:51
Speaker 2: you know, if he if he can, if he can
28:53
Speaker 2: do that. So yeah, there's there's an argument to both sides.
28:55
Speaker 2: I still think you you just gotta I don't know,
28:58
Speaker 2: you just gotta be a little patient there Gary as well.
29:01
Speaker 2: Although Gary swung at one pitch and then that that
29:04
Speaker 2: strike that was kind of right down the middle there
29:06
Speaker 2: was he was you could tell he's like, oh.
29:08
Speaker 1: That's the one I should have swung at, and then it.
29:09
Speaker 2: Was kind of then it was you know, he was
29:11
Speaker 2: trying to battle after that, and the grounds into the
29:13
Speaker 2: double play.
29:14
Speaker 4: So look, I don't think.
29:16
Speaker 1: The mechanics of that too.
29:17
Speaker 3: When they hit Contraras when they did, and they didn't
29:19
Speaker 3: have a catcher so they couldn't run for Sanchez late
29:21
Speaker 3: in the game, that's rough.
29:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, I don't know if I don't
29:27
Speaker 2: know if Murph's ever had the flexibility he does right now.
29:31
Speaker 2: Like there there every night, it seems like their whole
29:33
Speaker 2: bench is emptied, and he's going with different different guys
29:37
Speaker 2: in different scenarios. Lefty Righty, just kind of designed where
29:40
Speaker 2: to put guys. I think sometimes it's worked, and obviously
29:42
Speaker 2: sometimes it hasn't, uh, But I feel like more often
29:45
Speaker 2: than times it's worked. But I think overall he has
29:49
Speaker 2: had he has a lot of flexibility right now and
29:51
Speaker 2: he's using it. But then you get into those scenarios
29:53
Speaker 2: where you get in the extra innings and and there
29:55
Speaker 2: might be times where, yeah, you don't have a choice
29:57
Speaker 2: there you have nobody on the bench. Like Mitchell, he
29:59
Speaker 2: had the ramp and the ninth inning, if you wouldn't
30:01
Speaker 2: have been able to finish that at bat, you would
30:03
Speaker 2: have seen a pitcher come in and then it had
30:05
Speaker 2: to hit because they had no more position players.
30:07
Speaker 4: And that was just the ninth inning in a six
30:09
Speaker 4: run ball game.
30:10
Speaker 2: So he's using a lot of guys in different scenarios
30:13
Speaker 2: and using his flexibility, which I like. But sometimes then
30:17
Speaker 2: if you get late in the ball game, it can
30:19
Speaker 2: it can come back to bite.
30:20
Speaker 1: Jill, Yeah, good point. The Brewers are the team and
30:23
Speaker 1: they use that depth, but sometimes that'll against you. Cooper
30:25
Speaker 1: Pratt when he first came up with the excitement and
30:28
Speaker 1: the Hooplah, had a nice few first games at the plate,
30:32
Speaker 1: his numbers were fine, but now one for his last sixteen,
30:36
Speaker 1: I think kind of hit a slump. That's a normal adjustment.
30:39
Speaker 1: I feel like for a lot of guys that come
30:41
Speaker 1: up with the with the I don't want to say
30:43
Speaker 1: the hype, but you know, expectations and as MLB pitchers
30:46
Speaker 1: started adjusting to seeing these guys for the first time, Hunter,
30:50
Speaker 1: would you say a normal adjustment for him, normal process,
30:53
Speaker 1: nothing to be concerned about, or you know, well we
30:55
Speaker 1: want to see Cooper Getta going a little bit here.
30:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I really liked his Friday game where
31:00
Speaker 2: he had two walks, he scored two times, Like, he
31:04
Speaker 2: had a really nice game on Friday, and he was
31:06
Speaker 2: one for two in that game, but he was on
31:08
Speaker 2: base three times. Like that was really good to see
31:11
Speaker 2: that at bat late in the game yesterday where he's
31:13
Speaker 2: swinging a ball that was literally a little over his head.
31:17
Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of the example of yeah, just
31:20
Speaker 2: still trying to learn the major leagues a little bit. Right,
31:22
Speaker 2: this is his first taste of Brewer's Cubs, probably the
31:25
Speaker 2: most intense series that he's played in obviously at the
31:27
Speaker 2: major league level for sure, And so I think there
31:31
Speaker 2: is kind of that learning curve where there. I think, yeah,
31:33
Speaker 2: pitchers are learning him a little more. He's he's still
31:36
Speaker 2: trying to find his footing and it takes a little bit.
31:39
Speaker 2: I overall, I really like what I've seen in the
31:42
Speaker 2: type of player he has been, you know, just as
31:45
Speaker 2: Murph said when he got up, just getting on base,
31:47
Speaker 2: helping the team in any way he can. Has it
31:50
Speaker 2: been as maybe prolific as it was in that first week,
31:52
Speaker 2: in the second week not so much.
31:54
Speaker 4: But I think there's promise there.
31:56
Speaker 2: I think you're getting more dynamically on offense than you
31:59
Speaker 2: obviously did with Ren Hefo.
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Speaker 4: Whether the average is better or not.
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Speaker 2: Right points as of late, Right, you're getting the base
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Speaker 2: runnings better, the walks are better, like there are just
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Speaker 2: it just it's more pleasing to the eye, the brand
32:12
Speaker 2: of baseball he's playing. Obviously, the defense is really good
32:15
Speaker 2: as well. He bobbled a little one yesterday but still
32:17
Speaker 2: able to recover and get them out.
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Speaker 4: So I think I really like what I've seen from.
32:21
Speaker 2: Him at shortstop and excited to see if he can
32:25
Speaker 2: do these types of things in his first month, what
32:27
Speaker 2: can he do two months, three months and down the
32:30
Speaker 2: stretch for this team.
32:31
Speaker 4: I'm excited.
32:32
Speaker 3: Here's a deep one for you as we continue our
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Speaker 3: chat with Hunter Bombgront brought to us on the program
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Speaker 3: by import Minded your Vehicle Experts on South twenty seventh Street,
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Speaker 3: just north of eight ninety four. I noticed, like the
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Speaker 3: Cubs are very it seemed like they're stingy. Their hitters
32:46
Speaker 3: didn't challenge a lot of pitches that I thought were challengeable,
32:50
Speaker 3: and I went, I'm like, I wonder if that's a
32:52
Speaker 3: Craig thing or if it's just a hitter thing. You know,
32:55
Speaker 3: who's last in the major leagues in hitter challenges the
32:58
Speaker 3: amount of hitter challenges of the ABS system. Your Milwaukee Brewers. Wow,
33:05
Speaker 3: their hitters are last fifty four challenges. They have a
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Speaker 3: forty one percent success rate, So it's not very good,
33:10
Speaker 3: that's ironic. But led by Wild Bell, the Brewers are
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Speaker 3: the third most challenged for pitchers. Like they're they're so
33:19
Speaker 3: wild Bill and is tapping the hat one hundred and
33:22
Speaker 3: twenty nine challenges for the Brewers seventy two wins, so
33:25
Speaker 3: they're at a fifty six percent uh winning percentage on
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Speaker 3: pitching challenges. They're hitting challenges, they're at forty one percent,
33:35
Speaker 3: so that's well.
33:36
Speaker 2: I know that Contraras has been in quite a slump
33:38
Speaker 2: as of late with those. Yeah, one for twelve at
33:41
Speaker 2: one point, and and then I know Gary, Gary had
33:45
Speaker 2: a big one yesterday late in that game, you turned
33:47
Speaker 2: to walk into a strikeout, huge.
33:49
Speaker 3: Three to two. There's no bigger abs than a three
33:51
Speaker 3: to two pitch. It's the ball, like whoa.
33:54
Speaker 1: Now, sometimes that's pretty skewed, right, because there are situations
33:57
Speaker 1: where it's just worth it to give it a shot. Yeah, right,
34:00
Speaker 1: so yeah you might, you're right chance.
34:02
Speaker 3: But Sanchez I think missed one by like three inches
34:05
Speaker 3: on the outside corner too.
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Speaker 1: It is ironic, though, if a team is so good
34:08
Speaker 1: at taking.
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Speaker 3: I was just stunned that, yeah, the Brewers would be
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Speaker 3: lasting hitter challenges the amounts.
34:14
Speaker 2: I don't Yeah, I don't know what necessarily goes into that.
34:18
Speaker 2: I think I think everybody's still adjusting to it to
34:21
Speaker 2: some degree. But we're now we're now half a season
34:24
Speaker 2: in with this and I think there's you're there's gonna
34:26
Speaker 2: be a lot to learn. I think definitely this next
34:28
Speaker 2: offseason you're going to be able to learn more. I
34:32
Speaker 2: bet teams are going to kind of go back to
34:33
Speaker 2: the drawing board and say, Okay, what did we do right?
34:36
Speaker 1: What did we do wrong? When did we challenge?
34:38
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm sure organizations are going to kind of
34:40
Speaker 2: deep dive into that in the off season and say
34:42
Speaker 2: what can we do better? And maybe they're doing that
34:44
Speaker 2: as we speak. But it is interesting because obviously somebody
34:47
Speaker 2: has to be last. It's it's the Brewers. When it
34:49
Speaker 2: comes to their hitter challenges. It seems Gary loves to challenge.
34:53
Speaker 2: I think he's late in his career and he's like, man,
34:55
Speaker 2: I wish I would have had this ten years ago.
34:57
Speaker 2: So he's kind of it feels like he's doing it
34:59
Speaker 2: left and right a little bit. But otherwise, look, you
35:02
Speaker 2: just you have to be mindful of situation. And that's
35:05
Speaker 2: what the Brewers preach to be at the very beginning
35:07
Speaker 2: of this is it just has to be the right situation.
35:10
Speaker 2: And then kind of we heard Murph say a little
35:12
Speaker 2: more like yeah, but then also, if you know it's
35:16
Speaker 2: a strike, challenge the pitch. I think there was some
35:18
Speaker 2: some of that as well, where he maybe encouraged them
35:20
Speaker 2: to challenge a little more, and unfortunately maybe that's where
35:24
Speaker 2: William has had a tough stretch over the last you know,
35:26
Speaker 2: week or two of those abs challenges.
35:28
Speaker 4: So there is a balance there.
35:30
Speaker 2: Because if it's a if it's a pitch you think
35:33
Speaker 2: is a is a strike and you're behind the plate
35:35
Speaker 2: and you're like, well that's a strike. And even if
35:37
Speaker 2: there's two outs and nobody on to the third inning,
35:39
Speaker 2: you know you want to challenge because you want to
35:41
Speaker 2: get that strike call. But then you also have to
35:43
Speaker 2: make sure, Okay, we only got two of these throughout
35:45
Speaker 2: the game, so we got to be wise.
35:46
Speaker 1: That's right, all right? Hunter?
35:48
Speaker 3: A couple of things here are the Orthpedic Associates Injury
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Speaker 3: Report Ortowwisconsin dot com. The website Logan Henderson with a
35:55
Speaker 3: great outing yesterday. Is he on tech tech track for
35:58
Speaker 3: one more? And then coming up? What's the prognosis?
36:02
Speaker 2: I would think, so we'll talk to Murphy about it
36:04
Speaker 2: today see how he bounces back here. But I last
36:07
Speaker 2: we heard, like earlier last week when they were in Cincinnati,
36:09
Speaker 2: he was still having a little bit of the backsre ones,
36:11
Speaker 2: so they were kind of monitoring that. But it sounds
36:14
Speaker 2: like he was at least good to pitch last night,
36:16
Speaker 2: and he pitched well three innings, seven strikeouts, didn't allow
36:19
Speaker 2: a run, really good from Henderson in those three innings,
36:21
Speaker 2: So I would think they're gonna want him to do
36:23
Speaker 2: another one, maybe five innings, and maybe that's Thursday or
36:26
Speaker 2: Friday of this week.
36:27
Speaker 4: So it's possible he makes us start before.
36:30
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe they target that double header day if
36:33
Speaker 2: he's healthy, that Tuesday in Saint Louis, because if he pitches,
36:38
Speaker 2: say he pitches Thursday, maybe they did, you know, the
36:41
Speaker 2: four days, and then he's back maybe on Tuesday in
36:43
Speaker 2: that double header in some capacity, whether it's starting out
36:45
Speaker 2: of the bullpen, whatever it is. But I also think
36:48
Speaker 2: there is a chance they go, well, you know what,
36:51
Speaker 2: looking at our pitching staff, let's try to see if
36:54
Speaker 2: we can get this guy healthy, give him an extra
36:56
Speaker 2: week through the All Star break, and then have him
36:58
Speaker 2: full go in the second the metaphor second half of
37:00
Speaker 2: the season. So I think there's gonna be a decision
37:02
Speaker 2: point there probably a lot of it's gonna see how
37:04
Speaker 2: he feels this week, see how he feels if he
37:06
Speaker 2: does a second rehab outing later this week, and then
37:08
Speaker 2: go from there. Otherwise, we should get an update on
37:11
Speaker 2: Coleman Crow. He's been throwing. I've been seeing him throw
37:15
Speaker 2: U in the outfield and stuff, so obviously he's throwing.
37:18
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's back sooner rather than later. We should get
37:20
Speaker 2: an update on him today. And so those are really
37:23
Speaker 2: the two main guys you're looking to get back, especially Henderson.
37:26
Speaker 1: Has Henderson the guy. He's been pitching good. He's been
37:28
Speaker 1: pitching good.
37:29
Speaker 3: Hunter, great job for us. We'll be listening to the
37:32
Speaker 3: Baseball pregame show tonight, Brewers and Rez Robert Gass around
37:35
Speaker 3: the mountain. So and also, condolence is for you. Missing
37:38
Speaker 3: Russell Dickerson not twice, not once, but twice tough Saturday
37:41
Speaker 3: at the beam Ohrris Pavilion at Summerfest and Sunday at
37:44
Speaker 3: the ballpark where he threw out the first pitch and
37:47
Speaker 3: performed a little song in mid game.
37:50
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it was good to see him at the game.
37:53
Speaker 2: Unfortunately I didn't know he was throwing out the first
37:54
Speaker 2: pitch until he was throwing out the first pitch. I
37:56
Speaker 2: would have would have went down there and at least
37:59
Speaker 2: gotten the Hello.
38:01
Speaker 3: Yeah he'll be back. Dolf told us his wife from Cedarburg.
38:04
Speaker 3: So he'll be back.
38:05
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, yeah, yeah, maybe he'll be up.
38:07
Speaker 3: Maybe here's the potential seeing the anthem at the World Series.
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Speaker 1: Gamer, I like that. Let's make let's make it, and
38:13
Speaker 1: you find out to make that happen. All right, Hunter,
38:15
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Thanks guys, all right, Hunter Bombret.
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Speaker 3: You'll hear him on the Baseball pregame show before the
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow on the program, we welcome back our buddy Bill
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