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9/30/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of the huddle on the air from headquarters.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in six o'clock clubbers. Hope you enjoyed your extra
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Speaker 1: hour of sleep. We've been at it since five with
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Speaker 1: Billy today. Hunter Baumgart sliding into the chair. In the
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Speaker 1: producer's room for Armin Sarian, we'll all be back tomorrow
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Speaker 1: because it's doubleheader day. We're going to be at Pottawatomie
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Speaker 1: Hot take hump day is upon us, boys. 877-794- 197.3
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Speaker 1: is the NicoletLaw.com talking text line. Share your hot takes.
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Speaker 1: We got one already. They're rolling in. Steve hit us up.
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Speaker 1: Hot takes. We used to be sticklers, though. We used
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Speaker 1: to say, hot take has to be an opinion. It
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Speaker 1: has to be a flaming hot ball of truth, like
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Speaker 1: your opinion. And then we said, no predictions allowed. And
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Speaker 1: then people kept making predictions. We're like, ah, screw it.
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Speaker 1: Make a prediction if you want to. But Steve said,
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Speaker 1: here's his hot take. The Packers will have at least
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Speaker 1: 100 yards rushing Sunday against Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Boy, that would be something with the, you know, depending
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Speaker 1: on who's playing on the offensive line. But that's his
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Speaker 1: hot take. That's a prediction, but we'll allow it. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I guess his logic is his logic. Who's
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Speaker 1: playing on the offensive line? We don't know. Not going
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Speaker 1: to be, you know, the four horsemen.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: It takes time. Definitely. Is he playing a backup quarterback?
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Speaker 1: Not a backup defense, though. Jalen Daniels. Yeah, not a
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Speaker 1: backup defense. You're right.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: All right, Steve. Steve opened the bidding. Here's a hot
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Speaker 1: take for you. It was a little bit shocking, but
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Speaker 1: it's sobering more than shocking that the Packers game against
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Speaker 1: the Bears was flexed from the national spot at 325
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Speaker 1: to noon. That game is a week from Sunday. It's
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Speaker 1: the 11th. And it makes all the sense in the world.
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Speaker 1: Packers are off to a very, very lackluster start. to
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Speaker 1: say the least. The Bears are without Caleb Williams. They
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Speaker 1: just had a great night on Monday Night Football against
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Speaker 1: the Eagles, but they're without Caleb Williams. The matchup has
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Speaker 1: lost a little bit of sizzle nationally, and in the
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Speaker 1: same window, Fox was getting ready to broadcast the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: and 49ers at 325, our time. That was their... And
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Speaker 1: that's a better game. So it makes sense. Send the
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Speaker 1: A crew there, put that one out to the nation,
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Speaker 1: and relegate the Bears and Packers to a regional audience.
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Speaker 1: Especially since Caleb Williams might not play. Yeah, that's what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. So Caleb Williams probably won't play. He got
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Speaker 1: no Parsons. There's no star power. Yep. So they made
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Speaker 1: the right decision. Someone tweeted, I think it was Zach
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Speaker 1: Cruz tweeted that, and he listed all the NFL stuff.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, they also may have been thinking
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Speaker 1: about avoiding a potential conflict with game one of the NLCS.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Could have been. Good cross-pollination there. Yeah, it could have been.
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Speaker 1: Like I thought, well, yeah, but... And everybody, people are
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Speaker 1: coming at me, and it's like, well, I mean, maybe,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe, potentially, could have been. Like, you know,
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Speaker 1: both games are, I think Fox has both games, don't they?
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Speaker 1: Like conflict if the Brewers are playing in the NLCS? Yeah. Like,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It's like if the Brewers, like,
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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about the way things lay out. Who
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Speaker 1: has the broadcast rights for the NLCS? They're both on Fox, right? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Yeah. That's what I thought. And like,
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Speaker 1: my guess is it'll be after the football. That's what
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be a seven o'clock game. Right. Like, right.
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Speaker 1: Because if it's especially if it's Brewers, Dodgers and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that, or if it's a, but I don't know, man,
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Speaker 1: maybe I just threw it out there and people are
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Speaker 1: coming at me like, ah, that's not it. The Packers suck.
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Speaker 1: And it's mostly Bears fans.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Well, so you threw the NLCS thought out there. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Just like, you know, it's like bad as usual. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: of course. I mean, it's the default setting. Well, yeah.
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Speaker 2: There is no reason, I don't think, to get mad
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Speaker 2: at people over a flex time in the NFL. But
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Speaker 2: I just think Packers aren't playing well. They just got
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Speaker 2: embarrassed on national TV at home. They did on Thursday night. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and the Bears aren't going to have Caleb Williams, maybe, possibly.
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Speaker 2: So that's why. I mean, it's so rare for the
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Speaker 2: NFL to flex out Packers-Bears, especially in Lambeau Field. So
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Speaker 2: there's got to be circumstances. So maybe the MLB playoffs
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Speaker 2: have a little bit to do with that, but I
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Speaker 2: think more so Packers just haven't shown that they're entertaining
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but send their top crew there and send your
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Speaker 1: other guys to the NLCS game if it's here. We
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Speaker 1: don't even know if the Brewers are going to be playing. Right, right.
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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of stuff that goes into it, too, with, like,
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Speaker 1: trucks and crews and, you know, like, stuff behind the scenes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was surprised.
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Speaker 4: Logistics.
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Speaker 1: Oh, for sure.
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Speaker 2: I was surprised that it was flex just because I
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Speaker 2: feel like at any time, the NFL loves to put
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Speaker 2: Packers bears in the spotlight, no matter how the teams
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Speaker 2: are doing. So I was a little bit surprised by that.
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Speaker 2: But if you have the showings in the first three
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Speaker 2: weeks that the Packers have, and they were in the
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Speaker 2: prime spotlight on CBS, and then they were in a
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Speaker 2: prime spotlight on Thursday night football and have not shown
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Speaker 2: great in any of the first three games.
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Speaker 1: They soiled the bed. They did the way it works
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Speaker 1: out though. It creates the possibility of one of the
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Speaker 1: great things we talk about is the sports doubleheader. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You could watch the Packers or Bears at Lambeau and
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Speaker 1: then make it down to watch the Brewers and get
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Speaker 1: one of the NLCS. How cool would that be? That'd
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Speaker 1: be amazing. That's a bucket list thing right there. That'd
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Speaker 1: be one where someone should do a newspaper story or
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Speaker 1: a TV story or a vlog or something where you
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Speaker 1: go to both. And you just document it and like
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Speaker 1: your trip back, how many times you stop at quick
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Speaker 1: trip up and back.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Because that would be incredible. I remember, I remember being
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Speaker 1: at a Brewers, it might've been Brewers Diamondbacks playoff game
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Speaker 1: or man, I don't know. It was by Brewers Phillies.
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Speaker 1: And then I was at that game in the afternoon
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Speaker 1: and then headed West and saw the Badgers play maybe
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Speaker 1: Nebraska or somebody at night. Oh, so that was a
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Speaker 1: great sports doubleheader. It was a night game at Camp
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Speaker 1: Randall and a Saturday Brewers playoff game. Closest I came,
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Speaker 1: I saw an afternoon Brewers game, and I went to
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Speaker 1: see All-Star Wrestling downtown and saw the crusher. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: like that. I was that far back. Reggie Lasowski. Reggie Lasowski.
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Speaker 1: But it was so fun. In the same day, Brewers
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Speaker 1: and wrestling. But that would be an unbelievable sports doubleheader. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: That would be, ooh, man, Packers, Bears. Granted, the game
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Speaker 1: could be ugly. Who knows what's going to happen? Doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: You're there. But, yeah, to be at both in a day? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Those are like. Those are like two bucket list events
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Speaker 1: that you could cross off. You could check them off
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Speaker 1: in a day. Now, you couldn't do that if the
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Speaker 1: game was at 325, because you'd be leaving Lambeau at 6,
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Speaker 1: and unless you had a helicopter, you're not getting to both.
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Speaker 1: That would be more the TV doubleheader. You'd watch their
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Speaker 1: package right into the NLCS, which is probably the more
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Speaker 1: common thing that'll happen. No homework for the kids getting
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Speaker 1: done on Monday. Right. So what does that do? I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: had it been a 325 start, the tailgating environment would
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Speaker 1: have been interesting. And would the Brewers have put it
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Speaker 1: on the scoreboard during BP? Is that legal? I remember when.
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Speaker 2: the schedule first came out of the playoffs this year
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Speaker 2: because the baseball announces it like early September, they'll have
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Speaker 2: all the dates. Obviously you don't know who's where or
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Speaker 2: anything like that, but you just know the dates of them.
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Speaker 2: And it was pointed out right away that NLCS game
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Speaker 2: one is the day of Packers bears. And if the
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Speaker 2: Cubs would have been on the other side of the bracket,
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Speaker 2: you could have had a possibility of Cubs brewers in
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Speaker 2: the NLCS and Packers bears at Lambeau field on the
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Speaker 2: same day, which would have been just, That's what I
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Speaker 2: was rooting.
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Speaker 1: For all along. Yeah. I was totally rooting for that,
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Speaker 1: but it creates the, and I'm thinking like I'm selfishly
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Speaker 1: because Billy and I will be at Lambeau and I
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Speaker 1: could make that doubleheader. I could get to, I might
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Speaker 1: miss the first inning or a couple of couple innings. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But I could potentially do both. So I might be
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Speaker 1: able to do it. Yeah. With the new game. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Because no, I am team, but media starts with me.
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Speaker 1: So that's what I'm thinking. I was like, you know, Hey,
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Speaker 1: just like look for the doubleheader. It gives you a
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Speaker 1: little buffer if you're a fan, too. You can, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, fire up the grill and make more brats
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Speaker 1: and stuff. Wherever you are, if you're a Pottawatty Sportsbook,
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Speaker 1: if you're at home, if you're, you know. But it's
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Speaker 1: going to be a great day. Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 2: Well, Brewers got to get there first, got to beat
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Speaker 2: whoever they need to beat. But have confidence they will.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, how good will a Brewers Padres series be?
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Speaker 1: I know there are some people who are now talking
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Speaker 1: themselves into being afraid of the Padres. Yeah, there are
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Speaker 1: definitely those. Champions fear no one, Hunter. That's it? This
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Speaker 1: team won 103 games in the regular season. Murph knows that.
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Speaker 1: The Brewers know that. You're playing a team that, though hot,
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Speaker 1: was a wild card. Exactly. Exactly. And finished below the
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Speaker 1: team that you beat for the best record. Yep. It's like, okay.
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Speaker 1: And you have home field. You do. And you have
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Speaker 1: Jacob Mizorowski. And it's not a three-game series, which also,
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Speaker 1: you know, that gives you a buffer as well, so...
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Speaker 1: Would you hope that they play all three just to
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Speaker 1: take some energy out of them, maybe? Yeah. I do
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Speaker 1: hope the Cubs win tonight. Yeah. Sad as it is
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Speaker 1: to say. It is weird, but I'm with you. I'm
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Speaker 1: totally with you. And then, yeah, then whoever wins game
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Speaker 1: three is having a Thursday night, late night, West Coast
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Speaker 1: champagne celebration and then getting on a plane and coming
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Speaker 1: to Milwaukee. That's the idea. Yeah. That's probably the best
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Speaker 1: case scenario is game three. I don't know. Do the
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Speaker 1: Cubs have it in them? Can they get off the deck?
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Speaker 1: I sure they could. But sure, the team looks doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: Go three games. It's on Kevin Gosman to get them started.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, going three games would help, I think a
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Speaker 1: little bit in theory.
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Speaker 2: In theory.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. You never know what these things. But you're right.
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Speaker 1: Dobie in baseball, like hot can go cold quickly. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Regression to the mean, as you say. Indeed. Indeed. Indeed.
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Speaker 1: All right. Hunter, who was at the workouts yesterday. and
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Speaker 1: he gathered some more information. What do you want to
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Speaker 1: play for us now? What do you got?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one-on-one interview with Bryce Wilson, who is kind of
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Speaker 2: on that fringe of the roster. Will he make it?
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Speaker 2: I think he has a good chance to, but maybe
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Speaker 2: that means a guy like Kyle Harrison possibly doesn't. So
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Speaker 2: we'll see how the Brewers end up going with their
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Speaker 2: pitching staff. But talk to Bryce Wilson about a bunch
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Speaker 2: of different things. Remember, he was with this team in 23,
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Speaker 2: so he was part of the start of the four
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Speaker 2: years of the NL Central titles. kind of bounced around
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Speaker 2: in baseball. This year came in about halfway through the season,
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Speaker 2: spent some time on the IL, but had a chance
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Speaker 2: to catch up with the relief pitcher yesterday and talked
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Speaker 2: about a myriad of things, and here is that conversation. Bryce,
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Speaker 2: first question for you. How has it been the last
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Speaker 2: half of the year to be on this team that's
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Speaker 2: been so consistent in putting wins up on the board?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's been special. I think it's been
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Speaker 3: really fun just watching it just kind of show up
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Speaker 3: every day and just be good at what we do,
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Speaker 3: show up, play hard, and win a lot of ballgames.
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Speaker 2: You've been obviously in this organization before. What do you
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Speaker 2: think being in other organizations, being in this one, leads
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Speaker 2: to the consistent success this organization has had?
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of it is just everybody shows
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Speaker 3: up and we enjoy being here every day. Everybody gets
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Speaker 3: along really well. We all want to win for each
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Speaker 3: other and succeed for each other. That ultimately translates into
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Speaker 3: a lot of ballgames.
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Speaker 2: That are won How important is that in a clubhouse
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Speaker 2: to have that type of culture and that cohesiveness because
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Speaker 2: it is such a long season?
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Speaker 3: I think for that reason in itself because of how
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Speaker 3: long the season is. You have 162 games and then
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Speaker 3: you add in spring training as well and now playoffs.
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Speaker 3: You spend a lot of time around each other so
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Speaker 3: if you can have good relationships with everybody and get
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Speaker 3: along with everybody then it's going to make a big difference.
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Speaker 2: How about the guys you have with you in the
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Speaker 2: bullpen out there and the consistency up and down that
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Speaker 2: you guys have been able to put up zeros on
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Speaker 2: the board?
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Speaker 3: Yeah I mean obviously it's a lot of really good
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Speaker 3: pitchers with a lot of really good stuff but I
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Speaker 3: think more than that is we're always we always want
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Speaker 3: to build off of each other and pick each other
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Speaker 3: up and then just go out and kind of establish
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Speaker 3: that like hey like you know if we're winning when
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Speaker 3: the starter comes out we won't we should win this
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Speaker 3: ball game so I think that's a lot of you
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Speaker 3: know asserting that dominance and then being good at what
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Speaker 3: we do.
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Speaker 2: How much do you guys kind of help each other
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Speaker 2: out there in the bullpen communication during the game, after
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Speaker 2: the game, just kind of what you're seeing, and how
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Speaker 2: much can you feed off of each other?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of it comes
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Speaker 3: down to, you know, helping in certain aspects as far
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Speaker 3: as scouting reports and what certain guys are seeing from
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Speaker 3: certain hitters and, you know, how we want to attack
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Speaker 3: these guys. But then, yeah, I mean, if somebody goes
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Speaker 3: out and puts up a dominant inning, you know, the
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Speaker 3: next guy that comes in also wants to do the
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Speaker 3: same thing and kind of slam the door a little bit.
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Speaker 2: How do you make sure as you go into an
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Speaker 2: atmosphere like the postseason, how do you make sure you
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Speaker 2: kind of keep it simple and try to at least
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Speaker 2: keep it like any other game?
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Speaker 3: I think it's just that. It's just reminding yourself that
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Speaker 3: it still is the same game. A lot more eyes
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Speaker 3: are on you, a lot more pressure. But at the
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Speaker 3: end of the day, it's still pitching or it's still
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Speaker 3: hitting or just playing the game and being able to
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Speaker 3: do that and continue to be efficient with what we're
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Speaker 3: doing I think is the big part and just remembering that, hey,
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Speaker 3: We got here for a reason. We won 103 baseball
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Speaker 3: games for a reason. Let's continue to do the same thing.
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Speaker 2: How much do you feel and take pride in just
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Speaker 2: being able to kind of come in in any type
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Speaker 2: of role, whether it be back end of the game,
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Speaker 2: front end, to possibly do that in the postseason?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I take a lot of pride in
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Speaker 3: saving the rest of the bullpen guys, you know, in
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Speaker 3: those certain situations, coming in and covering multiple innings and,
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Speaker 3: you know, saving those guys so they're fresh for the
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Speaker 3: next day or the day after and, you know, take
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Speaker 3: pride in that. And then also just, you know, if
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Speaker 3: I come in and we're losing, just keeping the game
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Speaker 3: where it's at and giving the offense a little bit
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Speaker 3: of momentum, whether it's, you know, momentum is such a
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Speaker 3: big thing in the postseason. If I can come out
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Speaker 3: and we're losing, even if we do end up losing
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Speaker 3: the game, it gives us momentum going into the next game.
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Speaker 2: Last question for you. Yelich was named the first captain
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Speaker 2: of the Milwaukee Brewers. You were obviously here a few
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Speaker 2: years ago around him. How do you describe his impact
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Speaker 2: on this clubhouse?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think everybody here kind of looked
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Speaker 3: at him in that aspect before he got that label. But, man,
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Speaker 3: he's just been doing it for so long, and he
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Speaker 3: has so much insight, and he truly, deeply cares about
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Speaker 3: this team and the city of Milwaukee and bringing a
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Speaker 3: lot of success. And you can tell just by how
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Speaker 3: hard he works and how he carries himself just how
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Speaker 3: much he cares, and that's easy to follow and easy
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Speaker 3: to get behind.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Bryce, for the time.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Thank you. Well done, Hunter. He's an interesting cat.
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Speaker 1: He is. He gave some insightful answers. That was an
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Speaker 1: excellent interview, Hunter. Oh, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. He's a guy we're talking about because his
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Speaker 1: role became sucking up innings and saving the bullpen. And
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Speaker 1: that's an important role in the playoffs. Yeah. At any time.
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Speaker 1: Because if a game's out of whack, you know, you
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Speaker 1: got this. You know, get us through it. You know?
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Speaker 1: Human reset button.
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Speaker 2: Totally.
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Speaker 1: That's why I think he has a good chance to
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Speaker 1: make this roster. You generally don't see, or you hope
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Speaker 1: not to see, position players pitch in postseason games. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I very much hope so. Yeah. Especially
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Speaker 1: on your side. Yeah. But he's an interesting cat because, well,
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Speaker 1: how many teams are in the NL playoffs right now? Six.
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Speaker 1: So Bryce Wilson has a 50% chance of getting a
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Speaker 1: ring because he pitched for Philadelphia, Chicago, and Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: You're right.
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Speaker 1: Ha ha ha. So although, you know, two of his
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Speaker 1: former teams lost yesterday in game one, they're still alive.
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Speaker 1: So theoretically, he entered the playoffs with a 50 percent
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Speaker 1: chance of winning a World Series ring. Yeah, exactly. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Bryce has got a shot here.
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Speaker 2: It's like two games for the Cubs. Did he make
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Speaker 2: a start for them? He did against the Brewers and
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Speaker 2: did quite well.
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Speaker 1: That's what I thought. In the last home series that
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Speaker 1: the Brewers lost of the season, which was late June,
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Speaker 1: they did not lose a home series in July, August,
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Speaker 1: or September. He started a game. So he's well-traveled, and
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Speaker 1: to be designated for assignment and do-si-do-ed as many times
16:22
Speaker 1: as he was is incredible. But you want a guy
16:24
Speaker 1: like that around now. Absolutely. A lot of experience. A
16:27
Speaker 1: lot of experience, exactly. Yeah, his first year was 18. Yeah.
16:33
Speaker 1: He also previously pitched for the Braves. Okay. Wow. This
16:36
Speaker 1: year or in a different year?
16:38
Speaker 2: No, no.
16:38
Speaker 1: In Boston. He began his career with the Braves. He's
16:42
Speaker 1: been around a while. Actually in Milwaukee. Yeah, exactly. No,
16:45
Speaker 1: before Milwaukee. Before Milwaukee. In Boston. He'd go way back.
16:47
Speaker 1: He played with Eddie Matthews. Well, yeah. And he pitched
16:49
Speaker 1: for the White Sox. yes he did he's got friends
16:52
Speaker 1: all over.
16:52
Speaker 2: The place so he could he could win a ring
16:53
Speaker 2: in the al yeah well yeah oh no he pitched
16:56
Speaker 2: for the white socks last year oh darn well it
16:57
Speaker 2: was interesting because i heard him and vaughn talking about
17:00
Speaker 2: the white socks the other day in the clubhouse yeah
17:02
Speaker 2: how they're you know what what they thought of their
17:04
Speaker 2: chances so yeah two former white socks last.
17:08
Speaker 1: Year okay so the other thing and one of the
17:10
Speaker 1: things that um hunter you were around for it mike
17:12
Speaker 1: heller and i used to argue he he would bitch
17:14
Speaker 1: about baseball having their games on during the day yeah
17:17
Speaker 1: and i'd be like oh you hate the uh ncaa
17:19
Speaker 1: tournament then because that's during the day it's the high
17:22
Speaker 1: level games and people are complaining now because there were
17:25
Speaker 1: empty seats in both houston and.
17:28
Speaker 2: Atlanta yeah they what a houston reliever was complaining houston
17:32
Speaker 2: reliever went tucker craft spoiled yeah man he.
17:35
Speaker 1: Went tucker craft saying how could they be booing us
17:37
Speaker 1: they're spoiled because they've had so much success here mm-hmm
17:41
Speaker 1: And well, you know, play better. That's just it.
17:44
Speaker 2: Well, I did see someone put it like you watch
17:47
Speaker 2: this team for 162. Say you're a Braves fan, right?
17:50
Speaker 1: 162.
17:51
Speaker 2: They win the division and then they have a, you know,
17:54
Speaker 2: two o'clock start in the afternoon on a workday.
17:56
Speaker 1: Like I get that.
17:57
Speaker 2: Like, okay, I invested all this time and now. I
18:00
Speaker 2: have to take a day off to get to the ballpark,
18:02
Speaker 2: or I have to have a second screen on my workplace.
18:04
Speaker 1: Atlanta traffic is brutal, too, seriously.
18:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think all of that combined, I do
18:10
Speaker 2: get what they're saying. But the only other way to
18:13
Speaker 2: do it is you have it simultaneously, you know, two
18:16
Speaker 2: games at four, two games at eight, or whatever it is.
18:19
Speaker 2: Here's the other novel idea.
18:21
Speaker 1: Add a wildcard team and let all the division winners
18:25
Speaker 1: have a bye? Have a bye.
18:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's possible. I do think this is going to be...
18:30
Speaker 2: If I were to guess, I feel like this is
18:31
Speaker 2: going to be the last year of this playoff format.
18:33
Speaker 2: I feel like there's going to be something changed, whether
18:34
Speaker 2: it's receding after the first round, which I would be
18:36
Speaker 2: in favor of. If the Phillies win, they should play
18:39
Speaker 2: the Brewers. It shouldn't be the fourth. Like the worst
18:41
Speaker 2: seed should play the best team like the NFL does.
18:44
Speaker 2: I think that's I would be fine with the current format.
18:46
Speaker 2: But then I feel like that's a possibility, too, is
18:48
Speaker 2: you win your division and and you get a bye.
18:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be the reward. And more playoffs is
18:54
Speaker 1: always better, right? Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I love playoff. It's
18:58
Speaker 1: your best product. But, yeah, I actually, well, because we
19:01
Speaker 1: have afternoons off, I like the quadruple header. Oh, yeah.
19:03
Speaker 1: I mean, for us, fantastic. In fact, and I was
19:06
Speaker 1: dialed in watching my boy Matty Vaskirshen call that Braves-Phillies game. Yeah.
19:10
Speaker 1: He did a great job. So good. I texted him afterwards,
19:13
Speaker 1: and because it's, you know, me and Matt, I can't
19:17
Speaker 1: share on the air what we, our exchange. But it
19:21
Speaker 1: was memorable. Yeah. Memorable. As it always is. Good stuff.
19:24
Speaker 1: Good stuff. When we come back, Scott Dolphin's going to
19:26
Speaker 1: pop in from the country station down the hall. He's
19:29
Speaker 1: a Yankees fan. If he wasn't a nice guy, he's
19:34
Speaker 1: a Bears fan and a Yankees fan. He's a great guy.
19:36
Speaker 1: I know. Isn't it amazing? That's an asterisk. He likes
19:39
Speaker 1: the Yankees and the Bears, and we still love him.
19:41
Speaker 1: And his team's just got wins the last two nights.
19:44
Speaker 1: On national TV and the spotlight. Late night, too. It'll
19:46
Speaker 1: be unbearable in here. So he's going to be a...
19:49
Speaker 1: We'll try to... knock him down a peg is what
19:51
Speaker 1: we'll do. Oh, yeah. And the Hawkeyes are rolling. They are.
19:56
Speaker 1: Game day's going there this week. It's like... What a
20:00
Speaker 1: week for this guy. It's like the September of Dolph.
20:03
Speaker 1: He's coming in next. We'll find out what it's like
20:04
Speaker 1: to be living his life. You're in the huddle. Fox
20:06
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. He hammers this ball right center field.
20:13
Speaker 2: It is a slam.
20:22
Speaker 1: Ben Rice with a grand slam as the Yankees wallop
20:25
Speaker 1: the always hated but never feared Red Sox at Yankee
20:28
Speaker 1: Stadium game one. of the American League Wild Card Series,
20:31
Speaker 1: which is music to the ears of our pal Scott
20:33
Speaker 1: Dolphin from the country station down the hole. He joins us,
20:35
Speaker 1: our halftime correspondent, halftime of the Wednesday edition of the auto,
20:38
Speaker 1: halftime of the week, halftime of the show. And Dolph,
20:41
Speaker 1: we were just talking about it as we went to break.
20:43
Speaker 1: You're riding so high right now. Your Bears win big.
20:46
Speaker 1: Your Yankees win big on back-to-back nights in the national spotlight.
20:49
Speaker 1: Did you get any sleep either of those nights? I
20:51
Speaker 1: was upset Michigan on Saturday. I was going to get
20:53
Speaker 1: to that, but did you get any sleep? Buy a
20:55
Speaker 1: Powerball ticket, buddy. You're on a roll. Seriously. I should. Yeah, yeah.
20:59
Speaker 1: It's been quite the three or four days. Great side story,
21:02
Speaker 1: by the way.
21:02
Speaker 4: Ben Rice, who you just heard, and Cam Schlittler, who
21:05
Speaker 4: was almost untouchable last night, Both young kids that grew
21:08
Speaker 4: up in Boston as Red Sox fans. Although Ben Rice
21:12
Speaker 4: will tell you at an early age, he discovered the
21:14
Speaker 4: Yankees because he thought the cap was cool. and actually
21:17
Speaker 4: scribbled Yankees rule as like a 12-year-old on Pesky's pole
21:20
Speaker 4: in the right field corner.
21:21
Speaker 1: At Fenway Park.
21:23
Speaker 4: But Cam Schlittler grew up a massive Boston fan, and
21:26
Speaker 4: those fans went after him on social media the last
21:28
Speaker 4: couple of years because he's pitching for the hated rival.
21:30
Speaker 4: And he said, I keep a lot of receipts, and
21:32
Speaker 4: I should probably get off social media because I'm on
21:34
Speaker 4: there all the time. But he went out last night
21:36
Speaker 4: and was just filthy good for them.
21:37
Speaker 1: He's the Cy Young of the American League. Yeah, not bad, huh? Yeah,
21:41
Speaker 1: not bad. And we got to see him at American
21:42
Speaker 1: Family Field earlier this year. The Brewers won that game.
21:45
Speaker 1: But Cam Schlitt was terrific that night. And Ben Rice
21:47
Speaker 1: has six RBI, and he had more hits last night.
21:49
Speaker 1: He had four hits than he did all of the
21:50
Speaker 1: last postseason. Yeah, what a find. Him and that Michael,
21:53
Speaker 1: is it Lombardi? Yeah. Had another three hits last night,
21:56
Speaker 1: the rookie. Unbelievable. Yeah, unbelievable. He's always seemed to find
21:59
Speaker 1: these guys. So do the Brewers, though, recently. Brewers recently, too. But, yeah,
22:03
Speaker 1: you're riding high. What's it like tonight? You know, it's
22:04
Speaker 1: like you're just. One after the other.
22:06
Speaker 4: I know.
22:07
Speaker 1: And now college game day is going to Iowa City
22:10
Speaker 1: for the first time in 20 years. Are you going
22:11
Speaker 1: to go? I wish I could. I'm going to the
22:13
Speaker 1: Brewer game that day. Oh, there you go. Well, that night.
22:15
Speaker 4: I mean, because let's face it, it's going to be
22:17
Speaker 4: a 730 game, isn't it, on Saturday?
22:19
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's trending that way.
22:22
Speaker 4: I know this wild card thing is fairly young, but
22:26
Speaker 4: I read this morning where no wild card team that
22:29
Speaker 4: won game one.
22:29
Speaker 1: Has lost a series. Interesting. Game 1 at home. Sorry.
22:33
Speaker 1: It does sound right.
22:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the Brewers... Yeah, because the Brewers won game
22:37
Speaker 2: 2 against the Mets and then lost.
22:39
Speaker 4: Hunter, this still hurts. Yeah, so this is the format. Remember,
22:43
Speaker 4: it used to just be one game.
22:44
Speaker 3: Totally.
22:45
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
22:45
Speaker 4: Since they went to that 3-game 4, which was what?
22:47
Speaker 4: 4 or 5 years ago? Something like that.
22:49
Speaker 1: Yeah. That is wild, though.
22:50
Speaker 2: You think about how important game 1 is. And all
22:52
Speaker 2: the home teams except the White Sox won yesterday. So
22:55
Speaker 2: all the favorites except the White Sox. Although the White
22:58
Speaker 2: Sox may have been favorite in the game.
22:59
Speaker 1: But all the home teams... except the White Sox.
23:03
Speaker 2: So you're probably going to get one through four in
23:05
Speaker 2: each league, but other than maybe the six-seed White Sox advancing.
23:09
Speaker 4: So as Drew mentioned yesterday, we have a chance to
23:10
Speaker 4: at least boo Manny on Saturday.
23:13
Speaker 3: Yeah.
23:14
Speaker 1: The people's champion, Manny Machado. That's right. That just shows
23:18
Speaker 1: you how long the memory is of these fans in
23:22
Speaker 1: a market like, I hate that guy. Right. Right.
23:26
Speaker 4: You know, the advantage of being the Brewers, though, is,
23:29
Speaker 4: you know, it was last night, Tuesday. and you got
23:32
Speaker 4: the Padres throwing their ace, they're going to throw their
23:34
Speaker 4: number two tonight, and if necessary, their number three.
23:37
Speaker 1: That's one good thing, is we're going to get the
23:38
Speaker 1: back end of the rotation. Yeah, he's got another game
23:41
Speaker 1: behind him, and their ace will pitch game two against Henderson. Yeah,
23:47
Speaker 1: and he's damn good.
23:47
Speaker 4: I mean, he didn't get a hit last night until, what,
23:50
Speaker 4: leader in the seventh inning seventh.
23:52
Speaker 2: Inning and that's why if you're a brewers fan no
23:54
Speaker 2: matter who you want to face you wanted the cubs
23:56
Speaker 2: to win tonight so then they keep using those pictures
23:58
Speaker 2: coming up tomorrow so then they're as exhausted as can
24:01
Speaker 2: be but then again it's baseball and who knows these guys.
24:03
Speaker 1: Yeah but it's hard for brewers fans to wrap their
24:05
Speaker 1: brain around rooting for the cubs for sure it is
24:09
Speaker 1: although i am because i'd much rather see the cubs
24:11
Speaker 1: despite the fact that we'll have a lot more cubs
24:13
Speaker 1: fans at american family field but i think they will
24:14
Speaker 1: certainly be losing shuts them up That's a great point. So, Dolph,
24:20
Speaker 1: as our resident Bears fan, do you have plans to
24:22
Speaker 1: attend the game at Lambeau Field a week from Sunday?
24:25
Speaker 1: Because there is a chance you could do the doubleheader.
24:29
Speaker 1: That's right. Packers-Bears. We were just talking about that. Yeah,
24:34
Speaker 1: it's to noon. So Packers-Bears at noon and then could
24:37
Speaker 1: turn around and be in American Family Field for the
24:39
Speaker 1: first pitch of Brewers in the NLCS. I haven't seen
24:42
Speaker 1: anybody offer me a ticket yet to that one. That
24:44
Speaker 1: was a great thing.
24:45
Speaker 4: When Zabe was here, he'd say, hey, what are you
24:47
Speaker 4: doing Sunday? You want to go to the Packer game
24:48
Speaker 4: at Lambeau Field? I'm like, well, hell yes, if it's
24:50
Speaker 4: the Bears. On scholarship, sign me up.
24:54
Speaker 1: Right, exactly.
24:56
Speaker 4: I did go last year in Chicago, but I didn't
25:00
Speaker 4: go to the playoff game, unfortunately. I went the next
25:02
Speaker 4: week when they lost to the Rams, when the Bears
25:04
Speaker 4: lost to the Rams. But I've been to a lot
25:05
Speaker 4: of those games in both places, and it's pretty awesome
25:07
Speaker 4: to do it. But this year, it's Christmas Day. And
25:11
Speaker 4: we're going to be out of town on vacation for Christmas.
25:13
Speaker 4: And so this would be the prime example. But no,
25:15
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm going to go to that one
25:16
Speaker 4: next weekend. I've got to do either a farm and
25:19
Speaker 4: fleet or a fleet farm the day before Drew. And
25:23
Speaker 4: then hopefully we don't have a Brewers game on Friday night, right?
25:25
Speaker 4: Because that would be game five, if necessary, October 9th.
25:28
Speaker 1: October 9th. Friday night. Yeah, it'd be game five. That'd
25:32
Speaker 1: be game five. And then they take one day off
25:34
Speaker 1: and then get right into the NLCS. Yep. And that
25:37
Speaker 1: would be the same day as Bears Packers. That's the
25:38
Speaker 1: way it would be. But for those of us who
25:40
Speaker 1: do a Packers post-game show, this is a very, very
25:44
Speaker 1: good development. Yeah, it is. Because we'll be rolling until
25:48
Speaker 1: 6 now, and then up at Lambeau, we could turn
25:52
Speaker 1: and burn and be back.
25:53
Speaker 4: Were you surprised by this flexing so early in the season,
25:56
Speaker 4: or does it make sense?
25:58
Speaker 1: Perfect logical sense, don't you think? Yeah, I guess. Since
26:01
Speaker 1: they already have a crew going to Seattle, San Francisco.
26:04
Speaker 1: If there wasn't a better West Coast game to put in,
26:08
Speaker 1: I don't think they would have moved a game time
26:11
Speaker 1: like they wouldn't have taken a game in the east
26:13
Speaker 1: or central time zone and flexed it to later. You
26:16
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah.
26:17
Speaker 4: And you have the complications of the Packers getting off
26:19
Speaker 4: to a slow start and no Caleb Williams also.
26:21
Speaker 1: Maybe that that's oh, that's totally big time. That's totally
26:24
Speaker 1: because you don't not only do they not normally flex
26:28
Speaker 1: Packers Bears at Lambeau. They generally don't flex games like
26:31
Speaker 1: this early in the season. Yeah, that really surprised me.
26:35
Speaker 1: So that's their eminent domain power, right?
26:38
Speaker 4: And then you had the added news that Michael Parsons
26:40
Speaker 4: didn't start his 21-day window of practicing.
26:44
Speaker 1: He's not going to practice this week at all, right?
26:46
Speaker 1: Why rush him, though, with the season they're having? I agree.
26:48
Speaker 1: I agree.
26:49
Speaker 4: I know the hope was to get him back for
26:50
Speaker 4: the Cowboys, but it's not necessary.
26:52
Speaker 1: It's not looking like that. It's not trending that way. Right.
26:56
Speaker 1: I thought for a while that he was more of
26:58
Speaker 1: like a week eight guy or something like that, you know?
27:01
Speaker 4: Well, that's a hell of an injury. You see some,
27:02
Speaker 4: you know, some people have ruined that theory though. Like
27:05
Speaker 4: you always think of Adrian Peterson that did it for
27:07
Speaker 4: the Vikings who came back and as not a young,
27:10
Speaker 4: young guy either came back in record time or Tucker craft.
27:13
Speaker 1: That's a great example. And guys like that. Um, yeah,
27:18
Speaker 1: guys like that, but they're the outliers. There's always freaks. Yeah. Right.
27:21
Speaker 1: Like guys who come back from an Achilles injury early
27:23
Speaker 1: and like, Oh, that's the new standard. No, it's not. Hmm.
27:27
Speaker 1: There are different paths now. There are some guys who
27:29
Speaker 1: come back in eight or nine months from Tommy John,
27:31
Speaker 1: and other guys take a year or longer, like over
27:33
Speaker 1: 14 months to get back to better. Elton John surgery.
27:36
Speaker 1: Elton John. What would that entail, Toby? I don't know.
27:42
Speaker 1: Probably some fluffy slippers in there. Some Donald Duck costume.
27:47
Speaker 1: Maybe a hair transplant. A hair transplant. That could be.
27:51
Speaker 1: That could be. So, yeah, Packers Bears will lose some sizzle.
27:54
Speaker 1: but it'll still be Packers bears. It'll still be around here.
27:57
Speaker 1: It'll be, it won't matter. Yeah. Well, it's, you know, it,
28:01
Speaker 1: it is, it's an interesting dynamic though, because bears fans
28:05
Speaker 1: are going to be all in their glory and that'll
28:07
Speaker 1: help offset the pain of, uh, if the Cubs potential demise,
28:11
Speaker 1: whereas in Packers fans, the brewers are kind of their,
28:15
Speaker 1: their numbing agent, their anesthetic. Yeah.
28:17
Speaker 4: And now with, with suddenly the, resurrection of the badgers
28:22
Speaker 4: going from uh you know a big underdog winning on
28:24
Speaker 4: the road another i can't call it.
28:26
Speaker 1: A resurrection until we see what happens saturday against sparty.
28:29
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be fine michigan state is just
28:31
Speaker 4: decimated by injuries they are and they.
28:33
Speaker 1: Just got boat raced at home by nebraska who did
28:35
Speaker 1: the badgers are trying to be on the same plane
28:37
Speaker 1: as again you know but yeah That's the thing. And
28:41
Speaker 1: that's where I say I'm a hypocrite. I say if
28:45
Speaker 1: the Brewers lose, even if they lose the first round,
28:47
Speaker 1: it doesn't negate totally to me 100 wins and the
28:51
Speaker 1: enjoyment of the success of this season. But if the
28:55
Speaker 1: Badgers lose Saturday, it negates the win at Happy Valley Saturday. Yeah,
28:59
Speaker 1: it does. I think they're going to be fine. I do, too.
29:02
Speaker 1: I think they'll be okay.
29:02
Speaker 4: And with the schedule looking forward, it looks like a
29:04
Speaker 4: team that can easily win eight or nine games now.
29:07
Speaker 1: Potentially, yeah. And get back to a decent bowl game again. Yeah.
29:11
Speaker 1: Start rolling in. The money start rolling in again. And
29:14
Speaker 1: they've turned it around a little bit. That's how big
29:19
Speaker 1: that win can be. That win in Penn State. I mean,
29:22
Speaker 1: that can just absolutely turn it around. Because no one
29:25
Speaker 1: expected them to beat Notre Dame. And really, no one
29:28
Speaker 1: realistically thought they'd win at Penn State.
29:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know this is the new world of college
29:33
Speaker 4: football with nil and and, but it would also be
29:35
Speaker 4: nice not.
29:35
Speaker 1: And Colton Joseph's had a great start.
29:37
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been, he had a rough start Saturday,
29:39
Speaker 4: but recovered and finished strong against Penn state. It'd be
29:43
Speaker 4: nice if they could have a quarterback in the system
29:45
Speaker 4: for maybe two or three years. I know that's a
29:47
Speaker 4: rare thing nowadays in college football, but the fact that
29:50
Speaker 4: they had those two super freshmen linebackers last year, stick
29:53
Speaker 4: around when they didn't have to you know those.
29:55
Speaker 1: Guys got huge offers to go.
29:57
Speaker 4: Other places yeah you would think and so you know
30:00
Speaker 4: kids are buying in to luke fickle's program hopefully it's
30:03
Speaker 4: not too late they've started to after initially kind of
30:07
Speaker 4: uh poo-pooing the importance of getting the top kids in
30:09
Speaker 4: the state now they're starting to build a fence around
30:12
Speaker 4: wisconsin yeah keep kids so yeah well i look at
30:14
Speaker 4: my team in iowa i think they've got three or
30:16
Speaker 4: four starters from the state of wisconsin and on both
30:18
Speaker 4: sides of the ball or on combined.
30:20
Speaker 1: And that's yeah and that's like To me, it's like
30:23
Speaker 1: you get the job at Wisconsin, that's job one. They
30:26
Speaker 1: used to have a pipeline for linemen. You've had good
30:28
Speaker 1: linemen leaving and going to other places. It's not positive.
30:31
Speaker 4: It has always been that way where those kids didn't
30:34
Speaker 4: get out of the state.
30:35
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, again, then you get to the point where
30:38
Speaker 1: at major college, we're more in basketball than in football,
30:41
Speaker 1: but the high school recruiting has been diminished because you
30:43
Speaker 1: just go shopping at mid-majors and lower D1 schools.
30:47
Speaker 4: I know.
30:48
Speaker 1: Hey, we can offer you more. Come on in. And
30:50
Speaker 1: that sucks for those schools. Yeah, totally.
30:52
Speaker 4: And we see that at places like UWM, for example,
30:56
Speaker 4: in basketball. If they start getting a winning program, boom,
30:58
Speaker 4: a couple of those guys are going to be gone
31:00
Speaker 4: right away.
31:00
Speaker 1: It used to be they would just take your coach.
31:02
Speaker 1: Now they take your best players, too. I know. And
31:05
Speaker 1: a cute cheerleader, too. Throw her in the mix. Yeah,
31:06
Speaker 1: throw her in the mix, too.
31:07
Speaker 4: I wonder if they get nil deals to go other places.
31:09
Speaker 4: That's a great point.
31:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, never know. Yeah, we just lost our best cheerleader.
31:13
Speaker 1: Damn it. We were talking about that yesterday because we
31:16
Speaker 1: were discussing wrestling because Monday Night Raw was in town.
31:19
Speaker 1: And it's like, eh, it's... it's an athletic endeavor, not
31:21
Speaker 1: necessarily a sport because it's scripted. And then I said, well,
31:24
Speaker 1: cheerleading is an athletic endeavor, but it's not a sport. Yeah.
31:27
Speaker 1: They keep, they do have scoring and they do, they've created,
31:30
Speaker 1: they've turned it into a competitive sport, but it was
31:33
Speaker 1: not created for that. They have national championships down at
31:35
Speaker 1: Disney World. But it wasn't created for that. It was created,
31:38
Speaker 1: but then they got into these feats and like, why
31:40
Speaker 1: don't we showcase these and make this? And those are,
31:42
Speaker 1: they're athletes, right? But the idea, if that's, you know,
31:46
Speaker 1: is that a competitive sport? By nature. Is it scholarship?
31:50
Speaker 1: It is now. At big time universities? At some schools,
31:53
Speaker 1: I think it might be. But nowadays, even that, like, well,
31:56
Speaker 1: we're not going to do that anymore because we've got
31:57
Speaker 1: to give all the money to the football and basketball programs.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up Raw.
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Speaker 4: Hunter, what did you think of the Brewers waving their
32:03
Speaker 4: championship belts around?
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Speaker 1: I saw Kerrang and Miz both had them.
32:06
Speaker 4: In the air.
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Speaker 2: I love, yeah, I love that they were enjoying that.
32:09
Speaker 2: A bunch of them went over there and enjoyed that.
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Speaker 1: That was neat.
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Speaker 2: I like when they're out in the community and doing
32:15
Speaker 2: those things. I mean, this is an event more than
32:18
Speaker 2: the community.
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Speaker 1: No bigger wrestling fan in the Brewers' orbit than Mike Vassallo,
32:22
Speaker 1: the meeting relations guy. He was personal friends with Bobby Maheenan. Wow.
32:30
Speaker 1: Whose real name was Ray. Ray. Really? Yeah. Yeah. And
32:33
Speaker 1: his other, he's even closer with Honky Tonk Man as
32:37
Speaker 1: his guy. Wayne Ferris. Wayne Ferris. Roy Wayne Ferris? Isn't
32:41
Speaker 1: it Roy Wayne Ferris? I always heard of Wayne Ferris.
32:43
Speaker 1: He got a hold of my comedy CD one time,
32:44
Speaker 1: and he contacted me saying, you're one funny dude. Honky
32:48
Speaker 1: Tonk Man. Honky Tonk Man was signing guitars and stuff. Honky.
32:52
Speaker 1: I remember when he was. That's what he is, Honky, yeah.
32:54
Speaker 4: When I first started in Milwaukee, Bobby the Brain Heenan
32:56
Speaker 4: came in and did like an hour with us on
32:58
Speaker 4: the show and was telling great stories from the old
33:01
Speaker 4: days where they were in places like ohio or pittsburgh
33:04
Speaker 4: where they only had three rows of people they'd shoot
33:07
Speaker 4: in a tv studio and then they.
33:09
Speaker 1: Would out of focus they would paint faces.
33:11
Speaker 4: On oh yeah scrim in the background yeah so and
33:14
Speaker 4: then pipe in you know at re-dubbing so there was
33:17
Speaker 4: only 27 people there but it sounded like there was
33:19
Speaker 4: at least 700 because you couldn't see the people out
33:22
Speaker 4: of focus in the background.
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Speaker 1: Classic incredible yeah a couple of really good books by
33:25
Speaker 1: the way heenan he didn't wrote yeah you He was the...
33:29
Speaker 1: Check him out. Yeah, he's so funny. One of the
33:31
Speaker 1: great heels of all time, right? Like, Bob Uecker could
33:33
Speaker 1: have been a comedian. Just naturally. Oh, he didn't? And Uecker, too.
33:37
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
33:37
Speaker 1: And Uecker had the association with wrestling as well. Hall
33:40
Speaker 1: of Famer. He did. WWE Hall of Famer, Bob Uecker.
33:43
Speaker 1: Somebody put in... I think it was.
33:46
Speaker 4: Super70Sports on Twitter, on X, said... There's a lot of
33:50
Speaker 4: ex-ballplayers that become stars of the broadcast booth, but how
33:53
Speaker 4: many become stars of the broadcast booth and then do
33:55
Speaker 4: sitcoms that ran for 177 episodes and you were the star?
33:58
Speaker 1: He says, there was only one Mr. Baseball. That's right. Oh, yeah.
34:01
Speaker 1: And how many Carson appearances? Too many to count. Oh,
34:05
Speaker 1: my God.
34:06
Speaker 4: And you didn't have to be a baseball fan and
34:09
Speaker 4: you didn't have to know who Bob Uecker was, but
34:10
Speaker 4: when you saw that he was on that show, you
34:12
Speaker 4: were like, oh, this is must-see TV.
34:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was so funny, too, because of the way
34:16
Speaker 1: it trickled down. And, Dobe, you know this, and it's
34:19
Speaker 1: going to go away because the Carson acolytes are getting
34:25
Speaker 1: older now. But Letterman idolized Euchre. because he idolized Carson,
34:32
Speaker 1: and Euchre and Carson were, you know, and so he's
34:34
Speaker 1: like that, and so he revered Euchre. If you see
34:40
Speaker 1: the panel that Euchre does on Letterman's show, it's like
34:42
Speaker 1: you can just tell that Dave is like over the moon,
34:43
Speaker 1: that he's got this guy that sat next to Johnny
34:45
Speaker 1: all those nights in the chair, and it's just like,
34:48
Speaker 1: you know, those guys don't get, Starstruck very often, but
34:51
Speaker 1: it looked like Letterman was starstruck hanging with you. No,
34:53
Speaker 1: and thanks to Drew Olsen, I got to meet Bob
34:55
Speaker 1: Uecker in Miller Park at the time. Thank you for that.
34:58
Speaker 1: On the field, yeah, we took dope. What a highlight.
35:00
Speaker 1: You had him laughing his ass off. It was great.
35:02
Speaker 1: Talk about wrestling. I thought he was going to give
35:04
Speaker 1: us like 30 seconds and say hello and end up
35:06
Speaker 1: talking for 20 minutes. He heard Milwaukee comedian. He was
35:08
Speaker 1: off to the races. Oh, yeah. And then you got
35:10
Speaker 1: him going on wrestling stories. Oh, yeah.
35:12
Speaker 4: And you'd never know he was a megastar if you'd
35:14
Speaker 4: just met him. And he's just the most down-to-earth dude.
35:16
Speaker 4: And I only had a chance to meet him a
35:18
Speaker 4: handful of times. But he always made you feel special
35:21
Speaker 4: no matter what it was. We used to do that
35:23
Speaker 4: safe at home picnic for the cap fun back in
35:25
Speaker 4: the day. And I got to be a waiter, and
35:27
Speaker 4: he would introduce everybody, and it'd be like we were
35:29
Speaker 4: long-lost old friends.
35:30
Speaker 1: Scotty, how are you, pal?
35:31
Speaker 4: Hey, I was cruising out on Lake Michigan, and we
35:34
Speaker 4: had John this morning.
35:35
Speaker 3: Thanks, man.
35:35
Speaker 1: Thanks for what you do. He didn't have to do that. No,
35:37
Speaker 1: he didn't. He's Bob Euchre. That's cool. That's why he's
35:40
Speaker 1: Bob Buchanan. That was the gift, yeah, no doubt. Well, Dolph,
35:44
Speaker 1: enjoy yourself. You're riding high right now because you've taken
35:47
Speaker 1: a lot of nut shots with the Bears over the
35:50
Speaker 1: past 30 years. Enjoy the playoffs.
35:52
Speaker 4: This year I started wearing my T-shirts to work again.
35:56
Speaker 1: Those were long lost in the back of the closet.
35:58
Speaker 1: Bear down. After Monday night, that was a glorious night.
36:02
Speaker 1: That was a very pleasant surprise. As we say, it's
36:05
Speaker 1: a motto attended to the show, 90% of being a
36:07
Speaker 1: fan is getting kicked in the cup. Enjoy the 10%.
36:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, sadly, we take the losses much harder than we
36:14
Speaker 4: enjoy the wins.
36:15
Speaker 1: No question. That is the pathology of being a fan.
36:18
Speaker 1: I don't know why we get into this stuff. We'll
36:20
Speaker 1: take a quick break. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
36:24
Speaker 1: Huddled up on a Wednesday in the good land. Drew Olsen,
36:26
Speaker 1: Dobie Maxwell in for Billy today. Billy will be back
36:29
Speaker 1: tomorrow and Friday. Hunter Baumgart in for Armin. Armin will
36:32
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. The huddle has a strong bench. Yes.
36:36
Speaker 1: Not toot my own horn, but me and Hunter in
36:38
Speaker 1: the same show. And, uh, dope. You got a fan club. Uh,
36:40
Speaker 1: Maggie and Georgia hits the talking text line. 877-794-1973. I
36:44
Speaker 1: think Dobie should be on at least once a week.
36:45
Speaker 1: He's great. You're the best. Nice to hear Hunter in
36:47
Speaker 1: the morning too. Maggie loves her some Hunter. Thank you, Maggie.
36:51
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We do. Thank you for listening. Um,
36:55
Speaker 1: get us your hot takes. 877-794-1973. Is it a hot
36:59
Speaker 1: take to say the Badgers must win on Saturday? Like
37:03
Speaker 1: they have to keep the momentum going. It's a, They
37:06
Speaker 1: really do. It's an inflection point of the season. Now
37:08
Speaker 1: that you've got the one and there's a house money
37:11
Speaker 1: aspect to it, but only to a point. You got
37:13
Speaker 1: the one in Happy Valley. If you lose homecoming to
37:16
Speaker 1: a beleaguered kind of downtrodden Michigan State team. You win
37:21
Speaker 1: that game and it buys you the chance to maybe
37:24
Speaker 1: stumble against UCLA or somebody.
37:26
Speaker 3: Right.
37:26
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's like you got to
37:27
Speaker 1: get that one in the bank. Agreed. Yeah.
37:29
Speaker 2: No, I think so. What they're three in one right now.
37:32
Speaker 2: a winning over Michigan state will put you at four
37:33
Speaker 2: and one with a nice win over Penn state. And
37:35
Speaker 2: you're only lost to Notre Dame. You, you get that
37:39
Speaker 2: win and, and I don't know, it'd be interesting to
37:43
Speaker 2: see how long it would take for them to get
37:44
Speaker 2: ranked because that win over Penn state is a significant one.
37:48
Speaker 1: Yes.
37:48
Speaker 2: And your only loss is to a top five team
37:50
Speaker 2: in the country. But yeah, then that, but the Penn
37:54
Speaker 2: state win is.
37:56
Speaker 1: In the rear view. it's contingent on how Penn State
38:00
Speaker 1: does moving forward. You're right. Absolutely. It could look a
38:02
Speaker 1: lot better now than it will in a month. Yes. Yeah.
38:06
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry. Anytime you go play in front of
38:09
Speaker 1: 100,000 people and you beat them. And they were ranked
38:14
Speaker 1: really good at 13 at the time. Yeah. So that
38:17
Speaker 1: is a significant win. Yeah, you do have to follow
38:20
Speaker 1: it up.
38:20
Speaker 2: But the schedule allows, as Scott was saying there, As
38:23
Speaker 2: Dolph was saying there, your schedule allows you to have
38:27
Speaker 2: a pretty nice season now that you got a win
38:30
Speaker 2: that probably didn't count on being a win at the
38:33
Speaker 2: beginning of the year.
38:34
Speaker 1: Yeah. But again, now you've got to win. You have to.
38:37
Speaker 1: You've raised the bar. You have to win this game.
38:41
Speaker 1: Standard is just a little higher. Well, and that's the thing.
38:44
Speaker 1: You want these games. You want to expect to win
38:47
Speaker 1: these games. You're back to expecting to win, which the
38:50
Speaker 1: last couple of years with the Badgers... I just hope
38:53
Speaker 1: they get a couple of first downs.
38:55
Speaker 2: Well, it is wild how one second half can do that, though.
38:58
Speaker 1: Well, and that's the thing. Like, the single greatest comeback
39:03
Speaker 1: for the Badgers was this game against Penn State. But
39:05
Speaker 1: Colton Joseph's comeback is one of the great comebacks in
39:08
Speaker 1: sports of the entire fall season. Yeah, yeah. Because he
39:11
Speaker 1: looked so bad for about seven minutes. And then to
39:15
Speaker 1: pull that game out is he's been through the fire now. Mm-hmm.
39:20
Speaker 1: And hopefully his confidence is through the roof, you know?
39:23
Speaker 1: Hope so.
39:23
Speaker 2: I just I'm impressed by the defense. You know, the
39:26
Speaker 2: defense obviously was the thing that kept them in that game,
39:28
Speaker 2: you know, throughout. throughout that Saturday afternoon and evening at
39:33
Speaker 2: Penn state. I mean, there, there, it was kind of like,
39:36
Speaker 2: we talked about the Brewers bullpen. If you're down by
39:38
Speaker 2: four runs, the Brewers bullpen will keep it there. So
39:40
Speaker 2: you can come back. That's what I felt the Badgers
39:42
Speaker 2: defense was doing against the Penn state offense. And it
39:45
Speaker 2: gave him enough time for Colton Joseph to turn it
39:47
Speaker 2: around and the offense to score and, Somehow come out
39:50
Speaker 2: of there with a win.
39:51
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hot take. I don't like the Yankees. It's in
39:55
Speaker 1: my DNA because I grew up watching the Brewers play
39:57
Speaker 1: the Yankees at County Stadium. Oh, as did I. But
40:00
Speaker 1: I'm a Ben Rice fan. He's a, like Dolph was saying,
40:04
Speaker 1: he's a kid who grew up in Boston, and then
40:06
Speaker 1: now he's playing for the Yankees. And he went to Dartmouth. Okay.
40:10
Speaker 1: And the thing is, he took Spanish from middle school
40:13
Speaker 1: all the way through college, and he's, like, fluent because
40:16
Speaker 1: he talks to his Latino teammates. Teammates, yeah. They call
40:19
Speaker 1: him Ben Arroz. Henry Blanco was Hank White in the
40:23
Speaker 1: Brewers Clubhouse, so he's Ben Arroz. And last night in
40:27
Speaker 1: a postgame, he answered a question with perfect Spanish. And
40:30
Speaker 1: I'm trying to teach myself Spanish. And it's like, that
40:33
Speaker 1: was impressive. Impressive. All right, John Greenberg is going to
40:36
Speaker 1: join us at 725. We'll hear more from Hunter and
40:38
Speaker 1: the media gatherings, the gaggles from yesterday at the Brewers workout.
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Speaker 1: That lies ahead. Let's welcome the 7 o'clock club next.