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07/17/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: This Man's been on all night. Armand Sorry were ready.
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Speaker 2: and today Billy Schmid is out. I'll be out Monday
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Speaker 2: and it'll be Billy and Arman. It's vacation season, That's
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Speaker 2: all you can say, even though it's uh also smoke season,
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Speaker 2: steamingly hot season.
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Speaker 3: We don't even get any barbecue out of this. That's
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Speaker 3: the worst part. By small the smoke. I expect to
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Speaker 3: be like some sort of barbecue fest or something in
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Speaker 3: the summer, you know what I.
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Speaker 1: Mean, like a campfire.
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Speaker 3: It's yeah, not a good one either, No, you know,
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Speaker 3: like it's it's like it's not only that it's smoky
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Speaker 3: and terrible. It's like it smells bad too, like some
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Speaker 3: like a tire burn or something like, I don't know
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Speaker 3: how else to describe it, pretty bad, you know.
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Speaker 2: All right, So technology is all part of our lives.
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Speaker 2: We had a little episode at State Le ulsam Manner
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Speaker 2: last night. My wife discovered that one of our either
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Speaker 2: our cable provider or something that we're gonna get. There's
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Speaker 2: some kind of writer where we're we're entitled to a
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Speaker 2: free Peacock subscription. Oh that's pretty that's it. That's found
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Speaker 2: money right there. Found My wife's all about it. I
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Speaker 2: so you got to cancel the Peacock subscription. And then
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Speaker 2: you know how hard that is because it turned out
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Speaker 2: like I went to Peacock, went to the app like
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Speaker 2: apparently I had Peacock.
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Speaker 1: It was built every month, ten bucks a month. I
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Speaker 1: had the same thing I was building twenty It was
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Speaker 1: through Roku. Yes, I got it. Thing happened to me.
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Speaker 2: And then it's like okay, so yeah, I shut it
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Speaker 2: down on the Peacock avean. So you're still gonna go
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Speaker 2: through rocro You're gonna be auto built, right, Why is that?
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Speaker 2: I want to cancel this? It's so hard, I mean,
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Speaker 2: and then you cancel it there and then she added it,
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Speaker 2: and I just know it's gonna be screwed up because
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Speaker 2: this has happened before. Stuff like this. Hey, you think
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Speaker 2: you're getting it for free and then you're not getting it.
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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna be at a packer game and it's
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Speaker 2: gonna be on Peacock or something, and I'm gonna want
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Speaker 2: it on my laptop, and I'm gonna end up paying
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Speaker 2: the ten bucks and re reigniting the subscription, and.
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Speaker 1: Then it's gonna keep because and you're gonna keep.
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Speaker 2: Getting double billed, and like it's just such a pain
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Speaker 2: in the air.
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Speaker 1: It's such a pain in the ass. It's awful.
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Speaker 3: And uh, these let's be honest, these streaming companies, these
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Speaker 3: they're they're like they're sort of like, you know, like
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Speaker 3: Sharks Loan, Sharks Gang in the corner. Like all it
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Speaker 3: is is they're just doing it in place, That's all
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Speaker 3: they're trying to do.
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Speaker 1: Let's make it impossible to cancel.
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Speaker 2: Let's make you have to navigate and like make it
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Speaker 2: like you need to help my telescope to find the
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Speaker 2: button to cancel your subscription to anything these.
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Speaker 3: Days, all to intentionally and purposely manipulate hardworking Americans that
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Speaker 3: are paycheck in the giving up and giving them their
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Speaker 3: money to line the pockets of corporate fat cats, all
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Speaker 3: because we can't miss the Creighton to Paul game.
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Speaker 2: Horrible, It's terrible, horrible, So and I just know it's
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Speaker 2: gonna be screwed up. We had a similar thing with
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Speaker 2: our cable changing the you change the email associate with
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Speaker 2: the count, or you change something and you change the
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Speaker 2: username because you can't find a password, and it's just
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Speaker 2: everything is such a pain in the ass. Why can't
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Speaker 2: stuff be easy? Everything's paying the ass. Well, technology doesn't
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Speaker 2: always make life better, but you can try.
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Speaker 1: There are people that are using it, you know, to
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Speaker 1: their best.
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Speaker 2: I know people who have their whole lives in the
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Speaker 2: cloud and their scheduler and they can use Alexa or
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Speaker 2: Siri to make a haircut appointment.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool. I mean I'm not that good. I'm
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Speaker 3: not that organized. Well, I still use a paper calendar
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Speaker 3: at a home. Also, that's great as long as you
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Speaker 3: don't get hacked or your password isn't found in a
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Speaker 3: data breach.
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Speaker 1: I know a little bit about that. You do know
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Speaker 1: a little bit about that.
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Speaker 3: So it is what it is, and you have to
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Speaker 3: remember your password, two factor download an ass And here's.
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Speaker 2: Where we're going with this, with technology being both a
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Speaker 2: boon and a pain in the ass, and you gotta
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Speaker 2: watch it. We've began last night with the Phillies and
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Speaker 2: Mets playing at Citizens Bank. No where were they played
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Speaker 2: it was Philly, Philly. It was Philly on the also
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Speaker 2: game they played at home. Okay, it's kind of surprising.
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Speaker 2: They were in a new era because MLB has cracked
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Speaker 2: down and revised it used to be back in old times,
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Speaker 2: the days that uh there was always a pack of
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Speaker 2: Marlboro Reds and a book of matches on the back
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Speaker 2: of the dugout bench. Like Johnny Adam when he was
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Speaker 2: an assistant trainer in the early eighties, it was his
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Speaker 2: job to make sure that there was a pack because
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Speaker 2: you know, Ted Simmons would score from second on a
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Speaker 2: base had and you need a heater. And now those
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Speaker 2: have been replaced by the last guy to keep it going.
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Speaker 2: It has been replaced by iPads. Guys use iPads just
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Speaker 2: like you see him after in a bat they get
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Speaker 2: to the dugout and they go to the iPad or picture.
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Speaker 1: They're looking at the iPad. They're watching video and stuff.
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Speaker 2: That's a new wrinkle and as is often the case,
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Speaker 2: give someone an inch and they take a mile. MLB
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Speaker 2: they didn't announce this, but the Athletic found a memo.
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Speaker 2: MLB has cracked down on iPad usage in the dugout.
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Speaker 2: Interesting because teams were pushing the barn of guidelines governing
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Speaker 2: the use of technologies, in many cases installing custom apps
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Speaker 2: that expanded the use of the iPads beyond their originally
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Speaker 2: intended purpose to include recommendations regarding substitutions, pitch calling, and
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Speaker 2: other in game decisions traditionally made by players and coaches.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting because when technology outpaces the legislation, we
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Speaker 3: don't know what to do. Sometimes we had this problem
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Speaker 3: in our streets with e bikes, for instance. But my
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Speaker 3: point is, like, when the Astros were cheating, the idea
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Speaker 3: was you can steal signs, but the old school way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Yankees were using an Apple Watch at
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Speaker 2: one point, right.
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Speaker 1: There is the Apple Watch.
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Speaker 3: So it's like, well, when should the technology be allowed
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Speaker 3: and not allow?
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Speaker 2: The League issued AMEMBO on June eleventh and gave teams
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Speaker 2: more than a month to adjust. The ban took effect
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Speaker 2: last night and in the second half. How rare is
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Speaker 2: it for them to change the rules of something in
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Speaker 2: the middle of the season.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty rare. Pretty rare, Yes, good point, true, that's
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Speaker 3: a great point.
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Speaker 2: One high ranking official of an MLB team's research and
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Speaker 2: development department said it caused quite the stir, but even
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Speaker 2: the more data friendly front officers say the trend raise
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Speaker 2: eyebrows within the industry because of how many decisions made
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Speaker 2: by managers and coaches could be aided by or potentially
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Speaker 2: replaced by AI.
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Speaker 1: And that was my where my first thought went, where
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Speaker 1: we just have AI?
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Speaker 3: Or like many, how many guys literally would think about
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Speaker 3: these days going to chat EPT and say what is
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Speaker 3: so and so likely that that need to throw me
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Speaker 3: or likely to throw this batter?
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Speaker 1: Exactly? So, all right.
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Speaker 2: They've been using iPads in the dugouts since twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 2: although the usage was more tightly regulated in twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: because of the sign stealing scandals. So yeah, they said
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, we're going to allow players to
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Speaker 2: use to view live in game video via the iPad
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Speaker 2: in the dugout or the bullpen. The iPads were issued
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Speaker 2: by MLB fully controlled so that players can only use
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Speaker 2: the app we put on the device. They can't access
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Speaker 2: the Internet for browsing or social media or other functions.
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Speaker 2: The iPads are completely locked down and monitored with the
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Speaker 2: software that we have on there.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: In game video has been and remains available, but only
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Speaker 2: on a delay. Usually once an inning is completed. Rules
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Speaker 2: posted in every clubhouse also prohibit non field personnel from
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Speaker 2: coming into the dugout during the game in an effort
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Speaker 2: to limit inputting live information into the iPads, but players
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Speaker 2: and teams they pushed for loosening of some restrictions. Coaches
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Speaker 2: and players wanted the ability to customize the tablets, and
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Speaker 2: the league allowed these liberties. Entering the season. The league
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Speaker 2: is sholed. iPads provided access to data through three tabs.
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Speaker 2: All right, They three tab The first was the all
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Speaker 2: the MLB provided stat cast data and multiple video angles
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Speaker 2: so you can tell the spin ray or you can
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Speaker 2: tell the stuff like you.
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Speaker 1: Know, you can watch video video How fast was a
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Speaker 1: guy run running back to the clubhouse to watch it?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 1: Ye?
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Speaker 2: The second tab contained all data related to the automatic
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Speaker 2: ball strike system ABS, like looking at pitches and stuff.
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Speaker 2: The third tab, known across the league as the custom tab,
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Speaker 2: housed each team specialized data akin to information found in
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Speaker 2: an old old school paper filled binder. Examples include matchup info,
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Speaker 2: defensive positioning, player tendencies. Teams argue that those were necessities.
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Speaker 3: Whereas, like, you know, Craig and he might still do
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Speaker 3: this in Chicago Craig is famous for having that big
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Speaker 3: binder in the dugout right and flip through it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Going forward, teams can still upload static information, which is
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Speaker 2: data that would be available before the first pitch, though
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Speaker 2: clubs were told that anything uploaded would ultimately remain subject
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Speaker 2: to review by MLB. Pitch calling from the dugout maybe
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Speaker 2: at the center of this battle, and it's one of
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Speaker 2: the usages that the league is targeting with this crackdown.
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Speaker 2: There are, at least I think it started with the
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Speaker 2: Marlin who are in town tonight. They call every pitch
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Speaker 2: from the dugout. Basically, they signal the catcher they're all
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Speaker 2: in on that, on doing it that way. Yeah, So
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Speaker 2: some teams were inputting information from the ongoing game to
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Speaker 2: improve the generative AI models ability to anticipate the next
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Speaker 2: pitch that would be thrown or to recommend what they
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Speaker 2: should throw.
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Speaker 3: And that's my first thought, is AI the pitch or
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Speaker 3: they were using a ID to call her pitch in
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Speaker 3: a way, And then I could see that they like
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Speaker 3: the culture war that develops because of this, and baseball
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Speaker 3: drew because you you witnessed all of it, covering it
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Speaker 3: all those years, right, there was a time decades ago
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Speaker 3: where none of this was even a thing, right. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it was managers in the dugout going on their not
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Speaker 3: opinions only, but hunches. They might review things before the game,
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Speaker 3: players before the game, and they would make their guesses
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Speaker 3: and they would make their moves and go. And now
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Speaker 3: all this is being done and there's probably a lot
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Speaker 3: of old school baseball guys that are like, this stuff
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Speaker 3: is so stupid. That's that's dominating our game. We're letting
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Speaker 3: computers do it now.
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Speaker 2: I had people with the Orioles tell me that there
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Speaker 2: was there were games when cal Ripken was calling pitches
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Speaker 2: from shortstop, signaling the catcher and telling them what to throw.
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Speaker 1: That's power man that has and that's trust for the organization.
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Speaker 3: But the thing, the funny thing about it for me
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Speaker 3: is like everyone still uses the tools at their disposal
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Speaker 3: if they're trying to get an edge and win. And
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Speaker 3: I think that's what teams are doing now with technology,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of people that push back on it
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Speaker 3: don't like it because they don't feel it's they missed
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Speaker 3: the humans out of the game, which I get, But
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Speaker 3: it's still human because everyone's using it. Like, does that
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Speaker 3: make any sense. I don't know that you know what
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to say. I don't know how to describe it,
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Speaker 3: like to a point. Yeah, so it's I mean, Earl
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Speaker 3: Weaver advanced the game a lot too of the seventies
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Speaker 3: and eighties with with new strategies and tendencies and analytics,
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Speaker 3: but they just were looked they weren't looked that way
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Speaker 3: upon the time because it was just Earl doing it,
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Speaker 3: even though he was looking at different strategies that were
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Speaker 3: not consistent with the status quo and baseball.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I I understand the rules for it, but it it
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Speaker 3: it seems like it's what everyone wants in terms of technology,
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Speaker 3: Like all the teams were asking for the same thing.
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Speaker 1: Is it really? Is it? Is it even right? Yeah? Like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: This is a tough thing to manage, this new world
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Speaker 3: of technology and baseball. And it's been that since the UH.
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Speaker 3: I think since the trash can scandal. I think it's
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Speaker 3: been that way since. I think you're right, because we
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Speaker 3: don't know how to manage what was acceptable and what isn't.
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Speaker 3: I mean in the UH, in the eighty two Brewers
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Speaker 3: doc just have been outside when you know when they
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Speaker 3: would talk about Robin and Paul and stealing signs and
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Speaker 3: knowing when the pitch was gonna come and whistling, that
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Speaker 3: was like, that's strategy in gamesmanship.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, doing it on the field, this is like technology
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Speaker 1: using technology. It's like having someone.
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Speaker 2: In the bullpen with binoculars stealing the catcher's sign and
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Speaker 2: then putting a towel, moving a towel to like that's
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Speaker 2: not cool, But having the runner do it at second
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Speaker 2: base peering in and putting his hand on his knee
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Speaker 2: to tell the picture where the location is or tell
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Speaker 2: the better where the location is or if he had
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Speaker 2: the pitches.
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Speaker 3: I think it's funny because so many people will push
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Speaker 3: against technology and they all lament the laws of old
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Speaker 3: school baseball and old school things and like analytics and data.
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Speaker 3: It's such an easy catch all like low hanging fruit
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Speaker 3: narrative for people to complain about.
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Speaker 1: But every team does it.
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Speaker 3: So doesn't that tell you that every team wants to
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Speaker 3: use this edge and it means something because they want
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Speaker 3: to win, Like so everybody wants an edge to win.
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Speaker 3: So everybody's using every piece of data and technology and
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Speaker 3: you know, attribute at their disposal to try and help
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Speaker 3: them win. So it must matter to all these organizations.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so obviously it works well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, where it helps for every everybody who was got
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Speaker 2: their you know, their their undies in a bundle about
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Speaker 2: the astros cheating scandal, which was bad. You'd be surprised that.
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Speaker 2: It's like like, oh, they cheated the game, those bastards.
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Speaker 2: A lot of the reaction in front office is like,
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Speaker 2: why aren't we better at this?
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Speaker 1: That's it? Why aren't we doing this?
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Speaker 2: They're doing it exactly, like why what what's our what?
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Speaker 1: What are we doing to get an edge? Because in
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Speaker 1: the end, people want to win. Yeah, I mean that's
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Speaker 1: what it is.
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Speaker 3: So it's like we should be pushing the boundaries as
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Speaker 3: much as possible.
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Speaker 2: But it is funny to watch a guy come out
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Speaker 2: of a game and then go right to the iPad
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Speaker 2: and it looks like it looks like your toddler at dinner,
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Speaker 2: like you know, keep it quiet and give him the
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Speaker 2: iPad and they just sit.
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Speaker 1: There and scroll through it. That is funny.
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Speaker 2: But then it's funny because when and then there's that
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Speaker 2: great meme of Rogers with the surface tablet when he
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Speaker 2: threw it, and like and discuss when he saw something
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Speaker 2: that they missed or.
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Speaker 3: And that's been part of football for a while, taking pictures.
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Speaker 3: They used to print them out, remember that.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and then they faxed them down down So
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Speaker 2: that was like a tradition to look at that.
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Speaker 1: So nobody had a problem with that.
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Speaker 3: So the culture is interesting in each sport and what
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Speaker 3: we accept and what we don't. I'm just waiting for
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Speaker 3: this to infect youth sports, the youth baseball, travel baseball,
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Speaker 3: when guys are gonna start already and there the iPads,
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's crazy. And then and then every parent's
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Speaker 3: gonna have to pay for an iPad, and then the
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Speaker 3: conversation is going to be about why we spend so
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Speaker 3: much now on youth sports. It's just it's just never ending,
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Speaker 3: and it's all because everyone else has it and everyone
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Speaker 3: else does it. And if we think everyone else does it,
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Speaker 3: we have to have it too, or else we're falling behind.
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Speaker 3: Like every parent to a tea will tell you they
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Speaker 3: don't think their kits. You get a cell phone until
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Speaker 3: they're older. Oh but you know what what am I
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Speaker 3: supposed to do? Every other twelve year old had and
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Speaker 3: so we had to.
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Speaker 1: But they all individually.
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Speaker 3: If you ask them, will say, well, it's too early,
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Speaker 3: but everyone else did. Like so it's it's just so
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Speaker 3: funny how that works.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know.
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Speaker 2: For in my own case, it's stealed it for us
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Speaker 2: when my daughter and another girl were left at soccer
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Speaker 2: practice and there was a here you go cross up
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Speaker 2: of communications and they were both sitting at a park
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Speaker 2: because we thought the other parents were picking up and
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Speaker 2: the other parents thought we were picking up the fear right,
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Speaker 2: And then it's like, oh god, but the coach stayed
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Speaker 2: and the kids didn't have phones to call us. So
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Speaker 2: my kid got a phone shortly after that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how that goes too. But but technology is
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Speaker 3: going to be part of it. And how many how
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Speaker 3: many of the small market teams trew are looking at
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Speaker 3: what the Brewers have done and trying to figure out
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Speaker 3: our secrets, Like there's no.
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Speaker 1: Question about it.
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Speaker 3: Where the envy of so many teams in the league,
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Speaker 3: Cause it's like, what is really going on this pitching lab?
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Speaker 3: Like so many teams are trying to figure out the
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Speaker 3: Brewer of secrets and they're gonna and whatever whatever it is,
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Speaker 3: they would want to copy it if it's technology, if
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Speaker 3: it's not, because everyone's like, we have to try and
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Speaker 3: do what the Brewers are doing it and finally when
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Speaker 3: a win and turn out all these really good players
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Speaker 3: and fix players and get the best out of players. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's funny how that works. It's funny how the game
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Speaker 3: evolves in and in some ways the conversation devolves devolves.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty wild, all right, eight seven seven seven,
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Speaker 2: nine to four one ninety seven three. We're gonna talk
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Speaker 2: to Hunter Bombgart in a little more than an hour.
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Speaker 2: Dolf's going to be in a bit when we talk
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Speaker 2: to Hunter. Obviously, we got to talk to him about
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Speaker 2: the Arthropedic Associates of Wisconsin injury report because the brush
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Speaker 2: has got Lance mc colors, who's been plagued by injuries
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Speaker 2: uh recently end in his past and uh obviously the
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Speaker 2: injuries and worries about Harrison miss even with the fatigue,
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Speaker 2: hopefully misses back, because it's weird that misses and pitching
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Speaker 2: the first game out of the shoot, which she thought
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Speaker 2: he would, right.
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Speaker 1: He didn't seem to concern when I heard him interviewed
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Speaker 1: and stuff.
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Speaker 2: No, at the All Star Game, he did not seem
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Speaker 2: over the concerned. But it's always health is like one
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Speaker 2: of their biggest things. That and what moves I gotta make.
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Speaker 2: But health is a big cloud right now. I say
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Speaker 2: that when we're inundated with smoke, I.
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Speaker 3: Wonder if we're in a situation where they might just
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Speaker 3: want to be managing him to make sure he's ready
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Speaker 3: for the playoffs and play it safe.
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Speaker 1: Like that's another thing you think about, right right.
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Speaker 2: All right, Dolph is coming in and we're gonna talk
16:48
Speaker 2: to him about this whole technology thing. And Hunter, I
16:51
Speaker 2: mean Hunter, I mean arm and I know that people
16:53
Speaker 2: can they can relate to us with this streaming stuff,
16:56
Speaker 2: like we should be getting this for free.
16:57
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll go cancel discount, we'll use the one.
17:01
Speaker 2: Has that ever happened without hiccups because then you got
17:04
Speaker 2: to go put in new passwords in your app that part.
17:06
Speaker 1: So you got the ro coup TV and.
17:08
Speaker 2: You're using apps and then and then it's your phone
17:11
Speaker 2: and your laptop and everything's a pain in the.
17:13
Speaker 1: Ass and it is.
17:15
Speaker 3: And to be honest with you, if we're being on it,
17:17
Speaker 3: if we are being honest, the source of all this
17:19
Speaker 3: is we want to have what we want to have,
17:22
Speaker 3: Like as a society. Now, we can't just tolerate saying
17:26
Speaker 3: I'm just not gonna watch it, Like if we want
17:28
Speaker 3: to watch it, we want it. I mean, that's what
17:30
Speaker 3: it comes down to that we don't have to talk about,
17:32
Speaker 3: is like we we can't really stand to not be
17:34
Speaker 3: able to consume the product we want to consume, so
17:37
Speaker 3: we'll do it. We'll complain about it, but we're not
17:39
Speaker 3: going to most of the time, people just won't aren't
17:41
Speaker 3: going to accept no for an answer if it's a
17:43
Speaker 3: show they want to watch or a game they want
17:45
Speaker 3: to watch.
17:45
Speaker 2: When it comes to marquee events, like if it's the
17:47
Speaker 2: Masters and I and said the Masters was off CBS,
17:51
Speaker 2: and that wasn't an option anymore. If I could go
17:53
Speaker 2: to an app and pay a buck ninety nine to
17:55
Speaker 2: watch the Master's on a rainy Sunday, here I would.
17:57
Speaker 1: People would, people would pay for the past will nudget
18:00
Speaker 1: up to four ninety nine and on its way to
18:02
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine.
18:02
Speaker 2: Because they know you want I still can't believe that
18:04
Speaker 2: sports hasn't reached that portal where there's a little app
18:07
Speaker 2: where you can pay a buck ninety nine to watch
18:09
Speaker 2: this game, or if you want to join it in
18:10
Speaker 2: the sixth inning, you're gonna pay ninety nine cents and
18:13
Speaker 2: just like do it that.
18:14
Speaker 3: But because that because it's companies, they want subscriptions. They
18:17
Speaker 3: don't want that course they do.
18:18
Speaker 2: They want that because if the team is a loser,
18:20
Speaker 2: then people aren't gonna be clicking on it and you
18:22
Speaker 2: don't get as many views.
18:22
Speaker 1: You want that, you want the upfront money.
18:24
Speaker 3: That's why you have to buy a ticket book at
18:26
Speaker 3: church Fair, not paying cash you have to.
18:28
Speaker 1: You have to buy the tickets. They want your money,
18:30
Speaker 1: and how many of those unused?
18:31
Speaker 3: And it's the point that's all free money for them, exactly.
18:34
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm upset about it, but that's the reality.
18:37
Speaker 2: Of reality and totally a reality of it. Yep, yeah,
18:40
Speaker 2: absolutely all right. Dolph is coming in next for halftime.
18:42
Speaker 2: Hunter joins us in an hour for some hardcore Brewers
18:45
Speaker 2: discussion as they get ready to fire up the post
18:47
Speaker 2: All Star Game portion of their schedule, and lo and
18:50
Speaker 2: behold they drop the twenty twenty six seventh schedule. Already
18:53
Speaker 2: make your plans. Now you're in the huddle. Fox Sports
18:56
Speaker 2: Radio Wisconsin. It's halftime of the Huddle Friday Edition, Friday
19:03
Speaker 2: Sad Different, Drew and arm and bringing it to your billies.
19:05
Speaker 2: Off today we welcome Scott Dolphin, our halftime correspondent.
19:09
Speaker 4: Arman bumping back with a little earth window fire. He's
19:11
Speaker 4: doing that for a reason, Drew. I heard a noise
19:14
Speaker 4: come out of Armin in the hallway just now that
19:16
Speaker 4: I didn't think was physically possible. I'm in the kitchen
19:19
Speaker 4: getting coffee, and I hear somebody singing this in this
19:21
Speaker 4: beautiful high almost falsetto voice odd for me.
19:24
Speaker 1: And he walks around the corner. I'm like, that could
19:26
Speaker 1: not have been you.
19:27
Speaker 4: And then he carried the concert into the bathroom because
19:29
Speaker 4: Shannon just walked by and said, who's in the men's room.
19:32
Speaker 1: With their speaker? Because wow, it was actually his voice.
19:35
Speaker 1: I was watching some.
19:36
Speaker 3: Real and this was the song on the reel and
19:38
Speaker 3: then it's in my head and I was just like ah,
19:42
Speaker 3: And then he couldn't believe it. I'm like, no way, dude, God,
19:46
Speaker 3: that wasn't a little loud.
19:47
Speaker 1: I apologize.
19:49
Speaker 3: No. Six in the morning and I'm six thirty and
19:51
Speaker 3: I'm blesting the third Wind and Fire.
19:53
Speaker 1: I was amazed you were hitting high No, unbelievable.
19:56
Speaker 3: Well it's a little fitting, right, Earth, Wind and Fire
19:58
Speaker 3: were getting all of it right now.
19:59
Speaker 2: Off, how are you hitting those high notes when I
20:04
Speaker 2: still have like the smoke affect in the post nasal area,
20:07
Speaker 2: and that's still uncomfortable.
20:08
Speaker 4: You can smell smoke in our building. I think that's
20:11
Speaker 4: happening in a lot of buildingsol Milwaukee. We had our
20:13
Speaker 4: worst air quality and I don't know a lot about
20:15
Speaker 4: the numbers, but we were over six hundred yesterday, crazy,
20:18
Speaker 4: which shattered the all time record of three hundred set
20:20
Speaker 4: back in nineteen eighty seven.
20:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, three hundred is hazardous. Six hundred it's got to
20:24
Speaker 2: be like, oh my god, under one hundred is considered
20:27
Speaker 2: healthy air. Apparently we're at three thirty nine, right, I don't.
20:30
Speaker 1: Know, Okay, So it's gone down, going down, it is.
20:32
Speaker 5: You said it a little bit last night when you
20:34
Speaker 5: were gone, so we weren't going to golf, and then
20:37
Speaker 5: it got better in the afternoon, and by six thirty
20:40
Speaker 5: seven o'clock last night there was a breeze and it
20:42
Speaker 5: literally couldn't see the smoke in the air.
20:44
Speaker 4: But by the time I looked out at nine o'clock,
20:47
Speaker 4: it was back. The breeze had died down and it
20:50
Speaker 4: was back.
20:50
Speaker 2: So we were speculating about whether the brewers would open
20:55
Speaker 2: or close the roof tonight at American Family Fields.
20:57
Speaker 1: What's the better setup? I don't know.
21:00
Speaker 4: Well, I would think closed would be better, But it's
21:03
Speaker 4: supposed to be ninety three today, So can you imagine
21:05
Speaker 4: what an insufferable sweat box that will be if the
21:07
Speaker 4: roof is closed tonight. This smoke is supposed to be
21:10
Speaker 4: The advisory is supposed to end at noon again today
21:13
Speaker 4: because they said by two three o'clock this afternoon it's
21:16
Speaker 4: going to be down quite a bit from where unhealthy
21:20
Speaker 4: levels are. So if that's the case, it'll be open.
21:22
Speaker 4: But I can't imagine closing the roof.
21:24
Speaker 1: My first pitch. It's supposed to be about eighty.
21:26
Speaker 2: Eight okay the night, so ninety during the day eighty eight,
21:29
Speaker 2: but that's gonna be Yeah, you close the roof there,
21:31
Speaker 2: it's sweltering.
21:32
Speaker 4: You're probably going to see what thirty five forty thousand
21:34
Speaker 4: there tonight first came back. They haven't been home since
21:36
Speaker 4: what the second of July something, that is correct, that's
21:40
Speaker 4: been a couple of weeks. So yeah, I would have
21:42
Speaker 4: I would imagine big crowd. I don't know if you
21:43
Speaker 4: can close the roof, Yeah I don't.
21:45
Speaker 2: But yeah, Armor made a good point though, like when
21:48
Speaker 2: they let the fireworks off and the yeah, there's no
21:50
Speaker 2: air moving and a correct fingers like a haze you
21:54
Speaker 2: want if you close the roof, is there going to
21:56
Speaker 2: be a haze over the field, then make it you know,
21:59
Speaker 2: probably or will there be a haze no matter what
22:01
Speaker 2: they do?
22:02
Speaker 1: It has I'm sure it's been you go home that way,
22:04
Speaker 1: has it been open.
22:05
Speaker 2: I haven't even I wouldn't notice. Oh I don't even
22:08
Speaker 2: go home that way because I have to go around
22:09
Speaker 2: because the traffic. The traffic is not so construction.
22:12
Speaker 3: I think what's tough for MLB if you talk about
22:14
Speaker 3: like canceling and not we talked about how jam packed
22:17
Speaker 3: their schedule is. What's ominous about this thing is there's
22:20
Speaker 3: no indication that it's going to be over necessarily, you
22:24
Speaker 3: think to yourself, and when this happened in the past
22:26
Speaker 3: is like it's lasted a day. I'm like, I don't
22:29
Speaker 3: know unless the wind shifts and the rain and with
22:31
Speaker 3: the fires being so far south, it's like, yeah, how
22:33
Speaker 3: long are we going to be in for this?
22:34
Speaker 1: Like when's our relief coming? Could linger through the weekend
22:37
Speaker 1: and maybe even to early.
22:38
Speaker 3: Next Yeah, yeah, I mean that I heard you know,
22:41
Speaker 3: it could be next week.
22:42
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think nobody knows. Is the part
22:45
Speaker 1: of the problem, you know.
22:46
Speaker 4: Fascinating to me that this can happen hundreds, if not
22:49
Speaker 4: thousands of miles away, but it can still come down
22:51
Speaker 4: to the surface where you can physically see it moving around.
22:53
Speaker 1: Isn't that hard to believe? Yeah?
22:54
Speaker 4: Now, now, usually we're talking about Canadian wildfires, and some
22:58
Speaker 4: of this is that, but there's Minnesota to wildfires that
23:01
Speaker 4: are affecting us too, which is a lot closer. But
23:03
Speaker 4: you know, usually when somebody's smoking a cigarette, they blow
23:06
Speaker 4: it in the air and it just disappears. That just
23:08
Speaker 4: shows you how heavy this time. And by the way,
23:12
Speaker 4: that's the question that crossed my I thought about a
23:14
Speaker 4: lot of things.
23:15
Speaker 1: Yes, your smoke.
23:16
Speaker 4: Your smokers are they kind of like more immune to
23:19
Speaker 4: this because they're dragging.
23:21
Speaker 1: Smoke into their lungs NonStop.
23:22
Speaker 3: Anyways, like this is not cigarette smoke or grill smoke
23:26
Speaker 3: or camp everyone's saying campfire to me, at least, it
23:29
Speaker 3: smells like burning wires and tires and nasty.
23:32
Speaker 1: Just nasty enough. You're right, yeah, I don't know.
23:35
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, I mean, like what, I guess
23:38
Speaker 3: it's we just take it for granted clean air now.
23:40
Speaker 1: And it's like, now it's frustrating to the wait for.
23:42
Speaker 3: This, but you do imagine like, okay, it'll be gone
23:45
Speaker 3: on a day and it's like, well, I don't know
23:47
Speaker 3: when our AQY is gonna get better.
23:49
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, we're watching aq I like it's
23:51
Speaker 1: gas prices. We'll talking about it like it's going to
23:53
Speaker 1: linger in the next week. That's what I'm saying. It's
23:56
Speaker 1: fuss frustrating. Yeah, well makes me want to go.
24:00
Speaker 3: It makes you have to feel like you have to
24:01
Speaker 3: eventually accept this, Like if you want to go outside
24:04
Speaker 3: the next week, you have to accept.
24:06
Speaker 1: Being and breathing unhealthy air.
24:08
Speaker 4: But it is supposed to, you know, lighten up in
24:10
Speaker 4: the avenue. Me and the Fellas are planning on being
24:11
Speaker 4: out tailgating before the Brewer game tonight.
24:13
Speaker 1: Like it'll get better.
24:14
Speaker 3: So I think it's gonna get down to like less
24:18
Speaker 3: less oppressive levels where we were maybe not noticed it earlier.
24:21
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's it's.
24:22
Speaker 4: Difficult to drink a cold beer through an N ninety
24:24
Speaker 4: five mask. You know, regular mask, you can probably suck it,
24:27
Speaker 4: you can probably do it through, but in the N
24:28
Speaker 4: ninety five that's that's gonna be tough. Still got in
24:30
Speaker 4: ninety five laying around, Uh. I think we still have
24:34
Speaker 4: a box somewhere at home. I remember I was on
24:36
Speaker 4: jury duty during COVID and and they say you got
24:39
Speaker 4: to wear a mask. So I wore my mask in
24:41
Speaker 4: and they're like, nope, you got in the courtroom. You
24:43
Speaker 4: have to have the N ninety five mask on. I
24:45
Speaker 4: hated that thing because they're very constrictive. I mean it's
24:48
Speaker 4: it's not only is it a little more tougher breathe through,
24:51
Speaker 4: but my ears are about ready to fall off because
24:53
Speaker 4: they're so tight. That was the biggest issue with the
24:55
Speaker 4: N ninety five. Yeah that hurts, man, that hurts. I
24:57
Speaker 4: wanted to wear my I heeart one again. They wouldn't
24:59
Speaker 4: let me.
24:59
Speaker 2: Oh were those like the foamy, spongy kind of ones?
25:05
Speaker 1: I think they were cloth more cloth?
25:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it seemed like we had this
25:09
Speaker 2: kind of foamy or I do remember those.
25:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, bizarre.
25:13
Speaker 2: That's so funny that a lot of people that are
25:15
Speaker 2: so anti mass like I'll never put a mask a
25:17
Speaker 2: diaper on my face again.
25:18
Speaker 1: Well, then go outside and take your chances.
25:21
Speaker 4: In today's right now, especially with these these counts way
25:25
Speaker 4: up where they are right now.
25:26
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to run like a half marathon in
25:28
Speaker 1: this weather. Runners. I saw runners out yesterday. I'm like
25:32
Speaker 1: a couple of them, and it's like they don't have
25:34
Speaker 1: access to a tread use a treadmill.
25:35
Speaker 3: I mean, I I understand I wanting to miss your
25:38
Speaker 3: workout and it's dedication, and it's it's about that. Okay,
25:42
Speaker 3: do use a treadmill, run indoors somewhere. I mean, it's
25:44
Speaker 3: got to.
25:45
Speaker 1: Be better than this.
25:46
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that like just out of you know,
25:48
Speaker 3: a lot of people want to make it about toughness
25:50
Speaker 3: and all that. I'm I don't care, Like you're just
25:53
Speaker 3: not going to get the same positive effects.
25:56
Speaker 1: It's just not It's I logical. Our pal Mark Baden
25:59
Speaker 1: put it us.
26:00
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, if you're healthy and you're not
26:03
Speaker 2: like asthmatic or compromise or something like that, you can
26:06
Speaker 2: walk to your car and you can walk into the store.
26:09
Speaker 1: Sure you put your life.
26:10
Speaker 2: Probably not a good day to like, you know, have
26:12
Speaker 2: a beach cookout or like a or you know, to
26:16
Speaker 2: be like.
26:17
Speaker 4: Run a half marathon. I feel for the people out
26:19
Speaker 4: working in this. You know, there's non stop construction projects
26:21
Speaker 4: going on. I went past the gas station yesterday. It
26:24
Speaker 4: was they were redoing the concrete and there was a
26:27
Speaker 4: bunch of dudes out there and working hard, not only
26:30
Speaker 4: in the heat, but in the heavy smoke.
26:32
Speaker 2: They went from the one hundred degrees to like the smoke.
26:36
Speaker 2: And yeah, we always hear from our mail men lestor
26:38
Speaker 2: for some reason, we have a lot of listeners who
26:40
Speaker 2: work for the postal service. Mail carriers represent a big
26:43
Speaker 2: chunk of our listeners. Mail carriers guys who spend days
26:45
Speaker 2: and work trucks, route salesman.
26:48
Speaker 1: Rain, sleet, snow and smoke and smoke.
26:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is, It's just it's just an annoyance.
26:55
Speaker 1: I was.
26:55
Speaker 2: We were bitching before about my wife realizing that we're
26:59
Speaker 2: supposed to get Peacock for free, and I had to
27:01
Speaker 2: cancel my subscription and then and then it's like start
27:03
Speaker 2: a new one with new passwords attached to this, and
27:05
Speaker 2: then it's such a pain. Everything's such a pain. It's
27:09
Speaker 2: almost the point where I would rather pay the ten
27:10
Speaker 2: bucks a month and not mess with it, then start
27:13
Speaker 2: over again and have to input new passwords, and I
27:15
Speaker 2: know something's going to go sideways.
27:17
Speaker 1: And it's like she's like, do you actually need Peacock.
27:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of sports on there, and if
27:21
Speaker 2: there's a game that I need to watch on my
27:23
Speaker 2: laptop while doing packers ot or something, yes, yeah, And
27:26
Speaker 2: I know what will happen is if it's not working,
27:28
Speaker 2: I will pay again and fire up the ten dollars
27:30
Speaker 2: a month and just go back to paying it again.
27:33
Speaker 1: We don't use it often.
27:34
Speaker 4: I use it for Big ten Sports Badgers and when
27:36
Speaker 4: I'm watching Iowa.
27:37
Speaker 1: Now you have NFL games on there, MLB games.
27:39
Speaker 4: But I used it for the last month or so
27:42
Speaker 4: until last week because DirecTV blacked out TEAMJ four locally
27:48
Speaker 4: in Milwaukee, So any programming on NBC I had to
27:52
Speaker 4: watch on the Peacock app.
27:53
Speaker 1: Wow.
27:53
Speaker 3: And the thing is like, we and I told this
27:56
Speaker 3: to Drew, we want, we want. So for most people
27:59
Speaker 3: you just say, well listen, if it's too annoying, it's
28:02
Speaker 3: too expensive, just don't watch it. But most people don't
28:04
Speaker 3: want to accept that they want to watch. They want
28:06
Speaker 3: to watch. But for us, when it comes to sports
28:08
Speaker 3: at least, there are certain things we you know, we
28:10
Speaker 3: have to be abreast of, we have to keep in
28:12
Speaker 3: touch with, we have to watch, we have to be
28:13
Speaker 3: aware of to do our job correctly, you know. So yeah,
28:16
Speaker 3: it's a different angle. Obviously, I'm not saying like WHOA
28:19
Speaker 3: was us or anything, but it's just reality.
28:22
Speaker 4: Can you imagine there was a time when you know,
28:24
Speaker 4: you either got your game or you didn't if it
28:26
Speaker 4: was out of town, it's like, oh, well, read the
28:28
Speaker 4: paper if you missed it.
28:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, yes, you daped it.
28:31
Speaker 4: We never When I was out West a thousand years
28:34
Speaker 4: ago and I wanted to watch one of my favorite
28:37
Speaker 4: college teams, you had to pay for the game. It
28:41
Speaker 4: was like sixteen dollars and ninety five cents just to
28:43
Speaker 4: be able to watch it.
28:44
Speaker 3: Well, it used to be, right, it was pay per view, right,
28:46
Speaker 3: like watching the Big Fight. Everyone got together to pool
28:49
Speaker 3: their money for pay per view. Now everything is pay
28:51
Speaker 3: per view. It is which is, which is in a
28:53
Speaker 3: way makes sense. But to Drew's point last segment, it's
28:57
Speaker 3: not as easy as it could be. Because if Drew said,
28:59
Speaker 3: like I could watch one game, I would do it right,
29:01
Speaker 3: and then it's the problem. Yeah, that's how they get you.
29:04
Speaker 3: It's like it's like delivery. It's like death by a
29:06
Speaker 3: thousand cuts. It's like a door dash and all these
29:08
Speaker 3: different things, the dermis charges and credit caurfee.
29:11
Speaker 1: Now the Brewers did.
29:12
Speaker 4: What Bruce TV was it was like fifty dollars for
29:14
Speaker 4: the second half of the season. That's a pretty damn
29:16
Speaker 4: good because that's far less than a dollar a game.
29:18
Speaker 1: If you're a big bruise and that's great. Great, you
29:20
Speaker 1: get a lot of content for that, watching a great team.
29:23
Speaker 3: I don't mind that. Obviously, the Bucks are going to
29:25
Speaker 3: be free this year. That's pretty cool. Yeah, everything's on
29:27
Speaker 3: free TV, right, so we're still lucky in that regard
29:30
Speaker 3: for our main sports. But like, if you want to
29:33
Speaker 3: watch the Badgers, Marquette, any other all these other games
29:36
Speaker 3: and stuff, it's very hard to find, and it's very
29:38
Speaker 3: hard to make sure you get the subscription for and
29:40
Speaker 3: obviously expensive.
29:41
Speaker 2: I end up having to ask Siri, where the who's
29:44
Speaker 2: televising the Marquette game tonight because it's like it's.
29:46
Speaker 3: So hard to find, and it's always when you don't
29:49
Speaker 3: want it, it's always on CBS Sports Network.
29:51
Speaker 4: It took me twenty minutes to find the Brewer game
29:53
Speaker 4: on Sunday. I'm like, where is this game against Pittsburgh?
29:56
Speaker 4: What was it on Peacock Peacott?
29:57
Speaker 3: It was there's an Apple, there was an Apple game,
29:59
Speaker 3: and he ESPN game, a Peacock game, in a Birwars
30:01
Speaker 3: TV game all the same.
30:02
Speaker 1: It's all about money.
30:03
Speaker 4: And when it comes to college sports, you know Big
30:06
Speaker 4: ten football, they go they they have like a little draft,
30:09
Speaker 4: right each week, somebody gets to pick the marquee game.
30:12
Speaker 4: So if NBC has it, chances are it's going to
30:14
Speaker 4: be on Peacock. Whether it's a big matchup between ranked
30:17
Speaker 4: teams or primetime, it's going to be on Peacock's right.
30:21
Speaker 2: You know how we love our anniversaries and stuff in
30:23
Speaker 2: this In this, here's a little corner of the sports world.
30:27
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's like that in the country
30:28
Speaker 2: music world, Like on this day ten years ago, so
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Speaker 2: until released this or that.
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Speaker 4: Well, today's a big dan country music. Luke Bryant turned
30:34
Speaker 4: fifty today.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe years old. He's got his ARP card. Yeah,
30:39
Speaker 1: it's that time. Isn't that crazy? But well, this young guy,
30:42
Speaker 1: like I know.
30:43
Speaker 2: The number fifty is interesting because Adam as Adam mccalviy
30:46
Speaker 2: pointed out Monday marked fifty years from Hank Aaron's last
30:49
Speaker 2: home run seven to fifty five and County Stadium off
30:53
Speaker 2: Dick Drago of the Angels.
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Speaker 4: Is there's still a home plate in one of the
30:57
Speaker 4: parking lots that commemorated that event.
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Speaker 1: I think there was right. I take I take that back.
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Speaker 1: It's July twentieth.
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Speaker 2: It's it'll be coming up on this coming Monday, July
31:06
Speaker 2: twentieth was the last home run of ed County Station.
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Speaker 4: Somewhere out near Healthfare Field, right in that parking lot.
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Speaker 4: I think there's a or something or there's a there's
31:14
Speaker 4: a marker for Hank Aaron.
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Speaker 1: I think it's Healfare.
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Speaker 3: I think it's at like by one of the seats
31:19
Speaker 3: at Healfair in the little bleachers.
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Speaker 4: I remember seeing it. I thought it was in the
31:24
Speaker 4: ground somewhere it is, Yeah, I think that.
31:26
Speaker 3: I think if you walk like into Hellfair where the
31:29
Speaker 3: bleachers are the concourse concourse, it's in one of those.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
31:32
Speaker 2: So Hank Aaron's last home run was witnessed by a
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Speaker 2: crowd of on July twentieth, of ten thousand and one
31:39
Speaker 2: thirty four.
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Speaker 1: Old boy, it's.
31:41
Speaker 3: Hard to believe that that many people wouldn't want to
31:43
Speaker 3: go watch, like, because you know, you're thinking.
31:45
Speaker 1: Of an all the time. Great, but.
31:48
Speaker 2: Twenty three more games for the bust, poor leg injury,
31:51
Speaker 2: sideliner for good. He never hit another homer And now
31:54
Speaker 2: you know the story about the ball from that right. No,
31:57
Speaker 2: it went into that little kind of alley between the
31:59
Speaker 2: grand standing the bleachers. Yeah, yeah, it was section twenty
32:03
Speaker 2: eight at the Lower Grand part time groundskeeper named Richard Aren't,
32:07
Speaker 2: a social worker, was born in Madison, lived most of
32:09
Speaker 2: his adult life to that point in Albuquerque, and spent
32:12
Speaker 2: one summer in Milwaukee get a job on the grounds crew.
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Speaker 2: Boy gets the ball and he said he wanted to
32:18
Speaker 2: meet Aaron, but the clubhouse staffer said no, So he
32:21
Speaker 2: took the ball home.
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Speaker 1: Good, take my ball and going home? Why wouldn't they
32:26
Speaker 1: say no?
32:27
Speaker 2: Then the brewers fired him, and on his final paycheck
32:30
Speaker 2: they docked him five dollars for the confiscating club property
32:33
Speaker 2: for the ball.
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Speaker 1: Oh that is.
32:35
Speaker 3: Nasty work, Bud, Come on, Bud, come on, that's nasty work.
32:39
Speaker 1: That's pretty nice. Well, he still got the last laugh.
32:43
Speaker 3: That ball was probably more important than that five dollars
32:45
Speaker 3: and a part time job.
32:47
Speaker 2: And in his autobiography I Had a Hammer, Aaron said
32:50
Speaker 2: he had numerous attempts to get the ball. He said
32:53
Speaker 2: to me, that ball is just as important as the
32:54
Speaker 2: one from seven to fifteen, Fast Bay Ruth, because it's
32:57
Speaker 2: the one that established the record. The record was seven
32:58
Speaker 2: to fifty five fifteen. Now, good, mister Aren't. He took
33:03
Speaker 2: the kept the ball, took it to a public signing
33:06
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four and had Aaron sign it.
33:08
Speaker 1: Unknowing was brilliant. I love it. He got the last
33:12
Speaker 1: lat ball and.
33:13
Speaker 2: Then he sold it to a collector in nineteen ninety
33:16
Speaker 2: nine with a quarter of the proceeds going to Aaron's
33:17
Speaker 2: charitable foundation, and that was nice of him. The collector,
33:21
Speaker 2: Andrew Kanuth, loaned the ball to the Hall of Fame
33:23
Speaker 2: in Cooperstown, whereas it is on display in an exhibit
33:27
Speaker 2: titled Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream.
33:29
Speaker 1: But you know what like and this is a good lesson.
33:31
Speaker 3: You know, maybe those guys be like, well, you should
33:33
Speaker 3: have you should have agreed to meet him. Then again,
33:35
Speaker 3: it might not have been his decision. I don't want
33:36
Speaker 3: to put that on a Hank. Hank's a great obviously player.
33:39
Speaker 3: I just loo like, like you would think he would
33:42
Speaker 3: would would be like want the ball to meet him.
33:43
Speaker 3: Maybe he was mad at the clubby that said you
33:45
Speaker 3: can't meet him.
33:46
Speaker 4: I always wonder about people who you know, are doing
33:49
Speaker 4: they think they're doing the right thing by giving it
33:50
Speaker 4: back to the player for maybe some bats and free tickets,
33:53
Speaker 4: But I mean, you can get life changing money for
33:56
Speaker 4: these milestone home It is pretty wild.
33:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you have to identify the value, Like some
34:00
Speaker 3: of these balls are just so and so's prospects. First
34:03
Speaker 3: major league hit or home run, then it's worth I
34:06
Speaker 3: think the bat and the jersey. Yeah, because a lot
34:09
Speaker 3: mark gonna be great players, so that ball might not
34:11
Speaker 3: be worth.
34:11
Speaker 1: That's a great point. But but you're right, like Bond's
34:13
Speaker 1: hitting seventy or whatever, well.
34:15
Speaker 3: Or famous who was the guy that had the McGuire
34:17
Speaker 3: home run, the clubby or the ground screw guy that
34:20
Speaker 3: that ran it back to him, you know, like famously.
34:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, that's right that he should have just
34:25
Speaker 1: quitted wagon.
34:27
Speaker 3: But then again, I mean he was thought he's being
34:29
Speaker 3: the right nice guy, and back then everyone loved McGuire
34:31
Speaker 3: and he wanted to do the right thing and give
34:33
Speaker 3: him the ball. Like I always appreciate that because I'm like, man,
34:37
Speaker 3: that's an army would have done when he was fifteen,
34:39
Speaker 3: like get robbing on his ball back and like be
34:41
Speaker 3: like like this is right, like do the right thing.
34:44
Speaker 1: Yes, So funny to think about that.
34:47
Speaker 3: Then you're right, though, you could have thought like like
34:49
Speaker 3: the Otani ball last year, right then, yeah, diving over
34:52
Speaker 3: each other four and then they then security takes because
34:54
Speaker 3: you have to get those authenticated now, right away. Darren
34:57
Speaker 3: Rivela always talks about that unless you have an authenticator
35:00
Speaker 3: right away, come and put the sticker on, it won't
35:02
Speaker 3: be as worth as much. And that's why there was
35:05
Speaker 3: controversy over the NBA. The final ball was supposed to
35:08
Speaker 3: go to the league, and that's why players wanted to
35:11
Speaker 3: keep it in the league won't let him keep it,
35:12
Speaker 3: and there was an argument about that with Josh Hart
35:14
Speaker 3: and it was really interesting.
35:15
Speaker 4: I mean, just following Darren ravel on Twitter loves this.
35:19
Speaker 4: Every day you see something going for tens of thousands
35:22
Speaker 4: of dollars. Then you went, oh, okay, oh the ticket
35:25
Speaker 4: stuff from Jordan's whatever, And you think, man, I used
35:29
Speaker 4: to have stuff like that all the time that I
35:30
Speaker 4: just tossed.
35:31
Speaker 1: That's pretty wild.
35:32
Speaker 2: So I'm off on Monday, Bud Arman, you want to
35:35
Speaker 2: take a note of this, you and Billy, Yes, Monday
35:38
Speaker 2: will be the fiftieth anniversary of Henry are In seven
35:41
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty fifth and final home run. There you go,
35:43
Speaker 2: and the fifth anniversary of the Bucks title.
35:46
Speaker 1: Oh ball about that?
35:48
Speaker 2: Doubled up on July twenty, the Great Dates in Milwaukee
35:51
Speaker 2: sports history, significant, highly significant.
35:55
Speaker 4: I was so disappointed I couldn't go to the parade
35:57
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one because I had to be at
36:00
Speaker 4: day Washington County golf Course and I did the show together.
36:06
Speaker 1: I know we did. That got me out of it.
36:09
Speaker 1: I didn't have to go to.
36:09
Speaker 2: That because I was We were broadcasting from the Deer
36:12
Speaker 2: District that day.
36:13
Speaker 1: Yeah. But when they woke me up after that bullet,
36:15
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Were you at thy Web that day? Were
36:18
Speaker 1: you dressed as Thai Web?
36:19
Speaker 3: No? I was.
36:20
Speaker 1: I was judged mails Judge smiles.
36:22
Speaker 4: But before that, I had to do the show with
36:24
Speaker 4: Armon and Butch, I believe jumped in first. Had to
36:26
Speaker 4: do what the morning show we did nine to noon
36:29
Speaker 4: because everybody else was on the golf course or at
36:31
Speaker 4: the parade.
36:32
Speaker 1: Yeah.
36:32
Speaker 3: Sixty second really quick home run ball on September ninth,
36:35
Speaker 3: ninety eight was Tim Formris, the grounds crew member working
36:37
Speaker 3: at Bush Dadium, and famously handed it back to McGuire
36:40
Speaker 3: for free in exchange for a red minivan a watch
36:43
Speaker 3: on a trip to Disney World. Instead of capitalizing on
36:45
Speaker 3: it's million dollars plus value, True, he got the minivan.
36:50
Speaker 4: Would it still be worth a million dollars after that
36:52
Speaker 4: story became tainted.
36:53
Speaker 3: Well, that's the best question. That's a great question. That's
36:56
Speaker 3: the question.
36:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, my buddy Jeff Peerlman has a number of long,
37:01
Speaker 2: long posts about what a jackass Maguire.
37:03
Speaker 3: Was Pearlman's video thing breast Box Chronicles. He just went
37:09
Speaker 3: off on him.
37:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I watched it. I was like, damn, Jeff. Okay.
37:13
Speaker 1: By the way, Drew was on his podcast, that's true.
37:15
Speaker 1: I was on Pearls podcast. It was fun. Uh go
37:18
Speaker 1: check it out wherever you get your podcast. Dolph.
37:20
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. Have a great weekend, have
37:23
Speaker 2: a great time at the Brewers game tonight. Roof open,
37:25
Speaker 2: roof close. You guys will have a good time.
37:26
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm gonna probably go without the N
37:29
Speaker 4: ninety five and take my chances.
37:31
Speaker 2: Hopefully this, hopefully it'll clear up afternoon. We'll take a
37:35
Speaker 2: quick break. Hunter Bromguart joins us in less than an
37:37
Speaker 2: hour to talk about the Brewers Marlins. You're in the huddle,
37:39
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. I just don't want to be
37:46
Speaker 2: taxed harmon on earthing.
37:48
Speaker 1: I found that. I really can't.
37:50
Speaker 3: It's amazing that it was there, But boy, how about
37:53
Speaker 3: that he was. It's somewhere on the interest. He was
37:55
Speaker 3: a public defender.
37:56
Speaker 1: Now that's wild. That man's just doing service for everybody.
37:59
Speaker 1: How about that? You know, I just don't want to
38:01
Speaker 1: be Oh that's great.
38:04
Speaker 2: I mean when it comes to those milestone balls, everybody
38:07
Speaker 2: has to make their own decision, right, It's like.
38:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, but see the Internet didn't exist then, and are
38:12
Speaker 3: aware of the value.
38:14
Speaker 1: I mean, that's nice. And he was aware of the value.
38:17
Speaker 2: Come on, Charlie Sheen was paying out whole sections of
38:21
Speaker 2: stadiums to get home run balls back then.
38:23
Speaker 3: That back then people were just I think I think
38:27
Speaker 3: he's just more well known. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe maybe,
38:30
Speaker 3: but I just feels that way. Obviously he knew there
38:32
Speaker 3: was value to it because they asked him what he
38:34
Speaker 3: was going to do with it, and he's he felt
38:36
Speaker 3: like doing the right things, like Cooper's Town or mister maguire.
38:38
Speaker 3: I don't think it's you know.
38:40
Speaker 1: It's not mine to keep. Yeah.
38:42
Speaker 2: It is funny though that the guy who caught the
38:44
Speaker 2: guy who got Hank Aaron's ball couldn't meet Hank and
38:46
Speaker 2: he just kept it.
38:47
Speaker 1: They fired him and charged him.
38:49
Speaker 3: That story. I just can't he sort so short sighted.
38:52
Speaker 3: You could have the ball if you just decided. But
38:53
Speaker 3: the funny thing is, I guess he was working for
38:56
Speaker 3: the club, so it added an extra layer to it,
38:58
Speaker 3: like when his obligation was I guess that's why he
39:00
Speaker 3: thought that.
39:01
Speaker 2: All right, Hey, wi wild Cat Mark said that that
39:03
Speaker 2: guy that you're talking about ended up being on Letterman
39:05
Speaker 2: and was pretty good on Letterman.
39:06
Speaker 1: No, he had a good run and he got a
39:08
Speaker 1: mini good run, got a minivan. Why not? Hey, Yeah, you.
39:12
Speaker 2: Know when something like that happens, would you trade it,
39:13
Speaker 2: like for season tickets for life?
39:16
Speaker 1: I think I would, right, I think.
39:18
Speaker 3: So that's a pretty good thing if you're really a
39:20
Speaker 3: true fan, you don't if it's not life changing money,
39:23
Speaker 3: I mean it would be. But if you don't need
39:24
Speaker 3: the money, I guess if you are not, everybody needs
39:27
Speaker 3: the money, Arman, all right, you're right. When it's money,
39:29
Speaker 3: everybody needs it. I guess you're right about that. Yeah, right,
39:33
Speaker 3: all right?
39:33
Speaker 2: Eight seven seven, seven nine four one ninety seven three.
39:36
Speaker 2: We are heading strong into the final hour of the
39:39
Speaker 2: huddle for this week, my final huddle for a week
39:42
Speaker 2: because I'm taking off next week.
39:43
Speaker 1: Billy.
39:44
Speaker 2: He'll be back on Monday. Hunter Bombguard joins us talk Brewers.
39:47
Speaker 2: He will be in at seven twenty five. If you're
39:49
Speaker 2: a Brewis fan and excited for the second half and
39:52
Speaker 2: you missed his show last night, Milwaukee's Baseball Tonight, tune in.
39:55
Speaker 2: We'll give a Hunter to give us the highlights of
39:57
Speaker 2: that and look ahead, when will we see Lance mccullors.
40:00
Speaker 2: When we see miss Hunter, should have some answers for
40:03
Speaker 2: us in the next hour of the program.
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