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04/07/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: It's the day after the Day after Monday. Spy ourself
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Speaker 1: Tuesday in the huddle. Welcome in Drew, Billy Dave gasper
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Speaker 1: in for Arman, who was in Vegas enjoying the last
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Speaker 1: remnants of Michigan's victory.
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Speaker 2: And triumph in the National Championship game.
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Speaker 3: The long way to drought is over, our national nightmare
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Speaker 3: is over. The Big Ten finally national champions once again,
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Speaker 3: and let's be honest rulers of all, especially once the
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Speaker 3: Badgers go out and win the Frozen four out there
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Speaker 3: in the desert this weekend. But Drew, I got a
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Speaker 3: couple of updates from our adorable Armenian friend yesterday, one
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Speaker 3: of which was, you know, maybe he had the best
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Speaker 3: viewing experience of the tournament and of that National Championship game,
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Speaker 3: which wasn't bad, wasn't necessarily great, but competitive and sadly
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Speaker 3: outside of the six and a half you're a Michigan
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Speaker 3: backer just there near the end. But he was at
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Speaker 3: the Paris sportsbook, sitting right behind one of the individuals.
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Speaker 3: And I've always wondered these guys that paid the young
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Speaker 3: lady for the massage in the book at the machine
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Speaker 3: right smack dab in front of Armen in the final.
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Speaker 2: Eight minutes of the championship game as.
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Speaker 3: I was getting played by play on this dude's thirty
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Speaker 3: five dollars shoulder rub that he was getting there just
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Speaker 3: in front of arman Oh in front of the gigantic
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Speaker 3: screen at the sports book. So he was able to
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Speaker 3: be in his in his his palace, being able to
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Speaker 3: complain and moan.
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Speaker 1: All I can say is hail to the victors. Michigan
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Speaker 1: was a dominant team. It was an ugly championship game,
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Speaker 1: but they still won.
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Speaker 3: They won it man and uh Lindeborg was was obviously hampered.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't himself.
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Speaker 3: Maybe the most honest mid halftime interview I've ever heard
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Speaker 3: when he says to Tracy Wilson, Yeah, I'm just I'm
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Speaker 3: soft tonight. Man, I'm bad, I'm wead right now. I
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Speaker 3: don't I don't have it. But they just had enough.
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Speaker 3: They had enough. Yukunt scrappy to the end. But Michigan
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Speaker 3: was the dominant team all year, so this shouldn't be surprised.
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Speaker 2: Running Away is the best team.
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Speaker 3: And we talked about it with Butchie a couple of times,
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Speaker 3: and he had said that he felt like they were
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Speaker 3: going to cut down the nets in some way way
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Speaker 3: and it ended up being at the end of the
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Speaker 3: day being able to Dusty may it as you said,
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Speaker 3: Hail to the vanas for the rest of the year,
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Speaker 3: Hal of the victors.
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Speaker 1: The Big Ten now owns national championships in both football
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Speaker 1: and basketball again women's basketball and women's basketball and hockey
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Speaker 1: and women's hockey and soon to be men's hockey again.
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Speaker 3: Like this weekend, we got two chances to be able
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Speaker 3: to in Michigan on the other side, and uh, and
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Speaker 3: the Badgers being able to win two games and then
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Speaker 3: they get to help out that way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was uh. You know, so that season put
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Speaker 1: a bow on it. The tournament put a bow on it.
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Speaker 1: How do we grade this tournament overall? I was, this
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Speaker 1: is the what we're in the portal transfer era. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Nobody between sixteen and thirteen won a game like the
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Speaker 1: upsets were what everybody loves.
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Speaker 3: And the only one that you got was the one
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Speaker 3: against your Badgers, which is a tough deal.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: I would put it right near a C maybe a
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Speaker 3: C minus because drew that it didn't have that shock value. Now,
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Speaker 3: it had one great game, one game that I think
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Speaker 3: We'll remember a lot in the Yukon Duke game, and
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Speaker 3: at least that team made it to the national title
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Speaker 3: and didn't fizzle out in the semi final. But it's
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Speaker 3: going to be a year and you mentioned it of
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Speaker 3: the portal nil era. I'm also looking at it as
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Speaker 3: a little bit of the international flavor that we've seen
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Speaker 3: dominate the NBA over the last number of years. Feels
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Speaker 3: like that is seeping into college sports, and you saw
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Speaker 3: a lot of movement on that Michigan side.
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Speaker 2: Mara is just phenomenal.
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Speaker 3: And again, five ten years ago, when money was a
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Speaker 3: different deal in college sports, maybe that dude's never playing
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Speaker 3: in American college basketball before he tries to go to
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Speaker 3: the NBA. Maybe he's only playing international pro ball. And
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Speaker 3: now the money is better in collegiate ball here than
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Speaker 3: it is overseas, and you're getting a different product right now.
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Speaker 1: And has the paradigm shifted now? It's no longer your
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Speaker 1: higher coaches about, you know, program resurrections. Look at what
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Speaker 1: they've done in the period of time that Dusty May
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Speaker 1: has gotten it done. And is that now the expectation
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Speaker 1: for all athletic directors and boosters saying all right, well,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna hire you, you're only going to get We're
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Speaker 1: only going to give you like a three year deal
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Speaker 1: instead of an eight year deal because you have to
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Speaker 1: turn this thing around quickly. We're going to pump the
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Speaker 1: resources in and we expect immediate results. It also basically
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Speaker 1: what Michigan did. They turned it percent pretty quickly.
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Speaker 3: No, you're you're spot Andrew, and they have the cash
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Speaker 3: to be able to outlet to put it out and
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Speaker 3: wait for the return. And the other part of it
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Speaker 3: that I think we've seen and you saw it with
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Speaker 3: the UNC coaching search. When was a Michigan basketball coach
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Speaker 3: or an Alabama head coach turning down the UNC job. Well,
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Speaker 3: in an era where you can pay and spend just
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Speaker 3: as much at one of those other institutions than you
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Speaker 3: can at the bluest of the blue blood, then you
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Speaker 3: do have to go with insert former NBA coach that
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Speaker 3: was a middling TV analyst on ESPN. Like it's a
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Speaker 3: different day where you can create that that power wherever
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Speaker 3: it is. Because that they can spend the money on Lindeborg,
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Speaker 3: they can spend the money on Mara, they can spend
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Speaker 3: it on Caudro to be able to bring him back.
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Speaker 3: And I think you saw that throughout the tournament that
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Speaker 3: the teams that were most resourced, and he saw this
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Speaker 3: in college football too, But I think to the point
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Speaker 3: of more ads trying to replicate it, Drew.
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Speaker 2: You can correct me if you think I'm wrong here.
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Speaker 3: It's a lot easier to look in basketball and say
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Speaker 3: we can spend the cash and have a legit pop at.
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Speaker 2: It instead of you know what Indiana did.
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Speaker 3: They spent money, but they didn't outspend everybody like Texas
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Speaker 3: Tech did to fizzle out in the second round.
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Speaker 2: Right, there were a lot of tea.
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Speaker 3: Ohio State spent nearly forty million dollars, they didn't make
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Speaker 3: it to the semi finals. So as much as teams
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Speaker 3: will look at Indiana and say, well, why don't we
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Speaker 3: just do what Signette did and win a national title
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Speaker 3: in two years, I think in basketball people will get
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Speaker 3: the belief you can do it with simply the resources.
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Speaker 3: Because you get three or four players that are highest
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Speaker 3: paid guys and they have a run like this, and
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Speaker 3: you're able to see more teams. I think do it
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Speaker 3: where the smaller roster and you can pay eight to
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Speaker 3: nine guys and they can be all your difference makers.
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Speaker 3: I think there's gonna be a lot of teams that
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Speaker 3: believe that they could be the Michigan of twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: eight or twenty twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so fools eron though, because it's not
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Speaker 1: that easy. And he you know, look at the guys
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Speaker 1: they brought in. Some of those guys were you know,
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Speaker 1: they're justsgruntled at other places and they're non starters and
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Speaker 1: like well.
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Speaker 3: And Lindenborg was what a three year Jucob two or
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Speaker 3: three year Jucob player like that. That's a hard thing
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Speaker 3: to just believe that you're going to be able to copy.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, man, we see it every year in
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Speaker 2: the NFL.
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Speaker 3: They call it a copycat league, and I'm like, all right, yeah, sweet,
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Speaker 3: just hit on all six first round picks you're gonna
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Speaker 3: get over the next four years and you can be
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Speaker 3: the Seattle Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: Sounds easy enough. Just do it and you'll it'll work out.
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Speaker 3: It's a lot easier said than done, but teams and
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Speaker 3: guys have gotten fired in their one shot at being
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Speaker 3: a head coach or GM. And you'll see a lot
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Speaker 3: more gms in college sports now doing it. How everyone
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Speaker 3: else is doing it not necessarily the way that they
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Speaker 3: always dreamed of.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: You can reach us on the nicolay lot dot com
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Speaker 1: talking text line eight. Second, it's gonna be hot. Three,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be hot. We got a lot of Brewers
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Speaker 1: talk holstered up with the Wilson Contreras situation. Brewers winning
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Speaker 1: their opener at Fenway against the reeling Red Sox. Right now,
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Speaker 1: good to reunite with old friend Caleb Durban, who had
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Speaker 1: a couple of hits and made an error and had
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Speaker 1: a couple of you know, the Red Sox are off
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Speaker 1: to their worst start in franchise history two and eight.
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Speaker 3: And he found himself right there, smack dab in the
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Speaker 3: middle of it. And I was found myself smack dab
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Speaker 3: in the middle of trying to play a mediator between
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Speaker 3: the Brewers and my wife because she was very upset
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Speaker 3: for Caleb Durban felt bad for the young It looks
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Speaker 3: like he is that he was struggling there in the
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Speaker 3: inning where the Brewers played four and no ball leaves
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Speaker 3: the infield. Yeah, thanks to the left hand of Caleb
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Speaker 3: Turban on a couple of those.
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Speaker 1: It was pretty rough, pretty rough. So we'll get into that,
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Speaker 1: but we like to follow up on things. We don't
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Speaker 1: like to lead people hanging. And yesterday, I would say
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Speaker 1: the highlight of yesterday's show was the the recounting by
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Speaker 1: David Gasper of his exploits with Andrew Ludwig. R Two
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Speaker 1: ACE producers out on the town. A couple of ladies
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Speaker 1: catch their eyes, send them a couple of shots turned out.
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Speaker 2: To be water shots. I'm glad you brought this back.
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Speaker 1: And Ronda in the seven to one to five text
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Speaker 1: of the program after we left the area today, she's
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Speaker 1: clearly like many people time shifting us listening to us
8:33
Speaker 1: as you know, you don't have to be it's appointment
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Speaker 1: listening between five and eight, But most people's appointments is,
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Speaker 1: you know, with the mattress between five and eight.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh, move it back.
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Speaker 1: And so Ronda in the seven one five said, this
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Speaker 1: is for Dave and Luddy. Gentlemen, those ladies at Joe
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Speaker 1: Katz who perpetrated that prank, We're lucky I wasn't there
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Speaker 1: to see that troll. Come on, Ronda, how teare anyone
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Speaker 1: treat my guys so poorly? I would have taken those
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Speaker 1: two by their dragged them over to you to apologize,
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Speaker 1: then booted their sorry asses out into their uber.
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Speaker 2: Let's go there, we go. Nothing like mom coming in
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Speaker 2: to save the day.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And Ronda, if you were there, we'd be buying
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Speaker 4: you a shot, an actual shot, not a water one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and and a couple and we've met.
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Speaker 3: We've gotten the pleasure to hang out with Ronda up
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Speaker 3: at a packer's training camp a couple of times.
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Speaker 2: Listen, I'll be honest with you. Uh.
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Speaker 3: I don't think that they would have been I think
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Speaker 3: they would have been nervous when when Ronda grabs them
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Speaker 3: by the shirt collar, they would have known, uh, that
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Speaker 3: it's potentially came on and that it's going to be
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Speaker 3: over for him. I did get a lot of feedback.
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Speaker 3: We get feedback on the show, Drew. I got a
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Speaker 3: lot of feedback on the final segment of yesterday's show,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of individuals that had ideas of what
9:49
Speaker 3: they would have done in the moment. Oh, I would
9:51
Speaker 3: have done this. I would have said this. It's a
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Speaker 3: lot easier.
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Speaker 1: The jerk store called they're running out of you. That's
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Speaker 1: a Seinfeld bit.
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Speaker 2: I had a great line. I had the great right.
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Speaker 3: Everyone says all of these hole stirred up, but the
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Speaker 3: winningness to be able to pull that out after just
10:08
Speaker 3: getting uh you know, like Power Slap the new Dana
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Speaker 3: White series where they're just groundhousing the folks.
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Speaker 2: That's what it felt like.
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Speaker 3: You guys got yes smacked in Power Slap hard to
10:18
Speaker 3: be able to come back with a quick wit joke
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Speaker 3: in that spot. But just so you know, there were
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Speaker 3: a lot of people that were defending you in my inbox.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yeah, I appreciate that. That's why you guys
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Speaker 2: to know you were not getting clowned.
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Speaker 3: As bad as you were clowning as much as Drew
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Speaker 3: and I were potentially clowning you for the final four minutes.
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Speaker 4: YEA, Yeah, that's that's good because, yeah, when you're in
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Speaker 4: the most it's like, wait, where are you going?
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Speaker 2: But adversity only makes you stronger.
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Speaker 3: Dave and I think that, Yeah, that was the overwhelming
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Speaker 3: sentiment that I heard was you're going to be better
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Speaker 3: for this situation moving forward.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: And there's so many times where it's like a conversation
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Speaker 4: or something happens and it's not until like a half
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Speaker 4: hour later, or when you're in the shower or whatever
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Speaker 4: it is. When you guys Oh, that would have been
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Speaker 4: so good, you know, like if you could just said
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Speaker 4: that in the moment.
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Speaker 2: But well, luckily I have now probably kind of want
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Speaker 2: them anyways. You know what, they weren't even that good looking.
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Speaker 2: Now we're talking.
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Speaker 3: Talking, Yeah, the sober thoughts cleared up. That's what I'm
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Speaker 3: talking about, David. They weren't that cute.
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Speaker 2: No, they were not. They were out of love it.
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Speaker 2: We were out of their lead.
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Speaker 3: Love it eight seven seven seven, Thank you, Ron, thank you.
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Speaker 3: That is Drew a perfect example of what we say.
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Speaker 2: We're true.
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Speaker 3: and we will find the opportunity to be able to
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Speaker 3: get those questions answered as we boot up today and
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Speaker 3: again it's a buyer Cell Tuesday on the program.
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Speaker 1: Will dive it of those props as we move forward.
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Speaker 1: But Chris and Loda hit us up really early he said, Man,
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Speaker 1: last night's NCAA Championship game felt like the WWE meets
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Speaker 1: the NHL. And he said, and Danny Hurley got more
12:13
Speaker 1: screen time than the Kelsey brothers.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's gonna be hard to hard to top this
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Speaker 3: week with Jason Kelsey's Wednesday appearance at the Master's Bar three.
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Speaker 1: But we also got an early morning right as the
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Speaker 1: show opened, unburdening an admission, if you will, there's gonna
12:31
Speaker 1: thaw out there, not not maybe not in our twenty
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Speaker 1: nine degree day that we're having so far right now,
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Speaker 1: but red hot tim not. I'm not one flipped on
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Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell.
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Speaker 2: Well, if he can.
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Speaker 1: Stay healthy all year, this team is going to be
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Speaker 1: a problem. Let's go Welcome, Welcome to the fun side.
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Speaker 1: It's the modern here, it's the psychology of the modern
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Speaker 1: fan that folks, there's a there's a strong and I've
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Speaker 1: heard this from many people strong anti Garrett Mitchell. It's
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Speaker 1: like they've put up a preemptive wall because he's hurt
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Speaker 1: and he's going to disappoint me and he's going to
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Speaker 1: be a bust and I know this, and I'm therefore
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Speaker 1: writing him off and he's going to suck and the
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Speaker 1: birds are going to suck if they think he's going
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Speaker 1: to be good, So they suck by extension by not
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Speaker 1: realizing that he sucks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we watched Matt Gamble. He's clearly yes.
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Speaker 1: But how about giving the dude a chance to play
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Speaker 1: an extended period when he's healthy and see what he
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Speaker 1: does well? And I mean it's a novel concept, I know,
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Speaker 1: in this era where everybody's with a phone has a
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Speaker 1: thousand hot takes, they want to puke into their phone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you and your patience.
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Speaker 1: Maybe this guy isn't the worst player ever drafted by
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Speaker 1: the Brewers.
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Speaker 3: Well and luckily so, he's not in the Mark Rogers
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Speaker 3: camp at this point. But the other part is you
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Speaker 3: do caution yourself to what you just said, the unknown,
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Speaker 3: and you just fall back on well, he's been hurt,
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Speaker 3: so there's no way that you're going to be able
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Speaker 3: to pounce back from a lot of injuries and have
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Speaker 3: a tremendous career, especially in baseball where it's a lot
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Speaker 3: less physical once you're able to figure out your easiest
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Speaker 3: way of playing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like again, though, I get it, that's the impulse.
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Speaker 1: I want to be the first time I blocked to
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Speaker 1: say my team sucks and can't win this year. I mean, well,
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Speaker 1: look at the look at what we had to be
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Speaker 1: right as well, which we had on display last night,
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Speaker 1: because uh, Caleb Durban's been a Red Sox for all
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Speaker 1: of about two weeks and he's the biggest piece.
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Speaker 2: Of crap ever.
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Speaker 1: And the Red Sox for all of the charm of
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Speaker 1: Fenway and all their vast resources and their lineage now
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Speaker 1: of recent success in this kind of and are just generation.
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Speaker 1: They got thousands of people's screaming sell the team. And
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Speaker 1: then and the Woodpeckers come in from Milwaukee and hand
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Speaker 1: it to them yesterday.
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Speaker 3: And again down three nothing, take the lead in an
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Speaker 3: inning in which a ball does not leave the infield,
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Speaker 3: ultimate small market rally.
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Speaker 2: It was incredible.
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Speaker 3: And then to be able to as you saw a
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Speaker 3: fly and flip the entire home crowd to only cow
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Speaker 3: two and seven digging out of this hole, and you know,
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Speaker 3: start challenging the Yankees and Blue Jays for this division too. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: oh no, we suck again and instantly they were Rob Schneider.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So that was interesting stuff. But to the Mitchell thing,
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Speaker 1: I get it. I guess even Murph had said that
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Speaker 1: he wasn't sure if the guy should break and she
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Speaker 1: needed to go north because he had a bad camp.
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Speaker 2: And again, spring training doesn't mean anything.
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Speaker 1: And kudos to Jake Bowers because he did beat the
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Speaker 1: odds by staying hot for a little bit after a
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Speaker 1: torrid spring.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bowers and Locks are breaking the bread.
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Speaker 1: For the most part, Guys who are hot in the
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Speaker 1: spring aren't go oh for April.
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Speaker 2: It's just the facts.
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Speaker 1: I've seen that a good jillion times, or guys that
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Speaker 1: are oh for March suddenly open up the season and
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Speaker 1: they and they're bad spring. Yeah, so it just doesn't
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Speaker 1: None of that really matters. But uh, the Mitchell thing again,
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Speaker 1: like you've seen the skills, he's tantalized. I called him
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Speaker 1: flippantly in the last year or so, the Christian Watson
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Speaker 1: of the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: People are like, he's hurt all the time. You know.
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Speaker 3: The the other part, the tough thing for Mitchell too
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Speaker 3: is and this is you know, a clear thing that
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Speaker 3: now we've been able to see that he's going to
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Speaker 3: recover slower from different injuries, and he had talked about
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Speaker 3: it pretty openly right down in spring training where he's
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Speaker 3: like a lot of it is the medication I take
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Speaker 3: for my diabetes. Like it's always been a problem of
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Speaker 3: being able to rehab and get back in a quicker pace.
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Speaker 3: But he's also had like catastrophic injuries. That's where I
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Speaker 3: think you can also put it to and compare it
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Speaker 3: to Watson not after the ACL injury, where when he
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Speaker 3: blows that out against the Bears, people said, well, this
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Speaker 3: guy's fragile all that. You can call it soft when
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Speaker 3: the ACL pops there on the twenty six yard line,
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Speaker 3: just like for Garrett Mitchell where he had his shoulder ruptured,
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Speaker 3: what not once but twice over at a base Like
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Speaker 3: on the surprising injury front, that would be near the
16:52
Speaker 3: top in baseball, the ones that you're not going to see.
16:54
Speaker 3: But I think his open skepticism of if he can
16:58
Speaker 3: be the same player, like, I think that also fueled
17:00
Speaker 3: in more of it, probably to Murph Drew, And that's
17:03
Speaker 3: where I came in. Maybe he's got to play, Maybe
17:06
Speaker 3: he's got to be down in Triple A and allow
17:08
Speaker 3: himself to get a number of at bats and feel confident.
17:11
Speaker 3: But also maybe he was like Brandon Wood if he's
17:13
Speaker 3: like I just got to tell you guys, me playing
17:15
Speaker 3: in Triple a games. I just don't see the benefit
17:18
Speaker 3: of it. Throw me up here in the big leagues
17:19
Speaker 3: and let's see if I can figure it out. And
17:22
Speaker 3: due to a couple of injuries, he's gonna get a
17:24
Speaker 3: ton of leash out there in the center and have
17:27
Speaker 3: an opportunity to figure out how he can play at
17:31
Speaker 3: this stage in his career, to try to keep himself,
17:33
Speaker 3: which has been around for a couple of years.
17:34
Speaker 1: But he's twenty seven when athletes peak generally, especially.
17:37
Speaker 2: Baseball players, that's the age.
17:39
Speaker 1: So he's putting it together and I still consider him
17:41
Speaker 1: a young player in terms of experience in big league
17:44
Speaker 1: you know, does he even have one hundred and sixty
17:46
Speaker 1: games played? Yeah, that's what I got to look at. Yeah,
17:48
Speaker 1: totally right. So what you look for is consistency. Does
17:51
Speaker 1: he have some ugly at bats? Sure, is he gonna
17:53
Speaker 1: punch out a couple of times, sure, no harm. But
17:55
Speaker 1: if he's getting to get two hits, he's hitting in
17:58
Speaker 1: the three hundred early here, he's got a thirteen RBI
18:03
Speaker 1: among the league leaders in twenty seven at bats. Yeah,
18:06
Speaker 1: twenty seven at bats and thirteen RBI. That's pretty productive.
18:10
Speaker 1: And he's sitting three oundred and to me, the big
18:12
Speaker 1: thing obp over four hundred, Like you can win with
18:15
Speaker 1: guys like that, folks.
18:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, let let him play, let him cook.
18:18
Speaker 4: And he's stealing bases and sliding in feet first, which
18:22
Speaker 4: is always fully right.
18:23
Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing, like you'll take the wins
18:25
Speaker 3: when you can get them and where you're able to
18:28
Speaker 3: alter your play just a little bit to be a
18:30
Speaker 3: little safer. I think you're seeing that with him. And also,
18:33
Speaker 3: this isn't I think prisoner at the moment. He's had
18:35
Speaker 3: a little bit of clutch factor in him ever since
18:37
Speaker 3: he came up. What was it like, Yeah, his first
18:39
Speaker 3: game when he first came up, he had a walk
18:41
Speaker 3: off hit.
18:42
Speaker 1: But you're right, Billy, and it seems like he's been
18:44
Speaker 1: around a long time and you expect him to be
18:46
Speaker 1: kind of like a finished product. I just looked up
18:50
Speaker 1: his career regular season at bats four hundred and seventeen.
18:52
Speaker 1: Not even a full season in the full season. Yeah,
18:55
Speaker 1: not even a full season. So they haven't scratched the
18:57
Speaker 1: surface with this guy yet. They haven't even begun to.
19:00
Speaker 1: And we don't know.
19:00
Speaker 2: I'm and I'm I'm not declaring him an All Star
19:03
Speaker 2: or Hall of famer.
19:03
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, No, I'm just saying, just can
19:07
Speaker 1: you just like withhold judgment for a second and let
19:09
Speaker 1: the guy play a little bit and then see what
19:11
Speaker 1: you have. And it looks like it's you know, the
19:13
Speaker 1: preers kind of know what they're doing, and they drafted
19:16
Speaker 1: him and they still continue to play him and send
19:18
Speaker 1: him out there at nurture them because they see the potential.
19:21
Speaker 2: And let's just you know, let that be a cautionary
19:23
Speaker 2: it won't be.
19:24
Speaker 1: Let it be a cautionary tale that you don't have
19:26
Speaker 1: to puke everything into your phone and write people off
19:28
Speaker 1: right away. Well, especially in a support that's predicated on failure.
19:32
Speaker 3: I do like though that we've got red hot tim
19:34
Speaker 3: not turning over to the Mitchell side. Boss Dobler even
19:38
Speaker 3: said some complimentary things about Grrett Mitchell yesterday.
19:41
Speaker 2: So we're getting the wheels churning, feeding into the hedges.
19:46
Speaker 3: Like Homer Simpson, it's also tough when you, I mean Drew,
19:48
Speaker 3: when you you slapped that number five on somebody, you
19:51
Speaker 3: expect them to be somebody. We talked about baseball numbers.
19:54
Speaker 3: You throw that number five on somebody, you think, Okay,
19:57
Speaker 3: this dude's going to be a player, understandably. So.
19:59
Speaker 2: More of the frustration with the fans in Boston is.
20:01
Speaker 3: They were expecting number five playing the number five to
20:04
Speaker 3: be a spot and it hadn't hadn't.
20:06
Speaker 1: Worked out too first round pick that whole thing that
20:09
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20:28
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Speaker 1: to three. We often talk when things flare up about
21:14
Speaker 1: who the who are the guys that we love to hate,
21:18
Speaker 1: you know, in the past, Tyrese Halliburton, Albert Poohols, Tony LaRussa.
21:23
Speaker 2: Who is the current? Like what is it?
21:25
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams or Ben Johnson, Craig Council. Who's public enemy
21:29
Speaker 1: number one in these parts? And good old Wilson Contreras
21:32
Speaker 1: is never far from the top of the list. Finds
21:35
Speaker 1: his way by then Chicago, Boston, at Chicago, Saint Louis, Boston.
21:42
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. He's a bad penny. You can't get
21:44
Speaker 1: rid of the guy. We can't quit him. There he
21:46
Speaker 1: was again last night, and.
21:49
Speaker 3: And now we only get to see our old friend
21:50
Speaker 3: three times a year or three games a year, once
21:53
Speaker 3: a year.
21:53
Speaker 2: It's not fair.
21:54
Speaker 1: And it's Williams's brother, our buddy KB would purposely drill
21:58
Speaker 1: him every at.
21:59
Speaker 2: Bat right into the video games.
22:02
Speaker 1: That was all he predicated his strategy, and he's had
22:04
Speaker 1: some good success with that, but always hitting Wilson Contreras,
22:07
Speaker 1: no Matt, regardless of.
22:08
Speaker 2: The game situation.
22:09
Speaker 1: Now, okay, so William or Wilson Wilsons NRA too. Yeah,
22:15
Speaker 1: he gets hit for the twenty fourth time against the
22:18
Speaker 1: brust He's played a lot of games against him.
22:20
Speaker 2: Did he get hit?
22:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he did.
22:25
Speaker 3: Like that was that was my quest for it. They
22:27
Speaker 3: the Brewers reviewed it. I didn't see the ball.
22:30
Speaker 2: Again.
22:30
Speaker 3: Now, I'm not gonna say that I'm a genius by
22:32
Speaker 3: watching a video replay, but they make the guys in Scaccas,
22:35
Speaker 3: New York the genius is on it. I didn't see
22:38
Speaker 3: the ball change rotation, change flight at all. I did
22:42
Speaker 3: see my man throw a conniption fit into the right
22:45
Speaker 3: handed batters box when the ball came up and in
22:47
Speaker 3: on him. But I still don't know that I saw
22:50
Speaker 3: it hit his hand. Yeah, I don't know that. That's
22:52
Speaker 3: what that was clear and evidence. But sorry, continued R.
22:55
Speaker 3: I apologize, No, no worries.
22:58
Speaker 1: He's got sixteen home fifty two RBI, fifty three runs scored.
23:03
Speaker 1: He's played one hundred and twenty one games. He's been
23:05
Speaker 1: almost almost a full season against the Brewers.
23:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.
23:08
Speaker 3: So, and when you crowd the plate and also have
23:12
Speaker 3: highlights of him legitimately hanging into the batter's box to
23:15
Speaker 3: take a pitch against the Brewers, I don't feel nearly
23:19
Speaker 3: as bad for you as much as you would like
23:21
Speaker 3: it to be. There's also good heat. And I think
23:24
Speaker 3: we've heard Pat Murphy say this for a fact. He
23:27
Speaker 3: knows that Wilson Contreras doesn't like him, and Murph will
23:31
Speaker 3: never shy away from agitating somebody that I think he
23:35
Speaker 3: knows doesn't appreciate him and enjoy him. And Murph made
23:39
Speaker 3: it known yesterday that he was going to be a
23:41
Speaker 3: part of that conversation as well. That's right, and so yeah,
23:44
Speaker 3: he's predisposed. Wilson Contreras. Some guys will pimp home runs.
23:49
Speaker 1: He pimps the hbps to where there have been times
23:52
Speaker 1: where he gets hit like in the foot with a breaking.
23:55
Speaker 2: Ball and he's pissed about it.
23:56
Speaker 1: Right, he throws it all over the place. And that
23:59
Speaker 1: was the first pitch offering from Woodroffin.
24:02
Speaker 2: It wasn't.
24:03
Speaker 1: It didn't like buzz the tower or anything. You're right,
24:05
Speaker 1: did did that hit him? Really thens?
24:08
Speaker 3: And there's two on nobody out like Drew on the
24:11
Speaker 3: times that you're gonna put one.
24:12
Speaker 2: Into the back, that was not the time.
24:15
Speaker 1: And so he's just got this built in thing that
24:18
Speaker 1: he hates the Brewers. Brewers hate him. I had to
24:20
Speaker 1: tap in a w W E element to it. Yeah, he' listen.
24:24
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's been watching Randy Orton or something.
24:26
Speaker 1: He wants to wants to be the Apex Predator, but.
24:28
Speaker 3: He's sitting over here, and I had to tap in
24:31
Speaker 3: with the nesson broadcast just to make sure that I
24:33
Speaker 3: wasn't having some Brewer colored glasses on. Play Guy goes, well,
24:39
Speaker 3: now Wilson needs to have calmed down, all right. He's
24:41
Speaker 3: screaming at first base right into the in the umpire's face.
24:45
Speaker 3: Then Alex Korra come out like he needs to cal
24:47
Speaker 3: him down. Color Guy comes on after the radio replays
24:50
Speaker 3: watching that, because, Yeah, first off, he's definitely not trying
24:54
Speaker 3: to hit him.
24:54
Speaker 2: I'm not sure he did hit him. I don't know
24:57
Speaker 2: that he did hit him.
24:58
Speaker 3: He's definitely not trying to throw at him purpose, but hey,
25:01
Speaker 3: you can tell anybody that. And for Wilson Contreras, he
25:03
Speaker 3: was gonna believe the opposite when it's six times from
25:05
Speaker 3: Brandon Woodruff and then clearly he went after David Hamilton,
25:09
Speaker 3: who he has no allegiance with, but his friends has
25:12
Speaker 3: a lot of friends in the room where Wilson Contreras
25:15
Speaker 3: now changes clothes right because he played there.
25:18
Speaker 2: So it's like okay, and.
25:19
Speaker 3: I mean not only a high cleat, that was a
25:21
Speaker 3: knee high cleats put onto those.
25:23
Speaker 2: This is one of those situations.
25:24
Speaker 1: And I've seen players like this before where a player
25:27
Speaker 1: is such a jackwaffle that if you hit him and
25:29
Speaker 1: something starts, it's gonna be like forty nine against one
25:33
Speaker 1: because like, nobody on either team likes you that much.
25:36
Speaker 2: Dude.
25:36
Speaker 1: You could see your own teammates aren't going to have
25:38
Speaker 1: your back because they just think you're a jackass.
25:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, they know that you're the reason why.
25:41
Speaker 3: And like you saw some guys get out of the dugout.
25:43
Speaker 2: But they weren't approaching the line at all.
25:46
Speaker 3: And if they would have thought that their guy that
25:48
Speaker 3: they like would have gotten hit, I think there would
25:49
Speaker 3: have been a little bit more aggression.
25:51
Speaker 1: No, but then the play that he went after Hamilton
25:54
Speaker 1: unclearly Matty's trying to break up the double play. I
25:56
Speaker 1: you know, I have to admit I'm conflicted on that
25:59
Speaker 1: one because by the standards of a generation and maybe
26:03
Speaker 1: even a generation and a half ago, that really wasn't much.
26:06
Speaker 1: That was also kind of how you were supposed to
26:08
Speaker 1: go back and I was gonna say, they used to
26:10
Speaker 1: coach that stuff.
26:10
Speaker 2: That's been kind of wiped out of the game.
26:12
Speaker 1: But go back and look at some of the Hal McCrae,
26:15
Speaker 1: Willie Randolph dust ups, like Jim Gantner missed a season
26:18
Speaker 1: because he took one. It was like the standard operating
26:20
Speaker 1: procedure was wiping out the second basement of the shortstop
26:23
Speaker 1: at second base, and that that's gone away along with
26:26
Speaker 1: collisions at home plate. So that looked like really egregiously aggressive.
26:32
Speaker 3: It was a the passer penalty where the guy lands
26:35
Speaker 3: on the court in sex your full wait.
26:37
Speaker 1: So I was like, well, that really isn't that That
26:40
Speaker 1: used to be the norm. And and you know, I
26:42
Speaker 1: think Hamilton, like you were taught to throw it at
26:45
Speaker 1: the guy's head, make him get down. You know when
26:47
Speaker 1: they're coming into you and stuff like that, and it
26:49
Speaker 1: was that was like, okay, cost of doing businesses by
26:52
Speaker 1: today's standards, it was a little extreme, but that's that's
26:56
Speaker 1: my old guy thing.
26:57
Speaker 2: It's like that wasn't that bad a point?
27:00
Speaker 3: You gotta be you got me messed up, though, if
27:02
Speaker 3: you don't think telling you got.
27:03
Speaker 2: To be kidding me. That's automatic double play. What are
27:05
Speaker 2: we doing here?
27:06
Speaker 1: He cut a cleat and I think he ripped Hamilton's pants, Yes.
27:10
Speaker 2: But send those of the Brewers Hall of Fame.
27:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was like you know, in the in
27:14
Speaker 1: the standards, it's like, yeah, okay, by today's standards as bad.
27:17
Speaker 1: But like I said, when I was growing up, they
27:20
Speaker 1: used to it was, uh, you know, there was more
27:22
Speaker 1: contact around second base than there is with defensive linemen
27:26
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks these days.
27:27
Speaker 2: Well, and that's the part I miss it at home
27:29
Speaker 2: plate a lot. Now.
27:31
Speaker 3: We saw the Yellis play where he has the skillful
27:33
Speaker 3: slide in later into the game to plate the run
27:36
Speaker 3: up underneath the tag of the pitcher.
27:39
Speaker 2: Back in the day, I remember you run right through
27:40
Speaker 2: that side of the gun.
27:41
Speaker 3: And I remember Mike Metheenie almost geving his career ended
27:44
Speaker 3: by Prince Fielder doing the exact same thing. So the
27:46
Speaker 3: second base used to be a war zone? Is was
27:49
Speaker 3: it Chase Utley maybe in the playoffs that got hit
27:52
Speaker 3: and that was kind of the one that Chase did.
27:54
Speaker 3: The hitting on Miguel Tahata. Okay, I knew was a
27:57
Speaker 3: part of it and snap something. So that was a
28:00
Speaker 3: I get it. I understand that that was you can't
28:04
Speaker 3: do it again. I didn't think it was that bad.
28:06
Speaker 3: So you wouldn't constitute that as quote taking somebody out.
28:09
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the modern version. But yeah, it's like.
28:12
Speaker 3: Because Wilson Contreras did say after the game he would
28:15
Speaker 3: take somebody. They do it again, they're gonna take I'm
28:17
Speaker 3: gonna take somebody out.
28:18
Speaker 2: So not just so hit my pitch.
28:20
Speaker 5: It's the twenty fourth time, but they hit me in
28:22
Speaker 5: my career, twenty fourth and that is the sixth time
28:25
Speaker 5: they hit me, and they always say I'm not trying
28:27
Speaker 5: to hit you. That get all. So next time they
28:30
Speaker 5: hit me again, I'm gonna take one of them out.
28:33
Speaker 5: That's what happened. That's a message. That's a message.
28:35
Speaker 1: That's the message. That's the message. That's a message. Okay,
28:38
Speaker 1: So what's up miss Well? Yeah, MS gets to throw
28:42
Speaker 1: the first pitch tonight to Wilson Contrera's yikes.
28:45
Speaker 2: Out of the guys, they can do it.
28:46
Speaker 3: I think the one hundred and three mile an hour
28:48
Speaker 3: heater would be Yeah, I would do it justice, but
28:51
Speaker 3: I don't know that we can have miss be the
28:53
Speaker 3: one standing.
28:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wilson and Willie Bowers coming quickly. You know, Wilson
28:57
Speaker 1: and William two different people much. You know, they're obviously brothers.
29:02
Speaker 1: Blood runs thick well and but I you know, if Wilson,
29:06
Speaker 1: it's like he hasn't been there long with do the
29:08
Speaker 1: Red Sox pitchers want to cape up for him and
29:10
Speaker 1: drill somebody when they're.
29:11
Speaker 2: Two and eight and looking for a footholder.
29:14
Speaker 3: Well, and I was wondering that, like who takes the
29:16
Speaker 3: because obviously their guy will take them out first? And
29:19
Speaker 3: would William wear one into the back if they were
29:22
Speaker 3: about it and did care about will Wilson Contreras?
29:25
Speaker 2: Uh like that.
29:26
Speaker 1: I will make my uh my grizzled sports guy prediction
29:31
Speaker 1: right now, nothing happens tonight, and like who knows is uh?
29:36
Speaker 2: Is Wednesday a day game and get away game? Wednesday's
29:38
Speaker 2: a day game Wednesday game in the day.
29:39
Speaker 1: Well, then Contreras might not play Wednesday because if like
29:42
Speaker 1: anything lasting that's gonna happen, is gonna happen Wednesday, because
29:45
Speaker 1: it's the last game.
29:46
Speaker 2: I say tonight, we won't see any fireworks.
29:49
Speaker 1: The other part to you tune in expecting fireworks in baseball,
29:52
Speaker 1: you're always disappointed.
29:54
Speaker 2: Okay, Well then, uh, then Sonny Gray, he doesn't like
29:56
Speaker 2: the Brewers. He's got his own problems against the crew.
29:59
Speaker 2: Uh for for.
29:59
Speaker 3: A long time. That would be Wednesday, twelve thirty five,
30:02
Speaker 3: and both teams get an off day, so both team
30:03
Speaker 3: would get a nice dub to relate some the next day.
30:06
Speaker 1: I remember when your Momota hit Prince Fielder and Dodger Stadium.
30:10
Speaker 1: I was doing awesome fan dual sports post pre and
30:15
Speaker 1: post game. They threw me that one because they knew
30:17
Speaker 1: no one was watching because it was so late in
30:19
Speaker 1: the evening.
30:21
Speaker 2: I think I was with Craig Kashan.
30:24
Speaker 1: Then I was doing the Brewers Live thing in the
30:26
Speaker 1: studio and that game happened and Prince tried to.
30:30
Speaker 2: Go into the club. Yeah, there was there's a Dodger
30:33
Speaker 2: Stadium at the time.
30:34
Speaker 1: I don't know if they've remodeled it since, but there
30:35
Speaker 1: was like this lobby and the clubhouses were like in
30:38
Speaker 1: the same lobby, and so you and Prince tried to
30:41
Speaker 1: leave their clubhouse and go the Brewis Clubhouse and get
30:44
Speaker 1: into the Dodgers' clubhouse, which was right across the hallway.
30:46
Speaker 1: So I was describing what we were hearing, and it
30:49
Speaker 1: was this. We did the whole show about this, this episode.
30:53
Speaker 1: And then at the end of the show, like, all right,
30:54
Speaker 1: we got thirty seconds left, Drew, what do you think
30:56
Speaker 1: is gonna happen to morow night? I'm like, nothing, They're
30:57
Speaker 1: gonna play baseball. They're gonna play baseball, and nothing my experience.
31:00
Speaker 1: So and the next day nothing happened, right. You You
31:04
Speaker 1: go in expecting this blood lust and it just you
31:06
Speaker 1: get disappointed.
31:07
Speaker 3: Well, and I would I I I can't say that,
31:11
Speaker 3: I'm not that I would want this to go down,
31:15
Speaker 3: but if there would be fireworks, I would appreciate that
31:18
Speaker 3: Wilson Contreras is the centerpiece of it.
31:21
Speaker 2: Just it would feel right. That was the was the case.
31:24
Speaker 1: When You're gonna get juice on an April sixth, on
31:27
Speaker 1: a cold Monday night, was like, hey, why not have
31:29
Speaker 1: some little spice.
31:30
Speaker 3: They'll sell it up a little little sidebar action. I
31:33
Speaker 3: think we signed Seth McClung to a one day contract.
31:35
Speaker 3: There you go, see if he could come in and
31:37
Speaker 3: clung like a horse, brewis fan t shirts, McClung like
31:40
Speaker 3: a horse, get Derek Turnbow back in. Yeah, McClung would go.
31:45
Speaker 3: He was the guy right like, I think would be
31:47
Speaker 3: a good one he hit. If he could hit Pooh holes,
31:49
Speaker 3: he's gonna hit Wilson Contreras. Oh well that was the
31:51
Speaker 3: night that and was that the knight that Larusa called
31:53
Speaker 3: all the fans idiots?
31:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was the same night those nights, Yeah,
31:57
Speaker 2: oh my gosh.
31:58
Speaker 3: Yeah. See McClung would be right near the top of
31:59
Speaker 3: the list of guys to bring back Derek Turnboat. Was
32:02
Speaker 3: he a scrapper? Would the real hair on the bobblehead
32:05
Speaker 3: be able to he was? Okay, I thought, Colb, Yeah,
32:10
Speaker 3: we're talking about a stout son of a gun that
32:12
Speaker 3: would there.
32:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, very stout as well.
32:18
Speaker 1: You buzzed the tower a little bit. It was funny though.
32:21
Speaker 1: I do remember there was one of those games, and
32:23
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was the McClung game or not.
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Speaker 1: But I had heard from my my well placed sources
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Speaker 1: in the dugout like Prince Fielder got hit against the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals and he came back and he was pissed, like
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Speaker 1: they hit him. What happened was it was the typical
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Speaker 1: LaRussa I for an. I think Brewers hit somebody in
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Speaker 1: the spike with a slider that was, you know, did
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Speaker 1: it hit the dirt that it barely touched him. They
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Speaker 1: get an HVP by the foot and then they hit
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Speaker 1: Prince like up in the shoulder, and Prince was livid
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Speaker 1: and he get back to the dugout as he was
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Speaker 1: retired on a force out or something, and ned Yost said,
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Speaker 1: don't worry, Prince, We're going to hit the first guy.
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Speaker 2: And Prince's response was, f that hit pooholes or don't
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Speaker 2: hit anybody? Love that.
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Speaker 1: So they had to wait for Albert's turn to come
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Speaker 1: around and that's when they hit him.
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Speaker 2: And so that I think it was. That might have
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Speaker 2: been the mcclen game.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Prince's thing was like, I appreciate the the urgency,
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Speaker 1: but he's like, don't hit the eight hitter, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: hit hit their main were the guy that Matt hit
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Speaker 1: their main guy.
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Speaker 3: Because they just drilled me, so I love that well.
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Speaker 3: And listen they hit your contrarast, we we're gonna hit yours.
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Speaker 3: Or maybe it's maybe it is Jake Bowards, maybe he's
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Speaker 3: the one that has to wear a hair in the corner.
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Speaker 3: Or I would Gary Sanchez would be in the lineup
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Speaker 3: if you think something was gonna go down, though, like
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Speaker 3: out of the individuals that I do think we would
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Speaker 3: want out there, he would absolutely have to be standing
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Speaker 3: over at first base, be one of the first in
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Speaker 3: the actions. Because miss Rowski, I've said it a couple
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Speaker 3: of times, he feels like the their buddy, the elf
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Speaker 3: that you would walk around with and like nobody messes
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Speaker 3: with Jacob Okays his commercial steamer down the streets of Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: The nice kid.
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Speaker 3: And Dave did say, you know, maybe maybe mis would
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Speaker 3: have some Pokemon that that he would have backing him up.
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Speaker 3: As like Nolan Ryan was standing there waiting to scrap.
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Speaker 3: All I could see is Miserowski all this just slide
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Speaker 3: the arm and just the deck of Pokemon cards comes out.
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Speaker 3: He starts throwing charz hards out.
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Speaker 2: Come on.
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Speaker 1: I got the energy for it, very well played eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven.
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Speaker 2: Three.
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Speaker 1: Dolph joins us at six thirty, We'll continue to take
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Speaker 1: your thoughts. NCAA championship game. We're got buying or selling.
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Speaker 1: After six it's the huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: All the emotion.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we's done a great jobs. He's pitched for a
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Speaker 6: really long time. I mean we've seen that skit for
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Speaker 6: the last ten years. It's nothing new, not surprising.
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Speaker 2: Just just keep it rolling.
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Speaker 6: You know, you got a game to win, and you know,
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Speaker 6: lock the boys in, rally the troops. We know we
34:50
Speaker 6: had six innings left to play with there at that time,
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Speaker 6: and we responded with four right there.
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Speaker 1: And Christian Yelich bringing us back on the huddle, Fox
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Wisconsin, nine to twenty, Milwaukee, ten seventy Madison, Drew, Billy,
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Speaker 1: Dave gasper in for arm and sorry and Yelich. We've
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Speaker 1: seen this skit before for ten years. Ten years now,
35:09
Speaker 1: we've seen this skit.
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Speaker 2: It's not so new.
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Speaker 1: On social you can look and find a montage of
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Speaker 1: all of Brandon Woodruff's hbps against Wilson Contreras, and they vary.
35:18
Speaker 1: Sometimes it looks like one of them was a check
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Speaker 1: swing and beg for it. Yeah, the umpire say it
35:23
Speaker 1: hit his hand. And when Wilson Contreras takes pitches, he well,
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Speaker 1: he leans out over the dish, but he he'll take them.
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Speaker 1: And you know how your coach to look the ball
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Speaker 1: into the catcher's glove when you're pitch and stuff. But
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Speaker 1: he would like throw his arms and stuff towards the
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Speaker 1: plate and it almost looked like in an.
35:39
Speaker 2: Attempt to catch an HBP.
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Speaker 1: She's a savvy veteran move, right, But he's played almost
35:45
Speaker 1: a full season now hit Getting hit twenty four times
35:47
Speaker 1: in a season would be a lot, but like one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one games against the Brewers or something
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Speaker 1: like that, he's been hit twenty four times.
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Speaker 3: But he also again finds himself in the midst of
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Speaker 3: it because drew of how he takes pitches, no doubt
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Speaker 3: about it, how he stayed the plate, and also he
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Speaker 3: is he has made a he's made a really really
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Speaker 3: good career at being an agitator.
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Speaker 2: And I think Wood he.
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Speaker 3: Talked about it as well later into the night in
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Speaker 3: his postame. He's like, I know what he's trying to do.
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Speaker 3: He's trying to fire up his guys. He's always done that.
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Speaker 3: He's always been very, very good at being able to
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Speaker 3: get energy stirred up in the stadium. You know, when
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Speaker 3: there's a Wilson Contreras game and it's going to involve
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Speaker 3: the Brewers, because there's gonna be some tempers rolling. But
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Speaker 3: it also I just I love the interaction that he
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Speaker 3: seemingly has every time, not with Brandon Woodruff, but with
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Speaker 3: Pat Murphy. Because everybody was saying that he was yelling
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Speaker 3: at Woody, I thought he was yelling at Murph, especially
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Speaker 3: as the interaction is going down, where the umpires standing
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Speaker 3: in between him and Alex Korra comes out to calm
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Speaker 3: him down.
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Speaker 2: They're yelling at somebody.
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Speaker 3: I thought he was yelling at Murph, who was still
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Speaker 3: talking to the second base umpire about the slide, because
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Speaker 3: there's a clear disdain for.
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Speaker 4: Those two guys. Oh yeah, yeah for sure. And then
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Speaker 4: he was also yelling. I'm not sure if it was
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Speaker 4: at Bowers or who, but he was like who the
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Speaker 4: f for?
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Speaker 2: You?
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Speaker 4: You know, just it's like, who the f even are you?
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Speaker 4: Like like you didn't just trying to say like, oh,
37:11
Speaker 4: I don't know who your name is, You're not important enough.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if that was at Bowers or what,
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Speaker 4: but yeah, it.
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Speaker 3: Was just just more John definitely can't be Woody because
37:22
Speaker 3: Wood's kate him up way too many times.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah, Yeah, red Sex delicious moment. Red Sox are
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Speaker 1: two and eight, worst record type for the worst record
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Speaker 1: of ball, their worst start ever.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful thing, and the fans.
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Speaker 1: There sell out basically sell our crowd on a Monday,
37:37
Speaker 1: go from let's go socks to sell the team. Asked
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Speaker 1: about it after the game, manager Alex Corus said, that's
37:43
Speaker 1: why we love it here. Their expectations are right up
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Speaker 1: there with us right now. We deserve whatever they're thinking.
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Speaker 1: We're not playing good baseball.
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Speaker 3: Well, listen, that's the that's the right way of saying it.
37:56
Speaker 3: That's the right way to that's the right way to
37:57
Speaker 3: take pain. And we wish we were playing better. But
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Speaker 3: I did like the Janny and Appleton picked that up too.
38:05
Speaker 3: She because I was absolutely rolling last night listening to
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Speaker 3: these Boston fans on their heads, let's go Red Sox
38:10
Speaker 3: when they're behind it sell the team. Yeah, they might
38:12
Speaker 3: have a great fan base, but talk about up and
38:14
Speaker 3: down go. Brewers also said she didn't think that it
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Speaker 3: hit Wilson, but if I was William Wilson would be
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Speaker 3: an embarrassment to me.
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Speaker 2: Our friend Janny r in Appleton.
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Speaker 1: So Rome and Anthony, who was a darling in the
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Speaker 1: world baseball fan stuff and a really good player, had
38:29
Speaker 1: a terrible throw in the eighth inning that Red Sox
38:31
Speaker 1: fans are obsessing about. And then it was one of
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Speaker 1: those deals where you don't have to rip the guy.
38:38
Speaker 1: That's why as a reporter, you walk in, Hey, what
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Speaker 1: happened that throw? It's a terrible throw. It's terrible, bad baseball.
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Speaker 2: It's on me. I suck. That was horrible. It's got
38:46
Speaker 2: I gotta be better.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't even competitive And like, okay, well, if you're
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Speaker 1: a writer a commist, get how do you rip a
38:52
Speaker 1: guy when he ripped himself?
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Speaker 3: Like just quote him and say it was terrible, this
38:56
Speaker 3: is this is how he described it. Yeah, we understand.
38:58
Speaker 3: He also understands it was fair one on.
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Speaker 1: For pro athletes who underperforming, just own it and say it.
39:04
Speaker 2: And then that the.
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Speaker 1: Uh, the grace that you receive from fans when you
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Speaker 1: criticize yourself. Now, Matt Lafleur will say it's on me.
39:13
Speaker 1: It starts with me, and people get pissed, but you
39:17
Speaker 1: got it'll run thin. But you only have so many
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Speaker 1: chances to say that as a player, and he's generally
39:21
Speaker 1: he's a pretty good player, and he's not going to
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Speaker 1: be that awful. But when you do, you know, own
39:27
Speaker 1: your mistakes. One of my favorite players to cover was
39:29
Speaker 1: Brewer's closer Mike Fetters. Let's throw and some owen and
39:32
Speaker 1: when he blew a save, they'd open the clubhouse door
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Speaker 1: and he'd be standing waiting for us.
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Speaker 2: What do you got? I sucked? I lost the game.
39:39
Speaker 2: I sucked.
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Speaker 1: I felt like I had my shoes on the wrong feet.
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Speaker 1: I'll go get him tomorrow. I'm gonna shove it up
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Speaker 1: their bleep mm hmm. Anything else, all right, you guys
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Speaker 1: have a good night yep. And I was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: well clean your sweat. That's the way to do it.
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Speaker 1: You don't hide, you know, make excuses, you just own it.
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Speaker 2: As on me, I sucked.
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Speaker 3: I think that was one of my favorite things about
39:56
Speaker 3: doing the show with Leroy because he would talk about
39:58
Speaker 3: it with Lee. Remmel was the one that he had
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Speaker 3: said was the first to say. He's like, hey, the
40:04
Speaker 3: easiest way to get out of this conversation is to
40:06
Speaker 3: be honest, and you don't have to rush out of
40:07
Speaker 3: the conversation. But the more honest and upfront you are,
40:11
Speaker 3: the shorter the conversation because you're giving the answer that
40:14
Speaker 3: everybody expects and everybody wants, because nobody wants to be
40:18
Speaker 3: throwing the ball fifty feet up the line, which I
40:20
Speaker 3: thought was maybe a little dramatic when I heard the
40:23
Speaker 3: Red Sox announcers say, you missed that throw by like
40:26
Speaker 3: fifty feet. Well, yeah, you know, you start doing the mathematics.
40:29
Speaker 3: It is probably about halfway up the line. It's pretty
40:31
Speaker 3: dang close. But he y eats it to the backstop.
40:34
Speaker 3: Hell of a play and way to compound it though,
40:37
Speaker 3: total Brewer, you make one mistake, they're gonna make you
40:40
Speaker 3: pay for it with interest. And that was a hell
40:43
Speaker 3: of a decision by Yelich to be able to understand
40:45
Speaker 3: that he was gonna be able to sneak in.
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Speaker 1: There with interest for sure. Eight seven, seven, seven, nine
40:50
Speaker 1: four one ninety seven to three. Interesting that Celtics are,
40:54
Speaker 1: I mean Celtics, the Red Sox are off to such
40:55
Speaker 1: a bad start, the two and eight. They could still
40:57
Speaker 1: win the World Series this year and people are chanting
40:59
Speaker 1: sell the team him. Yeah, they're ready to get Henry.
41:03
Speaker 1: The Bucks fans. On the other hand, this kind is
41:05
Speaker 1: waiting to see what'll happen. Interesting dichotomy.
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Speaker 3: There a great piece by Laurie Nicol yesterday, Off and
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Speaker 3: Running the Huddle m