Transcript

01/21/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the hut. I'm all
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Speaker 1: for someone huddling.
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Speaker 2: If you have something to say.
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Speaker 1: Rights into the street. It's time to wake up and
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Speaker 1: talk about the teams you love. Nobody nobody work with
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Speaker 1: the guys you love. It's just about hitting the group together.
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Speaker 1: I need you, you need me today, Let's keep touching
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Speaker 1: each other. Let's make sure we feel each other. Let's
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Speaker 1: make sure we smell each other for a watch us
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Speaker 1: on youte.
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Speaker 2: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to core away with
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Speaker 2: a number of cameras. Take the cameras off the field
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Speaker 2: and there's been no huddle.
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Speaker 1: Now gather around because it's time to huddle up. What's
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Speaker 1: left lot? We watch stick on one ready to be learning?
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Speaker 2: Well, if it looks like man cover, I'll check.
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Speaker 3: I'll go order get you got cut and prack now
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Speaker 3: I'm cutting, crack, run right eighteen Bob on.
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Speaker 1: One ready cut up. You look at this play. What
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Speaker 1: we're trying to get.
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Speaker 4: Is a seal here and a seal here, and try
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Speaker 4: to run this play in the alley.
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Speaker 5: Let's go.
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Speaker 3: God yeah, and they can play be right all the
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Speaker 3: way outside?
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Speaker 1: Why left banks three ninety thick bag be hen t buck.
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Speaker 1: Is that long enough for you?
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Speaker 5: It?
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Speaker 1: Drew Olds, mythical legendary figure Bill Schmidt.
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Speaker 2: God, this man's been out all night and armand.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, don't get skinned, says we ready. Welcome to the Huddle.
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Speaker 6: God Threw Wilson, Bill Smith, armand sorry and bringing it
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Speaker 6: to you from headquarters on this Wednesday and the good
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Speaker 6: Land Hot Take Humpday. We're gonna have some hot takes
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Speaker 6: for you in just a second. Eight seven seven, seven
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Speaker 6: ninety four one ninety seven three to the Nicolay Lott,
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Speaker 6: law last evening. He lives in Kentucky, probably headed back
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Speaker 6: to the good Land soon, but he was She's like, yeah,
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to show you how to get that
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Speaker 6: app so you can listen to Drew show.
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Speaker 2: It's like he doesn't have the app yet. I've been
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Speaker 2: working here for like eight or nine years.
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Speaker 4: Man, you know technology, and one of these points, it's
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Speaker 4: gonna work. One of these points. It's gonna work.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the VCR still blanks twelve at their house too.
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Speaker 2: I think, well.
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Speaker 3: Reference it is one of those tough deals where you
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Speaker 3: where you try to say no, it's it's actually the
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Speaker 3: exact same app, the exact same All you gotta do
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Speaker 3: is look up a different one. You can make it
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Speaker 3: way easier because you can just hit that preset. You
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Speaker 3: can find it right there at the front of the
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Speaker 3: app every single.
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Speaker 6: Day, and you can get podcasts there and all kinds
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Speaker 6: of good stuff.
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Speaker 3: And we're gonna figure out the encryption issue that we
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Speaker 3: potentially did on YouTube yesterday with the video component.
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Speaker 2: That's gonna get completely ironed now. Yeah we got we
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Speaker 2: got an abb do on that one for a little Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna so we're gonna figure that out.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna be We're gonna be smooth the ring. This
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Speaker 4: is a soft launch. We're like, this is hour two
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Speaker 4: of show too.
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Speaker 3: Actually, if I can be honest, I think we should
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Speaker 3: try to get more flagged. I think we should get
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Speaker 3: flagged more. This isn't This isn't us trying to show
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Speaker 3: off that we're one of the least penalized teams in football.
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Speaker 3: This is us making a little name for it. This
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Speaker 3: would be like when Parton might take out the cease
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Speaker 3: and desist.
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Speaker 4: You want to get you know, that's what it takes
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Speaker 4: for all about you want to get bookmarked, you know,
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Speaker 4: you want to get you want to get tagged a
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Speaker 4: little bit, get tagged.
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Speaker 2: You know, it could be worse, could be a lot worse.
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Speaker 3: Worse, So that's fine with me. I mean, what's tagging
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Speaker 3: Armin on the YouTube? But who's in charge of the
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Speaker 3: music on this show? You guysome tunes every day?
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Speaker 2: You guys notice I had to keep that coming up
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Speaker 2: for a while. I was surprised that one. That one
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Speaker 2: popped up.
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Speaker 4: And if any really quick though, I just want to
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Speaker 4: do a little housekeeping. If people were looking for the
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Speaker 4: show on YouTube yesterday and couldn't find it because of
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Speaker 4: that little snapfoo, you still can't find it on Twitter
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Speaker 4: and Facebook, yes, so the video of the show does
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Speaker 4: exist and you can go watch it and watch and
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Speaker 4: you can watch us every day on Twitter, Facebook for
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Speaker 4: I think I think we're getting like six more days
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Speaker 4: and we have to smooth things over the Zuckerberg again,
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Speaker 4: you know, one of those deals. And then on YouTube,
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Speaker 4: where we have upwards four hundred already checking in with
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Speaker 4: us in Rising. So thanks to everybody on the video stream.
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Speaker 4: Of course you can hear us on both of the
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Speaker 4: over the air signals that were in Madison and Milwaukee.
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Speaker 4: And of course, like you guys said, all over the
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Speaker 4: iHeartRadio app all the time, and it's free and it's
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Speaker 4: for you and we're here for you. And it also
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Speaker 4: is a great way to be able to interact with
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Speaker 4: more and more hot takes that are gonna be humped
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Speaker 4: all over the sho I liked. And speaking of hot takes,
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Speaker 4: Dan and west Ben said he's gonna be at the
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Speaker 4: YMCA today by the megaplex, the one right up here,
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Speaker 4: but he doesn't go to work out. He just goes
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Speaker 4: to sit in the hot tub. Now I gotta say, now,
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Speaker 4: you Billy, you know this too, because you took young
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Speaker 4: Carson the swimming lessons every now and then we were
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Speaker 4: in that pool. I took Lena as well to the
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Speaker 4: swimming lessons, and that's on. There are a lot of
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Speaker 4: dudes that go there to either sit in the hot
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Speaker 4: tub or just hang out like they just worked out.
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Speaker 4: Like I don't think you've actually worked out. You're doing
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Speaker 4: your post workout.
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Speaker 2: That is called the executive. For the executive workout, you'll get.
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Speaker 4: A steam, right, steam, Shauna steam hot tub, that's the executive. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's right there. You know. So that is a good trend.
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Speaker 6: And you haven't lived until you do the rat pack
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Speaker 6: thing that like Matt Veskerzon and KB and I would
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Speaker 6: do in Vegas, like you gotta go get the steam,
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Speaker 6: We gotta go get the Yes, you definitely. We're not
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Speaker 6: working out there. We're just sweating out last night making.
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Speaker 3: Room, keep trying to figure out if we freshen ourselves
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Speaker 3: up enough to be able to go and play soon
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Speaker 3: here today exactly.
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Speaker 6: All right, So big day for baseball yesterday, the day
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Speaker 6: after the National Championship, there was kind of this lull
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Speaker 6: and Baseball announced the Baseball Hall of Fame announced it's
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Speaker 6: two new inductees coming in this summer, Carlos Beltron and
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Speaker 6: Andrew Jones.
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Speaker 2: What do you guys think about that?
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Speaker 3: Well, Andrew Jones, I thought, I'll be honest, I thought
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Speaker 3: he already was a Hall of Famer, Like I guess,
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Speaker 3: I thought he already should have been one, and was
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Speaker 3: not surprised that he did the Carlos Peltron deal. He
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Speaker 3: was one of the best players in my early sports
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Speaker 3: watching life, right, Like I remember him just mashing bombs
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Speaker 3: throughout the early two thousands when he moved over from
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Speaker 3: the Royals to the Mets uniform. The interesting part of
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Speaker 3: it for me, Drew, and I guess this is maybe
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Speaker 3: we read too much into it, Maybe I think too
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Speaker 3: much about it. I didn't know if the Houston deal
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Speaker 3: was going to stick to him.
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Speaker 6: Potentially I was gonna say, like, he might have made
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Speaker 6: it sooner, but people could hear the echo of the
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Speaker 6: garbage cans clattering, which he.
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Speaker 2: Was potentially and reportedly the ringleader of.
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Speaker 3: So that was a surprise to me for an outfit
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Speaker 3: and a you know, voting committee that has been so
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Speaker 3: against some of the best players that I ever watched
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Speaker 3: play the game because of what we deemed was cheating
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Speaker 3: and unfair, And that was interesting.
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Speaker 6: So you're right about that. With Carls Beltron, that was
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Speaker 6: kind of a stain there. Beltron and Andrew Jones were
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Speaker 6: born within one day of each other in nineteen seventy seven.
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Speaker 6: That's amazing factor. Yeah, yeah, one in Puerto Rico and
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Speaker 6: one in Curisou. So they get in and so it's
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Speaker 6: two center fielders rolling into the Hall of Fame. And
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Speaker 6: Andrew Jones the Defensive Metrics Show, he's like one of
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Speaker 6: the greatest fielders of all.
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Speaker 4: Time, one of the greats. There's not an all time
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Speaker 4: great really good teams.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's like, so, I know a lot of
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Speaker 6: people will tell me and I haven't full disclosure.
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Speaker 2: I am a voter, and I voted in this election.
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Speaker 6: I was one of the four hundred and thirty five,
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Speaker 6: four hundred and twenty five ballots eleven return blank, which
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Speaker 6: is a vote for nobody. Now, it means that no
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Speaker 6: one can be unanimous if you turn in a blank ballot, right, And.
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Speaker 4: They're doing that to make a statement. Is that the idea?
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they just didn't want to, didn't think anybody was there.
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Speaker 2: They forget that it was their year. But as Beltrom
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Speaker 2: they sent it back bel Tron. Well, here's the thing.
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Speaker 6: Beltron was in his fourth year in the ballot, and
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Speaker 6: Andrew Jones was on his ninth year. People are like, well,
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Speaker 6: why does it take so long? And you look at
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Speaker 6: guys on the ascend right now, Felix Hernandez got in
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Speaker 6: his first year of eligibility. I was twenty percent. He
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Speaker 6: made the jump to forty six percent. He's on path
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Speaker 6: to it within a year or two getting in. It's
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Speaker 6: just how I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Why that is.
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Speaker 6: It's like people basually they are all of fame or not.
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Speaker 6: What's he done in the year since he's been on
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Speaker 6: the ballot. Well, guys, your tastes evolve, your perspective evolves,
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Speaker 6: and you just take a look at different guys, and
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Speaker 6: you can vote no on a guy one year, or
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Speaker 6: if you're limited to ten spots, a guy doesn't crack
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Speaker 6: your belt one year, then there's a spot for him
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Speaker 6: the next year.
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Speaker 2: It evolves. It's a process.
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Speaker 4: And I think you can be convinced over time to
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Speaker 4: reconsider your position based on different arguments, different discussions. I
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Speaker 4: think people don't acknowledge that enough. Like you know, you
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Speaker 4: come out with a take and Billy knows. We make
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Speaker 4: the joke all the time. I put the drawbridge up.
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Speaker 4: I like the gatekeep sometimes on Hall of Famers, and
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Speaker 4: especially in the baseball especially although these guys are both deserving,
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Speaker 4: both guys. I thought, I thought Andre Jones should have
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Speaker 4: been there a lot earlier. I was surprised he wasn't.
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Speaker 4: And you're talking also about a guy in Beltron. You're
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Speaker 4: talking about guys that have the peak war of the
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Speaker 4: seven year peak War and the forties his seventy war career. Guys,
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Speaker 4: both deserving guys. Now I know there are more things
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Speaker 4: than war. I thought maybe Beltron never won MVP, and
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Speaker 4: I don't know if Andrew Jones did, but never like
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Speaker 4: in the run, so I thought that might sometimes the
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Speaker 4: closest Jones game. So that's at least top three. Some
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Speaker 4: people use that as a big metric. It's like, well,
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Speaker 4: how did you ever dominate the league at the time,
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Speaker 4: But you know you can still dominate it, be a
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Speaker 4: dominant player without winning the MVP, but you can be
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Speaker 4: reconsidered to your position.
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Speaker 2: Joe Mauer is a great example for me.
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Speaker 4: Right right away, I recoiled and with disgust, I rebuked
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Speaker 4: the idea with extreme prejudice that Joe Mauers should be
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Speaker 4: a first ballary P. Then I look deeper on it.
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Speaker 4: I looked about the threshold for catchers in the air is.
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Speaker 3: One of the great North American athletes numbers me a couple.
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Speaker 4: I realized the air of my ways thanks to some
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Speaker 4: sound arguments that helped me reconsider my position. I think
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Speaker 4: some people don't realize that that can happen in sports.
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Speaker 4: You can be reconsidered, you can be convinced to reconsider
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Speaker 4: your position, you can change your mind, you can evolve
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Speaker 4: your thoughts in some ways. Well, like we're going to
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Speaker 4: we're trying to talk about hot takes. That doesn't necessarily
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Speaker 4: mean you have to have that take forever. It will
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Speaker 4: always come true. It's just sometimes in the moment you
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Speaker 4: make a prediction, Billy, go ahead, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, and and and I I agree that and and
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Speaker 2: that part of it.
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Speaker 3: I applaud those who who do and can and will
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Speaker 3: reconsider the belief and reconsider the candidacy and think, like
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Speaker 3: one year it's a little bit different than the other,
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Speaker 3: or I was presented more information and heard it differently.
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Speaker 3: But I think so many of these times, and and
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Speaker 3: I struggle with it, drew because and and again it
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Speaker 3: is all to me.
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Speaker 2: It's it's all still a museum at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day.
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Speaker 3: And yes, for somebody that grew up watching some of
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Speaker 3: the titans of the sport in my era, all of
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Speaker 3: which are are basically barred. Uh, it is a it
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Speaker 3: is a weird spot to see the guardrails go up
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Speaker 3: for some and then not for the other. And when
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Speaker 3: there's like years and years where you don't induct somebody.
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Speaker 3: I look at the NFL and I'm like, well, there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of guys beaten down the hatchets to get
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Speaker 3: in there. They put five in a year, they put
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Speaker 3: five in a year, and there's many guys that are
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Speaker 3: very much deserving and continually wait. But at some point
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Speaker 3: somebody's going in. And that's where I've always wondered. On
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Speaker 3: the years where we go like five or six years
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Speaker 3: and there's like nobody into the Hall of Fame, what
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Speaker 3: do we do celebrate, go and hang out and tell stories.
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Speaker 2: We've had a.
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Speaker 6: Couple of empty classes, but for the most part, guys
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Speaker 6: you know have you know, have been going in. So
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Speaker 6: Beltron and Jones going the two center fields. And then
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Speaker 6: there's the Veterans Committee guys too because they can let
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Speaker 6: guys in, and that's kind of adds to the dais right.
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Speaker 6: But to your point, Billy, there's there's guys. I was
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Speaker 6: shocked that Ryan Bron got fifteen votes floored. Yeah, not
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Speaker 6: because of the g and not because the independent of that.
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Speaker 6: Take the take the ped stuff, take that aside.
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Speaker 2: He was not. He didn't meet the standard.
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Speaker 6: He didn't have the counting numbers and just didn't have
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Speaker 6: the prolonged excellence. Now two things are true, Ryan Braun
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Speaker 6: is one of the best players in Brewers franchise history.
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Speaker 2: And Ryan Braun is not a Hall of Famer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, now, I was that a really good peak like
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Speaker 4: he had the two years one was MP one did.
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Speaker 4: But the thing was you had to be able to
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Speaker 4: sustain it for a long time longevity. Unfortunately, the andeorgy
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Speaker 4: is caught up. And of course the Clodover's head was
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Speaker 4: the p's that was it.
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Speaker 6: But to Billy's point, like the fact that and again
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Speaker 6: my position on this for those who've never heard, I
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Speaker 6: vote for Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez, and I voted
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Speaker 6: for Clements and Bonds every time because they were the
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Speaker 6: best of an era. To Billy's point, it's a museum,
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Speaker 6: it's not heaven like did they cheat in an era?
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Speaker 1: Totally?
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Speaker 6: But Barry Bonds has the home run record, he's not
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Speaker 6: in the Hall of Fame. Isn't that kind of a travesty?
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Speaker 6: And did he hit a lot of home runs off
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Speaker 6: guys who also were on steroids or playing games when
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Speaker 6: the other teams left fielder was on steroids. Yes he did,
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Speaker 6: and therefore I vote for those guys because years ago,
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Speaker 6: when this all was bubbling and we got to like
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Speaker 6: the early two thousands, I had a conversation with my
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Speaker 6: pal Buster Only, who was I met when he was
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Speaker 6: covering the Orioles for the Baltimore Sun.
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Speaker 2: Then he went to New York Times covered the Yankees.
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Speaker 6: New York Times had a policy where it's writers were
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Speaker 6: not allowed to vote in the election. They banned their
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Speaker 6: writers from voting because they didn't want them compromised in
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Speaker 6: any way, or they didn't feel like it was thickly is.
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Speaker 2: Sound thing to do. So he was not allowed.
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Speaker 6: But Buster and I talked about it, and he said,
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Speaker 6: when it comes to this stuff with steroids, either vote
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Speaker 6: for them all or you vote for nobody, because we
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Speaker 6: don't know who did what. And the guys that I
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Speaker 6: use as examples are Tony Gwynn and Greg Maddox. You
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Speaker 6: look at their bodies and look at they were just
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Speaker 6: great baseball players. Look at their bodies and stuff. I
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Speaker 6: would bet everything that all of us own and that
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Speaker 6: all of our children would own, that those guys did
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Speaker 6: not use steroids. But I don't know one hundred percent.
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Speaker 6: And the old saw was I would rather let you know,
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Speaker 6: I would rather let a cheater in than keeping an
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Speaker 6: honest guy out and all that stuff like you can't separate.
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Speaker 6: You either vote for them all from that era and
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Speaker 6: you just say, hey, it was a tainted eara. You
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Speaker 6: want to put something on the plaque that so that
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Speaker 6: they played in this era, on their cloud of suspicion
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Speaker 6: of peds, or you vote for none of them. Manny
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Speaker 6: Ramirez was one of the best right handed hitters of
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Speaker 6: all time. Yes mount in the Hall of Fame. Alex Rodriguez.
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Speaker 6: The numbers speak for themselves, right he cheat? Is he
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Speaker 6: a bad guy in that front?
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Speaker 5: Is he?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Creepy kind of yeah, But he was also one of
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Speaker 6: the best players of all time. So I vote for
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Speaker 6: those guys, and those guys have not moved. And the
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Speaker 6: thinking was that when young people like Billy guys who
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Speaker 6: grew up with those posters on their wall start voting,
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Speaker 6: that those guys would tick up. And people's APDs. What
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Speaker 6: a quaint notion. Everybody should be on peds, how I
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Speaker 6: go to game day, men's health.
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Speaker 3: Everybody should be on perform sport would be more fun,
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Speaker 3: and well it wasn't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he brought it back.
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Speaker 3: I watched I played Slugfest for a reason and it
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Speaker 3: brought it back and there was no testing and all
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Speaker 3: that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. But that's the thing.
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Speaker 6: But those guys have not moved, and the Veterans Committee
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Speaker 6: passing on bonds and clements like, yeah, they don't want
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Speaker 6: them in. And it's like I've but I've always voted
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Speaker 6: for him. I try to be intellectually consistent. And I
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Speaker 6: did not vote for Ryan bron because not because the PDS,
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Speaker 6: because they didn't think.
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Speaker 3: He was a Hall of Famer. No, he's not a
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Speaker 3: Hall of Famer. And and Rodriguez is.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, climates are, but Pettit's interesting because Pettit had a
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Speaker 4: little dalliance.
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Speaker 2: He did he apologized right away.
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Speaker 6: Which he's at forty eight percent, needs to get to
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Speaker 6: seventy five. He's not on a rocket sled. He's kind
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Speaker 6: of spinning his wheels. That was his eighth year on
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Speaker 6: the ballot. Chase Utley's gonna get in because he's at
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Speaker 6: fifty nine percent. Guys that get to fifty nine to
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Speaker 6: sixty percent, they generally take up enough every year to
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Speaker 6: go in. So Chase Utley's on the clock. I also thought,
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Speaker 6: so is Felix.
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Speaker 3: I also thought hall of famer when I saw Chase Sutley.
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Speaker 3: And as dumb as that sounds, Drew and I know,
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Speaker 3: as maybe you know baseline as that can be, you
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Speaker 3: can tell I always feel like you can somebody makes
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Speaker 3: you feel like they're a Hall of Fame caliber player,
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Speaker 3: right like when Bryce Harper has been playing for the
15:30
Speaker 3: last five six years, you watch him step into the box,
15:33
Speaker 3: I'm like, it was a Hall of Famer.
15:34
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, like there's no shot now.
15:36
Speaker 3: I think an interesting one would be like a Kyle
15:38
Speaker 3: Schwarber for the impact that he's had and dominance here.
15:41
Speaker 3: But Braun No the interesting one for me and the
15:45
Speaker 3: guy that I thought in the midst of an era
15:48
Speaker 3: was one of the more consistent clo UH players in
15:52
Speaker 3: his profession, in his role, I think Krod deserves more
15:55
Speaker 3: of this look than he's getting, especially if you're going
15:58
Speaker 3: to talk about the other guys that are around him
16:00
Speaker 3: have tainted histories. UH is the one that that ends
16:04
Speaker 3: up closing how many of those games flowing through with
16:07
Speaker 3: multiple different.
16:08
Speaker 4: Organization point, Yeah, there are guys that we seem to
16:10
Speaker 4: forget about closer.
16:13
Speaker 3: Closers are kind of like the punters and kickers of
16:15
Speaker 3: the pro football world, Like those guys aren't in right,
16:18
Speaker 3: like one guy Ray guy right yeah, and maybe yeah
16:21
Speaker 3: standar Rood and a couple of kickers, but yeah, it's
16:23
Speaker 3: their underrepresentative.
16:25
Speaker 4: I think it's hard for us sometimes to objectively measure
16:27
Speaker 4: their value because they don't pitch enough, like some people
16:29
Speaker 4: like the war guys and stuff like that problem.
16:31
Speaker 2: But we all know that that absolutely because it was
16:35
Speaker 2: the group.
16:35
Speaker 4: Everyone just agreed he was the best, Hawfins the best,
16:38
Speaker 4: so let them in their first ballot. Sometimes I think
16:40
Speaker 4: there is a group think about people that say Yadi's
16:43
Speaker 4: obviously a Hall of Famer, Like, well, why I don't
16:45
Speaker 4: think he is, But people decide that, and they all
16:47
Speaker 4: decide to get.
16:47
Speaker 3: If Lee Smith is a Hall of Famer, Frankie Rodriguez
16:50
Speaker 3: could be. I totally agree, and Bruce Suter too. Bruce
16:53
Speaker 3: ter is like the split finger guy. But so and
16:56
Speaker 3: the thing is with elections, and we're not political on
16:59
Speaker 3: the show and all, but if we have four hundred
17:02
Speaker 3: and twenty five people vote in an election today, we'll
17:05
Speaker 3: get eleven empty ballots and we'll get ten people to
17:07
Speaker 3: say it's not Wednesday, because it's just the way elections are, right,
17:11
Speaker 3: it's objective.
17:11
Speaker 6: You got your ballot, you do what you want to do. Now,
17:14
Speaker 6: the interesting guys to me on this ballot, like Braun,
17:16
Speaker 6: I didn't think he'd get fifteen votes because I'm pretty
17:19
Speaker 6: sure what's the If you vote for Braun, you're obviously
17:22
Speaker 6: voting then for Ramiras and and for you would think
17:25
Speaker 6: you're voting for everybody else.
17:27
Speaker 2: It's flagged the accolades bron.
17:30
Speaker 6: But the interesting guys on this year's ballot are Alex
17:32
Speaker 6: Gordon and Nick Mark Cakas because they each got one vote,
17:36
Speaker 6: and someone just did a story about guys historically who
17:39
Speaker 6: got one vote. It's like, is that a slight or
17:42
Speaker 6: is it? Are you proud that.
17:43
Speaker 2: You got one?
17:44
Speaker 4: Though it's a favor from something, And that's the thing is,
17:47
Speaker 4: I think you're happy about it.
17:48
Speaker 6: But now you when you fill out your ballot, there's
17:50
Speaker 6: a little a box at the bottom. You can check
17:52
Speaker 6: it if you want it to be made public on
17:54
Speaker 6: the website like two weeks after.
17:56
Speaker 2: I always do whatever, who cares?
17:57
Speaker 6: But it's interesting that and they didn't used to have that,
18:01
Speaker 6: and I remember Phil Garner got one vote from a friend,
18:04
Speaker 6: and like, you know, it's.
18:05
Speaker 4: Like it's just like this silent protests. It's a little
18:09
Speaker 4: bit like when they had unlimited draft rounds and they
18:11
Speaker 4: would draft the general manager's godsign or something like, you know.
18:15
Speaker 2: He was a eight packh just to say he was
18:17
Speaker 2: drafted like that. Pro ball.
18:19
Speaker 3: You just got to get better friends to make sure
18:21
Speaker 3: that you get one vote. Make sure that you get
18:23
Speaker 3: at least one vote.
18:24
Speaker 4: Guys who are underrepresented, like I said, King Felix is
18:26
Speaker 4: going to get in eventually.
18:27
Speaker 2: Bobby A.
18:27
Speaker 6: Bray, he was a guy I've always voted for. He
18:29
Speaker 6: seems stalled at like thirty percent. He was you look
18:31
Speaker 6: at his numbers, really good. Jimmy Rollins doesn't look like
18:34
Speaker 6: he's getting momentum to get in. I thought he was
18:35
Speaker 6: a pretty good player too, overshadowed a little bit by
18:38
Speaker 6: Utlely perhaps, but.
18:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really good player team too, right. Ryan
18:43
Speaker 3: Howard was dominant when they ended up winning it, So
18:47
Speaker 3: Ryan Brown.
18:47
Speaker 6: Beat Matt Kemp for the MVP. In that controversially year,
18:50
Speaker 6: Matt Kemp only got two votes. Ryan Broun got fifteen,
18:52
Speaker 6: so he beat him again.
18:53
Speaker 3: Beat him again. Do you think he ever ends up
18:55
Speaker 3: with the eight on the.
18:58
Speaker 6: That's up to the ad Nausio family, and it's fifty
19:01
Speaker 6: to fifty to me.
19:02
Speaker 2: I'm guessing. I'm guessing no. But we you know they're friends.
19:06
Speaker 2: We'll see.
19:07
Speaker 3: I'm trending towards Noah as well because it hasn't happened yet.
19:10
Speaker 3: Because it hasn't happened yet exactly. But I think if
19:14
Speaker 3: twenty two doesn't go up, then eight does. And I
19:17
Speaker 3: think if they get home and they win a title
19:21
Speaker 3: or get to a title, Christian Yalich's number twenty two.
19:24
Speaker 2: Will be hanging from the rafters. End with America Taileyfield,
19:26
Speaker 2: I am with you there.
19:27
Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 2: Eight seven seven seven nine four one ninety seven three.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Dolph.
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Speaker 6: Coming up, We're talking to John Greenberg in a little
19:33
Speaker 6: more than an hour, president of the Milwaukee Admirals, and
19:36
Speaker 6: we're gonna get to some hot takes as well. Hot
19:38
Speaker 6: ta come to you. Got an opinion you can't you
19:40
Speaker 6: can't wait to share? Eight seven seven seven nine to
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Speaker 6: four one ninety seven three. It's the Huddle on Fox
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Speaker 6: Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Quality.
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Speaker 5: I'll put that, don't play off Brest. Well, my boys,
19:52
Speaker 5: those two the press off the rights.
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Speaker 1: We're bote. I'm holding for Lyric till the campaign's doing.
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Speaker 5: If they all snap, don't make the sports.
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Speaker 6: Radio Wisconsin nine twenty Milwaukee ten seventy in Madison, Drew Wilson,
20:10
Speaker 6: Billy schmid armand Saren and we welcome to the program
20:13
Speaker 6: our pal, Scott Dolphin.
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Speaker 2: How's it going, Dolph, Hoy, boys, what's happening?
20:17
Speaker 4: Well, we were just chatting amongst ourselves here kibbitzing as
20:20
Speaker 4: the fellas do, and we were talking about our buddy
20:22
Speaker 4: Mike Heller's at fantasy camp with Bill Schroederber's Fantasy Camp
20:25
Speaker 4: down in Maryvale Baseball Park, American.
20:27
Speaker 2: Family Fields of UH of Maryvale.
20:30
Speaker 3: And.
20:31
Speaker 2: He blew out a hammy, Oh my god.
20:33
Speaker 4: Oh it is again so predictable. Yeah, time I did.
20:41
Speaker 6: He texted me last night he's having a blast, but
20:42
Speaker 6: he blew out a hamstring.
20:43
Speaker 3: And then you know, Dolf, you've done fantasy camp, right,
20:46
Speaker 3: I've never done it. You've never done it. I think
20:47
Speaker 3: you're at fantasy camp.
20:48
Speaker 5: No.
20:48
Speaker 7: I was offered back in the day they tried to
20:52
Speaker 7: do it with uh that that's our friend Jody over
20:55
Speaker 7: at that used to run that from the travel.
20:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, el Joy Travel, Yeah yeah, el.
20:59
Speaker 7: Jill Travel used to run a lot of our FM
21:01
Speaker 7: to six trips every trip we ever did to Nashville,
21:03
Speaker 7: and she threw it out there one time. And Rock
21:05
Speaker 7: was on our show at that time for a long time.
21:06
Speaker 7: But no, I had conflicts with our winter trip. I've
21:09
Speaker 7: never made it down.
21:10
Speaker 4: I thought you were right because I know you failed
21:11
Speaker 4: out of softball in your day. Yeah, I've seen a
21:13
Speaker 4: lot of injuries there. The old, the old Milwaukee Immedia
21:16
Speaker 4: League was legendary. Harmon you played in the league.
21:19
Speaker 7: I remember we'd have guys, new sales guys show up
21:22
Speaker 7: at FM one to six and and uh and clear
21:24
Speaker 7: Channel as we were known back in the day, and
21:25
Speaker 7: they go, yeah, I want to be on the softball team,
21:27
Speaker 7: you know, first swing, trying to run the first place,
21:29
Speaker 7: and they'd go down with that damn hamm.
21:30
Speaker 3: Always injury, yeah, always an injury. It is the one
21:33
Speaker 3: where you realize that you got old real quick. It's
21:36
Speaker 3: not the one that you fear the most, but it's
21:38
Speaker 3: the one that you realize, if I don't stretch, it's
21:41
Speaker 3: gonna be a problem. And then when you've pulled it once,
21:43
Speaker 3: You're gonna pull it again. And Mike Keller was a
21:45
Speaker 3: really good baseball player.
21:47
Speaker 7: I'm surprised that's a champion, probably stretched national champion.
21:51
Speaker 6: But you get a little older and everybody you over
21:54
Speaker 6: do it. You get so excited, you just think you're young.
21:56
Speaker 6: It's green grass and you got a uniform on.
21:58
Speaker 2: That second base is rest is possible?
22:01
Speaker 6: Big league clubhouse, it's it's it's an epidemic everybody, especially
22:05
Speaker 6: for first timers. I've only been a fantas camp once.
22:07
Speaker 6: It was epic and I did blow out. And I
22:09
Speaker 6: blame Jerry Augustine because he was coaching third. I was
22:12
Speaker 6: on first base. Guy tried to hit a ball in
22:13
Speaker 6: the gap. All you tried to score me from first
22:15
Speaker 6: on a double. Of course, I love that bloated. As
22:18
Speaker 6: I was getting around third, my hammy just exploded.
22:22
Speaker 2: It was up till that point though. How are you doing?
22:24
Speaker 2: Were you kidding?
22:26
Speaker 4: I was not.
22:27
Speaker 6: My friend Gary Dematto columas for the Journal Centinel at
22:29
Speaker 6: the time, went and he was like one of those guys.
22:32
Speaker 6: He it was a tragic case. He was basically over
22:35
Speaker 6: I don't think he got a hit till like no
22:37
Speaker 6: and it's not swing golfers.
22:40
Speaker 3: If you hit a ball, and here's the thing, good point, like,
22:42
Speaker 3: if you hit a ball to the outfield grass, it's
22:44
Speaker 3: an automatic hit. They can't throw you out from right field.
22:47
Speaker 6: There's some seventy year old guys running around there looking
22:49
Speaker 6: like Babe Ruth and the.
22:50
Speaker 2: Old black and white film.
22:53
Speaker 6: So but it is. It's funny. But I did have
22:56
Speaker 6: some hits. But there was one time I was in
22:57
Speaker 6: the cage and because of what I've done and my background,
23:00
Speaker 6: I was a target and I had rock and it
23:04
Speaker 6: was a rock and ed Cedar and Greg Vaughan and
23:07
Speaker 6: for Nandovina and Cirillo and oh guys that I know
23:09
Speaker 6: and have covered and frying you. I'm in the cage
23:12
Speaker 6: and I pop one up to the top of the
23:13
Speaker 6: cage and they're all giving me a cat calls. So
23:17
Speaker 6: I step out, I look at him, I adjust my supporter,
23:22
Speaker 6: and then I step in and hit a couple of
23:23
Speaker 6: ropes and I was like, how do you like me?
23:25
Speaker 1: Now?
23:27
Speaker 4: Dropped? I got my mulligan out of their way, and
23:30
Speaker 4: then it was like, oh, well, okay, we can't give
23:32
Speaker 4: you too much. You aready to run that out.
23:35
Speaker 6: It was one of my great athletic feats of adulthood.
23:37
Speaker 6: It's like I was able to do that and get
23:39
Speaker 6: hits and shut those.
23:42
Speaker 3: I think my favorite part of the Fantasy Camp deal
23:44
Speaker 3: is every time during Brewers' games, when the the commercial
23:48
Speaker 3: would flash up and and Rock would be talking about it,
23:51
Speaker 3: I would beg my parents to.
23:54
Speaker 2: Send me to Fantasy the greatest thing ever, and they would.
23:57
Speaker 3: They politely put up with it for a number of years,
24:00
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, Dad looked at me
24:01
Speaker 3: and goes, Billy, Yes, for old guys, it is you're thirteen,
24:04
Speaker 3: right to Fantasy Camp at thirteen years old.
24:08
Speaker 2: It is not for high schoolers. This is for guys
24:11
Speaker 2: that wish they were in high school. Again, I appreciate
24:13
Speaker 2: your exciting And.
24:14
Speaker 7: By the way, guys that could afford to go to Fanas.
24:16
Speaker 4: Well, it was extensivesive. Yeah, no, you got you get
24:19
Speaker 4: the Barks Kids Club. Okay, the Pepsi Kids Club for
24:22
Speaker 4: for Brewers. That's what you said.
24:23
Speaker 3: I'll send you to the baseball camp that we got
24:25
Speaker 3: over here. You'll get You'll get more out of Jerry Augustine,
24:28
Speaker 3: pardon me, Don august and Jim Gander's baseball camp out
24:31
Speaker 3: in Nominee Falls.
24:32
Speaker 2: You go over there.
24:33
Speaker 7: How about this, We'll get you that video cassette that
24:35
Speaker 7: the crime Dog Fred McGriffin.
24:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about Tommy Mansky. Come on now, come on now,
24:40
Speaker 2: Tommy Mansky. I know you're getting arm into the fields.
24:43
Speaker 3: Tony Gwinn was teaching me how to hit on Time
24:45
Speaker 3: Warner Cable, UH Sports on Demand on Channel five one.
24:48
Speaker 4: Back to back to back. I'm like, what league is this?
24:51
Speaker 4: Tommy back to battle to back to back.
24:55
Speaker 7: Awesome uniforms of a blue T shirt and grape baseball pant.
24:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, and let's do cutoffs and relays with Tom Aman. Yeah,
25:01
Speaker 4: it was perfect thing. Yeah, speaking of baseball, Drew, I
25:04
Speaker 4: had to run.
25:05
Speaker 7: So the Brewers are putting CC Sabbathia and the Cobra
25:07
Speaker 7: Day Parker into their.
25:10
Speaker 2: Wall of Honor Walk of Fame.
25:12
Speaker 7: I always get those screwed up CC magical summer. Dave
25:16
Speaker 7: Parker was way before my time. In fact, I had
25:18
Speaker 7: forgotten that he was a Brewer until I read this
25:22
Speaker 7: article because I wasn't in Milwaukee. Yeah, it was way
25:24
Speaker 7: before I moved to Wisconsin. What was that summer like
25:27
Speaker 7: with him? Because he was always such a bigger than
25:29
Speaker 7: life colorful.
25:30
Speaker 6: Was quite Yeah, he had quite the impact on the
25:33
Speaker 6: clubhouse because he was kind of a larger than life
25:35
Speaker 6: guy and he was just you know, that brief period
25:39
Speaker 6: one year in nineteen ninety that's what it was. It
25:41
Speaker 6: was nineteen nineteen ninety plate and he went on. I
25:44
Speaker 6: think he played the next year too, but he was
25:46
Speaker 6: at the end of the line. But he had, uh yeah,
25:48
Speaker 6: people still talking about a pretty good year, didn't he had.
25:51
Speaker 2: He had a pretty big impact. Yeah, he's a good.
25:52
Speaker 3: Player, right like I mean, offensively had a good year
25:54
Speaker 3: and the CC year or two months. It is one
25:58
Speaker 3: of the most famous things that you're going to think
26:01
Speaker 3: of in Brewer's history, and the amount of fans that
26:04
Speaker 3: that locked in was next level.
26:06
Speaker 7: Well, anybody wasn't around to remember nineteen eighty two, that
26:10
Speaker 7: was your season, the magical two thousand and eight season
26:12
Speaker 7: where it had been twenty six years since they had
26:14
Speaker 7: gotten a whiff and now they're in your playoffs and
26:17
Speaker 7: it was all because not all, but mainly because of
26:19
Speaker 7: that dude.
26:20
Speaker 6: So Brewers got him signed him to a two year
26:22
Speaker 6: deal after the A's had won the World Series in
26:24
Speaker 6: eighty nine, So the Bruis get him in ninety and
26:26
Speaker 6: he was he made the All Star team.
26:28
Speaker 3: He had like twenty homers. He was a DH and
26:31
Speaker 3: had a.
26:31
Speaker 6: Pretty big impact of the clubhouse and they decided, well,
26:33
Speaker 6: we got to get younger, so they traded him to
26:35
Speaker 6: Anaheim to the Angels.
26:36
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't even know that. And who did they
26:39
Speaker 2: get back, Arman will like this.
26:41
Speaker 4: Dante Bischet Yeah, the great Dante chechet shipped off again.
26:46
Speaker 6: And now his son Bo just signed a big deal
26:48
Speaker 6: and so boy did he ever. Yeah, a lot of
26:49
Speaker 6: people were disappointed they didn't get him. Donte Bischett. No,
26:52
Speaker 6: I don't want to go down the rabbit hole too much.
26:54
Speaker 6: My first year in radio was in the Quad Cities,
26:56
Speaker 6: the Quad City Angels.
26:57
Speaker 7: That year, Dante Bichette was their big hitter. They also
27:00
Speaker 7: had Chuck Finley, yeah the old time.
27:02
Speaker 4: Yeah.
27:03
Speaker 7: See that was big prospects for the agent. Listen Dollar,
27:05
Speaker 7: beer Knife. It was fun on Monday in April.
27:10
Speaker 4: Riverband.
27:10
Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, that was yeah.
27:12
Speaker 6: So Dave Parker was here for just a little bit,
27:14
Speaker 6: but he had an impact and that was I think
27:17
Speaker 6: he was kind of brought in to help mentor Sheffield
27:19
Speaker 6: like Sheffield Sheffield, Vaughn and Hamilton were in the in
27:23
Speaker 6: the mix then and they wanted him. Yeah, so he
27:25
Speaker 6: was kind of and that was he had one year,
27:27
Speaker 6: but it was memorable. Yeah, some good stories out of
27:29
Speaker 6: the clubhouse about him. So I missed all that my
27:32
Speaker 6: first years in Milwaukee. It was just got awful baseball, as.
27:35
Speaker 3: It was much much of my childhood when Drew and
27:39
Speaker 3: when Drew and Tom Hoddercourt were teaching me how to
27:41
Speaker 3: read in the Journal Sentinel, that was That was generally
27:43
Speaker 3: the worst time of years of Brewers baseball. But the
27:45
Speaker 3: two thousand and eight one is one of my favorite
27:47
Speaker 3: stories of the early generation of social media because We're
27:51
Speaker 3: at a pool party and I'm sitting in my parents'
27:54
Speaker 3: car waiting on my Nokia flip phone text to come
27:57
Speaker 3: through from Hottercourt that the Brewers have.
27:59
Speaker 2: A officially and buster.
28:01
Speaker 3: Only the second mention that he gets on the show
28:03
Speaker 3: the subscribed text alert for when somebody would tweet if
28:07
Speaker 3: the CC deal was going to get done, because it
28:10
Speaker 3: was a Sunday afternoon and we're like, Okay, they're going
28:12
Speaker 3: to lock this thing in here because they want to
28:14
Speaker 3: pitch him this week, and uh, if they didn't grab
28:17
Speaker 3: him as soon as they did. Who knows, because the
28:20
Speaker 3: lift that they got, they wouldn't have made it. And
28:23
Speaker 3: the amount of fifty two jerseys that they sold in
28:25
Speaker 3: the week off during the All Star break after he
28:28
Speaker 3: came in pitched and I think in his second game
28:30
Speaker 3: hit went off the foul pole.
28:31
Speaker 2: Yep, that was just like just next.
28:32
Speaker 4: Line, the rare moment where the hype meets, like the
28:35
Speaker 4: reality meets the hype, like pay it off right away.
28:37
Speaker 4: There was so much hypeer Cec and the reality met
28:40
Speaker 4: all that and more, the rare moment where both things
28:42
Speaker 4: come together.
28:42
Speaker 2: They did.
28:43
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say Micah was like that too for a while,
28:45
Speaker 4: you know, until he got hurt obviously, and the.
28:46
Speaker 7: Fact that Cec still recognizes that at a very special
28:50
Speaker 7: part of his career though it was just a bad
28:53
Speaker 7: of an eye. I mean, he still has fond memories
28:56
Speaker 7: living in Brookfield for those few months, and yeah, going
28:59
Speaker 7: to the pancake Original Pen, Original Pancakes every morning if
29:03
Speaker 7: people left him alone.
29:04
Speaker 2: He just loved living here.
29:05
Speaker 4: Going out with Bill Hall and Ryan Brown and new
29:07
Speaker 4: brand new Remedy shirts shirts come on.
29:11
Speaker 2: I totally convinced myself too that he was going to sign.
29:14
Speaker 3: There was good fifteen to eighteen minutes where I totally
29:17
Speaker 3: convinced you.
29:17
Speaker 4: Love being here, like we can make the money, maybe
29:20
Speaker 4: work for a short time. He was a small town
29:23
Speaker 4: he was in Cleveland. He's a small town guy. Like
29:25
Speaker 4: he really came together. He pitched well here and he
29:29
Speaker 4: likes the porches.
29:30
Speaker 6: I said, did the Brewers offer him a sixty million
29:33
Speaker 6: dollar year? And the Yankee said, yeah, that's nice, we'll
29:35
Speaker 6: give him a Money'll give him one hundred and eighty something.
29:37
Speaker 3: I think they gave well, I thought they gave him
29:39
Speaker 3: the sticker, which was the five years, hundred million dollar
29:43
Speaker 3: sticker that they were giving. That's what the off that
29:45
Speaker 3: the Brewers were trying to give out. They were like, hey,
29:47
Speaker 3: can you will you take this princess? You're going to
29:49
Speaker 3: get two hundred and eighteen million. Yeah, no thanks, but
29:51
Speaker 3: I appreciate you.
29:52
Speaker 2: No, thank you.
29:54
Speaker 6: No familiar territory we saw with Ma Toron. That's right
29:58
Speaker 6: when Dolph got to town probably and Maletor exited the stage.
30:01
Speaker 7: That was shortly before I think, yeah, yeah, so so
30:04
Speaker 7: my first summer here would have been I remember my
30:08
Speaker 7: first opening day it was snowing like a mother. I
30:10
Speaker 7: think they played Oakland and uh Matheenie hit a home
30:14
Speaker 7: run and I think they won like fourteen to eleven
30:16
Speaker 7: or something like.
30:17
Speaker 4: That was the True Value hard was that the same
30:20
Speaker 4: This is the snow Snow the true bayone was throwing
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Speaker 4: the ball.
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Speaker 7: That was Texas. That was a couple of years later
30:26
Speaker 7: at the Rangers. This was against Oakland. One of the
30:29
Speaker 7: coolest things I've ever seen in my life was Bruce
30:32
Speaker 7: fans were damn rowdy a county stadium and somebody had
30:35
Speaker 7: fired a beer bottle from the right field stands. Ruben
30:39
Speaker 7: Sierra was playing right field for Oakland. He made a
30:41
Speaker 7: sliding catch, turned around, was watching himself on the big
30:45
Speaker 7: screen make this sliding catch, and somebody whistles a bottle
30:49
Speaker 7: down in the field. He sees it coming out of
30:51
Speaker 7: his peripheral. It takes one step to the left, the
30:53
Speaker 7: bottle bounces, and he continues to watch the video. I thought,
30:56
Speaker 7: that's the.
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Speaker 2: Coolest damn thing I've ever seen.
30:59
Speaker 4: Class ninety four or ninety six, the Brewers played in
31:02
Speaker 4: Oakland both the years and opening day.
31:04
Speaker 2: I think it was ninety four and both were wins.
31:06
Speaker 4: Both were wins.
31:07
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, True Value Hardware Day was. It was the Rangers.
31:11
Speaker 3: They almost forfeited that and almost I still have that baseball,
31:14
Speaker 3: didn't Gardner get He had to get.
31:16
Speaker 2: On the mic.
31:16
Speaker 6: It was basically like the sam wich This Island, Cincinnati.
31:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of it. We're trying to win
31:23
Speaker 2: a ball here. Rangers pulled it their team off the field.
31:27
Speaker 2: It was started because.
31:30
Speaker 6: I blame Jeremy Burnetts because in between innings he started
31:32
Speaker 6: to play catch with some fan that threw his ball
31:34
Speaker 6: on it, and then everybody's like, hey, I got.
31:36
Speaker 4: Over there too.
31:37
Speaker 6: The MLB immediately changed the policy and the other teams
31:41
Speaker 6: that had those giveaways like give them to fans on
31:43
Speaker 6: the way.
31:43
Speaker 4: Out of the coupon. He had to get it out.
31:45
Speaker 4: I get it on the way, wore Jeremy Burnett, no
31:47
Speaker 4: good de goos unpunished.
31:48
Speaker 2: He's trying to be a fan.
31:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's trying to make a moment for a kid.
31:52
Speaker 4: And you know what, everyone had to ruin it.
31:54
Speaker 6: Because METHENI that they hit like an Opening Day Grand Slam,
31:57
Speaker 6: and I was like, I went and asked him, like,
31:59
Speaker 6: did you think about what would happen if the if
32:01
Speaker 6: the game was forfeited?
32:02
Speaker 3: And you're all the stats were wipe on he's like, oh,
32:04
Speaker 3: I thought about it. You certain things in Milwaukee.
32:07
Speaker 7: You don't give away an opening day as people come
32:10
Speaker 7: into the stadium, balls and bats very good. Yes, anything
32:15
Speaker 7: you can use to weaponize, that's probably not a good.
32:18
Speaker 6: I get people all the time, we say, why won't
32:20
Speaker 6: they give me a soda or water with a cap
32:22
Speaker 6: on it?
32:22
Speaker 2: Because it's harder to throw.
32:26
Speaker 4: And I guess people real fired up, the ones that
32:28
Speaker 4: like to go to the one bubbler and refill it,
32:31
Speaker 4: you know, like you yeah, like your boy armin. You
32:34
Speaker 4: know that people like that. They don't like that. They
32:36
Speaker 4: want to be able to cap it.
32:37
Speaker 7: My wife always when we go to Summerfest, he just
32:39
Speaker 7: takes a little cap and puts it in her back pocket.
32:42
Speaker 4: Smart.
32:43
Speaker 2: You have to bring in your own You have to
32:45
Speaker 2: bring in your own bottle.
32:46
Speaker 4: Then you can keep it. That's just the way it is.
32:48
Speaker 4: But some people think about that stuff ahead of time.
32:50
Speaker 4: You can bring it in. You don't have to buy.
32:51
Speaker 2: One of the best values in all the sports still.
32:53
Speaker 4: Is right there, you know. So by the time, it
32:57
Speaker 4: absolutely is your ability to bring anything into ability. Now
33:01
Speaker 4: that you're bringing the boys in and stuff, are you, mister,
33:03
Speaker 4: We got to have snacks we gotta have, like you
33:06
Speaker 4: know with kids, like the vendors, but it's better, more
33:08
Speaker 4: exciting than the action the vendors like once and then
33:11
Speaker 4: it's like speaking, how long did your kids last of
33:13
Speaker 4: the baseball game? Until he's not hungry anymore?
33:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, until I run out of snacks is a lot
33:18
Speaker 3: of times the problem. Well, the first game I brought
33:21
Speaker 3: the youngster to, it was right after my wife had
33:25
Speaker 3: our second, so it's maybe like a month after. And
33:27
Speaker 3: bring him to the game, get him out of the house.
33:31
Speaker 3: Let the little guy get a little bit of our
33:32
Speaker 3: sleep throughout. One of the nights, Uh, I brought everything diapers,
33:36
Speaker 3: I had wipe. The one thing I didn't have was
33:40
Speaker 3: the one thing I needed, which was an extra pair
33:42
Speaker 3: of pants. Boy, so that that was the one thing
33:46
Speaker 3: that you end up learning quickly. But but my oldest Carson,
33:49
Speaker 3: he'll sit there and watch the entire game, Like we
33:52
Speaker 3: went to the Pirates game when Skeens came and he
33:55
Speaker 3: was dialed in the entire time, did not take his cell,
33:59
Speaker 3: his eyes off of the game at all. The youngest,
34:03
Speaker 3: we're gonna have some problems with, Like we can already
34:04
Speaker 3: tell he is not going to be sitting in the
34:06
Speaker 3: sitting the seat enjoy and there's not going to be
34:09
Speaker 3: enough snacks for him to potentially uh sit and enjoy
34:12
Speaker 3: any bit of the game. So it might be a
34:14
Speaker 3: tag team effort and one is gonna be over at
34:16
Speaker 3: the play spot.
34:17
Speaker 4: That's cars has been dialed in from day one though.
34:19
Speaker 4: There's no question about it. On the baseball aspect though,
34:21
Speaker 4: but he has been it has been.
34:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing coming from the football lineage that he
34:25
Speaker 2: comes from. It's also crazy. I think he's three today.
34:28
Speaker 2: That's this balk. Wow, today's the day.
34:32
Speaker 1: What's going on?
34:32
Speaker 7: Is there a trip to Chuck E Cheese or something
34:34
Speaker 7: like that or that was brought up.
34:36
Speaker 3: I think we're going kid Katia a big, big, big area,
34:41
Speaker 3: big jungle gym, trampolines and things like that, and hopefully
34:45
Speaker 3: tire him out and not go to Hurgin care.
34:48
Speaker 7: Thinks have gotten so much better for kids' birthday party
34:50
Speaker 7: since I was a kid man, you can relate to this.
34:52
Speaker 2: True. I remember the big thing when I was a kid.
34:55
Speaker 7: I was part of the Do you remember do we
34:56
Speaker 7: have country kitchens in the Yeah?
34:59
Speaker 4: I watch the one for Packard all right.
35:00
Speaker 7: I was part of the country Kitchen Birthday Club. So
35:02
Speaker 7: every year on your birthday you got a burger fries
35:04
Speaker 7: and a coke free. And that was I flashed that card.
35:07
Speaker 7: Proudest thing.
35:09
Speaker 4: Every year on my birthday I would have a party
35:11
Speaker 4: at McDonald's. Ony of the balloons outside and you knew
35:13
Speaker 4: there was a birthday party. Yes, And then I got
35:15
Speaker 4: obviously one year I got to go to Leap Some Bows,
35:17
Speaker 4: which became d Z's Discoveries. Oh yeah, that was a
35:20
Speaker 4: monster deal when you got to have your birthday party.
35:22
Speaker 1: There.
35:23
Speaker 2: Still have the picture of me and my buddies there.
35:25
Speaker 2: I was an electric moment.
35:27
Speaker 4: Mike, he gets another one.
35:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, Country Kitchen just gave me a memory because a
35:33
Speaker 6: bunch of guys, the stoners I went to high school with,
35:35
Speaker 6: worked there.
35:35
Speaker 2: They called it the Bitch and Kitchen.
35:37
Speaker 4: They were back there making pancakes and they were like,
35:40
Speaker 4: so we go there, and that's where all the stoners work.
35:42
Speaker 2: They're all back there in the kitchen, bitching kitchen. Man,
35:45
Speaker 2: somebody should name the restaurant that way.
35:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got a bitch and kitchen, it is. I know.
35:51
Speaker 2: You can get Carson for Crab.
35:52
Speaker 3: Video Tap Baseball Wolves Defensive Girls video features professionals, Gun
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Speaker 3: and instructor Kaye Lansky and the scene revolutionary new training
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36:01
Speaker 5: Back to back to back, back to back to back.
36:06
Speaker 4: You'll get a VHS player so you can get the
36:08
Speaker 4: grainy video that's gonna cost more than anything else to
36:11
Speaker 4: pot the second straight day, Dolph comes in here with
36:13
Speaker 4: headlines and stuff share with us, and we just chop
36:15
Speaker 4: it up until we do in the morning.
36:18
Speaker 2: Listen mostly Drew.
36:19
Speaker 7: This is from the other stations in the building that
36:22
Speaker 7: I that they just want a quick rundown. But just
36:25
Speaker 7: in case, you know, I always bring it in here.
36:27
Speaker 7: Someday we'll get to it. But you know, you know, headline,
36:30
Speaker 7: there's not much going on.
36:31
Speaker 3: Man, We've only love, We've only uh I think got
36:34
Speaker 3: like three times ripped out headlines and just gearing up
36:37
Speaker 3: for that.
36:37
Speaker 2: Rivalry game between the Bucks and the Thunder tonight. Yes,
36:40
Speaker 2: can't wait rivalry.
36:41
Speaker 7: Yes, Yeah, that'll be a biggy week when yeah, thirty tips,
36:45
Speaker 7: eight thirty tips come on.
36:47
Speaker 2: That's brutal.
36:48
Speaker 7: If it was in Oklahoma, I could see that, although
36:50
Speaker 7: they're probably simple time too.
36:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, no way, there's nothing else living in Oklahoma City,
36:55
Speaker 3: so I mean you can start that game win after right, Armins.
36:57
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
36:57
Speaker 4: Nothing else going on, nothing, have an apple? He's there,
37:00
Speaker 4: all right, Hey, it's carl got half price. As later,
37:03
Speaker 4: we're now.
37:04
Speaker 6: Celebrating Carson's birthday. Were through halftime, Scott Dolphin's our halftime report.
37:08
Speaker 6: From now on, we definitely go it's at the half,
37:10
Speaker 6: Yes with Scott Dolphin because we're halfway through our program.
37:13
Speaker 3: He used to be Red Panda, right, Yeah, the greatest
37:16
Speaker 3: halftime performer homes.
37:17
Speaker 2: I have no question. Take a quick break. It's the
37:19
Speaker 2: huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
37:23
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37:33
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37:35
Speaker 3: True Billy Arman bringing it to you nine Milwaukee, ten
37:39
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37:44
Speaker 3: Because you didn't ask, I'll tell you, guys who I
37:46
Speaker 3: voted for in the Hall of Fame election.
37:48
Speaker 6: Yes, Bobby Bray you again. I think he's a tripper player.
37:52
Speaker 6: You look at his body work. He's gaining some momentum.
37:55
Speaker 6: Very consistent, Hallmark consistency. Carlos Beltran can't even hear the
37:59
Speaker 6: garbage can rattle anymore as he makes his way to
38:01
Speaker 6: the Hall of Fame.
38:02
Speaker 2: Andrew Jones.
38:03
Speaker 6: I was in the ballpark covering the when he hit
38:05
Speaker 6: his his first two at bats in the World Series
38:07
Speaker 6: when he was nineteen, he hit home runs one of
38:09
Speaker 6: the craziest defeats up Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, and Chase
38:15
Speaker 6: Utley rounded out my ballot this year. And it's funny
38:18
Speaker 6: because I don't vote for Petit because I don't vote
38:19
Speaker 6: for Mark Burley, and I think they're both borderline, and.
38:22
Speaker 2: So is Cole Hamil's.
38:24
Speaker 4: And eventually I might evolve my position on that, but
38:28
Speaker 4: not on Cole Hamil's.
38:30
Speaker 2: The judge of lack of judge of rivalry, that's definitely
38:34
Speaker 2: not an understanding.
38:35
Speaker 4: What about said the one time, this.
38:36
Speaker 2: Is just not a rivalry.
38:37
Speaker 4: What about the team results for Petit? Does that make
38:40
Speaker 4: I mean, do you just judge the individual Drew? I
38:41
Speaker 4: know some people, Yeah, that's the team results.
38:43
Speaker 6: You know, it's an individual's honor, So it's I mean,
38:46
Speaker 6: I guess that's part of the stew Is and and
38:48
Speaker 6: a lot of people are like, you.
38:49
Speaker 2: Know, postseason, postseason, that's where you know, is it?
38:52
Speaker 4: Well, some guys look at the chance and that always
38:54
Speaker 4: bothered me about individual wards and honors is like, you
38:58
Speaker 4: can't be judged on what your teammates done to make
39:00
Speaker 4: and make it totally fair. Sorry, you guys can't see
39:03
Speaker 4: me here. Sorry about that.
39:04
Speaker 2: Uh And and I think that is a big issue.
39:06
Speaker 4: So I appreciate that you don't really focus on the team, no,
39:10
Speaker 4: the results aspect of it.
39:11
Speaker 2: But I know some people say that you're in the.
39:14
Speaker 3: Dance and you do that, and then in my estimation,
39:17
Speaker 3: it matters how you perform, look right, like when to
39:20
Speaker 3: your point, yeah, sure you can't make it as a baseline,
39:24
Speaker 3: you have to have won this, that or the third.
39:26
Speaker 3: But then if your postseason numbers are one twenty six,
39:30
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have some serious questions there.
39:31
Speaker 6: Like Barry Bonds wasn't great in the postseason, but he
39:34
Speaker 6: was great right and then he as last.
39:37
Speaker 2: World Series, I think he did stepped up a little bit.
39:39
Speaker 6: But Scott Brocious was hell on wheels for a couple
39:42
Speaker 6: of World Series. Not a Hall of Famer, Yeah, as
39:44
Speaker 6: much as David Fre' postseason.
39:49
Speaker 4: He's the Bill MAZERROSSI example, he had one of the
39:51
Speaker 4: most famous homers ever, But I don't think he should
39:53
Speaker 4: be a Hall of Famer. By any stretch of objected metric. Sorry,
39:56
Speaker 4: I don't know that.
39:57
Speaker 3: The old pirates upset some so do you subscribe in
40:02
Speaker 3: is baseball standard different than football? Because I think the
40:05
Speaker 3: football one is you're the best player at your position
40:08
Speaker 3: for half a century run. That's a lot of the
40:12
Speaker 3: times in football it's like, or can you tell the
40:15
Speaker 3: story of the league without that guy? And I think
40:18
Speaker 3: that's a vastly different deal when you talk about the
40:21
Speaker 3: baseball writers in the Baseball Hall of Fame than the
40:24
Speaker 3: NFL Hall of Fame. Now the NBA and basketball, they'll
40:27
Speaker 3: let a lot of different people in, and you'll see
40:30
Speaker 3: that when certain guys from the twenty twenty one Bucks
40:32
Speaker 3: end up getting in and more guys than you anticipated
40:34
Speaker 3: being Hall.
40:35
Speaker 2: Of famers on that team.
40:36
Speaker 3: But you look at it and it just it's so
40:40
Speaker 3: judged off of individual stuff that like in Eli Manning
40:44
Speaker 3: is going to be one of the best conversations in
40:46
Speaker 3: the football Hall of Fame, But I don't know that
40:49
Speaker 3: he would get a sniff in the baseball Hall of Fame.
40:52
Speaker 2: Probably not right.
40:53
Speaker 3: Like I mean he but but you can't tell the
40:55
Speaker 3: story of the NFL really without him beating the best
40:58
Speaker 3: quarterback of all times team two super Bowls and yes,
41:02
Speaker 3: running a full almost decade long drought of them winning.
41:05
Speaker 6: But he had more years where he never an MVP,
41:08
Speaker 6: never even like in the conversation, more years where he
41:10
Speaker 6: led the league in interceptions than ever really touchdowns and
41:13
Speaker 6: the counreds right, and he was pretty much mediocre. And
41:17
Speaker 6: I used to have this argument all the time with
41:19
Speaker 6: my pal Dan Needles. We'll still argue about this because
41:21
Speaker 6: he thinks he played great.
41:24
Speaker 2: In big games. I said, too bad.
41:25
Speaker 6: He played what thirteen fourteen years, and he only had
41:27
Speaker 6: big games in two of those years.
41:28
Speaker 2: I was gonna say only two big the other twelve
41:30
Speaker 2: years didn't count.
41:31
Speaker 6: But he had two big years and he never won
41:33
Speaker 6: a playoff game outside of the two years when he
41:35
Speaker 6: led them to the super Bowl. It's like that was
41:36
Speaker 6: more fluky to me than anything.
41:39
Speaker 4: Football is one of the I think he's a great
41:40
Speaker 4: clutch player because David Tyree pinned the ball against his
41:43
Speaker 4: helmet and plexico football is one of the toughest one allso,
41:47
Speaker 4: because I think counting stats and stuff changed so much
41:52
Speaker 4: based on era, whereas baseball has been a little more
41:54
Speaker 4: consistent in that regard. You know, there's different eras that
41:56
Speaker 4: go in and out, but not as much of a difference.
41:58
Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard to he's a quarterback now based
42:01
Speaker 4: on just numbers than it is from a quarterback twenty
42:03
Speaker 4: thirty years ago. You just can't do it. The game
42:05
Speaker 4: is too different.
42:06
Speaker 6: And when it's when the ring obsessed cultured. Is Trent
42:10
Speaker 6: Dilfer as good a quarterback as Aaron Rodgers because they
42:12
Speaker 6: have the same number of championships?
42:14
Speaker 1: No?
42:14
Speaker 3: But I did hear I did hear Cowherd say that
42:17
Speaker 3: if Stafford wins another Super Bowl, he's gonna put him
42:20
Speaker 3: above Aaron Rodgers.
42:21
Speaker 4: Yeah. Boy, it's wild to think that, because I get it,
42:24
Speaker 4: you have more rings. But there's I'm sorry, there's no
42:27
Speaker 4: objective way you can look at what the two have
42:29
Speaker 4: done in this league and say that Stafford's better. He's
42:31
Speaker 4: a great quarterback, he's all bamber.
42:33
Speaker 2: But Aaron Rodgers was just better every every year, every year.
42:36
Speaker 2: And Rodgers' numbers.
42:37
Speaker 6: You know, if you go again, what are you judging
42:40
Speaker 6: it on the entire body of work or test ring?
42:43
Speaker 3: Yeah? Now, well, in the entire body of work would
42:46
Speaker 3: include him working through a dysfunctional organization for his first
42:49
Speaker 3: ten years.
42:50
Speaker 4: That's a fair point.
42:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm one of the greatest receivers of all time,
42:53
Speaker 2: absolutely really quick.
42:54
Speaker 4: If I am losing to Rogers team, if I just
42:57
Speaker 4: did eye test, no one's beating Rodgers and eye test nobody.
43:00
Speaker 2: That's just the way I feel about it.
43:01
Speaker 3: Except Matthew Stafford, who Rogers admitted was one of the
43:04
Speaker 3: most talented quarterbacks the league.
43:06
Speaker 2: Every single time he talked about it his favorite point.
43:08
Speaker 2: He and Stafford had some big way ofos too, Absolutely ones.
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