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3/26/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: In the hour. Let's all the let's go on a
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and make them.
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Speaker 5: Play be right all the way outside Why left bakes
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Speaker 5: three ninety sick bag be hen c Park is not
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Speaker 5: long enough for it?
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Speaker 1: Watching to be party of professional. It's a great professional.
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Speaker 1: Go out there and play this ball game like I
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Speaker 1: know you can play it.
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Speaker 2: Drew Olson mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 1: first pitch coming up at one ten Brewers White Sox.
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Speaker 1: The beginning of the championship season in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: It is, uh, maybe we've gotten to a point we've
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Speaker 1: evolved as a sports public where if the Brewers do
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Speaker 1: not prevail today, say they lose to the crappy Whites,
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Speaker 1: oh god, oh here we go again. Season over. Then
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Speaker 1: you got a day to sit with it and then
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Speaker 1: you come back on Saturday. So yeah, Opening day is
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Speaker 1: like the most overhyped in your the fans psychology. It's
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Speaker 1: very weird how it's so much put on open game. Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's just ruined. It's gonna it's a it's like Groundhog Day.
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Speaker 1: It's suck. Season's gonna suck.
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Speaker 5: They lost today, who's all year?
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Speaker 1: Come on?
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Speaker 5: I am very excited to be able to irrationally scream
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Speaker 5: at the television when uh, you know, on hell Zurpa.
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Speaker 5: All due respect, I think he's gonna be They're a
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Speaker 5: wild ass prediction. I think Zerpa's gonna end up being
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Speaker 5: one of their best relievers all year long. Now, granted
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Speaker 5: they end up trading Isaac Collins for him and Nick
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Speaker 5: for a reason. Uh, and you got to see a
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Speaker 5: little bit of his uh, his dog mentality during the WBC.
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Speaker 5: He was phenomenal during the WBC. So I was very
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Speaker 5: excited to be able to see that. But whenever any
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Speaker 5: insert middle reliever gives up a home run and a
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Speaker 5: three run lead in the middle of the sixth inning,
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Speaker 5: drum excited to scream. I'm excited to let that out
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Speaker 5: because there's no sport that gives you the feeling of, well,
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Speaker 5: that sucked. All right, take a shower and be done
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Speaker 5: with it. The shower and leave it at the stadium.
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Speaker 5: I remember I read a long piece that Clint Hurdle
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Speaker 5: put up on his Twitter account that he had when
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Speaker 5: they lost one hundred games.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was like one of my favorite things.
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Speaker 5: He's like full a good life lesson and a lot
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Speaker 5: of things, not only baseball. In life, you leave it
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Speaker 5: at home, you shower and it's done, and baseball forces
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Speaker 5: you to learn all of those lessons every single year.
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Speaker 1: There's another game tomorrow, so we're gonna hear from Hunter
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Speaker 1: Baumgart momentarily. But and he's gonna join us live after seven.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna be exciting. But some mind blowing numbers. I
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Speaker 1: mentioned the County Stadium days, see for opening Day, the nostalgia.
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Speaker 1: If you remember County Stadium, the old corrugated tool shed
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Speaker 1: as it was called, It looks like a toolshed, well said,
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Speaker 1: corrugated and like it was a dump. But it was
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Speaker 1: a dump and it was had a lot of history.
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Speaker 1: Saw a rust on the corner. Leave it alone. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: don't talk about it. Well, just enjoy the character. This
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Speaker 1: is the twenty fifth anniversary season of American Family Field,
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Speaker 1: which began as Miller Park, and it's the Brewers fifty
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Speaker 1: eighth season as a franchise. Fifty eight we missed. They
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Speaker 1: were going to celebrate like the fiftieth. As I recall yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think did they Maybe they put a patch and
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Speaker 1: that was it on it. I kind of it. Well,
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Speaker 1: they had some shows during COVID, right, Yeah, they had
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Speaker 1: stuff holstered up during COVID that they couldn't execute.
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Speaker 5: So they got so they just tweak all in just
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Speaker 5: like I would do with the C turn it into
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Speaker 5: a B and they're just going to do that into
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Speaker 5: the six from the five.
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Speaker 1: So fifty eighth season as a franchise, and this is
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Speaker 1: their twenty eighth season in the National League. Yeah, twenty
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Speaker 1: ninth season as a member of the National League, which
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Speaker 1: means now this year it's even Stephen in the existence.
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Speaker 1: They played twenty nine years in the American League and
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Speaker 1: this is their twenty ninth year in the National League.
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Speaker 1: I have a memory of being at an AL Brewers
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Speaker 1: game against the White Sox. Had to have been April
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Speaker 1: of ninety five, in front of four thousand people at
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Speaker 1: County Stadium. I mean it just those memories of the
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Speaker 1: AL team for me as a young kid, were like, God,
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Speaker 1: they're just in terrible, awful, and then they went to
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Speaker 1: the National League got even worse. Yeah. Since since joining
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Speaker 1: the National League back in ninety eight, the Brewers are
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Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen and one on opening day.
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Speaker 5: Okay, that's not as bad as I thought it was.
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Speaker 5: They have not been all twenty nine, twenty seven and one. Whoa, Okay,
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Speaker 5: there we go. I I like the sound of that.
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Speaker 5: That feels like it might be a winner at the
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Speaker 5: Potawatami Sportsbook minus one ninety down here today. My memory
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Speaker 5: of the National two American League team in the transition
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Speaker 5: was when I was over at my uncle's house and
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Speaker 5: he had the schedule magnet.
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Speaker 1: That's the other opening day that. Oh yeah, you get
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Speaker 1: that today.
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Speaker 5: I didn't see it on the website, So they better
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Speaker 5: have them schedule magnus. When you walk through the stadium here,
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Speaker 5: make sure you slap like fifteen of those on every
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Speaker 5: garage fridge that you have, because you know you probably
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Speaker 5: have to, right you have a garage freezer garage fridge.
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Speaker 5: When when my uncles said we're taking this thing national,
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Speaker 5: I'm like what.
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Speaker 1: What that was there? Yeah? That was slogan? Remember that? Now?
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Speaker 1: It was hilarious. This was uh that was a great tradition.
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Speaker 1: Every year they'd have a marketing slogan like that, and
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Speaker 1: harder Court would like bastardize it and like we're taking
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Speaker 1: this crap. National was his thing. And then one year
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Speaker 1: their slogan was Brewers Baseball, you gotta be here, and
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Speaker 1: then harder Court change that to if we're here, you
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Speaker 1: got it, If we have to be here, you have
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Speaker 1: to be here. There was then there was one year
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Speaker 1: it was like there was. It was they finished third
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Speaker 1: and they were saying, you know, rounding third and heading
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Speaker 1: for first or something like that, a rounding second and
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Speaker 1: third place. It was rounding third and heading for first.
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Speaker 1: So because they had finished third, they were trying to
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Speaker 1: build on the momentum of a third place finish and
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Speaker 1: Hardercourt that was back when the stadium thing was bubbling,
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Speaker 1: and harder Court said, rounding third and heading for Charlotte.
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Speaker 1: Oh god, he would take a steaming dump on their
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Speaker 1: marketing slogan. And the other thing I can I can
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Speaker 1: reveal now because statute of limitations is over. We'd get
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Speaker 1: the hard copy media Guide, which now is online. It's
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Speaker 1: digital and like they still print a couple of them,
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Speaker 1: but used to have the Media Guide and we'd get
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Speaker 1: it at some point during spring training and the guys
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Speaker 1: where it was l halfa, John Greenberger and Mike Vassalo
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Speaker 1: and the crew. They work so hard on it and
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Speaker 1: they try to come up with a cover that's catchy
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Speaker 1: and you're gonna be carrying the book all year, and
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Speaker 1: they try to avoid any mistakes and like typo, there
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Speaker 1: are no typos in those things. That they really really
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Speaker 1: worked hard on editing those things. And then Hardercourt would
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Speaker 1: take the first one that he got and he would
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Speaker 1: make notes in it and draw stuff and have balloons
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Speaker 1: coming out of people's mouths of stuff that they're saying.
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Speaker 1: And in a comic book. It was absolutely a comic book,
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Speaker 1: and it was absolutely some of the funniest stuff. Like
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, we could pull out
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Speaker 1: his his spring training media guide and just laugh at
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Speaker 1: the stuff that he had written. Yeah, but they were
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Speaker 1: twenty five and forty two at that point. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was all fair. Yeah, this is it up quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's good. Yeah, it was. That was
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Speaker 1: pretty good. Now, another stat here, the Bruers playing the
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Speaker 1: White Sox on opening Day. I think this is the
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Speaker 1: fifth time they've played the White Sox as the opening
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Speaker 1: day opponent. But the Birrs are going to play twenty
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Speaker 1: four games in the twenty twenty six championship season before
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Speaker 1: they see a national league team.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that is a wild, wild conundrum. That isving them
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Speaker 5: all up with the American League early.
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Speaker 1: That is wild, But then that's not a bad thing.
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Speaker 1: Since twenty twenty two, the Brewers are one oh two
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Speaker 1: and fifty eight in interleague play. That is a winning
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Speaker 1: percentage of six thirty eight, thanks Bud, And that ties
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Speaker 1: them with the Dodgers for the best record in the
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Speaker 1: Major leagues an interleague play since twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 5: So, Drew, is that a number? Is that a stat
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Speaker 5: that last year they were twenty eight and twenty Well,
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Speaker 5: it is.
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Speaker 1: It's changed the paradigm of like the baseball playoff races everything,
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Speaker 1: because it used to be Cincinnati and Pittsburgh sucked and
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Speaker 1: you played each of them fifteen times, so you could
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Speaker 1: load up and you could be a bad Brewers team
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Speaker 1: and still win ten out of fifteen against total Berger
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Speaker 1: or against you know, yesin that yes, so you had
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Speaker 1: a kind of a baked in whipping boy in the division.
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Speaker 1: You could then do you take that and boom, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to town on that. And then now it's a
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Speaker 1: little bit more you know, equal, and you're playing everybody
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Speaker 1: every year. It's not all the time, but you're flipping
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Speaker 1: the venues like you play the Yankees every year. Now
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Speaker 1: at least it's three games against the Yankees, but you're
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Speaker 1: still seeing them as opposed to those games against the
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Speaker 1: Pirates and your division, like you kind of got sick
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Speaker 1: of Pirates again.
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Speaker 5: Totally agree, totally again like an AHL Central Division. As
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Speaker 5: much as I love much as I love the Admirals,
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Speaker 5: I mean, I see a lot of Rockford in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: All Griffins and wild and Rockford ran Rapids in Iowa,
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Speaker 1: but they stay close because it's travel and they have
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Speaker 1: to and it's fine. But it did change things for
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, and so we have.
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Speaker 5: I think it's a great, a great addition to be
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Speaker 5: able to see all of the stars, be able to have.
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Speaker 1: Them roll in is the number one thing. It's my
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Speaker 1: favorite part.
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Speaker 5: Now, granted I'm my friend Aaron Caroline on the talking
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Speaker 5: text line. It's one of his favorite things. Is I
10:29
Speaker 5: grew up a huge Derek Jeter fan. He only came
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Speaker 5: to Milwaukee one time during my cognizant lifetime, right.
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Speaker 1: Like next year for an All Star Game. Then he
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Speaker 1: came in there. That's true. Yes, all Star Game.
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Speaker 5: Yes, but like at the end of the career when
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Speaker 5: they gave him what the Harley Davidson jacket or something
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Speaker 5: like that, and everyone has given him gifts on his
10:43
Speaker 5: farewell tour, that was it. But now, like whether or
10:48
Speaker 5: not he now they moved into the National League, I
10:50
Speaker 5: wish he would have stayed with the American League Los
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Speaker 5: Angeles team because we would have still been able to
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Speaker 5: see Otani every other year. It also, I think has
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Speaker 5: kind of invalidated some of the you're in in year out. Well,
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Speaker 5: that division is just brutal. I like, well, the NL
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Speaker 5: Central isn't anything. The AL Central is just absolute dog.
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Speaker 5: Now there's a lot of times where there's an eighty
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Speaker 5: seven win team that will win one of the divisions,
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Speaker 5: But it's not just because you're beating up on the
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Speaker 5: same team, because you're rolling through and people have struggled throughout.
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Speaker 5: The White Sox are an interesting foe though, because people
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Speaker 5: will see it and be like, aren't they the worst
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Speaker 5: team that's ever played Major League Baseball? Didn't they lose
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Speaker 5: the most games anyone ever did. Now they're like two
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Speaker 5: years removed from that, and they keep trying to see
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Speaker 5: if they're gonna be able to stack some success and
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Speaker 5: change things up. They're not the Rockies. However, a number
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Speaker 5: of years ago, I remember an opening day when the
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Speaker 5: Rockies were this year's Rockies brutal, and they walked in
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Speaker 5: and I think dropped eleven on.
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Speaker 1: The Brewers on opening Day.
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Speaker 5: So the variance of results here on this day will
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Speaker 5: always be there, and it is true that whenever the
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Speaker 5: games line up, the Brewers have really done well against
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Speaker 5: the America League. And another one that you get to see,
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Speaker 5: we get to dunk on Canada when Toronto comes, and
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Speaker 5: that's very very soon, very very soon.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully you take two or three. Hey, now, Hunter Bombgrouard
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Speaker 1: has a report for us. He's our Brewers correspondent. He's
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Speaker 1: going to join us live after seven o'clock. But let's
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Speaker 1: take a listen to what Hunter prepared for us on
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Speaker 1: this opening day in the good Land on the huddle.
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Speaker 3: Thanks guys, good morning, and happy Opening day.
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Speaker 4: Jacob Mizerowski gets the ball against Shane Smith of the
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Speaker 4: Chicago White Sox today one ten first pitch. Keep in mind,
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Speaker 4: parking lots open at ten ten, gates open at eleven ten.
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Speaker 4: Today first pitches will be thrown by Jordan love and
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Speaker 4: Jordan Stoles, olympian from Wisconsin.
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Speaker 3: A couple of Jordan's throwing.
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Speaker 4: First pitches, and then the official first pitch from Jacob
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Speaker 4: Mizerowski at one ten.
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Speaker 3: Miserowski, this will be his first opening day start.
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Speaker 4: We all know that this is also his first opening
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Speaker 4: day roster that he's made, and it's also going.
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Speaker 3: To be the first opening day he has ever attended.
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Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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Speaker 1: You know, honestly, I don't think I've ever fit into
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Speaker 1: an opening day.
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Speaker 5: I think all my opening days were on TV, you know,
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Speaker 5: I was playing some other sports, doing something else.
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Speaker 4: So it's gonna be kind of fun to finally be
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Speaker 4: at one. We'll see what kind of adrenaline that gives
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Speaker 4: him and how high he can get on that radar gun.
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Speaker 1: All right, Hunts are gonna break some news after seven
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Speaker 1: teas from Haunted, and I think he was the guy
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Speaker 1: out of tease. But all right, how about that? All right? Hunter?
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Speaker 5: Now the Miserowski first opening day, start of the sound,
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Speaker 5: and I can imagine the juices will be flowing. He
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Speaker 5: also said on Open or on McAfee the other day,
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Speaker 5: Drew that like he throws the pitch, he didn't even
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Speaker 5: see it.
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Speaker 1: He's like, well, are you going to challenge these calls?
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Speaker 5: Or he's like, I'm gonna leave that to Bill, because
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Speaker 5: when I throw the ball, I'm just trying to make
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Speaker 5: sure I don't fall down. I don't know if it's
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Speaker 5: a striker a ball. Sometimes I'll see it like wow,
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Speaker 5: that was right on in there. He also talked about
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Speaker 5: that sometimes he kind of blacks out when he goes
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Speaker 5: out out of the mound. E well, just completely just
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Speaker 5: blacks out when he goes out on the mound. I
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Speaker 5: imagine the energy will be at a different peak for him.
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Speaker 5: Last time he took the ball was pretty damn good
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Speaker 5: there in Los Angeles to keep the Brewers in one
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Speaker 5: of those final games.
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Speaker 1: So let's see if he's able to roll that momentum
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Speaker 1: in here. Miss threw a handful of games in spring
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Speaker 1: training didn't exactly dominate. No. Was was thirteen and two
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Speaker 1: thirds innings, twelve hits, eight earned runs, working on things right,
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Speaker 1: eight walks, twenty strikeouts. Twenty strikeouts in thirteen and two
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Speaker 1: thirds pretty good. He gave up one homer, but in
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Speaker 1: his last start and he was decisions. Well, the Brewers
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Speaker 1: were two and two in his starts. But I think
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Speaker 1: that the number that I look at here is the
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Speaker 1: eighty six is how many pitches he threw in his
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Speaker 1: li As Cactus League start against Arizona. So he's stretched
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Speaker 1: and he's ready to go. Then huh, that's right where
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Speaker 1: you want to be because you want on the ramp up.
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Speaker 1: So today, if if they let him, he could go
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Speaker 1: one hundred, they won't because they haven't played in the
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Speaker 1: day and they got it. They have a fresh pen
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Speaker 1: and you you never have like tomorrow, gotta get guys in.
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Speaker 1: So uh, I would hope for me, it's like I
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Speaker 1: just hope the miz makes it through five to qualify
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Speaker 1: for a possible dub.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and and drew as some people hate that number
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Speaker 5: and some people think it's so arbitrary. I still want
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Speaker 5: the guy to win the game, right, not only because
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Speaker 5: he's not my fantasy baseball team, and you get five
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Speaker 5: points for a victory. Uh, but it's a it's another
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Speaker 5: mark to have of being able to No one's gonna
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Speaker 5: be the ace of this staff other than Brandon Woodruff.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 5: But you did have a guy who every single time
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Speaker 5: he took the ball last year, damn near at American
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Speaker 5: Family Field, the team won. And you need to find
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Speaker 5: some kind of stabilizing force at home to make up
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Speaker 5: a little bit of From Freddy Peralta.
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Speaker 1: He is three and oh with a three four four
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Speaker 1: ERA in eight games seven starts at an American Family
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Speaker 1: Field in his career, two and three with a five
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Speaker 1: five two ERA. On the road, he's never faced a
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Speaker 1: White Sox. The one thing about miss and I think
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Speaker 1: we should probably get pretty comfortable with the idea that
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Speaker 1: he's going to be the opening day starter moving forward. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's what it would be
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Speaker 1: the blueprint. And I love Brandon Woodrof, But Brandon Woodroff
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Speaker 1: is the ace, the veteran he's but he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: the best stuff of the rotation. That's fair. Yeah, He's
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Speaker 1: got the most experience and he's beloved and he is
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Speaker 1: the straw that stirs the drink. He's the guy that
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Speaker 1: everybody's going to go to and stuff. But in terms
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Speaker 1: of like the opening day honors like Woodroff could get,
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Speaker 1: he would have gotten it, but it would have been
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Speaker 1: more kind of like honorary. That would have been ceremony
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Speaker 1: in some ways. And so it's interesting because the thing
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Speaker 1: about miss Rowski is that game that he pitched against
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Speaker 1: Schemes when it was a sudden sellout and it was
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Speaker 1: everybody was talking about it like that was high pressure.
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Speaker 1: He pitched in the All Star Game, didn't fill his socks,
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Speaker 1: not at all. Nope, and then he pitched in the
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Speaker 1: playoffs multiple times. Yeah, buzzing guys. It was like, so
17:03
Speaker 1: he can clearly handle the big stage. M hmm. Right.
17:06
Speaker 1: You know, he had some hiccups and he had like
17:08
Speaker 1: some some off nights, which you're gonna do, young pitcherre's
17:11
Speaker 1: gonna ride the way.
17:12
Speaker 5: You're going to get a welcome to the major league
17:13
Speaker 5: moment when mon Soto puts one four hundred and fifty feet,
17:16
Speaker 5: that's a welcome.
17:17
Speaker 1: You're gonna You're gonna have days like that. And he
17:19
Speaker 1: had something he had trouble with the mound on the
17:21
Speaker 1: road sometimes, like they talked about that's right in Cincinnati.
17:24
Speaker 1: Also beat Paul you know, had to head during the
17:26
Speaker 1: season as well. Yeah, so he's you know, for a
17:29
Speaker 1: twenty four guy who turns twenty four next week. Uh,
17:32
Speaker 1: it's just I'm you know, I will if you want
17:37
Speaker 1: to take a futures better something. This is not Jacob
17:39
Speaker 1: Mizerski's only opening day start. No, a far far from
17:44
Speaker 1: be a guy that you probably want to pencil in.
17:47
Speaker 5: Could he think would he be one of the guys now?
17:50
Speaker 5: Picture is just so different and it's it's obviously so volatile.
17:53
Speaker 5: We talked about extension a couple of days ago. Would
17:56
Speaker 5: he be one that you would think they would try
17:58
Speaker 5: to cross the threshold of signing for five years just
18:01
Speaker 5: because it's so.
18:03
Speaker 1: Tough with pitchers, because you know, then you might end
18:06
Speaker 1: up paying a lot for a Temmy John.
18:08
Speaker 5: Here, Yeah, for or you know, Aaron Ashby for a
18:11
Speaker 5: shoulder thing. Now, he's showed so much more in the
18:13
Speaker 5: big leagues, Like it's you're not going to get him
18:15
Speaker 5: for the five year, twenty one million or whatever you got.
18:17
Speaker 1: You do have to look at it, because the Peralta
18:20
Speaker 1: deal was just incredible for the Brewers. What the Brewers
18:22
Speaker 1: got out of par Aalta for the best sports that
18:24
Speaker 1: was the best contract. That makes up for any bad
18:27
Speaker 1: contracts that they give out, and they don't give out
18:29
Speaker 1: a lot of bad contract No. No, you can say
18:32
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, well, you know it makes
18:33
Speaker 1: too much money, Well not really, not in the scheme
18:35
Speaker 1: of things. Rank player in baseball if that, if that, yeah,
18:40
Speaker 1: you know, he's making kind of average for yeah. Around again,
18:44
Speaker 1: it's it's our scale. When a guy makes five million
18:46
Speaker 1: dollars in Milwaukee, you think that's a lot of money,
18:48
Speaker 1: and that's like the average.
18:49
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, it's it's kind of a jump change around
18:51
Speaker 5: the league. He's coming off the bench for the Dodgers
18:53
Speaker 5: place now level.
18:54
Speaker 1: It's the replacement level.
18:56
Speaker 5: We did. We did the breakdown last year. I think
18:58
Speaker 5: Tommy Edmund. Yeah, it was like the eleven. He's like
19:01
Speaker 5: the seventh or eighth highest paid Dodger and he would
19:03
Speaker 5: have been like the second highest paper right behind Yelig
19:07
Speaker 5: but Misserowski thirty to one to win Cy Young. I
19:10
Speaker 5: don't know that that's the spot that he'll be able
19:12
Speaker 5: to nestle in quite yet, but he's definitely one of
19:16
Speaker 5: the most attractive and exciting arms that you're gonna find
19:19
Speaker 5: in the sport. Right Like schemes is obviously gonna get
19:23
Speaker 5: most of the headlines, understandably so, but Misslerowski has the possible,
19:27
Speaker 5: has the opportunity, it feels like to still be the
19:30
Speaker 5: one that teams around or fans around baseball gravitate towards
19:34
Speaker 5: just because of the the clunky nature the all asses
19:38
Speaker 5: and elbows coming at you six foot seven and one
19:40
Speaker 5: hundred and one point four whatever the different stats are
19:43
Speaker 5: of the adjusted fastball velocity. Baseball has right now started
19:50
Speaker 5: to get into a little bit of the clip culture
19:52
Speaker 5: that base that basketball has.
19:54
Speaker 1: Dominated for quite some time, and.
19:57
Speaker 5: Again off of the WBC, baseball is in a spot
20:00
Speaker 5: where it could very much have more of the national
20:04
Speaker 5: attention and the daily attention of the youth because of
20:08
Speaker 5: guys like Misowski who not only opening Pokemon packs and
20:11
Speaker 5: people are losing their minds about I was in.
20:13
Speaker 1: There that day. I walked out like five minutes before
20:15
Speaker 1: he did it.
20:16
Speaker 5: Really, yeah, dang, you could have gotten the digital asset.
20:20
Speaker 1: I was doing other stuff like upload naughty art. Oh okay,
20:23
Speaker 1: I thought I thought you were right. THEE one depends
20:26
Speaker 1: on the series that is pretty wild, pretty well. So
20:29
Speaker 1: we talked like the salaries and the money and the
20:31
Speaker 1: scale of things. When I started covering the Brewers, I
20:36
Speaker 1: was I could comfortably say I was in the same
20:39
Speaker 1: tax bracket as some of the guys in the clubhouse
20:42
Speaker 1: because the minimum salary for rookies was one hundred and
20:45
Speaker 1: nine thousand back then.
20:46
Speaker 5: Wow, seven to eighty, goodness, gracious, is the minimum salary.
20:52
Speaker 1: And that's it's a function of how old I am.
20:54
Speaker 1: But it's also like it's everything's going up. But yeah,
20:57
Speaker 1: seven eighty it was one hundred bone now back in
21:00
Speaker 1: the day. And if you think Christian Yellis is overpaid,
21:02
Speaker 1: put this in your brain. He makes about the same
21:05
Speaker 1: money as Kyle Kuzma. It's unfair to compare baseball players
21:13
Speaker 1: to you know, basketball players. But I'm just saying, oh,
21:17
Speaker 1: give it to me, Ley, I don't have it. Tell
21:20
Speaker 1: me about no cop. Just hilarious that you that you'd
21:25
Speaker 1: roll in with that one. Hey, shout out.
21:26
Speaker 5: Drew Holliday last night made that first basket against his
21:29
Speaker 5: old team.
21:30
Speaker 1: How about that? That was that was all of it.
21:32
Speaker 1: That was all of Bucks Trail players. Ryan Rollins had
21:37
Speaker 1: Ryan Rollins had thirty six, but the Bucks got drilled again.
21:41
Speaker 1: What was that final? The tank continues like what yeah,
21:46
Speaker 1: something like that.
21:46
Speaker 5: On the Inadelphia they put up the graphic of all
21:50
Speaker 5: the guys that were out, and I'm like, wait a second,
21:52
Speaker 5: who is playing? So the Porters was out, JPJ was
21:56
Speaker 5: out obviously Yannis. Throw Miles Turner in there. Kuzma, you
21:59
Speaker 5: might as will take it, take a day off.
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22:32
Speaker 1: damn by bad. Yeah almost almost almost. Dude's being good.
22:45
Speaker 5: An all timer that's up there with the Preacher, will
22:48
Speaker 5: be with the Yams.
22:48
Speaker 1: Chance it's right there. Halftime has arrived on the opening
22:53
Speaker 1: day edition of The Huddle. Scott Dolphin's gon to join
22:56
Speaker 1: us from the country station down the hall. That is
22:58
Speaker 1: next Hunter joins us live at seven o'clock. Ause he
23:01
Speaker 1: gets ready. He's like a kidded Christmas. I can't wait.
23:03
Speaker 1: It's the opening day edition of The Huddle. Fox Sports
23:05
Speaker 1: Radio Wisconsin. Andrew Ludwig on opening days, sitting in for
23:22
Speaker 1: arm and getting us fired up. That's a little flashback
23:25
Speaker 1: for you. It's a last fall. Scott Dolphin, our halftime correspondent,
23:28
Speaker 1: joined this from the country station down the hall.
23:31
Speaker 6: He drew, Hey, Billy, that was so damn much fun.
23:33
Speaker 6: God that game and just to walk out with your
23:36
Speaker 6: chest sober.
23:37
Speaker 1: Eleventh Brewers three Cubs won. Brewers win the series three
23:40
Speaker 1: to two. Credible.
23:42
Speaker 5: The best thing was, now, Dolph, you had a big
23:43
Speaker 5: night that night. I don't know if you fully remember
23:46
Speaker 5: October eleventh, but as you were watching the Brewers win,
23:49
Speaker 5: your eyewah hawkeys were also painting the Wisconsin Badgers at
23:52
Speaker 5: home thirty seven.
23:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, so nothing. I will always remember that scoring and
23:57
Speaker 1: that was shocking.
23:58
Speaker 5: And the biggest part of of that is not only
24:02
Speaker 5: did we get to turn the Once we were done
24:05
Speaker 5: with the local Wisconsin Ford Dealers post game show on
24:07
Speaker 5: the on the Patchers Radio network, the postgame show turned
24:11
Speaker 5: into a little bit of Brewers post game, which was
24:13
Speaker 5: more fun because I had Cubs fan Nick Brucewitz sitting
24:16
Speaker 5: right next to me. So not only did you get
24:19
Speaker 5: to witness the Cubs fan have the worst loss that
24:22
Speaker 5: they were going to inquire man.
24:24
Speaker 1: Tough day for Nick.
24:25
Speaker 5: Nick was going through it, dude, And then I just
24:27
Speaker 5: decided I made the executive decision. Lud.
24:30
Speaker 1: He was back here.
24:30
Speaker 5: I was like, you know what, I don't think we
24:32
Speaker 5: need to hear any more. Iowa sacks, why don't we
24:35
Speaker 5: Why don't we play Bryce Dring's home run one more time?
24:37
Speaker 1: I see if we can need remember battle pay during
24:39
Speaker 1: the broadcast, he goes, yeah, first down was actually at
24:42
Speaker 1: second down. I was sorry, I was watching the Brewers
24:44
Speaker 1: fan That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah. I actually had to
24:47
Speaker 1: catch that on DVR.
24:48
Speaker 6: But I was shocked and stunned when I watched the
24:51
Speaker 6: results of that Wisconsin.
24:52
Speaker 1: Ioway, no, you were not as.
24:54
Speaker 5: Not as stunned When the same defensive lineman pass I
24:58
Speaker 5: literally was like I was out. I am I still
25:01
Speaker 5: from last night. No, that was that's the same guy. Yeah,
25:04
Speaker 5: that was the same guy. That was the same guy
25:06
Speaker 5: I was. That was a hell of an ass whoop.
25:08
Speaker 5: And that's was that when you got the feeling that
25:10
Speaker 5: it might be a long year.
25:11
Speaker 6: And for Bucky well sadly, that was two weeks before
25:14
Speaker 6: that when.
25:16
Speaker 5: The troop Reshman from Maryland went in and just dominated them.
25:19
Speaker 5: But it all got better from there, right, So you
25:22
Speaker 5: had to have that low point to be able to
25:24
Speaker 5: dig us up out of here. We talked about those
25:25
Speaker 5: early two thousands. This twenty twenty six Brewers team twenty
25:29
Speaker 5: twenty five doesn't hit the same if you don't go
25:31
Speaker 5: through the two thousand and two Brewer season, right, you
25:33
Speaker 5: gotta have the valley to really appreciate the peaking year.
25:36
Speaker 6: It was a lot of valleys. It was mostly one
25:38
Speaker 6: big giant valley, wasn't it twenty seven? There was gonna
25:42
Speaker 6: be the peach after a few rays of sunshine. But
25:44
Speaker 6: mostly I think the year they opened Miller Park, didn't
25:46
Speaker 6: they lose one hundred ball games?
25:47
Speaker 1: That was the second year, second year, kah second year
25:50
Speaker 1: they opened the ballpark, one hundred and six franchise record.
25:53
Speaker 5: I think my favorite was everybody's race to get season
25:56
Speaker 5: tickets for year one and then the race to see
25:59
Speaker 5: if you would not renew in the year.
26:01
Speaker 1: Now, well, but they had year two. You had to
26:03
Speaker 1: renew to get the All Star tickets, so they that's right. Yes,
26:05
Speaker 1: there was a lot we gave up our season tickets
26:09
Speaker 1: after year two because we couldn't get rid of them,
26:12
Speaker 1: like once.
26:12
Speaker 6: We had the All Star Game. Yeah, that was fun.
26:15
Speaker 6: I was there that night. I remember my wife dropped
26:17
Speaker 6: me off. I got a last minute ticket and my
26:19
Speaker 6: wife dropped me off at the I Hop on National Avenue,
26:21
Speaker 6: and so I just walked down into the lots and
26:23
Speaker 6: went to the All Star Game and and I was
26:26
Speaker 6: so upset because by the time we got out of
26:28
Speaker 6: there and there was it was a tie. Course at
26:30
Speaker 6: the time I got home or she picked me back,
26:31
Speaker 6: but the I Hop it was like eleven thirty and
26:33
Speaker 6: I was working the next day. That wasn't a really
26:35
Speaker 6: good decision. I saw the All Star Game, you did,
26:37
Speaker 6: are we going to get another one?
26:39
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny that it hasn't come up, And
26:42
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would think it will. Bud
26:45
Speaker 1: ceiling's still with us and it can be there. Yeah,
26:48
Speaker 1: we're due. That's the part of end. It's past time.
26:51
Speaker 1: When will the Bucks get an All Star Game? They've
26:53
Speaker 1: been hosed. They were that one on punting when when
26:55
Speaker 1: they opened five serve it was like, hey, we guarantee
26:58
Speaker 1: you like they said that was part of the Oh
27:00
Speaker 1: they moved those hole posts. Oh you don't have enough hotels.
27:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, if players have any say Milwaukee will never
27:05
Speaker 6: get an NBA that's absolutely true.
27:07
Speaker 1: And ain't got no chance if we lose, if we
27:10
Speaker 1: went thirty four is going. Yeah, they don't generally go
27:14
Speaker 1: to places where your team is just you know, horrible.
27:17
Speaker 1: Now if they haven't been to Sacramento or Oklahoma A
27:19
Speaker 1: good point.
27:20
Speaker 6: Good point you When I lived in California, we go
27:23
Speaker 6: to Sacramento Kings games. And now they have a downtown arena,
27:26
Speaker 6: right because in those days it was in the middle
27:27
Speaker 6: of a freaking lettuce field out in the area nowhere.
27:31
Speaker 6: This was Arco Arena, Arco back back in the day.
27:34
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a bad arena, but it was miles
27:36
Speaker 1: from a thousand miles from nowhere.
27:37
Speaker 6: It was the middle of absolute nowhere. Remember Bobby Hurley
27:40
Speaker 6: almost died because he had an accident out there and
27:43
Speaker 6: he ended up in a drainage ditch that was pretty
27:45
Speaker 6: much outside of Sacramento when he played for the Kings.
27:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just wild. So Doe, if you're an opening
27:50
Speaker 1: day veteran, what tips would you give someone who's going
27:53
Speaker 1: to their first opening day, especially now when everybody's worried
27:56
Speaker 1: the TV thing's been sett a little be we call
27:59
Speaker 1: them that. But then now the Brewers are freaking out
28:02
Speaker 1: about the traffic a little bit. Yeah, the traffic patterns.
28:05
Speaker 6: So much so that they've they've started the new website
28:07
Speaker 6: brewers dot com slash traffic to get you in there, and.
28:12
Speaker 1: They're showing the Uker movie to help people like stagger
28:14
Speaker 1: their exits today so they're not all flooding out. You know,
28:17
Speaker 1: stick around and you get a sneak peek of the
28:18
Speaker 1: new uk around. You watch twenty minutes of ukreb we
28:21
Speaker 1: rush hour is like, while we're sending our people into.
28:24
Speaker 6: Rush hours, Oh did I not think of that? And
28:26
Speaker 6: you know it's a perfect storm with traffic. You've got
28:28
Speaker 6: the nightmare what is ninety four? And all those by
28:30
Speaker 6: ducts are closed. National Avenue is about ready to start
28:33
Speaker 6: a major reconstruction job from thirty ninth down to first. Awful,
28:37
Speaker 6: What you know, what else is there in that area?
28:39
Speaker 6: How's Blue Mount, How's Wisconsin Avenue? Are they doing okay now? Now? Yeah,
28:44
Speaker 6: advice would be to get there early and dress layers
28:48
Speaker 6: and pace yourself on your cocktails in the parking lot
28:51
Speaker 6: because it's easy to have a great time.
28:52
Speaker 1: It's a festive atmosphere. It's almost play off like on
28:54
Speaker 1: opening Days, and it's a it's an amateur ur for a
28:57
Speaker 1: lot of people that go to Opening Day will not
28:58
Speaker 1: go to another baseball game this year, and a lot
29:00
Speaker 1: of people who go to a lot of baseball games
29:02
Speaker 1: avoid Opening Day. Yeah, it's not it's not a good
29:04
Speaker 1: time to bring the family. I talked to a buddy
29:07
Speaker 1: of mine who's a huge peristman. I'm like, he's like,
29:08
Speaker 1: Opening Days not my jam. And then we started talking
29:10
Speaker 1: about it and I told him how our buddy Sas
29:12
Speaker 1: has his tent and he's doing it old school festus
29:14
Speaker 1: is on mine. He's like, I might have to go now,
29:16
Speaker 1: I might have to go. Yeah, well, there you go.
29:19
Speaker 1: There's something I did even think of.
29:20
Speaker 6: Take a bar shuttle because they have access to ye
29:22
Speaker 6: get you into the ballpark. You can't even take a
29:24
Speaker 6: County bus anywhere near that place. And now ride share
29:27
Speaker 6: which used to drop you off right by the footbridge.
29:29
Speaker 6: Good point that that's you're better off walking from home
29:33
Speaker 6: from that place, way far almost.
29:35
Speaker 1: To the bars on bur by the time you're to
29:37
Speaker 1: the ride share bloom, Yeah, you're there, way up there.
29:40
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Yeah, that is true. I did kind of
29:43
Speaker 1: like it when the uber and lyft was kind of
29:47
Speaker 1: over by our where we go in. Yeah, right, convenient
29:49
Speaker 1: right the south dock, Yeah, south do. I'm going to
29:52
Speaker 1: uber there today and I'm weighing my options. Maybe I'll
29:54
Speaker 1: get dropped off at the VA grounds. People forget there's
29:56
Speaker 1: a beautiful path right through just right down to the ballpark.
30:02
Speaker 1: That's a good spot to go.
30:03
Speaker 6: And then you can get dropped off up there by
30:05
Speaker 6: the Humane Society that was at forty fourth and bloom
30:07
Speaker 6: on that and you can walk down the hill into
30:09
Speaker 6: the lots too, So there's options.
30:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're paying for the uber though, it might as
30:13
Speaker 1: well go all the way and get as close as
30:14
Speaker 1: you can. Putting on the weather of course, true, you
30:16
Speaker 1: just don't want to get caught in that nasty traffic.
30:18
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's tough. It'd be nicely. Everybody complains about
30:21
Speaker 1: the hop here in Milwaukee. It's like, why couldn't they
30:24
Speaker 1: have extended that St. Paul and take you right to
30:26
Speaker 1: the ball like anywhere people go. That'd be amazing. Yeah,
30:29
Speaker 1: people would actually use it. They maybe think it costs more, though,
30:32
Speaker 1: maybe canoe up the river? Is that the what is that?
30:34
Speaker 6: The Menomine River? Yeah, Nonminie River. The Hank Aaron Trail,
30:37
Speaker 6: doesn't that? Maybe maybe I could walk the Hank Aaron Trail.
30:40
Speaker 1: Bank Aaron Trail.
30:41
Speaker 5: Fring your bike well, and I can't tell you the
30:43
Speaker 5: amount of times I told my mom, I'm like, now
30:44
Speaker 5: they got a bike trail, I'm gonna bike my way
30:46
Speaker 5: over there.
30:46
Speaker 1: She goes, You're.
30:47
Speaker 5: Absolutely not biking your way fifteen miles over to the game.
30:51
Speaker 1: As on the eleven year old.
30:52
Speaker 6: That thing goes past the ball ering and goes all
30:53
Speaker 6: the way out like to West Allis and beyond, doesn't.
30:55
Speaker 1: It Yep, because it can't pick it up right over here.
30:58
Speaker 1: Do you know who used to famous lee bike to
31:00
Speaker 1: the ballpark? This is probably I was going to say, council.
31:04
Speaker 1: The old Council rode his bike on the spot. The
31:07
Speaker 1: Great Council would occasionally ride his bike to from white
31:10
Speaker 1: Fish white Fish. Really that's phenomenal. Wow.
31:14
Speaker 6: I remember seeing Phil Garner leave on his Harley occasionally,
31:16
Speaker 6: but I didn't know anybody ever bicycle.
31:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, gar was a classic. Gar was a visionary because
31:20
Speaker 1: he helped them sell the ballpark in the mid nineties
31:24
Speaker 1: when they we need a new stadium to compete and then.
31:27
Speaker 1: But his thing was because he had buddies that were
31:29
Speaker 1: developers and that he was involved in real estate deals.
31:31
Speaker 1: And I'd meet all these guys that are buddies of
31:33
Speaker 1: his ands, like, oh, yeah, there's the guys the downtown
31:36
Speaker 1: in Denver, like whatever that the sixteenth Street mall. That's
31:41
Speaker 1: kind of like a that's nice. He was like he
31:44
Speaker 1: was with those guys. He had, he had money in
31:46
Speaker 1: with these guys. He met these guys when he's playing
31:47
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh and he was part owner of like an
31:49
Speaker 1: ice rink and a bunch of stuff, and he started
31:52
Speaker 1: getting the development and he would ride his Harley down there.
31:54
Speaker 1: He's like, they should take this river and put water
31:57
Speaker 1: taxis on it and have people go up and down
31:59
Speaker 1: and put a casino on there and he's like, they
32:00
Speaker 1: should develop this whole valley because he would ride down there.
32:03
Speaker 1: It's been amazing. He goes, they need to clean this up,
32:05
Speaker 1: and he saw the vision for it, and then he
32:08
Speaker 1: basically had title town in his mind around the ballpark
32:11
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, you'd have hotels and bars, and
32:14
Speaker 1: they do it in St.
32:14
Speaker 5: Louis at Ballpark Village. Village is really really cool.
32:19
Speaker 1: We were there last town District up in Green Bay.
32:21
Speaker 1: It's like, that is it's cool.
32:22
Speaker 6: And I know they floated the idea of downtown park
32:25
Speaker 6: when before they built Miller Park, but obviously you'd lose
32:28
Speaker 6: your tail getting but it was the course field is
32:31
Speaker 6: fantastic and you can have tacos and beers on the
32:34
Speaker 6: sidewalk a couple of blocks away.
32:36
Speaker 1: That's what we did, and you can just walk right
32:37
Speaker 1: down the street. And Baltimore has its own yeah, Camden
32:40
Speaker 1: Yards And that was like the original, wasn't it was
32:43
Speaker 1: the original town Ballpark Modern looked like Ebbitttsfield fantastic. But yeah,
32:48
Speaker 1: originally the there was talk about putting the Bradley Center
32:53
Speaker 1: right down there by the ballpark, right by what at
32:56
Speaker 1: then County stadium, like they wanted to have a Bradley
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Speaker 1: Center there and make a sports comp like they have
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Speaker 1: in other cities. Yeah, Oakland had that for years, Kansas City, Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: and they ended up putting it downtown. But and then
33:06
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people like they should have put
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Speaker 1: the ballpark downtown. I was like, well, then the Brewers
33:09
Speaker 1: don't get twenty five bucks a car. And that's part
33:10
Speaker 1: of the reason they want the stadium.
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Speaker 5: Like, correct, that's a huge part of it. To make
33:14
Speaker 5: sure that you're getting the parking.
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Speaker 1: And they would have had to have given the Brewers
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Speaker 1: like lots downtown and let them have the revenue from it.
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Speaker 6: You wouldn't be able to replicate what you have now
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Speaker 6: now you wouldn't the money, and those wouldn't be the experience.
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Speaker 1: That was it. It's like, we want to preserve the
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Speaker 1: tradition of tailgating for our fans, you know, you want
33:28
Speaker 1: to preserve the tradition of twenty five cash out when
33:31
Speaker 1: they play the Cubs. It's fifty yeah, Like that's what
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Speaker 1: you always preserve. It's probably fifty today too, right.
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Speaker 5: Probably the little bit of a ballpark village would have
33:39
Speaker 5: been a hitter, though, because the dream of what the
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Speaker 5: Deer District turned into. Could you imagine with all of
33:44
Speaker 5: the NLCS runs in the early two thousand and eight
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Speaker 5: when we had to go to the Summerfest grounds to
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Speaker 5: have Solomon Torres give the speech. If that was right
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Speaker 5: there with the arena on one side and the stadium
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Speaker 5: on this one, that have been phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: They could still do it, like they could still do
33:57
Speaker 1: a ballpark village and have a little amphitheater kind of
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Speaker 1: thing for a little maybe some shows and stuff. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I watch parties when the team's on the
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Speaker 1: road right in the shadow of the ballpark what was
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Speaker 1: the sausage house originally for it. I feel like that
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Speaker 1: thing in that area is where events space. I just
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Speaker 1: feel like that's an underutilized area the total Oh true, Yes,
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Speaker 1: no enough landover there to do some cool.
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Speaker 6: That's where we park all the time. And you're right,
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Speaker 6: it is underutilized. You know, occasionally you'll see private parties
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Speaker 6: in there, but for the most part, it's the place
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Speaker 6: where you know the bike cops and fire.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, which is great, and then you can see the
34:31
Speaker 5: every once in a while you'll get the horse cops
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Speaker 5: over there. So yeah, you have a chance to walk
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Speaker 5: the beauties.
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Speaker 1: For the high fashion games, playoff games and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: I have. I have a kind of a remote hidden
34:42
Speaker 1: parking spot, little secrets, and I have to walk in
34:45
Speaker 1: and I walk by the ocean of people tailgating stuff
34:48
Speaker 1: and it's awesome. Like, you know, I happened to be
34:50
Speaker 1: walking in the day our previous station got shut down.
34:53
Speaker 1: I had a lot of people offering me bores and condolences,
34:57
Speaker 1: a lot of people playing for l Monday night the
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Speaker 1: playoff game. Yeah yeah, basically that was the Monday night
35:04
Speaker 1: of the playoff game. Was that whole right stretch? Yeah,
35:07
Speaker 1: bloody stretch. Yeah, so it was, you know, but I
35:10
Speaker 1: when I to park in my secret spot, it is
35:12
Speaker 1: cool to walk through. And again, Billy, we talked about it.
35:14
Speaker 1: You get the flavor of the pregame.
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Speaker 5: You got to get that little bit of a taste
35:18
Speaker 5: as I never got to experience that because as a
35:20
Speaker 5: when you're in the baseball media, you're at the ballpark
35:22
Speaker 5: three and a half hours before the first pitch and
35:24
Speaker 5: it's just dead, and it's like it's and instead when
35:27
Speaker 5: you get there, you're seeing Dolf's friends lined up in
35:29
Speaker 5: the park and you're like what on earth are these guys?
35:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's why.
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Speaker 6: I you know, even for football, my brother, wait, why
35:37
Speaker 6: don't you come up with the press box or or sit
35:39
Speaker 6: on press roll for basketball, I don't have any desire.
35:41
Speaker 1: If you want to drink, I want to be able
35:43
Speaker 1: to scream and drink and have party. Yeah, I have
35:45
Speaker 1: a good time.
35:46
Speaker 5: How's the how's the confidence for uh, for for the
35:49
Speaker 5: brother rolling into uh rolling into tonight.
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Speaker 1: Uh, they're confident.
35:53
Speaker 6: I mean they know that it's it's probably going to
35:55
Speaker 6: be an incredibly tight game because they played twice this
35:57
Speaker 6: year awesome Iowa won by four and then.
35:58
Speaker 1: Nebraska won in overtime out in Lincoln. So these are
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Speaker 1: really two evenly matched teams with the get after each other,
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Speaker 1: physical and typical Big ten ball. That's that region is
36:10
Speaker 1: three out of the four Big Ten right because Illinois
36:12
Speaker 1: is also in Houston.
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Speaker 5: Yep, Illinois is in Houston. I am hoping they go
36:16
Speaker 5: down here tonight. But they played the Kog's, they played
36:18
Speaker 5: the Coogs. They played my man Calvin Samson and coach
36:21
Speaker 5: was was phenomenal when he was in Milwaukee. But uh,
36:25
Speaker 5: I think that's gonna be the game of the night
36:27
Speaker 5: and I'll be honest with Dolph. I hope I'm not
36:29
Speaker 5: Jenson yet. I like the Hawks. Oh, thanks, Bill, I
36:31
Speaker 5: like the Hawks here tonight, I'm cheering for you guys
36:34
Speaker 5: in the Battle of Corn.
36:34
Speaker 6: Appreciate that be the first time they went to an
36:37
Speaker 6: Elite eight since like eighty seven or eighty eight.
36:39
Speaker 1: It's been a long time. Wow, is that Ronnie Leicster.
36:42
Speaker 1: That was not Ronnie Lester.
36:44
Speaker 6: That was a team that had five NBA players, bj Armstrong,
36:46
Speaker 6: Brad low House, Gamble, Roy Marble, who's the all time
36:50
Speaker 6: was the all time league score in Iowa history in Tim.
36:52
Speaker 1: Bradlaughhus, the original Vanilla Gorilla. Yes, of the original Yes,
36:56
Speaker 1: I think he was at Iowa six years.
36:58
Speaker 6: Loud Olsen recruited him, and then he just stayed through
37:00
Speaker 6: George Raveling in doctor Tom Davis and.
37:02
Speaker 5: Then when my man Joel PRIs Bill I got that nickname.
37:04
Speaker 5: I had never thought there was a more appropriate nickname
37:07
Speaker 5: because that was the largest human beings.
37:10
Speaker 1: He was massive. Wow, Ronnie Lester popped into my head.
37:13
Speaker 1: He was drafted in the NBA in nineteen eighty. Yeah,
37:16
Speaker 1: that was I was the last Final four team drew.
37:17
Speaker 1: He was a first round pick. He was.
37:19
Speaker 6: He tore his knee up his senior year in college.
37:21
Speaker 6: He was never seen that, I mean until then. He
37:22
Speaker 6: was really the best point guard in America and still
37:25
Speaker 6: almost willed them to beat Louisville in the semi finals
37:28
Speaker 6: that year, and then Louisville want it all with doctor Duncanstein.
37:31
Speaker 1: That's Keryl Griffith, Eryl Griffith, great nickname, Doctor Duncans. That's great.
37:34
Speaker 1: So they had a lot of dunkers on those Louisville
37:36
Speaker 1: teams in the eighties. Outstanding doll. Thanks for hanging out
37:39
Speaker 1: with us at halftime. Enjoy the ballpark today. Maybe we
37:41
Speaker 1: have to find you out there. Yeah, we'll be there.
37:43
Speaker 1: You know where, you know where to find me.
37:44
Speaker 5: I'll see see you by the bear ten over in
37:46
Speaker 5: section just outside in the right field.
37:49
Speaker 1: Right lows bar. That's it. That's where he'll be. All right,
37:52
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take a quick break. Hunter Bombguart's
37:54
Speaker 1: going to join us after seven. He has an announcement programming.
37:58
Speaker 1: We're talking an announcement of some significance from Hunter Bombgart
38:01
Speaker 1: when we come back after seven o'clock. It's the Huddle.
38:04
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Oh, the Thievery Brewers beat the
38:10
Speaker 1: A's that day, fourteen to one. That was Easter Sunday,
38:15
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Speaker 5: And shout out to all of our Brewers TV brethrens
38:29
Speaker 5: for rolling through and going through a questionable and tumultuous
38:34
Speaker 5: couple of months, right, I mean, like, I think there's
38:37
Speaker 5: obviously some questions and a lot of things up in
38:39
Speaker 5: the air, but from the spring spring training broadcast Drew,
38:43
Speaker 5: you would not have known that they had any question
38:46
Speaker 5: or there was ever any flux. They were spot on.
38:49
Speaker 5: They were hitting it out of the park. And I'm
38:51
Speaker 5: also glad and kudos to the Brewers for doing it.
38:54
Speaker 5: Keeping the entire broadcast team oh yeah, right, like everybody
38:57
Speaker 5: that you've come to know and love be a Jeff Dilly,
39:01
Speaker 5: Vinnie Rock obviously is the mainstay right there, but Sophia
39:05
Speaker 5: has just become a part of Brewers Baseball as well.
39:08
Speaker 5: I'm really really glad that everybody's gonna be back in
39:10
Speaker 5: the saddle once again.
39:12
Speaker 1: From the Nicola Lott, I'm talking text on eight seven
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Speaker 1: seven seven three. Rob said, there we were talking about
39:17
Speaker 1: biking to American Family Field. All right, here we go.
39:20
Speaker 1: Rob said, there are group bike rides from Madison to
39:23
Speaker 1: Brewers games. It's on my list that bicycle or bike
39:28
Speaker 1: pretty bike rides from Madison to a Brewers. Holy cow,
39:34
Speaker 1: that's like it's like a day. Yeah, that's a that's
39:37
Speaker 1: a day. Do you enjoy the game after the ride?
39:41
Speaker 1: I mean I would if you really got to enjoy
39:43
Speaker 1: some gold BoNT after that, Like that's all. That's all.
39:47
Speaker 5: So I know, I'm fat and sweaty, Like that's all
39:50
Speaker 5: I can think of if I'm biking in them shorts
39:53
Speaker 5: for what seventy miles? Yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna
39:57
Speaker 5: be a tough that's gonna be a tough toe. That's
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Speaker 5: it's gonna be a tough toe. Rob.
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Speaker 1: Proud of you, man, proud of you. Now. I would go.
40:03
Speaker 1: I would bike from like Potawatamie to the to the game.
40:06
Speaker 1: I would just uber, yeah, yeah about uh yeah, you're
40:10
Speaker 1: right hill, there's no yeah, all the way up there.
40:13
Speaker 1: Yeah you're right yea. My most forgettable opening day experience
40:17
Speaker 1: came when a pal of mine who's now a prominent
40:21
Speaker 1: local attorney. We left the game and like the seventh
40:24
Speaker 1: inning because it was cold and we were hammered, and
40:26
Speaker 1: we hadn't we had gotten a ride to the game,
40:30
Speaker 1: So we climbed the fence and one on nine ninety
40:32
Speaker 1: four and hitchhiked downtown. Wait what and a guy picked
40:35
Speaker 1: us up. That's how drunk we were. Yeah, oh, my
40:39
Speaker 1: guy picked us. A guy pulled over and picked us
40:40
Speaker 1: up in the seventh inning. It wasn't that there wasn't
40:42
Speaker 1: a lot of traffic that afternoon, but we were standing
40:45
Speaker 1: on the side of the freeway hitchhiking and there were
40:47
Speaker 1: no lights on that car either. Especially again, kids, what
40:50
Speaker 1: was life like pre uber Dad?
40:51
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that's the uh what that's the the trend
40:55
Speaker 5: of dad. What were you like in the nineties.
40:57
Speaker 1: So we did not get arrested then, which we sure
41:00
Speaker 1: because you can't hike on the side of the freeway
41:03
Speaker 1: or jump up fence to get out of the County stadium.
41:05
Speaker 1: Then we were We made our way to a bunch
41:07
Speaker 1: of different bars downtown and then we for some reason
41:11
Speaker 1: started to wrestle in a medium right on Juno kind
41:13
Speaker 1: of over by the harp over there, and then a
41:15
Speaker 1: police carcamee and they it's like, we're not really fighting,
41:18
Speaker 1: we're friends. It's okay, and they're like, you know, clean
41:21
Speaker 1: it up, ye, take it inside somewhere. Get the royal
41:24
Speaker 1: rumble off the Juno media. Three times we were almost
41:26
Speaker 1: arrested that day. That is awesome. Wow, I don't remember.
41:32
Speaker 1: There was one. No clue.
41:34
Speaker 5: Oh man, I love Opening Day.
41:37
Speaker 1: That's absolutely Yeah. There's a little uh, there's an addendum
41:41
Speaker 1: to the story I will share with you guys off
41:42
Speaker 1: the air. Yeah, but it's it's gonna be awesome when
41:46
Speaker 1: we come back. Hunter Bombguart is going to join the
41:49
Speaker 1: party with an announcement of some significance.
41:51
Speaker 5: I got a weird feeling. Hunter has never had that situation.
41:54
Speaker 5: I hope I can guarantee he has not. And we
41:56
Speaker 5: will uh, we'll be right back. Hunter is gonna have
41:58
Speaker 5: some for us.
41:59
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Opening Day, we'll talk about the Brewers,
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Speaker 1: and he'll have an announcement about you're gonna love this.
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Speaker 1: Keep it right here. It's the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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