Latest / The Huddle / 07/23/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Thursday, Thursday and a Friday Junior Meet the Huddle on
- 0:04Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. What's going on Wisconsin Madison ten
- 0:08Speaker 1: seventy AM, nine to twenty In Milwaukee, it is five
- 0:12Speaker 1: oh three in the good Land, but we're gonna take
- 0:14Speaker 1: you all the way to eight. That is armand sorry,
- 0:16Speaker 1: and I'm Billy schmid Arman. It it's crazy when Drew
- 0:20Speaker 1: Olsen is off that these weeks we kind of dread
- 0:23Speaker 1: because it is. It's it's tough to do the show
- 0:26Speaker 1: without your fearless leader, it without your quarterback. But much
- 0:30Speaker 1: like the Malik Willis Games, I think the people around
- 0:35Speaker 1: everyone else, the community of the locker room, generally pick
- 0:39Speaker 1: up their entire performance. I gotta give you a round
- 0:42Speaker 1: of applause, sir. You've been phenomenal these first three days.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Now we got two more to get through. I appreciate it.
- 0:48Speaker 1: So let's continue to grind because we don't want to
- 0:50Speaker 1: know what has happened and what went down, what went
- 0:53Speaker 1: down in December. Packers and Bears. Oh yeah, we can't
- 0:57Speaker 1: rest on our laurels. We can't be up sixteen to
- 1:00Speaker 1: and then go slide down the back of the dinosaur.
- 1:02Speaker 1: But we're doing pretty well here today on day number four,
- 1:04Speaker 1: I would agree with that we are.
- 1:06Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how it is for you,
- 1:09Speaker 2: but sometimes that's when you eat a wall at some
- 1:11Speaker 2: point in the week.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Is a day three to day four? Is it?
- 1:13Speaker 2: Depending on your schedule during the week. But I appreciate
- 1:16Speaker 2: the kind of words. Although William, we got to play
- 1:19Speaker 2: four corners here, I don't understand. I don't want to
- 1:21Speaker 2: declare victory. I don't want to start putting up banners
- 1:23Speaker 2: early here. I don't want to declare victory. So you know,
- 1:27Speaker 2: we'll hope for the best here in the last two
- 1:29Speaker 2: days that we can. We can run through the tape.
- 1:31Speaker 2: I mean, listen, everyone can run three hundred meters? Can
- 1:34Speaker 2: they run four hundred meters?
- 1:36Speaker 1: Is that? Isn't that what the coach said in Tract I.
- 1:38Speaker 1: I never made it. I wasn't on a track team,
- 1:39Speaker 1: but I will tell you that's probably it because I've
- 1:41Speaker 1: seen a number of folks hit about that three hundred
- 1:44Speaker 1: and sixty meter mark and then realized that the last
- 1:46Speaker 1: forty was, uh was where you're really out of the zero.
- 1:50Speaker 1: That was where it really got punctuated. So we bring
- 1:52Speaker 1: in hunter bombguard later on today to help us out
- 1:54Speaker 1: and he'll discuss the series that was with the Brewers
- 1:57Speaker 1: and Mets. Is the crew pick up on another come
- 2:00Speaker 1: from behind win yesterday and hang on in the ninth
- 2:04Speaker 1: inning four to three the final Trevor McGill gives up
- 2:06Speaker 1: one in the ninth inning. Now, it's been a while
- 2:08Speaker 1: since McGill has been given up a run, so it
- 2:10Speaker 1: felt a little bit strange to see any traffic against
- 2:13Speaker 1: the Brewers closer. However, all's well, that ends well, and
- 2:17Speaker 1: ends with the Brewers dub and ends with you now
- 2:19Speaker 1: waking up today once again seven games up in the division,
- 2:23Speaker 1: because thank you, as you continue to need a little
- 2:27Speaker 1: bit of help every once in a while, Detroit Tigers
- 2:30Speaker 1: win two or three from Chicago and continue to keep
- 2:32Speaker 1: them a little bit at bet. Nice to see.
- 2:34Speaker 2: That was great in a very important week for the Tigers.
- 2:37Speaker 2: So you'd figured they'd be motivated, but you know, the
- 2:39Speaker 2: cub should be two. So that was good to see
- 2:41Speaker 2: the Tigers get two out of three and the Brewers
- 2:43Speaker 2: to finish off the Mets to win the series. They
- 2:45Speaker 2: kind of edge them, you know, they had the opportunities
- 2:47Speaker 2: they missed yesterday. It felt like is this going to
- 2:50Speaker 2: come back to butt them, But once again, the train
- 2:52Speaker 2: keeps rolling. Somehow, some way, the Brewers get it done.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Not always pretty billy, but not always ugly either. I mean, listen,
- 2:58Speaker 2: there were some great moments yesterday, and the Brewers find
- 3:00Speaker 2: a way once again at two or three and just
- 3:02Speaker 2: keep winning series, which is not you know, it's something
- 3:06Speaker 2: we're getting used to, which is fantastic, and we've gotten
- 3:08Speaker 2: used to. But it's not that easy. But it's great
- 3:11Speaker 2: to make the remarkable seem unremarkable, which is what we
- 3:14Speaker 2: always would say about Aaron and Giannis and those guys.
- 3:16Speaker 2: And the Brewers are doing it as a team now,
- 3:18Speaker 2: and especially the the new star of the team, I
- 3:21Speaker 2: won't say a new star, but the emerging star, Joey Ortiz.
- 3:24Speaker 1: What a weapon. I'm calling him the weapon. That's my
- 3:26Speaker 1: nickname for Joey Ortiz, going forward, trying everything. I already
- 3:30Speaker 1: tweeted it once today.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I mean, that was amazing, right, ed Arvind Sorry, I
- 3:34Speaker 2: already already it was amazing this morning.
- 3:37Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I love it.
- 3:38Speaker 2: It's a weapon. But Homer short of the cycle yesterday,
- 3:42Speaker 2: and I love it. He got they booed the fact
- 3:44Speaker 2: that he got walked here. They were looking for the cycle.
- 3:46Speaker 2: The fans were looking for the cycle last night.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Yeah, at least if the guy a chance at it,
- 3:50Speaker 1: he can't. He made he talked after the game, and uh,
- 3:53Speaker 1: I do like the Brewers and their immediate relations department.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Hunter and the boys are now talking to the guys
- 3:58Speaker 1: in front of a pretty we backdrop, you know, maybe
- 4:02Speaker 1: outside of their locker, huddled up blocking somebody else's view
- 4:05Speaker 1: of or access to their locker. So they've they've got
- 4:08Speaker 1: a nice little spot where guys are getting walked over to.
- 4:11Speaker 1: And Joey Ortiz walked over and discussed it with uh
- 4:14Speaker 1: the fellas yesterday, and some of the videos are all
- 4:18Speaker 1: the same, most of them are similar, whatever point of
- 4:21Speaker 1: the conversation you pick it up at of it really
- 4:24Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me where I'm playing, as long as
- 4:27Speaker 1: I'm on the team and I'm helping out. And then
- 4:30Speaker 1: to be able to have that come to fruition, man,
- 4:33Speaker 1: when your job gets thrown to somebody else is uh.
- 4:37Speaker 1: We used to joke about it with Jake Bowers. Now
- 4:40Speaker 1: hard to joke about it with Jake Bowers. He's in
- 4:41Speaker 1: the midst of a career year yeah, bit of a
- 4:43Speaker 1: slump in that career year that we're for Jake Powers.
- 4:46Speaker 1: So this week's its gonna it's gonna be there's gonna
- 4:47Speaker 1: be some some rocky moments. But that right when it
- 4:52Speaker 1: got worse for for Jake Bowers and somebody was potentially
- 4:55Speaker 1: going to swipe in that twenty fifth roster spot, Jake
- 4:58Speaker 1: Bowers would go three or four and have a great weed.
- 5:01Speaker 1: He'd find a way where Joey Ortiz. Right in the
- 5:04Speaker 1: nick of time, as the trade deadline is going to
- 5:07Speaker 1: be approaching in a couple of weeks, you just bring
- 5:09Speaker 1: up a fifty million dollar man to take the short
- 5:11Speaker 1: stop spot. It's like, actually, you know what, why don't
- 5:13Speaker 1: I see if I can grab any bit of this
- 5:16Speaker 1: bat ability and all of a sudden lock up this
- 5:19Speaker 1: third base pot and I can be your huckleberry and
- 5:20Speaker 1: I can be your mid season acquisition. Because I don't
- 5:23Speaker 1: know that we anticipated this kind of jolt offensively from
- 5:26Speaker 1: three once he went over to a three B.
- 5:29Speaker 2: No, not at all, And it was one of those
- 5:31Speaker 2: things you kind of, you know, held that lottery ticket
- 5:33Speaker 2: hope for in the back of your mind, saying, well,
- 5:36Speaker 2: third base is where he hit the ball the best,
- 5:38Speaker 2: but there was, you know, and that's always a tough
- 5:40Speaker 2: thing because it's one of those baseball things that makes
- 5:43Speaker 2: no logical sense. So you couldn't figure out, you know,
- 5:46Speaker 2: as as our fearless leader drewe Olsen would say, that's
- 5:50Speaker 2: the logic was flawed or non flawed. You couldn't find
- 5:54Speaker 2: why that logic would work right. It doesn't make much
- 5:56Speaker 2: sense in terms of you know, if a guy's playing
- 5:58Speaker 2: a different position sixty feet over, why should he hit
- 6:00Speaker 2: the ball better? But for some reason, it seems to
- 6:03Speaker 2: be that way for Joey Ortiz. And you know, I've
- 6:08Speaker 2: been complimenting him so much for the way he's handled
- 6:11Speaker 2: this change, the transition quote unquote losing a job at shortstop.
- 6:15Speaker 2: But maybe maybe he doesn't mind it in the back
- 6:17Speaker 2: of his mind saying, you know what, I'm hitting better here,
- 6:20Speaker 2: so I'm not so mad about it. So he has
- 6:23Speaker 2: handled it great. He has been better with the bat
- 6:26Speaker 2: at third base. But yeah, to your point, Billy, no
- 6:28Speaker 2: rhyme or reason why, Like, there's no straight logical reason
- 6:31Speaker 2: why you should other than maybe I don't know, to
- 6:35Speaker 2: short stop taking that much more focus away. Mentally, I'm
- 6:38Speaker 2: sure he wouldn't say that. I'm sure he would never
- 6:40Speaker 2: agree that he's focused more at the plate now rather
- 6:42Speaker 2: than he was.
- 6:43Speaker 1: A month ago.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Sure, it just seems to be happening for him right
- 6:45Speaker 2: now and the time. Hey, And that's what's great about
- 6:48Speaker 2: this team is the Brewers have needed that bat. He's
- 6:50Speaker 2: come through multiple times in the last few weeks. And
- 6:54Speaker 2: there's gonna probably be a time when it's gonna be
- 6:55Speaker 2: somebody else, and well it has been and it's gonna
- 6:58Speaker 2: be somebody else. So this team continues to pick each
- 7:01Speaker 2: other up through all these kind of force they're navigating
- 7:05Speaker 2: to continue to win games.
- 7:06Speaker 1: And Joey's been that guy.
- 7:07Speaker 2: He's been able to do that and now growing confidence
- 7:10Speaker 2: at the plate, which is a great thing because now
- 7:12Speaker 2: I can step up leaving okay, because he's always in
- 7:14Speaker 2: those big moments, we know that, yeah, he's there.
- 7:17Speaker 1: He generally does just find himself in big moments. There's
- 7:21Speaker 1: not a whole lot of nobody on two outs ever
- 7:25Speaker 1: for him up four that he ends up at the plate.
- 7:27Speaker 2: And yesterday the triple he got, which was also like
- 7:29Speaker 2: it's nice to get a break once in a while.
- 7:31Speaker 2: M I mean, that was that was kind of a
- 7:33Speaker 2: train record, right.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Make your own good fortune.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Yeah, he caught that break, but you know, that was
- 7:38Speaker 2: another situation where okay, the Brewers had a couple hour
- 7:40Speaker 2: with no out, they were in danger of squandering into
- 7:43Speaker 2: the rally, and Joey came in with the big hit
- 7:45Speaker 2: and and kind of saved them in that inning because
- 7:48Speaker 2: they had a couple other ones like that. And it's
- 7:50Speaker 2: maybe a growing concern, but it is what it is.
- 7:52Speaker 2: You know, we're just nitpicking. But so those situations, Joways
- 7:55Speaker 2: come up big and it's just great to see. And
- 7:58Speaker 2: the thing that was constant, well two things were in
- 8:00Speaker 2: my opinion. The thing that was constant for him through
- 8:02Speaker 2: his struggles or his defense obviously, like that was the
- 8:05Speaker 2: number one, number one thing you could come on with
- 8:07Speaker 2: his defense, and that was sustaining him. That was sustaining
- 8:09Speaker 2: his position, his confidence, his value to the team. He
- 8:13Speaker 2: and he made a couple other other great defensive plays
- 8:16Speaker 2: yesterday had that bunt and then of course end the
- 8:18Speaker 2: game of the dive. And I think the attitude and
- 8:20Speaker 2: the attitude is the second one. He's handled all this
- 8:22Speaker 2: stuff with a great attitude. The approach yesterday once again
- 8:25Speaker 2: he said it my I'm part of the team. That's
- 8:28Speaker 2: my role in whatever way I can be part of
- 8:30Speaker 2: it and help the team win is my goal. You know,
- 8:32Speaker 2: attitude can determine outcome and he's a great example that
- 8:34Speaker 2: and that's lesson for all of us.
- 8:36Speaker 1: So he's handled everything great.
- 8:37Speaker 2: And uh, now, like I said, Billy the weapon, he's
- 8:40Speaker 2: become a weapon now for this team instead of a
- 8:42Speaker 2: liability where you have other guys. You have Cooper in
- 8:44Speaker 2: the role at second, who's done a good job. I
- 8:46Speaker 2: think you know, his offense is gonna come and go.
- 8:49Speaker 2: And then now you have Joey, who, at what point
- 8:51Speaker 2: was the hole in your lineup. Now you're looking at
- 8:52Speaker 2: him as like, wow, look at this guy we have
- 8:54Speaker 2: in this kind of hybrid bench role.
- 8:56Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, and if you can if you can
- 8:58Speaker 1: make sure and know that he he's gonna be a
- 9:01Speaker 1: somewhat constant in that lineup and that you have then
- 9:05Speaker 1: the ability once Hamilton comes back, to really just pick
- 9:09Speaker 1: and choose your matchups. And I do think and this
- 9:12Speaker 1: is gonna be a tough one because when you watch
- 9:15Speaker 1: somebody over the last week and a half, two weeks,
- 9:18Speaker 1: last fifteen days, hit three, twenty four, the last week
- 9:21Speaker 1: hit over four hundred and a guy that didn't have
- 9:23Speaker 1: an extra base hit for the first two months of
- 9:25Speaker 1: the year. That's the that's the other part of the
- 9:29Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz offensive outburst. He had no doubles, no triples,
- 9:36Speaker 1: no homers until the first extra base hit he hits
- 9:41Speaker 1: is a double on May May eighth. Like, that's a
- 9:46Speaker 1: heck of a run to then all of a sudden
- 9:49Speaker 1: in a week's time now here in the middle of July,
- 9:52Speaker 1: after a position change, you go a seven day span
- 9:56Speaker 1: where you have well in a game where you have
- 9:57Speaker 1: a double and a triple, you got two bombs. You dry,
- 10:00Speaker 1: I've in six and a fourteen ops. So it's a
- 10:04Speaker 1: little bit stark of a difference, but a lot of
- 10:07Speaker 1: it is because of one thing that you mentioned there.
- 10:09Speaker 1: You control the controllable. Coaches will always like to say.
- 10:12Speaker 1: One thing you can control is your attitude. Yes, and
- 10:16Speaker 1: the energy that you bring into the clubhouse each day
- 10:19Speaker 1: is gonna be looked at and checked by pretty much
- 10:21Speaker 1: everybody else that shows up as well. And when you
- 10:25Speaker 1: match the good vibes that are in there and add
- 10:27Speaker 1: to it, people want good things for you. And luckily
- 10:30Speaker 1: we got some good things from Joey Ortis three hits yesterday,
- 10:33Speaker 1: and you mentioned a couple of great gems defensively. As
- 10:37Speaker 1: Jeff Levering capped off the game on the radio call
- 10:40Speaker 1: yesterday said that it's officially the Joey Artis game. Cool
- 10:44Speaker 1: for that to be the punctuation mark on a game. Yesterday,
- 10:47Speaker 1: the Brewers went at four to three, and they also
- 10:50Speaker 1: now have once again they're what a half game behind
- 10:54Speaker 1: LA for the number one overall seed. The NL East
- 10:58Speaker 1: is the one that you can also look at if
- 11:00Speaker 1: you're trying to watch into the positioning going forward, that
- 11:05Speaker 1: the Brewers sit what now five and a half games
- 11:07Speaker 1: up uh in that department over the division leader in
- 11:11Speaker 1: the NL E. So that's for the BUYE and that's
- 11:14Speaker 1: gonna be one of the other races that you start
- 11:15Speaker 1: watching and keeping an eye on because we're getting inside
- 11:19Speaker 1: of the sixty games sprint to the finish and the
- 11:21Speaker 1: Brewers are going to be once again in position to
- 11:23Speaker 1: host more playoff games at American Family Field, which is
- 11:26Speaker 1: an exciting thing, but not have to do that stupid
- 11:28Speaker 1: three game series like that is uh. I've read some
- 11:33Speaker 1: iould say and hearing some rhetoric and I'm gonna have
- 11:37Speaker 1: to verify all of it before I, you know, get
- 11:40Speaker 1: two hot and bothered.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Way why you don't want to become Pat Beverly. Yeah,
- 11:45Speaker 2: I want to tell oh, he got senteled yesterday. Oh no,
- 11:48Speaker 2: what did you get some teal on what wasn't sentel?
- 11:50Speaker 2: But he got a bad source and say Lebron that
- 11:52Speaker 2: said Lebron was gonna announce.
- 11:54Speaker 1: I think, oh, that he was gonna announced. He put
- 11:56Speaker 1: up a YouTube string.
- 11:56Speaker 2: He said something that he's like, oh man, I can't
- 11:58Speaker 2: believe my source was bad, and it's like you're just
- 12:01Speaker 2: one of us now, Pat bevk.
- 12:03Speaker 1: The sources say the Miami Heater looking for a YouTube
- 12:06Speaker 1: director of content. I saw that our director of strategy.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Pardon me, that's so funny.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Although someone noted that that that has been posted for
- 12:13Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, but I don't care.
- 12:14Speaker 1: It's still funny. That's so funny. We're gonna we're not
- 12:17Speaker 1: gonna worry about that part of the story. I didn't.
- 12:20Speaker 1: It's fine that it was up for a couple of weeks.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Even better, I thought it was just chat GPT and
- 12:24Speaker 1: people were being way too good with AI. Right now.
- 12:27Speaker 1: I thought that was fire up a fake job posting
- 12:29Speaker 1: like that was to me. Where as long as it's
- 12:32Speaker 1: been that it is real that it is spectacular. However,
- 12:35Speaker 1: let's get back to a right sorry point. No, you're
- 12:37Speaker 1: fine that when approaching the trade market, the Chicago Cubs
- 12:43Speaker 1: have been thinking and eyeing up the fact like they
- 12:45Speaker 1: don't want to just be in the uh in the
- 12:49Speaker 1: three game series, they want to find a way to
- 12:50Speaker 1: get to buy. Well, that's that's cute. Got to figure
- 12:53Speaker 1: out a way to chase down seven games now inside
- 12:56Speaker 1: of sixty games, and uh, we've been in that spot.
- 13:00Speaker 1: You've lived that life. Now that you become a cert
- 13:03Speaker 1: accustomed to a certain standard of living, I didn't necessarily
- 13:07Speaker 1: in twenty three, in twenty four maybe put as much
- 13:12Speaker 1: pressure and thought into trying to grab yourself that by.
- 13:16Speaker 1: But once you live that five game life instead of
- 13:18Speaker 1: the three gamer, it's a different, different world in that series.
- 13:21Speaker 2: We're spoiled now, Billy. It's not just about hey, we're
- 13:24Speaker 2: getting to the playoffs. It doesn't matter what happens. We
- 13:26Speaker 2: made the playoffs, you know, we'll do everything we can
- 13:28Speaker 2: just to make it. We're spoiled now. We need that buy.
- 13:31Speaker 2: We need to set everything set up for us. You know,
- 13:33Speaker 2: I can't just fly now. I need first class.
- 13:35Speaker 1: No, I feel like I was in the Delta lounge.
- 13:38Speaker 1: I feel like I was in the lounge with cookies
- 13:39Speaker 1: and beer. I need all that free stuff, you know.
- 13:41Speaker 2: I mean, like, we're flying now, we need VIP check in,
- 13:45Speaker 2: we need all that stuff.
- 13:46Speaker 1: And then once you actually got on the plane, you
- 13:48Speaker 1: did sit back in thirty six seed because then you realize, well,
- 13:50Speaker 1: I'll probably be because he ended up in the middle seat,
- 13:52Speaker 1: middle seat. But like the experience beforehand leading up to it,
- 13:56Speaker 1: it was damn good. Yeah, I liked it a lot.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Now let's see exactly if you can continue to add
- 14:00Speaker 1: on to it at the end of this year. Eight seven, seven,
- 14:03Speaker 1: seventy nine, six oh eight. Great for Ortiz. Now put
- 14:07Speaker 1: him in a trade before we know what's going to
- 14:09Speaker 1: happen where he stinks. Here we go.
- 14:11Speaker 2: I knew that was coming, and I knew that was coming,
- 14:13Speaker 2: and you know what, it's okay because it's it's unfortunately
- 14:16Speaker 2: what some people have been coming to expect from him.
- 14:19Speaker 2: But he does bring a good point, like I don't
- 14:21Speaker 2: think Joey's going to keep up this this pace forever.
- 14:26Speaker 2: You you Randle off the numbers, Billy, they're fantastic. Obviously,
- 14:29Speaker 2: this is not the the regression of the means, So
- 14:32Speaker 2: this is not the mean for Joey Ortiz. He's been
- 14:34Speaker 2: super hot, so I mean, at some point he will
- 14:37Speaker 2: probably regress.
- 14:38Speaker 1: A little bit.
- 14:39Speaker 2: But I wouldn't say you look, you look to trade
- 14:42Speaker 2: him because you know what's still his value to most teams,
- 14:45Speaker 2: although maybe it's there somewhere, maybe it's the off season.
- 14:47Speaker 1: But right now he saw has the value of your team.
- 14:49Speaker 1: But that's kind of funny. Yeah, it'll be, but uh,
- 14:53Speaker 1: to the texture's point into the offseason, then it can
- 14:56Speaker 1: become a conversation where you just you built his value
- 14:58Speaker 1: up to where you did because again, and and this
- 15:02Speaker 1: is the These are the difficult parts of managing and
- 15:07Speaker 1: maneuvering the offseason or the mid season trade deadline for
- 15:10Speaker 1: the Brewers, where you do feel like you have so
- 15:13Speaker 1: much buzz coming in and steam rolling behind you, but
- 15:18Speaker 1: you also have so many guys that are nipping at
- 15:20Speaker 1: the heels of the guys at the big league club,
- 15:23Speaker 1: and believing that Andrew Fisher can be playing major league
- 15:25Speaker 1: games within the next calendar year would lead you to
- 15:29Speaker 1: believe you would then think, hey man, that's that position
- 15:32Speaker 1: is probably movable. That would be a movable thing in
- 15:35Speaker 1: the off season. The other part of it for our ties,
- 15:37Speaker 1: and I think this is where the club and you know,
- 15:41Speaker 1: Murphy and Arnold, whatever grouping of decision makers. But I
- 15:46Speaker 1: do believe that it come the head of the snake
- 15:48Speaker 1: comes down to those two cats, and those two leaders
- 15:52Speaker 1: in identifying and letting each other. I think in on
- 15:57Speaker 1: how they're feeling a player's development's rolling, you make a
- 16:02Speaker 1: deal like trading the Sy Young Award winner, one guy
- 16:05Speaker 1: that you thought might be a starter, hadn't really done much.
- 16:08Speaker 1: He's been good in the bullpen, but he's been hurt
- 16:10Speaker 1: DL Hall and then all of a sudden, you got
- 16:11Speaker 1: this sweet guy that was a top one hundred prospect
- 16:14Speaker 1: that kind of felt like a throw in. He was
- 16:16Speaker 1: kind of log jammed there in Baltimore. Why was he expendable?
- 16:19Speaker 1: Maybe you realize that when you're watching the offensive struggles
- 16:23Speaker 1: the patients that they have shown some of it. I
- 16:26Speaker 1: do firmly believe off of just ego of wanting that
- 16:30Speaker 1: trade to work out, sure, you're gonna give yourself a
- 16:34Speaker 1: little bit extra leash to hopefully try to be right again.
- 16:37Speaker 1: It has been a nice week. It has been a
- 16:39Speaker 1: nice three weeks or four weeks. However, you wherever your
- 16:42Speaker 1: line of demarcation for Joey Ortiz is. But Arnold and
- 16:47Speaker 1: Murphy probably pat almost more because he's the one that
- 16:51Speaker 1: has to be putting the name on the lineup card
- 16:53Speaker 1: every single time and managing him every day. But you're
- 16:55Speaker 1: right and putting his name in, putting him actually in
- 16:57Speaker 1: the game, continuing to let that flower grow until it
- 17:03Speaker 1: ultimately bloomed, to just see it through, to see that
- 17:06Speaker 1: plant through. We used to always hear it as a
- 17:08Speaker 1: watering the bamboo, you know, but bamboo plants don't grow.
- 17:11Speaker 1: You got water three times.
- 17:12Speaker 2: A day for six months, but they grow fast and
- 17:14Speaker 2: then all of a sudden in that six months, man, yeah,
- 17:16Speaker 2: it'll shoot up six feet three weeks. Yeah, because you
- 17:19Speaker 2: have to sometimes you diligently daily love that water that bamboo. Wow,
- 17:24Speaker 2: you have some That was a great reference by whatever
- 17:26Speaker 2: coach you had. The bamboo went deep into that like
- 17:29Speaker 2: agrarian entomology.
- 17:30Speaker 1: I've remembered that one for a long time because I
- 17:33Speaker 1: did not realize where coach coach Biff was going with that. One.
- 17:37Speaker 2: I like that a lot, And that's a good example
- 17:39Speaker 2: of yeah, you don't know when the page I admitted
- 17:41Speaker 2: a couple of a couple of words that were a
- 17:43Speaker 2: part of that phrasing and a part of that story.
- 17:45Speaker 1: Okay, I see what you're saying. But the gist of
- 17:48Speaker 1: it was there. The gist of it was there. We
- 17:50Speaker 1: never fact checked because I also think he said sixty feet.
- 17:54Speaker 1: I don't think anybody believe the thing was going sixty feet. No,
- 17:56Speaker 1: but bamboo does grow quick, I think, real quick, real quick.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Maybe it's maybe not sixty feet in six weeks, which
- 18:02Speaker 1: I think was the number we were given, but we
- 18:04Speaker 1: understood what it was. We got the gist of it.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Eight seven seven seventy nine to four one nine seven three.
- 18:09Speaker 1: Jeffrey and Milwaukee, same question, similar question from our friend
- 18:13Speaker 1: Paul on the talking or on the YouTube comments. We'll
- 18:16Speaker 1: get into some more. As they said, what's the latest buzz?
- 18:19Speaker 1: The tough thing about the latest buzz is the buzz
- 18:21Speaker 1: is waiting, buzz is sitting inside. Guys. There's not a
- 18:25Speaker 1: ton yet, well not since yesterday's buzz. Like, I don't
- 18:29Speaker 1: think it's new buzz. Should I say that it's buzzing.
- 18:33Speaker 1: You're here, and I think is the same beehive that's
- 18:35Speaker 1: hanging out when we're waiting for anybody to come out
- 18:38Speaker 1: of the beehive, so then you can spray it and
- 18:40Speaker 1: get the thing down and then be able to go
- 18:43Speaker 1: and capture it. But right now I think we're we're
- 18:45Speaker 1: all playing the waiting game. But we'll add we'll add
- 18:47Speaker 1: a little bit of the potter.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Troy's got a buzz in his head that he says,
- 18:50Speaker 2: five am. Hungover crew, Here, let's go. I guess Troy
- 18:53Speaker 2: hit it hard last night. Well he got a buzzing.
- 18:55Speaker 2: Maybe Troy understands. Best way is a little hair of
- 18:57Speaker 2: the dog. Welcome into the five am Club, Grab yourself
- 19:00Speaker 2: a warm or cold beverage of your choice, to wake
- 19:03Speaker 2: up and fire off on a Thursday, Thursday and a Friday.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Junior here and that's already coming in here in the
- 19:08Speaker 2: video stream comments as well, YouTube x, Twitter, Facebook, You
- 19:13Speaker 2: can get us everywhere if you want to, and I
- 19:15Speaker 2: know you want to, so get up, get a get
- 19:17Speaker 2: in here early.
- 19:18Speaker 1: Since you're up in five am.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Anyway, you might as well and a little chili this
- 19:21Speaker 2: morning too, so you gotta get warmed up with us.
- 19:23Speaker 2: I love the excitement and like that that like exuberance
- 19:26Speaker 2: in Ba's voice.
- 19:28Speaker 1: When he says, Joey got a barrel on it. Yes,
- 19:30Speaker 1: Like wait a second, blind Squirrel finds and not in
- 19:33Speaker 1: front of us.
- 19:33Speaker 2: It's still happening, like because he's been getting some barrels lately,
- 19:36Speaker 2: but like you still almost can't believe it one of
- 19:38Speaker 2: those things. And one am I yeah, MLS, it's still
- 19:44Speaker 2: the MLS. Terrible goal, all right? Anyway, Yes, so the
- 19:47Speaker 2: fact that he got so now this is in the
- 19:49Speaker 2: last minute and a half. We'll get back to the
- 19:51Speaker 2: Bruce conversation. One quick second, this is the last minute
- 19:54Speaker 2: and a half.
- 19:55Speaker 1: You've gotten caught twice, Squirrel asked with the attention span
- 19:59Speaker 1: on the TV. You had just asked me before the
- 20:02Speaker 1: break if I knew that the Athletes Unlimited Softball League
- 20:07Speaker 1: was a thing, as.
- 20:09Speaker 2: I had on ESPN, and there's a I'm like, there's
- 20:12Speaker 2: a pro woman's softball league.
- 20:14Speaker 1: I feel bad I should have known that it was. Well,
- 20:16Speaker 1: maybe not too bad. It was founded in twenty twenty four,
- 20:19Speaker 1: run by Athletes Unlimited, and it competes in a regular
- 20:24Speaker 1: thirty game season. Yeah, and right now in a very small,
- 20:28Speaker 1: truncated six markets, but one of the teams. I'm definitely
- 20:32Speaker 1: sure that you're not watching any games at Tom heath Field, unfortunately,
- 20:36Speaker 1: because that one's that one's the Oklahoma City Spark. So
- 20:39Speaker 1: I know you're not watching the Oklahoma City Spark. I
- 20:41Speaker 1: thought you might be in on the Durham, North Carolina,
- 20:45Speaker 1: Carolina Blaze. I'm not aware of the Blaze. But are
- 20:49Speaker 1: you familiar with the Chicago Bandits. I'm not, I'm not
- 20:53Speaker 1: Where do they play over at Parkway Banks Sports Complex
- 20:57Speaker 1: in Rosemont, Illinois? Oh, well, okay, that's I think that's where,
- 21:00Speaker 1: right the Chicago Dogs, the Dogs. That might be the
- 21:03Speaker 1: Dogs Stadium, Yeah, that might be the Dogs. Believe it's
- 21:05Speaker 1: the one right next to it. I think. Got a
- 21:06Speaker 1: nice little complex right over there in Roseman, kind over
- 21:09Speaker 1: by the All State Arena.
- 21:10Speaker 2: Well, Roseman's got all business. What about the Utah talents?
- 21:15Speaker 2: The talents like on a bird, not the talent, the talents,
- 21:19Speaker 2: talent like that a lot. I mean, there's probably a
- 21:22Speaker 2: lot of birds of prey in Utah. I have to
- 21:25Speaker 2: get into this. I haven't watched. I liked that it's
- 21:27Speaker 2: in Oklahoma. That's definitely a soopall Market definitely, and the
- 21:30Speaker 2: Texas Vaults over in Round Rock, Texas.
- 21:33Speaker 1: I'm gonna I don't. I don't think you should. Uh,
- 21:36Speaker 1: I don't now. I do think that you should be
- 21:39Speaker 1: watching and trying to figure out. Uh, Grace Jenkins catcher
- 21:43Speaker 1: over in Arizona. She's in the reserve pool athletes. But
- 21:46Speaker 1: I have seen. I had the same question that you
- 21:48Speaker 1: did a couple of weeks ago, because I saw a
- 21:50Speaker 1: ton of these advertisements rolling through, Like, when on Earth
- 21:52Speaker 1: did I miss this? I didn't know if it was
- 21:54Speaker 1: like the British Basketball League. Yeah, I liked because at
- 21:59Speaker 1: some point during the UH, during the ending of fan
- 22:04Speaker 1: duel Sports Badly Sports. I can't remember where it was
- 22:07Speaker 1: in that conglomerate when the BBL first became aware onto
- 22:13Speaker 1: our radar, because they would pump the ad more than
- 22:16Speaker 1: the Potawatamy sports Book ad during a games, all the
- 22:19Speaker 1: time in between innings the Brittish Baskeutball League, So I
- 22:23Speaker 1: thought that was where this was. Instead, this is a
- 22:25Speaker 1: real deal, and it's it's growing and it is an exciting,
- 22:28Speaker 1: exciting deal, maybe more exciting than the MLS. But if
- 22:31Speaker 1: we got goalkeepers kicking the ball into their own net
- 22:33Speaker 1: like you just saw over there. Maybe we need to
- 22:35Speaker 1: be watching.
- 22:36Speaker 2: There's a lot of great women's sports leagues, the p
- 22:38Speaker 2: w HL, the Women's Hockey League as the soccer league
- 22:42Speaker 2: as well, so there's a lot of them growing, and
- 22:44Speaker 2: goodness see.
- 22:45Speaker 1: People are only watching the w It seems like we
- 22:47Speaker 1: got to expand our horizons.
- 22:49Speaker 2: I love to see the expansion of women's sports and
- 22:52Speaker 2: as a business, and it's happening more.
- 22:54Speaker 1: We love love of sports, and they put it in
- 22:55Speaker 1: the right market Oklahoma City.
- 22:57Speaker 2: You know, I laid on them a lot, but the
- 22:59Speaker 2: reality is that's softball market as we know, Billy. You know,
- 23:02Speaker 2: they go crazy for softball, That's true. And the SEC
- 23:05Speaker 2: some of those areas so good to see, pretty good stuff.
- 23:08Speaker 2: And yeah, I just keep getting scrolled by this by
- 23:10Speaker 2: what I see on on TV because they.
- 23:12Speaker 1: Were replaying the Iron. Now you better watch out because
- 23:14Speaker 1: now they're Showingkaitlyn Clark.
- 23:16Speaker 2: She got another tech last night, so she's won away
- 23:19Speaker 2: from like some sort of suspension, I think, right.
- 23:21Speaker 1: So is she the Luka Doncic of the NBA, of
- 23:24Speaker 1: the w n B A maybe, And maybe that's why
- 23:26Speaker 1: she's such a Polarizing'll just get too annoyed listening to
- 23:29Speaker 1: her chirp. She does, she does do a little bit
- 23:31Speaker 1: of that.
- 23:31Speaker 2: It's okay to admit even if you love her that
- 23:33Speaker 2: she does do a little bit of that. She talks
- 23:35Speaker 2: a lot, so that might be Yeah, I mean exciting score.
- 23:38Speaker 1: I mean, I think some people probably enjoy it more,
- 23:40Speaker 1: enjoying more because she does talk a little. But Luca
- 23:43Speaker 1: the best score in the NBA.
- 23:44Speaker 2: If you think that some people do, I don't know
- 23:46Speaker 2: that I would say that, but he's up there one
- 23:48Speaker 2: of the best scorers just pure and Caitlyn's probably one
- 23:51Speaker 2: of the best pure scorers necessarily all around.
- 23:54Speaker 1: But you know, because I think both of them probably
- 23:55Speaker 1: can get hunted a little bit defensively, that's fair. Yeah,
- 23:57Speaker 1: I think I think that would be fair. Eight seven
- 23:59Speaker 1: seven seven nine one three. I watch more w to
- 24:02Speaker 1: be able to get get fully in on that one
- 24:04Speaker 1: for sure.
- 24:04Speaker 2: Well, playoffs are starting the Commissioner's Cup, right or is
- 24:07Speaker 2: it all? Maybe no All Star game this weekend? I
- 24:09Speaker 2: know there's an All Star Game coming up, So did
- 24:12Speaker 2: you definitely be watching you watch it?
- 24:14Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll definitely definitely be watching Jim take the over.
- 24:19Speaker 2: They're gonna be scored the best players in the world, right, Yeah,
- 24:23Speaker 2: maybe it's the All Star Game.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, uh, JB and Francis. Joey moving to third
- 24:28Speaker 1: base sparked his bat and he's playing awesome defense leads
- 24:32Speaker 1: into our seven to one to five Texters uh point,
- 24:35Speaker 1: which I think is one of uh, if not one,
- 24:39Speaker 1: it is one of, if not my favorite uh text
- 24:42Speaker 1: we've gotten in a while, because it calls back to
- 24:45Speaker 1: something Mike and Merrill does that we heard right here
- 24:48Speaker 1: on the radio show. Matt Erickson was interviewed a month
- 24:51Speaker 1: or two ago and went all through every defender on
- 24:54Speaker 1: the team and the pipeline that they had. He said
- 24:56Speaker 1: that Joey Ortiz was the best pure glove talent in
- 24:59Speaker 1: the organization and that is why he's been on the
- 25:01Speaker 1: roster and will continue to be on the roster even
- 25:04Speaker 1: if the bat struggles. His play two plays over at
- 25:07Speaker 1: third base last night save the run and possibly sealed
- 25:11Speaker 1: the game on the final play. The ability to impact
- 25:14Speaker 1: the game defensively. You're seeing a lot more teams, or
- 25:19Speaker 1: at least hearing them give lip service to one of
- 25:24Speaker 1: the styles of play that the Brewers wouldn't say made famous,
- 25:29Speaker 1: but they have kind of made one of their trademarks.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Over the last couple of years and since probably David
- 25:34Speaker 1: Stearns first emerged with Craig Council leading the brain trust,
- 25:37Speaker 1: We're gonna build this thing on pitching in defense. I
- 25:40Speaker 1: feel like I'm hearing a lot of team that just
- 25:42Speaker 1: walked out of here wanted to be a pitching in
- 25:44Speaker 1: defense organization. When you hear people say they wanted to
- 25:47Speaker 1: bring a little bit of they wanted Greig Council bring
- 25:49Speaker 1: a little bit of the Milwaukee down to the North
- 25:52Speaker 1: side of Chicago. It wasn't let's make sure that we
- 25:55Speaker 1: find a bunch of random guys that nobody's heard of
- 25:57Speaker 1: and they become great elite bullpen arms would like that
- 26:00Speaker 1: to be the offshoot, but I think it started with
- 26:02Speaker 1: pitching in defense. And if indeed that's gonna be the
- 26:06Speaker 1: way you're gonna build out your roster, it can't just
- 26:09Speaker 1: be lip service. It's gotta be put into practice. And
- 26:11Speaker 1: I think this would be a real good case study
- 26:13Speaker 1: of an arm and what Mike just pointed out there
- 26:16Speaker 1: of how Matt Erickson laid it out because he's the
- 26:18Speaker 1: third base coach and infield coach and one of the
- 26:20Speaker 1: infield coordinators, I believe I don't want to short change. Yeah,
- 26:23Speaker 1: maybe senior vice president of the infield. I love that
- 26:26Speaker 1: those titles director, senior vice president of infield. What we
- 26:29Speaker 1: have thought about that in the seventies, you know what,
- 26:31Speaker 1: in the eighties, But I love it. Think about being
- 26:33Speaker 1: able to add a little raised into that one too.
- 26:37Speaker 1: But you you can't just it can't just be something
- 26:40Speaker 1: that gets put on a board and that you think
- 26:42Speaker 1: about in draft time. But when you're you're filling out
- 26:44Speaker 1: a lineup card and when you're talking about the development
- 26:46Speaker 1: of the guys that you have their waiting uh or
- 26:50Speaker 1: Teas is a huge part of it. And he's got
- 26:54Speaker 1: a nice opportunity here because again, as we look through
- 26:57Speaker 1: all of the different trade targets, and Jeffrey and Milwaukee said,
- 27:01Speaker 1: what do you guys think at least the Brewers need
- 27:03Speaker 1: before the deadline to be satisfied with it? Brewing the
- 27:05Speaker 1: team obviously schoobl and Mason Miller would be phenomenal, but
- 27:09Speaker 1: what else from that? I mean, it really is there's
- 27:11Speaker 1: a bunch of names pitching wise, and there's not a
- 27:15Speaker 1: ton of offensive guys that are gonna get a lot
- 27:17Speaker 1: of people very excited.
- 27:18Speaker 2: The right handed bats. There aren't a lot of really
- 27:20Speaker 2: good right handed bats coming up.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Now, that's another big part of it, right Like estoc
- 27:23Speaker 1: Parades might be the most gettible available bat on the market,
- 27:29Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people would say, who, Yeah,
- 27:32Speaker 1: I mean I've heard of I guess I've heard of it.
- 27:34Speaker 1: I know that he's hit in the middle of some lineups,
- 27:36Speaker 1: but I don't watch a ton of Houston Astros games
- 27:39Speaker 1: and I don't know a ton about him. But there's
- 27:40Speaker 1: so many names in the pitching department that are going
- 27:45Speaker 1: to be moved that I think that's going to be
- 27:47Speaker 1: a lot more gettable. And if it comes down to
- 27:51Speaker 1: the market inefficiency, I don't see the Brewers being one
- 27:54Speaker 1: of the teams that if there's two prized fish that
- 27:57Speaker 1: they're going to be over there trying to swim in
- 27:59Speaker 1: that pond.
- 27:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, especially if the price goes up on
- 28:01Speaker 2: those guys, the market will dictate it.
- 28:03Speaker 1: So you that remains to be seen. There's a lot
- 28:05Speaker 1: more buyers than there are sellers. That's the thing that
- 28:07Speaker 1: continually be continues to be the number one talker around
- 28:12Speaker 1: this dead line.
- 28:12Speaker 2: It definitely it bees the talker, I mean, is it well,
- 28:16Speaker 2: we were talking about bees already and the buzz and
- 28:18Speaker 2: the buzz keeper and the bee keeper. Uh for the
- 28:20Speaker 2: Bruce Paul Kay, yeah, I mean that's the buzz and
- 28:23Speaker 2: that's the reality, Billy, right, because who's going to sell
- 28:26Speaker 2: who's not is still the most intriguing story around A
- 28:28Speaker 2: pretty intriguing deadline, I'd see because everyone's kind of been
- 28:31Speaker 2: monitoring mode. So a deadline spur action, as Dreways says,
- 28:35Speaker 2: and we'll see how that goes. Joey Ortiz, it's nice
- 28:38Speaker 2: to know, nice to see a success. And you mentioned
- 28:41Speaker 2: that the pitching and defense. Everybody likes to say that. No,
- 28:45Speaker 2: there isn't one team organization in the world that wouldn't
- 28:47Speaker 2: say we want to build around pitching and defense like
- 28:50Speaker 2: so to your point, it's easy to say, how can
- 28:52Speaker 2: you put it into practice? But the defense for Joey
- 28:55Speaker 2: Ortiz has been consistent. And Billy, can I throw a
- 28:58Speaker 2: theory at you here? Have you heard the Bryce Wilson
- 29:02Speaker 2: Joy Ortiz theory? Well, I only saw it because of
- 29:04Speaker 2: the great Jackster. I'll give him all the credit on Twitter. Okay,
- 29:07Speaker 2: Joey Ortiz When Bryce Wilson's not a member of the Brewers,
- 29:10Speaker 2: seven hundred thirty six played appearances, batting two twenty eight,
- 29:13Speaker 2: three thirteen to eighty one slash line and only a
- 29:16Speaker 2: sixty seven ops to one. That is that. That's what
- 29:21Speaker 2: I said. That's that bad. That is what I said.
- 29:24Speaker 2: I mean that we're talking Jackie Bradley type stuff there,
- 29:26Speaker 2: all right, So all right, Joey Ortiz when he and
- 29:30Speaker 2: Bryce Wilson had been teammates on the Milwaukee Brewers five
- 29:33Speaker 2: hundred and forty three plate appearances, two forty six, three
- 29:36Speaker 2: thirty five, four seventeen, one hundred and ten plus ops.
- 29:40Speaker 2: So there's something about Bryce Wilson that makes Joey Ortiz
- 29:45Speaker 2: like go from like barely four a to like being
- 29:49Speaker 2: one of the great players in baseball.
- 29:50Speaker 1: So Bryce, thank you.
- 29:52Speaker 2: I don't know why, wow what you did, but hey man,
- 29:55Speaker 2: I mean a correlation.
- 29:57Speaker 1: Like that has got an equal causation. Well yeah, and
- 30:01Speaker 1: and it makes me feel a little bit even. It
- 30:03Speaker 1: makes me feel better about knowing that it was a
- 30:05Speaker 1: one year deal for Bryce Wilson, that there wasn't even
- 30:08Speaker 1: just a minor league contract and a call up. They
- 30:10Speaker 1: just said, you know what we're putting you on this
- 30:12Speaker 1: for you. We're putting you on this squad. We can't
- 30:14Speaker 1: be risking anything here because we can't risk a dip
- 30:16Speaker 1: over with our now breakout offensive. I don't know you
- 30:19Speaker 1: believed him a lot more than I did. I was
- 30:21Speaker 1: beating him over the head over here, wondering who on
- 30:23Speaker 1: earth could possibly take over his position for the last
- 30:26Speaker 1: year and a half.
- 30:27Speaker 2: No, that's true, and maybe I shouldn't have believed in
- 30:29Speaker 2: him that much, but I I guess I try to
- 30:31Speaker 2: stay keep the faith on him.
- 30:32Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's just blind faith or
- 30:34Speaker 1: just maybe it's more. It's so there's so much more
- 30:38Speaker 1: faith you've had in Joey Ortiz and calling back to
- 30:41Speaker 1: his offensive numbers when he was playing third base, did
- 30:43Speaker 1: mention that, yes, compared to the lack of relative faith,
- 30:47Speaker 1: it seems like you've had in sal Freelick for quite
- 30:49Speaker 1: some time. That maybe that's where the the balancing act
- 30:52Speaker 1: is wrong. In my mind, I think you've had a
- 30:54Speaker 1: lot of a lot of belief in one Joey or
- 30:56Speaker 1: Ties a lot of good stuff to be able to
- 30:58Speaker 1: discuss as well. And we appreciated and want more of
- 31:01Speaker 1: our five a M Club interaction. I don't know how
- 31:03Speaker 1: I feel about this one from Ryan Moskeigo Morning boys, listen,
- 31:07Speaker 1: good start. Okay, as great as the five five o'clock
- 31:10Speaker 1: Club is, this phenomenal show needs to expand. Okay, well,
- 31:16Speaker 1: let's get this thing rolling at four am, the blue
- 31:19Speaker 1: collar four Am Club. I would rake at four am?
- 31:23Speaker 1: What Joey O is raking at the plate? Let's go listen,
- 31:26Speaker 1: I'll give you this, all right. If we were I
- 31:29Speaker 1: will give you this. We would be an absolute unstoppable
- 31:32Speaker 1: for us at four am.
- 31:34Speaker 2: Nothing could stop us from just putting anything and everything
- 31:37Speaker 2: on these air waves.
- 31:38Speaker 1: At four you. Oh god, you want to talk about unfiltered,
- 31:40Speaker 1: But I don't think that's gonna happen. Bro, I just don't.
- 31:43Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's five am is one thing man, I
- 31:46Speaker 1: do now. I do feel somewhat confident that there might
- 31:49Speaker 1: be some expansion that could be happening here. Well, now,
- 31:52Speaker 1: that would be something I actually won't say could will
- 31:54Speaker 1: be happening here we go, there will be some expansion
- 31:57Speaker 1: coming in, let's go. I don't know when that direction? Well, no,
- 32:02Speaker 1: because do we have a couple of absolute weapons at
- 32:05Speaker 1: our disposal, and one of which I have now rambled
- 32:08Speaker 1: too much that we can't get our weapon hunter Bombguard
- 32:10Speaker 1: in in this segment. And I apologize. So he's gonna
- 32:13Speaker 1: lead off hour. He's gonna start six o'clock. He's gonna
- 32:15Speaker 1: lead off our number two but one of the great
- 32:18Speaker 1: weapons that we have on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Ben Maller,
- 32:23Speaker 1: Big Ben Maller, Are you kidding me? I don't know
- 32:26Speaker 1: that that's what we can be putting off of the air.
- 32:30Speaker 1: When you start talking about a power hour of four
- 32:33Speaker 1: am for the Blue Collar Club, my man Ben Maller
- 32:36Speaker 1: is letting it ride there in that four o'clock hour.
- 32:39Speaker 1: I don't know how we could possibly take that.
- 32:41Speaker 2: That only him, he's the callers, his crew, they're letting
- 32:44Speaker 2: it ride. You definitely don't want us to interrupt the
- 32:47Speaker 2: absolute circus that is the Big Ben Mallor Show. And
- 32:49Speaker 2: if you're listening at four am, you know, you get
- 32:51Speaker 2: Marcel and all these guys that are calling in. Uh
- 32:54Speaker 2: so it's it's an absolute wild ride.
- 32:57Speaker 1: So we're good.
- 32:57Speaker 2: Otherwise I'd say at that point, Billy, you guys, well
- 33:00Speaker 2: just give me the the one to five, the one
- 33:03Speaker 2: of clock to five. You might as well give us
- 33:05Speaker 2: all the way, like let us go all the way
- 33:07Speaker 2: on the overnights.
- 33:08Speaker 1: You know, overnights is a time. Yeah, it is a
- 33:11Speaker 1: fun time. Uh. Me and the franchise did one overnight
- 33:14Speaker 1: show including uh including my friend Ryan Horpott. Yeah, it
- 33:18Speaker 1: was a part of that one hor shot and out
- 33:20Speaker 1: there and our guy Griffin Eidelman, who was our who's
- 33:23Speaker 1: our intern at the time