Latest / The Huddle / 09/04/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:19Speaker 1: line 877-794-1973. Some folks been pounded with rain in our area. Oh,
- 0:24Speaker 1: goodness gracious. The last six-hour rainfall total is quite impressive.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Hope everybody's basement is dry and the pets are not
- 0:32Speaker 1: bothered by the thunderstorm.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 0:33Speaker 3: You got to keep them. So keep them some pumps rolling.
- 0:36Speaker 3: Cause goodness gracious. Five inches and say in six hours.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Yep. My Lord. Holy cow. Digis pro digits. It's supposed
- 0:45Speaker 1: to be a nice day. The middle of the day
- 0:47Speaker 1: is supposed to be pretty decent. Then maybe more chance
- 0:49Speaker 1: of showers tonight. Brewers lose last evening at Wrigley field.
- 0:52Speaker 1: They end up with a split. This is one of
- 0:54Speaker 1: those losses that you can't really ruminate over. What's there
- 0:56Speaker 1: to say? Like they scored one run. Andrew Vaughn hit
- 0:59Speaker 1: a homer. PCA hit a homer. Theirs came with a
- 1:01Speaker 1: guy on base. Theirs pitchers were awesome. Both bullpens were great. Man,
- 1:05Speaker 1: there's nothing to say.
- 1:06Speaker 3: No, and their guy in the home run that Pete
- 1:10Speaker 3: Crow Armstrong hits out. I'm just, I was watching it
- 1:12Speaker 3: during the break. Pitching Ninja did a sweet overlay. He
- 1:15Speaker 3: pops one up to like medium depth right field in
- 1:18Speaker 3: the first inning. Throws him the same 2-1 changeup in
- 1:20Speaker 3: the third inning, and he somehow gets enough barrel on
- 1:23Speaker 3: it to golf it out. That's a hat tipper. Like
- 1:25Speaker 3: a strike. They say not a bad pitch at all.
- 1:28Speaker 1: That's the thing. They can say that he made one mistake.
- 1:31Speaker 1: I don't even know.
- 1:31Speaker 3: That's really, that's not a mistake. That's a great piece
- 1:34Speaker 3: of hitting by a guy right now.
- 1:35Speaker 1: That's going to win the MVP. You're going to lose
- 1:37Speaker 1: a game like that.
- 1:38Speaker 3: If you can only score one freaking run and not
- 1:41Speaker 3: get enough action, but Gosman was fantastic, you know, and,
- 1:44Speaker 3: and this, that's the one thing, the one positive silver
- 1:47Speaker 3: lining for Cubs fans coming out of this thing, because
- 1:50Speaker 3: they got, they came out the same spot that you
- 1:52Speaker 3: were in when you walked in that, that was a,
- 1:55Speaker 3: So that's a win.
- 1:56Speaker 1: That's a great win for resounding win for the brewers. Correct.
- 1:59Speaker 1: And lose any ground in there.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:01Speaker 3: And, but if you're, if you're looking at this from
- 2:03Speaker 3: Chicago standpoint and they got to grab any glimmers of
- 2:06Speaker 3: hope that they can have the two wins that they get,
- 2:09Speaker 3: are there two deadline acquisitions who pitched phenomenally? Like Gosman
- 2:13Speaker 3: was phenomenal yesterday. Holmes was even better in game one.
- 2:17Speaker 3: At least that's a little bit of positivity for them
- 2:18Speaker 3: because they're now into a wild card race, no longer
- 2:20Speaker 3: a division title.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Right.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point.
- 2:22Speaker 2: They know they, okay, we feel comfortable starting those guys
- 2:24Speaker 2: in a playoff series, knowing we paid for these guys
- 2:27Speaker 2: in terms of, you know, obviously capital and they both
- 2:30Speaker 2: pitched well. So that is their positive. There's they as
- 2:33Speaker 2: now they have to deal with getting their playoff spot together.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Carson Kelly single in front of the PCA Homer PCA.
- 2:41Speaker 1: And we can say, we could talk a lot about him.
- 2:44Speaker 1: You know, he's one of the guys punchable face and
- 2:46Speaker 1: all that. The blue haired kid, the hell of a player.
- 2:49Speaker 1: He's going to be a thorn in Milwaukee side for
- 2:51Speaker 1: a long time. He's embraced all that is Chicago going out.
- 2:56Speaker 1: He's got a deal. He's got the deal. He's mixing
- 3:00Speaker 1: it up and supporting the other Chicago team. He's already beloved.
- 3:02Speaker 1: He's already iconic.
- 3:04Speaker 3: We need one of those guys to have a business
- 3:08Speaker 3: deal that just goes really haywire and falls through. Because
- 3:12Speaker 3: we had this whole thing going on in 2011. We
- 3:15Speaker 3: had a great vibe of this rolling in 2010. Well,
- 3:17Speaker 3: we had the double dose. Where you have two MVPs,
- 3:20Speaker 3: and both are hanging out, and the quarterback of the
- 3:22Speaker 3: football team and the best player on the baseball team,
- 3:24Speaker 3: seemingly our best friends, seemingly hanging out all the time.
- 3:27Speaker 1: One of them's buying in on the Bucs. Then you
- 3:29Speaker 1: have Giannis buying in on the Brewers.
- 3:31Speaker 3: And I don't know that I ever saw any of
- 3:32Speaker 3: those guys sitting behind the dugout hammering beers, hanging out
- 3:36Speaker 3: during the game.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Nope. That would have been nice.
- 3:38Speaker 2: That would have been fun. Yeah, together, that's for sure. Yeah,
- 3:42Speaker 2: they weren't together.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Or individually. I saw Rodgers and Braun hanging at the
- 3:47Speaker 1: Wisconsin Sports Awards one time. Yeah, for sure. But I'm
- 3:52Speaker 1: saying from that standpoint, that's cool.
- 3:55Speaker 3: You're waking up as a Chicago sports fan today, and
- 3:58Speaker 3: that is absolute jet fuel for the Phantom.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Would have been cool if that could have been the
- 4:02Speaker 1: case for... The last, you know, 15, 20 years we
- 4:05Speaker 1: had chances with PCA, take his personality and all that
- 4:09Speaker 1: stuff out of it. If it looks like a duck,
- 4:12Speaker 1: if it quacks like the dude's an MVP and he
- 4:15Speaker 1: was bringing to mind Yelich's season in 18. Oh, very similar.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Yes.
- 4:19Speaker 1: All right. We need a double here. Here's a double.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Yelich is need a homer. Here's a homer. Oh, nobody's
- 4:25Speaker 1: really doing anything. I'm four for four with, you know,
- 4:27Speaker 1: you know.
- 4:28Speaker 3: Yellich's run started in like middle of late July and
- 4:32Speaker 3: his started in like the beginning of June. Right.
- 4:34Speaker 1: And beginning of June when they moved him to the
- 4:36Speaker 1: leadoff spot, he just, and just took off and he
- 4:38Speaker 1: took off and, and yeah, it's very reminiscent of it.
- 4:41Speaker 3: But it is a, it's a cool one to know
- 4:44Speaker 3: that they're still going to be hanging out in the
- 4:45Speaker 3: wildcard series and potentially getting bounced by Philly in round
- 4:49Speaker 3: number one. I mean, that is, I'll take it. That
- 4:52Speaker 3: is a beautiful, beautiful possibility there. Cause at least if
- 4:55Speaker 3: they don't, lose that series. Then Philly gets bounced and
- 4:58Speaker 3: they're a threat to everybody. So yeah, but that would
- 5:00Speaker 3: be good if they played them in the first round.
- 5:01Speaker 3: So yeah, he's definitely, it seems like his future is very,
- 5:05Speaker 3: very bright drew and he will be a problem for
- 5:07Speaker 3: a long time. You only hope that somehow some way
- 5:10Speaker 3: for some reason that the early part of his career
- 5:13Speaker 3: is his best.
- 5:13Speaker 2: And it's not the, like the Chris Bryant type of
- 5:15Speaker 2: thing where it never fulfills the rest of his, of
- 5:19Speaker 2: his destiny that you thought it would. That's all you
- 5:21Speaker 2: can really hope for. But other than that, it seems
- 5:23Speaker 2: like he's going to be a problem for a long time.
- 5:25Speaker 2: Because that's what we thought about Chris Bryant, too. And
- 5:28Speaker 2: it didn't really last that way. And some of those
- 5:30Speaker 2: other guys were really good. Like, Yelich had his peak year,
- 5:33Speaker 2: two years, and was good otherwise, but hadn't been the MVP.
- 5:38Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. But I like that. We'll
- 5:41Speaker 1: play a couple of seasons. I like that. I'm not
- 5:44Speaker 1: cheering for him to succeed. That's for sure.
- 5:46Speaker 3: So, I mean, yeah, I like that. You have to
- 5:48Speaker 3: hope something bad happens. The Bryant one is a is
- 5:51Speaker 3: a phenomenal comparison. Not a comparison to PCA because he
- 5:55Speaker 3: had a couple of years before. when he first came up, right?
- 5:58Speaker 3: And he's been in the system in the big leagues
- 6:00Speaker 3: for a tick. Bryant walked in and was one of
- 6:02Speaker 3: the best players in baseball.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Rookie of the year, I think. Rookie of the year,
- 6:05Speaker 1: MVP in second year. And then all of a sudden, thanks.
- 6:08Speaker 3: There haven't been a whole lot of case studies of
- 6:10Speaker 3: that where you walk up and not only are you
- 6:12Speaker 3: a really good player, you're freaking awesome to start.
- 6:16Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden... What, they can't even
- 6:18Speaker 1: find you in AAA in 10 years?
- 6:20Speaker 2: Yeah, there are some guys that have really fallen off.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Maybe like Bellinger. I mean, obviously, we talked to him.
- 6:24Speaker 1: He's still good. Bellinger's still a hell of a player.
- 6:26Speaker 1: He's still an all-star this year.
- 6:27Speaker 2: He just had a big drop-off, and Raleigh had a
- 6:29Speaker 2: big drop. But there are guys like that. I mean,
- 6:31Speaker 2: I expect PCA to still be a good player no
- 6:32Speaker 2: matter what. There's a certain floor there.
- 6:34Speaker 1: That's going to be. Elite defensively, yeah, he's going to
- 6:36Speaker 1: be a problem for a long time. So get used
- 6:39Speaker 1: to hating PCA because you're going to hate him. He's
- 6:41Speaker 1: going to be the MVP. Sorry, go ahead. I was
- 6:44Speaker 1: just going to say, we're not talking enough about Logan Henderson. Yeah,
- 6:47Speaker 1: he was good. Great start. Seven innings, three hits. The
- 6:50Speaker 1: one pitch that was not a mistake that was hit
- 6:51Speaker 1: out of the park. It was a good pitch, really.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Didn't walk anybody. What did he strike out? Seven? Seven
- 6:56Speaker 1: Ks and seven innings.
- 6:58Speaker 3: And I don't know if you guys thought he was
- 6:59Speaker 3: going out for the seventh.
- 7:01Speaker 1: I sure as heck didn't. His ERA is 2.48. I mean,
- 7:05Speaker 1: which is, again, if he wasn't overshadowed by Miz, he'd
- 7:08Speaker 1: be the talk of the town. Yeah, he really would be.
- 7:12Speaker 1: To have that one-two punch, and he's, well, as of, like,
- 7:16Speaker 1: We rely on what we've seen most recently. He's pitching
- 7:19Speaker 1: better than Miz.
- 7:21Speaker 3: And you got three 24-year-olds, Kyle Harrison just turned 25
- 7:24Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, that are headlining your rotation
- 7:27Speaker 3: and probably all three going to be your playoff starters. Now,
- 7:29Speaker 3: hopefully Harrison starts figuring it out and we can get
- 7:31Speaker 3: him starting at home. But that stuff from Logan Henderson
- 7:34Speaker 3: will play anywhere.
- 7:36Speaker 1: He's an absolute stud. with the porn stash.
- 7:40Speaker 3: I was going to say the porn stash makes it
- 7:42Speaker 3: a lot better. That was why I liked the cut
- 7:44Speaker 3: of his gym when he first came up drew because
- 7:46Speaker 3: of the stash. And then when he walks out on the,
- 7:49Speaker 3: on the mound shoeless elevates even more, then you roll
- 7:54Speaker 3: out here and shove consistently and keep his super special
- 7:58Speaker 3: streak of what never giving up more than three earned
- 8:01Speaker 3: runs in a start. He's given up or more than
- 8:03Speaker 3: three earned runs in a start. It's an incredible run
- 8:05Speaker 3: that they have seen him go on here. I mean,
- 8:09Speaker 3: so his, his, his shoeless thing is great.
- 8:11Speaker 1: Cause he's pitching well, but like, you know, JJ McCarthy's
- 8:15Speaker 1: meditation and sitting down home, you know, that kind of stuff.
- 8:19Speaker 1: It's not, it's not washing over that great now. Cause
- 8:22Speaker 1: he's not been good. Even the stash. I mean, we
- 8:24Speaker 1: love it. Cause he's pitching. Well, I mean, it's brought
- 8:25Speaker 1: out in a great stash too. And the tightest pants
- 8:28Speaker 1: of all time.
- 8:29Speaker 2: So they had the stache thing going on with the
- 8:31Speaker 2: young pitchers for a while. I wouldn't say Drohan's.
- 8:33Speaker 1: I said Drohan.
- 8:34Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the right word. Was a stache,
- 8:37Speaker 2: but he had some facial hair. So the stache is
- 8:39Speaker 2: definitely popular again. This is like the late 80s again.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Henderson and Harrison. Harrison's got some stuff to figure out.
- 8:46Speaker 1: They've got to figure out with Miz, the mound. They
- 8:49Speaker 1: said they have a plan. Yeah, they have a plan.
- 8:51Speaker 1: They don't want to share it. But Henderson's been just
- 8:53Speaker 1: an absolute constant, and it's fantastic.
- 8:56Speaker 3: To see so well and I wouldn't have I thought
- 8:59Speaker 3: that they would be nursing him a lot more at
- 9:01Speaker 3: the back end of the year I think that might
- 9:02Speaker 3: be one of the most intriguing things because he battled
- 9:06Speaker 3: some arm issues coming up right struggled with staying healthy
- 9:09Speaker 3: early on and we've talked a lot about Harrison because
- 9:12Speaker 3: he's you felt his drop off here the most innings
- 9:16Speaker 3: that he threw five starts last year did Logan Henderson
- 9:18Speaker 3: I pitched in triple-a obviously a decent amount but 25
- 9:22Speaker 3: big league innings last year to 83 he took what
- 9:25Speaker 3: six weeks off with that back injury He had about
- 9:27Speaker 3: six to eight weeks in the early part of the
- 9:29Speaker 3: summer off with that back injury. And maybe that's what
- 9:33Speaker 3: ultimately is allowing him to still be this good and
- 9:36Speaker 3: not kind of wear down here at the end of
- 9:38Speaker 3: the year. You just have too much youth in the
- 9:40Speaker 3: rotation to not expect somebody and plan on a couple
- 9:44Speaker 3: of them probably hitting a wall and at least crowbarring
- 9:48Speaker 3: in and, you know, unforeseen. But it probably was a
- 9:51Speaker 3: blessing in disguise that he was down for that time
- 9:53Speaker 3: to be able to have this kind of a role
- 9:55Speaker 3: that you're getting in the back end of the year
- 9:56Speaker 3: for him.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Because otherwise you'd be, otherwise you'd be cooked.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Could you imagine if he would have pitched all the
- 10:02Speaker 3: way through there? You got the issues rolling with Harrison
- 10:04Speaker 3: right now. You got Logan Henderson hitting a wall and
- 10:07Speaker 3: potentially coming up on an inning shutdown limit. It's one
- 10:10Speaker 3: of the quieter parts about drone is that he's hit
- 10:12Speaker 3: all the way up against the ceiling that they put
- 10:15Speaker 3: on his innings. And here into the month of September,
- 10:17Speaker 3: you're the best team in baseball and you'd be, running
- 10:20Speaker 3: low on innings with your best guys. And they've, they
- 10:22Speaker 3: had some very serendipitous time off for some of these
- 10:26Speaker 3: guys to be able to keep them healthy and rolling
- 10:28Speaker 3: at this point.
- 10:28Speaker 1: That's right. That's right. Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
- 10:32Speaker 1: one 97, three. So the big serious to end all
- 10:34Speaker 1: series ends in a split. Not good for the Cubs.
- 10:37Speaker 1: They needed more than that. No, this is a failure
- 10:40Speaker 1: for us.
- 10:41Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 10:41Speaker 1: And I, you know, I still maintain that the division now,
- 10:45Speaker 1: You don't want to have a letdown. You don't want
- 10:46Speaker 1: to have a hangover. You're going to Great American Ballpark.
- 10:48Speaker 1: It's going to be hot there. The ball's going to
- 10:50Speaker 1: be jumping, as it always does. And they're going to
- 10:53Speaker 1: be swinging for those fences.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:56Speaker 1: So that's different. And wasn't that a park where Miz
- 10:58Speaker 1: had problems with the mound?
- 10:59Speaker 3: No, he's not going to throw that. That was where
- 11:00Speaker 3: he had his first ones last year. That's what I thought.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Yep. And that's a band box at Place Small. During
- 11:06Speaker 1: the game last night, I think it was Rosenthal asked
- 11:11Speaker 1: counts about what's it been like managing here? Because the
- 11:13Speaker 1: Cubs went crazy in August, but Wrigley Field has been
- 11:16Speaker 1: an absolute band box. It's been a launching pad. And
- 11:20Speaker 1: Counts gave, as usual, a good answer off the cuff.
- 11:24Speaker 1: He's just like, well, yeah, it changes the way we
- 11:26Speaker 1: evaluate pitchers, and a five-run lead feels like a two-run lead.
- 11:30Speaker 1: You have to consider it like that. Games are totally different. Yeah,
- 11:33Speaker 1: and it's like that's part of the Calgas. It is
- 11:35Speaker 1: what it is, but it was especially hitter-friendly in August. Well,
- 11:40Speaker 1: for his team, too, yeah. Yeah, well, the Cubs set
- 11:43Speaker 1: a record for homers in a month, right?
- 11:45Speaker 2: Right.
- 11:46Speaker 1: The flip side of that is your pitchers are going
- 11:47Speaker 1: to give them up. Yeah. It's the double-edged sword. And
- 11:51Speaker 1: that's the thing. So you have a five run lead.
- 11:53Speaker 1: It's like, Oh, let's just let this guy keep going. No,
- 11:55Speaker 1: because two swings and we're back into being even. And like, that's,
- 12:00Speaker 1: And that comes with managing at Wrigley. That and the
- 12:02Speaker 1: day games.
- 12:03Speaker 3: It might not be Coors Field, but the ball's jumping
- 12:06Speaker 3: out of there, especially in the day games, Drew.
- 12:07Speaker 1: That's the other part. The day games when that wind
- 12:09Speaker 1: starts blowing.
- 12:10Speaker 3: And you've got to be able to manage both sides
- 12:12Speaker 3: because in April and May, you've got to be able
- 12:14Speaker 3: to talk your hitters into the fact that you're not
- 12:15Speaker 3: the worst player of all time because you're trying to
- 12:18Speaker 3: fist everything out of the infield and you're hitting a
- 12:20Speaker 3: cinder block that's coming in when it's 42 degrees.
- 12:22Speaker 1: There have been a lot of theories about the Cubs
- 12:25Speaker 1: and that part of the reason that they haven't won historically,
- 12:28Speaker 1: even with good teams, is is because of all the
- 12:31Speaker 1: day games they play. Much like Coors Field is different
- 12:34Speaker 1: because it skews numbers and performance and you're playing at
- 12:36Speaker 1: altitude and a little bit band boxy, right? And we're
- 12:41Speaker 1: a seven-run lead in Coors Field in the third inning
- 12:44Speaker 1: is not the same as a seven-run lead at American
- 12:46Speaker 1: Family Field, right? No doubt. It's more temporary. But the Cubs,
- 12:51Speaker 1: people say that, and I've heard them, they're starting to
- 12:54Speaker 1: lean into how great it is to have all those
- 12:57Speaker 1: day games. Like PCA and those guys, like going out
- 12:59Speaker 1: and having dinner and like, who, who hits free agency
- 13:02Speaker 1: in the big leagues, older guys, right. Guys that are
- 13:05Speaker 1: 30 guys who might have kids, Alex Bregman guys.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:08Speaker 1: And like the Alex Bregman, like, Oh, I can go
- 13:10Speaker 1: home and like hang out and play with my kids
- 13:12Speaker 1: and then put them to bed and like be there
- 13:13Speaker 1: and stuff. So it is a different existence with the, the,
- 13:17Speaker 1: the day games that they play, but there are some
- 13:19Speaker 1: who say, well, that's why they're, you know, the road
- 13:23Speaker 1: record's not usually as good. And I don't know. I mean,
- 13:26Speaker 1: it's fascinating because they've won one World Series in 100 years.
- 13:30Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:30Speaker 1: But they play, and everybody else is on the night schedule,
- 13:33Speaker 1: but with the Cubs, you're on more of a day schedule.
- 13:36Speaker 1: I think it's an advantage. I know if I worked
- 13:37Speaker 1: for the team, if I covered the team, hell yes,
- 13:39Speaker 1: sign me up.
- 13:41Speaker 3: As somebody working for the team, it's a much, much
- 13:43Speaker 3: better deal.
- 13:44Speaker 1: Much better deal. Much better deal.
- 13:46Speaker 3: As the players, I would... I would wonder how they
- 13:49Speaker 3: would feel about it. But Bregman, I think, is the
- 13:51Speaker 3: perfect example. My man's had his success in baseball. He
- 13:55Speaker 3: was looking for a contract, looking for one with zero opt-outs.
- 13:58Speaker 3: He's like, I want to have as many guarantees as possible. Sweet,
- 14:03Speaker 3: I'm going to get $ 35 million. I'm going to get
- 14:04Speaker 3: 10 of it. A year when I'm 50 or so
- 14:08Speaker 3: because he deferred a bunch of the money.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Sweet.
- 14:10Speaker 3: And I know that I'm going to play 50 day games.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds good. Like, I think that's a win.
- 14:15Speaker 3: It also I don't know what it would do to
- 14:18Speaker 3: your road or home splits and all that good stuff.
- 14:20Speaker 3: But I also think it engenders just a certain type
- 14:23Speaker 3: of culture is everyone's favorite buzzword. But it's kind of
- 14:27Speaker 3: a status thing. They're one of the Touchstone franchise emblems
- 14:33Speaker 3: in baseball. And I know that you're playing all those
- 14:35Speaker 3: day games. A lot of guys are going to feel
- 14:36Speaker 3: intrigued to it. I appreciate the fact that it gives
- 14:39Speaker 3: a lot of opportunities to watch day baseball when we
- 14:41Speaker 3: should have more of that during the week to be
- 14:44Speaker 3: able to gamble on.
- 14:44Speaker 1: And a lot of those guys live, some of them
- 14:46Speaker 1: live within walking distance or easy commute. It's not like
- 14:49Speaker 1: they're going back to, you know. They're not living on
- 14:51Speaker 1: Michigan Avenue, you don't think? Yeah, I don't think so.
- 14:53Speaker 1: They're not getting stuck in traffic on the Edens and stuff.
- 14:56Speaker 1: You had to drive back to Elgin today. I was
- 14:58Speaker 1: talking to Wayne about this. There's traffic everywhere. I talked
- 15:00Speaker 1: to Wayne about this in the Beyond the Booth podcast.
- 15:02Speaker 1: We talked about how, because Wayne lived it. He did
- 15:04Speaker 1: a lot of Cubs games. And I'm like, yeah, those
- 15:06Speaker 1: Cubs players, they embrace it. And PCA is embracing it.
- 15:09Speaker 1: And they like that whole thing about going. You see
- 15:11Speaker 1: them out at restaurants at night because they're, you know,
- 15:13Speaker 1: game's over. Sure. It's a good place to be. It's
- 15:16Speaker 1: in the summer. Great restaurants. Great summer city. Yeah. Wayne
- 15:19Speaker 1: was like, yeah, well, I lived in the suburbs, so
- 15:21Speaker 1: I was in traffic. So I was sitting in traffic.
- 15:24Speaker 1: He didn't get to enjoy the Cubs, the lifestyle. Once again,
- 15:27Speaker 1: it depends. Some of those guys might have a different
- 15:30Speaker 1: stage of life. I don't care what anybody says. That
- 15:32Speaker 1: remains the number one circled trip in the big leagues
- 15:36Speaker 1: is going to Wrigley. I'm going to have my family
- 15:39Speaker 1: come to Wrigley. Oh, for players? Players stay on Michigan Avenue.
- 15:42Speaker 1: I'm talking about visiting players. Yeah, visiting players. It's like, yeah,
- 15:45Speaker 1: you're going to come to this historic place. It's like
- 15:47Speaker 1: coming to Lambeau. But you got the shopping on Michigan Avenue,
- 15:50Speaker 1: you got the restaurants, and it's just like, that is
- 15:52Speaker 1: the spot.
- 15:53Speaker 2: The issue used to be the facilities there, right? Like,
- 15:56Speaker 2: for players, they used to hate the small clubhouse.
- 15:58Speaker 1: They've upgraded a lot. They've upgraded all that stuff. That
- 16:00Speaker 1: was a big deal for a while. Pretty good now.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Nobody wanted to sit on top of each other in
- 16:04Speaker 2: the locker room. There was no good facility, no good
- 16:06Speaker 2: bathroom for the players. Like, I remember that was.
- 16:08Speaker 1: A big problem. Their amenities now are... They fixed it.
- 16:10Speaker 1: They put a lot into it, yeah. Well... And people
- 16:13Speaker 1: would circle that, and that was not for the brewers
- 16:15Speaker 1: because of the proximity, but for other... For other teams,
- 16:19Speaker 1: if they do a family trip, Chicago's included. It'll be
- 16:22Speaker 1: like Chicago-St. Louis. I'd rather go to LA.
- 16:25Speaker 3: I'd rather go to Anaheim like the Brewers had for
- 16:27Speaker 3: their family trip.
- 16:28Speaker 1: That's a pretty good one to be allowed. That's a
- 16:30Speaker 1: good family trip, but I'm just saying, wives and girlfriends
- 16:32Speaker 1: definitely making the trip to Chicago. Yeah, and all that depends.
- 16:36Speaker 2: It's probably closer, and it depends on the stage of
- 16:39Speaker 2: life they're in and all that stuff.
- 16:40Speaker 1: I could see it. They like it. Even if you're
- 16:43Speaker 1: there early in the week, day games get to go
- 16:44Speaker 1: to the nice restaurants that you hear about and stuff.
- 16:46Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Pretty good life. I know people here
- 16:50Speaker 1: have animus towards Chicago sports teams. I get that. But
- 16:54Speaker 1: the city itself is a great place to visit, man.
- 16:56Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to live there unless I lived between
- 16:58Speaker 1: the freeways, unless I was in the hot zones of
- 17:02Speaker 1: River North or downtown or something. But pretty good city,
- 17:05Speaker 1: got to say. I don't go there very often like
- 17:07Speaker 1: I used to, but I always enjoy it.
- 17:10Speaker 3: I've been there once in the last, I don't know,
- 17:12Speaker 3: five years, and that'll probably be the last time I go.
- 17:16Speaker 1: I don't know. It's cool. It's fun. You'll be taking
- 17:19Speaker 1: your boys to a game at Wrigley. Even if the
- 17:21Speaker 1: Brewers aren't playing, you'll be taking your boys and making
- 17:23Speaker 1: the pilgrimage. Maybe. You have to. Yeah, but Drew, for
- 17:28Speaker 1: families driving in and.
- 17:29Speaker 3: Out of that area, that's not exactly a great time
- 17:32Speaker 3: to be able to take the 10-year-olds to.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Take the train. that's definitely not what I'm going to do.
- 17:39Speaker 3: I definitely don't want my kids rolling on three different
- 17:41Speaker 3: forms of public transportation in and out of the run,
- 17:44Speaker 3: but I definitely know there's a lot of people that
- 17:46Speaker 3: will do it. Yeah.
- 17:47Speaker 1: And I hope, I hope they have a great time
- 17:49Speaker 1: with it.
- 17:49Speaker 2: If you're a kid, it's exciting to do. If you
- 17:51Speaker 2: don't do it much, go on a train, but then
- 17:53Speaker 2: it's like, it's also a hassle. It's like, all right,
- 17:55Speaker 2: I got to figure out where to go with these kids.
- 17:57Speaker 1: And I don't want to lose them. I also got
- 17:59Speaker 1: to know where I'm going. That's what I'm saying.
- 18:00Speaker 3: I also don't know which one that I'm going on. Yeah,
- 18:03Speaker 3: but again, I hope everybody has a great time down there.
- 18:07Speaker 1: It is beautiful.
- 18:07Speaker 3: They love their lasagna pizza.
- 18:10Speaker 1: It is awesome. When their boys are older, you'll take
- 18:12Speaker 1: them there. You'll make a pilgrimage. I'm predicting it right now.
- 18:15Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, the traffic, though, man, you can
- 18:18Speaker 1: miss me with that.
- 18:18Speaker 2: Awful.
- 18:19Speaker 1: I was going to say. It's terrible. No, Drew, I'm sorry.
- 18:23Speaker 1: Take the train down, get yourself to a hotel, and
- 18:27Speaker 1: then just roll down. Yeah, it's not that hard.
- 18:29Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd much rather go to Florida if I'm spending
- 18:32Speaker 3: my vacation money. Again, I've never been to Boston. I've
- 18:36Speaker 3: never been to New York. Those ones are much higher
- 18:39Speaker 3: up on my list of going to. But I also
- 18:41Speaker 3: have been there, so it's kind of unfair to be
- 18:43Speaker 3: able to say.
- 18:44Speaker 1: We'll see. At least it is a shorter trip for us.
- 18:46Speaker 1: I'll say that. It's drivable.
- 18:48Speaker 3: Easily.
- 18:49Speaker 1: Easily. 877-794-1973 gets in. When we come back, Scott Dolphin's
- 18:54Speaker 1: going to join the party from the country station down
- 18:57Speaker 1: the hall. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Halftime has arrived in the huddle. Drew Billion-Armond bringing it
- 19:03Speaker 1: to you. We welcome our halftime correspondent, Scott Dolphin from
- 19:06Speaker 1: FM 106, the country station down the hall. Dolph, are
- 19:09Speaker 1: you fired up for Labor Day weekend? I am.
- 19:12Speaker 4: I'm going to do a little traveling, heading out to
- 19:14Speaker 4: my home state of Iowa to watch my beloved Hawks play.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Not in person. Just going to hang out with some buddies.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
- 19:20Speaker 1: And sports bar it. Oh, I love that.
- 19:22Speaker 4: And then I'm playing in a golf tournament on Sunday
- 19:24Speaker 4: morning in the Quad Cities, a place I worked 40
- 19:27Speaker 4: years ago when I started my radio career. And those
- 19:30Speaker 4: guys that I work with, a couple of them still
- 19:31Speaker 4: put a golf tournament on every Labor Day weekend. So
- 19:33Speaker 4: I'm going to go back and hang with the fellas
- 19:35Speaker 4: from my first radio station.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Let's go. That's awesome. On Sunday. Taking the whole family,
- 19:39Speaker 1: taking the dog. No, everybody else to stay home. It's
- 19:41Speaker 1: just me traveling and drinking beer and playing golf.
- 19:45Speaker 4: And, you know, but I'm going to be, I'm excited.
- 19:48Speaker 1: I'm watching the Badgers. I'll be watching the Badgers Sunday.
- 19:50Speaker 4: Night.
- 19:50Speaker 1: You're going to bring one of the CMAs to that
- 19:51Speaker 1: golf outing? Yeah. I think you've got to.
- 19:54Speaker 3: After that story you ripped out yesterday with your older brother,
- 19:58Speaker 3: you've got to drop.
- 19:58Speaker 1: That thing down.
- 19:59Speaker 4: Those guys that I work with, they had successful radio
- 20:01Speaker 4: careers as well. One of them is retired, and one
- 20:02Speaker 4: of them is now a station owner in Illinois. So
- 20:05Speaker 4: they did okay for themselves too.
- 20:07Speaker 1: I like that. He went from running one of the
- 20:09Speaker 1: places to owning one of the places. I liked it
- 20:11Speaker 1: so much, I bought the company. That's right.
- 20:14Speaker 3: It's like when your dad's telling you that you should
- 20:15Speaker 3: go get one of those jobs at McDonald's in your
- 20:17Speaker 3: high school.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Like, hey, I know a guy. He worked there, and
- 20:19Speaker 1: now he owns one.
- 20:20Speaker 3: Now he owns two of them.
- 20:23Speaker 2: They used to market that. I remember there were commercials about, like,
- 20:26Speaker 2: My first job was 14. I'm the division president of
- 20:28Speaker 2: so-and-so McDonald's.
- 20:29Speaker 1: They'd send them to Hamburger University.
- 20:31Speaker 4: Remember?
- 20:32Speaker 1: Yeah, down in Illinois. Yeah, the management program.
- 20:34Speaker 2: I'm sure once upon a time, that was cool. I'm like,
- 20:37Speaker 2: once upon a time, that probably felt cool to try
- 20:39Speaker 2: and do, like to work at your local. I just
- 20:41Speaker 2: don't think kids want to, people are doing that anymore.
- 20:43Speaker 1: Which is sad. I would love to go to Hamburger University.
- 20:46Speaker 2: I know, yeah.
- 20:46Speaker 1: I think if you could get to the point where.
- 20:48Speaker 2: In Chicago, Illinois.
- 20:48Speaker 4: Yeah, if you could own one of those franchises, I
- 20:50Speaker 4: can't imagine what it would cost. to own a McDonald's
- 20:53Speaker 4: or something like a Culver's nowadays.
- 20:56Speaker 1: How many kids are actually working there? You go to
- 20:57Speaker 1: most of those places, it's like two or three people. Well,
- 20:59Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Kiosk to order. It's just different.
- 21:02Speaker 1: Drive through. No one eats in the dining room, so
- 21:05Speaker 1: no one has to clean up and put the trays away.
- 21:07Speaker 1: It looks like every place now looks like a 3.30 a.m.
- 21:09Speaker 1: stop where there are two people in there. I'm telling you.
- 21:13Speaker 1: the first time I went.
- 21:14Speaker 4: Into a McDonald's and it was faced with that touchscreen,
- 21:16Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, it was the one on Blue Mound
- 21:19Speaker 4: and Moreland and Brookfield.
- 21:20Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, you can do this, Scott. Come on.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Come on, Boomer. Not punching those numbers.
- 21:26Speaker 2: It's sad, though, a little bit, because it's basically a
- 21:28Speaker 2: takeout place now where some people sit.
- 21:30Speaker 1: The only time The only time I would do that
- 21:31Speaker 1: and go in and order in the kiosk is if
- 21:32Speaker 1: the drive-thru line is too long. Too long, yeah. I'm
- 21:35Speaker 1: hacking the system here. I'm sticking it to the man.
- 21:38Speaker 1: I'm saving myself by five minutes.
- 21:40Speaker 2: And if you were from here and went to Solid Gold,
- 21:42Speaker 2: that was a whole experience. Solid Gold McDonald's on 76. Billy,
- 21:46Speaker 2: you know how I feel about that place. And that
- 21:48Speaker 2: was our hangout for Greenfield High at their games. And
- 21:51Speaker 2: half of your friends were working at the place and
- 21:54Speaker 2: managing it, like running that kitchen. And the other half
- 21:56Speaker 2: were in the place hanging out, eating.
- 21:59Speaker 1: Or, you know, whatever. It's Armand's American Graffiti. That was it.
- 22:03Speaker 1: That was Arnold's, man. Watch out for the nostalgia. And
- 22:05Speaker 1: we didn't know how good we had it at the time.
- 22:07Speaker 1: He was Fields. I'm like, you guys, this is our Arnold's.
- 22:10Speaker 1: So nobody gets that, but I was getting that at
- 22:12Speaker 1: the time. Shocked that nobody got that reference. I was
- 22:14Speaker 1: understanding it at the time.
- 22:16Speaker 4: Didn't they have a Mac Tonight, the legendary piano player
- 22:18Speaker 4: sitting in there?
- 22:19Speaker 2: Yes, that was my spot, man. Mac Tonight at the piano.
- 22:22Speaker 2: That was my spot. I would get my McChicken and
- 22:24Speaker 2: my McDouble.
- 22:25Speaker 3: I sure hope that McDonald's is still the hangout for people.
- 22:28Speaker 3: kids after a high school football game.
- 22:30Speaker 1: They don't have hangouts. Friday night, you got to have
- 22:32Speaker 1: somewhere that you're post-game. That's where the Falls kids used
- 22:34Speaker 1: to fight the Hamilton kids. That's where the squad up was?
- 22:37Speaker 1: That was the spot on Appleton Avenue. Sharks and Jets.
- 22:40Speaker 1: That's right. Going at it. You need a third space.
- 22:42Speaker 1: We don't have third spaces in society anymore. And you
- 22:44Speaker 1: know what, Billy? I hope it is, but I don't
- 22:45Speaker 1: think there are any hangouts. Where are the hangouts now?
- 22:48Speaker 1: The internet.
- 22:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 22:49Speaker 1: Are there still hangouts for the kids? You almost drifted
- 22:51Speaker 1: into a little Rob Parker there. Where are the hangouts?
- 22:54Speaker 1: There's no one to go to. Rob Parker. But I
- 22:56Speaker 1: do think, I'm with you.
- 22:58Speaker 3: I don't know exactly if there was a spot, because
- 23:00Speaker 3: there would be the one on the Highway 100 in
- 23:03Speaker 3: Forest Home McDonald's. They renovated it, turned that son of
- 23:06Speaker 3: a gun into a 24-7.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 23:07Speaker 3: They had to beg us to leave that place at
- 23:10Speaker 3: 1 a.m. I don't know if a lot of places
- 23:12Speaker 3: are doing that anymore.
- 23:13Speaker 4: Growing up in a small town, we didn't have a McDonald's,
- 23:15Speaker 4: so we went to- you know, a little local family
- 23:17Speaker 4: restaurant slash bars.
- 23:19Speaker 1: You know, arcade game where the kids could hang out.
- 23:22Speaker 1: That's what we did. You went to the gas and sip? Right.
- 23:25Speaker 3: 7-Eleven. They used to hang out at the stoplight, Drew. Yeah,
- 23:29Speaker 3: that was it. By the big silo in Iowa, right?
- 23:33Speaker 3: That's right.
- 23:35Speaker 4: Or the world's largest truck stop out there on Interstate 80.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Hey, man, fun was fun. It didn't matter. Dolph is
- 23:41Speaker 1: making the pilgrimage to Iowa where it's, what, Quick Star
- 23:44Speaker 1: instead of Quick Trip, right? Yeah, same place, basically. I
- 23:47Speaker 1: don't know.
- 23:48Speaker 4: Maybe they're owned by the Quick Trip people, but for
- 23:50Speaker 4: some reason they call it a Quick Star.
- 23:51Speaker 1: They were something to do with some sort of.
- 23:53Speaker 4: Copyright when i was in california they had quick trips
- 23:56Speaker 4: with a q yeah maybe there's some of those in
- 23:59Speaker 4: iowa and maybe that's why they call them quick star and.
- 24:00Speaker 1: I think that might be right yeah but uh you'll
- 24:03Speaker 1: be stopping at a quick trip as we do and
- 24:04Speaker 1: we're eating the dunkers this morning and did you see
- 24:06Speaker 1: the major news they're getting rid of the rollers oh
- 24:09Speaker 1: no dogs and brats and tornadoes they're going to be
- 24:11Speaker 1: individually wrapped okay and put in the hot bar because
- 24:14Speaker 1: people just aren't they don't like to do their own
- 24:17Speaker 1: you know poking around poking around For years, Dolph, it's
- 24:20Speaker 1: been a dream of mine when we have the locker
- 24:22Speaker 1: room back there is to get a hot dog roller
- 24:23Speaker 1: and always have hot dogs, especially for Packer games when
- 24:27Speaker 1: we're sitting here, road games. It would be phenomenal. You
- 24:29Speaker 1: guys had that popcorn machine back there. We had a
- 24:31Speaker 1: popcorn machine back there, and Doug Russell's the only guy
- 24:33Speaker 1: who knows how to work at a popcorn machine. I
- 24:34Speaker 1: was going to say, Dougie makes some absolute smacking corn.
- 24:37Speaker 1: He does. He definitely will during the season.
- 24:40Speaker 3: One of my wife's cousins or uncles has one of
- 24:44Speaker 3: the rollers. We might have to bring that son of
- 24:46Speaker 3: a gun. You can get them. They're like 75 bucks.
- 24:49Speaker 1: Really not bad. That would be electric. And a bun steamer.
- 24:53Speaker 1: Throw some dogs on there. Come on. Are you kidding?
- 24:55Speaker 1: Butter that thing up. Steam that bun up.
- 24:58Speaker 3: My little guy had one of them, and he just
- 24:59Speaker 3: looked over and goes, Daddy, this is the best hot dog.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Oh, nice.
- 25:02Speaker 1: Well, that's a good feeling. Shoot, this is going to
- 25:04Speaker 1: cost me a lot. Give me an expensive hot dog.
- 25:06Speaker 2: When he says that, that's a good feeling. And not
- 25:08Speaker 2: only that, you can put other things. You could heat
- 25:11Speaker 2: up little enchiladas.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Put other sausages on there?
- 25:13Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 25:14Speaker 1: I'm putting that one.
- 25:15Speaker 2: Well, you could put sausages, pause, but you could put
- 25:17Speaker 2: enchiladas and the torpedo.
- 25:18Speaker 1: What do they call it? Torpedoes. Tornadoes. Yeah.
- 25:20Speaker 2: Tornadoes.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Yeah. I bet you could put a hot pocket on
- 25:22Speaker 1: there if you manage it right.
- 25:24Speaker 3: Egg rolls.
- 25:24Speaker 1: It won't roll correctly, but you could find a way.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Egg rolls, obviously. Mozzarella sticks. Mozzarella sticks. Let's see what
- 25:29Speaker 1: we can cook on that thing. Bring it in. Let's
- 25:31Speaker 1: do it. Let's see what we can cook. I think
- 25:33Speaker 1: we should just buy one. I was going to say,
- 25:34Speaker 1: I think I got to buy one. Bring that locker
- 25:36Speaker 1: room back to life. Yes.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's pretty dead right now. We can't be humans,
- 25:39Speaker 3: but we got hot dogs. It's pretty dead right now.
- 25:41Speaker 1: I got to say. I'm still back there with Hunter.
- 25:43Speaker 1: We're back there. Billy's back there sometimes. We hang out.
- 25:45Speaker 3: Well, I can't really go back there because my computer's broken.
- 25:48Speaker 3: Did I show you that? No, you didn't. I got
- 25:51Speaker 3: the big error message on my computer, the desktop back here.
- 25:54Speaker 1: The two screens. The blue screen of death? Oh, no. Oh,
- 25:57Speaker 1: it's straight black. They said with a big error message,
- 26:00Speaker 1: I don't want it. Everyone's busy, you know, signals and
- 26:02Speaker 1: things like that.
- 26:02Speaker 4: This place is a museum for desktop computers. I had
- 26:05Speaker 4: one at my desk until last year. And the dude
- 26:07Speaker 4: from My Heart got on the phone and said, you
- 26:09Speaker 4: got to give it up.
- 26:10Speaker 1: That thing's a 2007.
- 26:10Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:12Speaker 1: They're gonna tell me that whatever it is the thing
- 26:15Speaker 1: what's older the the computers are the cars in the
- 26:17Speaker 1: fleet outside it might be it might be both yeah
- 26:20Speaker 1: i think it's a couple 2008s out there my space
- 26:24Speaker 1: was open today from companies that no longer exist automakers
- 26:27Speaker 1: that no longer exist that's right you drive until they.
- 26:31Speaker 4: Go that's that one runs better than most out there
- 26:34Speaker 4: the one from saturn no payments saturn.
- 26:36Speaker 3: Outlook i'll tell you that dually though that i got
- 26:37Speaker 3: to ride with Scott Dolphin's name right there on the side.
- 26:40Speaker 3: Not only because I know that I'm driving a Scott
- 26:42Speaker 3: Dolphin truck. That makes you feel good in and of itself.
- 26:44Speaker 1: We're getting that rewrapped. So you won't hear the flutter
- 26:47Speaker 1: of the FM 106 falling off. I still feel.
- 26:50Speaker 3: That supercharge of the six wheels right in my gut
- 26:52Speaker 3: when I'm driving down the freeway.
- 26:54Speaker 1: Oh, it's powerful.
- 26:54Speaker 2: I like driving your station vehicle because then people think
- 26:57Speaker 2: you're somebody when they roll by.
- 26:58Speaker 1: That's true. People get excited when they see you. You
- 27:00Speaker 1: know what?
- 27:01Speaker 4: I love the fact you guys drive those to Lambeau Field.
- 27:03Speaker 4: People are constantly sending us photos through social media. Hey,
- 27:07Speaker 4: good to see you're at the ball game. There we go.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Vehicle parked up there in the lot as they walk
- 27:11Speaker 1: into the game. Some guy jumped us.
- 27:14Speaker 3: We were.
- 27:15Speaker 1: We were at one of our quick trip stops, and
- 27:17Speaker 1: a guy jumped us, and he was pitching about the
- 27:19Speaker 1: signal on FM1. It was because he lived up in
- 27:21Speaker 1: Sheboygan or something. I used to be able to get it.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Now I can't get it. I'm like, well, thanks for asking.
- 27:25Speaker 1: We're going to work out for it. I actually control
- 27:27Speaker 1: it right here in the cab. We don't even work there.
- 27:28Speaker 1: So let me fix it for you. Sorry. I think
- 27:31Speaker 1: we still get to Sheboygan. Yeah, well, not as good
- 27:33Speaker 1: as this guy's car. Not to that individual at 1 a.m.
- 27:37Speaker 1: He was mad.
- 27:37Speaker 2: I just love that he thinks you can fix it
- 27:39Speaker 2: right there in the cab or truck.
- 27:40Speaker 1: You know? Oh, I'll take your complete right to manage that, sir.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Let me do this. You know what? Now that you
- 27:44Speaker 1: said that, let me flip this switch. And therefore, it's probably. Hey,
- 27:48Speaker 1: Dilly Dan says Culver Slug's the ownership program. How about that? 601.
- 27:53Speaker 2: That's Mississippi area code says I'm a certified barbecue judge.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Third boy, Mike and Racine. Oh, Mike and Racine.
- 27:58Speaker 3: Okay.
- 27:58Speaker 1: To become one of the best.
- 27:59Speaker 2: Spend a Saturday learning about and eating barbecue better than
- 28:02Speaker 2: hamburger you.
- 28:02Speaker 3: Listen, I'm down for that, Mike. You let me know
- 28:05Speaker 3: how to sign up for that course. And I am
- 28:07Speaker 3: in because I am trying to take that barbecue game
- 28:09Speaker 3: to the next level.
- 28:10Speaker 1: I don't need a course to look for the smoke
- 28:13Speaker 1: ring and to taste what I like. More than anything,
- 28:18Speaker 1: it's the excuse to do it.
- 28:19Speaker 3: The tough thing about barbecue is you're making a large portion.
- 28:23Speaker 1: I better start early, honey. I got to get out
- 28:24Speaker 1: of here. I got to get out of here. Sorry.
- 28:26Speaker 1: You know what?
- 28:27Speaker 3: The only way that I can have it is if
- 28:28Speaker 3: I crack a couple of beers. I really appreciate people
- 28:30Speaker 3: that take it to the next level. They spend all
- 28:32Speaker 3: day smoking brisket or whatever they're doing.
- 28:35Speaker 1: I don't do that. I don't have the patience for that.
- 28:38Speaker 1: They don't talk about the missus. Like, oh, I made
- 28:40Speaker 1: this brisket and it dried it out and it sucked.
- 28:43Speaker 1: That's why the brisket is still scary to me.
- 28:46Speaker 3: It's an expensive piece to potentially really mess up.
- 28:50Speaker 1: So I've been going on the poor man's brisket of
- 28:52Speaker 1: the chuck roast. Okay, solid.
- 28:54Speaker 3: And then smoke it like the brisket. Tell yourself it's
- 28:56Speaker 3: a brisket. It's almost the same. And how do you
- 28:58Speaker 3: find time with your busy schedule?
- 29:00Speaker 1: Just pretty easy. Just neglect your family. Don't let anybody know.
- 29:10Speaker 1: It's not true. Hey, buddy, hold on.
- 29:12Speaker 3: Watching one more episode of Bluey. Daddy's got to wrap
- 29:14Speaker 3: these ribs up quick. Daddy's got to make sure that
- 29:17Speaker 3: we pull off the membrane.
- 29:18Speaker 1: On the back. I'm sorry. I hate to.
- 29:21Speaker 2: I want to watch you grow up, son, but I
- 29:22Speaker 2: have to get out back and smoke this meat for you.
- 29:25Speaker 1: It's like.
- 29:26Speaker 2: It's basically like the modern day version of I'm going
- 29:28Speaker 2: out on a hunt for our food, like hunter gatherers.
- 29:30Speaker 1: Go pull this out here for us. Don't worry about it.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Let me know, guys. It is a labor of love.
- 29:34Speaker 1: That's right. I'm here to feed my family.
- 29:36Speaker 2: Hey, so Iowa this weekend, a lot of people. are
- 29:40Speaker 2: getting on Drew and the text line for his Chicago
- 29:42Speaker 2: tourism ad last segment.
- 29:44Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm just saying, I mean, Billy has
- 29:47Speaker 1: to take his sons to Wrigley at some point. It's
- 29:49Speaker 1: so close. Why would you not? This was a contention.
- 29:52Speaker 1: And I thought it was funny. And you guys are like, oh,
- 29:53Speaker 1: the traffic. And I was like, come on.
- 29:56Speaker 2: I spent more time there than Billy because I have
- 29:58Speaker 2: a lot of family there. But I do understand the challenges.
- 30:01Speaker 2: But I thought it was interesting that Dolph's going to Iowa.
- 30:05Speaker 2: Because we heard from Drew that Chicago is the place
- 30:07Speaker 2: to visit.
- 30:08Speaker 4: Hey, I'm still trying to talk Billy into going to
- 30:11Speaker 4: Kinnick on Saturday. on Halloween for Wisconsin and Iowa.
- 30:15Speaker 1: The only problem is that's game seven of the World Series. Oh,
- 30:18Speaker 1: it is? Don't the Packers play the next day, probably?
- 30:21Speaker 1: The Packers play the next day, so it's game seven
- 30:22Speaker 1: of the World Series. You have to do the Tom
- 30:25Speaker 1: Oates doubleheader. That would be the move. That's a night game,
- 30:27Speaker 1: isn't it? No, it's a four o'clock?
- 30:29Speaker 3: It's anything before a four o'clock. So I think it'll
- 30:31Speaker 3: be an 11 a.m. or a 2.30. The tough thing
- 30:33Speaker 3: is I want to go to Kinnick Stadium and enjoy
- 30:36Speaker 3: it with Scott Dolphin. I don't want to be sitting there.
- 30:38Speaker 3: If I'm going to get the full Iowa experience... And
- 30:42Speaker 3: it be better than the last time I went to Iowa,
- 30:46Speaker 3: which made it potentially the longest night of my entire
- 30:49Speaker 3: life going to Iowa and driving through that, that state.
- 30:53Speaker 3: I want to make sure that I'm living it up.
- 30:55Speaker 4: We got to do it the right way. You went
- 30:56Speaker 4: to Central Iowa, too, didn't you? You went way past
- 30:59Speaker 4: Iowa City.
- 31:01Speaker 1: Brunel, Iowa? Yeah. It's so good to be back in
- 31:03Speaker 1: the great state of Iowa. Like, this place sucks.
- 31:06Speaker 4: Iowa City's only like 50 minutes past the Mississippi River
- 31:09Speaker 4: from Illinois.
- 31:10Speaker 1: That's a lot easier. It's on this side of Iowa.
- 31:12Speaker 3: Because that was, I mean, people, Illinois, the back end
- 31:15Speaker 3: of Illinois, the actual girthy part of Illinois is a
- 31:19Speaker 3: tough drive.
- 31:20Speaker 1: It is tough.
- 31:21Speaker 3: At least there were a couple of hills that I
- 31:22Speaker 3: went over there in Iowa. It wasn't as flat. It
- 31:25Speaker 3: wasn't as flat as that spot was.
- 31:28Speaker 4: You want hills in Illinois. Southern Illinois has some good hills.
- 31:30Speaker 4: And then northwestern Illinois, out near Galena, that area.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big tourist area. Everyone goes to tourism
- 31:37Speaker 2: at Galena. I'm telling you, I could look there and
- 31:39Speaker 2: see for about 100 miles. This is exhilarating time. Exhilarating time. Dolph,
- 31:44Speaker 2: what does Labor Day mean to you? For your wife
- 31:47Speaker 2: and daughter, it's back to school, back to work. Summer
- 31:50Speaker 2: vacation's over because we were talking about it. It's a
- 31:52Speaker 2: melancholy holiday.
- 31:53Speaker 1: It is.
- 31:54Speaker 4: For me, it means fantasy football draft. We always hold
- 31:56Speaker 4: our draft fantasy or Labor Day weekend. Actually, we're pushing
- 32:00Speaker 4: ours to Tuesday this week because all the boys are
- 32:03Speaker 4: heading up to the Badger game on Sunday night and
- 32:05Speaker 4: probably Monday. And we're going to play a little golf
- 32:07Speaker 4: on Monday, too. But yeah, so it means my fantasy
- 32:09Speaker 4: football draft and a nice day off. That's basically what
- 32:13Speaker 4: it means.
- 32:13Speaker 1: But yeah, in terms of like, is it the last
- 32:15Speaker 1: round for brats? Is it the, you know, is it
- 32:18Speaker 1: the last hurrah?
- 32:19Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know if it's the last hurrah, but
- 32:21Speaker 4: people are heading up north. I saw 750,000 people are
- 32:24Speaker 4: going to be on Wisconsin roads this weekend. So a
- 32:27Speaker 4: lot of people are heading up north. That's what you do, right?
- 32:29Speaker 4: For the most part, you go to your cabin or
- 32:31Speaker 4: your lake house.
- 32:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 32:33Speaker 1: But it is weird because some schools have been in
- 32:35Speaker 1: school for two weeks. I know. That's different. Yeah, I know.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Even Milwaukee has been in school for most of this week. Well,
- 32:42Speaker 1: when it wasn't too hot. When it wasn't too hot.
- 32:44Speaker 1: They did take a day off. Right. They had to
- 32:46Speaker 1: take one bed. But, yeah, and football.
- 32:48Speaker 4: I get excited because the fall is here and, you know,
- 32:50Speaker 4: hope springs eternal. But that's the– it's the gray area, though,
- 32:53Speaker 4: because you're saying goodbye to summer. It gets dark earlier.
- 32:56Speaker 1: It's true. You know what's coming. You dread the winter. Yeah,
- 32:58Speaker 1: I see we're rolling. What did I see the other night?
- 33:00Speaker 4: Our last 7 o'clock sunset's coming up fast until April.
- 33:04Speaker 4: But I just love the fact that you're excited about
- 33:06Speaker 4: your team. Although, remember the day when the NFL would
- 33:08Speaker 4: always start on Labor Day weekend.
- 33:10Speaker 1: That's long gone. Talking about how great it would be
- 33:13Speaker 1: to have the slate of Sunday games and then have
- 33:15Speaker 1: Monday off and watch Monday Night Football and then go
- 33:17Speaker 1: to work Tuesday. Yeah.
- 33:19Speaker 4: Yeah, that's long gone. God, the Packers don't open until
- 33:21Speaker 4: September 24th at home. That's, you know, the last week
- 33:25Speaker 4: of September until their home opener now.
- 33:27Speaker 3: A week three Thursday night home opener. Hell of a schedule.
- 33:31Speaker 3: And they only have, what, two home noon kicks.
- 33:35Speaker 1: That's right.
- 33:36Speaker 3: The first one is all the way into November when
- 33:38Speaker 3: they kick one off at home in June.
- 33:39Speaker 4: Did you see the 1923 throwbacks they're going to wear
- 33:42Speaker 4: against the Bills?
- 33:42Speaker 1: I saw that announcement.
- 33:43Speaker 3: Those things are sweet. Those helmets are awesome. And they
- 33:46Speaker 3: look really, really good.
- 33:47Speaker 1: But the Packers don't play the Bills all the time,
- 33:49Speaker 1: and the Bills Packers have sweet unis. Sweet unis.
- 33:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:52Speaker 1: It would have been a sweet look, but oh, well.
- 33:54Speaker 1: That would have been a good one for the Falcons game. Yes.
- 33:57Speaker 3: And the Panthers game would have been a good one
- 33:59Speaker 3: for these fake rivalry uniforms.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Yes.
- 34:01Speaker 1: You know what game probably doesn't need new uniforms? Packers Bears.
- 34:05Speaker 1: Packers Bears. Thank you.
- 34:06Speaker 3: I like new uniforms. I'm a uniform guy, but that
- 34:10Speaker 3: game probably doesn't need it.
- 34:11Speaker 1: Doesn't scream for it. Doesn't really need it. I like
- 34:13Speaker 1: the 23 uniforms better than the rivalry uniforms. I do, too.
- 34:16Speaker 3: And those helmets, Dolph, I got a picture. The painting
- 34:19Speaker 3: of it is unbelievable. The craftsmanship I get on those
- 34:23Speaker 3: leather-like helmets.
- 34:24Speaker 1: I like those a lot. The Buffalo won't wear a throwback, though.
- 34:28Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 34:28Speaker 1: They might wear those weird gray ones they got. Yeah,
- 34:31Speaker 1: they might have an excuse.
- 34:33Speaker 3: They also, correct me if I'm wrong, I think this
- 34:36Speaker 3: is the first year that they, or maybe last year was,
- 34:38Speaker 3: where they fired up the retro red helmet.
- 34:40Speaker 1: So they got a couple of old throwbacks. That might
- 34:43Speaker 1: be a part of it.
- 34:43Speaker 4: From the four straight Super Bowls. I wonder if they
- 34:45Speaker 4: ever bring back the old, like when OJ was there,
- 34:47Speaker 4: where they just had a Buffalo.
- 34:48Speaker 1: There wasn't a bolt going through. It was just a
- 34:49Speaker 1: Buffalo on the side. Those are pretty cool. You like them?
- 34:53Speaker 1: I do. I thought that was classic. I like their
- 34:54Speaker 1: 90s versions. I think Shanna's got some of that gear.
- 34:56Speaker 1: I bet she does.
- 34:57Speaker 3: They rolled some of it out when they celebrated the AFL.
- 35:02Speaker 3: That was the logo that they threw back out. They
- 35:04Speaker 3: kind of redesigned it a tick, but that's a standard one.
- 35:07Speaker 1: It is. Anytime that you can also, I mean, I'm
- 35:10Speaker 1: just glad that Dolph said the name. So we didn't
- 35:12Speaker 1: have to.
- 35:12Speaker 3: But that era of Bills football needs to get discussed
- 35:15Speaker 3: a little bit more because that man was running loose all.
- 35:17Speaker 1: Over the place. He was running loose, dude. You see those? Well,
- 35:22Speaker 1: I'm just saying. Yeah, I don't know how many other
- 35:25Speaker 1: players I could.
- 35:26Speaker 4: Joe Ferguson, I think, was the quarterback in those teams
- 35:28Speaker 4: back in the day.
- 35:29Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 35:30Speaker 1: When O.J. was just running wild. He was running wild
- 35:34Speaker 1: all right. 2,000 yards in a season. Dolph, safe travels
- 35:37Speaker 1: to Iowa. Thank you for hanging out with us. We'll
- 35:41Speaker 1: see you Wednesday, Thursday. Thursday, I think. Come on now. Enjoy.
- 35:46Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break. When we come back,
- 35:49Speaker 1: a little who's out, who's not for you. You're in
- 35:50Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billion, I'm bringing
- 35:55Speaker 1: it to you from headquarters here. on this Friday heading
- 35:59Speaker 1: into Labor Day weekend. Happy that you're along with us.
- 36:03Speaker 1: About to welcome the 7 o'clock clubbers. And they're ready
- 36:06Speaker 1: to party. They've been waiting outside, Drew, in that line.
- 36:09Speaker 1: They have been. The velvet ropes, just chomping at it.
- 36:11Speaker 1: And these are the guys that have money. They can
- 36:13Speaker 1: get into the club late. Time for a little Who's Hot,
- 36:15Speaker 1: Who's Not brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen, our friends,
- 36:17Speaker 1: the best HVAC care around. DonovanJorgensen.com. Who's hot? We've got
- 36:22Speaker 1: to say it once again. It's been for much of
- 36:24Speaker 1: the summer. Andrew Fisher. Oh, my goodness. Where's minor league prospect?
- 36:28Speaker 1: 44 homers in the minor leagues. He's the Sadaharu O
- 36:32Speaker 1: of minor league baseball.
- 36:33Speaker 3: And I saw the nickname come across for, I think
- 36:37Speaker 3: Biloxi put it out, of the fish tank. How did
- 36:39Speaker 3: it take us that long? How did it take us
- 36:41Speaker 3: that long to call him a fish tank? When he's
- 36:44Speaker 3: hitting bombs like that, the nickname is going to have
- 36:47Speaker 3: to come, and that will be the right field bleachers
- 36:48Speaker 3: potentially when he rolls up here.
- 36:50Speaker 1: That's ridiculous, ridiculous production. Second most homers in a minor
- 36:53Speaker 1: league season this century.
- 36:55Speaker 3: He's the number five prospect. And I don't care at
- 36:58Speaker 3: all about the strikeouts. We'll figure that out.
- 37:00Speaker 1: 24 homers since being promoted to Biloxi.
- 37:03Speaker 3: And now what's that jump like, Drew? It's definitely not
- 37:06Speaker 3: as much the two to three, right?
- 37:07Speaker 1: Yeah, not as pronounced. But the home run leader since... The,
- 37:12Speaker 1: let's see, 1983 reorganization. Bill McNulty hit 55. Gorman Thomas
- 37:17Speaker 1: hitting 51. Come on, Gorman. In the 70s.
- 37:20Speaker 3: Wow.
- 37:20Speaker 1: Put some barbecue sauce on that. He really hit a lot.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Ryan Howard. Ken Phelps, my baseball people told me. Ken Phelps.
- 37:27Speaker 1: Ken Phelps. Dave Duncan, who was famous for being a coach.
- 37:31Speaker 1: Great pitching coach.
- 37:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 37:33Speaker 1: Phil High, Greg Brock, Chris Bryant is on the list.
- 37:36Speaker 1: Brandon Wood, Danny Tartable. So there's some names of guys
- 37:39Speaker 1: that you've heard of. Never heard of like Adrian Garrett
- 37:41Speaker 1: from 1971, but some names you've heard of on this
- 37:44Speaker 1: list of home run leaders in the minor leagues.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Greg Brock, the brewer, right? He was a brewer in
- 37:51Speaker 2: the late 80s, 87 team was on that team. Known
- 37:53Speaker 2: more for being like an average hitter though.
- 37:55Speaker 1: I feel like. Joey Meyer was a guy that hit
- 37:57Speaker 1: a lot of homers and brewers minor leagues, but this is,
- 37:59Speaker 1: it's insane. What he's doing. Who do you got for
- 38:02Speaker 1: who's not hot, Billy? Who's not hot?
- 38:04Speaker 3: Well, there's a couple of different examples that you could
- 38:06Speaker 3: list off here. And the Cubs bullpen has seemingly been
- 38:08Speaker 3: right there at the top of it. But the Chicago
- 38:11Speaker 3: White Sox find themselves very much not hot in the
- 38:14Speaker 3: chase to win their division. It felt like they were
- 38:17Speaker 3: running away with it. Now they've lost four or five.
- 38:18Speaker 3: They lost three of four to the Astros, including a
- 38:20Speaker 3: 6-2 game yesterday in which Wisconsin's own Marshfield's own. Darlton
- 38:26Speaker 3: Varshow continued to stay really hot with the Houston Astros
- 38:30Speaker 3: since coming over in the trade as he was one
- 38:32Speaker 3: for two with the RBI triple. He's been really good
- 38:35Speaker 3: for the Astros since they brought him in over from
- 38:38Speaker 3: the Blue Jays, and they're trying to chase themselves down
- 38:40Speaker 3: into a playoff spot.
- 38:41Speaker 1: And luckily, they're still in the AL Central, so I
- 38:43Speaker 1: think they have a few games. You know who else
- 38:44Speaker 1: is not? Both of those divisions are absolute cheats. Yeah,
- 38:46Speaker 1: Mike Lombardi, I was going to say. Another guy, Mike
- 38:48Speaker 1: Lombardi's not hot. Steve Belichick. He's out in the UNC.
- 38:52Speaker 1: He's out amid HR complaints.
- 38:55Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
- 38:55Speaker 1: I don't know what happened there. Pablo Tari was on
- 38:57Speaker 1: that one early, and Pablo Tari's apparently going to drop
- 39:00Speaker 1: another story today.
- 39:01Speaker 3: I was just going to say, that's going to be
- 39:02Speaker 3: a very much not hot situation for a baseball team
- 39:05Speaker 3: in Los Angeles.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Who's not hot? Steve Ballmer, I would say. Lawrence Frank. Well,
- 39:12Speaker 1: Lawrence Frank.
- 39:13Speaker 3: Whoever that business operations guy is that's also suspended for
- 39:16Speaker 3: the year.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Who's hot? Pablo, for sure. Oh, big time. He's big time.
- 39:19Speaker 3: But he did put it out there yesterday.
- 39:22Speaker 1: Pablo did that. He's already got the drop and it's,
- 39:25Speaker 1: it involves the Dodgers and what the bag, the big trophies.
- 39:30Speaker 3: Dude, that picture of Mark Walter and president Trump and
- 39:34Speaker 3: the whole team sitting there as they're all sitting back.
- 39:36Speaker 3: Hattori already is lining it up that there's a lot
- 39:39Speaker 3: of money. There's a magic Johnson sighting potentially into this,
- 39:42Speaker 3: into this intertangled web. There's some money coming from some
- 39:46Speaker 3: certain place coming in this one.
- 39:48Speaker 1: It's going to be crazy. Very fascinating to watch. And
- 39:51Speaker 1: I'm just grabbing my popcorn. I was going to say,
- 39:53Speaker 1: I'm grabbing some popcorn. Let Pablo cook. Start cooking them up, Doug.
- 39:56Speaker 1: We need some popcorn. Yeah, Dougie, let's get in there.
- 39:58Speaker 1: Let's roll this thing up. Let's go.
- 40:00Speaker 2: All right. Oh, boy.
- 40:02Speaker 1: We're going to break the tape strong. It's our mission.
- 40:05Speaker 1: It's our solemn duty on a Friday to break the
- 40:07Speaker 1: tape strong. And we plan to, even though we're off
- 40:09Speaker 1: Monday and we're going to be chilling. We're totally not
- 40:12Speaker 1: eyeing up a three-day weekend. Totally not. Can't wait for it. No.
- 40:14Speaker 2: No.
- 40:15Speaker 1: Definitely not. Totally not doing that. We will have Wayne,
- 40:18Speaker 1: by the way, at 725. Wayne's going to join us
- 40:20Speaker 1: at 725. That's the way to finish the week strong,
- 40:23Speaker 1: is to talk to the legend, the voice of the Packers,
- 40:25Speaker 1: Wayne Larrabee. We shall be right back. Wayne's coming up
- 40:27Speaker 1: at 725. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.