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9/30/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of the huddle on the air from headquarters.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in six o'clock clubbers. Hope you enjoyed your extra
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: hour of sleep. We've been at it since five with
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  Speaker 1: the early risers, insomniacs, and Sophia sociopaths who wait for
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  Speaker 1: the health club to open in the vestibule health clubs
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  Speaker 1: open now, but so is the huddle. Come on in
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  Speaker 1: the water's fine. Drew Olson, Dobie Maxwell's in for Billy today.
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart sliding into the chair. In the producer's room
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  Speaker 1: for Armin Sarian, we'll all be back tomorrow because it's
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  Speaker 1: doubleheader day. We're going to be at Pottawatomie at 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: Huddle at 5 a.m. Pottawatomie at 5 p.m. 5 to
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  Speaker 1: 7 for the Thursday night huddle. We're looking forward to that,
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  Speaker 1: getting you ready for Thursday night football at the best
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  Speaker 1: place to watch sports in town, the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be in the annex just adjacent to it. You can't
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  Speaker 1: miss us. Come and see us tomorrow night. Hot take
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  Speaker 1: hump day is upon us, boys. 877-794- 197.3 is the
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  Speaker 1: NicoletLaw.com talking text line. Share your hot takes. We got
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  Speaker 1: one already. They're rolling in. Steve hit us up. Hot takes.
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  Speaker 1: We used to be sticklers, though. We used to say,
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  Speaker 1: hot take has to be an opinion. It has to
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  Speaker 1: be a flaming hot ball of truth, like your opinion.
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  Speaker 1: And then we said, no predictions allowed. And then people
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  Speaker 1: kept making predictions. We're like, ah, screw it. Make a prediction.
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  Speaker 1: But Steve said, here's his hot take. The Packers will
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  Speaker 1: have at least 100 yards rushing Sunday against Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, that would be something, depending on who's playing on
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: But that's his hot take. That's a prediction, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: allow it. Well, you know, I guess his logic is
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  Speaker 1: his logic. Who's playing on the offensive line? We don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Not going to be the four horsemen.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: It takes time. Definitely. Backers are playing a backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Not a backup defense, though. Jalen Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not a backup defense. You're right.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Steve. Steve opened the bidding. Here's a hot
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  Speaker 1: take for you. It was a little bit shocking, but
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  Speaker 1: it's sobering more than shocking that the Packers game against
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  Speaker 1: the Bears was flexed from the national spot at 325
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  Speaker 1: to noon. That game is a week from Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 1: the 11th. And it makes all the sense in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Packers are off to a very, very lackluster start.
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  Speaker 3: To say the least. The Bears are without Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 1: They just had a great night on Monday Night Football
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  Speaker 1: against the Eagles, but they're without Caleb Williams. The matchup
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  Speaker 1: has lost a little bit of sizzle nationally, and in
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  Speaker 1: the same window, Fox was getting ready to broadcast the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and 49ers at 325, our time. That was their...
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  Speaker 1: And that's a better game. So it makes sense. Send
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  Speaker 1: the A crew there, put that one out to the nation,
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  Speaker 1: and relegate the Bears and Packers to a regional audience.
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  Speaker 3: Especially since Caleb Williams might not play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So Caleb Williams probably won't play.
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  Speaker 1: He got no Parsons. There's no star power.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So they made the right decision. Someone tweeted, I think
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  Speaker 1: it was Zach Cruz tweeted that, and he listed all
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  Speaker 1: the NFL stuff. And I'm like, well, they also may
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  Speaker 1: have been thinking about avoiding a potential conflict with game
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  Speaker 1: one of the NLCS. Right? Could have been.
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  Speaker 3: Good cross-pollination there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it could have been. Like I thought, well, yeah, but...
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  Speaker 1: And everybody, people are coming at me and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe, you know, maybe potentially could have been like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, both games are, I think Fox has both games,
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  Speaker 1: don't they?
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  Speaker 3: Like conflict with the, if the Brewers are playing in
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  Speaker 3: the NLCS? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know what I mean? It's like, if the Brewers, like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about the way things lay out. Who has,
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  Speaker 1: who has the broadcast rights for the NLCS? They're both
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  Speaker 1: on Fox, right? Yeah. That's what I thought. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I thought. My guess is it'll be after
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  Speaker 3: the football.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be a 7 o'clock game likely, especially if
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  Speaker 1: it's Brewers, Dodgers, and stuff like that. But I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I just threw it out there, and people are
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  Speaker 1: coming at me like, ah, that's not it. The Packers suck.
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  Speaker 1: And it's mostly Bears fans, right?
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  Speaker 3: So you threw the NLCS thought out there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just like, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Mad as usual?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. It's the default setting. Well, yeah. There
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  Speaker 3: is no reason, I don't think, to get mad at
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  Speaker 3: people over a flex time in the NFL. But I
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  Speaker 3: just think Packers aren't playing well.
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  Speaker 4: They just got embarrassed on national TV at home. They
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  Speaker 4: did on Thursday night. Yeah, and the Bears aren't going
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  Speaker 4: to have Caleb Williams, maybe, possibly. So that's why. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's so rare for the NFL to flex out Packers-Bears,
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  Speaker 4: especially in Lambeau Field. So there's got to be extenuating circumstances.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe the MLB.
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  Speaker 4: Playoffs have a little bit to do with that, but
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  Speaker 4: I think more so Packers just haven't shown that they're
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  Speaker 4: entertaining right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but send their top crew there and send your
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  Speaker 1: other guys to the NLCS game if it's here. We
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  Speaker 1: don't even know if the Brewers are going to be playing.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot of stuff that goes into it, too,
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  Speaker 1: with trucks and crews and stuff behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was surprised.
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  Speaker 4: Logistics.
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  Speaker 1: Logistics.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I was surprised that it was flex just because I
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  Speaker 4: feel like at any time the NFL loves to put
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  Speaker 4: Packers bears in the spotlight, no matter how the teams
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  Speaker 4: are doing. So I was a little bit surprised by that.
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  Speaker 4: But if you have the showings in the first three
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  Speaker 4: weeks that the Packers have, and they were in the
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  Speaker 4: prime spotlight on CBS, and then they were in a
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  Speaker 4: prime spotlight on Thursday night football and have not shown
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  Speaker 4: great in any of the first three games.
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  Speaker 1: They soiled the bed. They did the way it works
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  Speaker 1: out though. It creates the possibility of one of the
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  Speaker 1: great things we talk about is the sports doubleheader.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You could watch the Packers and Bears at Lambeau.
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  Speaker 1: And then make it down to watch the Brewers and
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  Speaker 1: get one of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 3: How cool would that be? That'd be amazing. That's a
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  Speaker 3: bucket list thing right there.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be one where someone should do a newspaper story
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  Speaker 1: or a TV story or a vlog or something where
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  Speaker 1: you go to both. And you just document it and
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  Speaker 1: like your trip back, how many times you stop at
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  Speaker 1: quick trip up and back.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Because that would be incredible. I remember, I remember being
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  Speaker 1: at a Brewers, it might've been Brewers Diamondbacks playoff game
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  Speaker 1: or man, I don't know. It was by Brewers Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was at that game in the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: and then headed West and saw the Badgers play maybe
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska or somebody at night. Oh, so that was a
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  Speaker 1: great sports doubleheader. It was a night game at Camp
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  Speaker 1: Randall and a Saturday Brewers playoff game. Closest I came,
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  Speaker 1: I saw an afternoon Brewers game, and I went to
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  Speaker 1: see All-Star Wrestling downtown and saw the Crusher.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I was that far back. Reggie Lasowski. Reggie Lasowski. But
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  Speaker 1: it was so fun. In the same day, Brewers and wrestling.
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  Speaker 1: But that would be an.
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievable sports doubleheader. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That would be, whew, man. Packers, Bears.
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  Speaker 3: Granted, the game could be ugly. Who knows what's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen? Doesn't matter. You're there. Yeah, to be at
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  Speaker 3: both in a day? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Those are like... Those are like two bucket list events
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  Speaker 1: that you could cross off. You could check them off
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  Speaker 1: in a day. Now, you couldn't do that if the
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  Speaker 1: game was at 325, because you'd be leaving Lambeau at 6,
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  Speaker 1: and unless you had a helicopter, you're not getting to both.
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  Speaker 3: That would be more the TV doubleheader.
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  Speaker 1: You'd watch their package right into the NLCS, which is
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  Speaker 1: probably the more common thing that'll happen.
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  Speaker 3: No homework for the kids getting done on Monday. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So what does that do? I mean, yeah, had it
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  Speaker 1: been a 325 start, the tailgating environment would have been interesting,
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  Speaker 1: and would the Brewers have put it on the scoreboard
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  Speaker 1: during BP?
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  Speaker 3: Is that legal? I remember when.
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  Speaker 4: the schedule first came out of the playoffs this year
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  Speaker 4: because they baseball announces it like early September.
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  Speaker 3: They'll have all the dates.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously you don't know who's where or anything like that,
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  Speaker 4: but you just know the dates of them. And it
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  Speaker 4: was pointed out right away that NLCS game one is
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  Speaker 4: the day of Packers bears. And if the Cubs would
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  Speaker 4: have been on the other side of the bracket, you
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  Speaker 4: could have had a possibility of Cubs brewers in the
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  Speaker 4: NLCS and Packers bears at Lambeau field on the same day,
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  Speaker 4: which would have been just, Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I was rooting for all along.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was totally rooting for that. But it creates the,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm thinking like, selfishly, because Billy and I will
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  Speaker 1: be at Lambeau, and I could make that doubleheader. I
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  Speaker 1: could get to, I might miss the first inning or
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  Speaker 1: a couple innings.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 1: I could potentially do both. So I might be able
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  Speaker 1: to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Selfishly.
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  Speaker 1: With the new game, yes, because. No I in team,
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  Speaker 1: but media starts with me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm thinking. I was like, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: just look for the doubleheader. It gives you a little
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  Speaker 1: buffer if you're a fan, too. You can, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fire up the grill and make more brats and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever you are, if you're a Pottawatty sportsbook, if you're
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  Speaker 1: at home, if you're, you know. But it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a great day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Brewers got to get there first, got to beat
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  Speaker 4: whoever they need to beat. But have confidence they will.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how good will a Brewers Padres series be?
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  Speaker 1: I know there are some people who are now talking
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  Speaker 1: themselves into being afraid of the Padres.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are definitely those.
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  Speaker 1: Champions fear no one, Hunter.
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  Speaker 3: That's it? This team won 103 games in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: Murph knows that.
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  Speaker 1: Champions fear no one.
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  Speaker 3: The Brewers know that. You're playing a team that, though hot,
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  Speaker 3: was a wild card. Exactly. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And finished below the team that you beat for the
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  Speaker 1: best record.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, okay. And you have home field.
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  Speaker 3: You do. And you have Jacob Mizorowski.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not a three-game series, which also, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that gives you a buffer as well, so... Would you
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  Speaker 1: hope that they play all three just to take some
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  Speaker 1: energy out of them maybe?
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  Speaker 3: I do hope the Cubs win tonight. Sad as it
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  Speaker 3: is to say. It is weird. I'm with you. Then
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  Speaker 3: whoever wins.
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  Speaker 1: Game three is having a Thursday night, late night, West
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  Speaker 1: Coast champagne celebration and then getting on a plane and
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  Speaker 1: coming to Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: That's the idea.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably the best case scenario is game three. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Do the Cubs have it in them? Can
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  Speaker 1: they get off the deck? Sure.
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  Speaker 3: They could, but their team looks different. Doesn't matter. Just
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  Speaker 3: go three games.
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  Speaker 1: It's on Kevin Gosman to get them started. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: going three games would help, I think.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit. In theory. In theory. Yeah, you never
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  Speaker 3: know what these things.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right.
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  Speaker 3: Dobie and baseball, like hot can go cold quickly. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Regression to the mean, as you say, indeed, indeed, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: All right. A Hunter who was at the workouts yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: and he gathered some more information. What do you want
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  Speaker 1: to play for us now?
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  Speaker 3: What do you got?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, one-on-one interview with Bryce Wilson, who is kind of
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  Speaker 4: on that fringe of the roster. Will he make it?
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  Speaker 4: I think he has a good chance to, but maybe
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  Speaker 4: that means a guy like Kyle Harrison possibly doesn't. So
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  Speaker 4: we'll see how the Brewers end up going with their
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  Speaker 4: pitching staff. But talk to Bryce Wilson about a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of different things. Remember, he was with this team in 23,
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  Speaker 4: so he was part of the start of the four
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  Speaker 4: years of the NL Central titles. kind of bounced around
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  Speaker 4: and made in baseball this year, came in about halfway
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  Speaker 4: through the season, spent some time on the IL, but
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: had a chance to catch up with the relief pitcher
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  Speaker 4: yesterday and, uh, talked to about a myriad of things.
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  Speaker 3: And here is that conversation. Bryce, first question for you.
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  Speaker 4: How has it been the last half of the year to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, be on this team that's been so consistent
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  Speaker 4: and putting wins up on the board?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, it's been special. I think it's been
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  Speaker 2: really fun just watching it just kind of show up
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  Speaker 2: every day. And, um, you know just be good at
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  Speaker 2: what we do show up play hard and and win
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ball games.
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  Speaker 4: You've been obviously in this organization before what do you
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  Speaker 4: think being in other organizations being in this one leads
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  Speaker 4: to the consistent success this organization has had.
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  Speaker 2: I mean i think it's a lot of it is
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  Speaker 2: just everybody shows up and we enjoy being here every
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  Speaker 2: day everybody gets along really well and we all want
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  Speaker 2: to win for each other and succeed for each other
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  Speaker 2: and um that ultimately translates into a lot of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ball games.
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  Speaker 4: That are won How important is that in a clubhouse
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  Speaker 4: to have that type of culture and that cohesiveness because
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  Speaker 4: it is such a long season?
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  Speaker 2: I think for that reason in itself because of how
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  Speaker 2: long the season is. You have 162 games and then
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  Speaker 2: you add in spring training as well and now playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: You spend a lot of time around each other so
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  Speaker 2: if you can have good relationships with everybody and get
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  Speaker 2: along with everybody then it's going to make a big difference.
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  Speaker 4: How about the guys you have with you in the
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  Speaker 4: bullpen out there and the consistency up and down that
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  Speaker 4: you guys have been able to put up zeros on the.
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  Speaker 2: Board yeah i mean obviously it's a lot of really
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  Speaker 2: good pitchers with a lot of really good stuff um
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  Speaker 2: but i think more than that is we're always we
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  Speaker 2: always want to build off of each other and pick
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  Speaker 2: each other up and then just go out and kind
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  Speaker 2: of establish that like hey like you know if we're
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  Speaker 2: winning when the starter comes out we won't this we
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  Speaker 2: should win this ball game so i think that's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of you know asserting that dominance and then being
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  Speaker 2: good at what we do.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you guys kind of help each other
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  Speaker 4: out there in the bullpen communication during the game, after
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  Speaker 4: the game, just kind of what you're seeing, and how
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  Speaker 4: much can you feed off of each other?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of it comes
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  Speaker 2: down to, you know, helping in certain aspects as far
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  Speaker 2: as scouting reports and what certain guys are seeing from
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  Speaker 2: certain hitters and, you know, how we want to attack
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  Speaker 2: these guys. But then, yeah, I mean, if somebody goes
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  Speaker 2: out and puts up a dominant inning, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: next guy that comes in also wants to do the
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: same thing and kind of slam the door a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: How do you make sure as you go into an
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  Speaker 4: atmosphere like the postseason, how do you make sure you
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  Speaker 4: kind of keep it simple and try to at least
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  Speaker 4: keep it like any other game?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just that. It's just reminding yourself that
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  Speaker 2: it still is the same game. A lot more eyes
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  Speaker 2: are on you, a lot more pressure. But at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, it's still pitching or it's still
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  Speaker 2: hitting or just playing the game and being able to
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  Speaker 2: do that and continue to be efficient with what we're
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  Speaker 2: doing I think is the big part and just remembering that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we got here for a reason. We won 103 baseball
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  Speaker 2: games for a reason. Let's continue to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you feel and take pride in just
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  Speaker 4: being able to kind of come in, in every, any
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  Speaker 4: type of role, whether it be back end of the game,
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  Speaker 4: front end, um, to possibly do that in the post season? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I take a lot of pride in saving our,
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the bullpen guys, you know, in those
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  Speaker 2: certain situations coming in and covering multiple innings and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: saving those guys. So they're fresh for, for the next
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  Speaker 2: day or the day after. And, um, take pride in that.
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  Speaker 2: And then also just, you know, if I come in
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  Speaker 2: and we're losing, just keeping the game where it's at
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  Speaker 2: and giving the offense a little bit of momentum, whether it's,
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: you know, momentum is such a big thing in the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: If I can come out and we're losing, even if
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  Speaker 2: we do end up losing the game, it gives us
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: momentum going into the next game.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: Last question for you. Yelich was named the first captain
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: of the Milwaukee Brewers. You were obviously here a few
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: years ago around him. How do you describe his impact
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: on this clubhouse?
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think everybody here kind of looked
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: at him in that aspect before he got that label. But, man,
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: he's just been doing it for so long, and he
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: has so much insight, and he truly, deeply cares about
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: this team and the city of Milwaukee and bringing a
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: lot of success. And you can tell just by how
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: hard he works and how he carries himself just how
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: much he cares, and that's easy to follow and easy
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: to get behind.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Bryce, for the time.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Well done, Hunter.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: He's an interesting cat. He is. He gave some insightful answers.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: That was an excellent interview, Hunter.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: He's a guy we're talking about because his role became
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: sucking up innings and saving the bullpen, and that's an
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: important role in the playoffs. Yeah. At any time. Because
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: if a game's out of whack, you got this. Get
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: us through it.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: You know? Human reset button. Totally. That's why I think
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: he has a good chance to make this roster.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: You generally don't see, or you hope not to see,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: position players pitch in postseason games. Mm-hmm.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I very much hope so.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Especially on your side.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But he's an interesting cat because, well, how many
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: teams are in the NL playoffs right now?
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Six.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: So Bryce Wilson has a 50% chance of getting a
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: ring because he pitched for Philadelphia, Chicago.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: And Milwaukee. You're right. Ha ha ha.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: So although, you know, two of his former teams lost
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: yesterday in game one, they're still alive. So theoretically he
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: entered the playoffs with a 50% chance of winning a
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: world series ring.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Hey, Bryce has got a shot here. That's like two
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: games for the Cubs. Did he make a start for them?
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: He did against the Brewers and did quite well.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: That's what I thought. In the last home series that
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: the Brewers lost of the season, which was late June,
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: they did not lose a home series in July, August,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: or September. He started a game.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: So he's well-traveled, and to be designated for assignment and
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: do-si-do-ed as many times as he was is incredible.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: But you want a guy like that around now.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: A lot of experience. A lot of experience, exactly. Yeah,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: his first year was 18. Yeah.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: He also previously pitched for the Braves. Okay.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Wow. This year or in a different year?
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: In Boston. He began his career with the Braves.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: In Boston.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: He's been around a while. Actually in Milwaukee. Yeah, exactly. No,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: before Milwaukee. Before Milwaukee.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: In Boston.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: He'd go way back. He played with Eddie Matthews.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. And he pitched for the White Sox.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, he did. He's got friends all over the place.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: So he could win a ring in the AL. Oh, no,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: he pitched for the White Sox last year. Oh, darn it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Well, it was interesting because I heard him and Vaughn
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: talking about the White Sox the other day in the clubhouse.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. What they thought of their chances.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Two former White Sox last year.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, so the other thing, and one of the things that, Hunter,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: you were around for it. Mike Heller and I used
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: to argue, he would bitch about baseball having their games
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: on during the day yeah and i'd be like oh
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you hate the uh ncaa tournament then because that's during
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the day it's the high level games and people are
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: complaining now because there were empty seats in both houston
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: and atlanta.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah they what a houston reliever was complaining.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Houston reliever went tucker craft spoiled yeah man he went
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: tucker craft saying how could they be booing us they're
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: spoiled because they've had so much success here mm-hmm And well,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you know, play better.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: That's just it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Well, I did see someone put it like you watch
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: this team for 162. Say you're a Braves fan, right?
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: 162.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: They win the division and then they have a, you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: two o'clock start in the afternoon on a workday.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Like I get that.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Like, okay, I invested all this time and now, I
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: have to take a day off to get to the ballpark,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: or I have to have a second screen on my workplace.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Atlanta traffic is brutal, too, seriously. Yeah, so I think
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: all of that combined, I do get what they're saying.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: But the only other way to do it is you
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: have it simultaneously, two games at four, two games at eight,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: or whatever it is.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Here's the other novel idea.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Add a wildcard team and let all the division winners
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: have a bye?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Have a bye. Yeah, that's possible. I do think this
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: is going to be... If I were to guess, I
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: feel like this is going to be the last year
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: of this playoff format. I feel like there's going to
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: be something changed, whether it's receding after the first round,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: which I would be in favor of.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: If the Phillies win, they should play the Brewers. It
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: shouldn't be the fourth. The worst seed should play the
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: best team, like the NFL does.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I would be fine with the current format, but then
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I feel like that's a possibility, too, is you win
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: your division and you get a bye.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be the reward. And more playoffs is
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: always better, right?
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I love playoffs.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: It's your best product. But, yeah, I actually, well, because
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: we have afternoons off, I like the quadruple header.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I mean, for us, fantastic.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: In fact, and I was dialed in watching my boy
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Matty Vaskirshen call that Braves-Phillies game.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: He did a great job.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: So good.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I texted him afterwards, and because it's, you know, me
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and Matt, I can't share on the air what we,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: our exchange.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: But it was memorable. Yeah.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Memorable.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: As it always is.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Good stuff. When we come back, Scott Dolphin's
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: going to pop in from the country station down the hall.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: He's a Yankees fan. If he wasn't a nice guy,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: he's a Bears fan and a Yankees fan. He's a
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: great guy. I know. Isn't it amazing?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: That's an asterisk. He likes the Yankees and the Bears,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: and we still love him. And his team's just got
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: wins the last two nights. On national TV and the spotlight.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Late night, too. It'll be unbearable in here.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So he's going to be a... We'll try to knock
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: him down a peg is what we'll do.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Humble him.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: And the Hawkeyes are rolling.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: They are. Game day's going there this week. It's like.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: What a week for this guy.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: It's like the September of Dolph. He's coming in next.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: We'll find out what it's like to be living his life.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. He hammers
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: this ball right center field.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: It is a slam!
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Ben Rice with a grand slam as the Yankees wallop
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the always hated but never feared Red Sox at Yankee
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Stadium Game 1. of the American League Wild Card Series,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: which is music to the ears of our pal Scott Dolphin. Yes.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: From the country station down the hole, joins us our
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: halftime correspondent, halftime of the Wednesday edition of the auto,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: halftime of the week, halftime of the show. And Dolph,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we were just talking about it as we went to break.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: You're riding so high right now. Your Bears win big.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Your Yankees win big on back-to-back nights in the national spotlight.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Did you get any sleep either of those nights? I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: was upset Michigan on Saturday. I was going to get
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to that, but did you get any sleep? Buy a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Powerball ticket, buddy. You're on a roll.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Seriously. I should. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: It's been quite the three or four days. Great side story,
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: by the way. Ben Rice, who you just heard, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Cam Schlittler, who was almost untouchable last night, Both young
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: kids that grew up in Boston as Red Sox fans.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Although Ben Rice will tell you at an early age,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: he discovered the Yankees because he thought the cap was cool.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: and actually scribbled Yankees rule as like a 12-year-old on
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Pesky's pole in the right field.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Corner at Fenway Park.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: But Cam Schlittler grew up a massive Boston fan, and
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: those fans went after him on social media the last
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: couple of years because he's pitching for the hated rival.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: And he said, I keep a lot of receipts, and
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: I should probably get off social media because I'm on
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: there all the time.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: But he went out last night and was just filthy
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: good for them.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: He's the Cy Young of the American League. Yeah, not bad, huh? Yeah,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: not bad.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: And we got to see him at American Family Field
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: earlier this year. The Brewers won that game. But Cam
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Schlitt was.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Terrific that night.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And Ben Rice has six RBI, and he had more
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: hits last night. He had four hits than he did
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: all of the last postseason.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what a find.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Him and that Michael, is it Lombardi, had another three
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: hits last night, the rookie. Unbelievable. Yeah, unbelievable. He's always
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: seemed to find these guys. So do the Brewers, though, recently.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Brewers recently, too. But yeah, you're riding high. What's it
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: like tonight? You know, it's like you're just. One after
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the other. I know. And now college game day is
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: going to Iowa City for the first time in 20 years.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Are you going to go?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I wish I could. I'm going to the Brewer game
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: that day.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, there you go.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Well, that night.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, because let's face it, it's going to be
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: a 7.30 game, isn't it, on Saturday?
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It's trending that way. I know this wildcard thing is
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: fairly young, but I read this morning where no wildcard
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: team that won game one has lost a series.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Interesting. Game 1 at home.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: It does sound right.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because the Brewers... Yeah, because the Brewers won game
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: 2 against the Mets and then lost.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Hunter, this still hurts. Yeah, so this is the format. Remember,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: it used to just be one game.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Since they went to that 3-game 4, which was what?
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: 4 or 5 years ago? Something like that.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That is wild, though.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: You think about how important game 1 is. And all
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: the home teams except the White Sox won yesterday. So
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: all the favorites except the White Sox. Although the White
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Sox may have been favorite in the game, but all
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: the home teams... except the White Sox. So you're probably
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: going to get one through four in each league, but
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: other than maybe the six-seed White Sox advancing.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So as Drew mentioned yesterday, we have a chance to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: at least boo Manny on Saturday.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: The people's champion, Manny Machado. That's right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: That just shows you how long the memory is of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: these fans in a market like, I hate that guy. Right.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Right. You know, the advantage of being the Brewers, though, is,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: you know, it was last night, Tuesday. And you got
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: the Padres throwing their ace. They're going to throw their
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: number two tonight. And if necessary, their number three. That's
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: one good thing is we're going to get the back.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: End of the rotation. And you're going to get, yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he's got another game behind him and their ace will
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: pitch game two against Henderson.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And he's damn good. I mean, he didn't get
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: a hit last night until what? bleeder in the seventh
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: inning seventh inning.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: And that's why if you're a brewers fan no matter
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: who you want to face you wanted the cubs to
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: win tonight so then they keep using those pictures coming
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: up tomorrow so then they're as exhausted as can be
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: but then again it's baseball and who knows these.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Guys yeah but it's hard for brewers fans to wrap
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: their brain around rooting for the cubs for sure it
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: is although i am because i'd much rather see the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: cubs despite the fact that we'll have a lot more
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: cubs fans at american family field but i think they
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: will certainly be.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Losing shuts them up That's a great point.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So, Dolph, as our resident Bears fan, do you have
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: plans to attend the game at Lambeau Field a week
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: from Sunday? Because there is a chance you could do
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the doubleheader.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: That's right. Wow, funny. Packers-Bears.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: It's been flexed, right? Yeah, it's to noon. So Packers-Bears
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: at noon and then could turn around and be in
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: American Family Field for the first pitch of Brewers in
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the NLCS.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen anybody offer me a ticket yet to
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: that one. That was a great thing.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: When Zabe was here, he'd say, hey, what are you
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: doing Sunday? You want to go to the Packer game
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: at Lambeau Field? I'm like, well, hell yes, if it's
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: against the Bears.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: On scholarship, sign me up.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Right, exactly. I did go.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Last year in Chicago, but I didn't go to the
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: playoff game, unfortunately. I went the next week when they
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: lost to the Rams, when the Bears lost to the Rams.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: But I've been to a lot of those games in
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: both places, and it's pretty awesome to do it. But
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: this year, it's Christmas Day. And we're going to be
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: out of town on vacation for Christmas. And so this
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: would be the prime example. But no, I don't think
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: I'm going to go to that one next weekend. I've
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: got to do either a farm and fleet or a
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: fleet farm the day before, Drew. And then hopefully we
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: don't have a Brewers game on Friday night, right? Because
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: that would be game five, if necessary, October 9th.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: October 9th.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Friday night.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it'd be game five, yeah. That'd be game five.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: And then they take one day off and then get
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: right into the NLCS.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And that would be the same day as Bears Packers.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: That's the way it would be.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: But for those of us who do a Packers post-game show,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: this is a very, very good development.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Because we'll be rolling until 6 now, and then up
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: at Lambeau, we could turn and burn and be back.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Were you surprised by this flexing so early in the season,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: or does it make sense?
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Perfect logical sense, don't you think? Yeah, I guess.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Since they already have a crew going to Seattle, San Francisco.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: If there wasn't a better West Coast game to put in,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think they would have moved a game time.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Like they wouldn't have taken a game in the east
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: or central time zone and flexed it to later. You
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: And you have the complications of the Packers getting off
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: to a slow start and no Caleb Williams also.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's. Oh, that's totally.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Big time. That's totally.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Because you don't. Not only do they not normally flex
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Packers Bears at Lambeau. They generally don't flex games like
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: this early.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: In the season. Week five. Yeah, that really surprised me.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: So that's their eminent domain power, right?
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: And then you had the added news that Michael Parsons
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: didn't start his 21-day window of practicing. Nope, not yet.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: He's not going to practice this week at all, right?
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Why rush him, though, with the season they're having?
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I agree. Exactly.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I agree. I know the hope was to get him
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: back for the Cowboys, but it's not necessary. It's not
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: looking like that. It's not trending that way. Right. I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: thought for a while that he was more of like a,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: weak ape guy or something like that, you know?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Well, that's a hell of an injury. You see some,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: you know, some people have ruined that theory though. Like
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: you always think of Adrian Peterson that did it for
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: the Vikings who came back and as not a young,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: young guy either came back in record time.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Or Tucker Kraft. That's a great example.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And guys like that. Um, yeah, guys like that, but
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: they're the outliers. There's always freaks.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Right. Like guys who come back from an Achilles injury
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: early and like, Oh, that's the new standard.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: No, it's not. Hmm.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: There are different paths now. There are some guys who
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: come back in eight or nine months from Tommy John,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and other guys take a year or longer, like over
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: 14 months to get back to better.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Elton John surgery. Elton John. What would that entail, Toby?
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Probably some fluffy slippers in there. A Donald Duck costume.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe a hair transplant.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: A hair transplant. That could be.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: That could be. So, yeah, Packers Bears will lose some sizzle.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: but it'll still be Packers bears. It'll still be around here.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: It'll be, it won't matter.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Well, it's, you know, it, it is, it's an interesting
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: dynamic though, because bears fans are going to be all
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: in their glory and that'll help offset the pain of, uh,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: if the Cubs potential demise, whereas in Packers fans, the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: brewers are kind of their, their numbing agent, their anesthetic. Yeah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And now with, with suddenly the, resurrection of the badgers
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: going from uh you know a big underdog winning on
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the road another i can't call it a resurrection until
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: we see what happens saturday against sparty i.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Think they're going to be fine michigan state is just
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: decimated by injuries they are and they just.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Got boat raced at home by nebraska who did the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: badgers are trying to be on the same plane as
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: again you know but yeah That's a thing. And that's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: where I say I'm a hypocrite. I say if the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Brewers lose, even if they lose the first round, it
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't negate totally to me 100 wins and the enjoyment
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of the success of this season. But if the Badgers
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: lose Saturday, it negates the win at Happy Valley Saturday.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to be fine.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I do too.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I think they'll be okay.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: And with the schedule looking forward, it looks like a.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Team that can easily win eight or nine games now.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Potentially, yeah.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And get back to a decent bowl game again and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: start rolling and the money start rolling in again.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: And they've turned it around a little bit. That's how
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: big that win can be. That win in Penn State.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, that can just absolutely turn it around. Because
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: no one expected them to beat Notre Dame. And really
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: no one realistically thought they'd win at Penn State.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: I know this is the new world of college football
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: with nil, but it would also be nice, and Colton
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Joseph's had a great start. I mean, he had a
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: rough start Saturday, but recovered and finished strong against Penn State.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: It'd be nice if they could have a quarterback in
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: the system for maybe two or three years. I know
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: that's a rare thing nowadays in college football.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Totally.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: But the fact that they had those two super freshman
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: linebackers last year, stick around when they didn't have to,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: you know, those guys got.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Huge offers to go other places. Yeah. You would think.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: And so, you know, kids are buying in to Luke
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Fickle's program. Hopefully it's not too late.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And they've started to, after initially kind of a poo-pooing
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the importance of getting the top kids in the state.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Now they're starting to build a fence around Wisconsin.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Keep the kids. So.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I look at my team in Iowa.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: I think they've got three or four starters in the
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: state of Wisconsin and on both sides of the ball
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: or on combined.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: And that's, yeah. And that's like, To me, it's like
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: you get the job at Wisconsin, that's job one. They
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: used to have a pipeline for linemen. You've had good
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: linemen leaving and going to other places.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: It's not positive.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: It has always been that way where those kids didn't
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: get out of the state. Yeah. Well, again, then you
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: get to the point where at major college, we're more
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: in basketball than in football, but the high school recruiting
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: has been diminished because you just go shopping at mid-majors
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and lower D1 schools.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, we can offer you more.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Come on in.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: And that sucks for those schools. Yeah, totally.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: And we see that at places like UWM, for example,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: in basketball. If they start getting a winning program, boom,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: a couple of those guys are going to be gone
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: right away.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: It used to be they would just take your coach.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Now they take your best players, too.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I know. And a cute cheerleader, too. Throw her in
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the mix.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, throw her in the mix, too.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: I wonder if they get nil deals to go other places.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: That's a great point.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, never know. Yeah, we just lost our best cheerleader.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Damn it. We were talking about that yesterday because we
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: were discussing wrestling because Monday Night Raw was in town.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And it's like, eh, it's... it's an athletic endeavor, not
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: necessarily a sport because it's scripted. And then I said, well,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: cheerleading is an athletic endeavor, but it's not a sport. Yeah.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: They keep, they do have scoring and they do, they've created,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: they've turned it into a competitive sport, but it was
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: not created for that. They have national championships down at
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Disney World. But it wasn't created for that. It was created,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: but then they got into these feats and like, why
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: don't we showcase these and make this? And those are,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: they're athletes, right? But the idea, if that's, you know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: is that a competitive sport? By nature. Is it scholarship?
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: It is now. At big time universities?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: At some schools, I think it might be. But nowadays,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: even that, like, well, we're not going to do that
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: anymore because we've got to give all the money to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: the football and basketball programs. I'm glad you brought up Raw.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Hunter, what did you think of the Brewers waving their
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: championship belts around? I saw Kerrang and Miz both had
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: them in the air.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: I love, yeah, I love that they were enjoying that.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: A bunch of them went over there and enjoyed that.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Uh, that was neat.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I like when they're out in the community and doing those.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is, you know, an event more than
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: the community.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: No bigger wrestling fan in the, uh, Brewers, uh, orbit
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: than Mike Vassallo, the meeting relations guy who was like,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: he is, uh, he was friends with, uh, personal friends with, uh,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Bobby Mahenan. Wow.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Whose real name was Ray.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Ray. Really?
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And he's even closer with Honky Tonk Man as
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: his guy.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Wayne Ferris.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Wayne Ferris.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Roy Wayne Ferris? Isn't it Roy Wayne Ferris? I always
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: heard of Wayne Ferris.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: He got a hold of my comedy CD one time,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and he contacted me saying, you're one funny dude. Honky
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Tonk Man. Honky Tonk Man was signing guitars and stuff. Honky.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: That's what he is, Honky, yeah.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: When I first started in Milwaukee, Bobby the Brain Heenan
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: came in and did like an hour with us on
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: the show and was telling great stories from the old
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: days where they were in places like, ohio or pittsburgh
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: where they only had three rows of people they'd shoot
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: in a tv studio and then they would out of
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: focus they would paint faces on oh yeah grim in
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: the background so and then pipe in you know at
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: re-dubbing so there was only 27 people there but it
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: sounded like there was at least 700 because you couldn't
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: see the people out of focus in the background.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Classic incredible yeah a couple of really good books by
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the way heenan he didn't wrote yeah you He was the.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Check him out. Yeah, he's so funny.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: One of the great heels of all time, right?
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Like, Bob Uecker could have been a comedian. Just naturally. Oh,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: he didn't? And Uecker, too.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: And Uecker had the association with wrestling as well. Hall
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: of Famer. He did.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: WWE Hall of Famer, Bob Uecker. Somebody put in.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: I think it was Super70Sports on Twitter, on X, said...
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of ex-ballplayers that become stars of the
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: broadcast booth, but how many become stars of the broadcast
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: booth and then do sitcoms that ran for 177 episodes
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: and you were the star?
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: He says, there was only one Mr. Baseball. That's right.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And how many Carson appearances? Too many to count.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: And you didn't have to be a baseball fan and
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: you didn't have to know who Bob Euchre was, but
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: when you saw that he was on that show, you
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: were like, oh, this is must-see TV.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It was so funny too, because of the way it
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: trickled down and Dobe, you know this, and it's going
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: to go away because the, the Carson acolytes are getting
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: older now, right? But Letterman idolized Euchre. Because he idolized
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Carson and Euchre and Carson were, you know, and so
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: he's like that. And so he revered Euchre. When, when he,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: if you see the panel that Euchre does on Letterman's show,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: it's like, you can just tell that Dave is like
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: over the moon that he's got this guy that sat
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: next to Johnny all those nights in, in the chair.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: And it's just like, you know, those guys don't get.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: starstruck very often, but it looked like Letterman was starstruck
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: hanging with you. No, and thanks to Drew Olson, I
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: got to meet Bob Uecker in Miller Park at the time.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Thank you for that. On the field, yeah. What a highlight.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: You had him laughing his ass off. It was great.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: You guys talk about wrestling.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I thought he was going to give us like 30
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: seconds and say hello and end up talking for 20 minutes.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: He heard Milwaukee comedian. He was off to the races.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And then you got him going on wrestling stories.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. And you'd never know he was a megastar
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: if you'd just met him. He's just the most down-to-earth dude.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: And I only had a chance to meet him a
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: handful of times. But he always made you feel special
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: no matter what it was. We used to do that
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: safe at home picnic for the cap fun back in
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: the day. And I got to be a waiter and
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: he would introduce everybody and it'd be like we were
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: long lost old friends.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Scotty, how are you, pal?
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: Hey, I was cruising out on Lake Michigan and we
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: had John this morning.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Thanks, man. Thanks for what you do. He didn't have
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to do that.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: No, he didn't. He's Bob Euchre.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: That's cool.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: That's why he's Bob Buchanan.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: That was the gift, yeah, no doubt. Well, Dolph, enjoy yourself.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: You're riding high right now because you've taken a lot
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: of nut shots with the Bears over the past 30 years.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Enjoy the playoffs.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: This year I started wearing my T-shirts to work again.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Those were long lost in the back of the closet.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Bear down.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: After Monday night, that was a glorious night.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: That was a very pleasant surprise.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: As we say, it's a motto attended to the show, 90%
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: of being a fan is getting kicked in the cup.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Enjoy the 10%.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sadly, we take the losses much harder than we
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: enjoy the wins.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: No question. That is the pathology of being a fan. Yeah.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know why we get into this stuff. We'll
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: take a quick break. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Radio Wisconsin. Huddled up on a Wednesday in the good land.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Drew Olsen, Dobie Maxwell in for Billy today. Billy will
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: be back tomorrow and Friday. Hunter Baumgart in for Armin.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Armin will be back tomorrow.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: The huddle has a strong bench.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: You know. Not toot my own horn, but me and
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Hunter in the same show.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And, uh, dope. You got a fan club.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Uh, Maggie and Georgia hits the talking text line.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: 877-794-1973. I think Dobie should be on at least once
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a week. He's great.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: You're the best. Nice to hear Hunter in the morning too.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Maggie loves her some Hunter.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Maggie.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: We do.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Um, get us your hot takes.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Is it a hot take to say the Badgers must
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: win on Saturday? Like they have to keep the momentum going.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: It's a, They really do. It's an inflection point of
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the season. Now that you've got the one, and there's
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: a house money aspect to it, but only to a point.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: You got the one in Happy Valley. If you lose
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: homecoming to a beleaguered, kind of downtrodden Michigan State team,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: you win that game, and it buys you the chance
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: to maybe stumble against UCLA or somebody, right? You know
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: what I mean?
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: It's like you got to get that one in the bank. Agreed. Yeah, no,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: I think so. They're 3-1 right now. A win over
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Michigan State will put you at 4-1 with a nice
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: win over Penn State and your only loss to Notre Dame.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: You get that win and I don't know.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: It'd be interesting to see how long it would take
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: for them to get ranked because that win over Penn
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: State is a significant one.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: And your only loss is to a top five team
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: in the country. But yeah, then that, but the Penn
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: State win is.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: In the rear view.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: It's contingent on how Penn State does moving forward. You're right. Absolutely.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: It could look a lot better now than it will
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: in a month. Yes. Yeah.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: But I'm sorry. Anytime you go play in front of
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: 100,000 people and you beat them.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: And they're ranked really good at 13 at the time.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: So that is a significant win. Yeah, you do have
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: to follow it up. But the schedule allows, as Scott
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: was saying there, As Dolph was saying there, your schedule
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: allows you to have a pretty nice season now that
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: you got a win that probably didn't count on being
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: a win at the beginning of the year.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But again, now you got a win. You have to.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: You've raised the bar. You have to win this game.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Standard is just a little higher.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's the thing. You want these games. You
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: want to expect to win these games. You're back to
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: expecting to win, which the last couple of years with
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the Badgers... I just hope they get a couple of
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: first downs. Well, it is wild how one second half
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: can do that, though. Well, and that's the thing. The
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: single greatest comeback for the Badgers was this game against
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Penn State, but Colton Joseph's comeback is one of the
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: great comebacks in sports of the entire fall season.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Because he looked so bad for about seven minutes, and
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: then to pull that game out is, he's been through
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: the fire now.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. And hopefully his confidence is through the roof, you know?
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Hope so. I just, I'm impressed by the defense. You know,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: the defense obviously was the thing that kept them in
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: that game, you know, throughout throughout that Saturday afternoon and
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: evening at Penn state. I mean, there, there, it was
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: kind of like, we talked about the Brewers bullpen. If
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: you're down by four runs, the Brewers bullpen will keep
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: it there. So you can come back.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: That's what I felt the Badgers defense was doing against
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: the Penn state offense. And it gave him enough time
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: for Colton Joseph to turn it around and the offense
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: to score and, Somehow come out of there with a win.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Hot take.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I don't like the Yankees. It's in my DNA because
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: I grew up watching the Brewers play the Yankees at
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: County Stadium.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, as did I.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: But I'm a Ben Rice fan. He's a, like Dolph
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: was saying, he's a kid who grew up in Boston
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and then now he's playing for the Yankees and he
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: went to Dartmouth. Okay. And the thing is he took
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Spanish from middle school all the way through college and
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: he's like fluent because he talks to his Latino teammates.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Teammates, yeah. They call him Ben Arroz.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Henry Blanco was Hank White in the Brewers Clubhouse, so
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: he's Ben Arroz. And last night in a postgame, he
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: answered a question with perfect Spanish, and I'm trying to
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: teach myself Spanish.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Beautiful, yeah. And it's like, that was impressive.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Impressive. All right, John Greenberg is going to join us
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: at 725. We'll hear more from Hunter and the media gatherings,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the gaggles from yesterday at the Brewers workout. That lies ahead.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Let's welcome the 7 o'clock club next.