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09/10/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Plenty of room for you.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, chopping it
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: up on a glorious post-Labor Day, one of the better
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  Speaker 2: weeks in sports.
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  Speaker 1: We had a U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Open match for the ages. The NFL kicked off last
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  Speaker 2: night with a lackluster game between the Super Bowl teams reunion.
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  Speaker 2: We had the Brewers take care of the Cubs at
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  Speaker 2: American Family Field. Some games thrilling, some games more thrilling
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  Speaker 2: than they needed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers sweep. They win five of seven.
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  Speaker 2: In the seven-game series over 10 days against the Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: A well-earned day off at home for the Brewers as
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  Speaker 2: they gas up the tank for the final push to
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  Speaker 2: wrap up the division and hopefully the number one seed
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  Speaker 2: in the National League.
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  Speaker 3: A decisive victory in those seven games, Drew, and they
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  Speaker 3: do it by not getting the best performance from some
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  Speaker 3: of their best dudes, right? Like Mizorowski gives up the
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  Speaker 3: most runs he did all year at Wrigley.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: They end up winning that game.
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  Speaker 3: He gets tagged for, now it ends up only being
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: one run, but 25 pitches in the first inning that
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  Speaker 3: he throws on Tuesday night. Ends up being sublime the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the night. Logan Henderson, kind of a short
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  Speaker 3: start last night. He ended up still being pretty good
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  Speaker 3: and keeps his run of 23, I think now, career
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  Speaker 3: starts without giving up more than three runs consistently. But,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they had hard contact against McGill. Last night
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  Speaker 3: you had to bring in Rebay in a weird spot
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  Speaker 3: and he ends up They score runs on three straight at-bats.
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  Speaker 1: Not a perfectly played run, but.
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  Speaker 3: One where you use all 26 guys and you get
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  Speaker 3: those dubs. That's going to be a hard one for
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  Speaker 3: them to be able to swallow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's what you want to do.
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  Speaker 4: It's a reminder the Cubs lineup is deadly, and it's
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  Speaker 4: never going to be an easy trip through that group.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they have a lot of good.
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  Speaker 4: Hitters, obviously. They have depth there. They have guys that
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  Speaker 4: can threaten you. And to your point, Billy, it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: in smooth sailing, but it never always is. I think
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  Speaker 4: we're accustomed to.
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  Speaker 1: Never always.
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  Speaker 4: Because what the Brewers have done this year, the last
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  Speaker 4: few years, we're getting used to it being a very
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  Speaker 4: comfortable existence and winning games every day comfortably, and that's
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  Speaker 4: just not how it always is.
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  Speaker 1: Your best guys will give up runs.
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  Speaker 4: No one's infallible, but you come out on the best
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  Speaker 4: side of it. You're looking at 91 wins on September 10th.
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  Speaker 4: It's a truly remarkable feat. It's been a great summer,
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  Speaker 4: a great season, and it's going to continue hopefully now
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  Speaker 4: deep into October. It's amazing to still sit back and
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  Speaker 4: think the Brewers were what? What was the future on
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  Speaker 4: this team? 82 and a half or 84 and a half,
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  Speaker 4: whatever it was. And they've blown past that. So what
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  Speaker 4: a great week. A sweep against the Cubs around these
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  Speaker 4: parts with all the games being kind of epic thrillers.
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  Speaker 4: This team gives us a lot of things, but the
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  Speaker 4: ability to trash talk Cubs fans is the gift that
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  Speaker 4: our Milwaukee Brewers gives us. So we really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: And keeps on giving.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. And more Brie Delio videos. You guys got
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  Speaker 1: to stop clicking on those. Oh, my goodness. You guys
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  Speaker 1: got to knock it off. That's what she wants. All right.
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  Speaker 2: We need a phrase that pays for tonight at Potawatomi.
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  Speaker 2: It has to do something with Armin and the Illinois fans.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. What should we do? Fib around and find out? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I like that. That's pretty good. That's pretty good, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Top of mind? That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Fafo?
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  Speaker 1: Because Armin is not afraid of the smoke. Fafo? Or
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  Speaker 1: should it be just pay the toll? I like pay
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  Speaker 1: the toll.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pay the toll is better because Armin goes with
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  Speaker 3: the Fafo. We're going to have some people come up
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  Speaker 3: with what people actually think that means.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: And that's going to be bad, so I like to
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  Speaker 3: pay the toll. Let's do pay the toll. Pay the
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  Speaker 3: toll is official. Pay the toll is the phrase that
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  Speaker 3: pays today.
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  Speaker 1: Pay the toll.
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  Speaker 2: If you come up to us at Pottawatomie where we're
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: doing a show from 5 to 7, it is the
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  Speaker 2: Thursday Night Huddle live at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
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  Speaker 1: Two 5 o'clock clubs today. That's right. That is right. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be fun. Who else does that? Who else? Nobody.
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  Speaker 1: People dream about doing it. but not able to achieve it.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, first 10 people that come up and give
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  Speaker 3: us the phrase that pays pay the toll, you'll get
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  Speaker 3: the toll paid to you. And that's basically what the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs were having to do, right? The tip your cap
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  Speaker 3: and call him daddy is, is kind of just like
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  Speaker 3: paying the penance, knowing that you have to go up there,
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  Speaker 3: catch a couple of L's and then maybe you do
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  Speaker 3: see them into the post season. And Drew, as you
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  Speaker 3: said it, I've been trying to chew on it over
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  Speaker 3: the last 45 minutes or so since it came out
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  Speaker 3: of that, that beautiful mouth of yours where you said,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'd rather play the Cubs again in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: If it came down to you play the Cubs or
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  Speaker 3: you play the Phillies in that playoff series, this is
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  Speaker 3: also just a difficult thing to put out there because
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  Speaker 3: folks will hate it and dunk on it if indeed
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: it comes up the other side and say that you
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: jinxed it. There's no real jinx in sports. The Brewers
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  Speaker 3: have won all of the games of massive consequence against
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs. like 2008 for them to be able to
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  Speaker 3: get into the postseason, them in 2018 to win game 163,
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  Speaker 3: obviously game five of last year.
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  Speaker 1: In the playoff series.
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  Speaker 3: So that shouldn't be the massive trepidation that people would
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  Speaker 3: have in it. You should have some confidence rolling in there.
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  Speaker 3: And the fact that you don't have to go up
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  Speaker 3: against a team that has probably three to four future
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  Speaker 3: Hall of Famers on it is one that I might
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  Speaker 3: look to try to escape from. But I will enjoy
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: seeing the Cubs win. look at more of a tragic
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  Speaker 3: number than a magic number because you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: look right now. You don't want to be too confident,
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  Speaker 3: too comfortable because San Diego and Arizona are rolling and
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to get themselves not only into that run,
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  Speaker 3: but San Diego is trying to not play Atlanta in
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  Speaker 3: the first round and they might be able to jump up.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're only two and a half games back of,
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  Speaker 3: of Chicago for that second wildcard spot. So they're in
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  Speaker 3: a race now in that wildcard run. And for as,
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  Speaker 3: They had two 10-game winning streaks. They also did have
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  Speaker 3: a 10-game losing streak this year. So, I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: can go on a real run in both directions, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll be able to see how well they close out here.
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  Speaker 3: And you may have just kicked them to the curb
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  Speaker 3: one final time for 2026.
• 5:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so interesting to watch the standings kind of
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  Speaker 4: matriculate here as we go through September. In the wild card,
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: especially in the AL, that thing is topsy-turvy. Now the
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  Speaker 4: Guardians have the third wild card spot. That third wild
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: card spot in the American League is kind of up
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  Speaker 4: for grabs for anybody that wants to go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting for my Blue Jays to take it, Armand.
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  Speaker 1: They might do it.
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  Speaker 4: And they might do it, Billy, because they are still talented,
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  Speaker 4: and they are still only a game back and one under. 500.
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  Speaker 1: If you go. 500, you get a shot in the
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  Speaker 1: American League. They're like nine games over. 500 in the
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: last six weeks. It's like, come on.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be remarkable if the Toronto Blue Jays went
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  Speaker 4: from last place in the AL East most of the
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  Speaker 4: year After last year, coming an inch away from winning
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  Speaker 4: a World Series to back in the playoffs, making a run.
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  Speaker 3: It would be even sweeter if they went back to
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  Speaker 3: the World Series at 15-1. Is that what you're at?
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say.
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  Speaker 3: It would be even sweeter if they won the AL
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  Speaker 3: pennant and then lost to the Brewers in the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: That would be even sweeter if we're going to start
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  Speaker 3: talking about the Thursday night huddle at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's some futures that you can look at right now.
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  Speaker 3: We're mostly going to be talking football futures, but they're still...
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time to be able to pounce on
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  Speaker 3: some of those baseball ones.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll have time to talk about all kinds of wagering,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: But it is going to be very interesting to see
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  Speaker 4: what happens because this time of the year, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, if the team gets hot, all.
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  Speaker 1: Kinds of wild things can happen.
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  Speaker 4: And now with the existence of that extra wild card
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  Speaker 4: spot in the American League and, of course, the National
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  Speaker 4: League being top heavy or more top heavy all year,
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  Speaker 4: San Diego and Arizona kind of battling for that. I
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  Speaker 4: wonder if the Pirates think they're out of it. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they're five games back at the last wildcard spot, and for.
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  Speaker 1: All intents and purposes, they're out. They're playing the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: this weekend for three at Wrigley. Well, that's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying that.
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  Speaker 4: I said in the first hour, I want it to be,
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking for a Cubs collapse here, Billy, and you
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  Speaker 4: reiterated they have had a losing streak this year. So
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  Speaker 4: let's manifest that. Let's see if we can get that
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  Speaker 4: energy out in the wild. Let's get all of our...
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: Our Cubs influencers, they have some public collapses here. Because
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  Speaker 4: if the Pirates still think they're in it, they're going
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  Speaker 4: to scrap and claw and do all those things.
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  Speaker 1: They're five back. I mean, it's unlikely. Eight of ten.
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  Speaker 1: They've won eight of ten. I like that, Billy. So
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  Speaker 1: it's unlikely, but hey, it's something to shoot for.
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  Speaker 4: If you're in that clubhouse, you say, all right, guys,
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  Speaker 4: we'll miss it 3,000 style. How many games back in
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  Speaker 4: third place are we?
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I mean, the Cubs, it doesn't get easier
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  Speaker 3: for them on Friday because they face Ashcraft, who is
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  Speaker 3: as advertised, all-star, and he had some wildly good starts
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  Speaker 3: earlier in the year. Then they get pedestrian Paul on Saturday,
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: which they might end up tagging him there. And then
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  Speaker 3: Bubba Chandler's no joke coming up on Sunday. So they
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: get all of the best arms that Pittsburgh's going to
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  Speaker 3: throw at them. And then it's Atlanta, Cincinnati, Miami's still
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: in the mix. Boston's going to be fighting. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: their strength of schedule, if that's a big thing.
• 8:37
  Speaker 4: In baseball, is not exactly the easiest on the way out.
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  Speaker 2: Cubs will close out their season. At Fenway Park on
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  Speaker 2: the final weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And then... Oh, come on, Caleb. It seems to me
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  Speaker 1: like they might be packing their bags and heading down
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  Speaker 1: to Philly. I was going to say flying right over
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  Speaker 1: to Philly. Most likely, yeah. It would be hard for
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  Speaker 1: them to totally.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, because they'd have to fall below San Diego
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  Speaker 4: and Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: Which would be not easy to have. And they would
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  Speaker 3: have to fall behind Arizona. I know they have the
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: season series against them. I'm not positive they do against
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  Speaker 3: San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. We'll see. But again, they have
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  Speaker 1: to go on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Those two, and credit to Wrigley Field for this, it
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  Speaker 3: is a great home field advantage. You heard Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 3: talk about it last year. You saw, sadly, Freddie Peralta
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  Speaker 3: fall victim to it a year ago when they started
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: chanting his name, and he was kind of unable to
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  Speaker 3: not be rattled there. Those are the two best home
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  Speaker 3: field environments, I think, right now in ball because Philly
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  Speaker 3: is a hornet's nest for not.
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  Speaker 1: Only fans and players.
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  Speaker 3: That place is loud and wild, and that's a hell
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  Speaker 3: of an atmosphere to be playing in.
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  Speaker 1: And I will.
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  Speaker 2: Repeat my cautionary tale that the Reds are coming in
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  Speaker 2: to face the Brewers this weekend. Last place in the
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: NL Central. They are 21 and a half games behind
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be swinging that stick. They've lost three
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  Speaker 1: in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Their run differential is minus 122, which does not speak
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  Speaker 2: well of their pitching prowess this year. but don't take
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  Speaker 2: anything for granted. Still got to show up. You still
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  Speaker 2: got to play. You can't, you know, there's, it can't
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  Speaker 2: be a Cubs series hangover here.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: And there was in, in, in Cincinnati just last weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor Cruz hit two bombs against you over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: And all he did was take that same act out
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  Speaker 3: to LA and hit a bomb in each of their
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  Speaker 3: three games against the, against the Dodgers. So they're, they're rolling,
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  Speaker 3: no doubt about it. I'll be at offensively. They're rolling
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  Speaker 3: and you get Abbott who has been a tough customer
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  Speaker 3: against the Brewers at times, right? I mean, he's, he's
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: thrown some very good games against Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: So that's, that's no slouch.
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  Speaker 3: And also Drew, we talked about it a couple of,
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  Speaker 3: before they went to the Cincinnati series, And throughout the
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  Speaker 3: entire run, these teams that you have to bring your
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  Speaker 3: own juice for makes it a little bit more difficult.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily, there's going to be some juice in the building.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I do, even though they're playing a
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  Speaker 3: 69 and 77 squad, I think Brewers fans are going
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: to bring some juice coming up tomorrow night. It feels
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  Speaker 3: like it's going to be a good welcomed event for
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  Speaker 3: the crew to be able to get a little more
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  Speaker 3: home cooking 50 and 25.
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  Speaker 1: And home this year. Amazing.
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  Speaker 4: John and Fondy with some good perspective here on the
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  Speaker 4: Nickelodeon Talking Text Line. It's hard to believe it's been
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  Speaker 4: 10 years since the Brewers had a sub-500 record. Model
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  Speaker 4: of consistency bites at the apple. Let's get it done
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  Speaker 4: this year. And that's the final piece of the puzzle, right?
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: That's the final act of the movie. The final thing
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  Speaker 4: to put on the shelf would be a World Series trophy. Well,
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: get to World Series.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be nice, too. So all those things are true.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hope we get it done.
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  Speaker 4: Cubs are closer to falling out of the playoffs than
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  Speaker 4: a first-round buy for the Brewers.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Correct, UPS, Ben. Good point.
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  Speaker 4: Morning men working in Chicago today will be so sweep.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Mike and Racine, I love that. Yeah, it will be, Mike.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: Let's go. Yeah, it will be, Mike. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be throwing some kind of hat on throughout.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you can't during the workday, but as soon as
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: you walk out of the building, you throw the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: cap right back on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what your job is.
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: If it's a suit-and-tie job or you're working where you've
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: got one of those yellow vests.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: You can wear it under the vest if you're working. Oh,
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: that's true. You can have a little jersey on underneath
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: the vest. I'm assuming blue collar, you know, one of us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming.
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  Speaker 2: Did we mention the McKelvey tweet about the Brewers and the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Rock was pointing out last night on television.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like the Brewers have had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: these stretches where death march, 16 games in 16 days.
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  Speaker 2: 17 games in 17 days with two West Coast trips
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  Speaker 2: in August. And leading into the All-Star break, they had
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: 18 games in 17 days.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: Well, because coming out of the All-Star break, they had
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: six off days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's six off days on the back end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: 18 games in 17 days leading into the break. They
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: were 10 and eight, 17 games in 17 days, two
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  Speaker 2: trips to the West coast, 10 and seven, 16 games
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  Speaker 2: in 16 days, including the Cubs tournament here, uh, 10
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  Speaker 2: and six.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Wow. That, that bodes well.
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  Speaker 3: Cause the playoffs, there's a lot less off days, especially
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  Speaker 3: in that first round series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you're, you know, the playoffs are kind of a
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  Speaker 2: sprint and you need to be, um, You can't go
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  Speaker 2: into a slump at all or, you know, there's just
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  Speaker 2: not time.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: But that speaks well of their prowess to stay above
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: water in those trying situations.
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  Speaker 3: And now two of those, you can correct me if
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: I'm wrong, the last one they definitely didn't get swept.
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  Speaker 1: They lost two or three in Cincinnati would feel like it.
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  Speaker 3: But they get swept going into the break in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 3: on that 10-8 one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they get swept in San.
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  Speaker 3: Diego in the West Coast run. So they– They tasted
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: their own blood in a couple of those, too, and
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  Speaker 3: were able to finish them off. Now, granted, the Pittsburgh
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: one finished the run when they got swept there, and
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  Speaker 3: then they got the all-star break to be able to
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: recoup a little bit. But I think that San Diego
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: series instill that comeback win against the Dodgers, biggest one
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: of the year, biggest one to flip momentum right back
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: into your direction and give some more confidence, calm down
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: the masses. maybe it calmed down some people into that
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: locker room. I don't think they needed as much of
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: that drew to be able to calm down as the
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: fans did at that point. But I think it, it
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: bode bodes well for you feeling mortal at those moments
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: and still being able to pick it up while your
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: bullpen gets taxed, while your starting rotation gets taxed.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: That's something else. Time for who's hot.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Who's not brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen heating and
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: cooling your HVAC experts, a employee owned. It's like a family,
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: but employee since 1985, nobody hotter than Jackson Churio against
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: the Cubs. Three-game series, he had eight hits, two home runs,
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: six RBI, and scored four runs in the three games.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: He was el hombre. And the hits, I mean, the
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: home run, obviously the game-tying, electrifying homer that he hit,
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: and then to hit one early.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Yesterday to knockout punch. He's just, nobody's hotter than Churrio, right?
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: No one's rolling better than Jackson Chirio. Walk-off catch in this.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: I was going to say the walk-off catch where counts is...
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: hold on hold on hold on wait can we challenge
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: it they're like no we're not challenging it buddy it's
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: all about it uh and the only people that are
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: gonna be hotter than jack centurion might be you when
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: you take advantage of uh donovan jorgensen's fall special of
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: zero percent for 60 months on select systems come on
• 15:02
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• 15:05
  Speaker 3: that you can enjoy um also in i don't know
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: where you'd put him into the uh the the hot
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: category the not category true but uh Since we're having
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: fun kicking sand in the dirt of Cubs fans' faces,
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: one guy that did that himself on the team last
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: year into the postseason was Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker might
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: be able to wake up feeling hot. He had a
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: three-hit night last night. That's more hits than he had
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: combined in all of the games in the month so far.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: He has three of his five hits in September last
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: night in a Dodgers 14-1 win. Kyle Tucker's numbers for
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: the month of September, now granted it's early, small sample size, sure.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: 172 on the batting average side, 286 on base. That's
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: coming off of a month of August where he hit
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: a robust 195. I was going to say. Got on
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: base at a 293 clip, slugged 310.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: For a massive OPS of 603. Yeah, he hasn't been good.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: All year, really. I mean, not good by his standard,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I should say.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: He has had one month this year, two months this year, Armin,
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: where his OPS was over 700. And 700 is like
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: an average MLB player.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: It's sort of a little baseline. 715 is kind of
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: like the baseline.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: We're talking about a guy that last year, the first
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: half of the year, or at least the first four months,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: was just tearing the cover off of it. And he
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: has had a really steep drop off there ever since. So, man,
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: you just don't know sometimes why it happens, why When
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: it's going to happen, but some guys had that drop
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: off and he's been struggling.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Dodgers have won seven straight, large part because of Mookie
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Betts waking up. He had been the mayor of Slum
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: City for a long time. His last 15 days, OPS
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: over 1,000. He homered last night. He's got three bombs
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: in the last two weeks, three bombs in the month
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: of September, pardon me. three of his last 32 at-bats
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: have resulted in homers.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: He's got 10 hits in that time.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: And he was slumping big time early in the year,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: starting to roll a little bit better. And that might
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: be a good indication. Mookie Betts, same pile as Christian
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Yelich kind of was, Drew, for a long time.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Former MVPs that were not having big years, just really
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: middling in the middle of the year. Folks wondering, how
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: are these managers going to handle these guys? Well, Christian
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Yelich and... his last 15 days, 298, 489 slugging percentage,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: and an 848 OPS. That's an 879 OPS in the
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: month of September for the first two week and a half.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: And he hits yesterday his 20th career home run against
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: the Northsiders.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: That little graphic they put up last night on Brewers
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: TV was awesome. And then I think it was Rock said,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: he put that back up. Put that back up one
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: more second.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I love that. Rocked on the truck.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: They put it back up, and then you realize just
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: how much Ryan Braun spit in the face of the
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Chicago Cubs.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt. Oh, he dominated.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: 20 homers for Yelly. 21 for Jeremy Burnett against the Cubs.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Very nice.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: There was one other that I'm going to forget. Prince Fielder,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: 20 home runs against the Cubs.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Ryan Braun, 40 of them things. In his career against
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: the Chicago Cubs.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: And there was nothing more satisfying than what he did
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: at Wrigley.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: He'd get booed like nobody's business and just find a
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: basket of the bleachers all the time. Just a good
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: ode to just how good he was. And you want
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: to talk about guys in the clutch moments. Jackson Churio
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: is fine in that. Ryan Braun was that dude for
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: so long.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I agree. Now it's Churio I want to see up
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: in clutch situations. Every time. Whenever possible.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Outstanding.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: All right, who's out, who's not brought to us by
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling. Hey, when we come back,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Scott Dolphin's going to join the party.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Dolphin. Dolphin is back.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: From the country station down the hall, FM 106. We'll
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: talk to Dolphin next. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Halftime has arrived in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: and Armand bringing it to you. Joined by our correspondent,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Scott Dolphin. Back, rested, and ready to tackle a very
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: short one.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Week.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Usually it's hit the wall Thursday around here, but today
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: I feel pretty damn good.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: We figured it out.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: We were thinking of something for Thursday. Hit the wall Thursday.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: You guys like that?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: No?
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: It's just a fact. I mean, usually Wednesday hits pretty
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: hard on the show. That's why we celebrate halftime of
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the week.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why we find the halftime. But Thursday, I
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: don't know. I stayed up and watched Brandon Sprote's higher
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: wire act. Oh, my God. I did not, thankfully. I
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: was in bed.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: I didn't see the end of the football game either.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Nine o'clock rolled around.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I thought, oh, I got to get to bed. So
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I missed all that. Yeah, you didn't miss much. You
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: mean those offenses didn't put you to sleep anyway?
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Actually, the fourth quarter was the best part. It was
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: the only time that somebody was completing passes. Just had
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: to be the other team.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: So Dolph, you're a man with some good flow. We
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: haven't talked about Barry Melrose yet in his past.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Oh man.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the best flows. I guess best mullet
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: before that. Loved Barry Melrose's work.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: The suits, the hair, everything about it. The teeth.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: He had great teeth. Now, they probably weren't his being
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: a hockey guy. He was also a great analyst.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: He was. He was a great, great analyst. He made
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you understand hockey better. Sense of humor.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Sense of humor, but not to the point where he
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: was trying to make himself the show. All the stories.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: His suits were cool because they were long. Always looked good.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I hope they're more like that. Hockey seems to have
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: some great analysts.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: I've always loved him and Eddie Olchek and those guys,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: so rest in peace, Barry.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: That's really, really sad. Eddie Olchek's another one.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Those are the guys that brought me to hockey as
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: a fringe fan that love it during the playoffs and
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: the Olympics, but guys like that, well, Barry's on.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I'll watch this.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Barry, the only guy that would be able to talk
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: NHL on ESPN was Barry Melrose.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: He was their guy. That was it. Neil Everett and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: him and all that. Linda Cohen a little bit.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Barry Melrose and his, like, eulogy or obit for him
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: scott van pelt said he had like a cologne that
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: seemed like it was made just for him oh.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That's great i can almost smell it yeah you.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Can because it's like a dude like that you know
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: he's gonna smell amazing because he's always got the like
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the suits.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Always looking good the hair's looking smooth yes and uh
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: and he's you can already see the hand almost looked
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: like it was built, not to hold a hockey stick,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: but hold a cigar.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Like my man was always waiting for a stoke.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Very natural for the cigar to just be in between
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the index finger and middle one.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: When ESPN had the Stanley Cup finals, it was kind
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: of intermittent through the 90s, and I think too dumb,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: but like, The early 2000s, the first five years of
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: the decade, the millennium or the century, I felt like
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: they had it every year because I had just gotten ESPN.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: They did before the lockout. Before the lockout, right.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Okay, that makes sense then because I had just gotten
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: cable and I had just gotten ESPN and we had
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: just gotten it at home because we didn't have cable
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: really growing up until I was really in high school.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: and being able to watch hockey was something on TV
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: that was very rare because every now and then it
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: was on Fox, and that was it. But when it
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: was on ESPN a lot early in those days, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: he was one of the voices that was pervasive that
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: you remembered, and it was a lot of fun to
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: watch hockey on TV and.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: To watch ESPN broadcast. What did you watch? It was weird. No,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I know. We didn't have... The 1993 Finals. On VHS.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: On VHS, they taped it every while.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I'll say this. The 1987 Milwaukee Brewers. Sponsored by Miller Lite.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: And a really questionable Smokey the Bear ad.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Keep me up at night with that Smokey Bear when
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: everything's on fire.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Well, thankfully, you know, growing up in the 90s, a
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: lot of stuff was still on network TV, sports-wise.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: So what I did was every game that was on,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: that I could, if I had a clean tape, I
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: would tape it. And then off times when there wasn't
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: sports on network TV, I would just watch tapes of sports.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: No wonder you got into radio because you described it
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: as a clean tape. He was building for his radio
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: career way back then.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, how many times I would spend money on
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: extra VHS tapes. In my mind, I would just tape
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: over something. I'm like, well, I can't tape over the
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Rose Bowl. Okay, so that's 95. I'm trying to think
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: of what games I could tape over.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: As a kid, my best years of soaking everything up
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: was in the 80s. In the 90s, did you treat
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: a VHS tape? Did it have to be a certain
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: VHS tape? Because we had cassette tapes when I was
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: growing up in the 80s, and it had to be
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: a certain.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Because there were different qualities. I didn't care about the brand.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Maxell was one of the best.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: I didn't care at that age, but I know a
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: lot of people probably did. The problem was I would
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: try and write– you know that little– Billy's going to
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: hate this because these references– The little sticker where you
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: put the description on the tape, you know, I'm trying
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: to write the whole, the whole story of the game.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Basically. You're trying to write your game rap on that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, exactly. And it was like, Oh no, just put,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you know, you just put.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: 24 for 38 with 264 yards and three touchdowns, a
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: pig in the third quarter at the seven 42 mark.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I had one that I had one that said like
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: a bulls versus blazers game six. And then I put
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: in parentheses bulls repeat as 91 champs, blazers, I had
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: like too much on there. But that's because I didn't
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: know growing up that one day we had this magical
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: thing called YouTube and the Internet.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that was going to happen. It is amazing. Yeah.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: But anyway, all that to say, I have great memories
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: of watching Barry Melrose. Rest in peace. That was my
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: long about way of saying it. Yeah, they did.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: After the lockout, ESPN just went. cold turkey on hockey. Like,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: there was not a lot of conversation. They wouldn't really
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: show much of it. Kind of like Big Ten. I
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: was just going to say that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Kind of like the Big Ten, Dolph. We don't get
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: much Big Ten conversation now on ESPN because they know
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: where their bread's buttered.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: And when we do, I was off yesterday, so I
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: watched a lot of ESPN, you know, Get Up and
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: what's Greeny's show?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: What's that one called?
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Get Up.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: That's Get Up. And then the one with Stephen A.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Afterwards. But the Big Ten talk that they did have
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: on was all negative. It was Michigan for 15 minutes.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: And then they talked about the weak spots that Ohio
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: State has, even though they got the majority of the
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: number one votes this week. Boy, Texas is really going
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: to expose that Ohio State defense this weekend.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: It was all negative talk.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: It's crazy that they didn't mention the fact that Georgia, when...
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Without a first place vote. Crazy that they mentioned all
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: of these teams in the AP. Miami had a first
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: place vote. That don't have a first place vote. Crazy,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: crazy how that happens. I think it's hilarious to see
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: when the money is a certain spot, that's how it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: going to be treated.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Melrose was a, was a beauty though.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Like from the amount of guys that you hear good
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: things about, he only, you hear great things about guys
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: that got to work with even like the low level people, right?
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Like the, the producers and everything. You got to see
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: some of those tributes. Everyone's waiting for Steve Levy to
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: say something last night. He had a good one, but
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I enjoyed hockey guy, but I enjoyed the moments of
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: the producers being able to say like, he, Didn't have to,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: but he treated everybody.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: The right way. Oh, that's amazing. I love that part.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: That's always an important thing to hear when people talk
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: about how they were behind the scenes.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: And I don't know how humble his beginnings were, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know what every city he played in, but
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: he just looked like a guy that was born to
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: be an L.A.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Kings guy.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: He just had that look about him, despite the fact
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: that he was really down-home charming and was really fun
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: to watch.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: He's from the prairie of Saskatchewan. Wow.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: And he wasn't that great a player, just a defenseman,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: just kind of a guy in the— playing in the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: American league and stuff.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Very similar to how I'd say, uh, back and forth,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: but a lot of minor leagues, Bissonette is right. Like the,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the barstool hockey guys. Now they're spitting chiclets podcast. Ryan
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Whitney was a really, really good player. Bissonette was, uh,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: journeyman he kind of went around and but they got
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the great stories everybody that encountered them loved them and
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: then when you put a microphone in front of their
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: face you know that you're going to get.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Some gold melrose was like a surprise hire when he
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: got the king's job he's 35 with the hair and
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the suits and he's like that was when the kings
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: were like you know the talk of the town it
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: was probably a pretty good.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Time i can't imagine what it was like living in
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: la when you're.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: La on your team and every celebrity wants to be
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: around it you know and they go to the finals
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: He also, and for.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: You, he hoisted a Calder Cup, which the Admirals play
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: for now. I didn't know that. In 92, he won the...
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Which the Admirals with the Red Wings, right? He was
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a Red Wings assistant.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Adirondack Red Wings, yeah, at the time. So three years
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: with them, leading them to a Calder Cup, winning the
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: 91-92 season. Then he jumped right to the Kings the
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: next year. How about that? So the Calder Cup, that
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: was it right there. And yes, Billy, we're going to
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: hoist this year. I'm calling it this year.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I want a picture with it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: I remember when the Admirals won it like 20 years ago.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: They brought it into the station here. And Darren Hadar,
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: remember him?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: He had a pretty good career in the NHL, too.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: But he brought it in and hung out with us
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: for a while, so we got to take pictures with.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: The Calder Cup. Well, didn't KBE party with the Drews
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: some famous time? Well, yeah. Well, Joe, I'll tell you.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I think it holds eight and a half beers. There
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: you go. I was going to say, we definitely know
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the exact number of where it goes. It's science. That's
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: less than the Stanley Cup, right? Yeah, I think so.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Stanley's like 13 and a half, which it should be.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Well, and also like one full pot of pasta, because
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I saw somebody from the Florida Panthers. One of their
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: guys threw just a big old thing of spaghetti in
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: there last year.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: That's a great idea.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: I don't know how that thing hasn't been damaged more
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: than has over the years when they let these drunks
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: take it home and put it in the.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Back of their.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Like Drew said, in the middle of nowhere, Alberta or Saskatchewan,
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: you're flying around in a pickup truck with that thing.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And everyone lost their mind when Brady threw the Lombardi trophy.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: The Stanley Cup's been catching a lot more dings than that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: That's true. It's part of the tradition. Someone washed their
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: kid in there once, I think. You've got the guy
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that travels with it, though, and stuff. That's true. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: he wears gloves. Yeah, he does. Which is ironic.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: That's probably the best trophy. That or maybe the Open
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Championship of golf.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: The Claret Jug, that's pretty awesome, too.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: What about the Wisconsin-Iowa Traveling Trophy? That bull. Come on now.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: We need to get closer to that. The bull that
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: looks like a pig. We need to get closer to
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: that one this year.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Within 30. Let's see. That's the Heartland Trophy? Is that
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: what that's called?
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: The Heartland Trophy. There's just too many trophies. You guys
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: should know. It's been in your damn trophy case. Nah,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I just... Yeah. The Hawks look good this weekend, Dolph.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Really good. They did it, although.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: I think it's a very small sample size because I
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: don't think Northern Illinois is going to win too many games.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: No.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: We didn't play Notre Dame. That's true. But you do
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: play the Cyclones this weekend. Yeah, it's rivalry week.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Now, out of the weeks to go back to Iowa,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I know you went this past weekend. This is the weekend.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Is this the weekend that you circle and you kind
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: of miss being in the home state for the CyHawk week?
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Usually it's too hot because it's basically the middle of
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: September and it's smoking out.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: But there will be... Let's see.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: It's at Kinnick this year, so that holds just about
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: 70,000 people. There will be 150,000 tailgating in the area,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: and then the rest just hang out either outside and
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: watch it at their camper, or they hit the bar
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: scene in Iowa City.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I thought my buddy was lying to me when he
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: told me that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I thought he was a thousand percent lying to me
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: and just pulling my leg oh yeah like the old
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: uh paul horning had a video i had a quote
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: he's like there's a hundred thousand people i just sitting
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: i just want to be around just want to listen
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: to it i'm like okay yeah there's a hundred thousand
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: people but you roll out there into iowa city everybody
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: is hanging out it's ridiculous iowa Right.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: There's nothing else.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: I get it. Yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: A hundred percent looking for any excuse to get out
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: of Ames and then they want to go. They want
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: to go to Des Moines to be near it. You
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: might as well wander around.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: That's not the real battle of Wisconsin, Iowa. And I
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: don't think people are realizing. I saw the news that
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: the battles on the market share for Casey's is dropping.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: The stock price dropped for Casey's. Because of Quick Trip?
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Apparently, Quick Trip's making their move on Iowa. Have you
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: read this story?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I stopped at the Quick Trip. Out there, they call
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it Quick Star. Because they have a deal with whatever
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: it is. There's some sort of... Same store, though. Looks
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: exactly the same.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: But they're not allowed to say Quick Trip there in Iowa.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: But they're expanding their reach. Apparently, Casey's is feeling threatened.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: The battle is on in Iowa. We're going to take over.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: That's where we win first. Then the football field.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: That's great. Casey's is pretty cool, too. It's very similar
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to Quick Trip. I was going to say, I will
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: give Casey's some respect.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: It's the hometown incumbent to this battle.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I didn't realize we had Casey's around here until I
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: was doing an event somewhere near Menominee Falls last year.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And I went right by Casey's. Was it Sussex or someplace?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: There's one out in that area. Then there's one out
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: towards Waterford. I get Waterford, Watertown mixed up.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Watertown is northwest. Waterford is south. Southwest.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: On 36.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Then that's where it was. Yes, it was Waterford.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: There was one there right near a golf course that
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: I was frequenting there. So it was a good stop
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: before the roundoff because they had everything you possibly needed. Water,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: other beverages, the sandwich that you can throw in the
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: cart for the second hole.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Traveling in Iowa this weekend, it was an early Sunday morning.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: It was still dark, and I was happy to see
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: the quick start. Which basically is quicker. You go inside,
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: everything is the same.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: It's the same thing. So I was happy to have
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a little slice of home out there. They're expanding. They're
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: making Casey's knees buckle over there in Iowa, Billy. Let's go.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: So they get the problems with the QT is what
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: you're saying. KT has the problems with QT because there's
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: a quick trip that spells with the Q. That's mostly
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: around the heartland area. That's a little bit south from here,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: but that's very much the region. They had those when
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I was in Cali, too, quick trip with the Q.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Iowa also has come and go with a K. It's
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: spelled in a weird way.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: K-U-M. It's really awkward. Come and go.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you see it, Billy, you're going to laugh.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: You go to Iowa City, you'll see it. Oh, yeah,
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: come and go. You go to Iowa City, Billy, you'll
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: see it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: That's all I'm trying to do is come and go
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: in Iowa City. I'm trying to get in and out
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: as quick as possible, but let's just... Get in and
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: out as quick as possible. There's no reason to be
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: in there that long.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's fun. You'd think that would... Idiots out wandering around.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: That was a good one. That's true.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: What else are they going to do? Idiots out wandering around.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Iwegians is another one.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Now, I will be pulling, though, for the Hawks this weekend.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you, because it's Big Ten, right? It's Big Ten,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and I'm still a little... turned off by this Jimmy
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Rogers cat. He's brash.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Coming out here cussing in front of kids at the
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Iowa State basketball game.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Coach, I'm not a big fan of that. Come on now.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Like the Iowa State coach Matt Campbell did to Penn State,
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: he brought a lot of wazoo guys to.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Ames, and they looked okay.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: They looked good against an FCS team this past weekend,
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: but We'll see when he gets to Kennedy.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: At night, by the way. At night, 13 and a
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: half point dogs.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: NBC audience. It's only 13 and a half. I'm surprised
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: it's not more.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Well, it's getting bent down. Folks are liking the Cyclones
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: They've had Iowa's number. They've won two in a row
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: in this series. What was the view from Iowa of
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the Michigan ending against Western? Fiasco. They got robbed.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: They got screwed. Western got screwed. I figured you'd be
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: on the side of the Broncos on this one.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: And I didn't see the game in its entirety, but
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Big Ten does that 60-minute replay.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: It was on yesterday morning. I watched the whole thing,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my God, that was terrible.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: And I know it's a bad look for the commissioner
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: of the MAC now coming out two, three days later
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: after agreeing, oh, thanks Michigan for the explanation, and now
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: he's against it, and they're filing a form of protest,
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: but I'm with them.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I just don't know how they made that call.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I saw some of the backlash that he
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: was getting. Now, maybe this is soft to me. I
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: do get it. I totally understand. You're in that middle.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: You're in the hornet's nest. We got checks that need
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: to cash. We need to clear this money before I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: come on out on Tuesday and say, this is a travesty.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure it was a big check, too. 1.5 mil, right? So,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, and there's going to be a Western
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Illinois that's going to be cashing one coming up this weekend.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Eastern Michigan's going to Wisconsin in a couple of weeks.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: UMass cashed a big one last week and then kicked
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: the hell out of Rutgers.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: And then danced into that athletic department and said, let
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: me see that money. Was that one coach in the GIF?
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Tell him, bring me my money.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: That's right. Hanging out in that locker room. Oh, yes,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I got to find that one again. That's awesome. Absolute classic. Dolph,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: good to have you back. All right, fellas. Always better.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Go Brewers. Get your shirt off. How about that?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Now we're going to have to go through withdrawals because
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: when the Brewers play 16 days in a row, it's.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Like we got something. Now there's today. Yeah. But we
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: got the huddle live at Pottawatomie Sportsbook. That'll make it better.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Five o'clock club. All right. That's right. Five to seven,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: we'll be there.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: In the annex right adjacent to the sportsbook, chopping it up,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: having some fun. And what's the phrase that pays? Pay
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: the toll, baby. Pay the toll.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Armand's been trolling Illinois people. Pay the toll. I do.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: On your way. Now our text line's going crazy about
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: quick-tripping Casey's. Drive home safely and pay your tolls.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Take a quick break. Hunter joins us at 725. You're
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Armand bringing it to you on the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 35:15
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• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Your ticket to the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. Time
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: for a current electric superhero of the day. Billy, who
• 35:23
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• 35:25
  Speaker 2: you like them. I love Current Electric. I love the
• 35:28
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• 35:31
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• 35:34
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• 35:52
  Speaker 2: the 5 o'clock club all the time. And you're like,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you know what I should be doing? Listening to the
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: 5 o'clock club in a 5 o'clock club-like basement. Get
• 36:00
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• 36:03
  Speaker 2: to be able to schedule that. I feel like I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: want to give it to Christian Yelich because I don't
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: know that the 8-6 runaway for a moment happens without
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: his three-run shot.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: But can you give it to anybody but Jack Centurio?
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: He's so hot right now. I just don't know that
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I honestly can give it anywhere other than Jack Centurio.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Seven for ten in the last two games. You can
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: count it up to go eight of 14 for the
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: three-game set against the Cubs, including two bombs, a double
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: in there. and he drives in six runs in the
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: three games, and yesterday he's three for five. He appears
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: to be a walking base hit. As he walks into
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: the batter's box right now, the confidence is oozing from him,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: and he might not be having Drew the best season
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: in baseball, but rolling into the month of September as
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: we're right into the throes of it, He might be
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: the hottest hitter right now in all of baseball. That's
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: going to be a dangerous thing for teams to have
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: to deal with. Jack Centurio, your current electric superhero of
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: the day.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Hey, I've got one. If I could throw
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in a little bit of an honorable mention.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Well, this would be like the superhero of the day
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: 34 years ago yesterday.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Where were you?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: September 9th, 1992. Back in against Mesa, who is working
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: from the windup. The 0-1 pitch. Swings, and there it is!
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: A base hit in the right center. He's done it.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: 3,000 for Robin. Patented Arman style, missing the anniversary by
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: one day, but 34 years ago yesterday, Drew.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: 34 years ago this week. Yeah, there you go.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: This week, 34 years ago, Robin Youd had his 3,000th hit.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: And thank you for playing that because it allows me
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: to also celebrate the honorable mention, superhero of the day,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Brewers TV.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Tonight at 6 o'clock, your opportunity to stream the Uke documentary.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: They have been putting this out throughout that you will get...
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: 24 hours only. Okay.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: 24 hours only. Brewers TV. Possibility to stream it. They've
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: been putting up and talking about it a little bit
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: during the broadcast the last couple of days.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I got to see it. I went and saw it
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: in theaters a month or so ago. You saw it.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: It was so good.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: And for Brewers fans to be able to sit back,
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: hang out in, you know what, maybe in your basement,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, your living room where you listened to you
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: for a long time, memories are going to flood.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Great way to just spend an off day because you're drew,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: you said it withdrawals.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: The only thing that's worse than this is when you
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: sit back, it's like one o'clock start on a Wednesday and,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: And then they don't play until 740 on Friday night.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Feels like they don't play for a week. Tonight, you
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: get Uke right there in the middle of it. That'll
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: be perfect.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Amazing. I love that little tidbit there.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: And aside of the times, guys, it's kind of funny
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: to think about when you think about Brewers TV and
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: the way games in television have matriculated and expanded.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: And that game was not on TV. So kind of
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: a sign of the times. Hard to believe. Game was
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: not on TV.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Mother of all walk-ups, too. People went and were buying
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: tickets because they thought it might happen. I was actually,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: that's one that I missed. One of the signature events
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: that I missed because I was in Tampa getting ready
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: to cover the Packers and Buccaneers.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Oh!
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: And that would have 92 start to the Tampa Bay season.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: That's a less than glorious season opener, too, isn't it?
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, going to Tampa is not a bad deal,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: but that would have been Favre's first year.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: They lost big. Yes, because Favre was about to be
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: born the next week, right? Am I right, Drew, if
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: I remember correctly?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: It was in that window. Packers lost big to Tampa.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Packers got crushed 31-3.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: 31-3. It was 0-2 and then the next week was
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: the Bengals game. Oh, so there would have been some
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: steam coming off of Magic Man.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: People were excited at that point then. It wouldn't have
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: been completely low. Yeah, but the Favre thing didn't really,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the big moment from that year.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so there would have been some, but boy, isn't
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: that crazy to think about how much was about to
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: change in Wisconsin sports.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: My dad and stepmom and sister were living down there
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: at the time, so I went down early.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I remember my crew was, I got down there early,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: so I had a pretty good tan going, and Tony
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Mandarich wasn't talking to local reporters.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: But he thought I was a Florida guy, so he
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: talked to me. Nice. Way to go, Drew. That's funny.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I did a little end around there. All you had
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: to do was trick him. Hunter joins us at 725.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.