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04/29/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: I need you, you need me today, Let's keep touching
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Speaker 1: each other.
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Speaker 2: pour away with a number of cameras. Take the cameras
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Speaker 2: off the field and the final hubble. Now gather around,
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Speaker 2: because it's time to huddle up.
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Speaker 3: West left Slott three point three wash stick on one
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Speaker 3: ready to learn from Well, if it looks like man covered,
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Speaker 3: I'll check, I'll go order. Yeah, you got a cutting
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Speaker 3: prack now cutting prack red right eighteen Bob on one
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Speaker 3: ready cutting me.
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Speaker 2: Qus, you'll look at this play.
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Speaker 4: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 4: a seal here, and try.
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Speaker 2: To run this play in the hour you let's all
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Speaker 2: let's go on a kicky check. Good doing what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they can.
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Speaker 5: Play be right all the way outside Why left banks
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Speaker 5: three ninety sick bag be hen see punk, it's not long.
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Speaker 2: Enough for it wants you to be party of professional.
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Speaker 4: It's a great professional out there and playing this ball
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Speaker 4: game like I know I can play.
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Speaker 2: Threw Olson mythical legendary figure Schmid. Oh my god, this
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Speaker 2: man's been.
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Speaker 6: On all night.
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Speaker 2: They had some fun at the old ballpark last night.
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Speaker 5: Whether you're eating spaghetti in the stands or wearing flannel
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Speaker 5: in the press box.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that one too.
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Speaker 5: Your own friend Spencer Williams, the guy behind the guy
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Speaker 5: behind the guy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he's been going to.
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Speaker 5: Events and he's covering stuff for us and getting sound
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Speaker 5: and produces around here.
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Speaker 2: Uh, Spencer is uh, he's a fashion plate.
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Speaker 8: Indeed, that's the way I put that. Yeah, so that's
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Speaker 8: a way to play the fluke of flannel.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that.
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Speaker 8: You there's certain people that have types, right, and and
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Speaker 8: when you see Spencer, you know it's flannel season all
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Speaker 8: the time. I think usually that starts in September. I
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Speaker 8: don't know whether it's a thing, but it is his trademark,
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Speaker 8: his calling card. It's like you see him if if
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Speaker 8: you see him in a non flannel shirt, you're struck.
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Speaker 2: You're like, whoa that Spencer? Yeah, day ends and why
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Speaker 2: he's got a flannel on.
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Speaker 6: It's funny because I mean, Spencer is one of the
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Speaker 6: guys that's been here in this building longer than me, right, many,
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Speaker 6: but there are some and and he I don't remember
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Speaker 6: him always wearing flannel in the early days, but it's
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Speaker 6: morphed into that.
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Speaker 2: He's the flannel king. Now he's the flannel king.
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Speaker 5: And as an homage, the rest of the guys in
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Speaker 5: the media to say, let's all wear flannel, and they
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Speaker 5: knew Spencer would because he always does, and so they
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Speaker 5: did it as an homage. It was a surprise to Spencer,
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Speaker 5: and they surprised him. And they show up at the
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Speaker 5: pregame and Murph's like, you know, lumberjacks happen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought I was at a.
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Speaker 5: Hipster of our you know, Murph love stuff like I
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Speaker 5: walked into Then I walked into the press Box.
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Speaker 2: Dining room last night and I saw them all there.
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Speaker 5: I'm like, this is like a hipster bar in bay
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Speaker 5: View where everybody's drinking PBRs.
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Speaker 2: The PBR and a smoke for for three bucks.
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Speaker 5: And so they did it and Murph saw it like
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Speaker 5: had have a picture and it was all it was
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Speaker 5: Spencer's night, and like that poor guy didn't he didn't like,
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Speaker 5: he didn't want He doesn't want a lot of attention.
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Speaker 5: He kind of goes under the radar. It's why I
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Speaker 5: call him the guy behind the guy behind the gun.
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Speaker 5: But he did it, and they executed that list. They
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Speaker 5: got some time on TV the well picture with Murph
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Speaker 5: before they got it.
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Speaker 8: Turned out to be a perfect night for it to
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Speaker 8: be a thirteen to two game. I'm walking around the
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Speaker 8: concourse and immediately had it at the perfect time because
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Speaker 8: there's a zoom in on Spencer and I started giggling,
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Speaker 8: and then it zooms out or a zoom in on
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Speaker 8: Kurt Hope first, who apparently I believe was the brainchild
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Speaker 8: is our boy Hunter Idea gave us the heads up
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Speaker 8: on and then it's the zoom out to a Hunter
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Speaker 8: pointing to Spencer, fired up our boy Dave gasperg is
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Speaker 8: the two hands up into the air and a phenomenal moment.
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Speaker 2: I don't know Drew.
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Speaker 8: Now this is uh because Spencer's got maybe one of
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Speaker 8: the better moments U and one of the only I
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Speaker 8: can remember live guests outside of the rundown on Packer's Preview.
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Speaker 2: Good point, because there has not.
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Speaker 8: Been a whole lot of things that break into Packers
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Speaker 8: Preview and break up the incredible run that Dennis Crousey
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Speaker 8: has had of running that show. We get James Jones, Ye,
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Speaker 8: Drew Olsen, What's Cooking with What's Hot Quitch, which is
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Speaker 8: no longer called What's Cooking. I still think it should
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Speaker 8: be called What's Cooking, But that's because I love What's Cooking.
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Speaker 6: Of course, we don't really look with Wayne, Larry and John.
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Speaker 6: So all these guys are on the network right, and
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Speaker 6: all of.
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Speaker 8: A sudden, when Taylor Swift comes to town and Spencer
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Speaker 8: gets the video that had what nineteen million views walking
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Speaker 8: the money shot pause when he when all right?
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Speaker 2: When he all of a.
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Speaker 8: Sudden pops up and grabs a headset with you guys,
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Speaker 8: I didn't know that it was gonna get much better.
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Speaker 2: I think it. I think it got topped last night.
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Speaker 8: Do you think this tops his Taylor Swift moment and
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Speaker 8: cameo on Packer's preview or to the great one here.
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Speaker 6: I think Spencer is starting to morph into like a
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Speaker 6: new level of like of fame. He's he's becoming like
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Speaker 6: the guy now that like people are paying attention to
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Speaker 6: he's asking I think he's asking questions now.
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Speaker 2: On the dugout at the.
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Speaker 6: Pregame availability with Murphy, he used told just you know,
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Speaker 6: be there, right he the hunter says he's asking questions now.
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Speaker 6: He's he's there with the flannel like Murphy. Murph wanted
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Speaker 6: the picture with him. He's a well known you know,
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Speaker 6: he's becoming he's going a new stratosphere of fame now.
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Speaker 5: But doesn't go to his head because I love I
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Speaker 5: love Spencer. I just don't want to. I just don't
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Speaker 5: want him to change with all this new found fame.
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Speaker 2: I was happy for.
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Speaker 5: I was happy you're part You're part of the like
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Speaker 5: you know, he embraced it, like, hey, come on up here,
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Speaker 5: I want to get a picture of this, I want
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Speaker 5: to commemorate this. And yeah, like eight or nine guys
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Speaker 5: paid homage and flannel shirts, so it was noticeable.
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Speaker 6: One thing I gotta say, though, was at Adam McKelvey
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Speaker 6: in the middle that needs a flannel shirt.
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Speaker 2: That's just a check, he says.
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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, but it was not in the
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Speaker 5: spirit of the lumberjack plaid flannel print that you associate.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 6: He wore what he had, which I appreciate, but I mean,
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Speaker 6: that's not a true flannel shirt, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 4: But he was.
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Speaker 8: Trying in the spirit of it, in the spirit you
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Speaker 8: wanted to be a part of the crowd.
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Speaker 6: Look at just I mean and Merv's smile. I mean
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Speaker 6: that we are lucky to be blessed with the right
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Speaker 6: man and during the right coat. You know, there's no
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Speaker 6: other situation like.
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Speaker 8: This, or you know, it does look like though they're
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Speaker 8: at like, uh hey, Spencer, go sit down next to
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Speaker 8: your uncle, and like they're at some kind of family portress,
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Speaker 8: because they both have that awkward, weird smile on that
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Speaker 8: they're kind of almost ready for the picture to be taken,
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Speaker 8: but not so ready. Someone's holding in a fart, like
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Speaker 8: trying to make sure that it's not like too loud
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Speaker 8: and not too too bad.
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Speaker 5: But so two viral moments separately, one one below the
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Speaker 5: behind the scenes and one out in the open. And uh,
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Speaker 5: you know the flannel fest which is actually a thing
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Speaker 5: in Madison.
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Speaker 2: Our friends have flannel fest.
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Speaker 5: There's a bay View flannel fest too, that made it
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Speaker 5: on TV on the Fox six broadcast. And then the
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Speaker 5: guys also got in, our guys with the spaghetti.
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Speaker 2: You know that the.
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Speaker 5: Spaghetti got the flannel and themselves our boys also in
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Speaker 5: the press bok got a little burned. So during the
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Speaker 5: broadcast there were some burn so it was nice.
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Speaker 8: I like, we have some people on the talking text
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Speaker 8: line Drew that are trying to double up on this,
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Speaker 8: on this spaghetti now. Now our seven to one to
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Speaker 8: five friends said the Brewers need to capitalize on this.
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Speaker 8: They need to tie in spaghetti night with T shirt
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Speaker 8: night and came up with a sweet ai version of
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Speaker 8: what our sALS Pals T shirt could look like now
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Speaker 8: then Arman and I brought up the sALS Pals last
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Speaker 8: year more tongue in cheek because Armon hates Salfrielick.
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Speaker 2: I don't hate him.
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Speaker 8: If there's any player that armand sary and has actively
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Speaker 8: rooted potentially against from his favorite team more than sal Freelick,
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Speaker 8: I've never heard of him.
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Speaker 6: West him, but just I pointed out his flaws and
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Speaker 6: that was a far more than anybody else's shortcomings.
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Speaker 8: And you like to focus on the shortest party. We're
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Speaker 8: not talking about what he's doing there, but he would
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Speaker 8: generally want to remark and and denounce his successes, right,
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Speaker 8: minimize his successes.
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Speaker 2: Well, it was is hard because he looks like my
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Speaker 2: brother and no he doesn't.
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Speaker 8: But so he came up with the sALS Pals idea
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Speaker 8: last year and in the spirit of you and KB,
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Speaker 8: we had great idea, just.
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Speaker 2: Bad execution, right, we had planned on it.
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Speaker 8: It sounded like a great idea T shirt night we
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Speaker 8: come up with in sALS Pals. Maybe we all during
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Speaker 8: the midday show roll over to the game what have you?
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Speaker 8: This might be take two because this might be the
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Speaker 8: best version of the AI T shirt that we found
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Speaker 8: of South Freelick on the sALS Pat.
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Speaker 2: That's a good looking shirt.
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Speaker 8: I do like in the full uniform crew number ten
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Speaker 8: and diving for a catch, much more realistic than him
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Speaker 8: hitting more realistic uniform.
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Speaker 2: But no trademark stuff on there, which I for that.
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Speaker 6: So maybe Salas pads will become a thing if he
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Speaker 6: starts to get more than one hit a game at
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Speaker 6: some point again this year and he barrels a ball
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Speaker 6: up so you hear it too.
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Speaker 2: No, let's.
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Speaker 5: Game.
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Speaker 2: He just had his second multi hit game the.
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Speaker 8: Year, the first home run for the team, and a
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Speaker 8: weekend ass backhanded him.
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Speaker 2: I'm back.
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Speaker 6: I'm just stating facts like no one for the guy
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Speaker 6: that is tried or die with your favorite team like Armin.
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Speaker 8: Sorry I love, don't boo the team because their feelings
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Speaker 8: will get hurt. My god, the most open crowd shot
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Speaker 8: that you possibly get have bells my guy.
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Speaker 6: But I mean you will never hear anyone talk about
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Speaker 6: him in this town if he's not hitting two hundred
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Speaker 6: or he's got a negative war like thing. I mean
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Speaker 6: I would like him to get a go on a
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Speaker 6: bit here. We need you, sal We counted on you
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Speaker 6: last year.
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Speaker 2: You were great. And let's get it going, and I'm
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Speaker 2: sure you will. So I'm just he.
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Speaker 5: Choice above criticism more than like Joey Ortiz does.
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Speaker 6: Which is like, you know, he's a great guy and
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Speaker 6: he's also been in Allstar, so I understand why he's
10:24
Speaker 6: done some things to deserve it.
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Speaker 2: But I tend to be a voice for the goal win,
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Speaker 2: not Sal. Sal's got a lot of voices out there.
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Speaker 2: But listen, we're all sALS pals. No one's turning against him,
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Speaker 2: all right. Well, just don't expect him always to hit.
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Speaker 5: On an eventful night at the ballpark, what with the
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Speaker 5: flannel shirts and the spaghetti. Yes, there was also a
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Speaker 5: baseball game, and this time I think it would be
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Speaker 7: Thanks guys. The Brewers get a thirteen to two win
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Speaker 7: over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night at American Family Field.
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Speaker 2: Boil Boy salth.
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Speaker 7: Freelick got the scoring going early with a home run
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Speaker 7: for his first home run since a week ago Saturday,
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Speaker 7: Whence rang homer. It in Miami, so that stops that streak.
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Speaker 7: And then they scored eight runs in the sixth inning.
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Speaker 7: Freelick started that ending with a single and then a
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Speaker 7: bun single by David Hamilton. Have you noticed how much
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Speaker 7: David Hamilton is bunting?
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Speaker 2: I asked him about it after the game.
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Speaker 7: How much has your confidence grown with bunting in the
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Speaker 7: last month or so seeing the success.
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Speaker 2: The year having up with it.
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Speaker 4: I've never I feel like I've never really been that
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Speaker 4: good of a bunner, you know, I don't really know
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Speaker 4: what happened. I think it was a smurf and spring
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Speaker 4: always telling me to bunt, to use the speed and
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Speaker 4: just practice it every day, and it's gotten better.
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Speaker 7: And also Garrett Mitchell has been in the middle of
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Speaker 7: the offense all season long. Pat Murphy telling us after
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Speaker 7: the game that he wasn't so sure that Mitchell was
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Speaker 7: ready at the start of the season to be at
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Speaker 7: the major league level. He's proved him wrong.
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Speaker 2: He's hungry.
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Speaker 9: He's hungry. He's hungry, he's hungry. You know, like as
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Speaker 9: bad as spring training as you could have, he needed
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Speaker 9: that time.
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Speaker 2: Again, I didn't think he was ready.
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Speaker 9: I thought, Hey, give go to cinema triple A. Let
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Speaker 9: him get comfortable, id and slide into all that kind
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Speaker 9: of stuff, and he's he's proven us, proven me wrong.
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Speaker 9: He's ready and he's done a really nice job.
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Speaker 7: So the Bird's got a thirteen to two win. They
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Speaker 7: also get to win on Flannel Night. Yes, a bunch
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Speaker 7: of us wearing the flannel shirts in honor of Spencer Williams,
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Speaker 7: who's been my cameraman for four plus years. Virtually all
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Speaker 7: my videos on social media now in the huddle, So
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Speaker 7: shout out to Spencer. Keep wearing that flannel. This video
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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, you got the little boys well done.
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Speaker 8: Oh god, we're gonna have to watch that again. We're
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Speaker 8: gonna have to watch that again in that back part.
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Speaker 8: I don't know how much moving and shaking we can
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Speaker 8: do on the video timing. That little cameo from Spencer
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Speaker 8: might be my favorite picture of.
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Speaker 2: Way better than the picture of all that at that point.
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Speaker 6: Why don't we why don't we spend that again to
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Speaker 6: seven o'clock hour. That way, it will be no Separation
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Speaker 6: bank watching over again and for those whole I want
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Speaker 6: to see it again, You'll have another show and you
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Speaker 6: can get.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and you can get to YouTube, because if you
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Speaker 8: were listening to that on the radio, you missed out
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Speaker 8: so much on that little second box second screen of
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Speaker 8: our boys, Spencer.
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Speaker 2: That was awesome. So I'm not gonna figure out to
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Speaker 2: do that.
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Speaker 5: We're talking a lot about Spencer, right, and then we should.
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Speaker 5: He's the guy behind, the guy behind guys. Yeah, he's
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Speaker 5: Hunter's cameraman and he's a guy that gets sound and
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Speaker 5: he's one of the you know, guys like Spencer, kind
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Speaker 5: of the guys that are they're part of the fabric
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Speaker 5: of the.
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Speaker 2: Local media crew.
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Speaker 5: And there's a handful of guys right that artists and
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Speaker 5: and it changes through the generations. But Spencer's been around
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Speaker 5: a long time now and he's kind of like a
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Speaker 5: long time dude. Yeah, press box. But it's like to
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Speaker 5: have a personal style thing that people notice that you're
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Speaker 5: known for. It's kind of cool, like the Steve Jobs thing,
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Speaker 5: like always wearing the same you know, black mock. Yes,
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Speaker 5: you know, like that's there's something to be said for
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Speaker 5: that that it stands out and that people know you by,
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Speaker 5: and I was thinking about this because had we done this.
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Speaker 2: I had a buddy, John Low that was a long
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Speaker 2: time baseball.
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Speaker 5: Writer for the Detroit Free Press, and he was, uh,
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Speaker 5: he always Natalie attired. He would wear sport coachs regularly
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Speaker 5: and often ties to a normal Tuesday game. And he
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Speaker 5: was known for a fedora and like Tracy Ringlesby were
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Speaker 5: like the baseball, I mean the baseball the cowboy hat
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Speaker 5: and he was the cat in the hat because he
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Speaker 5: was a cowboy. Lived in Wyoming and that fires, and
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Speaker 5: he would drive to you know, he had a house
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Speaker 5: in Wyoming with.
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Speaker 2: Tricks. Yeah. His daughter's name Laramie. That's how cowboy he
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Speaker 2: is from a total Wyoming guys like Wyoming cowboy fan.
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Speaker 5: Not even you know what I mean. Yeah, so Tracy.
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Speaker 5: But to have a personal style thing like I've never
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Speaker 5: really had that. I just like have T shirts and
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Speaker 5: what you see is what you get. Yeah, your personal
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Speaker 5: style trading.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have a trademark though, I don't have
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Speaker 2: anything that you know, no in Central standard T shirts.
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Speaker 8: I was going to say, your trademark might be cool,
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Speaker 8: cool stuff that you may have gotten from either Miller
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Speaker 8: or or central standard. I think Drews is looking cool like,
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Speaker 8: but I don't have that signal. But you don't have
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Speaker 8: the one deal, right, A one deal I mine would
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Speaker 8: be looking and mine might be like a tyrese haliburt
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Speaker 8: and stolen valor just dressed like Adam Sandler most of
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Speaker 8: the time, right, Like I mean, if on any possibility
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Speaker 8: you look like like today I have a quarters hip
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Speaker 8: on now.
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Speaker 2: I will get the hey, why are you dressed up for? Yeah?
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Speaker 8: What what?
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Speaker 2: What you got?
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Speaker 8: What you got going on here? That you're in jeans,
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Speaker 8: You're not We're not in sweatpants. So I like that.
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Speaker 8: I do appreciate though, now that it's caught on, now
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Speaker 8: that you're big time for it, you can't change up right,
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Speaker 8: like you see Ken Rosenthal now every single week in
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Speaker 8: a boat ties right if.
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Speaker 6: Anything ascot right, Charles Woodson had that asscot like the
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Speaker 6: uh huh that's what they call the scarf that goes down.
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Speaker 8: When I would just think about it more of like
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Speaker 8: Spencer should be trying to we should be trying to
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Speaker 8: market it, market this, market it. We could we could
15:50
Speaker 8: be making the cash potentially on this thing if we
15:52
Speaker 8: really question came up.
15:53
Speaker 5: It's like you know how many flannel shirts does Spencer
15:56
Speaker 5: have and it's quite an extensive collection. Gotta beat he Yeah,
16:00
Speaker 5: I you know, we don't have a reception this here anymore.
16:02
Speaker 5: But the packages get dumped at the front desk and
16:04
Speaker 5: like he gets some sent here smart Otherwise he gets packaged,
16:09
Speaker 5: is sent here, his neighbors are anything he's got problem.
16:11
Speaker 6: Honestly, I if I was smart about it, I would
16:14
Speaker 6: just try and look for you know, I would track it,
16:17
Speaker 6: like look for pictures every day, or like try to
16:19
Speaker 6: remember what he wore, if he.
16:20
Speaker 2: Did any repeats.
16:21
Speaker 6: He's got to have at least fifteen to twenty of them,
16:22
Speaker 6: because I can't think of any real of course, I
16:24
Speaker 6: haven't checked. I haven't thought about this. I haven't like
16:26
Speaker 6: tried to look up Spencer's shirts and done like the
16:29
Speaker 6: not yet written down like blue and white or like you.
16:32
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, I haven't.
16:33
Speaker 8: Well, you got to start tracking it, like our baseball
16:35
Speaker 8: Pitchugami guy. Well, yeah, our guy, our pal tom Oates,
16:40
Speaker 8: legendary columnists from the State Journal cos Emeritus. When I think,
16:45
Speaker 8: you say tom Oates to me, and I picture him
16:48
Speaker 8: wearing jeans and the white crisp white with the blue.
16:53
Speaker 5: Pinstriped Oxford shirt. You know, just like button down for sure,
16:57
Speaker 5: but that was OSI's like uniforms.
16:59
Speaker 2: I always a clean look.
17:01
Speaker 5: And it's like, that's what when I picture in my brain,
17:03
Speaker 5: you say tom ots, that's what comes to mind.
17:05
Speaker 8: And whether it was the beginning of the weekend or
17:07
Speaker 8: at the end of his four day, four games and
17:10
Speaker 8: four day run, four different markets, he's still Inhow that
17:14
Speaker 8: Chris but.
17:16
Speaker 5: Covered a Saturday night game at Beaver Stadium and Penn
17:18
Speaker 5: State and somehow he's at the Packer Seahawks game for kickoff?
17:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy, how that worked? Maracas?
17:24
Speaker 5: You know, oh t was an iron man that that
17:26
Speaker 5: the feats that he accomplished will never be duplicated anymore.
17:29
Speaker 2: No budget that traveled.
17:30
Speaker 8: I was going to say that the budget would never
17:33
Speaker 8: happen again. However, the grind on commercial flights might never
17:36
Speaker 8: happen again.
17:37
Speaker 5: The same hot take comp days upon us and we've
17:39
Speaker 5: been talking a lot about the you know, the Spaghetti Feast,
17:42
Speaker 5: check out the socials that took place in the stands
17:44
Speaker 5: last night and flannel Fest. But it's time to fire
17:47
Speaker 5: up the hot take hump day machine eight seven seven
17:50
Speaker 5: seven nine four one ninety seven to three gets you
17:55
Speaker 5: in and uh, we need hot takes on the NCAA's.
17:59
Speaker 2: Decision on our time yesterday.
18:03
Speaker 5: Uh but the nc DOUBLEA expanding the field of the
18:08
Speaker 5: men's college basketball tournament.
18:09
Speaker 2: Here we were whoofing about, you.
18:11
Speaker 5: Know, the play ins and like, and when they went
18:13
Speaker 5: from sixty four to sixty eight, like I.
18:17
Speaker 2: Thought that was the problem. It really wasn't that big
18:18
Speaker 2: of a deal.
18:19
Speaker 6: The biggest The biggest thing with the sixty eight expansion
18:22
Speaker 6: was was that the tournament. Like everyone would argue, is
18:24
Speaker 6: the play in the tournament? Take me to Dayton if
18:26
Speaker 6: you remember Steve lapstre we had that debate years ago.
18:29
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, But.
18:30
Speaker 6: Now that they've expanded twelve more teams, that's basically one
18:33
Speaker 6: big playing round. So I guess you have to say,
18:35
Speaker 6: this is the tournament. Now it's gonna work. What do
18:38
Speaker 6: we think about this? Boys, I don't like it. Obviously
18:41
Speaker 6: you already knew my answer before we walked in here.
18:43
Speaker 6: That's the way Armon is. But I'm not a fan
18:46
Speaker 6: of it. Didn't need it, didn't want it. It's only
18:47
Speaker 6: about money. But hey, that's the reality we're gonna have
18:51
Speaker 6: to live with. I don't think that's a hot take
18:53
Speaker 6: though the field.
18:53
Speaker 2: Of seventy six the spirit of seventy six? How do you?
18:57
Speaker 9: Yeah?
18:57
Speaker 2: I feel I was gonna.
18:58
Speaker 8: Say that more than anything, the name in the flow
19:02
Speaker 8: doesn't work very well.
19:03
Speaker 2: Right.
19:03
Speaker 8: The field of sixty sixty four just makes more sense.
19:06
Speaker 8: It's more it's the cleanest cut, and it looks the
19:09
Speaker 8: best on a piece of paper. I think if anything
19:11
Speaker 8: that I'd be upset about is how is this going
19:13
Speaker 8: to look on the PDF?
19:14
Speaker 2: Right?
19:15
Speaker 8: This is gonna be a difficult full print job of
19:19
Speaker 8: where and how you're gonna print out your bracket to
19:21
Speaker 8: be able to fill it out on the with the
19:23
Speaker 8: pen and paper.
19:24
Speaker 5: You can't do it the same way. It's gonna be brutal.
19:27
Speaker 5: I don't have as hot.
19:29
Speaker 8: And flaming hot of a take as I probably should
19:32
Speaker 8: because I don't protect the NCAA basketball tournament like gold
19:37
Speaker 8: like most like a lot of people do.
19:39
Speaker 2: I do.
19:40
Speaker 8: Though, wonder when does it end up stopping right? Because
19:44
Speaker 8: at some point it feels like this would just be
19:46
Speaker 8: a pit stop. So what ultimately would have to be
19:49
Speaker 8: like ninety six, Like if you're gonna you're gonna go
19:52
Speaker 8: at some point just go and make.
19:54
Speaker 2: It Mahigh school. That can ever.
19:56
Speaker 8: Happened, because this is rolling into college football. In the
19:58
Speaker 8: next two years, they'll a twenty four team college football playoff,
20:02
Speaker 8: and that one won't logistically make a ton of sense.
20:04
Speaker 8: I think they've hit a sweet spot with sixty eight,
20:07
Speaker 8: and I think they hit a sweet spot with twelve.
20:09
Speaker 8: But to Armin's point, I can't fault them business wise though.
20:13
Speaker 8: Drew looking at how much money this brings in every
20:16
Speaker 8: single time and how the ratings roll to not find
20:19
Speaker 8: board specialized windows to put them on the thing is.
20:22
Speaker 2: The driver of this.
20:22
Speaker 5: A lot of people hear this and they're like, oh,
20:25
Speaker 5: it's NIL, Like no, and this is driven by power
20:30
Speaker 5: conferences want a bigger.
20:32
Speaker 2: Slice of the poet.
20:33
Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah, right, So what they're gonna do is they're
20:35
Speaker 5: gonna take that the first four that we're used to
20:38
Speaker 5: and it's gonna be like the first twelve at two sites.
20:41
Speaker 5: And what we've seen with the tournament is what what's
20:45
Speaker 5: the trend been in the NIL era?
20:47
Speaker 2: Talk? Well, yeah, but early round games suck?
20:51
Speaker 5: Tough early games like we didn't have anybody win advance
20:54
Speaker 5: from the thirteen on down, like nobody won a game,
20:57
Speaker 5: and they weren't even really that competitive. No, and the
21:00
Speaker 5: back end of the tournament is now good like so
21:03
Speaker 5: because you get the best lead. Eight is the best teams.
21:06
Speaker 5: But they're opening this up and it's not gonna like
21:09
Speaker 5: it's not gonna give the Horizon League another berth necessarily,
21:13
Speaker 5: it's gonna get of the Power.
21:15
Speaker 6: Conferences more at large as this is like at larger
21:18
Speaker 6: the extra bowls that nobody wanted to watch except for
21:20
Speaker 6: the gamblers, and the.
21:21
Speaker 5: Additional money that they make. Well, it's gonna be like
21:24
Speaker 5: it might make a small profit, it's gonna be gonna
21:27
Speaker 5: be an break It's basically a break even it's gonna
21:30
Speaker 5: pay for the expanded coverage.
21:33
Speaker 2: It's like, I just don't see the utility in this.
21:36
Speaker 8: That's where I just if you are gonna do it,
21:38
Speaker 8: go all in, right, if you're gonna expand, expand it
21:42
Speaker 8: to one hundred and twenty eight or expand it to
21:43
Speaker 8: ninety six, and do what you ultimately want to do, right,
21:47
Speaker 8: And I feel the same way we've talked about it
21:49
Speaker 8: with the honest thing, like at some point you've got
21:50
Speaker 8: to say what you want. The NCAA wants, as almost
21:54
Speaker 8: every Big ten team and almost every ACC and SEC
21:58
Speaker 8: team in the dance right, they want that to be
22:01
Speaker 8: and frankly, if they're going to do it, just get
22:03
Speaker 8: rid of the conference tournaments on the front end of it.
22:05
Speaker 2: For the big time conferences.
22:06
Speaker 8: You can keep the small conferences tournaments so then they
22:09
Speaker 8: can still play their way in and have their automatic
22:11
Speaker 8: qualifier and know that pretty much everybody else is going.
22:14
Speaker 2: To be it. But just say what you want when
22:16
Speaker 2: that's what you want.
22:17
Speaker 5: When you get to Thursday, it's still going to be
22:19
Speaker 5: sixty four like it has been, so maybe I'll wait
22:23
Speaker 5: to fill out my bracket till we get to that.
22:25
Speaker 6: People are going to try and make it that, but
22:27
Speaker 6: it's just different now with so many playing teams, so
22:31
Speaker 6: it doesn't fix a problem.
22:32
Speaker 2: And that's my other big issue with it.
22:34
Speaker 6: The new lottery rule I appreciate because they're trying to
22:36
Speaker 6: fix a problem. Nobody had a problem with the way
22:39
Speaker 6: the tournament went. Trying you're trying to find a problem
22:42
Speaker 6: and not actually find a problem.
22:43
Speaker 5: You're just trying to tell Greg Sank you had a problem.
22:45
Speaker 5: The real power brokers in the sport.
22:49
Speaker 2: Are the ones discuss this as we move forward.
22:51
Speaker 5: But we're heading into halftime Dolf is going to join
22:54
Speaker 5: a Scott Doff'll get his thoughts about this hot tech
22:56
Speaker 5: compey get us your hot takes doesn't have to be
22:57
Speaker 5: about sports, can be about anything. Smuggling food into the ballpark,
23:01
Speaker 5: what's your own personal style?
23:03
Speaker 8: We got an offensive line hot take which I love
23:05
Speaker 8: on this we're talking text line.
23:06
Speaker 5: You're going to fire up the hot take machine. But
23:08
Speaker 5: Scott Dolphin is coming in next. It's the Huddle Fox
23:11
Speaker 5: Sports Radio Wisconsin. That's right, it's halftime of the Huddle,
23:35
Speaker 5: Halftime of the week, the Wednesday edition. We welcome our
23:38
Speaker 5: halftime correspondent, Scott Dolphin from the country station on the
23:40
Speaker 5: Hall FM one oh six, And Dolph got the memo,
23:43
Speaker 5: wh and it's wearing flannel today?
23:44
Speaker 6: Knew?
23:45
Speaker 2: I did. I watched the Brewer game last night.
23:47
Speaker 1: You did, and you saw the Oh my gosh, just Spencer,
23:50
Speaker 1: I did. I didn't know flannel with Spencer's thing.
23:53
Speaker 2: Well, you've been around Spencer a long time. Oh yeah,
23:55
Speaker 2: just like I have it.
23:55
Speaker 6: I was telling these guys the reason is, I don't
23:58
Speaker 6: think when I first got here he was wearing flannel day,
24:00
Speaker 6: but it kind of morphed into that. And I wears
24:01
Speaker 6: it like every day because when you first you probably
24:04
Speaker 6: remember Spencer from way way back in the day when
24:06
Speaker 6: it wasn't necessarily a flannel every day just like me.
24:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what was he been here as long
24:11
Speaker 1: as you army longer? Really he was here when I'm
24:13
Speaker 1: first stunning. Yeah, I first met Spencer through the news talk.
24:17
Speaker 1: He would produce a lot of news talk stuff, But
24:20
Speaker 1: I didn't know flannel was his thing. I guess I'm
24:23
Speaker 1: learning a lot about Spencer the last couple of years.
24:25
Speaker 2: And Spencer is an evolving man, let's put it that way.
24:28
Speaker 6: He's always asked questions.
24:31
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
24:32
Speaker 5: He's not just a guy with the long arm holding
24:34
Speaker 5: out the record right.
24:37
Speaker 2: Hitting the mic flag in. That was his thing. Like
24:39
Speaker 2: I got the mic flag in arm. Did you see that? I? Yes,
24:41
Speaker 2: I did.
24:41
Speaker 1: Yes, that's awesome. That's awesome. But I've been a big
24:44
Speaker 1: flannel fan for a long time. You know, well, you're
24:46
Speaker 1: a country guy.
24:47
Speaker 8: Say it is a country music it is a country
24:49
Speaker 8: music staple. I do feel like the one time I
24:53
Speaker 8: think that I've gone out with a flannel line, I
24:55
Speaker 8: think was to a Blake Shelton concert and I think
24:56
Speaker 8: I might have saw a golf there because it was
24:59
Speaker 8: just like the easiest thing to do is if I'm
25:01
Speaker 8: gonna fit in, I better get in.
25:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, were you behind me in the craw was behaving?
25:05
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I was behind you.
25:07
Speaker 8: There were some individual a couple of ladies in front
25:10
Speaker 8: of us now definitely weren't behaving. Oh ever, correctly, they're
25:13
Speaker 8: having themselves a good old dance off in the aisle
25:15
Speaker 8: if I had a good time laughing about that.
25:18
Speaker 2: One, Bunny.
25:18
Speaker 5: Whether you like country music or not, I think we
25:20
Speaker 5: can all agree that the flannel shirt and like Daisy
25:24
Speaker 5: Duke type shorts is a good look. The later and
25:28
Speaker 5: the sun dress and cowboy boots thing is a good
25:30
Speaker 5: look as well.
25:31
Speaker 6: Well.
25:31
Speaker 1: One thing about flannel shirts is they never go out
25:33
Speaker 1: of style. I mean, you look back at old Don
25:35
Speaker 1: Henley Eagles, yeah, putage from nineteen seventy seven.
25:39
Speaker 2: They'll wear they're wearing flannel shirts.
25:40
Speaker 5: The buffalo plaid is it's a staple that is the
25:43
Speaker 5: hip thing now right, And I don't own any buffalo plant.
25:46
Speaker 1: We might have a blanket at home that's buffalo plaid,
25:48
Speaker 1: but mostly I've got like what I have on today.
25:51
Speaker 1: It's just kind of the old school.
25:52
Speaker 2: All right.
25:52
Speaker 5: So the other thing that happened at the park behind
25:54
Speaker 5: the scenes last night was the people up in the
25:56
Speaker 5: four hundred level bringing in their spaghetti dinner.
25:59
Speaker 2: In the hip.
26:00
Speaker 1: I saw that on Fox six. That is hilarious. First
26:03
Speaker 1: I thought, oh god, that looks great. Where can I
26:05
Speaker 1: get that? What stand is selling.
26:07
Speaker 2: Spaghettia R right? Giant meatballs and garlic bread? And then oh, yes,
26:12
Speaker 2: I don't care who you are. Everybody wants a nice
26:14
Speaker 2: hot spaghetti. Yes, I don't care who you are. But
26:16
Speaker 2: that was the thing.
26:17
Speaker 8: It can't be hot, Okay, it is gonna be like
26:19
Speaker 8: that plastic is gonna That's where I'm still dripping up
26:22
Speaker 8: here a little bit.
26:23
Speaker 5: Okay, if you transport it in a you know, kind
26:26
Speaker 5: of one of those soft sided cooler insulated bags, it's
26:29
Speaker 5: gonna be warm.
26:31
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just I'm still. I'm still, I'm I should
26:34
Speaker 8: be all in on this. I'm struggling all the way
26:37
Speaker 8: get through.
26:37
Speaker 1: I was twenty four to twenty five years old when
26:40
Speaker 1: I learned that you could bring any any type of
26:42
Speaker 1: food into most Major League baseball parks. Living in his
26:45
Speaker 1: Berry at the time, and my buddy Perry Massini picks
26:48
Speaker 1: me up. We're going to a Giant's game and he
26:49
Speaker 1: has this bag full of everything. I'm like, did you
26:52
Speaker 1: just go to the grocery? Stares No, we're taking this
26:53
Speaker 1: into the ball game. You can't take that into the
26:55
Speaker 1: ball game.
26:56
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you can just wait, yeah.
26:58
Speaker 5: And ever so long as they can see it and
27:00
Speaker 5: it's sealed. And you know, we were just wondering though,
27:03
Speaker 5: because we're like, obviously we talked about what other foods
27:06
Speaker 5: could we smuggle in and and have a you know,
27:08
Speaker 5: a nice catered dinner. And I'm like, well, bucket, a
27:11
Speaker 5: KFC would work. But then we thought, can you have
27:13
Speaker 5: the bones because they might be projectiles. They don't have
27:16
Speaker 5: a bottle cap. I bet you could have KF bone
27:19
Speaker 5: in chicken.
27:19
Speaker 2: I don't know.
27:20
Speaker 5: It feels like it could get dangerous, right, Okay, we'll
27:23
Speaker 5: get tenders.
27:23
Speaker 1: Then we all those meatballs that I saw and that
27:25
Speaker 1: footage last night looked like they could have been projectiles.
27:28
Speaker 2: That's true. Joe West, if he was still on the Diamond,
27:30
Speaker 2: would have been.
27:30
Speaker 5: Talking from the flour hundreds the next level too, because
27:33
Speaker 5: they had a thresh graded parmesan.
27:35
Speaker 2: So that was and the that was amazing.
27:39
Speaker 8: Uh, because again during the tour that we took last
27:43
Speaker 8: year that the guy was very excited to let you know,
27:45
Speaker 8: like you can. You can bring in a birthday cake.
27:47
Speaker 8: The only place you can't bring it into isn't a suite.
27:49
Speaker 8: Like you can bring in food as long as you're
27:51
Speaker 8: not going into one of the sweets that has to
27:54
Speaker 8: be individual.
27:55
Speaker 2: So we tested out. We probably a dozen donuts in
27:57
Speaker 2: last year.
27:58
Speaker 8: You bring that box right on in because he the
28:00
Speaker 8: tailgate got stalled out when cars were flooded out on
28:04
Speaker 8: Brewers Boulevards.
28:06
Speaker 2: Let's take this thing inside. We got a box of greebies.
28:08
Speaker 1: And with young kids, Billy, it's it's almost a must
28:11
Speaker 1: that you have to bring in at least.
28:12
Speaker 8: Yeah, you do figure, you do realize that clear size
28:16
Speaker 8: bag ends up just being a can.
28:17
Speaker 2: We do the same at movie theaters? Can you bring
28:20
Speaker 2: your own juju bees and juju fruit?
28:22
Speaker 5: It's not legally no, no, get me to get me
28:28
Speaker 5: on that one. Before they started, before they started the
28:31
Speaker 5: whole movie tavern thing that we used to bring in
28:34
Speaker 5: those grenades, you up your pant leg, you would take
28:37
Speaker 5: those little seven ounce cans and then as soon.
28:41
Speaker 2: As the lights went out, well, for me, it was
28:43
Speaker 2: I was.
28:43
Speaker 1: I was smarter than that. I wait for an explosion
28:47
Speaker 1: to crack my cold one. But winter time was great
28:49
Speaker 1: because you wear the heavy jacket. Oh, I could bring
28:51
Speaker 1: a six pack of beer and fully. Although I remember
28:55
Speaker 1: a long time ago with my girlfriend going to uh
28:58
Speaker 1: Colored Purple, I was so frustrated. I was waiting for
29:01
Speaker 1: something loud to happen in the movie, and it just
29:03
Speaker 1: wouldn't happen. So I took a chance finally, and I
29:05
Speaker 1: cracked the car, and I did and I got away
29:07
Speaker 1: with it.
29:08
Speaker 2: Cough while you, I guess, so you know, I wasn't
29:10
Speaker 2: really I was gonna say that, And that's like the
29:12
Speaker 2: easiest giveaway. Though. This guy's coughing in the back and everyone.
29:17
Speaker 6: Well, back then, you probably had ushers in the movie
29:19
Speaker 6: theater that would be watching.
29:20
Speaker 2: Right, I know I think you did. Actually they'd stand
29:23
Speaker 2: in the back ushers. But are you kidding me? They
29:27
Speaker 2: have the infrared cameras so they can see what you're Oh,
29:29
Speaker 2: they're seeing everything. They're watching everything.
29:31
Speaker 8: Yeah, those videos that I'm seeing online, I don't think
29:33
Speaker 8: those like a black helicopter with that, they're seeing, they
29:38
Speaker 8: know what's happening.
29:38
Speaker 2: They're seeing what you're doing. Into a movie, I guess
29:40
Speaker 2: in a while.
29:41
Speaker 5: Nowadays, like everything, everywhere you're on camera, you're being captured,
29:45
Speaker 5: you're being recorded.
29:47
Speaker 2: Yeah you know.
29:48
Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of that, did you see the
29:50
Speaker 1: the footage of the Taco Bell fight and Muskegoa Streets.
29:54
Speaker 2: I was out loud. I got it.
29:58
Speaker 1: Hold started as an argument through the drive through windows.
30:03
Speaker 2: This Taco Bell you're talking about, the one on Jansville,
30:06
Speaker 2: and then.
30:07
Speaker 1: Dude comes inside with his girlfriend and they're trying to
30:09
Speaker 1: get back behind the counter. Eventually they do and one
30:12
Speaker 1: of the Taco Bell employees just flattens this boom. He's out,
30:17
Speaker 1: and then dude comes back. They're they're getting into a
30:20
Speaker 1: big pushing and shoving match. Eventually Taco Bell guy pulls
30:23
Speaker 1: out his gun and it's not good. Well, eventually he
30:27
Speaker 1: fires a shot to get get him out of there,
30:28
Speaker 1: but but before that they just trash the place.
30:31
Speaker 2: They're throwing stuff, stuff everywhere in Yeah.
30:34
Speaker 6: There's a good fast food fight, man, it usually starts.
30:38
Speaker 6: The most surprising.
30:39
Speaker 8: Thing is that they're feel I think the strangest thing
30:42
Speaker 8: is that this isn't an a waffle house.
30:48
Speaker 2: Central always see these things on the internet, but never
30:51
Speaker 2: in our neck of the woods.
30:52
Speaker 6: So to see that mean street, then it gets to
30:55
Speaker 6: be scary and dangerous and it's not a good thing.
30:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, Unfortunately nobody dies because it could have been.
31:02
Speaker 1: Wholly oh wow this morning.
31:07
Speaker 8: Yeah, you gotta get up out of there after that.
31:09
Speaker 8: Like I, I guess there's some pride that ends up
31:11
Speaker 8: getting hurt. But when you get taken to the ground
31:13
Speaker 8: like that with one swing, that's that's where you got a.
31:15
Speaker 2: Retreat and he got a shirt torn off. Yeah, that's
31:17
Speaker 2: where you gotta pull. That's where you gotta walk away. Please,
31:20
Speaker 2: you know you lost right.
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Speaker 5: And this was months ago and we're just seeing the
31:22
Speaker 5: video now. But Billy is so dialed in. But he
31:24
Speaker 5: just learned yesterday about the Page Beckers and easy fund
31:27
Speaker 5: romance of the the Dallas Wings number one picks and
31:31
Speaker 5: back to back years.
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Speaker 8: I'll tell you l Dallas Swings T shirt is on
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Speaker 8: its way and I cannot wait for that.
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Speaker 2: I get out wait for that season opener on May night.
31:39
Speaker 2: That's awesome, that's fantastic. That's awesome.
31:41
Speaker 5: All right, So Dolph's program, what is your put a
31:44
Speaker 5: quarter in you and what is your hot take on
31:46
Speaker 5: the expansion of the NCAA tournament to seventy six, we're
31:50
Speaker 5: adding more.
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Speaker 2: Uh take me to Dayton.
31:52
Speaker 5: Now we're instead of like, you know, the four games
31:54
Speaker 5: or whatever, we're having more.
31:56
Speaker 1: I'm actually, you know, at first, I'm like, oh, here
31:58
Speaker 1: we go. But we've known this was coming for a while.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we knew this many teams were coming,
32:02
Speaker 1: did we hear of originally was gonna be seventy two
32:04
Speaker 1: or something?
32:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I mean I kind of like the format.
32:07
Speaker 1: So they're gonna do They're gonna do what twelve games
32:11
Speaker 1: played by twenty four teams at two different sites?
32:14
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, it's I think I can still be a Thursday.
32:17
Speaker 2: You get to sixty four.
32:18
Speaker 1: So is the brackets still going to be the sixty
32:19
Speaker 1: four that you know we've always done, because it just
32:22
Speaker 1: seems like that's you know, I think that's a format
32:24
Speaker 1: you have to stick with, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean to me, it's how are you going to
32:27
Speaker 5: consume it? And are you even in the tournament if
32:29
Speaker 5: you're in that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I will adjust.
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Speaker 1: We've adjusted the NFL and NBA and NHL expansion and
32:36
Speaker 1: as far as the NCAA tournament goes.
32:38
Speaker 2: You know, you and I Drew were old enough to remember.
32:39
Speaker 1: Before it was sixty four in the eighties, right, yeah,
32:42
Speaker 1: that's when it went to the sixty.
32:43
Speaker 2: Four, So it used to be thirty two. I'm gonna
32:45
Speaker 2: say thirty two, right, yeah.
32:47
Speaker 1: I mean I think about how much happier I became
32:49
Speaker 1: when baseball added a wildcard, and I look at this
32:52
Speaker 1: the same way. It's gonna add excitement for a couple
32:54
Speaker 1: of days, but different with my childhood have been if
32:56
Speaker 1: there had been a wildcard to Major League Baseball when
32:58
Speaker 1: the Brewers were winning ninety eight games total, making the
33:00
Speaker 1: playoffs really different life. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's insane
33:03
Speaker 1: to think that that even existed, but it did, and
33:06
Speaker 1: and but now we have.
33:07
Speaker 2: We'll move on.
33:08
Speaker 5: But it's just like everything that's it's everything's just watered down.
33:12
Speaker 5: And the tournament though in at least now. The trend
33:15
Speaker 5: line is that the the early games suck, well, the
33:18
Speaker 5: tough thing. Power conferences don't want more births and won't
33:21
Speaker 5: want more teams in, but they're dominant already.
33:23
Speaker 8: I was gonna say that the bigger conferences are going
33:26
Speaker 8: to be good either way or okay, right, this is
33:29
Speaker 8: gonna let more Auburns in and they're.
33:31
Speaker 2: Looting the mid majors of talent. So that's my question.
33:34
Speaker 1: Are they going to take away that automatic bid for
33:36
Speaker 1: the majority of these mid majors these or small majors.
33:39
Speaker 2: Oh, this is a way to get more.
33:42
Speaker 6: So I don't think this will take away that. In fact,
33:44
Speaker 6: if anything, it protects it in some ways.
33:45
Speaker 8: Well, the tough thing is, like Butcher was talking about
33:47
Speaker 8: it this week this past year with us, and I'd
33:49
Speaker 8: love to get his take on it. We'll definitely hear
33:51
Speaker 8: it inside, Butchi's then online. But uh, like he had said,
33:55
Speaker 8: most of the big upsets for the small schools felt
33:56
Speaker 8: like they happened in their conference tournaments. You hear this,
33:59
Speaker 8: and first first stroke would say, sweet Belmont that got
34:04
Speaker 8: upset in their conference tournament should be one of the largest.
34:07
Speaker 8: We know, that's just not how it's gonna work. It's
34:09
Speaker 8: gonna be a Penn State or it's gonna be af.
34:11
Speaker 5: The Miami of Ohio, right because they were unbeaten and
34:15
Speaker 5: like they lose your conference tournament, they're not getting in
34:17
Speaker 5: Like come on, like you know that's.
34:18
Speaker 2: Also thirty one a kind of a unique case.
34:20
Speaker 6: I agree with you, Billy, Like most men majors aren't
34:23
Speaker 6: getting a second I was gonna say, like I, I
34:25
Speaker 6: hope that's the case true, but I doubt that this
34:26
Speaker 6: opens up another one MAX school.
34:28
Speaker 5: Well, I in that case it would. It's a buffer
34:31
Speaker 5: for that, but it's not designed to get another Horizon
34:34
Speaker 5: League team, and it's designed to get in audit all.
34:36
Speaker 8: We don't want to get Auburn in Sorry, we don't
34:38
Speaker 8: want buck Nellen even if they were a dominant team in.
34:41
Speaker 2: The regular season. That's what they're trying to do.
34:43
Speaker 6: For me, think the real issue is you're watering down
34:45
Speaker 6: the regular season and the tournament.
34:47
Speaker 4: Now.
34:47
Speaker 5: They're doing this in the women's side, and the women's
34:50
Speaker 5: game is it's evolving and stuff, but the women's tournament
34:54
Speaker 5: it's still you know, it's kind of like I equate
34:56
Speaker 5: it to where the men's tournament was.
34:58
Speaker 1: It was, Yeah, they used to play on campus in
35:01
Speaker 1: early rounds of the men's NCAA tournament, and that's what
35:03
Speaker 1: the women's tournament is now. Although you know a lot
35:05
Speaker 1: of these Power Conference teams that are awesome and women's
35:08
Speaker 1: basketball are selling those those two days out and you
35:12
Speaker 1: do see some upsets, but for the most part, they
35:15
Speaker 1: pretty much go scratch.
35:16
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that is, that is about as chalky as
35:19
Speaker 8: it possibly can get. What has been the best playoff
35:22
Speaker 8: expansion has been baseball. I mean, NFL has been pretty
35:25
Speaker 8: dang good. But like, I don't know if there's any
35:29
Speaker 8: more than you getting. There's no need to expand the
35:32
Speaker 8: NFL playoffs.
35:33
Speaker 5: I don't think no, but I think the perfect Like,
35:35
Speaker 5: I think they're at their perfect spot right now with
35:37
Speaker 5: the seven Yeah, NBA and NHL is they're almost too big.
35:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm gonna go NFL with this.
35:43
Speaker 1: With the fact that although college football was kind of
35:45
Speaker 1: fun this year too, that's.
35:46
Speaker 2: A tough one for me to say.
35:47
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm still sticking with NFL because in
35:49
Speaker 1: the NFL a seven seed can certainly I mean the Packers,
35:54
Speaker 1: I would have seen them beating anybody on any given
35:57
Speaker 1: playoff game this past year, whereas in baseball, all Cincinnati
36:01
Speaker 1: went to Dodger Stadium. I think we all knew how
36:03
Speaker 1: that one was going to end before it even started.
36:05
Speaker 1: It was they were quickly extinguished.
36:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
36:09
Speaker 6: I know.
36:09
Speaker 8: The true baseball peerists might not like the expansion in baseball,
36:13
Speaker 8: it's definitely made that October a lot more entertaining. You
36:15
Speaker 8: can see a lot more options, like a whole lot
36:18
Speaker 8: more upsets, but the college football playoff same thing. You
36:21
Speaker 8: know that one's getting doubled up if they're going to
36:23
Speaker 8: touch this one, which is their bread and butter and
36:25
Speaker 8: their crown jewel. Get ready for the twenty fourteen model
36:28
Speaker 8: coming to college football too.
36:29
Speaker 1: My concern is am I going to be able to
36:30
Speaker 1: find all these games? Are they going to be on
36:32
Speaker 1: streaming or are they going.
36:33
Speaker 2: To be TV.
36:36
Speaker 1: Wherever the money is? Right now, I have to look
36:38
Speaker 1: up regular season games. I don't even know where my
36:40
Speaker 1: team is playing.
36:41
Speaker 8: TV's going to turn on basically be ABC at the
36:44
Speaker 8: end of this with how tough it's going to be
36:46
Speaker 8: to find some of these games.
36:47
Speaker 6: So not the alcyon days for sports fans. Some people
36:50
Speaker 6: believe that, but I don't think what days. That's not
36:53
Speaker 6: the health it is they were. It's harder to watch,
36:56
Speaker 6: it's harder to enjoy in some ways it can be.
36:59
Speaker 6: There can be some debait on that, I suppose, but yeah,
37:01
Speaker 6: the hells on? You like the health good?
37:03
Speaker 2: That's a good one. Army, there we go.
37:05
Speaker 1: What what if Marquette made the tournament this year from
37:07
Speaker 1: the seventy Okay did you have to.
37:10
Speaker 2: You have to do that, doll? Just yeah, R nine
37:12
Speaker 2: and twenty.
37:13
Speaker 5: Pack for your your South Frielix slander. You just got
37:16
Speaker 5: paid back with a little white cat kicked to the night.
37:18
Speaker 6: Hey, congrats to UWM. Got a couple of transfer Yeah
37:21
Speaker 6: they l L I'm gonna do. Used to be at
37:23
Speaker 6: market and Trey Norman played at Market.
37:25
Speaker 1: So yeah, and and they got the kid who came
37:29
Speaker 1: from Syracuse from White Fisher Aminican as well.
37:31
Speaker 2: You and Panthers making some moves in the portal. How
37:33
Speaker 2: about that bar? One are using the stay home kind
37:35
Speaker 2: of angle? Drew have to ask before I go.
37:37
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're talking about it, But how much grief
37:39
Speaker 1: did you take for changing your ruling last night?
37:41
Speaker 5: Uh? Not much, not much. You know, It's like it
37:44
Speaker 5: was more of a you know, there's a coin flip.
37:46
Speaker 5: You got called out on TV.
37:48
Speaker 2: Though.
37:49
Speaker 5: Part comes with the territory. That's part of the reason
37:51
Speaker 5: they put me in the chair ten years ago. It
37:54
Speaker 5: was a three to two game. They might not have
37:55
Speaker 5: time to go over. But when I took the job,
37:57
Speaker 5: they said, you got to know the game, and you
37:58
Speaker 5: gotta have a thick skin.
37:59
Speaker 2: And we think, you know, I've been yelled at by players, managers,
38:02
Speaker 2: hall of famers. That's a figure it out.
38:04
Speaker 5: And he didn't even know who was he who's over
38:06
Speaker 5: who's over there? Yeah, that's the way it should be.
38:08
Speaker 5: Should be anonymous like that. It's funny, got it right, though.
38:11
Speaker 5: I initially I thought he's got to make that play.
38:14
Speaker 5: It's PfP. They're giving you an out take it. But
38:18
Speaker 5: the kid they went along with.
38:19
Speaker 8: I was gonna say that poor kid that there was
38:21
Speaker 8: nothing easy for that kid last night, and it would
38:23
Speaker 8: have saved him all of.
38:24
Speaker 2: One earned run on his line of eight earned runs
38:26
Speaker 2: in an inning.
38:27
Speaker 8: It must have been good before this, because cro only
38:29
Speaker 8: sits at eight and a half after eight ernies and two.
38:33
Speaker 1: Point three something. He alright before that. But he has
38:36
Speaker 1: your type of Hairbilly though, So I don't feel they
38:38
Speaker 1: were and he was working without a net because no
38:40
Speaker 1: one was warming up. The basic loaded nobody out. They
38:43
Speaker 1: had like what eight guys back before there was an out.
38:45
Speaker 1: He kept looking back there like, wait, seriously, coach, at
38:48
Speaker 1: that point you just bring a position Is the sixth
38:50
Speaker 1: inning too early to bring in a position player?
38:51
Speaker 5: Well, and by the way, how about the heroics of
38:53
Speaker 5: McCann pitching at thirty mile an hour. A lollipop said,
38:56
Speaker 5: didn't even register on stat cast. That's awesome throwing the
39:00
Speaker 5: ephis balls and the brewer is doing a solid by swinging.
39:02
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, hack it away at all fun
39:06
Speaker 5: with Scott Dolphin. He's representing wearing flannel. We missed the memo.
39:10
Speaker 2: None of us have flannel on there. We're just sorry
39:12
Speaker 2: for you're you're part of the team.
39:13
Speaker 5: Well you the shirt, Yeah, thanks, appreciate it, Thanks Dolph,
39:16
Speaker 5: Thanks boys, we'll take you.
39:17
Speaker 2: Quick break gets the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
39:22
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39:24
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Speaker 5: go to guys, if you will in that arena, Billy,
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Speaker 5: what you got for who's hot Who's not?
39:36
Speaker 8: Well, there's a number of places that we could go
39:37
Speaker 8: with Andrew Hoffman very much not hot. Poor kid had
39:40
Speaker 8: himself a banner night yesterday. One out eight hits, eight runs,
39:45
Speaker 8: all of them earned. Only walked one guy Uh, surprisingly
39:48
Speaker 8: to nobody, uh struck out none. How about Shane drowing
39:51
Speaker 8: in for the hot category ten pitches, nine of them
39:54
Speaker 8: strikes last night. Get in, get out, get your work done,
39:57
Speaker 8: and hand it off to Woodford reserve as he was clean.
40:00
Speaker 8: And Drowan, who's been a little bit of the up
40:03
Speaker 8: and down guy. He had the four runs, only one
40:05
Speaker 8: of them earned this past Friday, the weekend game against
40:09
Speaker 8: the Pirates, in a game that kind of got away
40:11
Speaker 8: from him late in with some some tough defense. He's
40:14
Speaker 8: been an interesting cat where Harrison has stolen all of
40:17
Speaker 8: the headlines rightfully so off of that trade with the
40:20
Speaker 8: Red Sox, but Droan's been a nice little piece that
40:23
Speaker 8: I think we might see a little bit more of
40:24
Speaker 8: throughout the year. Drew, I didn't think there feels like
40:27
Speaker 8: a little bit of untapped potential there of somebody that
40:30
Speaker 8: they're gonna like. Another two hit night for William Contreros
40:33
Speaker 8: last night, he finds himself in the hot category.
40:35
Speaker 5: And uh, hey man, what about Tyler Black three hits,
40:39
Speaker 5: three rabbis last night.
40:41
Speaker 8: Getting an opportunity to make something of a spot where
40:45
Speaker 8: he has felt like he's been log jammed. There's a
40:49
Speaker 8: lot of guys that are blocking at the major league level,
40:51
Speaker 8: but you need a bat off the bench and if
40:53
Speaker 8: he can dh and he's getting those reps until Yelly
40:55
Speaker 8: comes back.
40:56
Speaker 2: We'll see what number seven can make of himself. Yeah.
40:58
Speaker 5: I love the fact that he represents his home country
41:01
Speaker 5: by walking up to rush music.
41:03
Speaker 2: That's for Yeah, it's Tom Sawyer that rushed the Canadian
41:07
Speaker 2: guys batting. Yeah.
41:09
Speaker 5: It's getting to be the point where you know, you
41:11
Speaker 5: hear Timmy trumpets now and you think of William Contreras,
41:14
Speaker 5: or even if you're not watching the game or paying attention,
41:16
Speaker 5: you hear like the music and you're like.
41:17
Speaker 2: Oh, I know who's batting. Yeah, I mean my my kids.
41:20
Speaker 2: But it's subliminal intro right away.
41:22
Speaker 8: My kid as the little plastic trumpet and starts humming
41:25
Speaker 8: that song right through it because it just it's one
41:27
Speaker 8: of the catchiest tunes around. In the not category, would
41:31
Speaker 8: or the hot category as well, would fall in the
41:33
Speaker 8: San Antonio Spurs Mandarin Fox twenty one points. Last night,
41:36
Speaker 8: my man was phenomenal seventeen and fourteen from Victor Webbin
41:40
Speaker 8: Yama and six blocks. I mean, as much as I
41:45
Speaker 8: kind of wanted to hope that he wasn't going to
41:47
Speaker 8: be as great as Slice Bread, the greatest things and
41:49
Speaker 8: slice bread like everybody anticipated it. In four years, it's
41:52
Speaker 8: going to be his league.
41:54
Speaker 2: Yeah.
41:54
Speaker 8: You kind of watch him and you start seeing yeah,
41:56
Speaker 8: might it's gonna be hard to be beating that San
41:58
Speaker 8: Antonio team with the kind.
41:59
Speaker 2: Of players right away.
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Speaker 5: One in a decade, basely Yeah, seven years, I think, yeah, yeah.
42:04
Speaker 6: And he's been great right away, so that's true. No,
42:06
Speaker 6: wait since seventeen, so nine years.
42:07
Speaker 2: You're right, Yeah, almost a decade. All right, that's uh,
42:10
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