Transcript

03/27/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Dominating a Friday in the good Land the way the
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Speaker 1: Brewers dominated the White Sox. In the season opener yesterday,
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Speaker 1: American Family Field welcome in Drew Billy and Hunter bomguard
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Speaker 1: special guest producer as armand Sary and continues to just,
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Speaker 1: you know, wander around the desert.
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Speaker 2: Stroll around aimlessly and hit crabs, tables and win all
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Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Strip for Arman.
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Speaker 1: He's out there with our boy Elbaldo, having a great
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Speaker 1: old time.
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Speaker 2: And he did send me a which I knew was
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Speaker 2: going to happen. One of my favorites about Armin is
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Speaker 2: he is loyal to the soil. He he until they
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Speaker 2: put him in the dirt. He's going back the folks
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Speaker 2: that have gotten him here. And he's sitting right there
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Speaker 2: in the MGM Sports Book outwardly loudly trash in that place.
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Speaker 2: This place is in Potawatami. I go two thousand miles
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Speaker 2: to watch a thirty two inch TV. I'm my brother,
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Speaker 2: there's people there that are working. I think you should
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Speaker 2: maybe quiet this thing down. He goes two thousand square
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Speaker 2: foot video board. Why on Earth am I watching this
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Speaker 2: on this I have a better one in my kitchen.
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Speaker 2: So he's loyal to the soil. He's never going to
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Speaker 2: back down from a from an argument and a scrap boys.
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Speaker 3: What was it, Ben MGM that put out the Phil
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Speaker 3: Jackson North Carolina thing the other day?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it might have been in a parody,
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Speaker 2: bet mgm, but yes it was. It was because it
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Speaker 2: would looked like their account. I thought so as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I I that said that Phil Jackson's going to
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Speaker 3: North Carolina, and it's going to make sense because Bill
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Speaker 3: Belichick's already.
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Speaker 4: There and I'm already there.
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Speaker 3: If we're at the point where like businesses are doing
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Speaker 3: that right exactly, if we're at the point where you
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Speaker 3: know that well, actually, you know what, The April Fools
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Speaker 3: next week is going to be the super Bowl for
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Speaker 3: these AI you know off Facebook post that got Matt
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Speaker 3: Lafleur adopting to you know, animal shelters on Facebook or whatever.
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Speaker 4: You know, they these AI.
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Speaker 3: If you're on Facebook, it's it's less and less, which
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Speaker 3: is good. I think they're taking a hold of it.
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Speaker 3: But it's just random stories that are totally made up,
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Speaker 3: especially on Facebook or even pages. You know, they had
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Speaker 3: a fake page of Jay R Alexander that had thousands
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Speaker 3: and thousands of followers, and he was saying He's coming back.
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Speaker 4: And all that stuff. So my god. Yeah, So I
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Speaker 4: think April Fool's Day is going to be the super Bowl. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's going to be awful.
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Speaker 2: Yeahs are going to be having a good old time.
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Speaker 1: Eight seven seven seven nine four seven three. Share your
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Speaker 1: thoughts about opening Day. If you were there, we want
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Speaker 1: to hear from you. What was your experience like if
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Speaker 1: you watched it? Your first early reviews of the first
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Speaker 1: inaugural mission for Brewers TV. It's going to be our
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Speaker 1: our summer companion, which is going to be which is
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Speaker 1: gonna be our backdrop for the entire year?
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Speaker 4: One hundred. You're right.
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Speaker 2: It definitely was the bet MGM account. It was the
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Speaker 2: actual account. Somebody might have hacked him because they've already
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Speaker 2: deleted the deleted the post, so it was up for hours.
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Speaker 2: It was up for a while, so it definitely was
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Speaker 2: their account. Sorry, d I apologize now. I was on
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Speaker 2: that investigative track and I was like, I gotta make
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Speaker 2: sure that is I'm correct here that well account, just
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Speaker 2: to check myself.
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Speaker 1: It's not a work that Will Wade is leaving North
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Speaker 1: Carolina State after one year to go back to LSU
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Speaker 1: where he left them with a show cause penalty, Like
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Speaker 1: what the hell?
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Speaker 2: Well, he also said, I'll try to follow more rules
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Speaker 2: this time. All right, Budo, I'll try to follow more rules.
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Speaker 3: North Carolina State ad did not seem very happy.
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Speaker 1: So now the wolf Pack has a coaching search going
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Speaker 1: on at the same time there's one in Chapel Hill.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Will Wade.
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Speaker 1: Like, how much is LSU spending on buyouts right now?
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great question, because they've they've got lanes.
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Speaker 1: They got to buy Kiffin out fifty million that they
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Speaker 1: had to pay and Brian Kelly still they had to
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Speaker 1: pay pay Kiffin and now they got to pay Will Waite.
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Speaker 1: But they're paying what sixty seventy million dollars in just buyouts.
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Speaker 4: And but you know.
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Speaker 2: What Governor Jenn Landry down there and Louisiana said, we're
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Speaker 2: not tolerating this losing. We're not doing this losing stuff. Uh,
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Speaker 2: but we I want one of these contracts, one of
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Speaker 2: these coaching contracts. What they make it a little incentive basea.
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Speaker 4: You get paid more, you wait and get paid more.
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Speaker 2: So I'm interested to see how they build this one out,
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Speaker 2: because you're right, Drew.
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Speaker 4: I mean, his body wasn't even cold, Alice, You.
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Speaker 2: And I still don't even know that they've finished up
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Speaker 2: all the paperwork from having to fire him three.
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Speaker 1: Years ago or some coaching moves, they just seem logical
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Speaker 1: and just right, like Kerry McNamara going from Siena to Syracuse. Perfect,
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Speaker 1: that's the the ft one you could have. You got
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Speaker 1: a guy there. North Carolina always likes to keep it
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Speaker 1: in the family, though they might not this time, but
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Speaker 1: now Will Wade going back creates that opening. It's like, again,
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Speaker 1: as much as people hate the transfer portal for players,
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Speaker 1: it's always been open for coaches. Coach has been open
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Speaker 1: for a long Whiches could always go to better situations
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Speaker 1: with better money, better players, like well, I can't. Players
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Speaker 1: have that flexibility as well, And it's hard to separate
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Speaker 1: the two.
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Speaker 2: One hundred percent, And that is one as you know,
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Speaker 2: uh Tommy Tvererville, who's now into politics, put together the
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Speaker 2: five years for five seasons bill that they were trying
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Speaker 2: to put through. Is you know, now, apparently legislation is
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Speaker 2: the only thing that can fix coll sports because the
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Speaker 2: NCAA is completely powerless.
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Speaker 4: But like the thought.
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Speaker 2: That that's always been going on. That's the only one
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Speaker 2: that you can build in that people of Crowbard, like
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Speaker 2: the coach leaves, you can absolutely go. But they're they've
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Speaker 2: always been able to do whatever move has been more
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Speaker 2: advantageous for them now as long as there's buyouts on
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Speaker 2: both sides, Drew, I don't know what on earth the
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Speaker 2: difference totally could be. I don't know like what argument
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Speaker 2: you could make that there's a real difference between It.
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Speaker 1: Was always Now there's people that want to go back
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Speaker 1: to you can transfer once unless your coach leaves, and
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Speaker 1: then you get a free you know, get out of
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Speaker 1: jail free card and you can go somewhere. And then
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Speaker 1: I heard I saw somebody circulating the idea of the
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Speaker 1: reward making an incentive that if you go to an
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Speaker 1: institution and you play for four years, you get a
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Speaker 1: fifth year of eligibility at the same institution.
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Speaker 4: Like you get that, you.
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Speaker 1: Get an addition, you incentivize people to stay at a
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Speaker 1: place for four years. We're gonna give you another year
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Speaker 1: to make and if you're making a good, good scratch,
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Speaker 1: that's not a bad deal.
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Speaker 4: No, not at all.
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Speaker 1: And it's like we need what you need a CBA
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Speaker 1: in college sports that lays all this stuff out and
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Speaker 1: this makes everything you know by the book and salary
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Speaker 1: cap they it's a pro sport now totally.
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Speaker 4: Is and joking about it.
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Speaker 1: We talked about it on the show the other day,
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Speaker 1: all these coaches and stuff. It used to be and
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Speaker 1: I don't know when it fell off the landscape, but
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Speaker 1: it used to be coaches, like going back to Bob
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Speaker 1: Knight and the guys, they would talk about their graduation rate.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: You know, they only made it through the first round
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Speaker 1: of the tournament this year, but he graduates ninety percent
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Speaker 1: of the term graduation rate hasn't entered the discussion in
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Speaker 1: college sports in a long time because no one gives
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Speaker 1: a rats ask.
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Speaker 4: They don't even consider them students anymore, not at all.
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Speaker 4: No student out.
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Speaker 1: They're so haughty, like and we didn't get to cover
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Speaker 1: a regional this year, but oh, the student athletes will
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Speaker 1: be here in the interview room in twenty minutes. The
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Speaker 1: student athletes like they go out of their way.
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Speaker 2: It's like, shut up, come on and and like these
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Speaker 2: maybe one of the best, the best examples of it,
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Speaker 2: Drew is John Cala. Party was sitting side at a
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Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings game the other night. What that tells me
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Speaker 2: is Arkansas didn't fly back to Little Rock after they
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Speaker 2: went to Portland. They said, you know what, we're gonna
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Speaker 2: be in San Jose. We're gonna have to play on Thursday.
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Speaker 2: We might as well camp out and here the Badgers.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna do Yeah, hang out here. Well, we don't
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Speaker 2: we have class.
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Speaker 4: Oh okay, don't worry about don't worry about that. We'll
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Speaker 4: be We'll figure that taking online classes and stuff. Anyway,
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Speaker 4: we're going to be the same thing. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And cal Party did say something that was was along
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Speaker 2: those same lines of like, if you build it into
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Speaker 2: deals where you will make more money at the institution
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Speaker 2: that you're in, He's like, we have the we have
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Speaker 2: the example perfectly in the NBA. It's a bird's right,
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Speaker 2: bird right situation. You can get more money into nil
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Speaker 2: and more into the clearinghouse if you stay at the
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Speaker 2: certain institution.
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Speaker 1: I had a couple of long conversations Yesterda about baseball
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Speaker 1: because you're you're at opening Day, you're excited, and then
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Speaker 1: you think, well, I wonder if there will be an
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Speaker 1: Opening Day next year. You hate to be the negative Nelly,
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Speaker 1: the wet blanket, but with the storm clouds a bruin.
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Speaker 4: It's a conversation. Oh yeah, it's a conversation.
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Speaker 1: And there are those who think, well, they'll get around
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Speaker 1: to it eventually, but we might miss the first month
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Speaker 1: or two of the season next year.
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Speaker 4: That would suck.
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Speaker 1: They're working on it now, but we always know deadline
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Speaker 1: spur actions.
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Speaker 4: Hunter.
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Speaker 1: We talked about it with Dennis Crousey on the Spectrum
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Speaker 1: Round Table Brewers preview show that we did that aired
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Speaker 1: last night.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm. I hope everybody enjoyed it, hopefully.
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Speaker 1: But in this round of baseball negotiations, much like the
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Speaker 1: they need a structure in college sports, but baseball is
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Speaker 1: going to need that too, and baseball is gonna what's
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Speaker 1: what the dance is going to be the owners. Owners
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Speaker 1: want a salary cap, They need a salary cap. They
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Speaker 1: think they need a salary cap. They think they think
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Speaker 1: they need a salary cap, and they have to sell it.
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Speaker 1: But the players don't want accept that because it would
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Speaker 1: seem like a lots so they can have to We
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Speaker 1: were talking about it in the press box yesterday.
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Speaker 4: And the TV booth.
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Speaker 1: You almost got to come up with another name for it.
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Speaker 1: You can't call it a salary cap, but if he
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Speaker 1: enhanced revenue sharing or a punitive luxury tax or something
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Speaker 1: like somehow, because that's what it is.
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Speaker 4: So they need something semantic.
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Speaker 1: But the owners are and have to and they've never
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Speaker 1: really wanted to adapt this, but they almost have to
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Speaker 1: flood the zone and give the players.
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Speaker 4: Uh, they have to give them wins. You have to
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Speaker 4: give them wins.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's I don't know if if
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Speaker 1: going to one fifty four they've been talking about, all right,
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Speaker 1: we're going to shortened season to one fifty four.
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Speaker 4: Everything will say you'll get the same money.
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Speaker 1: Maybe have one day off a week, make Monday a
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Speaker 1: uni I said that years ago, like they should have
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Speaker 1: every team should be off every Monday, except for there's
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Speaker 1: one game on Monday night. One Yeah that our que
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Speaker 1: national TV Gamelan And that might be a cool thing
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Speaker 1: to implement Monday night baseball and baseball.
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Speaker 4: That actually might be the biggest coup.
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Speaker 2: And the help to this is because you need to
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Speaker 2: be able to sell one off special events because that's
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Speaker 2: what we watch for him night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, base was that standalone game, but it's lost some luster.
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Speaker 1: And if it was the only game on the dock
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Speaker 1: at that day for people who like to invest and stuff.
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Speaker 1: But they're gonna have to like, okay, well play one
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Speaker 1: fifty four if they can maybe swallow, that will add
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Speaker 1: two guys to the roster, will give you a picture
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Speaker 1: and a position player. So we're creating what that would
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Speaker 1: be sixty big league jobs. Sure, so expand the rosters
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Speaker 1: at twenty eight double the minimum salary. We were joking
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Speaker 1: yesterday because when I started covering the Brewers, the minimum
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Speaker 1: salary it was one hundred and nine thousand. Now it's
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Speaker 1: seven to seventy. But it's still low. It's lower than
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Speaker 1: the NFL. Yeah, definitely is. They could go to it
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Speaker 1: every day, go to like a million four on the
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Speaker 1: minimum salary, and the rank and file guys who are
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Speaker 1: not the show haze of the world, and they might
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Speaker 1: be like, well this is sounded pretty good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, hard to up.
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Speaker 1: You gotta give them wins. They're gonna have to like
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Speaker 1: make concessions in order to get the big thing through.
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Speaker 1: And then what is now a salary cap also comes
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Speaker 1: with a floor. Well, and that's where thought is one
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Speaker 1: fifty the floor and two twenty five is the ceiling?
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Speaker 1: Or how do you and then do you have bird
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Speaker 1: repeater rights or grandfather clauses like the show Haze, you know.
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Speaker 1: But then with the Dodgers have been doing is just backloading,
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Speaker 1: so like 'or only this much this year.
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Speaker 2: And the deferred money is gonna have to be real,
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Speaker 2: you would think reeled in a little bit, although teams
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Speaker 2: are gonna always want that because they can keep the
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Speaker 2: money in their bank account, earn the interest, and then
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Speaker 2: give it to you at a different time when it
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Speaker 2: equates to something different. But like the Dodgers, they've just
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Speaker 2: found the greatest competitive loophole, right Like with the kind
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Speaker 2: of Guggenheimer money that they have, it doesn't matter that
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Speaker 2: a dollar per dollar what in their tax to what
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Speaker 2: they end up paying on the salary. I think it's
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Speaker 2: close to, if not over a billion dollars to what
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Speaker 2: they have in cap money and then on top of
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Speaker 2: the taxes that they're gonna pay. But if it's just money,
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Speaker 2: like who cares that they're already bringing in so much
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Speaker 2: cash with every show Heye Jersey They're they're selling over
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Speaker 2: in Japan and every endorsement deal and everybody wearing a
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Speaker 2: Dodger cap in Asia because of the two stars that
11:51
Speaker 2: they have there as well as well as everywhere around
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Speaker 2: here because they're the best team around.
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Speaker 4: Like so when it's only money.
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Speaker 2: As your competitive issues, then it becomes well, we have more,
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Speaker 2: we'll see it. The real problem is, and I don't
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Speaker 2: know exactly what the unintended consequences would be. People much
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Speaker 2: smarter than I can look for and need to forecast that.
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Speaker 2: But like the NBA, they went through on the salary
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Speaker 2: cap of trying to rein in the massive amounts of
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Speaker 2: luxury tax the teams are paying right when whatever the
12:23
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors luxury tax was when they won the title.
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Speaker 4: So we can't do this. We got to bring in
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Speaker 4: all of these tiers.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be super restrictive on how you can
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Speaker 2: acquire players. If they do that, well, then the Dodgers
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Speaker 2: will have to cap and make decisions on if Freddi
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Speaker 2: Freeman's going to play first base or if they're going
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Speaker 2: to have to bring in somebody. If you limit how
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Speaker 2: then you can build your roster out the next year
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Speaker 2: because you're into the tax, then we'll see it. But
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Speaker 2: that's the part of it, Drew that I don't know
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Speaker 2: that the players are going to want to The players
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Speaker 2: want the Dodgers, right. They obviously they're hoping every team
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Speaker 2: becomes the Dodgers, and I think it's going to be
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Speaker 2: difficult to be able to pull back and forth what
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Speaker 2: they seem like they did in this past CBA. They
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Speaker 2: kind of eliminated a lot of the middle class in baseball,
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Speaker 2: right like the Neil Walkers of the world, who made
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Speaker 2: six million dollars to hit two sixty.
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Speaker 4: They're like, well, we'll see.
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Speaker 2: If this kid can hit two forty five, and we'll
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Speaker 2: pay seven hundred and fifty grand and it'll be a
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Speaker 2: lot easier. I'm wondering how that will balance out. But
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Speaker 2: you raise the maybe the minimum for a rookie. They
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Speaker 2: build out a salary cup structure. There's a ton that
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Speaker 2: they have to do. I would like them to be
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Speaker 2: working on it now though. Like Ken, Rosenthal had a
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Speaker 2: great piece in all of his storylines, and he told
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Speaker 2: the story about in two thousand and six, his first
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Speaker 2: year at Fox, I get a call hours before Game
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Speaker 2: three of the World Series from the network higher ups.
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Speaker 2: If memory serves right, it was Ed Warren, the executive producer.
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Speaker 2: An announcement was eminent Major League Baseball in the Players
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Speaker 2: Association had reached a new collective barking agreement, and the
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Speaker 2: network wanted me to interview bud Sea League and Donald
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Speaker 2: Fear live on the pregame show.
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Speaker 4: Twenty years ago. They did it at the World Series. Wow,
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Speaker 4: see that again.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that they're going to start talking until
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Speaker 2: the All Star like really talk real.
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Speaker 3: Yet said yesterday that they they He's like, we have
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Speaker 3: they we haven't even met yet. And he's because he's
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Speaker 3: on the labor committee. And he said, we have not
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Speaker 3: yet met yet. And he said, if we're if you're
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Speaker 3: putting it in game terms, we're not even in the
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Speaker 3: early innings. We're in the pregame right now. Yeah, And
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Speaker 3: I but I did, that's not good.
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Speaker 1: I talked to Curtis Granderson and he at the gig,
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Speaker 1: we did, if I can say, with Leroy Butler for
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Speaker 1: feeding American stuff.
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Speaker 4: And he longtime PA guy, right, yeah, and he was.
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Speaker 1: He said, you know, well, the owner has got to
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Speaker 1: get their thing together and then come to us. But
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Speaker 1: he was more optimistic than many. A lot of people
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Speaker 1: are just like, oh, there's not going to be a
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Speaker 1: season next year. But I have a hard time believing
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Speaker 1: there's not gonna be And like that's a.
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Speaker 4: Lot of what I mean.
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Speaker 1: So maybe camp starts late or right.
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Speaker 4: I can see that. I think well.
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Speaker 2: In reality though, too, like it would be a devastating
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Speaker 2: time for it. There's too many smart people around in
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Speaker 2: work in Major League Baseball to not feel the momentum
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Speaker 2: the sport has right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And here's the thing, even the Dodgers who have everything,
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Speaker 1: it's like, we don't want to change. We don't want
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Speaker 1: to cap right. Do they want to sit out a
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Speaker 1: season and lose a year of Otani?
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Speaker 4: No, that's the thing.
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Speaker 2: Like everybody has way too much to lose, losing the
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Speaker 2: entire season.
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Speaker 1: We're just rolling like, Okay, Dodgers have one two in
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Speaker 1: a row, they're looking for a three peat.
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Speaker 4: They look like a wagon again. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Coming off the World Baseball Classic, which is huge, massive,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have possibly baseball in the Olympics coming up,
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Speaker 1: it would be the dumbest thing ever to miss a season.
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Speaker 4: Into, you know.
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Speaker 2: And that's actually what you just have to find. It's
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Speaker 2: the stuff around it. Drew that you just hit on
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Speaker 2: gives me more optimism. If it was just the two
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Speaker 2: sides and they didn't have the boost of the World
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Speaker 2: Baseball Classic, the Olympics coming up, and as well the NBA,
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Speaker 2: Like you want to talk about the old mark Cuban
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Speaker 2: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered deal. The NBA feels
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Speaker 2: like it's not walking into the slaughterhouse. But people want
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Speaker 2: to get it on the bus to go right. People
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Speaker 2: have their eyre up for other sports and they're looking
16:05
Speaker 2: for something to come back to me. Yeah, but this
16:07
Speaker 2: would be one that would really really hurt. And for
16:09
Speaker 2: those the salary cap is not a pantasy. The Dodgers
16:11
Speaker 2: will still be the best team in a salary cap
16:13
Speaker 2: era because they'll still spend all of the money on
16:16
Speaker 2: a Chris Company.
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Speaker 1: Last I checked, there's a salary cap in the NBA,
16:22
Speaker 1: and yet the Sacramento Kings continue to exist and suck.
16:25
Speaker 1: They're still there, brill There's a salary caps in the NFL.
16:28
Speaker 1: But we've got the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals
16:30
Speaker 1: who have a struggle.
16:31
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, but hey, watch out is that struggle?
16:33
Speaker 2: I don't know if you I don't know if you
16:34
Speaker 2: saw this with the owners meeting someone up next week
16:37
Speaker 2: is the only real sick Ohardos are really excited about
16:40
Speaker 2: what they're talking about at the owners meetings and the
16:41
Speaker 2: competitiveness that the Browns have figured out why that they're
16:44
Speaker 2: not going to suck anymore.
16:45
Speaker 4: Oh, there you go. They have cracked the code.
16:48
Speaker 2: They just need to let us trade first round picks
16:50
Speaker 2: for five years in advance. Okay, they said, as long
16:54
Speaker 2: as we can then start offering our twenty thirty one
16:57
Speaker 2: first round pick.
16:57
Speaker 4: Guys, there you go, Cleveland Browns.
17:01
Speaker 2: It's interesting how they've been able to matriculate the ball
17:03
Speaker 2: down the field. Now I think they finally crack the
17:05
Speaker 2: code on how they're going to be competitive. Yeah, hey, Billy,
17:09
Speaker 2: who's hot and who's not? Brought to us by Donovan Jorgenson.
17:11
Speaker 2: Heating and cooling. It was like we needed everything yesterday.
17:15
Speaker 2: It started out the pregame like was beautiful, the morning
17:17
Speaker 2: is beautiful. Then it was cold.
17:19
Speaker 1: Yes, we're in this kind of season where we're in between.
17:22
Speaker 1: Do I turn the furnace off? Do I need You
17:24
Speaker 1: don't need air conditioning yet, you won't for a while,
17:26
Speaker 1: but the furnace, the air we're in this kind of
17:28
Speaker 1: in between season.
17:29
Speaker 4: But this is the season to think about heating and cooling.
17:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also the season to make sure that it's
17:34
Speaker 2: that it's right for the summer, and the best way
17:37
Speaker 2: to do it is with the longest and largest employee
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Speaker 2: owned company UH in the state of Wisconsin, Donovan Jorgensen.
17:43
Speaker 4: Now is it? You know? I'm not even gonna say.
17:45
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna put Garrett Mitchell in the not category, okay,
17:48
Speaker 2: as the only Brewer starter to not have a base in.
17:50
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say. Jacob Azroowski is hot. Breaks the
17:53
Speaker 2: franchise record for strikeouts on opening day UH, set by
17:58
Speaker 2: Freddy Peralta last year in New York.
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Speaker 4: Yes, that's eight, and then Sheeter was on there as well.
18:03
Speaker 2: I think with eight back in the day, correct, he
18:06
Speaker 2: was at seven or eight right there? Mis blows by
18:08
Speaker 2: that blows by all of the strikeout perhaps at the
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Speaker 2: patawadam Be Sports Book yesterday, hits to eleven on ninety
18:14
Speaker 2: four pitches was electrifying.
18:16
Speaker 4: Gave up one bomb, I have to.
18:18
Speaker 2: But also in the hot variety, some people were very,
18:22
Speaker 2: very excited. I don't know if you had a lead
18:25
Speaker 2: in on this hunter. Did we know William con Treresh
18:28
Speaker 2: was gonna let the hair down? Now they're selling the
18:30
Speaker 2: wild Bill T shirts. I already acquired the hot the
18:34
Speaker 2: wild Bill T shirt because it feels like one that
18:36
Speaker 2: I definitely have to have. I think long haired wild
18:40
Speaker 2: Bill is something Milwaukee desperately needs.
18:43
Speaker 4: That was hilarious yesterday.
18:45
Speaker 2: I don't know if that is only an opening day
18:46
Speaker 2: deal for wild Bill, but we need to get that
18:49
Speaker 2: answer because that was definitely a hot decision.
18:51
Speaker 3: I am fascinated to see because I'm like, oh, is
18:53
Speaker 3: he like I didn't know if he was maybe wearing
18:55
Speaker 3: something under his helmet or I'm like, no, he's wearing
18:57
Speaker 3: his hair down. He's he's wearing his hair down for
19:01
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six and we'll see if it continues on
19:03
Speaker 3: Saturday night.
19:04
Speaker 4: Who's not Matthew Boyd?
19:06
Speaker 2: Welcome back glad that was able to transpire yesterday at
19:09
Speaker 2: Wrigley Field win blowing in in matter Nationals. Put up
19:12
Speaker 2: ten three and two thirds six runs all earned on
19:16
Speaker 2: six hits, one walks, seven strikeouts for Matthew Boyd, but
19:19
Speaker 2: he got pummeled just like he did in game one
19:22
Speaker 2: of the wild card round or the divisional round. And also,
19:25
Speaker 2: Who's not we mentioned it a little earlier, American hero
19:28
Speaker 2: Paul Skins does not get out of the first inning
19:32
Speaker 2: yesterday drew Now we talked about our no run in
19:34
Speaker 2: the first inning.
19:35
Speaker 4: Bet, Yeah, well you thought all right.
19:37
Speaker 2: Freddy peralta first start in New York, he is about
19:41
Speaker 2: to dominate. Gives up a bomb in the first inning,
19:43
Speaker 2: that bet goes out the window. He did give up
19:46
Speaker 2: four went five. Got the win thanks to Paul Skins
19:50
Speaker 2: giving up five ernies, two walks, a triple, a double,
19:55
Speaker 2: a hit batsman, four hits, thirty seven pitches, two outs,
19:58
Speaker 2: and a sixty seven and a half earned run average
20:01
Speaker 2: for the cy Young winner.
20:03
Speaker 3: Definitely aided by O'Neil Cruz miss playing two balls in
20:07
Speaker 3: the outfield.
20:08
Speaker 4: That was I mean, was he.
20:11
Speaker 2: Was he trying to get himself into like the Savannah bananas,
20:15
Speaker 2: making it almost looked like hunter. He was setting up
20:18
Speaker 2: to do the backflip catch. Yeah, because he was measuring
20:21
Speaker 2: it up. He was like right underneath and then he
20:23
Speaker 2: just I mean, Roger Thorn was proud of that.
20:25
Speaker 4: O A the flot or two to his right.
20:28
Speaker 3: The ball just falls and it's like, boy, that's that's yep.
20:32
Speaker 3: The Pirates are still the I cannot believe that some
20:34
Speaker 3: production projections of the Pirates and Brewers at the same
20:37
Speaker 3: amount of wins, like who knows what.
20:38
Speaker 4: Happens in the baseball season.
20:40
Speaker 2: But yeah, exactly, yeah, I know they got a nice
20:43
Speaker 2: pitching staff, but they did play it with all nine players.
20:45
Speaker 4: They do, they do.
20:47
Speaker 1: Freddy Perotz only went five innings in his Mets debut.
20:49
Speaker 1: You mentioned six hits, second homer or second round the
20:52
Speaker 1: game with a homer, no walks, seven strikeouts, But eighty
20:56
Speaker 1: pitches and five innings for Freddy. That's not horrible six.
21:00
Speaker 1: But then they ate up the next three innings with
21:02
Speaker 1: Tobias Myers.
21:03
Speaker 4: They get they doubled it up with the brew crew.
21:06
Speaker 4: I did not see that.
21:07
Speaker 2: They said we are unleashing farms that we got from
21:10
Speaker 2: the because we need to figure.
21:11
Speaker 1: Those things of that Mets victory were covered by ex Brewers.
21:15
Speaker 2: All. That's why that's awesome. Final one of Who's Hot,
21:18
Speaker 2: Who's Not? Who's Hot? As l night tonight at the
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee Admirals game Henderson Silver Knights in town for a
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Speaker 2: back to back Milwaukee Admirals dot Com celebrating the Wiseblat family,
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Speaker 2: who the bat. The Admirals have now had Oasis as
21:32
Speaker 2: well as Ozzie, and they grew up with deaf parents
21:36
Speaker 2: and had to sign as their first language, celebrating it
21:39
Speaker 2: as a player that's on the team.
21:41
Speaker 4: That's really really good stuff.
21:42
Speaker 2: I was talking to Wojo and some of the people
21:44
Speaker 2: from the Admirals yesterday, very very excited for the uh
21:47
Speaker 2: the American sign language community that's gonna be able to
21:50
Speaker 2: celebrate some hockey night. And Drew, I've learned a couple
21:53
Speaker 2: of things other than just the one finger salute that
21:56
Speaker 2: I had learned there you go way back in the day,
21:57
Speaker 2: So I'm now do.
21:58
Speaker 1: Things beyond, you know, giving other drivers the bird.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and all of a sudden, I was not happy.
22:04
Speaker 2: That my son picked that one up yesterday, but we're
22:07
Speaker 2: just gonna forget that one. And I told him that
22:08
Speaker 2: you just got to turn that one around, buddy, and
22:10
Speaker 2: then it's a heart. It's a lot bad work and progress. Hey,
22:12
Speaker 2: when we come back, Scott Dolphin's gonna join us. We'll
22:14
Speaker 2: see if Dolph eats the sinker. Because Billy brought in
22:17
Speaker 2: some glazers to celebrate the Brewers opening.
22:19
Speaker 4: David Brewers hit the singer. We got to hit some two. Absolutely,
22:22
Speaker 4: it's the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Twenty Milwaukee ten seventy Madison worldwide on the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 1: in for Arman. Today we welcome Scott Dolphin from the
22:35
Speaker 1: Country station on the Hall. Dolph had a king day
22:38
Speaker 1: yesterday attending the Brewers opening day victory and then watching
22:40
Speaker 1: his beloved Iowa Hawkeyes win in advanced to the Elite eight.
22:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, made it home just in time after it, had
22:45
Speaker 5: a little dinner with the wife and then sat in
22:47
Speaker 5: the couch just perfect. Rite at tip off that they
22:49
Speaker 5: couldn't have been any better, you know, after that out
22:51
Speaker 5: to American Family Field. Probably get out there about ten
22:54
Speaker 5: o'clock yesterday morning. Oh, kilgated with the fellas and it
22:57
Speaker 5: was warm until like right game time. It took a turn.
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Speaker 5: It wasn't bad. The wind was kind of nasty because
23:03
Speaker 5: it was coming right off Lake Michigan. But hey, we've
23:05
Speaker 5: had a lot worse opening days.
23:08
Speaker 1: It was palatable early and then it got worse as
23:11
Speaker 1: it was now afterwards, there was no well we actually did.
23:14
Speaker 4: We stood and had one beer in the rain after
23:16
Speaker 4: the game.
23:16
Speaker 5: But for the most part, did you stay for the
23:18
Speaker 5: uker The trailer didn't know we we both did. During
23:22
Speaker 5: the bottom of the knife or at the top of
23:25
Speaker 5: the knife. So we missed the White Sox home run. So,
23:27
Speaker 5: but we stayed in the parking lot because by then
23:29
Speaker 5: it was so slammed already.
23:30
Speaker 4: Tra Yeah, and then the traffic was brutal. I mean
23:34
Speaker 4: it was. It was ridiculously bad.
23:36
Speaker 1: You know how the TV stations have the storm trackers
23:38
Speaker 1: and they drive around when it's snowing out and they're
23:41
Speaker 1: doing They did that yesterday. They took the cars out
23:43
Speaker 1: just to show us what the traffic was like. Like,
23:45
Speaker 1: I don't know what that's like. I don't I don't
23:46
Speaker 1: deal with it. Every day.
23:48
Speaker 2: We're gonna get Matt Salmi up in the in the
23:50
Speaker 2: chopper to give us the report.
23:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, not just morning traffick.
23:53
Speaker 1: Now we might do uh, we might have to do
23:55
Speaker 1: the Bird in the sky for you know, nighttime. But
23:58
Speaker 1: stayed in traffic.
23:58
Speaker 4: Game. Traffic is going to be bad.
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Speaker 1: It's every day is going to be Like it's a
24:03
Speaker 1: little bit further east when it gets jammed up.
24:05
Speaker 4: But when there's a big day at State Fair and
24:08
Speaker 4: the Brewers.
24:08
Speaker 1: Are playing, that gets choked with people are getting off
24:13
Speaker 1: on eighty fourth Street and then they're trying to get
24:15
Speaker 1: to the ballpark.
24:16
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, and like we've seen with the construction
24:19
Speaker 5: on that stretch of highway anyway, with the viaducts, some
24:21
Speaker 5: of those viaducts being shut down, you're going to see
24:24
Speaker 5: a lot of extra pressure on the Wisconsin Avenue, Blue Mound,
24:28
Speaker 5: Miller Park Way.
24:30
Speaker 4: All the way over to Forest Home. That's that's all.
24:32
Speaker 2: That's my ticket on the way home to try to
24:34
Speaker 2: avoid the construction. And when that thing bottle next right,
24:38
Speaker 2: they're at the top. That's a tough hill to climb
24:41
Speaker 2: to be able to go on forty.
24:42
Speaker 5: Third the freeways were claud yesterday, so we decided to
24:45
Speaker 5: take Canal Street out of there, the backway, you know,
24:47
Speaker 5: towards Palermos and down towards Pottawatami. And that was bumper
24:51
Speaker 5: to bumper every way to the Harley Museum.
24:53
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that that little trick now, and that's the way. Yeah,
24:56
Speaker 1: everybody thinks that's their secret way. Not anymore, no ever has.
25:00
Speaker 2: And now they're just taking even longer for us to
25:03
Speaker 2: go and cash those Brewer run line tickets. That's the
25:05
Speaker 2: frustrating part, right.
25:07
Speaker 1: Uh so, dog those hawks them were you in your
25:09
Speaker 1: seats for the for the anthem and for the first
25:11
Speaker 1: pitches and all that.
25:12
Speaker 4: No, no, we missed that too.
25:14
Speaker 5: Oh god, we're that where that group that gets kicked
25:17
Speaker 5: into the game, although.
25:18
Speaker 4: Yesterday we were in there we did. We didn't miss
25:20
Speaker 4: any Brewers offense. The rain kicks into the game. No, okay,
25:24
Speaker 4: it was not rainy when we went in, but we
25:27
Speaker 4: wes we missed the home run from the White Sox.
25:29
Speaker 4: That's it.
25:29
Speaker 1: The tailgates are supposed to like they start booting you
25:33
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes after first pitch, they start making the rounds,
25:35
Speaker 1: and they's supposed.
25:36
Speaker 4: To be half hour, is the policy.
25:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a half hour after first pitch that
25:40
Speaker 1: you got to shut down your tailgate and get into
25:42
Speaker 1: the ball.
25:42
Speaker 4: We've been as late as like this top of three.
25:44
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I was going to say four. Yeah.
25:47
Speaker 1: Back in the day, it wasn't unusual for people to
25:50
Speaker 1: either fifth, sixth inning.
25:52
Speaker 4: Or not even get in at all.
25:53
Speaker 2: I was going to say, there was a number of
25:54
Speaker 2: times where you'd just punt on it and you'd be
25:56
Speaker 2: driving home by the sixth th inning.
25:57
Speaker 4: Because he never ended up going.
25:59
Speaker 5: There were people there yesterday that were there strictly to
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Speaker 5: tailgate and they stopped by our tailgate, sat hello, and
26:04
Speaker 5: that was it.
26:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, right back to the uber they tried.
26:07
Speaker 1: They tried to do that where they tried to limit
26:10
Speaker 1: people because people would do that too. It was such
26:11
Speaker 1: a party that people didn't have tickets, were going just
26:13
Speaker 1: a party for sure. And then like you said, like, oh,
26:17
Speaker 1: when the game starts and they kick us out of
26:19
Speaker 1: the lot, we'll just go to the bar.
26:20
Speaker 5: Then yeah, well I've done for concerts before when I
26:23
Speaker 5: had other engagements going on, when we had Big Miller
26:26
Speaker 5: show or Miller Park shows or m fam Field shoals
26:29
Speaker 5: over there, I've tried to leave like shortly after the
26:32
Speaker 5: show started. That's difficult, man, because people still got you know,
26:35
Speaker 5: grills all over the place, and there's their tents and stuff.
26:38
Speaker 5: So you really need help from an usher. A ballpark
26:41
Speaker 5: parking intended to get you out of there.
26:43
Speaker 2: One of the tough ones was our family. Our our
26:45
Speaker 2: tradition ended up being during the Friday night ten pack
26:49
Speaker 2: that we had with a couple of my uncles and cousins,
26:52
Speaker 2: was everybody got awful work by about five five thirty,
26:55
Speaker 2: so there was no time to pregame tailgate. The postgame
26:58
Speaker 2: tailgate was the real fun one, right, and you were waiting.
27:01
Speaker 2: Tell every single car was out of there. And that's
27:04
Speaker 2: the one that the bike police have been. They've shut
27:07
Speaker 2: that bad boy down very very quickly.
27:09
Speaker 5: And and we've done that many times on our Friday
27:11
Speaker 5: night package too. And it's usually the fine men and
27:14
Speaker 5: women of the Milwaukee Police Motorcycle Squad that'll you can
27:17
Speaker 5: see them coming.
27:18
Speaker 2: Up here, they come. They got to go, Fellas, gotta go.
27:21
Speaker 2: Let's put that Coleman back into the truck. Because you
27:23
Speaker 2: guys are getting yourself about it. You don't have to
27:25
Speaker 2: go home, but you gotta get the sell.
27:27
Speaker 1: The cops a couple of cops on horseback, and it's
27:30
Speaker 1: amazing how people get so excited. And they were like
27:32
Speaker 1: three of them. Those horses are so huge, man.
27:34
Speaker 5: It's just a marvel to me, massive animals and it
27:37
Speaker 5: was a NonStop photo op, selfie op yesterday.
27:39
Speaker 2: Three of them on snapchat stories of friends of mine,
27:42
Speaker 2: like the horses more popular than the sausages. Yeah, they're
27:45
Speaker 2: they're there every year. I mean they're they're they're every
27:47
Speaker 2: almost every week. Horses or the big glove, like which
27:51
Speaker 2: one is? The true is the biggest photo op.
27:53
Speaker 5: And the Big Glove got a makeover this year. They
27:57
Speaker 5: referbed that area, so there's new activities. And I have
28:00
Speaker 5: never got my picture taken in the Big Glove.
28:03
Speaker 4: Oh and you've never actually gone to Miller American Hambits. Well,
28:06
Speaker 4: luckily you can get there again.
28:07
Speaker 5: I try to stay away from the interactive stuff because
28:09
Speaker 5: I remember, remember you you could be faster than Corey Hart.
28:11
Speaker 5: You remember that thing where you could race Corey like
28:13
Speaker 5: a fake Corey Hart. Yep, I think I pulled a
28:15
Speaker 5: hand me doing that. I said, never again am I
28:17
Speaker 5: going into that area.
28:18
Speaker 4: That's a good call.
28:19
Speaker 2: That was the We made the trip in there last year,
28:21
Speaker 2: and the youngster didn't understand that you run down there
28:24
Speaker 2: and then you're done. So he just ran back and forth,
28:27
Speaker 2: and I'm like, hey man, there's other people that are
28:28
Speaker 2: getting but I'm winning. I beat him twice, I'm about
28:32
Speaker 2: to beat him a third.
28:33
Speaker 4: Incredible.
28:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, watch great the game yesterday itself, I mean, obviously
28:38
Speaker 5: a lot to be happy about, but my god, the
28:40
Speaker 5: White Sox. I mean, I thought I was watching my
28:42
Speaker 5: six year old son in Little League again with the
28:44
Speaker 5: merry go round walk walk with the bases load. I'm like,
28:47
Speaker 5: this is a bad staff or they're having a really
28:49
Speaker 5: bad day. That inning, that bottom of the sixth, I
28:51
Speaker 5: swear to god, took forty minutes.
28:53
Speaker 4: It felt like it. Well, the first two innings took
28:56
Speaker 4: an hour.
28:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was yeah, Yeah, that was three hours
29:00
Speaker 3: and ten minutes of game time, which feels incredibly long
29:04
Speaker 3: these days.
29:04
Speaker 4: Oh it does, that's just it be. Was still conditioned
29:06
Speaker 4: now to the two hour and fifteen minute games. Well,
29:08
Speaker 4: and how many walks did the Brewers get? Ten walk
29:12
Speaker 4: ten times?
29:13
Speaker 1: Had ten walks and the White Sox punched out twenty times?
29:15
Speaker 1: That's deep counts, man, Yeah, that is you know, a
29:18
Speaker 1: lot of foul balls. Twenty punch outs out of twenty
29:21
Speaker 1: seven outs. Are you even trying?
29:22
Speaker 4: Yeah?
29:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and I guess you know they're trying
29:25
Speaker 5: to build it the right way, right, but it's going
29:26
Speaker 5: to take a while. I looked at that lineup, and
29:28
Speaker 5: I don't follow what it's close to, you guys. I
29:30
Speaker 5: looked at that lineup as time. I went, well, I
29:31
Speaker 5: know Andrew benin Tendi, Yeah, and you know, and I
29:35
Speaker 5: knew the you know, the much Harald Harald, the Japanese
29:37
Speaker 5: first baseman that was coming in.
29:38
Speaker 4: He did a inger yesterday.
29:39
Speaker 5: I thought it was cool when Yeli's got on first
29:41
Speaker 5: base he actually bowed Japanese style together.
29:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was pretty cool.
29:47
Speaker 2: Now that he's the dude that blasted like four bombs
29:50
Speaker 2: in the last WBC, if I remember correctly, he was
29:54
Speaker 2: Oh he was ripping taters during that.
29:58
Speaker 4: Because everybody's on the triple crown, I believe wow.
30:01
Speaker 2: And everybody was watching for Otani and they're like, just
30:03
Speaker 2: hold off.
30:04
Speaker 4: Yes, it's like nineteen. He's gonna be good.
30:07
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Yeah, I think he's definitely going to be good.
30:09
Speaker 3: It's this can the rest of the team somehow find it?
30:12
Speaker 3: And I think they'll be a little better than last year.
30:14
Speaker 3: But even if they're a little better than last year,
30:15
Speaker 3: they still could, you know, finish last night the year.
30:18
Speaker 4: I don't know.
30:18
Speaker 2: Pat Murphy said, somebody just the White Sox, that's a
30:21
Speaker 2: good baseball team.
30:21
Speaker 5: Somebody flashed something from into social media yesterday at our tailgate,
30:25
Speaker 5: and you know alert the Colorado Rockies have officially been
30:29
Speaker 5: eliminated from playing.
30:30
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so those jokes right themselves? They do.
30:34
Speaker 2: Now you want to just in that whole vein with
30:37
Speaker 2: the Rockies, man, Dude, I didn't even realize Chris Bryant
30:40
Speaker 2: has played like less than one hundred and sixty two
30:43
Speaker 2: games with that m I mean, from one of the
30:45
Speaker 2: biggest contracts you could sign, and like it's a cautionary
30:48
Speaker 2: tale to you think, all right, all these young players
30:51
Speaker 2: are only going to get better. He was the best
30:53
Speaker 2: player in ball MVP what his second year, and now
30:56
Speaker 2: he can barely even stay on the field.
30:57
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
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Speaker 5: Part of that group that will never have to by
31:00
Speaker 5: another drink in Chicago, right.
31:01
Speaker 2: No podcasts to celebrate it with. Uh, I saw Ross
31:05
Speaker 2: and Rizzo. They got themselves the new podcast to celebrate that.
31:08
Speaker 2: They'll be telling those stories. You forget Chris Brian's even
31:10
Speaker 2: in the league anymore?
31:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said this Springy wakes up every day in
31:14
Speaker 3: pain every day and will be the show.
31:16
Speaker 4: Didn't forgot.
31:17
Speaker 2: I got drafted to the Rockies number one pick, by
31:20
Speaker 2: the way, but setting's pretty low. But as we ripped through,
31:24
Speaker 2: Chris Bryant's on my double A team.
31:26
Speaker 4: All so they got it.
31:28
Speaker 2: They said, hey man, you got eight years on this deal.
31:31
Speaker 2: All right, we're serving this up, but you're gonna get
31:33
Speaker 2: your ass over to the yard Goatskay, You're.
31:36
Speaker 4: Playing in Hartford. Now we're gonna sell some tickets. We're
31:39
Speaker 4: not sending you out to Denver.
31:40
Speaker 2: That was disrespectful, but I'm like, hey, if you can't
31:43
Speaker 2: keep yourself in the major leagues, oh, yard go up
31:45
Speaker 2: and oh I felt bad, but I saw that Chris
31:48
Speaker 2: Bryan pop up and that was gonna be a tough one. Now, Awesome,
31:50
Speaker 2: how many different podcasts are there gonna be with the
31:53
Speaker 2: Iowa Hawkeyes in five years celebrating this Elite eight run,
31:56
Speaker 2: because this.
31:57
Speaker 5: Is generational that the Hawks really right now, it really
32:00
Speaker 5: is that it's been house money. Really since after they
32:02
Speaker 5: beat Clemson, I thought they'd win that game. I certainly
32:04
Speaker 5: didn't think they'd beat Florida Nebraska. You know what, they
32:07
Speaker 5: played two incredibly close games this year, so I figured
32:09
Speaker 5: it was going to be another tight one. But the
32:11
Speaker 5: way the Huskers were shooting the ball last night, what
32:13
Speaker 5: sixty percent from three at one point, and I think
32:15
Speaker 5: God was doing the same thing or that game would
32:17
Speaker 5: have gotten not a hand in the first half. But
32:19
Speaker 5: man McCollum knows how to prepare those guys for the
32:21
Speaker 5: final couple of minutes and he did it again last night.
32:24
Speaker 4: It yeah, I mean, well, it also helps.
32:27
Speaker 2: It does help apparently when you when you do have
32:29
Speaker 2: four on.
32:31
Speaker 4: That's what I was gonna say.
32:32
Speaker 2: But I liked that Nebraska fans weren't even as mad
32:35
Speaker 2: at Hoyburg for that one. They were more mad at
32:37
Speaker 2: CBS because after Pryce Sanford hits the three, they go
32:43
Speaker 2: up three points. I think with like five and a
32:44
Speaker 2: half minutes to go, or six and a half minutes ago.
32:46
Speaker 2: They showed Matt Ruhle in the crowd and then and
32:50
Speaker 2: then Nebraska didn't score for five plus minutes.
32:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do like that. They're immediately blaming the l's
32:55
Speaker 4: on the football team right now, and I always hit
32:58
Speaker 4: a cold spot there.
32:59
Speaker 5: But then they hit the step back three and to
33:04
Speaker 5: take their first lead of the game, and you could
33:06
Speaker 5: just tell Nebraska got instantly tight and we're missing shots
33:09
Speaker 5: badly on the other.
33:10
Speaker 2: End, and you gotta you gotta give give your brother
33:13
Speaker 2: a shout. He was phenomenal.
33:14
Speaker 4: I haven't heard of it. I'm love it.
33:16
Speaker 2: You gotta be on that varsity app It's the absolute
33:19
Speaker 2: biggest weapon for march madness.
33:21
Speaker 4: I'd always tap in on the now.
33:23
Speaker 2: I will say Drew knows this because we do it
33:25
Speaker 2: on Packers on the drive home from packers Ot. A
33:28
Speaker 2: lot of times I tap into the broadcast that I
33:30
Speaker 2: think might lose.
33:31
Speaker 4: Well, it didn't sound like it was going to be
33:33
Speaker 4: successful there at the end.
33:34
Speaker 2: He wasn't frustrated, was he He was not, But he
33:37
Speaker 2: did he did ask. He's like, uh, I don't know,
33:40
Speaker 2: doesn't sound like we're out numbered now, doesn't sound like
33:44
Speaker 2: this place is outnumbered with corn Husker fans now.
33:47
Speaker 4: He was definitely enjoying that, and there was a big
33:49
Speaker 4: sea red there. You know.
33:50
Speaker 5: The last time they went to the final four, Gary's
33:52
Speaker 5: broadcast partner was on the team, Bobby Hansen, who was
33:55
Speaker 5: a freshman at Iowa on that on that final fourteen
33:57
Speaker 5: in nineteen.
33:58
Speaker 4: He went onto a ten year career in the NBA.
33:59
Speaker 5: Got want to bull ring with the bulls, And so
34:02
Speaker 5: that's been a long damn time forty six years since
34:04
Speaker 5: they've been to a Final four.
34:05
Speaker 2: They were celebrating it right out of the gates. You
34:07
Speaker 2: could you could hear the as McCollum grabs that head set,
34:11
Speaker 2: you know, when somebody's really rattling one around before they
34:14
Speaker 2: put it on. Oh, he was wiping the sweat, throwing
34:16
Speaker 2: that bad boy on, smiling from.
34:18
Speaker 5: Is he the only guy that still wears a tie
34:20
Speaker 5: as a coach on the staf everybody wears the tracksuits
34:23
Speaker 5: now or the golf shirts. He still wears the tie.
34:25
Speaker 5: That's the first thing he does. He unloosens that thing
34:27
Speaker 5: and rip rips it off at the end of every game.
34:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, Guardo has been still going with the tile, but
34:32
Speaker 2: he's been loosening it right out of the gates. Maybe
34:34
Speaker 2: we do need to keep that thing tight with a
34:36
Speaker 2: with a full winds or drill before it's over and
34:39
Speaker 2: they up.
34:40
Speaker 5: They did a tie giveaway at Carver Hawkeye because its
34:43
Speaker 5: first fifteen got a free.
34:45
Speaker 4: Tie, a bit of coach McCollum tie.
34:47
Speaker 2: So they're gonna have the tie giveaway and the wig
34:49
Speaker 2: giveaway and the battle for a trip to the Final
34:51
Speaker 2: four with Illinois and Iowa.
34:53
Speaker 4: The wig giveaway I love that.
34:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, who had that on their bengo current Illinois Iowa? No,
34:58
Speaker 1: I mean maybe the Alainai. But they've been a tough
35:00
Speaker 1: team to figure out. You know, you see them look
35:02
Speaker 1: like world beers. I mean, my god, they put the
35:04
Speaker 1: choke hold on Houston last night. But then you see
35:07
Speaker 1: them the Wisconsin game, for example, in Champagne where they
35:11
Speaker 1: just couldn't shake the Badgers, and the Badgers took care
35:13
Speaker 1: of them late.
35:14
Speaker 5: So I don't know. These two teams played once this year.
35:16
Speaker 5: It was in early January. Illinois got up by it
35:18
Speaker 5: at least fifteen or twenty. I almost came back. They
35:22
Speaker 5: think it lost by four or five in that one.
35:24
Speaker 5: So it's I'm expecting a good game.
35:25
Speaker 1: It's gonna have some fun. Well, Dolf, good luck to
35:27
Speaker 1: your hawk eyes.
35:28
Speaker 4: Thanks.
35:28
Speaker 5: Yes, we're gonna have appreciate it. Have a great trip. Yeah,
35:31
Speaker 5: you head them out of town. We're going to West Virginia.
35:34
Speaker 5: I hope I can get service out there, electricity to
35:37
Speaker 5: watch the game, and the ELITEA. I shouldn't kid. It's
35:40
Speaker 5: a beautiful state. But we're gonna hike there for the
35:42
Speaker 5: first time. That's gonna be cool. I will see you
35:44
Speaker 5: at the back end of next week, right, yeah, I'll
35:47
Speaker 5: be back next Thursday.
35:48
Speaker 1: Excellent, beautiful, excellent, thanks fellos. All right, Scott Dolphin from
35:51
Speaker 1: conversation on the whull. We've reached through halftime. We've made
35:53
Speaker 1: our adjustments, eating an uncrustable and an orange, and we'll
35:57
Speaker 1: be back at you. It's the huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
36:05
Speaker 4: Three run bomb for bus.
36:08
Speaker 6: You know, you think about it, Bowers doesn't hit that
36:10
Speaker 6: unless Lockridge, you know, gets down the line. You know
36:12
Speaker 6: a lot of guys hit rollover ground ball are ticked
36:15
Speaker 6: off and jogged the first he decided to say, look,
36:17
Speaker 6: I want to keep this sitting alive. And nobody will
36:20
Speaker 6: credit Lockridge of anything there, but I'm sure Bauer said
36:22
Speaker 6: something to him, you know, because that's the type of
36:24
Speaker 6: ball player you have to be. That's the brand of
36:26
Speaker 6: baseball that gets you that other pitch. It doesn't always
36:29
Speaker 6: lead to victory, but it gets you that other pitch
36:31
Speaker 6: and things change. Maybe you don't have to use a
36:33
Speaker 6: certain reliever in the game just because Lockridge hustled down
36:36
Speaker 6: the line, you know that type of thing.
36:38
Speaker 1: Pat Murphy bringing us back along with Jeff Levering and
36:41
Speaker 1: the Brewers TV call of Jake Bowers's homer and the
36:44
Speaker 1: Brewers fourteen to two opening day victory. Some folks are
36:47
Speaker 1: just waking themselves up. Oh yeah, after Opening Day listening
36:51
Speaker 1: to us on the huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew
36:53
Speaker 1: and Billy and we have Hunter bomb guard in for
36:55
Speaker 1: our armand sary and today one.
36:57
Speaker 2: Of my favorite parts of Opening Day yesterday, guys, was
37:00
Speaker 2: as I got home and grabbed some you tailgate necessities,
37:04
Speaker 2: some some home grilling necessities, and by that some line
37:06
Speaker 2: in Google summer Shandy to be able to fully toast
37:09
Speaker 2: to Opening Day, had had the jersey on the young
37:12
Speaker 2: man before he said see you next time, said, oh,
37:15
Speaker 2: you're going too the game? Oh what am I talking about?
37:16
Speaker 2: It already started. I was like, yeah, they already gave
37:18
Speaker 2: up a home run right out of the first first pitch.
37:21
Speaker 4: Tale as old as time.
37:22
Speaker 2: My man right behind me goes, yeah, you know they're
37:24
Speaker 2: probably gonna lose ten ton nothing anyway. I like, well, listen,
37:28
Speaker 2: not your daddy's Brewers that are coming out here. As
37:32
Speaker 2: MERV said, they're gonna peck away. They're gonna peck away.
37:34
Speaker 2: And luckily, when you put up a four spot in
37:36
Speaker 2: the second and completely flip the script with wild Bill,
37:39
Speaker 2: it turns out to be a much different game against
37:42
Speaker 2: the lowly white Sox.
37:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, your not your daddy's White Sox or Brewers.
37:46
Speaker 1: Brewers again, White Sox twelve hits, ten walks, Brewers on offense,
37:51
Speaker 1: ten walks and three strikeouts.
37:54
Speaker 3: Wow, I didn't realize they only had three strikeouts, not.
37:57
Speaker 1: Very twenty twenty six of them and the sock struck
38:00
Speaker 1: out twenty times. That's quite a different five walks. So again,
38:06
Speaker 1: like those walks and strikeouts, they ad to the time
38:08
Speaker 1: of game. Deep counts.
38:09
Speaker 2: Man, oh big time pitchclock can't help you if you're
38:12
Speaker 2: not throwing strikes.
38:13
Speaker 1: No, And we had how many four challenges? I think
38:15
Speaker 1: a bs, I think so, and those are so quick.
38:18
Speaker 1: I was so confused on the first one though, I
38:20
Speaker 1: didn't know who was challenging what I was like. But
38:23
Speaker 1: it was the first ABS challenge for everybody, and then
38:25
Speaker 1: we got past it.
38:26
Speaker 2: Buddy Kiro was feeling himself back there. He was.
38:28
Speaker 4: He was good.
38:29
Speaker 2: He was good on it. You could tell Ambyer was
38:32
Speaker 2: feeling a little some sort of way. I get it, okay,
38:36
Speaker 2: one miss all right, socks challenge. There was one that
38:40
Speaker 2: I thought Terang might have won if he would have challenged,
38:43
Speaker 2: and he like turned around.
38:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he like thought, question, it looked like he was.
38:47
Speaker 2: About you, and he's like, oh no, in their mind,
38:48
Speaker 2: I don't want to get showed out by Murphy.
38:50
Speaker 3: But I think that was the strikeout looking maybe on
38:53
Speaker 3: the bases loaded it was, Yes.
38:55
Speaker 2: It was. I believe it was with the bases loaded.
38:57
Speaker 2: I think it was a two to zero pitch, Like,
38:58
Speaker 2: so what it was all is it definitely a big
39:01
Speaker 2: pitch in the back and you have.
39:02
Speaker 3: To do it within like the first couple seconds. Yeah,
39:04
Speaker 3: and if you don't and then you're like as soon
39:07
Speaker 3: as you think about it, and then you consider it
39:09
Speaker 3: and then you're like, oh, now I'm too late.
39:10
Speaker 2: Almost felt like Terraang was going through that in his
39:12
Speaker 2: mind and like then just went with the old school.
39:15
Speaker 4: Hey, where'd you have that one? Yeah?
39:17
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I'll I'll let you slide this time.
39:19
Speaker 2: Looks like you're having a rough couple of innings. But
39:21
Speaker 2: you can't just know I'm getting that one back in
39:23
Speaker 2: the theft.
39:23
Speaker 1: We can't let it slide by without pointing out that
39:26
Speaker 1: in his first plate appearance of the twenty twenty six
39:28
Speaker 1: Championship season, Joey Ortiz came to the plate with the
39:32
Speaker 1: bass loaded. Unbelievable because you can't make it up. And
39:36
Speaker 1: I did make that crack in our show with Dennis Crousey.
39:39
Speaker 1: He was saying, like, you know, is Ortiz the guy?
39:42
Speaker 1: Like they have options behind him?
39:44
Speaker 4: And yeah, it.
39:45
Speaker 2: Was amazing that You can't script that any better. You
39:49
Speaker 2: knew that he was gonna have to. And hey, Beard
39:52
Speaker 2: to Joey Ortiz, just might be a problem with the
39:53
Speaker 2: bases loaded, right, don't give this guy thirty one opportunities
39:57
Speaker 2: to drive in runs. And then you know, just called
40:00
Speaker 2: the baseball out the right field, right. That was the hardest.
40:03
Speaker 2: That was the hardest hit ball of the day. Joey
40:05
Speaker 2: rs was definitely the hardest ball.
40:09
Speaker 4: Burned that one.
40:10
Speaker 1: It was a hit in every ballpark. Two hits and
40:12
Speaker 1: two steaks for him. Two hits and two steaks.
40:15
Speaker 4: We'll take him for him. Yeah, we'll take it now.
40:17
Speaker 2: I uh, I want to get back on this, David
40:19
Speaker 2: Hamilton one Drew because you were on it.
40:21
Speaker 4: Man.
40:21
Speaker 2: You call that that that he stole a ton of
40:23
Speaker 2: bags in Wisconsin, all over the place, and it does
40:27
Speaker 2: feel like the Brewers might have found one of their
40:29
Speaker 2: diamonds in the rough.
40:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely it's and they had him once and they
40:33
Speaker 1: brought him back.
40:34
Speaker 4: A great Brewer story. All right, our final hour is
40:37
Speaker 4: coming up.
40:38
Speaker 1: We're gonna listen to Hunter's interview with the directors of
40:40
Speaker 1: the Uker documentary Don't Go Away. Brewers Opening Day victory
40:44
Speaker 1: the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,