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09/29/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armin bringing it to you without Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Dobie Maxwell sitting in today. Comedian to the stars hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with us. DobieMaxwell.com. The fourth man award. Usually the
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  Speaker 1: sixth man award. I listen to you guys, but it's
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: more fun because I know you. But it's still a
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  Speaker 1: great show. I'm not saying that. If I'm up early,
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: and a lot of times I am, I love to
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: dial you in. You're getting your steps in. What's your
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: streak out of 10,000 steps? It is 1,637 days of today.
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  Speaker 1: Seven days a week. But I need some advice on
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  Speaker 1: a technicality. I had some issues. My roommate is not
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  Speaker 1: doing well, and he's in a hospital. I did 9,999.
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  Speaker 1: That definitely counts. That counts. It's literally one step away.
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  Speaker 2: You took one step by accident somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that didn't record. You put your phone down.
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  Speaker 2: You did it. You did it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I've been averaging like 14,000 to 15,000 steps
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  Speaker 1: for the summer. I mean, starting on Memorial Day.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone in the world didn't count that, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially since most days you're at 15 and the
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  Speaker 1: average is up. You took one extra step going to
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  Speaker 1: bed or something.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you put your phone down, and it didn't record.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes that does happen. You know, you walk to the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom or whatever. Yeah, you don't have your phone with you?
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  Speaker 1: But I looked. It was 12.05. I took a little nap. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's 9.99. Well, it's the principle of the idea.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you're like, man, that was my streak.
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  Speaker 2: But no, you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: No, the streak is there.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny, because I saw David Bakhtiari talk. tweet yesterday
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  Speaker 2: that he did a 72-hour fast. I know you've committed
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  Speaker 2: to the walking. Have you ever tried one of those fasts?
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about doing that, too. It's supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: really good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Bakhtiari completed the 72-hour fast, ended up doing 82 hours
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  Speaker 2: because I was done at 9 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: Last night.
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  Speaker 2: Easy to fast while sleeping, so I decided to break
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  Speaker 2: it this morning.
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  Speaker 3: It was a blast. Ask me anything.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't ask him anything yet on Twitter, of course.
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  Speaker 2: So you can imagine the comments.
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  Speaker 1: How much weight did he lose is the question.
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  Speaker 2: That's the main question. It's like, did you lose a
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  Speaker 2: lot in just a three-day period? Is it mostly water?
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  Speaker 2: The fasting is interesting. I don't know that I could
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  Speaker 2: do it. My brother-in-law did it. He said the second
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  Speaker 2: day was hard.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: How about intermittent fasting? Well, that's a different deal totally.
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  Speaker 2: First meal at noon, last meal at 7 p.m., two
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  Speaker 2: meals a day. Popular weight loss tactic for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. Well, so is decapitation. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now that it was MPC.
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  Speaker 1: Decapitation. How many days, how long is your non-soda streak?
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  Speaker 1: Because you gave that.
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  Speaker 3: Up years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Now, here's the thing. It was September 1st of 2019.
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  Speaker 1: So it was seven years, and I went to Costco,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you know what? I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: a Coke, and I did. So I had one. Outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: And that was it. So seven years. How did it taste?
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  Speaker 1: It was delicious.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that I was going to be in
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  Speaker 1: Betty Ford. I told people around it, I did this,
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  Speaker 1: and I was with some friends, and I said, I'll
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  Speaker 1: Try to go another seven years. And no offense, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: moderation is everything, but I don't necessarily trust myself, so
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  Speaker 1: I am not going to go back. Hey, Statman Steve
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  Speaker 1: just hit us up because we've been talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers and the playoff run, which will start Saturday. Playoffs
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  Speaker 1: start today with the quadruple header, Cubs at Padres, the
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  Speaker 1: game that we're focused most on because the winner of
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  Speaker 1: that series is going to face the Brewers on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: at American Family Field. Statman Steve just sent us a
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  Speaker 1: screen grab of what the prices are for a potential
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  Speaker 1: game seven at American Family Field of the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: $ 4, 666. And that's a great deal.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not a good deal. $ 5, 555 for Section 240.
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  Speaker 1: These are the 200 level. And then for Section 126,
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  Speaker 1: Row 26, $ 7, 569. Now, look, this is still Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't care. The market would settle somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what anybody says. The market would still settle,
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  Speaker 2: I think, lower. But you do wonder because, okay, the
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  Speaker 2: NBA Finals was five years ago. And the bucks, I bought,
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  Speaker 2: I bought rafter seats, 500 bucks, right?
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  Speaker 1: I got, I paid 800.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that was for rafters for game six. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a potential clincher.
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  Speaker 2: Game four was five something. So you said worth it.
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  Speaker 2: But like, you do think you're talking about like the
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  Speaker 2: valuation and sports and how inflation happens. What that price
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  Speaker 2: be that much more inflated today. Like you thought back then,
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  Speaker 2: I remember thinking spending 600, 500 for a game. That's
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  Speaker 2: like crazy. But that's like a, probably the cheapest finals ticket. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like I can't imagine what they go for in the
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  Speaker 2: garden for the next one, you know, thousands.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And then you see these prices.
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  Speaker 2: Would you get enough people to spend 7,000 for a
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  Speaker 2: ticket for a Brewers game for even if it's a
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  Speaker 2: world series game seven? I mean, people that never saw it.
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  Speaker 2: I understand the, the thirst for an experience driven economy
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  Speaker 2: experience driven, you know, generation, but.
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  Speaker 1: Man, that's a lot of money. In 82, I could
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  Speaker 1: have gone to World Series for $ 50. They'll go back again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not spending $ 50. And if they go now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to sell a kidney to go. I waited this
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  Speaker 1: many years to go. I kicked myself yearly for not going.
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  Speaker 1: Now your kidney might not be enough. I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: A kidney, could you throw in a lung and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of toes to be named later?
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  Speaker 2: And Dobie's like, don't worry. They'll be back in 83.
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  Speaker 2: Raleigh is going to be healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then Latchman came on, and it was just downhill
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  Speaker 1: from there. And it's bad. Man. But you're right about
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  Speaker 1: the experience. I think you've got to go.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but I know there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: that there's no way you can justify that cost. Even
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  Speaker 2: if you could pay it literally, even if you had
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  Speaker 2: enough money in your bank account to drain the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that goes to the whole thing of like,
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  Speaker 1: would you rather be at that one event or buy
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  Speaker 1: season tickets for a couple of years?
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  Speaker 2: And I know it's a World Series, so it's different
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  Speaker 2: than any other game. It is. But when you're in
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  Speaker 2: your seat, it's still a baseball game. It might not
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  Speaker 2: be the same. It's different, but it's still a game. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Although, being inside Pfizer for Bucs game
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  Speaker 2: six was unforgettable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. That's tough. Yeah, I was glad I
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  Speaker 1: got to spend that with my Sprout. Got to go.
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  Speaker 2: To that game.
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  Speaker 1: Championship in my hometown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really cognizant when the Bucs won their championship. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really cognizant, so didn't, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to know who's still cognizant. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: there are many when the Braves won in 57.
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  Speaker 1: Not many.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my dad was nine.
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  Speaker 1: A few, yeah. Loved it, yeah. Yeah, I remember when
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  Speaker 1: the Braves, when they had the 50th reunion of that
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  Speaker 1: Braves team, I was able to take my dad to
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  Speaker 1: some of the festivities there, and he got to see
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  Speaker 1: some of his heroes there. It was kind of cool. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the 82 team, I didn't go to any of those
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  Speaker 1: games because I was a teenager, early teens, and my
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  Speaker 1: dad was out of town on business that fall.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And so I didn't go to any of those games.
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  Speaker 1: My mom didn't take me to games back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: And I wasn't, like, old enough to go by myself
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  Speaker 1: or with my buddies and stuff. So I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to go. I watched it all on TV in 82.
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  Speaker 1: Lived and died with it on TV. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Watched Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Back in the day. Absolutely. I remember being on
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin Avenue when the parade was there. And I had
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  Speaker 1: a truck. It was a pickup truck with a cap
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  Speaker 1: on the back. And my nephew was three or three
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: and a half years old. And he's a little guy.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy came up. He was a biker. African-American guy,
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: mean-looking dude. You wouldn't even talk to him. And we
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  Speaker 1: passed a three-and-a-half hole, and he was on the guy's
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  Speaker 1: back on the motorcycle. We're high-fiving. He brought the whole
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  Speaker 1: world cultures together. I'll never forget that as long as
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  Speaker 1: I live, how cool that was. We were Brewers fans.
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  Speaker 1: That was all that mattered.
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  Speaker 2: They seem to talk about that parade and you've seen footage.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't obviously alive. Never been something like that for
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  Speaker 2: a team that lost the series.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They talk about how busy it was downtown and how
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: the cars couldn't get through. It just shows you the
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  Speaker 2: genuine love this team, this ball team has in the community.
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  Speaker 2: You'd love to see it again for a winner. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if today's sports culture would show out again
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  Speaker 2: for a loser. I shouldn't say loser because I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that, but a team that lost the series. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Won the pennant, lost the series. But what was, what
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  Speaker 2: was the famous line from Paul Mahler? Did we win
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  Speaker 2: or did we lose? We can't tell today. You guys,
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  Speaker 2: the way the outpouring of support was, it's legendary now.
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  Speaker 2: And you saw it in the documentary and they talked
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  Speaker 2: about it, how awesome that parade was, but man.
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  Speaker 1: And then Young came out of the motorcycle. Oh, oh, chills.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe we'll have another shot at it this year.
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  Speaker 2: This will be our shot.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see. 877-794-1973 to the NicoletLaw.com talking text line.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Brewers, they'll start working out today. Last evening,
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  Speaker 1: a handful of the boys were availing themselves of the
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: WWE event. It was Monday Night Raw at the Fiserv.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? So, yeah, I saw Terang, Miz, and
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  Speaker 1: somebody else, a couple other guys. Any of our smart
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  Speaker 1: and good-looking listeners who attended, I'd like to hear a review.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I saw Taylor Jenkins was there, too. I
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  Speaker 2: could be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I wouldn't doubt it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I saw our old buddy Thunder, I think,
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  Speaker 2: had a tweet about that.
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  Speaker 1: Those are big events.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess Joe Hendry
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  Speaker 1: was making the rounds. We didn't get a WWE guest
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: because we didn't want anybody to have to get up
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  Speaker 1: that early to join us. Only Dobie we asked, right? Oh, thanks. Yeah.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: Wrestling's not the same either. I know I'm old, but
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  Speaker 1: I used to be Now they're just talking. They didn't
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: do the whole storyline. It's a soap opera now, right?
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: It's a soap opera. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Not that it's bad. People do go for the storyline.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. But the matches used to be
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: the storyline. It used to be the actual, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. It's like you always get the joke about, oh,
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: it's fake or it's not. It's fake. But they're still
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  Speaker 2: doing impressive athletic movements.
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  Speaker 1: It's not fake. It's predetermined. It's predetermined. But it's like choreographed.
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  Speaker 1: Very athletic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Very athletic, yeah. Uh, that's the way I'm too. It's entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: I maintain that it's not sports though. It's athletic kind
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  Speaker 1: of the way, um, I look at WWE and this
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: is a, this is a Dan needles reach. I might
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  Speaker 1: pull a, my, my shoulder out of the socket, like cheerleading.
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  Speaker 1: It's athletic. Is it a sport? Like they have competitions
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: and they like have judges and The stuff that's judged,
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  Speaker 1: and Armin, you're our Olympics guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, gymnastics, skating.
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  Speaker 1: Gymnastics and diving and the stuff that's aesthetically judged. It's athletic. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a competition. But when it comes to like cheerleading, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess they compete, but it's, it was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: invented as a sideline thing to actually lead cheers and
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  Speaker 1: crowd engagement and stuff. And now it's evolved into tumbling
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  Speaker 1: and aerial and it's amazing what they do. It's evolved
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  Speaker 1: into a sport of its own, but it's also like,
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  Speaker 1: are we keeping track? Like when you cheer, nobody's keeping
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  Speaker 1: track when you cheer.
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  Speaker 2: At a game.
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  Speaker 1: Right. On the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: There's no score or anything like that. And we turned
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  Speaker 1: it into a sport in the aerial stuff. And again,
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  Speaker 1: the athleticism is incredible. The gymnast, the tumbling, the skills
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  Speaker 1: and guys and girls that do it. Tip of the cap.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be athletic to do it. But is
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  Speaker 1: it a sport I would watch? No. Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, but that's true. I mean, some people even say
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: that about golf. that it's a game, not a sport.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that, but yeah, bowling.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: Bowling is not a sport.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, they're playing pink table tennis. They're
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  Speaker 2: playing table tennis at the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's also a sport. The lines can get blurred.
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  Speaker 1: If you keep score, it's a sport, but like with
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  Speaker 1: the wrestling, the pro wrestling.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not that simple. You know, we keep scoring.
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  Speaker 2: She said we keep scoring.
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  Speaker 1: My bad part is I bet on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, right. Exactly. Can you bet on it?
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: And you can bet.
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  Speaker 1: You can bet on anything. You can bet on it.
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  Speaker 1: You can bet on which plane's going to land first.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: And Armin's Mr. Flight Aware over there, so he's checking
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: out all the flights. At the Diplomats Club. One of
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  Speaker 1: the great episodes ever. It can be one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Bykowski is a true athletic movement in wrestling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there definitely is. But they were out and about last night,
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: those guys.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I was at the paper and it was the old
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Journal went Back then newspapers had space, but you
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  Speaker 1: made the editorial decisions. Like there were some days when
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: space was tight and we didn't run all of the,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: the golf stand. And people would call and complain because
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: they wanted to see like who didn't make the cut. Like,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: and my first job in the business was the agate page.
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  Speaker 1: It was basically score taker. And you were in charge
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  Speaker 1: of the scoreboard page, which was a page that they
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: had with the box scores and all that. You had
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: to put that together and you'd run the local bowling
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: scores and Golf honor scores or a hole-in-one. If someone
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: had a hole-in-one, they would get like two lines in the,
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: you know. Dobie Maxwell had a hole-in-one at Curry Park
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  Speaker 1: on hole number seven. He used a three-iron. Get in
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  Speaker 1: the paper and then someone's framing it in their basement. Yeah,
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: you get in the paper and it was the little
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  Speaker 1: tiny type. And so I was in charge of that.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to make the editorial decision. So I
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  Speaker 1: would go up and it would be like, all right,
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: so what are you going to cut? You're a little
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  Speaker 1: long here. And it's like, well, let's cut the bottom
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  Speaker 1: half of the John Deere classic. And then invariably someone
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  Speaker 1: would call because they had a relative and they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see how he did. And the score is cut off.
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  Speaker 1: After the guy says, shot 78 or something, we cut
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  Speaker 1: it off. And they'd complain. Well, at a certain point,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: the decision was made editorially that they were going to
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  Speaker 1: stop running the wrestling results, like stop running stories on
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  Speaker 1: the wrestling events.
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  Speaker 2: Because they didn't consider it to be a sport.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Because they didn't consider it to be a sport.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: People get upset about that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Then people were mad. It's like, well, it's not a sport.
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  Speaker 1: The outcome is predetermined. And you would tell people that
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  Speaker 1: and be.
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Clue, phone, line. Dobie was a wrestling promoter for a while. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and a ring announcer. And it's funny. My buddy's talking
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  Speaker 1: about it. He said, okay, now, ten times you get slammed,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: eight of them go really well. He goes, in the ring,
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  Speaker 1: I can tell because the heels hit first and then
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  Speaker 1: the back.
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  Speaker 3: Ba-boom.
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  Speaker 1: You hear that. But if I hear one thud, I
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  Speaker 1: know that I missed. So I've got to mug the
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: crowd and let the guy have some time to recover.
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  Speaker 1: And all those two bad ones over the years, that's
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  Speaker 1: why those guys can't walk at 40. Wow. It just
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  Speaker 1: adds up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like any other contact sport. But like in
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: some repeated blows to the head with football and stuff
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Pretty interesting. But even as a kid, I'd think, you know,
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: boxers fight three times a year. Wrestlers wrestle seven nights
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: a week. That's not unusual to you. I mean, you're
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: working all the time.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: And the local circuits are actually, you know, the backyard-y
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: type stuff and the local shows and the stuff that
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: goes on. You used to put it on, the Waukesha
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Expo Center. Waukesha Expo, yeah. Yeah. There's something about that,
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: the organic part of it. And then there's the major leagues,
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: and then sometimes you go see the Milkmen and have
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: a good evening of entertainment. You can have fun and entertainment, too. Yeah.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Or the Lake Country Dockhounds. Not the same as the
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: major leagues, but it's still. It's funny to me, though.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: As a promoter, the guys would call me up and say, hey, Dobie,
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: it's the mauler. No, you're Jerry. I'm not calling you
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: the mauler. You're Jerry.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: That's the in character on the phone with me.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Everybody wants to be the maestro. Can I take the
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: title belt to work? I want to show my friends.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: You didn't call me Mahler. No.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's because you're just the guy from West Allis
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: at George Webb with me.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: We're eating breakfast here.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: All right, so will some of our wrestling Denzians weigh in?
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: None of us watched the event. Dobie didn't know it
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: was on.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I knew that the Brewers were there, and I knew
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: it was at Five Servant. Always draws a big crowd.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: It always does.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, those things always draw crowds.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Not cheap either. Big ticket prices. Yeah. One of the
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: wrestlers was run over by a car. As a bit?
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: On the way to work. It was run over by
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: a car. No, it was in the.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Bowels.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: It was in the show. That was last night. Who
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: was driving the car? The highlight. Vince McMahon.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Ms.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Parker was driving.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: I thought maybe it was a local celebrity involved.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did a stunt and it was in the
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: bowels of the... Fiserv. Fiserv, yeah.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: It's kind of funny.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: That's the highlight of the show. Like, that happened outside
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: the purview of the audience. Because when I heard, someone
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: at the W.E. thing was hit by a car last night.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what, they drove a car into the ring? Like, well,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: how did that happen?
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Right, right, right.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: No, it was in the... Did you get the license number?
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Where the trucks are and stuff. So, but anybody who
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: watched the show or attended it, I'd love to hear
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: from you. I mean, and I know... I've heard from
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: people who say going to one of those raw events
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: or going to a SummerSlam or something like that, it's
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: like the Indy 500. You've got to go. Kentucky Derby.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: You've got to check the box. You've got to see
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the spectacle of it, even if you're not into it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Even if you hate auto racing, you can go to
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: the Indy 500 and you'll see and appreciate how cool
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I'll say like that.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's the case.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Billy likes it. It's never been my thing, but I
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: did go once at the Bradley Center when it was
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: the Fast Lane event. Like Steve, one of these guys.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: It wasn't Steve Austin, but it was 2017. Obviously, we
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: got tickets from the station here, and I went with Thunder.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: It was pretty funny to observe. But I thought the
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: crowd was more fun to people watch than the actual
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: wrestling in some ways. I'm watching people, and it's the
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: best people watching. I'll admit that.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: They're buying it, too. Buying it. The signs are funny.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: The way people get into it, it's like, wow, okay.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I do like the... The lingo and the way it permeates,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: they'll be like, what's a jabroni, what's a jobber? A
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: jobber is a guy that gets paid to lose. Now
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: they call it enhancement talent. But he used to be
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: called a jobber. You do the job and a jabroni,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: it's an inside. Yeah, you're the Washington Generals, right? Yeah,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and that's a very good analogy. The buck rock and
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: roll Zumhoff. From our day. Yeah, who's in prison now
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: for life. I heard that. That did a bad thing.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Or George Scrap Iron Gadaski. Scrap Iron Gadaski, all the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Kenny Sodbuster J. Yeah, those are the jobbers.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: All the jobbers and all the different lingo is interesting.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I used to like the jobbers. I used to root
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: for them, and they never won like the Washington Generals.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I used to root for Bob Coluccio, too. Oh, yeah.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Well, the Generals, for a while, the Generals, I don't
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: think they still are, were coached by Sam Worth and
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: the former Marquette great. Really?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. That's the best job ever. You have
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: zero expectation to win. Oh, man. They don't fire the guy.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: The guy's 0-748. It was a traveling road show.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: The thing I noticed, I'll say this, when I was
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: at the live wrestling event, the thing I noticed as
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: a big production was it's almost like being at a
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: three-act play. The people are shuffling around, changing the mat,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: doing everything, changing the props. It's pretty interesting to watch.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: It's definitely an impressive operation.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Poor man's opera.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: It's good versus evil is the story that goes with it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And when it's going well, there's nothing like it. I mean,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the crowd's into it. It's fun.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Very into it. The electricity for the final match, when
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: the crowd started rising, I was like, wow, this is
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: the show.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: When I was promoting it, we did a show in Palmyra, Wisconsin,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Palmyra High School, and we didn't have a manager. The
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: manager guy didn't show up. So I was the ring announcer.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: So it's like, okay, we'll get another ring announcer. You
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have to be the manager today. So backstage, there was
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a wheelchair. So I got in a wheelchair, and I
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: put a blanket, covered my legs, and my guy was
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the Texas hangman. Why do you call himself the Texas Hangman?
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Because the Wisconsin Hangman doesn't sound nearly as mean. He
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: wheels me out. I get on the mic at Palmyra
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: High School, and I said, I would like to thank
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: all the nice people in Palmyra for having me here.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: A man in my condition can participate in professional sports. So,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: of course, the referee's got his back turned. I get
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: out of the wheelchair, stomp on the good guy, get
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: back in the wheelchair, put the blanket back over my...
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I had to have the Palmyra police escort me out
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: of the high school because the people hated me so much.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: That's so funny. Oh, my goodness. That's a true story.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: True story. And it's one of the highlights of my
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: life because I'm thinking... I like to think I'm a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: pretty nice guy. And they just vicious hate and... spitting
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and throwing beer, and always the bad guys in the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: ring are always the nicest guys outside.
• 19:12
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• 19:13
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• 19:15
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• 19:17
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• 19:20
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• 19:54
  Speaker 1: get ready to work out. They're going to do some
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: simulated games and stuff. They've got to stay sharp during
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: this little interim. It's like another all-star break. And the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Brewers have got to be ready to rock and roll
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: come Saturday. Who will they play? We'll find out. The
• 20:07
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• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Wilson, Dobie Maxwell
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: in for Billy. Armin Sarian kicking it on a Tuesday
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: in the good land. Happy to welcome to our party
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart, our baseball go-to guy. Hunter, are you ready?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Do you have the requisite snacks and everything to get
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you through the four playoff games today?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: You know, the bye affords us to kind of prepare
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: in our own right for the Brewers playoffs while also
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: just enjoying some stress-free baseball, which is nice this week.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: And we can enjoy these quadruple headers the next couple
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: of days, and then we'll see what happens on Thursday.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm excited.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Look, there's nothing like the playoffs in baseball, and it
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: all starts today. And even though you can argue about
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: different things about how it's set up as far as
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: the playoff bracket goes in baseball, these three days are
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: a lot of fun every year to see, you know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: who can, who can best the other team in three days.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: That's a great point. I mean, October's, you know, not
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: technically here, but it is now in terms of baseball.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: And it's funny.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: You mentioned the, the, the enjoying the break. Cause I
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: think fans take these games. Maybe it was a lot
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: more of an emotional burden than maybe years past generations past.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: So we do see it that way. Sort of as
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: a little respite, a break when the brewers had this,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: off time now how the players are going to handle
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a five-day break because since the all-star break they haven't
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: had one this long right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: No it's true and i think pat murphy and the
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: whole organization learned from last year and i think to
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: a lot of degree to a great degree it worked
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: last year right they came out and won the first
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: two games against the cubs they scored what was it
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: six runs in the first inning against the cubs and
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: and pat murphy said over the weekend like it seemed
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: like it worked last year because we came out firing
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: on all cylinders. I think the biggest thing that he
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: stressed to us that he wants to do this week
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: is make sure these guys are not just going through drills,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: going through the motions, but practicing with intent and having
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: intent with whatever they do and keeping that intensity up,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: whatever it happens to be. I don't know many details
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: about what they're going to do, but obviously they're going
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: to work on all the little things, the pitcher covering
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: first and all the different stuff.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: They're going to take ground balls, BP, all that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: And then they'll have some live sessions throughout the week
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: as well and make sure their pitchers are, are continuing
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: to throw and be in rhythm. You know, Ms said
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: to us after his start on Sunday, like this week,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: is it going to be very different for me? I'm
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: just going to go about my four, you know, five
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: days of rest and be ready to go on Saturday.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: So for some, for the pitchers, it's going.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: To be mostly the same, especially those who pitched in
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: this last weekend, but otherwise, yeah, it's just keeping up
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: that intensity and also paying attention to the Padres and Cubs.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure the, the organization as a whole is
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: going to be scouting and doing their thing to try
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: to get ready for that series.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Padres Cubs Brewers face the winner rematch from last year
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: in last year's series, the six starting pitchers combined to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: throw 19 innings in the series.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: In three games, not a lot. So in, in a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: three game series, you win game one, obviously you're in
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the driver's seat and that I like whoever wins game one,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: but I was looking at sports illustrated, um, preview and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the experts are going with the Padres. And the theory
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: is because their home field advantage is so pronounced, they
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: may have won this series in the last couple of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: weeks when they vaulted to the top of the wildcard
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: standings to be able to play this at home.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Totally. I, I, I think the Padres are, are, I
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: would be honestly, I think at this point I'd be
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: surprised if the Padres don't win this series. They're a
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: really hot team. I think the Cubs are, they're a
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: hot team.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: They're at home.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: The Cubs are just, they're vulnerable in too many spots.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: They have guys who can hit home runs, yes, on
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: the offensive side. They have PCA, but that bullpen is just,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: it's hard to go on a run with a bullpen
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: like that. Now, if they win a three-game series, can
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: they then win a five-game series with that bullpen? And
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: they don't really have that dominant starter either. The Padres
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: obviously have the bullpen. They have the guys in the
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: back end. They've had some starters that have been well,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: and then they have the offense to go along with it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: And like you said, the home field advantage is so
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: pronounced for the San Diego Padres. At this point, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: would be surprised if they don't. Now, I think the
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: better matchup probably for the Brewers is the Cubs, right?
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: They went nine and four against the Cubs this year.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: They went two and four against the Padres and got
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: swept in San Diego. So I think the better matchup
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: probably for the Brewers is the Cubs. Now, would a
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: loss to the Cubs hurt more than a loss to
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: the Padres?
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Probably.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: So you can kind of pick your poison there. But
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: I do think the Padres are in prime position to win.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: A first-round loss is going to sting to the point
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: where a lot of people say it would negate the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: 103-win season, which I disagree with, but whatever. That's the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: soup we're in. But one thing about the atmosphere, though,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the Brewers got a little rattled going to Chicago last year, right?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: And they, you know, that was.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: That was pronounced. And the Cubs fans come to Milwaukee.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Padres fans aren't going to travel to Milwaukee. I'm sorry.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Not with 20,000 people. It's not going to be half
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and half. It might be 200.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: But in their own right, the Padres also have a
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: very tough home field. They do. Yeah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: They do. And the Brewers experience that.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: But the fans themselves, right, the environment wouldn't be the same.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Well, and that's why I'm fascinated to see what they
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: do in game three for a pitcher, because do you
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: go with a younger guy in Robert Gasser who has
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: pitched better than, than Dustin may as of late, but
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: doesn't have as much experience as Dustin may has, or
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: do you have a Dustin may start that game three
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: because of his experience? It probably depends on the lineup
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: you're facing and maybe the matchups and maybe you go
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: a couple of guys, obviously for a couple of innings
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: here and there, but not that I think Robert Gasser
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: is going to get flustered, but we just, we, I
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: don't know if he could have predicted Quinn Priester to
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: get flustered last night or last year in Wrigley field.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: So I think you also have to pay attention to that,
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: and I think experience can go a long way. I
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: think that's one of the reasons you've got Dustin May
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: at the trade deadline, regardless of how he's pitched in
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: the last month, and it doesn't give you a ton
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: of confidence going into the postseason, how he has pitched
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: in the last month. So I don't know if he'll
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: necessarily be a six-inning guy in the postseason, but he'll
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: fit in somewhere, whether it's out of the bullpen or
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: as a starter, I would think. But yeah, so that
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: I think is where that comes in, is who do
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: you start game three because of what you saw last
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: year Now there's you know, some people may be saying, Oh, what?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Hey, Henderson's done really well.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: And no matter what environment the guy's in, whether it's
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Wrigley Dodger stadium, whatever, do you wait and pitch him
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: a game three?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: You want a two Oh lead. You put your best
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: two pitchers forward in games one and two, get your
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: two Oh lead hopefully with those guys and then take
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: your chances on the road. I think a two Oh
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: lead is more important than trying to see who's going
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: to stay calm in a game three. So, But that will, Wrigley, Petco,
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: wherever they go, it is going to be a raucous atmosphere.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: And you're right, though. The home field, I think, will
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: be even more of a home field if you play
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: San Diego. So that's a possible reason for Brewers fans
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: to cheer for San Diego here.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Any other, you got any other inklings? Like, I'm looking
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: at these projections, and Tom Vernucci, whose opinion I really
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: value as a baseball scribe and a TV guy, Asked
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to pick his World Series combatants in the World Series result.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Hang on to your wig, Granny.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: He's got Brewers beating the Yankees in seven games. How
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: great would that be? Oh, my gosh. I just... 1957 revisited.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: 1957 revisited.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: 1981, Tom.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Remember, they played.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: In the playoffs, not the World Series, but they played
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Brewers didn't win that one. No, no. 57 and 58,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: but Brewers beating the Yankees in the World Series. There's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a general thread that whoever wins the Yankees-Red Sox series
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: is going to win the American League pennant. Easily could happen. Could,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: or they could get boat raced by somebody else. It's
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a sexy notion, too, right?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Because it's Yankees-Red Sox.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Tampa's a good team.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: They are, but good teams don't always win, as we
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: saw last year.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Of course, but they're not going to be pushed around.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Imagine the Brewers, as the manager in Chicago said as
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: they were toasting with champagne, it's hard. It's supposed to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: be hard. Imagine the Brewers. vanquishing the Dodgers and the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: LCS and then beating the Yankees in the series. And
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: then we go into a winter where the owners say,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: small market teams can't compete. We need a salary cap.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: All righty then. Go ahead and make that case when
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the Brewers are, you know. I would think the small
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: market teams would cheer for the Brewers to pull it off. Well,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: maybe not. A lot of people think that they're That's
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: why Detroit didn't trade Scooble to Milwaukee, because they wanted
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the cap.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: The players want the Brewers to win, in theory, right?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Because they don't make it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: It hurts the theory.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it hurts the case. But that would be just spectacular, though.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: And for the Brewers, if you're going to win the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: World Series, do it against the Yankees. That would be unbelievable.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I can't even wrap my brain around it. I'm getting
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: my middle fingers ready now. It's hard enough to imagine,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: for me, the Brewers winning a World Series. Because, again,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: if you grow up in Europe... they'll be in my
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: vintage that's like saying yeah i'm gonna take the space
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: shuttle to mars and have lunch with santa claus but
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: let me tell.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: You something and i'm gonna say this comparing it to
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: like in 96 when the packers won they didn't beat
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the cowboys everybody's thing was like we're gonna vanquish the cowboys.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: At lambeau and then when and we didn't get.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: The cowboys let me tell you something it feels just
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: as good okay it does so it doesn't matter who
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: you beat but it would be, but this way, a
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: lot of times now in the sports fan landscape with the,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: with the way we do our narratives and things, we
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: talk a lot about earned championships versus Mickey mouse rings
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: and all that. That would be definitely one of the
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: great earned championships. If you had to go through whatever
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: the brewers will face in the first round, two really
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: good teams, Padres and Cubbs, then Dodgers, then Yankees. You
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: talk about like vanquishing all these great teams. People talk
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: a lot about Dirk Nowitzki's run with the Mavericks and
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: how he beat, you know, the big three heat. He
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: had to beat really great teams in the West. That
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: would definitely be one. They would talk about as like, okay,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: a very earned ring, right?
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to, I think probably the preferred,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: if you're going to go fan, the fan side of
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: it is yeah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Beat the Cubs, beat the Dodgers, beat the Yankees.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: That, that would probably be the top.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I tell you though, with this team, you know, people,
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: I see the biggest, the most common question, the most
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: common discussion point right now is what makes this year different?
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Why is the vibe different? And, and, Oh, this year
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: just feels different. Okay. To me. And last year was
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: more of a feeling thing. They're good for sure.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: They got the best record in baseball, but they also
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: like went on these long winning streaks and the Euchre magic.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: And there was something little magic in the air last year,
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: this team, I, it doesn't, the, the vibe isn't what
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I'm paying attention to. This team is a really, really, really, really.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Good baseball team.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: At the end of the day to win 103 games,
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: you have to be a really good baseball top to
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: bottom baseball team, top to bottom. Your lineup has to
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: be good. Your bullpen has to be good. Your starters
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: have to be good. consistently throughout 162 game season. That's
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: what the Brewers have. So it's not just like, oh,
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: you know, we're just going to believe in them because
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: it's fun and because it's a magic carpet ride. No,
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: this is a really good baseball team. The best out
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: of 162 game season. Their lineup has only two guys.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Their regular lineup has two guys under 260 batting average.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Their starters have shown it all season long. I think
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: their bullpen is in a better shape than maybe it
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: was last year or years past. Maybe since you had
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: the whole hater, Knable, Jeff, you know, maybe that bullpen.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I think this bullpen is just top to bottom, really solid.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Whoever you throw out there and Pat Murphy's a hundred
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: games over 500 in the regular season. And as all
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: he's done is win since being the manager and Matt
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Arnold's done what he's done, obviously as the front office guy.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: So I, I think top to bottom, that's what makes
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: me believe in this team that they can go and
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: do what Tom Verducci does.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: That's a great point. Hunter, the greatness of this team
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: is not that there are any magical storylines or movie
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: storylines or destiny or, or, George Webb streaks, it's consistent,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: dominant performance. Yeah, that's a great point.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: They would be the first team to win the World
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Series with less than 199 homers since the Royals in 2015,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the last small market team.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: But that's a good comparable.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: It is, because both of those teams had lights-out bullpens.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And I think the Brewers' bullpen is their strength And
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it's just a, maybe it's just
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: regional bias because of us. Maybe it's a, you know, no,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I get it. I get it countrywide, but, but yeah, you,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you travel. But the thing to me is looking at
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the slate and we're going to get the delicious buffet today.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: The best series in this first round is Padres Cubs
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to me. I know a brave Phillies are in the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: division stuff, but the Phillies are kind of dinged up
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and they've sputtered down the stretch. Braves. I mean, Padres
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Cubs is to me the most, because you got the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: MVP and, Crow Armstrong. The Cubs have an incredible defense.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: They have a shaky bullpen. The Padres are the hottest team.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Like to me, that's the best series. Like if I'm looking,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: you know, series by series, if I could only watch one,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: that's the one I would watch regardless of the fact
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: that the winner is going to play in Milwaukee Saturday.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Good point. Your logic is not flawed, as you say. Well,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yankees-Red Sox are always going to get the juice, right? Nationally.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But in terms of the ball, I prefer to see
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: what the storylines come out of San Diego and Chicago.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Two fantastic teams this year. Division winners in the AL, obviously.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: They would have both won their divisions.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Be nice to beat the Braves, though. Go way back.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: A little revenge there. Even of recent vintage, the Braves
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: won a series against the Brewers.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Nice to beat anybody, actually.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I'll be the milkman. Yeah, but you're right.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: There's a great story with any one of those teams.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: All right. Hunter, in your brain, who are the starters
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: that the Brewers will roll out? And will there be
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: any surprising omissions from the playoff roster when we get
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: that later this week?
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: I think the two questions in the playoff roster are,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: did Kyle Harrison do enough at the end of the
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: year to get a spot? I think it was probably
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: too little too late. Um, but I, I think that's
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: the question. Who gets that last bullpen spot basically, right? It's,
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: is it Bryce Wilson? Is it a Garrett Stallings? Do
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: you bring him back? Is it a Kyle Harrison? Um,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: I think that's kind of the fight for that last spot.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: And then what do they do on the position player side?
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Do you keep three catchers and go with Bo Naylor?
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: So you can have flexibility with Gary Sanchez to pitch
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: hit him whenever you want and still have a catcher
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: to back up Contreras. Or do you bring on a
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: guy like a Lockridge? But I think they kind of
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: have that Lockridge guy. on in the infield side of
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: david hamilton and i think that's kind of your speedster
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: off the bench as long as joey ortiz is healthy
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: of course and he we talked to him on sunday
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: he he was like oh i'm gonna be great i
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: there's no problem and he is so confident that he's
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: gonna be fine pat murphy said he takes after the
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: sal freelix school of healing so he's just like you
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: know you're gonna play through anything and at this point
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: of the year you know there everybody's a little banked
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: up but Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: So I think those are the two questions there. And
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: then I think you got Ms. Henderson games one and two.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: And then I think it's just interesting because, you know,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: I was pretty confident that they were going to go
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Dustin May in game three, but then after this last outing,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: it sounded like Murph and they were maybe a little
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: less confident than they have been just, just kind of
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: reading between the lines a little bit. Maybe we'll get
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: a little more insight as the week goes on and
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: the weekend goes on, but that's probably the toss up
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: in game three. But I think that game three is
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: more so okay, how did games one and two go?
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Did you get enough out of your starters? Who's available
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: out of the bullpen?
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Could you see an Ashby start?
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't put that out of the question. We saw
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: McGill start game five last year. All these different things
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: happen in the playoffs, so don't be surprised if maybe
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: one of those things happen.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: You go May with Ashby behind him at the first
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: sign of trouble. Or does Gasser get the ball if
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: you're up two? There's some interesting options there. Tragedy.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, for sure. All right, so you'll be covering a
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: workout today, Hunter?
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, covering the workout.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: We'll get some interviews to play tomorrow morning on The
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Huddle as I'll be joining you guys tomorrow for the
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: full three hours.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Looking forward to that.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Hunter.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: You, me, and Dobie against the world.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Armin takes a day.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome. All right, Hunter, thanks for
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: joining us. Thanks for getting up. We'll see you tomorrow.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the workout today.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: You bet. Thanks, guys.
• 36:30
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• 36:59
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• 37:34
  Speaker 1: What a classic. So the baseball buffet today, again, is bountiful.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: We've got the quadruple header, which I used to argue
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: with Mike Heller about. He thought it was a travesty
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: that they played all these games on the same table.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: day and during the day. How do you split it up?
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: People work. Exactly. The NCAA tournament operates this way too.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Phillies Braves get us started. One o'clock start. Then we
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: roll into White Sox Astros. I like the Astros in that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: That's interesting because that's like the one everyone's like, oh.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I like the Braves to beat the Phillies because the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Phillies have been sputtering and Chris Sale is like the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: perfect guy to shut down the Braves. If you win
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: game one at home, you're probably going to win the series.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Red Sox Yankees. Well, you got the Schlitter thing, that
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: dude is pretty good. Tonight, that's a 7 o'clock first pitch.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: And then Cubs Padres, 9 o'clock on Peacock.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Peacock.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Cubs fans can start your bitching about that. It's a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: 9 o'clock start central. I won't be up at the
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: end of that game. I might make it to the
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: first pitch, maybe. But then I'll see what happens.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Is this old time thinking on my part? Because my
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: first thought is, wow, they got the marquee game.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: They're on at night. They're the latest.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: But nine is so late and Peacock is streaming only.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Is that kind of shoved aside? Like, what is the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: marquee slot now these days?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Good question. I don't know.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: It's not network and it's not. Really, primetime, it's later
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: than primetime in some ways.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Well, Red Sox-Yankees at 7 o'clock on NBC. That's the one.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: That's the big one, yeah.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: And you would think the two best teams are Cubs
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: and Padres. But, you know, who knows? Phillies-Braves could be, too,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: in some ways. That's a daytime game. People are at work.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: They're going to be aware of it. So, in a way,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Cubs game is pushed aside.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: If you like the number one seeds, you're cheering for
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Brewers Rays. Okay. That would be sure.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Brewers, anybody. Yeah, exactly. I mean, neither team has won
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a champ. Brewers and Padres. Padres, they came into existence
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the same year, right? Padres and Mariners came in. I mean,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Padres and Pilots. Padres and Pilots, I think both entered
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: in 69. And neither team has won a World Series.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: No, Padres went to a couple, right?
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Well, look at 84. It was Cubs-Padres, and Cubs were
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: overwhelming favorites. 84, and then they lost to the Yankees
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: in 99-ish. Guardians-Padres. The Guardians have had many years of
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: stumbling in the woods. They haven't won one yet. If
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: you're a Chicago fan, are you cheering for White Sox-Cubs
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: World Series? That would be fun. I don't know that
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: you're cheering for... Yeah, that'd be fun.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, everyone would think that a Subway series would be.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: There'll be murders and fights. Like, I don't want it
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: to happen.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Red Sox Braves, the chalkiest of chalk would be Yankees-Dodgers
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: in the World Series. Yeah, that's what the league wants, probably.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: The teams that moonwalked their way in and stumbled and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: hacked their way in would be Astros-Phillies.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: That's the boring one.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: That's where the teams that barely made it in would
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: rise up and win. It all starts today. The fun begins.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Brewers are just sitting at home, chilling, getting ready to
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: go at it on Saturday. We'll do it again tomorrow. Armin,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: enjoy your day off. Hunter will be in. Dobie will
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll see you at 5 a.m. in
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the huddle.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Peace.