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03/24/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Russell.
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Speaker 2: Former Packers president Bob Harlan was laid to rest on Monday,
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Speaker 2: a Catholic mass funeral followed by a public remembrance at
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Speaker 2: Lambville Field. Among those in attendance Hall of Fame General
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Speaker 2: manager Ron Wolf, who were called his first ever meeting
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Speaker 2: with his future boss way back in nineteen eighty seven.
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Speaker 3: You pick me up at the airport. I was delayed.
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Speaker 3: I land around midnight and I'm thinking, Holy smokes, I
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Speaker 3: don't know where I am. I don't know anything at
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Speaker 3: all about this place. No one's gonna meet me, No
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Speaker 3: one's gonna be There was Bob Harlan, and we went
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Speaker 3: to Denny's and we talked for two and a half.
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Speaker 1: We went to Denny's.
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Speaker 3: Denny's. Yeah, this is my introduction now to Green Bay,
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bay fine dining.
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Speaker 2: It didn't work out then, but the groundwork was laid
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Speaker 2: for his hiring four years later. Just Bob Harlan and
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Speaker 2: Ron Wolf at the Denny's on Oneida. Last night, the
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Speaker 2: Bucks lose to the Clippers one twenty nine to ninety six.
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Speaker 2: The play at Portland tomorrow night the huddle starts.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I'm Doug Russell on Fox Wort's Radio, Wisconsin.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 1: I'm all for some one huddling if you have something
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Speaker 1: to say.
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Speaker 4: Right in two same time to wake up and talk
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Speaker 4: about the teams you love, no matter know it with
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Speaker 4: the guys you love.
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Speaker 1: It's just about hitting the group together. I need you,
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Speaker 1: you need me. Today, let's keep touching each other. Let's
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Speaker 1: make sure we feel each other. Let's make sure we
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Speaker 1: smell each other for.
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Speaker 4: A watch us on YouTube, Facebook and act.
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Speaker 3: You need fifteen or twenty high holes to correlate with
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Speaker 3: a number of cameras.
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Speaker 1: Pick the cameras off the field in the open.
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Speaker 4: Now gather around because it's time to huddle up. West
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Speaker 4: Leftlott point.
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Speaker 5: We watch stick on one ready to learn from Well,
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Speaker 5: if it looks like man covered, I'll check, I'll go
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Speaker 5: read ride eighteen bob on one ready put them in quick.
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Speaker 2: You look at this play.
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Speaker 4: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 4: a seal here, and to try to run this play
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Speaker 4: in the hour.
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Speaker 6: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: What you do?
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Speaker 3: God yeah?
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Speaker 4: And they can play be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 4: Why left Banks three ninety thick bag be he see talk.
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Speaker 1: He's not long enough for you. Watch it to be
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Speaker 1: part of a professional. It's a great professional out there
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Speaker 1: and playing this ball game like I know you can
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Speaker 1: play it.
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Speaker 4: Drew Olson mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 4: Armand sorry six be ready. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is
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Speaker 4: on the air.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready, willing and able to participate in this
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Speaker 1: morning's huddles?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 1: I hope so, because you're here, We're here. Let's have
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Speaker 1: a damn huddle. Let's do it. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin nine, twenty,
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee ten, seventy, Madison everywhere on the iHeart app, YouTube, Facebook,
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Speaker 1: and x as well. Drew, Billy and Arman bringing it
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Speaker 1: to you on a Tuesday where we're closer to meaningful baseball,
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Speaker 1: Where closer to the second round of the NCAA Tournament,
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Speaker 1: we're closer to our producer Arman sar And leaving us
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Speaker 1: for Vegas.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and closer and closer to me hating Armand for
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Speaker 7: the next four days, which is one of my favorite
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Speaker 7: favorite endeavors that always happens when somebody goes to Vegas
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Speaker 7: and I'm not with them, but I got actually my
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Speaker 7: wife got asked a couple of different ways to Sunday
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Speaker 7: this week about Armin. One of our neighbors was very
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Speaker 7: very curious about Arman. Really, so many are many are
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Speaker 7: many are very very interested in Armond's life. And hopefully
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Speaker 7: you get to take a couple of days off of
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Speaker 7: from being the man that everybody want, the international man
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Speaker 7: of mystery and the man that everybody wants to be
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Speaker 7: a part of, and be around for the next couple
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Speaker 7: of days where you know you're just You're not going
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Speaker 7: to be gallivanting around and doing any crazy pictures by
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Speaker 7: the Las Vegas sign or breakfast at pepper.
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Speaker 1: Mill and all those other mob boss museums.
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Speaker 6: Right, I'll be doing all that, brother, as much as
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Speaker 6: I can pack in seventy hours, That's for sure. I
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Speaker 6: will be doing all that. And actually one of two gallivants,
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna have the desert the next few weeks. Laurden
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Speaker 6: and I already had our vacation schedule, but this one
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Speaker 6: kind of came up, as you guys know, recently, so
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Speaker 6: I'm going on this one as well. And the thing
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Speaker 6: is about it, Billy, that's really whoever it is that's
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Speaker 6: curious about me. That's very nice with them. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 6: I'm always I always feel guilty and like kind of
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Speaker 6: bad that when I do meet them. I don't know
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Speaker 6: that it's always as exciting as they expect it to be.
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Speaker 6: I'm not really sure.
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Speaker 1: I hope it is. I would love to meet whoever
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Speaker 1: one of.
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Speaker 6: Your neighbor whoever neighborhood it is at one point, but uh, yeah,
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Speaker 6: I will be uh, I will be leaving you guys,
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Speaker 6: But I mean I'll always be thinking of God about
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Speaker 6: you guys.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know you won't be far from mine.
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Speaker 1: Let's put it that. Just don't think of us while
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Speaker 1: you're at little darlings different places. Yeah, that'd be good.
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Speaker 1: Let's just let's just not be let's just not cross
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Speaker 1: your mind there. I'm bout those I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: those type of places.
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Speaker 7: Come on, are you kidding me? You know you know
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Speaker 7: you get the you get the track on my phone.
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Speaker 7: You can see where I'm at. If that's true. You
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Speaker 7: were going to go to the homeless shelter and serve
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Speaker 7: soup on on Thursday night. From what I remember, you know,
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Speaker 7: one thing I would like the dunity service on Friday morning,
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Speaker 7: pick up some trash by the highway.
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Speaker 1: I might go to church.
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Speaker 6: I have a buddy that went to I have a
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Speaker 6: buddy that we were there once on a Sunday morning.
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Speaker 6: He found he went to church. He went to a
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Speaker 6: Catholic church. He walked there from the strip. I do,
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Speaker 6: I will do say one thing. There are a couple
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Speaker 6: of places I'd still like to go there, and one
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Speaker 6: of them is the uh the plonnd Stars shop from
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Speaker 6: the show, because I used to love that show a lot,
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Speaker 6: and I don't know if I'll make it this time,
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Speaker 6: but one of these times I'm gonna make it and
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Speaker 6: see if it's uh.
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Speaker 7: That's one of the dirty business uh AI generated runs
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Speaker 7: that we've seen in a while. Yeah, Like, I mean,
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Speaker 7: I love seeing the pawn Stars reels pop up or
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Speaker 7: the shorts on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: I'm always on my YouTube. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Now there's some pretty impressive AI generated ones that they're
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Speaker 7: firing in here and then all of a sudden, oh wait,
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Speaker 7: oh oh yeah, I don't think Eric Clapton is coming
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Speaker 7: in and playing that random guitar. But I'm already three
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Speaker 7: minutes in before I end up getting hooked and realizing
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Speaker 7: that it is that'd.
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Speaker 1: Be a sweet one. Hey, I is a dirty beast,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. You never know what's real anymore where
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Speaker 1: it is.
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Speaker 7: That's my genius of going to church out in Vegas though, drama,
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Speaker 7: if there's if there's anything to call upon the gambling gods,
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Speaker 7: maybe maybe a forty five minutes service might be the
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Speaker 7: right thing to do.
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Speaker 6: And it was a short mass too. He said it
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Speaker 6: was one of the quicker once say quicker than a
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Speaker 6: mass at a c sad resort. That was the old
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Speaker 6: album line.
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Speaker 7: But people watching in and outside of that establishment, Oh yeah,
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Speaker 7: pretty pretty elite.
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Speaker 6: Gotta be a league, gotta be fantastic. But don't worry, boys,
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Speaker 6: I'm locked in here until you know I'm not.
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. I'm not gonna be checked out.
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Speaker 1: I'm locked in.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Billy, though, this is one of those weeks where
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Speaker 6: Billy is always gonna give you the side. I It's like,
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Speaker 6: you're going and I'm not, come on, quite enjoy it.
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Speaker 6: Enjoy the absolute hell out of it, and you get
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Speaker 6: some great games to be able to enjoy. And Drew,
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Speaker 6: You're right, we're just a little bit closer to it,
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Speaker 6: getting closer and closer I do appreciate though this. Uh,
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Speaker 6: there was a little debate, it felt like online last
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Speaker 6: night of the folks that were glad we got a
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Speaker 6: couple of days of reprieve, or the other folks that said, man,
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Speaker 6: I just can't turn off this women's basketball tournament because
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Speaker 6: I needed.
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Speaker 7: Some top flight action and they were delivering yesterday and
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Speaker 7: the thirty two in the women's action, how about that.
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Speaker 1: You gotta be again serious, degenerate. You've got to be
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Speaker 1: really really waiting and needing some action. But hey, it's Paul.
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Speaker 1: It's something to watch, right.
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Speaker 7: Hey, when when they're tipping off at ten am in
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Speaker 7: Iowa City between Virginia Tech and Iowa, you know, throw
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Speaker 7: the record so tough for Diowa fanzo.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's Yukon. I mean steamroll as you they
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Speaker 1: as they do.
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Speaker 6: I think they're back, you know, they there were years
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Speaker 6: where they kind of left the mountaintop. I think they
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Speaker 6: might kind of be back. Well, we'll see when the
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Speaker 6: tournament said and done. I think they might be kind
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Speaker 6: of back at the mountaintop here. And uh, well you
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Speaker 6: mentioned a tough loss with the Iowa women last night.
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Speaker 6: They have a monster fan base, as we know. We'll
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Speaker 6: talk to Dolf. But you know, it's nice to have
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Speaker 6: some ball there as well. And it's going on. If
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Speaker 6: some people are watching that, there's.
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Speaker 7: There's a couple uh the uh drew. There's not as
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Speaker 7: many communal experiences online. It feels like as much as
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Speaker 7: last night the Yukon halftime score was one, it felt
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Speaker 7: like everybody that had anything to do, anybody around sports
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Speaker 7: media had to tweet out that they were up on
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Speaker 7: sixty two to ten at the end of the first half,
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Speaker 7: sixty two to fifteen the way in to make sure
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Speaker 7: that they got their uh, they got.
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Speaker 1: Themselves in there. I'm sorry, sixty five to twelve.
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Speaker 6: That's a fifty three point burger and that's pretty remarkable
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Speaker 6: for women's half time.
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Speaker 1: I believe they're laying fifteen and a half. That's crazy stuff, man,
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Speaker 1: crazy work. Hey, then Nicolay lot Co'm talking textans open
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Speaker 1: for you to interact with us early on this Tuesday
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Speaker 1: eight seven, seven, seven, nine four one ninety seven three
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Speaker 1: is gonna be doing some buying and selling propositions. You
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Speaker 1: can load those in early if you're so inclined. Locally.
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Speaker 1: The big the other basketball story, the Bucks guaranteed their
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Speaker 1: losing season there. We got the loss now against the
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Speaker 1: Clippers in La Bucks now at twenty nine and forty two. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's it. Yikes, we're back in the uh, we're back
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Speaker 1: in the slums of the NBA. Haven't been so it's
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Speaker 1: been a while.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And they also, you know, saying goodbye to Cam Thomas
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Speaker 6: Whichea is kind of interesting.
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Speaker 1: Bucks guaranteed to have their first losing season since twenty
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Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen. Oh you remember that Billy H. Doc Rivers
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Speaker 1: has not had a full season losing record as a
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Speaker 1: coach since two thousand and six, two thousand and seven. Welcome,
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Speaker 1: You're welcome by the nightmare.
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Speaker 6: Doc.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know he did ask why am I doing this? Right?
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Speaker 7: Was that the opening press conference where he said, any
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Speaker 7: I wouldn't wish this upon anybody.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why they hired me.
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Speaker 7: I don't know why they hired me. Well, some of
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Speaker 7: us were wondering the same thing. But now the final
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Speaker 7: standza of his coaching part of the career will be
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Speaker 7: one of the worst years.
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Speaker 6: How many coach, by the way, how many coaches sitting
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Speaker 6: around in this country a basketball coaches at any level
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Speaker 6: all the time that dream of making it love to
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Speaker 6: hear a statement like, oh, well this is I don't
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Speaker 6: wish this upon anybody. I'm sure there's hundreds and hundreds
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Speaker 6: of thousands of coaches that would love to coach.
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Speaker 1: An NBA, no doubt. Yeah. So Doc's big quote last
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Speaker 1: night was, you know, the general state of things, So
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Speaker 1: did we win the last game? So clearly they showed
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Speaker 1: up to the next game, right, It's not like we
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Speaker 1: got blown out forty games in a row. The other
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Speaker 1: night we got blown out in Utah. We went to Phoenix,
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Speaker 1: a team that desperately needed to win. We won that game. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: another team that desperately needed to win, we got our
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Speaker 1: butt whipped. So we got another game in Portland. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to keep this drudge of Oh, I
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Speaker 1: just got to coach the team every night. I gotta
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Speaker 1: try to push them every night. Each night we try
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Speaker 1: to get better. If you were a shooter around today,
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Speaker 1: it was a spirited it was a great shoot around.
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Speaker 1: The guys were all locked in, but you guys don't
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Speaker 1: get to see that. And then tonight we started out
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Speaker 1: the first quarter we're playing great. It fell apart for
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Speaker 1: us and we don't have a lot of tools to
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Speaker 1: put it back. Just watch the game, see what's on
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Speaker 1: the floor, Like I can't throw a wand and then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, magical things happen.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: But you just got to keep encouraging our guys. That's
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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. Keep encouraging them. We're gonna keep practicing,
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Speaker 1: keep working on stuff. That's what you have to do
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Speaker 1: when you're in these situations. What you don't do is
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Speaker 1: sit around and talk about how bad things are. That's
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Speaker 1: what you don't do. Not in life either. I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna do that. Well in there. The one thing is
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Speaker 1: he always finds something to give you. He always he's
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Speaker 1: been finding some to say.
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Speaker 6: Where you sit there yourself, questioning yourself, saying I really
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Speaker 6: can't find a flaw in that logic the way he
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Speaker 6: laid it out, Like the way he laid.
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Speaker 1: It out right. I mean they were down at one
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Speaker 1: point last night by forty six m. Yeah, correct, that
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Speaker 1: that's so could do. And He's right, what's he gonna
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Speaker 1: do to stop the bleeding? It's like the patient is terminal,
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Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Try to make the best
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Speaker 1: of it. Let's be as comfortable as possible. That's what
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Speaker 1: it is you know you it is, And like he
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Speaker 1: earlier this year when he benched Kuzma, remember when it's
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Speaker 1: like well okay, and then yeah, it's like he's still
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Speaker 1: doing some stuff.
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Speaker 7: There's only so much that you can do when the
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Speaker 7: result is not going to match at all what the
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Speaker 7: expectation is, right though, like to the magic wand point
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Speaker 7: that he makes, like at no in no way, shape
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Speaker 7: or form, is he just going to be able to
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Speaker 7: insert now multi year contracted Pete Pete nants throw him
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Speaker 7: in there and all of a sudden he's a twenty
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Speaker 7: point game guy and you're you're battling for for the
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Speaker 7: seven seed, like it's such a difficult hill to climb.
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Speaker 7: But more importantly now it does feel like they're just
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Speaker 7: prepping for what happens in June, July, and August. And
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Speaker 7: I think that's where you can at least take some
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Speaker 7: solace in like yesterday when they released Cam Thomas. The
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Speaker 7: second time he hits free agency this year, it might
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Speaker 7: be a reason why you try and find things that
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Speaker 7: will set them up in the future, because it does
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Speaker 7: feel like the band and the artist formerly known as
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Speaker 7: the twenty twenty one Milwaukee Bucks will we completely disbanded,
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Speaker 7: indifferent going into next year, that it's like one one
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Speaker 7: final way of cleaning out all of the pipes and
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Speaker 7: now we're gonna start freshing, maybe some New Foundations.
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Speaker 1: Last night was their tenth loss this season of forty two,
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Speaker 1: in which they lost by twenty five or more points.
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Speaker 1: It seems like a negative stat No, it's.
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Speaker 6: We're seeing that one bad. We're seeing that one's bad.
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Speaker 6: It's bad, and it's it's got me thinking in a
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Speaker 6: little lot of people are thinking about this in terms
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Speaker 6: of the.
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Speaker 1: Badgers or whatever team, whatever have you.
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Speaker 6: I don't fully endorse it for all teams, but I
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Speaker 6: guess some people have brought it up and maybe this
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Speaker 6: isn't start to by yourself.
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Speaker 1: It's like, I see this take a lot.
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Speaker 6: You know, I wish i'd appreciate the good old days
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Speaker 6: or how do you know you're in the good old
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Speaker 6: days when they're there? And like with the implication that
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Speaker 6: the good old days are leaving us, and do you
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Speaker 6: guys buy into that is there's there's such a thing
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Speaker 6: as we didn't appreciate it enough, or.
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Speaker 1: We didn't I remember saying into a microphone for years,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate Giannis while you can't again.
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Speaker 3: I said it.
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Speaker 1: The night that Prince Fielder and Ricky Weeks hit their
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Speaker 1: first big league homers. There was the next day people
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Speaker 1: were like, well, they're going to be gone at free agency.
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Speaker 1: We'll never be able to keep them like they just
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Speaker 1: had started. It was like their first you got six
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Speaker 1: years to enjoy it. I understand the fatalism because is
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Speaker 1: where we are. Yeah, but like it was six years
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Speaker 1: premature to start dreading their their their exit. Like with
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Speaker 1: Yannis now had them for more than a decade, you've
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Speaker 1: been you know, you know him, You'll love them and
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. But we're at that crossroads and
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Speaker 1: it's like you can't be shocked by it. When we
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Speaker 1: lived through Farvan Rogers and it happens everywhere. It's nature
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Speaker 1: of sports. It is empires.
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Speaker 7: The one team stars are unicorns now and it doesn't happen.
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Speaker 7: So in reality, they're kind of they have been more unicorns.
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Speaker 7: I think then we we give it credit for right.
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Speaker 7: Like you mentioned Farvan Rogers, I mean, you can go
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Speaker 7: down the laundry, lead them the greatest quarterback Montana name.
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Speaker 1: Like that always had happened.
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Speaker 7: And in the NBA, Dirk right, like bird Magic, Dirk
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Speaker 7: and those guys were in a time when there was
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Speaker 7: no real free agency and no salary cap opportunity, right, So.
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Speaker 1: Like you get Shack moved around like everybody Barkley movie.
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Speaker 7: Barkley did too, and like his greatest moments were after
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Speaker 7: he got traded from Philadelphia in terms of Charles, So
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Speaker 7: like that part doesn't happen. You can probably count them
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Speaker 7: on one finger or one hand as to the amount
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Speaker 7: of guys that actually do in the last twenty five
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Speaker 7: years stay with one team and also don't have this situation, right,
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Speaker 7: Like I mean, Kobe said famously put me in a
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Speaker 7: bulls jersey and then ended up staying. And that was
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Speaker 7: in La So like if any spot is gonna have
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Speaker 7: a trouble, I have trouble holding onto the Superstar, it's
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Speaker 7: gonna be that. This one, though, feels different than I
15:19
Speaker 7: had anticipated it would with Giannis, where it does feel
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Speaker 7: like you are going straight into the dead end street.
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Speaker 1: And if anybody can.
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Speaker 7: Get out of the car to go and enjoy the
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Speaker 7: rest of the night while we hang out in here
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Speaker 7: and wait for roadside assistance to pull us out of
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Speaker 7: the ditch, go and enjoy yourself.
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Speaker 1: Right like that.
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Speaker 7: There's one of those things where it feels like you
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Speaker 7: don't want to bring down one of your other guys
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Speaker 7: to allow them to go and enjoy their last couple
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Speaker 7: of years into the prime, because that does feel that's
15:47
Speaker 7: dwindling for him as well.
15:49
Speaker 1: It's part well, we can jump the round on buying
15:51
Speaker 1: our selling today, which we're gonna do. You're buying our
15:53
Speaker 1: selling that Yannas should return, because that was a debate
15:56
Speaker 1: we had on Saturday and Big Place Sports Saturday WISM
15:58
Speaker 1: twelve m Should Yannis return? And I said no. Remember
16:02
Speaker 1: I'm the guy who said put him in grease like
16:04
Speaker 1: that months ago we had the calf thing. I'm like, ah,
16:07
Speaker 1: send him to grease, let him enjoy this gap year
16:10
Speaker 1: and then come back and get after it next year.
16:13
Speaker 1: Well that was then. Now I've completely flipped my position. Yeah,
16:16
Speaker 1: Yanna should play, so we get to enjoy him the
16:18
Speaker 1: last couple of times in a Bucks uniform. They got
16:20
Speaker 1: six home games left, like, let's just enjoy it. Let's
16:23
Speaker 1: let's let's let's have a Yannis farewell tour in advance,
16:28
Speaker 1: not knowing but kind of knowing that he's just like ring,
16:33
Speaker 1: let's ring out the bar rag and get the last
16:35
Speaker 1: little juices out of it. Let's enjoy, let's appreciate Yannis.
16:38
Speaker 1: That April tenth game against Brooklyn, his last game at
16:40
Speaker 1: five Serve, should be an event. It should be a
16:43
Speaker 1: smell of the Roses moment, whether it is or not.
16:46
Speaker 6: Like it.
16:47
Speaker 1: If it is, if it's gonna be, let's make it special.
16:50
Speaker 1: Let's enjoy it. Like well, let's need all the help
16:52
Speaker 1: they can get to sell tickets in the building the
16:53
Speaker 1: way this deadass team has been playing, So why not
16:57
Speaker 1: why not embrace that, say, you know, let's let's appreciation month,
17:01
Speaker 1: let's have it.
17:02
Speaker 6: Kind of goes to what we were saying five minutes ago,
17:04
Speaker 6: where it's like, you know, make sure you appreciate it
17:07
Speaker 6: when you have it.
17:07
Speaker 1: So I guess that's the point. It's like, well that's
17:10
Speaker 1: my take now, is I'm just being selfish, Like let's
17:12
Speaker 1: see the big fella one more time because he's gonna
17:15
Speaker 1: be the last guy to wear thirty four. Yes, let's
17:17
Speaker 1: just let's just enjoy it while we can. Yeah, and
17:20
Speaker 1: then let the chicks fall. But I'm going into it.
17:24
Speaker 1: I don't you think it's like I'm it's just fair expectation.
17:27
Speaker 1: I'm eighty twenty that he's gone.
17:29
Speaker 7: So yeah, And Arman and I were talking about this
17:32
Speaker 7: a lot last year, Like going into Game five, I
17:34
Speaker 7: felt like he was for sure out this past offseason,
17:38
Speaker 7: and then the way Game five transpired, I'm like, I'm
17:41
Speaker 7: gonna flip that completely around. He's definitely coming back afterwards,
17:44
Speaker 7: trying to square up with Papa Haliburton on the On
17:46
Speaker 7: the baseline, he's definitely coming back into that jersey.
17:49
Speaker 1: H this one. I'm with you. I probably even go
17:52
Speaker 1: closer like ninety ten.
17:53
Speaker 7: Like I, it seems as it seems as tough of
17:56
Speaker 7: a reunion or a return as it could be, just
18:00
Speaker 7: because of where they both are in their lives right
18:03
Speaker 7: and in their own stories and in their own arcs,
18:05
Speaker 7: like the Bucks is gonna be a while, and we
18:07
Speaker 7: knew it was going to be a while for them
18:09
Speaker 7: to get back to competitiveness when Giannis ended up leaving,
18:13
Speaker 7: But now it feels like you don't want to necessarily
18:14
Speaker 7: bring the guy down with you, although if he can
18:18
Speaker 7: stay healthy for an entire year, which again is maybe
18:22
Speaker 7: more difficult of an ask than we're giving it credence for,
18:25
Speaker 7: Like he has not been fully healthy in what four
18:28
Speaker 7: or five years so consistently, and and that's the spot
18:32
Speaker 7: where it's like, hey, you're gonna have and be able
18:35
Speaker 7: to recoup a certain amount of assets here. I don't
18:39
Speaker 7: believe Drew that this guys of you're not able to
18:43
Speaker 7: do what you just said and celebrated as a Yana's
18:45
Speaker 7: farewell to or because you're gonna lose some kind of
18:47
Speaker 7: leverage in the off season.
18:48
Speaker 1: Everyone knows if he's gone or not.
18:50
Speaker 7: Right in NBA circles, You're not losing leverage by celebrating
18:54
Speaker 7: and pulling him out in the final forty five seconds
18:57
Speaker 7: and letting the entire crowd just blow up in celebration
19:00
Speaker 7: and the tears rolled down his face and walk away
19:03
Speaker 7: and wave to the crowd. I think instead you just
19:06
Speaker 7: let everybody know once again we dipped our tos in
19:10
Speaker 7: the off seas or in the midseason trade deadline.
19:12
Speaker 1: You'll know those numbers and those offers weren't good enough.
19:15
Speaker 7: And for any individual GM that's trying to leak it
19:18
Speaker 7: out to hoops, hyper real GM of.
19:21
Speaker 1: These offers might be a little underwhelming. I think they're
19:23
Speaker 1: gonna get pretty much the exact same offers that they got.
19:25
Speaker 7: Well said the GM that has an underwhelming trade package
19:29
Speaker 7: and is still trying to acquire a Yanas. I think
19:31
Speaker 7: you you're gonna ramp up the sweepstakes for it early.
19:35
Speaker 7: And there's no problem making it a conversation starter and
19:39
Speaker 7: having that send off to somebody that, I mean, Herb
19:43
Speaker 7: Cole built the building and one of the biggest reasons
19:45
Speaker 7: why the building was built. But if thirty four doesn't
19:48
Speaker 7: put on a Bucks uniform while they're in the Bradley Center,
19:51
Speaker 7: I struggle to believe that there's a five serve forum
19:53
Speaker 7: for the next point and they honest injury prone thing.
19:59
Speaker 7: You gotta dive back into that because, yeah, in the
20:01
Speaker 7: playoffs has been bad, but games played since his MVP
20:04
Speaker 7: year he won the MVP playing sixty three, then he
20:08
Speaker 7: went sixty one the next year after the sixty seven,
20:11
Speaker 7: sixty three, seventy three, sixty seven, and this year thirty six.
20:16
Speaker 1: So's so he's still been around this around five game
20:20
Speaker 1: you know.
20:20
Speaker 7: Which is par for the course when he's played though
20:23
Speaker 7: the two MVP years that you just mentioned, he actually
20:26
Speaker 7: wouldn't qualify now, yeah, because.
20:27
Speaker 1: He didn't play that, he didn't play that.
20:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sure they would have who knows if we
20:30
Speaker 6: would adjusted it, you know, but based on that, how
20:32
Speaker 6: they want to maintain his body. But let me riddle
20:34
Speaker 6: you this. Just think about this, and then maybe it's
20:36
Speaker 6: ninety ten. But let's say the Bucks get very underwhelming offers.
20:40
Speaker 6: Still they realize the market's depressed because injury concerns whatever,
20:45
Speaker 6: not sure contract and you're just not going to get
20:48
Speaker 6: the return. And he says, I want to sign the extension.
20:50
Speaker 6: Do you just broach the idea of it's better to
20:52
Speaker 6: keep him even if we're worse than not, just to
20:55
Speaker 6: make you honest a buck.
20:56
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that keeps me home now
20:58
Speaker 1: that we've had ownership declare that he's either signing an
21:00
Speaker 1: extension or getting traded.
21:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, but let's say they're okay with it. They're going
21:05
Speaker 6: to offer it to him. He's willing to do it
21:07
Speaker 6: because you know what, I'm taking the best offer. I
21:08
Speaker 6: want to stay a Buck.
21:09
Speaker 1: It is what it is.
21:10
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna sign on the dotted line. I think
21:13
Speaker 6: there's still a chance in network with that, with that
21:16
Speaker 6: path of events made.
21:17
Speaker 7: Well, you absolutely sign him to the extension if he
21:20
Speaker 7: agrees to it, right, Like, I mean, you're gonna but
21:22
Speaker 7: then you know, and and this is the tough part
21:25
Speaker 7: arm and this is the NBA. Nobody hits free agency
21:28
Speaker 7: anymore because you signed the big money extension.
21:30
Speaker 1: Then demand a trade demand trade. But so at that
21:33
Speaker 1: point then maybe you get.
21:34
Speaker 7: Better offers because he'll be locked into a long term
21:36
Speaker 7: deal instead of a one year commitment, and he could
21:39
Speaker 7: kauai you just like you did to Toronto, and you
21:42
Speaker 7: have some power in that.
21:43
Speaker 6: You know, he really doesn't want to ask for a trade,
21:45
Speaker 6: so you I'm not saying, take advantage of that, but
21:47
Speaker 6: the reality is he's not well, we don't know. He
21:49
Speaker 6: might change his tune. He might do it eventually, he
21:52
Speaker 6: might soft launch it through intermediaries.
21:54
Speaker 1: But he said that's not me. I don't ask for it.
21:56
Speaker 1: So I'm not giving it. I'm not anything and everything,
22:02
Speaker 1: not giving up. But you're a realist, so you live.
22:05
Speaker 1: It's a good chance it might happen. That's fair. Yeah,
22:07
Speaker 1: that's right. Eight seven seven seven nine four one seven three.
22:10
Speaker 1: Brewers played a ball game last night at American Family Field.
22:13
Speaker 1: Hit some homers walked up on the reds. Boy's going tonight.
22:16
Speaker 1: I might drop over there tonight myself.
22:18
Speaker 6: I'm alost afternoon and Gary Mitchell a three RBI, So
22:20
Speaker 6: I don't want to hear about it, Yeah, no doubt.
22:22
Speaker 1: And we've got reports from Hunter Bombguard because the season
22:25
Speaker 1: is starting. He's got got a couple of reports. Let's
22:28
Speaker 1: spin through some of that as we move forwards. Well,
22:30
Speaker 1: glad you're hanging out with us. It's the Tuesday edition
22:33
Speaker 1: of the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Huddling up on
22:44
Speaker 1: a Tuesday, Drew Billy and I remember bringing it to
22:46
Speaker 1: you from headquarters eight seven seven seven nine four three.
22:49
Speaker 1: Nicolay Lodoc, I'm talking text one. Yeah, sure, we talked
22:51
Speaker 1: about the Bucks because now it's official they have a
22:53
Speaker 1: losing season on their Ledger don't know about Gianni's status.
22:59
Speaker 1: I want him to play because I want to see
23:01
Speaker 1: him play a couple more times so we can say goodbye. Yes,
23:03
Speaker 1: just in case it's necessary. I hope it's not.
23:06
Speaker 7: But prepared for the inevitable listen. Uh, Failing to prepare
23:10
Speaker 7: is preparing to fail. And if you are not allowing
23:14
Speaker 7: yourself to go to the spot where this these are
23:16
Speaker 7: the final games that Giannis plays in a Bucks uniform,
23:20
Speaker 7: then I think you're you're potentially just not allowing yourself
23:24
Speaker 7: the best situation, best opportunity to uh take it and
23:27
Speaker 7: handle it with grace this offseason because.
23:29
Speaker 1: It's gonna be difficult. We and we've lined up for.
23:32
Speaker 7: In a couple of years in the trade deadline conversation
23:35
Speaker 7: and the off season conversation. But this one, to me,
23:38
Speaker 7: Drew is no longer they're trying to take our guy
23:41
Speaker 7: right like, there doesn't need to be as much of
23:44
Speaker 7: the sure, I get that, Billy, Yeah, confrontation as much.
23:47
Speaker 7: It just feels a little bit different, feels like both
23:50
Speaker 7: sides are somewhat just over.
23:53
Speaker 1: We stayed together for the kids, and now it's time
23:55
Speaker 1: to go. We've been in different bedrooms for a while.
23:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, But you know, you do think to yourself,
24:01
Speaker 6: if you're trying to rebuild a team, it's going to
24:04
Speaker 6: take a while to rebuild, to get assets together, to
24:06
Speaker 6: build a young team, and it's gonna stink for a while.
24:08
Speaker 6: So if it's gonna stink for a while, we'll be
24:10
Speaker 6: better stink having you, honest or not. But it depends
24:13
Speaker 6: on what you get coming back from him if you
24:15
Speaker 6: were to make a move like that, And I get
24:17
Speaker 6: that for sure, Billy.
24:18
Speaker 1: It's a totally different field than the whole.
24:20
Speaker 6: Like we're protecting our young asset, We're protecting our young
24:23
Speaker 6: puff from getting from the.
24:25
Speaker 4: Gangs, you know what I mean.
24:26
Speaker 6: Like it's just a different feel in that regard, and
24:30
Speaker 6: it's like, all right, you know what's he's older now,
24:32
Speaker 6: he's in the back, gonna be in the back part
24:34
Speaker 6: of his career.
24:35
Speaker 1: Oh, he's firmly on the back nine.
24:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, especially the way he plays in past
24:40
Speaker 6: thirty and things like that. And I still think about
24:42
Speaker 6: what you said a lot Drews. How much does he
24:45
Speaker 6: want to play in this league anymore? When when is
24:47
Speaker 6: he going to be okay, riding off in the sunset,
24:49
Speaker 6: maybe doing the Europe thing, the grease thing, owning a
24:51
Speaker 6: team there, playing We'll see. I mean, there's a lot
24:55
Speaker 6: of questions to be answered in that regard. But it'll
24:57
Speaker 6: be sad whenever it happens. There's no way around that,
25:00
Speaker 6: you know, because then you know a part of your
25:02
Speaker 6: life is done, a part that you enjoyed is done.
25:04
Speaker 6: And and this kind of right above the clouds we've
25:07
Speaker 6: had for a long time that it's one of those Yeah,
25:09
Speaker 6: you hope you appreciate it enough. And I think I
25:11
Speaker 6: think a lot of us did that. Maybe some didn't,
25:13
Speaker 6: but you hope you appreciate enough because guys like them
25:16
Speaker 6: don't come around that often.
25:18
Speaker 1: No, it's a generational thing, and that you've now had
25:21
Speaker 1: basically two in franchise history. You had Kareem in your head. Yeah, yeah, honest, yeah,
25:26
Speaker 1: and one I mean and thirty four.
25:28
Speaker 6: I mean.
25:29
Speaker 7: The tough thing is, uh, there's never going to be
25:31
Speaker 7: another player that that is walking down from Wells Fargo
25:34
Speaker 7: and jumps in the back seat of some family's cars
25:37
Speaker 7: to ride to the arena, right, Like that part of
25:40
Speaker 7: it's not going to be the same.
25:43
Speaker 1: Bud was the best. It was the best that somebody
25:45
Speaker 1: tasted smoothies for the first time.
25:48
Speaker 6: Who was our guy that was teaching them to drive?
25:50
Speaker 6: The buck staffer and blanks yeah, and the.
25:53
Speaker 1: Old video guy and like it.
25:54
Speaker 7: There's just there's parts of it that you're not going
25:57
Speaker 7: to be able to to ever replicate it again. And
26:00
Speaker 7: I think that's where the some frustration is coming. And
26:03
Speaker 7: I think some of it's some kind of warranted. I'm
26:06
Speaker 7: the coverage of it nationally where it's just been like.
26:08
Speaker 1: Well, just get over it. There's the Milwaukee Bucks. You
26:12
Speaker 1: need to just do this.
26:13
Speaker 7: I hate you guys, just need to do this and
26:15
Speaker 7: get over because if it is the stay together for
26:18
Speaker 7: the kids, well guess what, we're the kids and we
26:20
Speaker 7: want mom and dad to go on one more vacation.
26:24
Speaker 7: Maybe if we all have a really really good time
26:27
Speaker 7: and we start playing a lot of games.
26:29
Speaker 1: Parent tradd and then all of a sudden mom and
26:30
Speaker 1: Dad are together again for a one little.
26:32
Speaker 6: Time, then maybe they rekindle it family, because if you
26:35
Speaker 6: truly love it, you never give up.
26:37
Speaker 2: Man.
26:37
Speaker 1: You hit Armin in the fields there. Well, nineties movies reference,
26:40
Speaker 1: so there's there's an aspect to that.
26:42
Speaker 6: Billy and the and the the dreamers of us still
26:45
Speaker 6: hold that hope, still keep that candle, Burt, that you
26:48
Speaker 6: can keep it going. You know, I'm qualify as one
26:51
Speaker 6: of those understanding the reality of the situation thinking no,
26:55
Speaker 6: maybe he maybe maybe he'll be pulled so deeply into
26:58
Speaker 6: it that it.
26:59
Speaker 1: Want to be part of a rebuilt I don't know, man.
27:01
Speaker 7: In this world that we can be just overly optimistic
27:06
Speaker 7: about and hopeful for God bless it be about sports
27:10
Speaker 7: that I mean, like, is there a lot worse places
27:12
Speaker 7: that we can put our energy in this world? Like
27:14
Speaker 7: yo to God that the favor your favorite athlete of
27:17
Speaker 7: all time. And I was asked about it last week
27:19
Speaker 7: when I was speaking to some some youth, and I
27:22
Speaker 7: apologize to their parents for that being their career day presentation.
27:27
Speaker 1: The imparting young wisdom of the kids.
27:30
Speaker 7: Yeah, but when you're going to get broadcasting, probably don't
27:32
Speaker 7: even though you're gonna be awesome at you.
27:36
Speaker 1: That's good, that's actually, that's great mentorship.
27:38
Speaker 7: Make sure you have very supportive parents in an extra
27:42
Speaker 7: bedroom that yeah, in their basement, might have a shower
27:45
Speaker 7: in there so you can live there. You you, you
27:48
Speaker 7: think about it, through all of these different times and
27:52
Speaker 7: periods of the career that he's had, there's just a
27:56
Speaker 7: different type of athlete inside him, and there's a different
28:01
Speaker 7: connection that probably will never be replicated. In Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
28:06
Speaker 7: It's difficult to ever forecast it again because you've kind
28:08
Speaker 7: of had too if you count Farv in there for
28:10
Speaker 7: at least a little bit bit.
28:12
Speaker 1: Of it with the aus shucks and everything.
28:14
Speaker 7: Yeah, but just it's it's gonna be difficult for anyone
28:19
Speaker 7: to ever best somebody who on the floor and off
28:24
Speaker 7: the floor never wasn't his best, right, Like I mean,
28:27
Speaker 7: like all the interactions and anybody that's had a chance
28:30
Speaker 7: to run into honest that they've had a great time
28:33
Speaker 7: and they've had a great interaction because he's just unapologetically
28:36
Speaker 7: himself and that's gonna be a tough.
28:37
Speaker 1: Thing to say goodbye to.
28:39
Speaker 7: However, let's go and be able to say goodbye this
28:42
Speaker 7: weekend when he goes and swats Wenby into the crowd
28:45
Speaker 7: on that two o'clock ten now on Saturday, and let's
28:49
Speaker 7: have a damn moment again. They played the Clippers on
28:51
Speaker 7: Sunday after getting roundhoused by him this week Drew, I'd
28:55
Speaker 7: be disappointed if he doesn't play either.
28:56
Speaker 1: Of these games this weekend. Yeah, he would throw him
28:59
Speaker 1: out these last home play him home games.
29:02
Speaker 6: Only it'd be nice to have a moment to watch
29:04
Speaker 6: those glimpses of greatness again, you know when he's playing.
29:07
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's make that deal, all right, Giannie is
29:10
Speaker 1: going to play for six more games, all of them
29:12
Speaker 1: at home, all of them at home, and.
29:13
Speaker 6: Bucks media team get started going on whatever it takes, montages,
29:17
Speaker 6: uh special videos, play him every break, pray him every
29:21
Speaker 6: every time.
29:22
Speaker 1: I want him seeing that stuff. I want I want
29:24
Speaker 1: to I want that pull. Do you're trying to Are
29:26
Speaker 1: you trying to provide closure for him looking for it?
29:29
Speaker 6: I want to pull and I want to make it
29:30
Speaker 6: hard for him to say, Man, I'm ready to give
29:32
Speaker 6: this up. I want him to want to come back.
29:35
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie it's going to be well anyway.
29:38
Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
29:42
Speaker 6: I'm throwing Robin yont there too. By the way, you
29:44
Speaker 6: mentioned the guys that are always showing up a good one. Yes, absolutely,
29:48
Speaker 6: not that you meant to forget. We're not doing the
29:50
Speaker 6: whole like, but the greatest athletes.
29:52
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, thirty four shirtsy or Jersey is never
29:56
Speaker 1: going to go out of style, right That's a far
29:59
Speaker 1: thing kind of you where forever. That's part it makes
30:01
Speaker 1: people ARCHI eyebrow right now and maybe even Rogers to
30:04
Speaker 1: an extent, But you're honest, is well that will remain
30:08
Speaker 1: as of right now until he takes a dump on
30:10
Speaker 1: the city or something, which I don't think he's gonna do.
30:12
Speaker 1: I think that will always be. You know, you're you're pure,
30:15
Speaker 1: You're golden. It's like we're a Kareem Jersey Kareem want
30:18
Speaker 1: out of town right.
30:19
Speaker 6: Well, the other aspect of it that you bring up, though,
30:22
Speaker 6: is you don't want something to break bad. You know,
30:24
Speaker 6: it's like the whole you know side, I want to
30:26
Speaker 6: leave this show when everyone had good feelings about it,
30:28
Speaker 6: not when everyone thought, why you jump the shark. So
30:30
Speaker 6: it's like, I do worry about the aspect of I
30:35
Speaker 6: know how the DNA fans are if he did resign
30:38
Speaker 6: and stick around, Okay, great, whatever. He stole a buck
30:40
Speaker 6: and he's a buck through years of losing. Fans tend
30:43
Speaker 6: to blame the best player on that day. So I
30:45
Speaker 6: don't want him to start becoming a villain in anyone's
30:47
Speaker 6: eyes or start I mean some people have already kind
30:49
Speaker 6: of changed the hero work on him a little bit.
30:52
Speaker 6: I wouldn't want that to happen either. So there is
30:54
Speaker 6: a positive aspect to you, like if the break is
30:57
Speaker 6: clean and he goes, it's with hope, the only good
31:00
Speaker 6: memories and only good feelings about Giannis. Yeah, I mean,
31:06
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. I I just it would
31:08
Speaker 6: hurt me if I saw a fans starting to turn
31:09
Speaker 6: on him at all in that sense. Well, I know,
31:12
Speaker 6: I know how we do this as a sports fan culture.
31:14
Speaker 7: So you're saying for performance, not for everything else, because
31:17
Speaker 7: I do believe there's a decent amount of people that
31:19
Speaker 7: are like, at this point, I'm sick and tired of this.
31:21
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, they're already there in that regard. So I
31:23
Speaker 6: wouldn't want that to become you know.
31:27
Speaker 1: That far too. Should I retire? Should I come back?
31:30
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about retiring. He was just always so cryptic
31:33
Speaker 1: and which people are cool. Then they got mad at
31:36
Speaker 1: Rogers for it before he even did start going on
31:38
Speaker 1: the Am I going to retire or not?
31:40
Speaker 6: You wouldn't want Rannest to I don't know. I'm trying
31:44
Speaker 6: to think of an example. But maybe he gets traded
31:46
Speaker 6: to the Bulls and he wins the title there in
31:47
Speaker 6: his last years, and then people, you know, I just
31:50
Speaker 6: think about those scenarios. I wouldn't want that to anything
31:53
Speaker 6: is solely the legacy of it. What uh If he
31:55
Speaker 6: goes and wins with Minnesota, how would that? How would
31:58
Speaker 6: that sit with you? I don't For some reason, I
32:01
Speaker 6: don't know why, I've never had the feeling for the Timberwolves.
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Speaker 1: I've market for something. Yeah, so I guess it would
32:08
Speaker 1: hurt only because I'd want him to win here no
32:10
Speaker 1: matter what.
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Speaker 6: But it's not like the Vikings. For me to answer
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Speaker 6: your question, I know, I know what that's what for
32:15
Speaker 6: some reason, the.
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Speaker 1: Timberwolves, the Lakers, place Ron Bulls.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, in all reality, there's like five teams
32:22
Speaker 7: that I really don't want him to go to, and
32:24
Speaker 7: I'd be fine with all the other ones.
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Speaker 1: Nicks, Nicks, Lakers. He well, I.
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Speaker 7: Actually don't know that I despise it as much if
32:32
Speaker 7: he went to the Lakers, just because I think him
32:35
Speaker 7: and Luca would be would be fun to watch, even
32:36
Speaker 7: though I mean, I don't know how on earth he
32:38
Speaker 7: would handle Luca bitching a moment as much as he does,
32:41
Speaker 7: like I did you want to talk about it and
32:43
Speaker 7: then going back and forth. That would be a clash,
32:45
Speaker 7: except his European and Giannis loves playing with the European guys.
32:48
Speaker 7: You know, the European guys markets on on the one teams. Uh,
32:52
Speaker 7: but the Pacers and Bowls would be the other ones.
32:54
Speaker 7: Pacer So gosh, yes, what am I thinking?
32:57
Speaker 1: I'd actually be fine if he went to the Pistons.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, like, just as deferred of a team as you
33:04
Speaker 7: possibly could have, even though you'd have to eat be
33:06
Speaker 7: in the East.
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Speaker 1: That's fine.
33:08
Speaker 7: To me, as long as it's not Miami or New York,
33:10
Speaker 7: those are the ones that would would really really.
33:12
Speaker 1: Spur me the most. Boston Philly. Yeah, okay, but yeah,
33:22
Speaker 1: and then again, what's the what's the proper haul because
33:26
Speaker 1: you can't We've talked about it before when the Bucks
33:28
Speaker 1: had to trade Koreem, they got a pretty good haul
33:30
Speaker 1: back that set them up for a lot of success.
33:32
Speaker 1: And some of the guys I got back ended up
33:34
Speaker 1: having their jerseys and the rafters. So is that the standard? Like,
33:39
Speaker 1: is that what you hope for? You're gonna have to rebuild?
33:42
Speaker 1: And then obviously Doc has gone because he's not a
33:44
Speaker 1: rebuild coach. Think, yeah, that's the first transaction. And then
33:49
Speaker 1: how are what's John horrace future? How are intertwined? Are
33:52
Speaker 1: all these figures in here and what's going to how
33:54
Speaker 1: do we navigate this? The fact that they're on record
33:56
Speaker 1: now saying he's either gonna get extension or he's gonna
33:58
Speaker 1: get traded, it's like one of the other. It's like, okay, well,
34:01
Speaker 1: at least we got that it's the only shot clock
34:03
Speaker 1: we have, even of college, and even though we knew
34:06
Speaker 1: that already, we kind of but now it's kind of official,
34:10
Speaker 1: and the Bucks were listening to offers, so it's fascinating
34:13
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. But the thing is, if he has
34:16
Speaker 1: six games left at five, serve, let's give him six game.
34:19
Speaker 1: That's to me, like, you know, yeah, you worry about
34:21
Speaker 1: injury and it could be catastrophic and all that, but
34:23
Speaker 1: you know he can get hurt at practice, so let's yeah,
34:26
Speaker 1: not to put that aside, not so fully, Mike Brown,
34:29
Speaker 1: and he could get hit by a bus. Like, I'm
34:31
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and I'm gonna let him play
34:33
Speaker 1: and see how it plays out. Because if he wants
34:36
Speaker 1: to play, and this is the other part of it, Drew,
34:37
Speaker 1: like he wants to play, I think you owe it
34:41
Speaker 1: to him to let him have this and let him
34:46
Speaker 1: have the moment and to send off. As much as
34:47
Speaker 1: we're saying it selfishly that we want to watch him
34:49
Speaker 1: play one more time, I bet he wants to go
34:51
Speaker 1: and be able to look up in those rafters like
34:54
Speaker 1: he did with his family when he first got drafted. Yeah,
34:56
Speaker 1: next to his dad who's sadly no longer with us,
34:59
Speaker 1: knowing that his thirty four is already going to be up.
35:01
Speaker 6: There, put the uniform on and honestly, I always felt
35:05
Speaker 6: like if a athletic competitor is under contract and wants
35:08
Speaker 6: to play and wants to compete, the teams shouldn't keep
35:11
Speaker 6: them from doing it if they can all help. But
35:12
Speaker 6: I understand the motivations and why it's an advantage sometime
35:16
Speaker 6: for a team. But I believe in letting him play,
35:18
Speaker 6: no question. Now, I don't think it's a big risk.
35:21
Speaker 6: Our friend Eddie man of the Mill set send his
35:23
Speaker 6: ass to Seattle one. Now listen, I'll be honest with you.
35:26
Speaker 6: Seattle would be interesting. And then as one of the
35:28
Speaker 6: new expansion teams, I.
35:30
Speaker 1: Think I know what you want. I know what you want.
35:33
Speaker 7: I send him to Utah like I mean, I don't know.
35:36
Speaker 7: You're training him wherever the best package is.
35:39
Speaker 1: Oh, no question. There is no handshake agreement in this one.
35:44
Speaker 1: Hey man.
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Speaker 7: We are going to make sure that we do the
35:46
Speaker 7: best by you, because I think they've done the best
35:48
Speaker 7: by him for the last thirt.
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Speaker 1: Team they've I think they've been good. Nothing nothing old
35:52
Speaker 1: down that front, all right, eight seven sevens might have
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Speaker 1: seven one ninety seven three. Got some baseball reports from
35:59
Speaker 1: Hunter Bombgar to spin through. We're gonna do that when
36:01
Speaker 1: we come back. How about that. I'm excited to hear
36:04
Speaker 1: all season. Brewers beat the red last night, nine one.
36:06
Speaker 1: One more practice game before it counts against the White
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Speaker 1: is here, folks, ready or not? The games are gonna
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Speaker 1: That would be this evening at four o'clock start at
36:50
Speaker 1: American Family Field where the Brewers beat the Reds last
36:53
Speaker 1: night nine to one, fueled by Homers by Turan, Contreras
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Speaker 1: and Vaughan got some woodrooff news and you know what
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Speaker 1: we have? What do we have? Drew our first Hunter Bombguard,
37:04
Speaker 1: Brewers recap show, Hope Springs. Where's Hunter what's Hunter doing
37:10
Speaker 1: these days. Well, he's covering the Brewers for us. He's
37:12
Speaker 1: doing a bang up job. And he's here during the day,
37:14
Speaker 1: back end stuff, putting out all the social clips that
37:16
Speaker 1: you see and stuff, and just being Hunter and Johnny
37:19
Speaker 1: on the spot, if you will. And he was at
37:21
Speaker 1: the ballpark last night in his happy place. So let's
37:25
Speaker 1: hear a Hunter's recap, the first of many that we'll
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Speaker 1: be enjoying throughout this twenty twenty six championship season.
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Speaker 5: Thanks guys, good morning. Great to be back at the ballpark.
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Speaker 5: The Brewers with a nine to one victory of the
37:37
Speaker 5: Cincinnati Reds in their first of two exhibition games. Here
37:39
Speaker 5: three home runs William Contras, Bryce Terrang, Andrew Vaughn all
37:43
Speaker 5: going deep.
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Speaker 4: So that's good. Earlier in the day, we got the.
37:46
Speaker 5: News that Brandon Woodruff is officially in the starting rotation.
37:48
Speaker 5: He'll start fifth. He'll start on Tuesday of next week
37:51
Speaker 5: against the Rays. This is what he said about being
37:53
Speaker 5: back and being healthy.
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Speaker 1: I felt like personally I was in a good spot.
37:57
Speaker 1: I was recovering.
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Speaker 8: You know, my fish count is said a little less
38:00
Speaker 8: than some of the guys went out of count.
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Speaker 1: But I felt like I was recovering.
38:03
Speaker 8: I felt like stuff was there and coming along, and
38:06
Speaker 8: I feel like I necessarily wanted to go pitch in
38:09
Speaker 8: minor league games pretty much is the way I felt
38:12
Speaker 8: about it. So you know, I'll roll with it here
38:14
Speaker 8: for at few outings early on and get that good
38:16
Speaker 8: base under me, and I'll get another outing here on
38:19
Speaker 8: on Wednesday, so that'll be a good opportunity for me
38:21
Speaker 8: going into the season again.
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Speaker 5: Brandon Woodriff will start next Tuesday against the Race, so
38:25
Speaker 5: the rotation sets up like this, mister round skin opening
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Speaker 5: day of course, then Chad Patrick on Saturday, Brandon Sprote
38:30
Speaker 5: on Sunday, Kyle Harrison on Monday, and then Brandon Woodrup
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Speaker 5: next Tuesday against the Rays. This report brought to you
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Speaker 5: by Import Minded back.
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Speaker 1: To you guys. You're kidding me right now. We got
38:42
Speaker 1: the backdrop, we got the we got man.
38:44
Speaker 6: That was fantastic video on the stream, outstanding that it's
38:49
Speaker 6: how you do it when you're a real report, when
38:50
Speaker 6: you're like a real brod.
38:53
Speaker 1: Me like under bomb Guard, you know what I mean. Absolutely,
38:56
Speaker 1: So the things that.
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Speaker 7: He said in there, first off, the wood quote one
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Speaker 7: of my favorite things I've ever heard, one of my
39:02
Speaker 7: favorite things that are already they want to.
39:03
Speaker 1: Pitch mono league games. Why would you?
39:05
Speaker 7: You're making twenty some million dollars and it's the most
39:07
Speaker 7: money that they've ever paid a big league pitcher. If
39:10
Speaker 7: you're gonna work things out, Drew, let's work him out
39:12
Speaker 7: during the one sixty two and not in Nashville. I
39:14
Speaker 7: like that side of it for for Woody, but I mean,
39:18
Speaker 7: it's a hell of a positive that they're going to
39:20
Speaker 7: put him And you would know this better than that.
39:23
Speaker 7: Does the fifth spot in the rotation at all allow
39:27
Speaker 7: them more malleability to like, hey, if we have to
39:30
Speaker 7: skip a start, we can sub somebody in, Like, it
39:32
Speaker 7: doesn't really matter.
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Speaker 1: It's all one in five days. Once you get rolling,
39:35
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it doesn't matter where you are in the
39:38
Speaker 1: But but.
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Speaker 7: I'm interested to see how many times they have to
39:40
Speaker 7: do that, right, or if it's kind of bab build
39:42
Speaker 7: it in.
39:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna build in some extra days, and usually
39:45
Speaker 1: early like this, like they have this like meaningless and
39:49
Speaker 1: frivolous day off on Friday, slide guys, and it's already
39:53
Speaker 1: you know, it's already an extra day for miz right,
39:57
Speaker 1: because yeah, you got the day off coming up, and
39:58
Speaker 1: so yeah, a lot of days off early in the
40:00
Speaker 1: season allow you to do that, so they'll slide around them.
40:03
Speaker 7: I'm just interested to see how long you can go
40:06
Speaker 7: in before either the conversation creeps back up with what
40:10
Speaker 7: he or it becomes a non conversation, right like, because
40:13
Speaker 7: it's gonna be the biggest back drop whenever you talk
40:16
Speaker 7: about what he's performance is, like how how healthy is
40:20
Speaker 7: he and how well is he going to be able
40:21
Speaker 7: to continue on this pace? But I think the more
40:24
Speaker 7: you see over the next like two three, four weeks,
40:28
Speaker 7: he makes five starts and looks like Brandon Wood if
40:32
Speaker 7: it starts greeping that pitch count up, I wonder if
40:34
Speaker 7: it is able to just be about.
40:36
Speaker 1: Him pitching this year.
40:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, he didn't mention Quinn, but I
40:39
Speaker 6: think Quinn Priester I saw was kind of on his
40:41
Speaker 6: way and feeling good.
40:42
Speaker 1: He said, so that was he's still throwing in Arizona.
40:44
Speaker 1: He's not even gonna be here to jog out to
40:46
Speaker 1: the foul line give the eddie a double wave. Kind
40:49
Speaker 1: of a bummer.
40:50
Speaker 6: But the reality is, you know, the Brewers have depth
40:53
Speaker 6: at that position, and he lined it up right there,
40:55
Speaker 6: those guys. You didn't even counting Quinn Priester yet saw
40:58
Speaker 6: the nine pitches they used last night, and so I
41:00
Speaker 6: mean it was the first one hundred and I saw
41:03
Speaker 6: his report last time on social media, is the first
41:05
Speaker 6: I saw.
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Speaker 1: That's great news that Woodroff is ready to go for
41:07
Speaker 1: uh for opening season. I should say that opening the
41:10
Speaker 1: opening season. And I agree.
41:11
Speaker 6: We've always in sports, as baseball fans, we've always overrated
41:15
Speaker 6: the number slots of rotation, like who's where the three
41:20
Speaker 6: the four, Like we've always overrated that. Well, he's not
41:22
Speaker 6: good as a two, but he took better three than
41:24
Speaker 6: a great forum, Like it doesn't matter how are you
41:27
Speaker 6: getting ounce or not, that's all that.
41:29
Speaker 1: I always love that too, because it's like, well, they're
41:30
Speaker 1: gonna have now they'll have Woodroff matched up against other
41:32
Speaker 1: teams five stars exactly.
41:37
Speaker 9: And by the way, we're gonna have openers, we're gonna
41:38
Speaker 9: have guys that you have the idea that Ace is
41:41
Speaker 9: gonna face Ace every time, it's like good idea in Siri,
41:44
Speaker 9: like maybe you can finagle that a little more in
41:46
Speaker 9: playoffs during the regular season where ebbs and flows.
41:50
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen. It's not it's not a thing. No,
41:53
Speaker 1: I will put him in the one spot so that
41:55
Speaker 1: he can match up against other teams aces. No, that's
41:57
Speaker 1: not a thing. A day off and then that won't
41:59
Speaker 1: start the Yeah, the same schedule.
42:01
Speaker 7: It's one of my favorite parts of like trying to
42:02
Speaker 7: figure out when certain guys are going to pitch when
42:05
Speaker 7: they come to Milwaukee and be like, well, I think
42:07
Speaker 7: it's eventy five days. Oh, they've got six guys in
42:09
Speaker 7: their rotation on the wrong tickets and I'm gonna miss Skeiens.
42:16
Speaker 7: Like so there's different times of where you try to pinpoint.
42:18
Speaker 7: It makes those matchups even better, it's more fun.
42:21
Speaker 6: But and and we as we talk about that, it's true,
42:24
Speaker 6: but Ace is a nebulous termed these days anyway. But
42:27
Speaker 6: by herself, Miss his mom and his girlfriend are like,
42:29
Speaker 6: so you're the open day stutters. You're like the ace
42:31
Speaker 6: now right, My son's the ace of the squad.
42:33
Speaker 1: You know, Oh that's fair.
42:35
Speaker 7: She's definitely got a T shirt that might might have
42:37
Speaker 7: a big a patch on it right there for like
42:39
Speaker 7: associate captain in hockye.
42:40
Speaker 6: So arman, they gave you number one to wear right
42:43
Speaker 6: because you're like the best player. I'm like, well, not quite, mom, but.
42:45
Speaker 1: That smallest jersey. Yeah, that's the smallest jersey. So that's
42:49
Speaker 1: the one I got. That's why, that's why I was
42:51
Speaker 1: always sixty four.
42:52
Speaker 6: That's why I'm the co captain and not the floor
42:54
Speaker 6: captain because I'm not on the floor.
42:56
Speaker 1: But that's okay. On the feet are on the bench. Yeah,
43:01
Speaker 1: so all right eight seven seven seven nine. Love that
43:05
Speaker 1: recap by Hunter. Might have to hear that again. But
43:07
Speaker 1: he also did an interview with David Hamilton, who utility man.
43:10
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear that later in the program. Good to
43:12
Speaker 1: have Hunter as our boots on the ground at the ballpark.
43:15
Speaker 1: That's the best. And I'm excited.
43:16
Speaker 7: Uh, I'm excited to hear from David Hamilton because uh,
43:19
Speaker 7: they've been very excited to tell us David Hamilton's gonna
43:21
Speaker 7: be part of the team.
43:22
Speaker 1: Be excited.
43:23
Speaker 7: Gonna be good, Gonna be good. Well, the numbers are
43:25
Speaker 7: not good from a year ago, so hopefully we see
43:27
Speaker 7: a little.
43:28
Speaker 1: Bit more like we saw from last night. Well, this
43:29
Speaker 1: is the part where we throw away all spring training.
43:32
Speaker 1: None of that matters, and then we'll get on with
43:34
Speaker 1: the season. And my uh, my early prediction based on
43:39
Speaker 1: what happened the spring is that Jake Bowers is going
43:41
Speaker 1: to open the season zer for twenty two. Oh, he's
43:44
Speaker 1: gonna go Brad Nelson because he's been too hot, a
43:47
Speaker 1: scorching and Garrett's gonna get can keep it going. Yeah,
43:50
Speaker 1: Churio and didn't hit a home run until the other day,
43:52
Speaker 1: and now he hit hit one, he'll probably hit seven.
43:54
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I'll be on him home run
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Speaker 1: on opening dec We're off and running. You were listening
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