Transcript

04/06/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Greeting salutation, smart, good looking listeners, insomniacs, early risers, and
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Speaker 1: you freakazoids waiting to get into the gym right now,
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Speaker 1: five am. That's who we're broadcasting to. That's who we're
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Speaker 1: embracing right now in the huddle. Drew Wilson, Bil schmid Armann.
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Speaker 2: Sorryan out again, out vacationing again and having way too
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Speaker 2: much fun in one of our favorite places in the
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Speaker 2: whole wide world, Las Vegas, Nevada. But listen, that place
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Speaker 2: loves him when he lands at Harry Reid International Airport,
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Speaker 2: and it just opens up the door for us to
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Speaker 2: bring in more veteran right handers and have more fun.
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Speaker 2: Drew as three for three Brewers just continue to close
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Speaker 2: and win series, this time in Casey, which looked up
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Speaker 2: blustery to say the least.
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Speaker 3: Over the last couple of.
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Speaker 1: Years, I had some balls that were exciting there. The
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Speaker 1: little pop ups were adventurous, I think.
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Speaker 2: And the central Playton's sun was was dicey out there.
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Speaker 1: Feld, I think we've got Dave Gasper producing, but he
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Speaker 1: doesn't have the light out in the producers room, so
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Speaker 1: we can't see him.
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Speaker 3: He's trying to work incognito. Here. You gotta turn your
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Speaker 3: light on gas so we can see it.
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Speaker 1: Come on now, Yeah, yeah, we got to be able
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Speaker 1: to see Dave Gus we're sitting in the dark over there.
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Speaker 3: It's like that's probably the best way.
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Speaker 2: On because you we we have the freezoids waiting to
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Speaker 2: get into the gym. Dave would have been probably one
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Speaker 2: of the guys to be able to be waiting into
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Speaker 2: the gym here at five am, probably one of the
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Speaker 2: only other reasons to be up at five am exactly.
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Speaker 4: I mean it's probably, yeah, the only other, only other
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Speaker 4: reason I'd have to be flighterly.
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Speaker 3: But uh, yeah, it's good to be back in.
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Speaker 4: It's good to, you know, have the veteran left hander
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Speaker 4: called out of the bullpen here and get a get
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Speaker 4: warmed back up.
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Speaker 3: It's been a while. It is Championship Monday.
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Speaker 1: We've got the uh Yukon playing against Michigan and for
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Speaker 1: all the Tostedos in a matchup of teams that both
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Speaker 1: lost to teams from Wisconsin this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh a game that we were told the
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Speaker 2: national title game was on Saturday. Drew, if that was
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Speaker 2: the National Championship Arizona in Michigan, I'm gonna go to
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Speaker 2: bed a little earlier tonight, because then there wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: a reason to stay over the eight thirty tip. But
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Speaker 2: these are as Yukon battled and kind of dominated that
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Speaker 2: game against Illinois, not in the fashion of Michigan, set
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Speaker 2: up for a much more intriguing game with some of
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Speaker 2: the injuries that are headlining it as well going in that's.
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Speaker 1: True, and you know tonight Yukon heart of a champion
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Speaker 1: going for three and four, right.
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Speaker 2: Three out of four Caravan is trying to be one
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Speaker 2: of like the only guys ever to win three titles
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Speaker 2: in his four year run, and it's it's a phenomenal
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Speaker 2: story from the standpoint of Dan Hurley finds a way
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Speaker 2: to aggravate people and agitate many while still having his
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Speaker 2: hardcore fans, and that Yukon's grouping and backing continues to
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Speaker 2: be one of the hottest blue bloods around.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: They're probably the newest of the grouping, but nobody has
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Speaker 2: had more success than them, and Phil as fiery as
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Speaker 2: he is, apparently we learned that he's the least of
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Speaker 2: the fiery Yukon coaches.
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Speaker 3: As Geno Oriema told them to.
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Speaker 2: Hold on Friday Night, it feels like a million years ago.
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Speaker 2: But that's kak of a way to start it.
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Speaker 3: It does, man.
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Speaker 1: And the thing that strikes me about tonight's matchup is like,
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Speaker 1: maybe we underregarded Michigan all year. They've been a wagon
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Speaker 1: all year, right, and they've been plowing through this tournament,
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Speaker 1: just a dominant team.
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Speaker 2: Blitzing everybody, doing what you ended a couple of years
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Speaker 2: ago and everything but played since the tournament started, they
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Speaker 2: haven't been tested. They haven't won by less than double digits.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: And if it's a close game to night, like all
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Speaker 1: Yukon does is scrap and claw and play tough games, and.
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Speaker 2: That's the That would be the second time in what
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Speaker 2: three years, because it was the first or the second
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Speaker 2: of the I think the second of the Yukon teams
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Speaker 2: that did the same thing. They ran through the tournament,
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Speaker 2: won every game by double digits. You hope that one
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Speaker 2: game would finally end up being close, and I think
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Speaker 2: it was perdue that maybe gave them the toughest battle,
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Speaker 2: but they won the national title by like fourteen or
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Speaker 2: fifteen points. It feels like Michigan is in that in
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Speaker 2: that ilk. And it also then another feather into the
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Speaker 2: cap when you think about it, as you said, with
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Speaker 2: two teams that both were beaten by teams from Wisconsin,
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Speaker 2: Badgers went in and only looks better on what turned
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Speaker 2: out to be probably the best win of the year
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Speaker 2: during the regular season, a team going in and handing
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Speaker 2: Michigan their first l when they went into an arbor
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Speaker 2: and got that w Yes.
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Speaker 1: So that would be fun to watch from that standpoint,
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Speaker 1: hoping for a good match, hoping hoping it's a matchup
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Speaker 1: that keeps us awake late.
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Speaker 3: That's the key.
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Speaker 2: Continue to give us a little bit more caffeine every
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Speaker 2: four minutes, they tell the players, and just all you
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Speaker 2: have to do in a comeback is try to win
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Speaker 2: that four minutes, keep yourself in the game. Tommy Lloyd
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Speaker 2: was trying to sell that to the boys coming out
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Speaker 2: of the locker room. Did not happen, But hey, he's
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Speaker 2: gonna have five more years to be able to you
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Speaker 2: gonna have a lot more time to be able to
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Speaker 2: help those boys out because he turned down the UNC
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Speaker 2: job than Dusty May turns down the UNC job.
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Speaker 3: Drew.
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Speaker 2: That definitely feels like it's turning into the Penn State
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Speaker 2: job of hill football.
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Speaker 3: Where it's just gonna make everybody a lot of money.
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Speaker 1: It's trending that way, and Tonight's shapes up to where
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Speaker 1: you could have a delicious double header with the Brewers
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Speaker 1: playing the Red Sox leading right into If you want
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Speaker 1: to miss all the pregame hoopla from Indianapolis, well you
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Speaker 1: don't have that double header. Fenway pac Perfect and then
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Speaker 1: the National Championship games.
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Speaker 2: As old as it will sound, man, five forty start
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Speaker 2: is even better than six forty these Brewers games. I'm
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Speaker 2: a big, big fan of these East Coast trips. Real
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Speaker 2: they might have to move to the West Coast someday,
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Speaker 2: and I've thought about it. A lot of teams play
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Speaker 2: at four oh seven everything. Yeah, the Sunday early Bird,
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Speaker 2: the Sunday ten o'clock NFL slate would be a little
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Speaker 2: bit dicey, but I would grow into it and grow it.
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Speaker 3: I think I'd be able to grow into it. Drew.
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Speaker 1: You can reach us on the Nicolay Lotto. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: text line eight seven seven seven nine three. It's game
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Speaker 1: balls and kicks of the balls Monday. We will get
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Speaker 1: to that, and we might as well just go ahead
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Speaker 1: and allow that. Almost everybody who listens to us wants
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Speaker 1: to deliver a well placed need of the growing to
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Speaker 1: King James Lebron James for his comments about Memphis and Milwaukee.
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Speaker 3: Here it is.
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Speaker 1: It's funny because we're we had major developments on the
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Speaker 1: ongoing saga. Well, easy to say, yes and the and
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Speaker 1: we will definitely talk about that. I was at the
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Speaker 1: Bucks game yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I got some inside information. I like that we were
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Speaker 2: there boots on the ground. Yes, yes, yes, yes, but uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, getis in the Bucks ongoing saga. He said,
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Speaker 2: they said, he said, they said, And.
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Speaker 1: Then Lebron drops the nuke and it seems like Memphis
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Speaker 1: is wearing it more than us. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: why because we were mentioned as well, Yeah we got
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Speaker 1: we got tag tuesday in Milwaukee and then a Thursday
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Speaker 1: in Memphis. Now people are caping up for Memphis, nobody's
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Speaker 1: caping up for Milwaukee. And Lebron's comments of you know,
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Speaker 1: there's all kinds of soul searching going on in some
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Speaker 1: circles of like why doesn't he like us? Why didn't
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Speaker 1: you like us? What's the deal? What did you think
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Speaker 1: when you heard that when he dropped those nukes?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is somebody that has sadly had to fly
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Speaker 2: the flag and catch a hole and hold a number
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Speaker 2: of different l's as the lebron guy in the area.
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Speaker 2: That's one where just a slap back to hey, we
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Speaker 2: appreciate what you're doing, but we still know that we
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Speaker 2: would rather this team be a second Chicago city or
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Speaker 2: a second Chicago team.
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Speaker 3: We know this for way too long.
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Speaker 2: It's why they try to move it potentially when Jordan
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Speaker 2: wanted to buy it way back when or whatever those
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Speaker 2: rumors ended up being. But it is fun to have
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Speaker 2: somebody who has been one of the biggest thorns in
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee side whenever he's played here, because are some of
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Speaker 2: the best games at the Bradley Center that twenty something
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Speaker 2: point run in a row. Just to try to give
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Speaker 2: one last slap in the face before he walks out
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Speaker 2: of the game. That was hard to hear. However, Man
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Speaker 2: at least be a little bit more creative with it.
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Speaker 2: Put us in with Memphis. Come on, we're still that
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Speaker 2: Oklahoma city. That's why I think we're not wearing it
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Speaker 2: as much as Memphis, because at least there's been somewhat
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Speaker 2: of a product that you've had to play against here.
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Speaker 3: They're both Milwaukee and Memphis.
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Speaker 1: Oh, we're all about to lose my Yeah, they're both
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Speaker 1: you know, unattractive NBA markets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, either one is exactly where everybody dreams of being at. However,
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Speaker 2: as they matched up yesterday, which I did think was
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Speaker 2: the favorite, the best side by side was at least
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Speaker 2: you can have the dream matchup that Lebron hates the most.
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Speaker 3: Oh it does.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like the point of contention also drew and
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Speaker 2: I thought we fixed this all right.
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Speaker 3: I thought we were staying away from the Fister.
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Speaker 2: It sounded like the hotel in Memphis was the one
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Speaker 2: that was getting the biggest shade, and I was worried
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Speaker 2: that it was the Fister was scaring people. I thought
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Speaker 2: we fixed that all right. We can get them in
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Speaker 2: a Ritz Carlton like docks.
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Speaker 3: That the NBA players are used to four seasons in
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Speaker 3: Ritz Carlton's. We don't have one of those here.
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Speaker 1: Fister is very nice and some people like it because
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Speaker 1: it's old and elegant, and some people say it's like
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Speaker 1: a museum. It's like being in a museum. Sure, I
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Speaker 1: don't like it because it's not as modern. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a wonderful place. It's a it's iconic, but it's
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Speaker 1: historic for a reason. That's historic for a reason. Some
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Speaker 1: say it's haunted. But the current NBA there are some
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Speaker 1: teams and I know in the playoffs that stay in
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Speaker 1: the third ward at the Kimpton Hotel, right, and they
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Speaker 1: have some stuff to walk around to there because there's
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Speaker 1: buses parked out there.
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Speaker 3: Teams that stay there.
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Speaker 1: But for the most part, now they can just stay
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Speaker 1: at the trade and not even worry about it.
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Speaker 3: Oh I cannot worry about it. You're right next.
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Speaker 1: Door to the arena that you're going to, which is
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Speaker 1: when you think about convenience.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: I only did the Baseball travel circuit for like a decade.
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Speaker 1: Lebron's been at it for two and I understand because
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Speaker 1: there are cities I didn't want to go to. Oh
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Speaker 1: for sure, Cincinnati one of my least favorite stops.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: I stayed in Covington. I explored it and it's like
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Speaker 1: a three day series. And there's a lot of people
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Speaker 1: who felt that way about Milwaukee. Some of my writer
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Speaker 1: buddies and some of the guys from big markets love
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Speaker 1: it here. Oh yeah, absolutely love it. And a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys treat me a taste they'll stay out sometimes
9:41
Speaker 1: because they're Marriott guys and stuff. Oh, I'm say at
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Speaker 1: the Brookfield Marriott, Like, what are you doing out there?
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Speaker 1: There's more downtowns Like nah, I love it that they
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Speaker 1: like the lack of for them. There's no traffic here.
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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? They like it and I
9:52
Speaker 1: get it. There's just some cities that you don't like.
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Speaker 1: When you're on that circuit for as long as he
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Speaker 1: is and NBA travel, it's not like you're there for
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Speaker 1: four days a lot of times unless you're at a
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Speaker 1: player off series.
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Speaker 3: Right, you're in and you're out and where you know well?
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Speaker 2: And I think the other the the thing about the
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Speaker 2: travel now, and we've joked about it a number of
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Speaker 2: different times on and off the air. What's the problem
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Speaker 2: about it now other than it's cold so you can't
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Speaker 2: enjoy the walk outside because these guys aren't doing anything.
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Speaker 2: They're not going out, they're not going to different places,
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Speaker 2: they're not frequenting many establishments where maybe a certain number
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Speaker 2: thirteen Jersey would generally hang in the rafters of a
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Speaker 2: Houston establishment.
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Speaker 3: That that's not really work well might anymore? Might be
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Speaker 3: it that they don't like our strip clubs.
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Speaker 2: That could be the problem, and I guess it's far away.
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Speaker 2: I mean like maybe they're like, we don't want to
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Speaker 2: go all the way to Silver Spring Drive to be
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Speaker 2: able to have the best experience.
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Speaker 1: But Lebron to mind now, it's the only thing he's
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Speaker 1: gone to in Milwaukee is the restaurant Carnivore.
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Speaker 3: That's all I could imagine. I mean maybe he's been.
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Speaker 1: To apartments seven to twenty one of the night clubs here.
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Speaker 1: There aren't enough night clubs for NBA players, get that right.
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Speaker 3: That's fair.
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Speaker 1: But again, like Branda Jenny starting to appreciate it hour,
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Speaker 1: you're one night in, one night out and if you
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Speaker 1: happen to be here and it's Tuesday, get it. You
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Speaker 1: might get a you know, an impression of the city
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Speaker 1: being a ghost town and stuff.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that never he's never been here in the summer. No,
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Speaker 2: And if you were here in the summer, you'd understand
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Speaker 2: it a lot more. And I think that's why Drew
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Speaker 2: the baseball one doesn't surprise me that much. And more
11:14
Speaker 2: and more baseball players have said it a ton of
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Speaker 2: different times. If you have played here, they love it
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Speaker 2: because there is so much to do and That's the thing,
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Speaker 2: is the show off for three months out of the year.
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Speaker 1: Even opposing players love Milwaukee because they well, if you
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Speaker 1: like Milwaukee as an appost player, you like it because
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Speaker 1: you like amfam field, You like the treatment in the
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Speaker 1: clubhouse by Phil Roswoods and his crew or pamper these
11:36
Speaker 1: players and they one of the best, you know, best food.
11:39
Speaker 1: There were cities where it's like, oh, I don't like
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Speaker 1: that city much, but I like the hotel and I
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Speaker 1: like the ballpark, and that made the trip palatable.
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Speaker 3: Say it went for a long way.
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Speaker 1: If you don't like the park, like going to Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: when they're at Riverfront Stadium.
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Speaker 3: Not a good you know, yeah, not a fun time.
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Speaker 2: And as much as it was someone a good gift
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Speaker 2: and we loved it, I understand why visiting players didn't
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Speaker 2: love to be see that you got outdated quick, got
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Speaker 2: outdated quick when you first got into the league.
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Speaker 1: Gary conea Mets announcer, just made a crack about like
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Speaker 1: downtown Saint Louis, and he's not wrong about you can
12:09
Speaker 1: walk around downtown Sate St. Louis and it's like a
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Speaker 1: post nuclear apopolyptic world. There's no there's nothing to do
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Speaker 1: that you don't even see people. It'll take you six minutes.
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Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's kind of followed out about it. The
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Speaker 1: downtown has hollowed out where you know if you're going
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Speaker 1: to stay, so a lot of teams stay out in
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Speaker 1: the suburbs.
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Speaker 2: Man, fifteen years ago, that place was live downtown as
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Speaker 2: they set up those two stadiums and when they when
12:31
Speaker 2: they rebuilt Bush Stadium, it was a gorgeous spot to
12:35
Speaker 2: be able to build out. And and now you're right it
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Speaker 2: is as well. Downtown is freeway stop as there is.
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Speaker 2: Downtown is read. They still have that ballpark. Village is cool.
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Speaker 1: But every city has its pluses, it's minuses, and uh
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Speaker 1: not every city can be Phoenix, Atlanta, La, New York, Chicago,
12:51
Speaker 1: which are top of the spots. Well, I guess San
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Speaker 1: Francisco for those guys too.
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Speaker 3: I would just like, you know, Minneapolis to get a
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Speaker 3: couple more slaps in the face or or did you
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Speaker 3: as much?
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Speaker 2: I mean, like Minneapolis I appreciate because I think I do.
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Speaker 2: This is the only nice thing I'll say about our
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Speaker 2: neighbors to the west. I think it's the biggest city
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Speaker 2: that doesn't smell like all the time.
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Speaker 3: Ah, is that fair? Especially into the summer.
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Speaker 2: You, as a baseball writer would would probably realize appreciate
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Speaker 2: that more on trips to New York or different places.
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Speaker 3: It's smell like.
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Speaker 2: Garbage all the time, which is appreciative of the big city.
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Speaker 3: But Detroit, no one likes that place. Come on, let's
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Speaker 3: give him some more slabs.
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Speaker 2: At Little Caesars Arena than just here into Milwaukee. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: because you're still going there when it's cold, and I
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Speaker 2: know it's not warm when you get to Detroit. That
13:37
Speaker 2: gust is still slapping you in the face. So let's
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Speaker 2: get them a little bit more shaking.
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Speaker 1: You don't like Milwaukee, you know, just grab your own
13:43
Speaker 1: hotel in Chicago and take a limo or a helicopter.
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Speaker 2: Also, my man hasn't played here in like four years,
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Speaker 2: so it really doesn't matter. Shockingly, so oh, there's a
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Speaker 2: rest that we're gonna build on in here.
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Speaker 3: Legit. I don't believe he's played in Milwaukee in about
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Speaker 3: four or five year.
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Speaker 1: The Trade Hotel which they built, you know, Bucks ownership
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Speaker 1: owns and is adjacent. They built those NBA rooms, They
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Speaker 1: built like extra high ceilings and stuff.
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Speaker 3: They have like NBA five hours. It was nice.
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Speaker 1: It's a newer hotel. I don't know what's yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing else you need.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing else you need other than maybe they're upset
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Speaker 2: that you can't get a botchy at eleven.
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Speaker 1: Is Milwaukee on a Tuesday in January appreciably worse than
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Speaker 1: Cleveland on a Tuesday in January. Other than Cleveland, they're
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Speaker 1: staying at a Ritz Carlton.
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Speaker 3: Look, Louie, don't need a build one. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Lebron literally has one game against the Bucks since twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty two, and that was this year, and that was
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Speaker 4: in La in La. The last time we played here
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Speaker 4: was twenty twenty two in December thirty seven minutes, had
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Speaker 4: twenty eight points and eleven assists.
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Speaker 2: Because otherwise he is he's found. It's been in the
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Speaker 2: midst of now. He hasn't been injured a ton, but
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Speaker 2: through a lot of load management during the last couple
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Speaker 2: of years to be able to keep the forty one
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Speaker 2: forty two year old onto the floor.
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Speaker 3: And still really productive. Though it's still really productive.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna be he was gonna be fun during the playoffs,
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Speaker 2: but now his whole team's been gutted. Like he thinks
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Speaker 2: our city has been by his comments, so maybe that
15:08
Speaker 2: was a little bit of karma. You start speaking ill
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Speaker 2: will about the four to one four and then some
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Speaker 2: ham string start grabbing that grade to on the on
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Speaker 2: the exciting Whites that they had on that team of
15:17
Speaker 2: Luca Dogics and Austin Reeves.
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Speaker 3: So we have Lebron and then now.
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Speaker 1: Based on his comments, one of our friends is referring
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Speaker 1: to number thirty four as leyanis.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, well, Drew Leis James.
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Speaker 2: You kind of thought that it was going to at
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Speaker 2: some point it was going to get stickier and diceier
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Speaker 2: for number thirty four, And it feels like it is
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Speaker 2: getting to the point it is going to get.
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Speaker 1: Much season mercifully is almost over. It'll be over by
15:50
Speaker 1: this time next week.
15:51
Speaker 2: And only one more chance to have him in front
15:54
Speaker 2: of the home crowd. And you got to assume that
15:57
Speaker 2: this would be the way that they get him on
15:59
Speaker 2: the floor, right.
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Speaker 1: If they were going to I don't think they will,
16:02
Speaker 1: That's the question. Like I was there last night and
16:05
Speaker 1: I stayed until the end, and I saw the ALLYU
16:08
Speaker 1: heard round Athens.
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Speaker 3: That was phenomenal Athens.
16:11
Speaker 1: They've wanted it was Alex too Thanasis for the ally
16:16
Speaker 1: you dunk Thanasis gets a te for hanging on the
16:18
Speaker 1: rim slapping the glass. It was an epic moment at
16:21
Speaker 1: the end of the game of the Bucks one and
16:23
Speaker 1: Bucks were scrappy and they beat beat Memphis, beat.
16:27
Speaker 3: That other bad market beat The other of it was
16:29
Speaker 3: it was the Lebron Bowl last night. I had to go.
16:32
Speaker 3: I was like, I gotta go see Lebron's favorite two teams.
16:34
Speaker 3: It's so ironic that they were playing each other. It
16:35
Speaker 3: was amazing right on the same weekend. And then so
16:38
Speaker 3: then we had that side by side. What we're getting
16:40
Speaker 3: at for those who are just coming to.
16:43
Speaker 1: On this Monday, is the the comments that came from
16:46
Speaker 1: Yannis on Friday amid reports that the NBA was investigating. Now,
16:51
Speaker 1: the NBA Players Association started this on Yanni's behalf behalf.
16:56
Speaker 1: He was complaining about not playing, and then like then
17:00
Speaker 1: we had the report Friday or Thursday Friday that oh,
17:03
Speaker 1: the NBA is investigating one of the Bucks.
17:05
Speaker 3: Are you know, tanking?
17:07
Speaker 1: They're investing them getting it for them, They're investing under
17:09
Speaker 1: investigation for tanking and holding out.
17:11
Speaker 3: A healthy player. Well, have you seen what the Wizards
17:14
Speaker 3: have been doing all year? Correct? Sitting guys, playing their.
17:17
Speaker 1: Guys and then just sitting them in the fourth quarter
17:19
Speaker 1: and playing a bunch of scrubs to ensure that they
17:21
Speaker 1: lose a game that looks like they tried to win
17:23
Speaker 1: when they're not really trying. Bucks haven't done that other
17:26
Speaker 1: than the honest thing. And then the then it comes
17:28
Speaker 1: out that Yannis makes his comments and plenty to dive
17:32
Speaker 1: through on the quotes there uh at his locker before
17:36
Speaker 1: not playing on Friday night.
17:37
Speaker 3: And then the next day.
17:39
Speaker 1: The little recoil was like, oh, well, the NBA investigations
17:43
Speaker 1: finding that the Bucks wanted him to play three on
17:45
Speaker 1: three as part of the protocol, and he refused, so
17:47
Speaker 1: therefore they deemed that he wasn't ready and that's part
17:50
Speaker 1: of their evidence. And that's how they're describing the case,
17:52
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks v. Yannis, and it's trending in an ugly direction.
17:57
Speaker 1: He did as always leave like a door slightly a
17:59
Speaker 1: jar when he said you could go to couples counseling, and.
18:01
Speaker 3: We could always you could always get some counseling.
18:04
Speaker 1: I don't know how you repair the and seventy five
18:07
Speaker 1: million dollars payable October first, maybe, But the thing is
18:12
Speaker 1: that the money is always the one that's going to
18:14
Speaker 1: change the conversation for for Giannis, and I think there's
18:18
Speaker 1: seemingly more skepticism around the league, and maybe I think
18:22
Speaker 1: it's I believe it's it's fakes skepticism that teams would
18:26
Speaker 1: want to spend that money on him. I will drop
18:27
Speaker 1: everybody what I will drop, And you know, part of
18:30
Speaker 1: the I've been everybody Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Everybody's embraced you, honest,
18:34
Speaker 1: we've seen the journey. Like the Buddy the Elf thing
18:36
Speaker 1: that I's talk about. When he got here, it was
18:38
Speaker 1: so refreshing and so awesome, and watching him grow into
18:41
Speaker 1: a champion has been incredible. It's been a privilege to
18:44
Speaker 1: watch Giannis's years playing for the Milwaukee Bucks, which highlighted
18:48
Speaker 1: by a title.
18:50
Speaker 3: However, he's gone from Buddy the Elf?
18:53
Speaker 1: Has he gone completed the art for Buddy the Elf
18:55
Speaker 1: to I was gonna say Gordon Geko, but Billy wouldn't
18:58
Speaker 1: get that. Reference to a movie called Wall Street. They
19:00
Speaker 1: came up many years ago. There Kurt Douglas played at
19:02
Speaker 1: a ruthless trader, a ruthless finance your billionaire named Gordon Getko.
19:06
Speaker 1: So it's like, is he now more that guy than
19:09
Speaker 1: Buddy the Elf.
19:11
Speaker 3: Maybe.
19:11
Speaker 2: I I think the scale is very very much tipping
19:14
Speaker 2: one way. And he said, you know who you're dealing with,
19:17
Speaker 2: You know who you're dealing with.
19:19
Speaker 1: I'm having flashbacks to Farv and Rodgers, and then we
19:21
Speaker 1: have the PTSD and the battle scars from those earlier,
19:24
Speaker 1: earlier divorces with our iconic athletes. So we're gonna talk
19:27
Speaker 1: about that today. As painful as it may be, it
19:31
Speaker 1: is a topic on display. And so the Brewers, how
19:33
Speaker 1: does we mentioned going to Fenway? We got plenty for
19:36
Speaker 1: you on the Monday edition of the Huddle armand's not here.
19:39
Speaker 1: We're thinking of him in Vegas again again. Again there's
19:43
Speaker 1: a guy we don't have to worry about though, because
19:44
Speaker 1: he's so tidy squeaks well.
19:46
Speaker 2: Actually though, because he's there with the uh, there with
19:49
Speaker 2: the misses, they might actually have some fun, that's true.
19:52
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, if any if anybody.
19:53
Speaker 2: I think can pull that zipper on the on the
19:56
Speaker 2: cross body bag with the money in it, I think
19:58
Speaker 2: I think there might.
19:59
Speaker 1: Continue his crow success. We'll discuss as we move forward.
20:02
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to game balls and kicks. The ball
20:04
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Speaker 1: four seven three as we kick around the issues of
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Speaker 1: the day and game balls and kicks to the balls
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Speaker 1: on nine to twenty Milwaukee ten seventy Madison everywhere in
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Speaker 1: the Iron app and streaming live on Facebook X and
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Speaker 1: the youtubes. All right, so, Billy, which way is the
20:34
Speaker 1: honest thing going to go? Because we were almost our
20:36
Speaker 1: long national nightmare of the Bucks season is almost over.
20:39
Speaker 1: It will end next Sunday. They're playing their last home
20:42
Speaker 1: game Friday against Brooklyn, yep. And then they're done Sunday
20:46
Speaker 1: in Dallas.
20:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds right. It's sun Sunday is when it
20:49
Speaker 2: comes to its merciful end.
20:51
Speaker 3: And then we begin the where will Yannis end up?
20:55
Speaker 1: What will they do? What's gonna happen? We had it's
20:58
Speaker 1: going in cycles as usual. Yannis for the first time
21:00
Speaker 1: I think since March.
21:02
Speaker 2: Yep, since the last time he gave Eric name and
21:04
Speaker 2: Jim Lesowski the story and then Shampson didn't credit anything
21:09
Speaker 2: for the information. But we got it again in front
21:11
Speaker 2: of the Loco re borders yesterday.
21:13
Speaker 1: Got that and then there was an ESPN discussion, wasn't
21:15
Speaker 1: there or one of the somebody talked to Eden's and haslam,
21:20
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that was to Shelburn kind of got that audience,
21:24
Speaker 1: and that's where you know Eden's spoke the But the
21:28
Speaker 1: obvious Bucks position is that he's either going to sign
21:30
Speaker 1: this extension or we'll have to trade him, which Jannis
21:33
Speaker 1: said was a slap in the face, which is I
21:35
Speaker 1: don't understand how it can be a slap in the
21:37
Speaker 1: face because it means that we're going to either slap
21:39
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five million dollars in front of
21:41
Speaker 1: you or.
21:42
Speaker 3: Trade you where you want to go.
21:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the let them pay you two hundred plus
21:46
Speaker 2: million dollars. So it's difficult for me, Drew h to
21:50
Speaker 2: feel some sort of like real empathy or whatever, because
21:55
Speaker 2: I don't know that the Bucks have done anything wrong
21:58
Speaker 2: in any of these proceedings. They've paid Giannis a ton
22:01
Speaker 2: of money. He has been an incredible employee, made the
22:04
Speaker 2: best of all time that they that they've had. That
22:07
Speaker 2: goes without saying, however, the way that it seems to
22:11
Speaker 2: be trending, is that it's going to be better for
22:13
Speaker 2: both to somewhat go their separate ways. And as much
22:17
Speaker 2: as I would prefer to see Yannis finish out his
22:21
Speaker 2: career in a Bucks uniform, this is not going to
22:25
Speaker 2: be away. It appears to happen right like, he's not
22:29
Speaker 2: going to go for the next year to try and develop.
22:33
Speaker 2: I think with a young team he wants to walk
22:35
Speaker 2: into what again, he's not wouldn't be the only one
22:38
Speaker 2: in the NBA.
22:38
Speaker 3: He would be the.
22:39
Speaker 2: Exception to the rule if he did grind through a
22:43
Speaker 2: rebuild with a young team and try to find different
22:45
Speaker 2: ways for them to flip whatever pick they get here
22:48
Speaker 2: into the lottery into a new contributing star player quote
22:53
Speaker 2: unquote disgruntled star player that they can then hand out
22:56
Speaker 2: another MAX contract to with the cap space that they
22:59
Speaker 2: kind of have. I just don't know that he's ready
23:05
Speaker 2: to go into that where he would be signing up
23:08
Speaker 2: to potentially end his prime with a team playing for
23:12
Speaker 2: a play in game and then hoping on to the
23:15
Speaker 2: back end that he can.
23:16
Speaker 3: Be the old.
23:18
Speaker 2: Kareem version, somebody that plays with a young team that's
23:22
Speaker 2: already developed and he's the guy that has kind of
23:24
Speaker 2: been here for a long time and is the one
23:27
Speaker 2: that shepherd's in the new era. But I understand why
23:30
Speaker 2: you'd want to go west and go play with some
23:32
Speaker 2: of those other teams. The other the reason is for
23:34
Speaker 2: the Bucks that it makes too much sense as well,
23:36
Speaker 2: and why you have to put the edict out there
23:38
Speaker 2: is he is the most coveted ass that they've had
23:42
Speaker 2: since Kareem left and wanted to walk out to LA
23:46
Speaker 2: So you can't as the organization, I think, just let
23:49
Speaker 2: him walk away for nothing into free agency into a
23:53
Speaker 2: more disgruntled era. So like the packages just weren't good
23:57
Speaker 2: enough at the deadline, it made no sense to flip
23:59
Speaker 2: him then. Always made more sense, as you said, right
24:01
Speaker 2: out of the gates to get four or five six
24:03
Speaker 2: teams involved coming up in the off season.
24:06
Speaker 3: And I think that's where we're headed.
24:07
Speaker 2: It just depends on who is going to bow out
24:11
Speaker 2: in the next two months of the NBA playoffs and
24:13
Speaker 2: how desperate can their ownership be for you to be
24:16
Speaker 2: able to get the best package going forward.
24:18
Speaker 1: That's right, So Jannie's transformation again, I used Gordon Gekko
24:22
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to give another movie character as somewhat
24:25
Speaker 1: evil genius movie character. Hell could be Zuckerberg in the Facebook.
24:30
Speaker 3: Maybe I was going to say in the social network
24:32
Speaker 3: is social network.
24:33
Speaker 2: But so you get a taste of the cat, you
24:35
Speaker 2: always want more, understand it, all.
24:37
Speaker 1: Right, So when athletes reach free agency or if they're
24:41
Speaker 1: you know, scheming up to get traded somewhere, what do
24:44
Speaker 1: they look for in a new team they want? Well,
24:46
Speaker 1: first of all, money's always top, always helps. Money's at
24:50
Speaker 1: the top of the list when it comes to like
24:52
Speaker 1: free agent, you know, decisions, Right, there's money. Johannest not
24:56
Speaker 1: really that concerned about it because he's made a lot
24:58
Speaker 1: of money from the Bucks already and it's going to
25:00
Speaker 1: be he likes his money and it's going to be relative,
25:02
Speaker 1: but he'd probably be willing to take less to have
25:05
Speaker 1: a chance to win.
25:06
Speaker 3: That's the second thing they look for.
25:08
Speaker 1: Chance to win, chance compete, chance to like play meaningful
25:11
Speaker 1: games every night.
25:12
Speaker 3: Uh.
25:13
Speaker 1: That's and then the third thing is the market. And
25:15
Speaker 1: that's where Milwaukee, Wisconsin Brewers Bucks. It's like, this isn't
25:20
Speaker 1: not an attractive market.
25:22
Speaker 3: We love it here. You got to live here to learn.
25:24
Speaker 1: But that's not a hurdle with you honest, because he
25:27
Speaker 1: lives here, loves it, has proclaimed his love for the city,
25:30
Speaker 1: loves that he doesn't have to have security for his
25:32
Speaker 1: family and stuff like that, so that he filed around freely.
25:35
Speaker 3: As well as the all all in moves that they've
25:38
Speaker 3: made at every single juncture. These are yeah, well one
25:40
Speaker 3: of the reasons why he signed two different Yeah.
25:42
Speaker 1: Well, it's one of those things that's that's come up
25:44
Speaker 1: that you know, and that Laurie's follow up piece, Laurie
25:47
Speaker 1: Nichols follow up piece about him how tough it was
25:50
Speaker 1: for him earlier this year when the family was in Greece.
25:53
Speaker 3: You made that decision. That was your call.
25:54
Speaker 1: You kind of made that call, and if it was awful,
25:57
Speaker 1: you could have called them home like it was lived here.
25:59
Speaker 3: It wasn't.
26:00
Speaker 1: That was a weird deal because he wanted to shield
26:03
Speaker 1: them from the rumors. Yeah, and in druid Or he
26:06
Speaker 1: wanted them to I don't know, to ease the trauma
26:09
Speaker 1: that if he got traded, that he would then like
26:12
Speaker 1: establish the.
26:13
Speaker 3: New home and like let them come to the new home.
26:15
Speaker 3: I don't know what did I don't know what he
26:16
Speaker 3: was thinking.
26:17
Speaker 2: It didn't It didn't make any sense at ours it
26:19
Speaker 2: was a weird way of trying to flip it back
26:21
Speaker 2: onto the others, put the shoe onto the other foot.
26:24
Speaker 2: And it does feel like that's when kind of the
26:26
Speaker 2: circus that they've tried to or the the three ring
26:28
Speaker 2: circuits that they've tried to even out and juggled through
26:30
Speaker 2: here of we want his team clearly wants him to
26:35
Speaker 2: be somewhere else. Understandably so he it appears, wants to
26:40
Speaker 2: be somewhere else. But the most important thing still to
26:43
Speaker 2: him from the outside, looking at somebody that's never had
26:46
Speaker 2: the conversation with him, nobody has other than Eric name
26:49
Speaker 2: and Jimozarski, I think you are going to ultimately be
26:51
Speaker 2: able to have it is that he does not ever
26:54
Speaker 2: want fans to believe that he wants out, even though
26:58
Speaker 2: he does. That's a hard thing to be able to
27:01
Speaker 2: play behind that different curtain.
27:03
Speaker 1: Well, that's the complexity of it is. It's not the
27:05
Speaker 1: only thing he doesn't like about Milwaukee is the roster. Yeah,
27:09
Speaker 1: and I think that's it, but it's hard to say that.
27:12
Speaker 1: But that's that's the truth, is like he doesn't think
27:15
Speaker 1: this roster can Looking at it.
27:18
Speaker 2: Now and outside of the coach, I think it's the
27:20
Speaker 2: thing that the Bucks.
27:21
Speaker 3: Fans don't like the most about Milwaukee right now. Yeah,
27:23
Speaker 3: we've talked about it. Yeah, that's true too.
27:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the first time. Like, that's the toughest
27:27
Speaker 1: the Bucks. I was at the game yesterday and the
27:29
Speaker 1: Bucks weeks ago abandoned the tradition of after the starting lap,
27:33
Speaker 1: say the Bucks are coached by and then first time
27:38
Speaker 1: out last night they had to acknowledge that Doc Rivers
27:41
Speaker 1: has been selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
27:43
Speaker 3: And then they put.
27:44
Speaker 1: The graphic up and he gave away to the crowd
27:46
Speaker 1: and it was sixty forty people booing are kind.
27:49
Speaker 3: Of muffled air. That was not it was not what
27:54
Speaker 3: it should could or should have been out of the
27:56
Speaker 3: nice reverent clap. No no, no.
27:59
Speaker 1: So that's like every hurdle, Like the Bucks could offer
28:02
Speaker 1: the most money, the Bucks have a city that he
28:04
Speaker 1: loves and is comfortable in and would not mind playing
28:06
Speaker 1: his entire career. That the roster and the ability to win,
28:09
Speaker 1: at least on paper, is what is the hurdle, right,
28:12
Speaker 1: So and then fixing that, John Horston say, you know,
28:15
Speaker 1: let me cook. I'm gonna have picks, I'm gonna have money,
28:18
Speaker 1: to spend cap money picks.
28:20
Speaker 3: He can get creative, but can they do it now?
28:23
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this in the context of you know, okay,
28:27
Speaker 1: see we talked about it last week. Oklahoma City might
28:29
Speaker 1: be the best run franchise in all sports right now.
28:32
Speaker 1: It's dominant, and it's like, go back and think of
28:34
Speaker 1: their history. They didn't break through when they had Harden
28:39
Speaker 1: and KD and Westbrook at like in their young years,
28:44
Speaker 1: like they did, they were amazing players. It was a
28:46
Speaker 1: great run. They went to a finals, but they just
28:49
Speaker 1: couldn't break through. And then that splintered, and then they
28:52
Speaker 1: stumbled in the wilderness and they got a bunch of
28:53
Speaker 1: young players that they built into a championship team.
28:55
Speaker 3: And so it's like, you.
28:56
Speaker 1: Didn't win it with the three Hall of famers you
29:00
Speaker 1: but you paid your dues kind of and put that
29:03
Speaker 1: into the bank and now you're and now you're set
29:05
Speaker 1: up for the for the best chance out of dynasty
29:08
Speaker 1: that the leagues had.
29:09
Speaker 3: What was this? That was like a fifteen year journey
29:12
Speaker 3: right totally? How long ago? How long have Durant and
29:15
Speaker 3: Westbrook and hard and been out of okay see.
29:18
Speaker 2: Well Harden would have been right after that Championship that
29:22
Speaker 2: that finals was twenty twelve, twenty eleven, two down twelve.
29:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's right around that thirteen four fourteen years.
29:29
Speaker 2: Well, in the other the funny comparison to it, Drew
29:32
Speaker 2: would be like Russ was the one that chose to
29:35
Speaker 2: stay after the other two left, and Katie and in
29:38
Speaker 2: the worst of the fashions, and then Paul George was
29:42
Speaker 2: the guy that they got to try to be like,
29:43
Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna make Russ here, and he's ultimately
29:47
Speaker 2: the one that turns into Shay Gildess Alexander. The plethora
29:49
Speaker 2: of picks that they have that would have been like
29:52
Speaker 2: if the all in move for the Bucks to keep
29:54
Speaker 2: Giannis in town, happy and thriving, Dame Lillard would have
29:58
Speaker 2: been able to be traded and not had to be
30:00
Speaker 2: in h basically amnesty their version and now of the
30:04
Speaker 2: stretch like if you would have been able to get
30:08
Speaker 2: out of that all in move, then maybe you would
30:10
Speaker 2: have had something to actually build off of to the
30:14
Speaker 2: next piece. And that's where the dearth of assets. Later
30:18
Speaker 2: you mentioned, I like, they have three picks that they
30:21
Speaker 2: can trade. One will be in most likely the top
30:24
Speaker 2: ten or the top twelve wherever it ends up. But
30:26
Speaker 2: it does feel like there's only gonna be a certain
30:30
Speaker 2: caliber player that you can add in. And all of
30:32
Speaker 2: the teams that I'm watching right now, they're running eight
30:35
Speaker 2: nine deep, and I don't see eight or nine players
30:39
Speaker 2: NBA playoff players that the Bucks are gonna be able
30:41
Speaker 2: to grab in here.
30:42
Speaker 1: And no, but Bocks are likely to you know, trade Turner,
30:46
Speaker 1: they can trade Bobby, they could do. There's a lot
30:48
Speaker 1: of stuff they're gonna do.
30:49
Speaker 3: They're gonna have to make it. And if they trade, honest,
30:51
Speaker 3: they must well trade everybody.
30:52
Speaker 1: Everybody, although I would probably build around Uzman, Jangen and
30:56
Speaker 1: Ryan Rollins.
30:57
Speaker 3: And Rollins perhaps, Yeah, I mean, you.
30:59
Speaker 2: Got a couple of at least players that can be
31:01
Speaker 2: nice holdovers. And Erico Sims looks like a guy, you know,
31:04
Speaker 2: maybe Kevin Porter Junior next year, and it feels like
31:07
Speaker 2: you're going to be able to afford him because of
31:09
Speaker 2: the injuries that he's sadly battled here.
31:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot of options at a lot of
31:14
Speaker 1: drama here that you don't expect. And again, history, let
31:18
Speaker 1: history be the guide. Brett Favre was the face of
31:21
Speaker 1: Wisconsin sports. Aaron Rodd we've got plenty of Wisconsin snee
31:24
Speaker 1: a battle at it, Paul Maltor, we've.
31:25
Speaker 3: Got plenty of food.
31:27
Speaker 1: Guys have left before we know how to handle it,
31:30
Speaker 1: you would think, but we don't.
31:32
Speaker 2: That's fair, that's fair. Well, it still hurts the same
31:35
Speaker 2: drew its still.
31:36
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Speaker 3: It's the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Dave Gasper's in for Armored sign who's back in his
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Speaker 1: favorite city in the desert again again he went with Elbaldo.
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Speaker 3: Now he's there with the wife and you know, you
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Speaker 3: know it's fun, Drew.
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Speaker 2: They always say when you win too much, they're gonna
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Speaker 2: come calling for you back there.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna beg you to come back.
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Speaker 2: I'm just guessing that generational run at the crabstable that
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Speaker 2: Armor had last time. They were just like, send the jet,
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Speaker 2: get that guy back out here, get the adorable Armenian
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Speaker 2: back out here. We need him to spend some more cash.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he's becoming as iconic as the Vegas signe. It's
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Speaker 1: pretty impressivessive, no doubt.
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Speaker 2: Now, I just wonder because you know, South Beach Sarien
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Speaker 2: was a thing when he went down to Miami for
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Speaker 2: his bachelor parties and he was wearing the Roppers right,
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Speaker 2: the two piece matching shirt into short combo. I wonder
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Speaker 2: if that that also translates out to the Las Vegas
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Speaker 2: has to because right now would be the time because
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Speaker 2: I mean, they are still burning up in the desert, right,
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Speaker 2: Is it as bad as it wasn't spring training out
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Speaker 2: there in Arizona area.
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Speaker 1: They're about to run out of Miller lights because the
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Speaker 1: Badger hockey team is invading for the Frozen four.
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Speaker 3: This flowing through.
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Speaker 1: Yes, so Armin is establishing a beachhead. You can reach
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Speaker 1: us on the Nicolay Lott com talking text on eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven seven nine four one ninety seven three. Taking
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Speaker 1: thoughts about Giannis and what looks like at impending divorce.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it can be, if the relationship
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Speaker 1: can be saved. They stay together for the kids right now,
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Speaker 1: but we'll see.
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Speaker 2: But luckily the kids now all of us are just like,
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Speaker 2: you know what, It's okay, guys, We understand you're sleeping,
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Speaker 2: get it.
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Speaker 3: We get it. You've been sleeping in seven bathrooms for
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Speaker 3: a while.
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Speaker 1: Better for everybody if you just had different places and
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Speaker 1: we you know, I came and see you on weekends.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Amsquigo's that kind of attitude. Good morning guys. At
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Speaker 1: the start of the Yannest drama, I was screaming at
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Speaker 1: the Bucks to do whatever you can do to keep him.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm over it. Just trade him. What's changed for
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Speaker 1: me is one thing. Guys, he's always hurt, Thank you, Jannis,
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Speaker 1: but it's time to move on. Also, the NBA is
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Speaker 1: absolute horrible product right now, So it's actually made it
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Speaker 1: easier for me to accept because I just don't watch
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Speaker 1: it anymore.
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Speaker 3: Janni's turned into the diva we never thought he would.
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Speaker 3: That's the toughest part.
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Speaker 2: That's the hardest one to hear, because, uh, it was
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Speaker 2: it was a slight at him. I never thought, Drew,
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Speaker 2: you would be able to hear your thing. And I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna play. I'm gonna take Gianni's aside. I'm put on
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Speaker 2: my thirty four jersey right now. He's turned into a
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Speaker 2: diva through all the extensions, in all the years, all
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Speaker 2: he has ever said is I love Milwaukee. Yeah, this
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Speaker 2: is my home. I want to stay here and play
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Speaker 2: here forever. But I want only if it's a competitive
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Speaker 2: situation where we're playing for titles, not for play ins
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Speaker 2: and for draft picks. What's changed, It hasn't changed, has changed.
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Speaker 1: And they're playing for draft picks and they were hoping,
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Speaker 1: praying this year for a play in spot and then
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Speaker 1: now they had to recalibrate and focus on draft picks.
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Speaker 1: From you honest's standpoint, he hasn't changed, no, in the
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Speaker 1: only thing that he has been consistent. The only thing
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Speaker 1: that could have, I think been the best solver to
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Speaker 1: all of this would have been what this turned into,
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Speaker 1: which was the ultimate gap year. But if you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have done the cutting and the stretching of Dame, you
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Speaker 1: would have potentially had a little bit of a tradable
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Speaker 1: asset and a fifty five million dollars expiring contract. Now,
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Speaker 1: gap space is a different deal in the NBA now
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Speaker 1: because generally when the star does get to a point
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Speaker 1: where they would hit free agency and you'd want to
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Speaker 1: have all this cap space to sign them in the summer, Well,
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Speaker 1: that guy just signs the extension and then demands a trade,
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Speaker 1: right like that. That's just how this has always gone.
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Speaker 2: So the diva part, I think is it's difficult for
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Speaker 2: me to say that when you have guys that have
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Speaker 2: done it three times in five years, right, this would
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Speaker 2: be your your one time transfer rule.
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Speaker 3: That was the executive order.
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Speaker 2: Into the college sports, right like the one time transfer,
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Speaker 2: the one time saying hey, I appreciate it, I understand,
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Speaker 2: but now I do want to still go and be
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Speaker 2: able to win, And all due respect to Ryan Rellins
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Speaker 2: and his family, I don't think that we're going to
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Speaker 2: measure up into the Eastern Conference with all of these
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Speaker 2: teams that are are running as much as they are
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Speaker 2: with legit players, four or five, six guys off the
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Speaker 2: bench that you can go to and play with. The
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Speaker 2: other part of it on the always hurt. He's been
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Speaker 2: hurt in the playoffs. The regular season, which has only
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Speaker 2: been devalued more and more over the last three to
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Speaker 2: four years, has been where he's actually been his healthiest
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Speaker 2: and best. Like that's the toughest part. Where as much
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Speaker 2: as drew the roster doesn't measure up. Were they going
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Speaker 2: to win the title last year? I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: But if Damian Liller doesn't pop his achilles right before
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Speaker 2: the playoff or right into the playoffs, I think they
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Speaker 2: had a good chance to be able to shock some people.
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Speaker 2: And I thought the same thing before he got hurt
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Speaker 2: the year prior to And it's tough to go back
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Speaker 2: retroactively and say I wouldn't have done the same thing
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Speaker 2: of the Damian Lillard deal. But I think that's where
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Speaker 2: all of this truly stems from, because they get eliminated
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Speaker 2: in shocking fashion when he was hurt into the playoff series, right,
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Speaker 2: he played what two and a half of those games
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Speaker 2: against the Heat when they get beat out in five.
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Speaker 2: But we all watched what Jimmy Butler did to Drew Holliday,
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Speaker 2: it felt like that had needed a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a change. And the all in every year that we've
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Speaker 2: often asked our different and favorite teams to do, the
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Speaker 2: Bucks have done every single year. They're just sadly maybe
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Speaker 2: the best example as to how it does not play
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Speaker 2: out very well for you when you don't win the title.
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Speaker 2: You can end up into the dumpster. And the Bucks
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Speaker 2: have ended up in the dumpster the last three years.
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Speaker 2: This is hardly unprecedented. I go back to when the
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Speaker 2: Packers won their.
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl after a ten and sixth season mm hm
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Speaker 1: in as a wildcard.
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Speaker 2: They need a seventeen point comeback by the Eagles in
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter to make and they went on a heater.
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Speaker 3: The next year they were fifteen to one, gacked in them.
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Speaker 3: We know the history.
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Speaker 1: Then eleven and five, you know they were winning the
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Speaker 1: division and losing in the divisional round. Uh then eight
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Speaker 1: seven and one lost the wild card m twelve and
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Speaker 1: ten and six, ten and six until they bought them
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Speaker 1: out seven and nine, so they had like a five
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Speaker 1: or seven Bucks around. This is gonna be this summer
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Speaker 1: will be the fifth anniversary of the Bucks winning with
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Speaker 1: the winning the title championship. So it's been a while
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Speaker 1: and they've also and we're gonna look back and they're gonna, Oh,
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Speaker 1: you're honest. I went on a rant about this while
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Speaker 1: back about how outside of Curly Lambeau era and the
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Speaker 1: Lombardi era Packers, every superstar we've had in the state
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Speaker 1: has been like one and done. Eddie Matthews, like the
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Speaker 1: Braves had, Henry A and Eddie Matthews, Warren spont lubertet.
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Speaker 1: They won one title, they lost the World the second
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Speaker 1: World Series, and then basically kind of underachieved with that group, right,
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Speaker 1: so they won one Kareem one one modern you out
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Speaker 1: they didn't even win one, but that Pennant that the
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Speaker 1: chase of the penn and eighty two was.
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Speaker 3: There, one and chance, Yeah, far one and done, Rogers
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Speaker 3: one and done.
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Speaker 1: We get one title out of our superstar, our generational players,
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Speaker 1: and that's it now. And that's the way it's been
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Speaker 1: since the sixties, since Lombardi, since those Packers teams.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean it's also for us, isn't that
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Speaker 2: also kind of how it always for all stars like that? There,
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Speaker 2: I think we get clouded too much, drew with the
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Speaker 2: top what five or six in different sports that have
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Speaker 2: done it for dynastic runs left and right. But generally speaking,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot more Patrick Ewings than there are mjs
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Speaker 2: and Magic.
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Speaker 1: Johnson's, Magic Johnson's and Tom Brady's and yeah, the top best.
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Speaker 3: And I think you should, you know, you should think
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Speaker 3: you win one.
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Speaker 2: You should like a potato chip, you should have multiples,
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Speaker 2: but you always want more ones.
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Speaker 3: Once you get that, you want a little bit more.
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Speaker 3: That's how that's the that's the soup that we're in
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Speaker 3: right now.
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Speaker 2: I think the other the other part of it is
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Speaker 2: judging off this NBA different than everybody else. What is
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Speaker 2: it eight years in a row the team that has
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Speaker 2: won the title hadn't even gone back to the finals. Well,
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Speaker 2: I think there's only been one time the team went
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Speaker 2: back to the conference finals, and that was after the
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Speaker 2: Lakers won the Bubble title.
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Speaker 3: That feels as much of as far as as there.
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Speaker 2: Was, like everybody else has about out in the second round.
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Speaker 3: Bucks are the same way.
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Speaker 2: It just it feels crazy to think their closest chance
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Speaker 2: back was when they were up three to two against
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Speaker 2: Boston in that second round and came back here and
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Speaker 2: they had that closing chance to get back to the
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Speaker 2: conference finals.
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Speaker 3: Them happened. Yep, Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, all right, game
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Speaker 3: balls and kicks the balls. It seems like it's fertile
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Speaker 3: territory to cover Brewers winning a series in Kansas City
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Speaker 3: with a double header. I didn't even think it rained
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Speaker 3: that much Friday, but we'll talk about that. Maybe it
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Speaker 3: kicked to the balls to them from Kansas City on
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Speaker 3: Friday night.
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Cubs, Yeah, we will take your game balls
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Speaker 1: and kicks the balls as we move for We got
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Speaker 1: a little Brewers report from Hunter bomb Guard.
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