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Todd Brommelkamp joins Trent after the Hawkeyes lose at Maryland, women end the losing streak & Talk MLB with Matt Snyder · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Good afternoon. Welcome in.
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  Miller and Condon on the air with you here on a Thursday as
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  we talk the world of sports. Taking you up until 2:00 this
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  afternoon before Lucas got you covered off the bench from 2:00
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  until 5:00 and overtime. Iowa gets you home from 5:00
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  until 6:00 here today. Coming up on the guest list this
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  afternoon, we're going to talk some Major League Baseball.
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  Matt Snyder, our weekly guest during baseball season is going
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  to stop in. We'll get his perspective on the
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  pre season pitchers and catchers getting ready to report.
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  The schedule is out for the World Baseball Classic.
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  Yes, it is back for another year.
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  We will talk about that coming up here at 12:30 with Matt
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  Snyder from CBS. And we're hitting CBS hard
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  apparently as we'll go back to the well again.
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  Matt Norlander is going to join us from CBS Sports.
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  We'll get his perspective on college basketball, take a look
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  at the national scene and we'll also localize things as well.
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  But before that, it is not just me today and a couple of guests
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  know we bring in yet another Co host for the day and our
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  revolving door as Ken is on vacation here for the next
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  couple of weeks. And today in the hot seat he is
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  Todd Brommelkamp. Todd, good to see you.
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  I feel like I should be named Matt like I need to change my
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  name for. The Day and we're for CBS.
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  Yeah, I no comment on that one. I'm, I'm happy where we're at.
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  I know we're going to get to that later on, but I'm happy to
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  be filling in for Ken and hopefully he's enjoying his
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  vacation where he's at. Yes, down in South Carolina
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  usually goes West, goes out to California for his winter break,
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  but this year decided to go the other way to the other coast and
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  hanging out in South Carolina. And I can only imagine the
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  trials and tribulations because Ken, he is not an easy traveler.
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  He is driving with his wife and their dog.
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  So there's gonna be stories when he gets back to his.
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  It's never smooth sailing with Ken Miller.
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  What he goes at I. Rifled.
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  I rifled through my closet and I couldn't.
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  I don't own any Winnipeg Jets stuff so so I couldn't honor him
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  today. So I've got my best Scott Hall
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  T-shirt on. OK.
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  Ready to go? Absolutely.
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  Well, it's good to hear you here in my ears.
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  And I'm sure for our listeners that know Todd Brommelkamp, if
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  you don't know Todd for a long time was on the radio over in
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  Eastern Iowa, over in Cedar Rapids and certainly a guy that
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  I've gotten to know, Todd, gotten to know you throughout
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  the years, what you did over in that market.
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  And now we're also in that market with our signal over at
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  95.7 along with an Iowa City on KXIC.
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  Todd, you're back on the microphone, but you've been
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  doing some other things. So let the people, let the
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  listeners out there kind of know what you've been up to here
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  recently. Well, I'm kind of reinventing
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  myself at the age of 45, which I thought was going to be a little
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  difficult after I got let go back in August and now I'm
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  helping sell cars at Castle Motors here in Cedar Rapids and
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  absolutely loving it. Complete 180 at at 45, I I
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  didn't know whether it would be possible or not, but thanks to
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  some of my friends in the sports media and including you I I
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  still get to dip my toe in the water every once in a while.
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  So get to and remember what it was like back in the old days
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  when I was on the radio. And I wouldn't say everybody's
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  happy to hear me back today, but I'm sure there's, I'm sure
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  there's some folks listening in. And that was, you know, the one
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  thing that I really miss about doing radio every day.
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  And they're, the longer I've, I've been out of it, the less I
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  miss really the one thing that I truly, the one thing that I
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  truly miss is the interaction with the listeners.
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  And I think, you know, I think there's a lot of people that are
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  worried about AI and, and where we're going and we're all going
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  to get replaced everything. And that was the one thing is
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  that human interaction. I think it's going to take a
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  long time to figure out how to replace that.
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  So I miss the listeners. I miss getting to interact with
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  them on the text line and in real time.
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  And podcasts are great, but if there's no way to interact
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  during them. So I, I still think there's a
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  place for radio and, and I love the fact that you guys are
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  statewide and, and happy to be a little part of it for today and,
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  and I think next week as well, unless that's a secret that
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  wasn't supposed to let. Out.
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  No, no, you're good. You're good.
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  Todd will also be back with us next Thursday as well as that's
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  his off day. So you get that midweek break
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  and well, normally we do lock that.
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  Off work. You're making me work on my.
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  Well, nobody's making me work. No, But this is supposed to be
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  my day off. Yeah.
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  Your day off and you are hanging out with us for a couple hours
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  and we're better. Hold on, I got to know.
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  I got the guy on the other line about some white walls.
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  Didn't even know they still had a team.
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  Little Major League for you, Todd.
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  Volvo I'm ready for. Baseball, man, I had let's go I
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  Matt Snyder was with me on the radio every once in a while over
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  here in Cedar Rapids. So a great guest and looking
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  forward to talk to a little Cubs baseball and Cardinals and and
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  all things baseball with him coming up.
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  We will get to that, but we kick off today's program with of
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  course the top of the fold item and that is the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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  After a six game-winning streak, they go down last night at
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  Maryland and just a performance that leaves you scratching your
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  head and the way that that one played out.
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  A Maryland team, though they had won their last time out against
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  Minnesota was 2 and 10 in the Big 10.
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  A team that doesn't shoot it very well.
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  There was nobody in the building.
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  I mean, you talk about that made some of the Carver crowds late
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  under Fran look like it was an absolute party compared to what
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  was there last night in College Park.
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  Yet I would couldn't get it done.
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  A couple of things that jumped out to me #1 what's the defense?
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  And it was the defense and not the 12 fouls against the final
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  two over the last 14 fouls that were called against Iowa, like
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  they were putting by the line late.
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  I I don't think that there was anything.
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  Did search get clobbered on that play on the goal 10?
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  Yeah, he did. But this was not officiating.
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  This was future defense, and against a team that can't shoot
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  is not a good shooting team. How they were continually up in
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  their grill and then getting beat and time after time after
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  time the Maryland guys were able to go off the bounce, get to the
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  rim, get fouled a lot of times and get to the free throw line.
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  It was just an awful, I thought, defensive effort against a team.
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  The scout's pretty easy. Make them shoot.
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  They didn't do that. Yeah, and I think, you know,
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  look, it's a bad loss. And I was joking with somebody
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  at my son's baseball practice about of course they had to lose
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  this game. Right before I go on with you
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  statewide, you know, everybody's freaking out today about it's a
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  bad loss. The the timing on this is worse.
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  And I think because it brings up a lot of memories of, of other
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  coaching 10 years and not just Fran McCaffrey, but the a bad
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  loss about 3 or 4 weeks before you start to get into post
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  season play. So I understand the doom and
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  gloom here. You know, it was, there's no way
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  to sugarcoat it. It, it was a bad loss.
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  They should have been, especially the way that they
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  played on the West Coast when they were on the road.
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  They should have been able to go in there and, and beat a team
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  that they were superior to. And so I, I understand that
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  there's going to be a little bit of angst today among Hawkeye
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  fans, but I was actually, I was eating dinner last night.
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  And there's proof of this. You can look at this online.
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  But I, I went out for Chinese last night during the game.
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  I was watching the game on my phone.
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  And after my meal was over, my fortune said after defeat comes
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  regrowth. So for those of you looking for
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  an omen out there, yeah, it was a bad it was a bad loss.
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  And the team that played last night in an Iowa jersey doesn't
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  look like one that's going to be able to make much noise in in
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  the post season. But again, I think it's about a
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  matter of perspective for me and going back to the beginning of
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  the season, I think it would have been crazy to expect this
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  team to be where they've at be what they've accomplished so far
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  this year. And so for me, I, I'm this is a
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  role that I am not used to playing on the radio, but I'm
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  going to be the cautiously optimistic person here and just
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  hope that everybody has a bad night.
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  And that was Iowa's bad night. And that this is not the start
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  of something that we have unfortunately seen before with
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  Iowa men's basketball in mid February.
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  The Fran Fade it was, and I know there were plenty on the beat
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  that did not believe it was real.
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  There was a long, long run run of awfulness there.
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  And Aaron White, his senior year, he was about the only one
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  that could pull him out of that buck and the mire.
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  That seemed to happen almost on a yearly basis with Iowa
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  basketball. And though that turned around a
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  little bit. So we know eventually how that
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  all turned out. Todd, one other thing to me,
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  it's Bennett Sturtz and he was so good.
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  And yet late in the basketball game, after Maryland got in foul
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  trouble, they stopped going to the rim.
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  They were settling. And it wasn't just him.
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  Cooper Koch had open shots. He's got to make those shots.
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  You go out there, he doesn't have a rebound.
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  I know he's improved immensely on the defensive end of the
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  floor, but you're a shooter. You got to make shots and he
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  wasn't able to do that. And there was nobody else that
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  was able to help out. We see Bennett Sturtz go out
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  there 13 of 21. His other teammates combined for
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  12, made field goals, he made 13.
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  Everybody else only finished with 12.
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  That is a path to losing. It can't all be on Bennett
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  Sturtz. And there were so many times,
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  even after Iowa took the lead, after Hassan hit those
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  back-to-back 3 pointers, it would just who's going to bail
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  us out? We'll just get the ball to
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  Bennett and we'll settle. And they settled way too much
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  offensively. Yeah, and that's not going to be
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  a recipe for success in the postseason because everybody in
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  the country knows who Bennett Sturtz is.
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  And you, if you're able to bottle him up and shut him down,
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  this is a team that's going to need some other guys to step up.
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  And I think I think it was Mike Loss that noted last night.
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  You could take any combination of four Iowa players and add
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  their point total together and not get where Sturtz was last
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  night in the box score. That's not a recipe for success.
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  You you got to find a little bit of balance.
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  And I did think that they did get a little tentative that
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  they're down the stretch, maybe doubted, doubted themselves a
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  little bit. I don't think that's probably
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  the right way to to phrase it. But there just wasn't that that
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  killer instinct that that you kind of need to win Rd. games on
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  the big tenant. I, I'm not talking about going
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  into East Lansing or West Lafayette, you know, you can
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  talk about empty arenas and, and everything, but it's still tough
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  to play on the road in the Big 10.
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  And, and that's why I was so encouraged after seeing what
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  they did on that West Coast swing.
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  I thought, well, they'll go to Maryland and you know, it's not
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  going to be that much of a problem, but they just had a, an
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  all around awful night last night.
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  I'd be curious to hear what Ben McCollum has to say with the the
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  benefit of almost 24 hours hindsight now going back and
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  looking and and seeing some of the video, just exactly what he
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  thought the problem was. Listen to him with Dolph after
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  the game. He was audibly upset, couldn't
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  see visually, but hearing him, he was not pleased.
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  He was not pleased with the effort.
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  He used a couple of timeouts after some defensive breakdowns.
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  I don't believe that that was the scout in the game plan.
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  The way they played out. It was execution.
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  And we'll bring back a Kirk Fahrens ISM there.
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  It's about execution, right? And the execution, I thought
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  last night on both ends of the floor was really poor.
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  Let's get out to the phone lines right now.
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  You can join us as well here on Miller and Condon on the Iowa
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  Sports Radio Network, phone number 5152845966515284.
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  KX&O is where you can join us here today.
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  Jim's on the line with us. We'll hope everything works out
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  and Todd's able to heal her as well.
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  Jim, go ahead. You're on Miller and Condon.
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  Hey guys, I got a got a question for Todd here.
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  After my first comment, I kind of predicted that last night.
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  It looked, it looked sluggish against Northwestern.
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  And I'm it, it's an excuse. But traveling West Coast, being
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  gone for six days, coming back to the Midwest, we've been
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  getting on a plane. They just looked like they were.
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  And he called it Cooper Koch got to make those shots.
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  I mean, he had open looks. And for Todd, I got to.
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  Hopefully you can hear me if you remember Jim from Kyota.
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  Yeah, I remember Jim from Kyota. You were about to get your hat.
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  In football season, yeah, I'm the guy.
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  Absolutely. You said they don't win more
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  than six games. I'll eat my hat.
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  Oh, great. Great to hear from you, Jim, and
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  glad you're still out there listening.
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  I think they went in the seven games that year, so you were.
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  They you were close. They did.
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  OK, have a good show guys. Thanks, Jim for the phone call.
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  Jim checking in with us 284-5966.
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  So yeah, look at that. Some of your old listeners
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  popping in here Todd, like to hear that as well.
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  Yeah, that was the I'll eat my circus sports hat if I would go
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  six and six this year. And that was what, three years
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  ago or something like that. And they three or four years
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  ago. And yeah, I almost wound up
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  looking up recipes for for hats and and eating them.
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  But yeah, that the, the travel thing is something that, you
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  know, yeah, it's an excuse, but I think it's also there's some
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  validity to it because that's, that's quite a schedule for
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  anybody to keep up, you know, across country, you know, West
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  Coast, back to the Midwest and East Coast.
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  And now that we've got these conferences Without Borders, you
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  know, it, it's going to see, you're seeing stuff like this
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  all the time, more often than not.
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  But eventually, eventually, we'll all get used to this Pan
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  American Big 10. I've got a theory to run by you.
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  This one just popped in my head. So let's see if there's maybe
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  any fluidity to it. You go through and outside of
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  the Indiana game, that six game-winning streak, the Rutgers
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  game, Rutgers is bad. You're at home.
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  You barely beat Rutgers. You barely beat USCA team.
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  That is OK. That was at home.
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  Oregon is terrible and certainly without Biddle, we've seen that
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  is not a very good team. He's come back and they pushed
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  Purdue in their first matchup when he was back out there.
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  Washington played poorly for 1/2, came back an incredible
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  second-half. Northwestern.
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  A lethargic win against a Northwestern team that's not
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  very good regardless of the lead they had last night against
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  Michigan and now this one. The wins cure everything.
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  I I completely get that a win is a win and all those different
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  adages that we throw out there. However, when you dive a little
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  bit deeper into that six game-winning streak outside of
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  the Indiana game, they really didn't play that well and it was
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  aided with just who they played. Suddenly when we look at what's
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  coming up, Purdue Saturday, Tuesday against Nebraska next
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  Sunday, then a week from Sunday you're on the road at Wisconsin.
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  Suddenly, well, it's a loss. It's tough against Maryland.
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  That thing turns into a four-game losing streak.
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  Panic buttons are going to be hit everywhere here.
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  Maybe, just maybe, that six game-winning streak wasn't quite
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  as good as we thought at the time.
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  But for a while, I was going to have to ask you what Iowa sport
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  we were talking about there, because it sounded like you were
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  describing football. You know, we always hear from
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  people where they beat the teams that they're supposed to beat
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  and they lose to the teams that they shouldn't and and then they
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  kick one that they should definitely win.
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  I, you've got me more than a little nervous now that you lay
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  out that upcoming scenario. And I'm not going to lie.
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  And boy, it's going to get ugly if they drop three or four games
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  in a row, especially given the PTSD of of past Iowa basketball
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  teams. I'm not, I'm not giving up on
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  this team yet. And I, I, I still think there
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  was something there and winning those games, you know, reaching
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  down and finding something on a night where maybe you weren't
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  shooting that well or weren't playing that well.
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  They still managed to win those games.
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  So I want to give them as much credit as I can for the teams
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  that they beat during that streak.
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  And again, hopefully the Maryland lost last night was
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  just an aberration, a little blip on the radar.
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  But things are going to get down to the nitty gritty here with
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  that next four games, as you said.
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  And this is sort of the time of year where tournament teams are
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  are tested, right? Like, like if this is going to
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  be an NCAA tournament team, then they're going to need to to show
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  it and prove it here against NCAA Tournament competition.
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  Two of their two worst games defensively have come here
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  recently. The Washington game and what we
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  saw last night. In fact, the defensive
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  efficiency number last night was at worst of the season.
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  That combines obviously the opponent that you're playing, as
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  we mentioned, not a very good Maryland offense and yet they
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  put 77 up on the board. It was also not a game where
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  Maryland just shot lights out that they were just incredible
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  from behind the arc and you kind of throw your hands up in the
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  air and say what can you do? Charles Bugs wasn't walking
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  through that door. It was in UC Riverside hitting
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  20, 73 pointers or whatever it was against Doctor Tom's team
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  back in the late 80s. This was different.
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  It was just Maryland get into the tin, get into the rim, time
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  in and time out. A frustrating loss on the other
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  side. The Iowa women needed one and it
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  didn't matter the fashion. We talked about the six wins for
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  Iowa. Well, where were they?
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  Good, that good? Didn't matter how it happened.
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  And yet, after the first quarter, I take a look at the
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  score, watch a little bit during halftime and then watch
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  basically the fourth quarter after the Iowa men went final.
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  And the Iowa women last night give up 31 points total in the
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  final 3/4 after giving up 25 in the first.
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  The game played was good. Washington can't shoot.
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  They made him shoot from the outside.
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  They didn't make them. Iowa gets the win and cures a
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  little bit of the frustration, certainly on the women's side.
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  Yeah, and again, you look at the calendar and what time of the
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  year it is and and not all wins are created equal.
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  And and that was a big win for them last night because they did
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  need that. Now, you, you had some fan parts
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  of the fan base that were getting a little riled up.
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  And, and I've seen a lot of talk about Jan Jensen and her
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  abilities as a coach. And I just, you know, the, the
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  time that I've been out of sports radio and sports media,
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  it's really been refreshing. It's allowed me to step back
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  and, and take a perspective on this.
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  And, you know, not having to pretend like every single day is
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  is the biggest day of the year and every game is the most
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  important game. And what they did last night,
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  you know, great night for chitchat Wright, Hannah Stolke
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  with the double double. And, you know, it's not easy
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  winning a game when you know you need to win the game.
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  And, and everybody in that locker room last night knew that
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  they needed to win that game. So there was an immense amount
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  of pressure on them. I don't care who the opponent
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  was, they all knew that they needed to win that game last
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  night. So I wouldn't necessarily say
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  they're breathing a sigh of relief today at Carver Hawkeye
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  Arena, but they did exactly what they needed to do last night.
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  Absolutely get one in the win column.
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  They got the weird game Monday, 11 AM tip off on Presidents Day
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  over in Lincoln against Nebraska.
• 18:38
  That'll be a coin flip game. You go back to when they played
• 18:40
  in Carver. I will pulled away late in the
• 18:43
  fourth quarter, but that was a tight basketball game throughout
• 18:45
  when Iowa was really running at that point and playing some good
• 18:48
  basketball and they struggled to get by them.
• 18:50
  You know that's going to be difficult.
• 18:51
  If you didn't get it last night, then you're talking about
• 18:53
  potentially A5 game losing streak.
• 18:55
  And yes, people would be freaking out.
• 18:57
  Todd, you mentioned chitchat and her ability.
• 19:01
  She's a small split on the floor pretty much every time out there
• 19:03
  at 5 foot 4, yet her shooting ability, she just needs a little
• 19:07
  bit of room and you give her a little bit of space, she's going
• 19:09
  to knock it down. But with McCabe now out, not out
• 19:12
  there any longer with her on the bench with the ACL tear, they
• 19:15
  need outside shooting. Sremmlow shoots it a lot.
• 19:18
  She didn't last night, which is probably a good thing, but she's
• 19:20
  certainly inconsistent from back there.
• 19:22
  We don't fear box struggles that she has.
• 19:24
  She's at 30% on the season from three, though She hit a dagger
• 19:27
  that put it away last night. You need the outside shooting
• 19:30
  and with the bigs that you have with Stolky and with Hayden, you
• 19:33
  need something to stretch out the defense.
• 19:35
  I think Chitchat, not just what she does as the point guard, but
• 19:38
  maybe coupled with what she does just shooting the basketball
• 19:41
  from the outside, probably going to be the difference.
• 19:43
  And if this team is going to get to the second weekend, have an
• 19:46
  opportunity to host the 1st 2 rounds of the NCAA Tournament, I
• 19:49
  think chitchat's going to have to probably shoot the ball at an
• 19:52
  incredibly high level throughout the course of the season.
• 19:54
  We're talking about somebody that's shooting 48% from three.
• 19:57
  You're putting a lot on her shoulders, but it feels like
• 20:00
  Chitchat, right? Can handle it.
• 20:02
  Yeah, You know, I, I remember my reaction when she transferred in
• 20:06
  from Georgia Tech. I thought they were getting a, a
• 20:09
  pretty good player. She's she's exceeded my
• 20:12
  expectations for her. And, and I just hope that, you
• 20:15
  know, when she doesn't run out of gas or there's no regression
• 20:17
  here down the stretch because you're absolutely right.
• 20:20
  She could be The X Factor for this team.
• 20:22
  And she's not, you know, I don't think she's a household name
• 20:26
  around the country or, or, you know, an amazing player by any
• 20:31
  stretch of the imagination. But I think she's sneaky good.
• 20:34
  And when she gets hot, especially like you said, give
• 20:37
  her a little bit of space, allow her to get that shot off.
• 20:41
  She can win some games for this team.
• 20:44
  But I, you know, as much as I enjoyed the, the Megan Gustafson
• 20:47
  era and the Caitlin Clark era, there's something to be said
• 20:50
  about this post Caitlin Clark iteration of Iowa women's
• 20:54
  basketball where where really the focus is on the team and,
• 20:58
  and who's going to step up and have a big game on any given
• 21:01
  night because it's not just one player carrying the load.
• 21:04
  And I just, I, I don't know what the future is going to hold for
• 21:08
  this team this year as far as the postseason is concerned, But
• 21:12
  I do think on nights where you get a big scoring night from
• 21:16
  chitchat, right, certainly isn't going to hurt.
• 21:18
  You, Todd Robicam joining us as we talk some Hawkeyes.
• 21:22
  We'll get into a little more big picture stuff a little bit later
• 21:24
  on in the program. Before we take our first time
• 21:27
  out, talk baseball with Matt Snyder from CBSSports.com.
• 21:31
  The Olympics are happening. Todd, your sports fan, as we
• 21:34
  know, Are you a stick and ball only kind of person?
• 21:36
  Is it only got to be, you know, got to be something like that
• 21:39
  because I know there's a wide range of it.
• 21:42
  My wife loves the Winter Olympics, though she's not a big
• 21:44
  sports fan outside of football. She absolutely is big into that.
• 21:48
  Is this something that grabs a hold of you?
• 21:50
  Is this something that you know what, let's flip on the Olympics
• 21:52
  again and see what's happening in curling.
• 21:56
  Well, I think you hit on it there.
• 21:58
  I'm more of a Summer Games guy, not much of an athlete myself,
• 22:02
  winter or summer. But you know, I, I remember the
• 22:06
  first time turning on NBCA million years ago and, and
• 22:10
  seeing these granite rocks slowly making their way down
• 22:13
  and, and down the I, what is this?
• 22:15
  And then two hours later, I was still watching it.
• 22:18
  So there is that sort of thing about the Olympics where you
• 22:22
  find these bizarre sports where you you get really into them
• 22:26
  every four years. And, and I see a lot of curling
• 22:28
  fans out there right now and I'm one of them hockey, you know,
• 22:32
  the men's hockey, especially the rivalry with Canada and, and the
• 22:35
  United States, I think is, is worth checking out.
• 22:38
  I just, I have not been paying a ton of attention to the Olympics
• 22:42
  other than the scandals going on.
• 22:43
  You got the guy that was cheating on his wife and the the
• 22:48
  since the skier, I can't remember what sport, but stole
• 22:51
  the credit cards from her teammate.
• 22:53
  I mean, like, this is like the messiest Olympics ever.
• 22:56
  Like just yeah, I don't care about the sports, but give me
• 22:59
  some give me a little bit of drama.
• 23:00
  Give me some soap opera behind the scenes.
• 23:02
  But I it's been it's been fun. Obviously the, the Lindsey Vonn
• 23:07
  story was was unfortunate and she's going to face a long
• 23:12
  recovery with all of those leg surgeries and everything.
• 23:15
  But I think, you know, especially I don't want to speak
• 23:18
  for everybody in the United States, but I think in the
• 23:20
  United States when the Winter Olympics roll around, we're we
• 23:23
  just kind of shrug our shoulders and yeah, we're going to give
• 23:26
  it, we're going to give this one to the Nordic countries and, and
• 23:29
  the places that are covered in snow and we'll see you in the
• 23:32
  summer in a couple years. I don't think the Winter
• 23:34
  Olympics are necessarily our thing.
• 23:36
  No, it's it's a different. It's sports that I think most of
• 23:41
  us here, certainly in the state of Iowa, a lot of sports we
• 23:43
  don't know a whole lot about. But the way that they present
• 23:47
  it, it doesn't get you in. They do a really good job in.
• 23:50
  Yeah, skiing and shooting that, that could be the most
• 23:55
  Midwestern Winter Olympic sport ever.
• 23:58
  Maybe for a? Figured a way to to mix in a 30
• 24:01
  rack of Bush light or something in there in between shooting and
• 24:04
  skiing. Now you're talking.
• 24:05
  I don't know, yeah. That sounds.
• 24:08
  Like we're we're kicking around the idea for the Midwest Winter
• 24:10
  Winter Olympics here. Todd Bravo camp hanging out with
• 24:13
  us here today. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
• 24:15
  Sports Radio Network. Quick timeout on the other side,
• 24:18
  We're going to break down Major League Baseball.
• 24:19
  A look before pitchers and catchers officially report with
• 24:23
  our friend Matt Snyder from CBSSports.com.
• 24:25
  We'll talk Cubs, We'll talk Cardinals.
• 24:27
  We'll talk Royals. We'll talk Twins, Brewers, maybe
• 24:29
  even the White Sox and a look at the national scene as well.
• 24:32
  That's as we continue. This is Miller and Condon on the
• 24:34
  Iowa Sports Radio Network. The sounds of baseball season
• 24:51
  are upon us as we get ready for the start of MLB.
• 24:55
  Todd Bromlichamp hanging out with myself, Trent Condon here
• 24:57
  today. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
• 24:59
  Sports Radio Network. Todd, a Cubs fan.
• 25:04
  Our next guest, a Cubs fan. He is Matt Snyder,
• 25:06
  CBSSports.com. But your fandom never gets in
• 25:09
  the way of the work that you do over at CBS Sports, right Matt?
• 25:14
  A while, every once in a while when I do a soapbox and make fun
• 25:19
  of other fans, it's definitely a fandom type thing.
• 25:22
  But yeah, you know, every once in a while, like I said.
• 25:26
  Every once in a while, well, that's bound to happen.
• 25:28
  We got the World Baseball Classic and that's where I want
• 25:30
  to start the conversation today. I, even as a baseball fan,
• 25:35
  struggle to get overly excited about this.
• 25:37
  Maybe by the time we get towards the medals and getting into say,
• 25:41
  the semifinals, that might grow my excitement a little bit.
• 25:44
  It's high level baseball. We see that seemingly every
• 25:46
  single time this event comes around.
• 25:49
  Is it growing? Is it building steam?
• 25:51
  Is it going to continue? Certainly in the fashion of the
• 25:53
  Major League Baseball and and baseball fans want to see.
• 25:56
  What are your thoughts overall on the World Baseball Classic?
• 25:59
  Yeah, I think it's the interest among the players to actually
• 26:02
  take part is growing. You know, when it first came
• 26:05
  out, it it was hard to get at least USA players to to take
• 26:09
  this thing seriously. And I think a little something
• 26:12
  sparked last time out. And I remember I was in in
• 26:15
  Arizona for spring training and in the Dodgers clubhouse next
• 26:18
  month. He was going on and on about how
• 26:20
  much it means to so many guys to want to play for their country
• 26:24
  and everything. And the Trey Turner Grand Slam,
• 26:29
  I think was a big, big deal. Like a lot of people kind of
• 26:31
  woke up, their antennas went up. And then you had the
• 26:35
  championship game against Japan, which ended in Shohei Otani
• 26:38
  versus Mike Trout, and Otani struck him out.
• 26:41
  Now you head into this one and Team USA.
• 26:45
  Last time, the lineup was loaded, but the pitching staff
• 26:47
  really wasn't. Like off the top of my head, I
• 26:48
  think Beryl Kelly was the ace. This team has Tarek School and
• 26:53
  Paul Schemes to start. And then you go to Logan Webb.
• 26:56
  Then you go to Joe Ryan. You've got Matthew Boyd on
• 26:58
  there. You've got Nolan McClain for a
• 27:00
  youngster like, And then at the back in the bullpen, you've got
• 27:02
  David Bednar, Mason Miller, Griffin Jacks.
• 27:05
  Like, this is a loaded pitching staff.
• 27:07
  Oh, and by the way, the lineup has Cal Raleigh, Aaron Judge.
• 27:11
  It's just it's Kyle Schwarber completely loaded.
• 27:15
  Bryce Harper, Bobby Wood, Junior, Gunnar Henderson, Pete
• 27:17
  Kronster. Are you kidding me?
• 27:19
  This team is completely stacked, so it sucks that Corbin Carroll
• 27:23
  got hurt, but the outfield right now is Byron Buxton, Pete Crow,
• 27:27
  Armstrong, and Aaron Judge. I think that seems like a decent
• 27:29
  outfield. Yeah, Buxton and Pete Crowe
• 27:32
  starting to chase after some balls yet?
• 27:34
  That should be good. Who's going to push him then?
• 27:36
  Who's going to be the team they're fighting with for the
• 27:38
  gold? I think it's still Japan.
• 27:41
  They've been one of the best teams since the World Baseball
• 27:43
  Classic started. And you've got guys like Shohei
• 27:46
  Otani and Saya Suzuki. They've got Yamamoto.
• 27:49
  I don't know how much they're going to throw him, but they do
• 27:51
  have Yamamoto there. They've got a lot of guys that
• 27:54
  haven't come stateside yet who are very, very good players.
• 27:57
  So I, I think if you power ranked the teams, USA is
• 28:01
  obviously number one, Japan, a second Dominican Republic will
• 28:05
  be in there. Puerto Rico's usually really
• 28:07
  good, but they've got those issues with the, the insurance
• 28:11
  where guys might not be allowed to play.
• 28:12
  So and Lindor now with the, with the ham ate bone injury anyway.
• 28:17
  So he's probably out the same way that Corbin Carroll's out
• 28:19
  from USA. So it looks like a big three to
• 28:23
  me in USA, Japan and Dominican Republic.
• 28:27
  Matt Todd Brawlkamp here, Thanks for joining me all those years
• 28:31
  on the radio in Cedar Rapids. We just want to ask you, you
• 28:34
  think there is there a dark horse team that you think could
• 28:37
  make some noise? That's tougher.
• 28:40
  Like Venezuela has a pretty good contingent of players there.
• 28:46
  I mean, it's Cuba is always they're pretty good and they're
• 28:52
  they're harder because like we don't know much about the Cuban
• 28:55
  players because we're not allowed to.
• 28:57
  They don't let they don't let much information out.
• 29:02
  So maybe one of those two teams, I sadly, I'll admit not as well
• 29:08
  versed once you get past like the top couple teams, I'm not as
• 29:13
  well versed on any of them. But you know, if I just look at
• 29:16
  like Venezuela, Ronald Lacuna, Junior Jackson Churrio, Salvador
• 29:19
  Perez, you got to look at the major leaguers like it's OK,
• 29:22
  Mexico, Randy Rosarena, Jaron Duran, Andres Munoz.
• 29:28
  Then you're getting down to, you know, then you get down to like
• 29:30
  Canada and Italy, Korea, Cuba. So I, I think you're probably
• 29:36
  going to end up seeing one of the big three and then, you
• 29:40
  know, maybe Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba looks in there as well.
• 29:44
  Let's jump into our regional teams here as we look through
• 29:48
  the squads here that matter across our state.
• 29:51
  And let's start with the biggest one, and that is the Chicago
• 29:53
  Cubs. Now, as mentioned, both you and
• 29:55
  Todd are Cubs fans. I guess I pointed this after
• 29:58
  what they did a year ago, that push that they had against the
• 30:01
  Brewers and the DS getting to the playoffs, It felt like they
• 30:04
  were really building something there.
• 30:06
  What was the one thing that would give you some pause with
• 30:08
  this squad? What's your biggest concern area
• 30:11
  with the Cubs? Maybe just the the bullpen
• 30:17
  itself, because I know that Jed Hoyer is trying to do the thing
• 30:20
  where he hits on a bunch of cheap guys kind of like he did
• 30:22
  last year and he got to the playoffs and there was a big 5
• 30:25
  there. But it's hard to hit on on so
• 30:27
  many guys every time. And OK, so there's Daniel
• 30:30
  Palencia now closer, very, very good for most of last year.
• 30:34
  But all relievers are volatile and he is too.
• 30:37
  So yeah, it's film a ton. Hunter Harvey may ton, you know,
• 30:41
  inconsistent from year to year. Hunter Harvey, a lot of injuries
• 30:44
  and you backed the field bar 39 years old, then you Jacob Webb,
• 30:49
  Hobie Millner, that could end up being an Achilles heel.
• 30:55
  It could end up being very good if he hits on so many guys
• 30:58
  again, because it was the first half of the season, the Bolton
• 31:01
  locked in was great. Then they went through a couple
• 31:03
  months where they weren't very good and then by the playoffs it
• 31:05
  got back to the point where they were they were really, really
• 31:08
  good, at least with that top five.
• 31:09
  So I think there's potential in there for not every single guy
• 31:13
  to hit and then to have to try to figure it out on the fly
• 31:16
  during this. Season What about what about the
• 31:19
  rest of the Central Matt I I look at what the the teams in
• 31:22
  the division did or mainly didn't do during the offseason.
• 31:26
  Is there anybody there that you think is going to be in a
• 31:30
  position to to challenge the Cubs?
• 31:32
  So, you know, the Brewers with Pat Murphy, I think are are
• 31:35
  still a very good team. And the Reds always seem to be
• 31:38
  that perennial. You know, this will be the year
• 31:40
  for them and it and it isn't the Cardinals have gone into full
• 31:43
  rebuild mode. What what are your thoughts on
• 31:45
  the division? Yeah, so the Brewers I the
• 31:49
  Baseball Prospectus Pakoda projections came out earlier
• 31:52
  this week and had the Cubs win the division by 10 games.
• 31:56
  But I think we can at least give the Brewers a little five extra
• 31:59
  because they always punch above their weight.
• 32:01
  Always, always, always. They get everything that came
• 32:03
  out of the margins of the roster.
• 32:06
  I do think the Cubs are better and I I think the Brewers,
• 32:09
  unlike the Tigers, for example, in the AL Central, who said
• 32:12
  we've got one year left with Terex Scubal.
• 32:14
  Let's just go all in and time promer Valdez.
• 32:16
  For example, the the Brewers one year left with Freddy Peralta,
• 32:19
  obviously not even close to being on the same level as Terex
• 32:21
  Scubal, but he was their ace last year and they said one year
• 32:24
  left of Peralta. We're going to for two guys who
• 32:27
  are good prospects but lottery tickets.
• 32:30
  So I didn't love that move. I like I said, I think the
• 32:34
  Brewers are down a step from the Cubs, but not a huge step and I
• 32:37
  wouldn't be surprised if the Brewers end up in first place.
• 32:40
  The Reds, I thought they badly needed to add middle order power
• 32:43
  there. Last year they had I think 22
• 32:46
  home runs led the team and they need to have, especially in that
• 32:49
  ballpark, someone hit 354045. They did add Au Jemio Suarez
• 32:53
  here late. I wanted them for like El Pete
• 32:55
  Alonzo. So I don't think Schwarber was
• 32:57
  ever going to go there, but I like I wish they would have been
• 32:59
  on Alonzo, but Juarez is a good get there late.
• 33:03
  And now we find out LA De La Cruz was hurt for a lot of the
• 33:06
  year last year. There might be a little more in
• 33:09
  guys like Matt McLean, maybe a full season with Stal Stewart.
• 33:12
  You see a little bit more there. I like the Reds more than the
• 33:14
  projections do. On the other side of that is the
• 33:17
  Pirates. I've seen the Pirates with like
• 33:19
  a 37% chance to make the playoffs.
• 33:21
  I'm just not saying that. I know they added to the offense
• 33:24
  with Brandon Loud, Ryan O'hearn, they just added Marcel Ozuna,
• 33:29
  but it still just isn't a very good offense.
• 33:32
  And the rotation, there's potential there.
• 33:35
  Obviously Skeins is amazing. Mitch Keller kind of average ish
• 33:40
  mediocre last year. And then Ashcraft, Bubba
• 33:43
  Chandler. You're counting on a lot, a lot
• 33:45
  of big steps forward there. So not quite there for me.
• 33:48
  And yeah, the Cardinals are in the rebuild.
• 33:50
  I know we're not used to stand that they've hardly they've only
• 33:53
  finished. I mean this blew my mind when I
• 33:55
  looked it up. They only finished last like 3
• 33:57
  times in their entire existence, but I think it's going to happen
• 34:01
  again for the fourth time this year.
• 34:03
  The rebuild that is happening with the Cardinals and just
• 34:05
  taking a look at their depth chart and rotation, it is a
• 34:07
  whole lot of yuck. And certainly on that one.
• 34:10
  Did it come two years too late though?
• 34:11
  I mean, in hindsight, it's easy to save that.
• 34:13
  But Matt, we had these conversations a ton that the
• 34:16
  Cardinals, they waited so long now and I think it's going to be
• 34:19
  even worse for them in the interim.
• 34:21
  If they would have done this when they should have, they'd be
• 34:23
  in better shape now, probably in the rebuild would be certainly
• 34:26
  your way. How bad is it going to get in
• 34:27
  Saint Louis? And attendance wise, that's got
• 34:29
  to be a huge concern. Well, it's, oh, it's funny, I
• 34:33
  actually, like I said, my fandom comes out sometimes when I do
• 34:35
  Snyder's Soapbox, and I made fun of the Cardinals fans late in
• 34:39
  the year because I said you guys told me my entire life you were
• 34:42
  the best fans in baseball and you always went to games no
• 34:44
  matter what. It's really easy to do that when
• 34:46
  you're good every year, when you're bad.
• 34:49
  Now, you looked at the ballpark in September, it was empty every
• 34:52
  game. There was nobody there.
• 34:54
  There's going to be a lot of that this year.
• 34:56
  They've got some promising guys. JJ Weatherholt is a good Rookie
• 34:59
  of the Year candidate. Basin went a really, really
• 35:02
  exciting young player, still potential.
• 35:05
  And Nolan Gorman, he's only 25, still potential.
• 35:07
  And Jordan Walker, he's only 23. But you need to start seeing it
• 35:10
  on a consistent basis at the big league level.
• 35:13
  I don't think they're going to bottom out anywhere close to
• 35:16
  like Rockies last year, White Sox two years ago levels.
• 35:20
  It's not going to be like that, you know, 65 and 65 wins.
• 35:27
  So that'd be 97 losses, yes, 65 and 97 seems like a low point
• 35:31
  for me. 60 to 65 to 70 wins or so, I think.
• 35:36
  And that'll be good enough for last in the division.
• 35:37
  Because while I don't think the Pirates are a playoff contender,
• 35:40
  they're not awful. And I don't expect the Reds or
• 35:43
  Brewers to be awful either. So Cardinals will be in last,
• 35:46
  but they'll be one of the better last place.
• 35:49
  Speaking of last place teams, the team I root for, the
• 35:51
  Minnesota Twins trending that direction.
• 35:54
  Joe Ryan still there, still got the White Sox and White Sox are
• 35:58
  are building their way up. Though 3 consecutive 100 lost
• 36:01
  seasons make it a little bit difficult to certainly see them
• 36:04
  as a contender. If you're whoever becomes the
• 36:07
  new GM because the GM just walked away in a mutual parting
• 36:11
  of ways. Think he sees the finances and
• 36:13
  what's happening there. What do you do?
• 36:15
  What is the hope for the Minnesota Twins, not just this
• 36:17
  year, but in the next 3-4? Well, I believe we already
• 36:22
  discussed this maybe a month or six weeks or so ago.
• 36:25
  It's kind of 1/2 measure, right? Like he started the rebuild last
• 36:29
  summer, especially in getting rid of Korea and his contract.
• 36:32
  That was a big one. But there were several bulletin
• 36:34
  pieces that were moved as well. Jack Saran, if you look at the
• 36:39
  roster right now, I know Buxton wants to stay with the Twins and
• 36:42
  everything and he's public, been public about he's not going to
• 36:45
  accept the trade. That's fine.
• 36:46
  But you have two guys in the rotation and Joe Ryan and Pablo
• 36:50
  Lopez that are just screaming to be traded.
• 36:52
  I'm not meaning that literally. I mean, if you look at the
• 36:55
  roster, it's like they stick out as man.
• 36:58
  You could get some good stuff for them right now.
• 37:01
  I don't know if it's too late in the offseason now and you need
• 37:04
  to wait until the trade deadline, that's fine.
• 37:06
  There will be teams desperate for a frontline starting pitcher
• 37:09
  heading to the trade deadline. And both of these guys can look
• 37:12
  like frontline starters. And, you know, over is the type
• 37:15
  of guy that as well could have a very good year and could look
• 37:17
  very tradable. So I think you start there and
• 37:20
  maybe once he sees the way this thing is going, then you have a
• 37:25
  conversation with Buxton again and say, hey, man, do you want
• 37:28
  to go to a contender? And if he still says I want to
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  be a twin for life, OK, that's fine.
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  But you start with Lopez and Ryan, and then you go from
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  there. Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com Matt,
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  Any trips to Florida, Arizona for spring training?
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  Nothing scheduled right now. That's always subject to change,
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  though, but I'm not expecting it this year, unfortunately.
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  Had a lot of. I've had a lot of fun the times
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  that I've done it, especially when the World Baseball Classic
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  was out there in Arizona when I was also in spring training.
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  That was great. We will be talking a whole lot
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  more coming up here in just a few weeks.
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  Enjoy the kickoff to the baseball season.
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  We'll talk to you again soon, Matt.
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  All right. Take care guys.
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  That's Snyder, CBSSports.com joining us here from Miller and
• 38:07
  Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Todd Brommelkamp with me today on the other side.
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  We're going to learn a little bit more about Tub, about Todd.
• 38:15
  He's a Cubs fan, we know that, but he roots for the wrong team
• 38:19
  in the NFL. Get to know Todd Brommelkamp
• 38:21
  when we come back. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
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  Sports Radio Network. I've been up our #1 Miller in
• 38:31
  Condon on the I was sports radio network.
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  Todd Brommelkamp in today for Ken.
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  What I like to do when we have a Co host hanging out for Ken for
• 38:40
  the Dave like to get you to know a little bit better.
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  Now we know you covered the Hawkeyes, Todd for years and
• 38:45
  years and years starting at the daily I one.
• 38:47
  That's when I first saw your byline.
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  We had some friends in the same industry, my buddy Nick that you
• 38:53
  worked with over at the DI, and of course, covering the Hawkeyes
• 38:56
  both on radio and on print and on top of it, the Internet for a
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  number of years. So we know you're Hawkeyes, you
• 39:03
  went to Iowa, all those different things.
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  You're a Cubs fan. You're always forthright about
• 39:08
  that. How in God's name do you become
• 39:09
  a Packer fan? Certainly in our age, the
• 39:11
  Packers stunk. Oh, Don Makowski was a hell of a
• 39:17
  quarterback before Brett Favre came along and and.
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  I'm talking about before, I'm talking about the 80s.
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  I'm going back a little bit further.
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  No, I don't it. But look.
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  Lynn Dickey, Paul Kaufman, James Lofton.
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  There was something in me when I was really young that said you
• 39:32
  need to be a fan of teams that are gonna have really expensive
• 39:36
  tickets when you grow up. So maybe that's what it was.
• 39:40
  I have family in the Chicago area and I also have family up
• 39:44
  north in Wisconsin. And maybe it was just splitting
• 39:47
  the difference there, but there was something about the Packers.
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  And I've got the framed Don Makowski jersey down in the
• 39:52
  basement. It's just waiting to go up on
• 39:54
  the wall once it gets finished in 2055 or something like that
• 39:59
  that. That's what it'll happen, no
• 40:00
  doubt. So what else, sports wise, do
• 40:02
  you like? You mentioned hockey when we
• 40:04
  were talking about the Olympics a little bit earlier.
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  Anything else that grabs her fandom?
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  You know, hockey, I'm a Blackhawks guy and I, I, I hate
• 40:15
  to say this, I am becoming a soccer guy because I have a 9
• 40:19
  1/2 year old son who absolutely loves soccer and it's probably
• 40:23
  his favorite sport. And I never thought I would
• 40:26
  embrace soccer at all. And so I have.
• 40:30
  I've waded into the who's the GOAT, Messi or Ronaldo and
• 40:34
  Killian and Bape and I I know more about soccer than I ever
• 40:38
  envisioned knowing about soccer in my life at this point.
• 40:41
  Mr. Soccer, Todd Bramelcam joins us for Hour 2 coming up next.