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07/22/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Our two of the huddle is with you at eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven seven nine four nine seven three. Wake Up
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Speaker 1: Madison on ten seventy am, Milwaukee, nine twenty am. Let's roll,
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Speaker 1: let's ride, Let's have a phenomenal Wednesday in the good Land.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hot hump some hot takes. We got some
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Speaker 1: lined up. I got a bunch already for you and Arman. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: and you're right good. Good time to get the coffee
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Speaker 1: ready because we're hitting halftime of the week coming up
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Speaker 1: in about twenty five minutes from it.
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Speaker 2: And the sun's coming up.
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Speaker 3: You got cakes on the griddle now, Billy, I gotta
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Speaker 3: say this is our two segment four. However, you might
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Speaker 3: as well call a segment five because these conversations we
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Speaker 3: had during the break. I'm sorry, it's a whole other segment.
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Speaker 3: I hate to say that in the air because I
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Speaker 3: know people that are like, well, I'm missing all the
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Speaker 3: good stuff that is.
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Speaker 2: That is the worst thing.
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Speaker 1: One thing that I hate the most is when broadcasters
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Speaker 1: are like, i'll tell you off the air.
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Speaker 2: I do that. I do that, but we listen.
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Speaker 3: I want you are getting good stuff still on the air,
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Speaker 3: and I think I should start as well.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna do hot take hump Day.
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Speaker 3: But I'm still trying to figure out for Thursday, trying
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Speaker 3: to bring back thought about it Thursday.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's working. Sure.
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Speaker 3: Remember I suggested that the drum or what makes me
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Speaker 3: sound older? Because I mean, I just feel like the
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Speaker 3: all the thoughts I had in the last four minutes
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Speaker 3: and all the things I said to you made me
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Speaker 3: sound very old. That's fair like what kind of post
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Speaker 3: you see when people start to turn forty on the
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Speaker 3: internet or in your case, thirty. Okay, that's one thing
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Speaker 3: makes me sound old. Like yeah, And then I'm like thinking, like, boy,
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Speaker 3: it's a cold morning, because you know everyone's waking up
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Speaker 3: here thinking, man, it's like in the fifties.
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Speaker 2: How when has it been in the fifties?
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Speaker 3: This early's brisk, this is the coldest morning we felt
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Speaker 3: in the wild. And I'm thinking, all right, we could
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Speaker 3: do some rain because my lawn is yellow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where you're tripping. That's where you'll definitely sound
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Speaker 1: like the.
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Speaker 3: Oldie in the room to lar last time I said,
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Speaker 3: I told when I was young, I didn't understand how
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Speaker 3: people were so into their lawn, like that's what they
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Speaker 3: cared about so much. I said to myself, I'm never
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Speaker 3: gonna be one of these guys that grows up and
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Speaker 3: just all he cares about this.
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Speaker 2: But there's more things in left.
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Speaker 3: Than a long and I'm start I stood there for
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Speaker 3: twenty minutes looking at my yellow lawn. But what can
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Speaker 3: I do about this? What can I What can I
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Speaker 3: do about this lawn? Because you know, I was a
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Speaker 3: condo guy for a long, long time, and now I
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Speaker 3: feel like I got to raise this child. That's you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to be testing the pH of my
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Speaker 3: soil and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not a grounds crew man.
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Speaker 1: Well that's what you might have to do if you
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Speaker 1: want to put in the time. This is now you
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Speaker 1: know what this is moving on to next year territory.
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Speaker 2: I'm an old man.
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Speaker 1: This is where you've probably it's probably has in the
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Speaker 1: barn at this point, right for your team is who
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Speaker 1: it is at this point. Now you're punting the next year,
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Speaker 1: and you have to start putting the wheels in motion
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Speaker 1: as to how you're gonna capitalize early in the year
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Speaker 1: and right away within that first you know, three weeks
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Speaker 1: of April before them April showers come, how are you
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Speaker 1: going to be able to make sure you feed that
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Speaker 1: grass well fertilized through maybe some malorganite, that little good
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Speaker 1: to just food that's gonna that's gonna feed in there,
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Speaker 1: and that the grass will be able to nurture and
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Speaker 1: grow itself for the next couple.
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Speaker 2: Of water when the water enough.
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Speaker 3: But just like looking to see if it's gonna rain, hope,
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Speaker 3: is not a strategy, William, That's fair.
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Speaker 1: I can't be the and and I wish I could be.
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Speaker 1: I can't be the water my lawn guy. My parents
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Speaker 1: would be running that sprinkler over, turning it this way.
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Speaker 2: And I've got a sp yeah, I've got it. I
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Speaker 2: like running through the sprinkler. Oh yeah, that's a lot
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Speaker 2: of it now.
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Speaker 3: I mean my child just likes to get wet in
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Speaker 3: the summer and run through the sprinkler and like I
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Speaker 3: have little water toys the splash plaid. But it's like,
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's part of it is is I'm I'm
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Speaker 3: trying to water, but then like that I water it
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Speaker 3: wrong at the wrong time. I don't know, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I don't I got the sprinkler in the holes.
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Speaker 1: But it is crisp this morning, that that was not
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Speaker 1: you thinking about that our guy Chris and lod I said, jeez, Billy,
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Speaker 1: he gave me a chill as cool.
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Speaker 2: It is it as it is this morning.
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Speaker 1: When you mentioned the name Manny par in the five
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Speaker 1: o'clock you missed a hot five o'clock hour. If you
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Speaker 1: weren't in the club, shame on you. However, there's always
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Speaker 1: an opportunity for you join tomorrow. We got plenty of
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Speaker 1: room for you in the five o'clock club, and we'll
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Speaker 1: get into more of them coming up tomorrow when we
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Speaker 1: reopen that club. But right now it's into the six
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Speaker 1: o'clock hour. It's time to hump some hot takes on
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Speaker 1: this beautiful Wednesday in the good Land.
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Speaker 2: All be it a little chillier Wednesday in the good Land.
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Speaker 1: And arman, can I start up the proceedings and I
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Speaker 1: want you to judge how hot this this take would be.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it because as we've.
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Speaker 1: As we've pondered and speculated as to who would be
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Speaker 1: entering the trade bubble, who's gonna walk into the bubble?
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Speaker 1: And you can pop that thing, pay a price, pay
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Speaker 1: a price to pop that bubble and grab the prize out.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's been wondering. Right there in the middle would be
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Speaker 1: Trek Skuebell. Yesterday a name an emerged from one Jeff
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Speaker 1: pass that may intuitive mine went to as the guy
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Speaker 1: for the Milwaukee Brewers. And if indeed he is available,
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Speaker 1: as Jeff Passons said, I think there's only one to
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Speaker 1: two teams that have the ammunition to go make the
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Speaker 1: deal happen. And maybe one of the only teams that
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Speaker 1: should have the drive to is the Milwaukee Brewers. And
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Speaker 1: if Mason Miller is indeed available with the San Diego Padres,
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Speaker 1: that's the game changing move for the Brewers to make.
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Speaker 1: As much as Trek Scooble is phenomenal, I don't know
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Speaker 1: that he's fully available. The Tigers are within five or
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Speaker 1: six games from making the playoffs now. They just got
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Speaker 1: boat raced last night by the Cubs and Valdez. They
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Speaker 1: gave a bunch of money to in the offseason didn't
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Speaker 1: even get out of the first The Tigers have their
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Speaker 1: own problem.
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Speaker 2: They think.
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Speaker 3: But if they think they're gonna if they want to
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Speaker 3: try and win, they can't straight skal and they.
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Speaker 1: Just watched and I do believe this factors into the
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Speaker 1: mathematics of the equation for Detroit. They just watched Cleveland
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Speaker 1: comeback in one of the most epic rundowns of a
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Speaker 1: division a year ago, that being the team that got
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Speaker 1: chased down to lose the division, but then went and
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Speaker 1: won the playoff series and were in extra innings to
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Speaker 1: go to the LCS. Yeah, that's a hard thing to
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Speaker 1: punt on. Yeah, a lot easier for folks sitting on
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Speaker 1: microphones and talking on shows to say this team should
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Speaker 1: sell it's advantageous for their club. It would be organizational malpractice.
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Speaker 1: One that I've dropped on there.
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Speaker 2: Everyone.
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Speaker 1: I love dere and their duties. That's a great one.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot easier for us to point that out
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Speaker 1: about a club. Sure, when you're the decision maker, you're
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Speaker 1: in the building, you just watched it nine months ago,
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Speaker 1: and you are that close to playing in the series
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Speaker 1: to go to the World Series. So and you have
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Speaker 1: maybe the best pitcher on the planet. So I don't
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Speaker 1: know that Scoople's actually going to be available. It sounds
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Speaker 1: like and if you're talking about a team that should
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Speaker 1: maybe shake some things up, San Diego feels like a
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Speaker 1: fascinating one with Miller. Right now, they're fifty to fifty one.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting behind the Arizona Diamondbacks, who since the Brewers
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Speaker 1: went down there, have gotten kind of hot, and they're
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Speaker 1: three games over five hundred right now in Arizona is
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Speaker 1: tied with Pittsburgh for the last wildcard spot.
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Speaker 2: So San Diego again not done.
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Speaker 1: They're two games out of a wild card spot in
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Speaker 1: the National League. So maybe they do add sounds like
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Speaker 1: with how underperforming their lineup has been in how many
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Speaker 1: big contracts they do have, that they might try to
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Speaker 1: recoup some of the massive package they traded for Miller
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Speaker 1: a year ago. Now, the reason why there's only a
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Speaker 1: couple of teams that can can make this move Arman
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Speaker 1: is because of the massive package it's gonna cost. And
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Speaker 1: a year ago, the Padres gave your boy, Leo Dvrees,
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Speaker 1: number one prospect in the Padre system, number three overall
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Speaker 1: prospect in baseball. That's one of the highest rated prospects
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Speaker 1: that's been traded at the deadline in years. Abrams one
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Speaker 1: of the other guys also in San Diego cj Abrams
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Speaker 1: when he was traded from the Padres to the Nationals
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Speaker 1: a part of the Juan Soto deal. But you're shipping
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Speaker 1: off that kind of a caliber prospect. For the other
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Speaker 1: reason why it makes the most sense for the Brewers,
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Speaker 1: Miller's contractually controllable through the twenty twenty nine season. Okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, so you would get the best closer in baseball,
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Speaker 1: arguably the most dominant player at his position. He's got
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Speaker 1: seventy something strikeouts in forty something in again, whip is great.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, when the games.
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Speaker 1: Get when the ball gets to Mason Miller's hand, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of been wraps and it's been difficult for the
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Speaker 1: Padres to put the ball in his hand with a
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Speaker 1: chance to win games this year. So if indeed they
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Speaker 1: are thinking about shopping him, I don't believe they're going
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Speaker 1: to ask and start with the package of heesus Ma Day.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe that gets it done. I think you can.
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Speaker 1: You can start a package though with Louis Payne, who
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Speaker 1: is also a part of the futures game. It was
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Speaker 1: also a top fifteen prospect in baseball. You might not
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Speaker 1: need up meeting and this this package is going to
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Speaker 1: be large.
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Speaker 2: Like now.
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Speaker 1: A year ago, when the Padres got Miller from the A's,
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Speaker 1: they also acquired JP Sears, who was giving them more
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Speaker 1: in the rotation, so you can't like compare the package's
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Speaker 1: apples to apples. I think it might be a little
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Speaker 1: bit different. I don't think you're also getting a starter back.
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Speaker 1: I don't think you're also getting a a bat back here.
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Speaker 1: You I don't think you're also getting like Gavin Sheets
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Speaker 1: back in the deal. You're getting Mason Miller, best closer
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Speaker 1: in baseball. He's been amazing, really really maybe most dominant
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Speaker 1: player at his position. You're adding to one of the
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Speaker 1: strengths of your team, which I think is one of
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Speaker 1: the parts here. Do you try to make yourself adequate
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Speaker 1: at all nine or elite game.
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Speaker 2: Changing at one push? That's what you do with this one.
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Speaker 1: You're pushing Mars And the toughest thing for the Brewers
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Speaker 1: sure in the LD or LCS a year ago, was
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Speaker 1: getting the lead at that point. Whenever you get the
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Speaker 1: lead and you can hand the ball off to Mason Miller,
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Speaker 1: it's been raps. I think that to me, for all
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Speaker 1: of what I laid out, there's only a couple of
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Speaker 1: teams that probably have the prospect capital to do it.
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Speaker 1: It's probably the Brewers, and it's probably the Rays, maybe
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Speaker 1: the Yankees.
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Speaker 2: If they're motivated enough if they want to give up something.
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Speaker 1: Dodgers are going to be out of the conversation because
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Speaker 1: the Padres ain't trading him to LA. So there's like
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Speaker 1: three teams that can do it. You'd get the years
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Speaker 1: of service time, and then you'd also, if indeed you
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Speaker 1: want to, you'd be able to flip him again before
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Speaker 1: he hits free agency and get back some of the
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Speaker 1: prospect capital that you're dealing off right now. Yeah, to me,
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Speaker 1: it feels like the perfect Brewers move, Okay, with years
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Speaker 1: of control and options and chances to recoup whatever you
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Speaker 1: give up some of what you give up, and right
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Speaker 1: now you might be getting him for you know, seventy
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Speaker 1: five cents on the dollar of what the Padres paid
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Speaker 1: top dollar for a year ago.
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Speaker 3: After that, I mean, I mean a couple questions here,
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Speaker 3: what would it cost? Obviously, what prospects are you willing
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Speaker 3: to part with? And if you are or aren't willing
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Speaker 3: to part with, would you ever because that's a good question,
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Speaker 3: I mean, if there are certain guys that are untouchable.
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Speaker 3: But then you say, I don't really want to give
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Speaker 3: up anybody either. It's like the American Pickers show. God
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Speaker 3: never wanted to sell anything. Yeah, come look.
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Speaker 2: At my stuff. I don't really want to I'm really
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Speaker 2: not trying to move anything in this film.
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Speaker 3: So you have to accept the idea that you might
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Speaker 3: have to sell if you want to make these happenies.
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Speaker 1: And I'm okay, like this is the I haven't seen it,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know that it's fully real. I'm cool moving.
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Speaker 1: Jet Williams, right, I'm cool moving. Louis Payana's playing at
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Speaker 1: high A ball now. He's been good, been really good,
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Speaker 1: extremely highly thought of around baseball.
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Speaker 2: But again, I haven't seen it.
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Speaker 1: Now, I've seen too many highlights of Jesus Miday hitting
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Speaker 1: bombs down in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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Speaker 2: Prefer not to do that.
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Speaker 1: And and I think if indeed that's the price of
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Speaker 1: any of these packages, the phone is probably getting hung up.
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Speaker 1: But if it's Paynia, Williams and Henderson, that's a lot.
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Speaker 1: You have to say, that's a lot. Henderson's also talking
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Speaker 1: about a two time All Star who's been in the
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Speaker 1: major leagues for three seasons.
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Speaker 3: He's and pumps one hundred in the back end. There's
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Speaker 3: no question about Mason Miller's quality. I think we can
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Speaker 3: say that and then the other question I have. People
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Speaker 3: will say right away, well, you don't need a closer stop,
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Speaker 3: you need a guy that good all the time. Okay,
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Speaker 3: Now we might think that's a position of strength, and
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Speaker 3: it is.
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Speaker 2: I think McGill and Rebay.
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Speaker 3: Are very good at the back end of the bullpen,
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Speaker 3: but you always need a guy like that. I mean,
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Speaker 3: if you have a guy that's the e ra and
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Speaker 3: whip is under zero point nine like that, that can
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Speaker 3: shorten a game for you. That that helps you in
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Speaker 3: these playoff situations immensely because then you can roll a
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Speaker 3: Rebay out for the seventh and maybe McGill for the eighth.
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Speaker 2: If you want to put Mason Miller. Oh, you're putting.
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Speaker 1: Mason Miller in the nineth Tenny, And to your thing
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Speaker 1: is like, then you're shifting McGill's kind of roll.
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Speaker 2: Are you comfortable with that?
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Speaker 3: But it's good, yeah, if they can be the same picture,
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Speaker 3: because you just shortened the game to a six inning game.
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Speaker 1: And all I think you also, what you do, Arman,
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Speaker 1: is you take Ashby probably out of well not probably,
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Speaker 1: you take Ashby out of that equation right now of
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Speaker 1: the seven, eight nine, he's then he's just lefty or opener,
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Speaker 1: lefty opener. You can deploy him when you need to
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Speaker 1: get yourself through. You know, if indeed, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: it started last night, Brandon Sproke can't get out of
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Speaker 1: the fifth inning, that's when Aaron Ashby goes in.
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Speaker 2: Now, maybe not the best on base.
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Speaker 3: But but when it comes to playoffs, you don't wait around.
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Speaker 3: You deploy weapons when yeah.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna fire your bullet whenever you do, and you
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Speaker 1: add one more, you add the highest leverage guy you
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Speaker 1: then are. It's a lot easier to do what you
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Speaker 1: did in Game five last year, a lot easier to
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Speaker 1: fire Trevor McGill in the open of a playoff game,
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Speaker 1: which I loved the energy that that's set in the
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Speaker 1: in the building. And then I liked how that set off.
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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, maybe you're using one
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Speaker 1: of your one of your younger guys. Maybe that's where
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Speaker 1: you do see the aforementioned Brandon Sproke. Maybe that's where
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Speaker 1: you do see one of these hungerys. Maybe that's where
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Speaker 1: you see lances of colors. But like you put in
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Speaker 1: Miller in this bullpen, you instantly become right now you're
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Speaker 1: one of the three favorites to win the world.
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Speaker 2: So, well, he becomes a weapon. There's no question.
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Speaker 1: Now then now get looked at nationally a lot different
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Speaker 1: as a team that can I think legit compete for
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Speaker 1: the title.
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Speaker 3: Well, the question then will come back, while you didn't
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Speaker 3: help your offense, Well, no, but you try, you try
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Speaker 3: to build, you try to build strength in other ways.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes you can't always get like a fan, you can't
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Speaker 3: always get the need that you think you need in
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Speaker 3: a fantasy team. And it's like like like you're building
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Speaker 3: a fantasy team. It doesn't work like that. So you're
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Speaker 3: trying to help where you can. Where can you find
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Speaker 3: a great player? He's great at this position. So that's
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Speaker 3: a good question. Are you comfortable? My next question would
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Speaker 3: be would you be comfortable that was your big move
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Speaker 3: giving up that much for a guy that's not a starter,
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Speaker 3: that's not gonna give you more innings.
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Speaker 2: Because I think that's a big question.
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Speaker 3: I think the question is like, all right, I'm willing
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Speaker 3: to give up significant capital for a special player, but
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Speaker 3: it's not a starter. And we've been saying like Brewers
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Speaker 3: really need another starter, really need a special starter, And
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Speaker 3: it's like, all right, well, we're gonna get an okay
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Speaker 3: guy maybe around the margins, but we're gonna we're gonna
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Speaker 3: spend our wed on a closer. And then some people say,
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Speaker 3: is that juice wort to squeez because you only need
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Speaker 3: to get the inning here and there, And.
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Speaker 1: That's a very very fair question like it, and it's
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Speaker 1: one that I don't have a great retort to here
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Speaker 1: because the case study a year ago, being the San
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Speaker 1: Diego Padres, didn't work very well for them. They had
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Speaker 1: going into the deadline one of the better bullpens in
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Speaker 1: baseball statistically, and then they added to it by grabbing Miller.
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Speaker 2: They got bounced in the first round. They didn't even
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Speaker 2: they didn't even make it to the DF. Sometimes you
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Speaker 2: can't use a guy like that.
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Speaker 1: Right to your point, if you can't get a lead,
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Speaker 1: you don't get to play with the cool toy in
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Speaker 1: the ninth inning, being Mason Miller, the one that you
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Speaker 1: just traded a ton of assets for those However, that's
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Speaker 1: part of it. You get the lead in the eighth inning,
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Speaker 1: where the Brewers have taken how many leads throughout the year,
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Speaker 1: one of the best scoring teams in the seven eight
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Speaker 1: ninth innings of games, and all of a sudden, you
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Speaker 1: steal a game in at the end of eight. It
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Speaker 1: feels like it's over because you just took a three
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Speaker 1: to two lead, and now all the sudden miller is
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Speaker 1: coming in and the lights are going off in their
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Speaker 1: playing a round.
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Speaker 3: Game chance, your chances of winning that part of the
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Speaker 3: situation dramatically increase, And in a lot of times, that's
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Speaker 3: all you're trying to do is set yourself up for
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Speaker 3: certain game situations because it's hard to know what's gonna
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Speaker 3: happen in a short series.
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Speaker 2: Anything.
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Speaker 3: You know, anything, it hits baseball, So there might be
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Speaker 3: games you had to lead.
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Speaker 2: It might not.
17:17
Speaker 3: But in case that situation rises where you can get
17:20
Speaker 3: early leads and you can get one run leads and
17:23
Speaker 3: you can that can help you win those games, it
17:25
Speaker 3: can become worth it. It's an interesting proposition. The other
17:28
Speaker 3: factor is this might say, oh, it's not a starter,
17:31
Speaker 3: it's not a bad but you might not have an
17:33
Speaker 3: opportunity to get those guys. They might never trade school,
17:36
Speaker 3: put school on the market, A big time bad or
17:39
Speaker 3: whatever might never be on the market. So if you're
17:41
Speaker 3: looking for the best player on the market, that might
17:43
Speaker 3: be the one like it's the whole thing about drafting, right.
17:47
Speaker 3: I mean, you might not have needed a center. Played
17:49
Speaker 3: Jordan at center. It was the old Bobby Knight thing,
17:51
Speaker 3: like we need a center, we get Sam Bowie. Well
17:53
Speaker 3: you could have played just get the best player you can.
17:55
Speaker 1: You got Clyde Drexler. He does the exact same thing
17:57
Speaker 1: when I do this, right, So it's that's right, McGill is.
18:00
Speaker 1: So it's like, that could be the best player available
18:03
Speaker 1: at the deadline. And if you're like just saying we're
18:05
Speaker 1: committed to.
18:06
Speaker 3: Trying to find the best player no matter what position
18:08
Speaker 3: he is, that might be your opportunity to get a
18:10
Speaker 3: special guy.
18:10
Speaker 2: Indeed, that the margin shifter.
18:12
Speaker 1: I think the only player that would be dealt at
18:15
Speaker 1: the deadline that would be better would be Schooble, and.
18:20
Speaker 3: That it's hard to know what teams in their mind
18:22
Speaker 3: are making available, but I guess in terms of special
18:24
Speaker 3: players at their position, you're probably right.
18:26
Speaker 1: And he's one up probably the top twenty players in
18:29
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, I'm with you on that, and him
18:32
Speaker 1: being the most dynamic closer in the game, and you
18:37
Speaker 1: having multiple years of control here and if indeed worst
18:40
Speaker 1: case scenario baseball wise, happens next year, they don't play
18:45
Speaker 1: in twenty seven. Yeah, sweet, all of a sudden, you
18:47
Speaker 1: have three more years of control with Mason Miller. Now
18:50
Speaker 1: he's a one year older, so maybe your value goes
18:52
Speaker 1: down here, but it's not like you lose one of
18:54
Speaker 1: those years.
18:55
Speaker 2: You still have them for three seasons.
18:57
Speaker 1: So that could be three playoff chances, four playoff races
19:01
Speaker 1: that you could be able to get here eight seven, seven,
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Speaker 1: seven nine four one nine seven three.
19:04
Speaker 3: Then you get the same question as San Diego want
19:06
Speaker 3: to sell that we're two games back from a wild card,
19:09
Speaker 3: and then he becomes the hater.
19:11
Speaker 2: He would be Josh Hater two point zero.
19:14
Speaker 3: So that's that's another part of that equation that now
19:17
Speaker 3: is is the biggest part of the equation I think
19:19
Speaker 3: these days in baseball.
19:20
Speaker 1: And I was and I'm still looking at Joe Ryan
19:22
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Twins. However, I thought they would be closer.
19:25
Speaker 1: Now they're one of those teams moving day has not
19:27
Speaker 1: been kind to They've slid here, lost four straight, including
19:32
Speaker 1: two to the Guardians, who the team that they're chasing
19:34
Speaker 1: their five games out of the division. Maybe they do
19:36
Speaker 1: trade off and maybe Joe Ryan's the best guy available
19:40
Speaker 1: right now. If indeed the report by Jeff Passing is
19:43
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19:46
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19:48
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Speaker 1: high school this year, but the dudes that are in
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Speaker 1: the in the w Jersey's coming up this year hopefully
22:59
Speaker 1: got a little bit something extra because Colton Joseph starting quarterback.
23:03
Speaker 1: If you had not heard formerly of old Dominion fame, indeed,
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Speaker 1: we'll come in here and run the offense. And the
23:11
Speaker 1: first order of business, stay healthy for more than six games.
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Speaker 2: That's the big thing for any UW quarterback.
23:17
Speaker 1: Second order of business, throw touchdown, multiple touchdowns in multiple
23:22
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Speaker 2: That's that's the number, that's the number two goal.
23:36
Speaker 3: I think he's staying healthy's first, then scoring his number two.
23:39
Speaker 2: We need to have more of that this time.
23:40
Speaker 1: One of my favorite things that I've ever been a
23:42
Speaker 1: part of in a radio broadcast was when Matt Leapey
23:45
Speaker 1: said last year against Oregon.
23:47
Speaker 2: Touchdown Wisconsin there, I said, it were.
23:52
Speaker 1: Able to finally light it out. That was one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite moments. Just the exaltation was beautiful. Scott Dolphin
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Speaker 1: allow the batterers to get a touchdown, didn't allow him
24:02
Speaker 1: to get a point last year was his Iowa Hawkeyes in
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Speaker 1: the midst there it's all but like college football is
24:07
Speaker 1: inside of forty five days away.
24:10
Speaker 2: I love it.
24:10
Speaker 1: We're inside of fifty days away from pro football being
24:13
Speaker 1: kicked off, and I mean the SEC media days are
24:16
Speaker 1: running rampant.
24:17
Speaker 2: It is.
24:18
Speaker 1: The kickoff of college football is starting right now the
24:21
Speaker 1: best way we know how in college football bitching and
24:23
Speaker 1: the moaning about what's going on.
24:25
Speaker 4: Of course, of course, and I don't want to, you know,
24:27
Speaker 4: call Colton Joseph, you know, a program saver, but.
24:32
Speaker 2: Big things are expected him. You sure could be.
24:35
Speaker 4: People are jacked and you should be after you know
24:38
Speaker 4: what he did at old to me, not only with
24:40
Speaker 4: his arm but with his feet in the last couple
24:42
Speaker 4: of seasons. So I'd be excited if I was a
24:43
Speaker 4: Wisconsin football fan that was.
24:46
Speaker 1: That was something that they showed last year when when
24:51
Speaker 1: O'Neil took over that with a running quarterback, you had
24:54
Speaker 1: a different part of the Jeff Grimes offense. Now, I
24:57
Speaker 1: think Joseph, a little bit sturdier, is hopefully going to
25:00
Speaker 1: hold up to it.
25:01
Speaker 2: But I mean, you're going into.
25:02
Speaker 1: A it's not the gauntlet of the Big ten schedule
25:05
Speaker 1: that you went to last year. But to say that
25:08
Speaker 1: there's a step up from the Sun Belt to the
25:10
Speaker 1: Big Ten, here's gonna learn that this year. And it's
25:12
Speaker 1: one of those where you hope that the lesson isn't
25:15
Speaker 1: too painful. And the sliding is one of his best
25:18
Speaker 1: attributes because that was one of my only problems last
25:20
Speaker 1: year with my man Danny. Get the brother, get down.
25:24
Speaker 1: We can't have this. We understand that you want to
25:27
Speaker 1: be one of the boys.
25:27
Speaker 2: You want to.
25:28
Speaker 1: Trucks take somebody at any point in time. However, Dolf,
25:31
Speaker 1: the show can't go on if you're not on stage.
25:33
Speaker 1: So let's make sure that we avoid some.
25:34
Speaker 4: Of the content that's been their issue right for the
25:36
Speaker 4: last three or four years. You can't keep your number
25:38
Speaker 4: one guy healthy, and this is a guy you obviously
25:41
Speaker 4: need to keep healthy because I think, with all due
25:44
Speaker 4: respect to the last couple of years, I think he's
25:46
Speaker 4: the best guy they've brought in under Luke Fickle now.
25:54
Speaker 2: Really good player. I think this kid, Colton Joseph has
25:57
Speaker 2: a chance to be better.
25:58
Speaker 1: And he also has the the first chance to be
26:01
Speaker 1: the longer term guy.
26:02
Speaker 2: Right like to have a little bit of.
26:04
Speaker 1: A runway a couple of years, hopefully to be the
26:07
Speaker 1: guy and grow into it.
26:08
Speaker 2: I'm very excited.
26:09
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see the boys get out on the
26:11
Speaker 1: grass to start and it creeps up on you sooner
26:15
Speaker 1: and sooner each year. But the sport itself, I don't
26:18
Speaker 1: know the games have ever been better. The conversation around
26:21
Speaker 1: it seems like it's always toxic. However, once we just
26:24
Speaker 1: put pads on in guys on grass golf, it's going
26:27
Speaker 1: to deliver again this year.
26:28
Speaker 4: It's so much more exciting now with the playoff and
26:31
Speaker 4: the fact that they want to expand it. I'm okay
26:34
Speaker 4: with that if it doesn't get too big. I mean,
26:36
Speaker 4: if your team has a chance to say, hey, we
26:38
Speaker 4: were a college football playof participate, that's a big deal.
26:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know my team, your team, we haven't been
26:43
Speaker 2: able to.
26:43
Speaker 1: Do that well and well, I have been close though, right,
26:46
Speaker 1: I mean, they've at least been on the doorstep again
26:49
Speaker 1: of Big Ten championships in the last number of years.
26:51
Speaker 2: Now both sides are missing that Big Ten West.
26:55
Speaker 1: Was that was a nice additive of the schedule.
26:59
Speaker 2: I don't think we're going there.
27:00
Speaker 1: And also the Big Ten West would look a lot
27:01
Speaker 1: different with Oregon and sc in it.
27:03
Speaker 2: It would look a little bit different with some of
27:06
Speaker 2: those inclusions that they have now.
27:07
Speaker 1: But you you have such a gauntlet in such a runway.
27:12
Speaker 1: But the year that you're going into, I don't know
27:15
Speaker 1: exactly what Ohio State's gonna look like. Michigan's got a
27:18
Speaker 1: bunch of turmoil. The Big Ten's interesting because Penn State
27:21
Speaker 1: again has been the last three or four years. When
27:24
Speaker 1: are they going to break through? And nobody's talking about them.
27:26
Speaker 1: With Matt Campbell coming.
27:27
Speaker 4: Up now, I would think Ohio State, you know, with
27:30
Speaker 4: another year under what was it, Julian Starr in the quarterback,
27:34
Speaker 4: I think they're probably gonna be the fair. Oregon brings
27:36
Speaker 4: back a Heisman candidate though, right.
27:38
Speaker 2: That's the thing they do.
27:39
Speaker 3: And that's the interesting part about that Penn State schedule
27:43
Speaker 3: is easier.
27:43
Speaker 2: I mean people, some people think they're going to start
27:45
Speaker 2: ten and zero.
27:46
Speaker 1: Oregon's also done the thing that team that teams always
27:49
Speaker 1: love that fans always love the step ladder to success.
27:52
Speaker 2: They've gotten one step further each year, which is.
27:55
Speaker 1: What fans like to quarterfinal, semi final. Now do they
28:00
Speaker 1: get to the final, And you're right with Donte Moore,
28:01
Speaker 1: I think they've got just as good of a chance
28:03
Speaker 1: as anybody to get there.
28:04
Speaker 3: Hey, we do like that in American sports. We like
28:07
Speaker 3: what our teams build and build to reach. I think
28:09
Speaker 3: we think it reflects our own life and how we
28:12
Speaker 3: grow up. Yeah, we how we try and progress in
28:14
Speaker 3: our career. Had some deep stuff, Army, Well, it's my
28:17
Speaker 3: theory and I've had that like while, and I think
28:19
Speaker 3: we seem to enjoy that triumph more when it happens,
28:23
Speaker 3: although it's very rare for it to happen, which is
28:24
Speaker 3: kind of the funny shure, you know.
28:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, odds on favorite to win the college football National
28:29
Speaker 1: Championship at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook right now, be big bet
28:32
Speaker 1: Bolden met above the rest is who is it?
28:34
Speaker 2: Georgia?
28:36
Speaker 1: No, Georgia comes in with the six shortest odds at
28:42
Speaker 1: eighth and a half to one. Arm I thought Nor Dame,
28:45
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Mabe, probably Ohio State. Come on now, Notre
28:48
Speaker 1: Dame one Ohio State Dame, which I love because you
28:52
Speaker 1: know they're not gonna win it all.
28:54
Speaker 3: I mean, Notre Dame has never wins it all. I
28:55
Speaker 3: mean right, I mean so we'.
28:57
Speaker 1: That's why Brian Kelly left. But you said, I can't
29:00
Speaker 1: win it all here. And I don't mean this to
29:01
Speaker 1: rip on There Dame.
29:02
Speaker 3: I have no dislike for them, but I feel like
29:05
Speaker 3: there are so many Notre Dame fans that always are
29:07
Speaker 3: hoping that to happen.
29:09
Speaker 2: And maybe that's where the betting line comes in. Billy.
29:11
Speaker 2: They're going to be investing on There Dame, investing, investing.
29:13
Speaker 4: The big REP is always going to be you can
29:15
Speaker 4: control your own schedule if you're that school, and they
29:18
Speaker 4: don't have to play the gauntlet.
29:20
Speaker 2: That is the big ten of the SEC. Yeah, in
29:22
Speaker 2: the SEC. This year, I believe is the first year
29:24
Speaker 2: that they're.
29:25
Speaker 1: Going to nine games. That's a big deal that'll add
29:28
Speaker 1: in there. I don't know if you polled, there will
29:32
Speaker 1: be seventy five thousand fans that walk into Lambeufield Game
29:35
Speaker 1: one Sunday of Labor Day weekend, if you polled, say,
29:38
Speaker 1: of the fifty thousand that are wearing Badger red, because
29:41
Speaker 1: I imagine there'll be a lot of Golden Domer fans there.
29:43
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how many of them going in would have
29:45
Speaker 1: known that that Notre Dame is the odds on favorite
29:48
Speaker 1: to win.
29:48
Speaker 2: The national type betting favorite to win it all.
29:51
Speaker 1: However, you're gonna and it's it's rather unfair to judge
29:55
Speaker 1: on game one because you can't make a rash decision
29:59
Speaker 1: and a finaljudgment on how you look in the first
30:01
Speaker 1: sixty minutes, but first impressions go a long way, and
30:03
Speaker 1: that's a that's a tough one to have to make
30:06
Speaker 1: there with those special uniforms coming up on that Sunday night.
30:09
Speaker 4: Where is Indiana in the odds? Is anybody giving them
30:13
Speaker 4: a chance to repeat it?
30:15
Speaker 2: We didn't mention them at all.
30:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, tied for fourth, tied with Oregon at eight to one.
30:20
Speaker 2: They're bringing in another stud quarterback this year, aren't they.
30:23
Speaker 1: Josh Hoover? Yeah, TCU who is back some huge numbers? Yeah, vacuum,
30:30
Speaker 1: he sucked up some big numbers. Dude, is Willieve me Mendoz.
30:33
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, I think a lot of people love
30:35
Speaker 3: the story, love what they've done there, but they you know,
30:38
Speaker 3: obviously believe in the coaching. But it's like, are they
30:40
Speaker 3: really going to be a contender to win it all again?
30:42
Speaker 4: Now that I have I don't know how you can
30:44
Speaker 4: say no doubt that great.
30:47
Speaker 1: See what he's done at every level. It's just ridiculous
30:50
Speaker 1: that one right there is great proof of UH. As
30:53
Speaker 1: much as NIL can be a boogeyman and people don't
30:55
Speaker 1: necessarily like it, the NIL world has allowed this and
30:58
Speaker 1: the college Football Playoff co like at the same time
31:02
Speaker 1: the expansion of it. It's worked from welcoming in new
31:05
Speaker 1: groups because nobody was gonna put Texas Tech in Indiana
31:09
Speaker 1: in the top ten odds though to win the national
31:11
Speaker 1: title ten years, nobody's gonna outspend Texas Tech Indiana.
31:14
Speaker 4: Just when you'd see a college football game day there,
31:17
Speaker 4: it was just sad that old, nondescript, boring concrete stadium
31:23
Speaker 4: that was half full.
31:24
Speaker 1: They were at one of the ninety four memorial stadiums
31:26
Speaker 1: in college football.
31:28
Speaker 2: That's what makes this story so miraculous.
31:30
Speaker 3: They have been a nothing football program forever and I
31:33
Speaker 3: always say, that's the worst thing to happen to all
31:35
Speaker 3: the other kind of I don't want to say, like Wisconsin, Iowa,
31:39
Speaker 3: good programs that never reached that greatness to that level
31:42
Speaker 3: national title. Why can't we be them? Look what they did?
31:47
Speaker 3: Sure we could be them. After Indiana did it, everyone
31:49
Speaker 3: believes we should be able to find the secret formula
31:52
Speaker 3: to do what they did. See, it's possible. Why can't
31:55
Speaker 3: I had that car down the block? Why can't I
31:57
Speaker 3: had that that lawn down the block thing with Villanova?
32:00
Speaker 2: In my opinion, when.
32:01
Speaker 3: They had their run with Jay Wright, it was like,
32:03
Speaker 3: this is a good program, but they won back to
32:05
Speaker 3: back national titles.
32:06
Speaker 2: See, it is possible for Marquette for people would believe that.
32:13
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're wrong to.
32:14
Speaker 3: Believe that, but it creates this like keeping up with
32:17
Speaker 3: the Joneses aspect of Now there's pressure run every athletic
32:20
Speaker 3: department to pump in more money, to pump in more resources,
32:24
Speaker 3: to fire coaches quicker, to not be like, you know,
32:27
Speaker 3: we're gonna just wait it out, you know what I mean.
32:29
Speaker 3: That's how fan bases look at these things. I think
32:31
Speaker 3: that's interesting.
32:32
Speaker 4: You'll be happy to know that I purchased both the
32:36
Speaker 4: Badger and the Marquette beer over the weekend.
32:38
Speaker 2: Guys, let's you although I think you just want to
32:44
Speaker 2: drink beer, Well, you're right about that.
32:46
Speaker 4: Actually it was part of our blind bartender thing we
32:48
Speaker 4: do at the Bruise games on Friday night. At purchased
32:51
Speaker 4: some of both and uh, you know, everybody said they
32:55
Speaker 4: were both good.
32:55
Speaker 1: The Varsity Ale is legit, it's good. I have not
32:59
Speaker 1: tried the Old Eagle one.
33:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had one. It's it's really good. The seventy
33:03
Speaker 2: seven maybe the best beer you've ever had in your
33:06
Speaker 2: entire life.
33:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was tremendous. By it, by more of it.
33:09
Speaker 3: I don't know the best beer. You're not gonna sell
33:12
Speaker 3: it up a little bit. Have a sponsor on here.
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Speaker 3: You're not making Yingling mad or Bud Budweiser.
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Speaker 2: Somewhere somewhere.
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Speaker 3: I have a picture on my phone with Brian Butch
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Speaker 3: holding up a can, which.
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Speaker 2: Is it's not your favorite one. No, it's a good beer,
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Speaker 2: So watch the while.
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Speaker 1: He'll send you the picture of you rocking the Brian
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Speaker 1: Butch thirty two just to remind you it's there.
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Speaker 2: We both had that on each other it's a nuclear
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Speaker 2: cold war. We both have.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's all just so you know you're feeling it
33:39
Speaker 1: and you get get a little excited and over eager
33:43
Speaker 1: Hawks one hundred to one to win the Nationals.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I might be maybe they're finding it over at the
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Speaker 1: Potawatam Sports Maybe a throw a saw buck on there.
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Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be. I think they had seven or
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Speaker 2: eight players drafted.
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Speaker 4: They lost a lot from last year, but you know
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Speaker 4: that defense, Phil Parker, it doesn't matter who's in there,
33:59
Speaker 4: he just is. It's a system. And they they're top ten.
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Speaker 4: It seems every single year.
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Speaker 1: They're one of the they're one of the teams and
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Speaker 1: one of the marvels right now in the in the
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Speaker 1: changing landscape of college football. If you can continue to
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Speaker 1: do what you've always done, and that's just developed players,
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Speaker 1: they continually pump guys in and I don't think that's
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Speaker 1: going to stop you.
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Speaker 2: But this year it's going to be interesting.
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Speaker 4: They've got Ohio State, they played Michigan, they play they
34:24
Speaker 4: don't play Oregon, but I think they play. They go
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Speaker 4: they go to Washington, who's expected to be a really
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Speaker 4: good team.
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Speaker 2: This year.
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Speaker 4: I was probably they haven't even named a starting quarterback yet.
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Speaker 4: It's a battle right now.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Dolf, you're not lying at Michigan home against Ohio
34:37
Speaker 1: State at Washington.
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Speaker 3: That's how he start the conference, that's how you It's
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Speaker 3: an opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we lived through October last year, all right, batter
34:47
Speaker 1: fans lived through October last year.
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Speaker 2: If there's a worse murderers row I'd like to see,
34:51
Speaker 2: I'll say this.
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Speaker 4: They don't play the Buckeyes often, but when they play
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Speaker 4: them in Iowa City, they've had pretty good success, including
34:58
Speaker 4: a beatdown. I think they beat him fifty five to
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Speaker 4: twenty four, like ten years ago.
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Speaker 2: Eight, ten years ago, I remember that thing number.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the guy the Packers drafted was all put him
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Speaker 4: in the Hall of Fame that night, Joshua Jackson.
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Speaker 2: I think he had three picks for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not so much in Green Bay, not so much
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Speaker 1: in greenboll We got it before we lose you.
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Speaker 3: I want to make sure to get this in Maggie
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Speaker 3: and George on Nickolaylaw dot com talking text line and
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Speaker 3: a specific question about your life, Dolphin. Well, now let's
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Speaker 3: go state the ball line. Thinking about you or what
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Speaker 3: about my life. Yeah, well sort of your life, okay,
35:29
Speaker 3: she said, I have no idea why.
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Speaker 2: I just thought of this.
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Speaker 3: Can you please ask Dolph if he's always like country music.
35:33
Speaker 2: I'm sure you probably already talked about his work history
35:35
Speaker 2: at some point. I just don't remember.
35:37
Speaker 3: In the radio business, I know, sometimes you have to
35:39
Speaker 3: take the job you can get, in the format you
35:40
Speaker 3: can get.
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Speaker 2: Basically she's talking about, I understand now he can do
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Speaker 2: whatever he wants. I like this. Sorry so long, just.
35:46
Speaker 3: Was always but I think you've always been a country
35:48
Speaker 3: music fan.
35:49
Speaker 2: I mean you've been a radio professional for a lot
35:51
Speaker 2: of years. She makes a great point.
35:52
Speaker 4: Actually, I didn't grow up a country music fan arm
35:55
Speaker 4: and I grew up listening to whatever was on the
35:57
Speaker 4: radio or in the radio. Yeah, I mean I knew
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Speaker 4: of country music. I remember seeing Alabama when I was
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Speaker 4: in high school. They came to my county fair. But
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Speaker 4: once I got into country radio, and then I really got
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Speaker 4: into country music.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, yeah, And now I would say you
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Speaker 2: were a legit.
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Speaker 3: You know, you know, you're unlike the grassroots of like
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Speaker 3: being into young country artists, knowing that the business, loving
36:16
Speaker 3: the loving the art form of the format.
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Speaker 4: So it's hard to keep up with nowadays, man, because
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Speaker 4: you have so many people discovered via social media, via
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Speaker 4: TikTok that you really have to do your homework to
36:27
Speaker 4: keep up with all the names. And country radio is great,
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Speaker 4: but boy, when you go to shows at summer fester,
36:33
Speaker 4: even at local bars with up and coming talent that
36:36
Speaker 4: you've never heard of, people know these artists. Yes, Spotify
36:40
Speaker 4: and yeah and social media.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's even just TikTok. That's right.
36:44
Speaker 4: You know, uh Stella Lefty who's on fire right now
36:47
Speaker 4: in country music. Her debut singles called Boston. She was
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Speaker 4: a TikTok find a TikTok star and now she's like,
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Speaker 4: she's our what do we call our iHeart on the
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Speaker 4: verge artist?
36:56
Speaker 2: Oh, let's go, it's a big deal. Was our girl
36:59
Speaker 2: Ella Langley ever? That one? I think she was?
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Speaker 1: She made some news this weekend. There were some people
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Speaker 1: during her concert.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a wardrobe malfunction. Well how did you hold
37:12
Speaker 2: on over there?
37:14
Speaker 3: Let's just tell she's very talented, all right, I'm just saying,
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Speaker 1: About she was also very quick on her feet and
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hunter's guy. We're gonna We're gonna definitely have to
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37:46
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