Transcript

11/02/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do.
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some tape. All right?
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Speaker 5: There you go. One, two, three.
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Speaker 1: We got some big plays coming.
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Speaker 6: What the hell's going on out here?
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Speaker 1: Yellow Weasel.
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Speaker 2: Quit calling the plays, all right? It is time. Who
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Speaker 2: do you think you are? With Drew Olsen.
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Speaker 5: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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Speaker 5: your respect.
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Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick.
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Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 6: Super Bowl dreams that glowed in the summer sunshine, flicker
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Speaker 6: and fade in the autumn shadows. and hopes that were
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Speaker 6: high in the heat of September can wilt and die
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Speaker 6: in the chill of November. November can be cold and gray.
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Speaker 6: November can be surly, with bitter rain upon the world
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Speaker 6: and winter coming early. Do you fear the force of
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Speaker 6: the wind, the slash of the rain? Go face them
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Speaker 6: and fight them. Be savage again. The palms of your
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Speaker 6: hands will thicken. The skin of your cheek will tan.
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Speaker 6: You'll grow ragged and weary and wet. But you must
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Speaker 6: do the best you can.
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Speaker 7: Oh, baby, had to have that little ode to November
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Speaker 7: from John Facinda at NFL Films.
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Speaker 2: We're on to November. Happy November 2nd. Everybody, welcome to the.
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Speaker 7: Monday edition of The Huddle, broadcasting live on 920 Milwaukee,
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Speaker 7: 1070 Madison, iHeartRadio apps worldwide, and of course, Facebook X
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Speaker 7: and YouTube. Drew Olson, Bill Schmid, and Armin Sarin bringing
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Speaker 7: it to you. We've recovered sufficiently. We had an extra
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Speaker 7: hour of sleep. We had a day on the couch
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Speaker 7: watching football, maybe even two days on the couch watching football.
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Speaker 7: Have we recovered from the Brewers' victory? No, I don't
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Speaker 7: think so, nor should we, nor do we want to. Luckily,
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Speaker 7: we all get to be Armin Sarians for the next three, four, five, six,
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Speaker 7: eight months, 10 months, 12 months, however long this MLB
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Speaker 7: lockout lasts. Because until they start breaking down the greatest
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Speaker 7: guys that ever played in the 90s with names that
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Speaker 7: start with M, for again, however long this ends up lasting,
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Speaker 7: we just get to watch them replay every game. So
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Speaker 7: it's hard to not bask in it. It's hard to
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Speaker 7: not continue to enjoy it. I leave a show last
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Speaker 7: night and my man's selling bootlegged World Series merchandise. outside
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Speaker 7: of Fiserv Forum instead of concert t-shirts.
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Speaker 4: Drew, that's when you know we're not getting over this
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Speaker 4: one for a while. The billboards saying congrats to the
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Speaker 4: crew or cheers to the champions, I can't get enough
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Speaker 4: of them.
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Speaker 2: I know that they're going to get swept up with more.
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Speaker 4: holiday season billboards for now but maybe we could roll
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Speaker 4: this until turkey day with these celebration boards and i'd
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Speaker 4: be a lot happier about it so we can just
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Speaker 4: continue doing uh so hell yes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah i agree billy i mean i'm sure there's a
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Speaker 2: time it's gonna wear off but i hope it's not
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Speaker 2: soon i don't want it to happen i'm still in
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Speaker 2: that mode of trying to uh bring it up whenever
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Speaker 2: i can you know that we to myself or to
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Speaker 2: anybody hey we won the world series let's bask in
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Speaker 2: the glow today's show this morning. So there's still those
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Speaker 2: type of appearances, obviously, um, you know, guys doing the
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Speaker 2: set appearances, autograph sessions, the SNL thing over the weekend
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Speaker 2: was pretty cool. And, um, you know, and as Billy
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Speaker 2: so astutely noticed when he walked in today, I don't
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Speaker 2: want to take the hologram off the shirt yet, you know,
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Speaker 2: and that's probably the final piece to the puzzle. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's got the sticker still on the world shirt sticker
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Speaker 2: right there. Now my daughter, Lena almost stole it this morning.
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Speaker 2: She was pawing at it. She saw it. It's It's
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Speaker 2: hard for a toddler to resist a sticker. You know
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Speaker 2: what I mean? Or a human being. I wanted to
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Speaker 2: grab it off your chest a couple of times. One
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Speaker 2: of those things where I was like, you know what?
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Speaker 2: I want to wait to the last possible. You want
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Speaker 2: to put this thing. You want to push the sun
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Speaker 2: back as much as possible to try and bask in
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Speaker 2: the glory of it. We're doing a good job of it.
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Speaker 4: Can you tell Drew in the audience why you told
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Speaker 4: me you didn't want to take the sticker off when
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Speaker 4: you told me a couple of minutes ago?
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Speaker 2: I feel like once you do it, it doesn't feel
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Speaker 2: new anymore. You want to make sure it feels new
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Speaker 2: and real. Is that what you're talking about?
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Speaker 4: It's very real. They played in the World Series. They
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Speaker 4: actually won the World Series. It is real.
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Speaker 2: I look sometimes at my Packers Super Bowl champion shirt
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Speaker 2: from XLV and I'm like, Man, that was a long
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Speaker 2: time ago. And you're like, you don't want the memory.
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Speaker 2: It's sort of symbolic if it fades in the wash.
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Speaker 2: You don't want the memory to fade. You don't want
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Speaker 2: the glory. It never will, though. So that's the greatest
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Speaker 2: thing about this. And you're right, Billy. I'm about to
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Speaker 2: hit up the guy in the street some more to
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Speaker 2: see because I've been really going in on this merchandise,
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Speaker 2: trying to look at it. I might pick up a
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Speaker 2: couple of Mazerowskis if they go on. Is there clearance
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Speaker 2: from a guy in the street? At some point, he's
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Speaker 2: got to get rid of the inventory. He's got to
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Speaker 2: get down with the inventory. He doesn't want to bring
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Speaker 2: it home. Definitely not.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that they're putting it in one of
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Speaker 4: those pods storage facilities. Desperation will say.
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Speaker 2: I'd rather give him money than Michael Rubin. Like, you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: I was going to say, you're so anti fanatics. I'm
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Speaker 4: kind of surprised. Not all of your merchandise was bought
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Speaker 4: outside of the Clark station on 84th and lane.
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Speaker 2: I don't mind it at all. If the shirt's right.
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Speaker 2: And I like what it looks like, but, but the
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Speaker 2: tough thing is though, the real, like the other really
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Speaker 2: good quality stuff is still like, The hat you had, Billy,
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at that one now. It's hard to replace
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Speaker 2: some nice quality stuff like that. I don't know. We'll see.
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Speaker 2: We'll have a plan of attack. We'll be looking at
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Speaker 2: this merchandise all winter, let's be honest. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be going on and on. Yeah, when's the clubhouse sale?
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Speaker 2: We might have a lot of it there. That's going
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Speaker 2: to be a unique situation this year because everyone's going
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Speaker 2: to want to go. Generally, first weekend in December is
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Speaker 2: what I thought. That's when I usually load up for
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Speaker 2: the season, as you guys know.
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Speaker 4: Now, Drew, you'd be able to astutely more process this
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Speaker 4: than I. At that clubhouse sale, if it would be
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Speaker 4: in December... No player merchandise, correct?
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Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think they can still sell
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Speaker 2: it this time around. I think they still can.
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Speaker 4: I know that there would be certain restrictions on how
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Speaker 4: much quantity or when it is available. Maybe it's more
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Speaker 4: online or whatever, but I think that would be a
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Speaker 4: fascinating one. They still got the fever around the ballpark, though. Yesterday,
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Speaker 4: I'm driving to a place that I generally frequent on
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Speaker 4: Sunday mornings. Yeah, you got to stop and get some
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Speaker 4: breakfast for the family. And I don't know exactly when
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Speaker 4: they were opening, but there were folks waiting. I think
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Speaker 4: it was like 8.30 in the morning. Hope they were
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Speaker 4: opening at 9 and not 11 because they were waiting
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Speaker 4: outside ready to pounce on some more merch, Drew.
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Speaker 2: Honey, I'm going to pick up breakfast. Why are you
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Speaker 2: calling me Canal Street? Yeah. Best coffee shop in the city.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: It really is. It's just, you know.
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Speaker 7: How about the brewer sightings in the wild? They all
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Speaker 7: survived the parade, which is nice. Then they had their
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Speaker 7: little after party at the Third Street Market Hall. Then
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Speaker 7: they fanned out into the mists. And some of them,
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Speaker 7: Terang and Murph and Yellich, they went to New York.
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Speaker 7: And then others went trick-or-treating and walked in Wauwatosa.
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Speaker 2: Sal was out there in the beard costume. That's incredible. Sal,
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Speaker 2: the Bowers. Someone I used to work with, her kids,
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Speaker 2: I think, were in Franklin. And it was, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: Bobby Gasser answering the door with Logan Henderson. So they
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Speaker 2: weren't out and about, but they answered the door. That
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Speaker 2: was kind of cool. They must still be living together.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what the deal is. They're hanging out together.
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Speaker 2: Giving out candy. I was at the Bucs game Saturday
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Speaker 2: night and saw Cooper Pratt and Churrio. A couple of
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Speaker 2: folks there.
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Speaker 4: Dustin May and Bernie and the Sausages. I can't imagine
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Speaker 4: that crowd pop was small. And it's funny because I'm
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Speaker 4: at the Bucs game and I'm thinking, oh, wow, they
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Speaker 4: didn't bring the trophy. They must have it somewhere else. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: they took it to New York for Saturday Night Live.
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Speaker 2: It was a little busy. does that trophy have a
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Speaker 2: handler and like a packager? Like they do. I don't
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Speaker 2: think so. Cause I think that it's a replica. It's like,
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Speaker 2: you get it to keep, it's not the Stanley cup
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Speaker 2: where you have to give it back. They're not traveling
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Speaker 2: with that thing. It's got the Tiffany bag.
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Speaker 7: And right.
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Speaker 2: But it's not going through like, no, no, they don't.
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Speaker 2: They handle it with gloves when they, once they give
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Speaker 2: it to the team, but then it's your own. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Once it reaches the third street market hall, I think
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Speaker 4: it's all bets are off. Like I, I think, I
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Speaker 4: think they kind of let it, let it ride at
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Speaker 4: that point to wherever it ends up going.
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Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, I just didn't know if it was, you know,
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Speaker 2: you check baggage or you carry it.
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Speaker 4: Saturday Night Live appearance was good. It was definitely quick.
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Speaker 4: It was very, very quick. The Murph quote was phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, being a manager is kind of like being a
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Speaker 2: drunk uncle. Well, as a matter of fact, we have
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Speaker 2: that for you. Let's take a listen. Give me 15
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Speaker 2: seconds here. All right, Armand's got it. He's got it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, when you saw Sal Freelick walking around with
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Speaker 4: the boys and, you know, Grant Anderson and folks and D.L.
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Speaker 4: Hall's got a little one of his hundred thousand beers.
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Speaker 4: All I could think, Drew, is he's the buddy that
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Speaker 4: lives in the college house. That's, you know, one of
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Speaker 4: one of the families on the college house.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 4: So everybody there's about five or six guys that live there.
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Speaker 4: And after graduation, three moved to Chicago and one moves
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Speaker 4: back home. And then there's a couple and one guy
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Speaker 4: whose parent family owns it. Obviously has a girlfriend. Now
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Speaker 4: they're engaged. Oh my gosh, now they're going to get
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Speaker 4: married and there's a baby. Here's my man Sal just
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Speaker 4: living in the basement. He's like, what's different? I don't
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Speaker 4: want to stop this. Can't we just all hang out?
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Speaker 4: What are you guys doing tonight? We're going and hanging
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Speaker 4: out with our kids. We're going to go trick-or-treating. Sweet,
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Speaker 4: I'll be there. Anybody need a beer costume? I got
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Speaker 4: an extra one. We could be suds all over the place.
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Speaker 2: He's a vibes guy. He really is. And that's what's great.
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Speaker 2: You got to have a guy like that. Got it.
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Speaker 2: Got it. All right, Armand, hit it. What did it
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Speaker 2: sound like Saturday night?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I'm just worried that maybe a beer didn't win.
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Speaker 2: The World Series. Maybe this was all a dream.
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was. I don't know either.
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Speaker 2: You tell me. Wait a second.
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Speaker 1: I see the world champion Milwaukee Boys.
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Speaker 2: We're winning, guys. Worst ever. Don't worry, drunk uncle. It
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Speaker 2: wasn't a dream. And we have something in common, Drunk Uncle.
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Speaker 2: We've also been drinking since Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: And I'm the manager.
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Speaker 5: And that's kind of like being the Drunk Uncle of
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Speaker 5: the team.
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Speaker 2: Hey, wait a minute.
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Speaker 6: I know you.
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Speaker 2: You're Pete Davidson, right?
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Speaker 1: Drunk Uncle and the world champion.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's Terang and Murph getting their national TV moment
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Speaker 7: and then hanging out backstage with the likes of Steven Spielberg.
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Speaker 2: And Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks, yeah. And J.J.
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Speaker 6: Abrams.
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Speaker 2: Pretty cool, pretty cool. And the entire cast. How about that?
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Speaker 2: I thought they all nailed one line. They all nailed it.
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Speaker 2: You know, you can tell.
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Speaker 7: I think they got in a little late. They might
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Speaker 7: have missed their cue. Bobby was stretching a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we always make jokes about, like,
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Speaker 2: they picked Yelich and Terang, but Murph really hammered his
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Speaker 2: line pretty good. Live TV. It was good. A lot
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Speaker 2: of people thought Murph was the most wooden that I
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Speaker 2: talked to. Really? The other guys were good, yeah. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I thought it was good. The irony is Murph doesn't drink.
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Speaker 2: They're reading cue cards. Yeah, of course. It was great.
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Speaker 2: The drunk uncle who doesn't drink, that's Murph.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So it was epic.
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Speaker 7: I know it was hard, man. Halloween, there were some
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Speaker 7: people out in costume giving it, right? But a lot
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Speaker 7: of people... I talked to a friend of mine who
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Speaker 7: runs an establishment and he said that like Saturday during
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Speaker 7: the day, he could tell an, a normally bustling Saturday
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Speaker 7: on a nice fall Saturday, it would have been crowded.
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Speaker 7: He's like, it felt like a Tuesday, a lot of
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Speaker 7: recovery because everybody just gave it so hard. 750,000 people
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Speaker 7: attending the festivities around the parade downtown. And then not just,
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Speaker 7: not just standing around, they were consuming and they were
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Speaker 7: putting money in the economy and cash on sweatshirts.
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Speaker 2: And drinks.
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Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: Drinks and drinks and drinks. And more and more drinks.
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Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden realizing, as Armin just
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Speaker 4: said before the show, like, now they keep pumping out
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Speaker 4: more merch. Now I'm going to have to keep potentially
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Speaker 4: tax my credit card. There's a slowdown effect or a
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Speaker 4: swoon that is definitely going to be coming here pretty soon.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: It's like it took a lot out of the fan base, man.
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Speaker 7: We partied hard, celebrated hard. Folks are ready to. Just
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Speaker 7: decompress a little bit. It really helped that the Packers
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Speaker 7: didn't play yesterday. The late games also did a big
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Speaker 7: part of it. Now, granted, there's an 8 o'clock or
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Speaker 7: Eastern time first pitch. A 7 o'clock start ain't that late.
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Speaker 2: But these games are so much longer than what you
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Speaker 2: watch throughout the entire regular season.
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Speaker 4: And the extra inning game in game four was taxing.
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Speaker 4: Start out with the San Diego game. It feels like
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of folks that feel like they haven't
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Speaker 4: slept in a month. So now we're on a lot
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Speaker 4: of ground.
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Speaker 2: People are recovering, and it's nice. That's the idea.
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Speaker 7: Love to hear from you about your weekend. Did you
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Speaker 7: have any run-ins with brewers? Hunter's going to join us
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Speaker 7: in just a little bit. Hunter was on stakeout, as
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Speaker 7: was Armin Sarja. Our team coverage took us to Raising Cane's.
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Speaker 2: Team coverage. You dragged Hunter over there, too? Hunter went
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Speaker 2: there to cover it because he's Hunter. Hunter's a professional.
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Speaker 2: I was just there trying to hang out and get
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Speaker 2: in line with the mask. Was there anything resembling a
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Speaker 2: line there, or was it just an absolute drive-through? They
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Speaker 2: did have it kind of up. Parsioned out pretty well
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Speaker 2: like a snake, you know, like with the ropes and everything.
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Speaker 2: They did a good job with it. They did shut
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Speaker 2: the drive-thru out, which I thought was weird because initially
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Speaker 2: we heard they were going to be doing the drive-thru
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Speaker 2: and the dine-in or whatever. So my plan was to
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Speaker 2: get in a drive-thru line, and I thought the Greendale
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Speaker 2: police were going to be knocking off all of 76. Basically,
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Speaker 2: if you remember when Raising Cane's opened, they basically had
14:06
Speaker 2: to do traffic control there for a few months. But
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Speaker 2: you quickly realize, as I did, as I drove through
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Speaker 2: the Southridge parking lot, that they didn't have the drive-thru open.
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Speaker 2: So you got out. You were able to get in line.
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Speaker 2: And the line was pretty decently long. Well, we'll let
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Speaker 2: Hunter talk about it, but it wasn't moving for reasons
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Speaker 2: that became obvious pretty soon. I think everyone thought he'd
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Speaker 2: be taking visitors in a line for an hour and
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Speaker 2: a half, and that's not kind of what happened.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and people got there at 4.30 in the morning,
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Speaker 7: as they did to see William Contreras at Dick's Sporting
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Speaker 7: Goods in Brookfield on Saturday. And that was going to
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Speaker 7: be a 90-minute to two-hour appearance, and folks were there eight,
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Speaker 7: ten hours trying to wait, and some folks didn't get in.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, 100%. Oh, there was a disturbance.
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Speaker 7: And then if you were in line, and it became
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Speaker 7: apparent that you weren't going to get a meet and greet,
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Speaker 7: then they opened it up.
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Speaker 2: They opened the store up. People got to walk in.
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Speaker 2: and just kind of walk by the table and take pictures.
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Speaker 2: And that pissed off people who had been waiting in line.
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Speaker 2: It was, uh, it was a thing, man. That's we've
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Speaker 2: seen this mania before.
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Speaker 4: It's a good problem to have in sports, but you know,
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Speaker 4: And that's why Waukesha sports cars does it very nicely.
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Speaker 1: They do.
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Speaker 2: They do a number of these different events throughout the year.
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Speaker 4: Now, the price tags on all those things just went up.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: The price tag on every meet and greet with the
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Speaker 4: Milwaukee Brewers just went up. But there's a if there's
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Speaker 4: places that they do it and they set it up
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Speaker 4: to perfection when you leave it up to.
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Speaker 2: Oh, sweet.
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Speaker 4: This almost sounds too good to be true. Tough thing
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Speaker 4: is that there's going to be a finite amount of time.
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Speaker 4: And I saw my man with the stack of pictures
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Speaker 4: that I imagine was also causing some people some frustration
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Speaker 4: that they didn't sign every little item that he had
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Speaker 4: planned on or that you had planned on getting him
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Speaker 4: to sign.
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Speaker 2: And one thing we noticed in these situations, and we
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Speaker 2: saw with the tickets and with maybe buses for the
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Speaker 2: parade in these situations, it's like you're not the only
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Speaker 2: one with the same idea. Everybody's excited about this right now.
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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of people with interest. And when
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Speaker 2: that happens, there's a lot of people that can't get
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Speaker 2: what they want. That's just the reality of it. So
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Speaker 2: it's good for everyone to remember, like, you know, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're not the main character in our own story. Like,
16:12
Speaker 2: other people want to go there, too. Other people want
16:14
Speaker 2: to try and get a piece of the action, too. Other,
16:16
Speaker 2: you know, you might not get everything. You might not
16:18
Speaker 2: get a chance to meet that person if the line's
16:20
Speaker 2: long enough. It is what it is, unfortunately. I feel
16:25
Speaker 2: bad for the players in these situations because when they
16:26
Speaker 2: do appearances, they know that there are going to be
16:28
Speaker 2: some people turned away and they probably feel bad about it. But,
16:31
Speaker 2: you know, you talked about it with William, Drew. I mean,
16:33
Speaker 2: he could have been there for five hours. He could
16:35
Speaker 2: have been there for 10 hours and never stopped. Yeah,
16:38
Speaker 2: and even then. And even then, what do you do?
16:40
Speaker 2: There's always going to be people.
16:41
Speaker 7: He's going to be that guy who, well, he didn't
16:43
Speaker 7: want to hear the story about my grandfather who used
16:47
Speaker 7: to catch.
16:49
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, Robin Young had the 3,000th hit,
16:50
Speaker 2: and there was a commemorative book, and he was doing
16:52
Speaker 2: an autograph signing. At Greenfield city hall. I remember he
16:55
Speaker 2: was doing a lot of them and I was, we
16:57
Speaker 2: waited there all morning and the line stopped when we
16:59
Speaker 2: were about 15 away and it was, it was a bummer,
17:02
Speaker 2: but it's, it's a lesson learned. Like everybody was in line.
17:05
Speaker 2: Everybody wanted to get it. We weren't able to get it.
17:07
Speaker 2: So that's just the way it goes. Sometimes it was
17:09
Speaker 2: a young lesson learned, you know?
17:10
Speaker 4: The lesson I learned the first autograph signing I ever
17:13
Speaker 4: went to was to a pick-and-save.
17:14
Speaker 2: Mark Tauscher was signing at a pick-and-save.
17:18
Speaker 4: A young Billy's vital. Yeah, it worked out pretty well.
17:20
Speaker 4: And I had this big, you know, the official size football.
17:23
Speaker 4: I'm like, I got to get the official size football. Sure, absolutely.
17:27
Speaker 4: And my man took that pen, and he could not
17:30
Speaker 4: have signed on a smaller little crevice on there.
17:32
Speaker 2: He goes, son. I don't want to ruin this one.
17:35
Speaker 2: He just hands it right back to me.
17:36
Speaker 4: That is a smart individual realizing that there's going to
17:39
Speaker 4: be a much better, maybe first round draft pick linebacker
17:42
Speaker 4: that you need on there. There's gonna be a lot
17:43
Speaker 4: of people having encounters with these guys in the wild.
17:46
Speaker 4: Cause I got to assume as much as you generally
17:49
Speaker 4: leave and depart pretty quickly for your off season home,
17:52
Speaker 4: it's going to be a little bit harder to get
17:54
Speaker 4: away from the MKE.
17:55
Speaker 2: This time around for everybody.
17:57
Speaker 4: A little slower departure time, I would assume, for everybody
18:00
Speaker 4: to Arizona and Florida and wherever you may be frequenting
18:05
Speaker 4: for the holidays.
18:05
Speaker 2: This won't be the year that... Just think how big...
18:10
Speaker 2: What would they call it even? The winter carnival, the
18:13
Speaker 2: winter warm-up, the.
18:14
Speaker 4: They usually call it the winter warm-up. Brewer Fan Fest.
18:17
Speaker 4: Brewers on deck had for a while.
18:19
Speaker 2: Whatever the hell they called it. Well, now they won't
18:21
Speaker 2: have it because the industry shuts down four weeks from tomorrow. Well,
18:24
Speaker 2: and they haven't had it for five years.
18:26
Speaker 7: Yeah, but of all years, this would be the year
18:28
Speaker 7: to cash in on that.
18:30
Speaker 2: Sure would be. That's why they want to hit it.
18:34
Speaker 7: I think that's part of the reason they want to
18:36
Speaker 7: have HVAC at AmFam so they could have that event.
18:39
Speaker 2: In the ballpark. It would be nice. It would be very,
18:42
Speaker 2: very nice to have. If you could streamline it and
18:45
Speaker 2: organize it.
18:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, I figured they were never going to go back
18:49
Speaker 4: to that one after getting rid of it after the pandemic,
18:52
Speaker 4: but I hope they do.
18:53
Speaker 2: It would be a very, very nice one. You're right, Armin.
18:55
Speaker 4: The Arctic tailgate, which was kind of started way back
18:57
Speaker 4: when to allow you to get first come opportunity to
19:00
Speaker 4: get tickets for opening day. Opening day just quickly became
19:04
Speaker 4: an event again. At least this year's opening day quickly
19:07
Speaker 4: became a 10-pole event. Whenever it ends up being, whenever
19:11
Speaker 4: they actually end up playing that game, because I doubt
19:13
Speaker 4: it's going to be in that last week of March,
19:15
Speaker 4: but that is going to be one of the toughest
19:18
Speaker 4: tickets that you see this side of game one of
19:21
Speaker 4: the World Series.
19:21
Speaker 2: No, no question about it. I mean, the interest is
19:23
Speaker 2: going to be incredible, as it should be. And I
19:26
Speaker 2: think that kind of reflects what John was saying on
19:28
Speaker 2: YouTube here, John Kurzawa. Well, I think a lot of
19:30
Speaker 2: people are saying happy Monday boys. I feel kind of
19:32
Speaker 2: lost today with nothing brewers. It is that thing that
19:34
Speaker 2: you've been your companion to watch, to be a pleasure
19:38
Speaker 2: and a joy to watch for seven months. And it's our,
19:41
Speaker 2: we won the world series, but it's like a lot
19:43
Speaker 2: of people are kind of missing something, right? We didn't
19:45
Speaker 2: want this to end. So pretty interesting, really quick gear question.
19:49
Speaker 2: Cause we were talking about, that from Ben, the four
19:51
Speaker 2: one four. And I know people have talked about this.
19:53
Speaker 2: I think we have, have you guys seen a short
19:55
Speaker 2: sleeve hoodie like Murph wears for sale? I think that
19:57
Speaker 2: was a custom job. That's incredible.
20:00
Speaker 4: And I hate that. It seems to be a custom
20:03
Speaker 4: job because that one is I got the cutoff hoodie
20:08
Speaker 4: or the short sleeve hoodie in the old blue brew crew.
20:11
Speaker 2: It's like one of my favorite things.
20:12
Speaker 4: That is a phenomenal piece to have during the summertime for,
20:17
Speaker 4: if you're a little bit larger, kind of like your
20:19
Speaker 4: old school coaches shirt, get some, a little more tenty.
20:22
Speaker 2: Sure. It can be a little bit more covering, which
20:24
Speaker 2: is a nice thing to have in the summer. Short
20:26
Speaker 2: sleeve hoodie seems to be a very, very, very popular
20:28
Speaker 2: move with the, With like the, you know, the big
20:31
Speaker 2: guys these days, because it was like Belichick started doing
20:34
Speaker 2: it by himself. And then it's like, you know what?
20:35
Speaker 2: That's kind of a cool piece of, uh, of clothing
20:38
Speaker 2: to have. It's versatile. Well, yeah.
20:39
Speaker 4: And if it doesn't look like you got lost in
20:41
Speaker 4: the dryer for four months, it looks a lot better.
20:43
Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah. That's a big thing.
20:46
Speaker 6: Yeah.
20:46
Speaker 2: Well, uh, you know, um, if you know a good seamstress,
20:49
Speaker 2: I'm sure you can buy the hoodie and have them
20:50
Speaker 2: cut the cuffs on it and sew the cuffs on.
20:53
Speaker 2: Have Shogar do it. Shogar, yeah. I wonder if you would.
20:56
Speaker 2: He's a whiz with the sewing machine. Would he take, uh,
20:58
Speaker 2: would he take orders on the internet? Nick Neugebauer jersey
21:00
Speaker 2: is still probably there. Okay, Mike. You never know. Hit
21:05
Speaker 2: us up, 877-794-1973.
21:06
Speaker 7: Are we going to drag Hunter in here next?
21:10
Speaker 2: He's around the office. He was on the.
21:13
Speaker 7: Scene at Raising Cane's, live from the front lines. We're
21:17
Speaker 7: going to talk about what happened in Iowa City, briefly.
21:22
Speaker 7: And then, of course, we'll talk about what's going to
21:24
Speaker 7: happen in New England this weekend as the Packers rumble
21:26
Speaker 7: back in.
21:26
Speaker 2: We've got a whole day to watch the NFL. Oh,
21:28
Speaker 2: it was beautiful.
21:29
Speaker 7: We also have game balls and kicks to the balls.
21:30
Speaker 7: We can fire those up as soon as possible at 877-794-1973.
21:34
Speaker 7: Get them into the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. We'll
21:37
Speaker 7: be doing that today as well. It's going to be
21:40
Speaker 7: some fun. And I have a question for Billy about
21:43
Speaker 7: just college football in general, the landscape.
21:46
Speaker 2: That all lies ahead here in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio.
21:52
Speaker 2: We are huddled up on a Monday afternoon in the
21:55
Speaker 2: good land. Drew, Billy, and Armin. That's right.
21:58
Speaker 7: We're here two to five every weekday. Not often we
22:02
Speaker 7: get to say hello to our pal Hunter Baumgart. Stop
22:04
Speaker 7: him before he creates more Brewers-related content.
22:06
Speaker 3: I was just working on one.
22:08
Speaker 7: Baseball go-to guy who is now also our fast food
22:14
Speaker 7: chicken specialist.
22:16
Speaker 2: Our victory chicken Monday. We went to Raisin Cates to
22:19
Speaker 2: hang out with number 22 today. Hunter, what was that like?
22:25
Speaker 2: It was good.
22:25
Speaker 3: Boy, there were people lined around the block. Apparently the
22:28
Speaker 3: first person got there at 11 o'clock last night to
22:32
Speaker 3: sit and wait for Christian Yelich. I tell you, the
22:35
Speaker 3: brewer's fever probably has never been higher. There was a
22:39
Speaker 3: gentleman that also got there at like 4 a.m.
22:41
Speaker 2: This morning.
22:42
Speaker 3: And then, yeah, I mean, there was a long line
22:44
Speaker 3: at 7.30 a.m. And then the event started at 10.
22:48
Speaker 3: And some people got served by Christian Yelich there at
22:50
Speaker 3: the Counter and got some delicious Raising Cane's chicken.
22:55
Speaker 4: Now, the good thing is they win before he does this,
22:58
Speaker 4: because generally what has now been happening with these cool
23:02
Speaker 4: little offshoot spots of stop over at Raising Cane's, do
23:06
Speaker 4: a shift, Bryce Young, is then.
23:08
Speaker 2: You go through prolonged struggle and people say....
23:12
Speaker 4: Don't quit your day job. This might be happening pretty quickly.
23:16
Speaker 4: But for him to be able to do it in celebration,
23:19
Speaker 4: much better. Not going to be able to get dragged
23:21
Speaker 4: on the internet. I love the fact that that many
23:24
Speaker 4: people showed up because, you know, everybody wants a little
23:27
Speaker 4: pound of flesh. It might sound a little strong, but
23:29
Speaker 4: everybody wants any little piece that they can of a
23:32
Speaker 4: memory from this run. Totally.
23:34
Speaker 3: Because that's what you're going to, right? You're going to
23:36
Speaker 3: remember all the little things around. the World Series as well.
23:40
Speaker 3: You'll obviously remember Wednesday night, but then you'll also remember
23:42
Speaker 3: these little things. William Contreras was at Dick's in Brookfield yesterday,
23:47
Speaker 3: so these guys are doing different appearances around the city.
23:50
Speaker 3: The great thing is Saturday night, Halloween, Sal Freelick, Andrew Vaughn,
23:54
Speaker 3: Jake Bowers, Grant Anderson, all trick-or-treating in Wauwatosa, which was fantastic.
23:59
Speaker 3: So Yeah, you have these guys just kind of enjoying
24:03
Speaker 3: and basking in it in Milwaukee, which is awesome. Hopefully
24:06
Speaker 3: that doesn't end anytime soon.
24:07
Speaker 2: But I think that means as much to fans around
24:09
Speaker 2: here as it does anything else. I mean, it's one
24:11
Speaker 2: thing to win and have a great team, and that's
24:13
Speaker 2: what we want. But it means a lot to these
24:15
Speaker 2: fans in this community to know that those players love
24:18
Speaker 2: being as part of the community. authentically as it seems,
24:22
Speaker 2: you know, I just think that's a unique deal here.
24:23
Speaker 2: And I, I, I'm guessing you've been sensing that from
24:26
Speaker 2: every direction, Hunter. Oh, absolutely.
24:29
Speaker 3: And the cool part is, and I said it after
24:32
Speaker 3: I was in that clubhouse in LA was like how
24:35
Speaker 3: much you could see it in their eyes, how much
24:37
Speaker 3: it meant to these players and then the staff and
24:40
Speaker 3: this team to be the ones that got back after
24:41
Speaker 3: 44 years. And I think it's just taken another level for,
24:44
Speaker 3: to be the ones that finally brought a championship to
24:47
Speaker 3: Milwaukee like that. Like that, that is, you could tell
24:50
Speaker 3: how much it means to these players. And I think
24:52
Speaker 3: Yelich was asked today at Raising Cane's, like when, when
24:55
Speaker 3: did his, did it start to sink in? And he
24:56
Speaker 3: said that parade, just looking around and how much support
24:59
Speaker 3: we got. And, you know, he, he's like, I obviously
25:02
Speaker 3: knew that Brewers fans are passionate, but that, you know, just,
25:04
Speaker 3: you put it right in front of you and you
25:06
Speaker 3: see three quarters of a million people on that parade
25:09
Speaker 3: route and in the Summerfest grounds. And you think to yourself, yeah,
25:14
Speaker 3: it really does have a great impact on people and
25:17
Speaker 3: the Brewers have this season.
25:19
Speaker 7: I know the ratings were down a little bit from
25:22
Speaker 7: last year overall, but they also started it on Friday
25:25
Speaker 7: this year, so it's kind of like apples and pears.
25:28
Speaker 2: And it was dog walking. Yeah, exactly. It didn't have LA.
25:32
Speaker 3: Seven games last year.
25:33
Speaker 7: But the local ratings here in Milwaukee and in Wisconsin
25:38
Speaker 7: were Packers-esque.
25:40
Speaker 2: It was as big as.
25:42
Speaker 7: anything can be like, it just shows the depth of,
25:46
Speaker 7: you know, people's love for the brewers in the state.
25:48
Speaker 5: Yeah.
25:48
Speaker 3: I mean, it just, it makes you think about like,
25:51
Speaker 3: obviously now, you know, now all the professional teams have
25:54
Speaker 3: now won a title in the state and you think about, okay,
25:57
Speaker 3: I mean, you can have this debate of what, which
25:59
Speaker 3: one was the biggest one. And I think most people
26:02
Speaker 3: were anticipating this one. Like this one was the most like,
26:06
Speaker 3: and you could talk about, and obviously I wasn't around
26:08
Speaker 3: for it, so I don't know the anticipation and probably
26:10
Speaker 3: it was similar. The 96th, It's very comparable.
26:14
Speaker 2: Right?
26:14
Speaker 3: Because it had been so long. This one just had
26:16
Speaker 3: never happened. So that takes it a little more to
26:21
Speaker 3: another level. Obviously, it didn't happen for most people who
26:23
Speaker 3: were alive.
26:24
Speaker 4: I think there's also the ramifications or the limitations that
26:29
Speaker 4: the sport provides that I think added into the excitement
26:34
Speaker 4: and the energy of just believing for so many, this
26:37
Speaker 4: isn't going to happen because there's too many things stacked
26:39
Speaker 4: against you.
26:39
Speaker 6: Right.
26:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:40
Speaker 3: I talked to someone over the weekend that was like, yeah,
26:42
Speaker 3: I was just resigned to the fact that they were
26:43
Speaker 3: never going to win one. So I just, I, that
26:45
Speaker 3: was kind of my thought. And if it happened, great,
26:47
Speaker 3: but I probably thought, you know, and it's like, so that,
26:50
Speaker 3: that was, you know, a portion of the fan base
26:53
Speaker 3: that was kind of like, yeah, it'll probably never happen
26:54
Speaker 3: just because of, like you said, how it's set up
26:57
Speaker 3: and the fact that they were able to go out
26:58
Speaker 3: and do it and do it in such a dominant
27:00
Speaker 3: fashion when one Oh three in the regular season, 11
27:03
Speaker 3: and two in the playoffs run through the, the, the playoffs, uh,
27:07
Speaker 3: you know, the three teams that they played, uh, I mean,
27:10
Speaker 3: just about as impressive a sports run as you're going
27:12
Speaker 3: to get.
27:13
Speaker 2: Right. This is a coronation of a great team and
27:15
Speaker 2: a great run, which makes it similar for me to 96.
27:18
Speaker 2: Because you can make maybe an argument with the Bucs,
27:20
Speaker 2: although I think some of their teams actually were better
27:22
Speaker 2: in the years they didn't win. But, you know, like
27:25
Speaker 2: you look at the 2010 Packers run, it was a
27:27
Speaker 2: great run, but it was like the wild card. Out
27:29
Speaker 2: of nowhere. Yeah. But with 96 and this team, best
27:33
Speaker 2: team all year by acclimation, by any sort of measure
27:37
Speaker 2: you want to put it into, and then the greatness
27:40
Speaker 2: of the team was coronated throughout and then ended with
27:43
Speaker 2: a championship.
27:44
Speaker 7: Not that we doubted it, but the passion of Wisconsin
27:46
Speaker 7: sports fans, in terms of the local ratings in Milwaukee
27:49
Speaker 7: and in Wisconsin, the ratings were higher on average per
27:53
Speaker 7: game in terms of share and all that stuff and percentage.
27:56
Speaker 2: The only thing it....
27:59
Speaker 7: It was the highest since Cleveland in 2016. And by
28:02
Speaker 7: the way, it was 10 years ago today that the
28:04
Speaker 7: Cubs beat Cleveland in game seven.
28:06
Speaker 2: Crazy game seven.
28:07
Speaker 3: I would have thought Chicago was.
28:08
Speaker 2: Who won the World Series. No, that's just it. Like
28:10
Speaker 2: when you get bigger cities, there's more people that aren't interested.
28:13
Speaker 5: You're right.
28:14
Speaker 2: Yes, you're right. So that sometimes hurts you.
28:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point too.
28:19
Speaker 7: And it's, well, just, but in terms of the local ratings, though,
28:21
Speaker 7: this was the most watched World Series in a local
28:24
Speaker 7: market since Cleveland in 16.
28:26
Speaker 3: And that was the, that's what was so cool about
28:27
Speaker 3: this time too is, and it still is, is all
28:30
Speaker 3: the people who, you know, in your life who maybe
28:34
Speaker 3: go to a game a year, maybe don't pay a
28:36
Speaker 3: ton of attention to the baseball team who got into it,
28:39
Speaker 3: who got into this run. And that's just the cool part,
28:42
Speaker 3: you know, just being able to travel to these different
28:45
Speaker 3: cities and see people and hear people and talk to
28:47
Speaker 3: people about like, you know, maybe they, they watch a
28:50
Speaker 3: game here or there, they pop it on the radio
28:52
Speaker 3: when they're driving once in a while, but this run,
28:55
Speaker 3: they just like, how about those brewers? I mean, that
28:57
Speaker 3: was the conversation for a full month in this state
29:00
Speaker 3: in October and it ended in the best way possible.
29:02
Speaker 3: And so then it can continue. And when I asked
29:04
Speaker 3: Christian Yelich about Saturday Night Live and what was his
29:07
Speaker 3: favorite part about that, he said, just talking to the
29:10
Speaker 3: people backstage, of course, you know, the Tom Hanks, the
29:13
Speaker 3: different celebrities, but he also said, it just reminds you
29:15
Speaker 3: of how many people watch baseball, like are interested in
29:18
Speaker 3: the sport of baseball and are watching your team watch
29:21
Speaker 3: Because I think it can get every day it happens,
29:24
Speaker 3: you know, the random Tuesday night game in June, maybe.
29:27
Speaker 3: But overall, people really baseball is a part of their lives.
29:31
Speaker 3: And when this type of run happens, it can bring
29:34
Speaker 3: even more people into the orbit that maybe had just
29:37
Speaker 3: been more casual and now are just kind of all
29:39
Speaker 3: in on it.
29:39
Speaker 4: Well i also think uh the the way that very
29:42
Speaker 4: very rarely and i don't know that it happens again
29:45
Speaker 4: in you know 15 20 years where the purely dominant
29:49
Speaker 4: team is the most likable team.
29:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, true.
29:52
Speaker 4: Very, very rarely do you get the public sentimentation when
29:58
Speaker 4: you also are, you know, odds on, they weren't odds
30:01
Speaker 4: on favor because of the Dodgers, but everything baseball was
30:05
Speaker 4: telling you that the Brewers were the best team and
30:07
Speaker 4: a runaway juggernaut rarely gets the sentimental vote. And I
30:12
Speaker 4: wonder how much that got into the folks that were
30:15
Speaker 4: talking to Yellich backstage as well.
30:16
Speaker 2: Totally.
30:17
Speaker 3: I would definitely think so because even though they were
30:19
Speaker 3: the one seed, they still felt like the underdog. And,
30:22
Speaker 3: and that, I think obviously everybody loves cheering for the
30:25
Speaker 3: underdog and you could feel that when they were facing
30:27
Speaker 3: the Dodgers or even to some extent, the Padres, the
30:29
Speaker 3: race was kind of, we all knew the small market
30:31
Speaker 3: world series and, and, but it just, and obviously it,
30:35
Speaker 3: not just the underdog part of it, but the likable
30:36
Speaker 3: part of it. And the, the guys on the team, the, the,
30:39
Speaker 3: the guys who are relatable, whether it be South Free
30:41
Speaker 3: Lake or Bowers who wanted health insurance, right? These types
30:44
Speaker 3: of things that didn't, it wasn't, wasn't the mighty Dodgers. Now,
30:47
Speaker 3: even when I was in LA and I probably mentioned
30:49
Speaker 3: this before, uh, But when I was in LA for
30:51
Speaker 3: the NLCS, like their intro video to get you hyped
30:54
Speaker 3: before the game was to bad guy by Billy Eilish.
30:57
Speaker 3: And they leaned into being the villains and being that.
31:01
Speaker 3: And look, the Brewers also lean into, you know, win
31:04
Speaker 3: our way and doing it, you know, lean into different
31:06
Speaker 3: things and every team has their narrative. And I get
31:08
Speaker 3: why they did that because they, but it's like, it
31:11
Speaker 3: was interesting. Like one of the lines was like, you know,
31:13
Speaker 3: sometimes you have to be the bad guy or something
31:15
Speaker 3: like that. So like, But again, that's not a very
31:18
Speaker 3: likable team and the Brewers are the opposite of that.
31:20
Speaker 2: Hunter Baumgart here with us. All right, Hunter.
31:23
Speaker 7: We did find out Churio and Terang are gold glove winners. Churio's,
31:28
Speaker 7: I mean, sorry, Terang's in the mix for the platinum glove,
31:30
Speaker 7: I would imagine.
31:31
Speaker 3: I would think so.
31:32
Speaker 2: We'll see. Do they announce that?
31:33
Speaker 3: I was going to say, when do they announce that?
31:35
Speaker 2: It's coming up tonight or tomorrow.
31:36
Speaker 6: Okay.
31:37
Speaker 2: Cause I was, I was waiting for it last night.
31:39
Speaker 4: If they were going to announce it in, in unison
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Speaker 4: with all the other ones, because Rowling's does have that thing, uh,
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Speaker 4: by the, uh, by the tail. Cause they had you
31:47
Speaker 4: just refreshing that Rowling's Twitter account to see when it.
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Speaker 2: Friday, this Friday. Friday. And then it'll be next week.
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Speaker 2: We'll start getting.
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Speaker 3: You can fan vote, I guess.
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Speaker 6: Huh?
31:56
Speaker 3: Um, Go vote for Trank.
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Speaker 2: That's a dangerous thing to tell people. It was cool
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Speaker 2: to see Jackson get honored because, you know, the first
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Speaker 2: couple of years, it was like, we know Jackson's bad
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Speaker 2: as good. He'd kind of been kind of finding himself
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Speaker 2: in the outfield. He made a marked difference and improvement
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Speaker 2: this year. You always wonder, will that be recognized? You know,
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Speaker 2: once upon a time, right, Drew, I mean, there was
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Speaker 2: criticism of the voters looking at the offensive numbers for
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Speaker 2: these guys, but I think they've gotten better and better
32:18
Speaker 2: over the years, recognizing defensive prowess. Tonight, we'll find out
32:22
Speaker 2: the finalists for all the awards. Hmm.
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Speaker 7: Manager of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, MVP,
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Speaker 7: all that stuff. And then it'll be a week from
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Speaker 7: today that they'll start parceling them out.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 7: So we'll find out. Manager of the Year will be
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Speaker 7: on the 10th. We'll find out who wins Manager of
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Speaker 7: the Year. And Cy Young would be the 11th. So
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Speaker 7: next week we'll find out.
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Speaker 4: Are people going to be very upset and angry and
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Speaker 4: start a little bit of an uproar if Pat doesn't
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Speaker 4: win the Manager of the Year?
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Speaker 2: It's a good question.
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Speaker 4: Can anybody worry about that right now in the midst
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Speaker 4: of trying to get all the World Series merchandise and
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Speaker 4: banners and beach towels you can possibly have?
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Speaker 2: I don't think you worry about it and preemptively get mad.
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Speaker 2: People might get, oh, how can that be? He got screwed.
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Speaker 7: It might be in hindsight. But remember, it is a
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Speaker 7: regular season award.
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Speaker 4: That's the thing. I mean, it's a regular season award.
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Speaker 4: You've got to have it in before the first pitch
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Speaker 4: of the playoffs. So the playoffs has nothing to do. Otherwise,
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Speaker 4: the manager every year is the guy who wins the
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Speaker 4: World Series. I think there's a decent chance he doesn't
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Speaker 4: win it.
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Speaker 2: Actually, probably. Yeah, potentially. I think he's still going to. Well,
33:30
Speaker 2: it was a regular season award. Now we're fresh off
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Speaker 2: this run, but... Because this.
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Speaker 4: Is what you get to do with the NFL award
33:38
Speaker 4: or NFL honors show night before the Super Bowl or
33:41
Speaker 4: Thursday night before the Super Bowl. Very rarely has quarterback
33:44
Speaker 4: that wins the MVP the last 10 years been in
33:48
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, everybody sitting there
33:51
Speaker 4: accepting the award.
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Speaker 2: And it was like, wow. It's clearly Mahomes. He hasn't
33:56
Speaker 2: lost in January.
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Speaker 4: So I'm excited to know when that happens because Walt Weiss,
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Speaker 4: very deserving candidate.
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Speaker 2: He could. Very deserving candidate down there in Atlanta. I
34:06
Speaker 2: do believe he could win it. I think he could.
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Speaker 2: I think he could. More so, though, if there was
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Speaker 2: a possible somehow way that Miz didn't win Cy Young,
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Speaker 2: which I don't think is going to happen. But that
34:14
Speaker 2: would be the one that would send people up in
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Speaker 2: the uproar, which is almost nearly impossible, but I think
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Speaker 2: it's a very, very, very remote possibility.
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Speaker 4: Do we know, was Murph allowed to contest that Contreras
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Speaker 4: wasn't one of the finalists for last night? Because he
34:29
Speaker 4: was very upset when you guys told him that he was.
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Speaker 2: Not one of the finalists.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he wanted to call some people and make some complaints.
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Speaker 7: All right, so Hunter, Arm and I were kind of
34:38
Speaker 7: chuckling before the show today that Folks are wondering, you know,
34:41
Speaker 7: what's arbitration mean? How long do they have these guys?
34:43
Speaker 7: It's starting to do the math of like, how long
34:45
Speaker 7: can we keep this team together? So the free agents
34:47
Speaker 7: right now are Bowers, May, Romero, and Woodruff.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
34:52
Speaker 7: And everybody else is pretty much under contract or eligible
34:54
Speaker 7: for arbitration, which means they'll get a raise.
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Speaker 2: But they're not going anywhere.
34:57
Speaker 7: And you might have to have one of those hearings.
34:59
Speaker 7: Like people got mad about Corbin Burns and Brewers drew
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Speaker 7: their line. And that's the way arbitration works.
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Speaker 2: We have a hearing.
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Speaker 7: You submit your figure. I submit mine. And then the
35:06
Speaker 7: arbitrator decides who's right. Sometimes you settle at the midpoint
35:09
Speaker 7: and you don't go to a hearing.
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Speaker 2: You go to the hearings. It can get pretty ugly.
35:12
Speaker 2: It can get pretty toxic. You've got to have a
35:14
Speaker 2: thick skin.
35:14
Speaker 7: You've got to have a thick skin to go to
35:16
Speaker 7: the hearing because they're going to talk about how bad
35:18
Speaker 7: you are and talk about your flaws.
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Speaker 2: It's not great.
35:21
Speaker 7: But the bottom line is this team's not, most of
35:23
Speaker 7: this team, the core of it's not going anywhere.
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Speaker 2: No, definitely not.
35:30
Speaker 7: Qualifying offers and all this stuff, but like They're not
35:33
Speaker 7: trading William Contreras right now.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like that. Jeff Bassett doesn't seem to
35:37
Speaker 3: think so. They're maybe open to McGill, but not, I,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I think Contreras is the biggest question
35:42
Speaker 3: heading into the off season, but I also like, I,
35:46
Speaker 3: I think they could be, it could be a Willie
35:48
Speaker 3: Adamas deal or he could be a guy they sign.
35:51
Speaker 3: I mean, it's so hard to predict this off season
35:53
Speaker 3: because you don't know how this is going to play
35:55
Speaker 3: out because it's like, yeah, do I think a salary
35:59
Speaker 3: cap and floor is about to happen? Probably not. But
36:02
Speaker 3: then again, If it does, that opens the door. So
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Speaker 3: it's hard to say, I think they're going to sign
36:07
Speaker 3: this guy because we don't know what they're going to
36:10
Speaker 3: have to spend. And obviously, going to a World Series
36:13
Speaker 3: brings you more money, but how do they decide to
36:15
Speaker 3: spend that? They obviously invest more on the international side
36:17
Speaker 3: and facilities and things like that rather than players sometimes.
36:21
Speaker 3: So what do they do? But again, I was telling
36:23
Speaker 3: Armin this earlier. It's weird because the goal is always
36:25
Speaker 3: to win the World Series, right? If you're Matt Arnold,
36:27
Speaker 3: you're trying to bring trying to build a team that
36:29
Speaker 3: can win a world series. And if you build a
36:30
Speaker 3: team that wins a world series, aren't you just like, okay,
36:33
Speaker 3: let's just do everything again. Because you're tempted to do that.
36:36
Speaker 3: Obviously they won't. Obviously players will go elsewhere.
36:39
Speaker 7: I think they've banked some trust from the fan base.
36:43
Speaker 7: And I will remind people, I'm all about Wild Bill, right?
36:47
Speaker 2: I'm all about him. But I remember when people said,
36:49
Speaker 2: you can't trade Adamas. He's the heart of the team.
36:52
Speaker 2: He's the heart and soul of the team. traded him,
36:54
Speaker 2: and set a franchise record for wins right after that. Yeah,
36:57
Speaker 2: different though. It's different. Just very different. It is, Billy. Yeah,
37:01
Speaker 2: very different though. It is, but it isn't. Can they
37:02
Speaker 2: win without Contreras if they play their cards right? Sure.
37:06
Speaker 4: Sure, but again, what parts of the game they impact,
37:09
Speaker 4: that's the part I think that are much different. Also,
37:11
Speaker 4: the figure is going to be much different. I mean,
37:13
Speaker 4: he's not going to sign a $ 180 million contract.
37:16
Speaker 1: Right, right.
37:16
Speaker 4: Wherever he would go, he's not signing a $ 180 million contract.
37:20
Speaker 4: The most a catcher is signing for is, what, Cal Raleigh.
37:23
Speaker 2: At 6 at 120? Yeah, 17 AAV for Cal, then
37:26
Speaker 2: Real Meat Joe's 15.
37:27
Speaker 4: That's money that you absolutely could give if you're willing to.
37:31
Speaker 4: And that's the part, I mean, as much as the
37:33
Speaker 4: CBA and whatever comes of it, I think the bigger
37:37
Speaker 4: one is, how does a championship impact their operations?
37:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing you haven't. We don't know.
37:44
Speaker 4: We don't have because as much as you've been getting
37:47
Speaker 4: here and like you said, Hunter, you've been hoping for it.
37:49
Speaker 4: Now you do see the influx of cash. Now you
37:52
Speaker 4: do see a little bit of the churn. Now you
37:53
Speaker 4: do see, hey, we do have a little bit of
37:55
Speaker 4: a window here. And if I capitalize and get the
37:57
Speaker 4: next four years out of this cat, maybe we can
37:59
Speaker 4: mess around and do this one or two more times.
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Speaker 2: And you've actually accomplished it. You're not trying to achieve
38:03
Speaker 2: it now. You have achieved it. Which means, all right,
38:06
Speaker 2: so how come we try and run it back and
38:07
Speaker 2: keep it together? I think it has to change your mindset.
38:10
Speaker 2: Trevor McGill is a hilarious one, though, because they were
38:12
Speaker 2: trying to trade him last year. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: All offseason, they were trying to trade him. Damn near
38:16
Speaker 4: begging teams to take him. I think that's one you
38:18
Speaker 4: could deal with.
38:20
Speaker 2: I get your point, Drew, about Contreras, but it just
38:23
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like you can be the same team without
38:24
Speaker 2: him right now. I know that's recency bias and everything, but... McGill, though,
38:28
Speaker 2: you probably could. Because you have your rebate. This is
38:32
Speaker 2: the classic Brewers, right? You had Hayter for a few years,
38:34
Speaker 2: Williams for a few years, and now you have McGill
38:36
Speaker 2: for a few years, and now your rebate's next. And
38:37
Speaker 2: go back to Kniebel. You had a bunch of guys
38:39
Speaker 2: like that. Right, exactly. It's going to be interesting. It's
38:43
Speaker 2: fun problems to have. Very much. We shall see. What
38:48
Speaker 2: else is on tap? What else is that? What can
38:50
Speaker 2: they do now? They just got to go away for
38:52
Speaker 2: a while, right? And just recover.
38:53
Speaker 3: And I think so.
38:54
Speaker 2: Get a bunch of IVs. Cabo. Exactly.
38:57
Speaker 4: I'm still thinking they're going to hang around here as
39:00
Speaker 4: long as possible. I feel like they're going to draw
39:02
Speaker 4: this thing out.
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Speaker 2: And, man, maybe we do go out for breakfast this week.
39:11
Speaker 2: Crazy idea. Maybe somebody will pay for it. Keep your
39:14
Speaker 2: eye out for the brewers. Keep an eye out. You
39:18
Speaker 2: were thinking the same way, Billy.
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Speaker 7: We're going to get to your game balls and kicks
39:21
Speaker 7: as we move forward. We're going to hear from Matt LaFleur.
39:24
Speaker 7: He's meeting with the media today.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like he's doing a little Nate Borgazzi up there, too. Boy,
39:28
Speaker 2: he's got jokes.
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Speaker 7: Wayne Larivey, who's going to join us at the back
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Speaker 7: end of the show today, coming up in a couple hours.
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Speaker 2: Game balls and kicks coming up next. Thanks, Hunter. Thank you, guys.
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Speaker 7: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. It's Drew
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Speaker 2: Home of the number one ranked hockey team according to
39:57
Speaker 2: the latest poll.
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Speaker 4: Beat the brakes off the Golden Bombers this weekend. Goodness gracious.
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Speaker 4: Those are the only games that happened.
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Speaker 2: That's it. Badgers.
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Speaker 7: Nothing else happened.
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Speaker 1: 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 2: NicoletLaw.com. Talk and text.
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Speaker 7: That's important because it's Game Balls and Kicks to the
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Speaker 7: Balls Monday. Armin, what does it sound like when we
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Speaker 7: give a game ball today?
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Speaker 2: All right, guys. When we give a game ball, it
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Speaker 2: sounds like This. I'm on top of the world. This
40:22
Speaker 2: doesn't get any better. Like that. That was Sal at
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Speaker 2: the parade, obviously. Rare form. And then conversely, a kick
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Speaker 2: to the huevos is this. I got bad anxiety. Bad anxiety.
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Speaker 2: I was trying to make that quality better. I don't
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Speaker 2: have it in there. But that was obviously Daniel Vogelbach
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Speaker 2: at the parade, struggling to sing. He was trying, though.
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Speaker 4: If he had bad anxiety, we all saw it.
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Speaker 2: Redeemed himself at the after party.
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Speaker 4: Yes, which definitely sounded like he slayed.
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Speaker 2: So 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 7: Squeeze is on line two of the NicoletLaw.com talk and
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Speaker 7: text line, game balls and kicks.
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Speaker 2: Squeeze, welcome to the program.
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Speaker 1: Hello, boys.
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Speaker 5: I am doing yard work in November in Menominee Falls
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Speaker 5: and gladly listening to you guys in the glow of
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Speaker 5: being world champion Milwaukee Brewers World Series winners.
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Speaker 2: How about that? That's amazing. Awesome. How about that?
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Speaker 7: 54 years of a dream.
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Speaker 2: There you go. You got a game ball or a
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Speaker 2: kick for us?
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Speaker 5: I have game balls for Cooper Pratt and Jack Jack
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Speaker 5: that I have on top of the world.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't get any better.
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Speaker 1: All right, hang on.
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Speaker 5: And I met both of them. I met both those
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Speaker 5: young men at the game, shook their hands. I got
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Speaker 5: a picture with my buddy with Jack Jack, and I
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Speaker 5: told Jack Jack, thank you, Jack Jack. And I said,
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Speaker 5: it's you and Babe Ruth. And he smiled ear to ear.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome. That is awesome. Great one. That's a perfect
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Speaker 2: run in an encounter. Because those guys... No, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 5: I'll remember that until the day I die. That was
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Speaker 5: just awesome.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Billy.
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Speaker 2: No, as you should. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: Because when you go out, Drew, after that, and you
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Speaker 4: are Jackson Trier Cooper Pratt, not that you're asking for
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Speaker 4: a little bit of admiration, but you are wondering, like,
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Speaker 4: I know I'm going to get a lot of encounter.
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Speaker 2: I know that I'm going to get.
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Speaker 4: But to get the little smile, get the admiration, get
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Speaker 4: the nod, that's a good one to be able to have. Also,
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Speaker 4: Cooper Pratt just living it up. I mean, he's not
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Speaker 4: going to have to pay for a Fanta the rest.
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Speaker 6: Of his life.
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Speaker 2: No, no doubt. He's enjoying it. He's chewing the fat,
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Speaker 2: which they should. I mean, this is your time to
42:28
Speaker 2: enjoy the moment, to be a star. Chewing the fat? Yeah,
42:32
Speaker 2: that's a term. You ever heard that term? I've heard that.
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Speaker 2: That's a thing? Is that not the right usage? No,
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Speaker 2: I just, I like, yeah, I like that, yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: The casual conversation is. It's always in the country songs. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Chewing the Fat. Chewing the Fat. We could chew the
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Speaker 2: fat all night. Isn't there a song like that? Isn't
42:51
Speaker 2: that your City Girl song? I don't know. It's possible.
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Speaker 2: I have no idea. No, chew the fat. Enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy it.
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Speaker 4: Basket it and enjoy all of the glow that they're having.
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Speaker 4: They are doing it, man. They are doing it.
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah.
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Speaker 7: And Cheerio, I mean, such a. Special 22 year old
43:08
Speaker 7: dude is going to be just getting better and better
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Speaker 7: before our eyes.
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Speaker 4: Those two, those two contracts are the shining example of
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Speaker 4: what teams are now.
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Speaker 2: Cause there's, this is a copycat league. All of them are.
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Speaker 4: So now teams are going to all try to do
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Speaker 4: something like the Brewers did. And I think those two
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Speaker 4: deals drew would be the two of the teams are like,
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Speaker 4: all right, pre-arb before you even play a game, let's
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Speaker 4: identify the guys that we think are actual ballplayers.
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Speaker 2: Tell me how easy that is.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you think, you think trying to identify a
43:38
Speaker 4: college quarterback in the transfer portal in 14 hours is tough.
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Speaker 2: Try to figure out a bunch of 18, 19, 20
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Speaker 2: year old kids. playing minor league baseball. You know what?
43:48
Speaker 2: This is the one. If we put $ 50.
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Speaker 4: Million guaranteed in front of him, he's going to make
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Speaker 4: all the right decisions and continue to play hard.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
43:54
Speaker 4: That's going to be the guy that continues to develop
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Speaker 4: grinds and realize that he hasn't actually made anything. That's
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Speaker 4: a really tough process of identifying character qualities. And it
44:03
Speaker 4: appears like those two young men are the shining examples
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Speaker 4: of the real deal.
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Speaker 2: Toughest part. And it's next toughest part is getting him
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Speaker 2: to sign it probably at that point. Cause that's the
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Speaker 2: other thing. I'm sure the brewers would like to do
44:13
Speaker 2: that with a lot of guys, but But it hasn't
44:16
Speaker 2: been able to. That's right. We just hear about the
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Speaker 2: ones that signed.
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Speaker 7: Continue to hit us up, 877-794-1973. Wayne Larive joins us
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Speaker 7: at 425 today. Talk a little Packers and Patriots coming up.
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