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02/12/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Top of the Thursday Morning smart, good looking listeners, insomniacs
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  Speaker 1: and just psychopaths who are awake at five am with
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  Speaker 1: us huddle up, Drew Wilson, Billy schmid Arman, sorry and
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  Speaker 1: bringing it to you on this Thursday, Friday Eve, Friday Junior.
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  Speaker 2: All the above as we get ready for the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: we get it today. We're in the spot else also
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  Speaker 2: where you really start counting down to the weekend. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it does feel like now into the doldrums, into the
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  Speaker 2: all Star break All Star break Heart of the Winter,
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  Speaker 2: Like this is where you really start counting yourself down
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  Speaker 2: to all right, we got about four more times. I
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  Speaker 2: got to push this Penske file to the other side
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  Speaker 2: of my desk and make sure everybody realizes that I'm
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  Speaker 2: still doing something.
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  Speaker 1: Halfway through February already. Let's cook man. It's pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Man. We're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing it, head down, full steam ahead, right at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the tunnel.
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  Speaker 3: Billy's here, he gets buckets. I love that. I get
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  Speaker 3: busy like Cam Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: He gets buckets, bushing win last night with the Newcomer,
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  Speaker 1: dropping a thirty burger and gets you find you someone
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  Speaker 1: that looks at you the way Giannis looked at k
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  Speaker 1: Thomas walking off that for lass.
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  Speaker 3: I took over last night. So the pater Orlando now,
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  Speaker 3: but they know him got to look like that the Mariah.
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  Speaker 1: I would think the market correction will come this evening
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  Speaker 1: when the back half of it back to back in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, for sure they look like globe trotters last night.
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  Speaker 1: If the Bucks can keep it somewhat competitive and then
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  Speaker 1: go into the break.
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  Speaker 3: But then Arman here is committing to the bit.
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  Speaker 1: He is, Oh, I'm not ducking the smoke Olympicgalia courtesy
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  Speaker 1: off r pal Pete.
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  Speaker 2: If you didn't rock the golden jacket today, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what when possibly would want to?
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  Speaker 4: Oh great point, I mean, this is one of the
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  Speaker 4: many days to do it. But after last night, you know,
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  Speaker 4: some uh some Olympic glory for us here in Wisconsin
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  Speaker 4: as well as the United to It's always a little
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  Speaker 4: more special when it's a hometown guy. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: had to be rocking the uh the yellow CBS jackets
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  Speaker 4: thanks to Big Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: Pete for sure, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So yeah Jordan still's a record holder gold medalist.
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  Speaker 1: How about that point of personal pride? He'll never have
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  Speaker 1: to buy a drink in Key Waskam again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, or West Bend, and I've heard
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  Speaker 4: nippring reports. I know it's he's a key Washam native.
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  Speaker 4: I think the school was in West Bend. And then
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  Speaker 4: then they said Milwaukee, so you take your pick. I
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  Speaker 4: know he's not you know, maybe he's living in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Southeastern portion of the state. Listen, if you're from the state,
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  Speaker 2: you're from the entire portion of the state. Even though
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the state might not love the southeastern
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  Speaker 2: portion of the state. We love all of you, and
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  Speaker 2: we love every bit of a nooking granny around.
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  Speaker 3: This beautiful good land.
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  Speaker 1: Got people state wide listening nine twenty Milwaukee, ten to
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  Speaker 1: seventy Madison, iHeartRadio, app everywhere, YouTube, Facebook, and x So.
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  Speaker 1: As we gain momentum and we get down to the
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  Speaker 1: back half, we go over the hump. Yesterday, Hot take
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  Speaker 1: comp Day, and then we got we're on the downslide
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  Speaker 1: now of the week. It dawns on me that after Friday,
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  Speaker 1: I got a week off and Billy will be also
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  Speaker 1: from the Sunny Bureau in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: You can't wait the Grapefruit League. Billy will be bringing
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  Speaker 3: you the show.
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  Speaker 1: Billy's smarter than me, because if I had to take,
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  Speaker 1: you know, grab one of those access units, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to burn a week of vacation.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 3: You go a show out of the way, and then spend.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the day drinking tequila and eating tacos
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  Speaker 1: and being on the beach. I hadn't thought of that.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought, well, I'll just do the whole week
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  Speaker 1: of unplugging. But maybe next time I take a vacation,
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  Speaker 1: I'll pull the Billy and just actually broadcast in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and and frankly, I was trying to do it
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  Speaker 2: later into the year, but you know what, the time
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  Speaker 2: changes might not work very well when we actually get
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  Speaker 2: out to Arizona, but we'll definitely be tapping in. Part
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  Speaker 2: of it also is fellas home be up right, like
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  Speaker 2: the kids are not going to necessarily work exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Wait that, well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Might as well enjoy a cup of coffee out on
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  Speaker 2: the patio, and for that, I might as well bring
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  Speaker 2: some sights and sounds of the Grapefruit League, even though
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  Speaker 2: we care more.
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  Speaker 1: About the cactus in Florida too. You'll be doing the
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  Speaker 1: show six to nine, six and nine and the absolutely
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  Speaker 1: beautiful the summer. Obviously, someone say nice and yeah, you're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: You know if you're gonna be up anyway, right, Drew.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the difference.
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  Speaker 4: Like if you if you plan on sleeping and in
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  Speaker 4: your vacation, then I wouldn't say you want to do it,
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  Speaker 4: because then that kind of ruins the whole purpose of
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  Speaker 4: what you're doing is getting on the getting on the
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  Speaker 4: vacation and sleeping in. But in Billy's case, I don't
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  Speaker 4: think he's gonna have that opportuny.
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  Speaker 3: So I was.
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  Speaker 2: Probably gonna wake up with a foot in my cheek
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  Speaker 2: by about five point fifteen, and not necessarily the backside one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: definitely would be more into the teeth that I'd be
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  Speaker 2: taking a heel by about five.
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  Speaker 3: But it's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be great to have a millions obviously and enjoying
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  Speaker 4: some time.
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  Speaker 3: Almost felt like you meant that I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: I do. I'm happy you're gonna be on with this,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't want you to feel like you ever
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  Speaker 4: had to you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Hunter Bomb Guard's gonna sit in for me. There's
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  Speaker 1: awesome a lot of good brewers.
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  Speaker 2: Conversation with a Hunter a little bit yesterday about where
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  Speaker 2: they're rolling. And listen from Daniel Vogelbach yesterday as well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a little new look Milwaukee Brewers team, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: even though it might be an old guard at the
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  Speaker 2: front end of the Brewers coaching staff, I found some
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  Speaker 2: of the earliest Pat Murphy audio to be able to
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  Speaker 2: spin through later on we.
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  Speaker 1: Might have found old absolute gold reach out to us
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  Speaker 1: eight seven seven, seven ninety four one ninety seven three.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the Olympics are a nice diversion right now,
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  Speaker 1: right because we're having our football withdrawals.
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  Speaker 3: Totally, Yeah, totally, I mean I think so.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and it's not everyone's cup of team maybe,
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  Speaker 4: but it depends on the uh, depends on the event.
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  Speaker 3: Competition, because last night's a letdown.
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  Speaker 1: You We had two actually well three good college basketball
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  Speaker 1: games on Tuesday night, and then last night it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we got the Bush Bucks, Like, okay, Bucks, Orlando, you
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  Speaker 1: want to see and Cam Thomas giddy up, get go listen,
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  Speaker 1: four year old guy who gets buckets man, Like that's
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  Speaker 1: that's an element that's been missing with the Bucks ages,
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  Speaker 1: this instant offense like that. When we talked to Stan
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  Speaker 1: van Gundy was that earlier this week and he said,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, they have some nice little pieces. What they
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  Speaker 1: need is a second or third scorer, and you can
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  Speaker 1: find one right there of somebody that can. Does he
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  Speaker 1: need to take twenty shots every night? Probably not.
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  Speaker 2: However, I kind of liked Ryan Rollins taking the toy
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  Speaker 2: or I see Ryan Rollins taking twenty shots tonight, So
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  Speaker 2: I like seeing Cam Thomas get an opportunity to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean even the other deadline acquisition, Uzman Dyang
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  Speaker 2: five of eight from Downtown seventeen, like that's it.
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  Speaker 3: He looks like he might have something there, have a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a spark there.
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  Speaker 2: You just got to try to grab as many lottery
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  Speaker 2: tickets as you can and see the nice thing in now,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it might be the bad thing if you really
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  Speaker 2: look at how bad the tanking situation in the NBA is,
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  Speaker 2: you might just not be able to tank. Like there
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  Speaker 2: might just be so many teams tanking that you might
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  Speaker 2: just want to play the last two months out and
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  Speaker 2: take it for what it is, night to night entertainment.
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  Speaker 3: See if they win or.
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  Speaker 4: The good point, I mean, if everyone's if everyone's in
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  Speaker 4: the same kind of soup and they're all trying to lose,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a big awkward situation.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of the things as you look at
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  Speaker 1: it the landscape, and you're right, Billy, intellectually you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Bucks, your tank can get the best pick possible
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  Speaker 1: and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And then you say, well, maybe there's something here.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe when Giannis comes back, if they could get into
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, take your chances right, try to win. If
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to make Giannis feel like there's something to
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  Speaker 1: come make.
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  Speaker 3: Him happy, feel like something to come back to this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Doc Rivers last night comparing Cam Thomas to like
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Crawford and Lou Williams love that, like, giddy up,
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  Speaker 1: Lou Williams.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take it. When's the last time a Buck score
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  Speaker 3: thirty points off the bench? I can't remember it. I
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  Speaker 3: cannot remember kind a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And a lot of it is just somebody with
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  Speaker 1: me or somebody maybe but like or probably.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say, baby, Bobby body or you know,
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  Speaker 3: never scored that.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you just need some like.
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  Speaker 2: Your rational confidence in your shot making to be able
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  Speaker 2: to do that coming off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty five minutes. No, doubt, but you're right. And
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  Speaker 1: then yeh, Jericho Sims with the double double. There was
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  Speaker 1: a spark there, a little bit of a spark. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna look different at Oklahoma City tonight on the
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  Speaker 1: very much shot back to back on the getaway day
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  Speaker 1: when everybody's going, you know, on laucation.
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  Speaker 4: But you see the young pieces this team could be
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  Speaker 4: putting together if they stay healthy. I mean KPJ last
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  Speaker 4: night as well, you know obviously, and he's been a
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  Speaker 4: talent and I think we've been excited about it. Seems
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  Speaker 4: like the Bucks have had limited resources to try and
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  Speaker 4: get talented players, but they've been able to do it
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  Speaker 4: with the kind of cheese and crackers kind of budget
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  Speaker 4: or not budget, but.
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  Speaker 3: You know, resources, the.
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  Speaker 2: Restraints that they have. And now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: you blink and they've won four or five. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know it all fully coincides with the honest conversation,
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  Speaker 2: but it kind of does, right Like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it lines up. And in the same timing of last
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  Speaker 2: week with the deadline Monday and Tuesday, UH with the
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  Speaker 2: Bulls and Pelicans games both at home into Friday night
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  Speaker 2: against the Pacers, who are plucky even though they're without
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  Speaker 2: their best player as well, you end up coming through
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  Speaker 2: and winning that game like you're just in a spot
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  Speaker 2: where you might as well. Atlanta literally traded healthy players,
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  Speaker 2: got healthy players back, and they're ready to sit those
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  Speaker 2: healthy players. Washington traded for two guys, and they're like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Davis, actually, how about you just hang out in Barbados? Like,
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  Speaker 2: we're all good. We don't need any of that. So
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  Speaker 2: why would you not take the Kings plus five and
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  Speaker 2: a half last night in your four leg parlay, which
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  Speaker 2: is the last piece of the parlay, and then they're
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  Speaker 2: up thirty nine to twenty at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: first half first quarter, Chaz decided to say, oh, tanking
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  Speaker 2: conversations will beat this ass by twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Last night.
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  Speaker 2: However, like you see enough teams drew where they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but if we get enough ping pong balls, we could
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  Speaker 2: get a Cooper flag. We don't need to be the
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  Speaker 2: worst team in the league. I mean, what did the
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  Speaker 2: MAVs have the eleven thirteen? That's odds to get it
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  Speaker 2: last year.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with the NBA and the NBA has got
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  Speaker 1: some problems. When you have the order of the League
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  Speaker 1: tanking with two months left, not ideal.
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  Speaker 2: And like brutally evidently tanking, like in your face.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking that's the thing. That's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's tanking, and then there's tanking because there are
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  Speaker 1: some teams yeah, like you know that are just benching
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  Speaker 1: guys in the third quarter of games that are bowl
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  Speaker 1: and just like, well let's call off the dogs here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and here's a hot take, even though it's Thursday, guys.
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  Speaker 4: The lottery was I think originally intended to prevent teams
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  Speaker 4: from tanking because there wasn't gonna be in theory. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you couldn't as much function in it, right, you can't
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  Speaker 4: control your position. But I think it's done the opposite
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  Speaker 4: because if everyone has a chance to get lottery, to
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  Speaker 4: get ping pong balls and to get a pick, and
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  Speaker 4: everybody wants to be the Mavericks from the or the
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  Speaker 4: Derek Rose the Bulls of the one year they got
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  Speaker 4: Derek Rose, and everyone's like, well, I might as well
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  Speaker 4: try too, because we all have a shot at more
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  Speaker 4: ping pong balls. So then more team's tank because it
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  Speaker 4: becomes more feasible you could kind of beat the odds
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  Speaker 4: and get it and get a pick. So it becomes awkward,
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  Speaker 4: and there's so many teams that are just like living
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  Speaker 4: in this spot of well, we're not good enough to
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  Speaker 4: win the whole thing, so we might as well be
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  Speaker 4: bad enough to try to get the best pick. And
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  Speaker 4: this year's college basketball I think also incentivizes teams to
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  Speaker 4: do it, because as much as I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: fall in love with the sport overall, like the sport
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  Speaker 4: is kicking the NBA's hind parts every single night, Like
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  Speaker 4: the amount of good games and good action on top
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  Speaker 4: of really really high level play because the players are
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  Speaker 4: probably better than they were for the last decade. It's
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  Speaker 4: a good point, right, better players staying not going either
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  Speaker 4: overseas or into the second round of the NBA draft. Like,
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  Speaker 4: you've seen really competitive games every single night, and I
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  Speaker 4: think the rest of the front offices are saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we could see AJ. I think Utah is just trying
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: to find a way for AJ to keep his same
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  Speaker 4: apartment in Salt Lake or just move like fifteen miles
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  Speaker 4: over and stay in Utah. Like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: teams that are already strategizing how they're gonna use their
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  Speaker 4: pick this year and we're still a month away from
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  Speaker 4: selection Sunday and I get like, I totally get, especially
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  Speaker 4: this year, like what the function in trying to tank
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  Speaker 4: would be, and get ping punk balls because the Buck's
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  Speaker 4: best chance is to spike a big time pick, like
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  Speaker 4: a top three pick, get lucky in that regard, and
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  Speaker 4: use that as a resource or a centerpiece going forward.
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  Speaker 4: But in Milwaukee, it might be the one unique place
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  Speaker 4: we're trying to win has more of an actual tangible
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  Speaker 4: function than anywhere else because of the honest situation. Because
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  Speaker 4: you have a guy that literally is telling you I
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  Speaker 4: like being here, I want to be here, but I
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  Speaker 4: want to win and that's important to me. So showing
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  Speaker 4: him that you can win with a young group is
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  Speaker 4: almost as important as anything else because you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: convince him to stay. Maybe it's not an extension, So
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  Speaker 4: there's an actual tangible effect here than most teams don't have.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, Johannis did look like he was licking his
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  Speaker 2: lips like he saw a fourteen ounce porterhouse get dropped.
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  Speaker 3: Yet in front of you win. Camp Thomas was walking
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  Speaker 3: back to the bench.
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  Speaker 1: That times all right, So what can we do to
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  Speaker 1: make camp Thomas love Milwaukee in Wisconsin? You know, and
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  Speaker 1: make him want to well, like this here, what can
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  Speaker 1: we do to welcome the young lad twenty four years
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  Speaker 1: old born in Japan, played in You're a high school
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia, then went to Oak Hill. Hmm, I went
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  Speaker 1: to LSU for a second like that. Okay, so a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of how traveler. Yeah, how do we make
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  Speaker 1: sure that this guy is like, okay, I want to
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  Speaker 1: be in Milwaukee? Make him an evangelist for loving Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: not like most of the NBA that looks at Milwaukee
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  Speaker 1: as Siberia, a place where you bunker in and get
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  Speaker 1: rest for the fun cities, or you import your yeah,
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  Speaker 1: your entertainment, in your entertainment, you fly them in to
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  Speaker 1: help you pass the time until you can leave Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: That's the attitude of many people.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing for that is you show him seven
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  Speaker 2: ninety four, like you show him the homebridge. How quickly
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  Speaker 2: that ten minute drives right like that? That is a
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  Speaker 2: quick little right over to the airport.
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  Speaker 3: True. Second off, you start out at sweet Diner.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe just run through like a run of Yannis's places,
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  Speaker 2: right like, have Yiannis run him through like this whole
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  Speaker 2: block damn near the third ward, this.
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  Speaker 3: Whole spot yeah, started off on a breakfast at Sweet Diner.
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  Speaker 2: Well hang out. Maybe I don't know. He lived around
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  Speaker 2: the world. Sounds like he probably would appreciate at the
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  Speaker 2: art museum. Yeah, oh yeah, Well he has a little
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  Speaker 2: arty out there. Get a tour over there, wander around.
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  Speaker 2: You need it to be at least sunny, and it
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  Speaker 2: seems like we're gonna have that opportunity the next couple
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  Speaker 2: of days, right, and all of a sudden forty degrees
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  Speaker 2: in the sun. Well greenhouse effect. He's gonna start seeing
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  Speaker 2: people with shorts. He's gonna say, these people might be crazy,
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  Speaker 2: but I kind of like the cut of their jib,
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  Speaker 2: so I think that's where it is. It's genuinely just
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  Speaker 2: like what Yannis did. Wander him around and see the
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  Speaker 2: love here. And then also, you know, Casino Hotel, get
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  Speaker 2: him over there to dream.
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  Speaker 3: Dance steakhouse and get him a big old cut of meat. Later,
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  Speaker 3: winning a bunch of games would help. That would help
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  Speaker 3: with Giannis, would help a contract. I'm sure money to stay.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, cam Thomas, like he said what he had
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: a couple of forty point nights.
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: He said, the dude's explosive.
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: He is.
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: Buckets forty points I.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: Believe in the league reminds me in that regard of
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: what like Kevin Porter Junior's mantra was orm around the
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: league was before he came over here, Like yeah, he
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: can fill it up every once in a while, but
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: consistently don't know what you're gonna see. I've you don't
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: know what you're gonna have when somebody actually believes in you.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: And and Cam Thomas feels like the Kirkland brand version,
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: or at least a less discussed version of Jonathan Kaminga
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: where like everybody wants to tell you why he should
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: be somewhere else and why he's not good enough to
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: play here. But all of a sudden you go somewhere
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: and they give you the opportunity you don't know where
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: you could flourish to and I mean, get it yourself off.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: The Brooklyn nets might always allow you to feel a
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: little bit more inspired.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Well, and after being there and spending parts of five
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: seasons right with Brooklyn, like that's you.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: He's had that, he's had that experience.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit like what guys say when they're
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: telling their friends, no, Green Bay is not that bad.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: It's all football. When you come here and just totally
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: focus on football and the other stuff. Just don't worry
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: about it and you can like establish and grab something here.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I think Keishawn has said variations of that. Uh, we've
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: heard variations of that before.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: I thought Keishaw Nixon and Xavier McKinney right like in
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: New York, He's like, I lived that life for four years.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: I think I can lock in a little bit more now,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: and now I can like this is and then the
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: guys who played in Alabama are like, well, it's kind
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: of like Tuscaloosa. Everything's football and it's all you're you're
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: you're steeped in it, and some guys thriving that.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, guys need the we need to go out.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Look, I need to be able to go out and
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: get falafel at two a M.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Good reference. Yeah, exactly anything I want.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think also the fact that he's
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: trying to not rebuild his career, but he's trying to
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: establish himself in a career and establish things for him.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: He's probably focusing on basketball is good for him and Pete.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: Pete brought this up here in the comments. He wanted
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: to be in Milwaukee, so he already specifically kind of
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: eyed us and saying, you know what, that might be
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: a place I want to be. But if it's that
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: whole family atmosphere, it's that whole like culture that when
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: the Bucks are we're going good was pervading. I mean
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: when you had you know, Jiannis and Drew and everyone
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: feel good about it and and Brooke and Chris and
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: all these guys. If you can get your loudest, your
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: best player, your biggest start, and you're allowed to be
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: your loudest evangelist about that, and if that's the honest,
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: then it can be a big help. I think to say, hey,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: you know what, we have a nice little hamlet here
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: where it's a great environment where we can focus on basketball.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: You don't get bothered as much, you know, things like that,
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: the things Giannis likes about town.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: So you just hope that that kind of a little bit.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: One of the advantages, and it's a hidden advantage that
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the Brewers have in our market, is that their guys
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: are here in the summer. In the summer, Yeah, I
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: remember I had conversation with bron about it. Granky the
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: year the year Granky had his best year and like
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: his full season here, Like I don't even remember what
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: year it was because it all runs again to eleven.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was eleven, yep, and that I think twenty
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: eleven was let's go back and check and ask our
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: meteorologist friends.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: But I think statistically that might have been like the
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: most perfect feels like it probably was.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: It was like perfect, Like the weather was like and
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Granky had played in Kansas City a long time.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: It gets hot in Kansas City. Man, there's days were
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: just sweltering, sweltering hot. Here. It was it was perfect.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And like those guys and so for Brewers, guys like, yeah,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: it's not so bad, and like they and I. I
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I happen to live near Lake Michigan, and there's a
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: there's a big park behind the summerfest grounds that I
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: walk the dog and I see players and sometimes their
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: wives and stuff. And they love that area there and
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: they love and so yeah, you know, it's a great
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: place to be in the summer.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: In the winter. Yeah it's tough. What are you doing? Like,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I'm this thing got in here.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I just saw armand shadow boxing in there. There's big
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: there's a bird in them is.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: A huge bug. I mean, I know this is like
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: an actual like yellowjacket, or it's a Jurassic You see
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: how big that boy? It's a big old boy. I'm
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: not I'm not really scared.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Like about ten or fifteen feet away from you, and you.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Gotta was just I saw him even I looked up
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and saw armand just like I mean.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: To distract you guys, but it's all like a butterfly, Like, yeah,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: maybe I should like this. You know, we're on the
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: vertical view. Maybe if I flip to the wide view,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: you guys will see this thing. Year of the quarter.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm not a I'm an entomologist, but once
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I identify the species, I'll feel better. But I'm just
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: trying to get out. Okay, then get out of here. Guy,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: How did you get the first place for them?
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I'm about to do that.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, my goodness, Oh Armon, Wow,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: such a gamer.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I just when I saw, Holy cow, what the hell
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: it looks like? I thought there was a bat. I
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: think it's this thing dropped over. Wow facebugs are all
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: over the place right now. That's fine, which is fine.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And then I really they're harmless. They're just saying they're harmless.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: So if I identify it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to say, but this big old boy was
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: flying around in my face here and it's only five.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: You don't like these bugs infiltrating your hamlet. You're smaller
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: sentiment than a village, smaller spot than a village.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: But what use hamlet?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Temperature in there below eighty degrees? It might not be
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that conducive, right.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Listen for the Uh, I'm just saying, it is winter.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: I know it's getting warm with this, but it is winter.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Usually this is not an issue right now? What are
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: you turning that place into the butterfly lit great spot
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: until until they move it?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, armisole.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the domes, the domes are still Yeah, I got
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: a domes eight seven seven seven nine ninety seven three,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: a free form, free flowing.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: The first day on the program today, uh celebrating Cam
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Thomas's outburst last night and a rare Bucks Road victory.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: It's been a while on the road, which is nice.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Anything that they win without Giannis is a plus. We'll
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about that Packers have a new
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach, the same as the old quarterbacks coach, kind of.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that same as it ever was. We
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: move forward.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Uh, Billy's got some Murph video for us as well,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: or you know it, Dolphin being here guiding us through halftime.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: We're glad that you're hanging out with us on this
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: early Thursday. It's the Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: What else.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Right? Oh, Jericho, you're a man, so okay, you get
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: what Bud? Wait, you compete everybody.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Little Bucks postgame celebration all too rare. This championship season
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: all too rare.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bucks beating Orlando last evening in Florida. That's funny
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: how they you're gonna play a better game in Florida
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: than you might in Miami.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: It might work, Yeah, although I mean Orlando.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Orlando's got some temptation, but some some stuff.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean like Lucy and Giannish. Maybe walk
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: around Disney. Uh listen, I'm glad the calf is obviously
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: feeling better.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: We're strolling around that park. That's a long jaunt.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But also he probably enjoyed it not having potentially the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: kids around, right, Like, just let be able to stroll around,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Drew and not have somebody asking you for a bubble
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: wand and the other asking for a turero and then
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: asking why they don't have an ice cream bar.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing in Orlando.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: The temptation is more of that for the tremendous snack
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: it's all snacks, it's all the Disney stuff, the excitement,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: like it's Disney Orlando is like Disneyland.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: For kids, Disney World for kids, right, Orlando's Disney World
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: for well. I guess that's kind of breaking news sounder. Okay,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I guess I said it right. I always say that
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that's the metaphor. It is literally the metaphors Disney Worlds
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: for kids. I said it wrong, but it is. Yeah,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Orlando's Disney World for kids. Like Yogi bands gets laid out,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: it gets late early on here.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Oh god, whatever. So it's not Disney for adults.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: It's not like necessarily always been the party scene, right,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: but it's been like the kids party scene.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Very very true.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Butrew, you're right, there's not the South Beach flu
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: when you are in the central portion of Florida.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: It's not as prevalent.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I think there's as much flu for teams playing the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Jags as there would be for the Dolphins.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I'm guessing.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: No, you're gonna tell me there's not a whole as
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: many curfew violations.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Hanging out at Metro Diner and jockson for too long.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Well, you've been to Jacksonville, Billy, A lot of it's
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: more fun than less some other. Like, I mean, the
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: nice thing about like Oklahoma City existing in the NBA now,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: is we not the butt of the jokes for the
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: road teams? Like you know, it's like it could be
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: a lot, you know, I don't think at least I
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: would assume we're a more exciting place to be in
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma City. So look at it that way.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: This is one of Armand's greatest greatest I think I
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: think we should.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Probably if we're gonna cape up, if we're gonna take
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: somebody on and get into the octagon, I'd picked Sacramento
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: before I picked up up.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: There a chance to beat them, Yeah, that'd be the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: one I still think we got. I still think we
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: have Memphis right now, Like I still like there are
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: certain spots that we can be. But you're right, we
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: do have to We do have to pick and choose
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: our spots. Arman has decided Oklahoma City is what the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: NFL thought Green Bay was for a long time that
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: it's NBA Siberia even though they're the best team in
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the league, like by far.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Well, they're definitely good on the floor. I mean, we
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: know that dude city looks like a fun time. Yeah,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: and the games are a lot of fun. And I
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: will admit I've said that, so let's be fair. But
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I said the games are so much fun because they're
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: there's nothing else to do.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: And that's the whole well white Oklahoma City. Sorry, it's
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: just probably the rest. Isn't that what we regard as
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the charm of Green Bay? Now you better believe it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: The whole town is all football, round football, all frightball city.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: What else do they have? Like good music? I guess
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Tulsa is a town with like really good music and stuff.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: So old Tulsa's got that big old statue of that
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: big old guy that's what is he a miner?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you know what I'm talking about.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: This is a huge statue of a dude that's either
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: mining or Paul Bunyan acting or something like that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I think I think that's what the price of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: admission right there. Absolutely eight seven seven seven seven three.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: So one of the things and this is the way
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: my brain works. You watch Cam Thomas fly his wears
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: last night and drop in what thirty four thirty four
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and twenty five minutes hit the Big Three to ice
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: it at the end he took over the third quarter.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: And I'm watching this guy, I'm like, okay, like maybe
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: this is like he's gonna He's at twenty four, He's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: had the years in Brooklyn, like I said, he's had
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: his fun and lived that part of it. Now Island
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: get to Milwaukee, learn from Giannis, however much time he
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: has with Giannis. Yeah, but learn about being focused, what
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: it takes to be that champion MVP level player, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: maybe he'll make strides here, maybe he'll become And then
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Okay, well what did we just watch? And
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: this is the time space continuum that I always talk
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: about where we just watched the Super Bowl Sunday and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: it seems like a month ago. We're onto the Olympics,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: We're on the pitchers and catchers, we're.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: On all the Kyle Bus finally went in Dayton.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Who in sports is the next Sam Darnold, the guy
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: who like everybody wrote him off, And then oh, here
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he is here, I am announcing my presence with authority
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: after being written off and seeing ghosts and couldn't win
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a primetime game. Now he's at the top of the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: mountain saying, how do you like me? Now I'm thinking, okay,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Cam Thomas could be one of those guys like it
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: didn't work for me in Brooklyn. They wrote me off,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and then here I am taking off becoming a more
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: complete player than just.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: A guy who gets buckets.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: And I think basketball in the NBA would probably be
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: your spot for it, right Like Thomas would be a
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: thought I think of even more like top top picks
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: that have kind of been written off for quite some time,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: but it drew you. You come into the league for
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: so long, and for a lot of these guys came
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Thomas twenty four years old. He came into the league
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: when he was what twenty nineteen, twenty years old? Where
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: now that player development is actually happening in college where
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: instead right now he's got a tag of well, this
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: is who he is in the NBA.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: He's twenty four years old.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Bucks can corral this guy's twenty four to thirty years
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They got something right, absolutely, So athletes peak at twenty
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: seven generally speaking, but I'm thinking about, like, Okay.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Darnold, is he.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Is at their next spot or moving on like a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: mac Jones or a Tua or you know, somebody like
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: that's given up. Kyler Murray will have a rebirth somewhere
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: else in another market where they are. Malik Willis is
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: going to be the guy now, that's going to be
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Malik Willis is such a fascinating thing to see what
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: he does and what the expectations are going to be
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: wherever he signs, based on how many starts he.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Made six six starts and uh listening starts. In the NFL,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: there has never been somebody that has been painted as
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: a better player. And I'm happy for him, I really am,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: because he is an explosive athlete for a team, for
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: an offense that I think is average twenty points when
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: he's played right.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: That's a good point.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Hasn't been as explosive putting points on the board, as
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: you know, it's necessarily been felt like and it's just different.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And in the times that we saw him in Green Bay,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it was a hold the fort situation.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: It wasn't like we just don't lose it for us.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: What the expectations were just kind of hold it together,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and he exceeded those.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: By a lot, and no team had enough film on
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: him to really truly gain bringing him in.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: For a contract. That's you know, in the nine to ten.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Figures sing ding ding the money a bit different. We
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: had to be fair about how we consciously view these things.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: We expect different of a backup, and we expect different
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: of a guy who's not paid, but when he's a
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: starter and he's paid, the expectations will totally change.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: He's not putting them crazy numbers. People might say, well,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: what happened?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I thought this was going to made me flash back
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to Matt Hasselback who left Green Bay and went to Yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and it was like, okay, expectations and stuff, and did
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: he meet him?
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Did he?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: He had a couple of years where he was like
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: what thirteen and three or they were in the super
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Bowl and the super Bowl, and then a couple of
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: years where it wasn't. But the dude ended up playing
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: till he was like forty years at time. Yes, and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: he started in Seattle and Tennessee. He had a really
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: good career and but he was kind of that guy
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: that you know moved on Yeah. Different though, because he
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the expectations he he took with him when he went
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to Seattle and they handed him the keys, was it
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: was high. But this is going to be a little
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: different for like Malika.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: It'll be different because he comes in with the contract
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: and also be different because he's not coming in with
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: an offense. Right and like Hasseleback went to Seattle. You
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: guys can correct me on the timing here just before
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Holmgren got there or with Holmgren like the same year
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: that I run, So it was right in the in
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: the timeline, He's like, all right, I know him, I
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: know what he can do. Now, maybe that's the cast
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: the thought if he goes to Miami. However, the actual
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: coaches that were in Green Bay on the defensive side,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: so I don't necessarily know that overlap is as much.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: But Drew.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: The fascinating part for Willis will be I still think,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: even though teams are expecting to sign him to potentially start,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: not a whole lot. And maybe even Seattle would admit
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: this with you know, beers on the table with John Schneider,
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  Speaker 2: who's already moved off of two quarterbacks, one of which
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Went to another one you know, they left.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Themselves a pretty easy out here in the Darnald conversation.
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  Speaker 2: In the Darnald contract, there was a pretty easy out
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  Speaker 2: for them to be able to cut the cord after
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  Speaker 2: this year if it didn't ultimately work. And now he's
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: got two more years on the three year, one hundred
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: million dollar dealer with.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Us confidence that they really haven't well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they had enough confidence that they were going to
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  Speaker 2: have him be the starting quarterback this year, but enough
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: confidence in the fact that we were going to that
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: we're a good enough team that we can still supplement
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: with more competition. And for a lot of these organizations,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I think the the fascinating turn and the part of
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: how you can try and emulate we say copycat. I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: don't know that anyone's gonna fully be able to copy
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: what Seattle did, because nobody's going to get a trade
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: of three first round picks to be able to play
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: with like the Broncos gave Seattle. But I think you
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: might see more teams trying to go and find the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Donald the Baker. I think you hit the name on
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: the head, the mac Jones guys that Mac Jones won
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: a national title right like now, I grant get it
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: that it was at Alabama and it was in the
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: COVID year, but he did still set records for throw
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: for passing yards in the SEC. Like he was phenomenal
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: at Alabama and was still a Pro Bowl inner his
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: first year went to a playoffs. So like you work
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: with Kyle Shannan a little bit, you can be a
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: twenty million dollars starting quarterback and for certain weeks, like
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Darnald threw after Week twelve, turned the ball over six
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: times the rest of the season, played like a top
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: seven to five quarterback in the league. They didn't need
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: him to do that for three four years consistently. They
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: need him to do it for nine weeks to be
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: able to get home. And I think that might be
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: the lottery take the teams are trying to find instead
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: of just let's see if you know Ty Simpson can
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: change our fortunes in two years in the draft.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: It's interesting because these stories are always interesting. The Darnald arc,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: It's like it's fascinating, right, you cheer for those guys,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you yeah, And it strikes me that, Okay, so Cam
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Thomas comes over and it's like he's hardly washed up.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: He's been around for four or five years, but it
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: seems like he's been around a long time. But you're
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: right to be twenty four, you can't. But the tendency
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: is to write people off. And what our sports culture
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: is today, we've kind of like made it harder or
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: not that it wasn't always hard, but for the late bloomers, yes, right,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: because it's.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Like you if you don't produce right away, It's like.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I remember talking to my nephew at one point, like
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: between sixth and seventh grade, he got cut from the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: basketball team. I'm all right, you're gonna, like, you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: play rec intermurals and work. And next year he's like, nah,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: he basically done. He basically gave up because like now
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not on the right like travel teams, and he
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was reading the tea leaves.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: His logic was not flawed.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: But we've wrangled that out where it's like if you
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: don't make the team right away like that. There used
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to be kids who, you know, the famous story about
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's making varsity or whatever, Yeah.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: What happened he didn't get that's always made I know,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: but but those stories though it's true though, Yeah, but it's.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Almost like that the late bloomers.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: There are more late bloomers bloomers in the pros than
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: there are and in college guys.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Are just trains transferring around.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: But it's almost like it's more conducive in the pros
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: than it is in the U sports.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: And that's so warped to me.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: It is we top an anvil on a guy's head
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: and they think it's over. There are how many.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Kids do you know that you grew up with that
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: between sixth and eighth grade they shot up six inches
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and gainst thirty pounds and suddenly they were like whoa.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: They went from the last guy picked to the captain
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: of the team.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: And how many of the star quarterbacks in the NFL
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: always have some sort of story where they weren't like
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: the top the top recruiter of the top.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Pick or all that you know played linebackers sophomore year.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: How about how about Aaron Rodgers like not getting nowhere
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: except the community college.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Josh Allen had to play. You know, it's like.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Late bloomers lamar scene as a running quarterback. That's how
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: it usually goes.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: We tend we were predisposed to root for those guys,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: but we're also like we marginalized them until they Yeah,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: because it's the sports culture. Yeah, that's that's our current
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: sports culture.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: And it's too easy to pinpoint somebody who you thought.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: First impressions are a hard thing to shake, and especially
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: when you're a sports fan, can say, well that my
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: first impression is this guy empty calories. All he'll do
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: is sports twenty points on twenty shots spreads.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Cooper Flag is like he's going to be a trailblazer
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: in his own way because look at the list of
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the last fifteen years of number one overall picks in
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the NBA. It's who's panned out and who's there's more
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: more busts than there are booms.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I I I'll thought you're going on Nick right on
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: me there? Oh what was that? Nothing? I didn't know
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: what you were referring to by the trailblazer.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Never mind, you guys thought, never mind. Uh No, I
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: do think it's more likely.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Disney World for kids. I don't know, Disney World for kids.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's more like But I do think it's more
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: likely in the NBA also because if you're looking for
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: an unexpected champion, the league's a little more wide open,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: except for of course, Oklahoma City.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: A lot of it is like yeah, expectations and just
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: like maybe Josh and then where you're drafted, if you're
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: drafted top, you're expected to come in and be that guy.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Then right away. And if you don't do it right away,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: you never will. And a lot of times you won't
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: necessarily get an opportunity to. But for a team like
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: the Bucks, they got to take any chance that they
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: can get. Yeah, to find a redemption story on I
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  Speaker 2: like It.
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  Speaker 1: I Like It eight seven, seven seven nine, one ninety
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  Speaker 1: with various insects and the studio.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen him.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't seen him for a while after I put
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  Speaker 4: the dukes up and I showed him in that first segment.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen him. Mike, who wins the fight between
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Armin and the Bug? So far, looks like me. Maybe
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: not by tk O, but by decision. He ducked the flow,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: He ducked the fate on this one. Dollar was worried.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: He said, Army, that looks like a queen bee with
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: the yellow back. You better watch out. You didn't get
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: a good looked out. Yeah, you didn't get a good look.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Didn't get a good look.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: The queen bee is more of a then I like
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: a stinging bee. They run the factory. They run the
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: honey factory, don't they They run the honeycomb.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: But like you think that you're gonna run up on
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: the queen bee and she's not gonna sting you to oblivion.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: That's a good point. I know.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I think she has an arm chefs thinking that, like,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: the Queen can't beat you.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: I believe the best piece in the game. I believe
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: in the Queen's power. I just think that she has
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: she has minions. The Queen has an army to come
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: get me. I don't think the Queen herself is gonna
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: be stinging me, you know, I mean.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: That be but I think she I think she come
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  Speaker 2: in to take you right to town. Eight seven seven
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: seven would show I am afraid. Who's the next.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold in any sport where you just get the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: redemption arc that we love so much. I love this
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: one right here? Is it like I'm cheering for cam Thomas?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: You know, the Bucks need that that instant offense. If
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be lou Williams, I'll take it.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. Yeah, I love Mike on YouTube.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: The ultimately bloomer is gonna be Lucas van Nests and
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: he has three sacks and next year's Super Bowl boocket boys.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Now we're talking. I love that one. Now we're talking. Mind.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: That's a good one right there. He showed some signs
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: at the end of the year.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you say that's funny because like, well, Rashaun Gary
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: had that flicker too, and.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Then yeah, and the thing is Van Ness had a
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: good camp to leading up to the Micah trade and
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: then obviously the numbers one down, the being healthy was
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: the biggest part for it.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Now, who are the guys like, who are who are
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: who's his? Uh t J Watt? Who are the guys
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: that they should have taken instead of him? M hmm, Well,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Christian Zalez and Jackson Smith and Jacobs. But they're not
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: in the same position. I think we just saw it
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. But it always happens, right.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Oh for sure?
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Now every well, also look, I think you can also
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: look around and see a lot of teams also passed
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: on Jackson Smith and Jig because he he went all
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: the way down to what twenty when he ended up
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: getting picked. But that deal and right in that little block,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I saw somebody just talking it back and forth. Probably
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the cleanest one, Drew would be Will McDonald, Wisconsin, guy
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: played at Wakashaw North, went to the Jets at fifteen,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: the pick that the Packers originally had, and when the
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: flip happened, there was always that there was that back
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: and forth and some draft night scuttle butt that the
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the trade was potentially pushed through and the Steelers wanted
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Broderick Jones. They were happy that they were able to
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: take the offensive lineman before the Jets did, because the
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Jets desperately needed more offensive line help to play in
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: front of Aaron But I mean, you know, Will's third
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: year in the league, he had a ten and a
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: half sack season. He played like fifteen games this year,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: had eight sacks. Good player, Maybe not the He's definitely
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: not the t. J. Watt level where it's different. But
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: like just before van Ness, maybe the most clowned pick
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: of that draft might be the best player of the draft.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Number twelve, the Detroit Lions took Jamiir Gibbs.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: That's a good point. Everyone's like, how could you take it?
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Running back this early twelve guys said that Jamire Gibbs,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: this is why the Lions are the Lions. I said, well,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: I think I said ye player.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I was wrong. Yeah, he's an awesome, awesome player obviously.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's the Malik Willis could be, but not really.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think Malik Willis has as good
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: chance as Mac Jones.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: He's not as but he's not as damaged either though.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's the Thing's like he got drafted then you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: will Levis whatever you like.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: When Mitch Trubisky got a shot to start again, it
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: was to me, it's like one, well, yeah, and justin Field,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: so it's like he'll have another shot at this thing and.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Has had their chances.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Justin Fields just might be able to figure it out
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: this year because he did take that pro week off, right,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Remember they asked him to come to the Pro Bowl.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: He said, I got to train for a next opportunity.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I got a train next opportunity, and then Tua and
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray wherever their.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Next stops may be, you know or you know.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: So the Tua one is interesting because I think he's
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: clearly done in Miami, right, Like clearly done in Miami.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know that he necessarily works in a whole
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: lot of spots. I love mac Jones because I think
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: he's still really really talented. The the other part of
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: it drew in like that it's all about the prisms
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: that we look through it in I guess I'm always
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: just trying to force my guy, Trevor Lawrence into the conversation.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: But he was number one overall pick.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: And even though he's now got two years in the
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: NFL in which he was top seven and MVP balloting,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: people were still going into last year saying, this.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Guy's war masks, he's terrible.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: How hurt that they given him fifty million dollars And
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: he's the franchise quarterback who you're firing coaches and trying
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: to bring in more offensive coaches.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: For the thing is he can look like the best
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: quarterback ever and then mister irrelevant all in the same game.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: In the same game, Yes, in the same game, in
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: the same series.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, that was amazing that many guys can make
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: a play like that, Like what the hell was he thinking?
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Who would make a play like frustrating dude to watch man.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: And a little bit of Sam Donald in there as well, right,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: like a little bit of how on earth are you
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: throwing the ball into that window? But if you can
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: clear that up for six to eight games and he
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: didn't turn the ball over in the playoffs, I'm not
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: That's the most important one.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Like he handled the pressure on Sunday, going back and
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: watching it, Why did I do that?
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know? Like why on earth did I pay
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: myself to watch them of that game? Again?
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Blows my mind because you like the test your own
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: limits of your sanity. That's probably true, Hush sick, I
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: actually am exactly, But damn he handled the pressure and
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: moved around the pocket drew way better than May did.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Where there's free both of those guys have free rushers
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: right in their face, and Darnald, not known for his athleticism,
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: moves around. And now people be like Sam donald sneaky
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: athlete in the pocket.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: It's all.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: It's funny, but the different ways that you see him
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: in one or two games will totally change a prism. Again,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I guess I'm going way to big game hunting and
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: big player hunting here, and I'm just thinking of how
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: we look at somebody in the postseason and does Aaron
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Judge get a an absolute.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean dog in the postseason.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Thought he wins one World Series and he'll be an
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: all time all time.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: About Judge, the Judge is interesting because I think everyone
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: recognizes his greatness. But in Yankee Land, yeah you're Judge
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: on are you hitting home runs?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: It's one of the first right handed hitters of this generations.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: There was a time that you know, Bonds went through
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: that steroids aside where he wasn't in His playoff record
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: wasn't great.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: The Pirates and stuff like that wasn't great.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: And then he finally got the opportunity and with the Giants,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, hard to measure.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Really, it really is, because and you're right.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Like Judge doesn't need validate, Like, okay, Mike Trout unbelievable
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: one Hall of Fame first ballot career with no playoff success.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with what three games played in the playoffs no
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: playoff success. It's wild and now again it definitely plays
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: to where you play the games. But it's a tough one.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: How one on the way out Anthony Richardson, that's a
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: good one. Talking about it from the Lucas van S
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three draft. Anthony Richardson got beat up by
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: a weight band this year. Remember he broke his eyebone,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: his he popular bone. Yeah, he had a fracture in
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: his face from a resistance band. That's a tough thing
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: to come back from. That is a tough thing to
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: come back from.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: We'll see if he can do it.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a redemption story. So getting beat up on
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: a little resistance band.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, Cam Thomas sparking discussion today, how about this one?
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: And that's you know, what more can you ask for?
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: In mid February, we got a couple of good text
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  Speaker 1: here to get to as well.
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  Speaker 3: Eight seven seven seven nine four ninety seven three.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have some fun together on this Thursday and the
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  Speaker 1: good Land Dolph will be here at six thirty.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.