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04/10/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Friday edition The Huddle.
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Speaker 3: What they say that wherever you get your podcast. The
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Speaker 3: only place that we're not is potentially at Bucks' nets
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Speaker 3: here tonight, because I think there's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 3: of people Drew that had the dreams and the aspirations
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Speaker 3: and the want to go and see Giannis one final time.
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Speaker 3: Bucks ruled him out. He will not be available tonight.
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Speaker 3: I do wonder though, if maybe we'll get the video
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Speaker 3: and we'll get all the feels that we would have
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Speaker 3: if you were in the arena tonight. He just grabs
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Speaker 3: that microphone and gives a little thirty seconds before tip on.
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Speaker 1: That would be something I would love it.
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Speaker 3: Just give the thank you to everybody. We know it's
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Speaker 3: been a tough season. We love all of you. You
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Speaker 3: guys know how much I love Milwaukee. Thanks for riding
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Speaker 3: with us. I was in the house Sunday for the
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Speaker 3: Alex to Thanasis alley.
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Speaker 1: Oop m hmm.
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Speaker 2: And I thought, well, wouldn't it be great if they
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Speaker 2: just let them play together one time, even if it's
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Speaker 2: just like ceremonial, like the first tip to the first whistle,
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Speaker 2: start them all and then pull yeah, and send somebody
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Speaker 2: up to the scores table right after tip off. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: not gonna happen. Bucks, Uh, stay in the course. It's
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Speaker 2: actually the right thing to do. Like, you haven't played
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Speaker 2: them this long, playing them in this game. Plus there's
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Speaker 2: the cloud of the NBA investigation.
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Speaker 1: That's the toughest playing mm hmm.
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Speaker 3: And if that would have been if that gets flared up,
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Speaker 3: you know, you don't know. As much as I don't
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Speaker 3: think that this really was ever about tanking, I do
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Speaker 3: believe it was more about the health of Yiannis. Now
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Speaker 3: tanking might have also been coinciding with it, and it
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Speaker 3: kind of helps, like.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's not it's I think it's more protecting Yannis
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Speaker 2: and the trade asset.
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Speaker 1: And the trade asset that could.
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Speaker 2: Moving up a ping pong ball or getting a three
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Speaker 2: percent better chance of getting the sixth pick. That ain't
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Speaker 2: in the calculus as much as if this guy gets hurt,
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Speaker 2: We're screwed.
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Speaker 3: Right then we can't get anything for him, and then
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Speaker 3: we walk into maybe the most uncomfortable divorce of all time.
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Speaker 1: Like, so I'm with you.
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Speaker 3: It just to me never was about them getting the
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Speaker 3: ninth best odds compared to the eleventh best odds, But
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Speaker 3: it was about him being healthy going forward, because he
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Speaker 3: had five injuries this year, and he was continually hampered,
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Speaker 3: seemingly every time he got back, he had something else,
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Speaker 3: and like, and that's one where maybe you just go
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Speaker 3: with a clean slate and start over with it. But
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Speaker 3: you know, Adam Silver has just got way too many
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Speaker 3: people calling for way too many things on his plate,
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Speaker 3: right Like I heard Nick Wright saying he needs to
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Speaker 3: make an executive order, uh, in terms of like the
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Speaker 3: sixty five game rule and the tanking and what the
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Speaker 3: Jazz are doing on a night in a night out
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Speaker 3: basis what the Kings just pulled the other night. The
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Speaker 3: last thing you want to do is give the NBA
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Speaker 3: office an excuse for Milwaukee to be the one that
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Speaker 3: they make an example of, right like you got you
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Speaker 3: got all all these other teams.
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Speaker 1: Doing some heinous tanking models.
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Speaker 3: But what I do believe is we all watch the
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Speaker 3: bogone Bogdanovich situation where everybody tampers. They call it in
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Speaker 3: the NFL the legal tampering window, and instead it was
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Speaker 3: like bucks, let's dock them a draft pick in one
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Speaker 3: hundred k Let's make sure we make an example out
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Speaker 3: of them. I don't want you to give the NBA
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Speaker 3: office any reason to try to put that on you.
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Speaker 3: So just let him take it bye to the crowd,
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Speaker 3: let him have his moment, and then then we'll enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: That would be nice. Eight seven seven seven nine seven three.
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Speaker 2: A lot of attention will beyond the Brewers. Nationals first
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Speaker 2: National League foe for the Brewers. How weird is that
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Speaker 2: for you to say very weird roll into the third
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Speaker 2: week of the season. Is that stranger than UCLA and
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Speaker 2: USC and Oregon being big ten battles. It's in the
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Speaker 2: same discussion basically. But Brewers tonight with their new city connects,
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Speaker 2: wisk Go Jerseys, Chad Patrick on the hill, this is
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Speaker 2: a good time, as good a time as any to
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Speaker 2: hear our preview of the Brewers weekend. Come on now,
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Speaker 2: our buddy Hunter Bombgart, our go to guy when it
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Speaker 2: comes to all things Brewers, take it away, Hunter.
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Speaker 1: Thanks guys.
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Speaker 4: The Milwaukee Brewer is getting set for a three game
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Speaker 4: home series against the Washington Nationals starting tonight at American
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Speaker 4: Family Field six forty. First pitch Chad Patrick on the
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Speaker 4: mound for the crew. Now that Brewers did make some
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Speaker 4: changes when it comes to the probables for this weekend.
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Speaker 4: Originally it was going to be Brandon sprote Tomorrow and
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Speaker 4: Kyle Harrison on Sunday, but they have made a switch
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Speaker 4: and put Kyle Harrison is now the probable starter on
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Speaker 4: Saturday tomorrow, and then Brandon Woodruff is now the probable
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Speaker 4: starter for Sunday, taking Brandon Sprout out. We don't know
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Speaker 4: the reasoning, but we will wait to hear more information
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Speaker 4: from Brewers manager Pat Murphy when we meet with him
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Speaker 4: this afternoon, and I'll have everything covered with the latest
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Speaker 4: news on the Baseball pregame show coming to you at
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Speaker 4: five point thirty this evening on Fox Sports nine twenty
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Speaker 4: in Milwaukee. Now, the Washington Nationals have scored seventy one
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Speaker 4: runs this season so far, that is the second most
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Speaker 4: in the NL, but they've given up the most runs
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Speaker 4: at seventy eight. The next closest is the Cardinal at
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Speaker 4: sixty two. So the pitching has not been great for
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Speaker 4: the Nationals. We'll see if the Brewers can get that
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Speaker 4: offense back to hot this weekend against a struggling Washington
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Speaker 1: Back to you guys, looking forward to it.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Hunter Bomber, Thank you for preemptively driving me
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Speaker 3: to the ballpark later on tonight.
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Speaker 5: Drew.
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Speaker 1: Hunter's an intuitive cat, all right, he is.
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Speaker 3: He makes a rate. There's certain players and positions on
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Speaker 3: teams offensive line. A lot of times they're there to
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Speaker 3: raise the team GPA. Hunter makes all of our IQ
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Speaker 3: be raised when he's in the building. So was that
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Speaker 3: planned to do the video right in front of the
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Speaker 3: sweet sunset picture.
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Speaker 1: That he had behind him?
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Speaker 3: Probably he decided that he was going to move that
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Speaker 3: after you watch the state connects as it.
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Speaker 1: Man, that's a smart cat right there.
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Speaker 3: That is a well time pivot from our guy Hunter
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Speaker 3: bomb Guard.
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Speaker 1: That's that's savvy stuff.
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Speaker 2: Dave Gasper was playing a little rate my room on
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Speaker 2: Skype there, and that was a thing during the pandemic.
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Speaker 1: Rate my Skyper. Okay, yeah, rate my room.
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Speaker 2: He was impressed at Hunter being the single successful guy
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Speaker 2: has some artwork on his walls.
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Speaker 3: Yeah you listen, He's like, listen, I'm think classes placed
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Speaker 3: up a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. You gotta have some sort of artwork, Dave.
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Speaker 3: So you're not saying that when when you get that
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Speaker 3: into the bachelor Pad, you're just gonna have the big
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Speaker 3: old picture pictures of like a Wisconsin sunset there up
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Speaker 3: there to set the mood.
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Speaker 1: Probably not.
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Speaker 6: I got a Godzilla movie poster that that I had
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Speaker 6: up in mind, American flag, Brewer's flag, kind of you know,
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Speaker 6: your typical standard you know, bachelor pad kind of stuff.
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Speaker 6: I got a wonder Woman movie poster as well. Oh
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Speaker 6: there they got gal GADeL Yeah exactly, that's why it's
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Speaker 6: up there. Yeah exactly, all right, all right, I like that.
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Speaker 3: See it says the mood that I mean, we're here,
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Speaker 3: we're here for business, we like sports.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well played eight seven one ninety seven three. Time for
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Speaker 2: a little Who's Hot Who's Not? Presented by Donovan Jorgensen
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Speaker 2: heating and cooling. Lots of candidates for that, Billy.
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Speaker 1: What you got? Who's hot?
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Speaker 3: The Wisconsin Badgers rolling themselves into the Frozen four championship
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Speaker 3: game coming up tomorrow afternoon for a four o'clock face off.
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Speaker 3: I believe right, I saw five Eastern I believe four
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Speaker 3: o'clock face off two o'clock Vegas time. If you're flying
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Speaker 3: out there to go and meet the boys and buzz
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Speaker 3: with the boys into the title game, who would be
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Speaker 3: in the not categoryre let's go to Augusta National. Let's
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Speaker 3: go all the way down here. One of my favorite
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Speaker 3: things after enjoying the Masters Tournament yesterday for round one
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Speaker 3: is not to see the leader board. It's to see
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Speaker 3: who had maybe the worst of the days. Your boy,
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Speaker 3: Davis Riley fired in a ten over par eighty two yesterday,
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Speaker 3: Mike Weird. People might recognize that name. Brian Harmon tough
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Speaker 3: day at seven over par, former champion VJ. Singh at
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Speaker 3: seven over par. And then somebody that was second to
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Speaker 3: third best odds to win the event.
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Speaker 1: At whatever institution you look at.
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Speaker 3: Soon it'll be the Potawatami Sportsbook mobile as that got
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Speaker 3: signed yesterday by Governor Evers. You're sitting with John Rahm
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Speaker 3: at six over par, tied with Freddie Couples. Now you
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Speaker 3: get to see the former champions playing in the Masters.
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Speaker 3: Rarely do you see somebody make it to Sunday. I
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Speaker 3: think we saw Freddy Couples be a factor just kind
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Speaker 3: of on Sunday last year. Instead, now he's playing down
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Speaker 3: here with John Ram six over par. The good ones yesterday,
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Speaker 3: Sam Burns, Roy McElroy were five over looked. Like Patrick
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Speaker 3: Reid was going to just take it off the sheet
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Speaker 3: when he had two eagles on the first nine, but
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Speaker 3: two bogies on.
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Speaker 1: The second nine may have ruined his day.
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Speaker 3: So the folks getting out to Augusta National this morning
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Speaker 3: might be more into the hot category. And then one
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Speaker 3: other one that I enjoyed being able to throw in
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Speaker 3: here and might hear something a little bit later on
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Speaker 3: Cold Kawfield talk about in the hot category. Hit his
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Speaker 3: fiftieth goal of the season yesterday, and uh, when you
9:09
Speaker 3: start stacking up seasons of fifty goal performers in the NHL,
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Speaker 3: the list of former Badgers is good, but it's it's
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Speaker 3: not as vast as many people think, Like that is
9:18
Speaker 3: a hell of a feat for Cole to have. The
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Speaker 3: best part Who's Hot was the video department that caught
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Speaker 3: Paul Kawfield his dad in a Brewers cap at the game,
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Speaker 3: crying when he got to see the sun put the
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Speaker 3: fiftieth goal in the back of the net.
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Speaker 1: That is an amazing, amazing moment.
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Speaker 2: Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. That was fantastic, and so is Donovan Jorgenson.
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Speaker 2: Go to guys for heating and cooling.
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Speaker 3: And they're gonna be a gonna be They're gonna be out,
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Speaker 3: You're gonna see their trucks in the city, and you
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Speaker 3: employee owned for forty years, that means they know what
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Speaker 2: Them out eight seven seven seven nine four one ninety
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Speaker 2: seven three to the Nicolay law dot com talk and
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Speaker 2: text line, there was an interesting question, as you know,
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Speaker 2: we just shard Hunter's up Brewers update about on a
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Speaker 2: chat that Todd Roseick did at jasonline dot com and
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Speaker 2: someone asked in the wake of like the Wilson Contreras
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Speaker 2: stuff and Woodrof hitting him, and there was nothing really
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Speaker 2: happened with that, sure, but he asked, who's the Brewers enforcer,
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Speaker 2: who's their tough guy? And Rosack said, well, they've been
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Speaker 2: more focused on winning games than fighting in recent years. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: And he said, like two of the biggest things that
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Speaker 2: the fights that he covered were Carlos Gomez that good
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Speaker 2: got the guy you'd want them tangle with. No, Carlos
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Speaker 2: Cole learned that lesson, Yeah, Carlos Gomas. But he said
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Speaker 2: he would put William Contreras on that list and Trevor
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Speaker 2: McGill as the Andes those guys you wouldn't mind want
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Speaker 2: to mess with.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I kind of think I would have put
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Speaker 3: Trevor McGill into that category when I heard about the
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Speaker 3: poor was it at and T sales girl that had
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Speaker 3: to see him fall right in front of her at
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Speaker 3: the at the shop when when he fainted the one time,
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Speaker 3: Like that's six foot eight, nearly three hundred pounds falling down.
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Speaker 3: That's a tough sight right in front of you. I
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Speaker 3: would have thought maybe Gary Sanchez would be in there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he did mention him too, because he's a big
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Speaker 2: dude and nothing happened with contraras and all that.
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Speaker 3: Right, No, but it does feel like also Gary would
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Speaker 3: be like a little slow to the party. We wouldn't
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Speaker 3: be right in there like well Weiss being able to
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Speaker 3: get get the tackle right out of the gates.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: He might have been more of the cleanup crew to
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Speaker 3: be able to roll through. I would put the skeptical one,
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Speaker 3: the Assie wise Blad or the oasis wise Blad of
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Speaker 3: this team to enjoy and invoke our Milwaukee admirals in there.
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Speaker 3: Maybe not the enforcer, the big cat that's coming into fight,
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Speaker 3: but my man that would always be in there to
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Speaker 3: pick the fight and be one of the first to
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Speaker 3: get into the scrap. South friedlak ain't gonna be one
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Speaker 3: of the last guys in there.
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Speaker 2: That's what Yeah Rosick said. I think south Frielick would
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Speaker 2: be a Tasmanian devil.
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Speaker 3: He'd be He would be in there instantly mixing something
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Speaker 3: up and he's not trying to separate the boys.
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Speaker 2: If he was on the twenty six man roster, Rosie
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Speaker 2: said akil Bad would be a good pick as well.
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, does look jacked up from the pictures
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Speaker 3: that we have to see. Yeah, that's a that's a
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Speaker 3: well put together young man. I can't imagine the general
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Speaker 3: milling around crowd that that is mostly what baseball fights
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Speaker 3: would be. Would that be headlined by Yellich and Terrang
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Speaker 3: they're kind of just coasting on the side.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just going to hang it off to the edge,
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Speaker 2: just chilling playing tomorrow. Yeah, kind of that that kind
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Speaker 2: of dual, no Questionlifornia.
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Speaker 3: Something about McGill is, he's got to do the bullpen
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Speaker 3: fight where you run in from sprint in and then
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Speaker 3: and it's generally broken up by the time.
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Speaker 1: That it was.
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Speaker 2: It was always funny that they don't just stop and
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Speaker 2: scrap right in front.
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Speaker 1: Of the bullpen. I thought they should do it out
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Speaker 1: in center field every time bullpen.
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Speaker 6: And also speaking of scrappers from the bullpen, let's not
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Speaker 6: forget Abner Uribe, who has started a fight in his day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a fair one.
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Speaker 3: Yea swinging some heavy fists that they didn't land any
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Speaker 3: heavy No, didn't land on, but he was swinging.
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Speaker 1: That's true, that's fair.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, A lot of times it is the catcher who
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Speaker 2: has to you know, has to get in there and
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Speaker 2: tie somebody.
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Speaker 6: You think of Jason Veritec and a rod and just
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Speaker 6: putting the glove right in his face.
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Speaker 3: I would have loved to see now, I I the
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Speaker 3: probably some on YouTube Jason Kendall ever really get into
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Speaker 3: some good scraps, because.
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Speaker 2: That would have been he was a hard nosed guy.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know if he was that much of
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Speaker 2: a scrapper. That'd be a good question for Wax because
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Speaker 2: he played with him and no.
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Speaker 3: Right Like, I'm starting to think of the different guys
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Speaker 3: throughout baseball history that I put in there. The number
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Speaker 3: one at the top of my list of that do
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Speaker 3: not mess with list was always Yachti Molina because.
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Speaker 1: He has the number one tag.
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Speaker 3: I'm not messing with cats with necktats, right Like, if
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Speaker 3: you are, if you are man enough to put ink
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Speaker 3: right there on your neck, and.
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Speaker 1: There's no shot that I'm worried about what my right.
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Speaker 2: Fist is, that's a good that's a good point.
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Speaker 3: This was like one thing that I always wanted to
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Speaker 3: live by, and if I see that, it's gonna be Hey,
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Speaker 3: how you doing another Back in the day, Phil Garner
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Speaker 3: referenced for you when they were buzzing the tower and
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Speaker 3: they were always having dust ups against the White Sox.
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Speaker 2: We said something about, don't you worried about somebody charging
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Speaker 2: the mound? He goes, that's the last thing I worry about.
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Speaker 2: Because Mike Methani was the catcher. Then he's like, that
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Speaker 2: guy's not gonna get a step in front of the plate. Athenie,
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Speaker 2: You'll have him down and be people wailing on him.
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Speaker 2: Was a tough guy from Michigan, you know, University of
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Speaker 2: Michigan man, and he.
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Speaker 1: Was, Yeah, it was never going to be shy from
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Speaker 1: getting into it.
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Speaker 2: And the guy who took a ninety seven mile an
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Speaker 2: hour Rich Loy Sell fastball to the chops and didn't
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Speaker 2: even take a knee, just walked to the dugouts spitting blood.
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Speaker 1: And played the next day. And yeah, that's dude. Yeah
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Speaker 1: he was.
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Speaker 2: They didn't have to worry about that because Methane would
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Speaker 2: have taken care of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Another good one behind the plate. Martine Maldonado. Remember when
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Speaker 6: he punched Travis Snyder right in the face. Fight with pirates, A.
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Speaker 3: Thick individual to so he jumps over the wall right
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Speaker 3: like over the fence. He's like, I am not missing this. No,
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Speaker 3: he got there as fast as he could. For being
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Speaker 3: a catchup, it's a part of it. You do need
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Speaker 3: somebody that's got the willingness and the pent up frustration
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Speaker 3: to take out on something and somebody. You got to
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Speaker 3: make sure that you are being able to find the
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Speaker 3: right individuals that want to That's why Go Go was
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Speaker 3: always in the mix.
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Speaker 1: Because he wanted to be in the mix. He wanted
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Speaker 1: that smoke.
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Speaker 3: Brian McCann behind the dish. He was the one that
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Speaker 3: started the one not letting, not letting Gomez get all
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Speaker 3: the way to home plate right and then yeah, okay,
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Speaker 3: so we're gonna do this right here, yeah, right here,
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Speaker 3: right now, right.
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Speaker 1: Here, right now. Okay, sounds good.
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Speaker 2: Martine Maldonado. Funny mention of his name. He when he
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Speaker 2: rolled up early on in his brewer's tenure, he's called
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Speaker 2: up kind of like he basically a fringe guy.
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Speaker 1: Back up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was giving guys sixth guy, they discovered
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Speaker 2: a skill. He was giving guys haircuts, like they set
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Speaker 2: up a little barber shop in the shower, and he
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Speaker 2: was like the team barber when he got called up.
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Speaker 2: This is like twenty ten eleven sore in that neighborhood,
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Speaker 2: and it's like we used a joke. He's like, he's
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Speaker 2: the team barber. They got to keep him around. He's
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Speaker 2: giving it, he's tight ending up everybody's fade. He's got
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Speaker 2: the clippers and guys. You know, he's cutting guys hair
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Speaker 2: hile he's getting ready for the game time part of
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Speaker 2: the squat. And we joked about it. But the dude
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Speaker 2: ended up playing in fifteen years in ball.
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Speaker 1: Win in a title, right, I think, single year.
16:19
Speaker 2: World Series champion. He's interesting, giving out fresh fades. Interesting cat.
16:24
Speaker 2: Yeah he was a defensive specialist. He was quite an
16:29
Speaker 2: interesting cat. But yeah, great dude, that is Maldy was
16:32
Speaker 2: a great dude.
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Speaker 3: I think that's my favorite, one of my favorite stories
16:35
Speaker 3: from you in the locker room of being able to
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Speaker 3: find somebody that was doubling as the team barber while
16:40
Speaker 3: also being defensive catching.
16:42
Speaker 2: Can't send him down. Everybody's hairw go bad.
16:45
Speaker 1: Look way too much sweat look good to change.
16:48
Speaker 2: This, right, you gotta look good to play good.
16:51
Speaker 3: And listen, if you pay play good, they'll pay good.
16:54
Speaker 3: Maybe not here, but they'll pay good somewhere. And I
16:56
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17:11
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Speaker 3: business Drew, I don't know that the Brewers Team store
18:40
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Speaker 3: have been close. The Masters will do how much in
18:47
Speaker 3: merchandise sales do you believe coming up this weekend?
18:51
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's staggering because it will they get
18:54
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars for a golf shirt.
18:55
Speaker 1: So I don't know what's.
18:58
Speaker 2: Millions and millions, tens of millions.
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Speaker 3: This estimation is seventy million dollars in merchandise sales this week.
19:05
Speaker 2: Is that's the only place you can get Oh got
19:07
Speaker 2: to have guys like you.
19:08
Speaker 1: Know you shipping it back.
19:10
Speaker 2: That's Gary Demato would cover it every year at the
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Speaker 2: Journal Center and people would give him orders like hey,
19:16
Speaker 2: here's my cash, and he would mule stuff back out
19:19
Speaker 2: of the store.
19:20
Speaker 3: It's remarkable. It's that estimation is twenty five million more
19:23
Speaker 3: in merchandise than the Atlanta Braves did all of last year, right,
19:27
Speaker 3: I mean, with no online sales, and the store is
19:29
Speaker 3: like it's not the pop up tent store that usually
19:33
Speaker 3: you think you're seeing.
19:34
Speaker 1: At one of these spots, they got anything known to man.
19:36
Speaker 3: Apparently they have an individual gnome each year that is
19:40
Speaker 3: one of the quickest things to sell. But that breaks
19:43
Speaker 3: down to about a million dollars an hour. Liking it
19:46
Speaker 3: about a million dollars an hour. My guess is the
19:49
Speaker 3: cashiers aren't making enough of that rate. But that's impressive.
19:52
Speaker 3: So you've been to like one of the PGA's or
19:54
Speaker 3: the Ryder Cups. If you've been around, you know that,
19:56
Speaker 3: you know that they do brisk business. They're flowing people
19:59
Speaker 3: in and out of it. That is intense, intense that
20:02
Speaker 3: they're having this time.
20:03
Speaker 2: Absolutely eight seven seven, seven nine four one ninety three.
20:06
Speaker 2: Your tickets to interact with us. Possibility that Paul Wagner
20:11
Speaker 2: joins us.
20:11
Speaker 1: Nice possibility.
20:12
Speaker 2: If Paul Wagner joins us, will to appear Paul Wagner
20:15
Speaker 2: not entirely sure, Yeah, we will. We'll try to hook
20:18
Speaker 2: up with Wags. If not, we got plenty to talk about.
20:21
Speaker 2: As always, It's the Friday edition of The Huddle. Fox
20:23
Speaker 2: Sports Radio Wisconsin. Rolling through a Friday in the good Land.
20:28
Speaker 2: Drew and Billy bringing it to you The Huddle. Dave
20:31
Speaker 2: gasper in for Arman. He'll be back next week after
20:34
Speaker 2: he's now the mayor of Vegas. He's he's running for
20:39
Speaker 2: Clark County office. I've heard yes yet residency. He's gonna
20:43
Speaker 2: be voting in their elections.
20:44
Speaker 1: And his mail sent there.
20:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was there with Zabe, he's there with Lara.
20:48
Speaker 2: He loves him from Vegas. Well that's the most unlikely
20:51
Speaker 2: thing too, because I remember when armand went to Vegas
20:53
Speaker 2: for the first time.
20:54
Speaker 3: I was gonna say you probably you were probably priming
20:57
Speaker 3: the pump for him to get out there for the
20:58
Speaker 3: first time. Absolutely, And there was a lot of nervous energy.
21:01
Speaker 3: And I don't know exactly what I'm gonna do. I
21:02
Speaker 3: don't want a doll I don't even gamble.
21:04
Speaker 2: I don't spend any money because he's so cheap, and Vegas,
21:09
Speaker 2: the cheap part of it is now gone very much so.
21:12
Speaker 1: Yes, in the.
21:13
Speaker 2: Era of like you know, ten dollars Miller lights and
21:15
Speaker 2: you know, eight dollars bottles of water and resort fees
21:18
Speaker 2: and everything, they got to get back to that.
21:20
Speaker 3: They got to get back to where you and I
21:22
Speaker 3: stayed when we went out there for packers and raiders
21:24
Speaker 3: at the old downtown Grand Like they had the two
21:27
Speaker 3: dollars and fifty cent beer and hot dog deal that
21:30
Speaker 3: you could get actual like five dollars tables. Now you're
21:33
Speaker 3: one block off of Freemont. However, new rooms. It's like, sweet,
21:36
Speaker 3: that's the place to be going to go to good spot.
21:38
Speaker 2: We love us some circa circa's got a deal going
21:41
Speaker 2: in the summer that's pretty sweet.
21:43
Speaker 1: Well, and that's the deal.
21:43
Speaker 3: You're starting to see more of these places come up
21:45
Speaker 3: with like all inclusive or like the Circle one I
21:47
Speaker 3: think is four hundred for two nights, you get a
21:51
Speaker 3: one hundred dollars food credit, one hundred dollars beverage credit,
21:55
Speaker 3: and you also get a day bet at the at
21:57
Speaker 3: the Circus Swim.
21:58
Speaker 1: Now, the idea is you're gonna go and.
22:00
Speaker 3: You're gonna play, and you're gonna have some money and
22:01
Speaker 3: you're gonna potentially spend some back, but like you're gonna
22:04
Speaker 3: get a bunch of opportunity there for for some value.
22:09
Speaker 1: And it's Sunday through Thursday.
22:11
Speaker 2: Four hundred bucks, one hundred dollars dining credit, one hundred
22:14
Speaker 2: dollars beverage credit, and the little bed at Stadium Swim.
22:19
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good deal, yes, and it's a pretty
22:21
Speaker 2: good Vegas deal.
22:22
Speaker 1: You can have some fun.
22:23
Speaker 3: There and there's but now also to like the uh
22:26
Speaker 3: the Flamingo, I think like those ones in Caesars were
22:30
Speaker 3: starting an all inclusive one because there's you only have
22:34
Speaker 3: limited vacation budget. And I think drew like even yesterday
22:37
Speaker 3: when the governor signs the deal here to allow legalized
22:41
Speaker 3: online sports wagering through the casino of the hub and
22:45
Speaker 3: spoke method where you'd have the server where all of
22:48
Speaker 3: the wagers would be placed. At Potawatam casino, people can
22:52
Speaker 3: bet legally on their devices inside of the state. Like
22:55
Speaker 3: I think the gambling budget that people would set aside
22:57
Speaker 3: for all, right, that's my Vegas fund that one might
23:00
Speaker 3: get played around with because you can go to Potawatamy
23:02
Speaker 3: and be in a sports book that's better than ninety
23:04
Speaker 3: percent of the ones there. But like it now becomes
23:07
Speaker 3: more of the vacation budget and competing with all inclusives
23:11
Speaker 3: is something that you always have to be able to do.
23:13
Speaker 3: And it seems like they're like, we're not going to
23:16
Speaker 3: ever get back to we comp a bunch of stuff,
23:19
Speaker 3: but maybe if you give us a bunch of money
23:20
Speaker 3: front up front, then you can find as many valuable
23:24
Speaker 3: deals as you can.
23:25
Speaker 1: After here by just drinking and partying.
23:27
Speaker 2: You're absolutely I mean the proliferation of great casinos like
23:32
Speaker 2: our friends at Potto, and then the availability of cannabis
23:37
Speaker 2: products elsewhere. That part of it, you know, the sin
23:41
Speaker 2: city and when they're sin everywhere. What's great about Vegas? Right, Yeah,
23:45
Speaker 2: still the strip and the shows, But I mean, I
23:48
Speaker 2: you love it there as much as I do, and
23:50
Speaker 2: Armin's loving it. But they do need to kind of
23:53
Speaker 2: reinvent and get back to some of the get back
23:55
Speaker 2: to some of the.
23:57
Speaker 3: Could not agree with you more things that made it attractive,
24:00
Speaker 3: back to your roots buffets. And it does seem like
24:03
Speaker 3: the buffets are one that they've tried to at least,
24:06
Speaker 3: like everyone's now gonna fire one of them up. But
24:08
Speaker 3: like it just isn't this. It's never gonna be the
24:12
Speaker 3: same as it used to be. But I think that
24:14
Speaker 3: they can get it back somewhere in the middle where
24:17
Speaker 3: it doesn't feel like you're getting nickel and dimed all
24:19
Speaker 3: over the place, right Like.
24:20
Speaker 2: I think that's where people will get frustrated at saying,
24:23
Speaker 2: all right, I don't think that I'm being cheap here.
24:26
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to.
24:27
Speaker 2: My twenty nine dollars room costs me one hundred and
24:29
Speaker 2: forty and the Yeah.
24:30
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to know what I'm gonna be spending
24:32
Speaker 3: before I land, so then I know how much fun
24:35
Speaker 3: I can have throughout the wee exactly. It's also I mean,
24:38
Speaker 3: we talked to a little bit about Nashville. It's there
24:40
Speaker 3: they're seeing an infusion there where, Like Blake Shelton put
24:44
Speaker 3: up a bar in Las Vegas. It did great. Now
24:48
Speaker 3: lu Comb's gonna happen out, Jason.
24:50
Speaker 1: El Dean's gonna have one Las Vegas.
24:52
Speaker 3: And the travel industry is almost like the NFL, in
24:55
Speaker 3: like sports leagues, copycat league. Oh that worked, we need
24:58
Speaker 3: one of those. Oh, people like Gordon Ramsey spots. We
25:01
Speaker 3: need to get a Gordon Ramsey spot. Oh, we need
25:03
Speaker 3: people like Bobby Flay. Let's get a Bobby Flay spot
25:05
Speaker 3: in here.
25:05
Speaker 1: So uh, I do.
25:07
Speaker 3: I've also gotten a number of pictures from uh from
25:10
Speaker 3: Arman saying that he's tracking right now the progress of
25:15
Speaker 3: the big guitar, that the hard rock is putting where.
25:18
Speaker 1: The MGM is.
25:20
Speaker 3: And he's then immediately yesterday was measuring up the Caesars
25:24
Speaker 3: led board.
25:25
Speaker 5: Like I think.
25:26
Speaker 3: I think it's a race to see who can get bigger.
25:27
Speaker 3: I'm like, pause, all right. I don't know that we
25:30
Speaker 3: need any any versions of the the races and the
25:33
Speaker 3: size matters conversations when we're talking about led boards out here,
25:37
Speaker 3: but I think it'll work. I also think the the
25:39
Speaker 3: building of the new stadium out there, as much as
25:42
Speaker 3: we got to see the football stadium. How it is
25:45
Speaker 3: that is still across the freeway right like you still
25:48
Speaker 3: have to walk over and through.
25:50
Speaker 1: It's not the easiest one to get to that thing.
25:52
Speaker 3: Being right on Las Vegas Boulevard is going to liven
25:55
Speaker 3: up that end of.
25:56
Speaker 2: The string, no question, that's gonna be uh. And then
26:00
Speaker 2: you know an attraction in the summer when people want
26:02
Speaker 2: to go see the Red Sox, the Yankees, the.
26:04
Speaker 3: Big time built in eighty one days of vacation and tourism.
26:09
Speaker 2: Hey, we put up the bat signal and we got
26:11
Speaker 2: a picture, but grabbing a bat for us. It's Paul Wagner,
26:13
Speaker 2: our pal bet you coach to the dockhouse, former Big leaguer,
26:15
Speaker 2: friend of the program, Wags.
26:17
Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to the huddle.
26:21
Speaker 5: Good morning, it is boys, It is early. Luckily it
26:25
Speaker 5: is Luckily it is that time of year. This is
26:28
Speaker 5: this is Turkey season. This is Turkey season for you outdoorsman.
26:32
Speaker 5: You guys aren't. But I'm an outdoorsman. So my early
26:35
Speaker 5: mornings are early mornings. So this is the season to
26:38
Speaker 5: talk to the huddle early in the morning.
26:41
Speaker 3: Okay, So now Weggs might not be an outdoors guy,
26:45
Speaker 3: but I want to be a part of the squad.
26:47
Speaker 1: Is the Turkey hunt the.
26:49
Speaker 3: One for me to get into first, because everyone's like,
26:52
Speaker 3: you gotta go to deer camp weggs. It's way too
26:53
Speaker 3: damn cold, and I don't know that I can be
26:56
Speaker 3: up in a tree stand as a pair of shaped
26:58
Speaker 3: adult So is the Turkey won the one for me
27:01
Speaker 3: to dip my toes into and join?
27:04
Speaker 5: Well, you know, that might be a good one. Armond's
27:06
Speaker 5: got everybody beat. As crazy as this sounds, Armand is
27:10
Speaker 5: put together our intro to our podcast, and I think Armand,
27:16
Speaker 5: of all people would know a little bit more about
27:19
Speaker 5: our hunting scene. But for yours, Billy, I think that
27:23
Speaker 5: might be a good idea. I think you might be
27:25
Speaker 5: on the ground. You need be a ground blind guy.
27:27
Speaker 1: You got me, You got me fully in golfed.
27:30
Speaker 3: That's exactly what I'm I'm not getting any elevation to
27:33
Speaker 3: be able to find these animals. They'll still be able
27:35
Speaker 3: to hear me because I'm making the tree crack as
27:38
Speaker 3: I'm sitting up there.
27:39
Speaker 5: So uh, and and Drew is definitely not hunter. No, no, no, we're.
27:47
Speaker 3: The cabin guys. We've said that, We said that a
27:50
Speaker 3: lot for deer Camp drew. I'd love to cook on
27:52
Speaker 3: the Blackstone and wait for everybody to We got breakfast
27:54
Speaker 3: ready over here. I'll be firing that up when you
27:56
Speaker 3: get back. We got Bloody Mary's and Blackstone. You guys,
27:59
Speaker 3: go and get venison.
28:00
Speaker 2: We'll cook it ap as long as it's cold and
28:02
Speaker 2: we can watch TV outside. Yeah, yeah, Wags, we got
28:06
Speaker 2: questions for you, My friend h All. We were talking
28:10
Speaker 2: about there's a little line in a Q and A
28:12
Speaker 2: that Todd Rosieck did at Jays Online, who's the Brewers enforcer?
28:16
Speaker 2: Who would be the tough guy? Because they had that
28:18
Speaker 2: little dust up with Wilson Contrella's. Nothing came of it,
28:20
Speaker 2: but I begged the question who would be the Brews
28:22
Speaker 2: enforcer in The guys that her mentioned were William Contreras
28:27
Speaker 2: and Trevor McGill were kind of the and like South
28:30
Speaker 2: Free look maybe as the Tasmanian devil. And Billy wanted
28:33
Speaker 2: to know. Was Jason Kendall a badass? We know he
28:35
Speaker 2: was a hard nosed player, but was he one of
28:37
Speaker 2: those guys you wouldn't want to scrap with?
28:40
Speaker 5: Absolutely not Jason Kendall, you know, no, no, no, absolutely,
28:44
Speaker 5: I mean, do you absolutely do not want to mess
28:47
Speaker 5: with Jason Kendall. Rumor had it on the street afterwards
28:52
Speaker 5: after his career. He's a Malibu guy. So Jason Kendall
28:56
Speaker 5: goes back out to Cali and he teams up with
28:59
Speaker 5: Mike Piazza. Again, this is strictly rumor. Him and Mike
29:03
Speaker 5: Piazza open up an MMA knuckle fighting UFC training facility
29:10
Speaker 5: out there, and I'll tell you what with tattoos, drinking
29:14
Speaker 5: bud lights, staying up all night, getting hit over three
29:17
Speaker 5: thousand times in a big league uniform, Jason Kendall was
29:21
Speaker 5: not the guy you want to mess with.
29:23
Speaker 1: No, God, it just warmed.
29:24
Speaker 2: All parts he I mean, he looked like he looked
29:28
Speaker 2: like the guy that's not the most imposing physical specimen.
29:31
Speaker 2: But you see him like in a prison liner for
29:33
Speaker 2: something you're not messing with.
29:34
Speaker 1: I'm walking straight away from me. I'm averting my eyes.
29:37
Speaker 5: Yeah he had Yeah, exactly. He's the guy that takes
29:41
Speaker 5: like seventeen bullets to the chest and he keeps coming
29:44
Speaker 5: at you and you're like, what the hell's going on? Here?
29:46
Speaker 5: Was this guy?
29:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never seen people you mentioned getting hit over
29:49
Speaker 3: three hundred times. I don't know I've ever seen somebody's
29:51
Speaker 3: right arm just eat or left arm eat fastballs like
29:54
Speaker 3: Jason Kendall's. Even though even though Wilson Contreras tries to weigh,
30:00
Speaker 3: he's on the leaning in deal. And I can assume
30:02
Speaker 3: there was a way of being able to handle that
30:04
Speaker 3: at some particular point in time. I don't know that
30:06
Speaker 3: anybody ate enough fastballs like like Jason Kendall did off
30:09
Speaker 3: the off the army.
30:12
Speaker 5: No, and Kendall played it like it was a mosquito bite.
30:15
Speaker 5: Contreras is like all complaining he gets barely nicked. Hell,
30:19
Speaker 5: I would have used the review on that, because if
30:22
Speaker 5: it scraped the pad at all, I mean he didn't.
30:25
Speaker 5: I mean, come on, you know, if that's if that's
30:28
Speaker 5: your image, you got to play it a little bit
30:30
Speaker 5: better than that. I mean, Jason Kendall just took it
30:33
Speaker 5: like a man went down the first And remember a
30:35
Speaker 5: couple of times when you're speaking Jason Kendall. I remember
30:37
Speaker 5: in Pittsburgh when he ran Remember when he stepped on
30:39
Speaker 5: the base and his bone popped out of the I was.
30:42
Speaker 2: In the house that was against the Birds. I was
30:43
Speaker 2: in the stadium that day. It was like one hundred degrees.
30:46
Speaker 2: It was a miserable July fourth, and I could hear
30:49
Speaker 2: him scream from the press boxes, brutal.
30:52
Speaker 5: And he's like and he's like, remember when remember when
30:54
Speaker 5: Toddan McGregor got beat up and he had a broken leg,
30:57
Speaker 5: and he goes, come on, I'm gonna tek you still
31:00
Speaker 5: into a broken leg. Kendall wanted to stay in the
31:02
Speaker 5: game with a.
31:02
Speaker 1: Broken leg, insane.
31:04
Speaker 2: His bone was sticking through his ankle. It looked like
31:07
Speaker 2: the rounded end of a baseball bat. Mark Loretto was
31:10
Speaker 2: at first base and he said he almost threw up
31:13
Speaker 2: looking at it, like it was just disgusting. The bad memories,
31:16
Speaker 2: bad memories. All right, Hey, Wax, you're our go to
31:18
Speaker 2: guy for all things pitching in baseball at all levels,
31:21
Speaker 2: not just the big leagues. But Doc Cohun's getting ready
31:23
Speaker 2: to fire up in just a couple of weeks. But
31:26
Speaker 2: the story yesterday in the Milwaukee area, Marquette High head
31:29
Speaker 2: baseball coach with a familiar name, friend of the show,
31:31
Speaker 2: sal Bando Junior, resigned from his position, writing a letter
31:35
Speaker 2: to the WIAA. Apparently somebody ratted him out because the
31:39
Speaker 2: facility that he runs where they train guys and helped
31:41
Speaker 2: them the select teams and stuff. People said he was
31:44
Speaker 2: illegally coaching guys out of season, the Prospect Training Academy,
31:47
Speaker 2: that he's that he works out of an an O
31:49
Speaker 2: cree and someone dropped the dime, and it's like, I
31:52
Speaker 2: was wondering about that.
31:53
Speaker 1: Who's that petty to do that?
31:55
Speaker 2: And isn't that something that they need to address in
31:57
Speaker 2: this era where you know, all those rules seem so quaint,
32:01
Speaker 2: but there's seven on seven football and there's all the
32:03
Speaker 2: different stuff, all that stuff, it seems kind of like
32:08
Speaker 2: a weird deal.
32:09
Speaker 1: So what what do you think about this? Wags?
32:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just saw Sonny. I don't I didn't
32:15
Speaker 5: hear about it. But with what you say, regardless of
32:19
Speaker 5: who the end of every single high school team does,
32:22
Speaker 5: it breaks that law to some sort of a level
32:28
Speaker 5: of prep. Guys don't just sit around and do nothing.
32:32
Speaker 5: And I don't know what it came up to. Somebody
32:35
Speaker 5: had to have been jealous, because every program in the
32:39
Speaker 5: state of Wisconsin does does somehow try to circumvent and
32:43
Speaker 5: beat that that ideology, and and that's got to be changed.
32:46
Speaker 5: That that's got to be changed. We're talking about thirteen
32:50
Speaker 5: months a year kids are working at baseball, and if
32:53
Speaker 5: you can't have correct coaching and correct guidance, what good
32:58
Speaker 5: does that do? What do you want to do? Throw
33:00
Speaker 5: your whole team in a gym and let them, you know,
33:03
Speaker 5: just run around and get hurt. No guidance coaching is
33:07
Speaker 5: important and if we care about the student athlete, I
33:09
Speaker 5: think something like that, especially with the WIA, has to
33:12
Speaker 5: be addressed, because I would always love to have a
33:15
Speaker 5: coach there rather than not well.
33:16
Speaker 3: And it's it's been a struggling art in baseball with
33:19
Speaker 3: the WIA after they flipped it all spring. I mean,
33:22
Speaker 3: I was a summer baseball guy, and I know it's
33:25
Speaker 3: different with the travel scene, and I understand it's different
33:28
Speaker 3: with all select programs and things like that, but WEGGS,
33:31
Speaker 3: when you're talking about it, you hit it on the head.
33:33
Speaker 3: Baseball maybe is the one where specialization happens even more
33:37
Speaker 3: than the other ones. And if you don't have the
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Speaker 3: kind of guidance and coaching, I know you'd be humble
33:42
Speaker 3: and wouldn't take some credit for it.
33:44
Speaker 1: But it's establishments that have been set up over.
33:47
Speaker 3: The last fifteen twenty years that we're seeing the kind
33:50
Speaker 3: of caliber player here in Wisconsin just skyrocket that's being produced.
33:54
Speaker 3: Isn't it incredible in your eyes as to where that
33:57
Speaker 3: talent has continued to go because of the places where
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Speaker 3: they can play twelve months a year.
34:03
Speaker 5: It really is. You hit a big topic and a
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Speaker 5: sore one with me, because I still to this day
34:09
Speaker 5: don't understand the Wisconsin Badgers and what they do with
34:13
Speaker 5: that athletic department up in Madison. I don't understand why
34:17
Speaker 5: baseball cannot be funded and be played in Wisconsin. We
34:21
Speaker 5: have so much talent. Look at the number one picks,
34:24
Speaker 5: Look at the guys we have in the big leagues,
34:26
Speaker 5: Look at what we have here, Look at the availability
34:29
Speaker 5: with these facilities now where kids can get better and better.
34:33
Speaker 5: And it's the one sport. And I don't get me wrong,
34:36
Speaker 5: every sport is great, but it's the one sport where
34:39
Speaker 5: you don't need to be seven feet mable to dunk
34:41
Speaker 5: a ball. You don't need to be three to fifty
34:44
Speaker 5: to play the offensive line. You don't have to have
34:46
Speaker 5: a canon of an arm to be the quarterback or
34:48
Speaker 5: a wide receiver. You don't have to run a four
34:50
Speaker 5: to forty. Baseball players come in all shapes and sizes,
34:54
Speaker 5: and you'd think Wisconsin would be a great place for it.
34:58
Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong. A lot of high talent, high
35:01
Speaker 5: leverage prospects will go south. I mean that's just the
35:04
Speaker 5: way it is. But the Big Ten and the way
35:06
Speaker 5: that people grow up here in Wisconsin. We love the
35:09
Speaker 5: Wisconsin Badgers, We love the Green Bay Packers, the Milwaukee Brewers,
35:13
Speaker 5: and the Milwaukee Bucks. We are Wisconsin people, and I
35:16
Speaker 5: would scare to bet that a majority of those kids
35:20
Speaker 5: when it comes down to do I go to Alabama,
35:23
Speaker 5: Do I go to Florida to play baseball? Or I
35:26
Speaker 5: play in Wisconsin. They may go down there for a year,
35:28
Speaker 5: but they're going to realize what they miss. They're going
35:30
Speaker 5: to come back up to Wisconsin, finish out their careers
35:33
Speaker 5: in the Big Ten, and be a Badger forever.
35:35
Speaker 2: Interesting you say this and we won't remember, but we
35:37
Speaker 2: should talk about it. On Monday because Wildcat Mark, the
35:40
Speaker 2: Arizona Wildcats fan, hit us on the Talking Tech line
35:43
Speaker 2: and he was asking, you know, with all these baseball
35:45
Speaker 2: prospects and stuff, I'm thinking about the state of golf
35:47
Speaker 2: in the state oh Fair and Steve Stricker and JP
35:51
Speaker 2: Hayes and Jerry Kelly and Skip Kendall were like the
35:55
Speaker 2: young guns at one point. Now they're kind of like
35:56
Speaker 2: senior tour aging out And where's the wave of Wisconsin
35:59
Speaker 2: golf is that will carry that flag because golf is
36:02
Speaker 2: a big part of the sports landscape in the state too,
36:04
Speaker 2: and we're not seeing that's dright up, whereas baseball is
36:07
Speaker 2: now a pipeline. And it just seems kind of weird
36:10
Speaker 2: that that has ebbed and flowed like that. That just
36:12
Speaker 2: seems kind of strange.
36:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Jerry, Jerry's son, I know Jerry pretty well.
36:18
Speaker 5: And Jerry's son, Cooper, wanted to be a baseball player.
36:21
Speaker 5: Played I think he played up in Madison, up at
36:23
Speaker 5: Edgewater or maybe he played for Davenport at Madison College.
36:27
Speaker 5: I'm not sure exactly, but Cooper wanted to and then
36:29
Speaker 5: he ended up going out west to Colorado and now
36:32
Speaker 5: he's swinging the stick. I mean, I remember Jerry telling
36:34
Speaker 5: me that Cooper out driving him, out playing him, and
36:37
Speaker 5: he's a damn good golfer. You know what, where is
36:40
Speaker 5: all that coming from? Where isn't that we do have?
36:42
Speaker 5: And that's a summer sport too, like you just said,
36:45
Speaker 5: we have we have athletes cheer in Wisconsin and should
36:49
Speaker 5: take advantage of him. Don't let him leave.
36:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: So there's a number of different things to go through here.
38:18
Speaker 3: Our friend Tyler Herrick formally he's going full on into
38:22
Speaker 3: the pilot world of cheese at TV put out like
38:25
Speaker 3: something kind of trying to defend the Wisco tag yesterday,
38:27
Speaker 3: He's like Wisco and Scani started popping up in the
38:29
Speaker 3: early two thousands with a commercial mention I found here.
38:32
Speaker 3: In two thousand and five became popularized by local businesses, clothing,
38:36
Speaker 3: and beer brands during the two thousand and eight to
38:39
Speaker 3: twenty twelve range, so maybe there is a subsection of
38:42
Speaker 3: people that do. However, Sam Decker commented on that. He said, yeah,
38:45
Speaker 3: they also tried to make roll badge a thing from
38:47
Speaker 3: aout twenty fifteen to twenty eighteen. I did what I
38:50
Speaker 3: could to put an end to that nonsense. I don't
38:53
Speaker 3: know who who exactly was was figuring out that Wisco
38:59
Speaker 3: should be the tag. However, maybe they enjoyed some happy
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39:07
Speaker 3: just think in five years everyone's calling a Whisko because
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Speaker 3: of these jerseys. They might just be thinking drew forward
39:14
Speaker 3: like the tag on the back end, they said, We're
39:17
Speaker 3: just gonna try to put this into the ether and
39:20
Speaker 3: start a new craze.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna enjoy.
39:23
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Speaker 1: And maybe that was maybe that was just the case.
39:34
Speaker 3: Maybe they were sitting around having a number of different
39:36
Speaker 3: cold ones, and they're like, you know what, I think
39:38
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39:49
Speaker 2: I just saw the news that they've shaved down the
39:52
Speaker 2: time between picks in the first round of the NFL
39:54
Speaker 2: Draft to eight minutes instead of ten. What a beautiful
39:57
Speaker 2: way all the time. That's gonna shake some time off.
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Speaker 3: It'll be an hour, it'll save us an hour, it'll
40:03
Speaker 3: save us seven to ten visuals of Jerry Jones two,
40:07
Speaker 3: which I think I'm even happier about. All right, Heading
40:10
Speaker 3: into the weekend, City Connects, Bass Game Brewers, Nationals Masters,
40:16
Speaker 3: and of course the Frozen four, we're going to talk
40:18
Speaker 3: about it all coming up at five am on Monday.
40:21
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out with us this week. Be sure
40:23
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Speaker 2: the Huddle. We'll see at five am Monday.
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Speaker 5: Peace,