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11/02/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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  Speaker 3: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go out and kick some shit.
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  Speaker 5: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 1: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 6: What the hell's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Come on out here! Yellow Weasel!
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  Speaker 5: Quit calling the f * * * ing plays, all right?
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  Speaker 4: It is time.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you are?
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  Speaker 1: I am!
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  Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 7: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 7: your respect.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick.
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  Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 7: Super Bowl dreams that glowed in the summer sunshine, flicker
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  Speaker 7: and fade in the autumn shadows. and hopes that were
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  Speaker 7: high in the heat of September can wilt and die
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  Speaker 7: in the chill of November. November can be cold and gray.
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  Speaker 7: November can be surly, with bitter rain upon the world
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  Speaker 7: and winter coming early. Do you fear the force of
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  Speaker 7: the wind, the slash of the rain? Go face them
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  Speaker 7: and fight them. Be savage again. The palms of your
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  Speaker 7: hands will thicken. The skin of your cheek will tan.
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  Speaker 7: You'll grow ragged and weary and wet, but you must
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  Speaker 7: do the best you can.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, baby, had to have that little ode to November
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  Speaker 4: from John Facinda at NFL Films.
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  Speaker 2: We're on to November. Happy November 2nd.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody, welcome to the Monday edition of The Huddle, broadcasting
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  Speaker 4: live on 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, iHeartRadio apps worldwide, and
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  Speaker 4: of course, Facebook X and YouTube. Drew Olson, Bill Schmid,
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  Speaker 4: and Armin Sarin bringing it to you. We've recovered sufficiently.
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  Speaker 4: We had an extra hour of sleep. We had a
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  Speaker 4: day on the couch watching football, maybe even two days
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  Speaker 4: on the couch watching football. Have we recovered from the Brewers' victory?
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  Speaker 8: No, I don't think so, nor should we, nor do
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  Speaker 8: we want to. Luckily, we all get to be Armin
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  Speaker 8: Sarians for the next you know, three, four, five, six,
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  Speaker 8: eight months, 10 months, 12 months, however long this will
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  Speaker 8: be lockout last, because until they start breaking down, you know,
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  Speaker 8: the greatest guys that ever played in the nineties with
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  Speaker 8: names that start with M for again, however long this
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  Speaker 8: ends up lasting, we just get to watch them replay
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  Speaker 8: every game. So it's hard to not bask in it.
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  Speaker 8: It's not, it's hard to not continue to enjoy it.
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  Speaker 8: I leave a, I leave a show last night and
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  Speaker 8: my man's selling bootlegged World Series merchandise outside of Fiserv
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  Speaker 8: Forum instead of concert t-shirts.
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  Speaker 2: Drew, that's when you know we're not getting over this
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  Speaker 2: one for a while.
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  Speaker 8: The billboards saying congrats to the crew or cheers to
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  Speaker 8: the champions. I can't get enough of them. I know
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  Speaker 8: that they're going to get swept up with more... holiday
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  Speaker 8: season billboards for now but maybe we could roll this
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  Speaker 8: until turkey day with these celebration boards and i'd be
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  Speaker 8: a lot happier about it so we can just continue
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  Speaker 8: doing uh so hell yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah i agree billy i mean i'm sure there's a
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  Speaker 9: time it's gonna wear off but i hope it's not
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  Speaker 9: soon i don't want it to happen i'm still in
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  Speaker 9: that mode of trying to uh bring it up whenever
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  Speaker 9: i can you know that we to myself or to
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  Speaker 9: anybody hey we won the world series let's bask in
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  Speaker 9: the glow today's show this morning. So there's still those
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  Speaker 9: type of appearances, obviously, um, you know, guys doing the
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  Speaker 9: set appearances, autograph sessions, the SNL thing over the weekend
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  Speaker 9: was pretty cool. And, um, you know, and as Billy
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  Speaker 9: so astutely noticed when he walked in today, I don't
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  Speaker 9: want to take the hologram off the shirt yet, you know,
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  Speaker 9: and that's probably the final piece to the puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's got the sticker still on the world.
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  Speaker 2: Got it.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 9: The sticker right there. Now my daughter, Lena almost stole
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  Speaker 9: it this morning.
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  Speaker 2: She was pawing at it. She saw it. It's It's
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  Speaker 2: hard for a toddler to resist a sticker. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? Or a human being. Yeah. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to grab it off your chest a couple of times.
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  Speaker 9: One of those things where I was like, you know what?
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  Speaker 9: I want to wait to the last possible. You want
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  Speaker 9: to put this thing. You want to push the sun
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  Speaker 9: back as much as possible to try and bask in
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  Speaker 9: the glory of it.
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  Speaker 2: And we're doing a good job.
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  Speaker 8: Can you tell Drew in the audience why you didn't
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  Speaker 8: why you told me you didn't want to take the
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  Speaker 8: sticker off when you told me a couple of minutes ago?
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  Speaker 9: I feel like once you do it, you know, it
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  Speaker 9: doesn't feel new anymore. It doesn't feel it's like you
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  Speaker 9: want to make sure it feels new and real. And
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  Speaker 9: like it just is that what you're talking about?
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  Speaker 8: It's it's very real. It's very real. They played in
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  Speaker 8: the World Series. They actually won the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is real.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 9: And like I have, you know, I look sometimes at
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  Speaker 9: my Packers Super Bowl champion shirt, you know, from from XLV.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm like, Man, that was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 9: And you're like, you don't want the memory. It's sort
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  Speaker 9: of symbolic if it fades in the wash. You don't
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  Speaker 9: want the memory to fade. You don't want the glory.
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  Speaker 9: It never will, though.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the greatest thing about this. And you're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 9: I'm about to hit up the guy in the street
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  Speaker 9: some more to see. Because I've been really going in
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  Speaker 9: on this merchandise, trying to look at it. I might
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  Speaker 9: pick up a couple of Mazerowskis if they go on.
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  Speaker 2: Is there clearance from a guy in the street? At
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  Speaker 2: some point, he's got to get rid of the inventory.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to get down with the inventory. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to bring it home. Definitely not.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think that they're putting it in one of
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  Speaker 8: those pods storage facilities. Desperation will say.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather give him money than Michael Rubin. Like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 8: I was going to say you're so anti fanatics. I'm
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  Speaker 8: kind of surprised. Not all of your merchandise was bought
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  Speaker 8: outside of the Clark station on 84th and Lane.
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  Speaker 9: I don't mind it at all. The shirt's right. And
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  Speaker 9: I like what it looks like. But the tough thing is, though,
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  Speaker 9: the real like the other really good quality stuff is
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  Speaker 9: still like. The hat you had, Billy, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 9: that one now. It's hard to replace some nice quality
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  Speaker 9: stuff like that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 9: We'll have a plan of attack. We'll be looking at
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  Speaker 9: this merchandise all winter, let's be honest. It's going to
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  Speaker 9: be going on and on.
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  Speaker 2: When's the clubhouse sale? That's going to be a unique
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  Speaker 2: situation this year. Generally, first weekend in December. That's when
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  Speaker 2: I usually load up for the season, as you guys know.
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  Speaker 8: Drew, you'd be able to astutely more process this than I.
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  Speaker 8: At that clubhouse sale, if it would be in December...
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  Speaker 8: No player merchandise, correct?
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think they can still sell
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  Speaker 2: it this time around. I think they still can.
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  Speaker 8: I know that there would be certain restrictions on how
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  Speaker 8: much quantity or when it is available. Maybe it's more
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  Speaker 8: online or whatever. I think that would be a fascinating one.
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  Speaker 8: They still got the fever around the ballpark, though. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 8: I'm driving to a place that I generally frequent on
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  Speaker 8: Sunday mornings. Yeah, you got to stop and get some
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  Speaker 8: breakfast for the family. And I don't know exactly when
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  Speaker 8: they were opening, but there were folks waiting. I think
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  Speaker 8: it was like 8.30 in the morning. Hope they were
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  Speaker 8: opening at 9 and not 11 because they were waiting
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  Speaker 8: outside ready to pounce on some more merch, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: Honey, I'm going to pick up breakfast. Why are you
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  Speaker 2: calling me Canal Street? Yeah. Best coffee shop in the city.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. It's just, you know.
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  Speaker 4: All about the brewer sightings in the wild. They all
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  Speaker 4: survived the parade, which is nice. Then they had their
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  Speaker 4: little after party at the Third Street Market Hall. Then
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  Speaker 4: they fanned out into the mists. And some of them,
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  Speaker 4: Terang and Murph and Yellich, they went to New York.
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  Speaker 4: And then others went trick-or-treating and walked in Wauwatosa.
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  Speaker 2: Sal was out there in the beard costume. That's incredible. Sal,
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  Speaker 2: the Bowers. Someone I used to work with, her kids,
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  Speaker 2: I think, were in Franklin.
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  Speaker 9: And it was, I'm sorry, Bobby Gasser answering the door
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  Speaker 9: with Logan Henderson. So they weren't out and about, but
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  Speaker 9: they answered the door. That was kind of cool. They
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  Speaker 9: must still be living together. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 9: deal is. They're hanging out together.
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  Speaker 2: Giving out candy.
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  Speaker 4: I was at the Bucs game Saturday night and saw
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  Speaker 4: Cooper Pratt and Churio.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of folks there.
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  Speaker 4: Dustin May and Bernie and the sausages. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 4: that crowd pop was small. And it's funny because I'm
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  Speaker 4: at the Bucs game and I'm thinking, oh, wow, they
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  Speaker 4: didn't bring the trophy. They must have it somewhere else. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they took it to New York for Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 2: It was a little busy. does that trophy have a
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  Speaker 2: handler and like a packager? Like they do. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think so. Cause I think that it's a replica. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: you get it to keep, it's not the Stanley cup
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  Speaker 2: where you have to give it back. They're not traveling
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  Speaker 2: with that thing. It's got the Tiffany bag and right.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not going through like, no, no, they don't.
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  Speaker 4: They handle it with gloves when they, once they give
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  Speaker 4: it to the team, but then it's your own.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Once it reaches the third street market hall, I think
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  Speaker 8: it's all bets are off. Like I, I think, I
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  Speaker 8: think they kind of let it, let it ride at
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  Speaker 8: that point to wherever it ends up going.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, I just didn't know if it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you check baggage or you carry it.
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  Speaker 8: Saturday Night Live appearance was good. It was definitely quick.
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  Speaker 8: It was very, very quick. The Murph quote was phenomenal. Yeah,
• 8:54
  Speaker 8: being a manager is kind of like being a drunk uncle. Well,
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  Speaker 8: as a matter of fact, we have that for you.
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  Speaker 8: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Give me 15 seconds here. All right, Armand's got it.
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  Speaker 2: He's got it.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, the when you saw Sal Freelick walking around
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  Speaker 8: with the boys and, you know, Grant Anderson and folks
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  Speaker 8: and D.L. Hall's got a little one of his hundred
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  Speaker 8: thousand beers. All I could think, Drew, is he's the
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  Speaker 8: buddy that lives in the college house. That's, you know,
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  Speaker 8: one of one of the families on the college house.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 8: So everybody there's about five or six guys that live there.
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  Speaker 8: And after graduation, three moved to Chicago and one moves
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  Speaker 8: back home. And then there's a couple and one guy
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  Speaker 8: whose parent family owns it. Obviously has a girlfriend. Now
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  Speaker 8: they're engaged. Oh my gosh, now they're going to get
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  Speaker 8: married and there's a baby. Here's my man Sal just
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  Speaker 8: living in the basement. He's like, what's different? I don't
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  Speaker 8: want to stop this.
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  Speaker 2: Can't we just all hang out? What are you guys
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  Speaker 2: doing tonight? We're going and hanging out with our kids.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go trick-or-treating.
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  Speaker 8: Sweet, I'll be there. Anybody need a beer costume? I
• 9:49
  Speaker 8: got an extra one. We could be suds all over
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  Speaker 8: the place.
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  Speaker 2: He's a vibes guy. He really is. And that's what's great.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have a guy like that. Got it.
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: Got it. All right, Armin, hit it. What did it
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: sound like Saturday night? I don't know.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just worried that maybe a beer didn't win the
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: World Series, and maybe this was all a dream.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was. I don't know either.
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  Speaker 2: You tell me. Wait a second. I see the world
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  Speaker 2: champion Milwaukee Boys.
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  Speaker 3: All right, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, Drunk Uncle. It wasn't a dream. And we
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  Speaker 2: have something in common, Drunk Uncle. We've also been drinking
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  Speaker 2: since Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm the manager. And that's kind of like being
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  Speaker 1: the Drunk Uncle of the team. Hey, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 7: I know you.
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  Speaker 2: You're Pete Davidson, right?
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  Speaker 1: Drunk Uncle and the world champion.
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  Speaker 7: You're welcome.
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yelich, Terang, and Murph getting their national TV moment
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  Speaker 4: and then hanging out backstage with the likes of Steven
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Hanks, yeah. And J.J.
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  Speaker 5: Abrams.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty cool, pretty cool. And the entire cast. How about that?
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: I thought they all nailed one line. They all nailed it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can tell.
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  Speaker 4: I think they got in a little late. They might
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: have missed their cue. Bobby was stretching a little bit.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, we always make jokes about, like,
• 11:24
  Speaker 9: they picked Yelich and Terang, but Murph really hammered his
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  Speaker 9: line pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Live TV. It was good. A lot of people thought
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: Murph was the most wooden that I talked to.
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 2: The other guys were good, yeah. Oh, I thought it
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: was good. The irony is Murph doesn't drink. They're reading
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: cue cards. Yeah, of course. It was great. The drunk
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: uncle who doesn't drink, that's Murph. Yeah.
• 11:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: So it was epic. I know it was hard, man. Halloween,
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: there were some people out in costume giving it, right?
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: But a lot of people... I talked to a friend
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: of mine who runs an establishment, and he said that
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: Saturday during the day, he could tell, on a normally
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: bustling Saturday, on a nice fall Saturday, it would have
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  Speaker 4: been crowded.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, it felt like a Tuesday. A lot of recovery.
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  Speaker 2: Because everybody just gave it so hard.
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  Speaker 4: 750,000 people attending the festivities around the parade downtown. And
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: then not just standing around. They were consuming, and they
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  Speaker 4: were putting money in the economy. Spending cash on sweatshirts.
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  Speaker 2: And drinks.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Drinks and drinks and drinks. And more and more drinks.
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  Speaker 8: And then all of a sudden realizing, as Armin just
• 12:24
  Speaker 8: said before the show, like, now they keep pumping out
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  Speaker 8: more merch. Now I'm going to have to keep potentially
• 12:29
  Speaker 8: tax my credit card. There's a slowdown effect or a
• 12:33
  Speaker 8: swoon that is definitely going to be coming here pretty soon.
• 12:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it took a lot out of the fan base, man.
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: We partied hard, celebrated hard. Folks are ready to. Just
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: decompress a little bit. It really helped that the Packers
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: didn't play yesterday. The late games also did a big
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: part of it. Now, granted, there's an 8 o'clock or
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: Eastern time first pitch. A 7 o'clock start ain't that late.
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  Speaker 8: But these games are so much longer than what you
• 12:55
  Speaker 8: watch throughout the entire regular season.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: And the extra inning game in game four was taxing.
• 13:00
  Speaker 8: Start out with the San Diego game. It feels like
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  Speaker 8: there's a lot of folks that feel like they haven't
• 13:03
  Speaker 8: slept in a month. So now we're on a lot
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  Speaker 8: of ground. People are recovering, and it's nice.
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  Speaker 2: That's the idea.
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  Speaker 4: You can get us on the NicoletLaw.com talking text line 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 4: Love to hear from you about your weekend. Did you
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: have any run-ins with brewers? Hunter's going to join us
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: in just a little bit. Hunter was on stakeout, as
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: was Armin Sarja. Our team coverage took us to Raising Cane's.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Team coverage.
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  Speaker 4: You dragged Hunter over there, too? Hunter went there to
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: cover it because he's Hunter.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Hunter's a professional.
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  Speaker 9: I was just there trying to hang out and get
• 13:34
  Speaker 9: in line with the mask.
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  Speaker 8: Was there anything resembling a line there, or was it
• 13:40
  Speaker 8: just an absolute drive-through?
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: They did have it kind of up.
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  Speaker 9: Partioned out pretty well, like a snake, you know, like
• 13:47
  Speaker 9: with the ropes and everything.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: They did a good job with it.
• 13:49
  Speaker 9: They did shut the drive-thru out with this, like, I
• 13:51
  Speaker 9: thought it was weird because initially we heard they were
• 13:53
  Speaker 9: going to be, he's doing the drive-thru and the dine-in
• 13:57
  Speaker 9: or whatever. So my plan was to get in a
• 13:58
  Speaker 9: drive-thru line. And I thought the Greendale police were going
• 14:01
  Speaker 9: to be knocking off all of 76. Basically, if you
• 14:03
  Speaker 9: remember when Raising Cane's opened, they basically had to do
• 14:06
  Speaker 9: traffic control there for a few months. But you quickly realize,
• 14:11
  Speaker 9: as I did, as I drove through the Southridge parking lot,
• 14:13
  Speaker 9: that they didn't have the drive-thru open. So you got out.
• 14:18
  Speaker 9: You were able to get in line. And the line
• 14:19
  Speaker 9: was pretty decently long. Well, we'll let Hunter talk about it,
• 14:22
  Speaker 9: but it wasn't moving for reasons that became obvious pretty soon.
• 14:28
  Speaker 9: I think everyone thought he'd be, you know, taking visitors
• 14:32
  Speaker 9: in a line for an hour and a half. And
• 14:33
  Speaker 9: that's not kind of what happened. So, unfortunately.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: And people got there at 430 in the morning, as
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: they did to see William Contreras at Dick's Sporting Goods
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: in Brookfield on Saturday. And that was going to be
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: a 90 minute to two hour appearance. And folks were
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: there eight, 10 hours trying to wait. and some folks
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: didn't get in oh yeah 100 oh there was a
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: disturbance and then if you were in line you and
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: it became apparent that you weren't gonna get a meet
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: and greet then they opened it up they opened the
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: store people got to walk in and just kind of
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: walk by the table and take pictures and that pissed
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: off people who had been waiting in line or it
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: was uh it was a thing man that's we've seen
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: this mania before it's a good problem to have in sports.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: But you know And that's why Waukesha Sports Cars does
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: it very nicely.
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: They do a number of these different events throughout the year. Now,
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: the price tags on all those things just went up.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: The price tag on every meet and greet with the
• 15:25
  Speaker 8: Milwaukee Brewers just went up. But there's places that they
• 15:30
  Speaker 8: do it and they set it up to perfection. When
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: you leave it up to, oh, sweet, this almost sounds
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: too good to be true. Tough thing is that it
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: is there's going to be a finite amount of time.
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: And I saw my man with the stack of pictures
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: that I imagine was also causing some people some frustration
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: that they didn't sign every little item that he had
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: planned on that you had planned on getting him to sign.
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: And one thing we noticed, like right in these situations
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: and we saw the tickets and with maybe buses for
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: the parade in these situations, it's like you're not the
• 15:58
  Speaker 9: only one with the same idea.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Like everybody's excited about this right now.
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: So there's a lot of people with interest. And when
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: that happens, there's a lot of people that can't get
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: what they want. That's just the reality of it. So
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: it's good for everyone to remember, like, you know, hey,
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: we're not the main character in our own story. Like,
• 16:12
  Speaker 9: other people want to go there, too. Other people want
• 16:14
  Speaker 9: to try and get a piece of the action, too. Other,
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: you know, you might not get everything. You might not
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: get a chance to meet that person if the line's
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: long enough. It is what it is, unfortunately. I feel
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: bad for the players in these situations because when they
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: do appearances, they know that there are going to be
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: some people turned away and they probably feel bad about it. But,
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: you know, you talked about it with William, Drew. I mean,
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: he could have been there for five hours. He could
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: have been there for 10 hours and never stopped.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and even then. And even then, what do you do?
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: There's always going to be people. He's going to be
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: that guy who, well, he didn't. He didn't do that.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: He didn't want to hear the story about my grandfather
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: who used to catch and then he, yeah, well.
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: When I was a kid, Robin Young had the 3,000th
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: hit and there was a commemorative book and he was
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: doing an autograph signing.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: At Greenfield city hall.
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: I remember he was doing a lot of them and
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: I was, we waited there all morning and the line
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: stopped when we were about 15 away and it was,
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: it was a bummer, but it's, it's a lesson learned.
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: Like everybody was in line. Everybody wanted to get it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: We weren't able to get it. So that's just the
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: way it goes. Sometimes it was a young lesson learned,
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: you know?
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: The lesson I learned the first autograph signing I ever
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: went to was to a pick-and-save.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Mark Tauscher was signing at a pick-and-save.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: A young Billy's vital. Yeah, it worked out pretty well.
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: And I had this big, you know, the official size football.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: I'm like, I got to get the official size football signed.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. As many as you possibly can.
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: And my man took that pen, and he could not
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: have signed on a smaller little crevice on there.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: He goes, son. I don't want to ruin this one.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: He just hands it right back to me.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: That is a smart individual realizing that there's going to
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: be a much better, maybe first round draft pick linebacker
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: that you need on there. There's gonna be a lot
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: of people having encounters with these guys in the wild.
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: Cause I got to assume as much as you generally
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: leave and depart pretty quickly for your off season home,
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: it's going to be a little bit harder to get
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: away from the MKE.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: This time around for everybody.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: A little slower departure time, I would assume, for everybody
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: to Arizona and Florida and wherever you may be frequenting
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: for the holidays.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: This won't be the year that, just think how big,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: what would they call it even? The Winter Carnival, the Winter.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Warm-Up, the Brewer Fan Fest. Brewers on deck we had
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: for a while.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Well, now they won't have it because the industry shuts
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: down four weeks from tomorrow.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Well, and they haven't had it for five years.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but of all years, this would be the year
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: to cash in on that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: It sure would be. That's why they want to hit it.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I think that's part of the reason they want to
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: have HVAC at AmFam so they could have that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Event in the ballpark. It would be nice. It would
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: be very, very nice to have. If you could streamline
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: it and organize it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I figured they were never going to go back
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: to that one after getting rid of it after the pandemic.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: But I hope they do. It would be a very,
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: very nice one.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: You're right, Armin.
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: The Arctic Tailgate, which was kind of started way back
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: when to allow you to get first come opportunity to
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: get tickets for opening day. Opening day just quickly became
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: an event again. At least this year's opening day quickly
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: became a 10-pole event. Whenever it ends up being, whenever
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: they actually end up playing that game, because I doubt
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: it's going to be in that last week of March,
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: but that is going to be one of the toughest
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: tickets that you see this side of game one of
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: the World Series.
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: No, no question about it. I mean, the interest is
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: going to be incredible, as it should be. And I
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: think that kind of reflects what John was saying on
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: YouTube here, John Kurzawa. Well, I think a lot of
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: people are saying, happy Monday, boys. I feel kind of
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: lost today with nothing Brewers.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: It is that thing.
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: They've been your companion to watch, to be a pleasure
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: and a joy to.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Watch for seven months.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: And it's our, we won the World Series, but it's
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: like a lot of people are kind of missing something, right?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: We didn't want this to end.
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: So uh pretty interesting really quick uh gear question because
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: we were talking about that from ben the 414 and
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: i know people have talked about this i think we
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: have have you guys seen a short sleeve hoodie like
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: murph wears for sale i think that was a custom job.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: That's incredible and great question i hate that it seems
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: to be a custom job because that one is phenomenal
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: i got the cut off hoodie or the short sleeve
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: hoodie in the old blue brew crew it's like one
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: of my favorite things that is a phenomenal uh piece
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: to have during the summertime for if you're a little
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: bit larger kind of like the old school coach's shirt
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: get some a little more tenty sure it can be
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: a little bit more covering which is a nice thing
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: to have in the summer short sleeve hoodie seems to
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: be a very very very popular uh move with the
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: with like the, you know, the big guys these days, because.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: It was like Belichick started doing it by himself. And
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: then it's like, you know what? That's kind of a
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: cool piece of, uh, of clothing to have.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: It's versatile.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: And if it doesn't look like it got lost in
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: the dryer for four months, it looks a lot better.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: That's a big thing.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: Well, uh, you know, um, if you know a good seamstress,
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: I'm sure you can buy the hoodie and have them
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: cut the cuffs on.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: It and sew the cuffs on. I have shocker do it. Yeah.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I wonder if you would, he's a whiz with the
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: sewing machine.
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: Would he take a, would he take orders on the internet?
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: Nick Neugebauer jersey is still probably there.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, Mike. You never know. Hit us up.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: 877-794-1973.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Are we going to drag Hunter in here next?
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: He's around the office.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: He was on the scene at Raising Cane's. Live from
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: the front lines. We're going to talk about what happened
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: in Iowa City.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Briefly.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: And then, of course, we'll talk about what's going to
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: happen in New England this weekend as the Packers rumble
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: back in.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: We've got a whole day to watch the NFL. Oh,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: it was beautiful.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: We also have game balls and kicks the balls. We
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: can fire those up as soon as possible at 877-794-1973.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Get them into the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. We'll
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: be doing that today as well. It's going to be
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: some fun. And I have a question for Billy about
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: just college football in general, the landscape. That all lies
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: ahead here in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio. We are
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: huddled up on a Monday afternoon in the good land.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Drew Billy and Armin.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: We're here two to five every weekday. Not often we
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: get to say hello to our pal Hunter Baumgart. Stop
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: him before he creates more Brewers-related content.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: I was just working on one.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Baseball go-to guy who is now also our fast food
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: chicken specialist.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Our victory chicken Monday. We went to Raisin Cates to
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: hang out with number 22 today. Hunter, what was that like?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: It was good.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Boy, there were people lined around the block. Apparently, the
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: first person got there at 11 o'clock last night to
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: sit and wait for Christian Yellich. I tell you, the
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: brewer's fever probably has never been higher. There was a
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: gentleman that also got there at like 4 a.m.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: This morning.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: And then, yeah, I mean, there was a long line
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: at 730 a.m. And then the event started at 10.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: And some people got served by Christian Yellich there at
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: the counter and got some delicious Raising Cane's chicken.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: Now, the good thing is they win before he does this,
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: because generally what has now been happening with these cool
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: little offshoot spots of stop over at Raising Cane's, do
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: a shift, Bryce Young, is then you go through prolonged
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: struggle and people say.
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: Don't quit your day job. This might be happening pretty quickly.
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: But for him to be able to do it in celebration,
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: much better. Not going to be able to get dragged
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: on the Internet. I love the fact that that many
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: people showed up because, you know, everybody wants a little
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: pound of flesh. It might sound a little strong, but
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: everybody wants any little piece that they can of a
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: memory from this run. Totally.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Because that's what you're going to write. You're going to
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: remember all the little things around. the World Series as well.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: You'll obviously remember Wednesday night, but then you'll also remember
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: these little things. William Contreras was at Dick's in Brookfield yesterday,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: so these guys are doing different appearances around the city.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: The great thing is Saturday night, Halloween, Sal Freelick, Andrew Vaughn,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Jake Bowers, Grant Anderson, all trick-or-treating in Wauwatosa, which was fantastic.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: So Yeah, you have these guys just kind of enjoying
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: and basking in it in Milwaukee, which is awesome. Hopefully
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: that doesn't end anytime soon.
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: But I think that means as much to fans around
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: here as it does anything else. I mean, it's one
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: thing to win and have a great team, and that's
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: what we want. But it means a lot to these
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: fans in this community to know that those players love
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: being as part of the community. authentically as it seems,
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: you know, I just think that's a unique deal here.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: And I, I, I'm guessing you've been sensing that from
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: every direction, Hunter.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: And the cool part is, and I said it after
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I was in that clubhouse in LA was like how
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: much you could see it in their eyes, how much
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: it meant to these players and then the staff and
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: this team to be the ones that got back after
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: 44 years. And I think it's just taken another level for,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: to be the ones that finally brought a championship to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee like that. like that, that is, you could tell
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: how much it means to these players. And I think
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Yelich was asked today at Raising Cane's, like when, when
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: did his, did it start to sink in? And he
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: said that parade, just looking around and how much support
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: we got. And, you know, he, he's like, I obviously
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: knew that Brewers fans are passionate, but that, you know, just,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: you put it right in front of you and you
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: see three quarters of a million people on that parade
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: route and in the Summerfest grounds. And you think to yourself, yeah, the, the,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: It really does have a great impact on people and
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: the Brewers have this season.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I know the ratings were down a little bit from
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: last year overall, but they also started it on Friday
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: this year, so it's kind of like apples and pears.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: And it was dog walking. Yeah, exactly. It didn't have L.A.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Seven games last year.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: But the local ratings here in Milwaukee and in Wisconsin
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: were Packers-esque. It was as big as anything can be.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Like it just shows the depth of, you know, people's
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: love for the brewers in the state.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, it just, it makes you think about like,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: obviously now, you know, now all the professional teams have
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: now won a title in the state. And you think about, okay,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, you could have this debate of what, which
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: one was the biggest one. And I think most people
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: were anticipating this one. Like this one was the most like,
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: and you could talk about, and obviously I wasn't around
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: for it. So I don't know the anticipation and probably
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: a similar, the 96th, It's very comparable.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Because it had been so long. This one just had
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: never happened. So that takes it a little more to
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: another level. Obviously, it didn't happen for most people who
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: were alive.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: I think there's also the ramifications or the limitations that
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: the sport provides that I think added into the excitement
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: and the energy of just believing for so many, this
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: isn't going to happen because there's too many things stacked
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: against you.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I talked to someone over the weekend that was like, yeah,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I was just resigned to the fact that they were
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: never going to win one. So I just, I, that
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: was kind of my thought and if it happened, great,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: but I probably thought, you know, and it's like, so that,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: that was, you know, a portion of the fan base
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: that was kind of like, yeah, it'll probably never happen
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: just because of, like you said, how it's set up
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: and the fact that they were able to go out
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: and do it and do it in such a dominant
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: fashion when one Oh three in the regular season, 11
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: and two in the playoffs run through the, the, the playoffs, uh,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: you know, the three teams that they played. I mean,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: just about as impressive a sports run as you're going
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: to get.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: This is a coronation of a great team and a
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: great run, which makes it similar.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: For me to 96.
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: Because you can make maybe an argument with the Bucs,
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: although I think some of their teams actually were better
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: in the years they didn't win. But, you know, like
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: you look at the 2010 Packers run, it was a
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: great run, but it was like.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: The wild card. Out of nowhere.
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: But with 96 and this team, best team all year
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: by acclimation, by any sort of measure you want to
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: put it into, and then the greatness of the team
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: was coronated throughout and then ended with a championship.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Not that we doubted it, but the passion of Wisconsin
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: sports fans, in terms of the local ratings in Milwaukee
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: and in Wisconsin, the ratings were higher on average per
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: game in terms of share and all that stuff and percentage.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: The only thing it....
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: It was the highest since Cleveland in 2016. And by
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: the way, it was 10 years ago today that the
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Cubs beat Cleveland in game seven.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Crazy game seven.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: I would have thought Chicago won the World Series.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: No, that's just it. Like when you get bigger cities,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: there's more people that aren't interested.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Yes, you're right.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Sports. So that sometimes hurts you.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good point, too.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: And it's well, just but in terms of the local ratings, though,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: this is the most watched World Series in a local
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: market since Cleveland in 16.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: And that was the, that's what was so cool about
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: this time too, is, and it still is, is all
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the people who, you know, in your life who maybe
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: go to a game a year, maybe don't pay a
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: ton of attention to the baseball team who got into it,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: who got into this run. And that's just the cool part,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: you know, just being able to travel to these different
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: cities and see people and hear people and talk to
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: people about like, you know, maybe they, they watch a
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: game here or there. They pop it on the radio
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: when they're driving once in a while, but, this run,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: they just like, how about those brewers? I mean, that
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: was the conversation for a full month in this state
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: in October and it ended in the best way possible.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: And so then it can continue. And when I asked
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Christian Yelich about Saturday night live and what was his
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: favorite part about that, he said, just talking to the
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: people backstage, of course, you know, the Tom Hanks, the
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: different celebrities, but he also said, it just reminds you
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: of how many people watch baseball, like are interested in
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: the sport of baseball and are watching your team and
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Because I think it can get every day it happens,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: you know, the random Tuesday night game in June, maybe.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: But overall, people really baseball is a part of their lives.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: And when this type of run happens, it can bring
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: even more people into the orbit that maybe had just
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: been more casual and now are just kind of all
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: in on it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: Well, I.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: Also think uh the the way that very very rarely
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: and i don't know that it happens again in you
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: know 15 20 years where the purely dominant team is
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: the most likable team Yeah, true. Very, very rarely do
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: you get the public sentimentation when you also are, you know,
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: odds on, they weren't odds on favor because of the Dodgers,
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: but everything baseball was telling you that the Brewers were
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: the best team and a runaway juggernaut rarely gets the
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: sentimental vote. And I wonder how much that got into
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: the folks that were talking to Yellich backstage as well.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I would definitely think so because even though they were
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: the one seed, they still felt like the underdog. And,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: and that, I think obviously everybody loves cheering for the
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: underdog and you could feel that when they were facing
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers or even to some extent, the Padres, the
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: race was kind of, we all knew the small market
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: world series and, and, but it just, and obviously it,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: not just the underdog part of it, but the likable
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: part of it. And the, the guys on the team, the, the,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: the guys who are relatable, whether it be South Free
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Lake or Bowers who wanted health insurance, right? These types
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: of things that didn't, it wasn't, wasn't the mighty Dodgers. Now,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: even when I was in LA and I probably mentioned
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: this before, uh, But when I was in LA for
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: the NLCS, like their intro video to get you hyped
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: before the game was to bad guy by Billy Eilish.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: And they leaned into being the villains and being that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: And look, the Brewers also lean into, you know, win
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: our way and doing it, you know, lean into different
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: things and every team has their narrative. And I get
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: why they did that because they, but it's like, it
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: was interesting. Like one of the lines was like, you know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: sometimes you have to be the bad guy or something
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: like that. So like, But again, that's not a very
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: likable team, and the Brewers are the opposite of that.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Hunter Baumgart here with us. All right, Hunter.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: We did find out Churio and Terang are gold glove winners. Churio's,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, sorry, Terang's in the mix for the platinum glove,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I would imagine.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: I would think so.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: We'll see do they announce that some i was gonna.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: Say when do they announce that it's coming up tonight
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: or tomorrow.
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: Okay because i was what i was waiting for it
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: last night if they were gonna announce it in in
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: unison with all the other ones because rowling's does have
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: that thing uh by the uh by the tail because
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: they had you just refreshing that rowling's twitter account to see.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: When it's friday this friday and then it'll be next
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: week we'll start getting so.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: You can fan vote i guess huh um Go vote
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: for Trank.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: It was cool to see Jackson. That's a dangerous thing
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: to tell people.
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: It was cool to see Jackson get honored because, you know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: the first couple of years, it was like, we know
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: Jackson's bad as good. He'd kind of been kind of
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: finding himself in the outfield. He made a marked difference
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: and improvement this year.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: You always wonder, will that be recognized?
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: You know, once upon a time, right, Drew, I mean,
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: there was criticism of the voters looking at the offensive
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: numbers for these guys, but I think they've gotten better
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: and better over the years, recognizing defensive prowess.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Tonight, we'll find out the finalists for all the awards.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Manager of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, MVP,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: all that stuff. And then it'll be a week from
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: today that they'll start parceling them out.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: So we'll find out. Manager of the Year will be
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: on the 10th. We'll find out who wins Manager of
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: the Year. And Cy Young would be the 11th. So
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: next week we'll find out.
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: Are people going to be very upset and angry and
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: start a little bit of an uproar if Pat doesn't
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: win the Manager of the Year?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: It's a good question.
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: Can anybody worry about that right now in the midst
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: of trying to get all the World Series merchandise and banners.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: And beach towels you can possibly have?
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: I don't think you worry about it and preemptively get mad.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: People might get, oh, how can that be? He got screwed.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: It might be in hindsight.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: But be worse. Remember, it is a regular season award.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: That's the thing. I mean, it's a regular season award.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: And you got to have it in before the first
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: pitch of the playoffs.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: So the playoffs has nothing to do. Otherwise, I use
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: the manager every year. The guy who wins the World Series. Actually,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I think there's a decent chance he doesn't win it. Actually, probably.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because he's still going.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Well, it was regular season award. Now we're fresh off
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: this run, but.
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: Because this is what you get to do with the
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: NFL award or NFL honors show night before the Super
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: Bowl or Thursday night before the Super Bowl. Very rarely
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: has quarterback that wins the MVP the last 10 years
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: been in the Super Bowl. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, everybody
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: sitting there accepting the award.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: And it was like, wow. It's clearly Mahomes. He hasn't
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: lost in January.
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: So I'm excited to know when that happens because Walt Weiss,
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: very deserving candidate.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: He could. Very deserving candidate down there in Atlanta. I
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: do believe he could win it. I think he could.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: I think he could.
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: More so, though, if there was a possible somehow way
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: that Miz didn't win Cy Young, which I don't think
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: is going to happen. But that would be the one
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: that would send people up in the uproar, which is
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: almost nearly impossible.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: But I think it's a very, very, very remote possibility.
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: Do we know, was Murph allowed to contest that Contreras
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: wasn't one of the finalists for last night? Because he
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: was very upset when you guys told him that he
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: was not one of the finalists.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he wanted to call some people and make some complaints.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: All right, so Hunter, Arm and I were kind of
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: chuckling before the show today that Folks are wondering, you know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: what's arbitration mean? How long do they have these guys?
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: We're starting to do the math of like, how long
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: can we keep this team together? So the free agents
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: right now are Bowers, May, Romero and Woodruff.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: And everybody else is pretty much under contract or eligible
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: for arbitration, which means they'll get a raise, but they're
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: not going anywhere. You might have to have one of
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: those hearings. Like people got mad about Corbin Burns and
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Bruce drew their line. And that's the way arbitration works.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: We have a hearing. You submit your figure. I submit mine.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: And then the arbitrator decides who's right. Sometimes you settle
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: at the midpoint and you don't go to a hearing.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: You go to the hearings. It can get pretty ugly.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: It can get pretty toxic.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: You've got to have a thick skin to go to
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: the hearing because they're going to talk about how bad
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: you are and talk about your flaws.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: It's not great.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: But the bottom line is this team's not, most of
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: this team, the core of it's not going anywhere.
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: No, definitely not.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Qualifying offers and all this stuff, but they're not trading
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: William Contreras right now.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like that. Jeff Bassett doesn't seem to
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: think so. Maybe open to McGill, but not.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: I think Contreras is the biggest question heading into the offseason,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: but I also think they could be a Willie Adamas
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: deal or he could be a guy they sign. I mean,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: it's so hard to predict this offseason because you don't
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: know how this is going to play out because it's
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: like Yeah. Do I think a salary cap and floor
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: is about to happen? Probably not. But then again, if
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: it does, that opens the door. So it's hard to say,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to sign this guy. Cause we
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: don't know what the, the, what the, what they're going
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: to have to spend. And obviously going to a world
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: series brings you more money, but how do they decide
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: to spend that? They obviously invest more on the international
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: side and facilities and things like that rather than players sometimes.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: So what did they do? But again, I was telling
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Armin this earlier. It's weird because the goal is always
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: to win the World Series, right? If you're Matt Arnold,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: you're trying to build a team that can win a
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: World Series. And if you build a team that wins
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: a World Series, aren't you just like, okay, let's just
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: do everything again.
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: You're tempted to do that. Obviously, they won't. Obviously, players
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: will go elsewhere. I think they've banked some trust from
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: the fan base. And I will remind people, I'm all
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: about Wild Bill, right? I'm all about him.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: But I remember when people said, you can't trade Adamas.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: He's the heart of the team.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's the heart and soul of the team. Traded
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: him and set a franchise record for wins right after that.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Different, though. Just very, very different. It is, Billy. Yeah,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: very different, though. It is, but it isn't. Can they
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: win without Contreras if they play their cards right?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: Sure, but again, what parts of the game they impact,
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: that's the part I think that are much different. Also,
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: the figure is going to be much different. I mean,
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: he's not going to sign a $ 180 million contract. Wherever
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: he would go, he's not signing a $ 180 million contract.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: The most a catcher is signing for is, what, Cal Raleigh.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: At 6 at 120? Yeah, 17 AAV for Cal.
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: That's money that you absolutely could give if you're willing to.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: And that's the part, I mean, as much as the
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: CBA and whatever... comes of it. I think the bigger
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: one is how does a championship impact their operation?
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: That's the thing you haven't. We don't know.
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: We don't have because as much as you've been getting
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: here and like you said, Hunter, you've been hoping for it.
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: Now you do see the influx of cash. Now you
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: do see a little bit of the churn. Now you
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: do see, hey, we do have a little bit of
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: a window here. And if I capitalize and get the
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: next four years out of this cat, maybe we can
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: mess around and do this one or two more times.
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: And you've actually accomplished it. You're not trying to achieve
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: it now. You have achieved it. Which means, all right,
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: so how can we try and run it back and
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: keep it together?
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: I think it has to change your mindset. Trevor McGill
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: is a hilarious one, though, because they were trying to
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: trade him last year.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: All offseason, they were trying.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: To trade him.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Damn near begging teams to take him. I think that's
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: one you could deal with, Party.
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: I get your point, Drew, about Contreras, but it just
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: doesn't feel like you can be the same team without
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: him right now. I know that's recency bias and everything, but.
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: But McGill, though, you probably could. Because you have your rebate.
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: This is the classic Brewers, right? You had Hayter for
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: a few years, Williams for a few years, and now
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: you have McGill for a few years, and now your
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: rebate's next.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: And go back to Kniebel. You had a bunch of
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: guys like that.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: Right, exactly. Yeah.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting. It's fun problems to have.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: Very much.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: We shall see. What else is on tap? What else
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: is that? What can they do now? They just got
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: to go away for a while, right? Just recover.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: And I think so.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Get a bunch of IVs. Cabo. Exactly.
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: I'm still thinking they're going to hang around here as
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: long as possible. I feel like your chance is seeing
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: some folks at cranky house getting right.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Right. This is the time that you're going to see
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: some folks. And, man, maybe we do go out for
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: breakfast this week. Crazy idea. Maybe somebody will pay for it.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Keep your eye out for the brewers. Keep an eye out.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: You were thinking the same way, Billy.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: We're going to get to your game balls and kicks
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: as we move forward. We're going to hear from Matt LaFleur.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: He's meeting with the media today. Sounds like he's doing
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: a little Nate Borgazzi up there, too. Boy, he's got jokes.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Wayne Larivey, who's going to join us at the back
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: end of the show today, coming up in a couple hours.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Game balls and kicks coming up next. Thanks, Hunter. Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 2: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
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• 40:00
  Speaker 2: this weekend. Goodness gracious. Those are the only games that happened.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: That's it. Badgers.
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  Speaker 4: NicoletLaw.com. Talk and text line. That's important because it's game
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  Speaker 4: balls and kicks to the balls Monday. Armin, what does
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: it sound like when we give a game ball today?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: All right, guys. When we give a game ball, it
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: sounds like.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: This.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I'm on top of the world. This doesn't get any better.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Like that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: That was Sal at the parade, obviously.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Rare form. And then conversely, a kick to the huevos
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: is this. Bad anxiety. Bad anxiety. I was trying to
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: make that quality better. I don't have it there. But
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: that was obviously Daniel Vogelbach at the parade. Struggling to sing.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: He was trying, though.
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: If he had bad anxiety, we all saw it.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Redeemed himself at the after party.
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: Yes, which definitely sounded like he slayed.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: So 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 4: Squeeze is on line two of the NicoletLaw.com talk and
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  Speaker 4: text line, game balls and kicks.
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  Speaker 2: Squeeze, welcome to the program.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Hello, boys.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: I am doing yard work in November in Menominee Falls
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: and gladly listening to you guys in the glow of
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: being world champion Milwaukee Brewers World Series winners.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: How about that? That's amazing. Awesome. How about that? 54
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: years of a dream. There you go. You got a
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: game ball or a kick for us?
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: I have game balls for Cooper Pratt and Jack Jack
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: that I... I'm on top of the world.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: It doesn't get any better.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: All right, hang on.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: And I met both of.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: I met both those young men at the game, shook
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: their hands. I got a picture with my buddy with
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: Jack Jack, and I told Jack Jack, thank you, Jack Jack.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: And I said, it's you and Babe Ruth. And he
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: smiled ear to ear.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. That is awesome. Great one. That's a perfect
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: run in an encounter. Because those guys... No, go ahead.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: I'll remember that until the day I die. That was
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: just awesome.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: Go ahead, Billy.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: No, as you should appreciate it.
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: Because when, when you go out drew after that and
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: you are Jackson, true Cooper Pratt, not that you're asking
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: for a little bit of admiration, but you are wondering like, Hey,
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: I know, I know I'm going to get a lot
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: of encounter. I know that I'm going to get, But
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: to get the little smile, get the admiration, get the nod,
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: that's a good one to be able to have. Also,
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: Cooper Pratt just living it up. I mean, he's not
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: going to have to pay for a Fanta the rest
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: of his life.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: No, no doubt.
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: He's enjoying it. He's chewing the fat, which they should.
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: I mean, this is your time to enjoy the moment,
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: to be a star.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Chewing the fat? Yeah, that's a term. You ever heard
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: that term? I've heard that. That's a thing? Is that
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: not the right usage? No, I just, I like, yeah,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I like that, yeah.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: For sure.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: The casual conversation is. It's always in the country songs.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Chewing the fat.
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: We could chew the fat all night.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: Isn't there a song like that? Isn't that your city
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: girl song?
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's possible. I have no idea. No,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: chew the fat. Enjoy it. Enjoy it.
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: Basket it and enjoy all of the glow that they're having.
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: They are doing it, man. They are doing it.
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: And Cheerio, I mean, such a.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Special 22 year old dude is going to be just
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: getting better and better before our eyes those two uh
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: those two contracts are the shining example of what teams
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: are now because there's this is a copycat league all
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: of them are so now teams are going to all
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: try to do something like the brewers did and i
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: think those two deals drew would be the two the
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: teams are like all right pre-arb before you even play
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: a game let's identify the guys that we think are
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: actual ball players.
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: Tell me how easy that is I mean, you think
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: you think trying to identify a college quarterback in the
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: transfer portal in 14 hours is tough.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Try to figure out a bunch of.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: 18, 19, 20 year old kids.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Playing minor league baseball. You know what? This is the
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: one if we put $ 50.
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: Million guaranteed in front of him, he's going to make
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: all the right decisions and continue to play hard. That's
• 43:54
  Speaker 8: going to be the guy that continues to develop, grinds,
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: and realize that he hasn't actually made anything. That's a
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: really tough process of identifying character qualities, and it appears
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: like those two young men are the shining examples of it.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: The real deal. Toughest part.
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: And the next toughest part is getting him to sign it, probably,
• 44:10
  Speaker 9: at that point, because that's the other thing.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sure the Brewers would like to do that with
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of guys. But it hasn't been able to.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: That's right. We just hear about the ones that signed.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Continue to hit us up, 877-794-1973. Wayne Larive joins us
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: at 425 today. Talk a little Packers and Patriots coming up.
• 44:28
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