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02/18/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 1: With Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in.
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Speaker 4: It is the huddle as we huddle up on our
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Speaker 4: number three here in the good Land on Bill Schmid
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Speaker 4: alongside Armond Sorry and Hunter bombguard as well, cracking cracking
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Speaker 4: one and pouring out.
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Speaker 6: All righty, it's almost time for you to pour one out, Billy,
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Speaker 6: because we know one hour left in the show and
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Speaker 6: you're gonna be down there at the pool soon, I'm assuming,
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Speaker 6: with all your boys that have been protecting you, led
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Speaker 6: by the Captain William Schmid, you know, Big Big Bill,
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Speaker 6: and the live studio audience who has been kind of,
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Speaker 6: like you said, metastasizing. Yeah, they've been. They've been coaleszing
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Speaker 6: around the show down there. Is you got something going
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Speaker 6: down there?
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Speaker 4: I thought I was I thought it was, and then
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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, somebody you must have either pulled
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Speaker 4: the fire alarm or somebody said that there's Poonski's in
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Speaker 4: somebody's condo.
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Speaker 5: Because I am uh, I am now solo dello in here.
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Speaker 6: The bad scene of the the can popping with somebody
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Speaker 6: the popping right there.
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Speaker 5: So they said, hey, guys, it is five o'clock somewhere.
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Speaker 5: And not only because of the song. They said, no,
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Speaker 5: actually in uh look, oh huh, right.
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Speaker 4: There in Moscow, it's five o'clock boom, we can start
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Speaker 4: having one.
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Speaker 5: So maybe that's the case. I think I'll have to
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Speaker 5: potentially wait a little while.
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Speaker 4: We got we got some stuff to do, you know,
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Speaker 4: we got we got some important and some important things
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Speaker 4: to do.
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Speaker 5: Most importantly, the important thing is.
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Speaker 4: Guys, how did I forget to hit us with some
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Speaker 4: hot takes on Hot Take hump Day until already our
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Speaker 4: number three of the program. I apologize Hunter bombguart In
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Speaker 4: for jewels and to not fully regale you of some
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Speaker 4: more hot takes on a Hot Take Humpday and bringing
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Speaker 4: it back to all the good feelings. I'm sorry for that.
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Speaker 4: I apologize for my lack of stick.
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Speaker 3: To itiveness that's okay. I think the apology is accepted. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think we had a lot of interesting things to
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Speaker 3: talk about today. We had obviously the news of rich
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Speaker 3: Basatia stepping down. We had you know here from the
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Speaker 3: newest Brewer, Luis Renhifoe, talked about the third base position.
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Speaker 3: We've covered a lot of ground today, also getting an
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Speaker 3: update on your what was going to be your hearing.
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Speaker 3: But you you obviously were able to settle that like
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Speaker 3: William Contreras and the Brewers.
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Speaker 5: Same thing with with Bill.
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Speaker 3: Schmid and the Hills. It sounds like so good to
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Speaker 3: you have to be in the same discussion as William
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Speaker 3: Contreras settle things before you go to a hearing.
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Speaker 4: Now, that's a good one. I appreciate you comparing two
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Speaker 4: wild bills right that.
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Speaker 6: That that's a good point.
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Speaker 4: That is a good That is a really really good
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Speaker 4: one right there, Hunter, because it was it was a
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Speaker 4: slight settle out of out of court, out of arbitration
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Speaker 4: hearing to put to put us into a U a
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Speaker 4: shared space, into the clubhouse, which in all honesty I
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Speaker 4: kind of like better.
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Speaker 5: Like right now I'm feeling a little bit more, I'm
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Speaker 5: feeling a little more secure.
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Speaker 6: It's a controlled space, Billy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a controlled space. I'm not as cold as
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Speaker 4: I was yesterday. It feels like to not steal somebody
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Speaker 4: else's spring training five. But you know, yes, it definitely
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Speaker 4: feels more like an office. I do feel quite professional.
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Speaker 4: I saw somebody say, Billy, Uh, look at Billy being
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Speaker 4: a philosopher today. I do feel about the most educated
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Speaker 4: I ever have been, and so that that's a good
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Speaker 4: way of putting it, and that's a good feeling to
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Speaker 4: be able to have. Also, the exciting part for us
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Speaker 4: to roll through here is not only did we get
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Speaker 4: to hear from Luis Renhifo about the third base position,
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Speaker 4: we also got to hear from the brewers' owner yesterday,
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Speaker 4: a tech good point and uh now Hunter, we only
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Speaker 4: get to hear from Marcottinasio a few times a year.
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Speaker 2: I will.
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Speaker 4: I will also though admit, I think we probably hear
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Speaker 4: from him. I can't say that I listened to a
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Speaker 4: whole lot of different teams coverage of their ownership sound bites.
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Speaker 4: I think we hear from him just about as much
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Speaker 4: as any other owner in the sport, definitely more than
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Speaker 4: some Bob Nutting and Pittsburgh but like man Stephen Cohen's
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Speaker 4: got a Twitter account and he's tweeting out every night,
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Speaker 4: so like you're not hearing from.
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Speaker 5: Him as much as like a met Ishbia in the NBA.
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Speaker 5: Maybe that's a good thing.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that I want to see Markottinasio playing
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Speaker 4: in any celebrity games. What I do appreciate is the
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Speaker 4: candidness that he speaks, with, the open and honest lines
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Speaker 4: of communication he has, and also the fact that Markcottinasio
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Speaker 4: maybe have given maybe gave us just another one, maybe
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Speaker 4: gave us another great SoundBite here in spring training, because
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Speaker 4: last year we we glammed onto a quote from Mark
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Speaker 4: Continassio in spring training all year long. I don't know
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Speaker 4: that this is going to be a full year sound bite,
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Speaker 4: but I like that Mark always gives us something. Always
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Speaker 4: that the microphones come out.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he always does.
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Speaker 7: Here it is guys, what did mister surface line? So look,
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Speaker 7: one of the hardest things about I think maybe the
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Speaker 7: hardest thing about Matt's job is he has to make
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Speaker 7: hard decisions. So this this player not only super performed
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Speaker 7: above expectancy, but you know, in a very tip tough
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Speaker 7: series against the Dodgers, he's super performed there too, and
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Speaker 7: he was a fan favorite all the way up to
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Speaker 7: Commissioner Ceiling, who the first call I got when this
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Speaker 7: got announced, by the way, was from Commissioner Alan H. Buds.
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Speaker 5: What are they telling you?
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Speaker 2: So?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a really hard decision. Easy to decision is
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Speaker 7: to just go as she goes, right, And just because
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Speaker 7: you're willing to make our decision, isn't he's gonna be
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Speaker 7: the right decision because you know he's going to hit
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Speaker 7: in in Fenway and we've got you know, we have
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Speaker 7: guys with Ceiling, including David Hamilton that.
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Speaker 5: Nobody really talks about for a reason.
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Speaker 7: He's really fast, you can't you know, speed doesn't take
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Speaker 7: a day off and he's a great defender.
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Speaker 6: Right at that, Billy.
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Speaker 7: So we'll see.
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Speaker 5: But that's but yeah, I wasn't sure what we're talking about.
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Speaker 7: And likewise, at the end of the table there there
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Speaker 7: they were both you know, quickly and supportive of.
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Speaker 5: Quickly in support of it.
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Speaker 4: Now sounds like Mark got Tanasio had to be talked
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Speaker 4: talked into the conversation just like Bud seeleague. While he
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Speaker 4: almost spit out his hot dog at Gillies for a
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Speaker 4: lunch there at ten thirty five in the morning, when
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Speaker 4: all of a sudden that trade got announced that Caleb
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Speaker 4: Durban was a part of a six player swap to
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Speaker 4: the Boston Red Sox, bringing back a couple of arms
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Speaker 4: and a former Milwaukee Brewer prospect in David Hamilton traded away.
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Speaker 5: But Caylee, no one's talking about him.
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Speaker 6: Doesn't take a day off.
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Speaker 1: Billy, get that, it doesn't.
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Speaker 5: Take a day off. The only thing that can keep
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Speaker 5: it on vacation is a bat. Is that is that
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Speaker 5: fair to say? Because to be used the speed.
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Speaker 4: Until I see in the game you be able to
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Speaker 4: steal first base, I do need to be able to
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Speaker 4: see you get on first base to have full confidence that.
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Speaker 5: I want to have a lot of confidence in David Hamilton.
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Speaker 5: I want to have as much confidence in David Hamilton.
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Speaker 5: But I like the fact that.
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Speaker 4: Mark Contanasio gave us the quote of you gotta make
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Speaker 4: hard decisions. Just because you make them doesn't mean it's
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Speaker 4: gonna be a good one, doesn't mean it's gonna work.
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Speaker 4: He put this pretty clearly, Hunter that you might need
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Speaker 4: to convince me, and we might need to see it
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Speaker 4: a little bit. With Kyle Harrison, I'm gonna trust you, guys, absolutely.
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Speaker 4: I have empowered you to make the decisions. You have
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Speaker 4: given me all the reason to trust you. But I'd
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Speaker 4: like to show I'd like you to show me your
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Speaker 4: work on this one where I got this guy all
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Speaker 4: up at Bucks games, Packers games, wearing cheese heads well
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Speaker 4: selling jerseys. He's twenty five years old, he's from ninety
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Speaker 4: miles away. This was gonna be a potential cash cow.
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Speaker 4: He's gonna hit it Fenway. He's gonna hit it Fenway,
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Speaker 4: And you're gonna have to be able to show me
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Speaker 4: that this thing's gonna work.
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Speaker 5: I like that quick onus of Mark.
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Speaker 4: Attanasio saying, hey, you want people to be held accountable.
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Speaker 4: Sounds like he's gonna hold the Brewers and Matt Arnold
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Speaker 4: accountable for this one, because I don't think it was
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Speaker 4: very easy for them to part with Caleb Durmot.
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Speaker 5: It sounds like it.
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Speaker 3: Sure sounds like that, And I think in order for
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Speaker 3: this trade to work, Kyle Harrison has to be a
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Speaker 3: significant part of this rotation for years to come.
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Speaker 1: I think he's the prize of this deal.
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Speaker 3: Former number one prospect when he made his debut with
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Speaker 3: the Giants in twenty twenty three. This is a guy
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Speaker 3: who has we talked about high ceilings, right, We talked
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Speaker 3: about it with Brinhifo. This guy has really high potential
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Speaker 3: and I really have a lot of confidence that the
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Speaker 3: Brewers can get that out of him, considering what they've
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Speaker 3: done with pitchers.
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Speaker 6: In the past. But he's the key to this deal.
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Speaker 3: I think droen Is could be a good piece, probably
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Speaker 3: a bullpen piece if once. I think he'll start the
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Speaker 3: year in Triple A and then maybe he becomes a
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Speaker 3: bullpen piece down the road. And I think you're you're
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Speaker 3: in a good spot if David Hamilton is your Andrew
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Speaker 3: Monasterio is your utility backup guy that comes in and
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Speaker 3: can run at a time or play anywhere in the infielder,
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Speaker 3: you know, right. So I think those two guys are
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Speaker 3: kind of that other part of the deal and could
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Speaker 3: be impactful in different types of games. And maybe Droan
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Speaker 3: is kind of the key out of the bullpen and
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Speaker 3: a guy who's been around the minor leagues for a
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Speaker 3: long time. I think five full minor league seasons and
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Speaker 3: hopefully he can make it to the big leagues and
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Speaker 3: be sustainable in the big leagues. Maybe in a bullpen
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Speaker 3: Roll or who knows. But Kyle Harrison is the gem
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Speaker 3: of the deal. So if we're gonna look at the
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Speaker 3: third base position and say, okay, Renhifo played, well, there's
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Speaker 3: a Renhifo. How he plays is going to also impact
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Speaker 3: how we think about this trade. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: that's necessarily fair or not, but I think when you're
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Speaker 3: in a window of competing, you're gonna also want to see, Okay,
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Speaker 3: what production did we get from third What production did
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Speaker 3: we get there? And also how good is Kyle Harrison.
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Speaker 3: Both of those are going to be We're gonna have
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Speaker 3: to wait and see how this trade plays out.
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Speaker 6: Well. It's also interesting to know that, Hey, I guess
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Speaker 6: if you had any lingering doubts about the way the
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Speaker 6: Brewers works and the front office works, they don't have
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Speaker 6: to get signed off from Marcott nauseo on decisions like this.
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Speaker 6: I mean, there have total autonomy to make those decisions, clearly,
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Speaker 6: because he kind of raised his eyebrow with that one.
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Speaker 6: And I also do like one thing and maybe this
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Speaker 6: is you know, doesn't really matter that much. It's just
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Speaker 6: nice knowing that Bud is still locked into what we're doing.
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Speaker 6: That he's a fan to the end. I mean, he
11:43
Speaker 6: loves the Milwaukee Brewers to the end, and he is
11:45
Speaker 6: a Milwaukee Brewers fan to the end. And we weren't
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Speaker 6: alive for it, guys. But you know, in the Brewers
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Speaker 6: eighty day in the early eighties, in those heyday when
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Speaker 6: Bud was a very active, visible owner, you know, people
11:56
Speaker 6: talked about it. You could see it if you watch
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Speaker 6: them all stuff. They live and die with the Brewers
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Speaker 6: success all time. So it's pretty cool to see that
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Speaker 6: as well. But listen, yeah, Mark clearly was a surprise mind.
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Speaker 6: It has to have some convincing to do. And maybe
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Speaker 6: that's what makes this trade in the end. You know,
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Speaker 6: when you talk about Matt Arnold skill, right is making
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Speaker 6: tough decisions. Maybe that's what's going to make this in
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Speaker 6: the end one day when we look back at it
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Speaker 6: so impressive. Is that you did trade a guy when
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Speaker 6: he was probably at his peak or maybe you know,
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Speaker 6: we don't know that history will tell us one way
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Speaker 6: or the other. But if it turns out that you
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Speaker 6: traded a guy when he was at his peak, you
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Speaker 6: traded a guy everyone liked, that's what makes these decisions hard.
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Speaker 6: That's what sometimes makes A good trade though, is when
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Speaker 6: you sell high.
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Speaker 5: Well, and how about it when.
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Speaker 4: I hate to just compare it to like the early
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Speaker 4: two and twenty ten Saint Louis Cardinals, But how many
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Speaker 4: different times did you see I think of the they
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Speaker 4: had a shortstop Das led me his Das. He was
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Speaker 4: damn near Rookie of the year at shortstop and I
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Speaker 4: think they traded him after his second year and it
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Speaker 4: was that dude could be a cornerstone piece for you.
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Speaker 4: I think he ended up winning a World Series, I
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Speaker 4: want to say with the Astros potentially, like he played
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Speaker 4: for a long time after wasn't necessarily a perennial All
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Speaker 4: Star like you might have thought when when he's a
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Speaker 4: problem in his rookie year and an early developer. But
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Speaker 4: Arman selling high is that this is when you're talking
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Speaker 4: about commodities, and in baseball, the talent pool, the player
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Speaker 4: pool is more of an equity and more of.
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Speaker 5: A stock than anything.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, Like in any sport, you don't look at
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Speaker 4: player value and player you know, equity as anything more.
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Speaker 4: Like in the NFL, you rarely ever see a player
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Speaker 4: get traded, right, NBA You're you're you're seeing guy trade
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Speaker 4: it because he wants out and he has to go somewhere,
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Speaker 4: and all you're trying to line up not necessarily are
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Speaker 4: we getting the best the best skill back here? Are
13:49
Speaker 4: we getting the best value on the money? We have
13:51
Speaker 4: to make the money matchup baseball. It's player for player,
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Speaker 4: it's spot here, it's fit here. And I also think
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Speaker 4: one of his top this decisions, the one that he
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Speaker 4: probably gets looked at and criticized the most, one that
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Speaker 4: I don't fully believe Matt Arnold was making because David
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Speaker 4: Searns was still the general manager at.
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Speaker 5: The time, but he still gets lumped into it. I
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Speaker 5: think with the.
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Speaker 4: Josh Hader deal, where the best fruits of that one
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Speaker 4: came what six months later, So there there is a
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Speaker 4: hold and deep breath that needs to be taken with it.
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Speaker 4: But I get the sudden rash of hey, why on
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Speaker 4: earth are we trading out trading what could be a
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Speaker 4: potential for the next couple of years, Because last I've checked,
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Speaker 4: we started Vinnie Capra last year over our third base
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Speaker 4: and at the end of the year we had a
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Speaker 4: top three guy in Rookie of the Year balloting. So
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Speaker 4: like you look at the position in all due respect,
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Speaker 4: to Anthony Siegeler and his family. There's a reason why
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Speaker 4: we're not necessarily talking about him in.
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Speaker 5: The deal either.
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Speaker 4: Maybe that's like Kyle Hamilton, like, maybe maybe they're really
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Speaker 4: excited to get Anthony Siegeler's value as a catcher and
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Speaker 4: position player out there in Boston.
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Speaker 5: I haven't heard that on we but maybe that's the case.
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Speaker 5: Like they got they're in a spot.
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Speaker 4: Where they wanted a third baseman because they've lost one
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Speaker 4: in Bregman, and they wanted it for a long time.
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Speaker 4: The Brewers are continually, i think, looking for a top
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Speaker 4: of the rotation guy to follow up the one that
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Speaker 4: they just traded in Freddie Peralta. So I'll drop I'm
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Speaker 4: with you, like this is a Kyle Harrison move, no
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Speaker 4: doubt about it. But what also comes from it as well?
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Speaker 4: There might not be we ship off somebody from the deal,
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Speaker 4: but we then allow Brock Wilkin to play in June
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Speaker 4: or well all of a sudden. I mean, we've had
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Speaker 4: a couple of people say it right here, Jesus, my
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Speaker 4: day is gonna make the team. I don't believe he's
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Speaker 4: gonna make the team this year, right, but could you
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Speaker 4: see him at some particular point in the twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: sixth season.
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Speaker 5: I will very much not put it past that dude,
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Speaker 5: like I won't put it past this talent level.
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Speaker 4: But it allows you to give those opportunities quicker and
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Speaker 4: not feel like you're eliminating something in your competitive window
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Speaker 4: because you hit it on the head. You're still in
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Speaker 4: a competitive window. You were four games away from the
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Speaker 4: World Series last year. This can't be a time where
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Speaker 4: you feel like you're taking a significant step back, but.
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Speaker 5: You're adding a huge value here.
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Speaker 4: If this guy's a sub three and a half era
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Speaker 4: and starts thirty games for you, look out, because that's
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Speaker 4: a hell of a value to be able to flip right.
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Speaker 3: And the competitive window mixed with the production you saw
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Speaker 3: of Caleb Durbin in just his rookie season, that's those
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Speaker 3: are the two things that make this trade a little scary.
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Speaker 3: Is the fact that you're giving up a guy who
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Speaker 3: proved he could do it in the big leagues night
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Speaker 3: in and night out, and was one of the best
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Speaker 3: guys to do it in their first year in the
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Speaker 3: big leagues in twenty twenty five. So and you will say, Okay,
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Speaker 3: they had six years of control, this guy could have
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Speaker 3: been the guy at the corner.
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Speaker 1: However, you have the depth in the infield.
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Speaker 3: That's why I've said it would have made a lot
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Speaker 3: more sense if they CBA negotiation negotiations lock paying no
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Speaker 3: attention to that for a moment, But it would have
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Speaker 3: made more sense to make this trade next year when
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Speaker 3: you have all of those guys with another year minor
16:58
Speaker 3: league experience, maybe a couple of them have a have
17:00
Speaker 3: a cup of coffee.
17:01
Speaker 5: In the big leagues.
17:01
Speaker 3: Talking about the Wilkins, the Pratts and all of those
17:03
Speaker 3: guys in the minor leagues, it would have made more
17:05
Speaker 3: sense to make this trade next year.
17:07
Speaker 1: They do it kind of a year early.
17:08
Speaker 3: They get a stopgap guy in ran Hefo and maybe
17:11
Speaker 3: he's better this year, maybe he's not, and you try
17:13
Speaker 3: to run it back in a team that won ninety
17:15
Speaker 3: seven games. You have a lot of that roster coming back.
17:18
Speaker 3: So that's what still makes you excited about this team.
17:20
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like I like Caleb Durban, I always have
17:23
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna just because he's not in the Brewers,
17:25
Speaker 6: I want this trade to work out, but I continue
17:27
Speaker 6: to think he'll be a good player.
17:28
Speaker 5: But it is it is important.
17:30
Speaker 6: It is important to point out. You know, I know
17:32
Speaker 6: sometimes I'm excited.
17:33
Speaker 5: Sorry, I don't like it.
17:34
Speaker 2: I don't.
17:36
Speaker 5: That's not always you Sometimes I'm not like that.
17:39
Speaker 2: Now.
17:39
Speaker 6: I want the best for the Brewers in this trade.
17:41
Speaker 6: So I hope the players will get back are good,
17:43
Speaker 6: and I hope Caleb has a nice career. But obviously
17:46
Speaker 6: you don't want to become a Hall of.
17:47
Speaker 5: Famer right now.
17:48
Speaker 6: But my point is this, I guess when you're in
17:52
Speaker 6: the player prediction business, which is basically what the Brewers
17:54
Speaker 6: are in the in these type of moves, you're trying
17:57
Speaker 6: to project out what this guy will be. You know,
17:59
Speaker 6: if he's perennial All Star. Obviously they wouldn't if they
18:01
Speaker 6: knew that, They're not gonna trade him, right If you
18:03
Speaker 6: know a guy's gonna become what Nelson Cruz became, for instance,
18:06
Speaker 6: when the Burse trade him, you wouldn't trade him. You're
18:08
Speaker 6: trying to project a player on the road. It's important
18:10
Speaker 6: to note that a lot of guys do pop early
18:14
Speaker 6: in their careers. They have great early parts of the year,
18:16
Speaker 6: they don't really project or they don't ever kind of
18:18
Speaker 6: realize the potential they might have showed early on. Then
18:21
Speaker 6: a lot of us always think what billion one hundred.
18:24
Speaker 6: We have talked about this a lot that progress is linear,
18:26
Speaker 6: and it's not always linear. It's not you. It's intuitive
18:30
Speaker 6: for us to think if they're this good early on,
18:32
Speaker 6: at this age, they will automatically continue to get better,
18:35
Speaker 6: and that's not the way things go sometimes. Orlando Arcia
18:38
Speaker 6: was a great example. I thought he had a really
18:40
Speaker 6: great rookie year. Maybe it turned out to be his
18:42
Speaker 6: best year of his big leagues. It just it didn't
18:44
Speaker 6: turn out. It didn't realize the potential that we once
18:47
Speaker 6: thought he would. Not saying that's Caleb Durban not necessarily
18:50
Speaker 6: hoping for it, all right, I don't want to be
18:52
Speaker 6: that guy again. But the reality is, yes, Caleb had
18:55
Speaker 6: a great rookie year. Will he continue that path upwards
18:59
Speaker 6: into transcendent heights? Will he stay steady and be a
19:03
Speaker 6: decent player most of his career?
19:04
Speaker 2: Will he not?
19:05
Speaker 6: We just don't know. That's the tough thing about trades
19:07
Speaker 6: like this is essentially that's what the Brewers are trying
19:09
Speaker 6: to do, is project the future on guys. It's an
19:12
Speaker 6: inexact science that do what they can in terms of
19:14
Speaker 6: the resources of the proposal to make the best value
19:17
Speaker 6: judgment they can on guys, and they felt like the
19:19
Speaker 6: value judgment was there to trade Durbin right now while
19:22
Speaker 6: he had a good potent, you know, high selling point.
19:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I also think it's just identifying where your
19:28
Speaker 4: strengths and weaknesses are, right Like, not that the Brewers
19:31
Speaker 4: young pitching depth is a weakness, I think far from it.
19:36
Speaker 4: But I think right now the belief is they have
19:38
Speaker 4: so much talent that is getting close enough to the
19:42
Speaker 4: big leagues that you have to give them an opportunity
19:45
Speaker 4: and you deal.
19:45
Speaker 5: From a strength.
19:48
Speaker 4: But still you might have a lot of guys that
19:51
Speaker 4: right now they could be profiling as threes and fours
19:54
Speaker 4: in a rotation, and see Harrison could be a headliner,
19:58
Speaker 4: right like you. You could look over and say a
20:00
Speaker 4: red handed Mazerowski and a left handed Kyle Harrison good
20:03
Speaker 4: luck in a one to two situation in two years. Right,
20:05
Speaker 4: So there's there's there's there's foresight that way. Six o
20:09
Speaker 4: eight said, yes, Brewers are like the Cardinals, well minus
20:11
Speaker 4: the World Series titles. Stupid take not comparing them to
20:14
Speaker 4: the Cardinals at all. I would I would like to
20:16
Speaker 4: operate like the Cardinals did for a long time. I
20:19
Speaker 4: I that is all credit to the Saint Louis Cardinals,
20:22
Speaker 4: And no, the Brewers had not been like that for
20:24
Speaker 4: a long time. They're not that yet, but you do
20:27
Speaker 4: have to build out your business trying to be as
20:30
Speaker 4: team that is.
20:30
Speaker 5: I mean, the Cardinals had a lot more money to spend,
20:32
Speaker 5: no doubt about it.
20:33
Speaker 4: However, they also there's a reason why they because they
20:37
Speaker 4: were consistently winning and going to playoff series and having
20:39
Speaker 4: home playoff games and getting more gates. And you drum
20:42
Speaker 4: up a hell of a fan base when you win
20:44
Speaker 4: World Series titles, right like that, that's the goal.
20:47
Speaker 5: That's the model.
20:47
Speaker 4: Obviously you're not there, but like you, they would always
20:51
Speaker 4: operate like this and and emulating and in the copycat
20:56
Speaker 4: leagues of all that all these sports are, you do
20:58
Speaker 4: try to take little bits and from different organizations.
21:01
Speaker 5: And I always thought Hunter that's something to Cardinals.
21:04
Speaker 4: Maybe the Rays as well, but like that's one that
21:07
Speaker 4: I always thought the Cardinals did exceptionally well, is saying
21:10
Speaker 4: we do have really good young players, but we can
21:12
Speaker 4: continue to develop more and let's trade off these guys
21:15
Speaker 4: to get yous that can help us win.
21:16
Speaker 3: Right now, you're starting and I think maybe the Caleb
21:19
Speaker 3: Durbin trade is a sign that the Brewers are starting
21:21
Speaker 3: to feel that way about themselves as well, where they
21:24
Speaker 3: can trade a young guy away now where they're not
21:26
Speaker 3: in a position where the only trades they can make
21:28
Speaker 3: are one year away from a guy who's going to
21:31
Speaker 3: make big money in free agency. That they can give
21:33
Speaker 3: up players because they're like, yeah, we're really showing over
21:36
Speaker 3: the last ten years how much we can develop guys.
21:38
Speaker 3: We still the number one rated farm system in baseball
21:42
Speaker 3: after we won the most games in baseball last season.
21:45
Speaker 3: So knowing that, yeah, we can give up on maybe
21:48
Speaker 3: some young not giving up, but give away with getting
21:51
Speaker 3: a significant return for these young players, and maybe we
21:55
Speaker 3: do see a little min more of that strategy is
21:57
Speaker 3: where you develop them. And I know people are saying, well,
22:00
Speaker 3: maybe become the farm system for other major league teams.
22:03
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily know about that, because you're also you're
22:07
Speaker 3: getting players that the farm systems of other teams are
22:11
Speaker 3: producing at the same time. So I think the Brewers
22:14
Speaker 3: could be going a little Maybe this trade is a
22:16
Speaker 3: sign that they're headed in that direction, not that they're
22:19
Speaker 3: going to give up a lot of young players. And
22:21
Speaker 3: I still don't necessarily think it's if they're going to
22:24
Speaker 3: trade a young player. It's not necessarily for that one
22:26
Speaker 3: year rental or that hot Euheno Suarez candidate at the
22:31
Speaker 3: trade deadline, but it's for a couple guys, or in
22:35
Speaker 3: this case, three guys who could be impactful for a
22:38
Speaker 3: longer time, especially a guy like Kyle Harrison.
22:40
Speaker 4: Steve hit us up on the text line, I think
22:43
Speaker 4: you guys, I think the Brewers are going to regret
22:44
Speaker 4: getting rid of Durbin. I just feel like you're making
22:47
Speaker 4: a lot of excuses for this new third basement. Hopefully
22:49
Speaker 4: he comes through, but doesn't sound like he's that great
22:51
Speaker 4: of a player.
22:52
Speaker 5: Can he hit? Can this guy be a hit? If
22:55
Speaker 5: he's not as good.
22:56
Speaker 4: As Durbin at third base, he's got to be a
22:58
Speaker 4: better hitter at least his peaks in Louis Renhephoh being
23:02
Speaker 4: that guy numbers wise, would be a tick better than
23:06
Speaker 4: Durban last year. However, again, Caleb Durbins his first year.
23:09
Speaker 4: I do I expect him to hope that he gets
23:11
Speaker 4: better in his career, but it's not necessarily, Louise Renhitho
23:16
Speaker 4: that you're looking at to be better than Caleb Durbin
23:19
Speaker 4: it's Andrew Fisher, Brock Wilkins, or maybe Peynerma day On,
23:23
Speaker 4: whoever ends up going in there down the road over
23:25
Speaker 4: at third base.
23:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't say stopgats the right term or not.
23:30
Speaker 6: He it's not really his role to be a great player,
23:32
Speaker 6: So I don't know if it sounds like that great
23:34
Speaker 6: of a player. It'd be great if he popped up
23:35
Speaker 6: out of nowhere it headed in an awesome year. I
23:37
Speaker 6: just don't think the Brewers expect that.
23:39
Speaker 4: But a player is pretty dang good if you're talking
23:42
Speaker 4: about a guy who would be a.
23:43
Speaker 6: Stopgap though, Armon, absolutely so, And listen, maybe Durbin will
23:49
Speaker 6: turn out to be a lot better than anyone thought.
23:51
Speaker 6: So it remains to be seen. There is unknown there.
23:54
Speaker 6: There's no question about it. The Brewers made their move there.
23:57
Speaker 6: If the Brewers regret it one day, it's possible we'll see.
24:01
Speaker 4: Excited to see it, and we will be talking more
24:04
Speaker 4: about this throughout the year. And I like this one
24:06
Speaker 4: from Boss Dobbler. I also like Boss Dobbler.
24:09
Speaker 6: The new Dobbler. Dobbler became Boss Oubler right well, listen, Boss,
24:13
Speaker 6: don't get hung up on Caleb being a rigu of
24:15
Speaker 6: the year candidate. He's still far away from being an
24:17
Speaker 6: All Star.
24:18
Speaker 5: That's a good point.
24:18
Speaker 4: I like again, they can be different benchmarks and where
24:21
Speaker 4: you are right now doesn't mean that's where you will
24:24
Speaker 4: be going forward. However, one guy that one time was
24:27
Speaker 4: with the Milwaukee Brewers now president of the Milwaukee Admirals,
24:30
Speaker 4: one of our favorites. L hefa John Greenberg joins us
24:33
Speaker 4: on the other side, Hunter Bomb guards right there. He's
24:35
Speaker 4: in for Drew Olson all week. Arman is once again
24:38
Speaker 4: knogging ode out. We get an Olympics update before we
24:41
Speaker 4: get out of here as well. Greeney from the Milwaukee Admirals.
24:44
Speaker 4: John Greenberg joined us right after this. It is the
24:46
Speaker 4: Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
24:52
Speaker 1: As that music, welcomes in the President of the.
24:54
Speaker 5: Milwaukee Admirals, John Greenberg.
24:56
Speaker 4: We welcome you back to the Huddle Fox Sports Radio
24:58
Speaker 4: Wisconsin on Bill Schmid alongside Hunter Bombguard in for Dreulson
25:03
Speaker 4: here today and Arbin. Sorry, and got some news on
25:05
Speaker 4: a former Badger coach in the NFL and some cool
25:09
Speaker 4: news and also wow, different lifestyle choice that one coming
25:13
Speaker 4: up in fifteen minutes from right now. But John Greenberg
25:16
Speaker 4: hanging out with us here on the line, Greeny always
25:18
Speaker 4: appreciate it.
25:19
Speaker 2: Man.
25:19
Speaker 4: As we get out of the All Star breaking back
25:23
Speaker 4: onto the ice, the boys getting back skating together. How
25:26
Speaker 4: was it being back at the arenas? Those stinky hogs
25:29
Speaker 4: have been a little bit of a pest over w Yeah.
25:33
Speaker 2: Yeah. We were glad to split over the weekend and
25:38
Speaker 2: played a very good game on Sunday afternoon, so I
25:41
Speaker 2: think we were not in a good place on Saturday night.
25:45
Speaker 2: Just was a tough performance bear guys. But you know,
25:49
Speaker 2: I really applaud the leadership group of our team and
25:52
Speaker 2: our coaches, you know, saying that we will not do
25:55
Speaker 2: that again. And Sunday we played the way we were
25:57
Speaker 2: supposed to play and we got the two point. We
26:00
Speaker 2: deserved that out of that. But the good thing is
26:01
Speaker 2: we only played Rockford one more time this year, so
26:04
Speaker 2: it seems like we've been playing a lot, which we have,
26:07
Speaker 2: so one more time not for a few weeks so
26:11
Speaker 2: we can finally see some other uniforms.
26:13
Speaker 5: And then and I'm excited, sorry, but I'm just for
26:17
Speaker 5: that point.
26:17
Speaker 4: I'm excited because young Carson, my three year old, is
26:20
Speaker 4: starting to learn more of the AHL teams. However, every
26:23
Speaker 4: time you asked you the Admirals play, it was either
26:25
Speaker 4: the wild or the ice hogers of it last like two.
26:29
Speaker 4: It is nice so that I'll be able to let
26:31
Speaker 4: him know. There are a lot of other teams in
26:33
Speaker 4: the league, as you guys do, get to see a
26:35
Speaker 4: couple other opponents coming up.
26:38
Speaker 2: We do, yeah, starting tonight with Texas. We get Texas
26:41
Speaker 2: tonight and on Friday, and then Grand Rapids on Saturday
26:44
Speaker 2: here at home, so busy times here. We were starting
26:47
Speaker 2: a stretch where we play nine out of the next
26:50
Speaker 2: ten games at home, so it is definitely time to
26:53
Speaker 2: make hay here and trying to solidify our playoff spot.
26:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, this would be you mentioned, This would be the
27:00
Speaker 6: time for a push, right. The playoffs are right around
27:02
Speaker 6: the corner. We're near in the end of February. It's
27:04
Speaker 6: been the winner's gone fast, but Admiral's in fifth right
27:07
Speaker 6: now on the central If you look at the standings,
27:09
Speaker 6: Texas Manitzoba all kind of just separated by a few
27:12
Speaker 6: points there, so really a chance to make a move here,
27:16
Speaker 6: as you mentioned, and that starts with seeing the Texas
27:18
Speaker 6: Stars right Greeny, big God.
27:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is and they're right in front of us,
27:23
Speaker 2: so you know this is a time to you know,
27:27
Speaker 2: catch up to them, and you know, we don't really
27:30
Speaker 2: don't want to finish fifth. The top five teams in
27:32
Speaker 2: the division play to make the playoffs, which is fine,
27:37
Speaker 2: but if you finish fifth, you have to go play
27:39
Speaker 2: a best of three series all on the road just
27:41
Speaker 2: to keep moving forward. So I would rather rather not
27:46
Speaker 2: finish fifth, fourth or butter is what I'm aiming for,
27:50
Speaker 2: and hopefully we can.
27:51
Speaker 5: Start that this week.
27:52
Speaker 3: Definitely, you guys are going to be nine to the
27:54
Speaker 3: next ten at home. You guys are going to be
27:56
Speaker 3: busy there at Panther Arena, especially this week. You got
27:59
Speaker 3: three are you coming up? And it's highlighted by another concert.
28:03
Speaker 3: I got to say, I was at the low Cash
28:04
Speaker 3: concert a couple of weeks ago and they crushed it.
28:07
Speaker 3: You guys crushed it. The system you guys have for
28:09
Speaker 3: that to get that stage on the on the ice
28:11
Speaker 3: as quick as you guys do is awesome. And they
28:14
Speaker 3: put on a great show and you guys did a
28:15
Speaker 3: great job with that, and it'll be another fun one
28:18
Speaker 3: I'm sure on Saturday.
28:20
Speaker 2: Absolutely thanks for saying that. Our team works really hard
28:22
Speaker 2: to put those shows on. And yeah, twenty five minutes
28:26
Speaker 2: after the last whistle of that game. That night stage
28:30
Speaker 2: was set. Fans that had ice passes are on the
28:33
Speaker 2: ice and off low Cash went and they really did
28:36
Speaker 2: do a nice job. They were a lot of fun
28:38
Speaker 2: to work with. And next show coming up this Saturday
28:41
Speaker 2: with the Gym Blossoms, so you know, it's nineties night
28:45
Speaker 2: and so many hit songs out of the Jym Blossoms.
28:50
Speaker 2: I think this is really going to be a lot
28:51
Speaker 2: of fun. Still tickets available, still some ice passes available
28:55
Speaker 2: for that, so hopefully people come out on Saturday for that.
28:58
Speaker 2: One game is at six. My guess is Jim Blossoms
29:02
Speaker 2: at the stage right around nine o'clock. If the game
29:04
Speaker 2: goes according to the schedule that I hope it will
29:07
Speaker 2: go on. But I think we've all seen we've had
29:11
Speaker 2: the wrong ones this year, so I'm all for playing
29:14
Speaker 2: one that's a little shorter this time around. But before
29:17
Speaker 2: that game tonight with Texas at seven o'clock, and then
29:23
Speaker 2: Friday night at seven o'clock also with Texas.
29:26
Speaker 6: So just a lot going on at Lock, going on
29:28
Speaker 6: a lot of games, and I'll be there tonight Friday
29:31
Speaker 6: and Saria as well. And tonight is Winter Winter Games night,
29:34
Speaker 6: so celebrating the Olympics, and you know, Greeney, I thought
29:38
Speaker 6: about it when I was we were talking about the
29:41
Speaker 6: local ratings, the local market ratings for NBC and Milwaukee
29:45
Speaker 6: writing is always up there in Milwaukee right again, in
29:47
Speaker 6: the top three of markets that are watching and winning Olympics.
29:50
Speaker 6: So we love winter sports, We love Winter games up here,
29:53
Speaker 6: and hockey obviously is the is the crown jewel of
29:57
Speaker 6: all that. So are the boys pretty excited in the
30:00
Speaker 6: locker room about these, uh, these Olympic hockey games going on.
30:04
Speaker 6: I'm sure there's a lot of trash talking going on
30:05
Speaker 6: between the US guys, the Canadian guys and all across
30:08
Speaker 6: the other other globe.
30:09
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, absolutely, there's there's certainly some chripping going on,
30:14
Speaker 2: and uh it's all good fun, certainly, you know US
30:17
Speaker 2: and Sweden. Uh so we've got we've got we've got
30:20
Speaker 2: Swedes here and uh, you know, it's kind of fun.
30:24
Speaker 2: I think for those guys that the games are during
30:26
Speaker 2: the day, so you know, they really don't necessarily have
30:29
Speaker 2: to go right up against uh where we might be
30:31
Speaker 2: playing might work into their afternoon nap on a game day,
30:35
Speaker 2: but uh, uh, you know, us and Sweden should be
30:37
Speaker 2: a lot of fun and UH tomorrow with US and
30:40
Speaker 2: Canada with UH with the women's game will.
30:42
Speaker 4: Be very exciting, greedy as you've seen the sport continue
30:47
Speaker 4: to blossom. We talked to Chris Bosters earlier in the week,
30:50
Speaker 4: who's calling it for NBC, Like it's always been a
30:54
Speaker 4: market that enjoys hockey, and you guys get to see
30:57
Speaker 4: it on a night in a night out basis UH,
30:59
Speaker 4: and and folks that come out to the arena get
31:02
Speaker 4: to enjoy that kind of high level hockey. But I
31:05
Speaker 4: asked Chris, and I'd ask you, who's seen it now
31:07
Speaker 4: for so many years? Is it just getting better every year?
31:11
Speaker 4: Like the talent level, the athleticism, the precision in which
31:15
Speaker 4: these guys are able to snipe their shots from seemingly
31:18
Speaker 4: anywhere inside the offensive Zonely, it just feels like the
31:22
Speaker 4: game continues to get so much better that right now
31:26
Speaker 4: it's in a spot where it really feels like it's
31:29
Speaker 4: going to take another evolution in the winter sports variety
31:32
Speaker 4: of every single person's viewing cabins.
31:36
Speaker 2: I think so. I mean, I think the skill level
31:38
Speaker 2: is that at all time high. And I do agree
31:41
Speaker 2: with you. I think it keeps doing better. I think,
31:43
Speaker 2: you know, kids are you know, getting started at an
31:46
Speaker 2: early age here in the growth of hockey within just
31:49
Speaker 2: even here in southeast Wisconsin is is really really high,
31:54
Speaker 2: you know, both boys and girls. So everybody, I think
31:57
Speaker 2: watches these Olympic Games games, but you're here in Wisconsin.
32:01
Speaker 2: You know, we're blessed to have unbelievable hockey in the state.
32:05
Speaker 2: Besides what we do. You know obviously what goes on
32:08
Speaker 2: in Madison with the Badgers men and women, but the
32:12
Speaker 2: Division III level of hockey in this state is exceptional.
32:16
Speaker 2: We've we've had a lot of national championship teams coming
32:18
Speaker 2: out of the state, and you know it's everybody wants
32:23
Speaker 2: to be able to play on these teams and they
32:25
Speaker 2: see opportunities. And I think that's why so many people
32:29
Speaker 2: are playing now and why the you know, the American
32:32
Speaker 2: development model of hockey, which comes from USA Hockey, has
32:35
Speaker 2: helped to really you know, put kids in a better
32:38
Speaker 2: position to learn how to play the game and not
32:41
Speaker 2: it's not just one kid out there dominating. It's not
32:44
Speaker 2: everybody's learning how to actually play.
32:46
Speaker 4: Yes, it's not like in one of my favorite young movies,
32:49
Speaker 4: Kicking and screaming after they get the kids to like
32:52
Speaker 4: pass it to the Italians. That's the it's not just
32:54
Speaker 4: to get it to the good kid and everybody else
32:56
Speaker 4: get out of the way. The talent development is pretty
32:59
Speaker 4: impressive and greeny. It does feel like, I know this
33:02
Speaker 4: doesn't maybe this isn't you know, rocket science, but it
33:05
Speaker 4: feels like once young players and young kids are developing,
33:10
Speaker 4: that's that's how this grows. And as a as a
33:13
Speaker 4: youth in my time, when the sport really wasn't covered
33:17
Speaker 4: by the four letter network like it seemingly is now
33:19
Speaker 4: because they also have rights in the NHL. Like it
33:22
Speaker 4: just also feels like the accessibility to the game has
33:26
Speaker 4: never really been higher.
33:27
Speaker 5: Is that fair to say too?
33:29
Speaker 2: I do? I think that is fair to say, And
33:31
Speaker 2: I think, you know, yes, ESPN absolutely helps. TNT has
33:34
Speaker 2: been an enormous help with hockey. You know, they obviously
33:38
Speaker 2: cut their teeth with basketball, and and the NHL smartly
33:42
Speaker 2: went to team team and said do the same thing,
33:44
Speaker 2: you know, and I think that's been very, very popular.
33:49
Speaker 2: You know, the tendance in the h in our league
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Speaker 2: is you know, going to be at an all time
33:53
Speaker 2: high at the end of the season. People are coming
33:56
Speaker 2: out to watch this, you know, not just for the
33:58
Speaker 2: entertainment of we all as thirty two different teams try
34:02
Speaker 2: to put out every night, but to come see these
34:04
Speaker 2: guys play and what you know, watching our guys go
34:08
Speaker 2: work with youth hockey kids during the course of the year,
34:11
Speaker 2: or you know, when we try to bring in kids
34:13
Speaker 2: from the Boys and Girls club who may never have
34:15
Speaker 2: an opportunity to do you know this, you know, in
34:18
Speaker 2: their lives, and we try to get them out there
34:21
Speaker 2: and teach them how to play. And our players are
34:23
Speaker 2: part of that. I think, you know, there's some role
34:25
Speaker 2: model stuff going on with kids looking up to our players,
34:29
Speaker 2: looking up the players in our league, and then when
34:31
Speaker 2: they make it to the NHL, they've got a fan
34:33
Speaker 2: base that, you know, just watch them since they really
34:37
Speaker 2: were getting started.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of viewing hockey anymore, yeah, absolutely. A couple of
34:41
Speaker 3: days ago, NBC released there so far the viewership numbers
34:45
Speaker 3: and the across the markets across the United States, Fort
34:48
Speaker 3: Myers first, Minneapolis second, and then Milwaukee third. I mean,
34:53
Speaker 3: there is just an appetite for these winter sports, which
34:56
Speaker 3: makes sense. Obviously the climate we all know the climate
34:58
Speaker 3: here in the winter, but there is just not only
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Speaker 3: an appetite to play them, but also watch them and
35:04
Speaker 3: just enjoy them as entertainment, as you guys see with
35:07
Speaker 3: the admirals at every home game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And you know, I think every four years
35:14
Speaker 2: we all get locked into curling, we all, you know,
35:17
Speaker 2: we get in, we get locked into some things that
35:20
Speaker 2: maybe we don't get to see every day. But yeah,
35:21
Speaker 2: the headlining things, the figure skating, the downhill skiing, the
35:26
Speaker 2: you know in the hockey, those are always kind of
35:28
Speaker 2: the the the high level sports that people really want
35:31
Speaker 2: to watch. And here with the speed skating as well,
35:34
Speaker 2: with Jordan Stoltz, you know what he's done, and it's
35:37
Speaker 2: just really exciting to beal Wisconsinate and know that these
35:40
Speaker 2: people are coming from our state and so many Badgers.
35:44
Speaker 2: Badger of women playing in the gold medal game tomorrow
35:46
Speaker 2: will be great for our state. So you know, Wisconsin
35:50
Speaker 2: is really good for producing Olympic athletes and we like
35:53
Speaker 2: to watch them.
35:54
Speaker 6: At what point during a young skaters development do you
35:57
Speaker 6: think they made the decision to go to speed skating
35:59
Speaker 6: or hockey, And how many speed skaters want to be
36:01
Speaker 6: hockey players and vice versa. Greeny I've always thought about
36:04
Speaker 6: these things, you know, I just it just things on
36:06
Speaker 6: my mind.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. My daughter played hockey for ten years
36:12
Speaker 2: and she's like, you think I ever should have done
36:14
Speaker 2: speed skating, Well, you probably wouldn't have. You probably wouldn't
36:17
Speaker 2: have fallen on your head as much, so I think
36:19
Speaker 2: maybe that would have been better for you. But it's uh,
36:23
Speaker 2: you know, it is a different sport, but uh, you know,
36:26
Speaker 2: those skates are so much different, and you know you're
36:29
Speaker 2: racing against racing against the clock, you know, which is
36:33
Speaker 2: incredible that they showed Jordan's stilts warming up on his
36:36
Speaker 2: exercise bike the other day, and I think A. G.
36:39
Speaker 2: Dillon has a competition in the quadilla co.
36:42
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, he's indeed. Well, I know it's a weird,
36:47
Speaker 6: you know. Thanks for indulging me and just my random
36:49
Speaker 6: thoughts that I have throughout the day.
36:50
Speaker 4: But well, I'm just surprised it wasn't a gym blossoms.
36:55
Speaker 5: This dude is just so excited for Saturday night.
36:58
Speaker 4: So just know, you guys hit an app a loud
37:00
Speaker 4: home run with the booking of it, the execution is
37:02
Speaker 4: going to be phenomenal because.
37:04
Speaker 5: Armand I can't wait.
37:05
Speaker 4: He's been excited for a lot of things in his life,
37:08
Speaker 4: right getting married, birth of his daughter, this Jin Blossom show.
37:12
Speaker 5: He damn your canceled the vacation to be here. So
37:14
Speaker 5: he's very very excited for Saturday night.
37:17
Speaker 2: Well, I hope, I hope your enthusiasm goes to everybody
37:21
Speaker 2: else who's coming out, because it's really going to be
37:22
Speaker 2: a fun night. And well, I hope people come out,
37:26
Speaker 2: and I would really encourage people to go to our
37:27
Speaker 2: website and check out all the promotions that are coming
37:30
Speaker 2: up this week. We've got a ton of giveaways, ticket specials,
37:33
Speaker 2: and obviously the concert coming up on Saturday.
37:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's going to be an incredible week and weekend
37:37
Speaker 6: of great local entertainment and great live hockey action with
37:41
Speaker 6: the Milwaukee Admirals. So super excited for this week and
37:44
Speaker 6: this weekend coming up, Greenie, and we'll see that as.
37:48
Speaker 2: We see We'll see you there, Greedy.
37:51
Speaker 4: Appreciate it, man, Thank you very much, President of the
37:52
Speaker 4: Milwaukee After John Greenberg hanging out with us here on
37:56
Speaker 4: the huddle Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Arman, I mean it's
38:00
Speaker 4: finally here.
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Speaker 6: It's you know, we're getting closer and closer to to
38:05
Speaker 6: seeing the seeing the boys you know, and this would
38:07
Speaker 6: be my fifth Jim Blossoms concert, but the other four
38:10
Speaker 6: were all Summer Fest, so I'm excited to see him
38:13
Speaker 6: on the cool. Yeah, it is fun to be having
38:15
Speaker 6: ice pass Hey, he mentioned it gets your tickets or
38:18
Speaker 6: some available. But the ice passes are awesome too, because
38:21
Speaker 6: that really gives you that close, uh, that close intimate
38:24
Speaker 6: experience with the with the gym Blossoms.
38:26
Speaker 5: And look at you, look at you getting the ice pass.
38:29
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, you know, Billy, I kind of have
38:31
Speaker 6: car blonde for that whole building. You know, they don't
38:33
Speaker 6: they don't tell me to not go anywhere.
38:35
Speaker 4: You know, I'm gonna say you're there the next three nights.
38:38
Speaker 4: My god, you're gonna get your mail senter.
38:40
Speaker 6: I mean, I might be giving the pregame speech to
38:42
Speaker 6: the guys you know, in the in the dressing room.
38:44
Speaker 6: I'm not sure I think you should. On Saturday, you
38:46
Speaker 6: might get to read the lineup card. You very much
38:49
Speaker 6: might get to read the lineup card. That's awesome one day.
38:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you don't get ice passes for the Gim
38:54
Speaker 3: Blossoms concert, you're gonna be having a lot of hay jealousy.
38:58
Speaker 6: Oh don't worry, I got multiple offits mustache. Oh I
39:01
Speaker 6: even almost let that pass. Oh my gosh, that was amazing. Hunter.
39:05
Speaker 6: Good work, good work.
39:06
Speaker 1: That my work is done.
39:07
Speaker 6: You know, follow me?
39:09
Speaker 5: No, it's not, No, it's not.
39:10
Speaker 6: When you're up one more segment, one more segment. When
39:13
Speaker 6: you're up in the stands, follow me down to the ice.
39:15
Speaker 6: All right, that's another good Yeah, Yeah, you got it.
39:20
Speaker 2: Man.
39:20
Speaker 4: I am so excited for so many more chin blossoms
39:24
Speaker 4: in that we're about to get on Friday, because the
39:27
Speaker 4: excitement level is gonna be through the roof. All Right,
39:29
Speaker 4: we got one more segment here. We got our Awaken
39:31
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39:34
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39:37
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39:40
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39:44
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Speaker 5: No, like, yeah, do we how brazen can we get like?
40:45
Speaker 2: That? Is?
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Speaker 7: Now?
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Speaker 4: My question is how boldly do we think that we
40:50
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40:54
Speaker 5: But again that's neither here nor there.
40:56
Speaker 4: That's a sad situation because again there's there's now two
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Speaker 4: families that are gonna be broken up with this whole situation.
41:02
Speaker 5: And let's be honest, Christmases are just gonna be so weird.
41:05
Speaker 4: I just I can't even imagine what that family reunion
41:08
Speaker 4: is gonna be.
41:08
Speaker 5: Like, let alone, we got Easter coming up. That's good,
41:11
Speaker 5: That's gonna be a tough one. But how about this, guys, for.
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Speaker 4: A little bit of a waken big did you ever
41:15
Speaker 4: think that you would see a head coach in college
41:18
Speaker 4: football leave his current post to be a position coach.
41:24
Speaker 5: Well that's what.
41:24
Speaker 4: Former Badger assistant Thomas Hammock is doing now. He was
41:29
Speaker 4: the Northern Illinois head coach. He has now accepted a
41:33
Speaker 4: job to become the running back coach and senior offensive
41:38
Speaker 4: assistant with the Seattle Seahawks. He becomes the highest paid
41:41
Speaker 4: running back coach in the NFL. Left with multiple NFL opportunities.
41:47
Speaker 4: So we thought Jeff Hapley was crazy for leieving that
41:50
Speaker 4: it was gonna be the start of something. Marmon with
41:52
Speaker 4: a head coach to go be a coordinator, Thomas Hammick said,
41:55
Speaker 4: I'm done negotiating with sixteen year olds. I'll be I'll
41:58
Speaker 4: be a running back coach and I'll run guys through
42:00
Speaker 4: bags before I do another year of this.
42:02
Speaker 5: Nils, you said it.
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Speaker 6: Maybe he was just disadrangised with the college experience. So
42:06
Speaker 6: how about that?
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Speaker 4: That's a wild one Thomas Hammock, former assistant head coach
42:10
Speaker 4: running back coach for the Badgers.
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Speaker 5: Awesome one.
42:12
Speaker 4: Guys, thank you so much for all your help throughout
42:14
Speaker 4: the last couple of days. Hunter and Armon are gonna
42:16
Speaker 4: be back tomorrow. I'll be back on Friday, Hunter, great
42:19
Speaker 4: work in for Drew Rolsen.
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Speaker 5: Arman's right there. I'm Billy. It's been the huddle on
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