Latest / The Huddle / 10/20/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:22Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
- 0:25Speaker 3: We know exactly what we got to do.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some tape.
- 0:29Speaker 1: One, two, three.
- 0:30Speaker 4: We got some.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Big plays coming.
- 0:32Speaker 1: What the hell's going.
- 0:32Speaker 3: On out here?
- 0:35Speaker 1: Yellow Weasel.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Quit calling the plays, all right?
- 0:38Speaker 2: It is time.
- 0:39Speaker 3: Who do you think you are?
- 0:41Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
- 0:41Speaker 5: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
- 0:45Speaker 5: your respect.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Bill Schmidt.
- 0:47Speaker 2: That son of a gun is thick. And Armin Sarian.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
- 0:56Speaker 5: Welcome to the huddle. Tuesday edition of the huddle. Oh baby,
- 1:00Speaker 5: our cup runneth over. World Series week. NBA opening week.
- 1:06Speaker 5: Badgers and Trojans, the men of Troy. infiltrating camp randall
- 1:11Speaker 5: on saturday night packers lions on sunday the buffet is
- 1:15Speaker 5: bountiful but we are definitely focused on the brewers first
- 1:19Speaker 5: world series in 44 years.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Yeah it is uh it's crazy to even think about
- 1:23Speaker 2: it i've heard the levering call probably 11,900 times now
- 1:27Speaker 2: just keep it going and keep it going yeah and
- 1:29Speaker 2: each time i just i want to hear it again
- 1:31Speaker 2: so it's almost like my little guy when he watches
- 1:34Speaker 2: the first 20 seconds of a you know mickey mouse
- 1:36Speaker 2: clubhouse drew you just immediately grab that little slider on
- 1:39Speaker 2: the bottom of the screen, pull that thing right back
- 1:41Speaker 2: to the front and start that play over.
- 1:43Speaker 3: It's like, you, there's something sometimes I'm halfway through it.
- 1:46Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, wait, wait.
- 1:47Speaker 3: I wasn't totally mentally right.
- 1:49Speaker 4: I want to start that experience over again.
- 1:51Speaker 2: The words were on the screen when, while I was
- 1:52Speaker 2: watching the pitch. So I got to click that off
- 1:54Speaker 2: first and make sure I time that up.
- 1:55Speaker 4: I just want to melt into every piece of brewers
- 1:58Speaker 4: content I can before the series.
- 1:59Speaker 3: Like not that I'm not excited for the world series.
- 2:01Speaker 2: It's awesome.
- 2:02Speaker 4: It's going to happen on Friday, but like, I want
- 2:04Speaker 4: to try and bask in, like, really, you know what
- 2:06Speaker 4: I say?
- 2:06Speaker 3: Like, I wish I appreciated more when I was here.
- 2:08Speaker 4: Well, I'm doing a hell of a job appreciating it.
- 2:10Speaker 4: All right.
- 2:10Speaker 3: Let me just put it that way. You're all about
- 2:12Speaker 3: the Brewers content.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
- 2:14Speaker 3: I got some good stuff. Where do you stand on
- 2:16Speaker 3: the timeless ticket controversy?
- 2:17Speaker 4: Oh, we got to talk about this. Because there's a
- 2:20Speaker 4: lot of discussion. You start reading the comments. I don't
- 2:24Speaker 4: know if these guys, it's going this way.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Explain the situation.
- 2:26Speaker 5: A little more than a decade ago, the Brewers had
- 2:28Speaker 5: an offer. Someone came with, I think, an ingenious idea
- 2:32Speaker 5: in 2015. For $ 1, 000, you got a timeless ticket, which
- 2:35Speaker 5: is a keepsake, almost like a piece of Packer stock,
- 2:37Speaker 5: though way more expensive.
- 2:39Speaker 3: And you get a bronze ticket. And it says that
- 2:41Speaker 3: you can attend. It's a sweet-looking ticket.
- 2:43Speaker 5: You can attend any game you want in the future, including,
- 2:46Speaker 5: and it did say in the marketing materials, Game 7
- 2:48Speaker 5: of the World Series.
- 2:49Speaker 3: That's the whole point, yeah.
- 2:51Speaker 5: You can redeem it for any game. It could be
- 2:53Speaker 5: on an opening day. I wonder how many people have
- 2:55Speaker 5: redeemed already or not, but they sold 1,000 of them
- 2:58Speaker 5: at like $ 1, 000.
- 2:59Speaker 3: And I want to.
- 3:00Speaker 4: Give myself a little credit because I remember bringing this
- 3:02Speaker 4: up mid-season in the winter at some point or in
- 3:04Speaker 4: the early summer.
- 3:05Speaker 3: The last four years. Yeah, I just want to remind
- 3:08Speaker 3: you guys about that. Yeah, exactly.
- 3:09Speaker 4: But I wouldn't think many people redeemed it yet because
- 3:13Speaker 4: they probably thought there wasn't value in doing it yet, right?
- 3:15Speaker 4: $ 1, 000 unless you were guaranteed maybe like right behind home players.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Game 7 of the 2018 NLCS at home would have
- 3:22Speaker 2: been a tough one to not cash in on.
- 3:24Speaker 3: That would have been one to cash it in. Good point, Billy.
- 3:27Speaker 5: But now we're getting into the fine print of this
- 3:29Speaker 5: because the timeless ticket, they had some other ancillary benefits
- 3:33Speaker 5: to it.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Yep, little stuff in there.
- 3:35Speaker 5: But it Also, it did say, you know, the best
- 3:38Speaker 5: seat available, subject to availability.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Subject to availability.
- 3:42Speaker 3: That is going to be the key phrase because now...
- 3:45Speaker 3: It might be a phrase that pays on Thursday.
- 3:46Speaker 5: People who paid for the $ 1, 000 are being offered a
- 3:49Speaker 5: ticket if you want to redeem it for a World
- 3:50Speaker 5: Series ticket. You're being offered a seat in the 400s
- 3:53Speaker 5: and the opportunity to buy up to three more for
- 3:55Speaker 5: $ 1, 000 apiece, which is still... given the current market, that's
- 4:00Speaker 5: still a bargain.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Now.
- 4:01Speaker 2: And, and as much as the subject to availability, I
- 4:05Speaker 2: saw the, the young man talk. I can't remember what
- 4:07Speaker 2: news station is. And I apologize for which video I
- 4:10Speaker 2: watched on it saying, well, I'm going to be cheering
- 4:13Speaker 2: on the Bruce. I'm going to be doing it at home.
- 4:16Speaker 2: That's a hell of a choice that you made his
- 4:18Speaker 2: brothers in Kenosha. Because at that point, if you did
- 4:21Speaker 2: make the investment and I understand, and now very much.
- 4:25Speaker 2: So I'm, I got this piece of ground, and I'm
- 4:28Speaker 2: standing 10 toes down on it. I needed the best
- 4:31Speaker 2: available ticket. But when I heard my man say 10
- 4:34Speaker 2: rows up, I'm sorry. You lost me right there. You
- 4:38Speaker 2: lost the hell out of me. If you thought you
- 4:40Speaker 2: were going to be sitting in Marc Antanasio's seats for
- 4:43Speaker 2: the World Series with the timeless tickets, I got a
- 4:46Speaker 2: great beachfront property in Montana that I'd love to be
- 4:49Speaker 2: able to also sell you at a thousand bucks. It's
- 4:51Speaker 2: a little.
- 4:51Speaker 4: Main character energy with this guy. I got to say
- 4:54Speaker 4: now I understand like maybe he wanted him. What did
- 4:56Speaker 4: you think they were going to do for you? Like,
- 4:58Speaker 4: and subject to availability is you could say it's subjective.
- 5:01Speaker 4: You could argue that there are better seats available, but
- 5:03Speaker 4: they're not really available.
- 5:05Speaker 3: But they're not, those aren't available to timeless ticket.
- 5:07Speaker 4: They're going to make it available to you and what
- 5:11Speaker 4: they're doing. And you're still getting the value and you're
- 5:13Speaker 4: getting the ticket. And you're right, Billy. I'm not going
- 5:17Speaker 4: on principle.
- 5:18Speaker 3: You showed them. You won. Good job, Ari.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Now, I don't know where this falls on the.
- 5:28Speaker 4: Sliding scale of here to the lady that tried to
- 5:32Speaker 4: sue for the 50-50 raffle. I don't know where this is,
- 5:36Speaker 4: but I got a suggestion for the guy. You're not
- 5:39Speaker 4: going to get much support from people. You might as
- 5:41Speaker 4: well just go to the games and not regret your
- 5:43Speaker 4: decision later to miss your World Series game, which I'm
- 5:46Speaker 4: telling you, he's going to eventually do. He's going to
- 5:49Speaker 4: roll up on Thursday saying, I'm just kidding. Can I
- 5:51Speaker 4: please have a ticket? And I don't know what's going
- 5:53Speaker 4: to happen. That's my prediction.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Well, if you do that, then I don't know if
- 5:56Speaker 3: you'll get one.
- 5:57Speaker 2: I agree. Because, Drew, like that, the subject to availability, well,
- 6:01Speaker 2: now definitely nothing else is available.
- 6:02Speaker 3: So, yeah, exactly.
- 6:03Speaker 5: Now it's going to be really hard to find availability.
- 6:06Speaker 5: But you're getting the ability to buy three more at
- 6:08Speaker 5: $ 1, 000 each. If you wanted to flip those, you could
- 6:10Speaker 5: make a good amount of money on your $ 1, 000 investment,
- 6:12Speaker 5: which there was no monetary kickback in this. You were
- 6:16Speaker 5: just going to use your ticket at some point.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Yes.
- 6:18Speaker 2: Good point.
- 6:19Speaker 4: You can't say you're losing value because those value is there.
- 6:22Speaker 4: it's face value to the ticket of, we're going to
- 6:24Speaker 4: give him Terrace, right? I could see maybe, if they
- 6:28Speaker 4: were going to give him SRO and not even let
- 6:29Speaker 4: him put his butt down, I could maybe see, okay.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Oh, then I would have had a problem with it.
- 6:34Speaker 2: Let me sit down. I need a guaranteed view and
- 6:37Speaker 2: a seat in the chair.
- 6:38Speaker 5: If you bought one timeless ticket, they don't necessarily have
- 6:42Speaker 5: to extend the offer to buy the extra three. Take
- 6:45Speaker 5: your family and then pay, you're already in for your seat,
- 6:48Speaker 5: and then you're paying less than almost a third of
- 6:50Speaker 5: face value for the others.
- 6:52Speaker 3: The 10 roses.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Were you're right, Billy. That was, that was legit. That
- 6:55Speaker 2: was where it went. If it would have said, I
- 6:57Speaker 2: thought maybe in the bleachers, I would have been sympathetic.
- 7:01Speaker 2: You know what? You could have found my man a
- 7:03Speaker 2: spot in two Oh two, right? You could have very
- 7:05Speaker 2: much found them a spot, but when, and, and Armin,
- 7:08Speaker 2: I would actually push back. Cause I've seen a lot
- 7:10Speaker 2: of sympathy and a lot of folks backing them up
- 7:13Speaker 2: in the comments. I thought a lot more online. We're
- 7:16Speaker 2: saying brewers need to do the right thing.
- 7:20Speaker 3: I love when people say that.
- 7:21Speaker 2: I don't know what the right thing exactly is. Are
- 7:23Speaker 2: we supposed to walk them down and hang out in
- 7:25Speaker 2: the dugout? Again, there are 900 folks that probably bought
- 7:29Speaker 2: them and are probably fired up to go hang out
- 7:32Speaker 2: in the timeless ticket section and tell their stories to
- 7:35Speaker 2: each other about how they've been waiting for the last decade.
- 7:37Speaker 2: to be at game one of the world series. And
- 7:39Speaker 2: they're all hanging out together.
- 7:40Speaker 3: And I think you hit it on the head, Billy.
- 7:41Speaker 4: I think there's a little ego involved with all these
- 7:43Speaker 4: guys that bought these one. Everyone to know that they
- 7:46Speaker 4: were the ones that invested. They were the ones that
- 7:49Speaker 4: took that chance. And now they were like, they want
- 7:51Speaker 4: people to think, Oh, these are the smart guys. Look,
- 7:53Speaker 4: these are the ones that did it. And they want
- 7:55Speaker 4: to be honored as such. Like maybe they do want
- 7:57Speaker 4: to have like a walk around the warning track or something.
- 8:00Speaker 4: I don't really know what it is, but yeah, There's
- 8:02Speaker 4: a little bit of that involved, a little main character
- 8:04Speaker 4: energy maybe. Listen, if you really feel aggrieved about it, maybe,
- 8:08Speaker 4: but I don't think it's going to get anywhere, first
- 8:10Speaker 4: of all. And maybe there are some people that say, okay,
- 8:13Speaker 4: I have to go check. I love reading comments, Billy.
- 8:15Speaker 3: You know me.
- 8:15Speaker 4: So I'm going to have to go back and read
- 8:17Speaker 4: the comments to see what people think.
- 8:19Speaker 3: A lot of people that are just saying.
- 8:22Speaker 4: See, I think a part of it is a lot
- 8:23Speaker 4: of people wish they could have a World Series ticket
- 8:24Speaker 4: right now and are upset they can't have one. And
- 8:26Speaker 4: a lot of people are saying that I've seen, just
- 8:29Speaker 4: be happy and be grateful you're going to go to
- 8:30Speaker 4: the World Series and watch a game and getting what
- 8:33Speaker 4: you basically paid for, which was a guaranteed spot.
- 8:37Speaker 3: And they did guarantee the spot. The Brewers did.
- 8:39Speaker 2: The value of the extra tickets, Drew, I did not
- 8:43Speaker 2: read far enough into the story. That I actually have
- 8:47Speaker 2: so much less sympathy for now. Yeah. Knowing that you
- 8:50Speaker 2: could then buy up to three more at a thousand
- 8:52Speaker 2: a ticket right next to you. Cause that would be again,
- 8:56Speaker 2: if I'm thinking back to where I would have been now,
- 8:58Speaker 2: your boy was trying to scrounge up every $ 25. He
- 9:02Speaker 2: could for something in 2015, that would have been a junior,
- 9:06Speaker 2: a senior in college drew their one $ 10. That wasn't
- 9:09Speaker 2: going to a discount liquor down on Barstow for her,
- 9:12Speaker 2: for a potential box of red dog at some point.
- 9:15Speaker 2: But to think, if you're buying that $ 1, 000 ticket, and
- 9:18Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, push came to shove, and
- 9:20Speaker 2: you're on the phone with the young lady, and she says,
- 9:22Speaker 2: all right, sweet, we got one ticket for you in
- 9:23Speaker 2: section 210. All right, one ticket. Cool. Can I get
- 9:28Speaker 2: another one? Yeah, for $ 4, 500 a pop.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:32Speaker 2: They very much could have flipped it around both ends.
- 9:34Speaker 2: And I know, boss, I know that it is more...
- 9:39Speaker 2: armin because you're spot on everybody wants to go and
- 9:41Speaker 2: right now there feels like there has to be a
- 9:42Speaker 2: villain in.
- 9:43Speaker 3: This thing that's it people are comfortable with that there's a.
- 9:46Speaker 2: Reason why people tagged it and have a once in
- 9:49Speaker 2: a lifetime event the tickets are buying i've seen now
- 9:52Speaker 2: multiple we i answered my own question that we had
- 9:54Speaker 2: yesterday drew who's buying the $ 2, 500 terrace?
- 9:58Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 9:58Speaker 2: I've seen a lot on Facebook groups being sold at $ 2, 250, $ 2, 400.
- 10:03Speaker 2: They're out there and people are paying it. That means
- 10:07Speaker 2: as much as it might price some folks out, they're
- 10:10Speaker 2: probably right on par with what they should be because
- 10:13Speaker 2: the supply and the demand are neck and neck for
- 10:16Speaker 2: which one's winning right now. Absolutely.
- 10:18Speaker 4: I don't think it's a crazy concept, but it's so
- 10:19Speaker 4: hard for people to grasp. And I do think maybe
- 10:22Speaker 4: people are comfortable with trying to make somebody a villain.
- 10:25Speaker 4: And a lot of times that's the big, bad, rich
- 10:27Speaker 4: guy or the big, bad, rich team that's saying, you know,
- 10:29Speaker 4: you're screwing us with these prices.
- 10:31Speaker 3: You're screwing us with these.
- 10:31Speaker 4: This is just the reality of the situation that you're
- 10:35Speaker 4: talking about an event that everyone wants to go to.
- 10:37Speaker 4: I'm sure if you, I'm sure if you pulled, there's
- 10:40Speaker 4: 6 million people in Wisconsin.
- 10:42Speaker 3: Okay.
- 10:42Speaker 4: I'm sure if you pulled them all, they'd all say,
- 10:44Speaker 4: I'd like to go to a world series game or
- 10:46Speaker 4: at least a big chunk of them.
- 10:47Speaker 3: Let's say half conservative.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Let's say a third.
- 10:49Speaker 3: That's 2 million people. There aren't 2 million tickets available.
- 10:52Speaker 3: All right. So what happens? The market's going to go up.
- 10:54Speaker 4: That's just the reality of the situation. Sometimes we have
- 10:57Speaker 4: to accept that. And then, and it's not, I'm sorry,
- 10:59Speaker 4: the greatest tragedy in the world either. Then I'd be
- 11:02Speaker 4: able to go to a world series game.
- 11:03Speaker 5: It's not, I mean, How many people, if you get
- 11:06Speaker 5: FOMO and the Brewers win a World Series and you
- 11:10Speaker 5: don't go, how many of those people then say, damn it,
- 11:12Speaker 5: I'm not letting that happen again. And let's say the
- 11:15Speaker 5: planets align and the Packers are playing in the Super Bowl.
- 11:17Speaker 3: It's so fine. It's a similar price. Now, granted, airfare, hotel.
- 11:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:22Speaker 3: Add to it. Everything that comes.
- 11:24Speaker 5: Then you go all in because it is stunning, though,
- 11:26Speaker 5: that get in the door.
- 11:27Speaker 3: Prices of game one of the World Series are higher
- 11:30Speaker 3: than get in the door.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Prices for a Super Bowl. Cause that seems to be
- 11:32Speaker 2: the highest ticket, like outside of everybody's price range is
- 11:35Speaker 2: a Superbowl. Yep.
- 11:36Speaker 5: And yet right now it was beat. It was cheaper
- 11:39Speaker 5: to go to last year's Superbowl at SoFi. I mean, at, uh, uh,
- 11:42Speaker 5: in Santa Clara, then it would be to go to
- 11:44Speaker 5: game one.
- 11:45Speaker 2: And, and probably the last two, cause we were in
- 11:47Speaker 2: new Orleans and, uh, and I had, been continually looking
- 11:51Speaker 2: throughout the week because it was a fascinating conversation with
- 11:54Speaker 2: the Chiefs going three consecutive years. What was it going
- 11:57Speaker 2: to do to the prices? And they plummeted towards the
- 11:59Speaker 2: end of it. Again, maybe if you can stomach it
- 12:02Speaker 2: and wait until 90 minutes before when officially all the
- 12:05Speaker 2: secondary markets will lock down their data for what the
- 12:10Speaker 2: average get in the door price is, then maybe it
- 12:13Speaker 2: will change. But drum with you. There's going to be
- 12:16Speaker 2: many people that think about it. Cause I've still been
- 12:19Speaker 2: thinking about it since 2021. After I read that great
- 12:22Speaker 2: text that drew sent to all of us, a couple
- 12:25Speaker 2: of us on the station as the bucks win game
- 12:28Speaker 2: four and we're celebrating deliriously of the sunblock said, buy
- 12:32Speaker 2: your game six tickets now. Like, wow, that's what I did.
- 12:36Speaker 2: That's a cute thought. That's a cute thought. I probably should,
- 12:38Speaker 2: but I'm not.
- 12:39Speaker 4: I'm not.
- 12:39Speaker 2: I'm going to wait until game five. And then they
- 12:41Speaker 2: went 18 times, whatever it was, and standing room was $ 1, 300.
- 12:46Speaker 2: So I've still been kicking myself for that exact moment.
- 12:49Speaker 2: I wonder if there are a lot of folks that
- 12:51Speaker 2: are doubling it up because they didn't take advantage of
- 12:53Speaker 2: that moment on that great, what was it, Thursday afternoon
- 12:57Speaker 2: when it was 80 degrees out in the Deer District
- 12:58Speaker 2: and everybody was thinking about spending their life saving. Great point.
- 13:01Speaker 3: And it's just speculation like any other market. I think
- 13:03Speaker 3: people are.
- 13:05Speaker 4: Trying to predict what other people are going to do,
- 13:06Speaker 4: which are just predicting what other people are going to do.
- 13:10Speaker 4: It's more of an experience-driven culture than ever before. Guys,
- 13:14Speaker 4: in the span of just six days, we're on track
- 13:15Speaker 4: to see the most expensive ticket prices ever for the
- 13:17Speaker 4: World Series, obviously.
- 13:19Speaker 3: Brewers had raised game one 3.1 thousand right now.
- 13:22Speaker 4: NBA regular season, which is the Knicks 76ers game today,
- 13:25Speaker 4: which is 1.8 thousand. And the WNBA finals, the dream
- 13:30Speaker 4: at the Valkyries game one for 275. So, I mean,
- 13:32Speaker 4: it's not a lot, but that's the most expensive ever.
- 13:36Speaker 4: So is this just a trend of us as American consumers?
- 13:41Speaker 4: Are these events really that great of events compared to
- 13:44Speaker 4: the ones.
- 13:44Speaker 3: In the past?
- 13:45Speaker 4: Or is there just an infinite market now for ticket demand?
- 13:48Speaker 4: And people, some people have money to throw away.
- 13:51Speaker 2: Not throw away.
- 13:52Speaker 3: That's the wrong way to say it. They have money to.
- 13:53Speaker 2: They have disposable income.
- 13:55Speaker 4: They have more disposable income to invest and spend, and
- 13:57Speaker 4: they're just going to do it? It is interesting, because
- 14:00Speaker 4: you think to yourself, there has to be an end
- 14:02Speaker 4: to that.
- 14:02Speaker 3: But what is it?
- 14:04Speaker 2: And is there? So someone's paying $ 1, 800 to watch LeBron
- 14:07Speaker 2: James break everyone's hearts tonight at Madison Square Garden?
- 14:10Speaker 4: This is according to my man, Ticket Data Keith. He's
- 14:13Speaker 4: one of my favorite followers in the last week, as
- 14:14Speaker 4: you know, Billy, who loves to analyze ticket data on the...
- 14:20Speaker 4: uh sports and concerts he said uh this was a
- 14:23Speaker 4: few hours ago after steadily declining ever since the matchup
- 14:26Speaker 4: was announced on august 11th they get impressed for tonight's
- 14:28Speaker 4: sixers next game has suddenly skyrocketed to almost 2 000
- 14:33Speaker 4: that's the highest it's been at any point more than
- 14:35Speaker 4: double what it was 24 hours ago well that.
- 14:38Speaker 2: Must be interesting because maybe there's some folks that are
- 14:40Speaker 2: sitting here at uh outside of msgc and tracy mcgrady
- 14:43Speaker 2: rocking what only can appear to be a reverent outfit
- 14:46Speaker 2: on national television. You just missed it. He's got the
- 14:50Speaker 2: full small little white collar. That's hilarious. But that was
- 14:55Speaker 2: the time in New York. People had been waiting, what,
- 14:58Speaker 2: since the 70s for their last title that they just
- 15:01Speaker 2: clinched up? So they had waited that long, and I
- 15:04Speaker 2: was dumbfounded by the prices at the finals. And Armin,
- 15:09Speaker 2: you did hit it on the head. We are an
- 15:10Speaker 2: experience-driven culture. That is one thing that social media has magnified, Drew,
- 15:17Speaker 2: of being in the venue and being there. That is
- 15:21Speaker 2: one time that this one will be something. And I'm
- 15:23Speaker 2: excited to watch LeBron go and break everyone's heart.
- 15:25Speaker 3: You know, for some influencers, they can.
- 15:28Speaker 4: Make the argument or they can cope with the fact that, hey,
- 15:30Speaker 4: This is part of my business.
- 15:31Speaker 3: I have to be at these events.
- 15:32Speaker 2: Your girl Bree was at the Dodger games. You think
- 15:37Speaker 2: her business model is cracking in for SRO? I think
- 15:41Speaker 2: her business model works, but not because of me. I'm
- 15:43Speaker 2: calling my girl.
- 15:45Speaker 4: Okay. But I think her business model does work, unfortunately,
- 15:48Speaker 4: because of some situations out there that.
- 15:51Speaker 3: Are kind of human interest.
- 15:52Speaker 5: Billy, can I get a clarification on the, oh, yeah,
- 15:55Speaker 5: McGrady does look.
- 15:56Speaker 3: Like a, he's a.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Doesn't he look like a reverend right now?
- 15:59Speaker 3: I mean, Catholic priest could.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Yes, 100%.
- 16:01Speaker 3: Is that blasphemous?
- 16:03Speaker 2: They don't sell that on the United Life Church, where
- 16:06Speaker 2: you can get the $ 39. 95 packet so you can be ordained.
- 16:10Speaker 2: That's right.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Billy is a reverend. Actually, William.
- 16:12Speaker 5: My question is, Sixers-Knicks, when you're doing the stats, is
- 16:15Speaker 5: this a home game for LeBron since it's in Manhattan?
- 16:18Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. This is in a home game because the
- 16:21Speaker 2: helicopter from his place to Madison Square Garden that I
- 16:25Speaker 2: think he said that he bought, you know, two years
- 16:26Speaker 2: ago because he wanted to play for the next was
- 16:28Speaker 2: was planning on playing for the next. But then they
- 16:29Speaker 2: messed it up and went and won the championship last year.
- 16:32Speaker 2: So I guess I can't play there. That's a good one.
- 16:33Speaker 2: This is definitely a home game. No helicopter ride tonight.
- 16:37Speaker 2: Or maybe the, you know. Maybe the ecosystem wins because
- 16:40Speaker 2: we have to gas up that helicopter to fly down
- 16:42Speaker 2: to Philadelphia.
- 16:43Speaker 4: Now, they are also raising their banner tonight, I should say.
- 16:45Speaker 4: So maybe that adds some interest for Knicks fans.
- 16:47Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:50Speaker 4: What kind of– you just bought the chopper. Just, I'm
- 16:52Speaker 4: going to buy a chopper, and he doesn't have to
- 16:54Speaker 4: commute today.
- 16:55Speaker 3: I thought we learned how that went.
- 16:56Speaker 2: Now, I got to ask you one final thing.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Wow.
- 16:58Speaker 2: The Valkyries dream game, is that in Atlanta, or is
- 17:01Speaker 2: that at Golden State? I'll check that out for you.
- 17:04Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. Because if it's in
- 17:06Speaker 2: Golden State, I'm surprised. Those people have watched so much
- 17:10Speaker 2: championship basketball, they don't know what else to do with themselves. Like, wait,
- 17:14Speaker 2: Warriors aren't going for a number of years, so we
- 17:16Speaker 2: might as well jump on this first-year team rolling through
- 17:18Speaker 2: out here by the bay.
- 17:19Speaker 3: In Atlanta.
- 17:20Speaker 2: In Atlanta.
- 17:21Speaker 3: And they're two-and-a-half-point favorites if you want to jump on that.
- 17:24Speaker 2: That viewing party at Magic City tonight is going to
- 17:26Speaker 2: be off the charts. Do you imagine?
- 17:30Speaker 3: Do you think they'll have that game on?
- 17:31Speaker 4: I don't see why not. They're playing for a championship
- 17:33Speaker 4: in Atlanta, right? Yeah, what else are you going to
- 17:36Speaker 4: watch while people are eating wings? Isn't that why people
- 17:38Speaker 4: go there?
- 17:39Speaker 2: Yeah, watch TV. The lemon pepper wings.
- 17:40Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 17:41Speaker 3: Lemon Pepper. Absolutely. They watch TV. Lou Williams.
- 17:45Speaker 2: If Lou Williams is not hosting a watch party at
- 17:48Speaker 2: Magic City, that feels like a mess.
- 17:50Speaker 3: Now, Fernando Mendoza went there. Was that fake on the Internet?
- 17:55Speaker 2: He got takeout.
- 17:56Speaker 3: He got takeout. He got takeout there. Yeah, he got
- 17:58Speaker 3: takeout the night before.
- 17:59Speaker 2: That's good. That was well done. He had to prep
- 18:01Speaker 2: himself for Vegas. He's probably getting no boot delivered a
- 18:05Speaker 2: couple of times. He's got to.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Door dashing maybe the Wynn Buffet every once.
- 18:08Speaker 2: In a while.
- 18:08Speaker 3: Well, that's a tough one.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Barry's out at Circa.
- 18:11Speaker 4: Because you can't enjoy the buffet the way you normally
- 18:13Speaker 4: would on a door dash. I feel like that's got
- 18:15Speaker 4: to be an in-person experience.
- 18:16Speaker 3: You would think. Yeah, you would think so.
- 18:19Speaker 4: Interesting conversation about this. Tickets and a lot of people
- 18:22Speaker 4: have opinions on the.
- 18:23Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll spin through some of these. Let us know.
- 18:26Speaker 5: I mean, the one thing that I do have to
- 18:29Speaker 5: kind of push back against is is people who are
- 18:32Speaker 5: seeing these ticket prices and saying, oh, the Brewers and
- 18:34Speaker 5: MLB are so greedy.
- 18:36Speaker 3: This ain't them.
- 18:37Speaker 5: These people that are listing these 400 levels for like $ 3, 000, they.
- 18:40Speaker 3: Didn't pay $ 3, 000 for them.
- 18:42Speaker 5: I mean, unless they bought them on the secondary market,
- 18:45Speaker 5: and then they suddenly can't go or are trying to
- 18:47Speaker 5: make a profit on them.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Drew, it's as my wife said, it's the
- 18:51Speaker 2: mean people that are not just selling that for face
- 18:55Speaker 2: value to other Brewers fans.
- 18:56Speaker 3: I love that.
- 18:57Speaker 2: That's what I love about it.
- 18:58Speaker 3: I love the altruism.
- 18:59Speaker 5: A lot of bands, like there's a Springsteen message board,
- 19:01Speaker 5: and they had a ticket exchange. You could only sell
- 19:04Speaker 5: them for face value.
- 19:06Speaker 2: That's what the Savannah Bananas do.
- 19:07Speaker 5: You could only sell them for face value to other
- 19:10Speaker 5: like-minded folks. And sometimes bands will do that. Fan groups
- 19:13Speaker 5: will do that. If you're going to sell them here,
- 19:16Speaker 5: you've got to do it for face. This is what
- 19:17Speaker 5: you have to do. Or you'll lose fan points and stuff.
- 19:19Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit. A little bit.
- 19:20Speaker 2: It's fascinating. Again.
- 19:23Speaker 3: It is what it is, folks. That's the market.
- 19:25Speaker 5: The cost of being, oh, darn, I've been wanting for
- 19:28Speaker 5: 44 years for the Brewers to go to the World Series,
- 19:30Speaker 5: so I could bitch about not being able to afford
- 19:32Speaker 5: a ticket. That's why, you know what you just need
- 19:34Speaker 5: is the Brewers to go like three times in five years.
- 19:36Speaker 5: And then that game three ticket in 29 will be
- 19:40Speaker 5: much cheaper, much more affordable.
- 19:42Speaker 2: All we have to do is become a World Series dynasty.
- 19:44Speaker 2: I mean, it'll take the family of four if you're
- 19:45Speaker 2: becoming a dynasty. Then we'll get bored with it, right?
- 19:48Speaker 2: Then we might not even show up for game four.
- 19:50Speaker 2: of the NLCS if our team's on the brink of elimination.
- 19:53Speaker 2: They'll be having to use those. Let's get the champagne
- 19:55Speaker 2: problems wrong. Fan appreciation coupons for those games. I wonder
- 19:59Speaker 2: if my broad bad time was taken up. What would
- 20:02Speaker 2: they say to me there?
- 20:03Speaker 3: Well played.
- 20:04Speaker 2: All right.
- 20:04Speaker 1: 877-794-1973.
- 20:05Speaker 3: You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 20:23Speaker 5: Back on the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee,
- 20:26Speaker 5: 1070 Madison, iHeartRadio app, X, YouTube, and Facebook for the stream. Drew, Billy, Armin,
- 20:33Speaker 5: and you. Talking about a number of things. Brewers, Rays,
- 20:36Speaker 5: World Series. A couple of similarities between these two teams.
- 20:42Speaker 5: I mean, both expansion era teams that have changed their names.
- 20:46Speaker 2: Oh, I like that one.
- 20:48Speaker 3: From Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee Brewers and from Devil Rays
- 20:50Speaker 3: to Rays.
- 20:51Speaker 2: But I like that they're busting the Devil Rays stuff
- 20:53Speaker 2: back out. I was going to say, both leads to
- 20:55Speaker 2: the throwback. By far better than their stuff that they
- 20:57Speaker 2: have now.
- 20:58Speaker 4: The hat looks clean, too. And I never disliked their
- 21:02Speaker 4: current colorway and logo and imagery, the TB.
- 21:05Speaker 3: It's pretty solid, clean, navy blue. But there's something cool.
- 21:08Speaker 4: About that big old ray with the wings and the colors,
- 21:11Speaker 4: kind of that purple and green.
- 21:13Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 21:14Speaker 3: I agree with you. So I'd say that's a similarity,
- 21:16Speaker 3: both leaning into their throwback look.
- 21:19Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:19Speaker 5: If we've been talking about the timeless ticket and the, again,
- 21:23Speaker 5: shocking prices in the secondary market, anybody else bitching about
- 21:27Speaker 5: $ 98 hoodies?
- 21:30Speaker 3: Well, I did the Billy, but I don't know that
- 21:32Speaker 3: that's anything out of the ordinary for me.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:34Speaker 3: I did buy the $ 45 t-shirt just because I couldn't
- 21:35Speaker 3: not get something.
- 21:39Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 21:40Speaker 4: The hats, I think, are pretty, you know, 40-something. That's
- 21:42Speaker 4: still a lot, but it's for a hat that's pretty...
- 21:44Speaker 4: But a 90... Well, the hats are no different than
- 21:47Speaker 4: every hat, right?
- 21:47Speaker 2: Like, and now a 59-50 hat is costing you 50 bucks.
- 21:51Speaker 3: That's right, so.
- 21:52Speaker 2: The on-field one, that one's not necessarily different. I didn't
- 21:55Speaker 2: see that being... Too much of an issue. You're right.
- 21:57Speaker 3: I agree with you there. A sweatshirt, Billy?
- 22:01Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll be also interested to see how many people
- 22:03Speaker 2: are jumping off and jumping at the jerseys with the
- 22:07Speaker 2: super special World Series patch on it.
- 22:09Speaker 4: That's the one I think. See, I think most people
- 22:11Speaker 4: would like to buy a patch and put it on themselves.
- 22:14Speaker 4: They're not making that available like they used to probably.
- 22:16Speaker 4: Once upon a time, you could probably get a World
- 22:18Speaker 4: Series patch. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would think they're
- 22:21Speaker 4: going to make sure they don't sell those individually. Because
- 22:23Speaker 4: people would just add it to an existing jersey. They
- 22:25Speaker 4: used to put it on the sleeve, looked cooler. It
- 22:28Speaker 4: used to be a little bit bigger of a look.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Now it's right there on the chest, which I believe
- 22:34Speaker 2: there's going to be plenty of those running around here.
- 22:37Speaker 4: Well, it was funny because I was wondering if they
- 22:39Speaker 4: would just sell C's for people to add to their
- 22:42Speaker 4: yellow jersey for the captain's patch. That would be a
- 22:45Speaker 4: smart one. That would be a smart one to do.
- 22:46Speaker 4: I wouldn't think that's hard to do. to sell in
- 22:49Speaker 4: that sense.
- 22:50Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 22:50Speaker 4: I wasn't looking at the, when I went to the
- 22:52Speaker 4: team store, I didn't, it wasn't looking at the patches,
- 22:53Speaker 4: but that world series Jersey, it's going to be sweet.
- 22:57Speaker 4: It's going to, especially if the brewers win, you're going
- 22:59Speaker 4: to want every piece of memory you can. It's like
- 23:02Speaker 4: the bucks deal.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Here's one.
- 23:03Speaker 5: If you want to get all of her clamp today
- 23:04Speaker 5: on the brewer socials, they posted a video of the
- 23:07Speaker 5: painting of the world series logo onto the field.
- 23:09Speaker 3: Oh, that's so awesome.
- 23:11Speaker 4: I was wondering when they were putting up like a
- 23:14Speaker 4: signage outside and stuff like that. I would imagine people
- 23:17Speaker 4: want to take pictures and, Yeah, on the field.
- 23:21Speaker 3: It's cool that we're here. I mean, it's a dream
- 23:23Speaker 3: come true. We're lifted to the heavens.
- 23:25Speaker 4: But it's also cool having this little extended layoff because
- 23:28Speaker 4: you can think about those things and enjoy them and
- 23:31Speaker 4: not have to be rushed into it.
- 23:33Speaker 5: And the Brewers, as I figured, they're going to get
- 23:35Speaker 5: their flowers now, and people are going to be glazing
- 23:39Speaker 5: them for a while. Jake Bowers and his wife on
- 23:42Speaker 5: Good Morning America telling their story.
- 23:45Speaker 3: Hmm. How much do you like the health insurance?
- 23:47Speaker 5: How he almost walked away, but then needed to, you know,
- 23:50Speaker 5: he needed that insurance.
- 23:51Speaker 4: It's amazing.
- 23:52Speaker 3: It's a great story for, you know.
- 23:54Speaker 4: Right.
- 23:54Speaker 5: Leading into what everybody's talking about health care because of
- 23:57Speaker 5: the election and everything.
- 23:58Speaker 2: Yeah. And it is the it is the five hours
- 24:02Speaker 2: of pregame that you usually get for the Super Bowl.
- 24:05Speaker 2: It's the five days of pregame spread out.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
- 24:07Speaker 2: It just gets spread out throughout and you get every
- 24:10Speaker 2: story that you're going to have told. The Bowers one
- 24:12Speaker 2: is going to be a great story to tell. The
- 24:14Speaker 2: ties between the two organization is going to be a
- 24:16Speaker 2: fun one. I'm excited to have a little bit of
- 24:19Speaker 2: maybe the shine off of mizorowski over the last couple
- 24:23Speaker 2: of weeks right like not that not that he won't
- 24:26Speaker 2: get uh eyes on him and excitement for when he
- 24:29Speaker 2: takes the ball in game one but drew there isn't
- 24:32Speaker 2: the demand and the thirst to hear from him because
- 24:35Speaker 2: he hasn't been necessarily greatness two starts and take a
- 24:37Speaker 2: little bit of pressure off the young man that has
- 24:39Speaker 2: been working and living in that kind of pressure cooker
- 24:41Speaker 2: all year long pretty pretty wild i would say that Oh, yeah,
- 24:46Speaker 2: by the way, we got this guy who throws harder
- 24:48Speaker 2: than anybody. Yeah, more 100-mile-an-hour pitches are going to win
- 24:50Speaker 2: the Cy Young going away, but he's probably like.
- 24:52Speaker 3: The fourth or fifth story right now.
- 24:54Speaker 5: Well, he'll do an availability on Thursday, and then they
- 24:58Speaker 5: will build that into a lot of the pregame and
- 25:00Speaker 5: just the early coverage at the outset of game one.
- 25:05Speaker 4: As good as Miz has been, and He hasn't been
- 25:08Speaker 4: bad by any stretch in the playoffs, but I think
- 25:10Speaker 4: we're still waiting to see his best performance in the playoffs.
- 25:12Speaker 3: I mean, I think he can.
- 25:13Speaker 2: I would hope so. He hadn't had much of his
- 25:16Speaker 2: command at all throughout the play.
- 25:17Speaker 4: Right. He's good enough to get by kind of and
- 25:19Speaker 4: keep you in games with that and still be a
- 25:21Speaker 4: good starter. But obviously, we've seen what his potential could be.
- 25:24Speaker 4: And it hadn't really been there yet in the playoffs.
- 25:27Speaker 4: So you would have to hope, OK, well, maybe maybe
- 25:29Speaker 4: it's coming here in the World Series.
- 25:31Speaker 2: Hope so. I mean, this is the time. That's probably
- 25:34Speaker 2: the thing to hope for. Time to be their best.
- 25:36Speaker 4: And maybe with the extended layoff, I know people have
- 25:38Speaker 4: talked a lot about it.
- 25:39Speaker 2: Will it hurt?
- 25:40Speaker 3: Will it help? There's a lot of debate on that, too.
- 25:42Speaker 3: I mean, I know there's some stats.
- 25:44Speaker 4: But you would think for a team power pitching heavy team,
- 25:47Speaker 4: power arms, rest would help, right? You would think that
- 25:51Speaker 4: getting those guys revved up, gassed up with the freshest
- 25:54Speaker 4: arm possible would help the Brewers.
- 25:56Speaker 3: Well, what about Bowers, Drew?
- 25:57Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about a guy that has had
- 25:59Speaker 2: a number– He was walking around with like five different
- 26:01Speaker 2: injuries this year.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Maybe not surprisingly so.
- 26:04Speaker 2: He gets a little bit of rest, and then he
- 26:06Speaker 2: has his most productive run of a week in the
- 26:10Speaker 2: last two months or so.
- 26:11Speaker 5: Isn't it interesting that the respective MVPs of the LCSs,
- 26:17Speaker 5: I say that alphabet soup, Bowers and Freddie are both
- 26:20Speaker 5: heading into free agency at the worst possible time when
- 26:22Speaker 5: the industry is going to shut down December 2nd.
- 26:25Speaker 3: Everybody's going to, if they miss.
- 26:26Speaker 5: The regular season games, owners are going to cry poor,
- 26:28Speaker 5: and that's going to depress the free agent market.
- 26:30Speaker 3: Let's talk about bad timing.
- 26:32Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no Larry Brown's my man that played corner
- 26:35Speaker 2: for the Cowboys, right? The pick sixes in the Super Bowl.
- 26:39Speaker 2: No Larry Brown moment for these guys. No owner is
- 26:42Speaker 2: just going to be able to jump out and pay
- 26:45Speaker 2: it quickly. Or will they? I've heard some folks trying
- 26:48Speaker 2: to throw this one out there. I think it was
- 26:49Speaker 2: Buster only on his podcast this week, Drew, of teams
- 26:52Speaker 2: saying that Well, maybe we can jump the gun and
- 26:56Speaker 2: try to sign guys before this.
- 26:57Speaker 3: Lockout comes in.
- 26:59Speaker 2: Before the December 2nd, you get a month and see
- 27:01Speaker 2: if you can get some guys grandfathered in, depending on
- 27:04Speaker 2: how whatever this new salary structure goes. I'm fascinated to see,
- 27:08Speaker 2: but you're right. These guys are walking in at the
- 27:10Speaker 2: worst possible time to strike while the iron's hot, because
- 27:13Speaker 2: it'll be about May when you have to go and
- 27:15Speaker 2: call up these October highlights again to say, this is
- 27:18Speaker 2: how valuable I can be again.
- 27:19Speaker 3: This is how valuable I can be again.
- 27:21Speaker 2: Make sure you sign me. Jake Bauer is going to
- 27:23Speaker 2: be the guy to break the mold and be the
- 27:26Speaker 2: back-to-back starting first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers on opening day.
- 27:30Speaker 4: That's a great question. There's a lot to be– a
- 27:32Speaker 4: lot of question up in the air about that. He's
- 27:34Speaker 4: a free agent. There's this looming lockout potentially. The qualifying
- 27:37Speaker 4: offer I saw got pumped up to, what, $ 23 million.
- 27:41Speaker 4: It just got dropped today. That would be what the
- 27:43Speaker 4: Brewers would have to offer him, and I would think
- 27:45Speaker 4: he'd want to take that. But, I mean, it's not
- 27:47Speaker 4: a good year to be a free agent. But that's
- 27:50Speaker 4: a good.
- 27:50Speaker 3: Question, Billy. It is.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Couple of good times for some free agents in the NFL.
- 27:56Speaker 2: Former Packers signing some deals here. Rams signing veteran kicker
- 28:01Speaker 2: Drew Brandon McManus. Hey, now he and Rappaport their kicker
- 28:06Speaker 2: saga has been very well documented. They bring up Blake
- 28:09Speaker 2: Groupie after cutting Harrison Mivas Groupie's first kick as a
- 28:13Speaker 2: member of the Rams. He blows out his ACL trying
- 28:16Speaker 2: to tackle somebody and getting dusted off like a feather
- 28:20Speaker 2: on a shoulder.
- 28:21Speaker 4: Nice. So now they had to go find somebody else.
- 28:23Speaker 4: Didn't they get maced for a while, too? When Mason
- 28:26Speaker 4: was knocking around a bit at the end of his career,
- 28:28Speaker 4: I thought they got Mason for a couple games.
- 28:30Speaker 3: So that would be kind.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Of a little trend. Yeah, I'll have to check on
- 28:34Speaker 2: that one. He's been gone for quite some time. The
- 28:38Speaker 2: 2026 Rams did not dust off the Mason Crosby one.
- 28:41Speaker 3: I'm just saying I remember him. He was off for
- 28:43Speaker 3: a couple of weeks. I don't think that was the case.
- 28:44Speaker 2: I do think there was a fact that they had
- 28:48Speaker 2: tried Matt Prater, who you want to talk about skeletal
- 28:51Speaker 2: remains there, but their punter drew was about to have
- 28:54Speaker 2: the greatest week possible.
- 28:56Speaker 3: Come in, kick the extra point, the game winning extra point.
- 28:59Speaker 3: They were about to escape.
- 29:00Speaker 2: 1615 until they didn't until Jack kicked the game winning
- 29:06Speaker 2: field goal in the final 40 something seconds of that game.
- 29:09Speaker 2: The other one and something you want to talk about
- 29:11Speaker 2: a reunion that just continually happens. Marquez Valdez Scantling signing
- 29:18Speaker 2: on the practice squad with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Go that
- 29:21Speaker 2: got to get one more run with MVS.
- 29:24Speaker 3: Hang on MVS. Now, could he get someone to watch
- 29:26Speaker 3: his dogs is the question. Because that was a.
- 29:30Speaker 2: Big thing when they went overseas, if you remember.
- 29:33Speaker 5: I need to know what was going on at the
- 29:35Speaker 5: Schmidt household last evening.
- 29:37Speaker 3: Were you hard down watching Freddy?
- 29:40Speaker 5: Rays punch their ticket to the World Series in Milwaukee,
- 29:42Speaker 5: or were you watching Commanders and Niners?
- 29:45Speaker 2: I did sadly watch more of that Commanders-Niners first three
- 29:48Speaker 2: quarters than.
- 29:50Speaker 2: Meets the eye it was an ugly affair early but
- 29:52Speaker 2: I luckily was able to watch a decent amount at
- 29:54Speaker 2: the end but I was I was trying to time
- 29:57Speaker 2: it up drew as to when to make the final
- 30:01Speaker 2: purchase because we had the game three tickets down in
- 30:02Speaker 2: Tampa wanted to buy get the hotel and the on
- 30:07Speaker 2: certain airlines non-refundable airline ticket Wanted to make sure that
- 30:10Speaker 2: that game was going to happen. So I was as
- 30:14Speaker 2: dialed in and as much of a Tampa Bay Rays
- 30:17Speaker 2: fan as the members of the faithful waving the towels
- 30:21Speaker 2: at the drop yesterday. I was living and dying with
- 30:24Speaker 2: that Yandy Diaz swing when he put that dagger into
- 30:27Speaker 2: him and got those two runs back that the Rays
- 30:29Speaker 2: had just given up. But 49ers and Commanders, 49ers look
- 30:35Speaker 2: pretty dang good, Drew. 49ers look pretty dang good as
- 30:39Speaker 2: Brock Purdy last night officially becomes official and officially qualified
- 30:44Speaker 2: and is now the all time record holder for passer
- 30:47Speaker 2: rating in the National Football League.
- 30:49Speaker 3: And he's qualified. He's in. Yeah, that's it.
- 30:51Speaker 1: Wow.
- 30:52Speaker 3: Amongst qualified. He's been able to cross that threshold.
- 30:55Speaker 2: Remarkable.
- 30:56Speaker 3: He was the first seventh round quarterback to start a
- 30:58Speaker 3: Super Bowl.
- 30:59Speaker 2: And for. Many of us, me being one of those
- 31:03Speaker 2: that led the charge to say, dude's just not that good.
- 31:06Speaker 2: I don't know what anybody is watching.
- 31:09Speaker 3: He's not that good. That was your jihad for a while.
- 31:12Speaker 1: Oh, God.
- 31:12Speaker 2: He is continually dunked on that narrative.
- 31:15Speaker 5: After watching last night, which of the unbeatens will be
- 31:18Speaker 5: the first to drop a game? Chiefs, Niners, or Vikings?
- 31:21Speaker 3: This is a great question. I like this.
- 31:24Speaker 2: Well, we ran through the Vikings schedule a tick. Yeah,
- 31:27Speaker 2: it's hard about a week. It gets harder for them.
- 31:30Speaker 2: They've got losses coming. Yeah, probably not this week. I
- 31:35Speaker 2: think the Chiefs are really, really dangerous. The Vikings will
- 31:41Speaker 2: lose at Detroit next week. So I'm going to go
- 31:45Speaker 2: with the Vikings. Okay, I'm going to go with the
- 31:47Speaker 2: Vikings because the 49ers drew to seem like I mean,
- 31:51Speaker 2: like they've they're rolling and they have like all of
- 31:55Speaker 2: the little infinity stones that the Avengers ended up having.
- 31:59Speaker 2: They're all activated. And you thought that you had a
- 32:01Speaker 2: little bit of an extra one with Mike Evans. Their
- 32:03Speaker 2: offense is definitely different and was different when he went
- 32:05Speaker 2: out of the game last night with that Achilles tendonitis
- 32:10Speaker 2: might be an injury.
- 32:11Speaker 3: I'd be shutting somebody down with. Drew, if you I
- 32:14Speaker 3: would say.
- 32:15Speaker 2: As many people were watching the baseball game, you didn't
- 32:17Speaker 2: get probably treated to seeing Mike Evans trying to stretch
- 32:20Speaker 2: out his Achilles in the tunnel at different times on
- 32:24Speaker 2: the field as well. He's doing like downward dog yoga
- 32:27Speaker 2: poses and then pulls up lame. They were not nearly
- 32:31Speaker 2: the same kind of offense when he was not on
- 32:33Speaker 2: the field. So maybe that ends up being an issue
- 32:36Speaker 2: when they go and take on the Falcons. But the
- 32:39Speaker 2: 49ers go to Atlanta. Host the Raiders. at the Cowboys
- 32:45Speaker 2: and home against the Vikings. I'm seeing some more wins
- 32:48Speaker 2: on that schedule, especially if the Cowboys team that we
- 32:50Speaker 2: just watched at Lambeau is the one that they face
- 32:53Speaker 2: on the 15th of November.
- 32:54Speaker 4: It's funny because going into the year, everyone was worried
- 32:55Speaker 4: about them being good, but being kind of old and
- 32:57Speaker 4: injured and battered. And it feels like everybody else are
- 33:00Speaker 4: the ones that are doing that right now. So I
- 33:02Speaker 4: probably would agree with you there, Billy. I don't really
- 33:04Speaker 4: believe in the Vikings, although they keep winning. Of course,
- 33:07Speaker 4: I'm biased and I don't like when the Vikings win.
- 33:09Speaker 4: So that's part of the problem. For me, so I, yeah.
- 33:12Speaker 2: Vikings had the early buy and a tough slate on
- 33:15Speaker 2: the back end of that.
- 33:16Speaker 5: Like after next week, we went through it yesterday. It's
- 33:19Speaker 5: pretty rough.
- 33:19Speaker 2: Out of those three teams, the Vikings would also be
- 33:22Speaker 2: the one that I would bet to miss the playoffs.
- 33:24Speaker 2: Like if you were going to go and try to
- 33:27Speaker 2: take some kind of swing on Thursday night at the
- 33:29Speaker 2: Pottawatomie Sportsbook and you're really trying to bet big, bet bold,
- 33:31Speaker 2: and bet above the rest. become an absolute legend in
- 33:34Speaker 2: the eyes of Armin Sarian, that might be the value
- 33:37Speaker 2: bet to end up firing it.
- 33:38Speaker 3: Definitely like that.
- 33:39Speaker 4: Really quick on YouTube, Mike Witt dropping one about McManus.
- 33:42Speaker 4: He said, can't wait for the night before Thanksgiving when
- 33:44Speaker 4: he lines up for a field goal to win it.
- 33:45Speaker 3: Versus us and misses.
- 33:47Speaker 2: Oh, let's go, Mike. That's what I'm talking about.
- 33:51Speaker 3: I like that.
- 33:52Speaker 2: One former Packer that won't be lining up for that one,
- 33:55Speaker 2: Devontae Adams with a ruptured hamstring. Walked off with a
- 33:59Speaker 2: ruptured hamstring. Terrible.
- 34:01Speaker 5: I like Devontae a lot, but I think it's great
- 34:03Speaker 5: that they won't have to face him.
- 34:05Speaker 2: Very much so.
- 34:06Speaker 3: It's definitely going to help us. Just saying. Oh, and
- 34:08Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin's season is over.
- 34:10Speaker 2: Dunzo. This Jalen Hurts story continues to get stranger and
- 34:15Speaker 2: stranger out there in Philadelphia.
- 34:17Speaker 3: Getting spicy as well.
- 34:18Speaker 5: When we come back, we'll do a little Who's Hot,
- 34:19Speaker 5: Who's Not brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen.
- 34:21Speaker 3: Heating and cooling. You are in the huddle.
- 34:23Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. We are huddled up on a
- 34:33Speaker 5: Tuesday in the good land. Drew, Billy, and Armin coming
- 34:35Speaker 5: at you. 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison. We are rolling through
- 34:38Speaker 5: a Tuesday. And we're talking about this Brewers timeless ticket thing.
- 34:43Speaker 2: And I just saw that the Brewers have released a statement.
- 34:51Speaker 2: This is a stunner. Rick Schlesinger released a statement saying
- 34:54Speaker 2: in part that the Brewers, quote, did not live up
- 34:57Speaker 2: to the spirit of the timeless ticket program.
- 35:00Speaker 4: So.
- 35:02Speaker 5: Any fans who accepted subpar seats through the timeless ticket
- 35:04Speaker 5: program will get to keep those seats for the world
- 35:07Speaker 5: series and keep the timeless ticket for redemption for another
- 35:10Speaker 5: game in any future season.
- 35:12Speaker 4: Let's hear it for the brewers. They didn't have to
- 35:14Speaker 4: do this. This is pretty impressive in my opinion.
- 35:16Speaker 3: And they're smart.
- 35:17Speaker 5: They didn't have to do this, but Armin, before you
- 35:19Speaker 5: congratulate too much, it's called damage control PR 101.
- 35:22Speaker 2: That would be doing the right thing as people were
- 35:25Speaker 2: asking them to do.
- 35:26Speaker 3: That's for sure.
- 35:26Speaker 4: It's smart, but it, They would have been fine without it,
- 35:29Speaker 4: but you're right. It's smart because now they're just pushing
- 35:31Speaker 4: the debt off. I mean, but yeah, this is great.
- 35:34Speaker 4: I mean, at this point, now you're like, all right,
- 35:36Speaker 4: we're going to do right by you.
- 35:37Speaker 3: This is a good move.
- 35:38Speaker 5: Rick's quote was, we subsequently erred in our internal communications
- 35:43Speaker 5: on the logistics of fulfilling the requests. While we were
- 35:46Speaker 5: able to accommodate all with seats, we received feedback from
- 35:48Speaker 5: some that they were unhappy with their seat locations. Clearly,
- 35:51Speaker 5: even with extraordinary limitations on available seats, we did not
- 35:54Speaker 5: live up to the spirit of the program.
- 35:55Speaker 3: We have been working through a resolution. This is good.
- 35:58Speaker 5: He said, we regret our mistake and look forward to
- 36:00Speaker 5: welcoming them to America Family Field for their World Series experience.
- 36:04Speaker 4: We aired in the internal communications of the logistics.
- 36:08Speaker 2: That is smart.
- 36:09Speaker 3: I'm going to write that down. We'll use that in email.
- 36:11Speaker 2: We'll break that down for brass tacks of what they did.
- 36:14Speaker 2: We sat down, had a meeting, and realized we might
- 36:15Speaker 2: have messed up. I realized that we were going to
- 36:18Speaker 2: get absolutely roasted for the next week and a half.
- 36:20Speaker 3: We don't want all this negative juju going into our
- 36:22Speaker 3: biggest week of.
- 36:23Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not trying to have anybody talking bad about
- 36:26Speaker 2: our organization rolling into the most important run that we've had.
- 36:29Speaker 2: And also.
- 36:32Speaker 3: Very much so. They didn't have to do this. I'm
- 36:34Speaker 3: kind of surprised they did.
- 36:35Speaker 2: But the one part of it is, Drew, to your point,
- 36:39Speaker 2: all they had, all they end up doing is coming
- 36:40Speaker 2: up roses. You know what that is? future Rick Schlesinger's problem.
- 36:44Speaker 3: That's exactly it.
- 36:45Speaker 1: Very true.
- 36:46Speaker 2: Future my problem.
- 36:47Speaker 3: Marty Aronsky, that's here. Put that on your plate. Marty,
- 36:49Speaker 3: we'll deal with that next year.
- 36:51Speaker 2: We'll deal with that next year when they try to
- 36:52Speaker 2: cash in again for NLCS worthy. And then on a
- 36:57Speaker 2: little who's hot, who's not with Donovan Jorgensen heating and cooling,
- 37:00Speaker 2: number one HVAC system, employee-owned HVAC company in the state
- 37:03Speaker 2: of Wisconsin. Who's not hot? If I'm reading that correctly,
- 37:07Speaker 2: would be two old boys in Kenosha that decided that
- 37:09Speaker 2: they weren't going to get the tickets. I mean, we
- 37:12Speaker 2: took the tickets. Great. You just won the great lottery ticket.
- 37:17Speaker 3: I got to believe that they'll be able to cash
- 37:19Speaker 3: in and keep third.
- 37:20Speaker 2: You would think.
- 37:21Speaker 4: You have to now after this because then they could say, well,
- 37:23Speaker 4: the Brewers screwed us again.
- 37:25Speaker 2: Well, no, you screwed yourself. Well, I agree with you.
- 37:27Speaker 2: Should have just taken the meal that was in front
- 37:29Speaker 2: of you. Somebody would have made it right at the
- 37:31Speaker 2: end of the day.
- 37:31Speaker 4: Well, yes, but after they said, we'll make it right
- 37:34Speaker 4: this way and then don't give me that's a bait.
- 37:36Speaker 2: They'll have to do it.
- 37:37Speaker 3: But you're right, Billy.
- 37:38Speaker 2: But will they, Armin?
- 37:39Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 37:39Speaker 2: How many tickets are available now? They might say this
- 37:41Speaker 2: is still against.
- 37:42Speaker 4: The principle, and they want to stand by their principles,
- 37:45Speaker 4: you know, and say, hey, I still want a better ticket, right?
- 37:48Speaker 3: Sure, but subject. Okay, well, you do that, then you're
- 37:51Speaker 3: just a jackass.
- 37:52Speaker 2: If that's your case, then you deserve to sit at
- 37:57Speaker 2: home and watch the game. But if you're those two cats, yes,
- 38:02Speaker 2: we'd love to be able to help you out. Don't
- 38:04Speaker 2: have any. If you're talking about real subject to availability,
- 38:09Speaker 2: show me where the availability is unless you're taking away
- 38:11Speaker 2: the players' tickets that Tampa Bay ends up turning back
- 38:14Speaker 2: in at some point. You know what?
- 38:15Speaker 4: We could use two more auxiliary ushers in the auxiliary
- 38:18Speaker 4: press box.
- 38:19Speaker 3: What if they got that chance to work? I thought
- 38:22Speaker 3: about that.
- 38:23Speaker 4: I was like, man, that would have been the ultimate
- 38:24Speaker 4: flex is if you got a part-time job this year
- 38:27Speaker 4: at American Family Field and now could go to the
- 38:29Speaker 4: World Series because of it.
- 38:30Speaker 3: But you're right, Billy. I mean, yeah, maybe if they're SOL, right?
- 38:35Speaker 2: SL, SL, SOL, maybe your SRO. Good one. Find your
- 38:40Speaker 2: way in there. Good on the Brewers.
- 38:43Speaker 3: You didn't have to, but you did.
- 38:45Speaker 5: The Brewers PR is now hot thanks to Donovan Jorgensen
- 38:48Speaker 5: after being not hot. Who else we got for who's
- 38:50Speaker 5: hot and who's not brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen? DonovanJorgensen.com,
- 38:53Speaker 5: your HVAC leaders.
- 38:54Speaker 2: Well, Yandy Diaz definitely hot last night with a bomb
- 38:58Speaker 2: that ended up capping it off. Junior Caminero hot as
- 39:01Speaker 2: well during the playoffs. Those will be the two bats.
- 39:04Speaker 2: For the Brewers to be able to watch and have
- 39:05Speaker 2: to watch and hold down during the World Series starting
- 39:08Speaker 2: up on Friday. But who's hot right now? The Philadelphia,
- 39:11Speaker 2: the Detroit Pistons were on a 24-7 run to try
- 39:15Speaker 2: to close the gap against Boston. They were down 20. Drew,
- 39:19Speaker 2: they're getting 20-pieced by Paul George and the Boston Celtics.
- 39:23Speaker 3: Who's laughing now?
- 39:24Speaker 2: Who's laughing now at the biggest offseason trade was Jalen
- 39:28Speaker 2: Brown for Paul George. People thought. Boston was ridiculous for
- 39:31Speaker 2: saying that they were targeting Paul George. My man was
- 39:34Speaker 2: five of seven from downtown today. And one of the
- 39:36Speaker 2: big reasons why they sit with a six-point lead with
- 39:39Speaker 2: two minutes to go in the Motor City against the
- 39:42Speaker 2: Detroit Pistons. Also, who's hot? Brock Purdy. 1,500 passing attempts
- 39:48Speaker 2: last night becomes the all-time leader in passing defense. passer
- 39:51Speaker 2: rating in the NFL. Also George Kittle five catches 69
- 39:55Speaker 2: yards and a touchdown last night.
- 39:58Speaker 3: Remarkable stuff.
- 40:00Speaker 2: This cat's doing off of a torn Achilles amazing in January.
- 40:04Speaker 2: He we talked about it and we have throughout Packers
- 40:07Speaker 2: OT Devante Wyatt Tucker craft starting to look like himself
- 40:11Speaker 2: again a little bit more. George Kittle's just wrecking that curve.
- 40:15Speaker 2: I mean, he's Adrian Peterson. He's pulling an Adrian Peterson
- 40:18Speaker 2: on this Achilles rehab, Drew.
- 40:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 40:20Speaker 2: And coming back as good, if not better than he
- 40:22Speaker 2: was before.
- 40:22Speaker 3: The outlier that people hold up, right, is like.
- 40:24Speaker 2: See, see, you can do it. He just did it.
- 40:26Speaker 2: You should be able to be like that. Yep.
- 40:28Speaker 4: Yep.
- 40:29Speaker 3: Who else is hot?
- 40:29Speaker 5: Anybody who smacks that Bucs over for 25 and a
- 40:32Speaker 5: half victories?
- 40:32Speaker 3: Don't you think they're going to win more than 25?
- 40:34Speaker 2: Okay, I want somebody else to be talking me into
- 40:38Speaker 2: the Bucs over 25.
- 40:38Speaker 5: I've seen this a lot. We'll talk more about it
- 40:41Speaker 5: tomorrow because they kick off tomorrow. But just out of curiosity,
- 40:44Speaker 5: I'm like, where did that end up at? I'll be
- 40:46Speaker 5: honest with you, I'm not convinced. I saw him live,
- 40:49Speaker 5: and I was preseason only for a quarter and a half.
- 40:52Speaker 5: While my daughter was climbing, I did see Chris Mannix
- 40:55Speaker 5: in his preseason predictions had Kalel Ware as the most
- 40:57Speaker 5: improved player in the NBA.
- 40:58Speaker 3: That'd be good.
- 40:59Speaker 2: I like that. He's going to get a lot of
- 41:02Speaker 2: it would be a fun story. Especially if you ship
- 41:03Speaker 2: somebody off at the deadline.
- 41:04Speaker 4: It was better than people thought. I mean, KPJ is
- 41:07Speaker 4: not on the team anymore. I'm wondering why. But hey, listen,
- 41:10Speaker 4: I'm going to be mad. Hey, I saw somewhere that
- 41:13Speaker 4: Jay-Z picked himself for halftime.
- 41:15Speaker 3: Show a Super Bowl. Did you get sent out? I
- 41:18Speaker 3: haven't seen. I don't think I think that was on
- 41:19Speaker 3: a legit.
- 41:20Speaker 2: Well, he is on. He is the search committee.
- 41:23Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 41:23Speaker 3: So the headline is he picked himself report.
- 41:26Speaker 2: So, well, now that would be smart. I thought Chris
- 41:28Speaker 2: Ballard should have tried to do that when he was
- 41:30Speaker 2: on the search committee for the Wisconsin Badgers A.D. role
- 41:32Speaker 2: last year. I thought he was saying, hey, you know what?
- 41:35Speaker 2: I was searching around this country. You know who might
- 41:37Speaker 2: be pretty good at it? There's a guy that's GM
- 41:39Speaker 2: of the Indianapolis Colts. Yeah, who had it?
- 41:41Speaker 3: New York Post. Yeah, it's floating around at a couple
- 41:46Speaker 3: of sites.
- 41:46Speaker 2: I'll take that as a W.
- 41:47Speaker 3: It's from a report. Listen, if the report's wrong, that's
- 41:51Speaker 3: not my problem, because I read the newspaper headline.
- 41:54Speaker 2: Or is it?
- 41:55Speaker 3: That's one of those that I read somewhere. Well, I
- 41:57Speaker 3: wrote it down and then I read it, but, but,
- 41:59Speaker 3: but this is a good brand. This is not like, yeah,
- 42:02Speaker 3: this isn't Jim.
- 42:03Speaker 4: This isn't Jimbo on sports.com or something.
- 42:06Speaker 2: Timberwolves super fan one that Mike Keller ran at me with.
- 42:09Speaker 2: They just traded for Kevin Durant.
- 42:11Speaker 4: Hey, that's on him. That's on Mike. And I'm one
- 42:14Speaker 4: for one. Cause I got that game seven thing right today.
- 42:16Speaker 2: So I'm one for one.
- 42:16Speaker 3: So I'm feeling myself. I'm feeling myself.
- 42:20Speaker 4: Yes. All right.
- 42:22Speaker 5: When we come back, our current electric superhero, Hunter Baumgart,
- 42:25Speaker 5: is going to join us in the 4 o'clock hour
- 42:27Speaker 5: of the program, talk more Brewers, and he's getting ready
- 42:29Speaker 5: for his Milwaukee's Baseball Tonight show coming up at 5 o'clock.
- 42:33Speaker 3: You are in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.