Transcript

09/09/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 2: Get to the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. Hot takes
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Speaker 2: are plenty. If you just want to.
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Speaker 3: Dunk on the cups and just enjoy. We will very
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Speaker 3: much allow that. We welcome those things.
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Speaker 2: We're dropping the magic number to seven.
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Speaker 3: 7 come 11 you get to 11 you'll already be
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Speaker 3: division champions you'll be hunting down that number 1 seed
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Speaker 3: because the number 1 seed magic number is 15 Bai
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Speaker 3: is at 4 14 pardon me and postseason at 5.
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Speaker 1: Now here's my hot take guys to start this thing
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Speaker 1: off let's go MLB teams this has been the tradition
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Speaker 1: Brewers too They traditionally have done a champagne celebration or a,
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Speaker 1: you know, whatever, you know, basically a regular celebration. Plastic
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Speaker 1: over the lock. Plastic celebration at the playoff clinch. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Brewers have had a muted one in the past
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Speaker 1: where they just raise glasses. I say don't even just
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Speaker 1: wait for the division. We don't even need to worry
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Speaker 1: about it because we already know we're making the playoffs
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Speaker 1: and we're going to win the division.
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Speaker 2: And both are about to happen soon. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 2: think you, Mark, clinching a playoff berth is nice, but
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Speaker 2: I don't think you celebrate that.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, it looks like we're going to clinch it
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Speaker 1: on the road anyway, although you don't know. Maybe you
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Speaker 1: could clinch it at home, but it'll probably be Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: or Baltimore. So you can't do it in front of
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Speaker 1: the home crowd anyway. So just let's get someone else's
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Speaker 1: carpet dirty. All right, let's get someone else's carpet dirty
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Speaker 1: and just let's just do.
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Speaker 2: The division clinch.
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Speaker 1: I'm not one of these guys that is necessarily like anti-fun,
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Speaker 1: although Billy sometimes accuses me of that when it comes
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Speaker 1: to court storming, gatekeeping and field storming.
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying that it is- It's just a commonality
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Speaker 3: with a lot of your takes, but go ahead.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, okay. But maybe I could see why.
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Speaker 1: Now, if they want to do two celebrations, that's fine.
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Speaker 1: But I just feel like letting it all explode in
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Speaker 1: one would be more fun. And you know you're going
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Speaker 1: to win the division. All right. I can see where
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Speaker 1: you're like, well, we have to do the wild card
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Speaker 1: or the playoff because you don't know what you're.
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Speaker 2: Going to make. Armand wants to be celebration police. It's okay.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm cool with both, but I think it'd be
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Speaker 1: cool if we just did the division because we don't
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Speaker 1: need the- They're going to happen within a quick order.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say within an eyelash of each other. Now,
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Speaker 3: I do appreciate that you don't want there to be
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Speaker 3: any pre. Pre-explosion.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Some would say pre-bubble up.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: We don't want that.
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Speaker 3: We want it all to pop at one time there
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Speaker 3: with the champagne.
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Speaker 2: Corks and everything all through. Okay. To Armand's point, if
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Speaker 2: you celebrate the division, then do you celebrate the one
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Speaker 2: seed or do you celebrate the pie?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 3: I think you cheers a beer with the boys when
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Speaker 3: you lock up the onesie. I think you cheers a
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Speaker 3: beer with the boys.
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Speaker 2: When you get to the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: I think the division is plastic over the lockers. The
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Speaker 3: rest could be subdued. Let's just toast. Plastic and stuff
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Speaker 3: like that, yeah. Yeah, but you clinch the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be at home this weekend.
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Speaker 3: If you clinch it on Saturday night, I want them
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Speaker 3: to put it up on the screen. I want them
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Speaker 3: to drop the confetti from the lights. And I want
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Speaker 3: the boys to be able to go out on the field,
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Speaker 3: grab an ice cold light beer from Miller. Because great
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Speaker 3: moments start with a light. Legendary moments start with a light.
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Speaker 3: Hold that thing up. and celebrate it with everybody, and
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Speaker 3: then go in.
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Speaker 2: But I'm with you.
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Speaker 3: You don't need to go pomp and circumstance, get the
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Speaker 3: Luis Lara baby stroller like they had for Jackson Shurio
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Speaker 3: out for the champagne celebration quite yet.
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Speaker 1: Do something for the fans at home. I'm down with that.
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Speaker 1: That's a good idea. Not really for the.
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Speaker 2: Fans, with the fans. I think that's more than anything
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Speaker 2: of it. Do it with them.
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Speaker 1: But I think that to join them in that celebration
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Speaker 1: is something the fans do enjoy, so I'm good with that. Now,
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Speaker 1: the thing is, MLB, I don't want to say requires it,
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Speaker 1: But they might want you to do the shirts and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff at the playoff clinch because that's what
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Speaker 1: they issue now is a team shirt and a team
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Speaker 1: for everybody in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they'll give out the shirts and hats. You know
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Speaker 2: what I mean?
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Speaker 1: That's just going to happen. So baseball is an interesting thing.
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Speaker 1: I don't know your opinion on it. Drew, you've been
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Speaker 1: around obviously longer to see a lot of the playoff expansion.
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Speaker 1: Baseball is unique and people have always asked how come
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Speaker 1: in the NFL and NBA we don't just clinch a
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Speaker 1: playoff berth at every series and do a champagne celebration.
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Speaker 1: Because the DNA of baseball was always there was less playoffs.
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Speaker 1: So therefore, catching a division or a league was a
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Speaker 1: very unique, hard thing to do.
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Speaker 2: And there was less of it.
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Speaker 1: And then it just evolved into celebrations every round with
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Speaker 1: the increasing playoff rounds. So it is kind of a
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Speaker 1: weird thing. And I know some people like NBA players
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Speaker 1: have asked that. I remember when NBA players, I remember
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Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade like 10, 20 years ago started asking, how
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Speaker 1: come we can't do a champagne celebration after a first
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Speaker 1: round playoff series win? But the reality is there's a
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Speaker 1: possibility if you think about it for what, four or
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Speaker 1: five champagne celebrations.
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Speaker 2: So, hey, let's do them all. Why not?
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Speaker 1: But I would say this year we can wait for
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Speaker 1: the division because we're about to get it anyway.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, Billy? Crack one open. That's cool
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Speaker 2: with me too. His crack went open.
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Speaker 3: I think last year they all toasted a glass of
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Speaker 3: champagne maybe in the clubhouse.
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Speaker 2: I think they will clinch a playoff berth this weekend.
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Speaker 3: This weekend I think they'll clinch the playoff berth and
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Speaker 3: then celebrate it that way.
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Speaker 2: Next week probably the division. Now they win tonight. They
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Speaker 2: might clinch the division this weekend. Right?
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Speaker 3: Like, I mean, at that point, that might be a
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Speaker 3: little bit, the five games in three days is tough,
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Speaker 3: no doubt about it. But definitely our boy Hunter is
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Speaker 3: going to be gassing up that old Mazda, trying to
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Speaker 3: get himself over to Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 2: Starting to think about that. Gas up the Mazda, baby.
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Speaker 2: Gas up the plane. It's a nice quick drive. Let's
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Speaker 2: put him on a PJ. Hot takes, 877-794. 197.3. We
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Speaker 2: got cars. We're running a business here. Go ahead, Drew. Sorry.
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Speaker 3: Hot take is a reminder that, you know, every out matters.
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Speaker 2: And Jelich is 0-2 down to their last strike. Gets
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Speaker 2: to 3-2 and gets a base hit. That, to me,
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Speaker 2: was the moment last night. It wasn't maybe as electrifying
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Speaker 2: as the Churrio Homer to tie it, as the Lara walk-off,
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Speaker 2: as even Mitchell throwing out a guy on the lead
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Speaker 2: runner and getting the bases cleaned for D.L.
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Speaker 1: Hall.
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Speaker 2: But that's the moment, man. Nothing happens without that hit.
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Speaker 3: No, everybody goes home very sad and frustrated. And instead,
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Speaker 3: people are texting into us right after of saying, Yelich
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Speaker 3: should change his number to 43. Because when the swing happens,
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Speaker 3: I think everybody's anticipating either a K or a rollover
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Speaker 3: ground ball. And instead, he laces one into right field,
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Speaker 3: keeps the thing rolling. And for him to be able
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Speaker 3: to come up in some of these big moments.
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Speaker 2: Drew, you just.
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Speaker 3: You can tell when certain the team reacts to certain players.
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Speaker 3: I think we said it a lot with Logan Henderson
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Speaker 3: this year. And you can see by when he pitches,
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Speaker 3: the team generally wins, right? Like there's certain guys that
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Speaker 3: the team reacts to Joey Ortiz offensively for a long time.
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Speaker 3: The same way they react extremely positive when he would
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Speaker 3: have do something, anything offensively and Yelich is almost.
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Speaker 2: Into that role now. That's right. Hot take. Why the
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Speaker 2: one seat is better than the two. It's both great.
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Speaker 2: Cause you win the series. You don't play. Obviously. But
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Speaker 2: having the home field and having Miz pitch game one
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Speaker 2: of every series, if you can maneuver it that way,
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Speaker 2: is an advantage. And the Brewers, if they win tonight,
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Speaker 2: will be 50-25 at home. Whoa. What about a number
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Speaker 2: like that? They're 49-25 right now. So if they win tonight,
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Speaker 2: they're 50-25. That's symmetrical, 25 over. Holy cow.
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Speaker 3: And they've won 10 straight home series.
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Speaker 2: And in home series this year, they're 19-4-1. Playing at home.
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Speaker 2: So it might be an advantage.
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Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you. That number surprised me. I'm
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Speaker 3: not surprising that they win at home a lot, but
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Speaker 3: I guess- They win everywhere. That insane volume at home
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Speaker 3: is wild.
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Speaker 2: Now, they're about to play a bunch of road games. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Three city roads coming up. We're down to like two
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Speaker 3: home series left, right? Reds coming up and then the
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Speaker 3: Cardinals to close it out. Two weekend series and both
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Speaker 3: going up on NFL Sundays, which is a tough Sunday
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Speaker 3: to make a game happen. So the Brewers are- They're
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Speaker 3: 49 to 25 at home. Well, that kind of slaps
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Speaker 3: my home series wins.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And that kind of slaps my.
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Speaker 3: Idea away because I was potentially more intrigued by the
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Speaker 3: two seed for the CS with the opportunity. You steal
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Speaker 3: one on the road. You never get back on a plane, right?
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Speaker 3: Like then you shut the box at home. You win
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Speaker 3: your three at home and it's over. Odds are you're
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Speaker 3: not winning, you're not sweeping a three-game series ever. And
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Speaker 3: now that's just what you see a lot throughout the
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Speaker 3: entirety of the regular season.
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Speaker 2: But you bring up the game one at home.
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Speaker 3: You can point it out to a couple of their
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Speaker 3: other guys. Like Miz at home on the mound is
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Speaker 3: maybe the most important because he is a different beast
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Speaker 3: when that mound is not a problem at all, when
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Speaker 3: it's not a thought in his imagination. Goodness gracious, we
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Speaker 3: got a lot of guys whose home road splits are
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Speaker 3: pretty good. But if I'm having... Miz start game one.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to take my chances in game two. And
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Speaker 3: that allows you to go and throw Logan Henderson on
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Speaker 3: the road in game three. And I feel confident that
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Speaker 3: that dude's stuff is going to play anytime, anywhere.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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Speaker 3: That stacks up even better when you put it together,
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Speaker 3: I think, on paper that way.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I also think people have to
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Speaker 2: remember that.
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Speaker 1: What we think of as starters and relievers in the
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Speaker 1: regular season, remember, it's totally different in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about inning to inning, out to out.
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Speaker 3: Aaron Ashby starting one of these games.
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Speaker 2: It's stuff like that. It's McGill in the first. It's Ashby.
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Speaker 1: It's... You know, even when we think of Harrison and
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Speaker 1: his struggles lately, it's not going to be about, like,
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Speaker 1: can Harrison get through?
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Speaker 2: It's like, can you give him two or three?
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Speaker 1: It's a much more, you know, pitch-to-pitch, match-to-match.
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Speaker 2: Type of situation.
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Speaker 1: So let's just keep that in mind when we think of, like,
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Speaker 1: who can be our starters and who can be our
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Speaker 1: relievers and things like that.
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Speaker 2: Dobler had a good one on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: It's been a great year watching little-known Lara tear up
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Speaker 1: AAA pitching with Nashville and seeing the consistency and defensive
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Speaker 1: prowess continue to grow.
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Speaker 2: At the MLB level with the Brewers. Yes, Dobler, gotta
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Speaker 2: give him credit.
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Speaker 1: He's always been locked in on the minor leagues this year,
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Speaker 1: giving us updates. I thought it was interesting he didn't
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Speaker 1: give us any Garrett Mitchell updates last night. Usually when
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Speaker 1: we hear from Doppler, it's Garrett Mitchell didn't do this.
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Speaker 1: Garrett had a nice game last night, Doppler. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: you're right. Offensively left a little something, but yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but he had, you know, hey, he's up to seven, what,
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Speaker 1: 60 OPS, 765?
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Speaker 3: 0 for four with three Ks. That's very generous over there.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: That's true.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But listen, the one that I.
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Speaker 3: Would roll with, you look at this Brewers team and
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Speaker 3: the trades that have been made, the trades that you
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Speaker 3: don't make, The trade that you made a couple of
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Speaker 3: years ago for Corbin Burns is becoming and looking more
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Speaker 3: and more here in 2026, like one of the best
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Speaker 3: trades that you've been able to pull over. Now, obviously,
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Speaker 3: Burns was at the end of his line here because
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Speaker 3: of the contract that was going to be doled out
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Speaker 3: to him.
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Speaker 2: But if you remember who you get, you get D.L.
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Speaker 3: Hall, who has been results not tremendous in his three
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Speaker 3: years with the Brewers. This year, his war for Armin, 1.5,
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Speaker 3: missed a couple of months with the injury, and he
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Speaker 3: might be one of your best weapons coming out of
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Speaker 3: the bullpen.
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Speaker 2: He's going to loom large in the playoff. He's really
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Speaker 2: helped this year.
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Speaker 3: In 23, he was out of the bullpen with the Orioles,
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Speaker 3: and that was where he got a ton of his
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Speaker 3: heat coming into the offseason when the Brewers acquired him
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Speaker 3: in 24. I don't know that much has to be
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Speaker 3: said about the reemergence or the emergence of Joey Ortiz.
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Speaker 2: He's been for a long.
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Speaker 3: Time people's, a lot of people's favorite player, a lot
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Speaker 3: of people's least favorite player on the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But the 255 average and the 705 OPS doesn't tell
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Speaker 3: the full story as to how he's swinging the bat
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Speaker 3: right now. You make deals, Drew, and you hope that
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Speaker 3: you get big league players. Right now you're getting two
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Speaker 3: guys that I think are going to be massive swing
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Speaker 3: pieces to if you can actually get to your second
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Speaker 3: World Series.
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Speaker 2: In franchise history. There you go. That's a good analysis.
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Speaker 2: Hashtag analysis. Yes, D.L. Hall this year. Great numbers. Talk
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Speaker 2: about it. Joey O, D.L.
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Speaker 1: Hall. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Burns. 212 ERA. The whip is at one. That's the
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Speaker 2: other part.
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Speaker 3: I mean, like, the year on the shelf is one
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Speaker 3: thing that you just can't overlook for Burns. Yeah, for
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Speaker 3: the Brewers especially. And the Orioles had him for one year,
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Speaker 3: didn't want to pay him. And that's ultimately what you get.
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Speaker 3: They should have kept him. They should have kept him.
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Speaker 3: And you grab two dudes that are legit pieces for you.
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Speaker 3: And they might not be all-stars. They might not be superstars.
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Speaker 3: But they're core foundational guys on the team. He did
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Speaker 3: pitch well for the Orioles in the playoffs, but it
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Speaker 3: was just like... Lost the 1-0 wildcard game, if I'm
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Speaker 3: not mistaken. He made his return last night for the Diamondbacks.
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Speaker 3: If anyone's curious, he was out with Tommy John for
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Speaker 3: like 15 months.
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Speaker 2: So he took his time getting back, and he pitched
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Speaker 2: three innings. I'm just kidding. I don't think he did.
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Speaker 2: I'm just being unfair.
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Speaker 1: No, but he pitched three innings last night, his first start,
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Speaker 1: since I want to say June of 25 or something
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Speaker 1: like that. So if anyone was curious about what's going
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Speaker 1: on with that, just last night, the Diamondbacks ended up
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Speaker 1: winning that game in extras because they lost the 2-0
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Speaker 1: lead in the ninth to the Royals, but did end
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Speaker 1: up winning that game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, three scoreless for him. Yes, three scoreless. He was
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Speaker 2: on a 60-pitch limit. So he threw 57 over three innings.
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Speaker 3: And they've had a lot of guys out there in Arizona.
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Speaker 3: Him and Gallin have been out for most of the season. Listen,
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Speaker 3: he was pumping the 93-mile-an-hour cutter that looked pretty dang
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Speaker 3: good again last night. So it looked like he might
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Speaker 3: regain his form. He is 31 years old and two
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Speaker 3: years into a six-year $ 210 million deal. Oh, boy.
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Speaker 2: Maybe the Orioles did make the right.
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Speaker 3: There was an unflattering uniform that they put him in
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Speaker 3: in one of the AAA starts.
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Speaker 2: Was it like the Admiral Uribe Lederhosen?
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Speaker 3: No, just... I'm not going to go full Ray King.
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Speaker 3: But my man definitely... He's been eating during his off...
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Speaker 3: Looked like he was healthy. Looked like he was healthy.
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Speaker 3: Looked like he was enjoying a couple of good dinners.
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Speaker 2: I'm surprised to hear that Corbin would do that. So Burns...
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Speaker 2: pitches and three innings, and they win. Aaron Judge comes
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Speaker 2: back to Yankee Stadium last night, and they win. Of course,
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Speaker 2: they're playing Colorado.
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Speaker 3: But Aaron Judge missed three months with a stress fracture
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Speaker 3: in his rib, gets the big ovation, strikes out, then
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Speaker 3: struck out again, then flied out, and then took a
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Speaker 3: powder after six innings. And when that ball hit the
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Speaker 3: left of that... No balls were hit to him in
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Speaker 3: right field, by the way. No, and Drew, when that
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Speaker 3: ball left his bat and went to very medium depth
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Speaker 3: center field, the gasp at Yankee Stadium was awesome.
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Speaker 2: You could hear the... They were hoping for a moment.
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Speaker 3: They were waiting for it. And listen, I hope he
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Speaker 3: has his moment this year. I like Aaron Judge. I've
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Speaker 3: liked him for a long time.
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Speaker 2: But this is.
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Speaker 3: A heck of a year for the two guys that
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Speaker 3: felt like complete mainstays as the MVPs. Neither one are
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Speaker 3: going to win in Judge and Otani this year. Judge
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Speaker 3: misses like the three and a half months. And Otani
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Speaker 3: came now back into the lineup after they shut him
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Speaker 3: down for a couple of days out in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 3: And we'll see how much that can regain him. But yesterday,
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Speaker 3: the big news was Otani very unlikely to pitch now
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Speaker 3: for the rest.
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Speaker 2: Of the season. I saw that. He said, I'm shutting
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Speaker 2: it down. For that aspect of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it so we don't have to see
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Speaker 3: the greatest game of all time ever played against us again.
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Speaker 2: Let them just go five for five. That would be nice.
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Speaker 2: That's sick. 12 total bases.
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Speaker 3: That was the worst part of that stupid ESPY award
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Speaker 3: show was the fact that I had to remember the
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Speaker 3: fact that this Joker hit three homers and struck out
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Speaker 3: 10 guys in the same game.
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Speaker 2: In the same game.
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Speaker 3: Brutal. That's the epitome of brutality. Hey, hot take, the
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Speaker 3: SEC should. Expel LSU today.
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Speaker 2: Come on now, get them out of there.
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Speaker 3: Now, the SEC has filed an amended complaint against LSU
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Speaker 3: on Tuesday regarding the school's potential plans to add NFL
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Speaker 3: players to its roster and scheduled a vote for conference
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Speaker 3: presidents on whether to expel the Tigers. From the league,
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Speaker 3: the SEC is not expected to take such action, but
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Speaker 3: filing indicates at least a serious level of intent to
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Speaker 3: affirm we're enforcing our own rules. Now, the SEC, the
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Speaker 3: Southeast Conference.
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Speaker 2: It means more. It just means more. Yeah, it just
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Speaker 2: means more.
16:12
Speaker 3: It just means more in the South to play college football.
16:18
Speaker 3: Keyword college. Greg Sankey said, is the most powerful man
16:23
Speaker 3: in college sports. Tony Petitti, commissioner of the Big Ten, 1A, 1B.
16:30
Speaker 3: They are right there online as the most powerful and
16:34
Speaker 3: influential people in college sports.
16:37
Speaker 2: And if indeed, because this is.
16:39
Speaker 3: Not about Daquan Wright or the other young man that
16:42
Speaker 3: was going to play defensive tackle for LSU, the former
16:46
Speaker 3: Ole Miss Rebels. They are no longer As LSU gets
16:52
Speaker 3: this information yesterday, I said, we were just kidding.
16:55
Speaker 2: We didn't put him on the roster. We weren't going
16:58
Speaker 2: to play him. We were just kidding. It's okay. It's okay.
17:02
Speaker 2: Greg Sankey said, no, it's not. It's not okay.
17:05
Speaker 3: You brought embarrassment and shame to the Southeast Conference. You
17:09
Speaker 3: made us a laughingstock of college sports. And the biggest
17:13
Speaker 3: part of this is, this is not a Lane Kiffin issue.
17:16
Speaker 3: This is not in all reality, when you read the
17:20
Speaker 3: conversation and you read the statements put out here, it's
17:24
Speaker 3: that the SEC does not believe. It says the SEC
17:27
Speaker 3: alleges that Kiffin's statements stand up in a sharp contrast
17:30
Speaker 3: and silence by the president athletic director at LSU. They
17:34
Speaker 3: confirm a lack of institutional control over the athletic programs
17:37
Speaker 3: at LSU that is required by article six of the
17:41
Speaker 3: SEC constitution by the remaining provisions of the constitution and bylaws.
17:46
Speaker 3: The problem is, LSU is not being run at LSU anymore.
17:51
Speaker 2: It's being run in Baton Rouge. Yeah. But it's being
17:53
Speaker 2: run in the governor's office. It's being run in the
17:56
Speaker 2: state government and the SEC.
17:59
Speaker 3: And this is the one reason why, Drew, I think
18:01
Speaker 3: whether or not it's good for the league, having LSU
18:04
Speaker 3: in your league is a good thing. Having that brand
18:06
Speaker 3: in your league is a great thing for the SEC.
18:09
Speaker 3: But for college sports fans, if you really want there
18:11
Speaker 3: to be one powerful body, you really want there to
18:14
Speaker 3: be one governing entity that You need to fight for
18:18
Speaker 3: the establishment probably one time. And for one of these
18:23
Speaker 3: rules to be able to be put out in place
18:25
Speaker 3: and enforced... Yeah, Greg Sankey's letting everybody know, I got
18:29
Speaker 3: the votes. Yeah, that's a good point.
18:31
Speaker 2: I got the votes.
18:33
Speaker 3: So let me know if I got to put it
18:35
Speaker 3: out on the table and kick these cats out of here.
18:37
Speaker 1: And there is a point where you say to yourself, like...
18:40
Speaker 1: You have to do something drastic to restore normalcy to
18:43
Speaker 1: college sports, football mostly. And I don't mean to sound
18:47
Speaker 1: dramatic about it, but it has been kind of a mess.
18:49
Speaker 1: And Lane Kiffin isn't helping matters for those who think
18:52
Speaker 1: it's a mess. And maybe something like that, some drastic
18:55
Speaker 1: measure would help or is necessary. You know, you think
18:57
Speaker 1: back to when SMU got the death penalty.
19:00
Speaker 2: It was such a.
19:01
Speaker 1: such a severe punishment, but maybe it was needed.
19:06
Speaker 2: I don't know.
19:06
Speaker 3: And you're not shutting down the program. You're not ending
19:09
Speaker 3: their operations. You're not allowing them to play, make money.
19:14
Speaker 3: Because they're going to make money for you. But you
19:15
Speaker 3: have to draw a line in the sand sometimes. And
19:17
Speaker 3: if you're saying we have a standard and this is
19:19
Speaker 3: it now. And then if I'm Tony Petitti and they
19:21
Speaker 3: expel LSU, I am on the first thing smoking to
19:25
Speaker 3: make the Big Ten the all-American conference. And I'm bringing
19:29
Speaker 3: LSU to the Big Ten. And that's going to be.
19:32
Speaker 2: The bargaining chip. Then you need one more. Then you
19:34
Speaker 2: need one more. All I can say to that- Notre Dame,
19:37
Speaker 2: come on. What are we waiting for? Keep on dreaming.
19:39
Speaker 3: 20 team best conference in all of sports. 10 in
19:43
Speaker 3: the West, 10 in the East, and you get the
19:46
Speaker 3: power conference in all of college sports.
19:49
Speaker 2: And then you can- play a regular conference schedule and
19:53
Speaker 2: you can play nine teams in your conference. So then
19:55
Speaker 2: everybody in the conference division actually plays and you have
19:58
Speaker 2: the same schedule.
19:59
Speaker 1: Sorry.
19:59
Speaker 2: These are the kind of things Billy dreams about. It's crazy.
20:03
Speaker 3: It would be awesome if you could have a utopia
20:05
Speaker 3: where you played every.
20:06
Speaker 2: Team in your conference. It's your great white whale.
20:08
Speaker 1: One time. You can't have big conferences if you want
20:10
Speaker 1: to play every team. That's part of the problem. All right,
20:13
Speaker 1: we'll continue to.
20:13
Speaker 2: Take hot takes. No golf today, but we've reached halftime
20:17
Speaker 2: of the week. Now, here's traffic from Tri-City National Bank.
20:21
Speaker 2: What are we even doing? I agree.
20:23
Speaker 3: I remember when people used to bitch about baseball games
20:25
Speaker 3: going past midnight. That ended at 3.30 Eastern time.
20:29
Speaker 2: What are we doing? It used to be well past
20:32
Speaker 2: last call. What are we doing? Starting a highlight match.
20:36
Speaker 2: Like that at, what, 10 Eastern? Great tennis matches. If
20:39
Speaker 2: not later than that, right? Great tennis matches. 11 Eastern.
20:42
Speaker 2: Can be four or five hours.
20:44
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:44
Speaker 2: You can't do that, guys. You can't put your do that.
20:46
Speaker 3: What are we even doing? How dumb is that when
20:49
Speaker 3: they set schedule? It happened in the United States. Like,
20:51
Speaker 3: if it happened in France or Australia. I thought it
20:53
Speaker 3: was the Australian Open when I.
20:54
Speaker 2: Saw the timing on it.
20:55
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, 3.30 in the morning, great. But what
20:57
Speaker 3: are we doing, and why are they not getting crushed?
20:59
Speaker 3: And isn't that, like, and I have a romantic memory
21:02
Speaker 3: in the past of, like, Great, like Jimmy Connors.
21:05
Speaker 2: Connors going crazy. Farewell. Remember that one? Yeah, that was late,
21:08
Speaker 2: but that was like at 11.
21:09
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, the regular late, not three in the morning late.
21:14
Speaker 3: And you're starting it locally at 11. It's stupid. Especially
21:19
Speaker 3: now it's US-centric, but the best tennis moment of the
21:21
Speaker 3: year for the United States was last night.
21:24
Speaker 2: Best U.S. tennis moment in how long? And no one
21:27
Speaker 2: will know about it. And no one knows about it
21:28
Speaker 2: because it was dumb. I like the game a lot.
21:33
Speaker 2: I enjoy it. I know it's obviously, but I'm not
21:36
Speaker 2: blind to.
21:37
Speaker 1: The fact that no one cares about tennis as much
21:39
Speaker 1: as they used to because of things like this. It's
21:41
Speaker 1: just not on the public lexicon. It's a niche sport
21:44
Speaker 1: now in that sense.
21:45
Speaker 3: The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee thought that was a late start.
21:49
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I mean, they frequent only in late.
21:52
Speaker 3: Tip-offs of the NCAA tournament.
21:54
Speaker 1: And way later than anything needs to be happening. Part
21:57
Speaker 1: of it was the great players haven't been American.
21:59
Speaker 2: And I get that.
21:59
Speaker 1: But we've had some really great players at the top
22:01
Speaker 1: of men's. My boy Ben Shelton had the eye of
22:04
Speaker 1: the tiger, though. He did.
22:05
Speaker 3: He had Trini Rodman in the crowd. He could be
22:07
Speaker 3: a star. He's dating a soccer star. It's going to
22:09
Speaker 3: be a good story. He's big, tall, lefty. He's only 23.
22:11
Speaker 2: Easy.
22:12
Speaker 3: You know everything about it, but the U.S. Open, they
22:15
Speaker 3: deserve to be ripped for having this happen.
22:16
Speaker 2: It's too late. When we're getting up for work.
22:19
Speaker 3: I was just going to say, when we're getting up
22:22
Speaker 3: for work and we're able to watch it, that's a
22:24
Speaker 3: huge L by those.
22:25
Speaker 2: My hot take, yeah, that was a huge L. Now,
22:27
Speaker 2: my other hot take in terms of media is anybody
22:31
Speaker 2: who is dunking on or making fun of the news
22:35
Speaker 2: yesterday posted by our friend Eric Name. Thank you. That
22:38
Speaker 2: he's heading to Miami.
22:39
Speaker 1: Hmm.
22:40
Speaker 2: Check yourself. I don't like that either. Eric name's going
22:42
Speaker 2: to Miami to cover the heat.
22:43
Speaker 3: Everybody's like, oh, Giannis, he's going with Giannis' luggage.
22:45
Speaker 2: He's up Barnacle.
22:46
Speaker 3: No wonder. He's the Brian Windhorst of Milwaukee going with Giannis.
22:49
Speaker 2: Like, okay, sure. But the Athletic has not had anybody
22:54
Speaker 2: on the Brewers in years. They're not going to have
22:56
Speaker 2: anybody on the Bucks now. I don't know that Eric
22:58
Speaker 2: made a tough choice to leave his hometown and his
23:01
Speaker 2: home state. Was it a choice? Was it a choice?
23:04
Speaker 2: We don't know. But shut the hell up. Like, And
23:07
Speaker 2: then people are.
23:07
Speaker 3: Bitching about his coverage, and they're like, oh, yeah, he
23:09
Speaker 3: did a bad job covering the team.
23:10
Speaker 2: We hated him anyway. You hated the results of what
23:13
Speaker 2: he was reporting?
23:14
Speaker 3: But Eric's name is a hell of a writer and reporter,
23:16
Speaker 3: very well regarded in NBA circles for his acumen of
23:19
Speaker 3: breaking down the complexities of a more complex game than
23:24
Speaker 3: it used to be.
23:25
Speaker 2: He did a really good job. He has a relationship
23:27
Speaker 2: with Giannis, which isn't going to hurt him. But the
23:29
Speaker 2: Athletic valued him enough to move him to a new team,
23:32
Speaker 2: whereas they might have just said, yeah, well, we're not
23:34
Speaker 2: covering Milwaukee anymore. See you later. Here's your pink slip.
23:38
Speaker 2: So if, and if you're saying, well, he sucked and
23:41
Speaker 2: I didn't like reading his coverage.
23:42
Speaker 3: Well, then don't start your own blog. Don't subscribe. And
23:46
Speaker 3: if you don't like it, how do you like his
23:48
Speaker 3: coverage compared to nothing, which is what the athletic does
23:51
Speaker 3: with the brewers, nothing. And what they're going to do
23:54
Speaker 3: with the bucks now is nothing.
23:56
Speaker 2: Now you can say, well, why would I subscribe to the,
23:59
Speaker 2: the athletic? The only teams they got rid of Jesse temple,
24:01
Speaker 2: who did a really good job on the badgers. They've,
24:03
Speaker 2: They have Matt Schneidman covering the Packers, and that's it.
24:06
Speaker 2: So if you don't want to subscribe, don't. But to, like,
24:09
Speaker 2: bitch at Eric Name, I don't understand, like, him getting
24:13
Speaker 2: any vitriol on his way out or the fact that
24:15
Speaker 2: he's going to cover the Heat where he has a
24:17
Speaker 2: relationship with Giannis. Like, obviously, that doesn't hurt his cause,
24:20
Speaker 2: covering the Heat. No, not at all.
24:21
Speaker 3: But it's a whole new thing, and he's moving out
24:23
Speaker 3: of town, and it's either a good or bad career move.
24:26
Speaker 3: It's his move, and who are you to sit and
24:28
Speaker 3: judge it or— To ridicule it or celebrate it. Well,
24:32
Speaker 3: because we like to sit on the couch and live
24:33
Speaker 3: vicariously through other people that we don't have any control
24:36
Speaker 3: over what the decisions and implications of those are. But
24:39
Speaker 3: I like that you pointed it out, Drew. When I
24:42
Speaker 3: saw the tweet, I was disappointed from the subscriber side
24:49
Speaker 3: of it. Knowing the fact that now, locally, the only
24:54
Speaker 3: coverage that you're getting is of Schneidman's coverage of the.
24:56
Speaker 2: Packers, which is A1.
24:57
Speaker 3: I mean, Matt does a phenomenal job, but that's the
25:00
Speaker 3: frustrating one for me.
25:01
Speaker 2: I guess that's the flaw.
25:01
Speaker 3: It's like if you weren't an Eric Name fan, it's like, oh, yeah,
25:04
Speaker 3: now we'll get somebody in there to cover the team
25:05
Speaker 3: who I'll agree with and who I'll like.
25:07
Speaker 2: And want to read. No, you won't. No, you won't.
25:09
Speaker 2: You're not getting anybody. They're not covering the bucks.
25:11
Speaker 3: This is now Siberia of the NBA.
25:13
Speaker 2: They're not covering.
25:14
Speaker 3: Now you'll maybe get one story every three months for when,
25:18
Speaker 3: you know, somebody is a trade candidate.
25:19
Speaker 2: And now the thing is like, I think, and Jim
25:21
Speaker 2: Ozarski does a good job covering the bucks for the
25:23
Speaker 2: journal Sentinel.
25:24
Speaker 1: Tremendous.
25:24
Speaker 2: Yes. And he and Eric traveled and it's like, they competed,
25:26
Speaker 2: but they weren't like, you know, they weren't going at it.
25:29
Speaker 2: They weren't enemies.
25:29
Speaker 1: Sure.
25:30
Speaker 2: That's how the beat is like that. Yeah. It's not
25:32
Speaker 2: how it goes anymore.
25:33
Speaker 3: But the thing is like, You'd say, oh, well, now
25:36
Speaker 3: Ozarski has free reign and he's going to be like
25:38
Speaker 3: the main voice traveling with the Bucs.
25:40
Speaker 2: We hope because part of the reason that Journal Sentinel
25:43
Speaker 2: sent him to stuff was because Eric Name was there
25:45
Speaker 2: covering for the Atlantic. They were competing and it made
25:47
Speaker 2: them better. Now it's not going to be. And the
25:51
Speaker 2: Journal Sentinel being in private equity mode, squeezing every penny,
25:55
Speaker 2: they're going to be like, oh, what do we need
25:56
Speaker 2: to do that for? No one else is going to
25:58
Speaker 2: do it. You can write a couple of tweets at home, right? Yeah.
26:01
Speaker 2: So be careful what you wish for it.
26:04
Speaker 3: Dollars it'll be a lot more anybody who's dunking on
26:07
Speaker 3: that i mean get over yourself the other part of
26:09
Speaker 3: it is drew and you know it better than i
26:11
Speaker 3: uh but the accessibility and the necessity to be on
26:15
Speaker 3: the road while if you're going to cover the team
26:17
Speaker 3: the right way you got to be there uh press
26:20
Speaker 3: conferences being able to be on zoom and teams probably
26:23
Speaker 3: being more than okay saying.
26:25
Speaker 2: Yeah we'll send you a link Yeah, we'll let you know.
26:28
Speaker 3: We'll tell you when and be able to cut things
26:30
Speaker 3: in and out very, very quickly. I said the very,
26:32
Speaker 3: very slippery slope. And it's you're not putting the toothpaste
26:36
Speaker 3: back in the tube. You're not getting another bucks reporter
26:39
Speaker 3: for a team that they're over under. I think it's
26:41
Speaker 3: twenty five and a half. The other part about it
26:44
Speaker 3: with Eric, and him and Jim did not get the
26:48
Speaker 3: requisite credit across the country that they deserved for the
26:52
Speaker 3: actual coverage of.
26:54
Speaker 2: The last season, right?
26:55
Speaker 3: Like last season, and I think this would be where
26:57
Speaker 3: people were maybe disappointed with how it was all covered,
27:00
Speaker 3: was we had two guys that were talking to the guy.
27:04
Speaker 2: And no one paid attention, yeah.
27:05
Speaker 3: We had two guys that were actually getting interviews. Laurie Nichol,
27:08
Speaker 3: three people actually getting interviews with either the... Star player,
27:14
Speaker 3: the general manager.
27:15
Speaker 2: And the owner.
27:17
Speaker 3: And none of them got any bit of pub to
27:19
Speaker 3: the point where you probably missed some of the fact
27:22
Speaker 3: that he actually talked to Giannis like three or four times.
27:25
Speaker 3: And now whether or not Giannis was being outwardly truthful
27:31
Speaker 3: and honest in the statements that he gives to Eric,
27:33
Speaker 3: Eric reports what is said to him.
27:35
Speaker 2: He got statements, right? He gets statements and quotes. not
27:39
Speaker 2: writing the own stuff.
27:40
Speaker 3: And that's where I do believe, and this is, again,
27:42
Speaker 3: my own personal belief, is more of the frustration came
27:45
Speaker 3: with the fact that everything was ambiguous.
27:49
Speaker 2: From Giannis' side.
27:50
Speaker 3: There was never going to be anything direct. There was
27:53
Speaker 3: not going to be anything clear cut. And then when
27:55
Speaker 3: people did know that Giannis and Eric had a good
27:58
Speaker 3: working relationship, it's like, well, you're just protecting him. No,
28:00
Speaker 3: he's just writing down and putting out the quote that
28:04
Speaker 3: he was given. So I understand that the divorce made
28:08
Speaker 3: people and will make people feel a certain way.
28:11
Speaker 2: Emotional, yeah.
28:11
Speaker 3: But the bigger part is Eric probably had two choices.
28:15
Speaker 3: Either move to Miami or don't work.
28:18
Speaker 2: And I think we all understand what choice we're making.
28:21
Speaker 1: And there's a disconnect with a lot of fans, it
28:23
Speaker 1: seems like, because you look at it and you chortle
28:25
Speaker 1: a little bit because it's like, well, I think some
28:27
Speaker 1: people saw this coming. But this sort of, yes, I'm
28:32
Speaker 1: glad you brought this up because I've been trying to
28:33
Speaker 1: understand that this seems to be this groundswell of the
28:38
Speaker 1: fan base that has this anti kind of Eric name
28:41
Speaker 1: thing going on.
28:42
Speaker 2: And I really don't understand it. I think they're just
28:43
Speaker 2: anti what's happened to the Bucs. Maybe.
28:45
Speaker 1: But I think it's also emblematic maybe of a newer
28:48
Speaker 1: generation thinking that the guys covering their team in papers
28:51
Speaker 1: or writing should have constantly been like fan opinionated pieces
28:57
Speaker 1: going on. I don't know how else to describe it.
28:58
Speaker 1: It's like people would say, well, you didn't like the Bucs.
29:01
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not his job. It's like, but once
29:03
Speaker 1: upon a time, we didn't expect the guys writing the paper.
29:06
Speaker 1: Like no one said to Drew Olsen writing for the–
29:09
Speaker 1: why aren't you more of a fan? Why aren't you
29:11
Speaker 1: cheering in the press box? Or why isn't Bob McGinn
29:14
Speaker 1: a fan?
29:14
Speaker 2: I've got people saying that. Maybe you did, but I
29:16
Speaker 2: don't know what it is.
29:17
Speaker 1: If it's a new generation or people seem to be
29:20
Speaker 1: kind of maybe gravitating more toward the influencer fan content
29:25
Speaker 1: more than the writing content.
29:26
Speaker 2: It's actually, Armin, the other way. It's like if you're
29:29
Speaker 2: not completely off the rails ripping people– then what are
29:34
Speaker 2: you even doing? It's like the angrier people. Yes. And
29:37
Speaker 2: it's like you're looking at it clinically. It's like, oh, yeah.
29:40
Speaker 3: You're not confrontational, people seem like you're not... The Brewers
29:43
Speaker 3: won 74 games. Like, what did you expect? Like, they
29:45
Speaker 3: were supposed to win 74. And I was like.
29:47
Speaker 1: And I guess for me, I have to be careful
29:49
Speaker 1: because it was somewhat personal because... We had been around
29:53
Speaker 1: Eric when he came up as a reporter in Milwaukee.
29:55
Speaker 2: Dude's a hard worker.
29:56
Speaker 3: He knows ball. He loves ball. They had a lot
29:59
Speaker 3: of respect for him. But I'm like, all right, well,
30:00
Speaker 3: maybe I was too close to it in that sense.
30:02
Speaker 3: I was like, what is it about? The charge now
30:05
Speaker 3: that he's going there because he's Giannis.
30:07
Speaker 2: Guy and Giannis feeds him stuff. But that makes sense
30:10
Speaker 2: for the athletic team. Brian Windhorst made a career out
30:13
Speaker 2: of that.
30:13
Speaker 1: Yeah.
30:14
Speaker 2: Becoming an NBA insider because he covered LeBron in high school.
30:17
Speaker 3: Listen to Scott Van Pelt talk about how he is
30:19
Speaker 3: where he is. Because he knew Tiger Woods.
30:21
Speaker 1: Yeah.
30:22
Speaker 2: And then. I just didn't get it.
30:24
Speaker 3: And you want to say like, oh, how horrible is that?
30:26
Speaker 3: Eric Name's only there.
30:27
Speaker 2: Because like, yeah.
30:29
Speaker 3: And the whole insider industry is based on these, this
30:32
Speaker 3: type of thing. So it's like he's Eric Name's moving
30:34
Speaker 3: in the right direction, I would say.
30:35
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
30:36
Speaker 2: You'd be silly not to.
30:38
Speaker 1: Well, on one hand, you can't complain that he's not
30:40
Speaker 1: getting stuff for you and then builds a relationship with
30:42
Speaker 1: the guy.
30:43
Speaker 2: On the other hand, saying, why do you have this relationship?
30:46
Speaker 2: It's Connor.
30:48
Speaker 3: I firmly believe it was like you said, Drew.
30:51
Speaker 2: It's what happened with the Bucs.
30:53
Speaker 3: And what was being said from Giannis and being written down.
30:57
Speaker 3: I'm always shocked when I see that sort of response
30:59
Speaker 3: and the amount of people that pick up on the
31:01
Speaker 3: entire game stuff.
31:02
Speaker 2: I don't get it. And maybe I'm too far away
31:04
Speaker 2: from it, but I need someone to articulate it better.
31:06
Speaker 2: Too close to it would be more of it. Yeah.
31:07
Speaker 3: It's the old Nathan Jessup. You sleep under the blanket
31:11
Speaker 3: of security that I provided, then question the manner in
31:13
Speaker 3: which I provide it. You consume his coverage, and then
31:17
Speaker 3: you don't agree with it, or you don't.
31:19
Speaker 2: Like the direction of the team, or he's not ripping
31:21
Speaker 2: the team enough, or he's not.
31:22
Speaker 3: Whatever, you know, there's a million. Write your own blog
31:25
Speaker 3: or go read something else. There's a million sources. And
31:28
Speaker 3: Eric Naim inspired a lot of people to blog about
31:30
Speaker 3: the Bucs. I do like this one from the 414. Hey, guys,
31:33
Speaker 3: I think some of the reason why people complain about
31:34
Speaker 3: Eric's Bucs coverage was that he didn't write stories about
31:37
Speaker 3: every game on a day-to-day basis like a traditional beat writer.
31:40
Speaker 3: The content he would put out was fantastic, but it
31:43
Speaker 3: wasn't what a lot of people were used to from
31:45
Speaker 3: a normal beat writer.
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Speaker 2: They don't write every story. They don't write every tweet
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Speaker 2: into a story, right?
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Speaker 3: They're The athletics model is more feature-ish and not game stories.
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Speaker 2: He's doing what his boss and his job requires of him. Yes,
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Speaker 2: that's why it's a supplement. It's a longer form.
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Speaker 3: But again, this is, but that's... Again, expectation not knowing. Yeah,
32:05
Speaker 3: but that's not something that I would expect every person
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Speaker 3: to think. They see, all right, they have a Bucs
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Speaker 3: beat writer. Cool, I'm going to get a story about
32:12
Speaker 3: the Bucs game every single night. Some of the frustration
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Speaker 3: with Eric Name is you didn't hate his coverage.
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Speaker 2: You wanted more of it. Yeah, you wanted more. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: for sure. then that's not up to him to publish,
32:23
Speaker 2: you know. Okay, yeah. But again, but again, now I'm
32:26
Speaker 2: going to defend the people here. Please do.
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Speaker 3: If I'm, If I'm paying money and I'm paying the
32:32
Speaker 3: money for the subscription because I'm seeing Buck's beat writer. Again,
32:36
Speaker 3: I understand and I'm not disagreeing here so that we
32:39
Speaker 3: can put the swords down just a tick that it's
32:41
Speaker 3: not a personal thing. But when you are the person
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Speaker 3: that I am subscribing and where I go to and
32:46
Speaker 3: how I get the athletics coverage, their frustration was more
32:50
Speaker 3: with the athletic. But it was also one of those where, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be mad at the messenger because this is
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Speaker 3: the only one that I see.
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Speaker 2: And when Schneidman pumps.
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Speaker 3: Out, five pieces a week, it also sets a different
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Speaker 3: expectation for what you're going to get when you then
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Speaker 3: get one story a week. Five pieces a week during
33:06
Speaker 3: the season? Back end of the year, definitely not. Did
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Speaker 3: he not tweet enough? I think that's... Maybe that's.
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Speaker 2: Part of it. Maybe people wanted him to be a.
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Speaker 1: Like, whenever something was happening, the Bucs have a tweet
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Speaker 1: there to talk about it, and maybe he wasn't... I
33:17
Speaker 1: think that was part of it.
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Speaker 2: Didn't tweet enough, maybe? When you see.
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Speaker 3: When that's what you're seeing as the job title, you
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Speaker 3: assume that it is what you've always known a beat
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Speaker 3: writer to be.
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Speaker 2: I mean, but there's... Like I said, there's a gajillion
33:30
Speaker 2: other sources. If you don't like it, unsubscribe from The Athletic.
33:33
Speaker 2: I mean, that's their approach.
33:35
Speaker 3: Right, but there's only two places you could go.
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Speaker 2: I've got one.
33:40
Speaker 3: We don't usually do random hot takes from Twitter.
33:43
Speaker 2: I like it, though. But I got one that's going
33:44
Speaker 2: to make Billy's cockles fire.
33:46
Speaker 3: Let's ride.
33:47
Speaker 2: Come on. From a fella who calls himself Drake Fantasy,
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Speaker 2: Brian Drake. Okay, okay.
33:51
Speaker 3: That's my nickname in college. He's got 15,000 followers. He's
33:55
Speaker 3: a podcast host and does some stuff. Here's his take
34:00
Speaker 3: on tonight's NFL opener. Seattle versus New England is an
34:03
Speaker 3: incredibly boring NFL season opener, let's all be honest. The
34:06
Speaker 3: Seahawks are a defensive-minded team with a journeyman quarterback that
34:09
Speaker 3: nobody still believes in and one offensive weapon. New England
34:12
Speaker 3: had their doors blown off in the Super Bowl, and
34:14
Speaker 3: their biggest offseason storyline was their coach nailing an NFL reporter.
34:17
Speaker 3: I love football, you love football, we'll all watch, but
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Speaker 3: there's zero juice to this matchup.
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Speaker 1: None.
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Speaker 3: It's the last game we saw in the National Football
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Speaker 3: League that.
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Speaker 2: Meant something, and now the next game that means something.
34:30
Speaker 2: They're back-to-back in this matchup, but I know that this
34:33
Speaker 2: is like waving a red, you know. In front of
34:38
Speaker 2: the bowl. Yeah, what is that? Billy, what do you say?
34:40
Speaker 2: I guess. I mean, like, I just... I would completely
34:43
Speaker 2: disagree with it.
34:44
Speaker 3: Like, you have a team that ended up acquiring a
34:46
Speaker 3: dude that they talked about acquiring for a full year
34:50
Speaker 3: on A.J. Brown as a top 15 receiver in the league.
34:52
Speaker 3: You got a quarterback who was the second in MVP
34:56
Speaker 3: voting on one side. And Darnold, which, again, is... shockingly
35:01
Speaker 3: to no one, the most doubted guy in the league.
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Speaker 3: All he did was win the Super Bowl a year ago.
35:07
Speaker 3: And him and Jalen Hurts are standing back here like,
35:10
Speaker 3: so when we get our rings, do we get some respect? No,
35:14
Speaker 3: we got to win another one. Okay, got it, got it.
35:16
Speaker 3: Because at some point, we're going to have to just
35:18
Speaker 3: realize Sam Darnold's good. Like, does he have to do
35:21
Speaker 3: a full another year with another new offensive coordinator where
35:25
Speaker 3: you realize, oh, he's actually just a really good NFL quarterback?
35:29
Speaker 3: He's won 28 regular season games over the last two years.
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Speaker 2: Over the last two years. And look at his stats.
35:33
Speaker 2: You put him up against anybody.
35:35
Speaker 3: And he lost two games in Minnesota, and they're still
35:39
Speaker 3: frustrated that they watched the tape too much. Two highest
35:42
Speaker 3: paid corners going against two number one. The offensive player
35:46
Speaker 3: of the year.
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Speaker 2: You've got the loudest stadium in the league. And this
35:48
Speaker 2: is week one of the NFL. Every matchup is a
35:50
Speaker 2: big matchup. I'll say this, though.
35:53
Speaker 3: I mean, to the guy's point, if I could only
35:56
Speaker 3: choose one game to watch. Sure. I'd probably watch Rams 49ers,
35:59
Speaker 3: and that's like the real opener because I'm used to
36:01
Speaker 3: it on Thursday. We don't really need this Wednesday Super
36:04
Speaker 3: Bowl rematch, but it's here.
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Speaker 2: But it's here, and I'm excited.
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Speaker 3: But if I could only watch one game in terms
36:11
Speaker 3: of the football matchup, I'm watching the other one instead
36:13
Speaker 3: of the rematch of the game I watched in February. Yeah,
36:15
Speaker 3: this joker probably is excited to watch Caleb Williams against
36:18
Speaker 3: Bryce Young on Sunday. That might be his very exciting
36:22
Speaker 3: matchup is, oh, I can't wait to watch what's going
36:25
Speaker 3: to happen between the Cowboys and Giants.