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10/07/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Wednesday edition, hot take hump day edition of the huddle
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  Speaker 1: Fox sports radio, Wisconsin. We welcome you to hit us up.
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  Speaker 1: Nicolet law.com. Talking text line, eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
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  Speaker 1: one 97, three. Say drew Billy Arman. I got a
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  Speaker 1: hot take for you.
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  Speaker 2: We're serving them up. Mine was five seconds ago when
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  Speaker 2: I was ripping.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't rip on him, but Billy was getting on
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  Speaker 3: me because I was like, can you believe Sal hit
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  Speaker 3: one that hard.
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  Speaker 2: To the wall?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the Merrill catch? Yeah, it's famous now because Murph
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  Speaker 1: was on live, obviously. Merrill went in both directions to
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  Speaker 1: take away Rockets.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, he's good. To snare some Rockets. He's a good player.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, PCA's good, but he's just as covering ground,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like, from the naked eye.
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  Speaker 2: Robin S. Ritz. That Churrio one was a momentum shifter,
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  Speaker 2: I thought, early on. I had Chris Taylor flashbacks. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you get. It was early in the game instead of late.
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  Speaker 2: You get him in the gap early. I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And if anything, Pavetta kind of settled in there early,
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  Speaker 2: but there was some good, strong contact against them early on.
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  Speaker 2: And Churio, that first one of the game, again, one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons why Armin talked about in the first
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  Speaker 2: hour of like the crowd being a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: optimistic and excited. One of the reasons is they're playing
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  Speaker 2: from ahead the entire series. You get them on their
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  Speaker 2: heels and get an early lead. Then maybe the pucker
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  Speaker 2: factor for the team that's down 2-0 could have kicked in.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't get that. Now you'll have to see if you
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  Speaker 2: can do it a little bit later on here tonight. Absolutely, though.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you spin it if you're a Padres fan
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  Speaker 2: or if you're approaching.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, look, we could have said should have won
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  Speaker 3: the first two. We cannot beat this team. We're going
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  Speaker 3: home now. Let's have some confidence in what we can
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  Speaker 3: do here and our ability to come back in this series. Now,
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  Speaker 3: They didn't count on losing Mason Miller and their other guy.
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  Speaker 2: Marjon, yeah. Marjon, yeah. I like his name. I almost
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  Speaker 2: said Anthony Clark.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the interesting what if thing, because I was
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  Speaker 1: playing around yesterday. Like, what if the Brewers had not
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  Speaker 1: won the game and had gone to extra innings? We'd
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  Speaker 1: have seen Andrew Vaughn at third base, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: they were in the game with the roster. What if
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  Speaker 1: last evening the Brewers push across a couple runs against King?
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  Speaker 1: And take the lead and win the game and the series.
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  Speaker 1: And people are like paternity leave.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. Yeah. That gets thrown into a blender.
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  Speaker 2: Like you weren't pushing the kid out. What the hell, man?
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  Speaker 1: And it is a, it's a thorny situation because a
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  Speaker 1: generation ago you did not leave the ball club.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no way. It was verboten. It was unthinkable.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's like, paternity leave in an elimination game?
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  Speaker 2: Now you almost get looked at. After you just spit
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  Speaker 2: one up? Yeah, you get looked at sideways if you
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  Speaker 2: don't leave the club. That's true. Listen, as somebody that
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  Speaker 2: has had to make the decision as to when to
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  Speaker 2: leave the wife, like 36 hours after, to go and
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  Speaker 2: talk on the radio about the NFL draft, that's about
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  Speaker 2: the least important thing. This one, decisive game. And not
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  Speaker 2: winner take all, but your backs are against the wall.
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  Speaker 2: You might be their best, most important player. Once the
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  Speaker 2: kid is out, once we meet beautiful Bay, once mom's
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  Speaker 2: doing all right, then it is one of those deals
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  Speaker 2: of what are we doing here? Like there's only so
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  Speaker 2: much that you can help with, but I would have
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  Speaker 2: loved to get that reaction. I also would have liked
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  Speaker 2: to see true, even if they would have tied it.
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  Speaker 2: What was the Padres plan after that? Because, again, your
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  Speaker 2: best two guys are down. And how long would they
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  Speaker 2: have really tried to roll with King? It looks a
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  Speaker 2: lot better because he ends up getting the last outs.
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  Speaker 2: But my man was not flawless in those six outs.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure. He was laboring the whole way. It
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  Speaker 2: was a full, very stressful group of pitches.
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  Speaker 3: You could tell he wasn't really feeling probably his best.
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  Speaker 2: And the Brewers had him on the brink.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they got out of it with a tailor-made
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  Speaker 3: double play off a really fast liner by Yelich.
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  Speaker 2: It worked out for him. But they don't get that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I thought the Brewers were starting to push
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  Speaker 3: that boat over. I was hoping to. At least that's
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  Speaker 3: what you believe. And it had just come off of
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  Speaker 3: when you did it. The Mason Miller thing, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: if he's back now, you hope he slept at the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: Because if he's got, I don't know how his back's
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  Speaker 3: going to feel after sleeping on that couch or on
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  Speaker 3: that recliner at the hospital. I don't know when visiting
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  Speaker 3: hours were over in these situations. You know, because, like, honey,
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  Speaker 3: do you mind if I go and sleep in our bed?
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I mean, you do have to at least
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  Speaker 2: change two of the first three diapers. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: be involved in diapers, the first bath.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of things going on right
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  Speaker 3: there that it's like, okay, you know, we've got a
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  Speaker 3: few hours of sleep in that.
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  Speaker 2: Recliner, as you know, Billy. Well, yeah, and then you
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  Speaker 2: feel like Caleb Williams trotting off as your wife just
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  Speaker 2: delivered a baby, and you're sitting there like, I'm still
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  Speaker 2: standing after sleeping on that couch. It was a tough day.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have paternity leave shortly after my daughter was born.
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  Speaker 2: I timed it. She was born on the last day
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  Speaker 2: of the season. Oh, and then you said the wrong way.
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  Speaker 2: The Brewers weren't going to the playoffs. She was born
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  Speaker 2: on the last day of the season. There was no
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  Speaker 2: risk in those things.
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  Speaker 1: There was no paternity leave back then, and within a week,
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  Speaker 1: I had my boss set me up to cover the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and I was on the road for like three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: So this is Buehler, because Buehler had paternity leave to
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  Speaker 2: start the series. Many people thought he was going to
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  Speaker 2: be the game one starter instead of the game four starter.
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  Speaker 2: Very true. Do you think some of these Padres players
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the year were just like, Babe,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry about it. You see, they were in July.
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  Speaker 2: That team said even a homer is six weeks in.
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  Speaker 2: We're definitely not going to the playoffs. We'll be very okay.
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  Speaker 2: They were under 500 middle of July. So, absolutely. And
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't tell me they had very much confidence going
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  Speaker 2: into the year.
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  Speaker 3: And if they're timing things out, you know, like October,
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  Speaker 3: who cares?
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  Speaker 2: This team's not going to be that. You know, come on.
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  Speaker 2: You can pick and choose when that moment happens.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you can't really play God and choose everything, Billy.
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  Speaker 3: But you can, you know, think about it a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you would have thought maybe they... you know,
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  Speaker 3: winter meetings. I'm just saying, I think it's kind of,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of ironic that it all happened during that time.
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  Speaker 3: Unless maybe they have a trouble counting nine tonight.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just, you know, it worked out for them last night,
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  Speaker 3: but you're right, drew. There would have been people in
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  Speaker 3: those dark corners of the internet that were all over,
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  Speaker 3: all over him.
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  Speaker 2: Speaker 3 05,0 This is an awesome picture. I see
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  Speaker 2: from last night. I don't know what, what play this
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  Speaker 2: was into the outfield, But Cheerios standing right by the
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  Speaker 2: wall and just getting a strong double bird from a
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  Speaker 2: Padres fan in the first row. That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that flies in the face of mine. They're
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  Speaker 3: all just old retirees comment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't necessarily know where that one was.
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  Speaker 3: Every time they're showing the crowd like they're having a
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  Speaker 3: good time in San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: Internet did say you were right. They said San Diego,
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  Speaker 2: very heavily snowbird population. I didn't know that was a thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's heavy snowbird, heavy military, a lot of retired military.
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  Speaker 2: Big time military.
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  Speaker 3: That goes without saying, but I think the fact that
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers left and that's it, the Padres, I think
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  Speaker 3: it helps.
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  Speaker 2: The Padres energy. It's very much, it's like a junior
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  Speaker 2: LA crowd. Well, it's also a huge location.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's 47,000 people, so you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: the cross section, but no, it's a younger.
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  Speaker 2: It stretches out.
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  Speaker 1: It's a young, vibrant. They have a young, vibrant. fan base,
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  Speaker 1: and it is the only pro game in town. Some
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  Speaker 1: people still follow the Chargers, grudgingly, because they play in L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: but some people still do, and they still cover them there.
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  Speaker 1: They talk about them like they're the Chargers of old,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not the same.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I mean, listen, we're going to talk some
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  Speaker 2: hockey coming up a little later when our boy El
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  Speaker 2: Jefe John Greenberg starts, but I don't know that the
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  Speaker 2: San Diego Gulls are drawing like the Milwaukee Admiral.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the Gulls got the kind of juice
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  Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, no, I totally agree, Billy. I would
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  Speaker 2: agree with you there. Even though they went into overtime
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  Speaker 2: in their season opener. They catch a fat elbow. That's
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: good research. Got you on that. Don't worry. That's good research.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I mean, yeah, young, vibrant. I think
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  Speaker 2: everything is segmented there, though. I do.
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  Speaker 3: I think there are those people that are young and vibrant,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe they're like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think of it as a hardcore blue collar.
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  Speaker 2: I like that you're still trying to win this one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: Every time they show the crowd, it's a bunch of old,
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  Speaker 3: retired ladies dancing around.
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  Speaker 2: What crowd shots were you seeing? I saw the crowd shots, man.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. They think it's just all I saw.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I saw.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they're, of course, your truth. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So what crowd shots did you see?
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  Speaker 1: Because have you panned around and looked at look at
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers crowd in the lower level from dugout to dugout?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got some.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the demographic? What's the demographic? Mix, mix, mix, mixed, mixed.
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  Speaker 2: Those are expensive seats, Herman. What's the demographic?
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  Speaker 1: Dugout to dugout at AmFam Field in the one bill,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like the 120s across.
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  Speaker 2: The more expensive are older people. Thank you. So what
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  Speaker 2: are you seeing in the crowd shots?
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  Speaker 1: You're not seeing the craziness in the bleachers in the
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  Speaker 1: upper reaches of the ballpark because you never do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just telling you that's what I saw. So I
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  Speaker 3: was like, they're telling me how great this crowd is.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a bunch of old people singing Ring Around
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  Speaker 3: the Roses and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not because the louder people are out and
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  Speaker 1: you're not seeing them, but you're definitely hearing them.
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  Speaker 2: But they add to the vibe of the ballpark. It's
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: so subjective anyway. Everyone talks about their crowd's better. Ours isn't.
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  Speaker 2: They're definitely less nervous.
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  Speaker 1: Billy's right and Billy hit it exactly on the head.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the big moments between innings three and seven.
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  Speaker 1: It's still loud there and it feels like it does
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  Speaker 1: at AmFam. Innings eight and nine.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get some claps going on the two strikes. That's
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  Speaker 2: the big one. That's the big one. Every two strikes.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. But they also had good things happening. Milwaukee
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  Speaker 2: baseball fans are passive mostly. Even in, like, yeah. I'm
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  Speaker 2: fighting on this. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: When Miz is pitching in the first inning or the
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  Speaker 1: third inning, especially in a playoff game, and he gets
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  Speaker 1: to two strikes, the play should be good.
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  Speaker 2: In the Padres, it would be up for grabs.
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  Speaker 1: It would be noticeably loud. And here it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like golf clap. You wait for the result to applaud.
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  Speaker 1: not anticipate and cheer in anticipation.
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  Speaker 2: Of the result.
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  Speaker 3: I agree on the two strike thing. We used to
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  Speaker 3: start the slow clap at County stadium. That was always
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  Speaker 3: a thing. And no one does that anymore, Because.
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  Speaker 1: You were watching John Hughes movies and all the teen
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: movies that everybody had a slow clap in the cafeteria
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  Speaker 1: scene when the bully realized that, hey, these geeks are
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: actually nice people and I shouldn't be terrorizing them and
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: taking their lunch money.
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  Speaker 2: Good reference. I like your reference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, no, we used to do that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and Jamie Wright had two strikes. We had to clap
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  Speaker 3: it up. But I'm just saying I'm defending our crowd.
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: I think we've been really good the first two games.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it's been loud. Yes, a little more nervous.
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  Speaker 3: That's our nature right now as Brewers fans, as sports
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  Speaker 3: fans in the state that have unfortunately started to fetishize
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: our heartbreak in the playoffs. We're waiting for the other
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: shoe to drop all the time until it doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: There is a segment of that. And I'm sorry if
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: it gets to game five, we'll probably feel that anxiousness again.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I still think, of course, if it gets
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: to name five, of course, my point is they'll say
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  Speaker 3: that about the crowd. But like last year against the Cubs,
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: the crowd brought it for game five against the Cubs
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  Speaker 3: because they were trying to combat the Cubs thing.
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  Speaker 2: So I bought it.
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  Speaker 1: But but at least 30 to 40 percent of that
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  Speaker 1: crowd was a Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: Crowd, too. Oh, there's a factor there. Absolutely. And that
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  Speaker 2: adds to it, too. So, yes, Billy's right. All right.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. We have our opinions on it. That's right. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it is loud there. Ask anybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough environment. Any environment is great. Like, was
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  Speaker 1: it loud when Churrio got the hit?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. But, yeah, we're talking about, again, from wall to wall.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: From wall to wall, it's louder in other parts. It's
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: hard to win there. I totally admit that. Well, the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers have one of the best home records in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: So do the Padres. They're good teams. That's the reason.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: All right. 877-794-1973. Do we have Murph? You want to
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: listen to Murph's postgame? Let's do it. I sent it
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: over to Jarman, unless you need me to play it
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  Speaker 2: over on this side. Murph, after the game, obviously going
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: to get a number of different conversations. But I do
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: like that our boy Hunter Baumgart, I believe, appears into
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  Speaker 2: this one as well. So thank goodness that we get
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: a little bit of Hunter once we clear the 15
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: second of ads. We don't have premium ads. Are you
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: kidding me? You think we have premium here? Do I
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: need to go log in? So we have it premium too.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: So we don't have the, all right, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: Every day I'm buffering.
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  Speaker 2: This is how the other half lives. I'll tell you
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: all the streaming services, Netflix, Hulu, miss me with peacock. HBO,
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: are they just calling it Max now? YouTube Premium, by
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: far and bar none, the most necessary. Are we finally
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: done with the ads? There we go. Pat Murphy after
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 6: Let's start with Murph. First question, we'll start with Kurt
• 12:30
  Speaker 6: on the right.
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  Speaker 2: Get him the microphone.
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  Speaker 7: Murph, what did you expect out of Dustin tonight, and
• 12:37
  Speaker 7: how was his performance compared to, how would you assess
• 12:39
  Speaker 7: his performance?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I thought he did a nice job,
• 12:42
  Speaker 6: gave us three innings, kept us in the game.
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  Speaker 7: Um....
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  Speaker 6: I wish he held runners a little better there, but
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: those two pretty fast guys. But other than that, the
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  Speaker 6: leadoff walk in the fourth inning, when we got them
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  Speaker 6: out of there, ended up not hurting us. But free
• 13:02
  Speaker 6: bases were the name of the game tonight. Free bases
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  Speaker 6: and Jackson Merrill catching those two balls in the gap,
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  Speaker 6: those are two leadoff doubles for sure. And usually when
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  Speaker 6: you get a leadoff double, there's a probability of– scoring,
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  Speaker 6: but too many free bases, wild pitch, error, some walks,
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  Speaker 6: stolen bases, you know, and then the hard contacts we
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  Speaker 6: did have, you know, they caught a lot of the time,
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  Speaker 6: so credit to them, credit to them.
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  Speaker 7: That error, Cooper and Bowers in the sixth ended up
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  Speaker 7: obviously looming large, kind of an odd play with the bat,
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  Speaker 7: what did you see in What's that? The error in
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  Speaker 7: the sixth, I think it was, with Cooper and Jake.
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  Speaker 7: What did you see on that play with the bat flying.
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  Speaker 6: And Jake not keeping the ball? Who was the error on?
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  Speaker 7: It was on Cooper. Is that a play Jake needs
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  Speaker 7: to make?
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  Speaker 6: I'd have to look at it, Kurt, to be honest
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  Speaker 6: with you. You make these assumptions before you really go
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  Speaker 6: and look at it and know the situation, but if
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  Speaker 6: the ball bounced, that makes it a tougher play, but Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: that's what I'm talking about, free bases. You can't give
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  Speaker 6: them up. And then the kid comes around to score. Sophia?
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  Speaker 4: Murph, you guys obviously created a lot of pressure and
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: traffic innings like you want. Just offensively, what did you
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: like about the approach? But then also, when you had
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: those opportunities, the at-bats that you got.
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, like I said, we've had four or
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: five balls, over 100 that were caught. But we also...
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: Punched out in big situations. We had bases loaded. We
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: had other big situations that we didn't come through. So
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: that's part of baseball. When you're facing a good team
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: with good pitching staff, you know, it's part of it. So,
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: you know, we didn't get the big hit at the
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: big time. But, you know, what do you– I mean,
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: do you fault Yelly for hitting one 107 there and
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: Bogert's making a great play? You know, they got a
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: great team and they played great defense tonight. They really did.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Kevin?
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: Pat, when did you kind of become aware, like, oh, well,
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: Maura Hone's not coming in. There's something wrong with Maura Hone.
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: I don't know that. We were obviously expecting him to
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: come in. But, you know, we've seen him one time.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: We respect him. He's really, really good. But the kid
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: that came in the game, that guy is– He's special.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: He's special. I think you're pretty familiar with Jackson, know him.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: What did you think of those? I know you've already
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: addressed them, but the nature of those plays. It changes
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: the game. You lead off the game and second or
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: third pitch of the game gets hit in the gap.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: What was that ball hit at? 1-0 something for sure, right?
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: That's a long yardage catch. That's a long yardage catch.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: And that kind of stands you up a little bit
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: instead of man on second nobody you got uh you
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: know you got a different situation so um yeah he
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: was you know he's a terrific player swings a bat
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: terrific he was you know he's a really good player
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: really good player the fact that i know him uh
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: has nothing to do with it but it's uh yeah
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: wow um He made two great ones. You know, he
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: made the other one going the other way against, who
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: was that against? Against Sal. Go to Barry and then
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: back to Kurt.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: So, where do you go with your pitching now tomorrow? Obviously,
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: if it goes beyond that, you have Miz in game five.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we got to read and react. This is playoff baseball,
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean? You just kind of regroup
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: here and see where everybody's at and I mean, the
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: game ended like 11 minutes ago, Barry, so I'm not
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: prepared to.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Mean, we know that we've used some guys. I mean,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: that's Uribe's third outing, Hall's second, Romero's second, Sensatello's second,
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: so we've got some used-up guys, but we'll have some
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: available arms tomorrow for sure, and we'll assess it tonight
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: before we leave and come up with a plan for tomorrow.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: We'll worry about Any other games after that, if they're necessary.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: So you're talking maybe bullpen games tomorrow, or do you
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: have a choice of starters?
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Sometimes.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: There we go. Oops, there you go. All right.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Nothing you can do because we're not on premium subscribers, Billy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I should get red, though. What is that? What's that?
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Is that not the bad subscription? There's probably worse ones
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I pay for than that one.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: That is you. I'm telling you, once you have YouTube premium,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: it'll be about as good as anything. But we got,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I think we got the gist there. I do like
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: the fact that he throws it in there. Drew's like, man,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: game ended about 11 minutes ago. I don't have the
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: answer for you. I'm, we will figure something out before
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: we leave here tonight and we will settle on who
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: we're going to go with. And then we'll tell you
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: at the very much appropriate time, but not a second earlier.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: That is let's play off games and shit, baby. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: like to hear that. I do, too. Well, we got
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: most of it, unless you guys want to hear the rest.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I think we're going to. The last couple of minutes.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I wanted to hear Hunter. Do you want to hear
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: another one? Hunter. I mean, we'll hear from Hunter later.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: We'll wake his ass up.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Come on, Hunter.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: We've got El Jefe coming up, too. When we come back,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Scott Dolphin's going to join us. We'll change gears a
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, the Brewers lost. They got another game.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: But it's Bear Week. Can't forget that. Because on Sunday
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: at Lambeau Field, noon kickoff, the long time.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Border battles renewed. First time in pairs in 20 years,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Packers are a home underdog to the Chicago bears at
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Lambeau field.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: It's going to take some adjustment against a backup quarterback.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Dolph is in next for the halftime report. You're in
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin, back on the huddle
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Fox sports radio, Wisconsin, nine 20, Milwaukee, 10 70, Madison,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: everywhere on the I heart radio app.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Billy drew Arman. We got, Scott Dolphin here. It's halftime.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Dolph, late night last night for everybody. Brewers did not
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: spray champagne. Another opportunity this evening.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: You know, it was a fun game to watch, though,
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: as frustrating as it is to see them lose. What
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Murph said about this team, bunch of woodpeckers boy we
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: saw it in action last night every inning it seemed
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: here they come again here they come again here they
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: come again I mean in a nutshell when Cooper Pratt
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: tags up on a ball nobody thought he was going
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: to tag up on we're like.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Okay That ball was hit about 235 feet. That was close, dude. And, like,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: even the left... Dolph, I think the left fielder was
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: almost the most surprised out of anybody that he ended
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: up going. Because you could tell there was, like, a
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: split second of, oh, whoa, okay, sweet, he's going. And
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I think A.J. Pruszynski pointed out, said, Dad, that's the
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: center fielder's ball, man. You got to... you can't make
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: that catch because you have a bad angle. And yeah.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: And Lord knows Merrill would have made the play judging
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: off last night. Yeah. There's no way he's not.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: The little things there, like that could have cost, you know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: the Padres, if they lose a, that's a little thing.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, that doesn't go anywhere in any sort of
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: stat book or score book where he takes that ball.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: But I had no thought when that thing was hit
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: that we're getting a run off that. So that was
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: a found run in my opinion.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: It was, you know, yeah. Yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: Clearly Merrill is going to, is, has been their MVP
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: so far, both, you know, With the bat, with the glove,
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: he's been amazing. But the Brewers weren't intimidated by that
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: atmosphere at all, right? You didn't see them blinking out there.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Other than Dustin May, maybe, in the third inning.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: No, but he kept him in there. He did.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: And he's... It was a decent start, and now he
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: ran into trouble, and I thought kept him in there, but.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: He leaves the game. It's tied, right? I mean, so.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I also don't know that he. No, I think they
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: were down. They were down at that point. But I
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: don't know, if anything, Dolph, like, their three best hitters
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: got three good swings on you, right? And, like, one
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: of them ended up being a ground ball. We talked
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: about it. Luckily, they got the out with Tatis, because otherwise,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: that inning could have really snowballed, and who knows where
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: it ends up. They kind of outbrewered the Brewers there.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Big time. A couple of those hits. Absolutely. All right, so, Dolph,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: we've been focused on the Brewers, which is great.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Half of the Chicago Bears fan base is happy that
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the White Sox are within striking distance.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Playing their first home game this afternoon in the playoffs,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: by the way. How about that? Blackout. But when it
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: comes to Bears Nation, they're focused on Sunday at noon. Yeah.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: We'll have to get there eventually. Billy, like it or not,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: ready or not, here it comes. Oh. And what was it, Billy?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: First time in 20 years Packers are a home underdog?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: First time since 2006 that the Packers are a home
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: underdog to the Chicago Bears. I was at that game.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I remember that game.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: It was at the Devin Hester coming out party, I think,
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: when he had the punt return and maybe a kickoff
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: return for a touchdown, 0-6.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean, currently as it stands, the Bears,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Kyle Menunga and DeAndre Swift have more rushing yards individually
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: than the Packers have in totality by 100. Kind of
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: saw that coming, didn't you? So, I mean, like, it's
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: a dicey situation. Packers haven't scored a rushing touchdown. If
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: they don't have one this week, Dolph, it'll only be
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the second time since they've started playing football.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: That they've gone five straight games to start a year
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: without a rushing touchdown.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: Well, a lot of things had to happen to make
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: that possible, and obviously it's like Murphy's Law so far
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: between the offensive line and Josh Jacobs.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. Yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: What about the whole narrative of some Packers fans... are
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: upset that LeFleur isn't more fiery and isn't taking on
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson. They're letting Ben Johnson have not the first,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the first word, the last word and every word in
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: between while the floor is like, ah, it's about the players, blah, blah, blah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Bears fans are just leaning into it. Cause they're thirsty.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And you know, the people who chant green Bay sucks,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: leaving a bulls, black Hawks or Cubs game.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: They just, they love that. You'll probably hear it today
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: during the socks game too. Is it low lion fruit
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: there for the, for the bears coach to lean into?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: I mean, that's always been his personality, and it's also
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: been Matt LaFleur's personality.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: It's not like he's changing right now for anybody.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: He's always been that guy, and I don't think he's
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: going to let it affect his coaching abilities.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I think last year, Johnson said it after the first win, right?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: That was the F the Packers one, and then the
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: playoff one was the... big blow up celebration. Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: Well, the introductory press conference too, where he said, I've
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: always enjoyed beating Matt.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I've always enjoyed being Matt Lafleur and look forward to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: doing it again. And, but he said it after the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: first time they won of the, the message from ownership
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: of this game is different. This means more in our organization.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: This means a ton. And that kind of importance that
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: you put on an organization can only be manufactured so much.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Like at some point, That is some real stuff. Sure.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: And I mean, it has been one of the points
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: of emphasis from the McCaskey family for everybody that takes over.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I respect the hell out of it. They, they wanted
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Lovey Smith to beat the Packers. That's what he said
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: in his first and directory press conference. And nobody really
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: has done it since Lovey. And right now they have.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: a top seven coach in football, like in that's probably
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: being probably being, you know, reserved and conservative as to
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: where he's at in terms of everybody's pecking order. And
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: they're definitely flaunting it. Like, I understand it, but this
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: is one of those moments where you really learn there's
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: a fork in the road. And the Packers and Bears
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: rivalry that we've watched for the last 20 years, it
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: is the starkest of contrast. And it is a 1,000%
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: dawning of a new era with this rivalry rolling forward. Well,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I'm just glad it's a rivalry again.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: As a Bears fan, you know, I think the NFL
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: is better when the Packers and Bears are both good.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: We don't see that very often. That's the funny part.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Where they're both good together. There are times. But, you know.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know that they both are right now. I'd
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: really like to say they both are right now. Make
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: me swallow that pill. That's true. I'd like to say that.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, well, in the first week one, the Bears
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: defense looked like a disaster and it has settled down.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: But the quarterbacks they played and the Eagles are a mess. Like,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: could they be tested, especially in the secondary? Could they
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: be exploited?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe. I'm looking for any ray of hope. Yeah, sure. Otherwise,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: it looks pretty bleak. It'll be a true.
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: Road game for the first time in a long time
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: for the Bears. They've had three straight home games. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: that in itself will be a challenge for young Tyson Bajent.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, now game one of the NLCS
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, and then maybe, maybe it would be a
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: different story. Maybe there'd be even more of those tickets
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: that end up on the secondary market. Like it could be,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: it could just be a very fascinating Sunday that like
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: it's setting up for this to be a big time
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: tipping point where for a long time in the bears
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Packers rivalry, when you think you can guarantee and lock
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: up one deal, a three and 13 bears team stands
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: up to an Aaron Rogers team. and makes it a
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: three-point game late into the game. Any given Sunday. Any
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: given Sunday is kind of the vibe of where you
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: have to have this game be because right now that
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: offense is a different level. Yeah, it's happened.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: And this is kind of the hope against hope optimism
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I'll take that. I'm hoping the Packers can be that
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: team this time around where, hey, you kind of expect
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: the Bears to have the upper hand in this one, obviously, for...
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the way both teams have been playing, maybe the Packers
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: can stand up and try and reverse that. The one
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: thing is, I don't think the Bears have had the
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: pressure on them to win for a while in this
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: rivalry just because everyone's expected them to lose.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: But now they have expectations.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know if pressure is the right word, but
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: they have expectations on them this time.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: To win and say, okay, you're supposed to be the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: team that's burgeoning.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: You're supposed to be the team that's starting to transcend now.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: can you actually put your foot in the ground and say,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: all right, now we walk and expect to beat the
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Packers at that stadium?
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: Well, and if the Packers are struggling, like we're talking
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: about right now, this is a game the Bears need
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: to get against this Green Bay team because if you
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: look at the schedule, they're playing that first-place schedule.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: You know, the Bills are coming, the Seahawks are coming.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: There's some difficult outs on this schedule moving forward.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: And it only gets a little lighter for the Vikings.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: They get the Saints where two weeks ago I guaranteed
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: that the Saints would win that game and their undefeated
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: season would end there. I don't feel as confident in
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that as I do after watching Shuck and company there.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: But they have the clearest of third-place schedules, and they
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: walk in potentially into the bye 5-0. If you're going
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: to be trying to win this division, this is going
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: to be a very important one to have.
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: Bears have to go, I think, to Atlanta after Green
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: Bay too, which all of a sudden is resurrected.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: One of the best offenses in the NFL after the Packers.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: It's at Atlanta home against the Patriots at Seattle. That's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: pretty tough schedule. That is not a, that is not
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: a cakewalk.
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: So clearly I don't want to call it must win
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: because you know, it's early in the season, but this
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: is one they need to get. And they're a favorite
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: on the road. They probably should get it in the
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: eyes of Vegas.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm a two and a half. It's almost disheartening, Billy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Cause it's like, I'll be encouraged. Trust me, I'm sick
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: of talking like this.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I'll be encouraged if the Packers keep it competitive, and
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: if it's a game into the fourth quarter, I think
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that's a positive.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: And you should be encouraged because I don't know how
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: many games in a row have been right down to
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: the wire between these two teams when you go back
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: to Caleb Williams' rookie season. Both of those games were close,
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: weren't they? And the Bears were not great then.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It was the 20-19 Carl Brooks blocked field goal in
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Chicago that the Packers won, and then.
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: They lose the one late. And then the Bears won
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: the miracle game late with the D.J.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Moore- Yeah, with the catch and run and then Santos
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: hit the field goal right after Watson ended up unfortunately
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: blown on his ACL day before the week before the
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: playoffs against the Eagles. There are two organizations that could
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: be potentially going in very much different directions. That being said,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the Packers, the other part of why a loss feels
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: or a win feels like a loss because you lost
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: your best player. who's on the field right now in
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Edgerton Cooper, their defense can look very much different, but
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: the news has not been glowingly positive on when you're
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: getting Micah Parsons back two weeks ago on a hot
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: take hump day. My hot take was Caleb Williams. And
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Micah Parsons will be playing in this game. Dolph, how
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: many of them are going to play in this game? Zero. Yeah,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: that would be an L for the day. But it
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: sounds a lot more positive, like you're going to get
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Williams back sooner than Parsons, because he still hasn't even
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: been cleared to practice yet. I don't think you're hurrying back.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I think that's what everybody's saying, right?
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: I mean, this is an injury that you can re-aggravate
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: in a heartbeat, and then you're looking at extended weeks,
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: maybe towards November or December.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: And rightfully so. The Bears are feeling themselves. I do,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: to go back to Drew, your original question of the
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: LaFleur and Johnson one, would I like Matt LaFleur to
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: come out there and say, there's three things I love
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: the most in life? God, my family, and beating the
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. Yeah, that would fire me up to no end.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: He's just not going to do that. And I guess
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that you're not going to be somewhat of
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: a phony, not going to do something that's out of
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: your character. Locker room would tell that. They would understand it.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: They would pick it up. But you do wonder how
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: much of it can you then translate to your locker
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: room that this is a little bit different? This is
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: not as ho-hum as any other week five game is.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: This one does mean a lot, even if you're only
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: going to look at it as that's the target to
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: shoot in the division.
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: I would hope, and that's his message to his locker
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: room when the media is not around.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Get a little bit nasty about that. For a while,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I think that was always the Bears' MO. We want
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: to try to engage that, bowling upstairs and say, we're
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: going to have you. How many times have their coaches
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: and players and everyone said we're going after the Packers?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Well, the Packers have always been. I mean, you go
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: back through the years.
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: That's what you heard from the Packers going back to
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: Charles Woodson.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: We knew Jay was going to throw us the ball.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: Or even last year with the Packers defensive coordinator and
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: players on the field saying we want Chicago. We don't
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: want the Eagles. We want Chicago in the playoffs. and,
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: and Halfley saying, Oh yeah, we'll see you next week.
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: We'll be here next week.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: And the bears are giving you like the whole, we're
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: going to take the North and not give it back
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: and all those types of things as well.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. We'll see.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: I think it's when you're the team that you think,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: when you think you're better than the other team, it's
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: always easy to talk.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: It's, it's fun to talk like that.
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: I think it's one of the reasons that the McCaskill,
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: the family went after this guy because he's got that
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: alpha personality. Not only was he a great offensive coordinator
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: in Detroit, but I think they wanted a guy like this.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: And the, and the players obviously have bought in.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: They've, they love the good, better, best, and all that stuff.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: And he's got the, he's got the eye of everybody
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: around the league, drew like there there's, there's a way
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: that people talk about different coaches in football, Kyle Shanahan,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: McVay for the longest time right now, Ben Johnson is
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: that flavor of the month. And he is, he is
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: getting glazed every which way. And you watch that run
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: game and you watch their creativity and kind of how
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: he's feeling himself in the play calling sequencing, starting case
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Keenum at quarterback for one play on some kind of
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: understand it kind of understand that was something.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Shift in gears again while Dolph is here. It is
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: hot take hump day. Hot take. I saw Mike McCarthy
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: with one of people's favorite quotes here. We got to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: clean our house. Our house is not clean right now.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Clean up your own house. You want to clean up
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: on aisle five this week? How about the officials in
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL?
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Two guys suspended.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: The professionalism, and Billy and I were looking at that guy,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Warren Sharpe's breakdown of more penalties this year, more red
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: zone penalties this year, more third down penalties. They are
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: intruding on the game, Dolph, and to me, they could
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: cut the penalties down by 30% and make it a
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: much better and better game to watch.
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree with you. And those two guys on Sunday,
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: there's no excuse for that. Although the head official in
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: the Minnesota game, I think that was just spur of
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: the moment, heated passion. He didn't know if he got
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: blindsided on purpose or on accident and just kind of reacted.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: The dude barking out it, was it McBride? Trey McBride.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Trey McBride, yeah, the guy swearing at him. That guy,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on. Suspension, is that enough? They could
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: fire a guy for that.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: But then there's guys like Armin that are on the
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: other side saying, I want there to be more of
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: that in the game. I thought it was hilarious. We
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: used to get people jawing back and forth, and they
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: didn't get all bent out of shape. Like in baseball, especially.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: These are grown men in the football field. Baseball, we
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: lost that. We're between the lines. We lost the spit.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: The exchange of spit.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: We lost it because everyone's worried about, we got to
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: get someone in trouble now and see how we can get,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: come on.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Baseball, they just got the challenge system and it's like,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you don't see the managers running out there risking ripping
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: an Achilles or tearing a hamstring running out of the dugout.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, Drew, but how many, for a century, for over
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: a century, okay, umps have been telling players and managers
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: in baseball to go do it to themselves too. And like,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: so I'm not saying like you would teach that you
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: would never, you would never sit there and say, it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: okay to do that. But like for observers and fans,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: it's kind of fun to watch the back and forth.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: It's funny. I'm not saying you shouldn't face any reprimand,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: but it's like, Well, I don't know. Isn't it one
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: thing for a plate umpire to get into it? But like,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: you know, the side judge, like, you know, it's like, well,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: is that like the first base umpire? He's going to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: get into it if it's his call. We'll go down
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: the line umpire in the playoffs. The left field line.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: But my point is, it makes it entertaining for me
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: as a fan. I'm not sitting there saying that.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Well, OK, so the momentary conflagrations are entertaining, but the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: parade of penalties we talked about.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, the penalties suck.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Like, can you can we have a kick return without?
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: like a questionable block in the back. Isn't that the
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: shift though? Isn't that the shift we've seen?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, to see more offense in the NFL, you know,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: they only add rules. That's true. I mean, and the other,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: the other thing is like the guys are only getting
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: faster and faster. And I do believe there's something to,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: you know, Armin, not want, like he just said of,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: you know, not wanting a certain, uh, to be shown up.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I do believe there's a level in the certain, in
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: all of these officials that is everything is so heavily
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: and overly scrutinized now online that I want to make
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: sure that there's never a time that I mess up.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: And if anything's borderline, I'm going to make sure I
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: throw it. And instead they're probably hurting and throwing themselves
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: in more hot water than not. It is.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: And it's never going to be like baseball or basketball.
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: These guys are still whatever.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: College professors or insurance agents.
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: On the side.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And I, I've heard that argument a lot.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: It will making them full-time, make them see better or
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: make them slow down the game.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Make them worse.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I like, I understand it, but in a world where
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: you're trying to get 1% better and everything. It sure
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: wouldn't make them worse.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: The last thing we need is refs to be better
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and call more penalties because the week four had the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: most accepted penalties in a week since 1978.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: But that's not them being better. Them being better would
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: be able to differentiate what's incidental contact and what's not.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: What is actual contact and what's not. Would you be
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: able to learn more of that in the middle of
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: May or June when you're doing some off-season training? Probably.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: But I don't know that we'll ever learn it because
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: we just signed a new rights deal with the referees.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Or would doing the off-season training make them.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: more likely to call more penalties because they see more
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and they know the rules more.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the former. I understand why you'd
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: think it would be more, but I think it would
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: be less. I think you'd understand and see so much
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: more of it where every movement wouldn't seem as overt
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: and as something to penalize. How about something like this?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Like, let's correct the market. Let them challenge penalties. Like,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: let them challenge. That worked really well the first time.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Let's have it. Let's go. The problem is there's so much.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: That worked really well with the pass interference ones. There's
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: so much that's subjective and opinion based about it. It's
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: all the judgment. So it makes it a hard game
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to officiate. I think we need to. Because the contact
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: is part of the game.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: We need another walkout. We need another fail Mary. And
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: then we need these guys.
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: Coming into stadiums to standing O's again, and then.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: All will be forgiven. I also think we'll complain no
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: matter what, as fans and observers.
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: But, you know, I mean, with the technology being what
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: it is today, it's not going to get any easier
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: on these guys.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: No, that is for sure. That is for sure, Dolph.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: Hey, I've been that stop-action warrior on social media before.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Look at this. Look at how ridiculous this is. Oh,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: there were some Penn State folks that were doing it
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: with Jacob Harris. Oh, I bet. Freight training linebacker. He said,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: he was in my way. I had to get him
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: out of my way. Sorry. Shouldn't have been standing there. Classic.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: Classic.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't have been standing there. All right, Dolph, thanks for
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: getting us through halftime. It's always, it hits different on
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Wednesday because it's halftime of the week.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: So is it Brewers-Padres tonight, game four, or is it
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: Bucs at Oklahoma City, preseason game two?
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, baby.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Split the screen. Let's get into the win column after
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: game one was brutal. I am watching Gary Trent tonight.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Am I mistaken in saying that there are four baseball
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: games today, all of them elimination games?
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Yes. Possibly. They all are. We're to that point. Get
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: the plastic over the lockers, boys.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Somebody's going to be celebrating tonight. Dolph, thanks for popping by.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: You are in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Rolling
• 37:46
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• 37:48
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• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Cora to be their manager as they fired Rob Thompson.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: What?
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Middle of May? Middle of May or middle of May?
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Handed it off to Don Mattingly, who did an exceptional job.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I think it was almost 20 games over 500 as
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: the manager of the Phillies. But he was asked, and
• 38:36
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• 38:39
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• 38:41
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• 38:44
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• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Cora to be their manager. Andrew, it appears for the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: second time in five months, Alex Cora has told the Phillies, thanks,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: but no thanks. Plans to take 2027 off. Because of
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: the impending lockout, you know, Cora, one of the biggest,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: the best strengths of him as a manager, they say,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: is his relationship with players. What's the one thing you
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: can't do as a manager during a lockout? Yeah. Communicate
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: with players. Yeah, actually, I'm not going to do that.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to keep getting paid by the Red
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Sox for one final year. Getting paid, take a year off,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: not get close to any players in case there's an issue.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Then we'll see when the dust settles. Maybe I'll take
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: a job. I would really struggle to be working if
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: I knew somebody was paying me. Absolutely.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: And what a blessing that must be to be in
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: a position like that. That competitiveness will make you do
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of things. I think that, I think that, uh,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: that guaranteed cash would make me sit on the bench.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Uh, who's hot. Uh, once again, sadly come playoff time,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, uh, hot again, seven innings, four hits, one Ernie,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: 10 Ks yesterday, uh, Set his playoff career high. Sale
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: wasn't bad, but gave up two homers to the Dodgers
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: and one of which to Freddie Freeman, who now has
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: two homers in the playoffs for the Dodgers. He had
• 40:00
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• 40:03
  Speaker 2: The two run shot came off the bat of Kike
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Hernandez and the Dodgers lost Go up 2-1 in their
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: series and put the Braves on the brink of elimination
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: last night.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they got Glasnow tonight.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: So it's like, what a rotation.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: It's like Derek Jeter, just get the next one, you know.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Down the line. Also, who's hot? I know you guys were,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: everybody was dialed in. Troy Trojans last night, 55-34 over
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: the Southern Miss Golden Eagles. You had the over? Oh,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I wish. Yeah, I wish. I can be completely honest
• 40:31
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• 40:35
  Speaker 2: I'm in for. Yeah. Sunbelt Tuesday night feels a little manufactured.
• 40:38
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• 40:41
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• 40:44
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