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083126 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Five o'clock club off to a rumbling start with thunder
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Speaker 1: outside the studio at the Megaplex. Hey, now. Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: What's a little flash storm in the morning? Get your
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Speaker 1: juices flowing. I don't think we need the extra inflammation here.
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Speaker 1: We don't. We don't need the smoke because I got
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Speaker 1: two words for you five o'clock clubbers this morning and
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Speaker 1: two words only. Game on. Yes, sir. There were games
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Speaker 1: on this weekend. Tackle football games, college football games. Shoot
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Speaker 1: it into Billy's veins. We got games coming. Brewers, Cubs.
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Speaker 1: We got a Badgers game coming very soon on the
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Speaker 1: horizon at Lambeau Field against Notre Dame. And it's game
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Speaker 1: on for the commissioners exempt list.
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Speaker 2: Goodness gracious, Drew, as the game was on on Friday
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Speaker 2: night and I departed and missed you guys. It feels
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Speaker 2: like a month ago since the Packers played that preseason finale,
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Speaker 2: as thrilling as that game was on Lambeau Field on
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Speaker 2: Friday night of 80 combined points.
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Speaker 1: Maybe craziest preseason game we've ever seen. That was a trip.
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Speaker 1: And then the news that came out of the Packers
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Speaker 1: was like, where do you lead today? Brewers and Cubs
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Speaker 1: both lose, but it's game on. Seven games in ten days,
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Speaker 1: starting tonight in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field as
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Speaker 1: the Brewers try to bottle up the red-hot Pete Crowe Armstrong. Goodness.
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Speaker 1: My goodness. Roll through and put the basically put. This
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Speaker 1: is their closing argument is they could just put the
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Speaker 1: we got Wayne Larive out of it. It'll be a
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Speaker 1: dagger if the Brewers dominate this series. Brewers are seven
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Speaker 1: and three in their last 10. Cubs are three and seven.
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Speaker 1: Eight game lead as we enter tonight's little tournament. Seven
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Speaker 1: games in 10 days. Head to head. If the Brewers
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Speaker 1: win three of the seven games, they will win the
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Speaker 1: season series against the Cubs.
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Speaker 2: And you and you were on it, Drew, that there
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Speaker 2: really is no slowing down right now as four bombs
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Speaker 2: in his last seven plate appearances for PCA hitting bombs
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Speaker 2: left and right. But the the interesting thing is, as
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Speaker 2: we saw a MVP outfielder carry his team and race
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Speaker 2: through and take out the the Cubs, In 2018, what
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Speaker 2: Yelich did and helped lead the Brewers into that 163
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Speaker 2: and win the division.
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Speaker 1: Everybody around him was helping him out.
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Speaker 2: Man, the pitching staff in Chicago that was very much
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Speaker 2: remade at the deadline has been hot and cold. And
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Speaker 2: this weekend, runs were a plenty at Wrigley's. The Cubs
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Speaker 2: put up 17 on Saturday and then give up 7,
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Speaker 2: give up 10 on Friday. Can't gain any ground. Losers
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Speaker 2: of 7 of their last 10. A wild team. with
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Speaker 2: a crazy offense, but one that needs to have basically
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Speaker 2: shut the box to really have anything to do because
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Speaker 2: the math right now is all in the Brewers' favor.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Brewers are looking good. They win a series against
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Speaker 1: the Rangers. Flat performance yesterday after they scorched the first
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Speaker 1: inning with a bunch of hits in a row.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like that was a– they rolled out,
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Speaker 2: hit up two in the first inning. Four– what, first
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Speaker 2: four guys get hits against Kumar Rocker. And it feels
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Speaker 2: like you're just about to rock all day.
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Speaker 1: And then Dustin May comes in and it was lukewarm
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Speaker 1: at best. But you're right.
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Speaker 2: It's a little bit uninspiring, but otherwise a very positive
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Speaker 2: homestand in one that you just don't have a whole lot. Right.
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Speaker 1: Two out of three quick in and out.
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Speaker 3: Sure.
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Speaker 2: You would like to sweep the Rangers. That would always
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Speaker 2: be nice. But you're in a weird position at the
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Speaker 2: moment where what they have three home series left.
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Speaker 1: They get the Cubs for three.
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Speaker 2: They get three against the Reds and then three against
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Speaker 2: the Redbirds to finish it out. And all of a
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Speaker 2: sudden you realize your chances to go see the team
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Speaker 2: before the postseason are dwindling.
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Speaker 1: Evaporating quickly here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's not that many home games left. You look
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Speaker 4: at the calendar and you're ripping pages off. Yeah, and
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Speaker 4: if you're.
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Speaker 1: Thinking about investing in some tickets, those three games against Cubs,
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Speaker 1: including a Labor Day matchup, going to be tough to
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Speaker 1: come by. Going to be tough to come by and
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Speaker 1: rather appealing to many.
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Speaker 4: They played on Labor Day in that year you guys
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Speaker 4: are talking about, the 18 year.
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Speaker 1: I remember that.
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Speaker 4: It was Brewers-Cubs-Cubs. on Labor Day, and it was such
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Speaker 4: a big ticket because of the off day and all
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Speaker 4: those things. And I remember snagging those tickets like months before,
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Speaker 4: and I'm really feeling good about it. That was the
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Speaker 4: closest I came to reselling at one point, but I
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Speaker 4: never did. And that was a good game. So, hey,
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Speaker 4: maybe history is going to repeat itself. One thing that
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Speaker 4: won't repeat itself is I don't think the Brewers are
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Speaker 4: giving up this eight-game lead, which is a fantastic feeling.
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Speaker 4: But this Cubs offense is crazy, and you're right about PCA.
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Speaker 4: I mean, what, two numbers yesterday? His war is going
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Speaker 4: to get to nine here soon. He's having a great year.
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Speaker 4: He's minus 2000 with MVP. But like you said, not
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Speaker 4: enough because you have to have a complete team. And
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Speaker 4: right now they're pitching as an able to do it.
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Speaker 2: So he was minus 200 when we talked about it
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Speaker 2: a week ago.
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Speaker 1: A week ago.
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Speaker 4: And that thing jumped up crazy. So pretty wild how
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Speaker 4: that works. Hope you had your futures in. If you
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Speaker 4: didn't hate, at least you had your Brewers futures in
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Speaker 4: because by the way, anyone notice they surpassed the preseason
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Speaker 4: win total. I think it was 84 and a half
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Speaker 4: at the sports books.
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Speaker 1: They cruise by that thing. Pretty good. Pretty easy money
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Speaker 1: for someone taking that to the window. Yeah, pretty easy money.
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Speaker 4: So it's been a wild five months, and I'm sure
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Speaker 4: it's going to be a wild last one. But, yeah,
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Speaker 4: the thunder's rolling through, and not the least of which
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Speaker 4: is the commissioner's exempt list as well.
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Speaker 1: So it's kind of a crazy weekend. Where do you
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Speaker 1: start today? Is it with the Packers roster and the,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say shocking news, but the somewhat
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Speaker 1: surprising news that Josh Jacobs is on the paid leave
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Speaker 1: for a little bit? You start there. I just think
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Speaker 1: we just have to default to media starts with me
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Speaker 1: and ask Billy, how was the bachelor party? It was
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Speaker 1: a good time.
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Speaker 2: It was a good time and a long drive home yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much.
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Speaker 2: And it definitely felt very similar, right, where now if
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Speaker 2: you start looking forward to something, you build it up
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Speaker 2: in your mind, and then all of a sudden it's
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Speaker 2: a gloomy drive home.
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Speaker 1: You're like, dang, back to work tomorrow, back to a
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Speaker 1: full-time reality, and all of a sudden we're just like,
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Speaker 1: this is it?
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Speaker 2: But it was phenomenal in the case of, The Island
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Speaker 2: Resort and Casino in Michigan.
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Speaker 1: Damn, that's a secret weapon up there.
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Speaker 2: On-site golf where you walk across the parking lot and
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Speaker 2: you can grab, you know, the 24-pack before you walk in.
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Speaker 2: and walk right over to the course, and then walk
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Speaker 2: right back in. When you can make that little triangle,
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Speaker 2: and then there's also another pit stop right next to
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Speaker 2: the gas station that also provides gas in a potentially.
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Speaker 1: Different spot. I mean, that's a triangle.
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Speaker 2: Bermuda triangle is what they would call it at certain
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Speaker 2: points for your Saturday thought process, but it was a
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Speaker 2: heck of a time.
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Speaker 1: You had nice weather, too, didn't you? Pretty much?
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Speaker 2: I mean, it rained decently on and off on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: But otherwise, it was low 70s where that's perfect big
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Speaker 2: guy weather. And then also, when there's spots for you
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Speaker 2: just to hit a button and give thrilling action throughout
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Speaker 2: the rest of the night, that's going to be a
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Speaker 2: tough thing to pass up.
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Speaker 1: We are really knocking on 90 degrees this week. Got
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Speaker 1: a little storm outside right now. No big deal. I
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Speaker 1: was going to say, this is going to roll in
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Speaker 1: the heat, isn't it? Oh, yeah, but Billy is. Not
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Speaker 1: many people have a bachelor weekend interrupted by a Packers
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Speaker 1: exhibition game like you do. So kudos to you. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was. Early game ball to Billy. Absolutely. Peeling himself
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Speaker 1: away after a Thursday night, you know, kind of establishing
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Speaker 1: rendezvous there to get everybody charged up and ready. And
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Speaker 1: then to be ready Friday and answer the bell and
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Speaker 1: watch Packers do Packers OT and then get back into it.
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Speaker 1: That's quite, you showed your versatility this weekend. Well, and
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Speaker 1: had to wear a couple of hats.
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Speaker 2: I'm also the best man in this, so that's one
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Speaker 2: of those where, you know, you're going to have to
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Speaker 2: be there, right?
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Speaker 1: You're going to be there at everything.
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Speaker 2: We're also in a position now where we're counting down
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Speaker 2: like a month and a half away, where I realize
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Speaker 2: I'm going to have to do one of Armin's favorite
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Speaker 2: things in the whole wide world.
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Speaker 1: Rent that tux. All right.
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Speaker 4: So I was going to say that or write a speech.
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Speaker 4: Did you have that done yet? Don't AI it, Billy,
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Speaker 4: or don't chat GPT in.
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Speaker 1: Just wing it. Thank you, Drew. I was going to ask.
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Speaker 2: Nobody's planning on me writing anything, right?
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Speaker 1: Just wing it.
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Speaker 4: It's going to be tough for me to be able
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Speaker 4: to write that. Giving a speech is a better term,
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Speaker 4: I guess, than writing, because you don't have.
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Speaker 1: To write it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll definitely more be a delivering of the speech,
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Speaker 2: and hopefully I can deliver at the moment.
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Speaker 1: I think you will, Billy. All you need is one
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Speaker 1: or two good quips.
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Speaker 4: About the groom, good stories that are funny enough for
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Speaker 4: people to get, but.
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Speaker 1: Not too off-color. When it comes to those things, the
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Speaker 1: best course is keep it short.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, keep it short, sweet, a nice couple words about
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Speaker 4: the bride, how they met.
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Speaker 1: Congrats to the family, and boom, there you go. And
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think I've played a pretty significant role.
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Speaker 2: They met at our wedding, so I can at least,
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Speaker 2: you know, again, potentially sprain my shoulder patting myself on
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Speaker 2: the back.
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Speaker 1: Also, I feel good about that, too, because I was there.
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Speaker 1: Because it's not about the couple.
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Speaker 2: It's mostly about me standing there waiting up. It starts
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Speaker 2: with me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. That's pretty good. Yeah, you'll be
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Speaker 1: on fire. You'll be good. 877-794-1973 if you would like
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Speaker 1: to weigh in. It's like The news came hot and
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Speaker 1: heavy yesterday with the Packers. Josh Jacobs all over the
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Speaker 1: place on the on the paid leave list. So he's
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Speaker 1: not he can't practice. He can come to the facility
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Speaker 1: for rehab and individual work. He can't even be around
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Speaker 1: at games, really. He said he can be in meetings, too,
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Speaker 1: from what the Mavs put out there. Is he kind
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Speaker 1: of through the spot? But he's like football activities are verboten.
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Speaker 1: Can't find the practice field and. He's getting paid. So
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Speaker 1: it's a suspension with pay is basically what it is
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Speaker 1: from the commissioner. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And it's a lot of times it's the waiting to
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Speaker 2: figure out what else, what can be next at which
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Speaker 2: if we have to wait until what's next in the
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Speaker 2: middle of November, like a 10 deal.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing to me is like, does this, is
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Speaker 1: this the impetus for Josh Jacobs's attorneys to say, all right,
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Speaker 1: let's cop a plea here. Let's work a deal. Let's
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Speaker 1: let's avoid trial. We'll plead no contest or whatever. We'll
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Speaker 1: pay a fine. whatever that is to avoid this and
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Speaker 1: then make this go away so that then the league
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Speaker 1: can say, well, this is four games or six games
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Speaker 1: or yeah.
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Speaker 2: And miss time on the commissioner's exempt list will count
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Speaker 2: towards your suspension when handed out.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: So like if he misses the first three games on
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Speaker 2: the commissioner's exempt list, then in the end of September,
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Speaker 2: they say, all right, this is a six game suspension.
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Speaker 1: He's already served three. Like he'll get, he'll get credit
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Speaker 1: for it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, so that when you, where you guys went
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Speaker 2: on Friday, I don't fully know all that got dove into,
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Speaker 2: but when we left on Thursday, we were talking or
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Speaker 2: when I left on Thursday, we were talking about it.
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Speaker 2: And I still thought this is going to be something
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Speaker 2: that drags out for a while. And all of a sudden, boom,
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Speaker 2: hammer gets dropped down later that day from the Hobart
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Speaker 2: police department, the Brown County DA's office. And when it
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Speaker 2: goes from felony to misdemeanor, there's also some different thoughts
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Speaker 2: of what it could be. But Ezekiel Elliott, a number
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Speaker 2: of years ago, gets six games for a couple of
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Speaker 2: misdemeanors that he ultimately never Went to trial four. I
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Speaker 2: think the charges were potentially dropped. He got six games.
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Speaker 2: He had a multitude of different things during that offseason,
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Speaker 2: you can remember. But now it's a weird deal, Drew,
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Speaker 2: where you're almost comparing situations across the league. Stephon Diggs.
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Speaker 2: And then James Pierce, who we talked about a couple
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Speaker 2: of times. He's got eight weeks, I think. And there's
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Speaker 2: a very slippery slope that comes through here. But I
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Speaker 2: do agree. It does feel like this is now... let's
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Speaker 2: expedite this process and then we'll figure out what happens
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Speaker 2: at the back end of this.
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Speaker 1: That's what it seems to me. Like then, then we
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Speaker 1: can just, rather than like, well, drag it out to November.
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Speaker 1: I mean, how long is this? That's, that's where it
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Speaker 1: gets murky. I was surprised that this happened. Cause I
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Speaker 1: thought it would now wait. And then I thought that,
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Speaker 1: cause it seems like they can go either way. They
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Speaker 1: could wait to let the court process play itself out
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Speaker 1: or like Goodell could make a statement like he sometimes
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Speaker 1: likes to do. And he chose to make the statement apparently. And, and,
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Speaker 1: As was speculated online, there's this lawyer that did a
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Speaker 1: long thread about it. And he's like, well, it hinges
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Speaker 1: on the video. What does the video show? And will
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Speaker 1: that become public? Because then it changes dynamics. We've seen
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Speaker 1: it before. Yeah, it totally does. But then it's like,
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Speaker 1: if that's inconclusive or if that's like after the fact
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Speaker 1: or something, if that doesn't draw anything, well, there's a
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Speaker 1: reason probably that they drop the charges down to the misdemeanors.
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Speaker 1: And then, again, it's just such a murky situation.
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Speaker 2: Well, when internet was internetting over the weekend, when immediately
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Speaker 2: there's the statement in there that their surveillance video exists,
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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden people are like, my gosh,
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Speaker 2: this is way worse than the Ray Rice video, reposting
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Speaker 2: the Ray Rice video on social media.
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Speaker 1: Social media was wild and out with this story.
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Speaker 2: But you're right, because the video can absolutely change the
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Speaker 2: court of public opinion. It's obviously done something to the investigation,
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Speaker 2: whether dropping the charges down more or, again, being the
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Speaker 2: main reason why you keep the charges around. It's a
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Speaker 2: very serious situation for Jacobs. And it's one that Judging
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Speaker 2: what the Packers did yesterday, going and grabbing Caleb Johnson,
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Speaker 2: the former Hawkeye second rounder who was a beast in
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten, hasn't really grabbed any of his footing
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Speaker 2: in the NFL, especially after a special teams gaffe that
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Speaker 2: earned him definitely a few kicks to the balls on
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Speaker 2: this particular program a year or so ago.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Drew, that they anticipated this was coming.
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Speaker 2: Like watching that and seeing how they've operated throughout the offseason.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that a whole lot of people were
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Speaker 2: planning on this. right towards the end, right on cut
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Speaker 2: down day, at least it came with five to six
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Speaker 2: hours of somewhat notice and planning that you were able
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Speaker 2: to see, okay, we are going to have to know
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Speaker 2: coming up here in the next couple of days, who's
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Speaker 2: going to be taking snaps for us in Minnesota. Cause
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Speaker 2: I don't think that we can take 50 for March
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Speaker 2: on Lloyd. That made it wild that they cut Pierre strong.
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Speaker 1: Right. And then like they made the move. They got
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Speaker 1: a tight end. All this is interconnected because they had
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Speaker 1: to give up a couple of draft picks. Is that
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Speaker 1: the impetus that, to trade Kyle McCord, which if not
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Speaker 1: for the Josh Jacobs news, that trading of the number
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Speaker 1: three quarterback that everybody loved on Friday night would have
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Speaker 1: been like, what really? Like they knew they, but maybe
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Speaker 1: they thought they couldn't get them through waivers, hook up
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Speaker 1: Halfley who just traded his backup quarterback away. So that
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Speaker 1: was an interesting dynamic. But the thing is, did they
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Speaker 1: do that solely to get a draft pick back that
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Speaker 1: they flipped to get a running back? And then, you know,
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Speaker 1: so it's like the calculus, it all adds together. But
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering what actions led to what reactions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you're kind of on to it.
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Speaker 2: But once they realized, and probably four touchdowns on Friday
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Speaker 2: night maybe also sparked more of the conversation.
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Speaker 1: I think it was clear.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't going to get through it. Somebody was probably
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Speaker 2: going to pick him up and try to make him
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Speaker 2: there too. Or I mean, hell, maybe some teams are
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Speaker 2: going to keep three of Pittsburgh actually is keeping four,
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Speaker 2: which they put out on their initial yesterday.
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Speaker 1: They're keeping four quarterbacks. It's so rare now to keep
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Speaker 1: even three. So that blows your mind.
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Speaker 2: So I guess that was the, he could have been
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Speaker 2: one of the rarities. They also then picked him up
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Speaker 2: in the off season and turn him into a draft pick.
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Speaker 2: So McCord is, That's a huge win either way to
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Speaker 2: be able to go from pick a guy up in
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Speaker 2: January to trade a sixth rounder. But it does feel
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Speaker 2: like they realized we're going to need some. Let's try
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Speaker 2: to recoup some capital because we clearly don't want to
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Speaker 2: go into the season with Drake Dabney is our number
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Speaker 2: three tight end where he's going to get a bunch
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Speaker 2: of snaps because we just signed John Smith. We know
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Speaker 2: Josh Wiley can play. They traded two tight ends in
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Speaker 2: LA and they kept five. So that might be much
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Speaker 2: more of a focus and a goal of how they
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Speaker 2: want to play offense this year is with a lot
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Speaker 2: of tight ends out there.
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Speaker 1: And it ain't over yet. Like the waiver wire today
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Speaker 1: is going to be pretty active and there's going to
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Speaker 1: be guys out there that, okay, let's, you know, and
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Speaker 1: there's going to be that, you know, that fallout as
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Speaker 1: teams try to last minute grab guys. Well, hopefully J.
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Speaker 1: Michael Sturdivant can celebrate and enjoy it. Let's hope.
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Speaker 2: Did yesterday online and deserved it for six catches and
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Speaker 2: a buck 15. Again, it feels like a week and
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Speaker 2: a half ago that they played that game on Friday night.
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Speaker 3: It does.
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Speaker 2: He was phenomenal. He deserved to make the team. They
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Speaker 2: kept seven defensive tackles. Maybe that's also, Drew, where coming
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Speaker 2: up later on today with some roster moves and some
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Speaker 2: waiver claims, maybe that position changes up.
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Speaker 1: But the numbers were a little surprising to me.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It was. it was a, not a usual cut
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Speaker 1: down day for a camp that had very little drama.
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Speaker 1: We packed a lot of drama into like four hours yesterday. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: They definitely made sure that they let you know it's
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Speaker 2: football season.
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Speaker 1: We're going to take over. You're right though.
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Speaker 4: There weren't any like quote unquote surprises in terms of,
16:09
Speaker 4: I guess the McCourt thing, obviously.
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Speaker 1: Turned out to be a surprise that they could, they
16:13
Speaker 1: tend to keep their draft picks to money.
16:14
Speaker 3: Jackson.
16:15
Speaker 2: I kind of figured he'd be on the line. That
16:17
Speaker 2: was going to be a tough one. He's just missed
16:19
Speaker 2: so much of practice. And, If there's anybody that for
16:22
Speaker 2: your sixth round pick you can get through waivers to
16:25
Speaker 2: the practice squad, I definitely think it's the guy that
16:27
Speaker 2: only really played in the final game. He didn't necessarily
16:30
Speaker 2: paint himself in a whole lot of glory in.
16:31
Speaker 1: That final game. Yeah, so a bunch of moving parts there,
16:34
Speaker 1: as we mentioned. We've got a lot of real estate.
16:37
Speaker 1: There's time for the new guys to get acclimated, that's
16:40
Speaker 1: for sure. Plenty of time with two weeks.
16:44
Speaker 2: And as our friend Mike Witt on the YouTube comments said,
16:46
Speaker 2: and you know it's Packers season when our boy Mike
16:47
Speaker 2: Witt joins back in, he said, and they still got
16:50
Speaker 2: to announce the Tucker Craft extension too. So I was,
16:54
Speaker 2: while all the news was rolling in yesterday, Drew, there
16:57
Speaker 2: was a little thought in my mind that they were
16:58
Speaker 2: just going to pop that for you. I was wondering
17:01
Speaker 2: if that was going to come up here quickly to
17:03
Speaker 2: try to change the conversation around because they definitely, they
17:08
Speaker 2: absolutely are going.
17:08
Speaker 1: To get that thing done.
17:09
Speaker 2: And you're right for a team that was pretty quiet.
17:13
Speaker 2: And the kicker was the main controversy during camp quickly
17:17
Speaker 2: on a Sunday, they hit a bunch of news and
17:20
Speaker 2: fired us up and letting us all know that It
17:22
Speaker 2: is officially football season.
17:24
Speaker 1: So we had all of that going on yesterday and
17:27
Speaker 1: stuff around the league. We had college football kind of
17:29
Speaker 1: week zero starting on. Saturday. And Bill Belichick pulling the
17:33
Speaker 1: stunner of the weekend.
17:35
Speaker 2: Or was it just the TCU embarrassed themselves and embarrassed
17:38
Speaker 2: all of us.
17:38
Speaker 1: That went back? Both can be true. Both can be true.
17:42
Speaker 1: The fight in Jordan Hudson's are 1-0. Now they're talking about, hey,
17:45
Speaker 1: if we can get to week three and upset Clemson
17:47
Speaker 1: and then play Notre Dame, we can make it. Or
17:49
Speaker 1: it only knows what's going to happen. Inside straight and
17:51
Speaker 1: go to the college football playoff. Don't you love what
17:54
Speaker 1: the power of positive results in sports can do? One victory.
17:57
Speaker 1: We always talked about the variance in week one. In
18:00
Speaker 1: college football? Well, week zero. Week zero. But the variance there,
18:04
Speaker 1: because there's no preseason, and then when you add in, oh,
18:07
Speaker 1: we're traveling internationally to play, too, it's like, okay, come on.
18:11
Speaker 2: Talk about the toughest comeback. And the Rams and 49ers
18:16
Speaker 2: in two weeks or a week and a half are
18:18
Speaker 2: going to deal with Australia. That Ireland game has wrecked
18:21
Speaker 2: a whole lot of seasons on the back end of it.
18:24
Speaker 2: The Wisconsin Badgers play the Pitt Panthers over there next
18:27
Speaker 2: year in the kickoff of the college football season. So
18:30
Speaker 2: it is a we're the records next year, right? I
18:32
Speaker 2: sure hope so, because the team that comes back. I mean,
18:35
Speaker 2: last year it was the quarterback's dad and brother who
18:38
Speaker 2: are fighting in the street.
18:39
Speaker 1: That's right. That's right. I think Kansas State won four games.
18:42
Speaker 4: I forgot about that. And Billy Edwards had his moment,
18:45
Speaker 4: I guess, you know.
18:47
Speaker 1: Hey, man, you drive him down for field goals. They won.
18:49
Speaker 1: That's all that matters. That's a Belichickian victory. Hey, maybe
18:53
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's back. You know, maybe he got his group back.
18:57
Speaker 2: Just didn't get his chief of staff back in Michael
18:59
Speaker 2: Lombardi yet.
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19:17
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19:21
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19:24
Speaker 1: It's as good as a playoff preview gets because it's
19:27
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20:01
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20:07
Speaker 1: cubs in the next 10 days.
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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say and i'm glad you framed
20:11
Speaker 2: it that way drew because i've looked at it as
20:12
Speaker 2: that exact opportunity to now i haven't done all the
20:16
Speaker 2: math and i probably should have looked at the magic
20:18
Speaker 2: number 18 yeah that's what we're looking at so inside
20:22
Speaker 2: of 10 days They very well could. You would really
20:27
Speaker 2: have to do some serious damage.
20:28
Speaker 1: It doubles up.
20:29
Speaker 2: Could you imagine at the end of this thing if
20:31
Speaker 2: you were popping champagne inside American Family Field's home clubhouse on.
20:36
Speaker 1: That final day of the 10-game series? That would be
20:38
Speaker 1: a wild one. That would be wild. I mean, use
20:40
Speaker 1: that early.
20:41
Speaker 2: That would be awesome. You shut the box on them
20:43
Speaker 2: and basically finish it off. But you can very much
20:46
Speaker 2: make it a single-digit number by the end.
20:48
Speaker 1: Of this thing. And the Cubs are looking to tie
20:50
Speaker 1: a rope in this thing because, as has been pointed out,
20:53
Speaker 1: The Cubs are closer to missing the playoffs than they
20:56
Speaker 1: are to winning the Central. Yeah, I mean, that's true.
20:59
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll happen, but it's absolutely true, literally.
21:02
Speaker 1: If you look at the way it's laying out there
21:04
Speaker 1: with Arizona playing well. Really well, yes. Just because the
21:10
Speaker 1: Cubs are, what, eight games behind the Brewers? Eight games
21:13
Speaker 1: back of the Brewers. Four games ahead of the— the
21:16
Speaker 1: wild card of falling out of the wild card.
21:19
Speaker 2: Well, and right now they're tied for the top wild
21:21
Speaker 2: card spot, which felt like something that they were going
21:23
Speaker 2: to for sure hold over Philadelphia as they still try
21:26
Speaker 2: to chase down the break. Philadelphia has been hot. They
21:29
Speaker 2: just won and won eight of 10. And I mean,
21:32
Speaker 2: their numbers over the last, I mean, even since Mattingly
21:34
Speaker 2: took over are phenomenal, but Arizona even jumped San Diego.
21:39
Speaker 2: So five game difference between the Cubs and Padres who
21:43
Speaker 2: are the first team out and in the NL central, the,
21:46
Speaker 2: cubs have an eight game deficit of the brewers.
21:48
Speaker 1: So there's cubs are you know though it's i just
21:51
Speaker 1: made that as a point of clarity but the cubs
21:53
Speaker 1: are gonna make the playoffs barring the wheels falling.
21:56
Speaker 4: Off yes their pop is real high real high it's like.
21:59
Speaker 2: 99 it's like brewers but to show their wheels would
22:01
Speaker 2: have to the brewers wheels would have to fall off
22:03
Speaker 2: significantly worse for that and.
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Speaker 1: Wheel what's wheels falling off for the brewers in seven
22:08
Speaker 1: games against the cubs what two and five about Yeah, maybe.
22:12
Speaker 4: Right.
22:13
Speaker 2: The Brewers swept the Cubs in a three game series
22:15
Speaker 2: way back in what, April or May. So I think
22:18
Speaker 2: one team might be able to, but I don't see
22:20
Speaker 2: a team shut in the box.
22:21
Speaker 1: And win three. And you'd like to be greedy. But
22:23
Speaker 1: if you make that the baseline expectation and they go
22:26
Speaker 1: and that would be three and four and seven games
22:28
Speaker 1: against Cubs, which means the Cubs would pick up a game.
22:31
Speaker 1: And by the end of this little tournament, you're going
22:33
Speaker 1: to have. You're going to be down to, what, like
22:35
Speaker 1: 18 games left, and there'll be seven games out. The
22:38
Speaker 1: math is going to be hard. And if you take
22:41
Speaker 1: these games out of the equation, you do that whole
22:42
Speaker 1: thing about, let's arm it. What's the Brewers' record today?
22:45
Speaker 1: They're 83 wins?
22:45
Speaker 4: 85. 85.
22:45
Speaker 1: Brewers have 85, so they're 85 and 172.
22:47
Speaker 3: 85 and 52?
22:48
Speaker 1: 85 and 52. That sounds about right. And 77 and
22:49
Speaker 1: 60 are the Chicago Cubs sitting right here today. Yeah,
22:59
Speaker 1: so just, again, you do the math of saying, let's
23:02
Speaker 1: say the Brewers play 500 the rest of the way,
23:04
Speaker 1: and they're going to be knocking on the door 100 wins.
23:08
Speaker 1: They're right in the wheelhouse of it. And then you say, okay,
23:10
Speaker 1: what do the Cubs have to do to get there?
23:13
Speaker 1: The math is the math. They're going a crazy streak, yeah. Yeah,
23:16
Speaker 1: it would be absurd. I'm not worried about the division.
23:20
Speaker 1: You want one of the top two? The division is
23:22
Speaker 1: in hand. Again, just do what you do. Play these
23:24
Speaker 1: three games.
23:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, the top seed is definitely the race that's a
23:29
Speaker 2: lot tighter as you're three games up and the Braves
23:32
Speaker 2: and Dodgers now tied. Braves are rolling. Sitting right there
23:36
Speaker 2: at three games back. So they're going to duke it
23:38
Speaker 2: out as well for one of those seeds. And if
23:41
Speaker 2: it ended today, it would be pretty perfect for the Brewers. Now,
23:45
Speaker 2: they would have the number one seed. Braves would get
23:48
Speaker 2: the winner of their would get the wild card series
23:51
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers were sorry. The Dodgers would be in
23:53
Speaker 2: the wild card series. The Braves would get the last
23:57
Speaker 2: buy because they currently hold the tiebreaker over L.A. after
24:00
Speaker 2: winning that series and doing what they just did last
24:02
Speaker 2: week at home. So I want every piece of the
24:06
Speaker 2: Dodgers in that three game series again last year.
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Speaker 3: Sure.
24:09
Speaker 1: Do they get hot maybe in it last year against Cincinnati?
24:12
Speaker 2: I guess you could say that as they started to
24:14
Speaker 2: hit the accelerator into that Philadelphia series. But Any chance
24:18
Speaker 2: at more variance that you throw at L.A.
24:20
Speaker 1: I am all about.
24:22
Speaker 4: Absolutely. You want that shot. I mean, anything can happen
24:24
Speaker 4: in a short series like that. And, yeah, it worked
24:26
Speaker 4: out for him last year. But that would be great.
24:29
Speaker 4: You know, you walk into your first series and they
24:31
Speaker 4: already lost. Wouldn't that be a little boost right there?
24:33
Speaker 4: So I totally agree, Billy. That would be great. Although
24:36
Speaker 4: this is, you know, if you win the NL this year,
24:37
Speaker 4: you earned it. Like the teams that are in this,
24:40
Speaker 4: the talent that's in this, they're good. I mean, the
24:42
Speaker 4: Phillies are going to be a very popular pick. They
24:44
Speaker 4: make a run, I think, the way they're playing, what
24:46
Speaker 4: the talent they have. Obviously, you know what the Cubs
24:48
Speaker 4: offense can do and PCA and all that stuff.
24:50
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are the Dodgers. It is going to be,
24:53
Speaker 1: you know. As pointed out, like you saw earlier this year,
24:57
Speaker 1: the Pirates and Reds were all, you know, everybody was.
24:59
Speaker 1: Everyone's favorite. You kind of tell like, OK, great start.
25:03
Speaker 1: That's adorable. Adorable. Cardinals, too. I took a lot of
25:07
Speaker 1: heat from people in the Ozarks when I said the
25:09
Speaker 1: Cardinals are two years away from even being close to
25:11
Speaker 1: catching the Brewers in terms of talent and where they are.
25:14
Speaker 2: And their deadline showcased the same thing.
25:18
Speaker 1: You're never winning. Yeah, the Brewers never won. I'm talking
25:21
Speaker 1: about right now. Jack Wads.
25:23
Speaker 2: The Brewers are a better organization than the Cardinals?
25:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now. Yeah, right now. I've been for several years.
25:30
Speaker 1: Look at your crowds. That's all you need. Best fans
25:32
Speaker 1: of baseball. So I took some heat there. But as
25:35
Speaker 1: was pointed out, the NL Central, you know, still pretty
25:40
Speaker 1: damn good. And the NL Central is going to produce
25:43
Speaker 1: the NL Cy Young, the NL MVP and the NL
25:46
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year are all coming out of the
25:47
Speaker 1: Central this year.
25:49
Speaker 2: Man, that is true, right? Because Sal Stewart is going
25:52
Speaker 2: to win it in the National League.
25:54
Speaker 1: It would be unanimous.
25:55
Speaker 2: He's leading the league in RBI. And the way that
26:00
Speaker 2: Weatherholt was right there as well in St. Louis that
26:02
Speaker 2: was pacing that one as well. And PCA has completely
26:06
Speaker 2: ran away right now.
26:07
Speaker 1: PCA, the comps, it's got 14 homers in August. And
26:15
Speaker 1: that's the most by any player at the age 24
26:17
Speaker 1: or younger in a calendar month. Since Ken Griffey Jr.
26:22
Speaker 1: Ken Griffey Jr. hit 15 in May of 1994.
26:25
Speaker 2: And I didn't know the line of demarcation that they had,
26:27
Speaker 2: but since whatever date, he leads Major League Baseball in
26:31
Speaker 2: home runs and has hit like seven more than anybody else.
26:34
Speaker 2: I think it maybe was the All-Star break or July 1st.
26:38
Speaker 1: Ever since council put him into the leadoff spot, he just...
26:42
Speaker 1: He was playing well before that, but they needed a spark,
26:45
Speaker 1: and they put him in the leadoff spot. And then
26:47
Speaker 1: we needed that stupid ump to miss.
26:50
Speaker 2: The block call, and apparently him getting fired up on
26:53
Speaker 2: the field has fired up his bat again, because he
26:54
Speaker 2: was like one for 12 in that Arizona series.
26:57
Speaker 1: Struggling.
26:58
Speaker 2: He hits the pause button one time and then wakes
27:01
Speaker 2: right back up.
27:02
Speaker 1: So that's definitely a problem. I would just walk him
27:05
Speaker 1: all series long. Speaking of stupid umps, man, I don't
27:09
Speaker 1: know if I can save it for game balls and kicks,
27:11
Speaker 1: but They played Arbiter last night on the first pitch
27:13
Speaker 1: of the game.
27:14
Speaker 4: Yikes.
27:15
Speaker 1: Called a time violation. And he announced it as an
27:18
Speaker 1: automatic ball, a time violation on the pitcher. And then
27:22
Speaker 1: everything got confused. And then it was like people thought
27:25
Speaker 1: that Bryce Terang worked a five-pitch, five-ball walk. And then
27:30
Speaker 1: Murph came out. Everybody thought it was ball four. And
27:33
Speaker 1: then Murph came out. And apparently what happened is he
27:36
Speaker 1: actually called a pitch violation, time violation. on Bryce Strang
27:39
Speaker 1: for not being ready. So it was a strike. He
27:41
Speaker 1: announced it as a ball. But then when he put
27:44
Speaker 1: up his count and everything, the scoreboard was off for
27:46
Speaker 1: a tick and everything was all confused. And I think
27:48
Speaker 1: Murph came out and I think he owned it. But
27:50
Speaker 1: this was a guy who he made the announcement. He
27:53
Speaker 1: said into his mic, you know, automatic ball. He misspoke.
27:58
Speaker 1: He should have corrected it, but he never did. And
28:00
Speaker 1: he hurt himself. But he never corrected it. Talk about
28:02
Speaker 1: messing up the start. So everybody in the ballpark was confused.
28:06
Speaker 1: And then he was like, ah, yeah, I screwed that up.
28:08
Speaker 1: And then it was like, well, okay. And the count.
28:11
Speaker 1: at least let us know that you did or no
28:13
Speaker 1: one knew the count. Like they were going to go
28:14
Speaker 1: back and look at the tape, see if Bryce Terang
28:16
Speaker 1: actually drew a five ball walk, but it turned out
28:18
Speaker 1: the first pitch was strike, but it was announced as
28:20
Speaker 1: a ball. The hell are we doing?
28:21
Speaker 4: Nothing like a tough start like that. Getting the mess
28:23
Speaker 4: started like that. You don't want to do that.
28:25
Speaker 1: You don't want to do that. Very bad stuff. What
28:26
Speaker 1: else was a mess was the Brewers. That was their
28:28
Speaker 1: longest home game of the year yesterday, three hours and
28:30
Speaker 1: 25 minutes.
28:31
Speaker 2: It was a slog. It was like a throwback to
28:33
Speaker 2: the pre pitch clock. It was pre pitch clock game one.
28:35
Speaker 2: And I had the, and you felt it. And it
28:37
Speaker 2: was like, this is terrible.
28:39
Speaker 1: What's going on? There were only two ABS challenges in
28:42
Speaker 1: the game. They were talking about all the pitches that
28:44
Speaker 1: were thrown. There were just a lot of pitches. That's
28:46
Speaker 1: exactly what I was going to say.
28:48
Speaker 2: Both starting pitchers threw over 85 pitches, and they combined
28:52
Speaker 2: for seven and a third innings.
28:53
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, the first three innings were an absolute.
28:56
Speaker 1: It was admirable that he came back after getting smoked
28:58
Speaker 1: by 106 mile an hour line drive in the back,
29:01
Speaker 1: but he didn't have good control, and he wasn't commanding.
29:05
Speaker 1: He was just kind of gritting it through, but rivers
29:07
Speaker 1: once again the most valuable garbage time pitcher in baseball
29:10
Speaker 1: bryce wilson sucked up a bunch of man and they
29:13
Speaker 1: enter this about as it is about as good a
29:15
Speaker 1: shape as you can.
29:15
Speaker 2: Yeah the law firm of anderson and wilson uh bite
29:18
Speaker 2: the bullet yesterday and you're slated with and now maybe
29:21
Speaker 2: you don't want to put bobby gasser in there uh
29:23
Speaker 2: in the middle of it but you got your hogs
29:26
Speaker 2: going with harrison tonight gasser tomorrow you throw mizorowski on
29:30
Speaker 2: wednesday And Henderson on Thursday. You got all your dudes
29:33
Speaker 2: to be able to go and lay it right out there.
29:35
Speaker 1: Miz and Henderson slated to face these guys twice. Now,
29:37
Speaker 1: it's really around Robin. Cause you think about it, the
29:39
Speaker 1: reds just went in to face the Cubs and gave
29:42
Speaker 1: them all the good handle. This is like, so it's
29:44
Speaker 1: a two week period where it's just the reds and
29:46
Speaker 1: Cubs playing each other. Cubs-Reds, Brewers-Cubs, Brewers-Reds, Brewers-Reds.
29:54
Speaker 4: For those of you that missed the division matchups or
29:57
Speaker 4: the amount of division games and it coming down to
29:59
Speaker 4: the division games, you got a little bit here.
30:02
Speaker 1: This September, you do get a throwback. It's crazy.
30:07
Speaker 4: I think it's interesting, too, because with the situation with
30:10
Speaker 4: Dustin May, you've had inconsistent results and then obviously the injury.
30:14
Speaker 4: The nice thing about having this big lead is you
30:15
Speaker 4: have the luxury to see what you can see before
30:17
Speaker 4: the playoffs. and understand what you want to do with
30:20
Speaker 4: him before the playoffs. I think that's nice. You can
30:23
Speaker 4: keep him on his start, see what he got out
30:24
Speaker 4: of him, because they're not in some.
30:25
Speaker 1: Situation where they're dire for wins right now. Another nice
30:28
Speaker 1: development is that they're going to be able to activate
30:30
Speaker 1: Uribe either tonight or tomorrow. Ease these guys back into
30:33
Speaker 1: the bad water. And then you can expand the roster tomorrow.
30:36
Speaker 1: And then Romero probably comes up tomorrow then? Romero, I
30:38
Speaker 1: think he's going to need one in Nashville. Okay, one
30:40
Speaker 1: more then? Yeah, so he's probably a couple of days away,
30:43
Speaker 1: probably end of the week. He'll probably come on for
30:45
Speaker 1: the home series against the Reds.
30:47
Speaker 2: And it'll be interesting to see who their final addition
30:50
Speaker 2: ends up being on the offensive side. I would have
30:53
Speaker 2: bet a large sum of money that Pat Murphy was
30:56
Speaker 2: going to make sure Brandon Lockridge.
30:57
Speaker 1: Was on that run. But it almost sounds like it
31:00
Speaker 1: would be Bo Naylor if they want to go with
31:02
Speaker 1: a third catcher. I'm thinking it's Naylor. I think they
31:04
Speaker 1: want to go third catcher, give themselves more flexibility. Be
31:07
Speaker 1: able to pinch hit Gary whenever you can. When that
31:10
Speaker 1: pops up, yeah, I think that's what's going to happen.
31:12
Speaker 1: I think that's how it's going to lay out. I
31:14
Speaker 1: would think. I think it's definitely the safest option, too.
31:16
Speaker 1: Makes some sense. But, yeah, I get some, yeah, I
31:18
Speaker 1: get some. Everybody who's screaming for Andrew Fisher or Mate, don't.
31:22
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen.
31:23
Speaker 2: We've got plenty of time for that, boys. We've got
31:24
Speaker 2: plenty of time for that. Plenty of time for those 40, what,
31:29
Speaker 2: 44 bombs that Fisher hit?
31:31
Speaker 1: Plenty of time for that to be in the big leagues.
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31:41
Speaker 1: of yesterday's proceedings, which in essence is also a preview
31:45
Speaker 1: of what is going to be a regular season playoff atmosphere.
31:49
Speaker 1: It's coming. It is definitely coming. It's game on today.
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32:00
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32:03
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32:05
Speaker 1: in July, and we're on to September tomorrow. Blink and
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Speaker 1: it's over, man. Football season is upon us. The Packers
32:10
Speaker 1: preseason is in the books. And the Brewers season, it's
32:14
Speaker 1: been such a great ride. But it really is just
32:16
Speaker 1: getting started tonight. Brewers-Cubs at Wrigley. Oh, baby. First of
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Speaker 1: seven games in ten days between the division rivals that
32:24
Speaker 1: will have a playoff atmosphere each and every one of them.
32:27
Speaker 1: It's kind of fun to sit here at the dawn
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Speaker 1: of it and say, what's it going to look like?
32:30
Speaker 1: Who's going to win this? Who's going to emerge? What
32:31
Speaker 1: are the storylines? What are, you know, what's at stake here? Well,
32:37
Speaker 1: and I like personal pride bragging rights.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Personal pride bragging rights is one. But I mean, when
32:42
Speaker 2: you throw in there, the home field advantage, basically up
32:45
Speaker 2: for grabs for the Cubs. Now they have the tiebreaker
32:47
Speaker 2: over the Phillies who right now they'd be tied with
32:50
Speaker 2: for that top wildcard spot. That three game series is
32:53
Speaker 2: such a difference. And, you know, drew listening around the deadline.
32:57
Speaker 2: And when this was, you know, a three game race
33:00
Speaker 2: and you saw what the Cubs did and one of
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Speaker 2: their pieces that they grabbed the deadline, going to start
33:04
Speaker 2: this game tonight and start the series up with Clay Holmes.
33:06
Speaker 2: who the Brewers were also sounds like very much in on.
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Speaker 2: Jed Hoyer, their general manager, said, yeah, our deadline would
33:14
Speaker 2: probably look a lot different if we had the bye. Like,
33:17
Speaker 2: if we were sitting in the bye, it would be
33:18
Speaker 2: a lot different because we would be pushing the accelerator
33:21
Speaker 2: down a hell of a lot more. Now it's just
33:23
Speaker 2: been validated over the last couple of years. You win
33:26
Speaker 2: the NL Central, most likely you're going to get the bye.
33:28
Speaker 2: You're going to be in there for the bye. You're
33:29
Speaker 2: going to be right there at the top of it
33:31
Speaker 2: because they've set the pace. And if the Cubs would
33:34
Speaker 2: have been able to– hold around the Brewers, and the
33:37
Speaker 2: Brewers would have been continuing this pace that they're on,
33:40
Speaker 2: this probably would have been for one of those. But
33:42
Speaker 2: if it's the difference between skipping the wild card round
33:46
Speaker 2: altogether or having to go on the road to Philadelphia,
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Speaker 2: which is an absolute hornet's nest, there's a lot on
33:51
Speaker 2: the line for the Cubs.
33:52
Speaker 1: There is. No question about it. 877-794-1973. Okay, let's spin
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Speaker 1: through Hunter's recap. Hunter Baumgart covers the Brewers for us.
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Speaker 1: He's boots on the ground. I saw him yesterday at
34:04
Speaker 1: the old ballpark. And I bet Hunter is going to
34:07
Speaker 1: give us a recap of a kind of a lackluster,
34:10
Speaker 1: flat Sunday performance, shaky defense. That was probably the most puzzling.
34:16
Speaker 1: That's got to be the one that Murph is most
34:17
Speaker 1: upset about. And a preview of today's game. I'm just
34:21
Speaker 1: guessing because I know how Hunter works. Let's spin through this.
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Speaker 1: Take it away, Hunter B.
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Speaker 5: Thanks, guys. The Brewers fall in the series finale yesterday,
34:29
Speaker 5: 7-4 to the Texas Rangers. But they did win the series,
34:31
Speaker 5: their fifth straight series win after that sweep in San Diego.
34:34
Speaker 5: In mid-August, they've also won nine straight series at home.
34:37
Speaker 5: That ties a franchise record. And now all focus shifts
34:41
Speaker 5: to what happens tonight at Wrigley Field. The next four days,
34:44
Speaker 5: the Brewers will be at Wrigley. Seven of the next
34:46
Speaker 5: ten games will be at Wrigley Field. Then all of
34:48
Speaker 5: a sudden, they'll just have 15 games left. So the
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Speaker 5: next seven of the next ten is going to be
34:52
Speaker 5: incredibly important. Brewers manager Pat Murphy talked about what he
34:56
Speaker 5: wants to see from his team and what he's seeing
34:57
Speaker 5: from his team right now as they head into this stretch.
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Speaker 3: Defense has got to be part of our game. Defense
35:02
Speaker 3: and base running have got to be part of our game.
35:05
Speaker 3: every time. The pitching has been great. Offensively, I think
35:12
Speaker 3: there's some guys with William and Yellich much better than
35:15
Speaker 3: they have been recently. That is encouraging. Joey Ortiz continues
35:20
Speaker 3: to help. I think there's signs at this point we've
35:23
Speaker 3: got to play a certain way and we've got to
35:25
Speaker 3: play with a certain intensity. It's not that people like
35:29
Speaker 3: to say we're the underdogs. Well, that's fine. We're just
35:32
Speaker 3: trying to say we have to play a certain way.
35:34
Speaker 3: The expectation can't be, well, we got a better record
35:37
Speaker 3: than them, so we're better at this, this, and this.
35:40
Speaker 3: We have to play a certain way, and yeah, it'll
35:43
Speaker 3: be a great opportunity, great environment.
35:46
Speaker 5: Should be a really fun atmosphere, as Brewers manager Pat
35:48
Speaker 5: Murphy put there. So tonight, it'll be Kyle Harrison on
35:51
Speaker 5: the mound. I'll have you from 530 to 630 on
35:53
Speaker 5: the Baseball Pregame Show on Fox Sports 920 and our
35:56
Speaker 5: social channels, and then Tomorrow, it'll be Robert Gasser on
36:00
Speaker 5: the mound. Wednesday, it'll be Jacob Mizorowski. And Thursday, Logan Henderson.
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Speaker 5: Should be a great week of baseball, and looking forward
36:07
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36:16
Speaker 1: Back to you guys. Thank you, Hunter B. People will
36:21
Speaker 1: like to call them the underdogs. Yeah, people will do that. Murph,
36:23
Speaker 1: wouldn't that you?
36:23
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that you call them the underdogs? He is right, though,
36:28
Speaker 2: like whether or not you just immediately look at the
36:31
Speaker 2: record and say that team's going to be better.
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Speaker 1: That team's going to be favored. They do have to
36:34
Speaker 1: play a different way.
36:35
Speaker 2: And when you're making defensive mistakes and you're playing this way,
36:38
Speaker 2: hitting the least home runs against team that just matches
36:40
Speaker 2: them there at the friendly confines, you are going to
36:43
Speaker 2: have to be able to be on your stuff.
36:45
Speaker 1: Keep the ball in the park. It looks like the
36:47
Speaker 1: weather we're getting this like kind of the Indian summer thing.
36:50
Speaker 1: We're going to get a blast of weather in the
36:51
Speaker 1: upper 80s, at least in our parts. And I know
36:53
Speaker 1: our weather is not that much different than Chicago's, although.
36:55
Speaker 1: Sometimes they get pounded with rain, and we don't, which
36:58
Speaker 1: is nice, and they might have. But if the ball's
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Speaker 1: going to be jumping there, it plays into the Cubs' hands.
37:06
Speaker 1: Definitely plays their favor. They have more big flies than
37:09
Speaker 1: the Brewers do, but you never know how it's going to. Well,
37:12
Speaker 1: you know what?
37:12
Speaker 2: Listen, if anybody can catch a basket, it's the Brewers, right? Like,
37:16
Speaker 2: I mean, luckily, we can hit one right into the basket.
37:18
Speaker 1: Don't have to hit one on. That's true. What is it?
37:21
Speaker 1: Addison behind or is it Waveland? Waveland, Addison, Sheffield, Clark, Addison,
37:25
Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 4: Oh, OK.
37:26
Speaker 1: Big Chicago. Addison's behind home plate. Luckily, we can just
37:29
Speaker 1: let's just forget about it and just hit the thing
37:30
Speaker 1: right into the basket. They can grab that thing out
37:32
Speaker 1: and it's good. Waveland and the firehouse and the. The
37:36
Speaker 1: Glenn Allen Hill went over a wavelength. That was the one.
37:38
Speaker 1: That was the one. That was the one, right, when
37:40
Speaker 1: he hit it over the... Yeah. But they got bleachers
37:41
Speaker 1: up there now. When he hit it under the roof
37:42
Speaker 1: on that, that was still one of the longest home
37:44
Speaker 1: runs I've ever flip and seen. Pretty interesting.
37:46
Speaker 4: I think we had a whole month, at least here,
37:48
Speaker 4: without a 90-degree day. Temperature did not hit 90 in
37:52
Speaker 4: August yet. Is that your kick to the balls to start?
37:55
Speaker 1: Well, no. I mean, that's okay with me. Now we
37:56
Speaker 1: might hit it in September. We might have some 90s.
37:59
Speaker 1: We might have it to start September.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, the crazy weather, obviously we thundered the first hour,
38:04
Speaker 4: but that, that can bring in some warmth and it
38:06
Speaker 4: might hit 90 today. It might hit 90 tomorrow and
38:10
Speaker 4: Wednesday here and in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. It's going to be jumping.
38:14
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right. Armin, we got some comments rolling in. A
38:17
Speaker 1: lot of YouTubers. What do we got?
38:18
Speaker 4: A lot of good ones to start the show today
38:20
Speaker 4: on YouTube, Facebook X, and of course, Nick lay a lot.
38:23
Speaker 1: I'm talking text line. Thanks everyone for getting in.
38:26
Speaker 4: Mike Whitten is saying, bring on the cubbies also has a,
38:29
Speaker 4: morning boys, Caleb Johnson season.
38:31
Speaker 1: That's right. The Packers pick up Caleb Johnson from Pittsburgh.
38:33
Speaker 2: I'm excited for John. I love some Iowa Hawkeyes. Love
38:37
Speaker 2: some Iowa Hawkeyes. Our big listener, Brandon in Iowa, hit
38:40
Speaker 2: me up yesterday on IG said, let's go Hawks. Caleb
38:43
Speaker 2: Johnson was a problem in.
38:45
Speaker 1: The big time. He won big time. Freaking problem.
38:48
Speaker 2: And he really never got his traction in Pittsburgh again,
38:51
Speaker 2: partially because he botched a kickoff. where he ran away
38:55
Speaker 2: from the ball and the Seahawks recovered it in the
38:57
Speaker 2: end zone.
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Speaker 1: That's fine.
38:58
Speaker 2: Let's, let's have, and that is a tough, that is
39:00
Speaker 2: a tough one for current team to look at and
39:03
Speaker 2: not for not remember when they see your face. So
39:05
Speaker 2: let's get him a new look, new offense. I actually
39:08
Speaker 2: think he's going to be really, really good in the
39:09
Speaker 2: zone offense.
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Speaker 1: So, sorry. I just wanted to know.
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Speaker 4: I love it. Great breakdown there. PJ jumping in happy
39:14
Speaker 4: Monday fellows, two out of three over the weekend for
39:17
Speaker 4: the crew. It's Cubs week, seven days and seven and
39:19
Speaker 4: 10 days. Let's cool off PCA.
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Speaker 1: I like that. Troy Casper, We'll be in the building
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Speaker 1: on Labor Day. Okay, Troy. I don't know if that
39:26
Speaker 1: was a question. Let's go, Troy. Come on now. What's up?
39:28
Speaker 1: We need to know that there's.
39:30
Speaker 2: Going to be more Brewers fans in the stands on
39:33
Speaker 2: Labor Day because otherwise it is setting up for potentially
39:37
Speaker 2: the Fib weekend of the year because they would roll
39:41
Speaker 2: up to Lambeau, Notre Dame, Wisconsin on Sunday night. roll
39:47
Speaker 2: down to American Family Field on Monday afternoon, be back
39:51
Speaker 2: on Monday night. So, like, that is pacing for there
39:53
Speaker 2: to be a lot in the stands. Let's make sure
39:55
Speaker 2: that there are as many Brewers fans as possible.
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Speaker 1: No doubt, Billy.
39:59
Speaker 4: Paul K. Cubs and Brewers lose. Dodgers and Braves win.
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Speaker 4: The game starting today is what we're all waiting for.
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Speaker 4: What's our magic number? Well, that's 18. Win three out
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Speaker 4: of the seven games. Oh, I think he's asking, what
40:09
Speaker 4: do we have to do? I think three out of
40:10
Speaker 4: seven wraps the division up. I actually think it's over
40:12
Speaker 4: probably already. But you win three out of seven. I mean,
40:15
Speaker 4: you're in great shape, obviously, walking in with a seven-game
40:18
Speaker 4: lead now with how many left.
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Speaker 1: So that's a pretty good number.
40:20
Speaker 4: So Paul's mini magic number is three in these seven games.
40:24
Speaker 1: I like that. Just don't let them run the table, right?
40:28
Speaker 1: That's it. You just can't let them goose you, and
40:30
Speaker 1: you should be totally fine. Even like two and five
40:33
Speaker 1: gives you a pretty good.
40:35
Speaker 2: Right, again, because what is that, five and 17 games
40:37
Speaker 2: that they would have? Five games and 17 games left that.
40:39
Speaker 1: They have to make up? Granted, there's momentum is real,
40:41
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, oh, you'd be looking in the
40:43
Speaker 1: rear view, but I think they're in pretty good shape.
40:45
Speaker 2: They also, again, it was in May, so it's hard
40:48
Speaker 2: to say that it's the same place, especially Wrigley Place,
40:51
Speaker 2: completely different at 50 degrees than 90.
40:54
Speaker 1: We went down there and won three earlier this year. Yeah.
40:57
Speaker 1: Champions fear no one. I don't think that they're going
40:59
Speaker 1: to fear that part. Game balls and kicks firing up next.
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