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07/13/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 4: Indeed, and we have already a pleat in the seven
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Speaker 4: o'clock hour from Wisconsin sports fanatic who clearly is the
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Speaker 4: seven o'clock club, or he said, please let's talk baseball now.
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Speaker 2: We'll we talk plenty so far, but we certainly have.
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Speaker 3: We can keep doing it if you want, and we
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Speaker 3: will talk more of it when our boy Hunter Bombard
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Speaker 3: joins us in about twenty minut.
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Speaker 1: That is absolutely in case. We'll have a whole segment
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Speaker 1: dedicated to the Brewers and baseball home run derby Tonight's
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Speaker 1: on Netflix. Our buddy Matt Maskersion is going to be.
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Speaker 2: On the call. Can't wait for that and he is
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Speaker 2: with Anthony Rizzo and Hunter Pence.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and a little bit of you know, I like
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Speaker 4: to complain about sports streaming sometimes, but I haven't because
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Speaker 4: this one is a service I have that I feel
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Speaker 4: like a lot of people have's Netflix. So maybe it's
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Speaker 4: a little bit of a privilege on my apart. Maybe
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Speaker 4: I should be consistent about it, but I haven't been
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Speaker 4: upset about it.
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Speaker 2: I know why I have Netflix in it, and.
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Speaker 3: Well, no, I mean I would I wouldn't stay non
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Speaker 3: consistent with it, because that would be consistent with you know,
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Speaker 3: sports media. It's a it's a main character syndrome. I
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Speaker 3: have it, so everyone should have it. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Interestingly, and Bill and I were remarking on this because
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Speaker 1: we have Sports Center on throughout the program.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I was once in a while over the years, I've
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Speaker 1: done the heat check of what's above the fold. At
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Speaker 1: ESPN dot com, the worldwide the leader. They think of
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Speaker 1: themselves as the you know, the the place to be
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Speaker 1: in New York Times Sports, we set the agenda also.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like what's above the fold?
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Speaker 1: And Billy and I were remarking if you're looking for
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Speaker 1: like previews of the home run derby and stuff, since
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Speaker 1: it's not on ESPN, they've buried that story.
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Speaker 2: However, at ESPN dot com right.
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Speaker 1: Now, the lead story above the fold in the main
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Speaker 1: prime position is the MLB Draft. MLB Draft Tracker complete
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Speaker 1: results for twenty rounds, Day one analysis, Day one winners, losers,
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Speaker 1: just what you'd expect, then a whole bunch of surprises
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Speaker 1: who knocked it out of the park on Saturday. I'm
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Speaker 1: just president. I didn't like lead with more WNBA than
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Speaker 1: ahead of that. But that's shocking. But like hardly any mention,
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Speaker 1: you need the Hubble telescope to find anything about the
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Speaker 1: home run derby and stuff.
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Speaker 4: This morning when I checked, it was the Ward Manual
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Speaker 4: deal that was the number one thing I think sure saw,
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Speaker 4: but I would agree. I mean, it is kind of
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Speaker 4: surprising because it seems like they've gotten out of the
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Speaker 4: baseball business that they would lead with the draft, which
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Speaker 4: is one of the things that people follow the least
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Speaker 4: in Major League Baseball, I would say, unless that's changing.
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Speaker 2: Oh by far.
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Speaker 3: No MLB draft is still very much not a viewing thing,
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Speaker 3: even though Major League Baseball desperately tried to by putting
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Speaker 3: the first ten picks of it on NBC this weekend.
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Speaker 3: That was interesting, to say the least, but I did
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Speaker 3: watch more of it than I care to admit. And
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Speaker 3: then for that to be the headliner, you can tell
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Speaker 3: where the rights deals are. I mean there they now
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Speaker 3: own ten percent of or the NFL now owns ten
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Speaker 3: percent right the ESPN NFL network package. So ESPN and
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Speaker 3: the NFL are are working together here in conjunction. Well,
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Speaker 3: they're breaking down the top quarterbacks that coaches, executives and
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Speaker 3: scouts put together instead of you know, the home run Derby,
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Speaker 3: All Star Break, I don't know, the World Cup, which
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Speaker 3: has seemingly even off of their radar because it's on Fox.
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Speaker 3: It's you can desperate, definitely tell quickly as to where
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Speaker 3: the where the vested interests lie and when it used
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Speaker 3: to be.
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Speaker 2: They had every sport.
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Speaker 3: They have the sports that they're showing on here, and
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Speaker 3: they'll probably show more WWE then they will World Cup.
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Speaker 2: At this point, I.
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Speaker 3: Mean, hell, they had the mizz chipping in at the
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Speaker 3: American Century. They've shown more about the American Century pro
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Speaker 3: am than they have about the Derby coming up tonight.
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Speaker 2: So true, so true.
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Speaker 4: But they're back, They're back to the hits they've got.
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Speaker 4: Should Josh Allen be the number one ranked quarterback? Well,
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Speaker 4: the top ten quarterback thing was just chum the water,
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Speaker 4: let's go if they kicked, let's let's roll with a
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Speaker 4: kick to the balls. Off of that list to one.
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Speaker 2: Jordan Love probably won't be on the books right now.
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Speaker 3: Jordan Love comes in Drew according to how their honorable
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Speaker 3: mentions would stack up thirteenth, because the ninth and tenth
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Speaker 3: ranked guys are dudes in the division. Jared Goff comes
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Speaker 3: in at nine, Caleb Williams ten, right in front of
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Speaker 3: Sam Darnold, jayde Daniels, and Jordan Love.
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Speaker 1: There number This was from players, coaches, and executives.
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Speaker 3: Apparently executives, coaches and scouts put together and then they
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Speaker 3: ranked through all the different positions. I think Josh Jacobs
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Speaker 3: was in the Honorable Mention category as well. What they
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Speaker 3: wrote here is NFL NFC Scout wrote for Jordan Love,
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Speaker 3: I don't think he gets enough credit for playing the
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Speaker 3: position consistently well and has a lot, has got the
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Speaker 3: athletic traits to match it. A veteran NFL offensive coach,
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Speaker 3: very vague control of the offense, protection and route adjustments.
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Speaker 3: He has grown in those areas. So nothing negative, just
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Speaker 3: not positive enough to be. As one personnel evaluator said
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Speaker 3: about Caleb Williams, he's a closer end of games.
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Speaker 2: He's shown that he does it. Yeah, last year he
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Speaker 2: did show that, There's no question about that.
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Speaker 4: But Jordan Love, you know, had a really good year
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Speaker 4: last year in first stretches, was absolutely consistently remarkable producing
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Speaker 4: and so I guess I thought he'd get a little
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Speaker 4: more credit. Hey, so be it. Maybe it's a motivation,
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Speaker 4: Maybe it's not. Jordan Love might not have a process
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Speaker 4: when he plays. That's gonna wow anybody. He's not doing
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Speaker 4: the Caleb Williams superstar type highlight reel throws.
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Speaker 2: Maybe, and that's part of it. But he was a.
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Speaker 4: Consistent producer for stretches last year, so hey, hopefully he
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Speaker 4: can bill on that maybe a little motivation proved some
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Speaker 4: people wrong.
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Speaker 1: Kick to the balls, anybody who gets upset about Midsummer,
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Speaker 1: let's fill some space.
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Speaker 3: Rank I agree the books right now, Micah Parsons. Because MICHAEH.
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Speaker 3: Parsons responded online this weekend when the NFL Top one
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Speaker 3: hundred list came out and put Jordan love at seventy second,
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Speaker 3: he said, he tweeted out instantly, Uh, a little sub
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Speaker 3: tweet action. No way, seventy one players in the NFL
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Speaker 3: better than Jordan Lovet.
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Speaker 2: I love it right. He's like, come on now, I'm
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Speaker 2: watching this and this is nonsense. What you guys are
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Speaker 2: putting quarterback.
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Speaker 1: These lists are somewhere down and down among Madden ratings
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Speaker 1: of the kajillion things that you know, like nine hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand on stuff that I think about that I worry
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Speaker 1: about little Madden rankings and you know the Mad Summer
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Speaker 1: time lists and Mount Rushmore debates.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I agree, but the matter player ratings really matters
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Speaker 4: on these players.
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Speaker 2: They get the chains that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, not having Sam Darnold on the list after
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Speaker 3: he wins a Super Bowl, That's that's an interesting one
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Speaker 3: to say.
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Speaker 1: How about about a quick game ball to our friends
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Speaker 1: and buy John Pearson over at my eighteen and twenty.
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Speaker 3: Four end of the River and Andrew Fisher's got nine
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Speaker 3: double a home run.
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Speaker 1: Is the Bucks will be on free TV in a
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Speaker 1: market near you, with stations to be determined around the
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Speaker 1: state and locally here.
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Speaker 2: They've been without a TV deal. Now.
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Speaker 1: I know this is a step back financially m hmm,
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Speaker 1: because they're gonna have to sell it themselves and they're not.
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Speaker 1: People aren't giving them money for the right to air
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Speaker 1: their games and put ads on. But the way to
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Speaker 1: spin it there, they're free. They're over the air again
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Speaker 1: for the first time in thirty one years. You can
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Speaker 1: watch all the Bucks games free over the air.
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Speaker 3: The other thing is there's also like more teams have
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Speaker 3: started to do this in the NBA. And the feasibility
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Speaker 3: of it is you're getting so much money pumped in
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Speaker 3: by the national television package you can absolutely subsidize it, right.
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Speaker 1: Like, Hey, it's gonna help them, I think because other
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Speaker 1: than the cameras and the technicians and the stuff that,
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Speaker 1: but with the broadcast, they they wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 1: put that on like without help, I think, so.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't think so, unless I don't know how much
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Speaker 3: you know, my twenty four is potentially aiding it, or
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Speaker 3: if they have anything in there. I mean, the the
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Speaker 3: most they do is high school sports, which they do
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Speaker 3: a great production on Friday nights, but a little bit
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Speaker 3: for a little there's levels of this thing in a
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Speaker 3: US Bank building lobby compared to the top floor.
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Speaker 4: But it is cool that it's going to be back
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Speaker 4: on free TV and a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 4: the lamenting and complaining that we've done over the years
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Speaker 4: about the business of sports, this goes the other way.
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Speaker 4: Whether or not it's just a marriage of convenience or not,
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Speaker 4: it's still good I think for fans, and it's the
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Speaker 4: right time for the Bucks, who are going to have
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Speaker 4: a young h to the casual fan, unknown group. They're
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Speaker 4: gonna have to build a fan base or build some
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Speaker 4: attention around them, and this is the way to do it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, let's be honest, how many people were gonna
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Speaker 4: pay to watch Bucks games next year that weren't already
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Speaker 4: doing it? So I think this is a great timing
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Speaker 4: for it. It just worked out that way. I think
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Speaker 4: that the timing was right. But it'll be good to
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Speaker 4: have those games un for free because they might not
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Speaker 4: be that good for a while.
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Speaker 2: They might be I don't want need it at home.
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Speaker 1: You knew they were gonna be on TV, but it's
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Speaker 1: just while that they finally announced it.
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Speaker 3: So it had become one of the the funnier stories
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Speaker 3: that had no pub right. It really had no conversation
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Speaker 3: around it, the fact that we were a couple of
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Speaker 3: months away from the Bucks starting their games and not
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Speaker 3: having any coverage of it and not knowing where they'd
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Speaker 3: be on TV. Because it's different with Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 3: a lot of us were calming the concerns about MLB
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Speaker 3: because they're contractually obligated in the CBA that the league
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Speaker 3: will take over the local broadcasting rights because the local
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Speaker 3: television rights drew crypt me if I'm wrong, are much
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Speaker 3: more directly tied to your budget, your year and a
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Speaker 3: year on budget Major League Baseball ques compared to Major
9:34
Speaker 3: the NBA.
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Speaker 2: It's just the for the most.
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Speaker 1: Part, that's more important than the gate. The definitely, absolutely
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers would be profitable if they never sold a ticket.
9:43
Speaker 3: Their salary cap would be covered with how much people
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Speaker 3: are paying for that one, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: And that is still one of the as bad as
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Speaker 1: some of the proposals have been from the owners in
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Speaker 1: the that we've heard of, the leaks and the releases,
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Speaker 1: the one thing that shocked me was that the Dodgers, Yankees,
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Speaker 1: Red Sox met they all decided that they would pull
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Speaker 1: and give their TV money to a pool and dole
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Speaker 1: it out equally because that would save them money and
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Speaker 1: payroll by.
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Speaker 2: Having a salary, save that money to have a STU
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Speaker 2: stunning to me.
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Speaker 3: And then two, you know, they also then realized that
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Speaker 3: they have a salary cap. You know what, there wouldn't
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Speaker 3: be a cap on coaches salaries.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Riley, there's no cap on coaches salaries.
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Speaker 3: How much player development money you can spend, they'll find
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Speaker 3: ways to spend.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about the draft.
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Speaker 1: The Mets, Blue Jays, Yankees, Phillies, and Dodgers all had
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Speaker 1: a ten pick penalty on their first pick for exceeding
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Speaker 1: the second surcharge threshold of the competitive balance tax, so
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Speaker 1: they got taxed in the draft.
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Speaker 2: They dropped spots.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was when they were explaining it to me.
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Speaker 3: Watching it for the first time ever, drew that the
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Speaker 3: last pick of the draft or the first round of
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Speaker 3: the draft was the twenty sixth pick that the Brewers had, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: hold on here, well, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: have to second guess you on that one. And sure
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Speaker 3: enough they started explaining like, oh, the Mets twenty eighth
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Speaker 3: pick comes do via payroll penalty in tax that you
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Speaker 3: end up ringing.
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Speaker 1: And the Brewers take Trey Ebel from Corona High School
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Speaker 2: The superhero of the day today is going to be
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Speaker 2: none other than.
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Speaker 3: The father of the first round pick for the Milwaukee Brewers,
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Speaker 3: Dino Ebel. Now, Dino, congratulations, you've done well man. Not
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Speaker 3: only is he the third base coach of the LA Dodgers,
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Speaker 3: rocking the number ninety one for a number of years.
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Speaker 3: He was a former twenty seventh round selection of the
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Speaker 3: Phillies in the eighty six draft. He was a third
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Speaker 3: base coach for the Angels back in the day, was
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Speaker 3: a part of Team USA's coaching staff twice, the third
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Speaker 3: base coach for WBC. But now he's also the dad
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Speaker 3: of the last two years first round picks for the Brewers.
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Speaker 3: Brady Eble goes thirty second in Competitive Balance Group A
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Speaker 3: first round a year ago, and the twenty sixth pick
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Speaker 3: in this year's draft ends up as Trey Eble and
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Speaker 3: he goes to the Brewers. He was committed to go
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Speaker 3: to Texas A and m set it quickly with the
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Speaker 3: guys on the broadcast that he is going to start
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Speaker 3: his big league career.
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Speaker 2: I'm a Brewer.
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Speaker 3: But congratulations Dino Ebl. Now now the rent comes due,
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Speaker 3: all right me, both of your boys made men. Now
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Speaker 3: you need to help us out a little bit. Now,
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Speaker 3: we need to get a little bit over aggressive with
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Speaker 3: some of those sins. Right now, this is the chest
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Speaker 3: not checkers game. We've done a very very nice thing
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Speaker 3: for you. We got your two young youngsters in great spots.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna develop. They're out there in Corona High School.
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Speaker 3: They're training with our friend Bryce Terrang and his trainer.
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Speaker 3: Trey said during his post draft meeting with the media
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Speaker 3: that Bryce Trange's trainer changed his life. No chance he'd
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Speaker 3: be here right now. Well, Dino, now the rents come
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Speaker 3: and do brother, Let's run run them into some outs.
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Speaker 3: Let's get really aggressive with some of theo sends. When
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Speaker 3: the Brewers meet up with the Dodgers in the NLCS,
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Speaker 3: this might be chessnut checkers by the Brewers' front office
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Speaker 3: realizing we can't spend with other Dodgers got but you
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Speaker 3: know we can. We can hit them where it hurts,
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Speaker 3: right there at third base and just be waving around
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Speaker 3: Mookie Bets right into a throw.
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Speaker 2: All this get like two or three.
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Speaker 3: Outs on the base paths, and that's how you change
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Speaker 3: Game one in Game two.
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Speaker 2: From a two to one loss to Yamamoto to a
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Speaker 2: three to two win.
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Speaker 3: Chest not too this is how this translates and all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden, Yeah, Blake Snell might be able to
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Speaker 3: shove for eight innings, but if they're making two outs
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Speaker 3: at third base, especially with nobody out one of the
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Speaker 3: cardinal sins baseball boom, we can still steal that one
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Speaker 3: late chessnut checkers playing high level chess. We draft the
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Speaker 3: third base coaches kids from the Dodgers. He now helps
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Speaker 3: us get to the twenty twenty six World sero.
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Speaker 2: I love this.
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Speaker 4: This is just the next step of arnold work in
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Speaker 4: the market in efficiency, finding.
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Speaker 2: Another way to win.
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Speaker 3: This is the way we gotta find a different way
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Speaker 3: of doing social engineering.
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Speaker 2: Well done, Billy, I like that. You know Ebel is
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Speaker 2: our current elector superhero of the day. Good bloodlines there, Drell.
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Speaker 1: He'll be throwing tonight to Bryce Harper in the Home
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Speaker 1: Run Derby.
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Speaker 3: Which I didn't understand how that played up, But they've
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Speaker 3: known each other well and obviously he was the WBC.
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Speaker 3: That's right this year and he goes, I like the
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Speaker 3: cut of your jip. You're throwing me BP exactly.
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Speaker 1: But back in Ebels worked the Derby and through to
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Speaker 1: Poohols in twenty fifteen and had the young boys pose
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Speaker 1: for a picture with Bryce Harper all that, and there's
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Speaker 1: that's the picture that's been on TV. They both have
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Speaker 1: angels hats on.
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Speaker 2: Pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: But Bryce Harper with the two young boys who are
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Speaker 1: now both number one picks.
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Speaker 3: Think about his the hype progression picks that he must
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Speaker 3: have with some superstars, you know, like the Marcus Johnson
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Speaker 3: posted the pictures of his youngster in the hype progression
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Speaker 3: with Giannis. He goes, well, now we need a new
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Speaker 3: measuring stick because she went from hip hi to elbow
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Speaker 3: high and that was the new launch of thirteen years
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Speaker 3: and you see the same pick year in and year out.
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Speaker 3: He's got to have some pretty cool ones with some
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Speaker 3: pretty electrifying players for the years that Dino has been involved.
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Speaker 2: That's a point.
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Speaker 3: And soon enough he's gonna be able to sit back
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Speaker 3: American Family Field right there in section one seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Get him a nice comfortable seat.
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Speaker 3: And I I don't know, do you think Dino just
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Speaker 3: sits in the stands and watches the boys once they
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Speaker 3: get to the major league level, or does he try
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Speaker 3: to find his way over there to third base and
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Speaker 3: start waving them around around.
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Speaker 2: They'd be kind of cool. That would be pretty cool.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and kids, by the way, some videos photo proof
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Speaker 4: that there are kids that grow up Angels fans.
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Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. Yeah, there are Indeed.
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Speaker 1: Another subplot today to watch is that William Contreras will
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Speaker 1: be sitting on the on the sideline on the foul line,
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Speaker 1: watching his brother in the home runner.
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Speaker 2: Hyping his brother up.
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Speaker 3: Now, the Venezuelans and the Dominican Republic players generally have
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Speaker 3: the best pump up crowds too.
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Speaker 2: That's absolutely true. Is that fair to say?
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Speaker 3: Like Junior Camonaro, I know, is gonna have a good
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Speaker 3: squad of guys helping him out and get him, you know,
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Speaker 3: recharged with the hydration break, the fanning, whoever's fan in
15:59
Speaker 3: the towel, whoever's pouring the gatorade. We could probably pour
16:02
Speaker 3: our own gatorade, but that's something that I have a
16:04
Speaker 3: problem with, and a lot of sports going all the
16:06
Speaker 3: way back, we can. We can squirt our own water bottles.
16:09
Speaker 3: We don't need somebody to do it for us. But
16:11
Speaker 3: it would those those pump up crowds, they have a
16:14
Speaker 3: lot more fun than the couple of guys that will
16:17
Speaker 3: be helping out uh, you know, potentially Jordan Walker today.
16:19
Speaker 3: Those guys will be bringing a lot of juice over there.
16:22
Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite parts of the home run
16:24
Speaker 3: derby is the folk, the kids, the players on the
16:26
Speaker 3: side drew that are acting like kids, oh yeah, while
16:29
Speaker 3: their friends are out here hitting at on the contests.
16:31
Speaker 2: Just chilling and watching it in school.
16:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because Wilson Contrera's the guy throwing to
16:38
Speaker 1: him is the bench coach for the Red Sox, Jose Flores,
16:42
Speaker 1: and he was gonna go chill out in Puerto Rico
16:44
Speaker 1: over the break and Wilson's like, Hey, I want you
16:46
Speaker 1: to throw, so there's a little financial remuneration.
16:49
Speaker 3: I believe I was gonna say there might be kick back.
16:51
Speaker 3: Do you like that one better? Or do you like
16:53
Speaker 3: the cal Raley His dad throwing him the pitches?
16:56
Speaker 1: That cool, and Bryce Harper said his dad just hasn't
16:58
Speaker 1: been throwing, so he can't. That's why he's got you know,
17:00
Speaker 1: he will throw it to him because his dad's not
17:01
Speaker 1: up to the task.
17:02
Speaker 3: His dad was grooving some fastballs to him last time too.
17:06
Speaker 3: That's it's an understole part of this. You'd better be
17:08
Speaker 3: putting them things right in the pocket.
17:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he needs them because cal'sman struggling this first half.
17:13
Speaker 4: That's one of the more under uh talked about stories
17:15
Speaker 4: I think of the first Yeah, big.
17:16
Speaker 3: Dumper's taking a little thump here in the beginning of
17:18
Speaker 3: twenty twenty.
17:19
Speaker 4: He truly had a rough first half after being a
17:21
Speaker 4: revelation in baseball last year obviously for what he did
17:25
Speaker 4: and uh man, did he really fall off the table.
17:27
Speaker 2: So maybe that'll help him turn it around. Who knows. Yeah,
17:30
Speaker 2: all right, we haven't mentioned it. We're about to talk
17:33
Speaker 2: to Hunter.
17:34
Speaker 1: But the Gary Trent deal, Billy, give me your one
17:37
Speaker 1: minute take on the Gary.
17:38
Speaker 2: Trent deal with the Bucks.
17:39
Speaker 1: It was a they signed him to a deal that
17:41
Speaker 1: just dropped dropped jaws around the league. Everybody's like, wait
17:44
Speaker 1: a minute, and then it's like, oh, this had to
17:45
Speaker 1: be a this had to be baked in. This is
17:47
Speaker 1: just set up, and the Bucks are likely guilty of circumventing.
17:51
Speaker 1: But does the NBA have enough goods to prove it well?
17:54
Speaker 3: And it also took eleven months for them to maybe
17:56
Speaker 3: prove the Kawhi Leonard circumvention with the aspiration exactly, and
18:00
Speaker 3: they had the assist of Pablo Torre on that one.
18:02
Speaker 3: This one's probably a little below Pablo Torre's level quite.
18:06
Speaker 3: I don't know that he's worried about the twelfth guy
18:08
Speaker 3: off the bench for the Milwaukee Bucks getting four years
18:10
Speaker 3: at sixty four million dollars. But it pays to have
18:13
Speaker 3: a power agent he named Clutch Sports Rich Paul, where
18:17
Speaker 3: clearly the Bucks were able to get his bird rights
18:19
Speaker 3: with two small deals and then load him up with
18:22
Speaker 3: four years sixty four million dollars.
18:24
Speaker 2: So they took care of him on the back end.
18:25
Speaker 1: It's like a handshake, wink wink sign this kind of
18:28
Speaker 1: like I don't know if it was market or below market,
18:30
Speaker 1: a little blow market, Yeah, a little bit below, but
18:33
Speaker 1: stay with us and we'll take care of you in
18:35
Speaker 1: the end.
18:36
Speaker 2: Now, will the Bucks be sanctioned for this? Do they
18:38
Speaker 2: have to be?
18:39
Speaker 1: That will be interesting And as I've saw, the best
18:41
Speaker 1: line that made me chuckle over the weekend was like
18:44
Speaker 1: the contract excel itself is punishment for the Bucks. They
18:47
Speaker 1: don't need extra punishment because they've got Gary Trent for this.
18:50
Speaker 1: With the young players that are trying to develop, they've
18:52
Speaker 1: got this guy making this money and yeah, that's going
18:54
Speaker 1: to be.
18:54
Speaker 3: That's punishment and not having to watch Gary Trent junior
18:57
Speaker 3: play for fifteen million bucks a year.
18:59
Speaker 2: He didn't do it a lot last year.
19:00
Speaker 4: No, not last year, but listen a couple of years
19:02
Speaker 4: ago you did and he was really good in the
19:04
Speaker 4: pace receiver he had in the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, listen,
19:09
Speaker 4: I want to watch. I'm not I'm not disagreeing. I'm
19:12
Speaker 4: just saying, you.
19:13
Speaker 3: Know what, it's a little bit of let's go but
19:15
Speaker 3: one defender of the carry trends junior contract.
19:17
Speaker 4: What you're wantering the rich Paul Grass a little bit
19:20
Speaker 4: the clutch sports Grass.
19:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to do that.
19:22
Speaker 4: And Gary Trent wasn't a total disaster except for last
19:25
Speaker 4: year that you thought it was two years ago, so.
19:27
Speaker 2: Maybe it could be a value.
19:30
Speaker 4: It's a crowded back court though, and the reality is, guys,
19:33
Speaker 4: we're gonna be losing either way.
19:34
Speaker 2: But I shouldn't say that. Maybe, well, we went that attitude.
19:38
Speaker 2: We're gonna try and be better. He's somewhat of a
19:40
Speaker 2: known quantity, but not really.
19:42
Speaker 1: So when we come back, Hunter Bombguart's going to join
19:44
Speaker 1: the party. You wanted us to talk baseball. We're gonna
19:46
Speaker 1: talk baseball, talk Brewers, all Star break and uh trade
19:50
Speaker 1: deadline stuff, everything that we need to. We'll touch base
19:53
Speaker 1: with our beat guy, Hunter Bombguard.
19:54
Speaker 2: He's next. You're in the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
20:00
Speaker 1: Continuing the Monday edition of The Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,
20:02
Speaker 1: Drew Billy and Arman joined now by our pal Hunter Bombgrat,
20:06
Speaker 1: brought to us by Import Minded talking a little Brewers
20:08
Speaker 1: and Baseball. Good morning, Hunter, Thank you for getting up.
20:12
Speaker 1: This is a quiet week for you, and here you
20:14
Speaker 1: are on the Monday edition of the Huddle. We appreciate you.
20:18
Speaker 5: Oh of course, you know we are in the All
20:20
Speaker 5: Star break now and everybody can take a breather after
20:23
Speaker 5: what was a very tough weekend for the team on
20:26
Speaker 5: the field, and now we will see what happens here
20:29
Speaker 5: when we come back this weekend.
20:31
Speaker 2: What was the roughest part of the weekend?
20:32
Speaker 1: The doubleheader loss by both games by one run, agonizing
20:36
Speaker 1: with the the or was it the scratch of miz
20:40
Speaker 1: Was it placing Harrison on the il?
20:43
Speaker 2: What was it? I was?
20:46
Speaker 5: I think it's that swing in the What was it?
20:50
Speaker 5: I can't even remember what ending. I was trying to
20:51
Speaker 5: kind of forget it a little bit. What seventh or
20:54
Speaker 5: eighth inning against Aaron Ashby on the first game.
20:56
Speaker 2: I think I turned the whole weekend.
20:57
Speaker 5: I think you get that out, you get that out
21:00
Speaker 5: of that inning, and I think it's a I think
21:01
Speaker 5: you win that game. I think, you know, then it
21:04
Speaker 5: sets you up differently for the rest of the weekend.
21:06
Speaker 5: If okay, you lose the next two, okay, so be it.
21:09
Speaker 5: You at least got one in the series. But that
21:12
Speaker 5: that swing just changed all the momentum, and that put Pittsburgh,
21:15
Speaker 5: you know, in a really good spot. And of course
21:17
Speaker 5: a one run loss in the next game as well.
21:19
Speaker 5: It's not like you were totally out of that one.
21:21
Speaker 5: And then it was just he could kind of feel
21:23
Speaker 5: a loss coming yesterday. It's like they scratched their best
21:26
Speaker 5: pitcher and then it's and you're facing Paul Schemes and
21:29
Speaker 5: they have all the momentum and they're trying to try
21:31
Speaker 5: to somehow get back into it before the All Star break,
21:35
Speaker 5: and they just kind of had that feeling yesterday even
21:38
Speaker 5: before the game started. So I think it was that
21:40
Speaker 5: swing against Ashby. And look, Ashby's not been great over
21:43
Speaker 5: his last night outings. His the RAS went from three
21:45
Speaker 5: point zero four to three point five to six since
21:48
Speaker 5: the beginning of June is eras six and a half.
21:50
Speaker 5: So he has Abner Rebay and Trevor McGill both have
21:53
Speaker 5: had times this year where they've not been as effective,
21:56
Speaker 5: and now it seems Aaron Ashby is having that time.
21:58
Speaker 2: So a break is needed for him.
22:00
Speaker 3: As our friend Paul Wagner of the Lake Country Dockhounds
22:03
Speaker 3: would always say, you know, points are still always the
22:05
Speaker 3: most important thing. So it's the era for Ashby that
22:08
Speaker 3: that's the worst. But I think the whip is almost
22:10
Speaker 3: more frustrating hunter. It feels like there's multiple guys on
22:13
Speaker 3: almost every time he comes in since the beginning of June,
22:18
Speaker 3: and they've had to lighten the load on a couple
22:21
Speaker 3: of different guys, find ways to maybe be creative in
22:26
Speaker 3: not having them work so much. But how difficult is
22:29
Speaker 3: it with Ashby because he's so You're so reliant on
22:32
Speaker 3: his ability to pitch seemingly every other day. They're so overworked,
22:37
Speaker 3: and it doesn't seem like, at least for the next
22:39
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, August third is still a decent ways away.
22:42
Speaker 3: And when you're talking about bullpen arms, a lot of
22:45
Speaker 3: times teams don't want to give that guy up a
22:48
Speaker 3: week before because more negotiating power comes with the deadline.
22:52
Speaker 3: How difficult of a run to August third does this
22:55
Speaker 3: feel like it is going to be, Because I think
22:58
Speaker 3: they're going to get reinforcements, but they're going to have
23:00
Speaker 3: to make Bay with some dinged up cats before we
23:03
Speaker 3: get there.
23:04
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think it look the team looked like
23:07
Speaker 5: a team yesterday that had played eighteen games in seventeen
23:12
Speaker 5: days or coming into it, you know, sixteen games and
23:15
Speaker 5: fifth or whatever it was coming into yesterday. Right they're
23:19
Speaker 5: on that last day, eighteen games and seventeen days. The
23:22
Speaker 5: bullpen was beat up, obviously, the starting rotation was even
23:25
Speaker 5: beat up after it. Two double headers in a week,
23:28
Speaker 5: you know. All of that I think plays a role.
23:29
Speaker 5: So it's nice that you'll get some more off days,
23:31
Speaker 5: but you do August has a tough stretch in it
23:33
Speaker 5: as well, so you have that another one coming up,
23:36
Speaker 5: and I think you will get reinforcements by then, But
23:38
Speaker 5: right now you just kind of have to tread water
23:41
Speaker 5: before you get another arm in. I know they got
23:43
Speaker 5: and Bryce Wilson in and he covered up a couple
23:46
Speaker 5: of innings yesterday. But obviously I think there is another
23:49
Speaker 5: move for a more higher leverage arm. But every one
23:53
Speaker 5: of these prices is going to be a little higher
23:55
Speaker 5: because so many of these teams think they're still in it.
23:58
Speaker 5: I mean, we saw the Red Sox have one nine
24:00
Speaker 5: straight into the break and now all of a sudden
24:01
Speaker 5: they're in it in the al and you thought maybe
24:04
Speaker 5: they were gonna sell Chapman or Gray or one of
24:07
Speaker 5: the and they're gonna They're right in the thick of things.
24:09
Speaker 5: You could be under five hundred and right in the
24:12
Speaker 5: thick of it for a playoff spot, And that could
24:14
Speaker 5: be the case in two weeks, especially in the American
24:16
Speaker 5: League where it's a weaker league overall. So I just
24:19
Speaker 5: think the cost is going to be higher if because
24:22
Speaker 5: there are going to be less sellers.
24:23
Speaker 2: So what are the Brewers willing to give up?
24:25
Speaker 5: But I do think a bullpen arm is needed, just
24:28
Speaker 5: simply because every time you have a lead of three
24:32
Speaker 5: or less runs, you can't always go Ashbury Rebay and
24:36
Speaker 5: McGill and Chad Patrick has factored into that a little bit,
24:39
Speaker 5: which is good. But Ashby, as you mentioned Billy, he's
24:41
Speaker 5: allowed a base runner in his last nine outings, He's
24:44
Speaker 5: allowed to hit in seven of his last nine outings,
24:46
Speaker 5: and then he's allowed multiple hits in.
24:48
Speaker 2: Three of his last four. I mean, you're going to
24:50
Speaker 2: get burned eventually.
24:51
Speaker 5: And he's been able to get out of those a
24:53
Speaker 5: fair amount with either one or zero runs, but you're
24:56
Speaker 5: going to get burned eventually, and the Grand Slam was
24:59
Speaker 5: the burn On set.
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Speaker 1: Talking to Hunter Bombgart here on the huddle, all right, Hunter,
25:03
Speaker 1: give us an Orthopedic Associates of Wisconsin injury update Orthawisconsin
25:07
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25:09
Speaker 1: in our backyard. The Harrison injury Like, ah, they're telling
25:13
Speaker 1: us it's no big deal. And then MS gets backed
25:16
Speaker 1: off because he didn't respond well in a throwing session
25:18
Speaker 1: and like both of those things like, oh, they send
25:21
Speaker 1: a chill up your spine, So where.
25:23
Speaker 2: Are you on those? And what else do we need
25:25
Speaker 2: to know about the injury front? Yes?
25:28
Speaker 5: So yeah, the Harrison thing, obviously is the I think
25:32
Speaker 5: the maybe the most major move of the weekend. You
25:35
Speaker 5: could argue that Brandon Woodrop being transferred to the sixty
25:37
Speaker 5: dail was also major. But we have not obviously, we
25:41
Speaker 5: have not heard exactly what's going on there.
25:42
Speaker 2: We'll get to him in a moment.
25:43
Speaker 5: Kyle Harrison left forearm tightness is the reason for his
25:47
Speaker 5: fifteen diil. I mean again, Murph Harrison both not too concerned.
25:51
Speaker 5: But we've we've heard and seen this story before. I mean,
25:56
Speaker 5: this is the Brewers are kind of known for playing
26:00
Speaker 5: down their injuries and then it can take a little
26:02
Speaker 5: longer then we think at the outset.
26:05
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
26:06
Speaker 5: I mean, Harrison placed on the fifteen dail retroacted to
26:09
Speaker 5: July ninth, so he's out at least till the twenty fourth,
26:12
Speaker 5: and so you're talking about end of July that he'd
26:14
Speaker 5: be back, and again left forarm tightness after they had
26:16
Speaker 5: said that there was some elbow soreness going on, so
26:19
Speaker 5: a little confusing on that front. Harrison told Kurt Hoague
26:23
Speaker 5: that he's not too worried and feeling better than he
26:25
Speaker 5: was after his start, so he was going to take
26:27
Speaker 5: a few days off of throwing. Told Kurt on Saturday
26:30
Speaker 5: that so that's good. I mean, if he was feeling
26:33
Speaker 5: better already, I just think these guys need some rest
26:35
Speaker 5: at this point. I think it's a lot of that.
26:38
Speaker 5: And then Jacob Izarowski is the same way. You know,
26:41
Speaker 5: he just didn't respond well after his last start. Fatigue,
26:46
Speaker 5: you know, body not feeling well. Ar'm not feeling great.
26:49
Speaker 5: Just didn't recover well after his last start, and there's
26:51
Speaker 5: no reason to push it. So he'll likely start throwing again.
26:55
Speaker 5: His plan is to start throwing tomorrow, not going to
26:57
Speaker 5: pitch in the All Star Game, but just start throwing again.
27:00
Speaker 5: But he won't pitch in the series against Miami in
27:02
Speaker 5: the first series after the All Star break, So you're
27:04
Speaker 5: talking at least a week for him, and I think
27:09
Speaker 5: those are your two biggest concerns because those are your horses.
27:11
Speaker 5: I mean, when you talk about going into a playoff series,
27:13
Speaker 5: going into down the stretch, you need those two healthy.
27:15
Speaker 5: And then Brandon Woodriff transferred to the sixty day. IL
27:18
Speaker 5: met with doctor Keith Meister. It is surgery in September
27:20
Speaker 5: of twenty twenty three. We will see what the report
27:23
Speaker 5: is on that when we come back from the All
27:25
Speaker 5: Star break. But obviously it's not great if you transfer
27:28
Speaker 5: him to the sixty day, which means he's out until
27:30
Speaker 5: at least September fifth, and we don't know what the
27:34
Speaker 5: next steps are going to be.
27:35
Speaker 2: We're a waiting word on that.
27:36
Speaker 5: We should know this coming weekend, but obviously signs are
27:40
Speaker 5: appointing to him being gone for at least most of
27:43
Speaker 5: the rest of them.
27:43
Speaker 3: Can he start rehabbing during the sixty day or is
27:46
Speaker 3: you have to wait till that sixty day is and
27:48
Speaker 3: then he can start going through obviously he can do
27:50
Speaker 3: like a throwing program and things like that, but you
27:53
Speaker 3: can't go on on a rehab assignment until that sixty
27:56
Speaker 3: days is up. Correct, Oh, I think you can, Okay,
27:59
Speaker 3: So I could he could start ramping up if things
28:02
Speaker 3: end up going well in the middle of August, and
28:05
Speaker 3: he could be ready to come off on that, you know,
28:08
Speaker 3: September fifth or whatever it would be.
28:09
Speaker 2: I believe.
28:10
Speaker 4: So.
28:10
Speaker 5: I just don't think, I think you can't be on
28:11
Speaker 5: the major league roster until that is up. Yeah, So
28:14
Speaker 5: I believe so, so that that, yeah, that is good.
28:17
Speaker 5: I mean he could be back for September.
28:19
Speaker 2: He could. You know.
28:20
Speaker 3: Again, it's like they could tell we're hoping for a
28:22
Speaker 3: little bit of optimism here, Hunter. I know there's there's
28:25
Speaker 3: there is going to be very very small shreds of
28:28
Speaker 3: it possible. But let's just keep We're just keeping the
28:30
Speaker 3: small little glimmer of hope that that could be the possibility.
28:34
Speaker 2: I like it.
28:35
Speaker 5: I like a Coleman Crow reinstated.
28:37
Speaker 2: So that's good.
28:37
Speaker 5: He's uh, yeah, he's he's back at Triple A. He
28:41
Speaker 5: was optioned at Triple A, obviously a procedural move. I
28:43
Speaker 5: think we'll see him at the major league level at
28:44
Speaker 5: some point. Uh and uh so that's good. Rob Sis
28:47
Speaker 5: Stristine was returned from his rehabit remaining on the al again.
28:51
Speaker 5: So another lefty that they just cannot unfortunately can not
28:53
Speaker 5: get healthy. I mean he's tried. This is the third
28:55
Speaker 5: time he's tried to come back this season and just
28:58
Speaker 5: has not been able to uh not been able to
29:01
Speaker 5: pitch in the majors. So we'll see. We'll get an
29:03
Speaker 5: update on him coming up too. So those are kind
29:06
Speaker 5: of the latest. Obviously, Dale Hall, Brandon Lockridge back, you know,
29:09
Speaker 5: late July, Koonel late July, early August. So some of
29:12
Speaker 5: those guys and then David Hamilton, Uh, they said, well,
29:16
Speaker 5: Ben Murphy said, we'll miss a couple.
29:17
Speaker 2: More series after the All Star breaks.
29:19
Speaker 5: So we're probably talking a week at least, probably a
29:22
Speaker 5: week after they returned on Friday, So we're talking about
29:25
Speaker 5: the twenty fourth of July or so, same around the
29:27
Speaker 5: same time as Kyle Harrison. So and then Shoemaker left
29:30
Speaker 5: the game early yesterday. The newly acquired Braden shoemake former
29:34
Speaker 5: first overall pick by the Braves back.
29:36
Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen. He's bounced around a little bit. Yeah,
29:40
Speaker 2: would not watching that.
29:43
Speaker 4: No, but you know what, Greg Jones was the first
29:44
Speaker 4: round or wasn't he? I mean, let's be wrong.
29:48
Speaker 2: I don't know that off the time. Maybe I'm wrong
29:49
Speaker 2: about that.
29:50
Speaker 4: The reality is, hey, you know, we found it with
29:52
Speaker 4: Quinn Priest or maybe we can find it with other guys.
29:54
Speaker 4: But you're right, Yeah, we wouldn't have guessed that prospect
29:57
Speaker 4: was the key word there. You know, it is amazing
30:00
Speaker 4: how much deput depth you think you have, especially in
30:03
Speaker 4: the pitching. You always seem to need more, you know,
30:06
Speaker 4: no matter what the situation is with the injury and
30:08
Speaker 4: things like that.
30:09
Speaker 5: So yeah, and look they set themselves up in the
30:12
Speaker 5: off seat. By the way, Greg Jones, yes, first round
30:13
Speaker 5: pick by the race, same same first round as Bryden Shoemate.
30:19
Speaker 3: Sounds sorry, that was brute that I didn't have to
30:24
Speaker 3: do that.
30:25
Speaker 5: We're trying to chat with me, are trying to change?
30:28
Speaker 5: How about okay? How about that a little fun fact
30:31
Speaker 5: for you. The Brewers had two of the first round
30:33
Speaker 5: picks in twenty nineteen on their roster for the series
30:36
Speaker 5: in Pittsburgh the Sea.
30:37
Speaker 2: Unfortunately they're swept in that series. I knew I read somewhere. Yeah,
30:40
Speaker 2: I did. Yeah, but yeah, no, you're right.
30:43
Speaker 5: I mean, look, Matt Arnold in the front office clearly
30:45
Speaker 5: had an agenda in the off season to go get
30:48
Speaker 5: pitching and to get bolster at that pitching depth because
30:52
Speaker 5: of what they went through last year, and that was
30:53
Speaker 5: the pitching injuries. Now, it seems that the pitching injuries
30:55
Speaker 5: have now come in more so in July rather than
30:59
Speaker 5: April like they did last year.
31:01
Speaker 2: But it does seem that they're kind of going through
31:03
Speaker 2: that again.
31:04
Speaker 5: And with the number of pitchers they have on the
31:06
Speaker 5: IL right now, it's and miss missing in the first
31:10
Speaker 5: series after the All Star break, there are going to
31:12
Speaker 5: be have to be some guys that step up. Look,
31:14
Speaker 5: and they've had guys step up. Gasser unfortunately took a
31:16
Speaker 5: step back yesterday. Hopefully he's able to bounce back after
31:19
Speaker 5: the break. You like what you've seen out of Logan Henderson,
31:22
Speaker 5: Oman Crow. He's had some some good starts at the
31:25
Speaker 5: major league level this season, So let's let's continue to
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Speaker 5: hopefully see that when we come back from the All
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Speaker 5: Star breaks.
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Speaker 2: Gonna be interesting.
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Speaker 1: Hunter, we're coming up on the one year anniversary of
31:35
Speaker 1: the pocket pancake.
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Speaker 2: M that's a good one.
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Speaker 3: I like that.
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Speaker 1: Do you feel like the Brewers need something like that
31:42
Speaker 1: this year? It's a long season, right, It's like we're
31:44
Speaker 1: all focused and it's been fun, but what has you know,
31:47
Speaker 1: I think we need his pocket to be able to help.
31:49
Speaker 1: We need something like that. We need so I don't
31:52
Speaker 1: know where's it. It's got to be organic, but you know,
31:55
Speaker 1: don't you feel like they do need something like that
31:57
Speaker 1: to lighten things up a little bit?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I mean I think especially after you know, I I
32:03
Speaker 5: think after an eighteen you know, seventeen days and you
32:07
Speaker 5: have eighteen games, I think you get tired no matter what.
32:09
Speaker 5: And I think that's kind of what we saw the
32:11
Speaker 5: last couple of days, and that may be taken for
32:13
Speaker 5: you know, I saw it was written in an article,
32:16
Speaker 5: like you know, the clubhouse at P and C Park
32:19
Speaker 5: was very quiet on Sunday morning. You know, everybody kind
32:21
Speaker 5: of keeping to themselves. I'm like, well, that's their Sunday
32:24
Speaker 5: morning clubhouse for you know, that's always a Sunday morning clubhouse.
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Speaker 2: Point. Yeah, you know, I don't think we need to
32:29
Speaker 2: read into that too much. I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I think this team is a very good, solid baseball
32:34
Speaker 5: team and they just just ran out of steam in
32:36
Speaker 5: the last few days. I know Pat Murphy denied it yesterday,
32:38
Speaker 5: but you could see it in all facets, whether it's
32:41
Speaker 5: the lineup, whether it's the you know, you have two
32:43
Speaker 5: double headers five and six days or whatever they had.
32:46
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's significant. So I think that is
32:48
Speaker 5: just what they had. But yeah, look you want that.
32:51
Speaker 5: I mean last year, heading into the All Star Break,
32:53
Speaker 5: they had one, they were on the they had won
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Speaker 5: seven in a row, they were on their way to
32:56
Speaker 5: winning twelve in a row because they went into the
32:59
Speaker 5: All Star Break on a set in game winning streak
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Speaker 5: one to five out of the break in LA. That
33:02
Speaker 5: was part of the sweeping the LA Dodgers. So obviously
33:06
Speaker 5: that that is not something you get this year. But
33:08
Speaker 5: this year they were a lot better in the early
33:10
Speaker 5: parts of the season in May and June than they
33:12
Speaker 5: were last year.
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Speaker 2: So I think it's a.
33:14
Speaker 5: Different season and there aren't as many like there aren't
33:18
Speaker 5: as many of those like wild storylines or crazy stories
33:21
Speaker 5: this year. This is just a good, solid baseball team
33:24
Speaker 5: that I think can take that into the second half.
33:26
Speaker 2: And they left confidence. Yeah, we did have the turtle
33:29
Speaker 2: for a while.
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Speaker 3: But I don't know what I had that was like
33:31
Speaker 3: one series and that was that was when they weren't
33:33
Speaker 3: even playing very well.
33:34
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a good point. Yeah, find something different.
33:37
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, they're just there's gonna be
33:39
Speaker 4: series like this. There's gonna be games like this. I
33:42
Speaker 4: think only because the Cubs are on a pretty good
33:44
Speaker 4: stretch keeping the pressure on.
33:45
Speaker 2: We're a little more upset about it than anything else.
33:48
Speaker 4: But I think that's part of it. You know, that's
33:50
Speaker 4: just baseball. These are gonna happen, even for really good teams. Yeah.
33:54
Speaker 5: I mean the Dodgers also got swept over the weekend.
33:56
Speaker 5: I'mon back, swept them, so you didn't lose any ground
33:59
Speaker 5: in the In the for the one scene, I went
34:01
Speaker 5: back and looked at how many years the Brewers stumbled
34:03
Speaker 5: into the All Star break. They have been under five
34:08
Speaker 5: hundred since twenty eighteen. There's only been two years where
34:11
Speaker 5: they've been over five hundred in the last week of
34:14
Speaker 5: before the All Star Break. That was last year when
34:16
Speaker 5: they won seven to zero, and twenty twenty three they
34:17
Speaker 5: went four and three otherwise twenty twenty four, two and four,
34:20
Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, two and four and three straight losses,
34:23
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, two and four and three straight losses,
34:25
Speaker 5: twenty nineteen two and five and four out of five,
34:28
Speaker 5: including two to Pittsburgh that they lost. And then the
34:30
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen was the five game sweep at the hands
34:32
Speaker 5: of the Pirates. So you have not the good into
34:34
Speaker 5: the All Star break other than last year, and twenty
34:37
Speaker 5: twenty three and twenty twenty three were just one game
34:39
Speaker 5: over five hundred. So for some reason they just have
34:41
Speaker 5: not been great into the All Star Break. But look
34:44
Speaker 5: a lot of those Look twenty eighteen five games sweep
34:46
Speaker 5: against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
34:47
Speaker 3: We all know what happened. He got to the NLCS. Yeah,
34:49
Speaker 3: and that one is so burned into my memory. Banks
34:51
Speaker 3: I was doing the postgame at the time. It literally
34:53
Speaker 3: started raining during the ninth inning and they gave up
34:57
Speaker 3: like two or three runs to get walked off on
34:59
Speaker 3: and you just looked around like.
35:01
Speaker 2: Well, of course it happened.
35:02
Speaker 3: Of course, that's how this game ends, and this disastrous
35:05
Speaker 3: break gos let's all, let's all go to Escanaba, Michigan
35:08
Speaker 3: and get.
35:08
Speaker 2: Away for a couple of days.
35:09
Speaker 4: You know which team started July, excuse me, losing five
35:12
Speaker 4: of six the fifty seven Braves all right, and they
35:14
Speaker 4: won the World Series, so we're going all the way.
35:17
Speaker 2: Way to go. Arman. Come on, geezies, what a wow
35:23
Speaker 2: on Monday. Yeah, Dero didn't have that one. Wow. All right, Hunter,
35:28
Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. Enjoy this leisurely week.
35:30
Speaker 1: And then you'll get back at it with Milwaukee's Baseball tonight.
35:33
Speaker 5: At the end of the week. Right, yeah, exactly. So
35:36
Speaker 5: the we'll be back Milwaukee Baseball tonight and Thursday. We'll
35:38
Speaker 5: look back at some of the top moments of the
35:40
Speaker 5: first half and then look ahead to the second half
35:43
Speaker 5: and what the storylines could be is as we head
35:45
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35:47
Speaker 5: back on Friday. So uh, thanks guys, talk to you then.
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Speaker 5: All right, Bud, we'll miss you.
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Speaker 3: Well, we mentioned the story a little earlier today, but
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Speaker 3: Bam at a bio of the Miami Heat reportedly uh now,
37:22
Speaker 3: some are saying reportedly punched. I believe sham Serania said,
37:26
Speaker 3: reportedly struck in the face.
37:28
Speaker 2: Struck struck in the face. That's what you call.
37:31
Speaker 3: That's what somebody who's never been punched or thrown a
37:34
Speaker 3: punch calls a punch a strike in the face.
37:37
Speaker 2: Will Smith, you know they keep my name out your mouth.
37:40
Speaker 2: See my wife's name out your damn mouth. Well as
37:42
Speaker 2: a slab.
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Speaker 3: That situation happened at a Las Vegas hotel gym, which
37:47
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37:58
Speaker 3: Hero and Bam out of bio. You have a story
38:00
Speaker 3: about Draymond Green, Well, Draymond Green makes it about Draymond Green.
38:04
Speaker 3: He immediately the next morning after the report came out,
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Speaker 3: went on a four minute tie Rade on his podcast,
38:11
Speaker 3: making sure that you Donna's haslam, as he said, kept
38:15
Speaker 3: the same energy for Bam punching Tyler Hero as he
38:19
Speaker 3: did when Draymond punched Jordan Poole.
38:23
Speaker 2: Cliff notes, you said.
38:23
Speaker 3: I remember when I got into it Jordan Pool, and
38:25
Speaker 3: I remember one person and Jordan Poole incident happened to me,
38:28
Speaker 3: really really outspoken about it bothered me.
38:29
Speaker 2: It was e Donna's haslam. I saw you d get
38:32
Speaker 2: into it with guys on his own.
38:33
Speaker 3: Team younger than him before well went for four minutes,
38:38
Speaker 3: and you, Donnas Haslam went in on a five paragraph
38:41
Speaker 3: essay that just dismantled Draymond Green. If you think you're big,
38:46
Speaker 3: thirty two year old three or four rings at the time,
38:49
Speaker 3: having your ass swinging on a twenty three year old
38:51
Speaker 3: Jordan Poole at the time isn't the same like this,
38:55
Speaker 3: then you're even more delusional than I thought you. Donnas Haslam,
38:59
Speaker 3: just ride Draymond Green. And this is what the NBA
39:03
Speaker 3: offseason needs to be about. It doesn't need to be
39:05
Speaker 3: about second aprons and salary mismanagement. And may or may
39:10
Speaker 3: not have the Bucks had a handshake agreement with Rich
39:12
Speaker 3: Paul to bring back Gary Trent Junior at an absolutely
39:14
Speaker 3: obscene rate. That number probably could have been the wake
39:17
Speaker 3: and big story of four years. Sixty four million dollars
39:19
Speaker 3: for Gary Trent and his eight points a game last year.
39:22
Speaker 2: But Drew, this is the NBA I know in love.
39:25
Speaker 2: This is this is the NBA. This is the association
39:28
Speaker 2: I know in love.
39:29
Speaker 3: When the games are not being played, the action is
39:32
Speaker 3: hotter because we start chirping at each other. You Donnas,
39:34
Speaker 3: Haslam's got all the smoke for Draymond Green. And if
39:37
Speaker 3: there's anybody that I probably wouldn't pick a fight with
39:40
Speaker 3: who used to be in the NBA.
39:41
Speaker 2: It's you.
39:43
Speaker 4: Is at the top of that list. Youd As that
39:45
Speaker 4: old man strength. But no one else remembered this except you, Draymond.
39:50
Speaker 4: That's my favorite part. Like no one ever remembered this
39:53
Speaker 4: with you and you DNAs. But you made it about you.
39:55
Speaker 4: Love it, keep it consistent, just wild when to get
39:59
Speaker 4: into and you know the whole thing about not going
40:02
Speaker 4: to the Badgers and decommitting.
40:03
Speaker 2: We can probably we can probably do it the rest
40:05
Speaker 2: of the week. But man, I know you've been waiting
40:07
Speaker 2: on that one. Well that was our kicking the balls,
40:09
Speaker 2: But uh boy, that I think that one's been done.
40:12
Speaker 2: That was like twelve years ago. People got fired up
40:14
Speaker 2: about that all over again.
40:15
Speaker 3: So I love that they've said in the Great super
40:17
Speaker 3: Bad People, don't forget. We've covered a lot of ground today.
40:21
Speaker 3: I got a slot productive day tonight, home run Derby,
40:25
Speaker 3: watch Maddy V.
40:26
Speaker 2: Tune in on Netflix for just a little bit, see
40:28
Speaker 2: how Maddy V's doing.
40:28
Speaker 3: And I got my boy Ben Rice. Come on, Benny,
40:32
Speaker 3: come on, Benny. Nine to one at the Potawatomy Sportsbook.
40:34
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it's gonna be. It'd be plenty for
40:37
Speaker 1: us to talk about tomorrow. Uh, this is supposed to
40:39
Speaker 1: be a slow week. We're not treating it that way.
40:41
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some fun. We'll see tomorrow at five am.
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