Transcript

Hour 3 - 03/31/26 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Thanks six you ready.
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Wisconsin is on the.
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Speaker 3: End Tex summersh What the hell or Badger score be?
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Speaker 4: Tech Simer from out high right head skipped off traffic
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Speaker 4: past try Augustine.
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Speaker 5: Oh. I can't believe this.
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Speaker 2: It feels so good to finally say it again. Wisconsin
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Speaker 2: is going to the Frozen Four.
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Speaker 3: The Badgers just knocked out the Big Ten champions and
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Speaker 3: now they'll take their chances in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 2: A goose bump moment from Worcester m Vager Hockey Drew Wilson,
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Speaker 2: Bill schmid Arman. Sorry with you on the huddle, and
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Speaker 2: we are happy to be joined by the coach of
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Speaker 2: the Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team, Mike Hastings. Coach, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining us, Thanks for getting up early. We appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: I'm wondering the plane touchdown a few days ago. Can
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Speaker 2: we say the same for the feat for you and
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Speaker 2: your staff and the players.
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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me on. But yeah, we touched down
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Speaker 6: and we didn't get back till late. There was some
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Speaker 6: delays on us getting out of there. But tell you, guys,
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Speaker 6: I didn't think I'd enjoy Worcester as much as I
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Speaker 6: did because it's probably not a bigation spot, but it
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Speaker 6: was definitely a really good weekend for.
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Speaker 3: US coach seeing the celebration on the bench and when
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Speaker 3: Dex hits that one from the blue line. First off,
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Speaker 3: it's an incredible shot, and we love screening the goalie.
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Speaker 3: We love getting some bodies in front and that puck
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Speaker 3: and find its way into the back of the net.
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Speaker 3: But man, just the sheer elation from the guys, it
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Speaker 3: did almost seem like the camera got you for a
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Speaker 3: second saying, Holy cow, what just happened?
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Speaker 2: How quickly?
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Speaker 3: That's like fifteen minutes of a whirlwind where your life
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Speaker 3: completely changes.
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Speaker 2: Can you even describe what that moment was like?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, it was a little bit unique
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Speaker 6: just because of where Dex he shot that puck. From
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Speaker 6: the view from the bench, you could see the goaltender
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Speaker 6: and so I can just say this, when he let
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Speaker 6: that goal, you could see neat and I actually thought
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Speaker 6: when he shot it that one might go in and
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Speaker 6: it gets deflected, and you know, Trey Augustine, their goaltenders
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Speaker 6: is up for the Mike Rictories. He's been thrown in
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Speaker 6: a lot of people's side and for us to be
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Speaker 6: able to find a way to one, get it to
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Speaker 6: even and then get it pushed over the goal line
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Speaker 6: there and overtime was it was special. You know, if
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Speaker 6: this group's been questioned a lot this year, and I
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Speaker 6: think sometimes when when you go through that adversity, it
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Speaker 6: toughens you up a little bit. And I thought the
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Speaker 6: guys really showed that over that last period to get
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Speaker 6: a steve and then give us a chance in overtime.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, coming out of this weekend in tournaments, everybody's talking
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Speaker 2: about you CON's come back, but coming back from two
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Speaker 2: goals down against that goalie, Amen, it's pretty good. But
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Speaker 2: I gotta ask, we're in this trend now of overtimes
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Speaker 2: being decided really quick. In my experience watching puck years ago,
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Speaker 2: it would be well, guys seem to be squeezing the
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Speaker 2: stick a little bit, you had to kind of nobody
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Speaker 2: wanted to make a mistake and everybody was being cautious.
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Speaker 2: And we've seen it now in the Olympics men's and women's.
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Speaker 2: We saw it with the Badger's women's team in the Semis.
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Speaker 2: It seems like overtime now, you better not you better
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Speaker 2: be in your seat when the puck drops for overtime
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Speaker 2: because we're getting quick resolutions. What is the mindset and
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Speaker 2: metality and ot.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, for that game was a little unique,
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Speaker 6: just because we finished that third period the way we did.
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Speaker 5: At coming back and the guys have done a.
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Speaker 6: Really good job at sticking with it. And I think
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Speaker 6: that started even on the Thursday where I think we
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Speaker 6: had four posts before we ended up getting our second
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Speaker 6: goal against start Mouths. And our leadership group's done an
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Speaker 6: unbelievable job. They settled our group down in between the
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Speaker 6: third period and overtime. I walked in and you know what,
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Speaker 6: they were saying all the right thing. They got back
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Speaker 6: to being focused on us being us and DEXI was
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Speaker 6: the one that was talking about in the locker room,
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Speaker 6: Hey guys, any shot, it's a good shot. And he'd
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Speaker 6: gone through some adversity in that game and to have
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Speaker 6: him find a way to get it done for us.
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Speaker 6: It was a little bit poetic because the puck went
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Speaker 6: off his stick when we were up by one, goes
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Speaker 6: in the back of the net, he takes a penalty,
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Speaker 6: we go down three to one. But I think it
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Speaker 6: says a lot about Ben Deckheimer. He just he flushed
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Speaker 6: those things and went right on to the next one.
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Speaker 6: And he's been a guy that's been carrying a lot
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Speaker 6: of the weight for us as our captain this year,
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Speaker 6: as our leadership group has And yeah, it was great
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Speaker 6: to get done early, I can tell you that because
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Speaker 6: it's been a journey for this group.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic.
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Speaker 5: All Right.
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Speaker 2: So you're in this mode where you're kind of like
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Speaker 2: a team that's waiting for the Super Bowl. You got
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Speaker 2: this week to prepare. Is that a blessing or a curse?
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Speaker 6: Like?
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Speaker 2: How do you go after? You can have like a
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Speaker 2: mini training camp, you ramp up lets, everybody kind of
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Speaker 2: get their bearings and get their plans in place and
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Speaker 2: family travel and all that stuff, and you got to,
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Speaker 2: I know, the guys got to think about tickets and plans,
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Speaker 2: what is this week like? What is this week like?
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Speaker 2: And then what will next week be like?
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Speaker 6: Well, it's what we're and again, I think we're fortunate now.
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Speaker 6: I wouldn't say back then when we get smoked at
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Speaker 6: home by Ohio State, we had to wait and see
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Speaker 6: what our fate was. And we've got around the same
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Speaker 6: amount of time in between games that we had from
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Speaker 6: when we lost to Ohio State to getting into the
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Speaker 6: tournament and play in Dartmouth. So you know what, we
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Speaker 6: changed some things up because a couple of years ago
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Speaker 6: we were in that spot and we didn't manage it
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Speaker 6: very well. We came out against Quinnipiac two years ago
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Speaker 6: in the NCAA tournament and I think our first shot
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Speaker 6: was around the twelve or thirteen minute mark, and so
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Speaker 6: we addressed some things. It'll be the same this week.
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Speaker 6: We took a couple of days off. We've had some
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Speaker 6: guys some bumps and bruises, and so we'll get back
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Speaker 6: at it today. But Sunday and Monday we're off, and
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Speaker 6: we'll go at it here for the next three days
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Speaker 6: and then take Friday off and then reset on Saturdays.
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Speaker 6: So for us, it worked for us on the way
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Speaker 6: going into the regional. The guys were focused on what
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Speaker 6: they needed to do and their preparation and staying on
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Speaker 6: point was really fantastic and it'll allowed us to get
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Speaker 6: off to good start against Dartmouth. So we'll go at
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Speaker 6: the same schedule as we did that week.
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Speaker 3: Talking with Badger's men hockey coach Mike Casings here on
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Speaker 3: the Huddle Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, coach, You've talked about
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Speaker 3: it a couple of times the adversity, the group goes with,
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty steadfast, and there's no championship team that doesn't
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Speaker 3: face adversity. And everybody talks about we've been through a lot.
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Speaker 3: You don't know it unless you've been in that room
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Speaker 3: and with those boys rolling through the problems. But when
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Speaker 3: you drop six in a row, obviously there's questions, there's
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Speaker 3: hard conversations. You mentioned the lost to Ohio State. How
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Speaker 3: much better is this team in your opinion because they
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Speaker 3: went through those things.
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Speaker 6: I think it's the only way we get through it.
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Speaker 5: And you know, when you go through.
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Speaker 6: That six game losing streak as a coach, you're okay,
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Speaker 6: having some learning moments. You just don't want it to
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Speaker 6: last for three weeks. And the group you know we had,
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Speaker 6: we've gone through some adversity through injuries, which all teams
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Speaker 6: go through, but we lost some pretty significant players. We
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Speaker 6: lost Zach Schultz, who's now backskating to a to a
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Speaker 6: broken leg right around Christmas. And then Logan Hanzler, a
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Speaker 6: first front draft pick of Ottawa, tears his knee up
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Speaker 6: against Minnesota and Minnesota during that six game streak, and
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Speaker 6: so we've had to have different guys step up at
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Speaker 6: different times for us, and I just believe that breeds confidence.
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Speaker 6: One thing we talk about at the beginning of the
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Speaker 6: year is we've had a.
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Speaker 5: Twenty six man roster.
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Speaker 6: That's what the NCAA says we can have for Max
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Speaker 6: and in our sport, it's a little bit, but we
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Speaker 6: don't have backups to the backups. All twenty six of
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Speaker 6: our guys have to be able to play and contribute.
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Speaker 6: Because of the grind of a nine month season, different
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Speaker 6: guys go down, and during that sixteen streak, other than
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Speaker 6: those two guys being out, we'd lost Gavin Morrissey, who's
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Speaker 6: our reading scorer. We'd lost our second line center in
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Speaker 6: Zuli zellen Off, so different guys had to kind of
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Speaker 6: go through that grind, and that's experience that you can't buy.
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Speaker 6: You don't always want to go through those valleys, but
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Speaker 6: I do think they toughen up and they definitely prepared
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Speaker 6: this group for what we had to go through last weekend,
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Speaker 6: and we're planning on that, preparing us for what we've
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Speaker 6: got in front of us.
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Speaker 2: Will you draw upon your previous trips to the Frozen
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Speaker 2: four to inform what happens this time? It's a little
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Speaker 2: bit different going to Vegas, right, that's its owning, that's
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Speaker 2: its owner, got money in their pocket.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we will. We've talked about it the
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Speaker 6: one thing, and you guys brought it up in the opening.
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Speaker 6: You know, there's a lot of noise that comes with this,
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Speaker 6: there's a lot more distractions. We're trying to get as
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Speaker 6: much of that out of the way as we can
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Speaker 6: here in the next few days. As far as what
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Speaker 6: you had mentioned, tickets and family, because you want, you
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Speaker 6: want our athletes to be able to experience that. But
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Speaker 6: the best way to do it is get those things
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Speaker 6: done so we can focus the task at hand. And
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Speaker 6: so yeah, just some of the times that I've been there,
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Speaker 6: the last two times really the only two times that
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Speaker 6: have been to the Frozen four, there's just a lot
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Speaker 6: more focus on media and people are looking to get
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Speaker 6: inside what makes your team tech and I think that's fantastic.
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Speaker 6: These experience will provide these guys with something that they
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Speaker 6: can use for the rest of their lives. But at
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Speaker 6: the end of the day, we've still got a lot
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Speaker 6: of work to do. This is what we've been trying
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Speaker 6: to prepare for this opportunity.
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Speaker 5: We just got to stay on task with that.
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Speaker 2: Something feels so right about the Badgers men's side being
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Speaker 2: in the Frozen Four being back but play in North Dakota. Also,
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Speaker 2: if you have a certain vintage, you still see people
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Speaker 2: with the jerseys with the WCCHA and this rivalry with
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Speaker 2: North Dakota has great historical roots for the Olds. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure Brian Posi's probably told you about some of this
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Speaker 2: stuff that's gone on historically between these two programs. So
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Speaker 2: what's it going to be like facing them when you
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Speaker 2: get to Vegas.
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Speaker 6: Well, it's kind of unique. I grew up in Crookston, Minnesota,
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Speaker 6: and it's about twenty two miles from UND's campus, and
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Speaker 6: so that's where I first experienced Wisconsin. UNDY was hosting
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Speaker 6: a regional at Old Ralph Engelstead Arena and I was
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Speaker 6: fortunate enough to tag along with a buddy and his dad,
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Speaker 6: and we went over and made a real impression to
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Speaker 6: me because I just saw the following the Wisconsin banned.
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Speaker 6: When I was growing up, Wisconsin had to cooking and
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Speaker 6: the Old WHA I thought was the conference in the country.
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Speaker 5: And so for us to.
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Speaker 6: Be playing a storied program like that at this time
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Speaker 6: of the year, they're all giants, right. Everybody's good. They've
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Speaker 6: earned the opportunity to be there, and it's an opportunity
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Speaker 6: we want to take advantage of. They're good, they're big,
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Speaker 6: they're heavy, they're hard. Jack has done a great job
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Speaker 6: being a first year coach there, but he's an alum
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Speaker 6: of North Dakota, so I've got a good history with
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Speaker 6: understanding what North Dakota's about. We've actually got them on
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Speaker 6: our schedule here, not next year, but a home and
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Speaker 6: home with them after that. Jackson and I have been
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Speaker 6: going back and forth trying to make that something that'll
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Speaker 6: be something that we'll be doing on a consistent basis
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Speaker 6: going forward. And I think the people in Grand Forks
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Speaker 6: will appreciate Wisconsin going there, and I know the fans
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Speaker 6: here at Wisconsin because of the history, we'll really enjoy
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Speaker 6: North Dakota being here.
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Speaker 2: Coach.
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Speaker 3: It's pretty impressive how the Big Ten, though, has has
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Speaker 3: taken hockey by storm, and obviously so many great teams
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Speaker 3: are playing in this conference. Yesterday, I know you're probably
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Speaker 3: not thinking a lot back in retrospectively right now, but yesterday,
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Speaker 3: the three year anniversary, you're getting introduced and hired as
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Speaker 3: the sixth hockey coach at the University of Wisconsin. How
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Speaker 3: different is the Big Ten in just these three years
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Speaker 3: and over the last you know, decade plus since everybody's
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Speaker 3: taking it over that it is not only a football
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Speaker 3: conference basketball, but hockey is right at the top where
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Speaker 3: the best puck is being played in this conference.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I can say there's no nights off. It's a
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Speaker 6: u I. If you're not prepared to play in our league,
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Speaker 6: you won't get beat, you'll get embarrassed. And so for me,
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Speaker 6: the talent from top to bottom in the Big Ten,
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Speaker 6: you're seeing, you know, future NHL stars, and they're littered
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Speaker 6: on every roster in our league. And so you know,
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Speaker 6: the idea of trying to grow our game is in
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Speaker 6: real good hands, not just in the Big Ten, but
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Speaker 6: all of college hockey you've seeing right now in the following.
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Speaker 6: But for us to be able and the people here
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Speaker 6: that I've learned, you know, we had a Saturday night
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Speaker 6: against Michigan against Michigan, and we had fifteen to five
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Speaker 6: in the building. There is a passion for hockey. There's
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Speaker 6: a passion at Wisconsin for following excellence and doesn't matter
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Speaker 6: if you're talking football, basketball, volleyball, women's hockey. I get
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Speaker 6: to brush elbows with Mark Johnson on a consistent basis,
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Speaker 6: and there's an expectation of success here and the Big
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Speaker 6: Ten I think breeds that because if you're gonna if
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Speaker 6: you're going to go and battle that week in and
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Speaker 6: week out, it does prepare you for what we just
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Speaker 6: went through this last weekend.
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Speaker 2: I know a lot of your players, hockey players in general,
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Speaker 2: are put something pretty superstitious. They have their routines, their
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Speaker 2: little quirks. Do you any you or any of your
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Speaker 2: assistants have your own little pregame routines perhaps that you
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Speaker 2: stick to that you wouldhere to.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what.
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Speaker 6: I used to hold on to that quite a bit,
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Speaker 6: whether it be a tie, whether it be a suit,
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Speaker 6: whether it be our pregame walk, things like that. At
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Speaker 6: the end of the day, we kind of let those
14:26
Speaker 6: go by the wayside, because at the end of the day,
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Speaker 6: it's about trying to get the guys prepared. And there
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Speaker 6: are some guys that do their different things, and you
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Speaker 6: respect that because you've learned it as you've grown up
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Speaker 6: and you've been in the locker room and we've got
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Speaker 6: different shape, sizes, mentality. At the end of the day.
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Speaker 6: It's about going out and getting it done, and different
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Speaker 6: guys do it different ways. You respect all of them.
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Speaker 6: I will say, I've got a couple of assistants that
14:52
Speaker 6: probably do their own things up until game drop, pup drop.
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Speaker 6: But it's just part of what our game is.
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Speaker 3: It's a special now, Coach, you mentioned Mark Johnson's name,
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Speaker 3: and when we were following as heavily into the Olympics,
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Speaker 3: everybody was a hockey fan, and I'm with you. We
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Speaker 3: had a good knockout, drag out brawl here on the
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Speaker 3: show that I think, like the boom that hockey is
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Speaker 3: getting right now is exponential.
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Speaker 2: I'm a thirty thirty year old. Thirty one year old
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Speaker 2: sorry that.
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Speaker 5: You were with.
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Speaker 3: NHL is barely on on ESPN at the time. Now
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Speaker 3: every single night you're seeing the game. The college game
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Speaker 3: is better than it's ever been. But I'm wondering in
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Speaker 3: Madison and in that room, we heard the men's team
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Speaker 3: at the Olympics say, once the women got the gold medal,
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Speaker 3: we had to match it. So is there a little
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Speaker 3: bit of feeling in the room of well, they got
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Speaker 3: the trophy. So now that we're in the frozen four,
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Speaker 3: we got two more to get and then you might
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Speaker 3: not like this as a Minnesotan. Then we can take
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Speaker 3: over as the state of hockey, because Wisconsin needs to
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Speaker 3: be the state of.
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Speaker 6: Oh I got to tell you, you know, when I
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Speaker 6: when I first got the job. You know, I've been
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Speaker 6: when you're around the same area at the Coal Center
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Speaker 6: here and we practice at Lebon quite often, and that's
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Speaker 6: where we're practicing right now. And when you're going around
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Speaker 6: and you look up into the rafters and you see
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Speaker 6: the amount of championships that Mark Johnson and his young
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Speaker 6: women have accomplished here, I've been chasing a Porsche right
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Speaker 6: and he's he's hard to follow, but he makes it
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Speaker 6: easy because he might be one of the most humble
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Speaker 6: human beings. I've been able to cross pathless and in
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Speaker 6: this sport, he's been phenomenal to me. It's great for
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Speaker 6: our guys to cross paths with his young ladies because
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Speaker 6: they are some of the best, not only in college
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Speaker 6: hockey but in the world. And their mentality and their
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Speaker 6: approach every day and I'm gonna say this, they they
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Speaker 6: follow their coach, They're they're humble, they don't mind, you know,
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Speaker 6: Colem England with our guys and talking and having the respect,
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Speaker 6: and they're watching our team, we're watching theirs. It's unique.
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Speaker 6: I think our sport's a little different that way. There's
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Speaker 6: a respect that goes with it, especially when you are
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Speaker 6: chasing excellence and how long they have been as good
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Speaker 6: as they have been. It's a great opportunity for myself,
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Speaker 6: our staff, and our players to learn from. And so yeah,
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Speaker 6: we're tied at to hip. We're trying to we're trying
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Speaker 6: to catch them, and we'll have an opportunity to try
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Speaker 6: and get one on the board here when we get
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Speaker 6: to Vegas.
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Speaker 2: Let's have a combined celebration, have everybody into enjoy, like
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Speaker 2: throwing out the first pitch at m famous for a
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Speaker 2: Brewis game. Let's make that happen.
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Speaker 5: Michael.
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Speaker 2: Last question for you, because I can't think of a
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Speaker 2: better matchup. We mentioned you playing North Dakota. I can't
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Speaker 2: think of a better matchup than Badgers fans in Vegas.
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Speaker 2: I've been there for some basketball games and some football
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Speaker 2: games with Badgers fans in the past. I'm just wondering.
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Speaker 2: I know it's a business trip for you, but is
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Speaker 2: there a place when you go to Vegas? Is there
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Speaker 2: a place or two that you have to stop at.
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Speaker 2: Is there anything that you're going to do to have
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Speaker 2: some fun, displeasing some fun on this business trip?
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Speaker 5: You know what I've said.
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Speaker 6: It's one reason I'm real happy with Worcesters because we won. Right,
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Speaker 6: I'm going to tell you it wasn't a.
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Speaker 5: Spot that we stayed at. That wrinkle something that I'll remember.
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Speaker 5: But when when you when you do these.
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Speaker 6: Things to me, you want to write, and we've talked
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Speaker 6: about it as a team. You want to write your
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Speaker 6: own history. And so for us, where it is a
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Speaker 6: business trip, we are going to have the guys enjoy
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Speaker 6: it a bit. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 6: if you want to really enjoy it, you want.
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Speaker 5: To be last one standing.
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Speaker 6: And so we've still got some work on our plate.
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Speaker 5: We'll get there.
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Speaker 6: We'll enjoy the experience, but the focus is going to
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Speaker 6: be on finding a way to play. On Saturday night,
18:47
Speaker 6: have an opportunity.
18:48
Speaker 3: To hang a banner and that's going to be the
18:49
Speaker 3: party on Saturday and we'll be the party. You guys
18:51
Speaker 3: need anybody to carry bags or anything, coach you let
18:55
Speaker 3: us know and I'll be there first thing.
18:57
Speaker 5: Smut.
18:57
Speaker 2: I just hope that they stuck up on you know,
18:59
Speaker 2: Miller there and stuff, because the Badgers have been known
19:01
Speaker 2: to drink places out of Miller A light in the passing.
19:04
Speaker 2: Arman was just in Vegas last weekend and he would
19:05
Speaker 2: tell you to take the boys for an omelet at
19:07
Speaker 2: the pepper Mill, just saying, very good spot, big portions
19:10
Speaker 2: of big portions.
19:11
Speaker 5: You guys are hungry.
19:12
Speaker 2: They can load up. You know, maybe after the skate,
19:14
Speaker 2: take them to the pepper Mill and get a good,
19:15
Speaker 2: good call, good call, nap. That'd be amazing.
19:19
Speaker 6: Two thirsty groups going there, fellows. When I was at
19:21
Speaker 6: North Dakota, it was coaching the world to your tournament,
19:24
Speaker 6: I was an assistant, and uh, they drank grand forks
19:27
Speaker 6: out of beer.
19:28
Speaker 5: So I can tell you.
19:30
Speaker 6: I can tell you, well, we'll go. We'll go blow
19:33
Speaker 6: for blow with.
19:33
Speaker 5: Them, right right.
19:36
Speaker 2: Fantastic, Mike, best of luck, thanks for joining us. We
19:38
Speaker 2: hope to catch up with you down the road.
19:39
Speaker 6: Thanks man, All right, guys, take care, Thanks for having
19:42
Speaker 6: me on you.
19:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, our pleasure. Thanks coach Mike. The Badger's going to
19:48
Speaker 2: the frozen full. You can have a little fun though,
19:50
Speaker 2: I tell you, got it.
19:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's right though, Two thirsty groups very thirsty groups
19:56
Speaker 3: that are going to be.
19:57
Speaker 2: Reaching out there, and yeah, quite Miller lights and if.
20:02
Speaker 3: If Badgers fans are looking to go and get some tickets,
20:05
Speaker 3: secondary market live right now, heavy and a very very
20:10
Speaker 3: sought after ticket. Not surprising with the Badgers back in
20:13
Speaker 3: the Frozen four that it was gonna be a hot ticket.
20:15
Speaker 3: But the prices are pretty fun. We got to wait
20:17
Speaker 3: to see those come down, and then you need to
20:19
Speaker 3: talk to some of the higher ups here and figure
20:20
Speaker 3: out how we're getting out, all right.
20:21
Speaker 2: Billy, who's our current electric superhero of the day. It
20:25
Speaker 2: could be Dex Shimer, it could be Mike Casings, and
20:26
Speaker 2: the Badgers.
20:27
Speaker 3: Could be well, you know what, I'm gonna give it
20:30
Speaker 3: some Mike Casings and the Badger men because that part
20:33
Speaker 3: exactly it drew of being able to you know, he said,
20:36
Speaker 3: Chase a Porsche.
20:37
Speaker 2: I think that's one of my favorite lines that I've.
20:39
Speaker 3: Ever seen of the understanding of the greatness that the
20:43
Speaker 3: the institution always has wanted and to be able to
20:46
Speaker 3: feel like you got to pull your weight and pull
20:48
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21:28
Speaker 2: Mike Haystings is a new friend of the Huddle. We're
21:30
Speaker 2: bringing in an old friend next. Bill Schroeder from Brewers
21:33
Speaker 2: TV joins us. Don't go anywhere. It's the Huddle, Fox
21:36
Speaker 2: Sports Radio Wisconsin, BILLI and Arman bringing it to you
21:46
Speaker 2: and all that music. It's been too long. We welcome
21:49
Speaker 2: our pal from Brewers TV, the Rock himself, Bill Schroeder,
21:53
Speaker 2: Good morning Rock. I hope we didn't interrupt Rupert's morning
21:56
Speaker 2: constitutional were yours?
22:01
Speaker 5: Well yeah, well that's more important, right. He had me.
22:05
Speaker 4: He was shaking and looking at me and saying, Okay,
22:08
Speaker 4: what are you gonna do?
22:09
Speaker 5: What are we doing this?
22:11
Speaker 4: But anyway, I used to like the old days, Drew,
22:14
Speaker 4: when you used to call you like four thirty in
22:16
Speaker 4: the afternoon.
22:17
Speaker 2: Oh, I know we were we get you in the
22:19
Speaker 2: press box when you were like trying to or else
22:21
Speaker 2: on the field too.
22:22
Speaker 1: But yeah, this practice, yeah yeah, And now it's said it's.
22:26
Speaker 3: Four thirty in the morning and Drew's hopping on the
22:27
Speaker 3: freeway to get it.
22:31
Speaker 4: Well, good, good to hear.
22:33
Speaker 5: Your voice again.
22:34
Speaker 2: It's been a while, it has It has been a while,
22:36
Speaker 2: And believe it or not, in the five o'clock hour,
22:38
Speaker 2: we having a substance of conversation about the Brewers, all
22:40
Speaker 2: the things swirling, Luis Mato's Cooper Pratt, you know, the
22:43
Speaker 2: excitement of the opening day series, the Sunday game, which
22:46
Speaker 2: was an instant classic. Last night was a really good game.
22:48
Speaker 2: Didn't go the Brewer's way, but Rock we were talking
22:51
Speaker 2: about William Contreras and this is perfect timing to have
22:53
Speaker 2: you on today. We were talking about the relationship between
22:56
Speaker 2: pitchers and catchers and what happened last night and can
23:00
Speaker 2: you speak to for us what it's like that chemistry
23:03
Speaker 2: and that develops because it seems like wild Bill is
23:05
Speaker 2: the man back there and what is.
23:10
Speaker 4: Well and what he talks about. You know, when a
23:12
Speaker 4: picture comes over and a catcher hasn't caught him, and
23:16
Speaker 4: it's going to take a while for you know there
23:18
Speaker 4: to have that chemistry. Well maybe the unspoken, the un
23:21
Speaker 4: you know, the you know, the body language chemistry that
23:24
Speaker 4: you know a picture and a catcher will go through.
23:26
Speaker 5: But I tell you these catchers these.
23:28
Speaker 1: Days, I mean, they do their homework and you.
23:30
Speaker 5: Know what's going on.
23:31
Speaker 4: Just because you haven't caught a guy a whole lot
23:34
Speaker 4: doesn't mean it's going to be a mess out there
23:37
Speaker 4: and nobody knows what to throw and when to throw it.
23:39
Speaker 4: But you know, Contreras has done such a good job.
23:43
Speaker 4: I mean, he does his work early. You know, when
23:46
Speaker 4: he gets to the ballpark, he talks to the pictures.
23:49
Speaker 4: Pictures meetings are much more extensive than they used to be.
23:52
Speaker 4: You know, back in my day it was up and
23:54
Speaker 4: in down in the way, and you know, with George
23:56
Speaker 4: brettup just hope he hits a lot of driving somebody.
23:59
Speaker 4: But I mean there's some men. There's just so many
24:01
Speaker 4: different things that go into the mind of you know,
24:05
Speaker 4: you know, Chris Hook and Jim Henderson and you know,
24:08
Speaker 4: the pitching group. When you're going through scattered reports and
24:11
Speaker 4: things like that, they have to filter what they want
24:14
Speaker 4: to give to the pitcher and catcher, and then during
24:16
Speaker 4: the game catcher has to determine, you know, on the spot.
24:20
Speaker 4: You know what a guy throwing, I mean, what's his
24:22
Speaker 4: slider doing, how's this fastball? It seemed like last night,
24:26
Speaker 4: you know, you know, he had a fastball that really
24:29
Speaker 4: was picking up. You know, it really had a good
24:32
Speaker 4: spin rate, and it was like a lot harder, faster
24:36
Speaker 4: to the hitter than the actual velocity. But you know,
24:39
Speaker 4: can Terra's is a workhoorse, you know, and you know
24:42
Speaker 4: you're talking about Carol being you know up here, what
24:46
Speaker 4: a not a better guy that you could learn from
24:48
Speaker 4: than William Contreras. He's been terrific.
24:50
Speaker 3: Oh and Rock being able to have that relationship with
24:54
Speaker 3: new pictures. And we give Chris Hook rightfully so a
24:58
Speaker 3: ton of the credit. But like a Kyle Harrison last night,
25:01
Speaker 3: has a career high in swing and missus with sixteen
25:04
Speaker 3: in his first start with the crew, and everybody was
25:07
Speaker 3: fired up about his his arrival and the acquisition of it.
25:11
Speaker 3: But being able to have, as he said, some conviction
25:14
Speaker 3: back there. It really does feel like a heck of
25:16
Speaker 3: a steadying force when you are coming into a new
25:19
Speaker 3: spot and if you're going to maximize what you have
25:22
Speaker 3: in that player.
25:23
Speaker 2: A lot of times the battery MAT's just as important.
25:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know they you know, they work together
25:28
Speaker 4: in spring training.
25:29
Speaker 5: I mean they've been to the meetings.
25:31
Speaker 4: He warms them up in the bullpen, you know, before
25:33
Speaker 4: the game every single start you'll see conterrorists go down
25:36
Speaker 4: there and finish a picture's warm ups down in the
25:40
Speaker 4: bullpen home or road, and you know, and then bust
25:43
Speaker 4: it down into the dugout gets ready to hit. So
25:46
Speaker 4: there's a lot going on, you know, with Contrera's and
25:49
Speaker 4: the picture of the day, you know, the bullpen. I
25:51
Speaker 4: think the guys, he knows them pretty well. I mean,
25:54
Speaker 4: they're pretty much the same group that was here you
25:57
Speaker 4: know for the most part, you know, last year. So
25:59
Speaker 4: that's out a big deal for him. But you know,
26:01
Speaker 4: the work, the work takes place before the game and
26:04
Speaker 4: the work takes place in spring trading, and the work
26:07
Speaker 4: takes place, you know, long before you know somebody steps
26:10
Speaker 4: in the batter's box.
26:11
Speaker 5: They have an idea what they want to do.
26:12
Speaker 4: But there are times, and I mentioned this just a
26:15
Speaker 4: minute ago, that you know when if you're you're saying
26:17
Speaker 4: that you know this guy, you know he can't handle
26:19
Speaker 4: the fastball in well, if your fastball is not that
26:23
Speaker 4: effective that day and you're not able to find that
26:26
Speaker 4: fastball inside of.
26:27
Speaker 1: A right hander, then you know you're really not going
26:30
Speaker 1: to use it a whole lot.
26:31
Speaker 4: So you have to, you know, make stuff up on
26:33
Speaker 4: the fly. And that's what William does so well. He
26:35
Speaker 4: understands that he reads hitters, he knows what pitchers are
26:39
Speaker 4: throwing that particular day, and and that takes place in
26:42
Speaker 4: the first couple of innings. Sometimes, you know, like with
26:45
Speaker 4: Sprote the other day. You know, it's like you know,
26:48
Speaker 4: first inning is you know, sometimes it's all it takes.
26:50
Speaker 4: If a guy's not doesn't have it that particular day,
26:53
Speaker 4: that's the difference between a winning and loss. Sometimes in
26:55
Speaker 4: the first inning. The Breves have had some issues in
26:57
Speaker 4: the first inning so far this year.
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Speaker 2: Well, going back to the playoffs last week, let's talk
27:03
Speaker 2: about we're talking to Bill Schroeder.
27:04
Speaker 5: Yeah, TV A Rock.
27:06
Speaker 2: I gotta give you credit because you mentioned sports game
27:09
Speaker 2: that did not seem in the middle of that game
27:11
Speaker 2: as a winnable game. But you were talking to Levin saying,
27:14
Speaker 2: you know, mcgil is probably gonna get into day. Maybe
27:16
Speaker 2: it'll be a save opportunity. Nice call on that one.
27:18
Speaker 5: Rock. Yeah.
27:20
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it's like you know, I said, maybe you
27:21
Speaker 4: get him in there and get some work.
27:23
Speaker 5: I'm about to save.
27:23
Speaker 4: I mean, these guys, these guys believe that they.
27:26
Speaker 1: Are never out of a game, and you.
27:28
Speaker 4: Know it's true. I mean, how many times did they
27:30
Speaker 4: come back? How many times did they score four more
27:33
Speaker 4: runs in an inning last year? I mean the six
27:35
Speaker 4: run eighth inning you know, on Sunday, Amazing stuff. I mean,
27:40
Speaker 4: it's just been just been a pleasure to watch these guys,
27:43
Speaker 4: and they're getting better and better, you know every year,
27:46
Speaker 4: you know, more experience. You know, you get to rang
27:49
Speaker 4: who's become one of the best in the business. And
27:51
Speaker 4: you know Freelick, you know what he does on a
27:53
Speaker 4: daily basis. So I'm just I'm just I'm just honored.
27:58
Speaker 4: I'm able to you know you'll cover these games and
28:00
Speaker 4: follow these guys and and be at the ballpark and
28:04
Speaker 4: on the field talk to him. And when you get
28:06
Speaker 4: the ballpark, Drew and you know you've been either to
28:09
Speaker 4: the ballpark earlier every now and again, and you uhould
28:11
Speaker 4: do it every single day.
28:12
Speaker 5: How hard they work even before.
28:14
Speaker 4: Anybody shows up at the ballpark, so you know they're
28:17
Speaker 4: working at their their craft, they're taking extra swings, they're
28:20
Speaker 4: taking ground balls. Ian Ortiz, there's not a better double
28:23
Speaker 4: play combination and all of baseball than those two guys.
28:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, until that eighth inning rally, that double play was
28:29
Speaker 2: going to be the highlight of the time with that
28:31
Speaker 2: rock the eighth and rally, like everybody had a hand
28:34
Speaker 2: in it. Renhifo had a great at bat and we
28:36
Speaker 2: can talk about Yelich and the drama of him coming
28:38
Speaker 2: in to pinch hit and the way the crowd reacted
28:39
Speaker 2: and stuff. But I came on yesterday and said that
28:42
Speaker 2: was a bullpen victory because the bullpen locked down and
28:46
Speaker 2: that's what enables us to come back. And we saw
28:49
Speaker 2: that and that's a that's a continuation of the last
28:51
Speaker 2: last year. In the last couple of years, is the
28:53
Speaker 2: bullpen keeps them in games and lets them come back.
28:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were down seven to two after three innings
28:59
Speaker 4: and then the bullpen allowed zero nothing, and I have
29:02
Speaker 4: the guys to have the confidence to come back. That
29:05
Speaker 4: game could have been way out of hand early had
29:07
Speaker 4: the bullpen come in and not done his job. It
29:09
Speaker 4: could have been tended to or twelve to two, something
29:12
Speaker 4: like that. But yeah, you're right. I mean every you know,
29:15
Speaker 4: the offense got the headlines.
29:17
Speaker 1: In that game.
29:18
Speaker 5: You know Sprote had a rough start. I mean, you gotta.
29:20
Speaker 4: Feel bad for the kid. He's going to have better
29:22
Speaker 4: days ahead. He's got incredible stuff. He just couldn't find
29:25
Speaker 4: the plate with any of his stuff in that start.
29:28
Speaker 5: But you know, I mean, if the.
29:30
Speaker 4: Bullpen doesn't get it done, I mean, that's that was
29:33
Speaker 4: That was the start of that game for sure.
29:35
Speaker 5: The Brewers bullpen, and they do it time in and
29:37
Speaker 5: time again. Rock.
29:39
Speaker 3: You mentioned Bryce Terrang just a second ago about all
29:42
Speaker 3: of these guys getting better, but his ascension over the
29:44
Speaker 3: last one hundred odd games or so, if you go
29:47
Speaker 3: back to last year when the power show really hit in,
29:49
Speaker 3: he's like a walking double. He's an absolute problem in
29:53
Speaker 3: the box. And what he delivers on defense. It seems
29:57
Speaker 3: like when when you start looking at the years that
30:00
Speaker 3: are fully taking over the mantle as the guys. Obviously
30:04
Speaker 3: Yelli is still going to be the mainstay, but man,
30:06
Speaker 3: Bryce Terraing has just taking a leap forward that you
30:09
Speaker 3: always want first round picks to do. But you've been
30:11
Speaker 3: covering the Brewers for a long time. Rock, there weren't
30:13
Speaker 3: a whole lot of first round picks that you were
30:15
Speaker 3: calling games for, and he has just become an absolute star.
30:20
Speaker 3: And it feels like the WBC might have been the
30:22
Speaker 3: launching pad nationally for people to get a little bit
30:24
Speaker 3: more of a taste of what we know here.
30:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's been terrific.
30:28
Speaker 4: I mean last year, you know, the ten home run
30:30
Speaker 4: I think it was ten home runs in August last year.
30:32
Speaker 4: I mean I think that kind of was the springboard,
30:35
Speaker 4: you know for him and the power stroke. And you know,
30:37
Speaker 4: he's always had the defense of platinum you know glove,
30:40
Speaker 4: Gold Glove, Platinum Glove winner a couple of years ago,
30:43
Speaker 4: and now I can't believe he didn't win the Gold
30:44
Speaker 4: Glove last year. But you know, he's turned himself into
30:48
Speaker 4: a you know, when when it's time for him to
30:50
Speaker 4: be a free agent, to be one of the top
30:52
Speaker 4: free agents you know, on the market, and that may
30:56
Speaker 4: very well be why the Brewers decided to sign Cooper
31:00
Speaker 4: to a long term deal, to make sure that they're
31:02
Speaker 4: covered in that regard.
31:03
Speaker 6: So, you know, as good as you know, as Tarang.
31:06
Speaker 4: Has been, and I mean he's been good for now
31:08
Speaker 4: a few years now.
31:09
Speaker 5: But you know, I remember.
31:10
Speaker 4: When he came up and when he came in, you know,
31:12
Speaker 4: after signing. He was a skinny little kid out of
31:14
Speaker 4: high school and he has really filled out. I mean,
31:17
Speaker 4: he knows the game and there's not a harder working guy.
31:20
Speaker 5: He and Freelich.
31:20
Speaker 4: I mean, he come to the games, you know early,
31:23
Speaker 4: you get there before batting practice. Those two guys are
31:26
Speaker 4: are busted it every single day. It doesn't matter if
31:28
Speaker 4: there's batting practice on the field. They're in the cages,
31:31
Speaker 4: they're hitting, you know. And then you get Matt Erickson
31:34
Speaker 4: hitting ground balls, you know, Trag just.
31:36
Speaker 5: About on a daily basis.
31:38
Speaker 4: He never really takes a whole lot of time off.
31:41
Speaker 4: And that's what it takes to be one of the
31:43
Speaker 4: top players in the game.
31:45
Speaker 2: Talking to Bill Schroeder Brewers TV here on the Huddle,
31:47
Speaker 2: Drew Billy Harmon all Right, Rock, A couple of thoughts
31:49
Speaker 2: that I had I wanted to ask you about as
31:51
Speaker 2: we were four games in. What's your take on the
31:55
Speaker 2: A B s with the umpires and when you were
31:58
Speaker 2: catching or even when you were hitting, when you were playing,
32:00
Speaker 2: how often do you think you would have touched the helmet?
32:02
Speaker 2: Would you have been afraid to do that? Would you
32:04
Speaker 2: have saved it for molitor? And you'll have to use
32:05
Speaker 2: the challenges.
32:07
Speaker 5: Back in the day, it was like the old Eric
32:09
Speaker 5: Greggs strike zone.
32:10
Speaker 4: You know, if you had a big lead, then everything
32:12
Speaker 4: was this strikes up and swing boys, you got to
32:14
Speaker 4: get this thing over with.
32:15
Speaker 5: But you know that's not the case anymore.
32:17
Speaker 4: But you look at these umpires, I mean, you know,
32:21
Speaker 4: they don't miss many calls, and the ones that are overturned,
32:24
Speaker 4: I mean barely. There's a stitch on the outside corner,
32:27
Speaker 4: you know, one of the stitches of the baseball.
32:29
Speaker 5: I mean that you don't see. You don't see the
32:32
Speaker 5: pitch that you know, the whole ball is in the
32:34
Speaker 5: strike zone. You don't see that.
32:36
Speaker 4: Maybe we've seen it maybe once or twice, you know
32:38
Speaker 4: this weekend, or you know, let you know, first four games,
32:42
Speaker 4: but you know, it tells you how good these guys are.
32:45
Speaker 4: And you know, we don't have the strike zone box
32:47
Speaker 4: in our monitors up here, you know when we're doing games.
32:51
Speaker 5: I know, the the you know, the fans have it,
32:54
Speaker 5: and I.
32:54
Speaker 4: Think that's a good thing because I'm less apt to
32:57
Speaker 4: start railing on the strike zone. So I kind of
33:01
Speaker 4: like the abs. I mean, it's it's really fast, and
33:05
Speaker 4: you know, it's always catchers that are doing it, you don't,
33:07
Speaker 4: you know, hitters every now and again, I'll do it,
33:09
Speaker 4: but catchers are doing it. Catchers are really good at
33:11
Speaker 4: it as well.
33:13
Speaker 5: I thought the.
33:13
Speaker 4: Strike zones, you know, in the first four games, you know,
33:17
Speaker 4: have been outstanding, and you know.
33:20
Speaker 5: I'm all for it.
33:21
Speaker 4: I mean, but when you talk about a difference between
33:23
Speaker 4: a striking a ball, when you're talking about a sixteenth
33:25
Speaker 4: of an inch the ball just grazing the outside corner,
33:28
Speaker 4: get a little bit of that red mark on the ball,
33:32
Speaker 4: you know.
33:32
Speaker 5: That that tells you how good these guys are. These
33:34
Speaker 5: umpires can.
33:35
Speaker 2: You get well, I'm just thinking back to when you
33:36
Speaker 2: were catching Bosio or Heimi. Coconauur probably wasn't close enough
33:39
Speaker 2: to the zone to merit any challenges.
33:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you when I was catching him, I
33:45
Speaker 4: called him all throughout the minor leagues to a ball, double,
33:47
Speaker 4: a triple A. And then in the big leagues, I
33:49
Speaker 4: mean after catching after catching himie for a game and
33:53
Speaker 4: I look like, you know, a piece of raw hamburger
33:56
Speaker 4: out there. I mean there was bruises all over the players.
33:58
Speaker 4: It was amazing. So just just just the just that
34:02
Speaker 4: you mentioned, himI coc gives me a cold sweat.
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Speaker 2: That's a true one. It's a good way to get
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Speaker 2: your day. Then the other thing on the way rock
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Speaker 2: I gotta know, because I want to go back off
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Speaker 2: Arman's favorite uh VHS tape of all time that isn't
34:18
Speaker 2: a Revenge of the Cheerleaders. Is Miracles, Magic and True Believers,
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Speaker 2: the eighty seven highlight film. That's right, and you're in that,
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Speaker 2: and you were you were a peak athlete studs specimen
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Speaker 2: back then. And I'm wondering, could Bill Schroeder of nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty seven eighty eight beat Gary Sanchez in a foot
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Speaker 2: race to first base?
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Speaker 5: M Well, that's a tough way you're saying. I'm not
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Speaker 5: that anymore that well.
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Speaker 2: You take it today, I think Rock. Given your athletic
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Speaker 2: nature and the fact that you played you know, high
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Speaker 2: school football, and that you could have like played football
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Speaker 2: at Clemson, perhaps I think you probably would have beat him.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about today. It probably close today too,
34:54
Speaker 2: But I was thinking about that when Gary Sanchez was
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Speaker 2: lagging out that play on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Hey, I had five so in basis when you're in
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Speaker 4: the big leagues, my friend for him, were delayed for him,
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Speaker 4: were delayed steals, and one was a back end of
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Speaker 4: a double steal. So yeah, I was a real fleet
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Speaker 4: of foot.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I challenge into a race right now. Actually,
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Speaker 5: that's what I wonder.
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Speaker 2: I believe so too, because that's career that play Gary
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Speaker 2: Sanchez play on Sunday. I'm I'm thinking to myself, ninety
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Speaker 2: eight percent of the major leagues beats that out without
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Speaker 2: even a throw of the reviews.
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Speaker 5: That's not his game. Man.
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Speaker 4: He's been in the league a long time, and you know,
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Speaker 4: just you know, hats off to him for you know,
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Speaker 4: being able to stay in shape and stay healthy and
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Speaker 4: and still be a big leaguer and let the other guys,
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Speaker 4: you know, run the basis of steel bases.
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Speaker 5: He's kind of a station in the station guy. He's
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Speaker 5: been great.
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Speaker 7: There's plenty of speed in other other areas they got him. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: fourteen Rocky didn't need any speed rocket. Yeah, jogging around there,
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Speaker 7: he was jogging seven.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Tripple was the base I was the base clogger.
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Speaker 5: I had one triple in my career.
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Speaker 1: You know that, Drew.
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Speaker 5: You know that story.
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Speaker 2: Rookie year, triple rookie year. Yeah, I know. I fantastic.
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Speaker 5: My first major league hit was it? Triple? Never hit
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Speaker 5: another one.
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Speaker 2: That's amazing. It's the best, outstanding rock Thanks for getting
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Speaker 2: up early to us. We've been enjoying the Show's Brewers
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Speaker 2: TV is some really good product. I know it was
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Speaker 2: a lot of moving parts and people behind the scenes.
36:22
Speaker 2: You guys are still the same and doing the same thing,
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Speaker 2: but there's a lot that went into this season and
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Speaker 2: it looks really cool so far.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the drone, the wire cam, all the stuff though,
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Speaker 4: the bells and whistles. It's been a lot of fun,
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Speaker 4: you know, But you're right, I mean, you know, our
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Speaker 4: job in the booth hadn't change a bit.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to have another Carol University grad here
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Speaker 3: on there. We need more of come on now let's
36:43
Speaker 3: get more pioneers celebrating.
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Speaker 4: It only took me twenty years to graduate to Hey,
36:49
Speaker 4: you know, I had a little bit of things going
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Speaker 4: on in between, a.
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Speaker 2: Little bit, just a little bit of twenty four two.
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Speaker 2: It was Okay, Rock, we'll see you at the ballpark.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 5: All right, guys, thanks for having me on talking.
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Speaker 2: Yeah Tuesdays with Rock, Bill Schroeder Brewers TV. He will
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Speaker 2: be joining us on the regular seven thirty Tuesdays. Set
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Speaker 2: a reminder in your phone.
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Speaker 3: True, you know that story.
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Speaker 5: You know that story.
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Speaker 2: Why are you doing in our book? Iimi cocon hours
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Speaker 3: And did that book. By the way, it was one
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Speaker 3: of the Christmas gifts of my mother in law.
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Speaker 2: Game when we come back, Oh, we're gonna close up shop.
37:24
Speaker 2: We're gonna Sarah goodbyes, and we're gonna have our wake
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Speaker 2: and bake. Story of the day. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin Today,
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Speaker 2: Here on the huddle, Drew Matt Miller, Mike Hastings, Bill Schroeder,
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Speaker 2: flying by, it's flying by on this morning. We are
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Speaker 2: on to April. We've made it through March. We're on
37:57
Speaker 2: to April.
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you better high alert tomorrow. Folks April Fools. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: say I slopped as in a three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you think they got something special
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Speaker 7: We're already in that soup every year where there's already
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Speaker 7: fake stuff all over the place. So I guess we're
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Speaker 7: in one sense we're desensitized to it, and the other
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Speaker 7: senses you missed. It was all that April Fools nonsense.
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Speaker 7: All right, I'm not doing it. I'm on time for all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they did funny Well, that's I used to contribute
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, best April Fools is our biggest
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Speaker 2: Yeah, hear me doing my best April Fools story that
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Speaker 5: That was.
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Speaker 2: Now the stories that I'm Milwaukee, they're up for one
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Speaker 2: That was I was proud of that one. That's clever,
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 3: I mean some people thought that Anthony Edwards was playing
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Speaker 3: a April Fool's Day joke on the crowd after he
40:09
Speaker 3: was introduced to the starting line up or introduced in
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Speaker 3: the starting lineup to the crowd. Uh and then when
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Speaker 3: tip off arrived, Mike Conley was on the floor. Well,
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Speaker 3: Chris Finch answered the question very simply. When asked why
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Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards wasn't in the starting lineup and he checked
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Speaker 3: in after two minutes into the game, he said, simply
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40:34
Speaker 3: sitting out. He was like a kid in the candy store.
40:36
Speaker 3: Kind of a crappy situation. Anthony Edwards missed the tip
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Speaker 3: off of last night's Timberwolves win because uh, nature called
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Speaker 2: He had to do his best William Contreras and signal
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Speaker 2: for the curve. He dropped the deuce signal for the curve.
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Speaker 3: And that's a bad situation where you're like, all right,
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Speaker 3: I just wiped again again.
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Speaker 2: Well I got tip off again. Hey, tomorrow we're gonna
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Speaker 2: be at Humpdale already to be halftime of the Week,
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Speaker 2: halftime of you know when we're on to April, and
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna prank arm in every segment. We're fool. So
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Speaker 2: we hope to see you tomorrow at five am on
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Speaker 2: the huddle.
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Speaker 4: Peace,