Transcript

08/24/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Taking no prisoners On a Monday of the good Land.
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Speaker 1: It's the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin Drew Wilson Armansarien
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Speaker 1: joined by our pal Bill Schmid on his way up
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Speaker 1: to Green Bay.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Billy, what's happening? Fella's a good way to start
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Speaker 2: up on Monday.
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Speaker 1: Yes, getting ready for Training Camp Live as you do
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Speaker 1: double duty. An hour of the Huddle and then Training
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Speaker 1: Camp Live with the great Wayne Levy, who, by the way,
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Speaker 1: joins us at seven to twenty five.
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Speaker 2: That is a beautiful thing. Wayne, oh is going to
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Speaker 2: be in rare form because this is our final week.
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Speaker 2: These are the final two days. Yeah, and it is strange, Drew,
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Speaker 2: because we finish up camp. We're this close to the end,
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Speaker 2: but we're still so far away from the actual game
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Speaker 2: that matters. So there is a waiting period, no doubt
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Speaker 2: about it. But this is high fashion week. This is
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Speaker 2: the fun one. If you haven't been up there for
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Speaker 2: one of the training camp practices, you get two chances.
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Speaker 2: Might be a little late to make the arrangements for today,
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Speaker 2: but definitely make sure you're there and there early coming
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Speaker 2: up on Wednesday, because that's gonna be one you want to.
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Speaker 1: See and today. It's going to be the high fashion
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Speaker 1: practice of the year. Packer's winning thirty three to thirteen
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Speaker 1: in the Mile High City on Friday, we were helming
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Speaker 1: Packers ot It was a pretty good effort all around.
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Speaker 1: Trace Mack continues to shine. Marshall Lloyd caught a touch
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Speaker 1: on first offense. Look good. Jordan Love didn't hit his
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Speaker 1: hand on anybody's helmet. That's the best part, which is
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Speaker 1: good because he ain't gonna play on Friday night.
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Speaker 2: No, and Drew, I was kind of doing this exercise
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Speaker 2: thinking through, this is the least misjointed offseason that Jordan
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Speaker 2: Love has had. That's true as the starter of the
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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers the first year, every conversation, rightfully, so
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Speaker 2: the first year as a starter, how are you going
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Speaker 2: to take over for Aaron Rodgers. Then he has the
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Speaker 2: contract conversation where he misses the first week plus in
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Speaker 2: the year two.
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Speaker 1: Last year with.
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Speaker 2: The hand, wasn't taking any snaps under center for a
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Speaker 2: good week and a half two weeks, and then that
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Speaker 2: even bled into the season where that was eliminated. And
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Speaker 2: now I mean again, knock on wood, we're close, but
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Speaker 2: not there. He's going to finish up training camp healthy, confident,
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Speaker 2: and practicing every single day. That's a heck of a
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Speaker 2: way to start. He's just got to get through Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Just got to get through Wens not hit his hand
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Speaker 2: on anybody's helmet, and we got the red jersey on.
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Speaker 1: So let's not try to be let's not try to
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Speaker 1: be heroes.
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Speaker 3: Almost trying to be a hero Baron Sowell, Right, the
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Speaker 3: guys like that, yeah, or Josh Sweat. Maybe it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be interesting right with the joint practice because the trend
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Speaker 3: has been fights, not that this doesn't happen as happens
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Speaker 3: every year, but the trend has been fights across the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine the brother Mike and Matt Gotta like,
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Speaker 1: you know, Laflour's not into that. He thinks it's stupid
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Speaker 1: that they shouldn't fight, but it is hard to avoid. Well,
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Speaker 1: you can't control them as old as time. It happens,
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Speaker 1: like every time there's.
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Speaker 2: A And I'm just excited to see who ultimately gets
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Speaker 2: into it because a couple of years ago when they
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Speaker 2: did it against c Yeattle, I think right was when
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Speaker 2: Elton Jenkins got into it then ended up finding himself
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Speaker 2: playing the whole first half of the final preseason game
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Speaker 2: is a nice little punishment. We'll see if anybody finds
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Speaker 2: themselves in on on Friday night that wasn't planning on playing.
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Speaker 3: When you're talking about a game like football and guys
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Speaker 3: start seeing a different uniform finally, and one guy plays
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Speaker 3: harder than you think he should, and he's pushing harder
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Speaker 3: and you push back. It's hard to control the emotions
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Speaker 3: and the minds and bodies when they see you red
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Speaker 3: athletes like that.
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Speaker 1: You know, so you never know what will happen. We'll
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Speaker 1: never know, never know. Billy got to put a quarter
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Speaker 1: in you and ask what you thought about the presentation
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Speaker 1: last night of the Brewers and the Little League World
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Speaker 1: Series Classic against the Brave. Game didn't go their way
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Speaker 1: four to two loss, so they didn't sweep the series.
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Speaker 1: But what did you think of the the pomp and
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Speaker 1: circumstance and the ceremony and the majesty and the mystery
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Speaker 1: that was the Brewis trip to Williams Well.
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Speaker 2: I would say the social media department gets an A plus.
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Speaker 2: Like I thought, all the coverage online was phenomenal them
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Speaker 2: even getting off the plane.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it happened on Sunday morning.
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Speaker 2: Morning instead of on Saturday night, but made more sense
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Speaker 2: to enjoy the whole day, like the full runway of
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Speaker 2: the day. And you could tell that the guys genuinely
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Speaker 2: enjoyed it, and at some point you you hope that
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Speaker 2: you don't have to. But when guys have made millions
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Speaker 2: upon millions of dollars playing and they're in the midst
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Speaker 2: of the most important drive stretch, it's not like this
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Speaker 2: was the Rockies and A's right, like this is this
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Speaker 2: is an important game.
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Speaker 1: These are two extremely good.
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Speaker 2: Teams, division leaders that are trying to get themselves ready
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Speaker 2: for the playoffs in a month and a half. And
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Speaker 2: I don't know that everybody would go into it to
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Speaker 2: have as much fun and just let it be as
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Speaker 2: both teams seemingly did. It seemed like it was phenomenal,
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Speaker 2: from the interactions with the kids to Walt Weiss and
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Speaker 2: Murphy getting interviewed during the game where you got to
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Speaker 2: hear Murphy, baby get out, Okay, there we go, There
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Speaker 2: we go. So I thought it was I thought it
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Speaker 2: was a one. Now I will say I had accidentally
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Speaker 2: tapped in on the alumni cast a couple of times
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Speaker 2: back to the other I didn't watch that one. I
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Speaker 2: didn't realize that there were two broadcasts. I didn't know
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Speaker 2: it was. I didn't know that it was a college
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Speaker 2: football playoff game where we needed where we needed to broadcasts.
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Speaker 2: But I'm glad we did the Cool Room by ESPN
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Speaker 2: and it was way better because Carl Raviitsch was there
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Speaker 2: getting flowered.
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Speaker 1: That's right. The only thing missing from that show from
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Speaker 1: ESPN's you know, bloated corporate human centipede of promotion was
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Speaker 1: I thought he was going to sing the seventh sing
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Speaker 1: take Me out to the Ball exactly, especially from that region,
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Speaker 1: like kind of a West Virginia's Pittsburgh guy that would
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Speaker 1: have been. That would be way more sense. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that's so true. I didn't think about that. That's
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Speaker 1: the one thing I was surprised because I think moving forward,
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Speaker 1: anytime they have anything like this where there's a eyeballs
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Speaker 1: on ESPN and you're gonna see Mackett Well and the.
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Speaker 2: New one from Front Office Sports this past weekend, Marshans
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Speaker 2: was a part of that big sixty million dollars deal.
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Speaker 2: Is apparently every night that the Manning cast is not
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Speaker 2: going on, they're gonna do the on field cast. Now
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Speaker 2: that's also going to be a hell of a difference
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Speaker 2: with the NFL because they haven't never let anybody on
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Speaker 2: the sideline.
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Speaker 1: They doesn't have to be there. You and I get you, and.
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Speaker 2: I see it as much that if you do not
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Speaker 2: have the exact specific they are as minimalistic on the
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Speaker 2: sidelines as possible. Instead of six guys that are standing
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Speaker 2: right underneath the goalposts and maybe catching field goals, that'll
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Speaker 2: be a different different blend for the NFL.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty wild. That's like a full on Remember when
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Speaker 1: Syrah Goosa used to do it from the field.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and and Tony was just the best at it,
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Speaker 2: right because Moose and Goose and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: let's go down to Goose on the sideline and.
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Speaker 1: Get done here boy, fifteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: He's got like maybe the lightest raincoat on you possibly could.
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Speaker 1: It's a little wet, but it's gonna be okay. I love.
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Speaker 3: And it wasn't like a regular sideline. Wasn't even a
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Speaker 3: camera like they would just turn his mic on sometimes,
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Speaker 3: I guess getting just starting to freeze a little bit
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Speaker 3: down here, the wind swirling.
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks, let's go back upstairs.
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Speaker 2: Like the first edition of a GoPro camera that they
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Speaker 2: put on him before before that was over.
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Speaker 3: Well, you always have to push, you know, new limits
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Speaker 3: when it comes to broadcasting, and maybe this is the
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Speaker 3: next But that's an interesting observation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't think about.
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Speaker 2: That, but I did love I I really did appreciate
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Speaker 2: and enjoy Like even Chris Saale Crow barring out the
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Speaker 2: time right at the end to be like, hey, I
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Speaker 2: know we're trying to go to a break, Carl, Oh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're the Mitchell did it for them to be able
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Speaker 2: to do that and Carl Ravich have his moment and
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Speaker 2: for him to be lighthearted and have a joke about
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Speaker 2: it with the commissioner like, hey, can you pull some
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Speaker 2: strings and get me back here next year? It's pretty
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Speaker 2: while he's got to have some fun with it. It's
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Speaker 2: one of the most awkward situations in broadcast. I thought
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Speaker 2: he handled it perfectly. It was He's a class act.
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Speaker 2: Gotta say, right as his partner got twice what player
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Speaker 2: they were talking about?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, whoops?
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Speaker 2: Well how does Trevor how does Tyler Maley with Murphy
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Speaker 2: back behind the dish, how does that you know, calm
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Speaker 2: him down?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 2: Pat Murphy started at Arizona State and went all the
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Speaker 2: way through Notre Dame. And it's been really really long
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Speaker 2: time baseball man. That's how it works, all right, it's
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Speaker 2: two and one. I think Carl was just picking it
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Speaker 2: up for Perez last night all night long.
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Speaker 1: It was impressive stuff. That's what he does. It just
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Speaker 1: goes off. It just yes, all right. So one of
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Speaker 1: the things I want to ask you is a media thing.
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Speaker 1: There's no I. Media starts with me. We do a
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Speaker 1: lot of the navel gazing. That sale mismatchup was a
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Speaker 1: marquee game, but it was a three o'clock start on
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Speaker 1: a Friday in the good Land. And then like Kurt
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Speaker 1: Hogue tweeted the thing like miss asking like is this
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Speaker 1: is small media contingent?
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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Speaker 1: And Kurt said, and this is the default of any
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Speaker 1: you know, Brewers beat guy, because that's what I would
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Speaker 1: say too. Oh, the Packers are playing tonight. Mm hm.
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Speaker 1: Packers are playing in Denver and okay, Carly Mrauda is
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Speaker 1: there because they had the WTMJ the flag ship in
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Speaker 1: Milwaugae for Packers preseason. She had to be down there.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't so much the Packers as it was
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Speaker 1: high school football. Yeah, high school for hig school football
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Speaker 1: on Friday, and it's the first weekend. Everybody's got their
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Speaker 1: operation football and they're sending camera crews out to all
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Speaker 1: the games and stuff. And the game first game ended
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Speaker 1: at around six when they're on the sideline doing the
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Speaker 1: live shots and they're getting ready for that. I think
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Speaker 1: high school football dipped into the coverage more than the Packers. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: high school football.
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Speaker 2: And the start time right like if checked, no, it's
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Speaker 2: six o'clock news, get right up into the news. Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to be there so like and and
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Speaker 2: let's be honest, that's what they're talking about. Like because
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Speaker 2: Hunter was there and Gasping Hog and MC all the
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Speaker 2: normal writers and radio wasn't.
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Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of TV cameras.
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Speaker 2: Just didn't have the cameras because they were working. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent. I don't believe it was as much
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Speaker 2: of a Packers thing. It wasn't a Packers thing per se.
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Speaker 2: It was more, I think, more high school football and
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Speaker 2: the timing. And we also found that out because it
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Speaker 2: didn't sound like there were a ton of Packers writers.
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Speaker 1: Out at at the Bestive.
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Speaker 2: He's in Denver, when Matt Lafleur mentions it and goes,
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Speaker 2: all right, who's ready for a short press conference. I
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Speaker 2: think he looked up and saw Mike Spofford and said
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Speaker 2: all right, let's.
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Speaker 1: Have some fun. I think like spoff and spoon and
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Speaker 1: that's about it. I think it was those two.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, I mean, yeah, this is a bigger issue,
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Speaker 3: right that were like, yeah, Jordan Love and Lafleur is
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Speaker 3: their postgame pressers at Lambeau on a Sunday in October
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Speaker 3: can be fifteen seventeen minutes at least.
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Speaker 1: And following the trend uh in Denver it was three
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Speaker 1: minutes each.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was just the facts, man, the quickest,
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Speaker 2: the quickest in and out.
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Speaker 1: I'm bam wam, bam that it. That'll do it all right? Sweet?
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Speaker 2: And also, by the way, I'm not talking tomorrow because
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Speaker 2: we got that one lately. Yeah, So, like I do,
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Speaker 2: I I understand like you said, it's the default setting.
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Speaker 2: If this was the early two thousands, maybe it's a
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Speaker 2: different story. But it's the first week of high school football.
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Speaker 2: And it's also like the big games around the state
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Speaker 2: on Week one, big we you end up getting a
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Speaker 2: lot better of the matchups like ahead Marquette. You saw
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Speaker 2: the incredible game with Kingston Allen against Nina Notre Dame
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Speaker 2: and Nina, so like there.
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Speaker 1: Was a lot of that.
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Speaker 2: I also, I do like that they are still manufacturing Drew.
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Speaker 2: They've now they're trying to win the division for the
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Speaker 2: fourth time and the fourth straight year. You do got
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Speaker 2: to manufacture a little bit of little brother syndrome. Yeah right, sure, Okay,
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Speaker 2: we get it. The Packers are still number one. No
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Speaker 2: one really cares about us. That's fine, Like, let's get
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Speaker 2: a little bit more of that because the Murphy underdogism
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Speaker 2: is probably out the door now.
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Speaker 1: Kind of you can't I don't know that you can
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Speaker 1: really use that one games and you're you're playing on
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Speaker 1: the Sunday night stage there to find to be a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a pen well, and that's we had
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Speaker 1: someone say, what did sale get all the flowers for
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Speaker 1: being nice to Carl Ravage When Mitchell did the same
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Speaker 1: thing like armand said, you're looking to.
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Speaker 2: Be aggrieved to that, I don't know that I could
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Speaker 2: hear Mitchell's all I heard. All I heard was the wind.
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Speaker 2: I didn't hear much at all about what he was talking.
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Speaker 1: It was great that he was. He's really good media wized,
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Speaker 1: but he also is like, I'm playing a game here,
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Speaker 1: and he was showing up for every pitch and he's
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Speaker 1: like looking down at his card for positioning and stuff.
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Speaker 1: Hang out a second, all right, looking where you play?
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Speaker 1: He was he was not put it this way. He
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Speaker 1: was taking part in it, but wasn't distracted from the
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Speaker 1: main task that he had, which was being ready for
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Speaker 1: every I mentioned.
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Speaker 3: It's a little uncomfortable watching when you see the end
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Speaker 3: game interview in a game for a player that matters, Like,
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Speaker 3: but was it that had the Brewers had it? It
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Speaker 3: was an opening day I think for a first basement.
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Speaker 3: I'm blanking who it was now, but the Brewers had
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Speaker 3: a first basement that had to take the interview. I'm like,
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Speaker 3: it's hard to play first and talk like do an
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Speaker 3: interview because you're involved in every play.
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Speaker 1: It's a little uncomfortable.
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Speaker 3: Because you're like, I don't want this guy to get distracted.
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Speaker 1: And in All Star game, it's one thing.
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Speaker 3: Now yesterday it was a different type of game, But
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Speaker 3: for some reason, yesterday it seemed a little bit better.
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Speaker 3: I thought Garrett handled it really great. But you're right,
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Speaker 3: believe the Mike was crying to struggle into with the
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Speaker 3: wind that stuff. Is it really windy out there.
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Speaker 2: We're getting a lot of wind, and Garrett so sweetly,
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Speaker 2: just like you said, the nicest, best media trained guy
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Speaker 2: in the world, puts his hand up to his ear, like,
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Speaker 2: hold on, can I make it any better? His Mike
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Speaker 2: was on the shirt, so it really didn't help it all,
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Speaker 2: but just like, hold on, let me see, let me see.
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Speaker 2: I'll do whatever I can for the program. But by
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Speaker 2: the way, the pitch is coming so totally.
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Speaker 3: I mean Garrett, I mean, I remember he hits the
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Speaker 3: walk off two years ago in the playoffs and he's
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Speaker 3: fixing Sophia's XLR cable or something like that when the
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Speaker 3: mic wasn't working.
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Speaker 1: He's trying to plug it in. Right, I'm like, what
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Speaker 1: a guy. I just love that guy, you know, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: no doubt what other impressions you have, Billy, Like just
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Speaker 1: watching it and seeing like one of the things I
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Speaker 1: came around to is the miss as they showed this
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Speaker 1: social stuff. He's the pied piper, is an absolute star,
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Speaker 1: and we see him and we appreciate him, but like
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Speaker 1: it's it's like almost like, oh, you mean the nation's
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Speaker 1: taking a notice too when he country is watching too.
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Speaker 2: I think it was either Todd or Adam wrote that
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Speaker 2: they talked to an MLB official that had been there
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Speaker 2: for a couple of different times, like the only guy
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Speaker 2: that got this kind of pop from the little leaguers
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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge, And you start to think about it, that's no,
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Speaker 2: we haven't won multipot.
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Speaker 1: Vpes, haven't been in the league for a decade.
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Speaker 2: No, But but that startdom right now is as hot
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Speaker 2: and shining as bright, and there's just a relatability with
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Speaker 2: Miz that I think is a little different than other stars,
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Speaker 2: where he likes some of the stuff the kids, like
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Speaker 2: he's ripping Pokemon pass.
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Speaker 1: The honest like I'm getting to say, I got the
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Speaker 1: same vibes last year. It's like he's coming on. Watching
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Speaker 1: him is like watching Giannis when he was young, and
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Speaker 1: we're watching him emerge as this national star and sale
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Speaker 1: I thought hit it well where he's like.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the dude's obviously unreal, like that fastball is amazing,
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Speaker 2: but he's like if anybody's gonna have that talent and
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Speaker 2: have this type of I don't know exactly how he
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Speaker 2: phrased it, but he's like, he's the right one to
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Speaker 2: carry the mantle.
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Speaker 1: Of the g shucks, you know, of the guy.
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Speaker 2: That everybody's gonna love, the forest Gump, the one that
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Speaker 2: all the kids really want to be.
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Speaker 1: They picked the right guy to give the talent because well,
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Speaker 1: and Chris Sale, like look at his career and like
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Speaker 1: his popped on it and look at his resume never
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Speaker 1: really resonated like nationally, like it was a nice pitcher,
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Speaker 1: and you like him in your market when he's pitching
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Speaker 1: for you, But he didn't have the profile. That was
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Speaker 1: the most I had heard from Chris Sale.
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Speaker 2: The only other thing I knew about him was cutting
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Speaker 2: up the jersey and yeah, because he didn't like to.
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Speaker 3: Sleep, I was gonna say that's I mean, that's what
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Speaker 3: I remember about him, is like, so he's more of
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Speaker 3: a probably crusty guy based on that reputation.
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Speaker 2: Of just or he said, I'm the best player on
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Speaker 2: this team and our team's ass. So how about you
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Speaker 2: we do what I want to do. That's make it better.
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Speaker 2: Let's make it better here in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Literally, you've got to.
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Speaker 3: Be a special kind of guy to also have the
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Speaker 3: nuts to cut up jerseys pre game. I get your
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Speaker 3: point billy, but not everyone's. Yeah, a lot of guys
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Speaker 3: are a little more like I am, I gonna do that.
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Speaker 3: But but you're right, so I think what he's saying
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Speaker 3: is correct. It's like, it's one thing to have the talent,
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Speaker 3: but a guy like mis was gregarious, and he's got
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Speaker 3: the attitude of the kids and stuff, and he's got
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Speaker 3: that kind of.
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Speaker 1: Youthful whimsy about him right now as well.
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Speaker 3: Well, miss hap it in ten years, who knows how
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Speaker 3: things will change, I mean, but right now he's got it.
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Speaker 2: Oh he'll get a little jaded, Well, well he'll get
14:46
Speaker 2: he'll get a little jaded at something. But make no mistake,
14:51
Speaker 2: last night was cool to see the guys having fun,
14:54
Speaker 2: like Auna and Contreras is back and forth of when
14:57
Speaker 2: Ocuna stole second and then Contrera's back picks him over third,
15:00
Speaker 2: the staredowns, the celebrations.
15:02
Speaker 1: That was cool to see because you.
15:04
Speaker 2: You got to see it begin during the year with
15:06
Speaker 2: the Venezuelan team and then here crescendo before we get
15:10
Speaker 2: to the playoffs.
15:10
Speaker 1: And it matters too much to message. By the way,
15:12
Speaker 1: what if wild Billet connected and that ball had gone out, Yeah,
15:15
Speaker 1: that would have been amazing. That would have been storybook.
15:18
Speaker 1: It's off the bad.
15:18
Speaker 2: I thought there was no way it was being held
15:20
Speaker 2: into that park with no second deck.
15:23
Speaker 1: I thought those I thought the ball was gonna fly out.
15:25
Speaker 1: That cast did say it would have been a home
15:27
Speaker 1: run in seven big league parks, not American Family Field.
15:30
Speaker 3: It's just one of those things. Though you were in
15:32
Speaker 3: all these things, it reminds you that, like of all
15:35
Speaker 3: the things surrounding baseball, troubles bait business, the way pro
15:39
Speaker 3: sports has changed, it's still great to see these guys
15:42
Speaker 3: having fun and you see it organically.
15:44
Speaker 1: And they were doing it. They were enjoying the moment,
15:46
Speaker 1: and not every team would have embraced that. I believe
15:49
Speaker 1: baseball leans into it because what are what are you
15:51
Speaker 1: going to do in the NBA, like celebrate the AAU
15:54
Speaker 1: stuff in the summer, like it doesn't have they don't
15:56
Speaker 1: have that offer game at Rucker Park would be pretty sweet.
15:58
Speaker 1: The NFL, it would be.
16:00
Speaker 2: That would be like the only thing that you would do,
16:01
Speaker 2: but I don't know how you'd actually do it.
16:04
Speaker 3: Hockey's equivalent a bit at the Outdoor Classic. I would
16:07
Speaker 3: say a little bit.
16:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like where you get yeah and That's the
16:10
Speaker 1: funny thing too, is like we talk about it, uh,
16:13
Speaker 1: you know hockey, oh the kids and playing on the
16:15
Speaker 1: pond or playing in you know, flood in the backyard
16:17
Speaker 1: and stuff. Anybody really do that anymore? Because at the
16:19
Speaker 1: highest levels of these kids, a lot of them can
16:22
Speaker 1: can go from you know, mites to juniors and like
16:25
Speaker 1: and never play outside on the pond like they never
16:28
Speaker 1: have to there getting driven to practices and teams, charter
16:32
Speaker 1: family status exactly. Little convo.
16:35
Speaker 3: I remember when the Admirals did their game in Minnesota
16:37
Speaker 3: and it was super cold that day and it's a great.
16:39
Speaker 1: Memory and oh ye Aaronson, but there was a little
16:41
Speaker 1: convo during that time.
16:42
Speaker 3: It's like, how many of these kids are are just
16:44
Speaker 3: like you know, pond rats anymore that that grow up
16:47
Speaker 3: doing this? And it's like, if you're special, you get
16:49
Speaker 3: picked up early and you are traveling and the whole
16:52
Speaker 3: travel ball part of this is the underlying.
16:55
Speaker 2: Probably more likely are some of the admiral players having
16:58
Speaker 2: to flood the backyard for their five year olds. I
17:00
Speaker 2: like the ones of like, all right, the little kid
17:02
Speaker 2: wants to go play on the slab, and that's probably
17:03
Speaker 2: about it.
17:04
Speaker 1: Adamirals did that as a promo a couple of years ago.
17:06
Speaker 1: Remember they sent players to like backyard rinks and they're
17:10
Speaker 1: skating around like backyard rinks. There aren't that many of them.
17:12
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying no, and and Drew.
17:15
Speaker 2: It's also like they they couldn't play an NFL game
17:17
Speaker 2: at the sight of Friday night lights right like that.
17:20
Speaker 2: There's not there's not another way that you could do it.
17:22
Speaker 2: No baseball you can. And they've done a really really
17:25
Speaker 2: good job of the Field of Dreams one in this one.
17:27
Speaker 2: And I also, I mean Rob Manford takes a lot
17:29
Speaker 2: of arrows, some very well deserved the other ones that
17:33
Speaker 2: he doesn't deserve. Though, is they've done a really good
17:35
Speaker 2: job of selling the game and selling this part of
17:38
Speaker 2: the game.
17:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that.
17:39
Speaker 2: Uh.
17:40
Speaker 1: And for the record, it's not just because of my
17:41
Speaker 1: hatred of Field of Dreams, but the Little League World Series,
17:45
Speaker 1: the Hoopla is cooler to me than the Field of
17:47
Speaker 1: Dreams thing.
17:48
Speaker 2: Well because because the real kids are involvement of the kids, Yeah,
17:51
Speaker 2: they were not talking about the involvement. And I also
17:57
Speaker 2: there's there's a part of me and when I had
17:59
Speaker 2: asked about it, there looks like on one of those pictures,
18:02
Speaker 2: Jackson Curio's team might have gotten pretty far. I don't know,
18:04
Speaker 2: if you guys look through the rollers of youth pictures
18:07
Speaker 2: that they had Ja Jackson Curio had the Latin America one.
18:11
Speaker 1: They were they were swagged out. They had gotten pretty good.
18:14
Speaker 2: Shockingly, so he was on a good travel team. But
18:17
Speaker 2: to be able to also have the guys put themselves
18:20
Speaker 2: back in that same spot and then realized, like Jackson
18:22
Speaker 2: Curios could have been playing.
18:24
Speaker 1: In this a decade ago. That's the thing.
18:26
Speaker 2: Man ten years what ten years? He's only ten years
18:29
Speaker 2: older than these kids. It was a kid that's throwing
18:31
Speaker 2: seventy mile an hour gas from forty five feet away.
18:35
Speaker 1: And the birds were running all that stuff. And then
18:37
Speaker 1: they were asking guys and it's like, you know, Chris
18:39
Speaker 1: and Yeliza, the older guys, like hey, you remember your
18:41
Speaker 1: first home run like over the fence. And then he's like, nah,
18:44
Speaker 1: not really, I don't remember. Karen Mitchell, it was eight
18:47
Speaker 1: years old. It was a windy day. Yeah, And meanwhile
18:51
Speaker 1: I was just like, I don't know. I think it
18:52
Speaker 1: was I don't remember.
18:54
Speaker 2: Also in the pictures, the best part is my wife
18:56
Speaker 2: called it out, like you Look at Yelich's picture.
18:58
Speaker 1: It's clearly a picture. Sure of a photograph. Oh yeah,
19:01
Speaker 1: all the other ones are. All the other ones are.
19:05
Speaker 2: Oh dal Hall, it's picture day, Mom, bring your iPhone.
19:08
Speaker 2: All right, boom, there we go, We're all.
19:09
Speaker 3: I did love Angelvanna the same exact swing that he
19:11
Speaker 3: did when he was like eight years old. Yeah, that
19:13
Speaker 3: was pretty cool, and I thought like we had we
19:15
Speaker 3: got Sal back with the big club, just in time
19:17
Speaker 3: for the social media team, because Sal was the one really.
19:19
Speaker 1: Enjoying that like whole thing with the different pictures. He's
19:22
Speaker 1: gonna be back this week. Yeah, back, gonna add a
19:26
Speaker 1: little juice. We also got some news about Brandon Wood.
19:29
Speaker 1: If we'll talk about that as we move forward. That
19:32
Speaker 1: was like whoa, okay, but still gonna be like hitting
19:34
Speaker 1: an inside straight there. I rubbed my eyes. I'm like,
19:37
Speaker 1: wait a second, a minute, I'm not getting it. I
19:39
Speaker 1: jumped up out of my seat. That's getting surgery and
19:42
Speaker 1: could be gonna start throwing and could be ready by
19:45
Speaker 1: prepare yourself to be disappointed. Anybody who's thinking like Brandon
19:47
Speaker 1: is gonna like just turn them things real blue, real quick.
19:50
Speaker 1: Let's pump the let's pump the Brakes.
19:53
Speaker 3: Hey, I remember, I remember when Reggie Whites and he
19:55
Speaker 3: got healed in ninety five.
19:57
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, I keep dreaming that was Remember that miracle,
20:00
Speaker 1: that big thing God wanted to play. This is how
20:02
Speaker 1: I'm thinking. Okay, exactly, all right, when we come back,
20:05
Speaker 1: we've reached halftime of the Huddle. Dolph is gonna pop
20:08
Speaker 1: on in our halftime coruspondent Scott Dolphin. We got Wayne
20:11
Speaker 1: Larvy about an hour from right now. Billy's gonna be
20:14
Speaker 1: heading up in training Camp Live today, big practice today
20:17
Speaker 1: to get ready for the joint practice, and then that's it.
20:19
Speaker 1: You guys are done with training Camp Live for camp.
20:21
Speaker 2: It's crazy that we're this close and we only have
20:23
Speaker 2: still have more preseason game away, and we still have
20:25
Speaker 2: a it feels like a month until the opener.
20:28
Speaker 1: Actually it's okay. Yesterday I thought, okay, and three Sundays
20:30
Speaker 1: we'll have football.
20:31
Speaker 2: Right, that's it, Yes, three Sundays, Scott Hanson will be
20:34
Speaker 2: taking over your television.
20:35
Speaker 1: So we're close. Scott Dolphin is next year in the Huddle.
20:37
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20:41
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20:52
Speaker 4: Hello Dolph, Happy Monday. If there is such a thing. Yeah,
20:55
Speaker 4: I did notice more action on the freeway this morning.
20:58
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's that people are getting back
20:59
Speaker 4: to s now or what, but there is that. There
21:02
Speaker 4: were a lot of schools.
21:03
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of first day of school photos
21:05
Speaker 1: in my feed. Yeah.
21:07
Speaker 4: Now, I know a lot of the public systems in
21:09
Speaker 4: Wisconsin don't go back till September one, yep, but a
21:13
Speaker 4: lot of school districts are back this I have.
21:14
Speaker 1: Had schools, and yeah, a lot of districts back. High
21:16
Speaker 1: school football's fired up now.
21:18
Speaker 2: There's there's going to be like three or four games
21:20
Speaker 2: and before kids get into school that after Labor Day,
21:24
Speaker 2: crowd has had to take a step back because it's
21:26
Speaker 2: the latest Labor Day we possibly could have.
21:27
Speaker 1: It is It is crazy.
21:28
Speaker 4: They started high school football this past weekend right on
21:31
Speaker 4: the with the twenty something of August.
21:33
Speaker 2: That would be generally around the start time we'd always
21:35
Speaker 2: start have like our first game probably last week of August.
21:39
Speaker 1: It's a nine game high school schedule. There's ten. That's
21:43
Speaker 1: a good question. I think it makes sense because we
21:46
Speaker 1: get two in before September, right, and you want to
21:49
Speaker 1: be you know that means your championship games are going
21:51
Speaker 1: to be played. What the week before Thanksgiving?
21:54
Speaker 4: Is that what it normally is before their season starts
21:57
Speaker 4: the night before deer season.
21:58
Speaker 2: The night before the season. That's right, Like your season
22:00
Speaker 2: starts Saturday at dawn. Our last game will be Friday night,
22:05
Speaker 2: as the lights going on Friday at will be done.
22:08
Speaker 3: If you made varsity though football, and you had to
22:10
Speaker 3: play two games before school started, don't you get robbed
22:12
Speaker 3: of two days of walking around school with your jersey
22:15
Speaker 3: on and feel cool?
22:16
Speaker 1: Yes, you do that different game day, right.
22:18
Speaker 3: Wasn't that the biggest moment, right, Billy, when you finally
22:20
Speaker 3: got that varsity jersey?
22:22
Speaker 1: The walk around school or that or did you guys
22:24
Speaker 1: have to dress up?
22:25
Speaker 2: The most important exciting thing was actually playing in games that.
22:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're talking to a guy that if I
22:31
Speaker 3: made a team, I'm not playing, so I'm not used
22:34
Speaker 3: to playing. So my thoughts, I'm part of the team,
22:36
Speaker 3: and people now I can prove it. Yeah, and you
22:38
Speaker 3: know it was not just a rumor that I might
22:40
Speaker 3: be a part.
22:40
Speaker 1: Of the team.
22:41
Speaker 4: Army's talking about those pep rallies you had on game
22:43
Speaker 4: days in the gym.
22:44
Speaker 1: Maybe do they still do that? Maybe he won?
22:48
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe for homecoming, Yeah, maybe for homecoming they'll they'll
22:51
Speaker 2: rip one of those out.
22:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, are.
22:55
Speaker 2: The kids also aren't wearing their their letterman sweaters all
22:58
Speaker 2: throughout the week like Armen It of in the same
23:00
Speaker 2: vein of.
23:01
Speaker 3: All the little sweater to bed, I'm wearing that.
23:05
Speaker 1: Okay.
23:06
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like it's a big deal, Like you
23:09
Speaker 3: finally you grow up, You're like, I want to play
23:11
Speaker 3: for my high school team, and.
23:12
Speaker 1: You make Someone was selling on Facebook Marketplace. They were
23:15
Speaker 1: selling like a vintage Marquette High letterman's jacket that had
23:20
Speaker 1: on it and it said the letter though had said
23:23
Speaker 1: manager on the letter Perfect And I'm like, that's Armine,
23:27
Speaker 1: that's perfect high school for not putting that on my letter. Okay,
23:34
Speaker 1: would have killed it, all right, would have killed it.
23:36
Speaker 1: They did have the academic though. The academic academics a
23:39
Speaker 1: badge of honor though. That's a good thing. That was something.
23:43
Speaker 1: Remember all the wrestling guys always had their medals all
23:45
Speaker 1: over to ye, I was gonna say.
23:48
Speaker 2: It was that in like field, not not even necessarily track,
23:52
Speaker 2: but if you were if you were throwing, you were
23:53
Speaker 2: doing three different events, you had that thing layered up.
23:55
Speaker 1: I had medals on my letterman's jacket.
23:59
Speaker 4: We got them for uh like winning district championships or
24:02
Speaker 4: going to the state tournament and whatever sport.
24:04
Speaker 1: You just little medals.
24:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you sold them on your major letter sure,
24:08
Speaker 4: and then on the back we had our patches for
24:10
Speaker 4: our conference championship.
24:11
Speaker 1: I still have my jacket. Not everyone won championships that much. Well,
24:16
Speaker 1: everybody was as good as Dolf was. Sorry, we're pretty
24:19
Speaker 1: damn good.
24:19
Speaker 3: All my state championships were on my front. The wrestlers
24:23
Speaker 3: had pins. I remember that. The wrestlers had it for
24:25
Speaker 3: every time they got a pin.
24:26
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah right, So, Dolf, one of the
24:29
Speaker 1: things I love to do is I just, you know,
24:30
Speaker 1: consider my opinions and call myself out of my own hypocrisy.
24:34
Speaker 1: ESPN's coverage of the Little League World Series have been
24:36
Speaker 1: very critical of it because it's cheap programming, and they
24:38
Speaker 1: exploit the kids on the road to Williamsport when you
24:41
Speaker 1: get to Williamsport. And last night was really cool the
24:43
Speaker 1: way they melded the Little League World Series. They paid
24:45
Speaker 1: it off and had the Brewers in it. Now, granted,
24:48
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have watched a lot if it had
24:50
Speaker 1: been you know, National's Royals. Yeah, but I was watching.
24:53
Speaker 1: I was dialed in because it was Brewers Braves and
24:55
Speaker 1: we had Brewis braids here leading into it. And then
24:58
Speaker 1: my hypocrisy comes from the fact that I think they
25:00
Speaker 1: exploit those kids, and I don't like that they show
25:02
Speaker 1: every you know, step of the way. But that aside.
25:06
Speaker 1: Another thing that I'm a hypocrite about is I've always
25:08
Speaker 1: said that the dumbest thing in youth sports is the
25:10
Speaker 1: fake paddy Cake handshake. But I liked it when the
25:13
Speaker 1: big league guys did it last night. It works out
25:15
Speaker 1: game game. It's such a trite, stupid thing for the
25:19
Speaker 1: youth sports. But I thought it was the ceremony with
25:23
Speaker 1: those guys, Yes, no doubt about it, it did. I
25:25
Speaker 1: enjoyed it.
25:25
Speaker 4: I like the you know, the the All Star esque
25:29
Speaker 4: talking to Garrett Mitchell while he's playing center field even
25:31
Speaker 4: though he was locked in.
25:32
Speaker 1: He goes, oh, hang on a second, hang on in
25:34
Speaker 1: between plays.
25:35
Speaker 4: H I love the the flashbacks to the Brewers, you know,
25:39
Speaker 4: youth pictures.
25:41
Speaker 1: Ye, who did you see who was.
25:43
Speaker 4: It that was wearing a Timber Rattlers jersey that David Hamilton,
25:47
Speaker 4: David Alison grew up in Texas.
25:48
Speaker 1: He's wearing a Timber Rattlers jersey.
25:51
Speaker 2: I hadn't I had to do like eight double takes.
25:53
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a second, is this a Halloween costume
25:56
Speaker 2: that my man got or is that just how good
25:58
Speaker 2: and how big they do it in the state of
25:59
Speaker 2: time they just find all the funniest minor league team.
26:02
Speaker 4: Maybe those are the clubs you get, you know, and
26:04
Speaker 4: then talking to the dudes about their little you know,
26:06
Speaker 4: their memories that they had and how far they got
26:08
Speaker 4: and they're still hanging on to that stuff. Man, Kyle Harrison,
26:12
Speaker 4: I was eight years old, you know, and uh, you
26:14
Speaker 4: know we did we got beat in the whatever the
26:16
Speaker 4: region it Oh yeah still bugs him to this day.
26:19
Speaker 2: And then the Indo bullpen. He's still thinking, I'm carrying
26:21
Speaker 2: up that kid shining more tag me for a two
26:25
Speaker 2: run double and nine.
26:26
Speaker 1: You right there. He remembers those stories. It's amazing how
26:29
Speaker 1: that works.
26:30
Speaker 2: I also did appreciate the the home runs. It's like
26:32
Speaker 2: I was eight years old. I was nine years old
26:35
Speaker 2: South like I think I was a junior in high school.
26:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little guy. He was a little guy. Yeah.
26:41
Speaker 4: Although in Little League you count everything as a home run, right,
26:44
Speaker 4: even if it goes through the shortstops leg and gets
26:46
Speaker 4: past the thinner fielder, you're gonna count that hard shure, Yeah.
26:49
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. That's why you have to specify the
26:51
Speaker 2: over the fence home run.
26:52
Speaker 1: Garrett.
26:53
Speaker 2: We know how speedy where you're probably in t ball
26:55
Speaker 2: getting getting four baggers. Let's figure out how we, you know,
26:58
Speaker 2: delineate the well.
26:59
Speaker 3: We start to literally gone about you guys. Not every
27:01
Speaker 3: place head fences. I mean we played a lot of
27:03
Speaker 3: places offenses. It was eventually Conkle Park open, Yeah, offences,
27:07
Speaker 3: but no one was touching that.
27:09
Speaker 1: We didn't have fences either, Army, when I played little
27:11
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It's like, you're not gonna get
27:12
Speaker 1: over the fence home run.
27:14
Speaker 2: That would be the scary part though, when you were
27:16
Speaker 2: playing softball, especially when you were the fat and they
27:18
Speaker 2: put you out in the outfield because they'll kids.
27:20
Speaker 1: Knocking me be agile enough to be able to get
27:24
Speaker 1: son of a gun with no fence.
27:25
Speaker 2: And you're walking out to the Eppier League Softball field
27:27
Speaker 2: like it's gonna be a long day and a lot
27:30
Speaker 2: of areo because I know exactly where they're picking this spot.
27:33
Speaker 2: I know exactly who they're targeting and trying to line
27:35
Speaker 2: up in that.
27:37
Speaker 1: That's funny.
27:39
Speaker 4: So you saw them like shifting to hit to where
27:42
Speaker 4: you were in right field, Billy.
27:43
Speaker 2: They would be it would almost be like a running start.
27:46
Speaker 2: Let's see how let's see how much I can turn
27:48
Speaker 2: my body in this batter's box to see if I
27:50
Speaker 2: can dart one right at this fat.
27:52
Speaker 4: And then you surprised them to show them how swift
27:55
Speaker 4: a foot you were.
27:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then drop one fly ball and then it
27:57
Speaker 2: was just game on. I mean I did end up
28:00
Speaker 2: getting out of the inning, but it was it was
28:01
Speaker 2: a dicey night for for your point, especially when I
28:04
Speaker 2: realized beer league softball meant you drink.
28:06
Speaker 1: After that, it was like during that's my first no,
28:08
Speaker 1: that was my first game.
28:09
Speaker 2: I thought you, me and my buddy were just pre
28:11
Speaker 2: gaming in the parking lot came out. You know, we
28:13
Speaker 2: do this after the game. Okay, sure, Julie noted immediately
28:18
Speaker 2: we did that. People would drink pregame.
28:21
Speaker 1: Duly noted that media League was a farce. It was
28:25
Speaker 1: because everybody brought everybody brought this this sigarn. We had
28:30
Speaker 1: a team.
28:31
Speaker 4: We weren't iHeart then, but we had a team, and
28:33
Speaker 4: I swore to god we had like four people that
28:34
Speaker 4: worked here on that team.
28:36
Speaker 3: I know it was talking about and then like the
28:38
Speaker 3: quote unquote the Bucks media and then all these other
28:40
Speaker 3: teams that had.
28:41
Speaker 1: Like drapping, you know, interns, air quotes, interns. We were
28:45
Speaker 1: there to get together and have fun, you know. Yeah,
28:47
Speaker 1: all right, So Doff, I know you were at the
28:49
Speaker 1: Brewers game on Friday. What was that atmosphere?
28:51
Speaker 3: Like?
28:51
Speaker 1: The game was incredible. It was electric.
28:53
Speaker 4: Uh tailgating got a little dicey with those nasty thunderstorms
28:57
Speaker 4: rolling through. We fortunately stayed in the lot and we're
29:00
Speaker 4: under a tree for a while until it started lightning.
29:02
Speaker 4: Then we just got in the car. It was car wash,
29:04
Speaker 4: rain and thunder and lightning. And I felt so bad
29:06
Speaker 4: because there was a section of probably a thousand or
29:09
Speaker 4: so people going across that footbridge towards center field and
29:12
Speaker 4: it just car it just opened up. It was a
29:14
Speaker 4: deluge of water. Those people got soaked. But once we
29:17
Speaker 4: were inside it was it was great an atmosphere. I
29:20
Speaker 4: thought we're I thought it might be slipping away there.
29:23
Speaker 4: Uh late got a little dicey, yeah, but they got
29:25
Speaker 4: it done. Yeah, it was fun. It was a fun
29:27
Speaker 4: thing to be a part of seeing that pitching matchup.
29:29
Speaker 1: Especially.
29:29
Speaker 2: Did you laugh at all though as you watched the
29:31
Speaker 2: folks walking across the bridge just getting thoust was the
29:34
Speaker 2: little part of you that was like, all right, I
29:35
Speaker 2: know I could get bad for them, but I am
29:36
Speaker 2: going to have to chuckle here.
29:38
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, I mean, how could you not enjoy
29:40
Speaker 1: a little bit physical swimming, physical comedy.
29:44
Speaker 4: Something to be said about being kicked into every game
29:46
Speaker 4: by the fine police officers and orange shirts on bicycles
29:51
Speaker 4: out in the parking lot.
29:52
Speaker 1: That was a hell of an adjustment for me.
29:54
Speaker 2: When all of a sudden it was in the third
29:55
Speaker 2: ending that hey, you guys got to go where you
29:56
Speaker 2: gotta get out?
29:57
Speaker 1: Wait? What do you mean? Yeah, I know, a beautiful day.
29:59
Speaker 1: What do you talk looking about?
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Speaker 2: Or the ones after the game because for a long
30:02
Speaker 2: time that was here. That was when the tailgating happened
30:05
Speaker 2: for my family, when my dad would be working right
30:07
Speaker 2: up until game time. Basically, so we now we'll pack
30:09
Speaker 2: the Bronzewell sitting out after and let the traffic clear out.
30:12
Speaker 2: Let's get out of here, folks.
30:14
Speaker 4: And they're they're they're pretty lenient until traffic is flowing
30:17
Speaker 4: really well, and then they'll they'll start coming down, you know,
30:19
Speaker 4: and then you almost hear that then then and then
30:21
Speaker 4: and then then at.
30:22
Speaker 1: The three bikes start rolling kicking you out. Yeah, all right,
30:27
Speaker 1: sof I have to ask, because we were ensconsin packers
30:30
Speaker 1: of Broncos and Wayne Larvy joins us in about an
30:32
Speaker 1: hour to talk about that and what lies ahead here
30:35
Speaker 1: at the end of camp. How are your Bears doing?
30:37
Speaker 1: Because I heard that they couldn't stop Josh Johnson.
30:41
Speaker 4: That's true forty forty on his first game was in
30:44
Speaker 4: like two thousand and seven. Uh, and he was he
30:47
Speaker 4: was the man against the Bears the other night.
30:50
Speaker 1: Uh. I didn't see a minute of that game.
30:52
Speaker 4: I guess the first team offense, Caleb rolled them down
30:55
Speaker 4: the field and then uh they had a p I
30:59
Speaker 4: that put them out of a touchdown race, so they
31:01
Speaker 4: got a field goal and I think that was it
31:03
Speaker 4: for them. The defense struggled though against Cincinnati against their
31:07
Speaker 4: first team, but that's what you look at, right, starters
31:10
Speaker 4: and starters.
31:11
Speaker 2: And it's I mean, it's the oldest quarterback room in
31:13
Speaker 2: the league in Cincinnati with Joe Flacco and Josh Johnson,
31:16
Speaker 2: I'm battling it out.
31:18
Speaker 1: Is not a spring chicken anymore either.
31:21
Speaker 2: Closing in on thirty and I mean Sean Clifford, you
31:23
Speaker 2: still think of a young player. He's been in the
31:24
Speaker 2: league for a while now, he's twenty eight. He was
31:26
Speaker 2: one of the older college guys. Yeah, in football, so
31:29
Speaker 2: it is a it is a thick one in terms
31:31
Speaker 2: of age for those guys, but that's rare.
31:33
Speaker 1: Play your starters when you had the joint practice before.
31:36
Speaker 1: But he Ben Johnson said they didn't get enough run,
31:38
Speaker 1: they didn't get enough of a sweat, so they had
31:40
Speaker 1: to play well.
31:42
Speaker 3: He has the cash checks because he said they're going
31:44
Speaker 3: to be the highest scoring offense since the thirteen Broncos.
31:48
Speaker 3: They want shutouts in thirty seven was he supposed to
31:50
Speaker 3: do now? He has to make sure his team's are
31:52
Speaker 3: on all cylinders, right, golf.
31:54
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what he said. That's your guys. So yeah,
31:57
Speaker 1: time I can't he fails. They're going to be a
31:59
Speaker 1: good off fence arm and they're gonna be good. They're
32:01
Speaker 1: gonna be fine.
32:01
Speaker 4: The defense is what worries me right now because they
32:03
Speaker 4: lost so much personnel and then of course you have injuries.
32:06
Speaker 3: But well, maybe he'll sleep in the office this week
32:08
Speaker 3: until everybody Maybe I would assume that was it for Caleb.
32:11
Speaker 4: He didn't play at all in the first game, and
32:12
Speaker 4: I would assume that series was probably it for him.
32:15
Speaker 3: That's probably Josh Johnson credit though he's one of the
32:18
Speaker 3: rare guys. If you looking at a spot track page,
32:20
Speaker 3: he made less money in his career than years he played.
32:22
Speaker 1: That's not easy in the NFL to do.
32:24
Speaker 3: He played seventeen years and his career earnings are thirteen
32:27
Speaker 3: point four.
32:28
Speaker 1: But think about that.
32:29
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't think he's ever had a multi
32:31
Speaker 2: year contract. He's never He's made the minimum every year,
32:33
Speaker 2: every year, and that's what. Jeez, he had a spin
32:37
Speaker 2: on the guy's grave.
32:39
Speaker 1: I respect it. It's a true grinder. But that's amazing. Well,
32:42
Speaker 1: get excited. He's a little bit. We get excited about
32:44
Speaker 1: stories about guys like that. Though.
32:45
Speaker 4: I remember the year we went down to Arrowhead to
32:47
Speaker 4: see the Packers play Kansas City shortly before COVID and
32:51
Speaker 4: who was there.
32:52
Speaker 1: Mahomes was hurt that night, so they.
32:53
Speaker 4: Fucked out more Bet Moore, a high school gym coach
32:57
Speaker 4: who they had signed earlier in the week.
32:58
Speaker 1: And you get excited about story like that the Packers
33:01
Speaker 1: three or four years ago. He almost beat him that night.
33:03
Speaker 1: That was like a four game. What says NFL preseason
33:07
Speaker 1: more than paying full price to see case keenumgans. I know.
33:14
Speaker 2: When you see Miller Moss taking reps when you that's
33:16
Speaker 2: when you know you're stumbled into the UFL game.
33:18
Speaker 4: It's like a season ticket holders freaking. It's a crime
33:22
Speaker 4: to them that they have to pay for these tickets.
33:24
Speaker 2: Well, in the two and a half minute diatribe that
33:26
Speaker 2: uh Rogers went into, when Mike Clemons asked him about
33:29
Speaker 2: how would you fix preseason?
33:30
Speaker 1: The first thing he said, how about you lower the prices?
33:32
Speaker 1: What do we do this?
33:35
Speaker 4: I have a friend who donates his he's a Bear season,
33:38
Speaker 4: he donates him to Bears charities.
33:40
Speaker 1: He just gets rid of this. That's cool. Doesn't go
33:42
Speaker 1: to any preseason game. Good for him.
33:43
Speaker 2: That is the That is the right way of going
33:45
Speaker 2: about it though too, because then you know that the
33:47
Speaker 2: ghost families are going to be finding them. And for
33:50
Speaker 2: the thing is, for the pageantry of it, it is
33:52
Speaker 2: still football right Like it's it's like if you're going
33:55
Speaker 2: to the Eastern Michigan game against Wisconsin, it's still going
33:59
Speaker 2: to be college football.
34:00
Speaker 1: You're gonna get everything in there. I don't think different.
34:03
Speaker 1: But you get to go to a game. If you
34:06
Speaker 1: try to sell them though, you can't even get face value,
34:09
Speaker 1: So then what's the point You're You're at a loss anyway.
34:11
Speaker 4: So what you just said, Billy is it's so true
34:13
Speaker 4: for for people that have never been to Lambeofield, they've
34:15
Speaker 4: been Packer fans their whole life. You still get the
34:17
Speaker 4: pageantry of going to a Packer game, maybe under the
34:20
Speaker 4: lights and you know, and seeing the team come out
34:22
Speaker 4: with the shiny helmets on, and that's like.
34:24
Speaker 2: Under the lights, they still introduced starters, they do, they
34:27
Speaker 2: do all the fire and everything that you possibly could have.
34:29
Speaker 2: Our friend Dasius Smith Jenkins is always going to be
34:31
Speaker 2: a midch season form. So it's still a good time.
34:33
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, they in college basketball.
34:35
Speaker 3: They don't do this anymore, but they had those traveling
34:37
Speaker 3: teams that were like kind of barnstorming teams that were
34:40
Speaker 3: like prosh.
34:40
Speaker 1: Yet Marathon Oil right, Or when I was.
34:42
Speaker 3: In Marquette the first time I was ever the student
34:45
Speaker 3: section was against Team EA Sports and it was exciting.
34:48
Speaker 3: It was still we did all the chance and we
34:50
Speaker 3: did all the introduction stuff. To your point, Billy, it
34:52
Speaker 3: was still the same.
34:53
Speaker 4: So you're probably not old enough to remember, but Drew
34:55
Speaker 4: as I know, when your favorite college team would play
34:57
Speaker 4: like the Soviet national team.
34:58
Speaker 3: The Bucks played them and likeies didn't they probably get
35:02
Speaker 3: some event.
35:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Mecca I remember when I I uh, it
35:06
Speaker 4: was almost still you know, h it was. It was
35:09
Speaker 4: a tragedy for me in my youth when the Globe
35:11
Speaker 4: Trotters were like one hundred and ninety eight No, and
35:13
Speaker 4: then they went to Michigan State and got absolutely curb
35:17
Speaker 4: stopped by MS.
35:20
Speaker 1: They started trying to play games for real. That was
35:22
Speaker 1: a bad idea, bad idea.
35:23
Speaker 4: That would be like the Savannah banana is going in
35:25
Speaker 4: and taking on the taking Brewers.
35:28
Speaker 1: Not a good luck, a goodnough Dolph thank you for
35:30
Speaker 1: dropping in. Appreciate it. As always when we come back,
35:32
Speaker 1: I have a little Who's Hot Who's Not? Brought to
35:34
Speaker 1: us by Donovan Jorgenson. Heating and Cooling Billy is with
35:37
Speaker 1: us for a bit, then he's head in Green Bay.
35:39
Speaker 1: Voice of the Packers, Wayne Larvy joins us at seven
35:41
Speaker 1: twenty five. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew,
35:45
Speaker 1: Billy and arm and bring it to you the huddle,
35:47
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Thanks to dol for dropping in.
35:50
Speaker 1: We'll have Wayne Levy at seven twenty five right now. However,
35:53
Speaker 1: time for a little Who's Hot Who's not? Brought to
35:55
Speaker 1: us by Donovan Jorgensen. You're Heating and Cooling Experts employee
35:58
Speaker 1: owned for forty years, Donovan Jorgenson. Billy, who you got
36:01
Speaker 1: for who's hot Who's not?
36:02
Speaker 2: One in the not category will be Deshaun Watson as
36:07
Speaker 2: he sued it up and.
36:08
Speaker 1: Played for the Cleveland Browns this weekend.
36:11
Speaker 2: In a thirty one to seven victory for the Buffalo
36:14
Speaker 2: Bills in Cleveland, Shaduur Sanders to a touchdown and his
36:18
Speaker 2: final chance to make the club and maybe win the
36:21
Speaker 2: starting job, but Deshaun Watson didn't fare as good as
36:24
Speaker 2: the nine for eleven seventy four yards and.
36:26
Speaker 1: A touchdown and an interception for Shirdr Sanders.
36:28
Speaker 2: Instead, it was a quarterback rating of fourteen for Deshaun
36:33
Speaker 2: Watson five of twelve for thirty six yards and a pick,
36:36
Speaker 2: an average of three yards per pass. But that was
36:40
Speaker 2: not where he drew the most criticism. That was in
36:43
Speaker 2: the postgame press conference when he spoke of the booze
36:46
Speaker 2: that came his way during the game. He said, quote,
36:51
Speaker 2: it's a disrespectful thing from fans and both of the
36:53
Speaker 2: same fan base that bowed me in the last time
36:55
Speaker 2: I was on that field, I tore my achilles.
36:58
Speaker 1: It's nothing about performance at all. It's a personal thing.
37:01
Speaker 2: Well, DeShawn, I got to say, at least your self
37:04
Speaker 2: awareness appears to be better than the play on the field.
37:07
Speaker 2: Understanding that it's not only the performance at they're upset, No,
37:09
Speaker 2: it's a you thing.
37:10
Speaker 1: This is where he had to give them pause. He
37:12
Speaker 1: can't get out of his own way, man, like they
37:14
Speaker 1: were gonna give him the starting job. He's going to start.
37:17
Speaker 1: It's been coming out of the shoot. He's been getting
37:18
Speaker 1: the first reps he's been getting starting these preseason games.
37:22
Speaker 1: And then he does that and it's like, oh, all right,
37:25
Speaker 1: where so they're they're at a crossroads now. It's like
37:27
Speaker 1: they want to start him over Shadure. But he said
37:30
Speaker 1: that and like he's gonna get booed anytime there's a
37:33
Speaker 1: bad play, he's gonna get booed at home. You want
37:36
Speaker 1: to sign up.
37:36
Speaker 2: For that, Drew like you you had All you had
37:39
Speaker 2: to do was make it to the regular season and
37:41
Speaker 2: give yourself a chance, because, like you said, the money's spent,
37:43
Speaker 2: Like why with the sun cost Cleveland wants to play
37:46
Speaker 2: him because you might as well, Like there's no there's
37:48
Speaker 2: no reason.
37:48
Speaker 1: To guarantee a shot.
37:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, And now I don't know how you do after that,
37:52
Speaker 2: Like that is that's one of the dumbest things you
37:54
Speaker 2: possibly could say. However, for a human being that's lived
37:58
Speaker 2: on a lot of dumb things, Deshaun Watson will be
37:59
Speaker 2: right there in the middle of it. Also, we have
38:01
Speaker 2: a historic twist. I don't know where this goes in
38:03
Speaker 2: hot or not category. We're going to have the first
38:06
Speaker 2: NFL player former NFL player playing college football this year.
38:10
Speaker 1: It will be a hot day for LSU.
38:13
Speaker 2: As Daikwan Wright was waived by the Browns yesterday and
38:17
Speaker 2: has an agreement per agent Drew Rosenhaus and Kyle Lincoln,
38:21
Speaker 2: as they told Adam Schefter on Sunday that once he
38:24
Speaker 2: clears waivers, he will play in twenty twenty six for
38:28
Speaker 2: Louisiana State University. Believe to be the first player to
38:31
Speaker 2: ever have a signed agreement to play in the NFL
38:34
Speaker 2: then to return to college. He signed with the Eagles
38:37
Speaker 2: after the draft was claimed on waivers by the Browns
38:39
Speaker 2: on August eleventh. Now, I don't fault him at all.
38:43
Speaker 2: He's going to go make some money. Dakwan Wright's probably
38:45
Speaker 2: hot in this case because he was going to be
38:47
Speaker 2: cut in a week now in the NFL and be
38:50
Speaker 2: looking for a job. Instead, He's probably going to make
38:52
Speaker 2: close to seven figures to go play college football and
38:55
Speaker 2: gets playing the SEC and then maybe improve his draft stock.
38:57
Speaker 3: I give him a lot of credit though. On I
38:59
Speaker 3: think it's that he's going back to pursue education like this.
39:03
Speaker 1: I mean the fact you want to get your degree.
39:04
Speaker 3: He wants to go back to for the pursuit of education,
39:07
Speaker 3: and it's not always about, you know, the money and all.
39:09
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool to see that he wants to go
39:10
Speaker 3: back to school, obviously because he wants to go back
39:12
Speaker 3: to class.
39:14
Speaker 2: Drew Rosenhaus was on McAfee last week and said, I
39:17
Speaker 2: did not tell the Kwan to do It's actually I
39:20
Speaker 2: had urged him to maybe do the opposite.
39:22
Speaker 1: But I work for the Kwan, So if he wants
39:24
Speaker 1: to do it, that's where I go.
39:27
Speaker 2: Interesting that it turns the other way for the agent
39:30
Speaker 2: when you know there's gonna be.
39:31
Speaker 1: More money of all day, I work for him. It's
39:33
Speaker 1: not my not my decision.
39:35
Speaker 2: I'm not the one that told him to go do it,
39:37
Speaker 2: but I will take my three percent.
39:39
Speaker 1: Should we just go ahead and name Carl Ravich as
39:41
Speaker 1: our superhero to day for we can call Current dot
39:43
Speaker 1: Com perfect? Yes, Carl class act. It was on his
39:47
Speaker 1: way out.
39:48
Speaker 2: That was as good as it possibly could have been
39:50
Speaker 2: for him on his way out. And to take the
39:52
Speaker 2: little joke and the stab at your old bosses. When
39:55
Speaker 2: Manfred was on there, he plenty strings get me back.
39:57
Speaker 2: I thought that was my favorite. Carl Rabbits, he gave
40:00
Speaker 2: all Time Chef's kiss. Yeah, so he's our call Current
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Speaker 2: dot Com. The superheroes on the side of the Van
40:05
Speaker 2: and their superheroes for current Electric with he deserves it,
40:10
Speaker 2: If he deserves it, Dude thirty plus years and a
40:12
Speaker 2: soundtrack of Baseball for a large segment of our listening.
40:16
Speaker 1: Audus flowers from Chris Sale and Garrett Mitchell.
40:19
Speaker 2: And he deserved all of them. He deserved absolutely all
40:21
Speaker 2: of them. And he deserves to be calling games somewhere,
40:23
Speaker 2: so somebody pick him up.
40:24
Speaker 1: And he had to carry Eduardo Perez just saying, all right,
40:28
Speaker 1: Billy's off to coract this. We'll have Wayne Larry coming
40:30
Speaker 1: up at seven twenty five. You're in the huddle. Fox
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