Latest / The Huddle / 09/10/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Plenty of room for you.
- 0:01Speaker 2: Welcome in, Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, chopping it
- 0:04Speaker 2: up on a glorious post-Labor Day, one of the better
- 0:09Speaker 2: weeks in sports. We had a US Open match for
- 0:12Speaker 2: the ages. The NFL kicked off last night with a
- 0:14Speaker 2: lackluster game between the Super Bowl teams reunion. We had
- 0:19Speaker 2: the Brewers take care of the Cubs at American Family Field.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Some games thrilling, some games more thrilling than they needed
- 0:26Speaker 1: to be. Brewers sweep. They win five of seven.
- 0:30Speaker 2: In the seven game series over 10 days against the Cubs.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Well earned a day off at home for the Brewers
- 0:38Speaker 2: as they gas up the tank for the final push
- 0:41Speaker 2: to wrap up the division and hopefully the number one
- 0:44Speaker 2: seed in the National League.
- 0:45Speaker 3: A decisive victory in those seven games, Drew. And they
- 0:49Speaker 3: do it by not getting the best performance from some
- 0:52Speaker 3: of their best dudes, right? Like Mizorowski gives up the
- 0:55Speaker 3: most runs he did all year at Wrigley.
- 0:58Speaker 1: They end up winning that game. He gets tagged for now.
- 1:01Speaker 3: It ends up only being one run, but 25 pitches
- 1:03Speaker 3: in the first inning that he throws on Tuesday night
- 1:07Speaker 3: ends up being sublime. The rest of the night, Logan Henderson,
- 1:10Speaker 3: kind of a short start last night. He ended up
- 1:11Speaker 3: still being pretty good and keeps his run of 23.
- 1:15Speaker 3: I think now career starts without giving up more than
- 1:17Speaker 3: three runs consistently, but I mean, they had hard contact
- 1:22Speaker 3: against McGill last night. You had to bring in a
- 1:24Speaker 3: rebate in a weird spot and he ends up, They
- 1:27Speaker 3: score runs on three straight at-bats. Like, not a perfectly
- 1:31Speaker 3: played run, but one where you use all 26 guys
- 1:34Speaker 3: and you get those dubs. That's going to be a
- 1:35Speaker 3: hard one for them to be able to swallow.
- 1:36Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's what you want to do. It's
- 1:39Speaker 4: a reminder the Cubs lineup is deadly, and it's never
- 1:41Speaker 4: going to be an easy trip through that group. I mean,
- 1:43Speaker 4: they have a lot of good hitters, obviously. They have
- 1:45Speaker 4: depth there. They have guys that can threaten you. And
- 1:48Speaker 4: to your point, Billy, it wasn't in smooth sailing, but
- 1:51Speaker 4: it never always is, right? I think we're accustomed to...
- 1:54Speaker 4: Never always because what the Brewers have done this year,
- 1:58Speaker 4: the last few years, we are, you know, we're getting
- 2:01Speaker 4: used to it being a very comfortable existence. And when
- 2:05Speaker 4: winning games every day comfortably, and that's just not how
- 2:08Speaker 4: it always is. Your best guys will give up runs.
- 2:10Speaker 4: No one's infallible, but you come out on the best
- 2:13Speaker 4: side of it. You're looking at 91 wins on September 10th.
- 2:15Speaker 4: It's a truly remarkable feat. It's been a great summer,
- 2:18Speaker 4: a great season. And, and it's going to continue hopefully
- 2:21Speaker 4: now deep into October. It's amazing to still sit back
- 2:24Speaker 4: and think the Brewers were what was the future on
- 2:26Speaker 4: this team, 82 and a half or 84 and a half,
- 2:29Speaker 4: whatever it was. And they've blown past that. So what
- 2:33Speaker 4: a great what a great week, you know, a sweep
- 2:35Speaker 4: against the Cubs around these parts with all the games
- 2:39Speaker 4: being kind of epic thrillers. And are you know, this
- 2:42Speaker 4: team gives us a lot of things. But the ability
- 2:44Speaker 4: to trash talk Cubs fans is the gift that our
- 2:46Speaker 4: Milwaukee Brewers gives us. So we really appreciate that. And
- 2:49Speaker 4: keeps on giving.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
- 2:51Speaker 4: And more Brie Delio videos. You guys got to stop
- 2:53Speaker 4: clicking on those.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
- 2:54Speaker 4: You guys got to knock it off. That's what she wants.
- 2:55Speaker 1: All right.
- 2:56Speaker 3: All right.
- 2:56Speaker 2: We need a phrase that pays for tonight at Pot
- 2:58Speaker 2: of Water. I mean, it has to do something with
- 3:00Speaker 2: Armin and the Illinois fans.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Oh, okay. What should we do? Fib around and find out. Oh,
- 3:06Speaker 1: I like that. That's pretty good. That's pretty good, Billy.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Top of mind. That's pretty good. Because Armin is not
- 3:13Speaker 1: afraid of the smoke.
- 3:14Speaker 4: Fafo?
- 3:15Speaker 1: Or should it be just pay the toll?
- 3:16Speaker 4: I like pay the toll.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Yeah, pay the toll is better because Armin goes with
- 3:20Speaker 1: the Fafo.
- 3:21Speaker 3: We're going to have some people come up with what
- 3:23Speaker 3: people actually think that means.
- 3:24Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
- 3:25Speaker 3: And that's going to be bad, so I like to
- 3:26Speaker 3: pay the toll. Let's do pay the toll. Pay the
- 3:28Speaker 3: toll is official. Pay the toll is the phrase that
- 3:30Speaker 3: pays today.
- 3:31Speaker 4: Pay the toll.
- 3:32Speaker 2: If you come up to us at Pottawatomie where we're
- 3:33Speaker 2: doing a show from 5 to 7, it is the
- 3:36Speaker 2: Thursday Night Huddle live at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
- 3:39Speaker 4: Two 5 o'clock clubs today.
- 3:40Speaker 1: That's right. That is right. Absolutely. It's going to be fun.
- 3:43Speaker 4: Who else does that?
- 3:44Speaker 1: You know, who else? Nobody. People dream about doing it.
- 3:48Speaker 1: A dream, but not able to achieve it.
- 3:50Speaker 3: So, yes, first time people that come up and give
- 3:52Speaker 3: us the phrase that pays pay the toll, you'll get
- 3:55Speaker 3: the toll paid to you. And that's basically what the
- 3:58Speaker 3: Cubs were having to do. Right. The tip your cap
- 3:59Speaker 3: and call him daddy is is kind of just like
- 4:02Speaker 3: paying the pentance, knowing that you have to go up there,
- 4:05Speaker 3: catch a couple of L's.
- 4:06Speaker 1: And then maybe you do see him into the postseason.
- 4:09Speaker 3: And Drew, as you said it, I've been trying to
- 4:11Speaker 3: chew on it over the last 45 minutes or so.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Since it came out.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Of that beautiful mouth of yours where you said, I
- 4:18Speaker 3: think I'd rather play the Cubs again in the playoffs.
- 4:21Speaker 3: If it came down to that you play the Cubs
- 4:23Speaker 3: or you play the Phillies in that playoff series, this
- 4:27Speaker 3: is also just a difficult thing to put out there
- 4:31Speaker 3: because folks will hate it and dunk on it if
- 4:33Speaker 3: indeed it comes up the other side and say that
- 4:35Speaker 3: you jinxed it. There's no real jinx in sports. The
- 4:38Speaker 3: Brewers have won all of the games of massive consequence
- 4:41Speaker 3: against the Cubs. like 2008 for them to be able
- 4:44Speaker 3: to get into the post season them in 2018 to
- 4:48Speaker 3: win game one 63, obviously games game five of last year.
- 4:52Speaker 1: In the playoff series.
- 4:53Speaker 3: So that shouldn't be the massive trepidation that people would
- 4:57Speaker 3: have in it. You should have some confidence rolling in there.
- 5:00Speaker 3: And the fact that you don't have to go up
- 5:01Speaker 3: against the team that has probably three to four future
- 5:04Speaker 3: hall of famers on it is one that I might
- 5:08Speaker 3: look to try to escape from, but I will enjoy
- 5:11Speaker 3: seeing the Cubs win. look at more of a tragic
- 5:13Speaker 3: number than a magic number because you.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Don't want to look right now.
- 5:18Speaker 3: You don't want to be too confident, too comfortable because
- 5:22Speaker 3: San Diego and Arizona are rolling and they're trying to
- 5:25Speaker 3: get themselves not only into that run, but San Diego
- 5:28Speaker 3: is trying to not play Atlanta in the first round
- 5:32Speaker 3: and they might be able to jump up. I think
- 5:33Speaker 3: they're only two and a half games back of Chicago
- 5:36Speaker 3: for that second wildcard spot. So they're in a race
- 5:38Speaker 3: now in that wildcard run. And for as They had
- 5:41Speaker 3: two 10-game winning streaks. They also did have a 10-game
- 5:45Speaker 3: losing streak this year. So, I mean, like, they can
- 5:48Speaker 3: go on a real run in both directions, and we'll
- 5:50Speaker 3: be able to see how well they close out here.
- 5:52Speaker 3: And you may have just kicked them to the curb
- 5:55Speaker 3: one final time for 2026.
- 5:56Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so interesting to watch the standings kind of
- 5:59Speaker 4: matriculate here as we go through September. In the wild card,
- 6:02Speaker 4: especially in the AL, that thing is topsy-turvy. Now the
- 6:05Speaker 4: Guardians have the third wild card spot. That third wild
- 6:08Speaker 4: card spot in the American League, is kind of up
- 6:10Speaker 4: for grabs for anybody that wants to go basically i'm
- 6:12Speaker 4: waiting for my blue jays to take it 500 they
- 6:14Speaker 4: might do it and they might do it billy because
- 6:16Speaker 4: they are still talented and they are still only a
- 6:19Speaker 4: game back and one under 500 if you go 500
- 6:21Speaker 4: you get a shot in the american.
- 6:22Speaker 3: They're like nine games over 500 in the last like
- 6:25Speaker 3: six weeks.
- 6:25Speaker 4: Like come on wouldn't it be uh wouldn't it be
- 6:28Speaker 4: remarkable if the toronto blue jays went from like last
- 6:31Speaker 4: place in the at least most of the year After
- 6:33Speaker 4: last year, coming an inch away from winning a World
- 6:35Speaker 4: Series to, like, back in the playoffs, making a run.
- 6:37Speaker 3: It would be even sweeter if they went back to
- 6:39Speaker 3: the World Series at 15-1. Is that what you're at?
- 6:42Speaker 1: I was going to say.
- 6:43Speaker 3: It would be even sweeter if they won the AL
- 6:46Speaker 3: pennant and then lost to the Brewers in the World Series.
- 6:49Speaker 3: That would be even sweeter if we're going to start
- 6:51Speaker 3: talking about the Thursday night huddle at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
- 6:54Speaker 3: Because that's some futures that you can look.
- 6:56Speaker 1: At right now.
- 6:57Speaker 3: We're mostly going to be talking football futures, but they're
- 6:59Speaker 3: still … a lot of time to be able to
- 7:00Speaker 3: pounce on some of those baseball ones.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Well, we'll have time to talk about all kinds of wagering,
- 7:04Speaker 4: I'm sure. But it is going to be very interesting
- 7:06Speaker 4: to see what happens because this time of the year,
- 7:08Speaker 4: as you know, the playoffs, if the team gets hot,
- 7:11Speaker 4: all kinds of wild things can happen. And now with
- 7:12Speaker 4: the existence of that, you know, that extra wild card
- 7:15Speaker 4: spot in the American League and, of course, the National League,
- 7:17Speaker 4: although the National League being top heavy or more top
- 7:20Speaker 4: heavy all year, San Diego and Arizona, you know, kind
- 7:24Speaker 4: of battling for that. I wonder if the Pirates think
- 7:26Speaker 4: they're out of it. I mean, they're five games back
- 7:28Speaker 4: at the last wildcard spot. And for all intents and purposes,
- 7:30Speaker 4: they're out. They're playing the Cubs this weekend for three
- 7:31Speaker 4: at Wrigley. Well, that's why I'm saying that. And I
- 7:34Speaker 4: said in the first hour, I want it to be,
- 7:36Speaker 4: I'm looking for a Cubs collapse here, Billy, and you
- 7:38Speaker 4: reiterated they have had a losing streak this year. So
- 7:41Speaker 4: let's manifest that. Let's see if we can get that
- 7:43Speaker 4: energy out in the wild. Let's get all of our...
- 7:46Speaker 4: Our Cubs influencers, they have some public collapses here. Because
- 7:50Speaker 4: if the Pirates still think they're in it, they're going
- 7:52Speaker 4: to scrap and claw and do all those things. They're
- 7:55Speaker 4: five back. I mean, it's unlikely. They've won eight of ten.
- 7:58Speaker 4: I like that, Billy. So it's unlikely. But, hey, it's
- 8:01Speaker 4: something to shoot for. If you're in that clubhouse, you say,
- 8:04Speaker 4: all right, guys, we'll miss a 3000 style. How many
- 8:07Speaker 4: games back in third place?
- 8:08Speaker 3: Well, and I mean, the Cubs are they doesn't get
- 8:10Speaker 3: easier for him on Friday because they face Ashcraft, who
- 8:13Speaker 3: is as advertised all star.
- 8:14Speaker 1: And he had some wildly good starts earlier in the year.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Then they get pedestrian Paul on Saturday, which they might
- 8:21Speaker 3: end up tagging him there. And then Bubba Chandler's no
- 8:24Speaker 3: joke coming up on Sunday. So they get all of
- 8:27Speaker 3: the best arms that Pittsburgh's going to throw at them.
- 8:29Speaker 3: And then it's Atlanta, Cincinnati, Miami's still in the mix.
- 8:33Speaker 3: Boston's going to be fighting. So, yeah, their strength of schedule,
- 8:36Speaker 3: if that's a big thing in baseball, is not exactly
- 8:40Speaker 3: the easiest on the way out.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Cubs will close out their season. At Fenway Park on
- 8:46Speaker 2: the final weekend.
- 8:47Speaker 1: And then... Oh, come on, Caleb. It seems to me
- 8:48Speaker 1: like they might be packing their bags and heading down
- 8:51Speaker 1: to Philly. I was going to say flying right over
- 8:52Speaker 1: to Philly.
- 8:53Speaker 4: Most likely, yeah. It would be hard for them to totally...
- 8:55Speaker 4: I mean, because they'd have to fall below San Diego
- 8:57Speaker 4: and Arizona. which would be not easy.
- 9:00Speaker 3: And they would have to fall behind Arizona. I know
- 9:04Speaker 3: they have the season series against them. I'm not positive
- 9:06Speaker 3: they do against San Diego.
- 9:07Speaker 1: I think you're right.
- 9:08Speaker 4: We'll see.
- 9:09Speaker 1: But again, they have to go on the road.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Those two, and credit to Wrigley Field for this, it
- 9:14Speaker 3: is a great home field advantage.
- 9:16Speaker 1: You heard Pat Murphy talk about it last year.
- 9:18Speaker 3: You saw, sadly, Freddie Peralta fall victim to it a
- 9:21Speaker 3: year ago when they started chanting his name, and he
- 9:23Speaker 3: was kind of.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Unable to not be rattled there.
- 9:26Speaker 3: Those are the two best home field environments, I think,
- 9:28Speaker 3: right now in ball because Philly is a hornet's nest
- 9:31Speaker 3: for not only fans and players. That place is loud
- 9:34Speaker 3: and wild, and that's a hell of an atmosphere to
- 9:37Speaker 3: be playing in.
- 9:38Speaker 2: And I will repeat my cautionary tale that the Reds
- 9:41Speaker 2: are coming in to face the Brewers this weekend. Last
- 9:44Speaker 2: place in the NL Central. They are 21 and a
- 9:49Speaker 2: half games behind the Brewers. They're going to be swinging
- 9:51Speaker 2: that stick. They've lost three in a row. Their run
- 9:54Speaker 2: differential is minus one 22, which does not speak well
- 9:58Speaker 2: of their pitching prowess this year, but don't take anything
- 10:00Speaker 2: for granted. Still got to show up. You still got
- 10:03Speaker 2: to play. You can't, you know, there's, it can't be
- 10:05Speaker 2: a Cubs series hangover here.
- 10:07Speaker 3: No, there was in, in, in Cincinnati just last weekend,
- 10:11Speaker 3: De La Cruz hit two bombs against you over the weekend.
- 10:13Speaker 3: And all he did was take that same act out
- 10:15Speaker 3: to LA and hit a bomb in each of their
- 10:17Speaker 3: three games against the, against the Dodgers. So they're, they're rolling,
- 10:21Speaker 3: no doubt about it.
- 10:22Speaker 1: I'll be at offensively.
- 10:23Speaker 3: They're rolling and you get Abbott who has been a
- 10:26Speaker 3: tough customer against the Brewers at times, right?
- 10:28Speaker 4: I mean, he's, he's thrown some very good games against Milwaukee.
- 10:32Speaker 1: So that's, that's no slouch.
- 10:33Speaker 3: And also drew, we talked about it a couple of,
- 10:36Speaker 3: before they went to the Cincinnati series, And throughout the
- 10:39Speaker 3: entire run, these teams that you have to bring your
- 10:42Speaker 3: own juice for makes it a little bit more difficult.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Luckily, there's going to be some juice in the building.
- 10:47Speaker 3: I feel like I do, even though they're playing a
- 10:50Speaker 3: 69 and 77 squad, I think Brewers fans are going
- 10:53Speaker 3: to bring some juice coming up tomorrow night. It feels
- 10:54Speaker 3: like it's going to be a good welcomed event for
- 10:57Speaker 3: the crew to be able to get a little more
- 10:59Speaker 3: home cooking 50 and 25.
- 11:02Speaker 1: At home this year. Amazing.
- 11:03Speaker 4: John and Fondy with some good perspective here on the, uh,
- 11:05Speaker 4: Nicola talking, talking text line. It's hard to believe that
- 11:07Speaker 4: it's been 10 years since the Brewers had a sub
- 11:09Speaker 4: 500 record model of consistency bites at the Apple. Let's
- 11:12Speaker 4: get it done this year. And that's the final piece
- 11:14Speaker 4: of the puzzle, right? That's the final, uh, that's the
- 11:16Speaker 4: final act of the movie that the final thing to
- 11:19Speaker 4: put on the shelf would be a world series trophy.
- 11:21Speaker 4: We'll get to world series. That'd be nice too. So, um,
- 11:23Speaker 4: all those things are true. Let's, uh, let's hope we
- 11:26Speaker 4: get it done. Cubs are closer to falling out of
- 11:28Speaker 4: the playoffs than a first-round buy for the Brewers. Correct, UPS, Ben.
- 11:32Speaker 4: Good point. Morning men working in Chicago today will be
- 11:35Speaker 4: so sweet. Mike and Racine, I love that.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Yeah, it will be, Mike.
- 11:38Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 11:38Speaker 1: Yeah, it will be, Mike.
- 11:39Speaker 4: I love that.
- 11:40Speaker 1: I'd be throwing some kind of hat on throughout.
- 11:42Speaker 3: Maybe you can't during the workday, but, like, as soon
- 11:46Speaker 3: as you walk out of the building, you.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Throw the Brewers cap right back on.
- 11:49Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what your job is. You know,
- 11:51Speaker 4: if it's like a suit and tie job or you're
- 11:53Speaker 4: working where you got one of those yellow vests. You
- 11:55Speaker 4: can wear it under the vest if you're working.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Oh, that's true.
- 11:58Speaker 3: Yeah, you could have a little jersey on underneath the vest.
- 11:59Speaker 3: I'm assuming Blue Collar, you know, one of us. I'm assuming.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Did we mention the McKelvey tweet about the Brewers and the,
- 12:06Speaker 2: you know, Rock was pointing out last night on television.
- 12:09Speaker 2: It seems like the Brewers have had a couple of
- 12:10Speaker 2: these stretches where death march, 16 games in 16 days,
- 12:14Speaker 2: 17 games in 17 days with two West Coast trips
- 12:18Speaker 2: in August and leading into the All-Star break.
- 12:20Speaker 1: They had 18 games in 17 days. Well, because coming
- 12:23Speaker 1: out of the All-Star break, they had six off days. Yeah.
- 12:26Speaker 4: It's six off days in the back end of the year.
- 12:29Speaker 2: 18 games in 17 days leading into the break. They
- 12:31Speaker 2: were 10 and eight, 17 games in 17 days, two
- 12:35Speaker 2: trips to the West coast, 10 and seven, 16 games
- 12:38Speaker 2: in 16 days, including the Cubs tournament here, uh, 10
- 12:41Speaker 2: and six.
- 12:41Speaker 4: Wow. Wow.
- 12:43Speaker 1: That, that bodes well.
- 12:45Speaker 3: Cause the playoffs, there's a lot less off days, especially
- 12:47Speaker 3: in that first round series.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:49Speaker 2: And you're, you know, the playoffs are kind of a
- 12:52Speaker 2: sprint and you need to be, um, You can't go
- 12:55Speaker 2: into a slump at all or, you know, there's just
- 12:58Speaker 2: not time.
- 12:58Speaker 3: No.
- 12:59Speaker 2: But that speaks well of their prowess to stay above
- 13:03Speaker 2: water in those trying situations.
- 13:06Speaker 3: And now two of those, you can correct me if
- 13:08Speaker 3: I'm wrong, the last one they definitely didn't get swept.
- 13:11Speaker 3: They lost two or three in Cincinnati would feel like it.
- 13:14Speaker 3: But they get swept going into the break in Pittsburgh
- 13:17Speaker 3: on that 10 and 8 one. Yeah. And they get
- 13:19Speaker 3: swept in San Diego in the West coast run. Like,
- 13:23Speaker 3: so they, they tasted their own blood in a couple
- 13:25Speaker 3: of those too. And we're able to finish them off. Now,
- 13:28Speaker 3: granted the Pittsburgh one finished the series, finished the run
- 13:31Speaker 3: when they got swept there.
- 13:33Speaker 1: And then they got the all-star break to be able
- 13:34Speaker 1: to recoup a little bit.
- 13:35Speaker 3: But I think of that San Diego series and still
- 13:38Speaker 3: that comeback win from against the Dodgers, biggest one of
- 13:41Speaker 3: the year, biggest one to flip momentum right back into
- 13:44Speaker 3: your direction and give some more confidence, calm down the masses.
- 13:49Speaker 3: maybe it calmed down some people into that locker room.
- 13:51Speaker 3: I don't think they needed as much of that drew
- 13:53Speaker 3: to be able to calm down as the fans did
- 13:56Speaker 3: at that point. But I think it, it bode bodes
- 13:58Speaker 3: well for you feeling mortal at those moments and still
- 14:01Speaker 3: being able to pick it up while your bullpen gets taxed,
- 14:04Speaker 3: while your starting rotation gets taxed.
- 14:05Speaker 1: That's something else. Time for who's hot.
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- 14:13Speaker 2: but employee since 1985, nobody hotter than Jackson Cheerio against
- 14:17Speaker 2: the Cubs. Three-game series, he had eight hits, two home runs,
- 14:22Speaker 2: six RBI, and scored four runs in the three games.
- 14:25Speaker 1: He was el hombre.
- 14:27Speaker 2: And the hits, I mean, the home run, obviously the game-tying,
- 14:32Speaker 2: electrifying homer that he hit, and then to hit one early.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Yesterday to knockout punch. He's just, nobody's hotter than Churrio, right?
- 14:42Speaker 3: No one's rolling better than Jackson Churio. Walk-off catch in this.
- 14:45Speaker 1: I was going to say the walk-off catch where counts.
- 14:49Speaker 3: hold on hold on hold on wait can we challenge
- 14:51Speaker 3: it they're like no we're not challenging it buddy it's
- 14:53Speaker 3: all about it uh and the only people that are
- 14:55Speaker 3: gonna be hotter than jackson cheerio might be you when
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- 15:06Speaker 3: you can enjoy um also in i don't know where
- 15:09Speaker 3: you'd put him into the uh the the hot category
- 15:11Speaker 3: the not category true but uh Since we're having fun
- 15:14Speaker 3: kicking sand in the dirt of Cubs fans' faces, one
- 15:16Speaker 3: guy that did that himself on the team last year
- 15:19Speaker 3: into the postseason was Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker might be
- 15:23Speaker 3: able to wake up feeling hot. He had a three-hit
- 15:25Speaker 3: night last night. That's more hits than he had combined
- 15:28Speaker 3: in all of the games in the month so far.
- 15:31Speaker 3: He has three of his five hits in September last
- 15:35Speaker 3: night in a Dodgers 14-1 win. Kyle Tucker's numbers for
- 15:40Speaker 3: the month of September. Now, granted, it's early. Small sample size, sure.
- 15:43Speaker 3: 172 on the batting average side, 286 on base. That's
- 15:48Speaker 3: coming off of a month of August where he hit
- 15:50Speaker 3: a robust 195. I was going to say. Got on
- 15:53Speaker 3: base at a 293 clip, slugged 310.
- 15:58Speaker 4: For a massive OPS of 603. Yeah, he hasn't been
- 16:02Speaker 4: good all year. I mean, not good by his standard,
- 16:05Speaker 4: I should say.
- 16:05Speaker 3: He has had one month this year, two months this year, Armin,
- 16:09Speaker 3: where his OPS was over 700.
- 16:11Speaker 4: And that's, you know.
- 16:12Speaker 3: And 700 is like an average MLB player. It's sort
- 16:16Speaker 3: of a little baseline.
- 16:17Speaker 1: 715 is kind of like the baseline.
- 16:18Speaker 4: We're talking about a guy that last year, you know,
- 16:20Speaker 4: the first half of the year, or at least the
- 16:22Speaker 4: first four months, was just tearing the cover.
- 16:24Speaker 1: Off of it.
- 16:25Speaker 4: And he has had a really steep drop off there
- 16:29Speaker 4: ever since. So, man, I mean, you just don't know
- 16:32Speaker 4: sometimes why it happens, why... You know when it's going
- 16:36Speaker 4: to happen. But some guys had that drop off and
- 16:37Speaker 4: he's been struggling.
- 16:38Speaker 3: Dodgers have won seven straight, large part because of Mookie
- 16:42Speaker 3: Betts waking up. He had been the mayor of Slum
- 16:44Speaker 3: City for a long time. His last 15 days, OPS
- 16:47Speaker 3: over a thousand. He homered last night. He's got three
- 16:50Speaker 3: bombs in the last two weeks, three bombs in the
- 16:52Speaker 3: month of September.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Pardon me.
- 16:55Speaker 3: Three of his last 32 at-bats have resulted in homers.
- 16:58Speaker 1: He's got 10 hits in that time.
- 17:00Speaker 3: And he was slumping big time early in the year,
- 17:03Speaker 3: starting to roll a little bit better.
- 17:05Speaker 4: And that might be a good indication. Mookie Betts. Same
- 17:10Speaker 4: pile as Christian Yelich kind of was, Drew, for a
- 17:12Speaker 4: long time.
- 17:13Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Former MVPs that were not having big years,
- 17:16Speaker 3: just really middling in the middle of the year. Folks wondering,
- 17:19Speaker 3: how are these managers going to handle these guys? Well,
- 17:22Speaker 3: Christian Yelich in his last 15 days, 298, 489 slugging
- 17:27Speaker 3: percentage and an 848 OPS. That's an 879 OPS in
- 17:31Speaker 3: the month of September for the first two week and
- 17:34Speaker 3: a half. And he hits yesterday his 20th career home run.
- 17:39Speaker 3: against the Northsiders.
- 17:40Speaker 1: How about that?
- 17:41Speaker 3: That little graphic they put up last night on Brewers
- 17:43Speaker 3: TV was awesome. And then I think it was Rock said,
- 17:47Speaker 3: he put that back up. Put that back up one
- 17:49Speaker 3: more second.
- 17:50Speaker 4: I love that. Rock told the truck.
- 17:51Speaker 1: They put it back up.
- 17:53Speaker 3: And then you realize just how much Ryan Braun spit
- 17:58Speaker 3: in the face of the Chicago Cubs.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt.
- 18:00Speaker 4: Oh, he dominated it.
- 18:01Speaker 3: 20 homers for Yelly, 21 for Jeremy Burnett's against the Cubs.
- 18:05Speaker 4: Nice.
- 18:06Speaker 3: There was one other that I'm going to forget. Prince Fielder,
- 18:08Speaker 3: 20 home runs against the Cubs. Nice. Ryan Braun, 40
- 18:12Speaker 3: of them things. In his career against the Chicago Cardinals.
- 18:16Speaker 4: And there was nothing more satisfying than what he did
- 18:18Speaker 4: at Wrigley.
- 18:19Speaker 3: He'd get booed like nobody's business and just find a
- 18:23Speaker 3: basket of the bleachers all the time. Just a good,
- 18:26Speaker 3: good ode to just how good he was. And you
- 18:29Speaker 3: want to talk about guys in the clutch moments. Jackson
- 18:31Speaker 3: Cheerio is finding that Ryan Braun was that dude for
- 18:34Speaker 3: so long. I agree.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Now, now it's Cheerio. I want to see up in
- 18:38Speaker 1: clutch every time, whenever possible.
- 18:41Speaker 4: Yep.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Outstanding.
- 18:42Speaker 2: All right, who's out, who's not brought to us by
- 18:43Speaker 2: Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling. Hey, when we come back,
- 18:47Speaker 2: Scott Dolphin's going to join the party.
- 18:49Speaker 4: Let's go, Dolphin.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Dolphin is back.
- 18:51Speaker 2: From the country station down the hall, FM 106. We'll
- 18:53Speaker 2: talk to Dolphin next. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Halftime has arrived in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
- 19:00Speaker 2: and Armand bringing it to you. Joined by our correspondent,
- 19:02Speaker 2: Scott Dolphin. Back, rested, and ready to tackle a very
- 19:06Speaker 2: short week.
- 19:07Speaker 4: Welcome back.
- 19:08Speaker 5: Usually it's Hit the Wall Thursday around here, but today
- 19:11Speaker 5: I feel pretty damn good.
- 19:12Speaker 4: We figured it out. We were thinking of something for Thursday.
- 19:15Speaker 4: Hit the Wall Thursday.
- 19:16Speaker 1: Hit the Wall Thursday.
- 19:17Speaker 4: You guys like that?
- 19:19Speaker 1: No? It's just a fact. I mean, usually Wednesday hits
- 19:22Speaker 1: pretty hard on the show. That's why we celebrate half
- 19:24Speaker 1: time of the week. That's why we find the half time.
- 19:26Speaker 1: But Thursday, I don't know. I stayed up and watched
- 19:28Speaker 1: Brandon Sprote's higher wire act. Oh, my God. I did not, thankfully.
- 19:32Speaker 1: I was in bed.
- 19:32Speaker 5: I didn't see the end of the football game either.
- 19:34Speaker 1: Nine o'clock rolled around. I thought, oh, I got to
- 19:35Speaker 1: get to bed. So I missed all that. Yeah, you
- 19:37Speaker 1: didn't miss much.
- 19:38Speaker 4: You mean those offenses didn't put you to sleep anyway?
- 19:40Speaker 1: Right.
- 19:41Speaker 3: Actually, the fourth quarter was the best part. It was
- 19:43Speaker 3: the only time that somebody was completing passes. Just had
- 19:46Speaker 3: to be the other team.
- 19:48Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
- 19:49Speaker 2: So Dolph, you're a man with some good flow. We
- 19:52Speaker 2: haven't talked about Barry Melrose yet in his past.
- 19:54Speaker 1: Oh man.
- 19:55Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the best flows. I guess best mullet
- 19:58Speaker 5: before that. Loved Barry Melrose's work.
- 20:00Speaker 1: The suits, the hair, everything about it.
- 20:02Speaker 4: The teeth.
- 20:03Speaker 1: He had great teeth.
- 20:04Speaker 5: Now, they probably weren't his being a hockey guy.
- 20:06Speaker 4: He was also a great analyst.
- 20:08Speaker 5: He was.
- 20:08Speaker 4: He was a great, great analyst. He made you understand
- 20:10Speaker 4: hockey better.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Sense of humor.
- 20:12Speaker 4: Sense of humor, but not to the point where he
- 20:14Speaker 4: was trying to make himself the show.
- 20:15Speaker 1: All the stories.
- 20:16Speaker 4: His suits were cool because they were long. Always looked good.
- 20:20Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean... I hope they're more like that.
- 20:23Speaker 4: Hockey seems to have some great analysts. I've always loved
- 20:25Speaker 4: him and Eddie Olchek and those guys, so rest in peace, Barry.
- 20:28Speaker 4: That's really, really sad.
- 20:29Speaker 1: Eddie Olchek's another one.
- 20:30Speaker 5: Those are the guys that brought me to hockey as
- 20:32Speaker 5: a fringe fan that love it during the playoffs and
- 20:34Speaker 5: the Olympics, but guys like that, oh, Barry's on.
- 20:37Speaker 1: I'll watch this.
- 20:38Speaker 3: Barry, the only guy that would be able to talk
- 20:41Speaker 3: NHL on ESPN was Barry Melrose.
- 20:43Speaker 4: He was their guy.
- 20:44Speaker 1: That was it. Neil Everett and him and all that.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Linda Cohen a little bit.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Barry Melrose in his, like, eulogy or obit for him
- 20:52Speaker 2: scott van pelt said he had like a cologne that
- 20:54Speaker 2: seemed like it was made just for him oh.
- 20:56Speaker 1: That's great i can almost smell.
- 20:58Speaker 2: It yeah you can because it's like a dude like
- 21:00Speaker 2: that you know he's gonna smell amazing because he's always
- 21:02Speaker 2: got the like the suits.
- 21:03Speaker 3: Always looking good the hair's looking smooth yes and uh
- 21:08Speaker 3: and he's you can already see the hand almost looked
- 21:11Speaker 3: like it was built. Not to hold the hockey stick,
- 21:13Speaker 3: but hold a cigar. Like my man was always waiting
- 21:16Speaker 3: for a stoke. Very natural for the cigar to just
- 21:19Speaker 3: be in between the index finger and middle one.
- 21:21Speaker 4: When ESPN had the Stanley Cup finals, it was kind
- 21:25Speaker 4: of intermittent through the nineties. And I think too dumb,
- 21:27Speaker 4: but like, The early 2000s, the first five years of
- 21:30Speaker 4: the decade, the millennium or the century, I felt like
- 21:33Speaker 4: they had it every year because I had just gotten ESPN.
- 21:36Speaker 1: They did before the lockout. Before the lockout, right.
- 21:39Speaker 4: Okay, that makes sense then because I had just gotten
- 21:41Speaker 4: cable and I had just gotten ESPN and we had
- 21:43Speaker 4: just gotten it at home because we didn't have cable
- 21:45Speaker 4: really growing up until I was really in high school.
- 21:47Speaker 4: And being able to watch hockey was something on TV
- 21:49Speaker 4: that was very rare. Cause I think every now and
- 21:51Speaker 4: then it was on Fox and that was it.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:53Speaker 4: But when it was on ESPN a lot early those days,
- 21:55Speaker 4: and he was one of the voices that was pervasive
- 21:57Speaker 4: that you remembered. And it was a lot of fun
- 21:59Speaker 4: to watch, to watch hockey on TV and to watch
- 22:02Speaker 4: ESPN broadcast.
- 22:02Speaker 1: What did you watch?
- 22:04Speaker 4: It was weird.
- 22:04Speaker 1: No, I know. I just, we didn't have the 1993 finals.
- 22:09Speaker 4: On VHS.
- 22:10Speaker 1: On VHS. Well, I'll say this. 1987 Milwaukee Brewers.
- 22:16Speaker 4: Sponsored by Miller Lite. And a really questionable Smokey the
- 22:21Speaker 4: Bear ad. Keep me up at night with that Smokey
- 22:24Speaker 4: Bear when everything's on fire. Well, thankfully, you know, growing
- 22:28Speaker 4: up in the 90s, a lot of stuff was still
- 22:29Speaker 4: on network TV. Sports wise.
- 22:31Speaker 1: That's true.
- 22:32Speaker 4: So what I did was every game that was on
- 22:35Speaker 4: that I could, if I had a clean tape, I
- 22:36Speaker 4: would tape it. And then there are off times when
- 22:39Speaker 4: there wasn't sports on network TV. I would just watch
- 22:42Speaker 4: tapes of sport.
- 22:44Speaker 3: No wonder you got into radio because you described it
- 22:46Speaker 3: as a clean tape. He was building for his radio
- 22:51Speaker 3: career way back then.
- 22:52Speaker 4: I mean, how many times I would spend money on
- 22:56Speaker 4: extra VHS tapes? In my mind, I would just tape
- 22:59Speaker 4: over something. I'm like, well, I can't tape over the
- 23:01Speaker 4: Rose Bowl. Okay, so that's 95. I'm trying to think
- 23:04Speaker 4: of what games I could tape over.
- 23:06Speaker 5: As a kid, my best years of soaking everything up
- 23:10Speaker 5: was in the 80s. In the 90s, did you treat
- 23:12Speaker 5: a VHS tape? Did it have to be a certain
- 23:14Speaker 5: VHS tape? Because we had cassette tapes when I was
- 23:16Speaker 5: growing up in the 80s, and it had to be
- 23:18Speaker 5: a certain, you know, yeah, because.
- 23:20Speaker 1: There was different qualities.
- 23:21Speaker 4: I didn't care about the brand.
- 23:22Speaker 1: Maxell was one of the best.
- 23:23Speaker 4: I didn't care at that age, but I know a
- 23:25Speaker 4: lot of people probably did. The problem was I would
- 23:27Speaker 4: try and write a lot, you know, that little, Billy's
- 23:30Speaker 4: going to hate this because these references. the little sticker
- 23:33Speaker 4: where you put the description on the tape, you know,
- 23:35Speaker 4: I'm trying to write the whole, the whole story of
- 23:38Speaker 4: the game.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Basically. You're trying to write your game rap on that.
- 23:40Speaker 4: I mean, exactly. And it was like, Oh no, just put,
- 23:43Speaker 4: you know.
- 23:43Speaker 3: You just put 24 for 38 with 264 yards and
- 23:49Speaker 3: three touchdowns.
- 23:49Speaker 1: I'll pick in the third quarter at the seven 42 mark.
- 23:52Speaker 4: I had one that I had one that said like
- 23:55Speaker 4: a bulls versus blazers game six. And then I put
- 23:58Speaker 4: in parentheses bulls repeat as 91 champs, blazers, I had
- 24:03Speaker 4: like too much on there. But that's because I didn't
- 24:05Speaker 4: know growing up that one day we had this magical
- 24:08Speaker 4: thing called YouTube and the Internet. I didn't know that
- 24:10Speaker 4: was going to happen.
- 24:11Speaker 1: It is amazing.
- 24:12Speaker 4: Yeah. But anyway, all that to say, I have great
- 24:15Speaker 4: memories of watching Barry Melrose. Rest in peace. That was
- 24:17Speaker 4: my long about way of saying it.
- 24:19Speaker 1: Yeah, they did.
- 24:21Speaker 3: After the lockout, ESPN just went. cold Turkey on hockey.
- 24:26Speaker 3: Like there was not a lot of conversation. They wouldn't
- 24:28Speaker 3: really show much of it. It kind of like big 10.
- 24:31Speaker 3: I was just kind of like the big 10 doll.
- 24:34Speaker 1: We don't get much big 10 conversation now on ESPN.
- 24:36Speaker 1: Cause they know where their bread's butter. And when we do,
- 24:38Speaker 1: I was off yesterday. So I watched a lot of ESPN,
- 24:41Speaker 1: you know, get up and what's greeny show. What's that
- 24:43Speaker 1: one called?
- 24:43Speaker 4: Get up.
- 24:44Speaker 1: That's get up.
- 24:44Speaker 5: And then the one with Stephen a afterwards, but the
- 24:47Speaker 5: big 10 talk was that they did have on was
- 24:50Speaker 5: all negative. It was Michigan for 15 minutes. And then
- 24:53Speaker 5: they talked about the weak spots that Ohio State has,
- 24:55Speaker 5: even though they got the majority of the number one
- 24:57Speaker 5: votes this week. Boy, Texas is really going to expose
- 25:00Speaker 5: that Ohio State defense this weekend.
- 25:02Speaker 1: It was all negative talk.
- 25:03Speaker 3: It's crazy that they didn't mention the fact that Georgia, when...
- 25:07Speaker 3: Without a first place vote. Crazy that they mentioned all
- 25:10Speaker 3: of these teams in the AP. Miami had a first
- 25:12Speaker 3: place vote. That don't have a first place vote. Crazy,
- 25:15Speaker 3: crazy how that happens. I think it's hilarious to see
- 25:19Speaker 3: when the money is a certain spot, that's how it's
- 25:22Speaker 3: going to be treated.
- 25:23Speaker 1: Melrose was a, was a beauty though.
- 25:25Speaker 3: Like from the amount of guys that you hear good
- 25:28Speaker 3: things about, he only, you hear great things about guys
- 25:32Speaker 3: that got to work with even like the low level people, right?
- 25:34Speaker 3: Like the, the producers and everything. You got to see
- 25:36Speaker 3: some of those tributes. Everyone's waiting for Steve Levy to
- 25:39Speaker 3: say something last night. He had a good one, but
- 25:41Speaker 3: I enjoyed hockey guy, but I enjoyed the moments of
- 25:43Speaker 3: the producers being able to say like, he, Didn't have to,
- 25:46Speaker 3: but he treated everybody the right way.
- 25:47Speaker 4: I love that part. That's always an important thing to
- 25:50Speaker 4: hear when people talk about how they were behind the scenes.
- 25:52Speaker 5: And I don't know how humble his beginnings were, and
- 25:55Speaker 5: I don't know what every city he played in, but
- 25:56Speaker 5: he just looked like a guy that was born to.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Be an L.A. Kings guy.
- 26:01Speaker 5: He just had that look about him, despite the fact
- 26:04Speaker 5: that he was really down-home charming and was.
- 26:06Speaker 1: Really fun to watch. He's from the prairie of Saskatchewan.
- 26:09Speaker 3: Wow.
- 26:09Speaker 2: And he wasn't that great a player, just a defenseman,
- 26:12Speaker 2: just kind of a guy in the.
- 26:14Speaker 1: playing in the American league and stuff.
- 26:16Speaker 3: Very similar to how I'd say, uh, back and forth,
- 26:18Speaker 3: but a lot of minor leagues, Bissonette is right. Like the,
- 26:21Speaker 3: the barstool hockey guys. Now they're spitting chiclets podcast. Ryan
- 26:24Speaker 3: Whitney was a really, really good player. Bissonette was, uh,
- 26:28Speaker 3: journeyman he kind of went around and but they got
- 26:30Speaker 3: the great stories everybody that encountered them loved them and
- 26:34Speaker 3: then when you put a microphone in front of their
- 26:35Speaker 3: face you know that you're going to get some.
- 26:37Speaker 2: Gold melrose was like a surprise hire when he got
- 26:39Speaker 2: the king's job he's 35 with the hair and the
- 26:41Speaker 2: suits and he's like that was when the kings were
- 26:43Speaker 2: like you know the talk of the town it was
- 26:46Speaker 2: probably a pretty good.
- 26:46Speaker 1: Time i can't imagine what it was like living in
- 26:48Speaker 1: la when you.
- 26:49Speaker 2: La on your team and every celebrity wants to be
- 26:52Speaker 2: around it you know and they go to the finals
- 26:54Speaker 2: He also, and for.
- 26:56Speaker 4: You, he hoisted a Calder Cup, which the Admirals play
- 26:59Speaker 4: for now. I didn't know that.
- 27:02Speaker 1: In 92, he won the... Which the Admirals with the
- 27:05Speaker 1: Red Wings, right? He was a Red Wings assistant.
- 27:07Speaker 4: Adirondack Red Wings, yeah, at the time. So three years
- 27:10Speaker 4: with them, leading them to a Calder Cup, winning the
- 27:13Speaker 4: 91-92 season. Then he jumped right to the Kings the
- 27:17Speaker 4: next year. How about that? So the Calder Cup, that
- 27:19Speaker 4: was it right there. And yes, Billy, we're going to
- 27:21Speaker 4: hoist this year. I'm calling it this year.
- 27:22Speaker 1: I want a picture with it.
- 27:23Speaker 5: I remember when the Admirals won it like 20 years ago.
- 27:25Speaker 5: They brought it into the station here. And Darren Hadar,
- 27:28Speaker 5: remember him?
- 27:29Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
- 27:30Speaker 5: He had a pretty good career in the NHL, too.
- 27:31Speaker 5: But he brought it in and hung out with us
- 27:33Speaker 5: for a while. So we got to take pictures with
- 27:34Speaker 5: the Calder Cup.
- 27:35Speaker 4: Well, didn't KB party with the Drews and famous?
- 27:37Speaker 1: Well, yeah. Well, Joe, I'll tell you. I think it
- 27:39Speaker 1: holds eight and a half beers.
- 27:40Speaker 4: There you go.
- 27:41Speaker 3: I was going to say, we definitely know the exact
- 27:43Speaker 3: number of where it goes.
- 27:45Speaker 1: It's science. That's less than the Stanley Cup, right? Yeah,
- 27:47Speaker 1: I think so.
- 27:48Speaker 4: Stanley's like 13 and a half, which it should be.
- 27:51Speaker 3: Well, and also like one full pot of pasta, because
- 27:54Speaker 3: I saw somebody from the Florida Panthers. One of their
- 27:59Speaker 3: guys threw just a big old thing of spaghetti in
- 28:01Speaker 3: there last year.
- 28:02Speaker 4: That's a great idea.
- 28:03Speaker 5: I don't know how that thing hasn't been damaged more
- 28:05Speaker 5: than has over the years when they let these drunks
- 28:07Speaker 5: take it home and put it in the back of their.
- 28:09Speaker 1: Like.
- 28:09Speaker 5: Drew said, in the middle of nowhere, Alberta or Saskatchewan,
- 28:12Speaker 5: you're flying around in a pickup truck with that thing.
- 28:14Speaker 3: And everyone lost their mind when Brady threw the Lombardi trophy.
- 28:17Speaker 3: The Stanley Cup's been catching a lot more.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Dings than that. That's true. It's part of the tradition.
- 28:22Speaker 4: Someone washed their kid in there once, I think.
- 28:23Speaker 1: You got the guy that travels with it, though, and stuff.
- 28:25Speaker 1: That's true. And he wears gloves. Yeah, he does.
- 28:27Speaker 4: Which is ironic.
- 28:29Speaker 5: That's probably the best trophy. That or maybe the Open
- 28:31Speaker 5: Championship of golf. That's a pretty... The Claret Jug, that's
- 28:34Speaker 5: pretty awesome, too.
- 28:35Speaker 1: What about the Wisconsin-Iowa Traveling Trophy? That bull. Come on now. Well,
- 28:38Speaker 1: we need to get closer to that. The bull that
- 28:39Speaker 1: looks like a pig. We need to get closer to
- 28:41Speaker 1: that one this year.
- 28:41Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 28:42Speaker 1: Within 30. Let's see. That's the Heartland Trophy? Is that
- 28:44Speaker 1: what that's called?
- 28:45Speaker 3: Yes.
- 28:45Speaker 1: The Heartland Trophy. There's just too many trophies. You guys
- 28:47Speaker 1: should know. It's been in your damn trophy case. Nah,
- 28:49Speaker 1: I just... Yeah, well... Yeah, I mean... It looks good
- 28:51Speaker 1: this weekend, Dolph.
- 28:52Speaker 4: Really good.
- 28:52Speaker 5: They did it, although I think it's a very small
- 28:55Speaker 5: sample size because I don't think Northern Illinois is going
- 28:57Speaker 5: to win too many games.
- 28:58Speaker 3: No.
- 28:59Speaker 1: We didn't play Notre Dame. That's true. But you do
- 29:02Speaker 1: play the Cyclones this weekend. Yeah, it's rivalry week.
- 29:04Speaker 3: Now, out of the weeks to go back to Iowa,
- 29:06Speaker 3: I know you went this past weekend. This is the weekend.
- 29:08Speaker 3: Is this the weekend that you circle and you kind
- 29:10Speaker 3: of miss being in the home state for the CyHawk week?
- 29:12Speaker 4: It is.
- 29:13Speaker 1: It is.
- 29:14Speaker 5: Usually it's too hot because it's basically the middle of
- 29:17Speaker 5: September and it's smoking.
- 29:18Speaker 1: But there will be. Let's see.
- 29:21Speaker 5: It's at Kinnick this year, so that holds just about
- 29:22Speaker 5: 70,000 people. There will be 150,000 tailgating in the area,
- 29:27Speaker 5: and then the rest just hang out either outside and
- 29:29Speaker 5: watch it at their camper, or they hit the bar
- 29:31Speaker 5: scene in Iowa City.
- 29:32Speaker 3: I thought my buddy was lying to me when he
- 29:34Speaker 3: told me that. I thought he was a thousand percent
- 29:36Speaker 3: lying to me and just pulling my leg oh yeah
- 29:38Speaker 3: like the old uh paul horning had a video i
- 29:40Speaker 3: had a quote he's like there's a hundred thousand people
- 29:42Speaker 3: i just sitting i just want to be around just
- 29:44Speaker 3: want to listen to it i'm like okay yeah there's
- 29:45Speaker 3: a hundred thousand people but you roll out there into
- 29:48Speaker 3: iowa city everybody.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Is hanging out it's ridiculous iowa Right. There's nothing else.
- 29:52Speaker 4: I get it.
- 29:53Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%. People are looking for any excuse to get
- 29:55Speaker 1: out of Ames.
- 29:56Speaker 4: Go off.
- 29:56Speaker 2: And then they want to go to Des Moines to
- 30:00Speaker 2: be near it.
- 30:01Speaker 1: You might as well wander around. Yeah, that's fair.
- 30:03Speaker 4: That's not the real battle of Wisconsin-Iowa. And I don't
- 30:06Speaker 4: think people are realizing. I saw the news that the
- 30:09Speaker 4: battle's on. The market share for Casey's is dropping. The
- 30:13Speaker 4: stock price dropped for.
- 30:14Speaker 1: Casey's because of quick trip.
- 30:16Speaker 4: Apparently quick trips making their move.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:18Speaker 4: I stopped this story.
- 30:20Speaker 1: I stopped at the quick out there. They call it
- 30:22Speaker 1: a quick star. Quick star.
- 30:23Speaker 4: I want to deal with whatever it is. Right. Sort
- 30:25Speaker 4: of same store, though. Looks exactly the same allowed to
- 30:29Speaker 4: say quick trip there in Iowa. Yeah, it's but but
- 30:31Speaker 4: they're like they're like expanding their reach. Apparently Casey's is
- 30:35Speaker 4: feeling threatened. The battle is on in Iowa. We're going
- 30:37Speaker 4: to take over. All right. That's where we win first.
- 30:40Speaker 4: Then the football field.
- 30:41Speaker 1: That's great. Casey's is pretty cool, too. It's very similar
- 30:44Speaker 1: to Quick Trip. I was going to say, I will
- 30:45Speaker 1: give Casey's some respect. It is.
- 30:47Speaker 4: It's the hometown incumbent to this band.
- 30:49Speaker 5: I didn't realize we had Casey's around here until I
- 30:51Speaker 5: was doing an event somewhere near Menominee Falls last year.
- 30:54Speaker 4: And I went right by Casey's.
- 30:55Speaker 1: Was it Sussex or someplace?
- 30:57Speaker 3: There's one out in that area. Then there's one out
- 30:59Speaker 3: towards Waterford. I get Waterford, Watertown mixed up.
- 31:03Speaker 1: Watertown is northwest. Waterford is south. Southwest.
- 31:07Speaker 4: On 36.
- 31:07Speaker 1: Then that's where it was. Yes, it was Waterford.
- 31:10Speaker 3: There was one there right near a golf course that
- 31:12Speaker 3: I was frequenting there. So it was a good stop
- 31:14Speaker 3: before the roundoff because they had everything you possibly needed. Water,
- 31:18Speaker 3: other beverages, the sandwich that you can throw in the
- 31:21Speaker 3: cart for the second hole.
- 31:22Speaker 5: Traveling in Iowa this weekend, it was an early Sunday morning.
- 31:25Speaker 5: It was still dark, and I was happy to see
- 31:27Speaker 5: the quick start. Which basically is quicker. You go inside,
- 31:31Speaker 5: everything is the same. Same thing.
- 31:32Speaker 1: It's the same thing. So I was happy to have
- 31:33Speaker 1: a little slice of home out there.
- 31:34Speaker 4: They're expanding. They're making Casey's knees buckle over there in Iowa, Billy.
- 31:38Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 31:38Speaker 3: So they get the problems with the QT is what
- 31:41Speaker 3: you're saying. KT has the problems with QT because there's
- 31:45Speaker 3: a quick trip that spells with the Q. That's mostly
- 31:48Speaker 3: around the heartland area. That's a little bit south from here,
- 31:51Speaker 3: but that's very much the region.
- 31:52Speaker 5: They had those when I was in Cali, too, quick
- 31:53Speaker 5: trip with the Q. Iowa also has come and.
- 31:55Speaker 4: Go with a K. It's spelled in.
- 31:58Speaker 1: A weird way.
- 31:59Speaker 3: K-U-M.
- 31:59Speaker 4: It's really awkward.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Come and go.
- 32:00Speaker 4: Yeah, if you see it, Billy, you're going to laugh.
- 32:03Speaker 1: You go to Iowa City, you'll see it. Oh, yeah,
- 32:05Speaker 1: come and go.
- 32:05Speaker 3: You go to Iowa City, Billy, you'll see it. That's
- 32:07Speaker 3: all I'm trying to do is come and go in
- 32:09Speaker 3: Iowa City. I'm trying to get in and out as
- 32:10Speaker 3: quick as possible, but let's just not. Get in and
- 32:13Speaker 3: out as quick as possible. There's no reason to be
- 32:15Speaker 3: in there that long. Wow, that's fun.
- 32:17Speaker 4: You'd think that would.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Idiots out wandering around. That was a good one. That's true.
- 32:21Speaker 1: It is. What else are they going to do?
- 32:22Speaker 5: Idiots out wandering around. Iwegians is another one. Now, I
- 32:25Speaker 5: will be pulling, though, for the Hawks this weekend. Thank you,
- 32:27Speaker 5: because it's Big.
- 32:28Speaker 1: Ten, right? It's Big Ten, and I'm still a little.
- 32:31Speaker 3: turned off by this jimmy rogers cat he's he's brash
- 32:34Speaker 3: coming out here cussing in front of kids at the
- 32:36Speaker 3: uh at the iowa state basketball game coach i'm not
- 32:39Speaker 3: a big.
- 32:39Speaker 5: Fan of that yeah he brought like like uh the
- 32:42Speaker 5: iowa state coach matt campbell did to penn state he
- 32:44Speaker 5: did that he brought a lot of wazoo guys to
- 32:46Speaker 5: ames and they looked okay they look good against a
- 32:50Speaker 5: fcs team this past weekend but We'll see when he
- 32:53Speaker 5: gets to Kennedy.
- 32:54Speaker 1: At night, by the way.
- 32:55Speaker 3: At night, 13 and a half point dogs.
- 32:57Speaker 5: NBC audience. It's only 13 and a half. I'm surprised
- 33:01Speaker 5: it's not more.
- 33:02Speaker 3: Well, it's getting bent down. Folks are liking the Cyclones
- 33:05Speaker 3: a little bit.
- 33:06Speaker 1: They've had Iowa's number. They've won two in a row
- 33:08Speaker 1: in this series. What was the view from Iowa of
- 33:11Speaker 1: the Michigan ending against Western? Fiasco.
- 33:14Speaker 2: They got robbed. They got screwed. Western got screwed. I
- 33:17Speaker 2: figured you'd be on the side of the Broncos on
- 33:19Speaker 2: this one.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 33:21Speaker 5: And, you know, and I didn't see the game in
- 33:23Speaker 5: its entirety, but Big Ten does that 60 minute replay.
- 33:27Speaker 5: It was on yesterday morning. I watched the whole thing
- 33:28Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh, my God, that was terrible. And
- 33:31Speaker 5: I know it's a bad look for the commissioner of
- 33:33Speaker 5: the MAC now coming out two, three days later after agreeing.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Oh, thanks.
- 33:37Speaker 5: Thanks, Michigan, for the explanation. And now he's against it
- 33:40Speaker 5: and they're filing a form of protest.
- 33:41Speaker 3: But.
- 33:42Speaker 1: I'm with them. I just, I don't know how they
- 33:43Speaker 1: made that call.
- 33:44Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 33:44Speaker 1: And I do.
- 33:45Speaker 3: I saw some of the backlash that he was getting. Now,
- 33:48Speaker 3: maybe this is soft to me. I do get it. Like,
- 33:50Speaker 3: I totally understand you're in that middle. You're in the
- 33:53Speaker 3: hornet's nest and we got cashes, the checks that.
- 33:56Speaker 1: Need to cash, right?
- 33:56Speaker 3: Like we need to clear this money before I come
- 33:59Speaker 3: on out on Tuesday and say, this is a travesty.
- 34:02Speaker 3: And I'm sure it was a big check too. Well,
- 34:04Speaker 3: 1.5 mil, right? So, I mean, like, and there's going
- 34:07Speaker 3: to be a Western Illinois that's going to be cashing
- 34:09Speaker 3: one coming up this week.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Eastern Michigan's going to Wisconsin in a couple of weeks.
- 34:12Speaker 5: UMass cashed a big one last week and then kicked
- 34:14Speaker 5: the hell out of Rutgers.
- 34:15Speaker 3: And then danced into that athletic department and said, let
- 34:18Speaker 3: me see that money. Was that one coach in the GIF?
- 34:21Speaker 3: Tell him, bring me my money.
- 34:23Speaker 1: That's right.
- 34:23Speaker 4: Yes, I got to find that one again.
- 34:26Speaker 1: That's awesome. Absolute classic. Dolph, good to have you back.
- 34:29Speaker 1: All right, fellas. Always better.
- 34:31Speaker 3: Go Brewers.
- 34:31Speaker 1: Get your shirt off. How about that?
- 34:33Speaker 2: Now we're going to have to go through withdrawals because
- 34:35Speaker 2: when the Brewers play 16 days in a row, it's
- 34:37Speaker 2: like we got something.
- 34:38Speaker 1: Now there's today. Yeah. But we got the huddle live
- 34:42Speaker 1: at Pottawatomie Sportsbook. That'll make it better. 5 o'clock club.
- 34:45Speaker 4: All right.
- 34:45Speaker 1: That's right.
- 34:46Speaker 2: 5 to 7, we'll be there in the annex right
- 34:48Speaker 2: adjacent to the sportsbook, chopping it up, having some fun.
- 34:52Speaker 1: And what's the phrase that pays? Pay the toll, baby.
- 34:56Speaker 1: Pay the toll. Armand's been trolling Illinois people. Pay the toll.
- 34:59Speaker 4: I do.
- 34:59Speaker 1: On your way.
- 35:00Speaker 4: Now our text line's going crazy about quick tripping Casey's.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Drive home safely and pay your tolls.
- 35:05Speaker 2: Take a quick break. Hunter joins us at 725. You're
- 35:07Speaker 2: in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and
- 35:11Speaker 2: Armand bringing it to you on the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 35:15Speaker 1: 877-794-1973.
- 35:16Speaker 2: Your ticket to the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. Time
- 35:19Speaker 2: for a current electric superhero of the day.
- 35:23Speaker 3: Billy, who do you like? Call Current.com is the website.
- 35:25Speaker 3: I know you like them. I love Current Electric. I
- 35:28Speaker 3: love the superheroes at Current Electric. Love being able to
- 35:30Speaker 3: know that you're talking to family people in the area. Drew,
- 35:34Speaker 3: you know people that have worked at Current Electric. Good, wholesome, true,
- 35:37Speaker 3: honest people that are going to be superheroes for your home,
- 35:42Speaker 3: your electrical needs, all over the place, whether it's a
- 35:44Speaker 3: Current Electric whole home standby generator, just trying to get
- 35:46Speaker 3: some lighting fixed. Maybe you're trying to turn on the
- 35:50Speaker 3: party scene into your basement. You hear us talk about
- 35:52Speaker 3: the 5 o'clock club all the time. And you're like,
- 35:54Speaker 3: you know what I should be doing? Listening to the
- 35:57Speaker 3: 5 o'clock club in a 5 o'clock club-like basement. Get
- 36:00Speaker 3: some nice lighting out in the basement. Go to callcurrent.com
- 36:03Speaker 3: to be able to schedule that. I feel like I
- 36:06Speaker 3: want to give it to Christian Yelich because I don't
- 36:08Speaker 3: know that the 8-6 runaway for a moment happens without
- 36:12Speaker 3: his three-run shot.
- 36:13Speaker 1: But can you give it to anybody but Jack Centurio?
- 36:16Speaker 1: He's so hot right now.
- 36:18Speaker 3: I just don't know that I honestly can give it
- 36:21Speaker 3: anywhere other than Jack Centurio. Seven for ten in the
- 36:25Speaker 3: last two games. You can count it up to go
- 36:28Speaker 3: eight of 14 for the three-game set against the Cubs,
- 36:31Speaker 3: including two bombs, a double in there. And he drives
- 36:35Speaker 3: in six runs in the three games. And yesterday he's
- 36:38Speaker 3: three for five. He appears to be a walking base hit.
- 36:42Speaker 3: As he walks into the batter's box right now, the
- 36:46Speaker 3: confidence is oozing from him. And he might not be
- 36:50Speaker 3: having drew the best season in baseball, but rolling into
- 36:53Speaker 3: the month of September as we're right into the throes
- 36:55Speaker 3: of it. He might be the hottest hitter right now
- 36:57Speaker 3: in all of baseball. That's going to be a dangerous
- 36:59Speaker 3: thing for teams to have to deal with. Jack Centurio,
- 37:02Speaker 3: your current electric superhero of the day.
- 37:05Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
- 37:06Speaker 4: Hey, I've got one. If I could throw in a
- 37:08Speaker 4: little bit of an honorable mention. Well, this would be
- 37:10Speaker 4: like the superhero of the day 34 years ago yesterday.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Where were you?
- 37:14Speaker 4: September 9th, 1992.
- 37:18Speaker 5: Back in against Mesa, who is working from the windup.
- 37:21Speaker 1: The 0-1 pitch.
- 37:23Speaker 4: Swings, and there it is! A base hit in the
- 37:28Speaker 4: right center. He's done it. 3,000 for Robin. Patented Arman style,
- 37:36Speaker 4: missing the anniversary by one day, but 34 years ago yesterday, Drew.
- 37:38Speaker 4: 34 years ago this week.
- 37:44Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
- 37:45Speaker 3: This week, 34 years ago, Robin Youd had his 3,000th hit.
- 37:49Speaker 3: And thank you for playing that because it allows me
- 37:52Speaker 3: to also celebrate the honorable mention, superhero of the day,
- 37:55Speaker 3: Brewers TV.
- 37:56Speaker 1: Yes.
- 37:57Speaker 3: Tonight at 6 o'clock, your opportunity to stream the Uke documentary.
- 38:02Speaker 3: They have been putting this out throughout that you will get.
- 38:04Speaker 3: 24 hours only.
- 38:06Speaker 4: Okay.
- 38:07Speaker 1: 24 hours only. Brewers TV. Possibility to stream it.
- 38:11Speaker 3: They've been putting up and talking about it a little
- 38:12Speaker 3: bit during the broadcast the last couple of days. I
- 38:15Speaker 3: got to see it. I went and saw it in
- 38:16Speaker 3: theaters a month or so ago. You saw it.
- 38:19Speaker 4: It was.
- 38:20Speaker 1: It was so good.
- 38:21Speaker 3: And for Brewers fans to be able to sit back,
- 38:24Speaker 3: hang out in, you know what, maybe in your basement,
- 38:26Speaker 3: I mean, your living room where you listen to you
- 38:28Speaker 3: for a long time, memories are going to flood.
- 38:32Speaker 1: Just spend an off day because you're drew. You said
- 38:34Speaker 1: it withdrawals.
- 38:35Speaker 3: The only thing that's worse than this is when you
- 38:37Speaker 3: sit back, it's like one o'clock start on a Wednesday and,
- 38:41Speaker 3: And then they don't play until seven 40 on Friday night.
- 38:43Speaker 3: It feels like don't play for a week tonight. You
- 38:46Speaker 3: get you right there in the middle of it. That'll
- 38:48Speaker 3: be perfect.
- 38:48Speaker 4: Amazing. I love that little tidbit there. And aside of
- 38:51Speaker 4: the times guys, it's kind of funny to think about
- 38:53Speaker 4: when you think about Brewers TV and the way game
- 38:56Speaker 4: set and television have matriculated and expanded. And that game
- 38:59Speaker 4: was not on TV. So kind of a sign of
- 39:01Speaker 4: the times.
- 39:01Speaker 1: Hard to believe. Yeah.
- 39:03Speaker 4: It was not on TV.
- 39:03Speaker 2: The mother of all walk-ups, too. People went and were
- 39:06Speaker 2: buying tickets because they thought it might happen. I was actually,
- 39:09Speaker 2: that's one that I missed. One of the signature events
- 39:13Speaker 2: that I missed because I was in Tampa getting ready
- 39:15Speaker 2: to cover the Packers and Buccaneers.
- 39:18Speaker 3: Oh! And that would have 92 start to the Tampa
- 39:21Speaker 3: Bay season. That's a less than glorious season opener, too,
- 39:25Speaker 3: isn't it? I mean, going to Tampa is not a
- 39:28Speaker 3: bad deal, but that would have been Favre's first year.
- 39:30Speaker 3: They lost big. Yes, because Favre was about to be
- 39:33Speaker 3: born the next week, right?
- 39:35Speaker 4: Am I right, Drew? If I remember correctly, it was
- 39:37Speaker 4: in that Packers lost big.
- 39:38Speaker 1: The Tampa got crushed 31 to 31, three.
- 39:40Speaker 4: It was Owen two. And then the next week was
- 39:43Speaker 4: the Bengals game.
- 39:45Speaker 3: Oh, so there would have been some steam coming off
- 39:47Speaker 3: of Magic Man.
- 39:47Speaker 4: People were excited at that point. It wouldn't have been
- 39:49Speaker 4: completely low. Yeah, but the Favre thing didn't really... The
- 39:53Speaker 4: big moment from that year. Yeah, so there would have
- 39:55Speaker 4: been some, but boy, isn't that crazy to think about
- 39:58Speaker 4: how much was about to change in Wisconsin sports.
- 40:00Speaker 2: My dad and stepmom and sister were living down there
- 40:03Speaker 2: at the time, so I went down early.
- 40:06Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one. I remember my crew was.
- 40:08Speaker 2: I got down there early, so I had a pretty
- 40:09Speaker 2: good tan going, and Tony Mandarich wasn't talking to local reporters.
- 40:13Speaker 1: But he thought I was a Florida guy, so he
- 40:15Speaker 1: talked to me. Nice. Way to go, Drew. I did
- 40:19Speaker 1: a little end around there.
- 40:20Speaker 4: Hunter joins us at 725.
- 40:21Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.