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08/05/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Steering the ship. Now that Billy is on his way
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  Speaker 1: up to Green Bay to cover Packers practice, you will
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  Speaker 1: hear training Camp live with Billy and Wayne Larvie, the
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  Speaker 1: voice of the Packers that comes up from eleven to one.
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  Speaker 1: Destination Radio can also stream that on Facebook X and YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: as you can with this show. Happy to be broadcasting too,
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  Speaker 1: smart good looking listeners statewide who listen to us on
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  Speaker 1: nine twenty Milwaukee, ten seventy of Medisine and everywhere on
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  Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. It's a buy or Sell Tuesday. We've
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  Speaker 1: been so busy we haven't done any buying or selling transactions. Todeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Send the buyer sell if you'd like to
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  Speaker 1: propose something for us to buy or sell. Eight seven
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  Speaker 1: seven seven nine four seven three is your ticket into
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  Speaker 1: the Nicolay lot dot com talk a text line and
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  Speaker 1: you're buying or selling that. My initial theory that we
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  Speaker 1: opened the show with it, Scott Boris had more to
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  Speaker 1: do with Tarrek Scouble going to the Dodgers than the
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  Speaker 1: owners and the secret quest for a salary cap.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll buy it, at least some of it,
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  Speaker 2: because I got to buy something. Because other there's got
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  Speaker 2: to be some better explanation than what I'm getting about
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  Speaker 2: this situation.
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  Speaker 1: If what we think is.
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  Speaker 2: True about the offers, why the Tigers took that one,
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  Speaker 2: and why they did it right away, that's what I
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  Speaker 2: don't get.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's some you know it was.
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  Speaker 2: I made reference to Scott Harris, that's the Tiger's president
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  Speaker 2: of baseball operations, and some of his explanations today have
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  Speaker 2: still kind of puzzled me.
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  Speaker 1: And I read that. I read it over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: The the other main question.
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  Speaker 2: Was why they didn't stretch the negotiations out, and he said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't any you need to stretch it further. Harris said,
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  Speaker 2: the organizations that were involved were extremely aggressive, and they
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  Speaker 2: put in what I believe to be their max offers,
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  Speaker 2: and then they just added to those offers and also
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  Speaker 2: got to the point of almost audible pain when they
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  Speaker 2: actually produced their best boll offers and they gave it
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  Speaker 2: to us and we pulled the trigger. The notion that
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  Speaker 2: we should have waited twenty four to forty hours later
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  Speaker 2: extracted more value, that's garbage. That's not how negotiations work.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I just don't buy that. The whole thing
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  Speaker 2: about It was just weird, like, oh, you should have
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  Speaker 2: heard the pain in their voice when they were offering this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the Dodgers had much pain about loading
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  Speaker 2: up to this already h stacked roster and not giving
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  Speaker 2: up any of their top three outfielders or any other Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's garbage. That's how this works. Well, what do you
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  Speaker 2: mean it's not works people do all the time. I
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  Speaker 2: just I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I don't know, but it just doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to hold water for me. In somewhere. I like that
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  Speaker 1: we do a breaking news. This is for Billy. He's
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  Speaker 1: probably listening to us and not on his phone. News
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  Speaker 1: out of Atlanta, Bjon Robinson has agreed to a three
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  Speaker 1: year extension with the Falcons seventy five million, fifty one
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  Speaker 1: million guaranteed. He's now the highest paid running back in
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: There you go and people saying, well, is he the best? Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not works markets you know, all that closed.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, he's the highest paid until the next guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way it works. You had that is a
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  Speaker 1: temporary title, if ever there was one highest paid anything
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL is temporary. Fifty one million guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: That's a record and thirty seven million at signing, So
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  Speaker 2: you basically get thirty seven million dollars deposit on your
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  Speaker 2: app and your bank account.
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  Speaker 1: Is that's true? Well, I mean that taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, right, so would be like maybe nineteen nineteen or
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  Speaker 2: twenty maybe eighteen eighteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's a nice chunk of change. Huh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So we're buying our selling. We watch your
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  Speaker 1: propositions eight seven seven seven nine four ninety seven three
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  Speaker 1: one of the things. And you heard it in RUSS
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  Speaker 1: Douglas is up late update Doug Russell doing the updates
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  Speaker 1: for us. Uh. You heard it today that the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: game ended last night on an ABS challenge Jackson Turio
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  Speaker 1: at the plate Brewers ball called pirates challenge. It's a
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  Speaker 1: strike came over. We've not seen that with the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: That to my knowledge, a game ending ABS challenge. Are
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  Speaker 1: you buying or selling that. We're already accepting of the
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  Speaker 1: ABS system and see it as a positive even when
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  Speaker 1: it ends a game like oh, I think my brain
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  Speaker 1: goes to what if a World Series game ends?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be it'd be a weird way to
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  Speaker 2: end it because you'd have to wait to do the celebration.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing on a Monday in August, but it
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  Speaker 1: would be a different animal if it close to that,
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  Speaker 1: And it's that we're set up for that to happen,
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  Speaker 1: and it definitely could be in the cards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll have a problem with it because I think
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  Speaker 2: that's it's worth the way it's Yeah, and osmall also,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's been efficient, so I think it's
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  Speaker 2: been a big success. Whether or not it ended that
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  Speaker 2: it would end that way. That's like when you win
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  Speaker 2: a national title and they have to review it, like
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  Speaker 2: when Noble won the buzzer beater in basketball and they
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  Speaker 2: have to review it to make sure the ball went
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  Speaker 2: off in time. It's it's a little anti climactic, which
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  Speaker 2: would stink for the winning team because you don't have that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, organic moment of euphoria. You have to wait
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  Speaker 2: for it. But it's still there eventually. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: have a problem with it. I think it's worked really well.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been a great change, just like the
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  Speaker 2: pitch clock has been. As much as I didn't believe
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  Speaker 2: in the pitchclock at first, I have to admit I'm
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  Speaker 2: wrong on that too, So ABS.
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  Speaker 1: Has worked wonderfully, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been made umpires better, and I'm a
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  Speaker 2: amazed at how well catchers and batters to this strike
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  Speaker 2: zone consistently.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are so good.
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  Speaker 2: So I do worry though, I mean, this would happen
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  Speaker 2: to the Brewers one day, like we are destined to
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  Speaker 2: finally break our you know, drought, win our first World Series,
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  Speaker 2: all the.
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  Speaker 1: Decades and decades and decades.
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  Speaker 2: Of waiting to finally have that moment, and it somehow
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  Speaker 2: be ruined by an ABS, Like not that we wouldn't win,
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  Speaker 2: but the moment would be ruined, Like you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: I've always worried about that, Like is that moment going
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  Speaker 2: to be ruined or are you gonna not? We have
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  Speaker 2: to win on a certain way where it's not as
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  Speaker 2: exciting of a walk off or like when the Brewers
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  Speaker 2: of Clinch divisions they've watched on TV other teams losing.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not the same right as catching the final
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  Speaker 2: out and having the dog pile.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. That's the only thing I worry about, frankly,
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  Speaker 1: is that our be ruined.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about the system not working, right, I'm
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  Speaker 2: worried that it would ruin our moment and it'd be
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  Speaker 2: our time to get it, and it still wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: the wouldn't be the same.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a classic or mentality. It's like, yeah, well
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  Speaker 2: we won the World Toweries, but we couldn't get a
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  Speaker 2: cool celebration. Yeah, you know, so I guess that that
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  Speaker 2: means inherently that I'm not worried that we don't have
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  Speaker 2: a puncher's chance, which was another buyer cell that we
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  Speaker 2: had from Johnny Cribbage. Buy our Celebrewers with their puncher's chance,
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  Speaker 2: and I say, of course, you have a puncher's chance.
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  Speaker 2: This is still the best team in baseball record wise.
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  Speaker 2: Enough of this, Okay, the dray Line's over. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna woe is Me persecution theory. Just because the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: got better, a lot better, just because they were already better,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean we can't go and find a way to
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  Speaker 2: overcome adversity and win a series. Maybe it's less likely,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make anything impossible. This is baseball totally, you know, totally.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it yesterday, Arman. In the wake of
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers and I loved what my buddy Jeff Perlman
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  Speaker 2: said about the Dodgers, Like.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the joy in this? Like you can't do you
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  Speaker 1: take joy if your Dodgers mean you were around them
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  Speaker 1: so clearly they did. Absolutely do You already have the
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  Speaker 1: best team and now you're adding to the best team
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  Speaker 1: and it's not that's not like the excitement that would
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  Speaker 1: have been here. So I'll say that people would come
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  Speaker 1: to Milwaukee, it would have been different.
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  Speaker 2: Layer that's true. I mean I'll say this, like the
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  Speaker 2: joy feels different when you do something and you haven't
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  Speaker 2: done it. It's always cool the first time, Like it's
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  Speaker 2: like if you win your first World Series or like
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  Speaker 2: does anything I ever feel like, oh, Waight Brewers or eleven,
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  Speaker 2: Like like the excitement we haven't had for a while,
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  Speaker 2: Like when you're a team and you are so starved
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  Speaker 2: for success. Remember when the Bills made the playoffs for
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  Speaker 2: the first time. I mean now that Packers always made
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, So people aren't gonna feel the same way,
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  Speaker 2: like wain the division. The Brewers have a great shot
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  Speaker 2: obviously this year within the division again and that would
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  Speaker 2: be how many years in a row? But could eventually
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  Speaker 2: that feeling desensitizes right after a while. It's like watching
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  Speaker 2: you honest for a million time make it an incredible play,
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  Speaker 2: you do get desensitized. So I think that's your question,
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  Speaker 2: is like what is the joy in it? But there's
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  Speaker 2: still joy because you're a fan of a team. You
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  Speaker 2: want to win the World Series every year, you want
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  Speaker 2: to win every year. You constantly want that, like that
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  Speaker 2: will never go away when you're really a fan of it.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I'll disagree with Jeff on that one
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  Speaker 2: because that just like if we're Packers fans, we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to you know, the Packers won three titles in a row.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: Packers fans want to win again in sixty eight for sure.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean, what do Bulls fans constantly complain about
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Krause's you know, Rest in Peace about is that
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't win a seventh. They won six titles eight
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  Speaker 2: years in there, and they're constantly upset about the seventh.
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  Speaker 2: There's a there's a whole ten hour documentary about the
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  Speaker 2: last Dance that they didn't go longer. It's like the
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  Speaker 2: Orne six enough, Like it clearly isn't.
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  Speaker 1: If you're the other side of that coin because I
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  Speaker 1: was we were talking about history and Armin, you're a historian.
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  Speaker 1: Love it, hobbyist, love it. The Dodgers are trying to
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  Speaker 1: win their third straight World Series title and then we
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  Speaker 1: had no repeat champions for twenty five years, right, right,
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to win their fourth in seven years,
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  Speaker 1: and what's the narrative? Baseball is broken? They need to
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  Speaker 1: fix this. Did anybody say that in the NBA when
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  Speaker 1: we had four years in a row of the Cavs
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  Speaker 1: facing the Warriors in the in the finals, it was
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  Speaker 1: all about bowsers, you know, it was all about it
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  Speaker 1: was right because it was Steph Curry and Lebron. It
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  Speaker 1: was the stars and we got to see it and
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  Speaker 1: it was awesome. Did anybody say, break up the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: Brady and Belichick. They're too good, they're dominating. So why
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  Speaker 1: do we like we like dynasties. It was the homegrown
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  Speaker 1: thing too. Have some homegrown guys, yeah, but mostly they
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  Speaker 1: can mostly add. But I'm just saying, like, like people
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  Speaker 1: started to get we love dynasties and we bemoan when
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  Speaker 1: there aren't dynasties, and then you get what looks like
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  Speaker 1: a dynasty with the Dodgers, who are playing within the rules.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they just have a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: but they it's there's a lot of teams with with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money that don't have the farm system
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  Speaker 1: they do. They don't have the manager they do. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have the roster decisions they can build a roster.
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  Speaker 1: They have a manager who and I've said Dave Roberts
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  Speaker 1: is underrated because to get guys in that atmosphere with
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  Speaker 1: the celebrities and the distractions of LA to pull in
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  Speaker 1: the same direction and to accept their roles and to
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  Speaker 1: not try to be heroes and try to move runners
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  Speaker 1: and play the game the right way. They do all
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  Speaker 1: those things they've done.
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  Speaker 2: What the Yankees haven't been able to do is musical
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  Speaker 2: or the Mets, and that's what's in Mets too, But
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  Speaker 2: that's what Yankees fans for us.
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  Speaker 1: But they feel like we should be that team, right,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt, so to speak. And so cash Man like,
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  Speaker 1: where's our farms? Why don't we draft better? And the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees have won what twenty eight World Series or was
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  Speaker 1: it twenty nine? Whatever it is seven seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yankees fans aren't going to tell you they're happy because
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  Speaker 2: they haven't won in a while, So that's just the
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  Speaker 2: reality would have been no.
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  Speaker 1: But so you're right. The thing is they've done it.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is with the Dodgers, and you said it before. Sports,
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  Speaker 1: in life, things come in cycles. Right, you're up one time,
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  Speaker 1: you're up for a while, you're down for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Like we always say, ninety percent of being a fan
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  Speaker 1: is getting kicked in the nuts. But the Dodgers have
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  Speaker 1: won two straight. They're hoping for three this year. If
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  Speaker 1: they win, it'll be four of the last seven. But
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  Speaker 1: before that run started, they went thirty four years without
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  Speaker 1: winning a championship.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's the point I was gonna make is before
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  Speaker 2: this started, the Dodgers were like the poster child of unconfirmed,
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  Speaker 2: unaffirmed like success.
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  Speaker 1: Totally yeah, because I mean, and they drew like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: They always led the world in attendance and they still do.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a great ballpark, great tradition, so they've got
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  Speaker 1: everything right now. But there was thirty four years when
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  Speaker 1: they were stumbling in the wooders and didn't win a championship.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one, twenty two, twenty three drew.
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  Speaker 2: They won one hundred and six, one hundred and eleven
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  Speaker 2: and one hundred games and didn't win the World Series,
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  Speaker 2: didn't even make it, one hundred eleven, one hundred and eleven.
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  Speaker 2: And this was after there and and Drew and Billy
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  Speaker 2: said it. So that's one of the Mickey Mouse ring.
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  Speaker 2: And then they had one hundred and six win team
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  Speaker 2: that didn't make the World Series, one hundred four.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred and eleven wins and they didn't make it because
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  Speaker 1: Bets disappeared. That's been Yeah, that's the things kind of
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  Speaker 1: the thing. And that's what again, this whole thing about
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  Speaker 1: the salary cap. I mean, there's a salary cap in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, and there has been for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Weren't they the first league with a salary cap, the
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  Speaker 1: NBA before the NFL. I think they might have been. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have to go back and look on that one.
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  Speaker 1: But the NBA has a salary cap, and yet they're
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: they have like less diversity of champions in the last
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years than baseball, though so does the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and the in the in a salary cap league explained
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  Speaker 1: to me the Sacramento Kings, sure, who suck every year,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just a you know, they're just never a thought.
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  Speaker 1: They're never going to get free agents. There's a caps.
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  Speaker 2: There's always exceptions, but you're right, there are teams like that.
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  Speaker 2: The Cincinnati Bengals, it don't operate well. They had a
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  Speaker 2: moment where Burrow got him close, but then a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part, the Cleveland Browns like teams that suck, suck.
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  Speaker 1: Salary cap be damned. So I don't know, and people
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  Speaker 1: who are pining for a salary cap, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that that's the best thing, because well, salary cap would
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  Speaker 1: have let the Brewers keep Willia Damas. Was that the
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: right move, would would would have you know, signing Freddy
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: parral To to an extension been the right move? Probably not? Sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, having that money David's turns. You loved what
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: he did Milwaukee. How's he been with unlimited resources in
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  Speaker 1: New York? Not great?
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  Speaker 2: No, the results have not been great. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: thing in sports. You can't guarantee results.
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  Speaker 1: And especially in baseball, because baseball is the most random
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  Speaker 1: thing because in a three or a five game series
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  Speaker 1: anything can happen. The best team doesn't always win well.
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  Speaker 2: And we thought, we always think that results like verified process,
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't work that way, and it just doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: I made the point, and you were gone. I think
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  Speaker 1: when the Rockies. Uh, I think I said it when
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  Speaker 1: the Rockies weren't down. Maybe you were here. I lose
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  Speaker 1: track of the days, but there were. There was a
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  Speaker 1: stat about strength of schedule moving forward, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: don't look at that because in the next two months,
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  Speaker 1: because when the Brewers play the Rockies, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they won two out of three right at home, didn't
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  Speaker 1: they The Rockies get the last game. I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: if they swept them or not. I think the No,
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  Speaker 1: the Rockies won the last game.
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  Speaker 2: I think and it says it's hard to remember now
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to remember that there was so much mixed stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is, though that and I said that,
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  Speaker 1: like Smers won that series. I'm sorry they won't the series,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think they swept. No, it was two
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  Speaker 1: out of three. Yeah, and that's what and and that's
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  Speaker 1: what I said, is like, don't look past and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Birus should beat the Rockies, because I covered many
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  Speaker 1: Brewers teams that went into series against contending teams with
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  Speaker 1: World Series teams in August and September, and they would
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: win the series and shock the world because those teams
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: are playing loose. Guys are auditioning for their next jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Until like the past week when when the Rockies were
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  Speaker 1: in town, a bunch of their guys thought they were
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  Speaker 1: gonna get traded. They're playing their asses off, hoping to
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  Speaker 1: get out of Colorado. And when you play in Colorado
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  Speaker 1: these days, they play a home game, most of the
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: fans are there for the other team. They've you know,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: they've kind of killed that. There's no juice for the Rockies,
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: and there shouldn't be because they've sucked for a while.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: But the Rockies come to Milwaukee and the stands are
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: full and it's a playoff atmosphere that raises your level
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: of play. So those teams that you think are doormats
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: in baseball, it's not the case. It's not true. They
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: can win just as well and it doesn't matter. Like
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: the guy who pitched for the Pirates last night, the
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: guy who pitched for the Angels on Sunday, I think
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: any given day a guy can shove and you just
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: can't say, well, they should win that because that team's
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: in the last place. That doesn't matter. The Burers can't
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: beat the Pirates right now. There was a time when
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: the Bruce couldn't lose to the Pirates.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Right, And just because the last couple ye as a
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: gone chalk doesn't mean that the Brs have kicked sand
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: in the Cardinals faces for a while.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: There was a time when the Bruers couldn't beat the Cardinals.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: I don't like the idea that just because the Dodgers
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: are better on paper, but the Brewers have are gonna
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: have to get sweat.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Well, everybody's got PTSD because of last year. Yeah, but
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: the last year was the perfect storm where and the
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Dodgers throughout that playoff run. Their best baseball of last
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: year on their road to the championship was the four
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: games against Malwaii. I agree, because that was their best
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: four game stretch of the season. A lot of people
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the four games against the lot of people think the
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Jays could have been should have been. Didn't the Brewers
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: sweep them in the regular season last year?
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, of course they were a different team in the playoffs, true, and.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: That's the way they are. And they can road manage.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, they haven't had snell Er Glass now all year.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: But the thing is, the Blue Jays played a lot
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: better and the Brewers were as good as the Blue
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Jays in my opinion last year.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't play that way in those moments in the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: in those in that four game window. And that's what
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: it comes down to is four games. And baseball is
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: so random, more than any other sports. Dust as a
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: tough fire cell.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: And and it makes me think about this, Like Matt
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Arnold when he was asked about the World Series kind
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: of paused and said, it's not my job to think
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: about that right now, or something like that. Do you
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: believe the Brewers make it their job to try and
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: should their job be to win the World Series? Drew
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: or to be consistently successful? These two seem to be
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the odds with each other.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Now for small markets, I don't know why they Why
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: are they? I mean, the way to win the World
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Series is to be successful.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but to spend, like let's think of it like
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: a household budget. If your if your goal was to
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: take one big vacation or have one big party budget,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: be damned for the next twenty years to maintain your house.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Aren't those at odds with each other?
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Like like we can the Brewers could have no emptied
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: emptied the.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Barrel for one year to try and win. Let's say
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: it work.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: No guarantee it does, But isn't that detrimental going forward
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: to what they have to do to maintain their franchise.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I mean the Brewers have to win to keep the
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: lights on. I mean, I guess if you're looking at.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Like, the Brewers have to to be profitable and to
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: be financial fiscally solvent. The Brewers have to be successful
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: to forgate for all these things, to.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Make the flights of the apples. The team that's won
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: that how many straight divisions have they won? Well, sure,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: but they want they haven't won. And that's again it
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: speaks to the randomness of baseball, right, well.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Because does it? I'll say, like that was a chicken
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: blank thing to say.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: And well, first of all, dust and like they can't. First,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: you're not in the playoffs yet you have two months
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: left for the season. There's no guaranteed.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: The fact that we're thinking that the pat Brewers are
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: in should tell you something.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: When I when I was looking at the trading deadline,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's not just you think these moves are
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: for October. These moves are for August and September. Right,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: we have a season to player, you have to finish
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the damn season. You have to. The job is when
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and putting yourself in a position. The Burrs finished with
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the best record in baseball last year and made it
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: to the NLCS. There were four wins away from the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: World Series and they didn't win. They got swept. So
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: then what then, like they should have gone all in?
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Likely again, they have this farm system, and the farm
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: system exists to get stock your big league team and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: to make trades, and they clearly tried and they almost
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: did something irresponsible. I guess that's what Dustin wanted. But
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: that doesn't give you any more guarantee of success than
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: what they're doing than the staying the course and like
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: what they you know, that's the thing.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: You're just trying to run it. You're just trying to
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: crease your chances. And there's no question Schoobls and needle
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: mover in two ways.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: You have him and the outside of the Dodgers, the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Birds are the best run organization in baseball.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: No question, no question about it. The question and is
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: that enough for people if it doesn't mean World Series time? No,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I think that's my that's the real issue.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: And everybody who says everybody who says so, I would
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: trade the title for you know, ten years of sucking.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I hope you buy Bucks season tickets this way.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Well no, they're like that, that's that's false too, because
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the lives. Yeah, we saw that with the Bucks. I
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: think something would be even something clearly aren't. Now, it's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: okay to feel that way, It's okay to feel frustrated.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: It's okay to want to World Series. But what are
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: you willing to do for? And what are you willing
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: to give up for?
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: It?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Is it very tough thing? Would give up your I
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: hate to put these stakes on it? Would you give
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: up your franchise to win it once?
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Like you?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: If you it's not necessarily this like drastic, but with
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the stakes. But let's say the Brewers went for two monster.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Let's say there were two school level guys that you
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: thought could push you over the top. You gave away
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: from their rentals top five prospects rentals and your prospects
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and your system dried up and you couldn't win for
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: a long time and you were in a ten year drought.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe it wouldn't happen if you did it once,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: But if you made that a habit every year.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: You can't do that, right.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: We know that the Brewers can't survive that way and
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: still win, So how much you're willing to give up,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: it's a tough situation when you're in the economic situation
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: the Brewers are in. I think that's the biggest great
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: people have is the system of baseball. And no matter
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: how many people, no matter how many Dodgers fans and
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Dave Roberts will say any team could have done this,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's not the case. It's not true. It's
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: just not true. But but these are the rules you're given.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: So is it better to do what you're doing or not?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I think that's something dusty and says anti hero Matt Arnold,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: the type of step aside and watch a guy kiss
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: his girlfriend.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I I get it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't like fans are just not at
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: a level anymore where they're satisfied with your division, right.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: They're just not They're they're just not rational. Yeah, but
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that's kind of the point of sports. But it isn't
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: it universal though, because you just mentioned the Yankees have
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: all the recesses or resources in the world and they
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: don't win, and their fans are pissed. But it's not
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and it's not rational.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: But sports sometimes is irrational, the feeling of trying to win,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the feeling of hope, the feeling of well, and then
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: it is, it's so Matt Arnold said, irresponsible.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not that different.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I understand why this is not literally like your Househo
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: is this somebody else's money.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: It's a thing about the thing about baseball and part
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of the beauty and the heartbreak, as party a Mighty said,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: baseball breaks your heart. It's designed to break your heart,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: designed to sports is you can hit an absolute one
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: hundred and ten an our rocket into the glove of
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the second basement with the basic loaded, or you can
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: have a fastball in on your thumbs that saws your
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: bat into a thousand pieces and it flares over the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: second basement's head. Which one was the right approach? All right?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: The Brewers are approaching it the right way, but sadly
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: they keep hitting rockets into somebody's glove. Whereas you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: other teams can luck into things. Now, sure the Dodgers
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: have more. The Dodgers can can lose snowl and they
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: can lose like Brewers lost Priest and Woodroff and they're
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: still Perta and they're still in first place with the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: best record in baseball. So don't tell me they're not
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: run well and don't know what they're doing and don't
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: play hard and aren't trying to win or don't want to.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Don't let your frustration say that they don't want to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: win that archer, because it's like Matt Arnold is dying
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to win. They want it so bad. It's what drives
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: them every morning. Yes, and don't say Adam Azio said
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the thing that people glombed onto last year about it
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: is my job the winning World Series, or is to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: provide summer of entertainment. He's not wrong on either front.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It is to win a World Series. That's the point.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I think the point is also the job is to
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: maintain a level of quality, and you can't give up
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: one with the other. Sometimes at least that's the way
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: they look at it. And uh, it's it's amazing. How
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: also our own bubble, in our own frame of reference
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: and our own main character energy for all of us
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: as fans drives it. I mean, we're thinking of this
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: in the bubble in the world of being a Brewers
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: fan and what happens to us and Mike I do
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the same thing. And that perspective was immediately challenged when
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I had five people Dodgers fan saying, don't you know
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: how bad we needed this? Don't you know how bad
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the injuries were for our pitching staff? Like thinking that
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: that what was us poor? Like that's out they're thinking.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: So every team will think in terms every fan thinks,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: excuse me, in terms of their own team and their
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: own needs and their own struggles and their own.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Main character energy. Absolutely so much to this. Ye we're
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: in the huddle Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. I believe I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: want to see it's so bad? Is it our fault
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: now that we wait for streaming? Like hun saw it
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: in the theater? Awesome? That seems like you love it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I want to make sure he went he loved it,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: all right. So somebody's going back and forth, unnamed in
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the six Ways, going back and forth with you. I said, the.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Brewers only are I have the best record in baseball
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: because of a crap division.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: That's obviously wrong. Well, that's not what it was four
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: or five years ago when you played eighteen games against
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the Pirates. Are in the Reds. Like now, it's the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: balance schedule. You're playing every other team, it's less so
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that's diminished.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: That's diminished, and the crab Division things don't matter.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: The World Series is the goal, and you can win
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that via the wildcard. Well, that's the most flawed logic
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of all time. And I said that last year, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I maintain, you win the series, you don't have to
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: play by finishing with a top two record in the league.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: The Brewers didn't have to play that wild card round. Yeah,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I mean there's three rounds now and they so. But
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: they didn't get a Champagne celebration for that. They should
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: have because that is you win the series, you don't
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: have to play, and if you have to play that series,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: it's less likely that you win because you're exposing yourself
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: to the vagaries of a three game series, which is
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: a roll of the dice. It's more of a crap
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: shoot than just about any in sports. I mean, the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Dodgers survived it last year. They had the Reds. Whatever
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: they won, they had they were a.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Different team, but they had to deal with that last year.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers didn't have a bye last year in a
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: three game series. If you lose Game one, You're you're
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: in big trouble obviously, So it's like that pressure on
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: you right away.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So that is that's a dumb statement. Like I just can't.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I just don't understand. Like they didn't suck in the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: playoffs last year, they.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Won basically two rounds, right, I mean they to me
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: and I said it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Last year we won Game five against the Cubs.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: That was a generational series that was an important as
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: important for Brewers fans as any other series there was.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, if the argument is unless we win the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: last game of the baseball season, we're not happy, so
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: be it. That's it's fair for you to want that
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and to make that the standard as a sports fan.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: But don't say that none of it else was good
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: or didn't matter. We just didn't play well against the Dodgers.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: We didn't hit well against the Dodgers. We didn't pitch
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: terribly against the Dodgers. We held Outani down until Game four.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I just don't. I think that's just
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: frustration talking. Yeah, I think that's really it is. Division
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: titles don't matter.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Well what matters? Then, well, division titles don't matter. And
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: to me, It's like, that's what the Packers number one
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: goal is to get back to winning the damn Division.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: If only winning the World Series matters, how do you
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: do that without taking the steps?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Why? What do you tell me? Nothing matters? And that's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: what and if? To me, it's like, if you're obsessing
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: about the World Series on August fourth, you're missing the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: ride of the season. I don't know, you know, don't
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: tell me how to fan. Well, everyone has a different opinion.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Is the Eli the bus. At some point those things
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: will take a turn in the Brewers will be rebuilding,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna look back at this as the golden
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: age of like they were good all the time, and
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: they were you know.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course we will. These are the good
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: old days in a lot of ways, and.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: You're not enjoying it, like the fact that this market
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: will enjoy We've met people talking about.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: The greatness of nineteen eighty two forever. Don't tell me
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: people enjoy it just because lost the world's area and
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: the thing was back then again, there were years. Go
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: back and look at the Burrs.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Records in the seventy eight, eighty eight, seventy eight, seventy
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: nine eight, those were years when they were winning ninety
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: five games and not making the playoffs because of the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: structure of the of baseball, Baseball structure, that's the way
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: until they expanded the playoffs, that was the punishment, right.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, John and Vonni bringing up the Marlins in the nineties, Well,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: technically two thousand and three and ninety seven.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, ninety seven and three they.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Never won over Division two World Series wins both on
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: the Wild Guard poverty franchise in between, and since would
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you ever.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Have poverty fresh? Yeah, in between it since well, yeah,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: here we go. Well they were Yeah, they can't tell me.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Marlins fans have had a good time now they they
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: did win those two World Series.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, how long does that sustain you? The Diamondbacks won
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it in two thousand and one. I haven't won it
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: since the Great World Series ever. Yeah, one of the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: great World Series ever. They made it back, generational left.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: They did make it back. But then it's like, okay again,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: like everybody who says that stuff and as uh, I
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: would trade that, you know, I would trade that title
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: for ten years of sucking. Why are you gonna buy
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Bucks season tickets and watch every game, every minute of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: every game? This year and support. No, right, you're not.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality of it.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: And you know, because the Bucks were the greatest example,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, of this theory when people said, all
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I need is one.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I've never seen one. I just want one to happen
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: once and I'll be happy.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe you will be, maybe some people are, but it
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: was It took fourteen days, Drew, I believe for after
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the Bucks won the dream of all dreams, of world
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: championship after a half century Milwaukee, for Bucks fans to.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Get angry that we weren't resigning. PJ. Tucker.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I was like, here we go. I they're mad again
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: right away. Now it wasn't all Bucks fans. It was
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: some Bucks fans. And maybe it's a solid minority, I
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: get it, or I'm sorry, book minority. But there's a
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: good example of it. Tomy and Styles nailed the Drew
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: and enjoy the ride mad. Tom Ryan asked the guy
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: in six o' eight who was going back and forth
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: who his favorite team is. Yeah, I don't know, I
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: mean yeah, And then he'll tell you don't want.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: It bad enough. I want it more than you. And
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: this is the same old thing, and it's the same
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: old thing.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Benny Ben says a text line, many of these Brewer
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: fans seem to be entitled. I get wanting more, but
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the level of entertainment could be far less than it
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: has been for nearly ten years.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: World Tiers will be great, that's the dream.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: How were focused on having enjoyable seasons and fun at
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: the games? Like everyone, I'd like to be at the
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  Speaker 2: World Series and go to some games, but only two
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: teams can get though so far to just enjoy the ride. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he sounds like the poster child for summer of entertainment
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  Speaker 2: and passion.
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  Speaker 1: So there are something.
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  Speaker 2: There's people that agree with you, Ben, and then some
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  Speaker 2: that probably are blood boiling when they hear you say that.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the dichotomy of this whole thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the reality of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get the feeling that with some people that
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  Speaker 1: they just want to like shut it off and like
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  Speaker 1: and go right to the parade. Right listen, there's no
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to go from August fourth to the championship parade and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: like not forget that I can there's no Qubucks won
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  Speaker 1: the title. And for those who love that, like think
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: of like they were down two oh, they were written
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  Speaker 1: off a million times. Kevin Durant's foot was on the line,
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  Speaker 1: like everything that had to happen for them to win
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  Speaker 1: that title, and that was their one on that run
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  Speaker 1: with the honest I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, we talked about the Dodgers last year like they
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  Speaker 2: rolled into it. I mean they were an inch away
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  Speaker 2: from losing it, like they had to have a lot
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  Speaker 2: other way.
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  Speaker 1: So just you know, tr I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me, nobody, nobody dreams of those moments more than me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what makes me more life worth being
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  Speaker 2: a sports fan is having dreams and hoping for that
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  Speaker 2: moment in the sun.
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  Speaker 1: We all want it. I want it, and you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and a Brewers title would hit differently than the Bucks.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: It would hit differently than a super Bowl. It would
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: hit differently great. Trust me, I wouldn't be okay, I'll
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: hit great. Put this one.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't had it unless you're still around when the
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Braves won. And some of us are, not me, not us,
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, my dad was nine, but he wasn't in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: to it. Tomorrow is gonna be rainy'll be up there too.
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  Speaker 1: I think the drive across the state today, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it can be nice. Tomorrow will rain a little bit probably. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: today is my day to go up there, and I'm
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• 31:03
  Speaker 1: before you know it, it's it's we're in it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when we get Thursdays at the start of State Fair
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  Speaker 1: and Thursday will be one week away from the Packers
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  Speaker 1: preseason open.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: It's just crazy how fast it go, is Drew, Today's.
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  Speaker 1: The first day of high school football practice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know for a lot of people, I know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: if it's not n at the opening day or college
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: able opening day weeks zero what they call it, but
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: preseason camp, it's all starting now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, Winter's here. Your friend from the six o
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: eight who needs to send us his or her name? Yeah,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: just we want to give you a name. We won't
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: give you a name. Yeah, but yeah, here's what I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: enjoy the here's a retort. This one is even. This
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: is you're digging even deeper. Division championships are as significant
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: as intermural championships. Six different teams win them every year.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Look at us, We're the best team in the NL
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Central who cares.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Well, if you prefer four divisions, I'm with you kind of.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I did like those days, well, two divisions per league,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: but don't tell me they're not significant that.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, you get by it. Let's go
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: back to twenty nineteen. Brewers lost the wild card game
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: in Washington. People referred to it as the Trent Grisham
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: error game. Hater melted down. They blew a lead, they
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: hit home runs off of Schurezer to take a lead,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and then lost it, and they lost in heartbreaking fashion.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: That was a tough, gut wrenching way for a season end.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: But if you interview Great Counsel and David Stearns and
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Matt Arnold, and people who were closest to it, that
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: one's stung. But what they will lie awake and during
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: sleepless nights and think about is that the Brewers ended
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: that season with three games in Colorado and got swept,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: And they could have won the division and avoided that
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: game altogether. And so winning the division would have put
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: them out of that game, right, and they wouldn't have
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: had a one game all the marbles, you know, loss,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: And so it's exactly such an asinine thing to say.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Division titles don't matter. What difference does it make if
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you finished with the first or second best record in
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the league. If you don't win the World Series, well
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you don't have to. You don't have to play that
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: first series. You win the series, you don't play. You're right.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: They won two series last year. One of them they
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: didn't even play.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: If we were in the old format where one wildcard
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: team in each league and no one got to buy,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I get your point, like, in that sense, there's no buys,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: there's no real advantage except from the old field. But
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: that's not the case. There's two bys. You're trying to
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: win those. That's a free series.
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  Speaker 1: Usually we're going to Florida or someplace far flung dateline Richfield.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, here we go. Anybody who's driven through Rosendale
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: knows that it's a speed trap. Our friends from Madison
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: know it's like you're gonna get a speeding ticket if
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you're not ultra careful. But apparently the drive from Rosendale
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to Richfield just too long for one Cabellas customer. Six
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: o'clock on Saturday, at Washington County deputy responded to the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: report of a helicopter landing at Cabela's. At Cabel's like
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: in the parking lot or what, the pilot, sixty nine
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: year old Rosendale man, flown to Cabella's because the drive
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: was too long, so he choppered in who was he?
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  Speaker 1: Lebron The pilot was properly licensed, landed safely, and complied
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: with all applicable Federal Aviation Administration regulations. He was not
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: cited and faces no violations. So he cleared it with
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the FA's if you have a helicopter, wouldn't you? I mean,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I guess I gotta go run an errand? But did
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: he do?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: What are the little limits of that? How did he
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: know the space was open? Was it a field?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Probably? Probably? I mean, it's like, what is that kind
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of remote? But thanks? So he's right there. What is
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: this Milwaukeemedia League Football Toronto reference. If you know, if
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you know that, man, that's going back two decades. But
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: that's yeah, that that story cracks me out.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I mean listen, that's like the little bows, the rumor
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: with the lebron thing, and you know some guy. Some
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: people do it out of necessity. They fly around in shoppers.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Would you do it if you could? I mean, Kobe thing,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: maybe think differently, Yeah, maybe, But you know what the
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: reality is. You could get in a car accident too.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I mean it's obviously we know that bad things can happen.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I've never flown to the helicopter. You've been in the
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: chopper room. I think I have, yeah choppers. Yeah, they
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: were flying overhead here the other day and you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I had my track were the Yeah, I don't know
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: what it was military or something.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I have no idea what's going on.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: But there's always independent choppers as well. News shoppers are
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: less so than they used to be.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Every station used to have a chopper droomwnes, you know. Yeah,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: drones are taken over.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have the personal uh flying machines yet.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: The jet packs at the Super Bowl, one jet pack. Yeah,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: like they said in the general, we get those Yeah, nice,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that would be nice.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Although kids are flying around on those e bikes like
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: there's everyone's got somebody.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, Yeah, no doubt. All right, So Birds
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: look to get back on track this evening at American
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Family Field. They can use a win. I mean, the
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Cubs had the Dodgers.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: You kind of hope for someone to slow the Cubs
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: down here, and you think, okay, if it's the Dodgers, great.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Well, and the Cubs are gonna have wining their sales
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: because they're happy with the acquisitions they made. Theirs should
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: be happy too. They've upgraded some key spots. They added
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: some guys that are gonna help. I think not the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: guys that people wanted, though, And I think it was
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Sam Deckers who tweeted out, like, you know, people like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Bru's gotta go all in trade prospects. Well, not those
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: prospects exactly. Partying is such sweet sorrow. All right. We
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: covered a lot of ground today. We had a lot
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: of fun. Thanks to Doll for coming in, Thanks to
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Billy for popping in on his way to Green Bay.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I'm headed for practice as well. We have plenty to
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: talk about tomorrow. It's hot Take hump Day on the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: program tomorrow. Looking forward to that. So we will see
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: you again at five am. Great to have Arman back,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: great to be back. Yes, indeed, have a great, great Tuesday.
• 36:55
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