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10/07/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Wednesday edition, hot take hump day edition of the huddle
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  Speaker 1: Fox sports radio, Wisconsin. We welcome you to hit us up.
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  Speaker 1: Nicolet law.com. Talking text line, eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
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  Speaker 1: one 97, three. Say drew Billy Arman. I got a
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  Speaker 1: hot take for you. We're serving them up.
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  Speaker 2: Mine was five seconds ago when I was ripping. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't rip on him, but Billy was getting on me
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  Speaker 2: because I was like, can you believe Sal hit one
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  Speaker 2: that hard.
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  Speaker 1: To the wall? Oh, the Merrill catch? Yeah, it's famous
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  Speaker 1: now because Murph was on live, obviously. Merrill went in
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  Speaker 1: both directions to take away Rockets. Gosh, he's good.
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  Speaker 2: To snare some Rockets. He's just covering. I mean, PCA's good,
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  Speaker 2: but he's just as covering ground, it seems like, from
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  Speaker 2: the naked eye.
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  Speaker 1: Robin S. Ritz. That Churrio one was a momentum shifter,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, early on. I had Chris Taylor flashbacks. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you get. It was early in the game instead of late.
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  Speaker 1: You get him in the gap early? I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And if anything, uh, Pavetta kind of settled in there early,
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  Speaker 3: but there was some good, strong contact against them early on.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and, and sure.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that first one of the game, again, one
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons why, uh, Armin talked about in the
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  Speaker 3: first hour of like the crowd being a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: optimistic and excited. One of the reasons is they're playing
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  Speaker 3: from ahead the entire series. You get them on their
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  Speaker 3: heels and get an early lead. Then maybe the pucker
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  Speaker 3: factor for the team that's down 2-0 could have kicked in.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't get that. Now you'll have to see if you
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  Speaker 1: can do it a little bit later on here tonight. Absolutely, though.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you spin it if you're a Padres fan
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  Speaker 2: or if you're approaching it. It's like, look, we could
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  Speaker 2: have said should have won the first two. We cannot
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  Speaker 2: beat this team. We're going home now. Let's have some
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  Speaker 2: confidence in what we can do here. and our ability
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  Speaker 2: to come back in the series. Now, they didn't count
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  Speaker 2: on losing Mason Miller.
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  Speaker 1: And their other guy. Marjon, yeah. Marjon, yeah. I like
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: his name. I almost said Anthony Clark. And that's the
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: interesting what-if thing, because I was playing around yesterday, like,
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  Speaker 1: what if the Brewers had not won the game and
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: had gone to extra innings? We'd have seen Andrew Vaughn
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  Speaker 1: at third base, and that's where they were in the
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: game with the roster. What if last evening the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: push across a couple runs against King? And take the
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  Speaker 1: lead and win the game and the series. And people
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  Speaker 1: are like paternity leave. Oh, for sure. Yeah. That gets
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  Speaker 1: thrown into a blender. Like you weren't pushing the kid out.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell, man? And it is a, it's a
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  Speaker 1: thorny situation because a generation ago you did not leave
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  Speaker 1: the ball club. No, no, no, no, no way. It
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  Speaker 1: was verboten. It was unthinkable. And now it's like, paternity
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  Speaker 1: leave in an elimination game? Now you almost get looked at...
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  Speaker 1: After you just spit one up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you get looked at sideways if you don't leave
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  Speaker 3: the club. That's true. Listen, as somebody that has had
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  Speaker 3: to make the decision as to when to leave the wife,
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  Speaker 3: like 36 hours after, to go and talk on the
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  Speaker 3: radio about the NFL draft, that's about the least important thing.
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  Speaker 1: This one, decisive game.
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  Speaker 3: And not winner take all, but your backs are against
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  Speaker 3: the wall. You might be their best, most important player.
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  Speaker 3: Once the kid is out, once we meet beautiful Bay,
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  Speaker 3: once mom's doing all right, then it.
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  Speaker 1: Is one of those deals of what are we doing here?
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  Speaker 3: Like there's only so much that you can help with,
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  Speaker 3: but I would have loved to get that reaction. I
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  Speaker 3: also would have liked to see true, even if they
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  Speaker 3: would have tied it. What was the Padres' plan after that? Because, again,
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  Speaker 3: your best two guys are down, and how long would
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  Speaker 3: they have really tried to roll with King? It looks
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  Speaker 3: a lot better because he ends up getting the last outs,
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  Speaker 3: but my man was not flawless in those six outs.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure. He was laboring the whole way. It
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  Speaker 1: was a full, very stressful group of pitches.
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  Speaker 2: You could tell he wasn't really feeling probably his best,
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  Speaker 2: and the Brewers had him on the brink. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they got out of it with a tailor-made double play
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  Speaker 2: off a really fast liner by Yelich.
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  Speaker 1: It worked out for him. But they don't get that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I thought the Brewers were starting to push
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  Speaker 2: that boat over. I was hoping to, at least. That's
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  Speaker 2: what you believe. And it had just come off a
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  Speaker 2: win where you did it. The Mason Miller thing, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: if he's back now, you hope he slept at the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Because if he's got, I don't know how his back's
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  Speaker 2: going to feel after sleeping on that couch or on
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  Speaker 2: that recliner at the hospital. I don't know when visiting
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  Speaker 2: hours are over in these situations. You know, cause like, honey,
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  Speaker 2: do you mind if I go and sleep in our bed?
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I mean, you do have to at least
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  Speaker 3: change the two of the first three diapers.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be involved in diapers. The first bath.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of things going on right
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  Speaker 2: there that it's like, okay, you know, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: a few hours of sleep in that recliner, as you know, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then you feel like Caleb Williams going trotting off, uh,
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  Speaker 3: as your wife just delivered a baby and you're saying,
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  Speaker 3: I'm still standing after sleeping on that couch. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have a tough day. I didn't have paternity
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  Speaker 1: leave shortly after my daughter was born. I timed it.
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  Speaker 1: She was born on the last day of the season. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and then you said the wrong way. The Brewers weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to the playoffs. She was born on the last
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  Speaker 1: day of the season. There was no risk in those things.
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  Speaker 1: There was no paternity leave back then, and within a week,
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: my boss sent me out to cover the playoffs, and
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  Speaker 1: I was on the road for like three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: So this is Buehler, because Buehler had paternity leave to
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  Speaker 3: start the series. Many people thought he was going to
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  Speaker 3: be the game one starter instead of the game four starter.
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  Speaker 1: Very true.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think some of these Padres players in the
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: middle of the year were just like, babe.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it? Oh, you see, they were in July.
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  Speaker 3: He said, even a Homer is six weeks in. We
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  Speaker 3: definitely not going to the black.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be very okay. They were under 500 middle of July.
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  Speaker 1: So I absolutely. And it doesn't tell me they had
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  Speaker 1: very much confidence going into the year.
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  Speaker 2: And if they're timing things out, you know, like October,
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  Speaker 2: who cares?
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  Speaker 1: This team's not going to be that, you know, come on.
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  Speaker 1: They can choose when that moment happens. What kind of, wow.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can't really play God and choose everything, Billy,
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  Speaker 2: but you can, you know, think about it a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you would have thought maybe they, you know,
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  Speaker 1: winter meetings.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, I think it's kind of, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of ironic that it all happened during that time.
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  Speaker 1: Unless maybe they have a trouble counting nine tonight. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just, you know, it worked out for them last night,
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  Speaker 2: but you're right, Drew, there would have been people in
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  Speaker 2: those dark corners of the internet that were all over,
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  Speaker 2: all over him.
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  Speaker 3: This is an awesome picture I see from last night.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what, uh, what play this was into
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  Speaker 3: the outfield, but Cheerios standing right by the wall and
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  Speaker 3: just getting a strong double bird from a Padres fan
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  Speaker 3: in the first row.
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  Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that flies in the face of my, they're
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  Speaker 2: all just old retirees comment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't necessarily know where that one was.
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  Speaker 2: Every time they're showing the crowd, like they're having a
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  Speaker 2: good time in San Diego.
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  Speaker 3: Internet did say you were right. They said San Diego,
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  Speaker 3: very heavily snowbird population. I didn't know that was a thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's heavy snowbird, heavy military, a lot of retired military.
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  Speaker 1: Big time military.
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  Speaker 2: That goes without saying, but I think the fact that
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers left and that's it, the Padres, I think
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  Speaker 2: it helps.
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  Speaker 1: The Padres energy. It's very much, it's like a junior
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  Speaker 1: LA crowd. Well, it's also a huge location. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's 47,000 people, so you're going to get the cross section,
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  Speaker 1: but no, it's a younger. It stretches out. It's a young, vibrant.
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  Speaker 1: They have a young, vibrant. fan base and it is
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: the only pro game in town. Okay. Some people, some
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  Speaker 1: people still follow the chargers grudgingly cause they play in LA,
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  Speaker 1: but some people still do and they still cover them there.
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  Speaker 1: Like they talk about them like they're the chargers of old,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not the same.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I mean, listen, the, we're, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk some, some hockey coming up a little later when
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  Speaker 3: our boy, I'll have a John Greenberg starts.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But, I don't know that the San Diego Gulls are
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  Speaker 3: drawing like the Milwaukee Admirals.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Gulls got the kind of juice
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  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, no, I totally agree, Billy. I would
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  Speaker 1: agree with you there.
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  Speaker 3: Even though they went into overtime in their season opener.
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  Speaker 3: They catch a fat elbow. That's good research.
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  Speaker 1: Got you on that. Don't worry. That's good research. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that. I mean, yeah, young, vibrant. I think everything
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  Speaker 1: is segmented there, though. I do.
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  Speaker 2: I think there are those people that are young and vibrant,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe they're like... I don't know. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: of it as a hardcore blue collar. I like that
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  Speaker 2: you're still trying to win this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Every time they show the crowd, it's a bunch of old,
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  Speaker 2: retired ladies dancing around.
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  Speaker 1: What crowd shots were you seeing? I saw the crowd shots, man.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. They think it was just all I saw.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I saw.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're, of course, your truth. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So what crowd shots did you see? Because have you
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: panned around and looked, looked at, look at the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: crowd in the lower level from dugout to dugout. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we got some. And what's the demographic? What's the demographic? Mixed. Mixed.
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  Speaker 2: Mixed.
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  Speaker 3: Mixed.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Those are expensive seats, Herman. What's the demographic? Dugout to
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  Speaker 1: dugout at AmFam Field in the one bill, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the 120s across. The more expensive are older people.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. So what are you seeing in the crowd shots?
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  Speaker 1: You're not seeing the craziness in the bleachers in the
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  Speaker 1: upper reaches of the ballpark because you never do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you that's what I saw. So I
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  Speaker 2: was like, they're telling me how great this crowd is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a bunch of old people singing Ring Around
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  Speaker 2: the Roses and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not because the louder people are out and
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  Speaker 1: you're not seeing them, but you're definitely hearing them. But
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  Speaker 1: they add to the vibe of the ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: It's so subjective anyway. Everyone talks about their crowd's better.
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  Speaker 1: Ours isn't. They're definitely less nervous. So then to that point.
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  Speaker 1: Billy's right and Billy hit it exactly on the head.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the big moments like between innings three and seven.
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  Speaker 1: It's still loud there and it feels like it does
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  Speaker 1: at AmFam. Innings eight and nine. Let's get some.
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  Speaker 3: Claps going on the two strikes. That's the big one.
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  Speaker 3: That's the big one. Every two strike, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: But they also had good things happening. Milwaukee baseball fans
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  Speaker 1: are passive mostly. I'm fighting on this. I'm sorry. When
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: Miz is pitching in the first inning or the third inning,
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: especially in a playoff game, and he gets to two strikes,
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: the play should be good. In the Padres, it would
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: be up for grabs. It would be noticeably loud. And
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: here it's kind of like golf clap. You wait for
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  Speaker 1: the result to applaud. Not anticipate and cheer in anticipation
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  Speaker 1: of the result.
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  Speaker 2: I agree on the two-strike thing. We used to start
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: the slow clap at County Stadium. That was always a thing.
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  Speaker 2: And no one does that anymore.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: But you're watching john hughes movies and all the teen
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: movies that everybody had a slow clap in the cafeteria
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: scene when the bully realized that hey these geeks are
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: actually nice people and i shouldn't be terrorizing them and
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: taking their lunch money.
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  Speaker 2: Good reference i like your reference yeah i mean no
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  Speaker 2: we used to do that you know and jamie wright
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  Speaker 2: had two strikes we had to clap it up But
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, I'm defending our crowd. I think we've
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: been really good the first two games. I thought it's
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: been loud. Yes, a little more nervous. That's our nature
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: right now as Brewers fans, as sports fans in the
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: state that have unfortunately started to fetishize our heartbreak in
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. We're waiting for the other shoe to drop
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: all the time until it doesn't happen. There is a
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  Speaker 2: segment of that. And I'm sorry, if it gets to
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: game five, we'll probably feel that anxiousness again.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Of course. If it gets to game five, of course.
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  Speaker 2: But my point is, they'll say that about the Cubs,
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: but last year against the Cubs, the crowd brought it
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: for game five against the Cubs because they were trying
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: to combat the Cubs thing.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd bought it, but at least 30% to 40%
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  Speaker 1: of that crowd was a Cubs crowd, too. Oh, there's
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: a factor there. Absolutely. The Cubs brought it. And that
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  Speaker 1: adds to it, too. So, yes, Billy's right. All right.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: That's fine. We have our opinions on it. That's right. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it is loud there. Ask anybody. It's a
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: tough environment. Any environment is great. It's tough there. Was
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: it loud when Churrio got the hit? Sure. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about, again, from wall to wall. Right? From
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: wall to wall, it's louder in other parts. It's hard
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: to win there. I totally admit that. Well, the Brewers
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: have one of the best home records in baseball. So
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: do the Padres. They're good teams. That's the reason. All right. 877-794-1973.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Do we have Murph? You want to listen to Murph's postgame?
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: I sent it over to Jarman, unless you need me
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: to play it over on this side. Murph, after the game,
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: obviously going to get a number of different conversations. But
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  Speaker 3: I do like that our boy Hunter Baumgart, I believe,
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: appears into this one as well. So thank goodness that
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: we get a little bit of Hunter once we clear
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: the 15 second of ads. We don't have premium ads.
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: You think we have premium here?
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: Do I need to go log in? So we have
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  Speaker 3: it premium too. So we don't have the, all right,
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: here we go.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Every day I'm buffering. This is how
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: the other half lives.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you all the streaming services, Netflix, Hulu, miss
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: me with peacock. HBO, are they just calling it Max now?
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: YouTube Premium, by far and bar none, the most necessary.
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: Are we finally done with the ads?
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: There we go. Pat Murphy after the game.
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  Speaker 6: Start with Murph.
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  Speaker 1: First question, we'll start with Kurt on the right. Get
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: him the microphone.
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: Murph, what did you expect out of Dustin tonight, and
• 12:37
  Speaker 6: how was his performance compared to, how would you assess
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: his performance?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I thought he did a nice job,
• 12:42
  Speaker 7: gave us three innings, kept us in the game.
• 12:45
  Speaker 6: Um....
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  Speaker 7: I wish he held runners a little better there, but
• 12:49
  Speaker 7: those two pretty fast guys. But other than that, the
• 12:55
  Speaker 7: leadoff walk in the fourth inning, when we got them
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  Speaker 7: out of there, ended up not hurting us. But free
• 13:02
  Speaker 7: bases were the name of the game tonight. Free bases
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  Speaker 7: and Jackson Merrill catching those two balls in the gap,
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  Speaker 7: those are two leadoff doubles for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And usually when.
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  Speaker 7: You get a leadoff double, there's a probability of– scoring,
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  Speaker 7: but too many free bases, wild pitch, error, some walks,
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  Speaker 7: stolen bases, you know, and then the hard contacts we
• 13:29
  Speaker 7: did have, you know, they caught a lot of the time,
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  Speaker 7: so credit to them, credit to them.
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  Speaker 6: That error, Cooper and Bowers in the sixth ended up
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  Speaker 6: obviously looming large, kind of an odd play with the bat,
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  Speaker 6: what did you see in The error in the sixth,
• 13:48
  Speaker 6: I think it was, with Cooper and Jake. What did
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: you see on that play with the bat flying and.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Jake not keeping the ball?
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  Speaker 7: Who was the error on?
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  Speaker 6: It was on Cooper. Is that a play Jake needs
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  Speaker 6: to make?
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  Speaker 7: I'd have to look at it, Kurt, to be honest
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  Speaker 7: with you. You make these assumptions before you really go
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  Speaker 7: and look at it and know the situation, but if
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  Speaker 7: the ball bounced, that makes it a tougher play, but Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: that's what I'm talking about, free bases. You can't give
• 14:20
  Speaker 7: them up, and then the kid comes around to score. Sophia?
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: Murph, you guys obviously created a lot of pressure and
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: traffic innings like you want. Just offensively, what did you
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: like about the approach, but then also when you had
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: those opportunities, the at-bats that you got?
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, like I said, we've had four or
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: five balls, over 100 that were caught, but we also...
• 14:45
  Speaker 7: Punched out in big situations. We had bases loaded. We
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: had other big situations that we didn't come through. So
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: that's part of baseball. When you're facing a good team
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: with good pitching staff, you know, it's part of it. So,
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: you know, we didn't get the big hit at the
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: big time, but what do you, I mean, do you
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: fault Yelly for hitting one 107 there and Bogert's making
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: a great play? You know, they got a great team
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: and they played great defense tonight. They really did.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Kevin?
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: Pat, when did you kind of become aware, like, oh, well,
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: Maura Hone's not coming in.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: There's something wrong with Maura Hone.
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: I don't know that. We were obviously expecting him to
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: come in. But, you know, we've seen him one time.
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: We respect him. He's really, really good. But the kid
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: that came in the game, that guy is– He's special.
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: He's special.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: I think you're pretty familiar with Jackson, know him.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: What did you think of those?
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I know you've already addressed them, but the nature of
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: those plays.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: It changes the game. You lead off the game and
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: second or third pitch of the game gets hit in
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: the gap. What was that ball hit at? 1-0 something
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: for sure, right? That's a long yardage catch. That's a
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: long yardage catch. And that kind of stands you up
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: a little bit instead of man on second, nobody, you got, uh,
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: you know, you get a different situation. So, um, yeah,
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: he was, you know, he's a terrific player, swings a
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: bat terrific. He was, you know, he's a really good player,
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: really good player. The fact that I know him, uh,
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: has nothing to do with it, but it's, uh, yeah.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: Um, He made two great ones. You know, he made
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: the other one going the other way against, who was
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: that against? Against Sal.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Go to Barry and then back to Kurt.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: So where do you go with your pitching now tomorrow? Obviously,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: if it goes beyond that, you have Miz in game five.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we got to read and react. This is playoff baseball,
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean? You just kind of regroup
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: here and see where everybody's at and I mean, the
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: game ended like 11 minutes ago, Barry, so I'm not
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: prepared to.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: Mean, we know that we've used some guys. I mean,
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: that's Uribe's third outing. Hall's second, Romero's second, Sensatello's second,
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: so we've got some used-up guys, but we'll have some
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: available arms tomorrow for sure, and we'll assess it tonight
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: before we leave and come up with a plan for tomorrow.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: We'll worry about Any other games after that, if they're necessary.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: So you're talking maybe bullpen games tomorrow, or do you
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: have a choice of starters?
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Sometimes.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: There we go. Oops, there you go. All right. Nothing
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: you can do because we're not on premium subscribers, Billy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I should get red, though. What's that?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Is that not the bad subscription? There's probably worse ones
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I'd pay for than that one.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: That is you.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, once you have YouTube premium, it'll be
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: about as good as anything. But we got, I think
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: we got the gist there. I do like the fact
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: that he throws it in there. Drew's like, man, game
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: ended about 11 minutes ago. I don't have the answer
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: for you. I'm, we will figure something out before we
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: leave here tonight and we will settle on who we're
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: going to go with. And then we'll tell you at
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: the very much appropriate time, but not a second earlier.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: That is, that's playoff game and shit, baby.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I like to hear that. I do, too. Well, we
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: got most of it, unless you guys want to hear
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the rest. I think we're done. The last couple of minutes.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I wanted to hear Hunter. Do you want to hear
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: another one? Hunter. I mean, we'll hear from Hunter later.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: We'll wake his ass up.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Come on, Hunter. We've got El Jefe coming up, too.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Scott Dolphin's going to join us.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: We'll change gears a little bit. Yeah, the Brewers lost.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: They got another game. But it's Bear Week. Can't forget that.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Because on Sunday at Lambeau Field, noon kickoff, the long time.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Border battles renewed. Packers and Bears.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: In 20 years, Packers are a home underdog to the
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: It's going to take some adjustment. Against a backup quarterback?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Dolph is in next for the halftime report. You're in
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Back on the huddle,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere on
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. Billy, Drew, Armin, we got Scott Dolphin here.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: It's halftime. Dolph, late night last night for everybody. Brewers
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: did not spray champagne. Another opportunity this evening. No.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: It was a fun game to watch, though, as frustrating
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: as it is to see them lose. What Murph said
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: about this team, bunch of woodpeckers boy we saw it
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: in action last night every inning it seemed here they
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: come again here they come again here they come again
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: I mean in a nutshell when Cooper Pratt tags up
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: on a ball nobody thought he was going to tag
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: up on we're like okay yeah that ball was hit
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: about 235 feet that.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Was close dude and like even the left feet Dolph
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I think the left fielder was almost more the most
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: surprised out of anybody that he ended up going, because
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: you could tell there was like a split second of, oh, whoa, okay, sweet,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: he's going.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And I think A.J.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: Pruszynski pointed out, said, Dad, that's the center fielder's ball, man.
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: You can't make that catch because you have a bad angle.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Lord knows Merrill would have made the play,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: judging off last night. Absolutely. There's no way he's not.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: The little things there, like that could have cost, you know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the Padres, if they lose, that's a little thing. I mean,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: that doesn't go anywhere in any sort of stat book
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: or score book. Where he takes that ball, but I
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: had no thought when that thing was hit that we're
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: getting a run off that.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So that was a found run, in my opinion. It was.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, clearly Merrill has been their MVP so far, both
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: with the bat, with the glove.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: He's been amazing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: But the Brewers weren't intimidated by that atmosphere at all, right?
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: You didn't see them blinking out there. Other than Dustin May, maybe,
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: in the third inning.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: No, but he kept him in there. He did.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: And he's... it was decent start. Now he ran into
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: trouble and I thought kept him in there, but he
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: leaves the game.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It's tied.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, so I also don't know that he, uh, no,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: They were down at that point, but I don't know
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: if anything, Dolph, I like his third, three best hitters
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: got three good swings on you.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: And like one of them ended up being a ground ball.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: We talked about it. Luckily they got the out with
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: that tease. Cause otherwise that inning could have really snowballed
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: and who knows where.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: It ends up.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: They kind of outbrewered the brewers there. Big time. A
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: couple of those hits. Absolutely. All right, so, Dolph, we've
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: been focused on the Brewers, which is great. Half of
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears fan base is happy that the White
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Sox are within striking distance. Playing their first home game
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: this afternoon in the playoffs, by the way. How about that?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: A blackout. But when it comes to Bears Nation, they're
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: focused on Sunday at noon. Yeah. We'll have to get
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: there eventually. Billy, like it or not, ready or not,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: here it comes.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And what was it, Billy? First time in 20 years
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Packers are a home underdog?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: First time since 2006 that the Packers are a home
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: underdog to the Chicago Bears.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I was at that game. I remember that game.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: It was at the Devin Hester coming out party, I think,
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: when he had the punt return and maybe a kickoff
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: return for a touchdown, 0-6.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean, currently as it stands, the Bears,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Kyle Menunga and DeAndre Swift have more rushing yards individually
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: than the Packers have in totality by 100.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Kind of saw that coming, didn't you?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, like, it's a dicey situation. Packers haven't
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: scored a rushing touchdown. If they don't have one this week, Dolph,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: it'll only be the second time since they've started playing football. Oh, wow.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: That they've gone five straight games to start a year
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: without a rushing touchdown.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: Well, a lot of things had to happen to make
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: that possible, and obviously it's like Murphy's Law so far
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: between the offensive line and Josh Jacobs.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: What about the whole narrative of some Packers fans... are
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: upset that LeFleur isn't more fiery and isn't taking on
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson. They're letting Ben Johnson have the first word,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the last word, and every word in between, while LeFleur's like, ah,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: it's about the players, blah, blah, blah. Bears fans are
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: just leaning into it because they're thirsty, and the people
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: who chant Green Bay sucks leaving a Bulls, Blackhawks, or
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Cubs game, they love that. You'll probably hear it today
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: during the Sox game, too. Is it low-lying fruit there
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: for the Bears coach to lean into? I think so.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: I mean, that's always been his personality, and it's also
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: been Matt LaFleur's personality. It's not like he's changing right
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: now for anybody. He's always been that guy, and I
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: don't think he's going to let it affect his coaching abilities.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I think last year, Johnson said it after the first win, right?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: That was the F the Packers one, and then the
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: playoff one was the big blow up celebration.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: Well, the introductory press conference too, where he said, I've
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: always enjoyed beating Matt.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I've always enjoyed being Matt Lafleur and, and look forward
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: to doing it again. And, but he said it after
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: the first time they won of the, the message from
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: ownership of this game is different. This means more in
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: our organization. This means a ton. And that kind of
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: importance that you put on an organization can only be
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: manufactured so much. Like at some point that is some
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: real stuff.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: And, and, I mean, it has been one of the
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: points of emphasis from the McCaskey family for everybody that
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: takes over. I respect the hell out of it. They
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: wanted Lovie Smith to beat the Packers. That's what he
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: said in his first Indirectory Press Conference. And nobody really
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: has done it since Lovie. And right now, they have
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: a top seven coach in football.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And that's probably being.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Reserved and conservative as to where he's at in terms
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: of everybody's pecking order.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And they're definitely flaunting it. I understand it, but this is.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: One of those moments where you really learn there's a
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: fork in the road. And the Packers and Bears rivalry
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: that we've watched for the last 20 years, it is
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: the starkest of contrast. And it is a 1,000% dawning
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: of a new era with this rivalry rolling forward.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm just glad it's a rivalry again. As a
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: Bears fan, I think the NFL is better when the
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: Packers and Bears are both good.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: We don't see that very often. That's the funny part, yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Where they're both good together. There are times, but... But,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you know... I don't know that they both are right now.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I'd really like to say they both are right now.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Make me swallow that pill. That's true. I'd like to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: say that, but... I mean... We're too... Well, in the first...
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Week one, the Bears' defense looked like a disaster, and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: it has settled down. But the quarterbacks they played, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the Eagles are a mess. Could they be tested, especially
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: in the secondary? Could they be exploited? Maybe. I'm looking
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: for any ray of hope. Yeah, sure. Otherwise, it looks
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: pretty bleak.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: It'll be a true road game for the first time
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: in a long time for the Bears. They've had three
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: straight home games, so that in itself will be a
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: challenge for a young Tyson Bajent.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, now game one of the NLCS in Milwaukee,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: and then maybe, maybe it would be a different story.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Maybe there'd be even more of those tickets that end
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: up on the secondary market. Like it could be, it
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: could just be a very fascinating Sunday that like it's
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: setting up for this to be a big time tipping
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: point where for a long time of the bears Packers rivalry,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: when you think you can guarantee and lock up one deal,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: a three and 13 bears team stands up to an
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Aaron Rogers team. and makes it a three point game
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: late into the game. Any given Sunday, any given Sunday
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: is kind of the vibe of where you have to
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: have this game be. Cause right now that offense is
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: different level.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's happened. And this is kind of the hope
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: against hope optimism. I'll take that.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping the Packers can be that team this time
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: around where, Hey, you kind of expect the, the bears
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: to have the upper hand in this one, obviously for,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: The way both teams have been playing. Maybe the Packers
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: can stand up and try and reverse that. The one
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: thing is, I don't think the Bears have had the
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: pressure on them to win for a while in this
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: rivalry just because everyone's expected them to lose. But now
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: they have expectations. I don't know if pressure is the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: right word, but they have expectations on them this time.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: To win and say, okay, you're supposed to be the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: team that's burgeoning. You're supposed to be the team that's
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: starting to transcend now. can you actually put your foot
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: in the ground and say, all right, now we walk
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: and expect to beat the Packers at that stadium?
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: Well, and if the Packers are struggling, like we're talking
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: about right now, this is a game the Bears need
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: to get against this Green Bay team because if you
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: look at the schedule, they're playing that first-place schedule. The
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: Bills are coming. The Seahawks are coming. There's some difficult
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: outs on this schedule moving forward.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: And it only gets a little lighter for the Vikings.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: They get the Saints where two weeks ago I guaranteed
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: that the Saints would win that game and their undefeated
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: season would end there. I don't feel as confident in
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: that as I do after watching Shuck and company there.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: But they have the clearest of third-place schedules, and they
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: walk in potentially into the bye 5-0. If you're going
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: to be trying to win this division, this is going
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: to be a very important one to have.
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: Bears have to go, I think, to Atlanta after Green
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: Bay too, which all of a sudden is resurrected.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: One of the best offenses in the NFL.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: After the Packers, it's at Atlanta, home against the Patriots
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: at Seattle.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty tough schedule. That is not a cakewalk.
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: So clearly, I don't want to call it must-win because
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: it's early in the season, but this is one they
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: need to get. And they're a favorite on the road.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: They probably should get it in the eyes of Vegas.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's almost disheartening, Billy, because it's like, I'll be encouraged.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Trust me, I'm sick of talking like this. I'll be
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: encouraged if the Packers keep it competitive, and if it's
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a game into the fourth quarter, I think that's a positive.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: And you should be encouraged because I don't know how
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: many games in a row have been right down to
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: the wire between these two teams when you go back
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: to Caleb Williams' rookie season. Both of those games were close,
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: weren't they? And the Bears were not great then.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: It was the 20-19 Carl Brooks blocked field goal in
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Chicago that the Packers won, and then.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: They lose the one late. And then the Bears won
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the miracle game late with the DJ Moore.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, with the catch-and-run, and then Santos kicked the field
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: goal right after Watson ended up, unfortunately, blowing out his
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: ACL the week before the playoffs against the Eagles. They're
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: two organizations that could be potentially going in very much
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: different directions. That being said, the Packers, the other part
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: of why a loss feels, or a win feels like
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: a loss, is because you lost your best player. who's
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: on the field right now in Edgerton Cooper, their defense
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: can look very much different, but the news has not
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: been glowingly positive on when you're getting Micah Parsons back
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: two weeks ago on a hot take hump day. My
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: hot take was Caleb Williams. And Micah Parsons will be
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: playing in this game. Dolph, how many of them are
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: going to play in this game?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Zero.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be an L for the day. But
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: it sounds a lot more positive, like you're going to
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: get Williams back sooner than Parsons, because he still hasn't
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: even been cleared to practice yet.
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: I don't think you're hurrying back. I think that's what
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: everybody's saying, right? I mean, this is an injury that
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: you can re-aggravate in a heartbeat, and then you're looking
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: at extended weeks, maybe towards November or December.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: And rightfully so. The Bears are feeling themselves.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I do, to go back to Drew, your original question
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: of the LaFleur and Johnson one, would I like Matt
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: LaFleur to come out there and say, there's three things
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I love the most in life? God, my family and beating.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: The Chicago bears.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: That would fire me up to no end. He's just
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: not going to do that. And I guess I appreciate that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: You're not going to be somewhat of a phony, not
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: going to do something that's out of your character. Locker
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: room would tell that they would understand that they would
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: pick it up, but you do wonder how much of it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: can you then translate to your locker room that this
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: is a little bit different? This is not as ho-hum
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: as any other week five game is. This one does
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: mean a lot, even if you're only going to look
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: at it as that's the target.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: To shoot in the division.
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: I would hope, and that's his message to his locker
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: room when the media is not around.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Get a little bit nasty about that. For a while,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I think that was always the Bears' MO. We want
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: to try to engage that, bowling upstairs and say, we're
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: coming after you. How many times have their coaches and
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: players and everyone said we're going after the Packers?
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: Well, the Packers have always been. I mean, you go
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: back through the years. That's what you heard from the
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: Packers going back to Charles Woodson.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: We knew Jay was going to throw us the ball.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: Even last year with the Packers defensive coordinator and players
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: on the field saying we want Chicago. We don't want
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: the Eagles. We want Chicago in the playoffs. and, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: Halfley saying, Oh yeah, we'll see you next week. We'll
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: be here next week.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And the bears are giving you like the whole, we're
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: going to take the North and not give it back
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: and all those types of things as well.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. We'll see.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I think it's when you're the team that you think,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: when you think you're better than the other team, it's
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: always easy to talk. It's, it's fun to talk like that.
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: I think it's one of the reasons that the McCaskill,
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: the family went after this guy because he's got that
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: alpha personality. Not only was he a great offensive coordinator
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: in Detroit, but I think they wanted a guy like this.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: And the, and the players obviously have bought in. They've,
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: they love the good, better, best and all that stuff.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: And he's got the, he's got the eye of everybody
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: around the league, drew like there there's, there's a way
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: that people talk about different coaches in football, Kyle Shannon
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: and McVay for the longest time right now, Ben Johnson
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: is that flavor of the month. And he is, he
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: is getting glazed every which way. And you watch that
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: run game and you watch their creativity and kind of
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: how he's feeling himself in the play calling sequencing.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: Start in case Keenum at quarterback for one play on.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Some kind of understand it kind of understand that was something.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Shift in gears again at Wild Dolphins here. It is
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: hot take hump day. Hot take. I saw Mike McCarthy
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: with one of people's favorite quotes here. We got to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: clean our house. Our house is not clean right now.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Clean up your own house. You want to clean up
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: on aisle five this week? How about the officials in
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL? Two guys suspended. The professionalism, and Billy and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I were looking at that guy, Warren Sharpe's breakdown of
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: more penalties this year, more red zone penalties this year,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: more third down penalties. They are intruding on the game, Dolph,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and to me, they could cut the penalties down by 30%
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: and make it a much better and better game to watch.
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree with you. And those two guys on Sunday,
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: there's no excuse for that. Although the head official in
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: the Minnesota game, I think that was just spur of
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: the moment, heated passion. He didn't know if he got
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: blindsided on purpose or on accident and just kind of reacted.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: The dude barking out it, was it McBride? Trey McBride.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Trey McBride, yeah, the guy swearing at him. That guy,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on. Suspension, is that enough? They could
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: fire a guy for that.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: But then there's guys like Armin that are on the
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: other side saying, I want there to be more.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Of that in the game. I thought it was hilarious.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: We used to get people jawing back and forth, and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: they didn't get all bent out of shape. Like in baseball, especially.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Which is part of it. These are grown men in
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the football field. You can go back and forth a bit.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: We're between the lines. We lost the spit. The exchange
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of spit.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: We lost it because everyone's worried about, we got to
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: get someone in trouble now and see how we can get,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: come on.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Baseball, they just got the challenge system and it's like,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you don't see the managers running out there risking ripping
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: an Achilles or tearing a hamstring running out of the dugout.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, Drew, but how many, for a century, for over
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: a century, okay, umps have been telling players and managers
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: in baseball to go do it to themselves too. And
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: so I'm not saying like you would teach that you
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: would never you would never sit there and say it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: OK to do that. But like for observers and fans,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: it's kind of fun to watch the back and forth.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: It's funny. I'm not saying you shouldn't face any reprimand,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: but it's like. Well, I don't know. Isn't it one
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: thing for a plate umpire to get into it, but like,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you know, the side judge, like, you know, it's like, well,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it'd be like the first base umpire. He's going to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: get into it if it's his call.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Or the down the line umpire in the playoffs. My
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: point is it makes it entertaining for me as a fan.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not sitting there saying that.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Well, okay. So the momentary conflagrations are entertaining, but the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: parade of penalties, we talked about it. Oh, the penalties suck.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Can we have a kick return without A questionable block
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: in the back. Isn't that the shift, though?
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: Isn't that the shift we've seen to see more offense
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: in the NFL?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: They only add rules. That's true.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: And the other thing is the guys are only getting
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: faster and faster. And I do believe there's something to Armand,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: like he just said, of not wanting a certain... level
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: to be shown up. I do believe there's a level
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: in the certain, in all of these officials that is
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: everything is so heavily and overly scrutinized now online that
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: I want to make sure that there's never a time
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: that I mess up. And if anything's borderline, I'm going
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: to make sure I throw it. And instead they're probably
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: hurting and throwing themselves in more hot water than not.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: And it's never going to be like baseball or basketball.
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: These guys are still whatever college professors or insurance agents.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: On the side. And I, I've heard that argument a lot.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: It will making them full-time, make them see better or
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: make them, or it would slow down the game. Make
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: them worse.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I like, I understand it, but in a world where
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: you're trying to get 1% better and everything, It sure
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: wouldn't make them worse.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: The last thing we need is refs to be better
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and call more penalties because the week four had the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: most accepted penalties in a week since 1978.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: But that's not them being better. Them being better would
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: be able to differentiate what's incidental contact and what's not.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: What is actual contact and what's not. Would you be
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: able to learn more of that in the middle of
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: May or June when you're doing some off-season training? Probably,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: but I don't know that we'll ever learn it because
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: we just signed a new rights deal with the referees.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Or would doing the off-season training make them... more likely
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to call more penalties because they see more and they
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: know the rules more.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's the former. I understand why you'd
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: think it would be more, but I think it would
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: be less. I think you'd understand and see so much
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: more of it where every movement wouldn't seem as overt
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: and as something to penalize.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: How about something like this? Like, let's correct the market.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Let them challenge penalties. Let them challenge. That worked really
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: well the first time. Let's have it. Let's go. The
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: problem is there's so much. That worked really well with
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the pass interference ones. There's so much that's subjective and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: opinion based about it. It's all the judgment. So it
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: makes it a hard game to officiate. I think we
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: need to. Because the contact is part of the game.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: We need another walkout. We need another fail Mary. And
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: then we need these guys. coming into stadiums to standing
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: O's again, and then all will be forgiven.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I also think we'll complain no matter what, as fans
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and observers.
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: But, you know, I mean, with the technology being what
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: it is today, it's not going to get any easier.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: On these guys. No, that is for sure. That is
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: for sure, Dolph.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: Hey, I've been that stop-action warrior on social media before.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: Look at this!
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Look how ridiculous this is. Oh, there were some Penn
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: State folks that were doing it with Jacob Harris.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, I bet. Freight training linebacker.
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: He's in.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: He was in my way. I had to get him
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: out of my way. Sorry. Shouldn't have been standing there. Classic.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Classic.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't have been standing there. All right, Dolph, thanks for
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: getting us through halftime. It's always, it hits different on
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Wednesday because it's halftime of the week. Yeah, okay.
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: So is it Brewers-Padres tonight, game four, or is it
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: Bucs at Oklahoma City, preseason game two?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, baby.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Split the screen. Let's get into the win column after
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: game one was brutal.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I am watching Gary Trent tonight.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Am I mistaken in saying that there are four baseball
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: games today, all of them elimination games? Yes. Possibly. They
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: all are. We're to that point. Get the plastic over
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the lockers, boys. Somebody's going to be celebrating tonight. Dolph,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: thanks for popping by. You are in the huddle, Fox
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio Wisconsin. Rolling through a Wednesday in the good land,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin time for a little
• 37:49
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• 37:52
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• 37:56
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• 37:58
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• 38:02
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• 38:04
  Speaker 1: It's been, you know, now it's time. It's time.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: As Kevin Green would say, It is time. It is time. DonovanJorgensen.com. Now,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: the Phillies thought it was time, Drew. I'm going to
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: start on the not category here. They thought it was
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: finally time for Alex Cora to be their manager as
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: they fired Rob Thompson, what, middle of May?
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Middle of May, early middle of May.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Handed it off to Don Mattingly, who did an exceptional job.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: I think he was almost 20 games over. 500 as
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: the manager of the Phillies. But he was asked, and
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: more importantly, Bryce Harper was asked, Who would be the
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: manager next year? He goes, I think they're going to
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: go in a different direction.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Well, everybody, it's been the worst kept secret that they
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: want Alex Cora to be their manager. Andrew, it appears
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: for the second time in five months, Alex Cora has
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: told the Phillies, thanks, but no thanks.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: No thanks. Plans to take 2027 off.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Because of the impending lockout, you know, Cora, one of
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: the biggest, the best strengths of him as a manager,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: they say is his relationship with players. What's the one
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: thing you can't do as a manager during a lockout? Yeah.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Communicate with players. Yeah.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Actually, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: to keep getting paid by the Red Sox for one
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: final year. Getting paid, take a year off, not get
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: close to any players in case there's an issue. Then
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: we'll see when the dust settles. Maybe I'll take a job.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I would really struggle to be working if I knew
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: somebody was paying me.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: And what a blessing that must be to be in
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: a position like that. That competitiveness will make you do
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: a lot of things. I think that, I think that, uh,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: that guaranteed cash would make me sit on the bench.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Uh, who's hot.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Uh, once again, sadly come playoff time, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, uh,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: hot again, seven innings, four hits, one Ernie, 10 Ks yesterday, uh,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Set his playoff career high. Sale wasn't bad, but gave
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: up two homers to the Dodgers and one of which
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: to Freddie Freeman, who now has two homers in the
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: playoffs for the Dodgers. He had one lone hit and
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: a walk. It was an important one. The two-run shot
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: came off the bat of Quique Hernandez, and the Dodgers...
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Go up 2-1 in their series and put the Braves
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: on the brink of elimination last night.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they got Glasnow tonight. So it's like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: what a rotation. It's like Derek Jeter, just get the
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: next one down the line.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Also, who's hot? I know you guys were, everybody was
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: dialed in. Troy Trojans last night, 55-34 over the Southern
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Miss Golden Eagles.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: You had the over? I wish. Yeah, I wish.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: To be completely honest with you, didn't even get into
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: a Sunbelt Tuesday.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Maction, I'm in for. Sunbelt Tuesday night feels a little manufactured.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Doesn't have the same cachet. Doesn't have the same sizzle.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Doesn't have it.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: No.
• 40:43
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