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02/10/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, Good morning early risers and insomniacs.
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  Speaker 1: That's all unite in the huddle today. Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: I'm Drew, There's Billy, there's Arman.
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  Speaker 3: Hello boys, huddle up, boys, good morning, exciting morning and
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  Speaker 3: always fun. When you know Matt Arnold and company decide, listen,
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  Speaker 3: the super Bowl quite boring.
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  Speaker 2: You know what we should do? Six player trade?
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  Speaker 3: Like I just we all have that one buddy in
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  Speaker 3: your in your fantasy league that all of a sudden's like.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, it's been a little quiet.
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  Speaker 3: I think I might offer Justin Jefferson for Jamar Chase.
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  Speaker 3: Why would you do that? Well, because we need something
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  Speaker 3: to happen, because we're boring, because we need something to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yes and yesterday the Brewers said, look at God, let's
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  Speaker 3: make something happen.
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  Speaker 2: That story popped it up about what eight o two,
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  Speaker 2: right after we got off the air, Right after we're
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  Speaker 2: off the air, right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, consideration for the boys here slinging it here from
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  Speaker 1: five am.
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  Speaker 4: You know, pore Billy's out of here getting ready to
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  Speaker 4: eat his bowl sent him in life and he's just
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  Speaker 4: ready to eat his you know, give me some milk, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: and getting ready for his breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: And got the overnight outs.
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  Speaker 3: I forgot that. I forgot the fridge. I got home
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  Speaker 3: right right a chow down, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: I got to talk to somebody you know, off off
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  Speaker 3: the uh.
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  Speaker 2: Colin. That's okay, though I started.
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  Speaker 1: I started to get the text from buddies because I
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  Speaker 1: basically kind of shut off the alerts for my phone
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  Speaker 1: because it got excessive, Right, Can I just get alerts
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  Speaker 1: that I need that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not like what's.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up on you know what w NBA games coming
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  Speaker 1: up or tipping off on esp A.
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  Speaker 2: I thought your main group text alerts, that's another wow shutting.
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  Speaker 2: I have a whole theory on that. Maybe not today's
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  Speaker 2: all those off yea.
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  Speaker 1: To those Yeah, I was getting Uh, I was getting
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  Speaker 1: some of those on Super Bowl Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Texts are dying, man, Yeah, pretty much anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, as you as you know, I don't like
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  Speaker 1: to participating grow back.
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  Speaker 2: But he's included group text. I'm devastated, personally, but you
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  Speaker 2: can tell.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the news of the trade broke and Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Durban only here for a little time, short guy, here
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  Speaker 1: for a short time, and you know, the birds were
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  Speaker 1: trotting him around this this winter. He was doing some
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  Speaker 1: events because he's kind of like a local, adjacent guy.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm thinking to myself as I hear the news,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, Billy's gonna have to break this to
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  Speaker 1: young Carson.
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  Speaker 3: Ye we did, uh and and and he was a
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  Speaker 3: part of the tour.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Carson met Caleb at a Waka Shaw sports card signing
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  Speaker 3: in August, and the part of it drew And why
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  Speaker 3: I think some of the reaction was because the dude
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  Speaker 3: was awesome, Like, he's such a nice kid. He's such
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  Speaker 3: a nice guy. He came on the radio show with us,
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  Speaker 3: was phenomenal, a great conversation.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of the first time we experienced that. Personally, he
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  Speaker 4: was super great, super awesome. Just surprised because three D three.
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  Speaker 3: Guy right, like, I mean, Gratty understands it, lunch bailed
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  Speaker 3: guy that does all the little things, so understandable why
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  Speaker 3: some people were a little bit devastated, But you know what,
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  Speaker 3: unlike what it seemed like the internet reaction was drewe.
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  Speaker 3: After I told Carson, he said, who are the new Brewers?
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  Speaker 3: And I listed him off, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: he goes, well, I'm David Hamilton.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Okay, sounds good.
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  Speaker 3: I guess we've moved on faster than eight four six
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  Speaker 3: nine two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's moved on. I was wondering how that was
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  Speaker 2: gonna go though.
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  Speaker 4: That was young Carson's first experience in that the sports
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  Speaker 4: is not puppy dogs.
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  Speaker 3: It still is getting kicked in the nads perhaps the
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  Speaker 3: baseball bat and gets into the pos and goes, I'm
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  Speaker 3: David Hamilton.
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  Speaker 2: Quickly right away, through the through the bass.
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  Speaker 1: Ran around the park like Arman, your daughter getting the surgery.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter with hers kids.
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  Speaker 2: Bounced back so fast, no idea, Yeah, she had did
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  Speaker 2: bounce right back. Now.
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  Speaker 4: It was tougher for me because when I was my
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  Speaker 4: I always use this example when I was nine and
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  Speaker 4: my dad told me Paul Malder left to go to
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  Speaker 4: the Blue Jays, and it was hard for me to take.
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  Speaker 4: Now I was more of an older, you know, more
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  Speaker 4: actualized mind, where I was like really devastated because he
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  Speaker 4: was one of my favorite players. Obviously I couldn't understand
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  Speaker 4: why you wouldn't want to be a brewer anymore. And
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  Speaker 4: then you know you you don't understand those things when
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  Speaker 4: you're young. But maybe he's at the age where he
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  Speaker 4: can equip more equip and Drew, I think this is
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  Speaker 4: the best part. Armand Sarian just compared the loss of
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  Speaker 4: Paul Mallator to the lost of I mean like that
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  Speaker 4: one does. I mean, like you just you see it's
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  Speaker 4: it's for some reason, and I appreciate it because Mighty
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  Speaker 4: Mouse was a was a very very feisty and competitive guy,
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  Speaker 4: and maybe the manager loved him even more than a
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  Speaker 4: lot of fans here in the Midwest.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, but he was Uh he became a quick fan
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  Speaker 1: favorite over there, and he brought in another short king
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  Speaker 1: in Jet Williams earlier. You can't go away from the system.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is, like my guys, who I guys,
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  Speaker 1: who I know that no ball? The balls in my circle.
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  Speaker 1: The immediate reaction, like I didn't even know that the
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  Speaker 1: trade had happened yet, and I got a text from
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  Speaker 1: Buddy saying.
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  Speaker 2: This is a steal. Mm hmmm. I'm like, oh, something
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  Speaker 2: just happened. It sounds like it's gonna be fun fire.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to will be the first to alert
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  Speaker 2: you guys, and you're X and it's like.
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  Speaker 1: Well there it is like okay, and then all right
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  Speaker 1: you dive in and I do like what the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: have done, like anybody want to go back, and well,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't that exciting, right, this isn't a big deal, Like,
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  Speaker 1: well they this this lefty they got it's got a
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  Speaker 1: four era and the miners and stuff, and like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: can you can I refer you to Priester kama Quinn?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you good one. Those numbers are always he spent
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  Speaker 2: time in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: And when the Brewers evaluate a guy and they see
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  Speaker 1: a profile that they like and they strike, You're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt
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  Speaker 1: on both of these guys like being in the rotation
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  Speaker 1: and contributors.
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  Speaker 3: Excited to hear it and excited to see it, and
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  Speaker 3: also Drew like all this signifies for sure is Chris
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  Speaker 3: Hook need another extension, right. The busiest man and hardest
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  Speaker 3: working man in Milwaukee will be Chris Hook for the
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  Speaker 3: next six to eight months. But when the Brewers doubled
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  Speaker 3: down on their strategy, I'm gonna be a fan of
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  Speaker 3: it because it's been succeed full for the last leaning
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  Speaker 3: on a decade, right, I mean right when I would,
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  Speaker 3: I would add in like when Freddy was traded, uh
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  Speaker 3: for in the Adam Lindiyal they grab three nineteen year
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  Speaker 3: old pitchers. That was the start of why you make
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  Speaker 3: a deal right now ten years later, like, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get two players who were top one hundred prospects
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  Speaker 3: in one of which who was as lauded as any
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  Speaker 3: in Harrison.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the thing though, and again history is the guide.
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  Speaker 1: If you're sitting there going okay, Well, as long as
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  Speaker 1: the Birds keep Chris Hook and Chris Hoki, we trust
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  Speaker 1: he's been been phenomenal. But I'm old enough to remember
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  Speaker 1: that when Derek Johnson left, people thought that it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna all fall apart.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna I'm not gonna in any way diminish what
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  Speaker 2: Chris Hook has done.
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  Speaker 1: Because he's been fantastic. And I agree with you keep
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  Speaker 1: that guy, give him a ten year deal. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care who the manager is. Again, this is your pitching coach, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way it should be approached. However, we wonder
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  Speaker 1: are they now organizationally, is there the next Chris Hook
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  Speaker 1: and waiting? Is Jim Henderson the next grader? Are they
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  Speaker 1: Chris Hook exit proof? Because when Derek Johnson left, we
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  Speaker 1: thought he was really good and the effect that he had,
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  Speaker 1: It's like, well, how they going to replace him? They didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't miss anything. They Chris took over.
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  Speaker 1: Is there another one? That's what's a good That's what
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  Speaker 1: makes a good organization that you're immune to the exit,
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  Speaker 1: the departure of one person. Ron Wolfe always said, you
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  Speaker 1: better have you know the guy, your next guy, and
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  Speaker 1: then the guy after that. You better have your eyes
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  Speaker 1: on you, whether it's a player or coach or even
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  Speaker 1: an assistant. Like the Packers that lost some assistance, Do
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  Speaker 1: they have the next guy in mind? Do they have
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  Speaker 1: have they replaced him? Are and not just moving guys up,
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  Speaker 1: but do you have guys outside the organization that in your.
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  Speaker 3: Network play people that you think plug and play? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: look at it. Mike McDonald, the perfect example, wins the
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl twenty five minutes later on the sideline on
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  Speaker 3: the field that Stacy Dale's lean kube X like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be the coach of.
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  Speaker 2: The Raiders next year.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, So you got to go and find a new
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  Speaker 3: coordinator to get you right back to the same spot.
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  Speaker 1: And you're shopping in the bins that have already been
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  Speaker 1: picked over because everybody else has made their move.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else has their guys.
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  Speaker 3: That's a perfect great point about hook and the interesting
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  Speaker 3: he was the double A pitching coach right when he
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  Speaker 3: got elevated, right, so it was like the Woodie Parolta,
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  Speaker 3: that kind of group, and they brought him up and
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  Speaker 3: now they're doing a lot of that development, Drew. All
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  Speaker 3: of these guys are on the doorstep, right. I mean
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  Speaker 3: that either were dominating Triple A last year or have
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  Speaker 3: pitched in the big leagues in Harrison was a massive
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  Speaker 3: centerpiece of the Rafiel Devers trade last year.
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  Speaker 2: Now, say what you want about it.
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  Speaker 3: And this is where I even felt more excited about
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  Speaker 3: the decision and more excited about the trade, even though
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  Speaker 3: I love watching a Division three baseball player run around
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  Speaker 3: in a Brewer uniform.
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  Speaker 2: And Caleb Durman turned himself into.
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  Speaker 3: A good defensive third basement really hid almost two to sixty.
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  Speaker 3: Ye looked like he's got a little bit of pop
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  Speaker 3: in that bat, a little bit of clutch factor. But
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know lefties that got this kind
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  Speaker 3: of movement and that amount of pitch selection doubled down
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  Speaker 3: with the Brewers having the players and the staff and
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  Speaker 3: the support staff to go along with it. And you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned the name that I was waiting on in Quinn Priests. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm Craig Breslow and the Brewers call me, I'm
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  Speaker 3: probably hanging up if you're asking about one of my
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  Speaker 3: Triple A pitchers. If you're asking about one of my
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  Speaker 3: Triple A pitchers and you're giving me a package that
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  Speaker 3: people are gonna say, oh, three players, oh one top
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  Speaker 3: three Rookie of Year candidate last year, what's the catch?
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  Speaker 3: Because you know something that I obviously apparently don't. R
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  Speaker 3: Palvini Rattino he xed right after the trade. I can
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  Speaker 3: see breaking camp with Woodruff, Priester, Miserowski and Patrick fifth
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  Speaker 3: spot competition sprote just acquired Gasser, Harrison and Henderson, depth, Drowan,
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  Speaker 3: Rodriguez and Tate Keener with dal Hall as a multi
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  Speaker 3: inning weapon to start.
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  Speaker 2: And as we know that word depth is so important.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, how many times did the Brewers need pitching
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  Speaker 4: last year when guys went down, get hurt. You know,
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  Speaker 4: rotation rarely holds up for the whole year.
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  Speaker 2: You need to have a bunch of guys eight.
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  Speaker 1: Nine starters seven eight nine Brewers are hoarding.
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  Speaker 4: They're stockpiling those young guys that they believe in that
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  Speaker 4: they believe that they can work with right guys, that
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  Speaker 4: that can become something, which is which is a great
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  Speaker 4: thing because you never have no pitching, especially a lefties
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  Speaker 4: and things like that. The next question does come about
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  Speaker 4: third base, though, what's next, I'm sure wondering.
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  Speaker 1: And you got Ashby as they multi inning guy too, so.
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  Speaker 2: You got bunch of experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a bunch of left handed arms, but yeah arm
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  Speaker 1: And now you look at it and well we got
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  Speaker 1: no third basement.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, a lot of ball game left.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that means like we've been training
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  Speaker 1: south Freelick secretly in a lab all winter trying to
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  Speaker 1: get him to play third or you know, don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm sure they'll figure it out, like they.
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  Speaker 2: When they trade it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like the law firm of Durban Monasterio and Siegler,
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  Speaker 1: like all your third base death goes east. It's like gone,
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  Speaker 1: but they've got guys in the pipeline, they've got prospects.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Does Artiz move back and we
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  Speaker 1: got somebody else? Does Jet Williams or made make a
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  Speaker 1: a appearance at short Like? Who's they got it? They
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  Speaker 1: got options now and it's not closed yet. The book's
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  Speaker 1: not closed yet.
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  Speaker 3: They still might be able or does and this was
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  Speaker 3: whoever where where my Dobbler went up and our friend
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  Speaker 3: Dobbler's already checked in. He mentioned Sealfree look over at
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  Speaker 3: third base right away? What what about a Platinum Glove
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  Speaker 3: winner getting his chance over at shortstop again?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 5: Like?
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  Speaker 3: When when when I heard it, I thought that was
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  Speaker 3: also again gonna be potentially on the table because you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned Tyler Black, I don't I don't fully remember. I
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  Speaker 3: think he was more second base and a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of outfield, right, yeah, third a little bit around.
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  Speaker 2: He can play around. I think he can.
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  Speaker 3: He can probably do just about anything. It seems to
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  Speaker 3: me like they've thought about it and played it and
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  Speaker 3: messed around with it a couple of times that there's
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  Speaker 3: either want to from the player and or the organization. Right,
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  Speaker 3: so like if you if you bring it up again,
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  Speaker 3: then it's pretty clear and obvious to me that he
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  Speaker 3: wants to maybe at some point play short probably because
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  Speaker 3: that's where more of the money would be. To play shortstop.
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  Speaker 3: You might want to showcase that you can do it.
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  Speaker 3: But they have so many options, They have so many
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  Speaker 3: guys up the middle. And it gives Jet Williams a
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  Speaker 3: clear and obvious path, And it gives Hayes, who's my day,
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  Speaker 3: a completely clear and obvious path to the big leagues,
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  Speaker 3: gives Andrew Fisher, who's already gonna be playing for Team
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  Speaker 3: Italy in the World Baseball Classic, a clear and obvious
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  Speaker 3: shot towards the big leagues in a couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Brock Wilkin, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, Dave Gasper was talking about this brock Wilkin cat
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  Speaker 3: all year last year. Was in love with this dude
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  Speaker 3: in the minor leagues in the first half then I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to speak out of turn allegedly got an
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  Speaker 3: injury the night that they won the first half, right like,
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  Speaker 3: he gets hurt the night they win the first half,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe was out for almost the entire season, right, Drew,
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  Speaker 3: who kind of hurt?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Edwin Diaz style like heard something that's
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  Speaker 2: celebration but maybe who knows.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, So you're in that spot where you have multiple
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  Speaker 3: guys who you want to when they are at first
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  Speaker 3: ready get to the big leagues and start trying to
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  Speaker 3: capitalize on the youth because it seems like the league
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  Speaker 3: from when you were covering it and when we all
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: started watching it whenever that was whenever you check in
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  Speaker 3: and say, I've been a Brewers fans nineteen seventy eight,
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: I was a Milwaukee Braves fan in nineteen fifty, I
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: was a Brewers fan in two thousand and two.
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  Speaker 2: That was a tough time for us.
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  Speaker 3: That we're welcomed at that point, but at a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those junctures you thought you needed guys that were
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  Speaker 3: gonna get six to seven innings in the starting rotation.
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  Speaker 3: That's very much gone. And it felt like you needed
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  Speaker 3: five to six years of minor league time before they
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  Speaker 3: looked at you at the big league level. And now
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  Speaker 3: it's like Drew, I don't know, twenty years old, got
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  Speaker 3: ninety games in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what he's got.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like they're trying to fast track dudes so
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  Speaker 3: much more in the game nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: That's absolutely true.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, when the Brewers were bad, they would
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  Speaker 1: get guys and then they say, hey, we got a
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  Speaker 1: guy making his major league debut. He's twenty eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: but kicking around the minor leagues, Cup Peterson, and now
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  Speaker 1: you've got nineteen and twenty year old and twenty one
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  Speaker 1: year Old's like, this is the way it should be.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because if a dog bites and he bites early,
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  Speaker 4: then you have all that service time with him, and
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  Speaker 4: you have all that production.
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  Speaker 2: You're growing that young core.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, it's a great point, Billy, that guys
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  Speaker 4: are coming up younger than before. Especially the way the
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  Speaker 4: Brewers have to do business. I think they'd like to
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  Speaker 4: get that value out of them when they're younger, for
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  Speaker 4: one reason or another, obviously on the field, but maybe
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  Speaker 4: as a commodity later on to trade with. So as
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  Speaker 4: you saw with Caleb Durbin. So you know that is
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  Speaker 4: the other side of this. You know, I love Caleb.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of us love what he brought
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  Speaker 4: last year. What really shown in the playoffs. I think
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  Speaker 4: he had big games, he was intense, he was ready,
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: he was about the right stuff. He was a big
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: he defined that culture in a lot of ways. But
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: you do wonder was that gonna be his peak? Was
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: that as you know, was he gonna get Is he
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: gonna get better from there? Or do you sell high
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: on him?
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: I think that's the challenge in making these moves is
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: you're trying to predict futures. You're trying to project out.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: He might become a guy that becomes a stalwart for
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: somebody at third base and has years like last year
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: for a ten year career. Then you might sit back
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: and wonder in a decade, but you might have had
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: a guy that you know, jumped on the scene last year,
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: had a great rookie year, but would he be able
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: to sustain it? I think that's the challenge there. He
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: doesn't you sold high, so.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Quite the different atmosphere, and just even for him had
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: he come back to Milwaukee, it's like, Okay, you're in
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: the mix for rookie the year.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: We this is what we expect.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: And then if you you know, let's say rough spring
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: or you you go, you start the season and you're
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: hitting one thirty at the end of April, it's like whoa.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: You start to squeeze the handle a little bit, like
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: he's put pressure on yourself. You wonder what was last
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: year a fluke? What do I gotta do? And now
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be do it in the spotlight and the
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: biggest spotlights of Fenway and the Red Sox fans, where
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: you're coming in and they're handing you the keys, like
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: you better be ready to turn some quick laps. You
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: better be able to play, and you better be able
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: to you better be able to produce and get through
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: those those valleys because they always come for a ball
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: for a baseball player, And it felt like, uh, Kyle
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Tucker suffered that in Chicago really badly last year, right
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Like you you when you're a two sixty hitter, there's
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: gonna be what like three weeks where you're probably hitting
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: what one f sixty?
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you look just absolutely lost into the box.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: But when somebody on today Drew, if you're a Boston
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Red Sox fan, you're like two fifty six eighteen doubles,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: all right, it's sweet. That's only going to progress. He
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: probably has thirty. All they're looking at is the stats,
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: saying where are all these numbers?
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: They don't look at the.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Valleys onto how you ultimately get there. And it does
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: get tougher when you are brought in kind of as
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: the centerpiece here, that's the spotlight.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: They're handing you the keys to the job, and the
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Brewers just staying fluid and flexible like they always do,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: and this like, well, who are gonna have third base?
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: It'll work itself out. It's like saying, well, we got
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: too many outfielders, it'll work itself out. Somebody will get hurt.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Something's gonna happen, like it always does.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: What about our guy Dreamy here on the YouTube chat
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: with maybe my favorite, he said, hey, who was our
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: third basement breaking camp last year?
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh up right?
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but a great start, home run, sad gets to
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: get up, get up, get out of here from from
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: lane and honor. I mean, that was that was a
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: moment in a season that looked like it was going
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: to be a moment of seventy nine wins. And there's
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: a lot of Brewers fans, though I understand Drew with
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: a thought like, all right, they went from ninety seven
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: wins and then traded their best starter, their entire left
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: side of the infield potentially.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Or their entire third base spot, although their infield depth,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: how are they better?
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: And I I almost like bullish on saying they will
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: be almost Uh, I don't know about ninety seven, but
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: in the mix and it's like, well, it's like they
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: said in Philly, all this year is trust the process.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: It's the process. They would chant out of games. That
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: was hilarious.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I don't want to I know this is a name
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: no one likes to t This is like kind of
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: a toxic name. But like, is there any chance Joey Ortiz,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: that was his best year offensively and defensively, was at
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: third base?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Is there a chance he.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Moved back over they'd give him a shot to move
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: back over there if if that's an option.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Something about the mojo with third and to think about Yeah, yeah,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: he played pretty well.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Try because that was the that was the best it's
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: part at the spot of his career you got from himself.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: It's amazing because, uh, you know, the the masses are
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: migrating right now. Pictures and catchers report tomorrow sorrow, but
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: they're rolling into town getting ready to roll. Had Arnold's
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: traveling today, Mike Vasalo, the you know, all our our
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: writer buddies are getting ready. It's like great, right after
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, pictures and catches give us something else
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: to focus on for a.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Holding the truck up. Has that happened already? Oh, that's already,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: that's trucks already there that release I missed.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: It, I guess, Oh yeah, absolutely, hanging out of Fisherman's
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: War were all your blue Cat buddies.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: We got Boston reference that. We got a lot of em. Francisco,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: we got a reference all of it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: We got a lot on tap today. You know, we've
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: got Dolph is going to be here for our halftime report.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Matt Miller is going to join us a man about film,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: talking about pop culture. Super Bowl, uh, you know, shakedown
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: as we still processing what happened there. Hunter bomb Guard
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: gonna make his first appearance on the huddle today. Many
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: our pal Hunter is going to have He was on
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the call with Matt Arnold yesterday.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: He's had a good question I like it to.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Come correct with some some some clips from that and
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: he's going to walk us through that. And we're going
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: to talk at the end of the s to Stan
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Van Gundy about the NBA and about his you know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: appearance in the Howard Moore documentary. That is this week
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: is the big push and not wait for that that
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to stan Van Gundy about what it
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: was like to coach Howard Moore, what's it like to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: know him, And we'll sneak in a couple of questions
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: about Giannis Bucks, Cam Thomas, the state of the NBA.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: All of that lies ahead. You're listening to the Huddle
• 19:22
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• 19:25
  Speaker 2: It is back.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Caleb Durer set up for thes.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: He might be a small man, but he had a
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: big impact in a short time. Caleb Durban no longer
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a Milwaukee brogh Former brewer. Caleb Durban had a baby
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: mighty mouse. Hit your mind around that. He had a
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: one of his best moments of the year. Drew was
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: what became a ring theme of the twenty twenty five
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: season for Brewers. Viewing in my house where I was
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: at the game with a buddy of mine and his
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: his young son, and the Brewers were scrappy, but they
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: were mostly down throughout the betterment of the entire game,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and then ultimately right towards the end, after you know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: me and my buddy's son, my son.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Ended up leaving.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: We were found to be out of the situation and
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: we we missed the entire game in the entire finish
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: of the game. We missed Caleb Durban's victory in the
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: victorious walk off winner that he had because we had left.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: But he, as as we saw I kind of embodied
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: everything that the Brewers were about, never say die.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: He was not giving up on any a bat he was.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: He's scrappy and if he plays the way he did
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, just they're gonna love him there.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I love him well, absolutely, he's got team controlled thirty
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: until thirty one.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: S love his story. He's a grind. He was a
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: lot of people relate to a guy A lot of
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: guys like me relate to a guy like that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: There weren't you know, there's not many major leaguers that
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: are my height. However, the Brewers have all of them.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: But you know, you kind of you know a guy
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: that when he no one really pegged him as a
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: future major leaguer, he kind of went about his business
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: in his baseball career and made something of it and
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: made something the most of his opportunities.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: The only thing is stories like that.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know that he'll get the leash or the
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: instant excitement from the fans like Brewers fans gave him
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: right because he was from ninety miles away. Because he
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: brought whatever it was thirty people to his own Yea
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: to his first game and had all of them his
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: first game, all of them in the jersey's there right
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: in the family section, Drew. Those are the memories in
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: the moments that Brewers fans will really love. Eight seven, seven, seven,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: nine four one ninety seven three. A little dust up.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: In the Hawk's Wolves game last evening, Yeah, a couple.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: There was a couple of them last year, or Isaiah Stewart's.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: But you know, I think there are more scuffles than
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: I remember, which I think is funny because more teams
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: are trying to lose than ever before.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Like teams are trying to lose that team thing we
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: get if we can squeeze it in.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to stan Van Gunda at seven thirty
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: today and it's about the Howard More doc and he's
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in it and he was Howard's coach at the University
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: But his NBA times and stuff.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: But when you have almost a third of the league,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it's better for them to lose than win.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: It was already.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of things like if we did this
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: commissioner for a day thing.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, liked the NBA.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: You're gonna get into like your fifty five sixty games
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: in at the All Star break, like you didn't. It
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: used to be the mid season break. It used to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: be the mid season break, the two thirds poll.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Now you do the deadline before the All Star Game,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: which I always thought was mixed up. It should be
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: the All Star Game then the deadline, because then you
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: fully understand when your team's done and then you maybe
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: sell off more assets.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: But the whole calendar is messed up.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: And now everybody trying to thank for because this is
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: a rich draft, and then the next couple don't look
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: as promising, so this is the one you want to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: get in.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: So there's extra incentive for teams. Pluster was already incentive.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: There are already cases where guys weren't playing for load management,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and you go to a game on any given night,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: you don't know if you're going to see the stars,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you know, the back to.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Backs, and now that's already into college basketball. Is a
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: lot of people queued up Kansas and Arizona last night
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: to watch two of the best players in the country,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: and one of them had an illness and the coach
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I thought he was gonna play. I
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: thought he was going to play. So it's pretty quick
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: how that changes. Matt Moore, who you mentioned, NBA writer
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: or the Action Network set it and summarized the entire
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: NBA schedule. I won't go through the entire part of it,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: but he said, like January first, All Star Break, the
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: schedule's brutal, everyone's hurt. We just want to make it
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: to All Star post All Star Break to March first,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: which is.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: About two weeks.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: We're rejuvenated, We're ready to lock in and go for
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: it high level basketball. We got some rest for more
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: than a day, ready to compete March first to the
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: end of the season. We're all injured again and all
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: exhausted again, and a third of us are tanking actively
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: and we'll do whatever it takes to lose. A third
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: of us have established ourselves as playoff teams and are
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: just trying to coast to make sure we don't cats
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: out or get hurt by the playoffs. And a third
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: of us are in play in tournament potential, trying to
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: subtly avoid making it what we want to do because
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: we actually are trying to miss the entire playoffs and
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: get back into the lottery, because if we surge out,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: we're going to be stuck again.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: It's a weird spot to be.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, gives you two more months of regular season basketball
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: from here on.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: It's not hot.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Take Compday today is actually buy or sell Tuesday on
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the program, and uh well, let's just start it right now.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: You're buying, are selling that the NBA regular season is
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the worst regular season in any sport that we follow.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I would buy that. I I would buy that.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I would would say baseball like I said, Burgers Pittsburgh
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: on a Tuesday night.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: What does that matter? It is more more to watch,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: it's more watchable to me, I don't know. To me.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Even the bigger part is I can't tailgate a basketball game.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: That's like I can't tailgate a basketball try but then
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: hy park, Yes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Well in the winter and stuff. You're right, like.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: For all the reasons you laid out from Matt Moore
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: is like there's just the load management to back to backs.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Plus it's just like even you got like, okay, see
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: play in San Antonio, Like it's moderately interesting, but it
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: speaks to and baseball is not immune to this in that,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: like we said Sunday Night Baseball, like who's gonna watch
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Phillies and mess? You watch the Brewers so much that
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: your bandwidth for the sport doesn't expand to include a
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: lot of the national Like unless you're again seam heads,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: whatever you're into, but are you gonna watch? And I
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: have the MLB package And sometimes I'll throw on Padres
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Mariners late night or you know, to hear my buddy
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: mud Grant, Yeah, I'll just like the Dodgers are playing,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: let's see what they're up to. But to sit down
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the idea of sitting down and watching a whole game,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: even when they're only two hours and forty minutes not happening, it's.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: No And And as much as Dodgers, Padres is hot
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: and spicy, and I might get to see exactly what
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: we were talking about with the scuffles, like odds are
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: you will odds are I won't be able to lock
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: in for two hour and forty minutes of it, But
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I also can't with basketball. I think this is where
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: both of them have and the MLB has jumped aboard,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: and I think they've done such a better job of it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: They still have ways to go, but their marketing as
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Drew hey Man, consume the game in twelve minutes the
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: day after, right, consume the game and highlight form. Watch
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: our stars studded athletes and the moves that they make
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: and the sensational athleticism that you're missing.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: They're leaning in more to the highlights.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I think the NHL has in this conversation, of the
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: four major sports, they got one of the better regular seasons,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: but it's the least televised and least discussed and least
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: sure interesting.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Because again, even though.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: We don't live in a prime one of thirty NHL markets,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know that people that are watching the Predators
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: of the Golden Knights are tapping in for any Stars
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: and Rangers game right Like, it's still for this kind
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: of content and this much of it. It's a very
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: very regional deal. But if it's I spent listening a
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: percentage of it, I'd be with you. I'm watching a
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: lot more Brewers local.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Plus, the n b A is going through the transition
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to of like you know, Lebron's and Steph are kind
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of just they're inching towards oblivion.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: A big factor not as many American stars and yeah, yeah,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: and then are coming through and that doesn't hurt baseball.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: That's a good point in the NFL.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: To the NFL is still surviving post Brady and Patrick
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Mahomes wasn't in the playoffs this year, right, and it's
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: like okay, and like there is there's always that transition.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But how do you, like, do people appreciate yet?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards is you have to go to a finals
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: or win a championship to make people realize how exciting
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: that guy is to watch.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I think probably No. I think that's a big factor.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: That didn't go. That's Zion's problem. Is me chopping looking
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: at gott a good airport? Yeah, he's just paying up front.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: That's a good airport. You're right. Playoff success is a
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: big thing, but yeah, some of that better to.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Western Conference finals driven and the playoffs are so good
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: and that's where the NBA regular season is so much
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: worse because the right the postseason is so good and entertaining,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: and so I will watch any playoff basketball game, but
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: if that same matchups in February, I'm probably gonna potentially
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: even check in on the start of Love is Blind.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: In the pots that's going to be fascinating.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: I think it comes down also for a lot of
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: fans that fair or not, whether or not it's true,
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: there's this perception that that they're just not trying in
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: the NBA regular season.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's fair. I don't know if that's true,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: but that's a perception that people have, though I saw
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: a lot of guys trying last night.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: When you sit courts out and you see, yeah, but
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: playoff basketball is such a different sport that you ask yourself, well,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think you get that in baseball from people.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I don't think there's that perception that exists that even
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: though it's a long, slow season, people that still get
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: the idea of these guys are trying to swing and
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: hit and.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Do everything they have to do.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: But I think they're trying to do it too it
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: in the NBA, but it just becomes such a different
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: product that that's that's a perception that so much load management.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I think people feel that way, and I would change Armon,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I would change Drew. I'd changed one word of what
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Armond said for the baseball to basketball, because I do
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: think there's people that question the try factor. I disagree
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: with it, but I think both might be where the
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: care factor is the one where like a lot of
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Brewers fans watch, you know, Christian Yellick strikeout in the
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: ninth inning on a Tuesday night in July, walks back
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: to the Douga say he's got I don't even care.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Don't need care. They needn't care. How how do you
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: not care? That same deal?
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: That question is the one that ended the postseason, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: you see every moment be different.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: And then play and then playoffs systems.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: A lot of teams make the playoffs in the NBA,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: so then there's an idea, well, how much of these
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: games really matter?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: That is it really coming down to one game or two?
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: And sometimes it doesn't baseball.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: But it's come to the point where, again, make that
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you're disincentivized to make the playoffs because you'd rather have
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the better draft pick I rank, then get into the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: playoffs and be one and done.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: That's why I think the league thought that playoffs with
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: the playing was going to be a solution and really exacerbating, Like.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Some of the better teams have ended up getting lucky
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: in the lottery, which is kind of like that's curtailed
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: some things too, Like for the really bad teams, it's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: kind of kept a foot down their neck. Here's this
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: one could be a reach for you, this could be
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: This is almost an early candidate for the wake and
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Bake story though.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: But when it comes to.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Being a fan and everything, that's you know, we always
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: say the information comes at you the fire hose, now
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: not a trickle. You know how in youth sports we're
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: anti specialization. We're anti like, play more than one sport,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: don't just give yourself to one because it leads injuries
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and just burnt out and stuff.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Is it that way with fans too?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Is it in terms of the bandwidth, Like if you're
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: gonna be if with what it takes down with us
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: available and what you consume, can you be as hardcore
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and it informed a Packer fan, Brewer fan and Buck fan,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Badger fan.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: It's almost like too much now.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: A little information overload, bit of overload, like you only
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: have so much bandwidth to apply and like you can
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: be a and then when you get fans that are
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: casual fans, they're not as die hard in each you know,
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: in each sport there's this there's almost like a specialization
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: in fandom now that there is.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: If you're into fantasy.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Football and stuff, you're watching football and stuff, you know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: do you have the bandwidth to follow the NBA night in,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: night out and have on your mind you know who's
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: playing an October or November game on a Tuesday night.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I've got a fantasy basketball team right now. We're nine
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: and seven. Bill's Beastly Team. I did not make the team.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I did not come up with. I did not make
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: the name. I did not draft the team. I did
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: not make one roster move. We're nine and seven. I
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: get updated every days on the little ticker what we
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: do spectacular. You're right in there, You're you're you're dead on.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: I got a lot of bandwidth, but I do have
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: to ration it out as to where I can go.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: And I think we've heard people say this all the time.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: I'm more of a Brewers fan than a Bucks fan.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I'm more of a basketball fan than a football fan.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: But as much as.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: We're more of a fan of players and teams, I
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: think we do have to line them up into one basket.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: We got to divide ourselves out. We gotta spread our wealth,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: spread spread the love. There's not enough well there's a
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: lot of a lot of sports time and a lot
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: of time that we're gonna have to consume here, and
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to start getting into a lot more
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: of these sports.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Like the logan that.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: You lacrosse lacross is electric when I see that in
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: ESPN plus. That's the other thing in how things are attributed.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: But I think there is an aspect of we used
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: to go comfortably as fans from sport to sport and leave.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: The off season what it was. You know.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Now we're in an era where everybody's a CAP expert
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: and I'm inundated in the summer with CAP questions and
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: a cap I don't care.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: It's like, here's the perfect example. In my youth, like
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the Olympics was a daily thing. So far, I've watched
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: like ten minutes of the Olympics stuff on in the background.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Here, that's a you, that's a you. Probably early I
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: don't have the bandwidth, you know.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: My wife was like Thursday, the men's hockey team plays,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm so glad.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: You know, we got to to capitulate. Capplicate has been
• 33:01
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• 33:08
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• 33:11
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• 33:16
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• 34:05
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• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris Barron, I feel like the Spin Doctors lawyers
• 34:10
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• 34:13
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• 34:13
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• 34:16
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• 34:18
  Speaker 3: and then also hand you some papers, that feels like
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• 34:22
  Speaker 2: A lot of lawyers stand in work.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: A lot of people ask why they can't get that
• 34:25
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• 34:26
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• 34:28
  Speaker 2: With the hit.
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• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Tough to take, all right, pictures and catchers reporting tomorrow,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that is uh sweet Newsbirers making that trade yesterday, sending
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Caleb Durban and well basically the entire left side. They're
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the third base side of their infield. Yeah, my stereo
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Siegler and Durbin. Now, if Caleb Durbin plays and is
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox third basement for ten years and gets
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: into an All Star game or two, tip the cap, am.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I expecting that to happen, We'll.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: See Yeah, not quite no, and know that I expected
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: will I'd be surprised, No, because he's a gamer.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Brewers, obviously, you know.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: It's not in the Brewers nature to give up on
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a guy who is young, cheap, controllable, and on the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: ascent to a point unless they know they've got somebody
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: better in the pipeline, in the immediate pipeline, and that
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: they're you know, they they did the analysis, like they
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: they they got rid of all these guys, like what
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: are they gona do.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: With their base?
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: They know what they're doing, and they're taking a shot
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: on these two pictures hoping that one of them can
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: be like Quinn Priester and.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: I got one idea, Drew and one thing that I
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: feel pretty confident that they're not doing. They're not going
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: and signing esac parades like you wouldn't think, so I
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: feel pretty confident that they're not gonna go and get
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: a veteran.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Also, they did bring back Peter stress LeKi. There we go.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on pistol, Because all due respect, I don't
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: think John Birdie is really moving the needle all that much.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: When you look at the different guys that are available
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: on the free agent market that could go play third,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: you've got so many options, you have so many players
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: that you gotta find something to do with them, and
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: you know, red hot tim Not hit us up and said,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of stunned Garrett Mitchell didn't get moved for
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: as Dings's been that one. I'm not surprised in as well,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: because you'd be selling way too low.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: They sold high on their two best rookies a year ago,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: offensively in Durban and Collins. And I think there's a
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: lot of people in baseball you might love those guys
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: to a different level and a then degree if you're
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: betting on the come. I think both of them have
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: regression looking square of the squarely in the eyes and
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: you're trying to grab a dude that I mean, Harrison
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: struck out eleven in his second big league start, like
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: he has got some pedigree and has done it before.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to watch him, absolutely, And so you're there's
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: stock punk pitching is what they have to do. Young, cheap, controllable,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: And it's not like they just gave up on Caleb
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Durmom Like, dude, they love him, would they would he
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: like to be part of the plants? Yes, But in
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: the big picture, the return they're getting is better.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Now, I did feel bad for the Andrew Monasterio fan
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Andrew Monasterio fans because there are people that I did
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: not realize Andrew Monasterio had so many Oh.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: We're out here, We're out there. Yeah, Mona's a big
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: loss because he was always ready as a utility guy.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: He came up bigger than people realized last year at Likes.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: In my opinion, I'm not saying he shouldn't be part
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: of the dealer or anything, but I don't think that's
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: just a throwaway to forget. I mean, his ops was
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: up around I think seven fifty. He was there for
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: a lot of big moments, and.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: That Garrett Mitchell has been snake bit right. That's the
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: thing about the injury bug thing.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: When you watch him though, when he plays and you
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: see him get after it, you know he can cover
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of ground and center, he can play any
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: of the spots.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: He can run potential.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had absolutely It's like to give up on
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a guy like that would be silly.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: That would be tough.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: He's also a first round pick, right, and like the
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: and and they've also been doing better in the first round,
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: So I think that was the other part of this
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: package that I thought was maybe more surprising Drew was
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: the Competitive Balance pick. Yeah, that was the final throw in.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: That was the final thing that must have been to
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: get it over the hump. After Matt Arnold mentioned it
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: a couple of times in his presser, and we're going
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: to hear some of it with Hunter at seven. When
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: he's like, I heard the super Bowl, wasn't that good?
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: I didn't get to watch much of it. You could
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: tell either Matt Arnold didn't watch the super Bowl or
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: was pissed he didn't get to watch the super Bowl
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: because he's like, excrue. We could have done this any
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: other day except Super Bowl Sunday. But there might have
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: been a moment there where all of a sudden, Mac
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Collins scores the touchdown, it's nineteen seven, and he's like,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: I need to go and see the end of this.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Sure take the Competitive Balance round B picky right, just
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: like get into it and get it over with already.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Because it felt like they the way it sounded, Drew,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: they've been working on this for a while and these
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: ideas and plans have percolated for some time.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: The sports gods getting him back because they consummated the
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: peralta trade on David Stearns's anniversary.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: It's like, I'm sure, I'm.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Sure Matt had to send them a couple of bottles
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: of wine or something or sorry, sorry to mess up
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: your anniversary dinner, like cutting this deal.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they had to do that and one edible arrangements,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: some chalk covered pineapple, those strawberries. After giving up the
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: ruining the anniversary. You know, it's natural, afford easy act.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: A little bit of that fresh pineapple is always a
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: good thing to have in there. I think it's always
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: better than those gift bas because they give out the
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: grocery store that's all markup. Man. There's no bigger markup
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: in grocery than pre cut fruit. But whatever I digress.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: No pre cut fruit in the shape of flowers. That
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: one that one might take the cake however, it'd be
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: good though, you know what almond, what.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: About the pre cut like the veggies for the grill,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: like the blackstone, they got all the onions and the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: peppers and stuff.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I go and they get a whole like slow
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: cooker pack or a whole grill pack. It's nice though,
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: because you can pretend you really went down in the kitchen.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Say look, I got all this stuff ready, I'm ready
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: to go. It's all in the grill. It's easy to go.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: But if you're willing to pay the markup, I guess,
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: but you're paying for the listen. Cutting cutting vegetables is
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: like a very tedious task. If you're willing to do it,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: you're willing to put the work in. But hey, I
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: understand why. You know they want to sell.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: That frugality aarmond. Never buy pre cut fruit.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Never, And if you're, if you're, and if you're influenced
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: to do it, I will stand outside of the grocery
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: store and do it for five bucks or ten bucks
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: or whatever they're going rate is. I'll make some extra
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: money doing it. You know you didn't want to hands
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: on my food. That's a fair point, that's an absolutely
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: fair point. I'll make sure to wear gloves.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Guys. You know that text made me think of something. Though.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: It is always very conorintuitive for fans to think about trades,
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: because your intuition is we have a good player, let's
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: not trade them, let's trade the bad players. And so
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: often you hear that from fans, but really that's not reality.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: In trades, you have to trade value to get something back.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: That's why it's not that they didn't like hill dur
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: when they probably liked him. They probably knew he had value.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: That's why they felt like they could get something for him.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: But uh, but I just.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Think about that when I think of someone saying, why
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: trade Garrett Mitchell if you think he's broken and injured
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: and hasn't giving you much so to other teams right now,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: they're not gonna take.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: A chance and give you anything.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: The interesting thing on Durban is like they clearly would
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: think or they're looking at it, and maybe this is
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: more about Harrison and I keep mispronouncing uh the other
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: pitcher's last name do Ron Rohan Drohan. Sorry, I kept
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: hearing saying, I'm like, that's a sweet name. They seem
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: like they really like dro In more than anybody else
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: would think as well, where they clearly identify two dudes
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: that they wanted to bring in and bring back David Hamilton,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: because all I could hear is David Hamilton's gonna factor
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: in Well, let's figure out how he doesn't have a
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: five hundred ops factor in versatility?
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like to know exactly, all right.
• 41:27
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• 41:29
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• 41:32
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