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02/20/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: I'm all for someone huddling. If you have something to say.
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Speaker 1: It's time to wake up and talk about the teams
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Speaker 1: you love, nobody with the guys you love. It's just
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Speaker 1: about getting the group together.
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Speaker 3: I need you, you need me today.
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Speaker 2: Take the cameras off the field and the final huble.
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Speaker 4: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 4: in the hours.
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Speaker 2: Let's go on and keep track.
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Speaker 1: What God yeah, and they can play.
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Speaker 2: Be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 3: Why left Banks three ninety sick bag be hen se
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Speaker 3: punk is not long enough for you watching to be.
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Speaker 2: Proud of a professional. It's a great professional out there.
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Speaker 2: Have played this ball game like I know you can
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Speaker 2: play it. Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure. Schmid, Oh my god,
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Speaker 2: this man's been out all night. Armand Sorry, don't get scared.
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Speaker 2: Six were ready.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 4: Got yourself.
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Speaker 2: Welcome in.
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Speaker 5: It is the Beautiful Huddle edition of a Friday show.
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Speaker 5: I'm Bill Schmid alongside Hunter bombguard in for Drew Olsen today,
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Speaker 5: armand Surian's on that side of the glass. I do
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Speaker 5: sound stranger if that's just in my headphones, Fellas, good morning,
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Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Nice.
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Speaker 5: Apologize for spooking you guys this morning. Apologize for scaring
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Speaker 5: the boys this morning. As Hunter inver drew one more day,
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Speaker 5: Arman is already knocking out out shrow In saying, and
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Speaker 5: I could already see a little bit of a jump
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Speaker 5: because both of you guys still thought that I was
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Speaker 5: maybe in the sunshine, stayed here today for a fight.
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Speaker 2: You were still hanging out with the Grapefruit League.
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Speaker 3: I I thought the same. However, I'm gonna sity. I'm
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Speaker 3: not gonna take this the correct way, all right, the
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Speaker 3: wrong way, okay, all right? I think and I talked
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Speaker 3: about it at one point, and I think he mentioned
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Speaker 3: that you were still there totally implicitly, implicitly trust Hunter
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Speaker 3: when it comes to any sort of organization, all type
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Speaker 3: of decision, as we do it, just about anything correct,
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Speaker 3: I would ever question that he knows less about it
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Speaker 3: than he should. So I think maybe we Hunter said
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Speaker 3: that as although when you sent me the snapchat on
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Speaker 3: the plane, I probably should have started my critical thinking
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Speaker 3: skills that probably, yeah, that probably could have done a
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Speaker 3: little something that might have worked out.
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Speaker 2: I think we're all good. I'm just gonna crank up
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Speaker 2: your mic here, Louis.
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, am I just on a wrong mic? No,
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Speaker 3: there's an other wrong. It's not that you're that.
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Speaker 2: It's right.
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Speaker 5: I just wanted to make sure I wasn't making your
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Speaker 5: life more difficult. I apologize.
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Speaker 3: We tweaked some stuff week ago, and you haven't been here,
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Speaker 3: so I don't think anyone said that mic yet.
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Speaker 2: So I think we're good. Though you're at three. You're
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Speaker 2: on mike three, right, all right?
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Speaker 5: So I'm breaking in the all right, I'm breaking in
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Speaker 5: a little bit of fresh fresh feel on this mic.
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Speaker 2: Andrew might have been in that seat yesterday.
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I thought I thought the video
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Speaker 3: looked like he was in the exactly.
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Speaker 1: But the levels were different. Okay, we forget Luddy. He
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Speaker 1: was a popular, popular guy in the text line yesterday.
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Speaker 2: You were happy to hear Luddy yesterday, as they should be.
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Speaker 3: I just forgot what mike he was using. It wasn't
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Speaker 3: that he wasn't in the right seat. Oh, people are
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Speaker 3: always excited to hear Luddy. They're also always excited to
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Speaker 3: see letty good looking, young mass potential modeling career for
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Speaker 3: For Andrew Ludwaker, he was on the YouTube stream yesterday,
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Speaker 3: so that was going to be able to see. I
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Speaker 3: appreciate uh him waking up very early for us this morning.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully he got a couple of naps yesterday, because you
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Speaker 3: can need one after the start. Hunter is going to
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Speaker 3: need one after the week that's been filling in. How
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Speaker 3: has the first week on a morning show and radio
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Speaker 3: ben for you?
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Speaker 1: It's actually not been as bad as I thought it
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Speaker 1: just all what I've realized is it all depends on
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Speaker 1: when you get to bed the night before. That's very
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Speaker 1: much and so that that has been and it's tough
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Speaker 1: because things are going on sports. I was telling Arman
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Speaker 1: this morning. Tomahawk Catchet High school hockey team was playing
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Speaker 1: last night in the playoffs against the number one team,
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Speaker 1: Hudson in the state. So Tomahawk's the nine seed, Hudson's
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Speaker 1: the one. They went to Hudson. We're up six to
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Speaker 1: five with three minutes left, lost eight to six.
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Speaker 2: I pulled three goals in.
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Speaker 1: The Yeah, three goals in the last three minutes, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: but what a fight by the Tomahawk Catchet hockey team.
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Speaker 2: Have to give them a shout shout out to Tomahawk.
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Speaker 3: So I was listening to that shout out to Hudson
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Speaker 3: for apparently being an absolute way.
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Speaker 1: I think they are like a perennial powerhouse, I believe
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Speaker 1: from what I understand. And Tomahawk won D two last year,
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Speaker 1: so they got bumped up to D one. That's an
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Speaker 1: interesting discussion too, is how that goes. And Tomahawk's a
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Speaker 1: very obviously smaller school compared to a lot of the
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Speaker 1: D one schools, and so now that's kind of a
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Speaker 1: that's a topic that could be of conversation just because
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Speaker 1: that's an interesting way they do that. I get it
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Speaker 1: because you don't want a team dominating in D two.
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Speaker 1: But Tomahawk is a that's a small talent sound like
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Speaker 1: they were, you know, recruiting around the North past.
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Speaker 5: It's a difficult part of it, hunting is because there's
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Speaker 5: so much that that leans into you. You obviously want
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Speaker 5: everybody to be able to have an inequal chance of
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Speaker 5: being ably to be competitive and win. However, when you
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Speaker 5: just keep elevating a team because they are good, right,
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Speaker 5: you almost feel like you're punishing someone for their own success.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm with you on that, and that.
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Speaker 5: Is a that's a long, long conversation to have, also
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Speaker 5: a good one to be able to have around Stevens
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Speaker 5: Point area, which would be potentially wa a different you know,
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Speaker 5: different covering bodies would potentially be.
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Speaker 2: But I like it is.
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Speaker 5: It is a fascinating one because you see it in
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Speaker 5: all of the sports, right. We'll see it with high
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Speaker 5: school basketball coming up here in a couple of weeks
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Speaker 5: as well, like their selection process comes out.
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Speaker 2: We see it with football all the time. WannaKey was always.
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Speaker 5: A Division two team and now they're battling in Division
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Speaker 5: one late into I think the the semi finals of
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Speaker 5: the football playoffs for the same reason, because they've always
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Speaker 5: been an absolute wagon and then you start getting elevated.
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Speaker 2: It does. It puts different schools in really different tiers.
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Speaker 1: It does, because I mean you're I mean, they're competing
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Speaker 1: against teams like eu Claire and and that's just obviously
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Speaker 1: a different sized town comparatively.
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Speaker 3: Is But what I was talking to Hunter about, and
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Speaker 3: I would think the challenge in high school hockey is
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Speaker 3: is that the size of the school doesn't necessarily mean
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Speaker 3: the quality of the facility the infrastructure, because hockey such
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Speaker 3: players exactly. Yeah, that type of thing, because in high
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Speaker 3: school hockey it's a niche thing. For instance, and I'm
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Speaker 3: telling you, growing up in southeastern Wisconsin, it was non existent.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't really think of that many high
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Speaker 3: schools around southeastern Wisconsin that have high school hockey. I
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Speaker 3: know they do, but it's just not really as much
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Speaker 3: of a factor. But up north it's a bigger deal. Right,
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Speaker 3: So when you said Tomahawk, I had to kind of
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Speaker 3: confirm you you mean high school hockey, right, because I
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Speaker 3: ant to know because you have the club hockey stuff
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Speaker 3: down here, there's Shaw, there's Winter.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say it was obviously.
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Speaker 5: A lot of co ops when in Greenfield when you
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Speaker 5: were in high school. Same with same for me, and
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Speaker 5: it was you're right, Shaw was the one, and then
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Speaker 5: there was might it might have also been Shaw that
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Speaker 5: that had the high school program that a lot of
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Speaker 5: different schools kind of fed into when I was in
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Speaker 5: high school. But when we were talking with and it's
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Speaker 5: funny that this is how it starts out because it
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Speaker 5: was actually exactly where we were leading into. Because I
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Speaker 5: don't know about you guys, all I care about here
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Speaker 5: coming up the next couple of days of sports wise, obviously,
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Speaker 5: I want to be able to watch the Badgers figure
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Speaker 5: some stuff out after a disappointing l against the Ohio
7:21
Speaker 5: State Buck gives right, get yourself back on track. They
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Speaker 5: can't step on another one on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Even though I don't necessarily know that's a rake and
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Speaker 3: eight lost team against a nine lost team Army. You'd
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Speaker 3: be able to give me more more clarity and then
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Speaker 3: we'll talk about it. We'll talk about that one going in,
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Speaker 3: but as much as just because it's red, white and blue,
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Speaker 3: I will very much back and be excited and outwardly
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Speaker 3: aggressively patriotic and excited when we start talking about team
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Speaker 3: sports in the Olympics, like this is where for me
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Speaker 3: Hunter it always gets good and arman like Jordan Sulz
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Speaker 3: yesterday hey captured the silver medal.
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Speaker 5: Good conversation on that one. We'll talk about it a
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Speaker 5: little bit later on exactly what that needs to be.
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Speaker 5: But the we end up watching what we watch. I
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Speaker 5: feel like and and I love watching sports that I'm
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Speaker 5: familiar with. I don't know that the sport of hockey
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Speaker 5: has been as familiar in the sports lexicon and as
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Speaker 5: much as it is right now, as hot as it is.
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Speaker 5: And like you see the game that happens yesterday against
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Speaker 5: the US women against the Canadian women, shout out Hillary Knight,
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Speaker 5: that was awesome and.
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Speaker 3: She got engaged in that before comes out Captain America
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Speaker 3: comes to save our bacon, Canadian bacon. No pun intended,
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Speaker 3: because I'll admit, and I mentioned it yesterday. You get
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Speaker 3: a big win in the in the prelimbs, and that's
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Speaker 3: precisely what I was worried about.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure they did it.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sitting here saying it, but subconsciously, you might think,
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Speaker 3: all right, we got this thing licked.
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Speaker 2: We know we can beat this team.
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Speaker 3: Precisely, I was worried about maybe Canada changes up a
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Speaker 3: couple of things, you know, maybe they make some adjustments.
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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, it's tighter, it's harder to score.
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Speaker 2: But winning go Hillary, thank.
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Speaker 3: You as that championship medal from her days with the Badgers.
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Speaker 3: In the Badgers, she just got that little bit of
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Speaker 3: a redirect into the celebration. Ye and like, because women's
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Speaker 3: hockey is one that I don't know a lot of
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Speaker 3: people realize that there is a professional hockey league that
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Speaker 3: is really starting to flourish in America. It is potentially
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Speaker 3: more than other sports that are now being featured on
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Speaker 3: ESPN's Women's Sports Sunday.
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Speaker 2: I would like for the professional women's.
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Speaker 3: Hockey League to get featured because there's some incredible athletes there.
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Speaker 3: Once you start winning championships like this, you start getting
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Speaker 3: more used to try the game. And when we were
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Speaker 3: talking about it with Greene, we're seeing it now. Maybe
9:47
Speaker 3: it's just in Milwaukee because we're into the Olympics. The
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Speaker 3: viewership numbers just show it, but it feels like right
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Speaker 3: now could be And I know they talked about this
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Speaker 3: with soccer in the nineties when they had the World Cup.
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Speaker 3: It's obviously not here, but when your teams are good
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Speaker 3: at it, I think it incentivizes and motivates young people
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Speaker 3: and parents to say, I would like my kid to
10:09
Speaker 3: start figuring out how to skate and how to play hockey.
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Speaker 3: Maybe we do put oh, we do throw some water
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Speaker 3: on that concrete slab that we have outside and figure
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Speaker 3: out if we can skate a little bit backwards.
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Speaker 2: Because the only way that the sport continues.
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Speaker 3: To grow, guys, I think is if young kids are
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Speaker 3: playing it, and that part of hockey I don't know
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Speaker 3: has ever been bigger right now. Yeah, if I was
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Speaker 3: If I was like a high school hockey player right
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Speaker 3: now and you know, in the playoffs or you're you know,
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Speaker 3: you're going through with your team and watching these Olympic
10:37
Speaker 3: games and these hockey games on TV, I'd be even
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Speaker 3: more motivated to go out there and have fun and
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Speaker 3: enjoy the game because you just you see the type
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Speaker 3: of athletes they are and you feel like you're kind
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Speaker 3: of part of it. If you're going out and you're
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Speaker 3: playing it as a high school or even obviously younger,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of kids start at a very young
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Speaker 3: age and they're skating and they're getting on their skates
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Speaker 3: and learning how to do that super early in life.
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Speaker 3: The men's team has not won an Olympic medal in
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Speaker 3: hockey since twenty ten, So this is gonna this is
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Speaker 3: you know, we're at sixteen year drought here and this
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Speaker 3: would be a great way to capture it if they're
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Speaker 3: able to win today and get to that gold medal game. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's sort of amazing when you think about it, because
11:15
Speaker 3: you just kind of assume they had right right, some
11:16
Speaker 3: more sort of amazing to think about it. So when
11:18
Speaker 3: you have that tangible goal to reach, when when you
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Speaker 3: have the excitement that comes with it, and and there
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Speaker 3: are your best players playing, help shits absolutely ability, absolutely
11:27
Speaker 3: and and you're right, it's a flourishing sport, especially for
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Speaker 3: young women. The PWHL is the league you're referring to
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Speaker 3: right now, Professional Women's Hockey League, eight teams for in
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Speaker 3: the US foreign Canada. So you know, it's it's it's
11:39
Speaker 3: taken us kind of by storm right now. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: it helps right now that we're we're in the right
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Speaker 3: part of the sports calendar where we can be into
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Speaker 3: Olympics and into hockey at the Olympics, which is always
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Speaker 3: super exciting. And when you have that US Canada rivalry,
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Speaker 3: you know, the four Nations face off, I think really
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Speaker 3: helped that a lot because it gets people fired up
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Speaker 3: to play. Thousand persons to watch teams play and the
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Speaker 3: watch flags play, so to speak, you know, and there's
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Speaker 3: a good competition across the world, and there's the competition
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Speaker 3: with Canada and the rivalry, and you have local stars
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Speaker 3: and so it makes the whole thing really exciting. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: we're all hockeyed out this week, man, and some of
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Speaker 3: these games have just been incredible, even though they're like all.
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Speaker 1: Going overtime, and then we get this three on three stuff,
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Speaker 1: which is just amazing, and then it's like, oh, it's
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Speaker 1: so it's just a thrill. It's just a thrill once
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Speaker 1: you get to overtime. Three on three, that's a lot
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Speaker 1: of skating for those athletes, though, Dude, that's crazy.
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Speaker 5: That is maybe the most wide open any game is
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Speaker 5: outside of when you start doing the three man weave
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Speaker 5: in basketball practice and all you're trying to do is
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Speaker 5: keep up. Maybe that was just me as the fat
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Speaker 5: kid running around the outside trying to make sure that
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Speaker 5: I was in position for the past. But like it is,
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Speaker 5: that is an intense skate and it you hit the
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Speaker 5: Four Nations faceoff arm and yeah, it gave a little
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Speaker 5: bit of a pre limb. Hey, Slovakia not a part
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Speaker 5: of the Four Nations face off from what I'm hearing.
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Speaker 5: Don't sleep on Slovakia. I think they got like seven
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Speaker 5: NHL players, And that's a big part of this. Now
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Speaker 5: that NHL players are able to play again and again,
13:02
Speaker 5: maybe we just get too prisoner at the moment here.
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Speaker 5: I'm not saying this is gonna be the ninety two
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Speaker 5: dream team right where all over the world they're drumming
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Speaker 5: up NBA fans and you're seeing like the next crazy.
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Speaker 2: Surge in sports.
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Speaker 5: But people ask, why is the NFL so hell bent
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Speaker 5: on going overseas? Why is why is Roger Goodell now
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Speaker 5: tapping into a sixteen hour trip for two teams to
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Speaker 5: go play in Melbourne, Australia. Have you ever seen how
13:27
Speaker 5: many people go to Ozzie Rules football games?
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Speaker 2: You ever see some of the dudes that are playing
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Speaker 2: in Ausie Rule.
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Speaker 5: For what the NFL is looking at is saying I'd
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Speaker 5: like those youngsters who want to play American football in
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Speaker 5: the NFL, and like you, start trying to grow different
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Speaker 5: seeds of the sport in different territories and the way
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Speaker 5: the game grows. Arman knows this because I think he's
13:52
Speaker 5: become as much of a miss Rachel stand as there
13:54
Speaker 5: might be. You end up starting as much as you
13:56
Speaker 5: want to watch what you want to watch.
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Speaker 2: Hunter.
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Speaker 5: You'll learn this very very soon, very so. Maybe maybe
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Speaker 5: not very soon. I don't want to put that on you.
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Speaker 5: I'm not trying to put that on your apologize. No
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Speaker 5: breaking news, no breaking news. I think I engaged you
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Speaker 5: the other day. Somebody, somebody did take it.
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Speaker 1: I want to say, thought you were engaged at Maggie Georgia,
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Speaker 1: I think, which I appreciate the support, Maggie.
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Speaker 2: We we we love, we love. He's the best, not
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Speaker 2: that anybody else is.
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Speaker 5: But like you, see, you start watching what your kids
14:24
Speaker 5: are watching because guess what, you don't have control of
14:26
Speaker 5: the television anymore. And whether or not they start falling
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Speaker 5: in love with you. See, I think Dad's watching a
14:33
Speaker 5: lot more volleyball than they would plan on.
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Speaker 3: Uh. Young daughters starts playing in clubs and starts playing
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Speaker 3: in high school, in middle school and grade.
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Speaker 2: School and and hockey.
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Speaker 5: I think has the chance to kind of do that
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Speaker 5: when you have kind of moments like this where today
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Speaker 5: should be a phenomenal game. Kids will be starting to
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Speaker 5: get out of school here on a Friday watching the
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Speaker 5: clothes of some of the best athletes that wear American
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Speaker 5: colors and are from them America.
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Speaker 2: Playing in the games.
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Speaker 5: And I think, like that is it's got a chance
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Speaker 5: to really continue to take off. Now do I wish
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Speaker 5: the game was not at eight in the morning on
15:07
Speaker 5: Sunday if we get past the game here today, that
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Speaker 5: part that would be awesome, awesome if it wasn't in
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Speaker 5: the morning.
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Speaker 3: Correct, But these Olympics that their rules. These Olympics have
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Speaker 3: their rules and their guidelines and moses.
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Speaker 2: How we do it at the Olympiad. So we'll get
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Speaker 2: into that one.
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Speaker 1: They do.
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Speaker 2: They stick with their rules and they don't like to budge.
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Speaker 3: Even in nineteen eighty I was listening to an Richison
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Speaker 3: was interviewing with Mike Rouzioni.
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Speaker 2: And I think it was at Rozioni.
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Speaker 3: They were talking about how even in nineteen eighty the
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Speaker 3: USA Soviet game was the early slate game and the
15:39
Speaker 3: night game was the other round, which is Finland and
15:42
Speaker 3: whoever it was Checklist Sweden or something interesting, and they
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Speaker 3: wanted that they were begging the Olympics. The network was
15:48
Speaker 3: begging them to move it to the night game. So
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Speaker 3: that's back when, of course, no one could watch anything
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Speaker 3: live unless it was in the primetime slot, and they
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Speaker 3: didn't do it, so they had to tape the layer
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Speaker 3: of the whole thing. And that's that's that family shot
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Speaker 3: of everyone cheering wether saying the game is next. We're
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Speaker 3: not gonna tell you what because there was no you
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Speaker 3: could legitimately have like a non spoiler back then, because
16:08
Speaker 3: there was no The paper wasn't out yet there unless
16:10
Speaker 3: you're listening to radio and someone. But then that media
16:14
Speaker 3: wasn't spoiling things for people. It was just a different time.
16:17
Speaker 3: But you're right, Billy, that they don't want to budget
16:18
Speaker 3: on that stuff, so they're putting it early in the morning.
16:20
Speaker 3: So hey, look breakfast and puck, I guess that's what.
16:23
Speaker 2: But we don't.
16:23
Speaker 3: We don't want to be worse, We don't want to
16:25
Speaker 3: get ahead of ourselves yet, correct, And that's what we
16:27
Speaker 3: almost did yesterday, right, we almost got ahead of ourselves
16:29
Speaker 3: and in US and Canada had to survive on Wednesday,
16:32
Speaker 3: and then the US had to win it on Thursday.
16:35
Speaker 3: But but you're right, Billy, I think it's one of
16:37
Speaker 3: those situations where it's burgeoning popularity. I think also people
16:41
Speaker 3: and being around hockey, and obviously it's a big week
16:43
Speaker 3: for the admirals too. I think there's an aspect of
16:45
Speaker 3: the culture of hockey that a lot of sports fans
16:48
Speaker 3: do enjoy for reasons that they sometimes have been rejecting
16:51
Speaker 3: other professional sports. Sometimes more of the parts they don't
16:54
Speaker 3: like about professional sports like that. You know, it's a
16:57
Speaker 3: little bit if they feel that that the payments are
16:59
Speaker 3: out of reach right now where you know, obviously they're
17:01
Speaker 3: starting to go up higher in the NHL, but guys
17:03
Speaker 3: don't get paid like they do in the NFL, in
17:05
Speaker 3: the MLB, in the NBA. Necessarily the salaries aren't quote
17:09
Speaker 3: unquote as exorbitant. The culture of hockey players seems to
17:12
Speaker 3: be less about the Prima Donna stuff. Whether that's fair
17:15
Speaker 3: or not, I'm just saying that there seems to be
17:16
Speaker 3: that reputation. But I think that there are some people
17:19
Speaker 3: out there that rebuke professional sports for those reasons, you know,
17:23
Speaker 3: more about the collective more not less about the individual.
17:26
Speaker 3: Hockey seems to give a little bit of that energy
17:28
Speaker 3: back to sports fans, So I think some some fans
17:31
Speaker 3: do appreciate that.
17:32
Speaker 2: I agree with you.
17:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, like I said, I don't know if it's
17:35
Speaker 3: fair or not in a lot of cases. I'm sure
17:36
Speaker 3: there's a lot of like you know, selfish dudes making
17:39
Speaker 3: a lot of money in the NHL, like.
17:40
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
17:41
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that everyone's the same, but there seems
17:44
Speaker 3: to be that that that sort of culture around hockey,
17:46
Speaker 3: like hockey guys like they're they're grinders, they play hard,
17:49
Speaker 3: they'll play anywhere.
17:50
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
17:51
Speaker 3: I think there's part of that as well that makes
17:53
Speaker 3: it popular when you really get amongst hockey people. Yeah,
17:56
Speaker 3: and in like that part being highlighted a lot of times,
18:00
Speaker 3: you see a lot more of those highlights harm and
18:01
Speaker 3: I think during the Olympics, because there is a lot
18:04
Speaker 3: more time to crowbar in the seven minute get to
18:07
Speaker 3: know this guy, the third line right winger, and they'll
18:12
Speaker 3: explain an.
18:12
Speaker 2: Amazing story of how he got to this point.
18:15
Speaker 5: And maybe it's not to the same spot with some
18:17
Speaker 5: of the great shots like Jordan Stoles did on the
18:20
Speaker 5: Pond back in Keywaskin. But you start learning more about
18:23
Speaker 5: the we want to be emotionally connected to not only
18:26
Speaker 5: the players, to the game and feel like it really
18:29
Speaker 5: really matters.
18:30
Speaker 2: And I just there's a lot to it.
18:31
Speaker 5: There's a ton of spot and there's a ton of
18:34
Speaker 5: runway right now for and growing up as well, and
18:38
Speaker 5: I think this does play into it. It was just
18:41
Speaker 5: never on TV, like the accessibility to highlight packages in
18:45
Speaker 5: the morning. ESPN just did not air it after the lockout.
18:49
Speaker 5: And maybe the MLB should take a little bit of
18:52
Speaker 5: an i as to how bad the lockout in the
18:54
Speaker 5: early two thousands affected the NHL and how they're starting
18:58
Speaker 5: to really really climb back out, because I think it
18:59
Speaker 5: would a dangerous deal for Major League Baseball to go
19:03
Speaker 5: in in for one of those coming up here.
19:05
Speaker 3: Yeah.
19:05
Speaker 1: At the end, well that speaking of baseball, we're going
19:08
Speaker 1: to get some of this taste. And I'm glad kind
19:10
Speaker 1: of the Olympics lead into this. The World Baseball Classic
19:13
Speaker 1: is next month and we're going to kind of continue
19:15
Speaker 1: this Olympic type pride for your country feeling, and it's
19:19
Speaker 1: going to be awesome because I think you're going to
19:20
Speaker 1: have some of the same effect that hockey has had
19:23
Speaker 1: with baseball, because I think you're going to almost continue
19:26
Speaker 1: this Olympic type feeling right this. The Olympics have brought
19:30
Speaker 1: on the country pride and the enjoying the different events
19:32
Speaker 1: and cheering on your country and the I think March
19:36
Speaker 1: is going to bring that for baseball, which is going
19:38
Speaker 1: to be awesome. And the World Baseball Classic is so
19:40
Speaker 1: unique and something that you know, the really the the
19:43
Speaker 1: different countries around the world and South America and those
19:47
Speaker 1: type of teams are like all in on this stuff,
19:51
Speaker 1: and the atmospheres are through the roof in other countries
19:53
Speaker 1: in Japan obviously, and so I'm very excited to see
19:57
Speaker 1: what that can do for baseball too.
19:58
Speaker 2: And it's a perfect time.
20:00
Speaker 1: I'm leading go from Olympics and then about two three
20:02
Speaker 1: weeks later you're getting World Baseball Classic games and it's
20:05
Speaker 1: kind of that same feeling.
20:07
Speaker 3: And it is fun when it is fun when it
20:09
Speaker 3: seems like everyone's playing for something a little bit bigger
20:11
Speaker 3: than themselves and everyone's got that energy about you and
20:13
Speaker 3: you can get the you can get behind a flag
20:15
Speaker 3: and get going and uh and and when when you
20:18
Speaker 3: see it matter to others that you're competing with, it's
20:21
Speaker 3: gonna matter to you more.
20:22
Speaker 2: And moy do we see that in the.
20:24
Speaker 3: World Baseball Classic when you talking about the Latin countries
20:26
Speaker 3: and the Caribbean country, how intense and the excitement in
20:29
Speaker 3: Japan obviously. So I think that's probably the goal with
20:32
Speaker 3: the World Baseball Classic, and it takes time, is to
20:35
Speaker 3: slowly grow the interest around the globe for a game
20:37
Speaker 3: like that to become one of those deals where people
20:39
Speaker 3: are interested at I.
20:40
Speaker 5: Shouldn't know where the sites are. I should know where
20:43
Speaker 5: the sits are for the World Baseball Classic. I think
20:45
Speaker 5: they're going back to Japan. I think they're playing one
20:48
Speaker 5: of the pool plays in Japan.
20:51
Speaker 2: They should because I think they're the reigning champions. Right, So,
20:54
Speaker 2: Tokyo Tokyo, did you get it there? Houston, Miami, Tokyo
20:58
Speaker 2: and Puerto Rico San.
20:59
Speaker 5: And Puerto Rico Tokyo games are gonna be epic like
21:01
Speaker 5: those atmospheres awesome and dome. Baby, when I really started
21:06
Speaker 5: going through with draws during COVID and we started watching KBO,
21:12
Speaker 5: you want to talk about a time in life where
21:14
Speaker 5: I actually do kind of miss I do miss waking
21:16
Speaker 5: up at four in the morning watching ko watching knowing
21:19
Speaker 5: I have a couple of parlays on it like that.
21:22
Speaker 5: That was a fun time to live. That was a
21:24
Speaker 5: fun place to live in. This is a lot better.
21:26
Speaker 5: This is a hell of a lot better time to
21:28
Speaker 5: live in.
21:29
Speaker 3: So it was much more fun than betting the freaking
21:31
Speaker 3: check check table tennis because you couldn't watch it and
21:34
Speaker 3: you didn't know what was going on and what the
21:37
Speaker 3: high temperature was going to be recorded at, uh, you know,
21:40
Speaker 3: Logan International Airport.
21:42
Speaker 2: That was That was also the time to play.
21:44
Speaker 3: But when the Samsung Lions played the Latte Giants or
21:47
Speaker 3: whatever throw the records out, you were just getting fired up.
21:50
Speaker 3: And then and they I love the way they did
21:52
Speaker 3: it with the music and the like the fake musical.
21:54
Speaker 2: It was awesome. That was really good. It was awesome.
21:56
Speaker 3: In ESPN's like, listen, we need something because I'm sick
21:58
Speaker 3: and tired of airing the last day it's ninety eight times.
22:01
Speaker 3: So Carl Ravage, learn some Korean baseball. I appreciate it.
22:05
Speaker 5: It will enjoy all of the games coming up for
22:07
Speaker 5: the World Baseball Classic. More importantly, got two more to
22:10
Speaker 5: get big one coming up two o'clock today in the
22:13
Speaker 5: Milan Olympics for the US hockey team as they take
22:16
Speaker 5: on Slovakia and two games today Canada takes on Finland
22:20
Speaker 5: and nine forty. If we get Canada United States once again, guys,
22:25
Speaker 5: I want to know where where we're where we're feeling
22:27
Speaker 5: with Canada, like where we're lining up with like this,
22:30
Speaker 5: a rival that maybe doesn't get the kind of love
22:34
Speaker 5: that they deserve. And by love I mean hate and
22:38
Speaker 5: by love I mean hate. And I got one team
22:40
Speaker 5: that Packers fans seemingly might not have as much hate
22:44
Speaker 5: for as I think maybe we should. I could be
22:46
Speaker 5: turning a little bit as we continue to roll in
22:49
Speaker 5: twenty twenty six, and their team continues to roll with
22:52
Speaker 5: a certain head coach eight seven seven seven, nine to
22:54
Speaker 5: four one nine seven three Hunter bombguart in for Drew Olson,
22:57
Speaker 5: Armansarian still nging ote out.
23:00
Speaker 2: You got one more day, big guy. You feeling good.
23:01
Speaker 2: I'm feeling great. I'm feeling strong to the finish with
23:04
Speaker 2: the fleece hat I don't have to finish. The head
23:06
Speaker 2: is sometimes tougher than the jacket.
23:07
Speaker 3: Just so you know, I got a space heater to
23:09
Speaker 3: really crank up the heat there in the in the
23:10
Speaker 3: seven o'clock hour to make sure you're in your keep
23:12
Speaker 3: on that fil hour.
23:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I'm ready for that.
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23:34
Speaker 5: On Bill Schmid alongside my main man, Arman Sarian knocking
23:37
Speaker 5: out out one more day, enjoying the festivities for the
23:42
Speaker 5: final couple of days in the Olympics. The United States
23:46
Speaker 5: men's hockey team, few more games to get. The United
23:49
Speaker 5: States women's hockey team, led by a former Badger captain
23:53
Speaker 5: America Hillary Knight, who had a hell of a week,
23:56
Speaker 5: gets yourself engaged, gets the tying goal, also a lot
23:59
Speaker 5: of fans, and gets to skate with the gold medal,
24:01
Speaker 5: and what I'm guessing is probably your last game, right,
24:04
Speaker 5: I don't know if she said that for sure. Thirty
24:06
Speaker 5: six years old.
24:07
Speaker 3: You put hall of an Olympic career together, most Olympic
24:10
Speaker 3: goals by any United States Olympian on the female side
24:14
Speaker 3: for the Olympic national team at fifteen thirty three overall points.
24:18
Speaker 2: If that's the way you go out hard to top. Yeah,
24:21
Speaker 2: they asked her right after the game, and she said, no,
24:23
Speaker 2: we'll see hard to top. Yeah. I also of those things.
24:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of those things you don't want to
24:27
Speaker 3: have to commit to obviously the way, because you know,
24:29
Speaker 3: playing in forty is not absolutely not out of the realm.
24:32
Speaker 2: So I'm sure she's gonna get that itch, that bug
24:34
Speaker 2: to do it.
24:35
Speaker 3: Hey, we got we got gold medal athletes, you know,
24:38
Speaker 3: un retiring all over the place. I mean Alyis Halu, right,
24:41
Speaker 3: the American figure skater. So she won the goal. Yeah,
24:44
Speaker 3: she won the gold yesterday. She's twenty and she's two
24:47
Speaker 3: years from on retirement. She retired at eighteen. No, yeah,
24:51
Speaker 3: I know I did a double take when I read that.
24:54
Speaker 5: So you really now are some of these like retirement
24:57
Speaker 5: and this is what you start learning in the combat
24:59
Speaker 5: sports realm. I apologize for putting you on the spot here, arman.
25:02
Speaker 5: Where like in UFC, guys will retire because they're just
25:04
Speaker 5: not gonna give them the matches they wanted and they'll
25:06
Speaker 5: be like, well, I'm just not going to get the
25:07
Speaker 5: amount of money, so I think I'm gonna retire, And
25:09
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden they come out of retirement
25:11
Speaker 5: for the title fight that they've been waiting more for the.
25:13
Speaker 2: Learning person they're getting. Yea, this one.
25:15
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's the case, because I don't
25:16
Speaker 5: know that that's I don't know that that the payment
25:18
Speaker 5: is such a thing.
25:19
Speaker 3: I think some of it's also life, right, Like this
25:22
Speaker 3: is four years from now, Like hard for me to
25:24
Speaker 3: think about what I'm going to be doing in four weeks,
25:26
Speaker 3: let alone knowing exactly how I'm gonna feel in my
25:29
Speaker 3: position to be able to play in four years. Yeah,
25:31
Speaker 3: and not to get too deep into a hockey or
25:33
Speaker 3: figure skating is like sort of like gymnastics, and that
25:35
Speaker 3: it's one of those sports where they start so young.
25:37
Speaker 3: They like she was the I think the US national
25:40
Speaker 3: champion at thirteen, right, So you get burned out by
25:43
Speaker 3: sixteen and then you say I want to I want
25:46
Speaker 3: to retire so I can go to high school and
25:47
Speaker 3: live a normal life.
25:48
Speaker 2: And she wanted to go to con so I think
25:50
Speaker 2: that's what that situation was.
25:51
Speaker 3: And then two years ago then the Olympic cycle picks
25:54
Speaker 3: up again, she picks it up again. So it is
25:56
Speaker 3: kind of funny to read like she's two years from retirement.
25:59
Speaker 3: But he's also can't legally drink it, you know, so
26:02
Speaker 3: it is kind of funny to see that. But uh yeah,
26:04
Speaker 3: so I wouldn't I wouldn't preclude Hillary and I from
26:07
Speaker 3: trying to take one more's uh one more slap shot
26:10
Speaker 3: at it? No pun untill you. I like that when
26:11
Speaker 3: she's forty. But yeah, obviously it could be her last.
26:14
Speaker 3: Wait and uh boy, if you're one of those that
26:16
Speaker 3: believe I'm going out, you know, on top, what a
26:18
Speaker 3: better way to go out? Right? I mean that that
26:20
Speaker 3: was tremendous here what happened, and the imagery was beautiful.
26:23
Speaker 3: I mean some of the pictures, obviously, the celebration shots Canada,
26:27
Speaker 3: Canadians crying with it, loved it because they really thought
26:31
Speaker 3: they were going to knock off the US yesterday.
26:33
Speaker 2: And of course we were all nervous minutes away.
26:35
Speaker 3: You're talking about a minus forty eighty favorite in the US,
26:37
Speaker 3: you know, and like, oh, this could be bad that.
26:38
Speaker 3: We don't want this. We don't want this, we don't
26:40
Speaker 3: want this. We're not scoring. What's going on here?
26:42
Speaker 2: Wait?
26:42
Speaker 3: There's only you know, one period left, there's only ten
26:44
Speaker 3: minutes left. There's only six minutes left, we're pulled the
26:47
Speaker 3: goalie and uh, that sweet little misdirection right there.
26:50
Speaker 2: It's why we love the NFL playoffs.
26:52
Speaker 3: It's why a lot, it's why we love the uh,
26:55
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament, the one game elimination style, the ability
26:58
Speaker 3: to all of a sudden it flip on a time
27:00
Speaker 3: and uh and and maybe the heaviest favorite be out
27:03
Speaker 3: because one player gets hot. That could be That could
27:06
Speaker 3: be a Slovakian goaltender here today.
27:08
Speaker 5: Right, Okay, you could be one hot goalie away from
27:11
Speaker 5: being bounced out of this next So we need to
27:13
Speaker 5: be we need to be dialed in, we need to
27:14
Speaker 5: be focused, and uh, Captain Jack Eikel, let's make sure
27:17
Speaker 5: that we're putting a couple in there and the Ka
27:19
Speaker 5: Chuck Boys, we'll be doing some some yeoman's work as well.
27:21
Speaker 5: But I don't want age to be anybody's reason for
27:24
Speaker 5: thinking that somebody can't do their job. I don't want
27:26
Speaker 5: anybody to be an age police here, because there's somebody
27:30
Speaker 5: amongst in Milwaukee sports that continues to just slap the
27:33
Speaker 5: age question away about Pat Murphy signing up for Let's
27:36
Speaker 5: go two more years, two more years. Last Night Hunter
27:40
Speaker 5: as our Brewers insider. Uh, this has been a question
27:43
Speaker 5: that has been like one of those fun little things
27:46
Speaker 5: to throw out there and wonder, hey, Pat Murphy a lame.
27:49
Speaker 2: Dog, like, why is he gonna get extend? What is
27:52
Speaker 2: the situation with Pat Murphy's contract?
27:54
Speaker 5: We find out yesterday first via Ken Rosenthal, I believe,
27:58
Speaker 5: and then everybody else had more of their own reporting,
28:00
Speaker 5: mostly the same reporting. But he gets a three year contract,
28:05
Speaker 5: does Pat Murphy? It is not a three year extension.
28:08
Speaker 3: They rip up this year, so he'll get a significant
28:12
Speaker 3: bump and pay for twenty twenty six, well deserved for
28:16
Speaker 3: the Brewers skipper, but it does seem like he's keeping
28:19
Speaker 3: himself on the same timeline.
28:20
Speaker 5: He's signed a three year deal. Originally this is three years,
28:23
Speaker 5: club option for a fourth. But in all reality, I
28:26
Speaker 5: would assume if he's doing this thing after twenty twenty seven,
28:29
Speaker 5: they might be doing a very very similar thing and
28:33
Speaker 5: changing something up for Pat Murphy because he's definitely earned
28:36
Speaker 5: the money. But it's a quick change, and I don't
28:40
Speaker 5: necessarily know the Brewers were thinking they were going to
28:42
Speaker 5: have one of the highest paid managers in baseball when
28:44
Speaker 5: Craig Council left to be the highest paid.
28:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't imagine that was the case.
28:49
Speaker 1: And nothing against Pat Murphy and his abilities, but this
28:52
Speaker 1: has been one of the best starts to a managerial
28:56
Speaker 1: career ever. And you think about where he started, and
29:00
Speaker 1: obviously he had success in college, but it's different at
29:02
Speaker 1: the major league level. He's talked about how different it
29:04
Speaker 1: is at the major league level when you when just
29:07
Speaker 1: the everything, the speed of the game, the the how
29:10
Speaker 1: long the season is, everything like that. It's different at
29:13
Speaker 1: the major league level. And he has transitioned to that
29:15
Speaker 1: top role just perfectly. We talked about this yesterday. I
29:19
Speaker 1: think he's the he's the perfect manager for this market,
29:25
Speaker 1: this team, this town, this state. It you listen to
29:29
Speaker 1: the forty seconds the Brewer's social team put out a
29:32
Speaker 1: couple of days ago of his opening address to the team,
29:36
Speaker 1: and you listen to those quotes and it's just it
29:39
Speaker 1: encapsulates exactly what as Brewers fans we feel, as you know,
29:44
Speaker 1: people around this state feel, and people around the country
29:47
Speaker 1: that our Brewers fans feel. It's you can think about whatever,
29:51
Speaker 1: you can think whatever you want about us, but we
29:54
Speaker 1: if we're together, we can do anything. And that's the
29:56
Speaker 1: mentality He's brought to this team and he's led it
29:59
Speaker 1: to two division time titles. And when you lead to
30:01
Speaker 1: two division titles, you get ninety seven wins, you get
30:03
Speaker 1: to the NLCS for the first time in seven years.
30:06
Speaker 1: You take him over the hump of winning a playoff series.
30:08
Speaker 1: He deserved this pay bump. He deserved the extension. I
30:11
Speaker 1: would have been shocked if we would have been into
30:13
Speaker 1: I don't know shocked, but I would have been surprised,
30:15
Speaker 1: pretty stunned. Yeah, if we went into opening day without questions,
30:17
Speaker 1: that's for sure for sure. If he would not have went,
30:21
Speaker 1: if he would have went into Opening Day without an extension,
30:23
Speaker 1: I think I would have been very surprised. So it
30:25
Speaker 1: makes total sense. You get this done before the first
30:27
Speaker 1: spring training game tomorrow, and we know that Pat Murphy's
30:30
Speaker 1: here to stay. He's talked about if you want if
30:32
Speaker 1: he's going to manage, he wants it to be in Milwaukee.
30:34
Speaker 1: There's no reason the Brewers shouldn't want it on their
30:37
Speaker 1: side as well. And you're exactly right. I think that
30:41
Speaker 1: in basically everybody's mind, this was Ricky Weeks's the associate manager,
30:46
Speaker 1: not just the bench coach. He's the associate manager when
30:49
Speaker 1: they're hired together in twenty twenty four, they did the
30:51
Speaker 1: press conference together in twenty twenty four, and all of
30:56
Speaker 1: a sudden or in what it would have been, I
30:57
Speaker 1: guess the November of twenty three leading into that twenty
31:00
Speaker 1: twenty four season, and you thought, Okay, Pat Murphy's here
31:03
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, Ricky Weeks learns a little
31:05
Speaker 1: bit under him and most likely is the next manager. Well,
31:07
Speaker 1: Murphy has absolutely taken the league by storm, and there's
31:12
Speaker 1: no reason he shouldn't be the manager for years to go.
31:14
Speaker 5: And not only did this contract signify that that was
31:18
Speaker 5: the change. Yeah, but a couple of months ago when
31:20
Speaker 5: Ricky Weeks left the dugout, like it was pretty clear
31:24
Speaker 5: that there was going to be something different in Arman.
31:25
Speaker 5: I don't necessarily know that it was like Ricky Weeks saying, well,
31:28
Speaker 5: get out of here, old man, or otherwise I'm gonna
31:30
Speaker 5: have to go get a new job. Maybe he didn't
31:31
Speaker 5: really maybe realize that he doesn't want to be in
31:33
Speaker 5: the dugout right. I think also guys have gone from
31:36
Speaker 5: the dugout to the front office back.
31:39
Speaker 3: Down to the dugout. Maybe that can still be the
31:40
Speaker 3: plan for Ricky weeks.
31:42
Speaker 5: But man plans change when you're the first manager or
31:45
Speaker 5: the only manager outside of like Bobby Cox, to be
31:48
Speaker 5: a consecutive back to back manager of the year. And
31:51
Speaker 5: you know, Bobby Cox was in I think into his
31:53
Speaker 5: sixties when he did that in the mid two thousands.
31:56
Speaker 5: Bobby Cox was a type of guy that you know,
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Speaker 5: probably from the age of thirty five to seventy five,
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Speaker 5: looks sixty five the whole time. Yes, correct checked myself
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Speaker 5: to make sure that he was in that range. Also,
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Speaker 5: Bobby Cox, can we give a quick shout out, let's
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Speaker 5: do it still kicking? Yeah, I did give that quick
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Speaker 5: hesitation when I looked at the wikipedi.
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Speaker 3: I did a lot of Marvel Levy during the Bills playoff,
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Speaker 3: trying to make sure, trying to make sure I was
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Speaker 3: good podcast. I think I have to agree with that,
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Speaker 3: and I think I read Adam mccalvey on a Reddit ama.
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Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I love what he does.
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Speaker 2: He does Reddit.
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Speaker 3: It's awesome making this suggest so his amas are on Reddit.
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Speaker 2: He was doing some he was answering. He does that
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Speaker 2: every once in a while.
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Speaker 1: He'll do lunch, he'll do let's you know, ask me
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Speaker 1: questions on Reddit uh during over lunch or something, and
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Speaker 1: it's great.
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Speaker 2: You get some great insight into what he's thinking.
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Speaker 1: With you organizations at him. I know it's like I
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Speaker 1: want to find me up.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't want to be like but I want
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Speaker 2: to have like my own.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to be like one of the regular
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Speaker 3: Reddit people that just like I want to have a
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Speaker 3: more exclusive access to that. But that's different. That's a
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Speaker 3: different thing because Adams such a cool dude.
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Speaker 5: You want to look like our guy dreaming here on
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Speaker 5: the YouTube comment just all arm and sorry in here?
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Speaker 2: Is that the problem? Absolutely?
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Speaker 3: But I think but I mentioned I just wanted to mention.
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Speaker 3: I think he mentioned at one point that he didn't
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Speaker 3: get the indication that it was necessarily the original plan
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Speaker 3: or maybe Ricky's plan to not be in the dugout anymore.
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Speaker 3: But this is just the way it evolved, and that's
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Speaker 3: kind of what you were talking about, Billy. And I
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Speaker 3: don't think anyone expected Murph to have this much success
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Speaker 3: as a manager. I think we were all hopeful that
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Speaker 3: he'd do a good job, but this much success was was,
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Speaker 3: I think, not what anyone expects.
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Speaker 5: I don't know anybody in their wildest dreams could have
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Speaker 5: thought this. I don't know anybody could have thought that.
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Speaker 5: He grows out of having an associate manager. Where we're
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Speaker 5: all asking, what is that different than the bench coach. Well,
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Speaker 5: it's a lot different. It's something different. It's a lot different.
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Speaker 5: He's gonna help a lot more.
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Speaker 3: You understand how much you guys understand how important this
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Speaker 3: guy's gonna be to me. You guys understand how important
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Speaker 3: his job. If the brewer is somehow fall off, are
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Speaker 3: we scared that Ricky Weeks.
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Speaker 5: I'd like to know, because my man did go from
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Speaker 5: I don't need a bench coach, I need an associate manager.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is going to grow. We are I want
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Speaker 2: to do this thing together true to the.
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Speaker 3: Point where now we're walking in twenty twenty six, He's like,
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty good at this pro ball thing. I've gotten
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Speaker 3: to the back to back manager of the years. I
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Speaker 3: don't even need a bench coach, right, all right, I
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Speaker 3: got a hitting coach. I got like fourteen or fourteen
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Speaker 3: hitting coaches.
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Speaker 2: Let's be honest. I got Chris Hook.
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Speaker 3: I'll be fine, Like, we don't need anybody else over here,
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Speaker 3: airing over the side. I'm interested to see who actually
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Speaker 3: is the bench coach if Murph gets run and who
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Speaker 3: ends up taking over as the manager.
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Speaker 2: Because I thought that was a that's a unique twist.
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Speaker 5: Where all of a sudden two years ago you're introduced,
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Speaker 5: like you said, side by side with the associate manager
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Speaker 5: to now they put out the super cool graphic with
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Speaker 5: a great Brewer Social team. By the way, men, this
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Speaker 5: Brewers Social team really good. But as I did so
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Speaker 5: to pot.
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Speaker 1: Arm was riping yesterday, bring down the music a bit
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Speaker 1: on the mix during the Murph speech.
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'll play it here. I'll play it after
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Speaker 3: the break maybe because we can get to a break.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's play it. Other than the speech is awesome.
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Speaker 2: They did a great job.
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Speaker 3: But the mix, the mix, come on, that's you know,
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Speaker 3: we can always improve.
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Speaker 2: There could always be somebody that comes in and you know,
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Speaker 2: takes you. It was a fantastic video. I thought it
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Speaker 2: was awesome. I thought it was awesome.
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Speaker 5: But you can always go from really good to great,
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Speaker 5: and maybe there's maybe there's somebody amongst us that can
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Speaker 5: always go from good to great. But like I always wonder,
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Speaker 5: if you see, like all right, I'm good on this.
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Speaker 5: I understand what I'm doing here, and you talked about
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Speaker 5: it Hunter with kind of breaking the norm of managers
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Speaker 5: in pro ball and how different it is. I don't know,
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Speaker 5: and maybe I'm just a maybe this is a little
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Speaker 5: bit too blanket statement. I don't know that Tony v
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Speaker 5: gets the job in San Francisco if Pat Murphy doesn't
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Speaker 5: have the kind of success that he's had so far.
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Speaker 5: H the coach I'm mentioning, was the head coach for
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Speaker 5: the Tennessee Volunteers YEP for a number of years. Quick
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Speaker 5: turn that program into a national title contender, and now
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Speaker 5: he's the manager of the San Francisco Giants. Those jumps
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Speaker 5: didn't really happen before, and was one of the guys
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Speaker 5: to really take the first leap. However, he was a
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Speaker 5: round pro ball for like a decade, realized how long
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Speaker 5: it is.
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Speaker 2: I do think that's gonna.
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Speaker 1: Be a little bit of an adjustment process out there
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Speaker 1: in sanfran I'm fascinating to see how he does in
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Speaker 1: San Francisco. I'm also fascinated by the fact that Pat Murphy,
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Speaker 1: it's it's against the grain type of higher in the
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Speaker 1: fact that in every sport, especially the NFL, right, it's
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Speaker 1: all about the young guy, and in every sport kind
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Speaker 1: of you know.
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Speaker 2: You want to get younger, you want to get new.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's more analytics in every sport, but they
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Speaker 1: went older, and Pat Murphy's seems to be one of
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Speaker 1: the rare, uh you know, older managers that can resonate
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Speaker 1: with players as well as he can. There's not a
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Speaker 1: lot of managers that, I mean, you look at like
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Speaker 1: what Tony LaRusso did in Chicago like that, there is
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Speaker 1: just no need of nothing there that that you obviously
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Speaker 1: just was not resonating as much there falling asleep.
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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and there's there's been just other managers who
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Speaker 2: have just really important spots. Sorry, yeah, no, it's true,
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Speaker 2: but you know it's so.
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Speaker 1: I think it has been really impressive, not only the
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Speaker 1: winning he's done, but it's been because he's been able
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Speaker 1: to connect with his players so well and just be yeah,
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Speaker 1: just be able to kind of be young. And Jenny
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Speaker 1: and Appleton points out a really good thing that he
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Speaker 1: has young kids, and nothing will keep you feeling young
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Speaker 1: like raising children and being around young players. He's been
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Speaker 1: able to. I think that can only help him.
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Speaker 5: Really, honestly, I couldn't agree more with Janey on that point,
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Speaker 5: like you have. He's got kids that are probably the
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Speaker 5: same Asie that a lot of the players kids are
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Speaker 5: so like that does help in that in growing and
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Speaker 5: continuing to stay young. Listen, he's probably doing the six
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Speaker 5: seven way before any of the players were.
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Speaker 2: True guys, I got this. I'm figuring this stuff out early.
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Speaker 2: I'm I'm on the toc tic, I know what I'm doing.
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Speaker 2: The book face.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he's on snap face. He's ready to roll
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Speaker 5: eight seven, seven, seven, nine four one nine to seven three.
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Speaker 5: And there was a brief moment yesterday where I thought
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Speaker 5: Pat Murphy was going to be making more money a
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Speaker 5: year when I read the initial tweet by Jeff Passon
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Speaker 5: than than Craig Council.
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Speaker 2: It's that highest paid man. Oh that would have put Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it would have been nice. That would have been nice.
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Speaker 3: There was a moment where I was wondering if there
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Speaker 3: was gonna be a significant victory lap for mister Murphy
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Speaker 3: or mister at Nausio, Like when I want to send
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Speaker 3: my now, I wanna spend my money to show you.
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Speaker 2: Craig.
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Speaker 3: Also, good work on Markottinasio. Nobody, nobody really made a
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Speaker 3: whole lot of conversation.
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Speaker 2: When he said we don't talk about contracts.
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Speaker 5: Asked about Pat Murphy's contract, We don't talk about contracts.
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Speaker 2: Well, he might have had something up his sleeve.
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Speaker 5: Pat Murphy, uh again going to be the manager for
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Speaker 5: the Milwaukee Brewers, a new three year contract, not an extension.
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Speaker 5: Becomes one of the highest paid managers in all of baseball.
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Speaker 5: Just shy of nine million dollars in new money well
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Speaker 5: earned for the Brewers. Skipper eight seven seven seven nine
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Speaker 5: four seven three Hunter Bombguard. We'll talk a lot more
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Speaker 5: Brewers because tomorrow the Brewers start games on Sunday. Your
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Speaker 5: first chance to watch Brewers baseball in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Phenomenal thing.
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Speaker 5: And we'll discuss it as we continue to roll forward
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Speaker 5: ton to get to a beautiful Friday in the good Land.
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Speaker 5: Apparently brought a little bit of a way back from
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Speaker 5: a great Fruit League. I appreciate that although it seems
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Speaker 5: like it might be getting a lot, it's gonna be
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Speaker 5: cold this weekend. It's matt Yeah, don't tell arms like that.
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Speaker 5: Just don't feed.
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Speaker 2: It's till February. And that's fine. I mean, it's still
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Speaker 2: the correct.
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Speaker 3: It comes correct at this time of the year, and
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Speaker 3: it's still supposed to be so that the spring you
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Speaker 3: were talking about a run, and you gotta appreciate the
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Speaker 3: week for what it was.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna hell of.
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Speaker 5: A weekend, armand be partying with you in the Gin
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Speaker 5: Blossoms and the Milwaukee Admirals.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna be partying with you on the huddle. We'll
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Speaker 3: talk to Matt Lapey coming up in the seven o'clock hour.
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Speaker 3: Matt Lapay gonna be in the Milwaukee area coming up
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Speaker 3: this weekend, very very exciting news. We'll get into that
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Speaker 3: one as well. For a road at night lot to
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Speaker 3: get to we're already crow barring into our time. Last
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Speaker 3: bit of the first hour is already on the other side.
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Speaker 3: We got a lot of text to get to yours
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Speaker 3: at eight seven, seven, seven, nine, four one three next
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Speaker 3: on the huddle