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09/17/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: We are huddled up.
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Speaker 2: It's the Thursday edition, the September 17th edition of the huddle.
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Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian.
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Speaker 1: And there's no hangovers today. Not for us or your
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers.
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Speaker 3: Everybody ready to rock and roll. No problems asked. Just
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Speaker 3: fire up and show and go and you're ready to.
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Speaker 4: Roll, right?
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Brewers beat the Pirates last evening. picking up a game
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Speaker 2: on both Los Angeles and Atlanta. I'm not even worried
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Speaker 2: about Atlanta anymore. Just put the, put the X by them, right?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And instead just keep, keep an eye towards that, that
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Speaker 3: LA team and any L that they take at this
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Speaker 3: moment is, is one to be celebrated because they've started rolling.
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Speaker 3: They've started getting some of their, their horses off of
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Speaker 3: the IL and, Uh, Yamamoto, I saw when seven innings
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Speaker 3: gave up a hit earlier in the week, Blake Snell's
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Speaker 3: back pitching. So, uh, any, any L's that they can
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Speaker 3: hold are a good thing. And, uh, that was, listen, I'm,
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Speaker 3: I'm glad that they didn't make the owner wait another
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Speaker 3: day to be able to pop that Kirkland champagne. Uh, drew,
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Speaker 3: they had everybody in attendance. The ivory tower was there.
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Speaker 3: Let's fire that thing up. And then we can worry
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Speaker 3: about the, uh, the rest of the standings on Wednesday night.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Uh, the Dodgers can't, it didn't clinch yet yet. It's momentary,
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Speaker 2: although the Padres are still playing well. Brewers, only thing
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Speaker 2: left now is to get that number one seed because,
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Speaker 2: like I said, Atlanta's not catching them.
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Speaker 1: You're up six with ten to play. No, that one
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Speaker 1: is not going to happen at this point in time.
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Speaker 2: And you're up three with ten to play with the Dodgers,
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Speaker 2: which sounds more precarious than it is because, as we
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Speaker 2: always say, the baseline, let's say it's 500. Say the
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Speaker 2: Brewers win five of their last 10 games and they
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Speaker 2: win 100 games. I think 100 games is now the
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Speaker 2: goal because that gets you to 100 for the first
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Speaker 2: time in franchise history. And it basically puts the Dodgers
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Speaker 2: out of reach.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: The magic number is seven. So if the Brewers go
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Speaker 2: five and five, the Dodgers have.
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Speaker 1: To go nine and one. Oh yeah. I like that.
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Speaker 1: And I like that.
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Speaker 4: Go five and five, win the hundred. And you, That's
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Speaker 4: what it's about now, I think, for people. It's the math.
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Speaker 4: I think a lot of people just assume we're getting
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Speaker 4: that one seed. I mean, it's not a done deal.
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Speaker 1: It's not a done deal, but I'd rather be the
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Speaker 1: Brewers than the Dodgers. That's for sure.
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Speaker 4: Now we're just chasing round numbers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're just chasing round numbers.
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Speaker 2: But the math is the math, and to be up
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Speaker 2: three games with 10 to play is a very good situation.
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Speaker 3: And also, whether or not the standings, what the box
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Speaker 3: score would say, I think the better part at September
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Speaker 3: 17th than you have felt in years past is at
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Speaker 3: this moment, knock on some wood, that we're currently getting
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Speaker 3: healthy as well as your top guys playing better at
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Speaker 3: the right time. The month of September numbers for Bryce Durang.
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Speaker 3: They keep flashing them up on Brewers TV. Disgusting. And
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Speaker 3: last night, I already know there were plenty of Brewers
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Speaker 3: fans that were counting out number 22 when seemingly he
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Speaker 3: does get into an 0-2 count faster than any other player.
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Speaker 3: That I've watched in his career for as great of
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Speaker 3: a player as Yelly is. It feels like he starts
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Speaker 3: in 0-2, battles back, gets the two runs on the
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Speaker 3: base hit, and then you're off and running from there.
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Speaker 3: You're starting to get the biggest contribution, it feels like,
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Speaker 3: especially offensively, Drew, from your top guys. And everybody's starting
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Speaker 3: to get hot at the right time instead of fizzle
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Speaker 3: off at the wrong time. would be the biggest positive
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Speaker 3: in that regard that they've had in a while going
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Speaker 3: into the postseason.
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Speaker 2: You just inspired a flashback because when I was covering
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Speaker 2: the Brewers many, many moons ago and their star player
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Speaker 2: was Greg Vaughn.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: I put in the story, you know, sadly, because he
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Speaker 2: was struggling. And, you know, when you only have one
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Speaker 2: star and he struggles, it kind of makes.
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Speaker 1: The whole team is going to make the engine stalls.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 1: So I wrote in a story.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the most common phrase uttered at the ballpark these
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Speaker 2: days is here's the O2 pitch to Vaughn.
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Speaker 1: And Jim past like wet himself. He thought that was
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Speaker 1: really funny. That is funny. That is like, and it
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Speaker 1: was true. Cause it was, he was in one of
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Speaker 1: those things. Like every cat was old too. He's always
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Speaker 1: in a hole. And it was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: When you're, when you're a good, a good guy at
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Speaker 3: the plate, teams are going to attack you. They're going
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Speaker 3: to go right after you.
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Speaker 1: And it does.
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Speaker 3: It feels like just like when the ball will find
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Speaker 3: you defensively, when you're struggling, man, when, uh, when you're
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Speaker 3: rolling bad, it feels like yellow shit.
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Speaker 1: There's never been a guy who's oh, to an account.
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Speaker 3: Faster than him, but he's battled and they've been able
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Speaker 3: to work through a number of counts, but it just
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Speaker 3: feels like offensively they're hitting much more of a stride
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Speaker 3: than a swoon as it's felt like they've done.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, definitely years past. Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Pratt with a couple of nice hits. The Ortiz is
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Speaker 4: still doing his thing. And it was great to see
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Speaker 4: Alex get, you know, you didn't want to see him
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Speaker 4: take the over last night. So I'm like, well, it'd
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Speaker 4: be great if he got a hit now, you know,
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Speaker 4: to rescue this game, to get the big in the
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Speaker 4: big moment.
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Speaker 1: And, and lo and behold, he did it.
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Speaker 4: So, That was a good one, kind of a rescue
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Speaker 4: one last night because the Brewers obviously had the lead,
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Speaker 4: couldn't hold on to it as the Pirates finally found
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Speaker 4: the long ball last night. Boy, blow. What a season
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Speaker 4: he's had. They've got some nice stories in Pittsburgh. But
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Speaker 4: rescuing that one last night and Yelly being the guy.
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Speaker 1: To do it was nice to see.
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Speaker 4: And then kind of seeing Drou in the late innings
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Speaker 4: there with his contributions, with Sensantella, Romero, then a rebate
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Speaker 4: with a big double play, and then McGill looked great
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Speaker 4: in the ninth, so Great to see for this Milwaukee
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Speaker 4: Brewers club finding ways to win still.
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Speaker 1: They really didn't need to yesterday, but they still did.
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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh offense, they're a confounding team when you really look
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Speaker 3: into how they got here. When we joked about it
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Speaker 3: in April and May, they were everyone's flavor of the year.
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Speaker 3: The Pirates are finally going to make the playoffs again
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Speaker 3: for the first time since McCutcheon was in his prime
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Speaker 3: and I was in college. But they have really good starters.
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Speaker 3: Jones is really, really good. Ashcraft had an all-star year.
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Speaker 3: Skeen's Being a little bit more pedestrian was probably the
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Speaker 3: biggest surprise that they had all year. But offensively, you
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Speaker 3: mentioned it with Brandon Lau. They picked him up from
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Speaker 3: Tampa Bay, who felt like he had been floated in
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Speaker 3: conversations for a number of years. And he comes in
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Speaker 3: and has the best run that he's ever had. And offensively,
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Speaker 3: they had a number of different guys. Like O'Hearn was
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Speaker 3: a phenomenal pickup for him. They spent some money in
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Speaker 3: the offseason. Crazy idea, Drew. They could raise the floor
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Speaker 3: of that team, but realize that the ceiling was still
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Speaker 3: a little bit low for the young ball club there
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Speaker 3: with the Buccos.
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Speaker 4: But I think for them, I mean, and this isn't
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Speaker 4: a pirate show, but for them, they could definitely find
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Speaker 4: excitement in this year. I mean, they've definitely improved. They've
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Speaker 4: turned things around. They probably found some hope in the
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Speaker 4: future with this group. They'll hover around 500 probably the
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Speaker 4: rest of the way. And so, yeah, for them, you
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Speaker 4: have to... I would say, I mean, maybe you don't
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Speaker 4: say it out loud because whenever you don't make the
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Speaker 4: playoffs in sports, you probably aren't going to say it,
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Speaker 4: but it was probably a successful year for them based
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Speaker 4: on what they had done the last decade or so.
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Speaker 3: They were as much of a bottom feeder and seller's
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Speaker 3: weller and laughing stock as there was.
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Speaker 1: In the league and to be able to be somewhat competitive.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you get that many top five picks at some point,
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Speaker 3: you're going to turn something around, right?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: At some point, you would think you're going to have
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Speaker 1: a chance to flip it around. Cleveland's still waiting. We'll see.
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Speaker 1: We'll see. Maybe week two is a little easier to
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Speaker 1: the Browns. It's sort of like what the Brewers were.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the Brewers were having so much trouble for
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Speaker 4: years in the first round, and then you said to yourself,
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Speaker 4: eventually some of these guys have to hit.
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Speaker 1: Then they kind of all did for a while.
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Speaker 4: You had so many hits for a while, and then
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Speaker 4: you kind of built what you have now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's the idea.
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Speaker 4: If you had those picks, you try and hit on
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Speaker 4: them and see if you can build something out of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Our man Hunter Baumgart is on the scene in Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 2: and he has some reports for us, a post-game report,
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Speaker 2: some interviews. We're going to hear from Garrett Stallings. He
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Speaker 2: sent us some audio, so we will not talk to
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Speaker 2: Hunter live today. We'll let him sleep in, but we
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Speaker 2: will spin through.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to get him at 725. Assets that
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Speaker 1: he provided. He is going to come on? Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: coming on. All right, let's go.
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Speaker 4: I thought he was going to take the morning off.
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Speaker 4: I thought you are just a taskmaster. We talked about it,
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Speaker 4: and he's going to do it. He just wanted to
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Speaker 4: make sure that you guys were good with it and everything. Oh,
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Speaker 4: that we're not going to talk about the brewers?
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on. Yeah, so it's going to work out.
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Speaker 1: We're going to have him on at 725. Well, all right.
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Speaker 2: I said correct it, because I thought Hunter was going
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Speaker 2: to take the morning off and just send us. A
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Speaker 2: bunch of stuff.
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Speaker 1: Fill up on pierogies and pastrami. Nope, let's go. That
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Speaker 1: man is working. Stay away from Cooper Pratt.
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Speaker 2: You don't want to get anybody ill at this point
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Speaker 2: in the season. Did you see they did the post-game
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Speaker 2: infield hug after the last out and Cooper Pratt did it?
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Speaker 1: Just a couple of air hugs. He did it remotely.
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Speaker 3: He was like five yards away. Well, listen, we got
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Speaker 3: some practice in social distancing. Now we know how to
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Speaker 3: actually take care of it. Let's get after it. That
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Speaker 3: would be the tough deal, though, knowing all of the
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Speaker 3: fun that everybody was able to have the night before,
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Speaker 3: and you walk into the clubhouse saying, I mean, I
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Speaker 3: got a great night's sleep, but.
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Speaker 1: That's about it.
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Speaker 2: They gave him the T-shirt, the hat, and the bottle
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Speaker 2: of sparkling cider because he doesn't drink alcohol.
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Speaker 1: Celebrate at home. There you go. The Welch's.
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Speaker 2: They gave him the Welch's, so he's included now.
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Speaker 3: If you're going to go with the bottom shelf of
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Speaker 3: the absolute worst kind of alcoholic champagne, or maybe the
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Speaker 3: best kind of actual sparkling grape juice, the taste might
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Speaker 3: be a little bit different.
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Speaker 1: It might be even better.
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Speaker 4: The sparkling grape juices, I mean, I haven't shopped in
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Speaker 4: that aisle for a while, but you got a few brands.
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Speaker 1: Oh, you will now. Yeah, I know. That's what it is.
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Speaker 4: Or you can just get anything bubbly. You can even
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Speaker 4: get some little San Pellegrino sparkling waters. Get store brand LaCroix.
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Speaker 4: You can get whatever you want. You're there to celebrate.
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Speaker 4: That's what it's about. That's what it's about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I do like a good, well, it's sparkling. It's something.
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Speaker 1: You know, you get a flavored version.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't. I would get, you know, probably the store
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Speaker 4: brand and stuff like that. Because if you're just going
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Speaker 4: to dump it out, you probably don't. Because, you know,
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Speaker 4: the price of aluminum cans these days, it's pretty wild,
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Speaker 4: you know.
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Speaker 1: But, hey, I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 4: When you were a kid and the New Year's party
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Speaker 4: and the and the adults had the champagne you got
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Speaker 4: that sparkling grape juice and you try to feel cool
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Speaker 4: and say hey i feel cool i got like a
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Speaker 4: sparkling grape juice here i'm like really cool so that
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Speaker 4: is a good memory so any way you can celebrate
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Speaker 4: any way you can celebrate right Troy Casper, early on
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Speaker 4: the YouTube, a lot of comments early on. Guys, let's
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Speaker 4: get these in quick. Snell left after the first with
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Speaker 4: groin tightness on a positive note.
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Speaker 1: Hey, there we go. We'll take something there. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm not cheering for injury, but it is something there.
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Speaker 1: Not cheering for injury, but definitely just cheering for the injury.
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Speaker 1: I want to win a World Series. I'm sorry. I'm
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Speaker 1: not cheering for the injury. Well, that's good. Well, I'm
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Speaker 1: not cheering for it. I mean, I do want to
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Speaker 1: win a World Series.
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to lie. Okay, groin tightness. It's not
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Speaker 4: the end of the world for him. You know, if
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Speaker 4: you can't pitch, you can't pitch.
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Speaker 1: That's true. You can get that rubbed out.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Paul K. Pause. Pause. Paul K. Paul from Kenosha. Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Great night. Put it out on a tee. Losses from
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers and Braves. Great night with the Brewers victory.
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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well, all right. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Keep the cards and letters coming. 877-794-1973 to the NicoletLaw.com
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Speaker 2: talk and text line. So it's another good day to
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Speaker 2: be a sports fan. It's another 10% day. Packers getting
11:05
Speaker 2: ready for the J-E-T-S. Jets, Jets, Jets. I think if
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Speaker 2: there is, you tell me, is there a unit in
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Speaker 2: the National Football League or in any sport more fired
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Speaker 2: up for an opportunity for redemption than the Green Bay
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Speaker 2: Packers offensive line?
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Speaker 1: I can't think of one, Drew.
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Speaker 3: As many times as the old adage would say, your
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Speaker 3: biggest improvement would be from week one to week two. Well,
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Speaker 3: there's plenty of plenty of room to improve. Well, there's
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Speaker 3: not much room to go down. You shouldn't be able
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Speaker 3: to get worse and there's plenty of room to get better.
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Speaker 3: So we'll see where the biggest jump ends up being. And,
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Speaker 3: and yesterday, I think the fascinating part of, you know, listen,
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Speaker 3: the head coaches can tell you how many times they
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Speaker 3: think the quarterback was affected and, or how many times
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Speaker 3: NextGenStats wants to put on that, that Jordan Love got hit,
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Speaker 3: as Adam Senevich corrected. Actually, it was 18 times. It
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Speaker 3: was not 15 hits, which is clearly just not good enough.
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Speaker 3: They were so frazzled and littered with miscommunication on Sunday
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Speaker 3: that any opportunity to get back into an environment where
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Speaker 3: you're going to actually be able to somewhat be coherent
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Speaker 3: will help. MetLife Stadium will most likely be that place. Listen,
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Speaker 3: it's their home opener. There's going to be some excitement.
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Speaker 1: They just won a game. They haven't won an opener
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Speaker 1: in how many years?
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Speaker 3: So there will be some excitement, no doubt about it,
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Speaker 3: but there will also be Jets fans ripe with pessimism
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Speaker 3: and waiting to erupt and fireman Ed fire the coach chance.
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Speaker 3: So you got to be able to operate a little
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Speaker 3: bit more cleanly. And I'm still just fascinated to see,
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Speaker 3: and I would love to know just how different their
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Speaker 3: work was in the last couple of weeks that led
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Speaker 3: Donovan Jennings to take over for Jagger Burton. And I'd
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Speaker 3: be interested to see, Drew, if these three days of practice,
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Speaker 3: if all of a sudden a teeter-totter evens itself out
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Speaker 3: and maybe the young man gets himself a shot a
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Speaker 3: little bit easier.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is what I see for a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 2: This is a must-win game in many ways, but it's
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Speaker 2: just to get right, to shake off that and just
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Speaker 2: make that feel like it was an aberration Sunday at U.S.
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Speaker 1: Bank Stadium.
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Speaker 2: Make you restore some faith and some good vibes going
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Speaker 2: into a quick, a short week home opener, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the short week home opener is another part of it.
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Speaker 3: And I mean, at least the Jets have, you know,
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Speaker 3: pass rushers that have done it in the NFL. David Bailey,
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Speaker 3: second overall pick. There are high expectations for what he does.
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Speaker 3: Will McDonald's at a 10 sec. You're already in the
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Speaker 3: in the league. So they have a formidable pass rush.
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Speaker 3: The Falcons, who are going to come in five days
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Speaker 3: to your home park, they definitely lost the majority of
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Speaker 3: their formidable pass rush to the point where they went
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Speaker 3: and signed Zedarius Smith a couple of weeks ago and
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Speaker 3: pulled him out of retirement. Not a full Aaron Donald situation. Shockingly,
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Speaker 3: he didn't get nearly as much pub. No, different situation.
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Speaker 1: Different situation. But he.
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Speaker 3: They were, they were been in the James Pierce situation.
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Speaker 3: They lost Jalen Walker to a torn ACL. And they
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Speaker 3: are a team that is very, should be very easy
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Speaker 3: to operate against. So the next two weeks, while you
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Speaker 3: don't like to use hyperbole and it might feel like
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Speaker 3: it is to say it's a must win. No, you
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Speaker 3: got to get a win against the freaking New York
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Speaker 3: jets and the Atlanta Falcons. If you have any hope
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Speaker 3: of being a playoff team and it being this early, you.
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Speaker 1: Have to perform. Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Billy, there's no excuses here for these two teams in
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Speaker 4: this situation. I think in some ways that might put
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Speaker 4: more pressure on this team and the old line, but
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Speaker 4: maybe that's a good thing. I mean, they, had to
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Speaker 4: be pushed by something because they think they should have
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Speaker 4: been embarrassed by the performance they put out.
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Speaker 1: In week one.
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Speaker 4: And the thing is, all right, now the opportunity is there, guys,
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Speaker 4: for you to get right. So now you have to
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Speaker 4: get right. We talk so much about week one, sometimes
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Speaker 4: being like an aberration when you go back and look
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Speaker 4: over seasons and sometimes overreactions to week one are a thing.
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Speaker 4: So I just try to tell myself at least don't overreact,
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Speaker 4: but boy, is it hard. when that's the first thing
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Speaker 4: you see from your team in so long. But, you know,
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Speaker 4: there are times, you remember the opener against the Saints?
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Speaker 4: What was it, four or five years back? Four or
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Speaker 4: five years back when the Packers lost like 38-3 and
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Speaker 4: then went on to have a great year. But there
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Speaker 4: are some times that you remember that week one can
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Speaker 4: be an aberration.
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Speaker 1: You just hope that.
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Speaker 4: That's the case in this situation as well. You hope
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Speaker 4: that's the thing. That's the hope you're holding on to,
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Speaker 4: at least as a fan, because you're like, well, didn't
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Speaker 4: like the way that thing went. So Jets, Falcons, we
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Speaker 4: talk about chicken soup games. Well, these should be the ones.
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Speaker 4: And hopefully the Packers can prove that out to be correct.
15:32
Speaker 4: The Z'Darrius Smith thing is interesting. A lot of people
15:35
Speaker 4: probably didn't know. Yeah, he's still getting in check. I
15:37
Speaker 4: don't know much about what's going on with him. I
15:38
Speaker 4: do know one thing. He's going to take it personally.
15:41
Speaker 4: Whatever he's playing, he's going to play the Packers again.
15:44
Speaker 4: He's going to try and make it personal.
15:45
Speaker 1: Because he always does. He played well against Rodgers. on Sunday.
15:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, he definitely had some juice in his rushes this weekend.
15:52
Speaker 3: I can't say I watched the entirety of that game because, shockingly,
15:57
Speaker 3: the 2013 decision didn't pop up on Red Zone a ton.
16:00
Speaker 3: But I had a nice little eye on some of
16:02
Speaker 3: what he did. Listen, two sacks is nothing to sneeze at.
16:05
Speaker 3: The Packers would take that. You do that every week,
16:08
Speaker 3: you're in pretty good shape. Yeah, the Packers would love
16:10
Speaker 3: that right now. And he just always has a little
16:12
Speaker 3: bit of extra energy. It was just a weird situation
16:16
Speaker 3: when he walked away When he retired?
16:20
Speaker 1: It's always a weird thing with him.
16:23
Speaker 2: Now, when he had his press conference the other day,
16:24
Speaker 2: when his three family members died in short order, his mother, grandmother,
16:27
Speaker 2: and father. Filled in the lines a little bit. He
16:31
Speaker 2: retired when he found out his mom was terminally ill.
16:34
Speaker 2: It's like, well, who among us wouldn't?
16:37
Speaker 1: Wouldn't drop everything and go.
16:39
Speaker 3: That was the only way that he could get out
16:40
Speaker 3: of the deal that he had with the Eagles.
16:44
Speaker 2: So he said he was in a very dark place. Well, yeah,
16:47
Speaker 2: I can understand that. And then he signed with the
16:50
Speaker 2: Falcons because his mom wanted him to play in Atlanta.
16:52
Speaker 1: I like it.
16:53
Speaker 3: And also, listen, they're also going to pay, and they
16:57
Speaker 3: needed some time. They have some reps available, right? That's
17:00
Speaker 3: another part of it, and who knows? Four or five
17:03
Speaker 3: weeks from now, he performs like this. They'll flip that
17:06
Speaker 3: $ 5 million contract or whatever it was into a fourth-round
17:10
Speaker 3: draft pick, and they'll ship him off the deadline. That
17:11
Speaker 3: Z'Darrius Smith, his whole arc in the story, because he
17:15
Speaker 3: had the presser and people were like, that's the most
17:16
Speaker 3: unbelievable press conference I've ever been to. When he talked
17:18
Speaker 3: about it in Atlanta, why he went away and what happened.
17:21
Speaker 3: That made me think, I wonder where B.J. Raji is
17:24
Speaker 3: these days. I still haven't heard from him. I'm waiting
17:26
Speaker 3: for that one.
17:27
Speaker 2: One of the unbelievable weird disappearances in Wisconsin sports history.
17:33
Speaker 3: And not only the disappearance from the public eye, but
17:36
Speaker 3: seemingly from all the teammates' eyes. I don't know that
17:41
Speaker 3: many teammates have heard a lot from him as well,
17:44
Speaker 3: but none of them seem to be all that worried
17:47
Speaker 3: as if he's okay.
17:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably just BJ being BJ. Okay, cool.
17:51
Speaker 3: I definitely thought you'd hear from him at some particular
17:53
Speaker 3: point when he just suddenly walked up. Was that right
17:56
Speaker 3: before camp or was it in the middle of the offseason?
17:59
Speaker 1: Great question, Billy. I'm trying to remember. I kind of
18:01
Speaker 1: felt like it was closer to camp or right before camp. Yeah,
18:04
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of right before. I thought
18:06
Speaker 1: it was later, yeah. March 14th. 2016.
18:08
Speaker 4: And that's clearly right before free agency. And I don't know,
18:13
Speaker 4: who knows if guys tried to put the word out,
18:15
Speaker 4: who knows, but he just kind of went away. So
18:18
Speaker 4: I still think about that same thing from time to time.
18:21
Speaker 4: What's up with BJ now? And there was an idea
18:24
Speaker 4: that he might come back for a couple years, and
18:25
Speaker 4: that was kind of a notion, but that went away, obviously.
18:28
Speaker 4: And maybe this is one that we hear from your
18:31
Speaker 4: boy Jeff Perlman eventually, Drew, where he tracks him down
18:34
Speaker 4: one day or something like that.
18:35
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes that's what he does.
18:38
Speaker 4: But I would like to hear about what he's doing these.
18:40
Speaker 1: Days, that he's doing okay. But you're right. It's a
18:42
Speaker 1: very similar situation.
18:44
Speaker 4: Kind of mysterious in some ways, but he just wanted
18:46
Speaker 4: to go off into the sunset.
18:49
Speaker 1: And some guys, that's fine. I mean, you don't want
18:51
Speaker 1: to be heard from.
18:52
Speaker 2: How about the injury report popping out and Lucas Van
18:55
Speaker 2: Ness and Javon Hargrave in the concussion protocol?
18:57
Speaker 1: I miss those.
18:58
Speaker 5: Yeah.
18:59
Speaker 2: Van Ness, his last play in the game was the
19:02
Speaker 2: touchdown pass to Jefferson with 3.55 left. And the replay
19:08
Speaker 2: is like nothing happened on that play, so it had
19:10
Speaker 2: happened before that. And then Hargrave was on the field
19:11
Speaker 2: for the last play of the game, so he was
19:13
Speaker 2: still playing. Yeah, I was going to say, I seem
19:16
Speaker 2: to have missed that. That cannot be something the NFL
19:20
Speaker 2: likes to have out there.
19:22
Speaker 3: I mean, in week one, two guys popping up into
19:26
Speaker 3: protocol postgame. Now, maybe that shows that their procedures are working,
19:32
Speaker 3: but that is a puzzling, to say the least, deal.
19:36
Speaker 3: I mentioned David Bailey, number two overall pick coming out
19:39
Speaker 3: of Texas Tech. No gloves, by the way, for David Bailey,
19:42
Speaker 3: one of the rare cats in the NFL that will
19:45
Speaker 3: rush without gloves. He lined on the defensive left edge,
19:49
Speaker 3: 21 of 21. times, generating all six of his pressures
19:53
Speaker 3: that way, and the super special next-gen stats that ties
19:56
Speaker 3: that up together lines him up against Zach Bacoboele, who
20:00
Speaker 3: allowed seven pressures on 46 pass-blocking snaps. You see the
20:07
Speaker 3: game transpire, Drew, and obviously Donovan Jennings Jacob Monk, rightfully so,
20:12
Speaker 3: getting a lot of questions, getting a lot of heat,
20:13
Speaker 3: a lot.
20:14
Speaker 1: Of talking points.
20:15
Speaker 3: The other one is the fact that the one guy,
20:18
Speaker 3: the stalwart of the group, the dude that you count
20:20
Speaker 3: on and pay to be one of the best dudes,
20:23
Speaker 3: he was, not surprising, slow coming off the injury. So
20:27
Speaker 3: there's a lot to get better at, and even their
20:31
Speaker 3: best guy had maybe his worst day on Sunday, saying
20:35
Speaker 3: that even if They don't all of a sudden walk
20:39
Speaker 3: in and they're the old Washington Redskins-Hoggs offensive line. They
20:43
Speaker 3: can get better and generally have gotten better throughout the year.
20:46
Speaker 3: So we have room for improvement. Week two, biggest, biggest
20:49
Speaker 3: sign of improvement.
20:51
Speaker 1: Biggest one.
20:51
Speaker 3: It needs to be a hell of a big one, though,
20:53
Speaker 3: because we need to get better throughout the whole year.
20:55
Speaker 3: So we need to set a heck of a bigger
20:58
Speaker 3: floor because right now we have been in the absolute basement.
21:02
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to hear from Hunter Baumgart.
21:05
Speaker 2: who was in Pittsburgh chronicling the Brewers Division Championship and
21:08
Speaker 2: their quest for the number one overall seed and 100
21:11
Speaker 2: victories for the first time in franchise history. Hunter Baumgart
21:14
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21:26
Speaker 5: Terenzo is one of the best defensive catchers in baseball.
21:30
Speaker 5: Gets that one in his favor. And Encarnacion Strand pops
21:33
Speaker 5: an 0-2 up. Lindor ranging out into shallow left. And
21:36
Speaker 5: the ball will drop. Lindor, Bichette, and Soto. About a
21:42
Speaker 5: billion dollars worth of.
21:43
Speaker 1: Mets out in left field. And none of them could
21:46
Speaker 1: pick it up. Originally, I thought this was Francisco Lindor's ring.
21:50
Speaker 4: Agreed.
21:51
Speaker 1: This definitely is Francisco's ball.
21:53
Speaker 3: And once you go out, as a third baseman, Bichette
21:56
Speaker 3: is waiting to hear Francisco Lindor say, And right there,
22:01
Speaker 3: it seemed like he did hear something.
22:03
Speaker 1: Maybe not Lindor or not, but you anticipated. Oh, great moment.
22:08
Speaker 1: City Field. Orioles. There's your picture.
22:11
Speaker 2: Going to host the Brewers over the weekend. Orioles against
22:14
Speaker 2: the Mets. And Orioles announcer.
22:16
Speaker 1: Kevin Brown making the great off the cuff.
22:18
Speaker 2: About a billion dollars worth of Mets out there. And
22:21
Speaker 2: the ball fell between three guys. combined worth about a
22:24
Speaker 2: billion dollars.
22:25
Speaker 1: So good.
22:27
Speaker 3: Right into the Bermuda Triangle of David Stern's spending.
22:32
Speaker 1: Soto, Lindor, and Bichette.
22:34
Speaker 4: Does anything give a better, more accurate picture of the
22:36
Speaker 4: 26 Mets than that?
22:38
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty wild. It is wild.
22:40
Speaker 4: It is incredible to think of that much talent and
22:42
Speaker 4: not being able to, in this case, catch a baseball,
22:45
Speaker 4: but in general, perform well enough to make the team better.
22:48
Speaker 1: But yeah, well, that's the call of the year right there.
22:51
Speaker 1: That is. 877-794-1973. Had to enjoy that because it made
22:55
Speaker 1: us chuckle.
22:56
Speaker 3: I do like the former players right away. Well, see,
22:59
Speaker 3: I thought it was actually the North trying to move
23:01
Speaker 3: right off.
23:01
Speaker 1: Break it down.
23:02
Speaker 3: Let's bask in the glow of the bar that Kevin
23:04
Speaker 3: Brown just dropped right here. As Juan Soto's trying to
23:07
Speaker 3: save that thing from being a ground rule double on
23:09
Speaker 3: the shortest fence.
23:10
Speaker 1: In the league. Absolutely. And no one, yeah, I know
23:12
Speaker 1: they want to go right to the analysis, but no
23:13
Speaker 1: one's going to laugh. I mean, that's funny. I mean,
23:15
Speaker 1: someone's got to chuckle at that.
23:17
Speaker 2: Brewers are going to play the Orioles, which means Pete
23:20
Speaker 2: Alonso had another homer last night, by the way. I
23:22
Speaker 2: think it was his first at-bat. Are they sniffing around
23:26
Speaker 2: on the wild card race? I know that they were
23:28
Speaker 2: somewhere in the vicinity. I know the Blue Jays have
23:32
Speaker 2: still started to slide themselves right back down the dinosaur.
23:35
Speaker 1: They were for a while, but I don't think they're
23:38
Speaker 1: totally out of it. Two and a half with their
23:42
Speaker 1: elimination number is eight. One thing you can say is
23:45
Speaker 1: in the American League wildcard, no one's ever out of it. Well,
23:47
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I mean, they're three games under, but
23:49
Speaker 1: they're two and a half games out.
23:50
Speaker 3: Now they'd have to jump three teams, which isn't the
23:53
Speaker 3: easiest thing, but I don't know a whole lot of
23:54
Speaker 3: people were anticipating the Chicago White Sox being the last
23:57
Speaker 3: wildcard team.
23:58
Speaker 4: Right.
23:58
Speaker 2: But now they're thrilled. The Orioles are not as dead
24:00
Speaker 2: as the Tigers, but they're close. The Corpus is almost
24:03
Speaker 2: like that. Okay, I like that.
24:04
Speaker 4: Well, and Cleveland and the Sox have this big series
24:07
Speaker 4: going right now, or they did at least.
24:09
Speaker 1: I don't know if it might be done yet. I
24:10
Speaker 1: haven't followed.
24:10
Speaker 4: But it's funny to think that whoever doesn't win the
24:13
Speaker 4: AL Central might still have a wild card. But that's
24:16
Speaker 4: how bad that kind of the American League's been at
24:18
Speaker 4: that level, that the Sox could still. So I guess
24:21
Speaker 4: if they win a bunch of games here, they do
24:23
Speaker 4: have a shot at it. I mean, nobody really wants
24:25
Speaker 4: to take control of any playoff spot, it seems.
24:28
Speaker 3: White Sox dropped the third game of that three-game series.
24:32
Speaker 3: They lost to a three. The only runs they scored
24:34
Speaker 3: were on a three-run shot by Tommy Pham, who they got.
24:37
Speaker 1: He's ready to fight always.
24:39
Speaker 3: Well, it sounds like damn near fought the GM. It
24:42
Speaker 3: was like, dude, activate me. I'm ready to play.
24:46
Speaker 1: Put me in, coach. I'm ready to play today. He's competitive.
24:50
Speaker 1: Walked out, hit a three-run shot. That was the only
24:52
Speaker 1: runs they got. They lost 6-3.
24:53
Speaker 4: Man, I remember the audio he had after that Brewer
24:56
Speaker 4: scuffle a couple years back, or was it last year?
24:58
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Tommy Pham. Hey, look. We're not taking that
25:02
Speaker 1: from the Brewers.
25:04
Speaker 4: That's why I fight in the offseason or something like that.
25:06
Speaker 1: That's true. He does do kickboxing workouts. What an interesting scenario.
25:10
Speaker 4: I heard some White Sox people say, well, Listen, a
25:12
Speaker 4: wild card berth would still, I guess we'd still take
25:14
Speaker 4: that as a consolation. I'm like, you're the White Sox.
25:17
Speaker 4: Of course you'd take it as a consolation. This is
25:19
Speaker 4: all fine money for you.
25:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't deserve to get greedy at that point
25:23
Speaker 1: with what type of playoff spot you get. Yeah, I mean,
25:26
Speaker 1: I get that you lost the division lead here in
25:27
Speaker 1: the middle of September. You haven't become accustomed to a
25:29
Speaker 1: certain standard of living. Yeah, come on.
25:30
Speaker 4: I mean, you were kind of, you were surprising people
25:33
Speaker 4: for five months here, even being there. But if the
25:36
Speaker 4: cream is slowly rising, I don't know if you call
25:38
Speaker 4: Cleveland Guardians cream, but... it's a half game difference now
25:41
Speaker 4: in the AL Central. So if you're looking for a
25:43
Speaker 4: fun race, that's the one left.
25:45
Speaker 3: AL West is tied up in the top two with
25:47
Speaker 3: the Astros and Rangers. And they're right there in the
25:50
Speaker 3: wild card, too. So, I mean, the expanded playoffs for
25:54
Speaker 3: traditionalists like Armin, who don't necessarily love the variance that
25:59
Speaker 3: it's thrown into the baseball postseason, sure has given this
26:02
Speaker 3: a whole lot more to watch.
26:03
Speaker 4: Well, it definitely does. It usually brings a level of
26:06
Speaker 4: excitement to the last week, always. So that part is
26:09
Speaker 4: a positive. But then you have to watch the Houston
26:13
Speaker 4: playoffs or one of these tracks.
26:15
Speaker 1: It is what it is. You know what else is positive?
26:17
Speaker 1: Us having Hunter Baumgartner in Pittsburgh. Yes, indeed.
26:20
Speaker 2: Young Hunter making the road trip. Boots on the ground.
26:25
Speaker 2: Be in there when the plastic's on the lockers and
26:26
Speaker 2: the champagne is flying. Hunter has a report for us
26:30
Speaker 2: from last evening. And he's going to join us at 725.
26:33
Speaker 2: Take it away, Hunter B.
26:37
Speaker 7: Thanks, guys. The Brewers may have clinched the NL Central
26:39
Speaker 7: on Tuesday night, but last night they got another win.
26:42
Speaker 7: That's what they do, right? 5-4 over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
26:44
Speaker 7: Their 95th win of the season. They're now 38 games over.
26:47
Speaker 7: 500 for the first time in franchise history at 95-57.
26:51
Speaker 7: The Dodgers lost, so they have a three-game lead for
26:53
Speaker 7: the top seed in the National League. The Braves also
26:56
Speaker 7: losing last night, so that's a good sign as well.
26:58
Speaker 7: Six-and-a-half game lead over the Braves now. for a buy
27:01
Speaker 7: in the National League. So all things pointing up. You've
27:04
Speaker 7: also got the Brewers going for the sweep now today
27:07
Speaker 7: at 11.35 this morning. Kyle Harrison is going to get
27:10
Speaker 7: the start, and Pat Murphy said they're going to treat
27:12
Speaker 7: it like any other start and see how he does.
27:14
Speaker 7: Hopefully he can build some of that confidence back. Dustin
27:17
Speaker 7: May will start tomorrow, and then on Saturday it'll be
27:20
Speaker 7: Robert Gasser, TBA, for the series finale in Baltimore on Sunday.
27:24
Speaker 7: But last night, Logan Henderson, five innings, three earned runs.
27:27
Speaker 7: That's his 22nd straight start to start his career, allowing
27:31
Speaker 7: three runs or less. That is second most since 1893.
27:36
Speaker 7: Zach Gallin did it in 23 straight starts to start
27:39
Speaker 7: his career. Logan Henderson could match that next time out. Also,
27:43
Speaker 7: Christian Yelich delivered a two-RBI single in the seventh inning
27:46
Speaker 7: to put the Brewers on top for good at 5-4.
27:48
Speaker 7: The Brewers used six pitchers tonight, pretty much all pitching well,
27:52
Speaker 7: and Trevor McGill got the save, and he said, they
27:55
Speaker 7: may have clinched the central already, but... They're going to
27:57
Speaker 7: keep playing hard.
27:58
Speaker 1: I think we're just going to play hard.
28:00
Speaker 6: I mean, it's what, another month of baseball, two months
28:02
Speaker 6: of baseball, month and a half maybe, whatever it is.
28:06
Speaker 1: Why not just finish hard while we're here?
28:08
Speaker 7: And that seems to be what Pat Murphy's message is
28:10
Speaker 7: as well. Now, Garrett Mitchell was scratched from the lineup
28:13
Speaker 7: just a bit before the game last night with neck tightness.
28:17
Speaker 7: Pat Murphy's saying it's about a day-to-day thing. We'll see
28:19
Speaker 7: how he comes in today. Follow me at HunterBeeOnAir.com. on
28:23
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28:26
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28:36
Speaker 3: Baby at a baby, such a gorgeous site. I mean,
28:39
Speaker 3: that is one of, uh, they said it and everybody
28:43
Speaker 3: raves about it. The best sight lines in baseball, but
28:45
Speaker 3: a hunter usually will dabble around in American family field,
28:49
Speaker 3: find some different spots for the, for the post game video.
28:52
Speaker 3: That's the spot that shot of downtown Pittsburgh onto the skyline.
28:57
Speaker 1: That is the shot there into the press box to utilize.
28:59
Speaker 6: Yeah.
28:59
Speaker 1: That's the money shot. I mean, everyone loves that. Yeah.
29:02
Speaker 4: Everyone loves that shot at PNC and the skyline and
29:04
Speaker 4: everything like that.
29:05
Speaker 1: So he's utilized it well.
29:06
Speaker 4: So it's been great having a hunter out there and
29:08
Speaker 4: he's getting a lot of good stuff out there for us.
29:10
Speaker 4: Some post game also got a one-on-one with Garrett Stallings.
29:13
Speaker 4: We'll play at some point today about his in the
29:16
Speaker 4: next segment of the program.
29:17
Speaker 1: Yeah. Road through the minors. So, But you're right, Billy.
29:21
Speaker 4: Hunter understood the assignment, finding the best backdrop for his
29:24
Speaker 4: reports in Pittsburgh.
29:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's many great vistas in that ballpark. That ballpark
29:30
Speaker 1: has a ton of them, but he found a couple
29:32
Speaker 1: of good ones. They didn't say that about Three Rivers,
29:34
Speaker 1: did they, Drew? No, they did not. It's really different.
29:37
Speaker 1: It was that same thing. basic kind of ballpark everyone
29:41
Speaker 1: had in the 70s and 80s. Absolutely.
29:43
Speaker 2: They called them the cookie cutters, the flying saucers.
29:45
Speaker 3: They were just the Bush Stadium, Three Rivers. Would RFK
29:52
Speaker 3: kind of be in that same vein a little bit? Yeah,
29:54
Speaker 3: a little bit different.
29:55
Speaker 2: And then Cincinnati when they had their riverfront stadium.
29:59
Speaker 1: They were all like the same blah.
30:01
Speaker 3: So now that's what people's frustrations are with NFL stadiums
30:04
Speaker 3: because the commanders just yesterday released the full-on image of
30:10
Speaker 3: their new stadium as they're moving back to the RFK
30:12
Speaker 3: site in D.C. doing an ode to old RFK stadium.
30:17
Speaker 3: but with a cover on top.
30:19
Speaker 1: Yep.
30:19
Speaker 3: And people are losing their minds, Drew. Everybody's just doing
30:23
Speaker 3: the same dome stadium. Everyone's doing the same stadium.
30:27
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a whole lot of different
30:30
Speaker 1: ways to make one, but it works out.
30:32
Speaker 4: If you want to keep it covered, which the NFL
30:34
Speaker 4: wants all the stadiums covered, I would say at least.
30:37
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know as much. That's it, Armin. I
30:40
Speaker 1: don't know as much that it's the league.
30:43
Speaker 3: The league would like it, I guess, but the league
30:46
Speaker 3: wants to utilize those places for a Super Bowl. And
30:49
Speaker 3: you can't have one in D.C. unless you've got a
30:51
Speaker 3: cover on the stadium. There's just no way to do it.
30:54
Speaker 3: And a Super Bowl in D.C. would be sweet. And
30:57
Speaker 3: they'll get one.
30:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably.
30:59
Speaker 3: Now they'll get one. This is where a lot of
31:02
Speaker 3: these stadiums are starting to learn. And these teams are like, oh, sweet,
31:05
Speaker 3: we'll become New Orleans. We'll just get in the rotation.
31:09
Speaker 3: no well indy's still waiting to get back in the
31:11
Speaker 3: rotation there's a lot of teams that think that minnesota's
31:15
Speaker 3: still waiting to get back into the rotation they'll wait
31:17
Speaker 3: for a while you'll get one and hopefully hopefully it's
31:20
Speaker 3: worth it when you.
31:20
Speaker 2: Get it the um packers going to metlife stadium that
31:25
Speaker 2: has like it's no character it's just a that's a
31:27
Speaker 2: big spaceship in the middle of nothing right it's like
31:30
Speaker 2: and It looks like it's shaky and most people are,
31:34
Speaker 2: there's nothing like romantic about it other than it's in
31:36
Speaker 2: New York.
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Speaker 1: Zero. Well, yeah.
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Speaker 3: In, in, in the swamps of Jersey and like, and
31:40
Speaker 3: you look over into East Rutherford and you see what
31:43
Speaker 3: looks like a big Costco.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It is often been said the most
31:49
Speaker 1: their stadium in the NFL.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's nicer.
31:53
Speaker 2: It's got wider concourses and some new amenities. But for
31:55
Speaker 2: the most part, it's just meh.
31:57
Speaker 4: It is open air, I guess. For some people, that's important.
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Speaker 4: Just like Buffalo, they kept it open air, but they
32:02
Speaker 4: tried to protect it. It's open air, and you know
32:03
Speaker 4: what else? 70% chance of rain Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. On that turf is going to be a question mark, too.
32:08
Speaker 1: On that turf could be slick, and it could be wild.
32:10
Speaker 1: Maybe there's nothing you can do at football stadiums to
32:12
Speaker 1: make them look cool. Maybe that's what this lesson is. Well,
32:14
Speaker 1: SoFi is supposed to be. That's the one I want
32:16
Speaker 1: to see. If you're not Lambeau, you're nothing. See what
32:18
Speaker 1: it's like.
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Speaker 2: When we come back, Hunter Baumgart and Garrett Stallings go one-on-one.
32:22
Speaker 2: Hunter joins us at 725. Dolph will be here for halftime.
32:26
Speaker 2: You are enjoying the huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
32:33
Speaker 2: and Armin huddled up on a Thursday in the good land.
32:36
Speaker 2: It's a doubleheader for us today. The 5 o'clock club
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Speaker 2: convening at Pottawatomie. Sportsbook tonight.
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Speaker 1: Let's go.
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Speaker 2: Thursday night huddle, 5 o'clock kickoff. We're there until 7
32:47
Speaker 2: getting ready for what should be a very entertaining Bill's
32:50
Speaker 2: Lions tussle.
32:52
Speaker 3: Nobody circles the Thursday night wagons like the huddle or
32:55
Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bills at home.
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Speaker 4: William's already talking about first touchdown scores with me in
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Speaker 4: the hallway.
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Speaker 1: It's got to be Josh. It's got to be Josh.
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Speaker 1: He's got to score that first touchdown in that new stadium.
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Speaker 4: I was thinking James Cook, but you're probably right. How
33:06
Speaker 4: is he going to ever give it to any? He's
33:07
Speaker 4: not giving it to anybody else, right?
33:08
Speaker 1: Second goal from the two, you think that he's handing
33:11
Speaker 1: that thing off? He's changing that play. Give me that rock.
33:13
Speaker 2: Not that you need extra incentive to come and see us,
33:16
Speaker 2: but if you wanted to make a day of it,
33:17
Speaker 2: you could go watch the Brewers play, 1130 first pitch,
33:20
Speaker 2: and bam in the sports book, and then just kind
33:22
Speaker 2: of avail yourself to some gaming, and then come and
33:24
Speaker 2: see us at five, and then watch Thursday Night Football.
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Speaker 1: Could be a whole day.
33:27
Speaker 2: But if you come and see us, our friends from
33:28
Speaker 2: Jameson are giving away a pair of Packers tickets for
33:31
Speaker 2: the home opener coming up a week from tonight. Packers
33:34
Speaker 2: open at home at Lambeau Field. We would love to
33:38
Speaker 2: see you out there. They're going to be doing some
33:39
Speaker 2: sampling out there. They usually have some swag to give
33:41
Speaker 2: away and a pair of tickets in the home opener.
33:44
Speaker 2: That's a win right there.
33:45
Speaker 1: That's a win right there.
33:46
Speaker 3: You're already going to be winning when you come out
33:48
Speaker 3: to the Thursday Night Huddle because Wayne Larravee is going
33:50
Speaker 3: to be joining us tonight at the Thursday Night Huddle.
33:52
Speaker 1: That makes it even better.
33:54
Speaker 3: And yeah, Jameson fires out their green and gold cocktails
33:58
Speaker 3: there at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Now, it is a little
34:03
Speaker 3: twist on a on any kind of Jameson and ginger
34:07
Speaker 3: that you're going to get, but it's going to be
34:09
Speaker 3: a special one. Cause it's going to be a green
34:10
Speaker 3: and gold celebration of our green and gold. And also
34:13
Speaker 3: have you getting a chance to maybe get those tickets.
34:16
Speaker 3: That's a heck of a prize to be able to have.
34:17
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you one thing at Potawatomi, there's free stuff.
34:21
Speaker 3: People are going to be excited.
34:21
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
34:22
Speaker 3: So if there's a chance to win something, people at
34:26
Speaker 3: Potawatomi are going to be excited.
34:27
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a fun time tonight. Giving
34:29
Speaker 1: out those things.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes people are walking around those waffle maker, whatever it is.
34:32
Speaker 4: But yes, uh, Yeah, thanks, Jameson. It's going to be
34:35
Speaker 4: via raffle, and you have to be present to win
34:37
Speaker 4: at the end of the broadcast.
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Speaker 1: Present to win. You got that?
34:41
Speaker 3: Just like the football feast, you could not be out
34:43
Speaker 3: smoking a black and mild while we gave away the tickets.
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Speaker 1: You got to be there to win when we give
34:48
Speaker 1: them one.
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Speaker 4: Present to win via raffle at the end of the broadcast.
34:51
Speaker 4: So why don't you just come and listen to.
34:53
Speaker 1: The whole show? Yeah, come and hang out.
34:54
Speaker 5: Thanks, Jameson.
34:55
Speaker 1: Come and see us.
34:55
Speaker 2: Come and say hello. We're at Pato, 5 o'clock to
34:57
Speaker 2: 7 o'clock. Now, we won't have a show next week
35:00
Speaker 2: for the very reason we just stated. The Packers are
35:01
Speaker 2: playing the Falcons in the home opener. So we're going
35:04
Speaker 2: to take.
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Speaker 1: A little week off. So we have one of the books.
35:06
Speaker 1: We'll have another one. Then we'll take a week off.
35:08
Speaker 3: But if you're a creature of habit and you're one
35:10
Speaker 3: of those people, Drew, that, well, I want to go
35:12
Speaker 3: on Thursday nights... to Pottawatomie. If I'm going to start
35:15
Speaker 3: going with Drew and Billy and Arvin, every single one.
35:17
Speaker 3: Next week's a good night to be there. They give
35:19
Speaker 3: away shots on Packers touchdowns. That's right.
35:23
Speaker 1: Never a bad time to be at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
35:26
Speaker 3: Thursday nights, might as well just put it in your calendar,
35:28
Speaker 3: set it and forget it. Give yourself a calendar invite
35:30
Speaker 3: so you never forget to go to the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
35:33
Speaker 1: Thursday night, 5 o'clock tonight, and we will be with
35:35
Speaker 1: Wayne Larravee, the voice of the Packers, who is awesome.
35:38
Speaker 1: We're going to have some fun. All right. What are
35:40
Speaker 1: you doing? Yeah, what are you doing, Armin? Professional man
35:43
Speaker 1: in his teeth. I'm excited.
35:45
Speaker 4: I was thinking about Potawatomi and the huddle and being there,
35:48
Speaker 4: and I hit the wrong button.
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Speaker 1: Sorry about that. All right.
35:51
Speaker 2: Well, hit the button that has Hunter's interview with Garrett Stallings,
35:55
Speaker 2: because Hunter is in Pittsburgh talking to every brewer he
35:58
Speaker 2: can find and get to sit down with him. And
36:00
Speaker 2: he had occasion to catch up with a reliever who
36:02
Speaker 2: had a pretty good turn the other day.
36:04
Speaker 1: Pretty good twirl. Pretty good run. No doubt about it.
36:08
Speaker 1: Let's send it to Hunter Baumgart and Garrett Stallings.
36:12
Speaker 8: Garrett, first question for you. You've had obviously a long
36:14
Speaker 8: journey to get to where you are now. How gratifying
36:17
Speaker 8: was last night for you?
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Speaker 6: It's pretty special. I think you're in this game long
36:22
Speaker 6: enough and you realize not every team gets to pop bottles,
36:26
Speaker 6: especially the Brewers doing it four years in a row.
36:30
Speaker 6: It's pretty special. So just even being in the room
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Speaker 6: and being a part and helping any way I can,
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Speaker 6: it's been special.
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Speaker 8: What have you noticed since you got to this organization?
36:38
Speaker 8: Since you got to really the the major league level
36:42
Speaker 8: with this team about what they do that makes them
36:44
Speaker 8: so successful.
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Speaker 6: Sure i think yeah you can only compare it to
36:48
Speaker 6: what you know and where you're at so i think
36:50
Speaker 6: immediately when i walked in the building you know the
36:52
Speaker 6: first day just like this selfless energy that everyone has
36:55
Speaker 6: like not knowing not caring who gets the credit or
36:59
Speaker 6: you know you see we've got bowers and vaughn playing
37:02
Speaker 6: first base and it's like vaughn would probably play every
37:05
Speaker 6: day at some other team and it's like they're just
37:07
Speaker 6: happy to come in and play and get the wins
37:09
Speaker 6: and Then you go to the pitching staff, and it's like,
37:12
Speaker 6: who's starting, who's not, all these different things. But I
37:15
Speaker 6: think there's just this energy and expectation that Murph helps set.
37:20
Speaker 6: Four years, a decade down, there's just expectations that they
37:24
Speaker 6: set you to a high standard, and I think you
37:26
Speaker 6: combine all of those aspects, and you get the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely. How freeing is that for you to just know
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Speaker 8: your teammates, your bullpen fellow pitchers have your back when
37:36
Speaker 8: you go out there?
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Speaker 6: No, it's incredible. I mean, when I first got here,
37:39
Speaker 6: I was welcomed with open arms. And, you know, luckily,
37:43
Speaker 6: signing back with the Brewers, I kind of knew everyone.
37:45
Speaker 6: You know, obviously a few new faces, but I kind
37:48
Speaker 6: of knew how the bullpen operated with Charlie Green and
37:51
Speaker 6: doing stuff at spring training and different things. So, again,
37:53
Speaker 6: it made me even more comfortable. And then going out
37:56
Speaker 6: there and just myself having success, the team having success,
37:59
Speaker 6: and kind of wrapping it all together. And it's been
38:02
Speaker 6: a really fun ride so far.
38:03
Speaker 8: What's been your key on the mound to you think
38:06
Speaker 8: to your success at the major league level so far?
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Speaker 6: Honestly, I think just really being myself. I know I
38:11
Speaker 6: keep saying that in every interview, but like I'm going
38:14
Speaker 6: out there and look down there in the bullpen. I mean,
38:17
Speaker 6: everyone throws a hundred miles an hour, you know, I
38:19
Speaker 6: go out there and, you know, I rely on movement
38:21
Speaker 6: and throwing strikes and changing speeds. And I think just
38:24
Speaker 6: the combination of, you know, fighting for a long time
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Speaker 6: in the minors and, you know, coming up and knowing
38:29
Speaker 6: that I've gotten a lot of major league hitters out
38:32
Speaker 6: over the last few years and then getting here.
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Speaker 1: And you know what?
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Speaker 6: I faced a lot of these guys just now at
38:36
Speaker 6: a different level. So I think just going, being myself
38:39
Speaker 6: and now, you know, just keep working too.
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Speaker 8: Was there a moment last night where you could kind
38:44
Speaker 8: of sit back and soak it all in a little bit?
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Speaker 6: I don't know. You know, I think it's one of those,
38:49
Speaker 6: I think having to wait to see what happened with
38:52
Speaker 6: the Cubs game, you know, just having a second to
38:54
Speaker 6: just eat dinner and kind of anticipate, you know, I
38:56
Speaker 6: think it's hard to put into words like, you know,
39:00
Speaker 6: the long season and, you know, being in first place
39:02
Speaker 6: and all of these things. And, you know, I had
39:04
Speaker 6: done it one time before at the Orioles in AAA
39:07
Speaker 6: where we won the whole thing. And even then it
39:10
Speaker 6: felt special, you know. So, like, just celebrating your wins
39:13
Speaker 6: when they are, but then again knowing we still have
39:15
Speaker 6: some work to do as well. So I think that
39:18
Speaker 6: Murph's done a really good job of saying, like, enjoy yourself,
39:20
Speaker 6: but the job's not done.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, Garrett. Really appreciate the time. Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
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Speaker 8: Appreciate you.
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Speaker 2: Hunter Baumgart, Garrett Stallings, live from Pittsburgh. Live on tape
39:31
Speaker 2: from Pittsburgh, PNC Park. Love Hunter when he's like, it's quiet.
39:34
Speaker 2: And it's like, it is weird when you want to
39:36
Speaker 2: do a broadcast interview.
39:38
Speaker 1: Very, right.
39:40
Speaker 2: The flip side of that is when there's a cacophony
39:42
Speaker 2: of noise around you and like doors slamming, especially on
39:44
Speaker 2: getaway day when the bats are going in the bags
39:46
Speaker 2: and shoes are getting clapped together, you get the mud
39:49
Speaker 2: off the cleats and stuff like it's, you know, but,
39:52
Speaker 2: but in the, I'm sure that was probably conducted in
39:54
Speaker 2: the pregame in the afternoon, the clubhouse is open and
39:58
Speaker 2: it is, you don't want to bother anybody else.
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Speaker 3: No, you're trying and you're trying so hard to just
40:03
Speaker 3: blend in. And now Hunter is a little easier for
40:07
Speaker 3: Hunter to blend in, a little smaller slender cat than I.
40:11
Speaker 3: When this used to be my gig that I used
40:13
Speaker 3: to have to do for the pregame show in a
40:15
Speaker 3: previous radio life, Drew, I would only do it if
40:19
Speaker 3: what you were talking about was happening. If there was
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Speaker 3: music being blared through, if there were bats being dropped,
40:25
Speaker 3: third cleats rolling through. Because otherwise, you're talking and you're
40:28
Speaker 3: trying to be quiet. but everybody's listening to every single
40:32
Speaker 3: thing you're saying. And there's no way that's not uncomfortable
40:35
Speaker 3: for everybody saying, Hey man, I do appreciate you're trying
40:38
Speaker 3: to do your job, but we're also trying.
40:39
Speaker 1: To just like, Hey, live life in here. So would
40:41
Speaker 1: you keep it down a bit?
40:42
Speaker 6: Yeah.
40:43
Speaker 4: Like the guy listening to on his phone or talking
40:45
Speaker 4: on his phone without headphones on, on the bus or
40:47
Speaker 4: something like that.
40:47
Speaker 1: The guy on speakerphone checking out at the, at the store. Yes.
40:51
Speaker 1: That's you.
40:51
Speaker 4: But I really enjoyed hearing that, you know, Garrett Stallings
40:53
Speaker 4: talking about the dream of, of, of trying to, get
40:57
Speaker 4: through the minors, get to the big league club, celebrate
40:59
Speaker 4: a moment, being able to appreciate a moment for a lifetime.
41:02
Speaker 4: The belief in being able to say to yourself, I
41:05
Speaker 4: can do this. I can get major league hitters out.
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Speaker 4: That was enjoyable. Good stuff there, Hunter. And something about
41:09
Speaker 4: Garrett Stallings talking about popping.
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Speaker 1: Bottles, man.
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Speaker 8: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's just like it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Pretty good stuff. 877-794-1973 to the Nicolet law.com. Talk and
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Speaker 2: text line. Scott Dolphin joins us for halftime. We'll have
41:20
Speaker 2: Luke Bryan tickets to give away. First part of a
41:23
Speaker 2: doubleheader for us. We're going to be at Pottawatomie Sportsbook
41:26
Speaker 2: in the annex tonight for Thursday Night Live with our
41:27
Speaker 2: friends from Jamison giving away free Packers tickets and Wayne Larravee. Oh, baby,
41:32
Speaker 2: get yourself a comfortable chair and a hot or cold
41:33
Speaker 2: beverage and enjoy the huddle on Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.