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03/18/26 - 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.
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Speaker 3: To say right into.
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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.
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Speaker 4: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to correlate with a
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Speaker 1: Let's let's go.
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Speaker 2: What you do.
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Speaker 2: It's a great professional out there and playing this ball
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Speaker 2: game like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 4: On the airs, Insomniacs, friends of the huddle, Let's huddle
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Speaker 4: up on a Wednesday in the good Land, a Wednesday
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Speaker 4: where it still feels like winter a little bit, and
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Speaker 4: yet everything's pulling us towards spring, from the World Baseball
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Speaker 4: Classic to the basketball tournaments, to the commercials for the
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Speaker 4: Masters at the Shamrock Shake. We're quite at hump day. Literally,
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Speaker 4: it's an inflection point of our week. It's an inflection
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Speaker 4: point of the seasons. You can feel it. No, it's
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Speaker 4: gonna melt very quickly this week. As we get warm up,
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Speaker 4: we'll think warm thoughts. We're moving closer to opening day,
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Speaker 4: and we're moving closer to our favorite day of the week.
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Speaker 4: Right here, Hot take hump Day on the program. Drew
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Speaker 4: Billion Armon bringing it to you. Basking in the Globe.
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Speaker 4: Another great athletic endeavor, international pride, national pride on the
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Speaker 4: line last night in Miami in the World Baseball Classic,
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Speaker 4: and Venezuela prevails. So while you can be disappointed the
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Speaker 4: US didn't win, I'll be happy for Venezuela the way
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Speaker 4: they enjoyed things with the Contrarist boys and.
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Speaker 6: Sure yeah, well and Drew Frankly, it's one of those
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Speaker 6: games where you can be upset if you deserve to win,
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Speaker 6: and then you can look at the USA lineup and say, well.
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Speaker 2: I didn't deserve to win. What do you end up
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Speaker 2: with two hits in the entire night.
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Speaker 6: Luckily Bryce Trange was the only one to get one
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Speaker 6: across on Rodriguez early. But this was this was famed
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Speaker 6: in lauded as the greatest lineup that was ever put
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Speaker 6: together for the United States and the World Baseball Classic,
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Speaker 6: and it came up small in the biggest moments outside
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Speaker 6: of I mean.
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Speaker 2: One of the cooler that that was a cool moment
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Speaker 2: game tying to run Jack.
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Speaker 7: Well, you gotta say one thing about Bryce Harper. He
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Speaker 7: seems to come up in those moments. Son of a
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Speaker 7: gun's clutch, you know, clutch, you know, and and in
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Speaker 7: those moments, unfortunately it's it's not gonna end up in
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Speaker 7: a victory, and we won't won't remember it like that,
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Speaker 7: but that was one of the great moments because you're right, Billy.
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Speaker 7: I mean, they talk about this lineup, Drew, you talked
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Speaker 7: about it except for that Bryce Harper home run.
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Speaker 2: No runners in the scoring position. Oh, I mean that's terrible.
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Speaker 2: Come on, no one runner at second base. That's terrible work.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't have that.
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Speaker 7: And Venezuela has a good team and they have good
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Speaker 7: pictures and and obviously they should be proud of those guys,
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Speaker 7: but you gotta do better against that. I mean, if
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Speaker 7: you think you're gonna be the champions of the world
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Speaker 7: in terms of the of the this having to be
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Speaker 7: the best line up, the best team. You got to
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Speaker 7: do better against that. So they got off played last night.
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Speaker 7: I better team won last night.
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Speaker 6: And Drew used to mention it with the celebration of
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Speaker 6: the Contreras boys, that team Venezuela was ready to celebrate
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Speaker 6: this one earlier. Yes, Wilson Contreras had the full autographed
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Speaker 6: jersey on during the game.
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Speaker 2: He's like, I'm celebrating this thing before we all start,
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Speaker 2: and everybody leads, how was that legal uniform.
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Speaker 6: Legally, William Contreras is sitting there with the Venezuelan flag
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Speaker 6: in the back pocket the entire game. They were ready
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Speaker 6: to celebrate in that first base Doug, they were Kudos
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Speaker 6: to them and Johannio Suarez the bell of the ball
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Speaker 6: at the trade deadline last year.
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Speaker 4: Yet a big hit. He'll never have to pay for
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Speaker 4: a meal in Venezuela ever again, no doubt. And what
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Speaker 4: anational hero and what an interview after. I mean, like
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Speaker 4: the little bit that I was able to stay up.
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Speaker 6: I'm glad I caught that minute in fourteen seconds or
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Speaker 6: whatever it was, dude, sounds like the absolute goods. And
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Speaker 6: you mentioned it last year at the trade deadline, he
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Speaker 6: had one big swing for Seattle and now this is
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Speaker 6: the second big swing since he was the biggest fitch
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Speaker 6: to be able to get. But Drew, he was a
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Speaker 6: boomer bus guy at the deadline. That's what you knew
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Speaker 6: you were hoping for, and he was the one that
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Speaker 6: ended up getting that one swing, also aided by a
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Speaker 6: big time call there on that steal at second base.
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Speaker 4: This is the whole the world baseball resounding success again,
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Speaker 4: even though the US didn't win again yeah, US gets
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Speaker 4: the final and loses, but it's been a smash success.
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Speaker 4: And got a text pregame last night for my pal
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Speaker 4: Andy and West Bend, he said, And he's a big fan.
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Speaker 2: He said, I want to see some emotion from our
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Speaker 2: team tonight. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Some of these guys will never play a bigger game
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Speaker 4: in their lives. M Now, you can say this is
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Speaker 4: a junk sport, it's preseason exhibition, blah blah blah, but
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Speaker 4: it meant something like the Olympics.
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Speaker 2: It meant something.
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Speaker 4: It's what the NBA is trying to do, not so
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Speaker 4: much with the All Star Game when they go World
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Speaker 4: against the US, but then what they're trying to do
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Speaker 4: with the NBA Cup and just trying to get some
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Speaker 4: juice where the players care about something that's not the Olympics.
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Speaker 4: And it's hard because you know, now baseball might go
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Speaker 4: to the olymp Does that put World Baseball Classic back burner?
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Speaker 4: Does the Olympics then take precedence? If MLB players play
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Speaker 4: in twenty eight in LA?
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Speaker 2: Do we lose this what we had? I don't want
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Speaker 2: to lose this.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. I don't want to either, Drew, and I don't
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Speaker 6: want to mess with it too much right, Like I know,
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Speaker 6: there was a lot of people that really want to
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Speaker 6: see it move to the middle of the year. That
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Speaker 6: was the big conversation yesterday that we'll get more guys.
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Speaker 6: I like it being one where you know what, there
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Speaker 6: is a little bit of a risk, but you do
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Speaker 6: have to put out a little bit that there's a
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Speaker 6: little bit of an outlay for the team and there's
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Speaker 6: a bit of a question mark for it, and it
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Speaker 6: just seems like it means more when you do have
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Speaker 6: to get yourself ready a little bit earlier in the
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Speaker 6: way that these guys had had to dedicate themselves to it.
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Speaker 6: It feels like Major League Baseball has finally found their
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Speaker 6: World Cup, right, Like you mentioned it. If everyone's trying
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Speaker 6: to fix the All Star Game, well, major League Baseball
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Speaker 6: has the best All Star Game.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 6: It's the only one that actually resembles somewhat of a
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Speaker 6: real game. Yeah, but what teams and what sports have
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Speaker 6: been looking to get in the American society is something
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Speaker 6: that is as celebrated and exciting as the World Cup
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Speaker 6: every four years, and I think Baseball finally found their
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Speaker 6: version of it. I wouldn't mess with it too much,
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Speaker 6: and I think it'll Drew. I actually think it gets aided.
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Speaker 6: We'll start up hote compte here early. I just think
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Speaker 6: it's a better thing for the World Baseball Classic. That
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Speaker 6: the USA didn't win last night gets people going on
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Speaker 6: it a little bit as that it gets, It gets
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Speaker 6: more guys excited, It gets more Paul Skeins like players,
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Speaker 6: Roman Anthony, like players, young guys, Bryce Terrans that in
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Speaker 6: three or four years, they want to be a part
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Speaker 6: of this because they know how close they were and
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Speaker 6: they don't want to be the They don't want to
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Speaker 6: watch the USA come in second place.
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Speaker 2: That's right. I don't want to lose.
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Speaker 7: And there's one thing that motivates us in the US
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Speaker 7: is not winning, right. And the thing is similar to
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Speaker 7: you know, the USA basketball eighty eight struggled and I
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Speaker 7: believe they could be wrong, but I think they lost
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Speaker 7: an international competition. So that was one of the big
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Speaker 7: impetus to get the pros in for the Dream Team.
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Speaker 7: But Billy right, I think the level of risk indicates
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Speaker 7: your level of passion for it. And the reality is
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Speaker 7: those type of things matter. Emotion and passion matters, and
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Speaker 7: it means so much to a country you mentioned like Venezuela.
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Speaker 7: It meant so much to you know, the Dominican Republic,
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Speaker 7: and you saw the passion there with those fan bases.
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Speaker 7: When it means more to that, you're gonna take more
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Speaker 7: risks to try and win the thing and that and
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Speaker 7: I think that's that's the point you're making, and I
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Speaker 7: think it's totally correct an act that we're getting to
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Speaker 7: a point where it's like, all right, well we should
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Speaker 7: start to start to match that if we haven't already,
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Speaker 7: because we have to raise our level as a team
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Speaker 7: to try and win that thing. I know, Mike Wit
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Speaker 7: coming in with the joke already typical Aaron Judge over
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Speaker 7: for last night overrated. The reality is you got to
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Speaker 7: come up big in those moments and the USA wasn't
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Speaker 7: able to. But man I kind of had that feeling
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Speaker 7: watching And this is not a knock on some of
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Speaker 7: our American players. And we joke about terrang with this
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Speaker 7: with this personality being even keel, they just you don't
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Speaker 7: see the exuberantce you do that the passion from the
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Speaker 7: fans and the players and some of these Latin countries,
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Speaker 7: and I'm I believe it matters a little bit when
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Speaker 7: they when they care so much, and I believe the
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Speaker 7: emotion they put into it. It was a lot like
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Speaker 7: and we've had this issue with international competitions. It's a
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Speaker 7: lot like the euro Basket, the FEEDBA thing with Greece
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Speaker 7: and Giannis and so many Bucks fans and American fans
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Speaker 7: couldn't understand why it mattered so much. And it clearly
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Speaker 7: mattered a lot to him and to them, and it
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Speaker 7: clearly matters a lot to play for the country. Those
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Speaker 7: guys play so hard there, so you just gotta you
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Speaker 7: gotta have a great team. You got to play great baseball,
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Speaker 7: and obviously in knockout stages things have to go your way,
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Speaker 7: but you have to match that level of passion, intensity
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Speaker 7: and energy a little bit. And I think that might
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Speaker 7: be the last thing that lacks because there's no question
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Speaker 7: the talent's there in the field. Also, come on, can
9:37
Speaker 7: we get a little help from the Cubs a little bit?
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Speaker 7: I feel like they blew it again, you know. They
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Speaker 7: they called Polentcia. They called to try and make sure
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Speaker 7: they wouldn't use Polentcia, and they lost the negotiation apparently
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Speaker 7: with uh with with with Venezuela, and they got to
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Speaker 7: use it.
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Speaker 2: And that would have been you know, Roman Anthony going
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Speaker 2: deep there would have been majestic. It would have been amazing.
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Speaker 7: So if he wasn't pitching, maybe if the Cubs won
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Speaker 7: the debate and won the negotiat, we would have been
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Speaker 7: winners today.
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Speaker 2: So wait to blow at Chicago and.
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Speaker 4: Perez, who started in place of William Contreras, you know thirty.
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Speaker 4: You know, he ends up scoring the first run of
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Speaker 4: the game. Orderline Hall of Famer. He said, quote the
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Speaker 4: world serious, as everyone knows, is the most important championship
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Speaker 4: that the Major League has.
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Speaker 2: But when you play for your country, it's a little
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Speaker 2: bit beyond that.
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Speaker 4: That feeling the country where you were born and raised,
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Speaker 4: the sacrifices your parents make, the people who helped you.
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Speaker 2: That's why this means a lot to me. And to Venezuela. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and see the scenes in Venezuela, Oh my god.
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Speaker 6: Well I also saw some of the scenes in the concourse,
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Speaker 6: and I did see some of the people saying, well,
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Speaker 6: you know what, I'm kind of glad Venezuela one, good shots,
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Speaker 6: good good looks. Now, there's there were times when Drew
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Speaker 6: I almost I heard the interview. I think it was
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Speaker 6: with Rosenthaler or with Tom Berducci that he did before
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Speaker 6: the game, and I almost just felt bad for him.
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Speaker 6: And it was one of those times where I'm like,
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Speaker 6: maybe I totally get why we're asking the question, but
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Speaker 6: it's also kind of feeling messed up that we got
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Speaker 6: to ask the guy. Hey, by the way, this team
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Speaker 6: changed your life, your entire family's life, and your entire
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Speaker 6: future families lives with giving you and paying you nearly
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Speaker 6: one hundred million dollars and transporting you to America. Hey,
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Speaker 6: by the way, how about you trash that fan base
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Speaker 6: or the home country that raised you and tell you
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Speaker 6: which one is more important. Yeah, it's a tough It's
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Speaker 6: a tough question to ask. Or I'm also standing around
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Speaker 6: twenty five guys that also are representing Venezuela and we're
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Speaker 6: trying to win to night's game. This might be more
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Speaker 6: important than the theoretical game I could be playing, But
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Speaker 6: it's a good question to have to ask in the
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Speaker 6: moment of how important and impactful is it? And uh,
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Speaker 6: I'm not going as far as certain former important talk
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Speaker 6: show hosts I saw in certain big markets saying I
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Speaker 6: was pulling for Venezuela to win because it just means
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Speaker 6: more to their country, but it was a nice consolation
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Speaker 6: prize in those moments to see how cool that was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of.
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Speaker 7: Reminds me of when you hear so much about the
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Speaker 7: nineteen eighty Olympic hockey team and when they when they
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Speaker 7: stunned the you know USSR, and how many times do
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Speaker 7: we hear the the you know how the USSR was
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Speaker 7: just kind of watching them celebrate, kind of almost jealous
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Speaker 7: because like, we haven't had this feeling. We weren't able
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Speaker 7: to play for this type of feeling of this emotion.
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Speaker 7: Obviously it's not the same. I mean, our guys cared too,
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Speaker 7: and they our guys played for the emotion the enjoyment too,
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Speaker 7: but it's it's sort of that same thing, like, you know,
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Speaker 7: you wanted your own team to win. I was, we
12:18
Speaker 7: were all chaired for Team USA. I was jamed for
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Speaker 7: tam USA, but you were kind of you had to
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Speaker 7: glint in your heart a little bit to see how
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Speaker 7: happy they were to win it.
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Speaker 4: So, and the backdrop of the nineteen eighty miracle on
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Speaker 4: ice was you know, the recession, gas lines hostage situation.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm, Well, look what's happened in Venezuela. The turmoil
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Speaker 4: that they're going through, and then Omar Lopez said, this
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Speaker 4: maybe was an example to show everyone that we're not
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Speaker 4: bad people and we're fighting to have a united Venezuela again,
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Speaker 4: a Venezuela that's peaceful, of Venezuela that can grow in
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Speaker 4: all parts of the world the same things that they
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Speaker 4: say about us. Those countries have the same problems, but
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Speaker 4: they look at us as we're bad people. That was
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Speaker 4: more for me to demonstrate that this team, working together,
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Speaker 4: we can unite thirty million people, and they did at
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Speaker 4: least for a few moments well.
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Speaker 6: And first off, the dance, the pregame drum in the dugout,
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Speaker 6: like you could tell the energy of that group was
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Speaker 6: ridiculously connected. It was the one that the USA team was,
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Speaker 6: I mean, I want to say fully trying to manufacture
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Speaker 6: connected connectivity, but it kind of felt a little manufactured, right,
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Speaker 6: Like you could see genuine love for the situation and excitement,
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Speaker 6: and the other one was kind of like Rmon said earlier,
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Speaker 6: the fear of not losing almost seemed like it was
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Speaker 6: more intense in the USA dugout than the excitement and
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Speaker 6: potential of winning.
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Speaker 7: Which I get like as American sports stars, prodigies, they'll
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Speaker 7: come up this way with like you know, you the
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Speaker 7: pressure to win is so hard, is so high that
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Speaker 7: you get that you lose that a little bit. You
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Speaker 7: lose that joy in a little bit because you're right, Billy,
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Speaker 7: It's like we're playing to get relief of not losing,
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Speaker 7: not a joy of winning, right.
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Speaker 2: I Also, I don't know about you guys. Damn Aaron Josh,
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Speaker 2: Damn Aaron Judge.
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Speaker 6: I mean, could you get another big moment where the
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Speaker 6: biggest guy in the sport could come up smaller all
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Speaker 6: for four with three ks and the three one I know,
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Speaker 6: the three to one meatball right down the heart of
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Speaker 6: the plate. It was didn't even swing at it, I know,
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Speaker 6: sitting there waiting for it, like I mean, it was that's.
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Speaker 2: A uh, what are you looking for, Aaron? Like you
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Speaker 2: know that pitch?
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Speaker 6: I thought I thought we were looking for that pitch
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Speaker 6: that particular, looking for a walk and drew when Captain
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Speaker 6: America is looking for a free pass. That shows how
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Speaker 6: the bats were pretty much for the last three three days.
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Speaker 6: But tough when you're Aaron Judge and you're thinking, all right,
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Speaker 6: sweet out of New York for the.
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Speaker 2: Couple of minutes. I'll get my moment.
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Speaker 6: Everybody will think him a big game performer and all
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Speaker 6: for four with three k's and unable to follow up
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Speaker 6: the biggest swing of the tournament by Bryce Harper.
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Speaker 2: Tough moments for Aaron Johns.
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Speaker 7: It stinks because he's so likable. To me, at least
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Speaker 7: he's so likable, like I want him to come through
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Speaker 7: in those moments. I wanted to be able to fulfill
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Speaker 7: those those kind of ghost that are always kind of like,
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Speaker 7: you know, surrounding him that like okay, clutch this and that.
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Speaker 7: But he had a chance again it and just couldn't
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Speaker 7: get it done. And that like heavy is the head
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Speaker 7: that wears the crown, he's the best player, he's the captain,
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Speaker 7: he's all those things. You got to be that guy,
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Speaker 7: and he just yeah, I mean it wasn't It wasn't
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Speaker 7: to be that. That that was that's a that sticks.
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Speaker 7: You want to see him come through there and he
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Speaker 7: just couldn't do it.
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Speaker 6: So Mike win on the YouTube chat drew saying, yeah,
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Speaker 6: typical Aaron Judge O before last night, over rated, overrated.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm an amazing a small sample.
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Speaker 6: All of his all of his playoffs are the big question.
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Speaker 6: But like he is just statistically and visually one of
15:38
Speaker 6: the best right handed hitters I've ever seen. But it
15:42
Speaker 6: is remarkable to see the the lack of the biggest
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Speaker 6: moment and biggest success foreman, it seems like it's one
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Speaker 6: thing that's gonna haunt him for a while.
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Speaker 2: It's the and he's thinking about it.
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Speaker 4: In my opinion, Clearly, USA struggled offensively big time in
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Speaker 4: the last couple of games after them early.
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Speaker 2: I mean they started struggle him. They couldn't hit Lorenzo
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Speaker 2: in Italy. Yeah, right, what was it? Six runs in
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Speaker 2: the final two winnings in that game?
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Speaker 4: Eight nothing in that game and then what it's kind
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Speaker 4: of snuck by Canada, stuck by the Dominican Like it
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Speaker 4: wasn't this dominant. They started out as a wag in
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Speaker 4: the first couple yea, and then just became its hashtag
16:20
Speaker 4: baseball though, Well that's it, sure, Yeah, I mean, it's
16:23
Speaker 4: just that's just how it goes, like any team on
16:25
Speaker 4: any given day. And this was it the greatest lineup
16:27
Speaker 4: ever assembled. Well it didn't look like it paper. It
16:30
Speaker 4: was pretty damn good.
16:32
Speaker 6: Yeah.
16:32
Speaker 4: But to the point though, during the summer when Churio
16:37
Speaker 4: and Contraras they're suited up for the Brewers and there's
16:41
Speaker 4: a guy across the field from Venezuela, they feel that, right,
16:44
Speaker 4: They feel like, not that they're rooting for that guy,
16:48
Speaker 4: or if that guy gets a hit against them, like
16:49
Speaker 4: not that they don't want to win that game, but
16:51
Speaker 4: they feel that Whereas you know, Bryce Terrang and Bryce
16:54
Speaker 4: Harper share a name Sarah Sharon nationality, but when they're
16:58
Speaker 4: on the field, is there that brotherhood?
17:00
Speaker 6: Right?
17:00
Speaker 4: The question man I and I don't think you can
17:03
Speaker 4: manufacture that now. Mark de Rosis said, among many things
17:06
Speaker 4: that he said during this fortnight, he said, for some reason,
17:10
Speaker 4: this WBC has become a tidal wave of emotion for
17:13
Speaker 4: a lot of guys, for some.
17:15
Speaker 2: Reason, like for some that's the line that got me
17:18
Speaker 2: when I read that article. He said.
17:19
Speaker 4: You get them in the room representing their country, coming
17:21
Speaker 4: together for two and a half weeks, the buy in,
17:23
Speaker 4: it's infectious in there. Okay, yeah, for some reason, Well,
17:27
Speaker 4: planning for your country, it's like like it's not a
17:31
Speaker 4: it's like why we're surprised, Why are we questioning it?
17:34
Speaker 4: And nobody's questioning whether the Dominican team wants to win
17:37
Speaker 4: for the Dominican or Venezuela wants to win for Venezuela. Right,
17:40
Speaker 4: we're such a big, sprawling, dominant country that we you know,
17:43
Speaker 4: we were not in the position being underdogs.
17:46
Speaker 7: And you know exactly, and this is a this is
17:48
Speaker 7: a question too that's somewhat cultural and goes deeper and
17:51
Speaker 7: deeper beyond like sports. Right, It's like, you know, they
17:54
Speaker 7: show the ethnicity in those things like that in America's
17:56
Speaker 7: a melting pot, so it's a little different.
17:58
Speaker 2: But that that did strike me when I read that
18:00
Speaker 2: for some reason, for some reason, for some reason, we'll see.
18:03
Speaker 7: I mean, like you guys mentioned that, you know, we
18:06
Speaker 7: ain't even needed help to get to the stage and
18:08
Speaker 7: and things weren't.
18:10
Speaker 2: He can't come back right now, you know you got you.
18:13
Speaker 2: There's gotta be a new manager for.
18:16
Speaker 6: Right.
18:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree, even Japan's manager step Town.
18:19
Speaker 7: I like they're playing tomorrow either, like after time is
18:22
Speaker 7: gonna pass, so you're gonna have a new in the
18:24
Speaker 7: news cycle, you're gonna have a new This happens a
18:26
Speaker 7: lot international competition any because I mean.
18:28
Speaker 6: They finished second place last time, and he gets that,
18:30
Speaker 6: he gets the nod again. And I was listening to
18:33
Speaker 6: some guys in some reaction last night, and they're like, well,
18:35
Speaker 6: he should probably be back if he wants to be back.
18:37
Speaker 6: But the only way he wouldn't is if you know
18:40
Speaker 6: the players don't want him back. I don't necessarily know. Like,
18:43
Speaker 6: I think it's pretty easy, and it's maybe the least
18:47
Speaker 6: forgiving job in all of sports. Team USA's coach, like
18:50
Speaker 6: the job of the world. You better win or your asses,
18:54
Speaker 6: grass were opposed to.
18:56
Speaker 4: It's our national past time. If you lose, it's a
18:58
Speaker 4: federal investigation of situation.
19:01
Speaker 6: It's incredible. We gotta we gotta out in these calshies.
19:05
Speaker 2: Are we sure? Are we sure? That wasn't in the
19:07
Speaker 2: pocket of hard rock?
19:08
Speaker 7: Nathan said Nathan SaaS on YouTube, knowing d RO. I
19:11
Speaker 7: didn't know that was like his nickname. Here's being sarcastic
19:14
Speaker 7: with that line.
19:15
Speaker 2: Maybe it was.
19:15
Speaker 7: I read it in print, so it's hard for me
19:17
Speaker 7: to say, but I'm not really sure. He also said,
19:19
Speaker 7: replace the All Star Game with the Semis and the
19:21
Speaker 7: finals and the WBC.
19:22
Speaker 2: Please. I don't know you could do that.
19:24
Speaker 3: I like this.
19:25
Speaker 2: I kind of like, yeah, I like it's been Why
19:28
Speaker 2: mess with it? It's it's really good.
19:30
Speaker 6: The only the only thing I want breaking up this
19:32
Speaker 6: season would be the Olympics, because it's the only thing
19:35
Speaker 6: that you have to change, right Like it was the
19:36
Speaker 6: only thing that you have to move to the schedule
19:39
Speaker 6: around and he could do one undred and four years,
19:40
Speaker 6: but I just think this one's different. You will you
19:43
Speaker 6: have kind of tapped into something, Drew that also in
19:46
Speaker 6: the sports calendar, you could absolutely own July, but no doubt,
19:50
Speaker 6: but it's easier to own right now in March, where
19:54
Speaker 6: a lot more people want to be in there on
19:55
Speaker 6: their couch instead of in.
20:00
Speaker 4: A huge success. Love the World Baseball Classic. It's you know,
20:03
Speaker 4: you can call it schlocky if you want, but clearly
20:05
Speaker 4: it was a good theater. It was as loud as
20:07
Speaker 4: you're gonna hear a stadium, and since its Tote company,
20:10
Speaker 4: we're gonna take them all day at eight seven, seven,
20:11
Speaker 4: seven nine, Nicola, Lota Com, Talk Tech and text Line
20:15
Speaker 4: Hot Take. As great as this country is and as
20:18
Speaker 4: many great venues as we have, Miami always has to
20:22
Speaker 4: host the semis and the finals of the World Baseball
20:25
Speaker 4: Classic because like, that's the place.
20:27
Speaker 2: Well and Drew I was talking about.
20:28
Speaker 4: The Melting Pilot was mostly Venezuelan fans there last night
20:31
Speaker 4: mostly waspestacular, and.
20:33
Speaker 6: Maybe we have to have the World Baseball Classic every
20:35
Speaker 6: year so you can actually use every seat in that stadium.
20:38
Speaker 6: First time, I think maybe they sold that place out.
20:40
Speaker 6: It was incredible lit up.
20:42
Speaker 7: They were opening up concession stands on the upper deck
20:45
Speaker 7: like they haven't even like the cobwebs are taken out.
20:47
Speaker 6: Use these registers, guys, hey, does this friar work's use
20:51
Speaker 6: it since it was installed?
20:51
Speaker 2: I mean they all are brand new since they they
20:53
Speaker 2: were installed, you know, and they've never been incredible, pretty incredible.
20:56
Speaker 2: But that's uh debate. Miami should always hosted It's face.
21:01
Speaker 3: I'm with you.
21:01
Speaker 2: I think it's a great place for us.
21:03
Speaker 6: Yeah. I thought Tokyo was gonna get house rules, but
21:05
Speaker 6: then they lost in the semi. So y'all get your
21:07
Speaker 6: new manager and get your ass over here.
21:09
Speaker 7: More does Maybe this is better for a hot take,
21:11
Speaker 7: But is this more disappointing for Japan or US?
21:14
Speaker 2: Because this is Japan Fields. They should win this thing
21:16
Speaker 2: every year too, you know. So that's true.
21:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're off and running the Wednesday edition. This is
21:21
Speaker 4: to get over the hump. It truly is hump. Day
21:23
Speaker 4: because we got to get over the hump. Watch the
21:25
Speaker 4: game late last night. This is you know, you got
21:27
Speaker 4: energy on Monday and Tuesday. This is where we're dragging through.
21:30
Speaker 4: But you're you're giving us energy on the other side,
21:33
Speaker 4: and we appreciate it. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
21:36
Speaker 2: God he's good.
21:47
Speaker 7: Oh de glory is more, Lord Jesus he he was
21:50
Speaker 7: with us the whole time we hot to glorify.
21:53
Speaker 2: Well, he's named me front everything and nobody believing Venezuela.
21:58
Speaker 5: But now we win the championship and need it's to
22:01
Speaker 5: tell the reason for all the Venezuelan Country.
22:06
Speaker 4: World Baseball Classic. Bringing out the emotions. Hanno Suarez last evening,
22:11
Speaker 4: better believe it.
22:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, Geno Suarez mean Jean as I heard he used
22:14
Speaker 6: to be called, which really got that.
22:16
Speaker 2: He did not pretty. He did not win the MVP,
22:19
Speaker 2: though he could have.
22:21
Speaker 5: You could have.
22:21
Speaker 6: Probably given that m VP to like three or four guys,
22:23
Speaker 6: And I'll be honest with you, I wasn't gonna give
22:25
Speaker 6: it to michel Garcia, but he probably deserved it. Probably, Yeah,
22:28
Speaker 6: probably deserved it, no doubt about it. Yeah, Palencia was
22:32
Speaker 6: phenomenal in that game. I mean phenomenal and oh, Jenn Hoyer, Yeah,
22:37
Speaker 6: could give it to Jed Hoyer. Sorry, I can't help myself.
22:40
Speaker 6: Now do you think it was Rickets that got on
22:42
Speaker 6: the phone and say, hey, Jed, I don't want to
22:44
Speaker 6: see him pitching again here tonight? And then Jed Hoyer
22:46
Speaker 6: is like, boss, I'll take care of it, calls him
22:48
Speaker 6: and say, hey, fellas, no more Polentcia.
22:50
Speaker 2: They say, hey, suck it, he's gonna play. He's pitching.
22:53
Speaker 2: If we're in a safe situation, we're trying to win.
22:54
Speaker 2: The WBZ goes, okay, sounds good, going to do it. Yeah,
22:59
Speaker 2: I'm alright. I mean I don't know who's going what's
23:01
Speaker 2: going on here?
23:02
Speaker 7: Like when they snuck that into the broadcast of the
23:04
Speaker 7: Cubs called and said no more Palencia and I'm like, okay,
23:07
Speaker 7: so yeah, who's I want to know? It was it Rickets?
23:08
Speaker 7: Was it Jene Hoyer? Who's doing the negotiation? That immediately
23:10
Speaker 7: folded like you can't have a guy negotiating in there
23:13
Speaker 7: that's gonna be convinced by a good argument, Like you
23:16
Speaker 7: can't have an armand Sari in in there.
23:17
Speaker 2: You can't.
23:19
Speaker 7: Whoever Cubs happen, they're rolling up to get Armin in
23:21
Speaker 7: there to negotiate. It is a bad it's a bad idea.
23:24
Speaker 7: So thanks for nothing, Cubs. Who could have we could
23:26
Speaker 7: have been facing somebody else was as Poalencia last night.
23:28
Speaker 7: Sorry I had to throw that in there, but MVP wise,
23:30
Speaker 7: Poalencia could have been a guy that you throw in
23:33
Speaker 7: there now.
23:35
Speaker 2: The run too.
23:35
Speaker 4: Second straight time US loses the championship game three to two.
23:39
Speaker 4: Last time was with Otani striking out trout and we're
23:42
Speaker 4: all like, this is unbelievable, this is great. Yes, inject
23:44
Speaker 4: this into my veins. Well, this one was almost as.
23:47
Speaker 2: Good, almost as almost as good.
23:50
Speaker 6: And in the eighth inning you get the blast and
23:53
Speaker 6: the great call from Joe Davis, better late than ever
23:57
Speaker 6: ties in the eighth and you're thinking, all right, Captain America,
24:02
Speaker 6: it's time for the moment.
24:03
Speaker 2: It's time for a for a ruling from the judge.
24:07
Speaker 6: And instead of John Sterling unable to deliver it, unable
24:11
Speaker 6: to But this was how it first sounded, to be
24:14
Speaker 6: able to cap it off and give us to an
24:15
Speaker 6: even game.
24:16
Speaker 2: Sells a fly ball a deep.
24:18
Speaker 8: Sat field better way than ever.
24:21
Speaker 6: Harper's time that championship.
24:28
Speaker 7: Also like I'll use the word championship, like you don't
24:29
Speaker 7: get that often in baseball unless it's a Game seven.
24:32
Speaker 7: But the fact, okay, this is the championship game is
24:35
Speaker 7: the championships pretty cool?
24:36
Speaker 4: And I don't know, I can't say this with certainty,
24:41
Speaker 4: but I don't think Fox was juicing the crowd noise.
24:44
Speaker 2: I think it was just that.
24:45
Speaker 4: Loud dude, Yeah it was, and that added to the
24:48
Speaker 4: whole you know that you can just tell We talked
24:50
Speaker 4: about how this is it's different than a Super Bowl
24:53
Speaker 4: because you got any real neutral fans here. It was
24:56
Speaker 4: like mostly a Venezuelan crowd, which is great. Yeah, this
24:59
Speaker 4: shows you that the ticket prices weren't like you said,
25:02
Speaker 4: it's not four or five figures to get into the door.
25:05
Speaker 6: No, I mean, I think probably the best tickets you're
25:07
Speaker 6: paying for were probably a thousand bucks or fifteen hundred bucks.
25:10
Speaker 6: That that's that's fair. But you can also get in
25:12
Speaker 6: for a couple hundred and you can tell like there
25:14
Speaker 6: were there. It was accessible for people, and Drew I
25:17
Speaker 6: thought the moment I realized how split the crowd was
25:20
Speaker 6: going to be, or how in favor of Venezuela it
25:22
Speaker 6: was going to be, was when They did the sweet
25:24
Speaker 6: WWE style entrance from the far corners and walked right
25:28
Speaker 6: down the baselines and you could hear people trying to
25:30
Speaker 6: get the USA chant going, trying to get the USA
25:33
Speaker 6: chant going, and it was getting drowned out by the Venezuelans.
25:36
Speaker 4: That was a party and that and if I don't
25:39
Speaker 4: know that they needed it or that it's going to
25:41
Speaker 4: be part of the CBA or something. But now it's
25:43
Speaker 4: like the momentum for having MLB players play in the
25:46
Speaker 4: Olympics is off the chuck absolutely, because it's like even
25:49
Speaker 4: Judge said that, he said, uh, Aaron Judge said, quote,
25:53
Speaker 4: I'm always fired up for the Yankees, but I'm still
25:55
Speaker 4: pissed about this. So I'm looking forward to the next
25:57
Speaker 4: time we get to throw on the red, white and
25:58
Speaker 4: blue and take care of business. And Bryce Harper like,
26:02
Speaker 4: do you on playing in the Olympics. Hell, yeah, they
26:04
Speaker 4: want to play. I hope it happens. Hope it happens.
26:06
Speaker 4: So Olympics will be happening in LA. They could play
26:09
Speaker 4: at Dodger Stadium and given this little runway that they got,
26:14
Speaker 4: you know, who was gonna say no?
26:16
Speaker 2: I don't who's gonna say no? Like we just saw
26:18
Speaker 2: the hockey thing, and we just saw like, yeah, be
26:20
Speaker 2: in the middle of the season and be a little different.
26:22
Speaker 4: As long as we don't lose the World Baseball Classic
26:24
Speaker 4: the way we've enjoyed it the last six editions, yep,
26:27
Speaker 4: let's keep it going.
26:28
Speaker 6: The only reason why I don't I'm not also worried
26:30
Speaker 6: about and I shouldn't say only reason. One of the
26:32
Speaker 6: other reason why I'm not as worried that you'll lose
26:34
Speaker 6: the WBC is because I don't think there's a little
26:36
Speaker 6: vested interest in Major League Baseball in it, right, Like
26:38
Speaker 6: I think they might get a little bit of the kick,
26:41
Speaker 6: So I don't think they're going to try to punt
26:42
Speaker 6: on any.
26:42
Speaker 2: Of that insurance implications and all that. That's part of this.
26:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, But Drew, I do wonder and and Rob Manfred
26:49
Speaker 6: had took a lot of arrows. I was one of
26:52
Speaker 6: those lining up the crossbow, firing quite a few of them.
26:55
Speaker 6: When he's calling it a hunk a metal that they're
26:57
Speaker 6: playing my twitter or I mean, I've been ripping on
27:00
Speaker 6: him for the longest time. You're right, Billy, He's he's
27:02
Speaker 6: been a micross. But in the last three years is
27:05
Speaker 6: there's somebody that has done more for this for the
27:10
Speaker 6: longevity of his sports.
27:11
Speaker 2: Than Rob Manfred, especially pitchclock.
27:13
Speaker 6: I say, I mean, like the pitch clock, the rule
27:15
Speaker 6: changes that they had right there, like this to me
27:18
Speaker 6: feels like a no brainer, and that's why I give
27:20
Speaker 6: him some of that credit. Drew, like I think he's
27:23
Speaker 6: I think right now Manfred is feeling the right movement
27:27
Speaker 6: and the right vibes of the league and understanding that
27:30
Speaker 6: whether or not they go in or out on twenty
27:35
Speaker 6: twenty seven, whether they play or not, whether they have
27:37
Speaker 6: a situation like the WNBA last day. WNBA congratulations, looks
27:41
Speaker 6: like they've got an agreement. They got it, they got
27:43
Speaker 6: an agreement, they got a CBA. I'm excited to see
27:45
Speaker 6: if they're flying private. But like you, you see the
27:49
Speaker 6: league going up into the right and the only way
27:52
Speaker 6: you could continue to catapult that up and get more
27:54
Speaker 6: and more momentum and you slap USA on the chest.
27:57
Speaker 6: You're getting a lot of casual viewers, and that Olympic
28:01
Speaker 6: time feels like it's too ripe for them to pass
28:03
Speaker 6: on the opportunity to have big leaguers in it.
28:06
Speaker 4: Absolutely just the momentum now it seems like it's just inevitable.
28:10
Speaker 4: It's so good, figure it out and whatever it takes.
28:12
Speaker 4: Let's figure it out and shut the game down in
28:15
Speaker 4: mid season, have a longer All Star break, trying to
28:17
Speaker 4: squeeze it into ten days.
28:18
Speaker 6: If you can, let's go figure it out. And Drew
28:20
Speaker 6: you mentioned you play Dodger Stadium. You also have another
28:22
Speaker 6: one right there in Anaheim. You could play it up
28:24
Speaker 6: and down the coast to California.
28:26
Speaker 2: You throw in there. You got plenty of spots. And
28:29
Speaker 2: also you don't necessarily have to.
28:31
Speaker 6: Have it right during the same what eleven day run
28:34
Speaker 6: of the Olympics, don't they have certain events that are
28:37
Speaker 6: played throughout kind of the lead up too. There's not
28:40
Speaker 6: always there's puliminaries and things like that. Then set it
28:43
Speaker 6: up there you got the final four in that weekend
28:45
Speaker 6: or yeah, well you can change it up and make
28:46
Speaker 6: it easy.
28:47
Speaker 2: Agree.
28:47
Speaker 7: When was the surfing? I mean, the surfing took place
28:49
Speaker 7: like the month of in a different island, you know
28:52
Speaker 7: what I mean.
28:53
Speaker 6: I think that's exactly what I was thinking, because there
28:55
Speaker 6: was surfing going on like a month and a half
28:57
Speaker 6: before the Olympics.
28:58
Speaker 2: Wit, wait, what are we talking about here?
28:59
Speaker 7: Because like Limbs and you know, I mean, we just
29:01
Speaker 7: got done with the Winter Olympics where they're still curling.
29:04
Speaker 7: I don't know who they were playing curling in the
29:07
Speaker 7: middle of the night. I felt like, so they had
29:09
Speaker 7: so many curling matches going on. So you're right, the
29:11
Speaker 7: pre limbs could be before. I'm sure there's a way
29:13
Speaker 7: they could do it. If it matters enough to everybody,
29:16
Speaker 7: you could get it done. So so right there, Brilly
29:18
Speaker 7: Squint and I say, man, I forgot my contacts today.
29:21
Speaker 7: I'm just lying blind over here.
29:23
Speaker 6: It's tough.
29:24
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, in other news, we had the we started in
29:28
Speaker 4: Dayton yesterday and we had two really good games.
29:31
Speaker 8: We did meet to Dayton, me to Dayton, Texas asas
29:36
Speaker 8: North Carolina State Texas with the late game winner, and
29:38
Speaker 8: then Howard outlasted Maryland Baltimore County.
29:42
Speaker 7: Congrats Alid, great Howards. Trey Crosby one of them I know.
29:46
Speaker 7: And and Howard finally one of then tournament game. I
29:49
Speaker 7: think this was like something they hadn't done or this
29:52
Speaker 7: was the first one ever. Yeah, so that's a big moment.
29:54
Speaker 7: I always said, if you're a sixteen seed, you kind
29:56
Speaker 7: of want to play in because it gives you a
29:58
Speaker 7: chance for a moment in the tournament, because otherwise, unless
30:01
Speaker 7: you're like the you know, the the fairly Dickinson u
30:03
Speaker 7: NBC room, you know, unique, unique, once in a lifetime outlier,
30:07
Speaker 7: you're not getting that moment. So kind of kind of
30:09
Speaker 7: cool to see the NCAA tournament start off with a
30:11
Speaker 7: bang with two close ones and the game winner for
30:13
Speaker 7: Texas over NC State.
30:16
Speaker 2: So they are moving on and we have two more
30:17
Speaker 2: tonight and the one.
30:18
Speaker 7: I think a lot of people this is probably gonna
30:20
Speaker 7: be the most watched dating round playing ever, unless I'm wrong,
30:25
Speaker 7: but I would think it's gonna be the most has
30:27
Speaker 7: the most attention with Miami Ohio playing tonight as they
30:31
Speaker 7: take on SMU and everyone waiting to see if Miami
30:33
Speaker 7: Ohio can fulfill their kind of their record that they've
30:36
Speaker 7: had this year. So the kid gonna play good? Question,
30:39
Speaker 7: I don't really know. I'm looking for some updates on that.
30:42
Speaker 7: I'll be looking during the break. But uh, he's got
30:44
Speaker 7: a pretty they got some Yeah, they they have what's
30:46
Speaker 7: his name, I'm blanking on his name, Edwards.
30:48
Speaker 2: Right like they were.
30:49
Speaker 6: They were pretty noncommittal, and I did like how butch
30:52
Speaker 6: he's like, yeah, they put it out there.
30:53
Speaker 2: Oh, totally, he's gonna be He's gonna be able to go.
30:55
Speaker 2: BJ Edwards totally gonna be able to play.
30:58
Speaker 6: We'll see if number zero's out there tonight or if
31:00
Speaker 6: that was some good lip service, if they're their senior guard,
31:03
Speaker 6: nol'll see.
31:04
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm interested in it. I did.
31:05
Speaker 7: Uh.
31:06
Speaker 6: I didn't see as much of the playing games I
31:08
Speaker 6: probably should have last night, but that's because the damn
31:11
Speaker 6: Milwaukee Bucks decided.
31:12
Speaker 2: Drew that they were going to be entertaining last night.
31:15
Speaker 2: I know, right, not happened.
31:17
Speaker 6: How dare you guys play a competitive game against the
31:19
Speaker 6: Cavaliers and within seven something with the Camps and they
31:22
Speaker 6: covered the spread. It's amazing covered the number they were
31:25
Speaker 6: up at the end of the three. I'm watching a
31:27
Speaker 6: couple of Cleveland radio hosts on Twitter just melting down
31:30
Speaker 6: because they're losing to the Bucks.
31:31
Speaker 2: I took a little satisfaction in man, that was fun.
31:33
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's another you know, that's a that's a franchise
31:36
Speaker 7: in a fan base that thinks they should have been
31:37
Speaker 7: better by now Cleveland or at least contending for championships.
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Speaker 2: They got hardened.
31:41
Speaker 7: So we'll see what happened in the playoffs, obviously, but
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Speaker 7: all right, it was nice to see them interesting last night.
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Speaker 4: Since it is and remains hot Te Comp Day, we
31:48
Speaker 4: usually wait till six o'clock to fire up the feature,
31:50
Speaker 4: let's get it going. Yeah, we got all kinds of guests,
31:54
Speaker 4: caught it up. Mike McGivern big times, coming in to
31:57
Speaker 4: talk to high school tournaments. We'll have l half John
32:01
Speaker 4: Greenberg actually loaded up with green pancakes. We get Dolf
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Speaker 4: back in this place. We'll find out about his exploits
32:07
Speaker 4: on Saint Patty's Day. I was too lazy to go
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Speaker 4: out on Saint Patty's Day, but you know, I.
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Speaker 6: Drew I was in the same boat. However, I heard
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Speaker 6: them on the way home and they were having some fun. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: they were having a lot of fun. They were having
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Speaker 6: more fun than humans out I have from when I
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Speaker 6: heard Yes, Yes, so Hot.
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Speaker 4: Take number one for me is Miami has always got
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Speaker 4: a host the World Baseball class. And just make that
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Speaker 4: an edict because it's just such a good, you know,
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Speaker 4: such a good venue for it.
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Speaker 6: I liked it better than Petco Park, I'll tell you
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Speaker 6: that much like and no disrespect to San Diego, but
32:35
Speaker 6: it does feel better. I love the aesthetics of Dodger Stadium, However,
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Speaker 6: I don't love the aesthetics of you know, like half
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Speaker 6: the fans getting there in the third inning.
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Speaker 2: So keep it in Miami and keeping all right.
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Speaker 4: Other hot take is that when you when we're looking
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Speaker 4: at we had the inside, it's the perfect melting pot.
32:53
Speaker 4: You can make a case that this is a great
32:55
Speaker 4: time of overlap in the sporting count for sure.
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Speaker 2: You know this is like this is our off for
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Speaker 2: those couple of weeks after the super Bowl. Pretty sure.
33:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a momentum and then we'll settle into the
33:05
Speaker 4: summertime and all of that.
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Speaker 2: Right, well, we'll have it.
33:08
Speaker 4: But my hot take for regarding the Bucks is, though
33:11
Speaker 4: it makes sense, and he's gonna take like a week
33:13
Speaker 4: to figure out this ankle thing, and you know, I
33:16
Speaker 4: know the drums are beating, why play on us? Put
33:19
Speaker 4: him in bubble wrap. I've said that myself, I said
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Speaker 4: it weeks ago. But selfishly, if he's going to be traded,
33:25
Speaker 4: we need as many opportunities to see honest play for
33:27
Speaker 4: the Bucks as we can, and we need to savor
33:30
Speaker 4: them just to put those in the bank in case
33:33
Speaker 4: just a little bit more in case it is the end. Yeah,
33:35
Speaker 4: so I'm again hypocritical, and it's probably a bad business decision,
33:40
Speaker 4: but I want Giannis to play and finish out the season.
33:42
Speaker 2: True. I got March twenty eighth still circled.
33:44
Speaker 6: I still have that Saturday two pm tilt they host
33:47
Speaker 6: San Antonio, and I still want to see him playing
33:50
Speaker 6: Wemby at homeby.
33:52
Speaker 4: Okay, I got to say, you want to see him.
33:54
Speaker 4: You just we got to see him as much as
33:56
Speaker 4: we can, just in case.
33:57
Speaker 6: There's back to back noon two o'clock on that Saturday
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Speaker 6: Sunday they take on the the La Clippers, so he
34:03
Speaker 6: could play in one of the two Dallas a couple
34:06
Speaker 6: of nights later, and then there's a pair of home
34:08
Speaker 6: games against Boston and Memphis.
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Speaker 2: And that's what you're counting. You really are counting on
34:12
Speaker 2: the dates.
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Speaker 6: And I'm right there with you, especially because a delayed
34:15
Speaker 6: kicking the balls to me for banking and planning on
34:19
Speaker 6: going to the game this past Sunday, then not going
34:22
Speaker 6: in fear intrepidation of the snowstorm that at that point
34:26
Speaker 6: was a rain storm, and then for what you just
34:29
Speaker 6: mentioned very much.
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Speaker 2: Could be the last game they played.
34:32
Speaker 6: I don't. I don't know, because I'm not still totally
34:35
Speaker 6: positive he's getting traded in the offseason, but it's it's
34:40
Speaker 6: a growing possibility and maybe makes a little bit more
34:44
Speaker 6: sense as you continue to watch this team play game
34:46
Speaker 6: in and game out without him.
34:48
Speaker 7: All Right, I've got a I got one quick hot
34:49
Speaker 7: take before we get to the break. It really has
34:51
Speaker 7: nothing new with any specific team. But you know, sometimes
34:53
Speaker 7: you have a thought in the middle of a dream,
34:55
Speaker 7: and then that dream is like half consciousness because you're
34:57
Speaker 7: waking up. That's kind of what I had this in morning,
35:00
Speaker 7: and then I thought about it. Okay, so every other
35:02
Speaker 7: major sport in the US, like I think of the
35:04
Speaker 7: four majors, all right, so my apologies to soccer.
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Speaker 2: It's still not there yet.
35:08
Speaker 7: Okay, we accept the truth that every baller puck that
35:11
Speaker 7: goes into the stands is property the fans, except for basketball.
35:15
Speaker 7: Do you ever think about that? Why is that you
35:17
Speaker 7: guys weren't thinking about that. Football they go and get it,
35:20
Speaker 7: yet not always if it goes high enough in the stands,
35:23
Speaker 7: they're not always getting it.
35:24
Speaker 6: Less It's like, really, they're hunting you down now, I
35:28
Speaker 6: mean unless unless, unless unless my my man celebratory throws
35:33
Speaker 6: it into the there in a touchdown.
35:35
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen a lot. I should say.
35:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, But like if you're throwing a throwing the ball
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Speaker 6: out of bounds, throwing it away sideline, guys gonna go
35:42
Speaker 6: and get that get that rock.
35:43
Speaker 2: We might get you a different pill, but we're gonna
35:45
Speaker 2: get that rock.
35:46
Speaker 4: How about some Tom Brady had discussion too, because everybody
35:48
Speaker 4: talks about how the balls are over inflated in the
35:50
Speaker 4: n CUA.
35:52
Speaker 2: They were dropping it again, talk about it? Where's Tom
35:54
Speaker 2: Brady when you need them? All right?
35:56
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36:15
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36:18
Speaker 2: Like that. We got a lot of good ones here.
36:20
Speaker 6: We got a lot of hot takes from our guy
36:22
Speaker 6: Mike Witt talking about mother Nature and different blizzards and
36:25
Speaker 6: now it's gonna be like sixty four seventy degrees potentially
36:28
Speaker 6: this weekend coming up. And then you also had this
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Speaker 6: one Drew, which I really really like on hot Take
36:32
Speaker 6: Comptey Hot Take, Wisconsin will go to the Final four
36:36
Speaker 6: in a run that starts tomorrow. Greg Guard will finally
36:38
Speaker 6: get recognized as one of the top ten coaches in
36:42
Speaker 6: the country from our friend Mike with I.
36:44
Speaker 4: Think that depends on who who's doing the recognizing thank you.
36:48
Speaker 4: I want to think a lot of yes, coaches, oh
36:50
Speaker 4: he's top ten, you know, they in the coaching fraternity,
36:54
Speaker 4: they already would say he's there, but that they see
36:57
Speaker 4: things differently than we do.
36:58
Speaker 7: I think the basketball community, the coaching community sees Greg
37:02
Speaker 7: Gard's a really good coach. I think the most criticism
37:04
Speaker 7: comes from his own fan base sometimes, to be quite
37:07
Speaker 7: honest with you, I think, but I think most people
37:10
Speaker 7: recognize how great of a job he's done it Wisconsin,
37:13
Speaker 7: especially in the changing eras he's adjusting with the times,
37:17
Speaker 7: changing the team while keeping the culture, changing the style.
37:19
Speaker 7: It's been very, very impressive. All it's going to take
37:22
Speaker 7: for him is a couple more shots to go their way,
37:24
Speaker 7: you know, in March, for his kind of legend to
37:28
Speaker 7: be crystallized a.
37:29
Speaker 2: Little bit more.
37:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit, a little bit for sure, having
37:33
Speaker 4: him Yeah on the stage. Does he need the validation? Well,
37:36
Speaker 4: it sure would be nice. Playing in the Sweet six
37:38
Speaker 4: would be nice.
37:38
Speaker 2: People look at it that way, and they haven't been
37:40
Speaker 2: there for what nine years, so in a while.
37:42
Speaker 7: Yeah.
37:43
Speaker 2: In fact, yesterday since the Florida shot. That's hard to believe.
37:47
Speaker 2: Yesterday another anniversary of Bronson Kang's game winner. I can't
37:51
Speaker 2: believe it's been ten years.
37:52
Speaker 7: But I was sitting right right here that game the
37:55
Speaker 7: other day, you know, yeah, just yesterday when Matt Lapaide
37:57
Speaker 7: dropped that highlight.
37:58
Speaker 2: Honest, that was epic. Yeah, absolutely amazing.
38:02
Speaker 4: So yeah, ten, that was ten years ago and we
38:05
Speaker 4: were just I was just listening with Billy as we
38:07
Speaker 4: were in commercial break to a rant by Al McGuire
38:10
Speaker 4: on this I was also nineteen seventy seven after Marquette
38:13
Speaker 4: beat Kansas.
38:14
Speaker 2: City, and he said, someone in back rooms are telling
38:17
Speaker 2: these refs to give it. Do you have the audio?
38:19
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's on It's on the X machine. That
38:22
Speaker 2: was one of his greatest rants, and he was it
38:24
Speaker 2: was only one of his it was one of his
38:25
Speaker 2: last games. Obvious. He's like, that's why I'm getting out
38:26
Speaker 2: of here.
38:27
Speaker 7: He goes, someone's telling these refs to give me technicals,
38:30
Speaker 7: and this is nonsense.
38:31
Speaker 2: He goes, I'll find it. I'll find it.
38:34
Speaker 6: You don't have it.
38:35
Speaker 2: Just sitting your way out.
38:36
Speaker 6: You look up al McGuire on on X and listen,
38:40
Speaker 6: the top comes up with not one, not two, not three, four, five,
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Speaker 6: six consecutive tweets by Arman Sarian.
38:49
Speaker 2: Well he's one.
38:50
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously it wasn't a lie for his coaching,
38:52
Speaker 7: but he was one of my favorite figures in my
38:53
Speaker 7: February eleventh, twenty twenty five former m Marquette basketball coaches
38:58
Speaker 7: that later were on broadcast the Marquette game. Al McGuire,
39:00
Speaker 7: Rick Majeris, Kevin O'Neill, and now Tom Creen not missing
39:03
Speaker 7: any as far as I know. March thirteenth, twenty twenty three,
39:07
Speaker 7: fifty three years ago, al McGuire turned down an.
39:09
Speaker 6: NCAA tournament ben to accept an n IT bid while
39:12
Speaker 6: things changed November twenty November one, twenty twenty four, with
39:17
Speaker 6: just a video of some open from the nineteen eighties,
39:20
Speaker 6: Bob coss is retiring. Here's al McGuire and Billy Packard
39:23
Speaker 6: on an NBC game in the eighties. Yeah, well, I yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Do tweet it. I did tweet a lot of his content.
39:28
Speaker 2: That's good. October twenty eight, twenty twenty three.
39:30
Speaker 6: At some point, Yes, I'm just trying to consume as
39:32
Speaker 6: much al McGuire content as possible.
39:37
Speaker 2: He's one of a kind, right, amazing. I sent it
39:40
Speaker 2: to your XDM.
39:42
Speaker 6: It's a good March seventeenth, twenty twenty three. I was
39:45
Speaker 6: always proud to be Irish. I think I brought a comfort, comfortableness,
39:49
Speaker 6: and a sense of humor to the United States. Al
39:51
Speaker 6: McGuire happy Saint Patrick's Day. So you just tweet out
39:53
Speaker 6: al McGuire quotes on Saint Patrick's Day, which I appreciate.
39:56
Speaker 6: I love that. Oh my god, my man is just
39:59
Speaker 6: he's all over the this thing. Yeah, as much as Drew,
40:02
Speaker 6: you would have thought m uh Marquette overload would be
40:04
Speaker 6: the one to still bring up al McGuire's name.
40:07
Speaker 2: Luckily, Armin Sarian is not going to forget it.
40:09
Speaker 4: Next year, we're on a We're on an anniversary again,
40:11
Speaker 4: right because they won in uh seventy seven.
40:14
Speaker 7: That's all right, Well we'll be on the next year
40:15
Speaker 7: anniversary too far A big one, yeah, big, I got
40:18
Speaker 7: big remember anniversary, which we love in sports.
40:21
Speaker 2: I just you got it. Go ahead, take it, take it.
40:23
Speaker 1: I I coach exactly the same amount of where the
40:25
Speaker 1: hell I am and.
40:26
Speaker 3: Every time I come to the NC double A and
40:29
Speaker 3: and the technicals on me. Now, it's absolutely wrong.
40:33
Speaker 2: Okay, stop, Do we know that he doesn't swear in this?
40:36
Speaker 2: Just gonna say, I'm pretty sure he does it. I'm
40:38
Speaker 2: pretty sure it doesn't.
40:39
Speaker 7: Pretty sure he doesn't because he says I'm a bumming
40:42
Speaker 7: about I'm pretty sure he doesn't.
40:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if he does, I'm ready with the delayed
40:46
Speaker 2: all right. They just let it right, all right, And.
40:48
Speaker 3: I'm not a cry baby.
40:49
Speaker 1: I kept quiet for the last ten years. Now either
40:54
Speaker 1: they either the taking these.
40:56
Speaker 3: Officials and brainwashing them before they have my games. This
41:00
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with Kansas State. Kansas State should
41:03
Speaker 3: have beaten us.
41:03
Speaker 5: We were fortunate to when we were lucky.
41:05
Speaker 3: That's all Kansas State. I'll played us. They were better
41:08
Speaker 3: prepared than we were, and they should have won the game. Now,
41:12
Speaker 3: the NC Double A wants equal time our officials. I'm
41:15
Speaker 3: twenty five years of business, guys. I've never set a
41:18
Speaker 3: word against officials in twenty five years, and I gotta
41:23
Speaker 3: go through that crap again.
41:26
Speaker 2: Of course, he said, a lot of things about officials.
41:28
Speaker 2: Oh you know that that was the best thing. He's
41:31
Speaker 2: never said anything about officials. Now, I was just waiting
41:33
Speaker 2: for John Chaney to walk in here. Three class guys,
41:36
Speaker 2: class guys.
41:37
Speaker 4: Pivotal moment. I'm beating Kansas State in that run. Yeah,
41:41
Speaker 4: that had to come back and win. Yeah, yeah, that
41:44
Speaker 4: was the fight at halftime. I think when him and
41:46
Speaker 4: Barbib doing not a fight. Man, those days were wild.
41:49
Speaker 4: I'm sure, oh no doubt. He was very much like
41:52
Speaker 4: Billy Martin. And you know that sounded like a mob boss.
41:56
Speaker 4: Totally did no, totally did ten years like he's been
42:00
Speaker 4: sounded like some kind of like a mob boss type thing.
42:03
Speaker 4: Epic epic epic eight seven seven, seven ninety four one
42:06
Speaker 4: ninety seven to three gets you into the Nicolay lot.
42:09
Speaker 2: I'm talking text line on this hot take.
42:11
Speaker 4: Hump day, everything back open today, everything schools back where you.
42:15
Speaker 2: Know, I think we're ready to roll.
42:17
Speaker 6: We're a week away from opening day, and Drew, it's
42:20
Speaker 6: not a hot take, it's just a sad reality of it.
42:23
Speaker 6: The Brewers just released more opening day tickets.
42:27
Speaker 2: Opening Day. I don't believe is going to get back
42:28
Speaker 2: to what it was man, it's it's just it's not
42:33
Speaker 2: going to be what it was.
42:35
Speaker 6: However, we're gonna have a damn good time coming up
42:38
Speaker 6: next week Thursday.
42:40
Speaker 4: Damn good time next week Thursday to kick this thing off.
42:43
Speaker 4: The Shamrock Shuffle is taking precedents with the young people.
42:46
Speaker 4: That's their right of it.
42:47
Speaker 6: I just want you to know I totally stole your
42:49
Speaker 6: Saint practice day, by the way, that is one of
42:51
Speaker 6: that's one of my favorite minds that you've ever dropped.
42:53
Speaker 2: The dropped about the Yeah, practice day, that's for sure.
42:56
Speaker 2: Absolutely all right. We are off and running.
42:58
Speaker 4: Dolf's gonna join us at six point thirty, Mike McGivern
43:01
Speaker 4: at seven o'clock, mister big time himself, mister high school
43:04
Speaker 4: hoops will get ready for the boys tournament. Girls tournament
43:06
Speaker 4: was great. Run boys tournament this weekend. See if it
43:09
Speaker 4: can be as good.
43:10
Speaker 2: They had a tough act to follow, no question about it.
43:12
Speaker 4: So does baseball tough act to follow after that World
43:14
Speaker 4: Baseball Classic was so captivating, it's so exciting.
43:17
Speaker 2: Even watching Venezuela, Italy. It's the huddle. Fox Sports Radio,
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin