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08/28/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and salutations, smart, good-looking listeners and members of the
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  Speaker 1: Five O'Clock Club. Welcome in to the huddle, Fox Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio Wisconsin. Drew Olson presiding over the ceremonies today. Bill
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  Speaker 1: Schmidt is off. He's bacheloring. We'll talk about that momentarily
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  Speaker 1: because we have the Baron of Bachelor Parties, the Wizard
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  Speaker 1: of Weddings, Armin Sarian, producing the program today.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Drew, good morning. And, yeah, I mean, I did
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  Speaker 2: think about William this morning and last night because I
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  Speaker 2: knew he wasn't going to be on, but he will
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  Speaker 2: be on tonight with Packers OT. Oh, yeah. We'll be
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  Speaker 2: talking to you there.
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  Speaker 1: He had to leave after the show yesterday to get
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  Speaker 1: there for the golf outing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the life of a young male. Got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure you don't miss the bachelor party, the golf outing,
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  Speaker 2: but you still have to fulfill your side quests on
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  Speaker 2: Packers OT, so William will be doing it all. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people wonder how we do it, but, you know, planes, trains,
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  Speaker 2: and automobiles, we get it done. But I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: about him because I was wondering, you know, he's the
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  Speaker 2: best man, right? So he's got to kind of run
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  Speaker 2: this thing, but he kind of, it doesn't have to
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  Speaker 2: run all of it. So, yeah. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: say I had FOMO, but, you know, there's nothing like
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  Speaker 2: a good bachelor party in the summer or in the fall. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to get yourself going a little bit, football time.
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  Speaker 2: I remember many a time when I had those, as
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  Speaker 2: you know, Drew. So, yeah, should be a fun day
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  Speaker 2: for Billy. But we'll be talking about that a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the do's and don'ts, what you need to
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  Speaker 2: make sure you do, what guys do on bachelor parties
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  Speaker 2: versus what women do on bachelorette parties. It's always funny
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  Speaker 2: to me, the stark contrast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like the festivities, the preparation, the props.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: We always joke about the differences in that, but I
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  Speaker 2: did go to one this summer, as you know, through
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  Speaker 2: my cousins, but I like to think mostly those days
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  Speaker 2: are behind me now of spending exorbitant amounts of money
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  Speaker 2: on someone else's nuptials.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: But who knows? I mean, anyone can get married anytime.
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  Speaker 1: What is the arc of the modern bachelor party? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's totally different than it used to be. The Gen
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  Speaker 1: Zers aren't wired the same way.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: People coming up my age, the Gen Xers, were, or you, millennial.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're an old millennial, right?
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  Speaker 2: I'm an elder millennial.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, that fires me up, too. Not to
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  Speaker 2: get right into it right here, but why not? It's 5.04.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, why not? We're in the 5 o'clock club.
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  Speaker 4: It's loose.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when people lump these generations together, Drew, they
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  Speaker 2: put millennials in this one bucket, which really is not
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  Speaker 2: one bucket. I mean, you have elder millennials that live
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  Speaker 2: the completely different life of, um, experiences, advantages, disadvantages, trends,
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  Speaker 2: and like things that, that the younger millennials didn't have
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  Speaker 2: is a totally different thing.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I say, if you were born in like, from
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  Speaker 2: like 80 to 86 or 80 to 88, maybe you are,
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  Speaker 2: you have a totally different personality probably and instincts and, um,
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  Speaker 2: a set of skills. than someone born in the 90s was,
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  Speaker 2: but they still like to lump them together. So that's
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  Speaker 2: one thing that frustrates me, but I can put that
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  Speaker 2: aside for a little bit. But I was born in 84, okay?
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  Speaker 2: So my generation, the elder millennials, we've seen it all.
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  Speaker 2: We've been through it all. We grew up without cell phones.
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  Speaker 2: We grew up playing outside. And we grew up without
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  Speaker 2: social media until basically college or the end of college.
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  Speaker 2: And we experienced a world in which you were not
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  Speaker 2: constantly comparing yourselves to others. which leads me to my
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  Speaker 2: next point about bachelor parties is you, you almost now
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  Speaker 2: always are going to assume for a bachelor or bachelor
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  Speaker 2: party that a trip is involved, that there's some sort
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  Speaker 2: of traveling involved. And that was almost never the case
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  Speaker 2: when I was first coming up, I say coming up
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  Speaker 2: like a ball player, first coming up, going to bachelor parties,
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  Speaker 2: the process used to be the same. And it was
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  Speaker 2: usually focused around drinking and debauchery.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Is what you usually focused around. It was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to probably go to like a Brewer's tailgate,
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  Speaker 2: rent a school bus. We go to the Brewer's tailgate
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  Speaker 2: all day, a Brewer's Day game or night game maybe
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  Speaker 2: on a Saturday, dinner. You go to Silk because that
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  Speaker 2: was the only spot around really to go to. And
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  Speaker 2: then you go to Water Street. I mean, or you
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  Speaker 2: can even hit multiple bars. And that's the whole night.
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  Speaker 2: That's the entire bachelor party. It was like you could
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  Speaker 2: basically predict the entire process. And that was like the
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  Speaker 2: way it was. Until something started shifting like 10 years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say. Maybe a little longer.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, maybe if the Brewers were
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  Speaker 1: out of town, there was golf involved.
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  Speaker 2: Golf was another one. Something like that. But they were
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  Speaker 2: mostly local activities. The longest I ever went for a
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  Speaker 2: bachelor party for a while was the Dells, for instance.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that. Or maybe up north or Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: And that was what it was. But now it's like
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  Speaker 2: you almost are always taking a trip. Now, Billy's group
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  Speaker 2: was going up to Upper Michigan, so it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a trip. But it's not like you're getting on a
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  Speaker 2: plane to go anywhere. That's true. So it's a little different.
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  Speaker 2: But it is remarkable. And I think it started with
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  Speaker 2: the bachelorette parties, Drew, where it's like, well, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to take a trip. You know, someone went to, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Destination.
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  Speaker 5: Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Vegas is one thing. Oh, Nashville. Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's like Charleston or the Bahamas. And then now
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  Speaker 2: it's Ibiza. And people are spending all this money on it. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: the Gen Zers might not drink as much. And we'll
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  Speaker 2: see when and if they ever get married. But the
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  Speaker 2: Gen Zers might not party as much. But they do
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  Speaker 2: want to have experience-driven trips, right? Or like experiences. So
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  Speaker 2: they go on trips more. So I think that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: But Billy's hit the happy medium between sort of an
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  Speaker 2: out excursion. They're driving up to the UP, I think.
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  Speaker 2: But it's still an old-school bachelor party, you know, Billy's group.
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  Speaker 2: They're just going to have fun, play golf, probably sit around,
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  Speaker 2: watch sports, and then, you know, have some beers and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. You know what I mean? That's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a great time.
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  Speaker 1: You would think. So you've got FOMO. Yeah, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been to it. I can't remember the last bachelor party
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  Speaker 1: I went to.
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  Speaker 2: Did you go to any coming out, not coming out parties,
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  Speaker 2: but like a bachelor, what's the opposite of a bachelor party?
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  Speaker 2: When a guy's getting divorced?
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  Speaker 1: Divorce parties.
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  Speaker 2: A divorce party.
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  Speaker 1: I was at a legendary one on Water Street years ago.
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  Speaker 2: There's one, that's probably the next, that's for needles. That
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  Speaker 2: might be the next thing. Like as I get older.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but that might be the
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  Speaker 2: next part of the process is that people get, The
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  Speaker 2: guys get divorced. Well, yeah. The next party is like.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hope you can go to like, you know, friends' kids' weddings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's the other thing. You get to that
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  Speaker 2: age soon. Now, that gets weird, doesn't it? When your friends'
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  Speaker 2: kids start getting married and you say, wow, we're getting old.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you do. That's when it starts to hit you.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. Like your friends are all married or not
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  Speaker 1: going to get married and settled in. And then, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next course is. So you go for
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  Speaker 1: a long period. You had that one summer when you
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  Speaker 1: had what? Seven weddings or something ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then you'll go through a drought. It's the circle
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  Speaker 1: of life. Then you have a drought. Then you go
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  Speaker 1: to more funerals than weddings.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Unfortunately, that probably is the case. That's the
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  Speaker 2: circle of life.
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  Speaker 1: Because your friend's parents start passing, and then their kid's
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  Speaker 1: getting married, and so it's kind of like the crossing
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  Speaker 1: in the night.
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  Speaker 2: But the key, you know, you have to embrace each
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  Speaker 2: new season of life for what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And embrace the changing of life.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we will soldier on, skate shorthanded without Billy today.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have a report from Hunter Baumgart about the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: and their victory last night, winning the series.
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  Speaker 4: Great win.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Centurio with a couple of jacks. Another comfortable victory.
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  Speaker 1: Good job by the bullpen. A Miz start on the
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  Speaker 1: big stage. Gave up two runs in, what, six innings?
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  Speaker 2: Two and six.
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  Speaker 1: Two and six.
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  Speaker 2: And getting through that little mound trouble he had.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was sliding.
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  Speaker 2: Sliding around the mound, which is somewhat of a trend
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  Speaker 2: for him because his strides are longer and if it
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  Speaker 2: gets wet. And also, I think an interesting development about
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  Speaker 2: Miz last couple starts. Maybe Hunter's going to remark on that,
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  Speaker 2: but he's mixing up his pitches now and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's pretty interesting. So, yeah, another great win for
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers, taking the series in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Mizorowski last night, in the house where Doc Gooden
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  Speaker 1: plied his trade, became the first pitcher since Doc Gooden.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't know who Doc Gooden is, Google him.
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  Speaker 1: He was a dominant figure for the Mets and came
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  Speaker 1: up and was kind of Miz-like.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't know who Doc Gooden is, I feel
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  Speaker 2: sorry for you. We have a lot of YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Miz is the first pitcher since Doc Gooden to start
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  Speaker 1: a season with 25 straight starts, allowing three earned runs
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  Speaker 1: or less in each. He's only the seventh pitcher to
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  Speaker 1: ever have a streak that long. First since 1985. Pretty remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: Remarkable what he's done. Yeah, much like Doc Afinam when
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  Speaker 2: he came up. Yeah. But his velocity was down last night.
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  Speaker 2: It was a little bit. And he's mixing up the
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  Speaker 2: slider and the curveball now.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe by design.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe by design. Who knows? So I think there's some
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  Speaker 2: interesting developments now. I'm not going to say he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: successful before, but people were saying, oh, he's a pitcher now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Not just a thrower. Well, he was a pitcher before.
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  Speaker 2: But in the house of Doc Gooden, yeah, getting those numbers,
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  Speaker 2: pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of pitchers, Chris Sale, who the Brewers saw recently,
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  Speaker 1: complete game shutout against the Dodgers yesterday. 11 strikeouts. First
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  Speaker 1: complete game since 2019 for one of the best pitchers
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  Speaker 1: in ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he crushed against the Dodgers. And he had a
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  Speaker 2: couple moments where I know he demanded to be back
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  Speaker 2: out there. I was reading the article on that. He said,
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  Speaker 2: this is mine.
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  Speaker 1: And he was fired up. He faced Shohei Ohtani. And
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  Speaker 1: he was fired up to face Shohei Otani. Struck him
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  Speaker 1: out on a 99.6 mile an hour par hour fastball
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  Speaker 1: and in another AB, he hit 100.1 miles per hour.
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  Speaker 1: His two fastest pitches since 2018. Pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Impressive. I mean, eight years. So he reached back.
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  Speaker 1: He dialed it up.
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  Speaker 2: He reached back. He definitely wanted it. And I wonder
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  Speaker 2: if he wants to make a late push at Cy Young.
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  Speaker 2: More than anything, he probably wants to help the Braves
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  Speaker 2: win these big, important games. Well, yeah. That's the big thing.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 2: But pretty impressive job from him. It makes it all
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  Speaker 2: that more impressive when the Brewers beat him. So you
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  Speaker 2: saw the best on display last night, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. And you saw Miz and you saw Sale
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  Speaker 1: pitching on the same day. Meanwhile, with their victory, the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers pushed their lead in the division to seven games.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be feeling good about that. Up a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown again.
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  Speaker 6: Love it.
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  Speaker 2: Seven games.
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  Speaker 1: And only with just three left. The Reds are at
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  Speaker 1: Wrigley this weekend. The Brewers are hosting the Rangers. And
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  Speaker 1: then Monday night starts the tournament. Seven games in 10 days.
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  Speaker 1: Four-game series at Wrigley. Brewers come home for three. And
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  Speaker 1: then three-game at American Family Field.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to have that cushion against the Cubs. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we talk a lot about the EORs and being nervous
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  Speaker 2: and things. But when you have that cushion going into
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  Speaker 2: the series like that, it is nice. It helps the
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  Speaker 2: agita a little bit. It helps the anxiety. But once again,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Brewers have– have pushed the Cubs back
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  Speaker 2: when they try to get closer.
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  Speaker 1: And the Brewers are now three games ahead of the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers in the race for the best record in the league.
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  Speaker 1: And the Braves, with their sweep of the Dodgers, close
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  Speaker 1: within one game of the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: Which is so important, right? And we've talked about that. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you think about division first, but the Brewers have their
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  Speaker 2: sights set on that top two seeds for the bye. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Great news there.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite important. So the Dodgers lost three in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers are rolling along. One seven out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: Picking themselves off the mat. Every time they seem to
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  Speaker 2: have a little slippage or a little stumble.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the thing. And that's been a prevailing
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  Speaker 1: sentiment with the Brewers for much of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because we just flash back to Monday night. Their losses,
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  Speaker 1: they don't lose that often. But when they do, it
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  Speaker 1: stands out. And we pick at it. And we're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at this atrocious hitting with scoring position. Look at
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  Speaker 1: how bad that was. Look at Cooper Pratt. And they
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  Speaker 1: had to do that. It seems like they're playing badly.
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  Speaker 1: Because we obsess over the times when they don't play well.
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  Speaker 1: And then they just click off the wins. Because if
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  Speaker 1: I asked you, what do you think the Brewers have
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  Speaker 1: done in their last 10? Most people would say, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, 5-5. They're 7-3.
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  Speaker 2: 7-3. And a lot of it is to what you said.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it, I think, just is, Drew, we're
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  Speaker 2: used to winning now.
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  Speaker 1: The way the losses are perceived.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And we've come accustomed to it.
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  Speaker 6: We have a standard.
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  Speaker 2: There's an expectation that they should win and dominate every
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  Speaker 2: game now. And when they don't, it's like, well, what's wrong? Well,
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  Speaker 2: this is normal. This is baseball. Like, you don't win
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  Speaker 2: and play well every day. But the Brewers have. And
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  Speaker 2: it does get lost with fans sometimes a lot, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just, that's a product of winning and winning consistently.
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  Speaker 2: The Brewers have dominated now basically for four years to
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  Speaker 2: the point where fans are just used to winning. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say they're getting spoiled by it,
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  Speaker 2: but they're getting, like, conditioned to believe that things should
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  Speaker 2: never go wrong.
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  Speaker 6: So you're right, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: When there is a loss, we send up the alarms
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  Speaker 2: like it's, you know, like Paul Revere, like the British
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  Speaker 2: are coming. Like we throw up the flares, like what's
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  Speaker 2: the problem? What's going on? How can we fix this
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  Speaker 2: mess when really there is no mess? People were still
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  Speaker 2: going round and round about Cooper Pratt. I'm like, that's over.
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  Speaker 2: We've overcome that now.
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  Speaker 1: They overcame that and won two after that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I saw even, and we love our friend
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Agler, and I was a little like disappointed he
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: made the, like you don't get it. I saw him
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  Speaker 2: make a snarky comment last night about, well, and it
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  Speaker 2: was not right. It was just Twitter, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: what did he say? He said, if, uh, we'll, we'll
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  Speaker 2: Murph's quote, send a message to Hamilton now after that
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  Speaker 2: Aaron throw home, clearly not happy about still what he
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  Speaker 2: did to promote.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's totally different. Like, First of all, you have
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  Speaker 2: physical errors and mental errors. Yeah. Second of all, I
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  Speaker 2: think this is one thing missing, too. It's like, Cooper
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  Speaker 2: Pratt's much more important to the future of this organization
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  Speaker 2: than Hamilton or somebody like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So the stakes are higher. You have a lot invested
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  Speaker 2: in this guy, you know, for your future money years.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to set the standard now, right? But whatever.
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  Speaker 2: My point is, people are still going on, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: we're about to win a series here in New York.
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  Speaker 2: This is a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt had a hit and a walk last night.
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  Speaker 2: Played well. Yeah, great catch. It's short.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Hamilton had two hits last night and
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  Speaker 1: scored a run.
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  Speaker 6: He was good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he had a bad throw, but he was
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  Speaker 2: really good otherwise. Double on the bunt single. He just
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  Speaker 2: busted it down the line. He's provided a lot to
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  Speaker 2: this team, whether or not people believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: in the last week or so.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And so Yelich gets the night off last night.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Bauer's still getting, you know, nursing the shin splints. They
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: win with Sanchez catching going 0 for 5 at a
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: sack fly. It's just a good game and a good series.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Check the box. Miz comes out, does his job. Miz
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: gave up the two runs and two walks, so he wasn't,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: you're right, he wasn't dominant dominant, but he threw 89 pitches.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: They're kind of, you know, obviously he could have thrown
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: another inning and seven innings and two runs looks better
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: than six and two, but why stretch him? That to
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: me is what Miz's outings are going to look like
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: the rest of the year.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Especially when you have the lead for it. Like, especially
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: when you got runs, you have a cushion, you know,
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: you don't need his apex predator stuff to get through
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: the game. And especially, obviously, and we talked about it
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: a little bit, but he was on the mound, pawing
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: at the mound. It was getting wet.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had some issues.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: And then Sensatella and Hall and Patrick, three shutout innings
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: behind him. The bullpen was good again. Only gave up
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: a hit.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: How big has D.L. Hall been?
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Gave up a hit and a walk out of the bullpen,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: and that was it in three innings.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Sensatella's been better since the games are calmed down after
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: a little bit.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So Brewers are rolling in a good spot.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: They're going to be in a good spot. Facing the
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Cubs next Monday. So I guess the worst the lead
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: could be is four. If the Brewers get swept and
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: the Cubs sweep the Reds. At worst, you're going to
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: be four games up going into a seven games in
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: 10 days tournament against the Cubs. That's the worst it
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: can be. So I think they're in good circumstances.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Great position to be in.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: If they hold it and it's like six or seven, man,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: then if you win or even split that four-gamer in Wrigley...
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: It's like the Cubs are losing their chance to make
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: up ground head-to-head. And again, it's not– I try to
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: tell people, it's like, yes, those games count, and it's important,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: it's everything. It could be the dagger, but the Brewers
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: are still in such a good spot just because, again,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the math and the lead that they have now. Being
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: up seven with like a month to go.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: It's hard to make that up. And people say, well,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: what about the time they did this? What about the
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: time they, I've seen a team pick up, you know,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: six games in 10 days. Like, yeah, it's possible.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. The 62 Phillies or whatever. But it's not.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: It could happen.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Likely. Yeah, it could happen. Just because it's an extreme
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: exception doesn't mean it's likely.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: And like we say, if you want to, if you
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: want to placate yourself, look at the Brewers record right now,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: 83 and 51. So Armin, do the quick math. How
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: many games is that? 134. 134, yes. Which means how
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: many games left? 28.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: 28.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: 28 games.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: 28 games left. If the Brewers go 500, if they
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: go 14-14, which is their baseline because they're a good team,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: puts them at 97 wins.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's baseline, right? I mean, that's, yeah.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: That's if they go 500, they win 97 games.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: This is the position they put themselves in.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Drew, they can go 7-21 and still win 90 games.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, they could.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: It's just remarkable to think that, you know?
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: That's right. So if they go 500, they win 97 games.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: And the Cubs have work to do to get to 97.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: They would have to go, they'd have to win 21
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: of their remaining games.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just almost overwhelming math. Every day you rip
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: off the calendar.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: So it's like, could the Cubs go 21 and 7
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: or 21 and 8?
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Conceivably.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: But that's a great clip. They'd have to be scorching hot.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: And they'd still need help. Exactly. Right? And they'd still
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: need the Brewers.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: And that's with the Brewers playing baseline 14. Baseline, yeah.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: So every day the match gets better.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: So they're in good shape. And so the head-to-head people
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: will be freaking out about it. But in most cases,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: unless one team goes 6-1 and gets all the momentum
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: or sweeps it or something, I bet they're going to
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: play to about a draw. Because they're pretty evenly matched.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: The number lies to us. It's a visual trick. It is.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Like there's eight games left and we're six up. It
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: makes you for some reason think because six is less
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: than eight that it could possibly be in danger when
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: it's not. You're right. It's just a visual.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: It's the math.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: It lies to us in a way.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: It lies to our mind.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: It's like when you're running a race and you're coming
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: over maybe the crest of a hill or something and
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: you misjudge the finish line.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Usually the finish line looks further away than it is,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: but sometimes it's closer than you think.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: The mirage and it's like oh i.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Should have started my kick earlier because i had a
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: lot of energy.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Left or it's like in vegas when you think that
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the that the strat is right there oh god five
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: miles away it's the opposite.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: The optical illusion that is vegas that's right over there
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: let's walk it's three miles away yeah billy is in
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: uh michigan for a bachelor party hunter barmgart has a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: recap for us uh of the brewers victory last night
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: again brewers in good shape they're in a stretch they
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: They're playing 16 games in 16 days, and it's a
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: big stretch because the Cubs tournament starts Monday, which will
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: be epic. Packers tonight against the Cardinals, the preseason finale,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: first and only preseason game at Lambeau Field this year.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: We'll have complete coverage for you beginning this afternoon. I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: believe Doug Russell's festivities at 3 o'clock on the airwaves
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and interwebs, and then all the way through Packers OT.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Billy and I will be up late Saturday. patrolling the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: airwaves late. Armin will be here at headquarters. So we're
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: buckled in. It's going to be a great Friday in
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the good land.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Hit us up.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Check in.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock clubbers on Friday. Friday hits different. I will say.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Crowd outside the health club today. Crowd outside the Y.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: It was a bit smaller. Friday. I don't know. I
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: thought people would be getting it in Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Hit us up. Check in. Give us your thoughts. And
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: just buckle up. It's the Friday edition of The Huddle
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Huddled up on a Friday
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in the good land. Drew and Armin bringing it to you.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Billy off for a bachelor party. Brewers beat the Mets
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: last night. Rangers tonight at American Family Field. Packers and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Cardinals at American Family Field. And the LeFleur Family Reunion
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: on the Melton Family Reunion. It is also adding to
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the buffet, the bountiful buffet of sports options in our area.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Also race weekend in Milwaukee. IndyCar racing returning to the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: historic Milwaukee mile. And earlier this week when Billy was here,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: we had occasion to catch up with Tim McCormick, who's
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the communications director of the Wisconsin State Fair and has
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: been getting ready with his team for a big weekend
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: of racing. The fun starts today. So let's revisit our
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: conversation with Tim McCormick. Back on the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere on the iHeart app, streaming
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: live on Facebook X and YouTube. Drew Wilson, Bill Schmidt,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Armin Sarian, bringing it to you. You know, boys, when
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you think of doubleheaders, you might think of, in the past,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Monday Night Football or baseball. But we got a racing
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: IndyCar doubleheader at the Wisconsin State Fair, the Milwaukee Mile,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the historic oval in West Allis. And here to talk
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: about it this weekend's proceedings is Communications Director for the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin State Fair. It's Tim McCormick. Tim, thank you for
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: joining us. I know you're busy. It is going to
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: be a big weekend at the oval. Mm-hmm.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: The only doubleheader on the schedule for the 2026 season.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: So we're very excited, thrilled. There's still a lot up
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: for grabs in the point standing, so a lot of
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: action to be decided this weekend.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: And, Tim, as somebody who went to my first race
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: at the mile, IndyCar, with my dad, he's been going
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: to races for years and years and years. What is
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: the best part about this exact track? As you mentioned,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: it's the oldest continuously operating motor speedway. It's a part
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: of the schedule, and being back on with the Grand
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Prix and the doubleheader, it makes it unique because it's
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: such a unique spot.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: It's got all that great history, just like you were
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: talking about. I love when I get to encounter some
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: of the old-timers that have been here to see Al Unser, A.J. Foyett,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: all those great classic names here. But I think it
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: was a year or two years ago, there was the
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: site for the race here at the Milwaukee Mile that
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: was the most passes that had taken place out of
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: any of the entries throughout the season here. So I
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: was talking to somebody else the other day, and they
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: say that you're never out of the race. There's always
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: an opportunity to come from behind, to make that pass,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: to get the checkered flag. And then you add in
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: just the fair fun that we get to have here.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: So we're going to have a lot of the vendors
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: that will still be open. maybe even providing some of
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: those sporky finalists. If you didn't get a chance to
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: try those during the State Fair, we'll have a DJ spinning.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: And then, again, the access to those racers. There's fan forums.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: There's autograph sessions. You can check out the whole schedule.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: We do open Friday for practice laps, in addition to
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: the Makers and Fixers 250 on Saturday and then the
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Snap-on 250 on Sunday. Check out wistatefair.com to find your
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: tickets and then figure out the schedule of when you
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: want to be here.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Good to have racing back at State Fair Park in
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: West Dallas after about eight years. It's going to be awesome.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: The drivers seem to get very excited. They sense the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: history of the place, but they also like the oval.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Or maybe is it that they like, you know, custard
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and cheese curds and sporkies and cream puffs, maybe. I
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: don't know, but you talk to these guys. They seem
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to really, I don't think it's fake. I mean, I'm
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: sure they're like comedians or musicians. Great to be here
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: in Cert City here. But they seem to really dig
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: this spot.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I think we had a couple of people enjoying some
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Miller Lights with the fans last year. And, of course,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a more iconic winner circle
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: once you get that cream puff in the face after
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: you get the checkered flag. Again, for fans, for race cars, drivers,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: for the organization, for our friends at Indy, everybody talks
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: about what a unique experience it is. We're very excited
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: that it's really coming down to the wire for who's
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: going to take the title for the 2026 season home. So,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: like I said, a lot to be determined. All the
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: drivers are going to be going all out because there's
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: just a few races. We've got two this weekend here
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: at the Milwaukee Mile. one more out in California to
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: finish off the season. So they'll, they'll be trying to
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: get every point they can for those end of year standings.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Well, and that's where, that's where the real money's made.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: And now this is money time when it's on the
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: table and being able to put this on the table
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: and on the docket. What is the reaction been like
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: for fans and race fans in the city? Because the
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: mile is a unique place and it's something that's very
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: important to people in Milwaukee and being able to be
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: back in the state and have racing again, it feels
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: like a, a big win for the folks of the area.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. We're very excited. The investment that Indy has shown
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: in Wisconsin, not only here at the Milwaukee Mile, but
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: also out at Road America, just a fantastic event and
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: course there, of course. But once you're talking about a
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: track that's older than the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, we date
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: back to 1903. I think the racers, the fans, everybody
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: realizes that history is literally made at every turn here.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: So when you get that ticket, Again, there's so much
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: more than just the action on the track. We've got
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: a custom car show. Again, those autograph sessions, the fan forums.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Everybody's very excited that we get the chance to show
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: off Wisconsin and show off the Milwaukee Mile for just
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: about the last races of the season here.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Tim McCormick, communications manager for Wisconsin State Fair, joining us
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: here on the huddle. Drew, Billy, and Armin. Okay, what's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the turnaround been like for you and your team? Because
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you just said goodbye to State Fair, and now you're
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: having another huge event. You guys running on fumes, no
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: pun intended.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, no tires.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Again, it's just fantastic that you get to work. Again,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: it's tough to pull them off back-to-back, but we've got
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: an incredible team here. We have been working on this
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: all year round, even years in advance, knowing what the
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: calendar is going to bring to us, knowing that the
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: fair wraps up, and then you've got to get your
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: focus onto the race. But when you're inviting tens of
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: thousands of your favorite rowdy friends to come cheer on
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: those race car drivers for the fastest sport on earth.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: It makes things a little bit easier when you know
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: you're going to be delivering those smiles and, again, all
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: the fun to be had throughout all three days of
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: the weekend.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I know you have tickets available at wistatefair.com, right? Does
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that include garage passes and infield passes? If I want
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to go, how do I maximize my experience? How do
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I VIP myself?
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Check it out at wistayfair.com. Not only just those
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: tickets to the grandstands, but if you want to get
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: those couple of add-ons, those additional experiences that will last
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: a lifetime, we have you covered there. But again, there's
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: even the free family zone. If you just want to
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: check out, get up close and personal to a show car. Again,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: try to check out those autograph sessions for the Indy
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: NTT and NXT drivers on Friday at a lot of
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: opportunities to get in on the action.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I was just going to ask, the family-friendly zone, that area, because, listen,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I've got three and a one-year-old, but when they see
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: the cars, they're going to be excited. Show car, nothing
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: in the garage that they can touch that can be dangerous,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: but something good that you can get up close and
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: personal with available.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Again, our friends at Vintage Indy will be bringing
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: some of those cars from races gone by. There's a
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: classic and custom car show taking place on the 29th
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: and 30th. So, again, just for pretty pictures, for things
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: that make you go, ooh, when they go vroom, we've
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: got you covered in spades.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Man, I don't know who's going to like that more,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: my dad or my son. Grandpa or grandson might be
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: having more.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Fun with that one. Isn't that fantastic? I mean, that's
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: been our modus operandi for the state fair as well
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: as for the Milwaukee Mile and all the racing action here.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: It's rare that you get an intergenerational outing like this
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: that's going to bring smiles to everybody. And you just
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: nailed it there. It's going to be grandma and grandpa
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: hanging out with grandsons and their kids just enjoying themselves.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: The weather looks ideal. Knock on wood that Mother Nature
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: still cooperates with us. But a rare opportunity that you
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: get the whole family out for an outing like this.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Tim, when you go to a major golf event, oftentimes
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: it's fun to just go around on the practice day,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: on the Wednesday or the pro-am day.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: You know, it's cool.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: So what is the vibe like on Fridays? It's obviously
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: more casual, relaxed, because it's not a race. It's just practice.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: But what is the vibe like for people on Friday
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: who might have other plans on Saturday and Sunday?
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got very lucky. I got to try to
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: get up and close and personal with a testing day
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: earlier this summer here. And just seeing those guys, you know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: they make it look easy for these practice laps, but
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I tell you, it's anything but. So we open up
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: at noon on Friday. That's the garages, the grandstands, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: the free fan zone. Those all open up at noon.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: 2.45 to 3.45, you've got the NCT IndyCar driver autograph session.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: 4 to 4.45, the NXT broadcast. by Firestone driver autograph session,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: and then the practice sessions going on throughout the day.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: It is an opportunity, again, that I don't know you
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: can have with other sports, with other experiences, where you'll
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: be able to get up close and personal and see
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: how they tinker, see how they work on their engines,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: see how they work on their game, and then, again,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: get the chance to maybe ask them a question or
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: two as you're getting your hat or your shirt signed.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: What's more complicated when it comes to loading in, it
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: would be the cars and all the stuff and all
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the equipment or the Fox TV camera crews coming in
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to get ready.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: Logistically, who's the bigger pain?
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: They're all a dream to work with. We're very happy
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: to have those partners at Fox who are broadcasting throughout
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: the world here, giving us a chance to show off Milwaukee,
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: show off Wisconsin. We've got some Little tricks up our
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: sleeve here that we're excited to reveal come race days.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I think everybody has been fantastic to work with. They're
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: getting towards the end of the season, so they've got
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: this load in and load out down at this point.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: They're just looking for the action on the track as well.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: They should be relieved because coming to the oval, there's
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: so many advantages to the oval. It makes it unique.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you're just coming off of a DC race, you know,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and drive through the streets.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: Of the capital.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And so it's like, it couldn't be a more stark
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: change for everything, logistics and even like, you know, camera
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: angles and positions and stuff like that's gotta be pretty
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: easy for them.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: For them. And then also a huge advantage for how
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: we have the grandstands and how the oval is set up. Uh,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: you can see the entirety of the action, you know,
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: like you're talking about in DC, uh, If you're stationed
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: at one part of the road course, you're not seeing
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: a whole lot else except for when they turn by there.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: So it's an amazing opportunity to see the full-fledged race,
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: all of the action cruising around on that historic oval
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: that dates back to the 1900s here.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: All right, and now food. You're talking to the fat
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: guy on the show. Last thing, Tim. When we talk
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: about the fair food that's going to be there, can
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I lock in the fact of a cream puff, maybe
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: a blue ribbon brownie? What can be some of the
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: teasers that we can have for the tasting that rolls through?
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're very excited. A lot of our vendors that
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: have featured items that you saw on the Sporky's and
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Drinky's menu. Very excited. Our good friends, Blue Moon Tavern
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: in the Park, will be bringing out their Chicharrones, which
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: again was a finalist for the Sporky's this year. Badger Bites,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Pistol Pete's, Wild Dog Saloons, Pop's Paradise. I could go
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: on and on, but somebody's going to get mad at
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: me for not listing them. But just know, come hungry,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: and we've got you covered.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: There as well.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. All right, Tim, here's a personal question for you.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: How many cream puffs do you consume in the month
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: of August? Don't out the guy like that. I'm just wondering.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: You know, if you work at the Hershey plant, you
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: might not have a candy bar every day, but you're there,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you're ensconced in it. What's the tally? How many?
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to break any records, but I do
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: know it's very nice to have those at hand when
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: you do get the craving, which I say is often
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: because you can't get them any other time. It is
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: fantastic to have them in the backdrop of the Wisconsin
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: State Fair at the Milwaukee Mile. We will have those
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: original cream puffs available for you. So you let me
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: know how many you down, and.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I'll try to do one more.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Let's see if we can match it. That'd be amazing.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: Let's take out one of those three packs.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Gates open at noon on Friday with the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: practice starting at 5. Well, the practice goes on 2, 4,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and 5, right? And the IndyCar's at 5?
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yep. And then what about Saturday and Sunday?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Because you can get there pretty early to fire up
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: on Saturday.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: You can. Yeah, Saturday open up at 7 a.m. We're
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: here all day through 8 p.m. is when we're going
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: to have to tell you you don't have to go home,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: but you can't stay here. Sunday opening up at 7.30,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: ending at 5. But make sure to check out the
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: entire schedule at wistatefair.com. Check it out. High noon on Sunday,
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: the snap on Milwaukee Mile 250. And then the snap
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: on Makers and Fixers on Saturday kicks off at 1.30
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: with the green flag.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I imagine there will be robust business at Pauley's and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Tompkins and some of the establishments nearby, people getting ready.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: That's going to be pretty epic. It should be a
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: pretty good weekend.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Tim, thank you for joining us, man.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Best of luck. Hope the weather holds
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: for you like it has been.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Much appreciated. We'll see you at the races.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You bet. Thanks, Tim McCormick, communications manager for the Wisconsin
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: State Fair, wistatefair.com. Buy your tickets.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: That's going to be so good. Cream puffs and raisin?
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: What's better than that? And beer?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: If you're old like me, you remember it used to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: be the Indy 500 would be held, and then they'd
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: go to Milwaukee. Everybody goes from Indy to Milwaukee, and
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: it was right there, and you'd be pouring the milk.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Now it's like you're later in the season. It's a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: good date, though, pre-Labor Day in this window.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: What a perfect time to have one more thing before
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: the end of summer.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And to have the races Saturday and Sunday. Fox on
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Saturday will have it at noon, and then Sunday, the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Indy race is Saturday. It's going to be pretty wild.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: And it's cool that you can roll throughout the day, right?
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: The early stuff for the kids, maybe walk around, get
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: a nap in, come right back for the race, make
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: a long day a little shorter for the younger ones
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: or for the older ones like me.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: That's a good, good day.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's 1.30 TV time on Saturday and I
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: believe noon on Sunday on Fox, on Big Fox. And
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: then they give away to football pretty soon, so it's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: kind of the last hurrah there.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: And I'm taking my boy Kyle Kirkwood.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Pretty sweet. There you go.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Come on, Kyle.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: All right, all right. Billy's got some sweet action on it.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Everything's better with sweet action. Going to take a quick break.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: You were in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Huddled
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: up on a Friday. Drew and Armand bringing it to you.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Billy off for a bachelor party, but he's going to
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: be around for Packers OT. Packers and Cardinals this evening
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: at Lambeau Field. 7 p.m.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Start.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Kickoff will come shortly after the first pitch of the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Brewers-Rangers game at American Family Field.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Some of those guys are... Sitting around or sleeping now,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: but they're going to be getting up in a few hours,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: waking up, eating beef jerky for breakfast, and watching jackass
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: clips on YouTube. Every bachelor party is the same.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Beef jerky and jackass clips. Somehow I don't feel like
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm missing out on anything.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Well, that's just breakfast, Drew. All right, all right.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: That's good. And finishing whatever drinks you find left over.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: On the counter from last night. Snacks and bags of snacks.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Nicoletlaw.com, talk and text line 877-794-1973 gets you in. Jannie
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and Appleton, we were talking about the math with the Brewers,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: about how you're running out of season. And seven games
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: with 28 to play is a significant lead.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Very much so. Very much so.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And Jannie said, your conversation about wins and losses for
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the Brewers really hits me right in my pessimistic heart.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I am a glass-half-empty sports fan, and even I am
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: starting to believe the season is going to end well.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Well, Janie, it depends.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Go crew and bleep the Cubs.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, for sure. It depends on your definition
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: of ends well. If you mean, well, they make the playoffs,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I can tell you with 100% certainty they're going to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: win the playoffs. And 98% certainty they're going to win
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: the division.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: By the way, if you want to now, it's manageable.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: The magic number is 22.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: There you go. I love counting down.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: With 28 games left, any number, adding up to 22
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: of Brewers' victories and Cubs' losses gives the Brewers the division.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love counting down this time of year. But
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: if Jenny means like we're going to win the World Series,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: there's zero guarantee of that, and nothing we do now
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: will affect that. So that's part of it.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Now, I want to believe that we're going to win
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: the World Series too, and I'm going to cheer for that.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Let's ask it this way, because we've been talking about it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of ballgame left. In some ways, it's
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: getting close to the end, but you still got the 28.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: You got to play the whole season.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: 28 games left. Jackson Churrio was not hot. Now he's hot.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Is he hot too soon? Are you nervous about that? Like, oh, Jackson,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: we wanted you hot, but I want you hot in October,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: not end of August.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: No, I'll take it whenever I can.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: That's what you got to say.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: That's the right answer. You can't promise the streaks.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: That is the right answer.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Because on a podcast yesterday with our pals KB and
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Tim Allen, the franchise, I pointed out that I don't
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: know if it's going to happen, but it's very possible
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: because of the way baseball works that the Brewers get
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: to October and And the guy you want to see
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: up is Christian Yelich, and the guy who's struggling is
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Jake Bauer.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know that, but, you know, it's like, how
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: can you say that? Like, Bauer's been so good all year. Yeah,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: but that's not how it works.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of randomness involved. Yeah, I mean, you
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: take the information now, like, who are your guys, and
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: you'll put them out there, but that doesn't guarantee anything, right?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: The thing about, and the thing about Churio is, on
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: nights like this, it's like, Again, we talked about it,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: how every loss by the Brewers gets autopsied because you're
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: shocked almost.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Monday was, this is so bad.
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: We litigate everyone.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: You litigate everyone. And then they win, and they gave
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: up three hits last night. They win 8-2. Miz pitched great.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: And Churrio was a beast. He had four hits, two homers,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: drove in four, scored four. And you have to remind yourself,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: He's 22 years old, and the Brewers have his rights
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: through like 2033.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: He's 22 years old.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. Should we get a Hunter's recap on this?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Let's listen to Hunter Baumgart's recap of the Brewers' victory,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: series clinching victory over the Mets last night at Citi Field.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: The Brewers get an 8-2 win over the Mets last night.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: They take the series. They've won four straight series. They're
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: seven games up on the Cubs in the National League Central,
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: three up on the Dodgers for the top spot in
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: the National League as they come home to face Texas
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: this weekend. Let's start with Jacob Mizorowski.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: He did it again.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: Six innings, two earned runs, six strikeouts, two walks, battled
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: through slipping on the mound and not having his best stuff,
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: but he battled and battled, and that's what he continues
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: to do and still pitch well. 1.73 ERA now on
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: the season through 25 starts, and he'll head into September
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: with that ERA. By the way, 25 starts, and he
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: hasn't given up more than three earned runs in a start.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: That's the longest streak to start a season since 1985,
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: and the seventh pitcher ever to have a streak that long.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: Now, Also, on the pitching side, in the bullpen, how
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: about D.L. Hall and how effective he has been? A
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: scoreless inning last night. His last eight outings, he has
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: a 0.79 ERA, 11 and a third innings, and one
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: run allowed. He's been really good out of the bullpen.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: Chad Patrick finishes the game, and the Brewers come home
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: with an 83-51 record. On the offensive side, Jackson Churio.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: How about this?
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Four for five, two home runs. Four runs scored, four
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: runs driven in. He was 0-5 Tuesday, day off Wednesday,
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: and then 4-5 on Thursday. You think Murph knows what
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: he's doing about giving him a day off? I think so.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: I think this entire series proves that Pat Murphy knows
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: what he's doing, and I think we knew that already.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: But the Brewers, home against Texas tonight. Logan Henderson on
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: the mound. Then coming up tomorrow, Shane Drohan, and then
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: possibly Dustin May on Sunday. If all goes well, he
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: will be the starter tonight. It was listed as TBA
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: as of yesterday as far as that starter for the
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Brewers on Sunday. But all signs point to Dustin May
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: if he's able to go. He was already playing catch
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: and feeling pretty good as of yesterday. This report brought
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• 40:49
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• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Hunter. How about that?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, DL Hall has been amazing.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: He's been really good.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Here's a guy we never talk about that stepped in
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: with that lefty role. 1.2 Wardrew, really good for a
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: middle reliever like that.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Hey now.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Armin and his war.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: The collection of small contributors is what makes this team great.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: This is not like a team of four or five
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: spike stars. This is a star in your role type
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: of team.
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: There's a bunch of.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Teams who would give their right arm for a D.L.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Hall or a Chad Patrick.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: To have a reliever that solid as those guys, and
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: they're guys you don't even think of in the Brewers' bullpen, really.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: They're just out there. All right, we're off and running.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Got a little who's hot, who's not. Dolph's going to
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: join us at 625.
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: Buckle up.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It's the Friday edition of The Huddle on Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.