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03/19/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 5: What's a let's go.
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Speaker 2: What you do?
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Speaker 4: And they can play be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 4: Rolling through a Thursday in the good Land. Drew, Billy
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Speaker 4: and Armor bring it to you from headquarters on this
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Speaker 4: glorious first day of the NCAA tournament. While we're all
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Speaker 4: about to dive deep into basketball, we got high school
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Speaker 4: tournament this weekend too. Oh yeah, come on now, they've
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Speaker 4: got some NBA stuff.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 4: Baseball is just around the corner. And Brewers open a
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Speaker 4: week from today at American Family Field. They break camp
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Speaker 4: this weekend, and joining us now through the miracle of technologies,
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Speaker 4: are Pal Hunter Bomber, the voice of our show Open,
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Speaker 4: and our Brewers correspondent Hunter. Good morning, thanks for getting
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Speaker 4: up early. It is one week until this season opener.
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Speaker 4: Do you know who's in your rotation and who's healthy?
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Speaker 4: Because I'm starting to lose track of Brewers' pitchers that
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Speaker 4: are going to be available a week from today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is kind of all over the place, but
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Speaker 1: I'm glad we're one week out. It's closer than ever,
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Speaker 1: which is awesome. Yeah, I think it's Look, you have
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Speaker 1: obviously Misarowski and Patrick, and then the rest is Okay,
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Speaker 1: who's going to be there? Wood youri if I think
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Speaker 1: is in your opening day rotation? Is he your opening
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Speaker 1: day starter? That could be debated. Kyle Harrison left yesterday
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Speaker 1: with the blister, but it sounds like that's not going
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Speaker 1: to cause him to miss any time, which is really
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Speaker 1: good news because I think he's in there. And then
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Speaker 1: Brandon Sprote might be in your opening day rotation. Acquired
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Speaker 1: from the Mets in the Freddie Praulta deal. He's shown
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Speaker 1: some really good signs in spring training. Sounds like the
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Speaker 1: coaching staff, especially Chris Chris Hook, really likes him. I
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Speaker 1: think he could be a leading candidate for that fifth spot.
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Speaker 7: Okay, so well you said the guy that needs to
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Speaker 7: like him, Chris Ak. Let's be honest, that's the one
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Speaker 7: that makes the most sense. And I'm not a big
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Speaker 7: hunter pitching ninja guy, and I don't understand the vertical drop,
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Speaker 7: break and all this kind of stuff.
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Speaker 5: But when they start doing the side by sides.
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Speaker 7: And the comparison and the overlayss, they like to say
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Speaker 7: of his delivery with all of his pitches coming out
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Speaker 7: of it, he's got the makeup and it seems like
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Speaker 7: the consistent arm, slot and drop where it's like my
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Speaker 7: man's varying quite a bit where he could be a
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Speaker 7: real We talked about it to day after the trade
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Speaker 7: where there's a reason why they fought for him to
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Speaker 7: be a part of the deal. And while Jet Williams
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Speaker 7: is the one that will be the number one and
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Speaker 7: everyone was excited about very very real possibility, Sparkes the
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Speaker 7: best player in that deal could be.
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Speaker 1: And you know, from what I've heard out of Camp
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Speaker 1: is that he's becoming a pitcher and it's not just
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Speaker 1: throwing right, And that's that's a difference. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: when you become a pitcher, it's it's some of that
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Speaker 1: more cerebral side. But also, you know, mixing in okay
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Speaker 1: with the sequence thing gets more complicated. Maybe I think
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Speaker 1: you know what stood out to me is is Kurt
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Speaker 1: Hogan The Journal Sentinel saying that he's not heard Chris
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Speaker 1: Hook light up about a young pitcher like he heard
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Speaker 1: him light up about Brandon Sproute at you know, at
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Speaker 1: just getting a couple of weeks under his belt with
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Speaker 1: the guy, and so it sounds like he's impressing at
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Speaker 1: spring training. And you can look at the numbers, and
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much the numbers necessarily you know,
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Speaker 1: you can look at them a little bit in spring training,
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Speaker 1: but also they're trying things out, they're trying pitches, they're
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Speaker 1: trying different sequencing. They're not necessarily sequencing exactly how they
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Speaker 1: are going to in the regular season.
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Speaker 2: In fact, they're not.
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Speaker 1: So you can take the numbers for what they are,
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Speaker 1: but it sounds like overall it just kind of kind
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Speaker 1: of in spring training almost And Drew, you talk about
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Speaker 1: this better than it's almost like vibes. Look, there's more
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Speaker 1: of that rather than raw numbers of what you're looking at.
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Speaker 4: So absolutely absolutely Hunter Bombguard joining us talking Brewers again.
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Speaker 4: Hard to believe a week one, Well, we play in
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Speaker 4: an American family field, a couple of games right on
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Speaker 4: Monday Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Monday Tuesday six four Monday for ten Tuesday, So
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Speaker 1: technically those are still spring training games.
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Speaker 2: So the roster will not be due.
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Speaker 1: So fascinating to see how they handle those games as
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Speaker 1: far as who plays it who doesn't.
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Speaker 7: Okay, so that that answers the question that my three
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Speaker 7: year old asked, is Yelly gonna be there? I said,
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Speaker 7: he's gonna be there, buddy. I don't know that he's
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Speaker 7: gonna play, but we can see him in the dugout right.
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Speaker 7: I bet he might get into that bed. We'll see
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Speaker 7: him in there. And now Drew Drew asked the question
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Speaker 7: of do you know where your starting pitchers are?
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Speaker 5: Uh under, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 7: On your Twitter account, Hunter Be on air yesterday you
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Speaker 7: had the video because the question I'm asking is do
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Speaker 7: we know where our games are?
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Speaker 5: Do we know where you can find games?
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Speaker 2: Right now?
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Speaker 5: With Brewers TV?
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Speaker 7: And I thought it was extremely open and honest by
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Speaker 7: Rick Slessinger yesterday of like, guys, all due respect, we
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Speaker 7: got no answers for you, like we're not making the decisions.
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Speaker 7: We're here now at the at the beholdens of MLB,
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Speaker 7: they got the ten on air games or over the
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Speaker 7: air games Fox six in Milwaukee and across the state.
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Speaker 7: They're going to be terrestrial broadcast opening day one of
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Speaker 7: those and then the rest Tuesdays and then the rest Tuesdays.
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Speaker 7: But otherwise, like when that March twenty eighth game tips
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Speaker 7: first pitch where everybody's getting the sweet replica of American
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Speaker 7: Family Field, we don't know where that game is. And
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Speaker 7: I thought it was pretty honest of Rix Lesseners say, Hey,
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Speaker 7: we might let you guys know, like on opening day
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Speaker 7: where the rest of the games are going to be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know that has caused angst, and I
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Speaker 1: get it, right, you want to know what channel the
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Speaker 1: Brewers are going to be on because you love watching
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Speaker 1: the Brewers, right, But I think at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, this actually overall might make it even easier
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Speaker 1: for fans to access the Brewers overall, once this is
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Speaker 1: all worked out, and honestly, once it's worked out, then
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Speaker 1: it's just worked out, and I would think the channels
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Speaker 1: stay the same for years to come and everything like
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Speaker 1: that with Brewers TV. So let's hear Rix Lessinger, president
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Speaker 1: of Business Operations for the Walkie Brewers, when asked, when
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Speaker 1: are we going to know specific channels for cable or satellite?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so we have a new television platform. Obviously, we
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Speaker 6: were with fan Duel Sports last year and we are
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Speaker 6: now with MLB Media, which means that MLB, which controls
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Speaker 6: the local television rights for about fourteen fifteen MLB clubs,
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Speaker 6: will be negotiating those distribution deals and finalizing all the production.
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Speaker 6: Those deals are being negotiated as we speak. I suspect,
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Speaker 6: as in the case the last few years, they'll get
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Speaker 6: done just maybe a couple of days before opening day,
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Speaker 6: so I can assure fans that if they're used to
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Speaker 6: watching games on cable, satellite and streaming, they're invariably going
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Speaker 6: to have very similar options for twenty twenty six. We
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Speaker 6: obviously want to tell fans what channels to watch on
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Speaker 6: your cable system. As soon as we get the information,
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Speaker 6: we'll get it. It may not be till the day
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Speaker 6: before opening day, but fans will find us. And again,
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Speaker 6: the streaming option is something that's becoming more popular fans.
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Speaker 6: It's ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents for a
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Speaker 6: six month subscription get all local games, about one hundred
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Speaker 6: and forty five games that can be streamed to the app.
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Speaker 6: If you're a traditional cable or linear television viewer, you're
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Speaker 6: going to be able to get those. We're waiting for
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Speaker 6: MLB to tell us. You know what deals are finalizing,
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Speaker 6: what channels, but again ask for people's patients. The games
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Speaker 6: will be on the air. We're very excited about the
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Speaker 6: quality of the distribution and production. We also have ten
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Speaker 6: over the air games, including home opener and then nine
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Speaker 6: Tuesday games during the year, so there's a lot of
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Speaker 6: different ways for fans to access the product. And if
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Speaker 6: you can't come to the ballpark, you know, listen on
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Speaker 6: six twenty or watch us on cable, satellite or through
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Speaker 6: the streaming program.
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing to think about there is
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Speaker 1: it's out of the Brewers control right now as far
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Speaker 1: as what channels the Brewers are going to be on
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Speaker 1: for cable and satellite, it is Major League Baseball negotiates
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Speaker 1: these deals with carriers, and as he said, major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball controls the local TV rights. Now it's since they
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Speaker 1: went to MLB Media, it's more under their control now
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Speaker 1: there's different things the Brewers do in how selling, etc.
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Speaker 1: But otherwise it's MLB controlled. So they're just waiting. And
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Speaker 1: it sounds like we haven't really keep kept track of
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Speaker 1: this because we haven't had to, but it sounds like
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Speaker 1: in years past they wait with teams till like the
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Speaker 1: last minute, because, as Andrew Brandt says, deadlines per action,
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Speaker 1: so they're waiting to that deadline to get those deals
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Speaker 1: in seeing who's gonna budge first, so to speak, on
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Speaker 1: the capable on satellite. But the great thing is is
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Speaker 1: come opening day number one, it'll be over the year
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Speaker 1: in many parts of the state. But also we'll know
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Speaker 1: those chances, so we will know it just might be
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Speaker 1: twenty four to forty eight hours before that first pitch
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Speaker 1: is thrown.
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Speaker 5: Well, and I know people don't like when he throws
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Speaker 5: in there, like, hey, you can always buy the package.
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Speaker 4: You can always buy the package.
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Speaker 5: You can buy a ninety nine ninety nine.
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Speaker 3: You can also do the two hundred, which is the
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Speaker 3: entire league, the whole game, which is not a bad
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Speaker 3: deal at all when do you start looking at it,
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Speaker 3: really not comparatively.
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Speaker 7: I think it's one hundred and fifty without Brewers games,
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Speaker 7: so you're getting half off on the rest of the
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Speaker 7: Brewer for all of the Brewers games, and then you
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Speaker 7: get the condensed game. Like it is a really really
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Speaker 7: good package. And I'm a big fan of the service,
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Speaker 7: Like for how good out of all the different streaming services.
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Speaker 7: Drew I contend it's right up there with Netflix as
10:07
Speaker 7: like the best streaming services.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the absolute best. What else came of yesterday's
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Speaker 4: Availability Hunter with Rix Lessinger?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think one of the big questions is, Okay,
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Speaker 1: since you're not getting you know, the check from FanDuel
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Speaker 1: for the TV rights because it went to Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 1: how is that impacting payroll and the way the team
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Speaker 1: is able to spend not having that you know, local
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Speaker 1: TV revenue coming in.
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Speaker 2: This is what rix Lesinger said about that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so our payrolls up this year. We're spending money,
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Speaker 6: we're investing the product. You know, the economics of TV.
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Speaker 6: You know, there's less money coming in than there would
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Speaker 6: have been with FanDuel. But this was a contingency, frankly,
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Speaker 6: that we projected and we budgeted for. You know, whenever
10:49
Speaker 6: you're working with an entity and there are some concerns
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Speaker 6: about us finances in budgeting, you always put a contingency
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Speaker 6: in place. Because we knew that a FanDuel was not
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Speaker 6: read to operate our broadcast for twenty six, that we
11:03
Speaker 6: had a backstop and a great backstop at MLB. But
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Speaker 6: the economics are last, economics are different. I'm not really
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Speaker 6: worried about it because you know, television is a source
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Speaker 6: of revenue, but we have other sources of revenue, and
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Speaker 6: you know, we're expecting great attendance, we're expecting you know,
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Speaker 6: fantastic sponsorship support, which we're already getting. So the early
11:22
Speaker 6: numbers are are very strong for the for the bottom line,
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Speaker 6: and you know, with the team on the field, we're
11:28
Speaker 6: investing in it. So whether it's the draft picks, whether
11:31
Speaker 6: it's the payroll, whether it's front office staff, whether it's
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Speaker 6: projects we're investing, and the television shortfall is not impacting
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Speaker 6: us on that front at all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: One thing to remember with the Brewers payroll as well,
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Speaker 1: it's not just the payroll number. It's what they're investing
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Speaker 1: in and how they're building their team, right the facilities
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Speaker 1: and the Dominican or the facilities in other places, or
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Speaker 1: the you know, the scouting and different things like we
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Speaker 1: all look at the payroll as far as okay, this
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Speaker 1: is how much the Brewers are spending to try to
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Speaker 1: get a good team on the field, but it's also
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Speaker 1: the other things they're doing around it, and that's honestly
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Speaker 1: what's bearing a lot of fruit with the Jackson Churios.
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Speaker 2: With the Hayesu's Miday with.
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Speaker 1: You know all those different young players that are developing
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Speaker 1: and now playing really well at the major league level.
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Speaker 7: One of the other guys that people are really excited
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Speaker 7: about his pain yet, Like when I was listening to
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Speaker 7: the thirty Clubs in thirty Days, they threw him in
12:17
Speaker 7: there and yonder A. Lonzo's like that kid's got the
12:19
Speaker 7: good factor. Guys, like there's certain players that's got something.
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Speaker 7: He's got the good factor. What wasn't it a year ago?
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Speaker 5: Hunter?
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Speaker 7: Was the uh was the debut of the parking situation
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Speaker 7: for American Family Field where we were gonna have to uh,
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Speaker 7: we're gonna scan in you know, like that was not
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Speaker 7: it was not it right away got better throughout the year.
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Speaker 7: They also weren't dealing with half the freeway getting ripped open.
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Speaker 7: So how difficult was that conversation? And what kind of
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Speaker 7: guidance did Rick give us yesterday?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I think yeah that might have been.
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Speaker 1: Was that last year or the year before one of
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Speaker 1: the last two where yeah, it was yeah, they.
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Speaker 5: Ultimately everyone got in free because we've the service wasn't good? Sorry, guys,
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Speaker 5: what the Army special?
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they adopted the arm and way and eventually, Yes,
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Speaker 1: eventually they were able to get that straightened out.
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Speaker 2: So this year it's different. Obviously, that system is really
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Speaker 2: good now.
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Speaker 1: They got that down to a science and they roll
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Speaker 1: pretty easily, and that's gonna help with the traffic around
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Speaker 1: the ballpark when it comes to yes, construction around the ballpark.
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Speaker 1: This is what Rick Lessinger had to say when asked
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Speaker 1: about Okay, there's a lot of construction outside of the
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Speaker 1: ballpark and around it.
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Speaker 2: How is that going to affect things?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, So we're doing a lot of things to help
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Speaker 6: educate the fans about the DOT and about the process
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Speaker 6: and freeway construction. So DOT has a special website for
13:37
Speaker 6: Brewers games. If you go to Brewers dot com backslash traffic,
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Speaker 6: you're gonna find all of the same information. Throughout the ballpark.
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Speaker 6: We're gonna have QR codes where people can literally take
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Speaker 6: a photo from their phone and download all of the
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Speaker 6: information about parking. Again, you know, there's gonna be a
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Speaker 6: learning curve for everybody, and you know, different routes will
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Speaker 6: be open. We're working with DOT to make sure lay
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Speaker 6: enclosures are minimum during games. At the same time, we
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Speaker 6: understand that construction has to meet a certain deadline. We're
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Speaker 6: also working with you know, the city in terms of
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Speaker 6: Blue Mound, Wisconsin Avenue to make sure we have traffic assistance.
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Speaker 6: We've got three additional Sheriff's deputy crews that we have hired.
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Speaker 4: It's going to help with traffic.
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Speaker 2: We also have a.
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Speaker 6: Dedicated tow truck in case anybody breaks down on the
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Speaker 6: access roads of the freeway or the free We're going
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Speaker 6: to be able to have immediate access to get that
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Speaker 6: car off the freeway to so we avoid blocking lanes.
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Speaker 6: So a lot of things we're doing in partnership with
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Speaker 6: the DOT and with the city. The cure code is
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Speaker 6: and the website are really the best place to get
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Speaker 6: the updated information.
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Speaker 5: Who gets to drive the Brewers truck?
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Speaker 3: I was just an ask, and is that being logoed
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Speaker 3: out and everything like that, the official Brewers tow truck
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Speaker 3: with the logos and everything like that's the dedicated because
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Speaker 3: you got to know which one is the dedicated one,
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Speaker 3: right if we in case some of us need it,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 5: So, man, that's that's pretty cool. I want to know
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Speaker 5: who gets the drive.
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Speaker 7: I think it might be the tow truck that's coming
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Speaker 7: picking you up. But yeah, like I don't know that
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Speaker 7: random to trucks are just driving down the road being like, hey,
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Speaker 7: I think I can scoop you.
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Speaker 3: Well, no, but you might call it to truck if
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Speaker 3: you break down. And when it was go service, you're
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Speaker 3: getting with triple A. But if you get the Brewers one, hey, hey, hey,
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Speaker 3: you know, are you gonna have maybe maybe it makes
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Speaker 3: a rough day a little bit a little bit nicer.
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Speaker 4: When you get the Bruis, don't truck come blastic, don't
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Speaker 4: Hunter down with this stuff. He only cares about ball Hunter.
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Speaker 4: There's bullpen rob Sister Disney hurt and pitching for Team
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Speaker 4: Canada injured list. There's an arm that we thought was
15:29
Speaker 4: gonna provide some depth out of the bullpen. Now, granted,
15:31
Speaker 4: this is gonna be one of those years where the
15:33
Speaker 4: Brewers will probably make a bunch of moves after the
15:34
Speaker 4: first game. They got the day off Friday, probably send
15:37
Speaker 4: a bunch of guys down, probably headed down that street.
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Speaker 4: But what does it look like? Who's healthy? Because this
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Speaker 4: tri Disney's hurt and it's like, oh, put yoho in there. Oh,
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Speaker 4: by the way, he's hurt, So it's like, who where
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Speaker 4: are we at with bullpen depth.
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Speaker 1: Hunter, Well, that's yeah, yoho. Unfortunately, also they're both gonna return.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like sometime in April. Maybe this opens a spot
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Speaker 1: for Shane Drowan. Maybe I would think, you know, he's
16:02
Speaker 1: obviously he came back to the Brewers and the Caleb
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Speaker 1: Durban deal, and people are excited about what he's done
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Speaker 1: in spring, but I think I think they want him
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Speaker 1: to develop maybe a little more before they throw him in.
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Speaker 2: But maybe on a necessity they would.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like I mean, he's been around,
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Speaker 1: He's he's played a lot of years in the minor league,
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Speaker 1: so it's not like he hasn't developed. But I wonder
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Speaker 1: it sounded like they were maybe going to start him
16:25
Speaker 1: at the minor league level, but look, injuries happened, and
16:28
Speaker 1: we'll see if he then makes it. And the other
16:33
Speaker 1: question becomes Robert Gasser, Logan Henderson, where do these guys start.
16:37
Speaker 2: Do you keep them stretched down.
16:38
Speaker 1: And have them start at Nashville at Triple A, or
16:42
Speaker 1: do you turn them into some sort of a long man. Now,
16:45
Speaker 1: rob Ze is not necessarily a long man. He was
16:47
Speaker 1: more of your specialist and come in for an inning,
16:50
Speaker 1: So that's not the role that you're missing there. Maybe
16:54
Speaker 1: you are missing a guy like a change Drowen who
16:56
Speaker 1: can come in at times. But I you, obviously you
16:59
Speaker 1: have a lot of lefties in that pen already, so
17:01
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily a lefty issue that you're facing without
17:05
Speaker 1: rob Ze. So I think it's gonna be interesting number
17:07
Speaker 1: one to see if they go, okay, do we want
17:09
Speaker 1: Logan Henderson, a Rambrick, Aasser to start to be a
17:11
Speaker 1: bullpen arm or do we keep them stretched out? I
17:14
Speaker 1: would think they keep them stretched out and have them
17:16
Speaker 1: ready in case there is another injury to that starting roads.
17:18
Speaker 7: Is there any chance here, Fellows, that they make one
17:22
Speaker 7: move and get like a veteran in for that rotation,
17:24
Speaker 7: because I mean, like I don't I know, there's a
17:27
Speaker 7: way of doing business, And it was a couple of
17:29
Speaker 7: weeks prior to what was it, like March fifth or
17:31
Speaker 7: six when they signed Quintana last year. But maybe there's
17:35
Speaker 7: a look around saying I love that we're betting on youth.
17:39
Speaker 7: Maybe we're putting way too many eggs into the youth basket, Like,
17:42
Speaker 7: is there a possibility.
17:43
Speaker 5: That there could be an ad anywhere there? Hunter?
17:45
Speaker 1: You think if Brandon Woodruff for some reason, is not
17:50
Speaker 1: in the opening day rotation, then I would entertain that more.
17:54
Speaker 1: If he's ready to go, even if it's not March
17:56
Speaker 1: twenty six, if it's March thirty first, or if it's
17:59
Speaker 1: April second, if it's within the first week of the year,
18:02
Speaker 1: then probably. I just I think they want to go
18:05
Speaker 1: with their youth, and they want to see what they
18:08
Speaker 1: they have. They have a lot of it and and
18:10
Speaker 1: like you said, it's a lot of inexperience at the
18:11
Speaker 1: major league level for sure, but they have a lot
18:14
Speaker 1: of potential there and I feel like they're just ready
18:16
Speaker 1: to see what it's got. I also think if you
18:20
Speaker 1: sign someone right now, you also are worried. Yes, they're
18:22
Speaker 1: probably working out, but are they built up to start
18:26
Speaker 1: the next week?
18:27
Speaker 6: Right?
18:27
Speaker 1: So that's another That's another thing. Maybe they sign a
18:31
Speaker 1: bullpen arm because Robs he's gonna be Maybe that's more
18:34
Speaker 1: just a quick deal like that. But I just think
18:38
Speaker 1: they really want to see these younger guys. And the
18:41
Speaker 1: Brandon Woodruff thing is interesting because they can continue to
18:44
Speaker 1: say later in the year is more important than early
18:46
Speaker 1: in the year, and so I wonder at what point
18:48
Speaker 1: does that mean, Okay, does that mean that he's ready
18:52
Speaker 1: to start in the opening day rotation. Does that mean
18:54
Speaker 1: is he going to maybe take a week or two
18:57
Speaker 1: and then start in the opening day rotation or not
19:00
Speaker 1: opening day rotation, but then in the rotation going forward.
19:02
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's kind of wanting to go every
19:05
Speaker 1: sixth day during the season, which can work with the
19:07
Speaker 1: off days in the first month of the year. But
19:09
Speaker 1: then you get into the year and I wonder if
19:11
Speaker 1: they're gonna go, Okay, let's throw Aaron Ashby out there
19:14
Speaker 1: this time, and then Woodriff will start, you know, a
19:16
Speaker 1: day later. I wonder if they're gonna be real careful
19:19
Speaker 1: as they go through the season, not necessarily that he's
19:21
Speaker 1: gonna take two weeks off or go on the il,
19:23
Speaker 1: but more so, can we throw Aaron Ashby out there?
19:26
Speaker 2: Can we even throw a.
19:26
Speaker 1: DL haul out there and skip a day, get through
19:29
Speaker 1: a day with maybe a bullpen day to give Woodriff
19:32
Speaker 1: one more day.
19:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's an interesting thing. It's gotta be the
19:35
Speaker 3: right guy at the right price, I think if it
19:37
Speaker 3: did happen. But the one thing we do know is
19:39
Speaker 3: pitching depth is always important. Dobler wants to know, really
19:42
Speaker 3: quick here, hunter, do you believe in Lockbridge now he's hot?
19:44
Speaker 5: Mitchell is not? Is that something you guys been going?
19:48
Speaker 7: Man?
19:48
Speaker 4: How about him?
19:50
Speaker 1: I think that is the most fascinating thing as we
19:52
Speaker 1: go through the last week of camp here what happens
19:54
Speaker 1: with the center field position, because it sounds like from
19:58
Speaker 1: the reporting yesterday that the Brewers want to play Garrett
20:02
Speaker 1: Mitchell back to back days for the next three four
20:05
Speaker 1: five days here. I don't know exactly how long, probably
20:08
Speaker 1: through the weekend. I would guess see how his body
20:11
Speaker 1: responds after playing back to back days, because I don't
20:13
Speaker 1: believe he's done that, you know, successfully or not. Well,
20:17
Speaker 1: he just hasn't done that for like three or four
20:20
Speaker 1: days in spring training yet where he's played back to
20:22
Speaker 1: back to back days. So I think they're going to
20:25
Speaker 1: do that. How does his body respond? Plus Lockridge is
20:30
Speaker 1: hitting three fourteen with four homers and seven runs driven
20:33
Speaker 1: in and has been tearing the cover off the baseball.
20:35
Speaker 1: You get a grand Slam against the Dodgers the end
20:37
Speaker 1: of the day in the twenty four to nine win
20:39
Speaker 1: over the Dodgers, and then Garrett Mitchell's was zerover four
20:42
Speaker 1: with three strikeouts yesterday and is here hitting zero eight zero,
20:46
Speaker 1: So he's hitting not well in spring training. Again, you
20:51
Speaker 1: look at how these guys are more so looking rather
20:54
Speaker 1: than numbers, But when they're that extreme, you do maybe
20:56
Speaker 1: take a second.
20:57
Speaker 2: Look at the number.
20:58
Speaker 1: I think Lockridge has a chance here to make the
21:00
Speaker 1: roster if they say, okay, Garrett Mitchell number one has
21:05
Speaker 1: not been hitting the baseball well and number two, if
21:08
Speaker 1: his body doesn't respond in the way they want to
21:11
Speaker 1: over the next three or four days, they say, all right,
21:13
Speaker 1: let's just get him back on his feet a little
21:15
Speaker 1: bit in Nashville for you know, first ten to fifteen
21:18
Speaker 1: days in the season, and then play the long game
21:21
Speaker 1: with him and have him for one hundred and forty
21:23
Speaker 1: instead of maybe one hundred and sixty two and more
21:25
Speaker 1: of a chance of injury. So these next three or
21:27
Speaker 1: four days are fascinating because I think that's the biggest
21:29
Speaker 1: question going into the opening day roster. Will it be Mitchell,
21:33
Speaker 1: Will it be Lockridge. I thought it was Mitchell all along,
21:36
Speaker 1: even however Lockridge was going to play. However, with how
21:40
Speaker 1: mid with it sounds like they want to see how
21:41
Speaker 1: Mitchell's body responds. Then there's still a little bit of
21:44
Speaker 1: concern there.
21:44
Speaker 4: Those decision makers are less swayed by springstats than we are.
21:48
Speaker 4: You look at the best, it's always been hottest hitter
21:50
Speaker 4: in camp is like what Jake Bowers, right, he's crushing balls,
21:54
Speaker 4: doesn't mean he's going to hit in April.
21:56
Speaker 5: Yeah.
21:56
Speaker 3: Yeah.
21:58
Speaker 4: And there's all those guys, Nelson, the guys that you know,
22:01
Speaker 4: guys that go from playing every day and getting three
22:04
Speaker 4: at bat today to getting three at bats you know,
22:06
Speaker 4: a week in two weeks, different different deal. It happens
22:09
Speaker 4: every year. But we we get. We forget the Brewers
22:13
Speaker 4: and the Reds on Monday and Tuesday at American Family Field,
22:15
Speaker 4: the games this weekend before they leave camp. Night game
22:18
Speaker 4: tonight because of the heat down there, someone was asking, like,
22:22
Speaker 4: what are they What's gonna happen on Saturday. They're still
22:24
Speaker 4: gonna play. They're going to cancel the game. They won't
22:25
Speaker 4: cancel the game. They might move it tonight, but they're
22:27
Speaker 4: canceling game.
22:28
Speaker 7: Well, those are the spring breakout ones, rightI LB's got
22:31
Speaker 7: a lot of Yah.
22:34
Speaker 4: Those are happening Friday and Sunday. But Saturday, Brewers padres uh,
22:38
Speaker 4: it's a one o'clock start local. They might move that
22:41
Speaker 4: to a night game. If it's it's gonna be one
22:42
Speaker 4: hundred and six there, that's crazy, ridiculously hot right now? Wow,
22:47
Speaker 4: it's unprecedented. Yeah, crazy, yeah, crazy, almost who's hot? Who's
22:51
Speaker 4: the Hunter?
22:52
Speaker 5: Thank you for joining us.
22:52
Speaker 4: You're going back out to the ballpark today, Hunter, They
22:55
Speaker 4: got more stuff going on.
22:56
Speaker 2: I will not be today.
22:58
Speaker 1: Uh So next time I think I'll be there will
23:00
Speaker 1: be Monday when when the exhibition games start. And again,
23:03
Speaker 1: just a reminder, we'll have the cable and satellite channels
23:06
Speaker 1: by opening day, maybe maybe the day of opening day,
23:09
Speaker 1: maybe the day before.
23:10
Speaker 3: Keep sending hundred messages and asking Hunter, he's just not
23:14
Speaker 3: telling you, like.
23:15
Speaker 5: Who cares?
23:16
Speaker 4: Like You're not gonna go to that channel today?
23:17
Speaker 1: You don't really want.
23:18
Speaker 5: That's the thing I figured out More than anything no
23:23
Speaker 5: I wanted.
23:24
Speaker 7: I would want to know that I can make sure
23:26
Speaker 7: that I can write it down on the piece of paper.
23:28
Speaker 7: For like when my grandmother was alive, God Rest her soul,
23:31
Speaker 7: the only thing changing from thirty one to three oh nine.
23:36
Speaker 5: And then they had to flip that channel again.
23:38
Speaker 7: Ay Man, we got to make sure that thing is
23:39
Speaker 7: written down on every single remote control.
23:42
Speaker 5: We got to write that thing down some places Yeah,
23:44
Speaker 5: it's like every day.
23:46
Speaker 3: It's like every dad called the bank to make sure
23:48
Speaker 3: they paid the taxi scrow. Like that's their job, that's
23:50
Speaker 3: what they do. You don't have to call them to
23:52
Speaker 3: tell them, well, I better make sure you only got
23:54
Speaker 3: two more weeks? Did you fill your well? Yeah, don't
23:56
Speaker 3: you know two more weeks?
23:58
Speaker 1: Well?
23:58
Speaker 4: Hunter, thank you for getting up early with us. We
24:00
Speaker 4: appreciate it. Thanks for being the voice of our program
24:03
Speaker 4: as well. It's getting to be Hunter's happy time. He'll
24:06
Speaker 4: be able to watch the ball beginning on Monday at
24:08
Speaker 4: American Family Field.
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Speaker 2: Thanks exactly, Thanks guys, Thanks man, Hunter baum Guard.
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Speaker 7: I didn't know if how Hunter's happy time was happy
24:15
Speaker 7: place hand I was like, oh god, all right, Hunter
24:16
Speaker 7: adding a club, new club to his bag.
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Speaker 4: close to games. That means something. The NCAA Tournament first
24:50
Speaker 4: day is upon us. It's the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
25:06
Speaker 5: Okay, the huddle, Fox.
25:07
Speaker 4: Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew Billion, arm and bring it to
25:09
Speaker 4: you first day of the Big Dance n C DOUBLEA Tournament.
25:13
Speaker 5: How deep did you have to dig for this one?
25:16
Speaker 6: You know what?
25:16
Speaker 3: There's a lot of songs that refer to dancing, talk
25:19
Speaker 3: about dancing, trying to do them all today. But had
25:22
Speaker 3: to get a little beach boys in there. Wow, had
25:25
Speaker 3: to get my boys in one time. Now we're talking
25:27
Speaker 3: all right. I didn't just made that to be a
25:29
Speaker 3: touch here on the one, Drew, That's what I'm talking about.
25:32
Speaker 4: Eight seven seven seven nine seven three Hunter was I mean,
25:36
Speaker 4: Arman was almost our hero today by current electric What
25:39
Speaker 4: about our who's hot and who's not?
25:40
Speaker 5: Do we have to go with Lebron Dude?
25:42
Speaker 4: Was he thirteen for fourteen at age forty one?
25:45
Speaker 5: And some high riser dunks?
25:47
Speaker 2: Last night?
25:48
Speaker 5: He mean spectacular.
25:50
Speaker 4: Last who's not brought to us by Donovan Jorganson, Billy,
25:52
Speaker 4: who do you got?
25:53
Speaker 7: Well, listen, I'm glad you mentioned Lebron And one that
25:56
Speaker 7: I'll say is, uh, the Miami RedHawks. Let's give him
25:59
Speaker 7: a little bit of credit, but let's give their swim
26:01
Speaker 7: team though even more love and credit. Last night, those boys,
26:05
Speaker 7: some people were saying they were hot. Now, some ladies
26:08
Speaker 7: that were watching the game were glad that speedo guys
26:10
Speaker 7: ran down the ramp while the SMU Mustangs were shooting
26:14
Speaker 7: free throws. Game gets tenuous there for a second. Drew
26:17
Speaker 7: fifty to forty nine, the Stangs shooting some free throws,
26:20
Speaker 7: they're running down the RedHawks and run down the ramp.
26:24
Speaker 7: Come the Miami University of Oxford, Ohio swim team in
26:29
Speaker 7: the swim caps and speedos, and the broadcaster was putting
26:32
Speaker 7: was phenomenal on it. I don't know the young man's name,
26:34
Speaker 7: he was really good last night. But he gives the Jim, Jim.
26:39
Speaker 5: They took your swimsuit, Jim, they got your sweet they
26:41
Speaker 5: got your suits. Jim running on down the ramp.
26:44
Speaker 7: SMU clanks too, and then quickly I think there was
26:47
Speaker 7: like a seven or and eight ohero run by the RedHawks.
26:49
Speaker 1: They win.
26:50
Speaker 5: They're hot, They're moving on.
26:52
Speaker 7: Who's not potentially hot with our friends at Donovan Jorgensen
26:56
Speaker 7: Heating and Cooling, serving your community for over forty years,
26:59
Speaker 7: largest employe owned HVAC company in the state of Wisconsin. Well, Drew,
27:05
Speaker 7: I'd hate to say it this way, Chap Serani is
27:08
Speaker 7: just not hot. My man does not get to scoop,
27:11
Speaker 7: tries to take it as his own scoop. On the
27:13
Speaker 7: Eric Names story yesterday with janis a tetakumbo not wanting
27:17
Speaker 7: to be shut down.
27:18
Speaker 5: Bucks want to shut him down. Giannis wants to play.
27:22
Speaker 7: I this is what makes Giannis Giannis right, that kind
27:25
Speaker 7: of disgusting competitive drive to never believe that you're out
27:29
Speaker 7: of something, to never believe that you should just pack
27:31
Speaker 7: it in and work for the next one, wait for
27:34
Speaker 7: the next year.
27:35
Speaker 5: It's what makes you him.
27:37
Speaker 7: It's what made him one of the best in the
27:40
Speaker 7: league and one of the best of his generation. However,
27:42
Speaker 7: I don't think it's a tanking conversation, Drew. I think
27:45
Speaker 7: it's more of the Bucks are saying, hey, brother, we're cheeks.
27:48
Speaker 7: Either way, this has been a horrible season. For you
27:51
Speaker 7: health wise and luckwise. Why don't we all just say
27:54
Speaker 7: let's be better in twenty six twenty seven and hope
27:57
Speaker 7: for health. And the easiest way of doing that is
28:00
Speaker 7: you grabbing all of those gatorades from the cooler, going
28:03
Speaker 7: home and hitting the game ready every single day and
28:06
Speaker 7: making sure those legs are ready by next year.
28:08
Speaker 4: Eric named beat Schumps by several minutes on that one.
28:11
Speaker 3: Like twenty minutes are so drew and like, I'm not,
28:14
Speaker 3: I'm not giving a little credit though, That's what I'm saying.
28:16
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.
28:16
Speaker 3: Like I'm not.
28:17
Speaker 7: I'm not guy to say like, hey, you can't then go,
28:20
Speaker 7: but at least acknowledge, at least give a tip of
28:22
Speaker 7: the cap. That's the one thing that I do really
28:24
Speaker 7: respect the NFL guys on, especially because we're just coming
28:27
Speaker 7: out of free agency season. Schefter was dog walking everybody
28:31
Speaker 7: in the insider game. But when they're not first on it,
28:34
Speaker 7: generally they give they give the credit.
28:36
Speaker 4: Hayman and Rosenthal and those guys, the baseball guys, they're
28:39
Speaker 4: always good on it. Yes, whoever had it first, You
28:42
Speaker 4: tip the cap to whoever had it first.
28:44
Speaker 5: And they do not so much.
28:45
Speaker 4: The agent who gave them the morsel. Is more about
28:47
Speaker 4: the guy who broke the story. Yeah, whoever had the
28:50
Speaker 4: quickest thumbs.
28:51
Speaker 7: Is at one point that was that was how you
28:53
Speaker 7: got the story right, was that you had to go
28:54
Speaker 7: and get the information exactly. They didn't just have somebody
28:57
Speaker 7: hotline you the information.
28:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, because everyone's paper, right, not the group text Yeah
29:02
Speaker 4: eight seven seven seven three speaking of text sets to
29:06
Speaker 4: Nicola Lot dot com talk and text line here as
29:09
Speaker 4: we get ready, Badger's playing just right, just before one o'clock,
29:13
Speaker 4: the ball will go up in Portland, the first game
29:17
Speaker 4: of the day at that venue and us early morning
29:21
Speaker 4: for them. But I don't think that's a big deal.
29:22
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, that's you know, that's like eleven am there.
29:26
Speaker 4: It's like so what.
29:27
Speaker 7: So I had some people kind of clap back on
29:29
Speaker 7: the idea where I wanted them to be first out
29:32
Speaker 7: of the shoot because I wanted them to be able
29:35
Speaker 7: to uh one.
29:36
Speaker 5: I didn't want to have to wait.
29:37
Speaker 2: Right.
29:38
Speaker 5: Media starts with me.
29:39
Speaker 7: Last thing I wanted Last night, while I'm watching the
29:41
Speaker 7: Miami or Ohio game, I thought about it.
29:43
Speaker 4: There's me four games that haven't even tipped off by
29:45
Speaker 4: this time.
29:45
Speaker 5: Tomorrow night. It's pretty crazy.
29:47
Speaker 7: Four games that hadn't even tipped off by the time
29:50
Speaker 7: that game was at halftime.
29:50
Speaker 5: That's gross.
29:52
Speaker 7: But wherever they play and whenever they line up, as
29:56
Speaker 7: long as Boydon Blackwell are somewhat hot, even if it's
29:58
Speaker 7: not from outside. I know you were gett into it
30:00
Speaker 7: with Dobbler on the conversation on the YouTube chat Armen.
30:05
Speaker 7: The one piece that Blackwell and Boyd have been very,
30:09
Speaker 7: very good at is seemingly understanding when it's not dropping
30:13
Speaker 7: from outside, still being able to penetrate the lane and
30:15
Speaker 7: win in different ways and with their size advantage, Drew,
30:18
Speaker 7: I think that's going to be the biggest key here tonight,
30:20
Speaker 7: right or today. I should say, like as much as
30:22
Speaker 7: Brunch with the Badgers will always come down to Armin's
30:25
Speaker 7: favorite three point variants here in March, their ability to
30:28
Speaker 7: get inside and force the issue is probably what gets overlooked.
30:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then there's certain teams you can survive doing that,
30:34
Speaker 3: but there are certain games you might need that to
30:36
Speaker 3: show up. And I would say there is always exceptions
30:38
Speaker 3: to the rule, but consistently you don't want to be
30:40
Speaker 3: not shooting well from three. Now, the Badgers' offense has
30:43
Speaker 3: evolved the bit that was Dowbler's point.
30:45
Speaker 5: I would agree with that, but I think.
30:46
Speaker 3: They still make their bones winning big games, especially at
30:49
Speaker 3: this time of the year. It's gonna be winning big
30:50
Speaker 3: games on shooting the lights out, So hoping.
30:53
Speaker 5: They can continue to do that. I think you do
30:54
Speaker 5: what you do well, and you do it often.
30:56
Speaker 3: And for the Badgers that's creating and making shooting and
30:59
Speaker 3: making a lot of threes this year. So can they
31:02
Speaker 3: still win in different ways? Absolutely? Every game is its
31:04
Speaker 3: own living, breathing thing. Everything can anything, and everything can
31:08
Speaker 3: happen in March, and every opponent is different. You just
31:10
Speaker 3: got to survive in advance, as the old line says,
31:12
Speaker 3: however you can. But I would expect that the Badgers
31:16
Speaker 3: shoot under thirty percent from three. They won't win multiple rounds.
31:19
Speaker 3: They might survive by a point. Who knows what could
31:22
Speaker 3: happen in another round, but to keep it going, my
31:24
Speaker 3: dad would be tough. So eventually they're gonna have to
31:26
Speaker 3: shoot the ball. Well, that's just a way to absolutely.
31:28
Speaker 4: Did you happen to see who dropped by the Green
31:30
Speaker 4: Bay women's practice yesterday?
31:32
Speaker 5: That was a cool one for old number ten. How
31:34
Speaker 5: about that?
31:35
Speaker 4: Jordan Love popping by their practice. Is they getting ready
31:37
Speaker 4: to play Minnesota?
31:39
Speaker 5: Yes?
31:40
Speaker 3: What is that?
31:41
Speaker 7: A four to thirteen matchup for the UWGB women's team.
31:44
Speaker 7: I think a good squad. I also love now Jordan
31:48
Speaker 7: might have been in town for some marketing deals, right,
31:51
Speaker 7: and some marketing conversation with the softball tournament that we
31:54
Speaker 7: got coming up. Him and Micah Parson's gonna go offense
31:56
Speaker 7: versus defense. That's great, But also, you know, who knows,
31:59
Speaker 7: maybe you just dropping by to take a look at
32:01
Speaker 7: that draft board. Let me let me see, let me
32:03
Speaker 7: see what kind of tight ends you guys are looking
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Speaker 7: at in day three, because we got to add up
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Speaker 7: into that room.
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 1: I like that.
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Speaker 5: That'd be nice.
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Speaker 3: You think he has that type of pull now to
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Speaker 3: be like, absolutely not, but I think it would be
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Speaker 3: fun if he did. But like, he has a seat
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Speaker 3: in the room at least, just you can't talk. You
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Speaker 3: can sit in there and hear about that.
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Speaker 7: You can go in and talk and then say, hey,
32:20
Speaker 7: these are the guys that we've talked to.
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Speaker 5: And h sweet, that's kind of what I mean there.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, But I like the fact that he's in
32:27
Speaker 7: with the boys and have we found out have we
32:29
Speaker 7: had the We haven't had the baby yet.
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Speaker 5: He also might just be looking around, s Andrew.
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Speaker 7: I need to get as many opportunities out of the
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32:39
Speaker 7: sure that I roll out of here and she's got
32:43
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Speaker 5: And guys, I need to get some free time.
32:48
Speaker 3: Maybe as she might want it a round this time too.
32:50
Speaker 3: She could also said, how about you get your ass
32:52
Speaker 3: before the baby comes.
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Speaker 4: Fair.
32:54
Speaker 3: Let me get this text in real quick, because I
32:56
Speaker 3: just can't let it pass right on to him. Not
32:58
Speaker 3: on the text line. Before the break, we were talking
33:00
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Speaker 5: He said, uh, wait, where is the text now?
33:08
Speaker 3: He said, Oh, well, the Bruce putting number sixteen on
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Speaker 3: This so like? This is.
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Speaker 7: I don't know how much of a waken Bank story
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Speaker 7: this is, but I wonder if the individual at USC
35:14
Speaker 7: that decided to reach out to one Matt Lioner, yes,
35:18
Speaker 7: potentially decided to uh to awaken Bank. I don't know
35:20
Speaker 7: if you guys saw this, but Matt Lionard a couple
35:23
Speaker 7: of days ago was asked, who's number eleven is retired
35:26
Speaker 7: at USC? Now, people know USC a tremendous football powerhouse,
35:30
Speaker 7: you're probably thinking retired numbers. They just gotta have a
35:34
Speaker 7: litany of retired football numbers. There's a couple number three,
35:39
Speaker 7: Carson Palmer, number eleven, Matt Liner soon to be soon
35:44
Speaker 7: to be Reggie Bush, gotcha soon to be Reggie Bush.
35:47
Speaker 7: And also this this certain old running back named DOJ
35:50
Speaker 7: Simpson and Caleb Williams. So now there's all Heisman Trophy
35:55
Speaker 7: winners in that in that run. Now, Marcus Allen was
35:58
Speaker 7: also a Heisman Trophy winner. I don't believe if his
36:00
Speaker 7: number is retired, which is kind of a stranger, So
36:04
Speaker 7: what's the thresholder?
36:05
Speaker 5: So either way, Matt Lionard's number eleven was retired.
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Speaker 7: Certain people of my youth, Matt Liner was the guy
36:13
Speaker 7: that USC team was the coolest football team ever to
36:16
Speaker 7: walk the face of the RT eight when I was younger.
36:18
Speaker 5: He was awesome, they were winning. He was not that stuff.
36:21
Speaker 7: He was on the Throwbacks podcast and he was asked
36:23
Speaker 7: when I was at USC, I got my number retired.
36:26
Speaker 7: You win the Heisman automatic number retired, which is pretty cool.
36:30
Speaker 7: So our jerseys are hanging up at the coliseum on
36:32
Speaker 7: the one side, Then Lionard said USC approached him about
36:36
Speaker 7: unretiring the number one. Top recruits wanted to wear the
36:39
Speaker 7: number eleven at USC. The former quarterback said, there have
36:44
Speaker 7: been multiple times. Were people at USC now multiple times?
36:48
Speaker 7: Multiple times, so you've got in the hint, and then
36:50
Speaker 7: went back to him and asked me if I would
36:52
Speaker 7: un retire my jersey for some five star prospect And
36:56
Speaker 7: do you want to know what I told those guys
36:58
Speaker 7: straight up?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely think not j That's awesome.
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Speaker 7: I'm not going to unretire my journey for some random
37:08
Speaker 7: dude who, by the way, could now go could wear
37:11
Speaker 7: eleven and then transfer next year.
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Speaker 5: No shot. Yeah, Matt Lioner standing ovation I agree.
37:19
Speaker 7: Just like when Lawrence Taylor was like somewhat broached about
37:22
Speaker 7: it earlier this year by Abdul Carter in the New
37:24
Speaker 7: York Football Giants, go find another one.
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Speaker 5: Go find another number.
37:30
Speaker 7: And if you're the team and you're the organization, you're
37:32
Speaker 7: the school, shame on you for going and asking Matt Lionard.
37:36
Speaker 7: If you're gonna take the number out of the rafters,
37:38
Speaker 7: you also did it like ten years ago, five or
37:40
Speaker 7: ten years ago. The number ain't even cold up there yet.
37:43
Speaker 7: You gotta give it a little bit a run before
37:45
Speaker 7: you start asking if we can pull it down for
37:47
Speaker 7: some five star prospect too.
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Speaker 3: I've only worn eleven back in my life. Well, you're
37:52
Speaker 3: gonna wear something else now. That kid also doesn't know
37:54
Speaker 3: who Matt Liner is.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I don't.
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Speaker 7: I don't be smirched a kid at all for asking
37:59
Speaker 7: you might as well take the sho man, what are
38:02
Speaker 7: you high? Guy at UFC? That not only after the
38:04
Speaker 7: first time he says absolutely not said hey Matt. But
38:07
Speaker 7: here's the deal. Now, we got a five star quarterback
38:10
Speaker 7: who's a sophomore. We're gonna have to pay him four
38:12
Speaker 7: million bucks to come here and he might play here.
38:14
Speaker 7: Could he wear number eleven?
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Speaker 4: Forget about it?
38:17
Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: No, And the thing is you should have thought about
38:19
Speaker 3: this before you started retiring him.
38:21
Speaker 5: Now here's my thing.
38:22
Speaker 3: I understand that sometimes they say, well, we're tiring the jersey,
38:25
Speaker 3: not the number. Marquette had a little bit of an
38:27
Speaker 3: issue with this when with George Thompson and Lazarre.
38:31
Speaker 5: One day, Lazar Hayward, as a freshman, picked twenty four.
38:33
Speaker 3: Nobody thought much of it because it's a retired jersey,
38:36
Speaker 3: not a number, and he started asking questions like what's
38:39
Speaker 3: going on. Lazar volunteered to switch his number, obviously to
38:41
Speaker 3: avoid any issues.
38:43
Speaker 5: They again, it came up again with honey cheat him.
38:45
Speaker 3: I believe in twenty sixteen, it's like, no, no, no, no,
38:48
Speaker 3: this is maybe you say it's a retired jersey and
38:51
Speaker 3: not a number, but and I remember georgeying the numbers
38:53
Speaker 3: up there in the rafter with the jersey, so I
38:55
Speaker 3: don't get it.
38:56
Speaker 5: So both guys obviously chose to wear a different number.
38:59
Speaker 3: But it can become an awkward thing when you say, well,
39:02
Speaker 3: we retire at jersey, not a number, and then you're
39:04
Speaker 3: asking said legend to be okay with that. It can
39:07
Speaker 3: become a very awkward thing. So pretty interesting. I'm glad
39:10
Speaker 3: Matt said day. If you didn't want to give me
39:11
Speaker 3: the other non business, if you didn't want to give
39:13
Speaker 3: me the honor, don't do it, or make it very
39:14
Speaker 3: clear that we're retiring jerseys and don't put a number
39:17
Speaker 3: up in the raptors So a lot of teams don't
39:19
Speaker 3: retire many jerseys or numbers because of this, some retire
39:22
Speaker 3: a lot of them. And I'm always wondering to myself, well,
39:24
Speaker 3: what are they gonna run out of numbers? Because one
39:26
Speaker 3: day it's gonna happen the Celtics have I'm not really sure,
39:29
Speaker 3: but that's something I think about.
39:31
Speaker 7: So Bush's Heisman and reinstated, and his number was then
39:35
Speaker 7: re retired in twenty twenty four. I didn't misspoke, didn't misspeak. Sorry,
39:40
Speaker 7: Mark de Rosa style here. Marcus Allen does have his
39:43
Speaker 7: number retired. Okay, he did have his number retired. I
39:45
Speaker 7: don't believe he had the full ceremony because they just
39:47
Speaker 7: retired it right away when he won the Heisman. Also,
39:51
Speaker 7: armand your boy Mike Garrett, Okay, running back back in
39:55
Speaker 7: sixties three to sixty five, his number twenty is retired,
39:58
Speaker 7: and so is Charle White, running back Heisman Trophy winner
40:02
Speaker 7: from seventy nine. So they got a number of them.
40:04
Speaker 7: They got a bunch of them there at the coliseum. Sure,
40:07
Speaker 7: you're gonna have to double up on them. But Lincoln Riley,
40:10
Speaker 7: you you literally came from Oklahoma, where they've got Heisman
40:14
Speaker 7: Park and they build a statue for a guy that
40:17
Speaker 7: was there for a year and wins the Heisman Trophy.
40:20
Speaker 5: You gotta kind of know.
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Speaker 7: Hey, this is gonna be the case, and this is
40:23
Speaker 7: gonna be the deal. You ain't given somebody number eleven.
40:25
Speaker 7: Let's figure out if we can put the kid in
40:27
Speaker 7: number one, and then maybe it'll work out.
40:30
Speaker 2: I love that.
40:31
Speaker 7: Also, Matt Lionert decent broadcaster, pretty good, pretty pretty strong
40:35
Speaker 7: broadcaster on that Fox Big Noon kickoff.
40:37
Speaker 5: They got some handsome cats on that.
40:39
Speaker 7: I mean, you you line up Matt Lionert and Brady
40:41
Speaker 7: Quinn next to each other, that's kind of an unfair room.
40:44
Speaker 5: To walk into.
40:46
Speaker 7: Uh.
40:46
Speaker 4: They didn't unretire OJ's number at USC.
40:48
Speaker 5: Still got thirty two up there. Still got pretty interesting.
40:53
Speaker 5: We still got thirty That's a choe you wonder that
40:56
Speaker 5: is that isn't no longer with us. So they want
40:59
Speaker 5: to retire for that, but the last going to do
41:01
Speaker 5: it for a recruit for what what's that for?
41:04
Speaker 3: What?
41:04
Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 3: Allegations, allegations, allegations. It wasn't jail suit. He was in jail,
41:11
Speaker 3: no question, was in jail.
41:13
Speaker 7: Oh the thing in Las Vegas, I got that's right,
41:15
Speaker 7: that's right. That thing, that's right, that his memorabilia back. Yeah,
41:21
Speaker 7: I was just getting my stuff.
41:22
Speaker 4: Just wanted my.
41:23
Speaker 5: Stuff, one of mu stuff things, just one of my stuff.
41:28
Speaker 5: I don't know that was the best way of doing it.
41:30
Speaker 5: We will everybody. That's how you waken.
41:34
Speaker 4: We just had a birthday the all right, hey, there
41:36
Speaker 4: we go. I forgot to tell you paragloves I'll send
41:38
Speaker 4: it to him. We need to wish everybody the best
41:41
Speaker 4: of luck on their brackets. Be sure and enjoy the
41:44
Speaker 4: games responsibly, safely. You're going to Potto sports books may
41:49
Speaker 4: good place to be today. First half unders, absolutely, first
41:52
Speaker 4: half hunders. That is the way the jitters hit and the.
41:55
Speaker 5: Over inflated basketball's right.
41:57
Speaker 4: Brian Anderson. Jason Bennetti filling in. But we'll soldier through.
42:01
Speaker 4: Badger's played today. Hopefully they'll get a dub and we'll
42:04
Speaker 4: talk to Matt Lapee tomorrow. We're gonna be here to
42:06
Speaker 4: talk about it no matter what happens, because tomorrow we
42:09
Speaker 4: get to do it all again.
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Speaker 5: Better believe it.
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Speaker 4: Golden day on the huddle. Thanks for hanging out with us.
42:13
Speaker 4: We'll see you tomorrow at five.
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Speaker 5: Joy gaines.
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Speaker 4: Peace,