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03/25/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Frimley Field four to one.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday, newcomer Brandon Sprote had a great outing four innings
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Speaker 2: of shutout ball, scattering two hits and striking out five.
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Speaker 3: I thought today was really well, just kind of work
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Speaker 3: on things throughout spring training, you know, tinker with new stuff,
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Speaker 3: dial in the mechanics throughout spring training, work on the
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Speaker 3: cutter that was new this year. Still making progress with
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Speaker 3: the sweeper. But no, like I said, I thought today
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Speaker 3: it was pretty sharp for the most part. A little
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Speaker 3: bit more more deep counts night than I would have liked,
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Speaker 3: but I mean that's part of it.
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Speaker 2: Now It's for real Opening day tomorrow, just after one
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Speaker 2: o'clock as the Chicago White Sox come to town, and the
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Speaker 2: NBA Players Association has released a statement questioning why Yannis
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Speaker 2: is sitting. There's been a reported disagreement between the Bucks,
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Speaker 2: all time great in the organization, the team wanting to
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Speaker 2: shut the player down, but Giannis wants to continue to play.
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Speaker 2: The Bucks accused by some trying to tank to get
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Speaker 2: a better draft pick. The final hour of the huddle
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Speaker 2: starts now. I'm Doug Russell on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 1: I'm all four from one huddle.
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Speaker 5: Time to wake up and talk about the teams you love,
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Speaker 5: nobody with the guys you love.
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Speaker 1: It's just about getting the group together.
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Speaker 6: I need you, you need me.
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Speaker 1: Today, Let's keep touching each other. Let's make sure we
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Speaker 1: feel each other. Let's make sure we smell each other
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Speaker 1: for a half.
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Speaker 1: Take the cameras off the field and their final hubble.
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Speaker 5: Now gather around because it's time to huddle up. What's
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Speaker 5: left slot we tink? We watch stick on one ready
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Speaker 5: ready cutting me.
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Speaker 1: Chris, you'll look at this play.
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Speaker 2: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 2: a seal here, and try to.
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Speaker 4: Run this play in the hour.
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Speaker 1: Let's always all of them. Let's go check.
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Speaker 6: We're doing what you're doing, and they can play.
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Speaker 5: Be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 7: Why left bags three ninety thick bag be in See
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Speaker 7: Park is not.
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Speaker 5: Long enough for you watch it to be party of professional.
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Speaker 2: It's a great professional out there and playing this ball
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Speaker 2: game like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 5: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, this man's been all night.
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Speaker 5: Armand sorry, Ship, don't get scam be ready. Fox Sports
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Speaker 5: Radio Wisconsin is on the.
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Speaker 1: Air, dominating.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Wednesday in the good Land, a hump day if
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Speaker 6: you will, hot take hump Day.
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Speaker 1: It's the huddle.
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Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew, Billy and armand bringing it
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Speaker 6: to you from headquarters.
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Speaker 1: Opening Day Eve in the good Land.
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Speaker 6: Oh, what a holiday it's going to be to have
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Speaker 6: baseball back as our companion. Stuff to talk about. I mean,
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Speaker 6: once we get rolling. Other than the All Star break,
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Speaker 6: you don't have to go that long. What's as long
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Speaker 6: as you go without Brewers Baseball, Like forty eight hours
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Speaker 6: that's just about yep.
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Speaker 1: Like, let's go, let's sit it on.
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Speaker 4: This year.
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Speaker 6: Friday is gonna be tough because we and then we
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Speaker 6: got one game and then you gotta wait for another
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Speaker 6: game and then you get in the rhythm of the season.
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Speaker 1: But that off day after the opener misplaced. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: breaks the momentum, It breaks the stride.
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Speaker 6: For pitching and you know, getting guys acclimated and probably
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Speaker 6: have some roster moves and who knows.
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Speaker 1: But man, does it? It does it?
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Speaker 7: Is it tough because all of a sudden there's a
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Speaker 7: there's the love affair that you have with the sports.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: Football is so hot and heavy.
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Speaker 7: I mean it's honeymoon stage right when you're with that
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Speaker 7: new significant other the entire time. But man, baseball is
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Speaker 7: that love that you are able to go and hang
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Speaker 7: out with your friends on a Tuesday night, come back
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Speaker 7: on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: Still there having fun. Baseball is your favorite, like hoodie
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Speaker 1: or a pair of sweats or something.
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Speaker 7: You throw on any day and it always feels good, comforting, yep,
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Speaker 7: just to have it, whether you whether you're listening to
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Speaker 7: Lev or BA or you know, you just got it
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Speaker 7: on the background doing other stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's what's beautiful.
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Speaker 7: It's always there. It's the best campaigning that you can
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Speaker 7: possibly have.
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Speaker 1: In sports, no question, no question.
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Speaker 6: Hot take comp days upon us eight seven to seven, seven,
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Speaker 6: nine four one ninety seventy three Brewer stuff. Tomorrow will
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Speaker 6: do our Brewers prediction, and so tomorrow will be because
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Speaker 6: it's the first day of the season.
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Speaker 1: Are wild ass predictions. Mmm, I got a couple of.
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Speaker 6: Them, you know, just for the baseball season in general.
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Speaker 6: It can be about the division. In the division we
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Speaker 6: saw the Reds last night. Some people are picking the
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Speaker 6: Reds and the Pirates to inch past the Brewers as
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Speaker 6: the Brewers regress to the mean. I find that hard
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Speaker 6: to believe. I don't think the Reds and Pirates are
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Speaker 6: ready for that stage yet.
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Speaker 7: No, And I mean I appreciate that the Pirates offered
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Speaker 7: Kyle Schwarber one hundred million dollars and he signed for
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Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty. Like, they still don't to me
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Speaker 7: feel like they're playing in the big leagues. And I'm
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Speaker 7: not saying the Brewers are out here spending oodles of
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Speaker 7: cash every single year, but there's a level. There's levels
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Speaker 7: to this, especially if you're not going to be playing
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Speaker 7: with the big dollars in the big markets and you
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Speaker 7: luckily are in a You're very lucky that you're in
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Speaker 7: a spot and in a division where the only big
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Speaker 7: market team still somewhat operates like a smaller market, right,
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Speaker 7: Like the Cubs have all the money that they could
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Speaker 7: possibly be spending. They don't spend it, probably as much
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Speaker 7: as I know their fans would like them to. But
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Speaker 7: to see it being not a two horse race with
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Speaker 7: the Brewers and Combs.
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Speaker 6: At the end of the day, Pirates have a kid,
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Speaker 6: Connor Griffin, the number one prospect in all of baseball,
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Speaker 6: and he's not going to make their club, and people
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Speaker 6: are kind of mad he's nineteen.
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Speaker 8: A level of excitement around Pirates Baseball, it seems this offseason,
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Speaker 8: so I could understand why.
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Speaker 6: He's kind of like the position player Paul Skins. He's
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Speaker 6: like the number one overall prospect in the sport and.
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Speaker 7: Uh, and he just ripped up spring training. If I remember,
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Speaker 7: he hit well. He didn't have a good average, but
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Speaker 7: he did hit like yeah, but he's uh.
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Speaker 1: They worry about bringing him along too quickly for.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's just out of prep school in
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Speaker 6: Mississippi service time, right, Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Is that what it is?
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean it was really good in Double A,
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Speaker 6: and that might be part of it. He was invited
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Speaker 6: the big league spring training and then people thought he
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Speaker 6: had a chance. He hit one seventy one in spring
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Speaker 6: training sixteen games, but a seven forty nine ops, four homers, nine.
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Speaker 1: RBI in the highlights of the ones you hit high
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Speaker 1: level pitching too.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I just I think it's it's a different part
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Speaker 7: of the sport now, where a legitimate thought that a
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Speaker 7: nineteen year old could be playing in the big leagues
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Speaker 7: is not the craziest.
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Speaker 6: Thing the craziest thing. And he's, uh, he just signed
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Speaker 6: a multi year deal with under Armour.
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Speaker 1: It's like they are betting on the corn. They saw
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Speaker 1: the movie air and they're so trapping one early over. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Connor Griffin is uh, you know, and I think it's
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Speaker 1: Connor with a K too. It is, which is pretty cool.
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Speaker 7: I like, you're on talking about being able to put
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Speaker 7: something up on TV and people be excited about it.
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Speaker 1: Connor with a K would be fun.
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Speaker 7: They got this kid, Bubba that I believe is gonna
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Speaker 7: be backing up Paul Skins in the rotation. So there,
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Speaker 7: they got a lot of young pieces that are fun.
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Speaker 7: They should have good young players. They draft in the
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Speaker 7: top five.
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Speaker 1: Every freaking year, thank you.
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Speaker 8: We were saying that about the Brewers for a lot
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Speaker 8: of years until they finally started hitting first rounders.
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Speaker 1: But for a while we weren't.
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Speaker 6: Connor Griffin could get the Cheerio treatment, because there was
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Speaker 6: talk that they're already talking about an eight year, one
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Speaker 6: hundred and ten million dollar extension for the man. He's
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Speaker 6: never played in the big leagues yet. He's nineteen, but
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Speaker 6: he is on the.
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Speaker 1: Rise but ain't ready yet.
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Speaker 6: And so theirates fans like okay and the Reds. You
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Speaker 6: saw him Hunter Green is hurt for a while and
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Speaker 6: he'll be fine eventually, but yeah, miss a month.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't help them.
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Speaker 7: Their kid burns that they threw yesterday is nice, but
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Speaker 7: he seems pretty I do. I think it's Brewers and comes.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 6: The Brewers have young arms, untested all that, but they
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Speaker 6: have Chris hook that's the best.
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Speaker 1: Got guys that throw one hundred good Swiss army knife
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Speaker 1: to have.
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Speaker 8: We should have his jersey, to be honest with you,
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Speaker 8: I mean, you want to get a jersey, should get
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Speaker 8: Chris Hooks Drew. It's sort of like when people were
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Speaker 8: getting the russ Ball, or think about getting the rustball
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Speaker 8: jersey with the dollar sign on it. I mean, Chris
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Speaker 8: hook has as much to do with the success as
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Speaker 8: anybody else, right for the Brewers.
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Speaker 1: Very much so.
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Speaker 7: And and their ability to take somebody else's trash and
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Speaker 7: turn them into a treasure in the bullpen is nothing
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Speaker 7: short of amazing. But I do I think the lineup
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Speaker 7: is the one part Drew that's you know, oddly, it's
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Speaker 7: it's kind of been a teeter totter for the crew
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Speaker 7: over the last couple of years, right, it feels like
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Speaker 7: they have all the pitching necessary to win at the
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Speaker 7: highest level and really lack enough offense. And this year
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Speaker 7: it feels like it could tip more towards the offense
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Speaker 7: being able to lift up the young pitching. For a
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Speaker 7: number of times, they don't have the clear power bats
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Speaker 7: to just add into the lineup. However, we had our
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Speaker 7: hot take yesterday that that's sparked up hot take humptay.
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Speaker 7: A day earlier, my man said that Andrew Vaughn was
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Speaker 7: going to hit forty home runs. He hits thirty, and
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Speaker 7: you could have yourself a much different outlook on their
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Speaker 7: offensive production because they do appear that they're just going
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Speaker 7: to continue to bat the ball into the back gaps
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Speaker 7: and run all day. Terrain going to be a twenty
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Speaker 7: five homer guy, I think for sure could be. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I think I think twenty five for him should absolutely
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Speaker 7: betrarass back to that now that he's healthy.
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Speaker 1: You would like to think. So it sure seemed like
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Speaker 1: he's nice.
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Speaker 8: I guess yesterday he hit the dinger, so they didn't
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Speaker 8: do it much in the WBC, But I mean, I
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Speaker 8: think he's seems to be looking okay. You know, it's
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Speaker 8: hard to know how much to take from Spring. We've
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Speaker 8: had a lot of them, Garrett Mitchell talk as we know,
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Speaker 8: but it could go both ways.
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Speaker 1: We've seen time and time again.
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Speaker 8: We just can't gather too much from Spring in terms
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Speaker 8: of ours and how they're gonna play.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean anything. Sadly, Jake Bauers is the Brad.
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Speaker 7: Nelson has the bradwa.
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Speaker 6: No doubt, and Brandon Lockridge has been or Breckinridge, as
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Speaker 6: Murph calls, he made the club and they had to
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Speaker 6: send down Murph's favorite Blake Perkins and for Lockage because
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Speaker 6: he's played so well. Now he's going to be platooning.
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Speaker 6: He's probably only going to face lefties for the first
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Speaker 6: part here. And when you go from playing every day
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Speaker 6: and seeing the ball and being getting sweaty and dirty
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Speaker 6: every day to sitting on the bench for eight nine innings,
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Speaker 6: see how you adapt different animal?
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Speaker 1: So do you see see it every year.
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Speaker 7: Do you see Cheerio more as their everyday centerfielder now?
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Speaker 1: I mean like it?
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Speaker 6: I think if Yeah, depending on how Mitchell and Lockridge do,
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Speaker 6: the temptation is going to be all right, we need
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Speaker 6: Yellowich's bat and Yellich move a Churio over to center
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Speaker 6: and then get a bat whether it's Sanchez or somebody
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Speaker 6: to be dh Once I saw, yeah, it's that might
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Speaker 6: be a thing.
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Speaker 7: When I saw that Murph quote, I'm like, ooh, okay, Jackson,
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Speaker 7: Urio and centerfield feels like it's as much of its becoming.
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Speaker 6: More and more and more with yel because Yelich is
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Speaker 6: now his back is better and he might be able
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Speaker 6: to play, you know a little bit few more innings
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Speaker 6: out there.
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Speaker 7: Which I don't think is a bad thing, right, Like
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Speaker 7: I mean, Drew, I think he likes He probably likes
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Speaker 7: it more. Again, I'm speaking for him, and I think
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Speaker 7: he does. I would think you'd like to be in
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Speaker 7: the game more.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, I think of course.
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Speaker 6: And he had that defensive slump, especially throwing wise, but
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Speaker 6: he improved a lot. It seemed, you know, it worked
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Speaker 6: on when he was healthy. Yeah, it was a health
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Speaker 6: thing too, But yeah, I mean Yelis early in his
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Speaker 6: career won a Gold Glove.
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Speaker 1: That's right with Miami. He did. That was his only
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Speaker 1: defensive positive war year, I believe.
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Speaker 7: But last year, well, I'm glad you had that number
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Speaker 7: one now, But defensive.
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Speaker 1: War is what we're worried about.
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Speaker 7: But like when when we were seeing last year his
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Speaker 7: slump offensively in the first like two months of the year,
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Speaker 7: we were runnering like, are they gonna put him out
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Speaker 7: in left field just to try to spark something with
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Speaker 7: him a little bit like you're going to lead him off, Yeah,
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Speaker 7: try to mess around with it a little bit. Feels
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Speaker 7: like their lineup is somewhat in order. They they have.
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Speaker 5: It almost baked in every single day.
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Speaker 7: I think Yelich more and more in left field, though,
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Speaker 7: is gonna be the flavor that you find unless Jake
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Speaker 7: Bowers doesn't do the Brad Nelson go for twenty two, Yeah,
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Speaker 7: which I'm really.
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Speaker 1: Hoping he doesn't.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it'd be nice, but Brad Nelson would really like him,
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Speaker 7: do I gotta think Brad Nelson would like somebody to
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Speaker 7: take his name off of that award.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Eric Almonte once tried the thing about him talking about
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Speaker 8: Bowers is he's got more pelts in the wall a
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Speaker 8: little bit. I mean, he's had bigger moments, bigger home runs,
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Speaker 8: so I would say he's got a little more cachet
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Speaker 8: in that regard.
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Speaker 1: But you never know.
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Speaker 8: My dad Leon's checking in Brewers. I think he meant
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Speaker 8: to say, well, hopefully the Brewers start better than last year.
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Speaker 8: Hard not to but then again, don't worry. Alvin Rodriguez
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Speaker 8: is not slated the pitch anywhere.
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Speaker 1: That was tough.
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Speaker 8: But listen, the Brewers had bad starts last year, and
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Speaker 8: I think twenty eleven turned out to be two of
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Speaker 8: their best years in the regular season. So just remember,
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Speaker 8: everybody freak out over the first week or do it
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Speaker 8: doing what you want. I'm not telling you how to face.
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Speaker 7: I was gonna say, I had a lot of fun
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Speaker 7: last year in little radio like that.
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Speaker 1: That was pretty fun.
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Speaker 7: When they went oh for, they lost four straight games,
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Speaker 7: they gave up a historic amount of home runs, and
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Speaker 7: I thought to Torpedo Bats, we're gonna have to be
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Speaker 7: investigated by Major League.
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Speaker 8: I said, everyone, just be patient. This could'tun be a
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Speaker 8: good year they started. But this ison eleven anymore, and
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Speaker 8: everything's different, and we're now in the down cycle, ninety seven.
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Speaker 1: Games franchise record. It's just weird how many people didn't
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Speaker 1: come back and say, oh, arm and you're right.
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Speaker 7: You know, I didn't hear though we did get some
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Speaker 7: torpedo bats, though I remember that being being wondering, where
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Speaker 7: is our where is our shipment?
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Speaker 1: Why do we not get these bats?
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Speaker 7: Because if Aaron Judge is hitting seven hundred home runs
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Speaker 7: with this thing, and all of a sudden it has
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Speaker 7: Jazz Chisholm hitting four hundred and fifty foot blast, somebody
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Speaker 7: needs to get these guys. A hot take from Jeff
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Speaker 7: and Fox point the Brewers will be Division champs for
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Speaker 7: the fourth year in a row with ninety plus wins.
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Speaker 7: They'll get back to the NLCS. Turang will finish top
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Speaker 7: three in MVP voting, and we'll finish in top three
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Speaker 7: in cy Young balloting. This year. Murph will finish top
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Speaker 7: three and manager of the Year, and I'll attend at
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Speaker 7: least fifteen games.
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Speaker 1: This summer with my kids and my wife. Go Brewers.
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Speaker 1: I like that hot take. I'm laying it right on
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Speaker 1: out right there.
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Speaker 7: Murph finishing top three and manager of the year. He
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Speaker 7: does that again. Everybody in baseball team be like, dude,
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Speaker 7: can we just do we not get some do we
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Speaker 7: not get some murph fatigue in here?
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Speaker 1: At some point?
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Speaker 7: Maybe their team is just good, maybe they are just
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Speaker 7: like batter teams, then we're giving them any credit for
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Speaker 7: hot take.
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Speaker 6: I know it's a sign of the times, but it
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Speaker 6: will always be weird to me that their is going
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Speaker 6: to play the first two weeks of the twenty twenty
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Speaker 6: six Championship season without facing a National League team.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's a top that is a strange one.
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Speaker 6: Yes, White Sox and raised to open the home and
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Speaker 6: then they go to Kansas City and Boston before returning
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Speaker 6: home to face the Nationals. April tenth is the first
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Speaker 6: National League game, so it's like, do the league's even
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Speaker 6: mean anything anymore? And then they go the Nationals a
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Speaker 6: three game Island, and then they go to face Then
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Speaker 6: they have Toronto in town, and then the next road
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Speaker 6: trip is Florida Detroit. So basically every other series they're
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Speaker 6: playing in the American League team and they don't face
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Speaker 6: it a division till the end of April. They got
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Speaker 6: the Pirates that they play in the first month, if
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Speaker 6: you want to say, five weeks three games in the division.
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Speaker 7: And I was really hoping to wear my Jack Hughes
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Speaker 7: jersey to that Toronto game. I was really excited. I
14:23
Speaker 7: was really excited to wear my USA stuff there. I
14:25
Speaker 7: did thank Bryce Terrank for his service to America yesterday,
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Speaker 7: a very tongue in cheek. I hope all the servicemen
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Speaker 7: and women that were around me didn't take umbrage to
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Speaker 7: that or offence.
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Speaker 1: It was a joke.
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Speaker 8: I'm sure they got it. I mean, I'm sure they did.
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Speaker 8: I don't think they did.
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Speaker 1: But Drew, do you do you like that?
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Speaker 7: Because I know there's there's certain baseball purists that do
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Speaker 7: not like the inner league play.
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Speaker 1: Do not like that? Yeah, I'm a huge fan of
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Speaker 1: being able to see the best lovers in the sport.
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Speaker 1: I love it. I think it's the best of all worlds. Absolutely.
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Speaker 6: And now it's like, now that they have the THET,
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Speaker 6: they've gotten rid of the d H and everything that's
14:57
Speaker 6: kind of homogenized things even more. Used to have National
14:59
Speaker 6: League American League on different rules and stuff, and my
15:03
Speaker 6: thing when they had interleague play, and I said this
15:05
Speaker 6: to the commissioner, and now commissioner amerisud see like, I'm like,
15:08
Speaker 6: but inter league play is working great. But what you
15:10
Speaker 6: should do is when an American League team comes to
15:13
Speaker 6: Milwaukee used the DH and when the Brewers go somewhere
15:16
Speaker 6: to play an American League team on the road, play
15:18
Speaker 6: the National League rules, because then the fans who don't
15:21
Speaker 6: get to see that style of ball get a little
15:23
Speaker 6: taste of it.
15:24
Speaker 1: You know, like, why not do it? I like that idea, Yeah,
15:27
Speaker 1: it was that too much.
15:27
Speaker 6: He actually thought that was a good idea, but it
15:29
Speaker 6: was a little too convoluted, complicated or so.
15:31
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean we can't figure out what channel the
15:32
Speaker 1: game now.
15:35
Speaker 8: Watchingized now it was change up for it might actually,
15:38
Speaker 8: but that is kind of funny to think about that.
15:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the uh, I was just looking it up.
15:42
Speaker 6: Cubs don't make their first visit to Milwaukee until Summer Fest.
15:46
Speaker 8: How do you feel about will you just have a
15:48
Speaker 8: division heavy schedule? I remember that was a big thing. Yeah,
15:51
Speaker 8: and that's part of the reason.
15:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, back when the Pirates and Reds were bad, you
15:55
Speaker 6: played them eighteen times a year, it was like, oh,
15:57
Speaker 6: we get fatten up on those. Now it's a little
16:00
Speaker 6: bit more and I think it's a little bit more equitable.
16:02
Speaker 6: So it's you spread out, you're playing everybody every year
16:05
Speaker 6: at alternate sites.
16:06
Speaker 1: So you got the Yankees coming in again this year, which.
16:08
Speaker 7: Is great, which I love, and and frankly, now sadly
16:11
Speaker 7: we have to watch Otani with the Dodgers and nine
16:12
Speaker 7: to two. Oh, said Schmid, sorry, and expecting the Brewers
16:15
Speaker 7: to take out Otani and the Dodgers and host a
16:17
Speaker 7: parade in November. I'm hoping, you gotta believe. I'm hoping
16:21
Speaker 7: definitely not gonna be picking that. Like, I don't know
16:23
Speaker 7: that anybody is picking anybody to beat beat La and
16:26
Speaker 7: beat Otani in that crew.
16:28
Speaker 1: But maybe God bless us, if that's exactly what happened.
16:30
Speaker 8: Maybe someone else can take them out and we can
16:32
Speaker 8: kind of you know, you never know.
16:34
Speaker 7: I'll be totally okay if that happens. Harmon, Yeah, right,
16:37
Speaker 7: I will not feel that. It'll not feel like ninety
16:40
Speaker 7: six where people ask, well, you didn't play Dallas.
16:42
Speaker 1: We want Dallas. You do not care.
16:44
Speaker 8: I remember I'm twelve, and I'm like, really, and I don't.
16:47
Speaker 8: We can't beat them. We have it in my lifetime.
16:49
Speaker 8: So I'm cool with Carolina. I think we can beat them.
16:51
Speaker 8: I mean, we know it's about Carolina, right, And then
16:53
Speaker 8: it worked out. So I agree with you, Billy, however
16:55
Speaker 8: it's gonna happen. But I do like the excitement and
16:58
Speaker 8: the confidence from our nine to oi ex Yeah, well,
17:00
Speaker 8: let's get that parade started. You know it'll be right
17:03
Speaker 8: before Geezer Palooza, you know, in nine years, So there
17:06
Speaker 8: you go, geeze Well, well we'll have the parade, then
17:08
Speaker 8: we'll do Geezer Palua, which is still gonna.
17:10
Speaker 1: Hap Heezer Palooza in the uh.
17:12
Speaker 6: I guess the you know, Grand Marshall would be Joe
17:14
Speaker 6: Flacco one Gezer making old men field seen Joe Flacco
17:21
Speaker 6: who signed a one year deal with Cincinnati. No, I
17:24
Speaker 6: was just gonna make Rogers say, hey, I want to
17:26
Speaker 6: be the oldest guy planned you got.
17:28
Speaker 1: You can't do that to me, Joe, I'm that guy. Yeah.
17:31
Speaker 6: Uh And by the way, we talked about it yesterday.
17:33
Speaker 6: But Pete crow Armstrong got his deal. They six years,
17:36
Speaker 6: one hundred and fifteen million dollars. Smart move to lock
17:39
Speaker 6: him up. That doesn't seem like a cash Yeah, going
17:42
Speaker 6: to save some cash.
17:42
Speaker 1: On that what he could become. Did you think that
17:44
Speaker 1: was a little bit low?
17:45
Speaker 8: I thought you could get a little bit more bank
17:47
Speaker 8: out of that deal.
17:48
Speaker 4: I don't know.
17:48
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean it's his first one. Though
17:50
Speaker 1: he's gonna get another one behind it. I was gonna say,
17:52
Speaker 1: he'll get the other one behind it. This is there
17:54
Speaker 1: coming out of like twenty eight.
17:55
Speaker 7: This is is Ryan Braun deal, right, this is the
17:57
Speaker 7: one where he makes this statement at way, there's.
18:00
Speaker 1: Not much you can't buy with forty five million dollars, right? Well,
18:03
Speaker 1: what need?
18:03
Speaker 2: Yeah?
18:04
Speaker 7: Yeah, they only get him out of what one year
18:06
Speaker 7: of free agency? I think that was the length to
18:09
Speaker 7: me is the most interesting, especially when you're talking about
18:12
Speaker 7: who could the Brewers end up locking up. I was
18:17
Speaker 7: going to start trying to negotiate for the Brewers with
18:19
Speaker 7: Bryce Terrang in the on deck circle. He didn't seem
18:21
Speaker 7: like he really wanted to talk yesterday. Shocking, Yeah, I
18:24
Speaker 7: just as ever. Yeah, he seems like a really uh
18:28
Speaker 7: kind of you know conversion is yeah, yeah, quite loquacious.
18:31
Speaker 1: He is an armor word.
18:33
Speaker 7: But as I was thinking, like what if I if
18:35
Speaker 7: I say, hey, Pryce, Mark's gonna give you eight years,
18:38
Speaker 7: two hundred.
18:39
Speaker 1: Million, Yeah, what do you say?
18:41
Speaker 7: Yes, Well, listen, you're buying yourself out of for him
18:44
Speaker 7: three to four years of free agency that's gonna be
18:48
Speaker 7: a much tougher sell than when for PCA. Yeah, I'm
18:51
Speaker 7: gonna get the guaranteed cash. I'm gonna get it all
18:53
Speaker 7: up front. I'm gonna get a hundred million and after taxes,
18:55
Speaker 7: you know, probably sixty's.
18:56
Speaker 8: But the key you gotta throw it down in front
18:58
Speaker 8: of these guys and make them turn it down because
18:59
Speaker 8: that's hard.
19:00
Speaker 7: But that's still only one year out of free agency.
19:02
Speaker 7: It's not a ton of his extra earning power that
19:06
Speaker 7: you'd be losing. Why is, if you know you have
19:10
Speaker 7: the right guy, you gotta get in early. But as
19:14
Speaker 7: much as like all these college teams are learning right nil,
19:17
Speaker 7: you're having to figure out what the mental makeup of
19:21
Speaker 7: these athletes are when they have cash. Now you're able
19:24
Speaker 7: to learn it. And the NBA in the NFL maybe
19:26
Speaker 7: a little bit better. It's almost like trial money. It's
19:29
Speaker 7: a trial version of Well, this guy went to Kentucky
19:33
Speaker 7: and got two million to play outside linebacker, and then
19:36
Speaker 7: all of a sudden he went from nine and a
19:38
Speaker 7: half sacks to four and a half sacks.
19:40
Speaker 1: Oh, I wonder what happened.
19:42
Speaker 7: You get to see how it affects them with some
19:45
Speaker 7: cash in their pocket.
19:47
Speaker 1: PCA. Now he's coming from a.
19:49
Speaker 7: Pretty well funded family, So I think I don't think
19:52
Speaker 7: money has been much of a problem dead, but I
19:56
Speaker 7: think it's a good question as to where and who
19:58
Speaker 7: you're locking up, as to what and how much you
20:01
Speaker 7: know financial literacy.
20:02
Speaker 6: The dad played in the big leagues, he's a he's a.
20:05
Speaker 6: He's had money because he was a number one pick.
20:07
Speaker 1: Finance is not going to be an issue.
20:09
Speaker 6: And this time he'll be arbitration eligible next year and
20:13
Speaker 6: for the next couple of years. And he's making four
20:15
Speaker 6: million this year, so he's he'd be the target for sure.
20:19
Speaker 7: Okay, six years what six years one fifteen for pc A,
20:22
Speaker 7: six years one seventeen for you? Ooh, that'd be interesting, right,
20:27
Speaker 7: I mean, like if you do it, you say you
20:28
Speaker 7: make him say no.
20:29
Speaker 4: Right.
20:29
Speaker 7: The second base salaries are the different ones, and this
20:32
Speaker 7: is where I've often thought that he would want the
20:34
Speaker 7: position switch.
20:35
Speaker 1: Look, it's like playing guard tackle in the NFL. Playing
20:38
Speaker 1: at the.
20:39
Speaker 6: Second base this this spring, my day was playing a
20:42
Speaker 6: lot of seconds.
20:43
Speaker 1: That's intriguing, isn't it can do it at least see
20:46
Speaker 1: what they can do. You see, we'll see.
20:47
Speaker 8: But it's like ricking pond stars put the money in
20:49
Speaker 8: front of their face that make them say, and make
20:51
Speaker 8: him say.
20:52
Speaker 6: Eight seven seven seven ninety seven three. Still time for
20:55
Speaker 6: you to sneak in your hot takes before we get
20:57
Speaker 6: out of here at eight o'clock. But when we come back,
20:59
Speaker 6: we'll talk a little big weekend for the admiralst big
21:02
Speaker 6: w last night in a game where the ice was
21:04
Speaker 6: apparently skatable, it was okay. I mean, as good as
21:09
Speaker 6: Grand Rapids has been, they're having a magical regular season.
21:12
Speaker 1: The Admirals don't take a backseat to them, and they're
21:15
Speaker 1: starting to. They're starting to evening Grand Rapids.
21:18
Speaker 8: And in this league, we know anything can happen when
21:21
Speaker 8: it comes to playoff time.
21:22
Speaker 6: Absolutely necessarily behemoth driving for the small sample a right,
21:27
Speaker 6: So that's what we got ahead of us. John Greenberg
21:29
Speaker 6: joins us. Next, we'll talk to him about the the
21:31
Speaker 6: playoff pushes on for the Admirals.
21:33
Speaker 1: Big games coming.
21:34
Speaker 6: Up Friday and Saturday, Huge at Panther Arena. John Greenberg
21:38
Speaker 6: joins us. Next, we also want to ask him about
21:40
Speaker 6: what Opening Day meant to him during his years as
21:42
Speaker 6: the Brewers media relations guru. John Greenberg Alhefe joins us
21:46
Speaker 6: next to the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Hey, we
21:51
Speaker 6: get to catch up with our pal John Greenberg, president
21:53
Speaker 6: of the Milwaukee Admirals.
21:55
Speaker 1: Greenee, good morning, Welcome to the program.
21:57
Speaker 6: And if they're gonna make you go back to Grand Rapids,
21:59
Speaker 6: you might as well win the damn game.
22:01
Speaker 1: Amen.
22:03
Speaker 4: That's exactly right. And we've done well against that team
22:07
Speaker 4: this year. So really happy for the guys to go
22:11
Speaker 4: there and get that job done. And you know, it
22:13
Speaker 4: was an exciting game. Came from behind by time we
22:15
Speaker 4: let that game was on the last shot, so that
22:18
Speaker 4: was it was fun. Fun to do that well.
22:21
Speaker 7: And listen, we watched a certain football team do that
22:24
Speaker 7: against our favorite one most of the year.
22:26
Speaker 1: So if you if you don't have to, you don't
22:27
Speaker 1: have to lead the game long.
22:28
Speaker 7: You just have to be leading it at the end
22:30
Speaker 7: to be able to take take control. Greedy, But is
22:33
Speaker 7: it somewhat overstated when you think of like how big
22:36
Speaker 7: and how good of a win that is for the
22:38
Speaker 7: boys to be able to I mean, you're playing the
22:40
Speaker 7: best team in the league and they've been the runaway
22:42
Speaker 7: for a long portion of the season. But man, there's
22:46
Speaker 7: some confidence that has to come from beating that team
22:48
Speaker 7: that everybody else is chasing.
22:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. I think the guys take a lot
22:54
Speaker 4: of pride in that. I think Carl takes a lot
22:56
Speaker 4: of personal pride in that. You know, he and Dan
22:58
Speaker 4: Watson are good friends. Was Dan Watson's the coaching Gret Rapids.
23:02
Speaker 4: And I think Carl being able to get it back
23:06
Speaker 4: on that bus last night probably felt real good.
23:09
Speaker 8: And you and you said it, you mentioned him, But
23:11
Speaker 8: I don't think it's enough praise. I mean, what a
23:13
Speaker 8: job Carl Taylor's done.
23:14
Speaker 1: Again.
23:15
Speaker 8: We said this every year, but it's true in the
23:17
Speaker 8: turmoil roster wise that he has to deal with, and
23:19
Speaker 8: a lot of it this year recently with losing so
23:21
Speaker 8: many of his top goal scorers going up to Nashville.
23:24
Speaker 8: But but the foundation he set, the culture he set
23:26
Speaker 8: that no matter what. You know, they were down four
23:28
Speaker 8: times last night a goal and they kep kept coming back.
23:30
Speaker 8: You only do that if you have a great culture
23:32
Speaker 8: and foundation in place, and Carl Taylor's been doing that
23:34
Speaker 8: for a long time here.
23:36
Speaker 4: I would agree with that one hundred percent. And back
23:40
Speaker 4: that first week of March when the NHL trading deadline
23:43
Speaker 4: came and we lost six players that week, and you know,
23:47
Speaker 4: they've had so much roster movement this year. I went
23:50
Speaker 4: in Carl's office after the trading deadlight was over and
23:53
Speaker 4: it was just me and him, and I looked at
23:56
Speaker 4: him and I said, you know, you guys are the
23:58
Speaker 4: best coaches in this league, and I have complete confidence
24:01
Speaker 4: that this is going to work out. And it has
24:04
Speaker 4: been really good hockey for the last three and a
24:06
Speaker 4: half weeks. So guys have done a really good job.
24:09
Speaker 4: And some guys have stepped up here taking their opportunity
24:14
Speaker 4: that maybe they weren't getting a little bit earlier in
24:16
Speaker 4: the season. So it's really been fun to watch. But
24:19
Speaker 4: we've still got a ways to go, get more games
24:21
Speaker 4: to play, and I was still working to solidify that
24:24
Speaker 4: playoff position, and you know, I think the opportunity to
24:27
Speaker 4: move up has become far more realistic. So we're just
24:30
Speaker 4: going to keep going.
24:32
Speaker 6: Talking to John Greenberg, president of Milwaukee Admirals in action
24:34
Speaker 6: this weekend against Henderson that's right outside of Vegas, Silver
24:39
Speaker 6: and Saturday at Panther Arena seven o'clock face off Friday
24:43
Speaker 6: six on Saturday, Gridia, your push for the playoffs has
24:48
Speaker 6: been ongoing, and it's we mentioned that you lost some
24:51
Speaker 6: guys in Ashville. The Preds are surging and making up
24:53
Speaker 6: for their beds. They've clawed out of that bad start
24:55
Speaker 6: they had and are trying to get into the playoffs.
24:57
Speaker 1: They won five in a row, and our gear and.
25:00
Speaker 6: Up to put some distance between them and the case
25:02
Speaker 6: and maybe move up on Utah or Vegas or somebody.
25:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, you know, they're doing some things that
25:10
Speaker 4: I'm not sure anybody thought would happen. And I would
25:12
Speaker 4: tell you that a lot of that coincides with our
25:15
Speaker 4: guys getting called up. You know, this is not the
25:18
Speaker 4: first time that that's happened. A couple of years ago
25:21
Speaker 4: when Nashville made a coaching change and Andrew Burnett came
25:25
Speaker 4: in there, they took a bunch of our guys there
25:27
Speaker 4: and they made a huge run at the end of
25:29
Speaker 4: the season, got themselves into the playoffs. And I see
25:32
Speaker 4: this happening again. Young players have come in and re
25:35
Speaker 4: energized the veteran group there and Nashville is on a
25:39
Speaker 4: role and so hopefully we can get both organizations in
25:42
Speaker 4: the playoffs and see if we can do some damage.
25:45
Speaker 7: How tough is that though, because personally, I know you
25:47
Speaker 7: guys feel some a lot of satisfaction seeing those guys
25:50
Speaker 7: go and have that success, but also want to have
25:54
Speaker 7: success here and the success level at the level in
25:57
Speaker 7: which participated in the playoffs the last couple of years.
26:00
Speaker 7: You're right, it's it's a goal to have both teams in,
26:03
Speaker 7: but it's not always the most common right for your
26:07
Speaker 7: AHL affiliate to be very, very good and competitive into
26:10
Speaker 7: the playoffs as well as your your NHL team, because
26:13
Speaker 7: it sometimes feels like it's a either or kind of thing.
26:16
Speaker 1: Or am I just making that too simplistic.
26:19
Speaker 4: No, there's definitely an either or. I mean, it's it's
26:22
Speaker 4: not always that way. Sometimes you have a year where
26:24
Speaker 4: both teams are really good and you know you're lucky
26:27
Speaker 4: that way, and you hope that you can find a
26:30
Speaker 4: way to compete at both levels. But sometimes you take
26:35
Speaker 4: guys from here and it it depletes one team or
26:37
Speaker 4: the other teams just that performing very well, and it's
26:40
Speaker 4: just it's really special when both teams are able to
26:44
Speaker 4: get in and you want both teams to have a
26:46
Speaker 4: chance to win championships because that's what we're all here for.
26:50
Speaker 6: Admirals of course, and the Brewers long standing relationship uniform
26:54
Speaker 6: patch for the admirals, what does opening day look like
26:57
Speaker 6: for the hockey club now we're talking tomorrow, are we
27:00
Speaker 6: are we continuing the tradition?
27:03
Speaker 4: No, not going into a three and three. That was
27:06
Speaker 4: a that was the discussion that was held in the
27:09
Speaker 4: in the coach's office quite a while ago, because yeah,
27:12
Speaker 4: that has been a tradition. So we're going up Monday,
27:15
Speaker 4: so after there is over and we've got some time
27:18
Speaker 4: off on the back end of it, and uh, we're
27:21
Speaker 4: gonna go out there and have a great time on Monday,
27:23
Speaker 4: and one of our players and one of our staff
27:26
Speaker 4: members also are going to get a chance to throw
27:27
Speaker 4: out first pitches Monday, which is really great to be
27:31
Speaker 4: able to celebrate our celebrate our front office staff. So
27:34
Speaker 4: we had a growing yesterday for everybody who was was
27:37
Speaker 4: not terrified to do that, even though they all admitted
27:41
Speaker 4: they were terrified to put their name in the hat.
27:42
Speaker 4: And a member of our staff got picked to be
27:45
Speaker 4: able to do that. So it's so it gonna be
27:46
Speaker 4: a lot of fun to do that, and our players
27:48
Speaker 4: will find out which player is doing it tomorrow, So
27:50
Speaker 4: it's going to be fun. If you go over to
27:52
Speaker 4: the ball game on Monday, get there early, and see
27:53
Speaker 4: the first pitches and.
27:55
Speaker 1: I got my uber to get home. So it's going
27:59
Speaker 1: to be the key.
28:00
Speaker 8: And and I'm always wondering, I like the way you
28:03
Speaker 8: guys did it. Put your name in a hat, because
28:04
Speaker 8: then everyone's like, you know, fighting over who gets to
28:06
Speaker 8: throw out the first pitch.
28:07
Speaker 7: Well, then nobody can be mad at Wojo when he
28:10
Speaker 7: spikes it in fifteen feet away.
28:11
Speaker 1: From exactly exactly. So that's gonna be that's gonna be
28:15
Speaker 1: super exciting to watch it.
28:16
Speaker 8: And before that a big weekend obviously for the Admirals
28:19
Speaker 8: as well, we know about baseball. Big begind for the Admirals,
28:21
Speaker 8: two home games and Friday's a special night with ASL
28:25
Speaker 8: Night right Greene.
28:27
Speaker 4: It sure is and something we're really proud to be
28:30
Speaker 4: able to do. So we've had two players here over
28:34
Speaker 4: the last few years, brothers Ozzie and Oasis Wiseblatt, who
28:38
Speaker 4: grew up in homes with deaf parents and so their
28:42
Speaker 4: first language has been signed language, and we wanted to
28:46
Speaker 4: find a way to pay a tribute to their family
28:49
Speaker 4: as well as you know, be inclusive in our community.
28:52
Speaker 4: And so it is Signed Language Night on Friday Night,
28:55
Speaker 4: and we'll have translators around the building, concession stands, team store,
29:00
Speaker 4: and the lobby to help with tickets. We will translate
29:04
Speaker 4: everything that's said by our PA announcer, by our game hosts,
29:08
Speaker 4: and it'll all be up on the on the video board.
29:10
Speaker 4: And just to find a way to you know, be inclusive.
29:14
Speaker 4: And I've been learning a little bit of sign that
29:16
Speaker 4: My goal was when we first announced it was to
29:18
Speaker 4: learn a lot of it. And I've done what I
29:20
Speaker 4: did in college, which Drew can attest to it. I'm
29:23
Speaker 4: not cramming this week. Yes, so we're working on learning
29:27
Speaker 4: enough to you know, not embarrass myself. But it is
29:31
Speaker 4: really a special night for us to be able to
29:33
Speaker 4: do this.
29:34
Speaker 7: Okay, well, I'm I'm Greenie. You just gave me some
29:37
Speaker 7: incredible knowledge because your boy has been trying to cram
29:40
Speaker 7: on to figure out how to do my name in
29:42
Speaker 7: sign language and.
29:43
Speaker 8: Some of the stuff, well and some of the stuff
29:45
Speaker 8: that comes out of your mouth, Billy, I good luck
29:47
Speaker 8: to the sign language. Yeah, because I mean I don't
29:49
Speaker 8: know how to translate some of your not that it's
29:51
Speaker 8: all bad, heise, What do you think I'm saying on
29:54
Speaker 8: the microphone.
29:55
Speaker 1: I don't mean bad.
29:56
Speaker 8: I mean like the way you weave in some tapestry
29:58
Speaker 8: of words and phrases.
29:59
Speaker 7: And sure, yeah, well listen, I mean we saw the
30:03
Speaker 7: sign language moderator doing it at the Waka Flaka concert.
30:06
Speaker 1: Maybe I can go and I can tell you.
30:09
Speaker 7: But being able to to honor those players in those families,
30:14
Speaker 7: the wise blats you mentioned, they've they've been on the
30:16
Speaker 7: squad now coincidingly won last year and now this year.
30:20
Speaker 7: They also Greeny have a little feisty quality to him,
30:25
Speaker 7: and they gotta be some fan favorites when they're always
30:28
Speaker 7: in the mix. Have you is it one of your
30:31
Speaker 7: favorite things that start pinpointing what players are going to
30:34
Speaker 7: find themselves in the scraps? And do you generally pick
30:38
Speaker 7: the smallest guys on the team to be the ones
30:40
Speaker 7: that are generally instigating it?
30:43
Speaker 4: Instigating? Yes, that necessarily fulfilling. Usually it requires somebody else
30:48
Speaker 4: having to depict the MP for that. But Oasis is
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Speaker 4: not afraid. Yesterday he had quite the scrum last night.
30:55
Speaker 4: He's not afraid to find a guy who's bigger than him.
30:58
Speaker 4: And we uh, we saw him fight last night. And
31:03
Speaker 4: I was sitting next to Daniel Carr Jake Lecheini, who
31:07
Speaker 4: are two of our guys were injured. We had a
31:08
Speaker 4: viewing party last night at Major Goolsby's and uh, those
31:12
Speaker 4: two guys were there to hang out with fans.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome with that.
31:17
Speaker 4: With that, when the fight happened, Daniels just said that
31:21
Speaker 4: he's like, just watch this and he goes to right
31:23
Speaker 4: the kidney. Yeah, that'll that'll, that'll stop this whole thing.
31:26
Speaker 4: And then sure enough, So it was it was really
31:29
Speaker 4: quick the thing. So little guys know what they're doing
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Speaker 4: out there, especially guys like the wise Blats. They're they're
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Speaker 4: good at it.
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Speaker 1: It's a smart fighter, fight smarter, smart, not harder.
31:38
Speaker 8: And I don't know if there is there something Marino
31:40
Speaker 8: on those guys, because it's like if we're mighty Dogs
31:42
Speaker 8: fans out there when Kenny Woo smallest guy out there.
31:44
Speaker 8: When when Kenny Woo learned how to fight from the
31:46
Speaker 8: Bash Brothers, everything changed. So it does feel like there's
31:49
Speaker 8: a little olaysis Kenny Kenny Woo Oasis Wise Blot.
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Speaker 1: He's the smallest guy, but he knows how to fight.
31:54
Speaker 8: And you have another another great concert I believe on Saturday, right,
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Speaker 8: uh right.
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Speaker 4: It is, yes, the last last concert of the season
32:03
Speaker 4: and Parmally country guys six number one hits, a lot
32:07
Speaker 4: of other gold records. It's gonna be a great show
32:10
Speaker 4: and they are really excited to be here. They are
32:15
Speaker 4: actually replacements for a guy named Josh Ross who was
32:17
Speaker 4: supposed to have joined us, but he canceled on us,
32:20
Speaker 4: so Parmally jumped in. And it's a really great get
32:24
Speaker 4: to be able to substitute with with those guys. They
32:27
Speaker 4: were with us amazingly enough ten years ago, so they
32:30
Speaker 4: are they're back now with a whole slew of number
32:34
Speaker 4: one songs and so ice pass is still available. Great
32:37
Speaker 4: tickets still available. We got room for you all weekend.
32:40
Speaker 4: But hopefully you come out and have some fun with us,
32:44
Speaker 4: and we will see who shows up in the arena.
32:46
Speaker 4: We I know Tim Dillard, who was a friend of
32:51
Speaker 4: the admirals. He actually came to our viewing party all
32:53
Speaker 4: of a sudden, we're sitting there and he walked in
32:55
Speaker 4: last night and stayed for the whole game. Stayed for
32:58
Speaker 4: the whole game, and he's actually covered to the game
33:01
Speaker 4: on our game on Friday night. And I wouldn't be
33:03
Speaker 4: surprised if a few other Brewers athletes made it. They've
33:07
Speaker 4: got the night.
33:07
Speaker 9: Off on Friday talking talking, well, listen, if they can
33:12
Speaker 9: if they can get those if they can get those
33:14
Speaker 9: seats that that airs has, there's not better a better
33:18
Speaker 9: Friday night and off day that you're gonna be able
33:20
Speaker 9: to have the Parmeally show.
33:21
Speaker 7: It shows my extent of country music knowledge. I mentioned
33:25
Speaker 7: it to my wife, like I don't know anything shows. Yeah,
33:27
Speaker 7: you do? You sing that take my Name song? Only
33:30
Speaker 7: four words of it all the time.
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Speaker 1: They here's one of those.
33:33
Speaker 7: Bands that has a bunch of songs that people might
33:36
Speaker 7: not trigger right away. And our friends from f M
33:38
Speaker 7: one oh six are going to be a part of
33:40
Speaker 7: it as well. These these double headers. There's only a
33:43
Speaker 7: few more on the home games. But gotta say I
33:47
Speaker 7: saw the results in it appears like the attendance and
33:51
Speaker 7: the game ops is kind of on a heater right now, Greene.
33:54
Speaker 7: It's a it's an impressive run of attendance that we've
33:57
Speaker 7: been seeing.
33:59
Speaker 4: For sure, since just before before Christmas. We're averaging seven
34:04
Speaker 4: thousand fans a game, which is amazing since mid December,
34:08
Speaker 4: and we're having a great year. Yes, it's been wonderful
34:11
Speaker 4: the last four months and we've got a big finish
34:15
Speaker 4: five home games left. It's including this weekend, so great
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Speaker 4: chance to come out, help us push to the playoffs
34:22
Speaker 4: and have a lot of fun with us at the
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Speaker 4: same time.
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Speaker 6: Have fun, win three this weekend and then go tear
34:28
Speaker 6: it up Monday for Brewers and rays. That's the recipe
34:31
Speaker 6: right now, Greenie, that's all we want from you.
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Speaker 4: That's good. Well, we're ready for the challenge to plan.
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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Thanks for joining us, Greenie,
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Speaker 1: appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: See you, buddy, Thanks Boyse, appreciate well.
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Speaker 6: People who are obsessed with what channel will the Brewers
40:03
Speaker 6: be on on my cable provider. It's not just Milwaukee.
40:06
Speaker 6: The Cardinals will announce that eight am tomorrow on the
40:10
Speaker 6: day of the first game where their games are gonna land.
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Speaker 1: I can't understand.
40:15
Speaker 6: Maybe there's a pr value to this or like how
40:18
Speaker 6: they cannot like they haven't decided or logistically figured it
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Speaker 6: out yet. I gotta believe they know. Are they just
40:23
Speaker 6: waiting to do this for drama?
40:25
Speaker 1: That's what I'm wondering.
40:26
Speaker 6: Like, but the Cardinals are announcing at eight am tomorrow
40:29
Speaker 6: where you can find the games.
40:30
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Brewers will do the same.
40:32
Speaker 7: Well, because it seems like Major League Baseball wants the drama, right,
40:35
Speaker 7: Like if major League Baseball is the one making the selections,
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Speaker 7: they want it to be, Hey, we have the product now,
40:42
Speaker 7: so you will wait for us to make the decision
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Speaker 7: and let y'all knowbo let's put the rumor.
40:47
Speaker 6: Is in Milwaukee that it's gonna be channel threeh eight
40:50
Speaker 6: or thirteen oh eight on your spectrum cables.
40:52
Speaker 8: Do I think they want I mean, it's the Do
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Speaker 8: they want to be in the news for local markets?
40:56
Speaker 8: Is that what it is they want to be in
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Speaker 8: the conversation? Do they want to ris the teams? Is
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Speaker 8: that you think that's part of embarrassed. I'm just trying
41:04
Speaker 8: to figure out why they would do this.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I don't know what they
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Speaker 1: want to say. Look, you don't like this, do you?
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Speaker 1: You guys should do it?
41:11
Speaker 6: Or maybe they just want to avoid people going to
41:13
Speaker 6: that channel and then calling their provider saying there's nothing
41:15
Speaker 6: on this channel.
41:16
Speaker 1: Well there isn't. That's what I wonder, Yeah, I wonder
41:19
Speaker 1: if that's part of it, to get.
41:20
Speaker 6: Used to the fact that that's not really a it's
41:22
Speaker 6: a dark channel except for when there's going to be games.
41:24
Speaker 7: Right, But they're not just going to play the CC
41:27
Speaker 7: Sabbathia two thousand and eight game against the Cup Center
41:29
Speaker 7: single day. I mean, eventually they might get to it,
41:32
Speaker 7: which would be cool if they did.
41:33
Speaker 8: But frustrate people into buying the app. You think that's
41:37
Speaker 8: part of it? Maybe, Well, I.
41:38
Speaker 1: Think there was absolutely some of that. I mean, like
41:40
Speaker 1: and probably you're not wrong.
41:42
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I don't necessarily think that's bad business, right, Like,
41:46
Speaker 7: it might not be pretty, it might not be nice,
41:49
Speaker 7: but I think it's probably good business to try and
41:52
Speaker 7: incentivize people to buy the product.
41:54
Speaker 1: I also't think it's a bad option for consumers.
41:55
Speaker 8: If you're paying one hundred for Brewers one hundred and
41:57
Speaker 8: sixty games, I mean you're paying what are you paying
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Speaker 8: seventy cents a game?
42:02
Speaker 1: That's even a deal.
42:03
Speaker 6: Arm in the extra hunder and get all the games
42:05
Speaker 6: because that's the MLB TV.
42:07
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that, man.
42:10
Speaker 7: So good there, and they actually have It's not NFL
42:14
Speaker 7: Red Zone, but they're biginning that. They do every couple
42:18
Speaker 7: of games, every couple of days. Pretty spectacular as well.
42:21
Speaker 7: You checked the box score right on there. You can
42:23
Speaker 7: flip if all of a sudden, you know you, maybe
42:26
Speaker 7: you want to hear some Jeff Levering and Langren on
42:28
Speaker 7: the radio side.
42:29
Speaker 1: Flip that bad boy over. It is pretty elite.
42:31
Speaker 7: How excited are you for the USOS and uh Bert
42:35
Speaker 7: Kreischer an Opening Night on Netflix tonight with the Yankees
42:39
Speaker 7: and Giants? There you go, I mean, we're getting the
42:42
Speaker 7: WWE version of Opening Night on Netflix with the Yankees
42:45
Speaker 7: and Giants.
42:47
Speaker 6: Then Friday hit me up. He's like, how come the
42:48
Speaker 6: Reds don't play the first game anymore? When did that stup?
42:50
Speaker 7: Like in the eighties, say, when you were used to
42:54
Speaker 7: be Yeah, exactly, Tomorrow's the actual opening day.
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Speaker 6: We're gonna have a party, arman, enjoy Vegas. Everybody enjoying
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Speaker 6: your Wednesday. We'll see you at five am.
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Speaker 1: Peace.
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