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09/08/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Who's ready to dominate a new week. Welcome in to
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: the Tuesday edition of the huddle feels like the Monday edition.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Cause Monday was Sunday. We're post labor day. We're on
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  Speaker 1: to football season. We're on to fall. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: welcome in five o'clock clubbers. Glad to have you aboard
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  Speaker 1: on nine 20 Milwaukee, 10 70 Madison worldwide on the
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  Speaker 2: I am drew Olson joined by Mr. Bill Schmidt. Great
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  Speaker 2: to be back in the saddle again, brother. How you
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  Speaker 2: feeling here? I'm good. I'm resting ready. Had a good weekend. Relaxing. Tranquilo,
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  Speaker 2: as they say. Oh, I like that. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Armand Sarian's behind the glass pushing the buttons and monitoring
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  Speaker 1: the NicoletLaw.com. Talk and text line 877-794-1973. How are you doing, Armand?
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  Speaker 2: What's up, boys? Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a great week. We had a great
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  Speaker 3: weekend in falls here. Football's here. Football is here. The
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  Speaker 3: pennant race is in full swing. The Cubs are in town.
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  Speaker 1: Now, my logic, I must admit, I have to call
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: myself out when my logic is flawed because I thought
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  Speaker 1: that the Brewers split, and then again, had they won
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: that getaway game last week at Wrigley, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I would have taken the starch out of the Cubs fans. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking the dog around my neighborhood yesterday morning, and
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  Speaker 1: I was stunned.
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  Speaker 2: They were among us.
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  Speaker 1: By the number of Cubs jerseys and families. Families walking around. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the sad thing is that it's now been
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  Speaker 1: bred into society.
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  Speaker 2: Indoctrinating the kids. Red and blue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just, it was an army. Now, post-game, not so much.
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  Speaker 1: And then I thought to myself, wow. And these people are,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they are better fans than we give them credit for.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe they're not front runners. Maybe they are into it.
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  Speaker 1: Or they committed to this trip before.
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  Speaker 2: They knew what was going to happen. Or the money
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  Speaker 2: was spent. They didn't want to. The hotels were bought.
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  Speaker 2: And I anticipated that for a Labor Day because the
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  Speaker 2: day was off. And that was the thing. The two-month
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  Speaker 2: ramp-up problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was the thing. You had time to
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  Speaker 1: plan for this. It's kind of the last hurrah of summer.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of those people own vacation properties. I have areas, yes,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And then I was thinking to myself, well,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm a Chicago fan and I see the calendar,
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  Speaker 1: And I can do the Lambeau AmFam doubleheader and watch
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame play Wisconsin at Lambeau on Sunday night and
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  Speaker 1: then hook over. maybe stay in Milwaukee, come back to
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee or whatever, and then get to Brewers Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty damn fine weekend. It works out pretty well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I think there were a lot of Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: fans that stayed in the Paper Valley. There were a
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  Speaker 2: lot that were hanging out in the Appleton area from
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  Speaker 2: the reports that I got from our friend Mike Heller
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  Speaker 2: there on Sunday night. There were a ton in the area.
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  Speaker 2: It was a pretty good sports weekend. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night at Lambeau was postcard. Like, it was... As
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  Speaker 2: gorgeous as it could be from a weather perspective. And
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  Speaker 2: yesterday was a banner day at AmFam, too. So at
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  Speaker 2: least they got a good run and got to enjoy
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  Speaker 2: some nice days. Door county weather. Before, you know, that
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  Speaker 2: toll booth hit them in the tailpipe on the way
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  Speaker 2: back to Illinois and they throw that 280. You don't
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  Speaker 2: actually throw the 280. Now you just got to deposit
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  Speaker 2: it on the way home. Yeah, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Or when you get home, pay it online? The I-Pass.
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  Speaker 3: You just got the I-Pass now, and then you pay
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  Speaker 3: it at the end of the month. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Or if you don't have one, you just pay it out.
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  Speaker 2: You just drive through. Drive right through and then wait
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  Speaker 2: for them to send you the bill.
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  Speaker 3: Drive through and see what happens, yeah. Well, everyone's taking
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  Speaker 3: pictures of everything these days, but you're right. You know
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  Speaker 3: that I-Pass, you just drive right through. But, yeah, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 3: when we have days off, we stay around our place.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when they have days off, they come to
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  Speaker 3: our state and our town, and they go up to
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  Speaker 3: Door County, and they go up to Lambeau, and they
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  Speaker 3: come up to– American Family Field, but hey, it is
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  Speaker 3: what it is. But boy, it felt like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you had the you had the picture perfect night at Lambeau.
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  Speaker 3: At least it seemed that way, Billy. Stuff you were
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  Speaker 3: sending me and saw it on TV. The weather seemed good.
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  Speaker 3: They had that kind of like mystic fog in the air,
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  Speaker 3: that little mist. I don't know what you call it.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of like fog. It was kind of like.
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  Speaker 3: It just gave that sort of like old-time aura.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like what you're talking about is a haze. A haze.
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  Speaker 2: A haze is good. I like that. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if there was a haze up there, but maybe, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it was. There was a lot of cigar haze.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of cigar smoke being burned up
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  Speaker 2: in the parking lot. So maybe that was the haze
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  Speaker 2: that you were catching there on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: And the haze was the halftime score of the hopes
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  Speaker 3: and dreams. You were allowed to, I felt like the
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  Speaker 3: halftime score, it gave you hope.
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  Speaker 2: You dared to dream at halftime. It's the one that
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  Speaker 2: kills you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're hanging in this thing. We got the
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  Speaker 3: game plan working. We're down three. And then it didn't last.
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  Speaker 3: But we wanted them to be competitive into the fourth.
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  Speaker 3: They gave us two quarters anyway, I thought. And that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of the way I looked at it. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: your perspective on it, Billy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Billy was there.
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  Speaker 1: Billy was hard down, taking in the sights, the sounds,
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  Speaker 1: and the smells of the Badgers opener.
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  Speaker 2: And that bright red uniforms, man. I guess dark, bright red.
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  Speaker 2: Not as bad as the numbers on either side.
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  Speaker 1: That was hard to tell who was who.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't great. Our friend Matt said, if they just
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  Speaker 2: take these uniforms, put them in the basement and never
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: go back in there. Just leave those things in the
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  Speaker 2: storage room and never go back. It's an interesting day
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: for us, as mentioned. It's a Monday. It's a Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: that feels like the Monday. So we miss game balls
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  Speaker 2: and kicks.
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  Speaker 1: I think we owe it to our folks to let
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  Speaker 1: them open it up.
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  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Game balls and kicks, buying and selling. We'll mash it
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: all together today. We'll have a little stew. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart join us at 725 to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Brew Crew. But is the lead story of the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the Badgers' half-decent performance? Is it the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: losing a series in Cincinnati and then coming up off
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  Speaker 1: the mat and beating the Cubs head-to-head? Yesterday at AmFam,
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  Speaker 1: winning the season series. and moving ever closer to their
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  Speaker 1: goal as the magic number dropped by three.
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  Speaker 2: It was a triple up yesterday. Yeah, that was the
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  Speaker 2: perfect one.
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  Speaker 1: Because by winning the season series, they add another game
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  Speaker 1: because the Brewers win a tie, so the Cubs can't
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  Speaker 1: tie the Brewers. So the magic number to win the
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  Speaker 1: NL Central is nine. To clinch the number one seed,
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  Speaker 1: it's 16. To win a bye, it's 15. And just
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  Speaker 1: to clinch a postseason berth, they'll do that probably by
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  Speaker 1: the end of the week.
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  Speaker 2: That's six. Yeah, and Drew, I think it's yesterday. Just
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  Speaker 2: the way it transpires, the way it happens. You have
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  Speaker 2: Murph maybe kind of almost addressing the cushion, almost talking
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  Speaker 2: about the lead that they've built up. And this is
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  Speaker 2: kind of why you build yourself up a lead to
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  Speaker 2: withstand and weather the storm, I think, was his trademark
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  Speaker 2: in the moment. As he mentioned, you got to weather this.
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  Speaker 2: You got to weather the amount of injuries that they have.
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  Speaker 2: The pitching staff that's really starting to slide. Kyle Harrison,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to need a piggyback next time he goes
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  Speaker 2: out there to be able to have any trust that
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  Speaker 2: he can get you through a game. And you're sending
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Gasser out on the mound against the Cubs. He shoves. However,
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  Speaker 2: Boyd's even better. And you end up winning it by
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  Speaker 2: Brewers in the ninth inning or in the eighth inning.
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  Speaker 2: The way they came back and finished off Boyd. got
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  Speaker 2: into the Cubs bullpen, hammered a couple of their cats.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was the perfect crew game and the
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  Speaker 2: perfect way for you to finish off this run because
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  Speaker 2: much like game two of that four-game set, Cubs had
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  Speaker 2: to sweep that four-game set to have a chance to
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  Speaker 2: win the division. All four at Wrigley Field or at
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  Speaker 2: least three of four to then roll up here and
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to win three games. When you won
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  Speaker 2: game two having Miz on the bump in game three,
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  Speaker 2: that felt like as much of a dagger as it
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  Speaker 2: could have yesterday going and stealing that thing back in
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  Speaker 2: the ninth, in the eighth inning, having PCA be able
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  Speaker 2: to hit a solo shot in the ninth and it
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  Speaker 2: be just mathematical at that point, window dressing. That's a,
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  Speaker 2: that was a massive, massive game. And I think the
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  Speaker 2: biggest shot that you put it could have had other
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  Speaker 2: than putting the t-shirt on after the, and just.
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  Speaker 3: To do it against that team with that crowd, they're
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  Speaker 3: feeling that way because you know, you, and I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to give you more credit, Drew, you veteran scribe, you
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  Speaker 3: called it right. The brewers after that series, I remember
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  Speaker 3: you saying last week, I wouldn't be surprised if they
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't drop two or three in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: And it happened, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: So the way the pitching struggled all weekend in the
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  Speaker 3: Queen City, if they're still calling it that, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Then you're down against the Cubs. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: drop three. And you're like, oh, well, you're not really nervous.
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  Speaker 3: But then again, they could cut the lead down to six.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like, are you going to get nervous about that?
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  Speaker 3: And then to come back and win it like that
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  Speaker 3: yesterday was just awesome. The catch by Lara, Jackson Turio
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  Speaker 3: sliding to catch that one.
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  Speaker 2: To end it. And, you know, just the energy in
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  Speaker 2: the ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you could feel it, you know, even watching
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  Speaker 3: on TV if you weren't there. And to get one
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  Speaker 3: back over on them when they thought they might get you. And, boy,
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  Speaker 3: did that feel good or what? So that was the
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  Speaker 3: true dagger, I would say. And that was the best
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  Speaker 3: part of the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And there were a lot of Cubs fans in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Now I wonder, will that trend continue today and tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: Because, you know, life.
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  Speaker 1: Now I would anticipate it. Life, you know, Cubs fans, school.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of, you got to kind of get back
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  Speaker 1: to the grind. This will be a tough one, I think,
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  Speaker 1: for them to fully load up here tonight. It's a
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Even the Marquette, you know, Cubs fans, the
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  Speaker 1: Carroll University Cubs fans.
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  Speaker 2: Take that, Norberts. Like, depending on where you live or
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: if you were just a WGN watcher, maybe you get
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  Speaker 2: a Tuesday or Wednesday night ticket. But this is a
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  Speaker 2: transplant night, I think, for the only Cub fans that
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  Speaker 2: are going to be there. My mother-in-law, very wisely yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: as her dad, lifelong Cubs fan, he loves absolutely every
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  Speaker 2: single game, living and dying with every single one. She
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  Speaker 2: had bought the ticket. She's like, wait a second, this
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  Speaker 2: is amazing. A Monday day game? They never do that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there'd be a Monday day game. He didn't necessarily put
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: it together that it was Labor Day, that it was
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  Speaker 2: going to be like 60% Cub fans. So they switched
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  Speaker 2: the tickets to Wednesday because she said, I have to
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  Speaker 2: sit next to one. I'm not putting up with 100
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  Speaker 2: in the section. So let's move it to Wednesday because
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  Speaker 2: I think the logic was the same there. This one
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: might be 70-30 coming up. Especially if you're on that
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: third base side, right? That's where they... It's hilarious. It
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  Speaker 2: was another.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had the blowout a week ago, a
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  Speaker 1: week before yesterday. And then we had mostly decent competitive games.
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  Speaker 2: Right? Really good games, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: In what is shaping up as the best rivalry, not
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  Speaker 1: only in baseball, but one of the best rivalries in
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  Speaker 1: the national sports scene at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at the moment, and it's because... Look at only
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  Speaker 2: to Western Michigan, Michigan. No kidding. Well, I mean, like Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox has the history, has the passion and the
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  Speaker 2: years and years of it. But like Yankees, Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers and Cubs are meeting in big time spots.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes it. Fan bases don't like each other,
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  Speaker 2: but you got to play meaningful games. It's also the proximity.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the, and the, like we said, the spillover.
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  Speaker 1: Like people in Chicago, they'd summer in Wisconsin. They, they
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: avail themselves of the cheese castle, you know, and the
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  Speaker 1: broad stop and they, they seep over the border a lot.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: But even Packers and Bears had taken a significant step
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: back over the last 15, 20 years. For sure. Now
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: there's one year of legitimate competitiveness between the two, and
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: it's hotter than it's ever been.
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  Speaker 1: It'll ride the coattails of this rivalry, and it'll waken
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  Speaker 1: it up. And I've said it for years that you
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: can say what you want about the Vikings. The Bears
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  Speaker 1: are the rival, have been forever, going back to Lambeau
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  Speaker 1: and Hallis, and they're still the number one to me.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just a matter that the Bears sucked for
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  Speaker 1: so long they became irrelevant. And now that they are
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  Speaker 1: good and they're feeling themselves, they need to be put
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  Speaker 1: down this year. That'll happen eventually. Now the wind is
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  Speaker 1: in the sailboat.
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  Speaker 2: Now we need to get some rocky waters going. It'll happen.
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  Speaker 2: But it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: We don't care that much about the Cubs' inner workings
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  Speaker 1: and their day-to-day because they're about to be vanquished in
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  Speaker 1: the division again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But council's wearing it from Cubs fans because they finally
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  Speaker 1: get a pristine start.
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  Speaker 2: They let the guy go into the eighth. He gives
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: up a walk and a double. The first time all year.
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  Speaker 2: Should have taken him out. Have you seen that bullpen?
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: I was going to say. Have you seen what they're like?
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't wait for them to get to them.
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  Speaker 1: Can you understand his hesitance to remove a guy who's
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: mowing down the Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: On a Monday? It's a real Sophie's choice, right? Because
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  Speaker 2: if he takes them out and they give up the runs,
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: he's screwed there, too.
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  Speaker 1: If he takes them out and then the reliever gives
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: up a walk-in double, what the hell are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You can't read the room. Bowen's pitching great. And so
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: it's like one of those damned if you do, damned
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  Speaker 1: if you don't.
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  Speaker 3: And then just the imagery and the optics are bad
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  Speaker 3: for him, too, because he looks so annoyed all the
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  Speaker 3: time in the face when he knows it didn't go
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: well and he has to go right to the phone
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  Speaker 3: and start banging on the phone to make sure they
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: get the guy up.
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  Speaker 2: And they're getting as many bullpen camera shots, dugout camera shots.
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  Speaker 2: As many as they can. Now that's the slow-mo shot
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  Speaker 2: of him. It's like four to five times as many
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  Speaker 2: times as they pan into the Brewers dugout. Totally.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: And then Brewers fans going, God, you see how miserable
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: he looks?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he did the same thing when he was
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: in the other dugout. That's just the way he looks.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: That's just the way he is. But it makes it
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: a lot sweeter.
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  Speaker 1: As a player, I said his nickname as a player
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: was the Grumpy Rooster because he would show up in
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: the morning with his hair all messed up and he
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: was grumpy.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, he's the Grumpy Rooster. There was never
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  Speaker 2: anybody that looked more annoyed in the batter's box than
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: Craig Council. Totally. Like the deep breath and the sigh of,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I got to do that again.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's a two Oh count.
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  Speaker 1: I got to get into this painful pre-pitch stance of
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: mine again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. But it does it. You can see
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  Speaker 2: how many fans on both sides are in loving the
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: fact he was wearing it, but Zephyr hand Zephyr hand
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  Speaker 2: who they grabbed from the angels. He's given up a
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  Speaker 2: run in every other or every two appearances that he's
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  Speaker 2: had since he came over. And a lot of the
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: guys that they bring into starters in Gosman and Holmes,
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: they've been good. They tried to fix the bullpen and
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: just have had no luck with it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, their starter acquisitions have been good, but the bullpen
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: has been a struggle for them, and it continues to
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: be their soft underbelly.
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  Speaker 2: And, yeah, you're right. Hassan Pfeffer or whatever the guy's
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  Speaker 2: name is. I enjoyed the bullpen or the dugout shots
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: of Matthew Boyd very, very mad, though, once he came
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  Speaker 2: out of the game. He was coming up on 90
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: pitches in the eighth, right? I think he had 88
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: after seven. What are you doing?
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: Every pitcher says, let me stay in the game. I
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: want this game. Sometimes it's better to leave on a
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: high note. I've done my best joke here.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: I'm out.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Get me off the stage here. It was his first
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: time going to the eighth inning all year. You kind
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: of understood why they wanted to do it.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: He was huffing and puffing coming off in the seventh.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: I had a feeling he was going to try to
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: campaign for it, and I'm glad he did.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Cubs, their fans after yesterday, they're like, Council
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: should be fired. His seat should be blazing hot right now.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: They've had all kinds of injuries. They're going to win
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: 90 games and might win a playoff series.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: They've had a good year, another one, and it's a
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: really good team.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: The problem is when they compare it to the guy
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: that's going to win 90 games.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: But when he's the number one, he's the highest paid
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: manager in all of baseball, and they were expecting a
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: certain level. They haven't gotten to that point yet. That's
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: the interesting juice worth the squeeze. Say they do lose
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: it to Philly in the three-game wildcard series. Definitely not
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: getting fired. I would think the seat would become somewhat
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: hot rolling into next year. Cause he's rolling a five-year deal.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: He's going into year number four of the contract. Yeah.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: And like you, they're either extending him or, or letting
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: him go at the end of the year.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: At a certain point though, the evaluators know that they
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: didn't give him good groceries to make a good meal
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: in that bullpen.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: And they've had the injuries and stuff. It's like, No,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: but they made moves at the deadline. I mean, they did. Yeah,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: but they had plus a million dollars for Alex Bregman.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: They made more moves this year than they have in
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: five to seven years. Yeah, they had to.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: And the response could be, hey, look, and I'm winning
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: 90 plus and going to the playoffs. So it is
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: a tough thing when you said.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Right, Billy, to your point.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: And they've had a lot of injuries and a lot
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: of injuries. You want a certain level of success.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: They're caught with a bad bullpen. That'll kill you. The
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: tough thing is, though, and this is where you set
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: a standard, and now the Badgers messed this up. Now
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: they showed us that they can play the half football
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: they did in the first half. Now you've done set
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: the standard. Now you've got to live up to the standard.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: The standard for counts coming in was... Well, you did
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: way more with less anyway. Look at what he did,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: and look what he was doing in Milwaukee with this
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: bullpen that he had there, rolling bullpen games left and right.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: You should easily be able to make this work. We'll
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: give you some chicken and make some chicken salad. Right.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: So that's the weird part is the expectation is, well,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: we could just give you crap, and you'll be able
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: to turn it into something good. Why have you not
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: done that here? Maybe it was the whole organization in
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee that they didn't account for.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: That is the thing that follows you when you have
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: success in a market like this.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Not to mention Stearns and all those guys. Yeah, exactly.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Why can't they recreate the Milwaukee juice?
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Just bring Milwaukee here. We have more money for you.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Also, the type of years ago, the Burrs hired Dean,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Dean Taylor to be the general manager. He was going
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: to bring the winning mindset from Dean Taylor, from the Braves.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: And that winning mind. You got the assistant from the Braves.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: They won. Come on, bring that up.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: That easy.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Come on. I blame myself. People have been doing that
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: in new England for years. Just week.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Well, he was with Belichick. It'll totally work here. Totally translate. Well,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: he didn't have his employee ID once. I didn't give
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: him the employee discount at the store. And everyone made
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: fun of me the rest of the year when I
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: was like 19 years old. So I blame myself on
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: the Dean Taylor one.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: So I'll take the blame. Didn't have his employee. You
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: didn't recognize him? You didn't recognize him? Every once in
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: a while. That was Dean Taylor. I'm like, well, he
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: didn't have his ID. He's supposed to have his ID
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: for the day. He didn't care. Oh, you were just
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: being a hard ass? Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I think I couldn't believe it was.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Him, maybe. He didn't look like him, or I didn't
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: know what it was.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I really don't know why, but ever since then, the
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Brewers lost.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I thought it was Tim Conway coming in.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Well, it was my fault. Take the L, Armin.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: We'll break it all down for you. Things are good
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: with the Brewers. Rough weekend in Cincinnati. Some ugly events
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Those Reds play hard, too, man. And they're coming back
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: here this weekend, aren't they? Yeah, and they went out
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: to L.A. They were scrapping last night.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Yep, yep. So we're on to football. Oh, by the way,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: it's Packers-Vikings weekend.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Golly, thank goodness we're finally here.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Finally, through the wilderness, we got two professional tackle football games.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: And this is the first week of The Huddle live
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: at Pottawatomie Sportsbook. We're in the annex Thursday from 5
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: to 7 p.m. The 5 o'clock club p.m. version will
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: kick off on Thursday. We'll talk more about that. We
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: are into it now. We've turned the page. We said
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: farewell to summer. Well, we're going to hang out to
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: it for a little bit, but we mostly said farewell
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and we're on to the good stuff. You are in
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: High drive into deep right center field. Lara going back.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Lara leaps in.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: This kid is a star.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: He makes another great play.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: You've got to be kidding me.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: My goodness. Lara, how many times has he had?
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: My goodness.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Would not have been a home run. Maybe it would.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It was close. Certainly took away extra bases. I mean,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: he is playing.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Huge out there in right field.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: My goodness. Take a bow, Luis. 21 years of age.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Tracking down these balls. Oh, my.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: From Brewers TV yesterday, Brewers beating the Cubs, courtesy of
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: some late clutchness on both the hitting side and the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: fielding side. The game-ending catch by Churrio was fantastic.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Pretty good too. That's another one I got ready to go. Suzuki,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: it was pretty good. Good theater yesterday.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Brewers taking a heated game against a rival on a holiday.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Does it get any better than that? This rivalry delivers, man.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: It really does. I feel bad for other fan bases
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: and other sports that don't get to enjoy rivalries like this.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: There are some teams where you just fly into the night,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: like the Phoenix Suns. They have a really passionate fan base.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: They are the number one team in that Arizona area.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Who's their rival.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Right. Right. Like they don't like a lot of teams. Yeah, they,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: they do. They don't like being, they don't like those,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: but the Lakers don't give a rip. Right. Like a
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Lakers fans. Couldn't care less. The Warriors fans don't care
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: about them. There's not the true back and forth. We
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: are here and you're here. So we might as well
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: hate each other and climb up the mountain together and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: then punch each other at the top of the ladder.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of teams and a lot of fan
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: base that just don't have that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: And like, there are other, you know, locales and fan
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: bases that vacation in that area. So I don't know
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: if this is why it doesn't work, but you're right. Billy,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: like the true nature of any good rivalry. And I've
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: thought about this for a long time. is the geography,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: like the existence of both fans existing in the other
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: space and annoying them with their presence. And that's what
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: you have with Chicago, Milwaukee. You have it with two
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: good teams, but you have the personal interaction so much.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: We're so close. There are so many Cubs fans here,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: and there are so many Brewers fans, and they're always interacting,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: and they're always annoying each other. And that's the reality
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: of any good rivalry. And we just have it. This
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: rivalry does deliver. It has it all right now. You know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: you had the little guy versus the big guy, the
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: small city, the small town.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: It has all the existence of what makes a great story.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: And thankfully, we've gotten the better end of it over
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: these years.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: And really, man, I'm telling you, I mean, these are
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: emotionally exhausting games. For a lot of fans.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: It really is. You're wired like Armand. It can be exhausting.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: They are, which is, you know, I think then that's like, Drew,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: you've always tried to ask the question, like, why do
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: you want to avoid them in the playoffs? And you've
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: always had that, like, don't you love the energy? I
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: think for some fans is that it matters so much
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: they get emotionally exhausted by it. And they don't want
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: to have to deal with that sort of burden in
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: their mind. This is what they think. Although I think
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: in my older age, I'm coming around more to your
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: end of it. And Billy, you've talked about it too,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: which is like, no, embrace the moment, embrace the energy, embrace.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: The opportunity to send them home and make them drive
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: through the toll booth as a loser.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Because a lot of, I think a lot of fans,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: and maybe this is like the Eeyore side, will feel like,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: you approach these games and you, you know, so much
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: is on the line. Cause like, what if we lose
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: and like, well, life does go on when you lose.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: So I think it's, once you understand that and you
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: get older, it becomes something you can enjoy more in
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: some way.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: You can, you just look back fondly on it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Remember those great games, even the ones you lost, they're
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: going to, they're going to go into this bucket of
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: great memories.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Cause it means something. Right.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: So back to the Badgers, we get Jeff and Fox
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: point member of the five o'clock club.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Hey guys, I went to Lambeau for the game. The
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: first half was the best half of football in the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: fickle era. Agree, disagree?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: A lot of folks that said the same thing. No
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: doubt about it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: The second half, Notre Dame showed why they are a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: top five team. For me, it was nostalgic hearing all
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the Notre Dame game day traditions go on since it's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: been 20 years since I've been to an Irish home game.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I used to go to South Bend with my dad
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: when he was alive. He was a huge Notre Dame fan. Anyways,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Badgers need to build off the first half. We will
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: see what happens this season. Well, the first half highlighted
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: by a great punt.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Great punt. A punt for the ages. A sweet double
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: move for a touchdown.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Badgers, yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Colton Joseph had some moments in the first half. And
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the Badgers, they came at it. They were physical.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I figured that defense would be okay because it was
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: okay last year. For sure, yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It's better this year, and it was good. And it
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't completely overmatched. Got a little overwhelmed in the second half.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: But my thing is, I'm watching this like, okay, credit
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to the Badgers for the first half. It was the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: first half. No preseason in college football. Notre Dame had
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: some kinks. They got a punt blocked. That ain't going
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to happen, right? That's not the rest of the season, probably.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Would that have happened if it had been week three?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Would the Badgers have been better served playing the two
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: directional schools first and then playing Notre Dame? Or did
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: they catch Notre Dame at the right time and this
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: result was inevitable because Notre Dame is just more talented
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and better?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Well, they're a boa constrictor, right? Like Notre Dame is
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: an absolute python and they're just going to suffocate teams
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: all year long, right? Like I saw a lot of
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame fans freaking out in the first half. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: don't know what you expected them to do. Well, it
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: was the first half, but that's the thing. Like they're not,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: they're not a team that's going to come out LSU
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: style and throw the ball 55 times a game. They're
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: going to wear you down with their offensive line. They're
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: going to wear you down with their front seven and
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: then take advantage of every time you put the ball
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: on the turf. And that's exactly what they did. They
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: scored two touchdowns in 91 combined seconds on your own turnovers,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a pick six and the ball that bounces off of
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Bordelotti's chest. And again, I don't miss as frustrating and
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: disappointing as it was. It's kind of exactly how you
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: anticipated the game would play out. There were three touchdown
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: underdog for a reason. Yes. And right in the final
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: two minutes, it was right on the, it was right
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: on the, right on the line. It's right on the number.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: And then James makes a great play on the outside
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: and runs right down our face. And we were sitting
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: right there on the, in the end zone. So he
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: ran right into us on that last touchdown and you
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: could feel it, that it was the wearing down and
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the significant body blows that Notre Dame is going to do.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I think two things are true. I think Wisconsin throughout
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: the year is going to be more like the team
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that played in the first half. I also think Notre
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Dame is going to be a lot more of the
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: team that played in the second half all year long.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: And the tough thing about the timing of it, drew,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: maybe they would have been better, but much like this
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: is sobering reality. Much like a Mac school, like Western Michigan,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the healthiest and best and easiest chance for them to
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: sneak up on somebody is probably week one, where they
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: are the healthiest, where they do have a lot of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: energy to build the one spot. And that was kind
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: of what you saw in the first half. But the
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: thing is, the Badgers need to play a clean half.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: They played a good half, not a clean half, though,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: in that first. No, not at all.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And you can skew it, right? It's like, okay, so
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: then what's the expectation? I want to see them against
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Penn State and UCLA.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Big time, yes.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Like I said, it was the first half for Notre Dame.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: They're not going to get many punts blocked. They're not
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: going to have some of the mental mistakes that happened
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in first games.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Sure. And Notre Dame is a legit top five team.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: They are a legit, unquestioned team. You mentioned Penn State, UCLA.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I think they're top 25 teams. And I think that's
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: where you can be battling in. Those are the streets
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you want to be on. Is the ultimate goal to
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: win the national title Yes. Is that where you're punting
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: right now? Absolutely not.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: At first, you want to get back to that level
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: of being a top 25 team.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: You won four games a year ago, right? So there
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: has to be something that you're ramping up with. And
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I thought there were legitimate building block signs in that
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: first half. Tough thing was postgame. That second half was
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: two hours long and that was the last thing you saw.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: So it was difficult even for me in the patented
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: positivity to be all that positive about whatever it just
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: had transpired. Yeah. It was a bludgeoning. That second half
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: was bludgeoning. This was destruction. And it was exactly what
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame does and what they're going
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: to do to a lot of teams though. That's a
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: tough thing. And the nice part about the schedule is
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: that's the one that you have on the schedule, right?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Like at last year, when you got boat raced by Alabama, uh,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Then you looked all into October. and saw that march
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: that you had to roll through. It's a lot different,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: but there's a lot of teams that I do still
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: feel like you're going to be able to surprise later
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: on into the year.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Johnny Krivich on YouTube, Badgers need to take the huge
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: step and win the trio, PSU, MSU, and UCLA. Easiest
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: schedule is key. Yeah, I mean, that's easier said than done, right?
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Just to walk in and beat all those teams. But,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, that would be the sign of success, right?
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: The stepping stone. Well, the UCLA game is going to
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: be underratedly tough because Iamali Ava was tough. really good
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: in week one. And I think Chesney is, people are
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: going to ask who's going to be the next Kurt Cignetti.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: When somebody asks you that, stop the conversation with that person.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Just like, just don't, don't converse with somebody that said,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: so who's going to take the next worst program of
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: all time to a national title in two years? It
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: ain't happening. But Bob Chesney comes from JMU and is
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: a phenomenally handsome young man. And, and as one everywhere,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: he's gone. I think they're going to be better. Penn
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: state looked the part this week. They played Marshall who
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I think lost 39 players last year. So they got
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: absolutely gutted through the portal and they looked the part.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Those are, those are big ones. The other one that
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I think is going to be the most telling and
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the most important, mostly because of the schedule in college
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: football is And the decisions that got to be made
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: that trip to Iowa on the 31st of October. I'm
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: not saying you have to win the game. You have
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: to be within three scores, right? Like they've gotten 30
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: pieced by Iowa in the last two years while they
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: were trotting around with the bull. That's the problem. That's
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: the problem, and that needs to be a one-score game.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: They put up a 40-piece this weekend, so they look
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: like they are in ripe condition to be playing.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: And that is a bull, not a pig. It's always
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: good to remind myself of that because I always think
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: it's a pig.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I've gotten caught too many times. It is not a pig.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: It is a bull. Not a pig.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: What was the vibe like? It was technically like a
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame home game, right, Billy? So they had all
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: the home, like, their stuff. They got to run out
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: of the Packers tunnel, like, saw some people kind of
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: confused and griping about that.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Was that, did you, could you tell the, they had
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the better locker room, right? The locker room and all
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: that stuff.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: They had the better lot, but they didn't have the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Packers locker room. Like they went drew into our little area.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: They went up those steps into the auxiliary other locker
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: room up there. So it was, it was strange Armin,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: but I'll tell you this. I've been lucky enough to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: be at Lambeau so many times for a lot of
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: incredible events. That was, One of the most impressive showings
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: by Lambeau Field. That's awesome. I've been there now, again,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: luckily enough, for a couple of NFC title games. Been
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: there for a number of different playoff games, a lot
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: of Monday night games, a lot of cool events. That
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: one was different. It was as truly split 50-50 as
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: it was. probably could have been. Now, into the fourth quarter,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: shockingly so, it was 80-20 because the Pivokes in red
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: decided to beat the traffic, rightfully so. But it was loud.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: The first half, every single play, there was a pop
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: because of the 50-50 split. And again, it was just
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: like a It was as beautiful of a night as
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: it could be. It was glorious in there.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: It felt like they were doing theater seating, lighting, I mean, almost,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: in a way. The field felt lit up, and the
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: stands felt a little darker, but that might have been
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: just the way it looked on TV.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Might have just been the reflection off the metallic numbers.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: And that's what it was, probably, just shining in my
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: face the whole time with the haze. I know a
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: lot of my friends watching were complaining about that fishy
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: in the first half. I don't know if that was
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: like a, like a thing people were talking about Billy
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: or not miss PI.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: There wasn't, I don't, you know, when you're a fan,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: you always find.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Ways to say you were wronged, but I'm not really
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: sure if you noticed any of that. It seemed like
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: a well-played game in that.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and that was, that was the part of it.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: They played a good first half. However, when you give up,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: they give wrap the only touchdown that the Irish score
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: in the first half where you give them the ball
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: at the 13, it's about to be third and 10
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: at the eight. but they whistle Posa for the personal
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: foul on sportsmanlike conduct. When you take him off the ground,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: it kind of wraps from there. Once he picks him
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: up for the German suplex, it doesn't matter that you
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: don't slam him to the ground. And credit Williams. I mean,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: he just deadweighted it. He realized where he was. He
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: just deadfished it, made it look as bad as possible,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: and they give him the 15 yards or the reset
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: of downs and half the distance to the goal. And
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: two plays later, the Notre Dame kid and the Green
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Bay kid, Flanagan's in for a touchdown. So they gift-wrapped
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: them the touchdown. And then they were unable to stop
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: anything in the second half. And three drives, three scores,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: throw in there a pick six. And that's a recipe
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: for a runaway. But Wisconsin's going to reemerge. Badgers are
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: going to reemerge here. And it just might be at
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: that Penn State game. Look out for them to be
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: a lot more competitive than they were a year ago.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Let's see them win comfortably in the next two. They
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: drew and that was not necessarily the case last couple
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: of years. Right.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: So that's the progress though, because I'm looking around and
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: with the glaring exception of Western Michigan, trying to pull
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the Appalachian state at the big house, everybody else like, okay,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: these teams that open with, they got hosed. These teams
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: that open with cupcakes though, they're up 31 to three.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: They're up. They take care of it. It's not like,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: let's play with our food. It's right away from the
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: get go. We're going to stomp them. And that's generally
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: what happened across the board, except for in Ann Arbor.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Except there. And I read this stat on postgame a
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: couple of times. Colton Joseph's 217 passing yards, the most
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: against any power four team would have been the most
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: against any power 14. The Badgers threw for last year.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: They were 131 out of 136 in FBS and passing yards.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And they had Danny O'Neill throw for nearly 300 against
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: middle Tennessee. So they were as anemic passing the ball
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: as you could be. And they still put up 40
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: against one of the directional schools a year ago. So, yeah,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: that's got to be the starting point against the Leathernecks
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: coming up at the Celebrate Agriculture game. Let's get it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's so much to get to today. I don't
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: know if we can do it in three hours, but
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: we're going to give it a good shot.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: We've got to kick the ball. Kick some. Game balls
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: and kicks. Let's fire that up. Fire it up now.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. In the
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: air to left field. Churrio over.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Churrio slides.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: He's got it.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Jackson Churrio. Makes the catch to end the game. It
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: was a dying quail out there. And Churio snatches that
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: bad boy. Beautiful.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, great day at the ballpark yesterday. American Family Field
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: rocking on a Labor Day. Brewers beating the Cubs. That
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: is the one game that had the triple whammy. It
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: was like a three-piece. I like three-piece combos. Because there
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: was the head-to-head. In terms of the magic number. And
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: then the Brewers win the season series and any tiebreaker.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: So the Cubs now have to beat them by a
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: full game. So that adds a game onto the lead
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: in theory. It was a glorious day for the Brewers.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Glorious weekend for most of us.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And we want to hear from you. 877-794-1973.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: As long as we're talking baseball, Hunter's going to join
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: us at 725. But let's take a listen to what
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Hunter posted for us regarding yesterday's proceedings with the Brewers
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and the Cubs.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Take it away, Hunter.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: Thanks, guys. Another thrilling game between the Brewers and the
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Cubs yesterday. It seems like every single one of these
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: is a thriller between these two. And the Brewers come
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: out victorious 4-3. Of course, the ninth inning defense ended
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: the game on quite a high note, right? You got
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: Luis Lara with the catch against the wall. Jackson Churio
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: with a sliding catch to end the game. Christian Yelich
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: talked about how difficult that Luis Lara catch was, even
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: though Lara makes it look so easy.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: They've been awesome all year, especially Lara. You know, he
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: makes that play at the wall. look really, really easy,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: and it's not an easy play, especially in right field
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: because of kind of how it slants in and goes
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: back and just like a funky area over there.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: He makes it look easy.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: That's a huge play, obviously. If he doesn't make it,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: then potentially a tight ball game may still be out there.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: So big defensive plays and really just a great team
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: win today.
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: And Garrett Mitchell was in center field for that ninth inning.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: He gives his perspective on the Lara catch.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: What an incredible catch. My perspective on it was I
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: saw the ball up. I thought I had a chance,
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: and when I looked over, I saw him starting to
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: track it. I could see his eyes, and I was like, oh, okay,
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: this is going to be a close one type play.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Obviously, it was awesome.
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: So, how about this? The Brewers' last four wins against
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: the Chicago Cubs have all come from behind victories, and
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: those can be a little sweeter, can't they? Brewers are
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: eight games up with 17 to play game two of
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: the series. Jacob Mizorowski on the mound tonight, 640 first pitch.
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: I'll have you for the baseball pregame show at 530
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: this evening on Fox Sports 920 and our social channels.
• 35:37
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• 35:44
  Speaker 7: more about the crew.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Back to you guys.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Hunter. Thank you, Import Minded. Brewers beating the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Cubs in a thriller. This rivalry is getting sweet. All
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: these games are good, like Hunter said. Stop us if
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: you've heard this before. They don't play snoozers. That's for sure.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Everything has been entertaining. It's been good. The come-from-behind victory,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: like he mentions, a little sweeter. I also think it's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit more agonizing on the other side. Where
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: you do believe you have it. Not maybe in the bag.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know if any team is going to feel
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: like they have something in the bag against the Brewers,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: but gives you a lot of confidence also going into
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: the post season that you're going to be able to
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: hopefully put up. I mean, like as, as much as
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: JV versus varsity as those Dodgers games felt like in
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: the NLCS, you almost forget about the rally that puts
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the winning run. I believe it second base in game
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: one for terrain, like with an opportunity to punch it through,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: they still have that mindset and they've been able to
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: not full woodpecker from a year ago, but that's going
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: to be how they're going to have to be able
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: to score multiple runs. and get a big inning and
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: a crooked number most likely during the playoffs. And will
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: the strength of this team remain that way? I think
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: that's another big question. The bullpen's been great, but the
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: starting pitching has some questions now. So once the business
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: of clinching gets done, I think that's going to be
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: the number one question. Can Miz stay as dominant? And
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: can Harrison get back to anything what he was or
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: even be a starter is the next question.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: That's the storm cloud. It's like the Harrison thing. He's
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: fallen off. They brought Drone back and put Anderson on
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the aisle.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Which Robert Gasser's been good. Thanks for that.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Gasser's been good. You need a starter. You need Dustin
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: May to make something positive happen.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: You really need Dustin May to make something happen. So
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of questions.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Short start for him when he catches the short straw
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and the rain delay. So he can come back, you think, sooner, right?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: But he's got to get rolling before the playoffs. You
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: want him to be Dependable and pencil you in for five.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Because does it make sense, Drew, do you see May
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: and Harrison being like a piggyback option in the playoffs?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if Harrison's on my playoff roster,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to be honest, like the way he's throwing. The way
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: he's throwing and the way that he has been unable
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: to guide anything, I don't think so.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I'd rather almost see like a drone or a Coleman
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Crow or somebody.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Well, and that's where I was wondering, because now they
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: bring up Sprote and he's going to get an opportunity
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: to be the piggyback potentially for Harrison. The pros look good.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I know they did one Thomas Pannone start, but my
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: man goes perfecto in the minors. I can imagine folks
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: online are going to be saying, how about we get
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: this guy a chance to go see what he can do?
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, game ball to Thomas Pannone. Perfect game in AAA.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: That's very rare. They said first one since 2016, 2017?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 17.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: That's in the 140-year history of the league?
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on. Early leader for a superhero of
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: the day. That was pretty awesome. Yeah. I don't know
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: if you got to look at it like, You ever
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: think of that?
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: You're in AAA, you throw a perfect game, and then
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: you say, man, what if it came in the majors?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: But you can't think of it that way. You get
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: one shot at greatness, usually in your career like that.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: You can't think of it that way, and then this
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: guy goes on. First thing you say on the radio
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: about it is, wow, it could have been in the majors, guy. No, no, no,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: it was great. I mean, pitch is a great game,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: way to go, and everything like that.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: But you ever think like he might wonder that when
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: his head hits the, I'm just asking the questions that
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: someone else.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Might be thinking. No, I think at some, at some
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: point when he's about 54 and he's sitting at a campfire,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: somebody will say probably one of his kids, friends. We'll say, hey, Mr. P,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: what if you would have thrown that perfect game in
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the majors?
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I get it. And I'll say, yeah, you see where
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: we're sitting here at this campfire? This house that we're
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: sitting at would have been twice the size if I
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: would have done that in the major league.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I just hope he's not one of those guys that
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: thinks that. I hope he thinks more like it was
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: great when I did, not what could have been. Because
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: that can get you down. It probably doesn't until certain
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: people bring it up to him.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's listening to me right now. So
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: that's the one. one thing I can take solace in.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: It's saying, hey, Auburn, you scored. Yeah, it's on JV.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I never scored on varsity. See, but we never do that.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Only you bring up the fact that it was on JV. No,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: because I wonder. When we talk about being on teams,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: and you're like, yeah, but I wasn't. I'm like, you're
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: bringing that up. We're not bringing that one up.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I just hope he does it, because it was a
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: great accomplishment, and I think, you know, early leader in
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: the clubhouse for a superhero of the day, I would think.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, definitely was. Your call, William, but I would
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: think he's in the mix. A couple of good ones
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: on the talking text line, 877-794-1973. Bob and Baraboo. Morning, men.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Hope you all had a phenomenal holiday weekend. Good Brewers
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: win yesterday. Been spending my last 11 days going through
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: the house in the big shed, throwing stuff into my dumpster.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: It's amazing what you accumulate over the years.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, that is a big time for a purge, big
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: purge time, but it can be a, it can be
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: a fun thing to do in some ways. And it
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: can be, you feel accomplished once you do it. It's
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: hard to part with stuff. It's the whole Marie kind
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: of joy.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: It can be fun though. When you see some, and
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: then it brings up the memory, you get a couple
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: of moments and throw them then. All right, sweet. That
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: was fun. Now let's send that thing into the dumpster.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: That's what I love about it is you go through
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: the memory again. You can enjoy that. But then it's like, hey,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: come on, get going. Let's work faster here. It's like, well, no.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: This is going to be a long process. I have
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: to see something, remember the memory, try and talk about
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: it for a while. Wipe away the tears.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, and then throw away my 1991 top set.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: That's how that goes. Oh, don't do that. Don't throw
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: away the cards. I got all the binders. Don't throw
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: away the cards. Download a couple of apps and go
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: see what them things are worth. That was good. I
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: separated them by team, Billy. I was good back then.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Did you put any sleeves on them? They were all
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: in the plastic sleeves, yeah. Oh, giddy up. See, you
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: might want to go and check some of those out.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I will. The 90s are the overpopulated time. That's the problem.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: But you got a chance. I'd check out what you
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: got in there.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: We'll see. First hours in the books. We're just getting rolling.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: It's the Tuesday edition of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.