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09/03/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: River rocking, lake shaking, having a good time in the huddle.
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Your erstwhile trio here. Sifting through the events of the day,
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  Speaker 1: including a Brewers victory at Wrigley Field. Another come-from-behind victory.
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  Speaker 1: They picked up the Miz, who struggled and was not
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  Speaker 1: his normal dominant self. Didn't need to be. Brewers prevail
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  Speaker 1: against the always-hated-but-never-feared Cubs, pushing their lead to a season-high
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  Speaker 1: nine games in the NL Central.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 3: That is a sweet, sweet number to have.
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  Speaker 2: Not five, not six, not seven.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad we were able to drop that one in
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  Speaker 4: here today. Look at you firing that one back.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking that might be good for today because
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  Speaker 2: he was right at that eight to nine point. I
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  Speaker 2: saved it. I was finally able to... But listen, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they picked him up. Oh, well, Miz got that big out.
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  Speaker 2: Was that in the fourth? That was his last inning.
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  Speaker 3: His shutdown fourth inning was big.
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  Speaker 2: So you know what? That was big.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, any time that you were shutting the box and
• 1:01
  Speaker 4: shutting anybody down last night, because as Levering finished the
• 1:05
  Speaker 4: second inning, he goes, I'm going to go get a
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  Speaker 4: snack because I've been working for a while.
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  Speaker 2: The first two innings were a slog.
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  Speaker 4: That was after a three-hour and 20-minute game the night before.
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  Speaker 2: These are exhausting games. I joke about it with Rock.
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  Speaker 2: 325 on Sunday they played. Three hours and 25 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: So that's three of the last four games have been
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  Speaker 3: some bedwetter. Thumbsuckers.
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  Speaker 2: Just imagine if there wasn't the pitch clock. I love
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  Speaker 2: how you guys take pitches. That Sunday one would have
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  Speaker 2: been close to four hours. That Sunday one would have
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  Speaker 2: been over four hours without the pitch clock. Some were
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  Speaker 2: butchers like, you're not laughing now, Lev, when I had
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  Speaker 2: those Teddy Grahams in my pocket for the basketball game.
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  Speaker 3: Got to have some kind of snack.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Because he's out of popcorn. It's like, now I
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  Speaker 2: could use one.
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  Speaker 4: At one point, Lev went into a full breakdown and
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  Speaker 4: preview of the Big Ten schedule coming up this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Just let everybody know. We got some games coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers puked away a game last night at home with
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  Speaker 1: a 3-0 lead in the sixth against the Cardinals. He
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  Speaker 1: lost six of their last eight. Yeah, and Otani's struggling.
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  Speaker 1: They might shut him down for a little bit as
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  Speaker 1: a batter, not just a pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's interesting. He's got ailments. Look at
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  Speaker 2: the way they're lighting up Yamamoto.
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  Speaker 3: He's hanging out with Kyle Tucker too much.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know people could hit off Yamamoto. That's good
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  Speaker 2: to know. He can exist. That is nice.
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  Speaker 4: Let's store that one in the memory bank, figure out
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  Speaker 4: exactly how to utilize it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It is interesting, though.
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  Speaker 4: Seeing a little bit of this Cardinals one, it does
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  Speaker 4: remind me. Looking at the talking text line. Talking text
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  Speaker 4: line buzzing, by the way. Hot this morning on the
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  Speaker 4: talking text line. But Ryan Moschigo had said, I was
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  Speaker 4: extremely confident once it got to the bullpen last night.
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  Speaker 3: And guys, can we say it? Romero looks a nasty man.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Arnold with a game up. Does look good. He does.
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  Speaker 4: He's a definite change of pace to everybody else they
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  Speaker 4: have in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. And Sensatella's not that bad either. People still.
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  Speaker 2: Needles especially is leading the jihad against him. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Needles is leading it.
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  Speaker 1: Dan always has one guy in the bullpen he can't stand,
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  Speaker 1: the guy who gives up a run at one point.
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  Speaker 1: Just all of a sudden, Dan turns on him and
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  Speaker 1: thinks he sucks. Don't get in his way when he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about a guy like that.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, Needles is one that you
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  Speaker 4: definitely don't want to be on that list.
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  Speaker 2: But the Romero thing is interesting. It reminds me of
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  Speaker 2: in 18, the Brewers picked up Joaquin Soria. who had
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  Speaker 2: really good years out of bullpens for like Kansas City, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: And he was like a sixth inning guy, seventh inning.
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  Speaker 2: But he came in and would change things up. And
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  Speaker 2: when you go inning by inning, especially in your playoff time,
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  Speaker 2: I remember he had a big inning in game 163,
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  Speaker 2: that type of guy. I mean, Romero can be that
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  Speaker 2: type of guy where he gives you that inning, changes
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  Speaker 2: it up, you know, the.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Mears inning.
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  Speaker 2: Still like the Ashbys and Halls, but yeah, Romero's a
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  Speaker 2: great fit. He fits right in there.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's like, well, as long as you got 7, 8,
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  Speaker 1: 9 pretty much considered now, covered.
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  Speaker 3: You got them.
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  Speaker 2: Andy Bay, McGill, Romero, or.
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  Speaker 1: Ashby or whoever, like matchup dependent, having guys for early
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  Speaker 1: in the games too. Because sometimes you got to put
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  Speaker 1: out the fire in the sixth, not the eighth or ninth, right?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like, well, we got to, especially in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to deploy your resources a little differently because-
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  Speaker 1: this is where the game is going to be decided.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got to have the best matchup here. Well,
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  Speaker 4: people have been frying council. I know on the cup
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  Speaker 4: side for it with Palencia. Now I hadn't worked the
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  Speaker 4: last few days because the Brewers have hit him. He's
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  Speaker 4: probably their best reliever, but he's kind of coming off
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  Speaker 4: an injury if I'm not mistaken. And in that same vein, like, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: the game is on the line as it's three, three
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  Speaker 4: right now. And Yelich is at the plate or it's
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  Speaker 4: in the sixth inning. And like last night, a game
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  Speaker 4: was kind of in the balance. It was right on
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  Speaker 4: the line of getting away from them and comes in.
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  Speaker 4: And then the Brewers tag him again. Like, The game,
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  Speaker 4: whatever the turning point is, it's not always in the
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  Speaker 4: ninth inning. And last night, I mean, the bullpen goes
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  Speaker 4: five innings, gives up one hit and two base runners.
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  Speaker 3: That's a winning recipe.
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  Speaker 4: And on the other side, you're looking at it and saying,
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  Speaker 4: this is going to be a bullpen that's going to
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  Speaker 4: be really, really hard to win with.
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  Speaker 2: Especially with that lineup. You talk about Miz and who's
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  Speaker 2: getting Bregman out right now anyway? He's been going crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That is a tough situation. That's what made the bullpen
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  Speaker 2: all that more impressive. Especially when you had the lead.
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  Speaker 2: Those are harder outs to get, I've always thought.
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  Speaker 4: With Romero coming back as well now, a real fresh
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  Speaker 4: arm at this point.
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  Speaker 3: He's missed him for sure.
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  Speaker 4: A month and a half, two months with that appendectomy.
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  Speaker 3: He comes in as fresh as anybody.
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  Speaker 4: And you start looking at the deadline a lot more
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  Speaker 4: in hindsight now that this is the squad that you
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  Speaker 4: have going into it. You grabbed a backup catcher who's
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  Speaker 4: apparently going to be going to war with you in
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  Speaker 4: Bo Naylor because he's up here with you now at
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  Speaker 4: this point, and he'll probably be hanging out throughout the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: whether he's on the roster or not.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
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  Speaker 4: But then you ended up getting two legit leverage arms
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  Speaker 4: like we had talked about. We'll see what May ends
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  Speaker 4: up being, and if he is one of the starters...
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs, Drew, but you at least got the
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  Speaker 4: two bullpen arms, which at one point in the season
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  Speaker 4: we felt like was the most important thing for them.
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  Speaker 2: It was, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Hit us up, 877-794-1973. Yeah, no one's getting Bregman out,
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  Speaker 1: but the Brewers did. Crow Armstrong only had a hit
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  Speaker 1: and two walks last night, so he was on base
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  Speaker 1: three times. Scored two runs, so he's still making things happen.
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  Speaker 1: Much like Yellich, when he's not hitting, he's still... Finds
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  Speaker 1: ways to stick.
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  Speaker 2: It to you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and in the first inning when Suzuki looped the
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  Speaker 4: one over to Terang, you're thinking about it like, Dang,
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  Speaker 4: just that speed over there.
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  Speaker 3: I would have been tempted to.
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  Speaker 2: You can't necessarily.
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  Speaker 4: A lot easier to think about this hanging out on
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  Speaker 4: the couch. But if you let that son of a
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  Speaker 4: gun drop, fire it over to second, get PCA off
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  Speaker 4: the bases. He's just a hell of a player, and
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  Speaker 4: he gets it rolling with a different way. But I
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  Speaker 4: do also, I got to report, very happy to, still
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: being called a blue-haired kid by Murph.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: He brought that back.
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  Speaker 4: I got the whole interview with the TBS guys. when
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  Speaker 4: he went back and forth with Pedro and then a
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  Speaker 4: little bit with Adam Lefkoe. He's like, man, you guys
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  Speaker 4: are holding down Pete Crow Armstrong better than anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, man. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: You pulling for the Cubs right now, you trying to
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  Speaker 4: wake up the blue haired kid.
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  Speaker 2: Cause if you wake up the blue hair, there's bad news.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: We don't need any of this nonsense. So you just,
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  Speaker 4: I get your cheering for the Cubs. You keep that
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  Speaker 4: over there, but Randy, take care of this guy for you.
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: I do love the superstition aspect. They remind me of like,
• 7:06
  Speaker 4: when we get texts from Janie, Janie Appleton, so happy
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  Speaker 4: to see Ellie healthy and coming into the playoffs like this.
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  Speaker 4: Hope I haven't jinxed them, but he's definitely feeling like
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  Speaker 4: his old self again, watching him.
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  Speaker 2: The third slide into home. a thing of beauty. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: runs the bases better than him. Oh, Janny's great. Always
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  Speaker 2: worried about jinxing though. Like you can talk about baseball.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay. Like I know we believe in the jinx.
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  Speaker 2: It's a superstitious game. It's okay. You're allowed to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're allowed to talk about baseball. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all just been doing a good job.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of what it reminded me of when
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  Speaker 2: Murph started talking about, Hey, don't start talking about the
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  Speaker 2: blue haired kid. Don't talk about him.
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  Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: You know what we can talk about? Cause it's a
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  Speaker 1: self-contained story.
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: Who's hot.
• 7:42
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Who's hot, who's not? Two sides of the same coin.
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  Speaker 3: Pablo Torrey, hot. Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: L.A. Clippers, Steve Ballmer, et al. Not hot. Not hot. Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: After an exhaustive and seemingly endless investigations, the NBA determined
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: that the Clippers circumvented the salary cap with some nefarious
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  Speaker 1: dealings for Kawhi Leonard laundering money through third-party sponsorships.
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  Speaker 2: The Clippers were.
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  Speaker 1: Fined $ 30 million and five first round draft picks. Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: Leonard has to kick up 700 grand of his ill
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  Speaker 1: gotten booty. And, uh, the Clippers also their owner and
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  Speaker 1: several other executives received suspensions, uh, Steve.
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  Speaker 3: Ballmer banned for a year. What does it mean when
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  Speaker 3: you're an owner banned for a year? You can't watch
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  Speaker 3: your team?
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: Can't sit courtside? Can't do that awkward grabbing people's thighs
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  Speaker 2: as he's sitting next to them, losing his mind courtside?
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  Speaker 2: Can he not go to the meetings and the retreats?
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: Out of the league meetings, out of the country club
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  Speaker 2: for a year, he's banished. But the reason Pablo Torre
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  Speaker 2: is hot is because Pablo Torre dug all this up
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  Speaker 2: and threw it out there and just waited for the
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  Speaker 2: NBA to actually react. And they did.
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  Speaker 1: And people can say this is a striking penalty. It's
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  Speaker 1: $ 30 million to Steve Ballmer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the money's not a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Steve Ballmer has.
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  Speaker 1: The tip at the Spearmint Rhino. My man's got that
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: hanging out in the car, in the glove compartment. He's
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  Speaker 1: an OG Microsoft, one of the richest guys in the country.
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  Speaker 1: So $ 30 million is.
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  Speaker 2: All right, $ 30 million.
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  Speaker 1: But then Kawhi having to cough up some money, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that's not going to sit well with him. All
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  Speaker 1: he did was cash the checks.
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  Speaker 2: What was I going to do?
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  Speaker 3: Turn it down?
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  Speaker 1: The five first round draft picks... It's not insignificant for
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  Speaker 1: the franchise.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely not insignificant.
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  Speaker 4: That's all the ammunition that they would have had to
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: make any kind of moves out of this. And into
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: a point now where they trade Kawhi, they reboot and thinking,
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: all right, we're going to rebuild. We just got ourselves
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: a top five pick because we fleeced the Pacers this
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: past year in the Zubats trade. And good luck on
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  Speaker 4: that rebuild without all five of your first-round picks over
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  Speaker 4: the next five years.
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  Speaker 3: Off-run.
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  Speaker 2: I read that their next draft pick is right now
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: 11 years old or in middle school or something like
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  Speaker 2: that because they can't pick for I don't know, I
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: guess maybe because it was summertime or I mean, we
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: were hearing about this and we didn't hear about it
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: for a while. I didn't expect something like this to
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: come down penalty. Well, I thought maybe a pick or
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: two or something like that. And we remember Bogdanovich, but
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: This felt really strong to me. Now, maybe it's just
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: my imagination or maybe I should have been ready for
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: something like this. I didn't see this coming down. This
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: reminds me of, you know, SMU got the death penalty
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  Speaker 2: in 84. Like this is not the death penalty, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not that far off from being severe compared to
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: what we've seen. Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it really did have to be severe
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: because if there's now in a world in the NBA
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  Speaker 4: where they have gotten to the point where I think
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: the owners have been hoping for a while. they got
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: the hard salary cap, right? Like the second apron teams
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: are Dolan's Knicks win the title this year. And he's
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: on WFAN three days later being like, you know what?
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: We're definitely not going to do go into that second
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: apron cap. I'm not spending that money, but more than anything,
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  Speaker 4: it's the fact that you don't, you can't take the
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: roster building restrictions that come along with it. So they've
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: basically gotten the hard cap teams are going to try.
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  Speaker 4: If this was going to be a little slap on
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  Speaker 4: the wrist arm. And I think of one first round pick, uh, And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a $ 5 million fine, the NBA drew to
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: your point, they're loaded with Steve Ballmers now, right? Like we're, we're,
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  Speaker 4: we're dealing with a lot of the richest of the
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  Speaker 4: rich folks where if all it costs is money, why
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  Speaker 4: would I not try it?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: Why would I not take the swing? Uh, this definitely
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: keeps teams from doing it. And one of the best
• 11:32
  Speaker 4: parts of this whole deal is Kawhi Leonard. I think
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: you got fined $ 700, 000. His uncle, who was his business manager,
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: who was allegedly doing a lot of the middlemanning here
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: and the one that was negotiating it in the contracts
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: and going to teams being like, hey, what do you
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: have for Kawhi outside of this? What do you have
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: for Kawhi outside of what's on this contract? And the
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: Raptors are like, we have the contract that's in front
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  Speaker 4: of us.
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a lot of money for you. How
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: about that?
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: We're going to offer you a max contract. And he's like, well, yeah,
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: but they're offering this, that, and the third. And he
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: goes and signs with LA, manipulates the Paul George trade
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: for the Clippers to the Thunder. Which turns into Shea
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: Gilgis Alexander going to the Thunder. I mean, this lottery
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: ticket that they had of bringing Kawhi Leonard home, a
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  Speaker 4: guy that always wanted to play back in Los Angeles,
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: had thought about going to the Lakers, wanted to go
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: to the Lakers, settles for the Clippers.
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  Speaker 3: May have just ruined their entire run for the next decade.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: It is pretty wild when you think about it. Now,
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: I did hear, Wendy was talking to Scott Van Pelt
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  Speaker 2: last night about this and said people were comparing it
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: to the Joe Smith penalty with the Timberwolves. I don't
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: remember all the exact specifics, but the point was the
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: Wolves were docked five picks for something with Joe Smith,
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  Speaker 2: and the key was they took the penalty in terms of,
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: you know, they didn't try and fight it like the
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  Speaker 2: Clippers want to do. They're trying to clear their name
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  Speaker 2: and they want.
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  Speaker 3: To fight it.
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  Speaker 2: And he said by not fighting it, the Timberwolves were eventually,
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: the discipline was eventually reduced. Like they would give a
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: pick back every couple years if they behaved, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: It's sort of like when you're in jail and you
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  Speaker 2: get your sentence reduced on reconnaissance.
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  Speaker 5: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe possibly the Clippers could do that. If they
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  Speaker 2: don't fight it, if they take their penalty, if they
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  Speaker 2: show their remorse and They're contrite with the, I don't
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: know what they have to do, but we don't know
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: because it's Adam Silver and there's not much precedence. And
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: he wants to swing that heavy hand now maybe, but
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: maybe if the Clippers handle it a certain way, they
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  Speaker 2: could get this thing reduced. I'm not sure, but it
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: is possible.
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  Speaker 3: Your boy, Glenn Taylor, not a very good owner. I'm
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: reading up on this Joe Smith story.
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  Speaker 2: That's a real bad deal.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: My man was the worst owner maybe sports has ever
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: seen because he couldn't even sell his team right. He
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: sold the Timberwolves, and then they quadrupled.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oops. No, actually, wait.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: Now we have Anthony Edwards? No, now I want this bag.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: Now I.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, wait. I can't sell it for more?
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: Son of a gun. That hurt the Wolves for a while,
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: that deal. They tried to.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: The flip side of this, all the shady dealings that
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Ballmer did, and it was Pablo Tauri, in a flagrant
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: act of journalism, old school.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: Wrote this and made the NBA react. Carried the flag
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: for journalism, Drew.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: It was just a couple weeks ago. Cuban was like, oh,
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: you know, Team Balmer. Pablo should have done more and
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: found out. And then all of a sudden, this comes down.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: And yeah, Cuban's like, congratulations, Pablo. Not for nothing, as
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: people have pointed out.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: ESPN.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: ESPN.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Once had Pablo Torre under their employee. He could have
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: been breaking stories like this, but they decided, well, we
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: don't want to spend money on that. Let's give it
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: to McAfee instead.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's give it to McAfee, Shams, and get just
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: the send-in text of, all right, well, this is the
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: information that we have.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Let's roll.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: And Shams had not reported anything on this story at
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: all throughout the entire time.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: Absolutely crickets on this deal. I mean, this was, you know.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: It was Pablo's deal. And you wonder if that's, again, because...
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: ESPN and the leagues are such cahoots. But maybe that's
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: why they didn't have room for Pablo. Because ESPN used
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: to do journalism. We don't have room for that. MTV
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: used to play music. ESPN used to do journalism.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Maybe if they tell Shams to chase down his side
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: of this or his story.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: They're like, well, Pablo's going to beat you anyway, so
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: it's just going to look bad. Maybe you should just
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: ignore it.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Or he would take a page from Schefter's book and
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: send the story to Ballmer to have him edit it
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: and see if there's anything that he wants to change.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, boss, is there anything that
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: you want me to change in this one?
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Mr. Editor.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Editor. That was the Schefter one. Yes, Mr. Editor. And
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: maybe they didn't have enough time in the editing room
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: because he couldn't get the takeout clean.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: So this is like this. Okay. In the terms of
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: NBA stories, this is like one of the biggest NBA stories.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: A long time.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big one.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: And in sports journalism, it's one of the biggest stories.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: This is like Pulitzer Prize-type material. You unearthed a scandal
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: that ended up leading to suspensions and $ 30 million fine.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: For a full year for an NBA owner.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: First-round picks.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: That's a seismic franchise-altering investigation that he had.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: And it also drew has hung up one of the
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: big moves, biggest moves of the NBA off season, which
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: was the Leonard trade to back to Toronto.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: That's right. Right.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Like, I mean, that was, that's been hanging in the
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: balance here. And one of the reasons why that thing
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: got not necessarily mixed, they said it was on delay
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: was because they were waiting for the findings of this.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: This goes back all the way pre finals when Adam
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Silver said it at his press conference. Like, yeah, we
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: need to get that wrapped up quickly. We need to
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: get that wrapped up soon. Well, soon was September 2nd,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: and it took all summer. They nursed this bad boy along,
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: and if it wasn't for Pablo and him continually bringing
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: and unearthing new parts of it, I don't know that
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: they were going to be able to find any of it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: So it's impressive, impressive stuff. It's also a heck of
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: a win.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: For all these small market teams that can't be spending
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: like Steve Ballmer. We don't have that kind of cash.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: I am, though, going to miss him losing his mind
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: on the sidelines for a year. Those are fun to watch.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I can't say I watch a whole lot of Clippers basketball.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: But those highlights maybe?
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: But the highlights of him losing his mind on the sidelines,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I am going to miss.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. I'm definitely not about to
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: watch more Clippers basketball in the next 10 years.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: This is definitely not going to have me watching any
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: more Clippers games. That's for sure.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Really quick to localize it. I mean, what does this mean?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Gary Trent, obviously. So people have brought that up. Bucs
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: were getting looked at because of the Gary Trent deal.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Gary Trent's hanging out with the boys. Come on.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Will he earn that money? I think so. Will he
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: earn that money? I think so. Well, he was good
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: two years ago. People forget in the playoffs. I'm wondering, though,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: what this means. Are the Bucs going to be docked
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: something much worse than I thought they would be?
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Shams was helping the Bucs when he said there were
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: other teams that were interested in Gary Trent.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: One of the things that will be interesting about this
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: is that the Clippers– They put out this statement, again,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: tone deaf, like, we're going to fight this fraudulent charge, right?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Fee immediately reject.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Are they also going to, on their way down, will
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: they try to take some teams down with them?
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: That'll be interesting to see. Very true. Could be. Then
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: maybe they will squawk about Gary Trent and like, oh,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: what about this?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: What about this?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Like, oh, you're going to make me take down my trampoline?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go. Let's see.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: The Homeowners Association rules.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Let's see that house, that house, that house.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: And you start seeing who the real power brokers are.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Who is Kawhi Leonard's guy negotiating this?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: His uncle. His uncle. If he was doing it with
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: a rich Paul, maybe it would be a different deal.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: We'll see how much this tangled web starts unraveling.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Losing in this, so is Shams, so is ESPN. Their
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: reporting on this was behind and bad. They were just
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: getting fed stuff by the Clippers, and it was not good.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Not a good look at all in terms of the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: journalism scoreboard. And now they've got a post about Pablo Torre.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Congratulations all day long.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: That's a good one.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Who's hot, who's not? Pablo Torre's hot, Clipper's not. When
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: we come back, you know who's hot? Scott Dolphin.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Always.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Going to join us for halftime of the Thursday edition
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: of The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Halftime of the huddle.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Halfway through today's festivities, Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing it
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: to you. 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison. Happy to be joined
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: by Scott Dolph and our halftime correspondent from the country
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: station on the hall, FM 106.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: And Dolph, we got a text today. Or was it
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: last night or this morning?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: A little last night.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: A little heads up last night. Yes, sir. A little
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: heads up.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: A little honorarium for your brother.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that? Congratulations, Gary. Gary Dolphin, voice of
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: the Hawkeyes.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Name the press box.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I believe it's the radio booth. The communication center.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Well, just like Bob Euchre at AmFam Field, the Bob
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Euchre Communication Center.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was thrilled and surprised.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Kirk Ferentz dropped that news on him yesterday during their interview,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: which is pretty cool. A lot of legendary broadcasters in
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: the state of Iowa have have worked up in that
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: press box, and now he's done it for, I think
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: this is going to be his 30th year.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Of Iowa football. He said 30 years on the video.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: It was awesome to be able to hear. I'm glad
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: they did it now while he's there to enjoy it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: A lot of times these things that happen, guys are
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: gone when they do this stuff. I'm glad they did
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: it now.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: I keep asking him, when are you going to retire?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: He told me like 10 years ago. Maybe another five
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: years and then another five years. Well, once Eddie Podolak leaves,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: I'll probably leave too, and Ed's been gone for a while,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: and now he's working with Pat Angerer.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Longtime Hawkeye and NFL player. And he's still going strong.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: People need him, man. That's how it goes.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: You know, he still loves it. Still enjoys it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Well, it's also gotta be a little bit hard when
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: the team ends up being so damn good, right? Like now,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: now with Ben McCollum coming in and basketball is like,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: wait a second, all the games that I called. And
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: now you guys, now I should retire. It's this courtside
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: seat for the best team that we've had in 50 years.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: No chance.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: It's a good time to be there because you know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: they went through some dark ages and, They went through
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: the Todd Licklider years in basketball.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: When he got the job, it was the end of
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: the Hayden Fry era. They were not good. They were okay.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: They were making bowl games. And then Ferentz came in,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: and I think they won four games in three years.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: They were not good at all.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Bad coach. But there was some excitement originally for him,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: wasn't there? Licklider? Once upon a time, I think when
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: he first came in, I remember those days.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he was the reigning coach of the
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: year at Butler and was just lost at Iowa.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I think it was bad. You know, our buddy Wayne
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Larrabee started out doing Iowa Hawkeyes games.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, he did.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: ASTT Radio in Davenport. Yeah, my first radio market, the
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Quad Cities. Wayne was there significantly ahead of me, way
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: before I was. But I think he left there after
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: calling Iowa, and he got the Kansas City Chiefs job.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: The Chiefs job, right after that. Wow. Iowa games, yeah.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: It was the Wild Wild West then, because you would
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: have eight or ten different crews calling Wisconsin football or
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Iowa football in those days.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: There was no Learfield.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: There was no one central– unit that did for all
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: the entire state. It was just whoever wanted to broadcast
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: the games, you could sell your own little commercials in
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Dubuque or wherever and you could do it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Now, I got to wonder because this happens for your
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: brother and then it's like, well, we got to celebrate something.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: He had to get something because Dolphin FM 106.1 just
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: nominated once again for CMA. Once again, every year, annual tradition.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I do feel good for your brother because now he
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: can finally say something. He's like, yeah, Scott, I know
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: every year you guys are going to be nominated for
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: a CMA because you're just that damn good.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: It was funny you mentioned that because about three years ago,
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: we got to co-emcee a hospital event back in Iowa,
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: and he had just been named the Iowa Sportscaster of
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: the Year or whatever, and I had snuck my CMA
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: award in one of my CMA awards. into the event.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: I said, that's cool, but do you have one of
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: these I put on the podium? Oh! That was a
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: fun night. What are we going to name around here
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: after you? Because that's what I was thinking of. We've
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: got to name something after Dolph.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Scott Dolphin Hallway.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I was going to say, definitely the hallway in some
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: form or fashion. But we've got to fix the carpet
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: and the runner over here before we name something in
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: the hallway after Scott Ball.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: You know what I'd like?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Maybe my parking spot, because I parked in that same
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: damn spot.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I park in the east lot. You guys all, I think,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: park in the west lot.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you have your own area. You have your whole
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: part of the building there.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: I do, because back in the day, 20-whatever-it-was-years-ago, our office
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: was right inside that back door.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: And so I always parked over there. Well, now I
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: still park in the same spot, you know, where Creature's
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: a Habit. So maybe if I can get a little
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: slot in front of my parking spot, that would.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Make me happy.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I think we can absolutely make that happen.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad you mentioned parking spots because there has
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: been somebody on this huddle program whose world has kind
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: of been turned upside down as of late because of
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: a parking spot.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: What's going on? He's actually been handling it quite well because.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on here. Someone's been in
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: my spot. Okay. Because you have your spot and understandably.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: So I've been, I've been kind of going into the
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: same spot too for a while. All of a sudden
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: there's this big old truck, man. I get here early
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: enough where I feel like no one's going to get
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: my spot. I'm like, what's this truck doing here? Now,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: this is the engineer truck. It's the engineer truck. I'm
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: a little chapped.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: But then today, it wasn't in there, but you weren't
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: parked in that spot when I pulled up.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Because also, there was something next to it, and there
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: wasn't enough room. I don't want anything in. I'm making
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: a point here.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Isn't it funny, though, when somebody takes your parking spot,
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: even though it's really not your parking spot, but you
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: park there every day, and somebody's in your spot.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: You're like, come on, man.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: What's going on here? How are you doing that to me?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I asked Billy, you think I can push this thing
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: onto the lawn? Ha ha!
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: But I can't do that. It's like an F-150 extended
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: super cab.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Also, it's definitely like Jeff or Michael, one of our engineers.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I would struggle to think you're pushing a Hot Wheels
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: on it. Yeah, and also it's like, you know, they're
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: probably doing important work. You know, like, compared to what I... Well,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: so are you, though. Well, thank you, but I mean,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: come on. Yeah, well... Come on. I'm not keeping this
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: on the... Like, it's not like I'm, you know, climbing
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: transmitters and stuff, so maybe they're doing something like that.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Maybe they deserve that nicer parking spot.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: So you know what? Maybe I'll just kind of whip
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: around here and park over here.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I will never forget a couple years ago, we had
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: a Newstalk guy here, a very popular Jay Weber, who
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: did the morning show on our Newstalk station.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Of course, yeah.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: He always parked his truck in the same spot every
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: single morning for years and years and years and decades.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: And one day, somebody went on vacation. and they left
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: their car here for like 10 days, and it was
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: in Jay's spot. He about lost his mind. He said, Jay,
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: you can park right next to it. No, this is
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: my spot. I like to park right next to the
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: brass so nobody can door ding me. It's the funniest thing.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: It is funny because what people need to know is
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: we've got room here. There's spots. It's not like we've got.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: It's not like there's a lot of cars parking in
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: the parking lot.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: No. That's hilarious.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, Dolph, Brewer's winning a game when Miz wasn't at
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: his best. Cubs has got to be thinking, oh, what
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: do we have to do?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: I thought the way they were, not only, you know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: you could tell clearly he had nothing but the fastball
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: and even that wasn't good last night and he was
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: slipping again. And the Cubs were rocking him. You know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: was it five earned? So you're thinking this night is
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: not going to, he's going to, he's going to get
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: tagged with the L, but the offense comes together. And
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: just like they did the night before, you know, it
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: starts small and then you got guys that are on
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: fire right now, like Churio and And Contreras, just like that,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: 14 hits later, they end up beating him going away easily.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: It's strange for him to give up as many hits
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: as he had strikeouts.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Not used to that. It's just different. It's just different.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: To that calculus. Conditions were weird last night. It was
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: a hot July night in September in Wrigley last night.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: So this crossed my mind, the conspiracy theorist that I am.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: This crossed my mind because you always remember back in
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: the day, you heard notorious stories of the Cubs ground
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: screws growing the grass longer to slow teams down. You
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: don't suppose they overwatered that area. That mound, do you?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: You do wonder.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: You're not the only person to say it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Our friend Janny and Appleton threw it out earlier this morning.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: They saw it at Citi Field last week where he
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: was struggling. Getting his head. Yeah, and so why not
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: do it? Try to get every advantage you can over
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: the best pitcher in baseball.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: He threw his side session on that mound the other day,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: which I guess the Brewers had to get permission from
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the Cubs because the grounds crew, those guys are protected
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of the mound, and the Cubs.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Clearly said, oh, yeah, go ahead. There's zero question.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Teams are going to look for edges.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think pitchers might start doing that now.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Like somebody's going to see that. It's almost like a trend.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Years ago, I don't remember what team started it, but
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: let's say you're in a getaway game and you're playing
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh and it's a night game. And then your
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: next game is going to be in, let's insert, let's
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: say you're going to play Houston.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: They would take the guy who's going to start the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: opener of the Houston game and fly him out early
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the day before to let him sleep and get a
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: full night's sleep and not have to get in at
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: 3 in the morning and stuff. So that one pitcher
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: would get a first-class ticket, fly by himself, go to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the next city.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: And now we see that regularly during the playoffs, right?
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: If they're playing the Dodgers, you're going to send whoever
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: back to Milwaukee. Whoever's going to come back. And so
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: they do that to give them a little rest.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And now that Miz threw a bullpen on the actual
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: game mound, Other guys are going to start with it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I'm going to do that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Well, it is a copycat trend. Remember Torpedo Bats?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: We've talked to Wags about that, too. Sometimes the bullpen
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: mounts just feel different. You get out there, and it
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: feels totally different.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: A thousand percent.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: They're not all the same.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Explain that Wrigley Field bullpen to me. It looks like
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: a bomb shelter when they're in there.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: It totally does, Dolph.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: You're spot on.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: I miss the days when they were just right down
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: the baselines. Throw into catchers, and every once in a while, oh, time, time, ball's.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: On the field. Watch out, somebody's in there.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Bullpen catcher missed the ball.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: You definitely had to pick when you were throwing the pitch, too, right,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: in the bullpen? Yes. Because you had to be on
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: your stuff, because that heater is coming down the line.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: It does look like a bomb shelter. It also looks
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: like it's a shelter from all the fighting that happens
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: in the bleachers. They're trying to say the bleachers are nice.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: customary place. That place is an absolute nutcase, right?
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: It absolutely is. They can put out all the romantic
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: comedies they want. It's still the bleachers.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: It's a scary, scary spot. So we're protecting all those
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: guys from all costs. The tough thing is what happens
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: if there's a scrap?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Do they then have to bust open that barn door
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: in the bomb shelter? They got TVs on there, but
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's going to take an extra two
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: minutes to be able to get out and already missed.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: For their soft jog into the brawl. As bullpen pitchers
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: do now. As everything finishes off.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: No, we just missed it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I used to sit on the foul line and stuff
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: those old school pens that were on the field.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: That was like, you know.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Because then you can bring a chair, too. You'd be
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: close enough.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Well, there was always one guy. A lot of interaction
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: with the fans down there, too.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: A lot of fun.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: And it was always like whoever the Easton McGee was
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: or the Bryce, you know, Bryce Wilson had to sit
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: and defend. Like, if you had your back turned, you
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: had to sit and watch for ground balls. So they
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: had to sit there and be ready with the glove, right?
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: They had to be one guy. They always had to
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: be one guy to do that.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: I remember we had, we got. tickets right on the
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: wall one day. It was Cubs-Mets of all teams, or
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: maybe it was Reds, but Jesse Orozco was in the
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: pen and was sitting right below us. He talked to
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: us for like five straight innings.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I kid you not. Were you going to dinner tonight?
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Any good recommendations? Jesse Orozco.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: He's probably bored. He's got nothing else to do. It's
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: exciting for the first couple of innings, and you're like,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: all right, we're done talking here. We're having our own conversation.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: It's like, we're done here, buddy.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: A pitcher from the Cardinals was sitting in the pen
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and started chatting up a woman.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: They ended up being married.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Wow. Back to Armand's romantic comedies.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, bullpen romances happen. I mean, David Coles was
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: a bit different, but I mean, look that up. But,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, sometimes it can happen. Sometimes it can happen.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I remember the pitching coach giving me a home run
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: ball when we were at the Metrodome. My mom had
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: to go to Minnesota for work, so my dad and
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I went to the Twins Mariners game. And right by
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the pitching coach threw me a ball. That was one
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: of the most exciting things that happened. It wasn't even
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: a county stadium.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Love that.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: So, it's good memories, you know, to have. Good memories
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: to have. Still some of the best seats in the
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: American family field. If you want to get down in
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: there in the 200s, or in the one hundreds in
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the right field bleachers, you can get right there by
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the road team. Oh yeah. And watch them.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: That'd be the two, two level, two level.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's so, it's so fun to be right there
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: watching them pitch.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that is, those are great seats.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Tommy and Salas, the Cubs, 100% sabotage that mountain. This
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: is a franchise that had a sunburn rain out because
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: their bullpen was taxed.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Come on. Let's farm this.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Listen, the other part of the mound deal for Miz
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: is he's so far ahead of everybody else, you very
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: easily could just say.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, no one ever lands there.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: No one ever lands there. That would be accurate.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: We're just trying to make sure nobody takes one off
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: the leg.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: And they had video of him throwing his bullpen on
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: that mound, and they saw.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Where he landed.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: They're like, okay, right there. Hey, Johnny, you know what
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: to do. Angel Stadium is where that kind of started
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: this year, where he talked about how bad the mound was.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: And that's where he had trouble. He had troubles last year.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. A couple of road mounds.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: He also did it in the nicest way possible.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: It was the worst mound I've ever met him.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You look at the Cubs team.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Awful.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Drew, you mentioned the other day, one of the best defensive,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: if not the best defensive team in baseball. They are
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: absolutely raking right now with PCA and Bregman, those guys.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: But that bullpen, they're not. they're not advancing through the
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: first round of the playoffs with that bullpen unless they
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: get healthy.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: It's rough, man. It's brutal. That is definitely their Achilles heel.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: And when you get their starters, like the Brewers did
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: last night, it's pretty much over. Even if you're only
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: up a run, if you're the Cubs.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: It was tie ball game and it goes to the
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: bullpen and you knew that they were cooked because at
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: some point that was going to blow up on him.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: And not only because my man blew up as he
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: walked off the mound. Was that guy mad at Tyrone
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Taylor for not catching the ball, or was he mad
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: at himself?
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: I think he was pissed that he gave up three bloops.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: And then he got out.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: He was a scary cat to see walking down the dugout.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: He looked a little disturbed at that moment. Yeah, I
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: think he was upset.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: That was some bad luck.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: And then the Brewers almost got another bloop for a
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: couple runs, but that was a great play by, was
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: it Nico Horner that made the flat-out dive?
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: It was a sweet play.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: That's one of the best plays you'll see all year.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Cubs are still a good team. I just don't think
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: they're as good as the Brewers this year. Though, in
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a given series with that lineup, they can beat anybody.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: They can, but now they're behind the Phillies. And if
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: the Phillies get the top wild card, that's going to
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: be a tough out. I agree. Knockdown drag out. Incredible three-gamer.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: And if it's in Philly, that's just a hornet's nestle
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: of a place. Murph called Wrigley Field the best home
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: field advantage in baseball.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: That's 1-2.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I think that's 1-2. The Dodgers are.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Coughing and sputtering and wheezing, but you don't know. Can
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: they just put the paddles to it like they've done
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: before and all of a sudden get better in October?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: They have fallen behind the Braves now by half game.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't break my heart to see them play a
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: first-round series either.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: That would be fun.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: That would be fun. Maybe the planets will align because
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers puked one away last night. Cubs' bullpen is shaky.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's the Brewers' year.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Is this the best time for sports or what? You've
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: got 22 games left in the baseball season, then it's playoffs.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: College football is stacked tonight. You've got a couple of
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Big Ten teams in action.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: And then we're inside a week away from the NFL
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: firing up.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Yep, finally.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: We didn't mark that yesterday, Wednesday, right?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he got weird. Yeah, the Wednesday night game's weird.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: So a week from tonight is the first Thursday game,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: but we got the Wednesday game before it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: And there's an international game next week, too?
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Next week, Thursday, is our chance to watch the Rams
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: lose their first game. And that'll be right after the
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl champions play in the Rossini Bowl against the Patriots.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Billy was giving me a hard time because I was
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: bristling at the.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: The dumb talk of can the Rams go undefeated?
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: What?
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I'm so with you, though. What?
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I'm so with you.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: You're like, are you new here? It's like these dumb
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: conversations on ESPN and stuff. But that had legs, man.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It went on for like a day and a half.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: People were loving it. People saying, can the Rams go 17-0? Like,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: let's see them go 2-1.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, let's see him beat the substation down in
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Australia first. What do you think, Aaron Donald? Is he
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: going to be legit? I mean, he's not. Is he
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: going to be what we remember him as?
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: If he's 60% of what he was, he's still going
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: to be better than most.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: As soon as he signed, they said that he's questionable
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: for week one. He's hurt. I'm like, what? How did
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: that happen? Well, it's going to take a while to
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: get in football shape.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Two years off is a lot. It's going to take
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: a little while.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: And also.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: I still don't know why you'd send him out there,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: but if he's going to be on the team, we're
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: all making the trip.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: If one's going, we're all going. Yeah, that's true.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: They're also barely even going to get a sweat over there.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I would say, and that one clown who said that
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: there was 68% or that they would go 17-0. I'd
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: say it's a better chance of them going one and
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: two in the first three than it is. He's got
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to be studying that new math that they're trying to teach.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Insanity.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: If that's the case. Insanity. There's no way that math
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: is math. Dolph, thank you for hanging out with us. Thanks, fellas.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: As always, looking forward to this Friday, June. Our favorite
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Dolphin brother. That's right. You know, I don't hear that enough,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: so you guys just made my day. Thank you.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I'll leave you with this.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: As I leave the door, the same night I emceed
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: the thing with Dolph, he said, on the mic, he said,
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: I've been in radio since you were in diapers.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: And I said, well... I'll still be doing radio when
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: you're back in diapers, so we'll be even. I'll leave
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: you with that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: That's a win.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: That's a walk-off kill shot right there.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. That is a bar. You're in the huddle,
• 35:42
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• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing it to you on this
• 35:49
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• 35:56
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• 35:59
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• 36:01
  Speaker 1: who's on YouTube, Facebook, and X streaming us live, looking
• 36:05
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• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I just sent Billy a funny picture.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: That is just so, so good. Starting quarterback. A little
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: AI version of Kyler Murray. A little tiny man.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Here's one for you. This will warm the cockles. Maybe
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: he should be our superhero of the day. Brought to
• 36:18
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• 36:23
  Speaker 1: say this. Tongue firmly planted in cheek. The great Skip
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Bayless put out into the Twitterverse yesterday, I'm starting to
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: think the Minnesota Vikings are going to win that division.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Okay. And immediately, even Vikings fans are like, shut up, Skip.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And one guy points out, as a Vikings fan, we
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: will know in week one whether we're going to be
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: 6-11 or 11-6, and I won't be surprised either way.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. They are the biggest wild card, I think,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: in the NFL this year. Here's the thing, and it
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: might be hard to process this as Packers fans. The
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Vikings are favored. Week one at U.S.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Bank Stadium, Vikings are a one and a half point favorite.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Now you can say, well, home field should be worth three.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: So actually, no, they're favored. That is what it is.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is what it is.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Packers will start their first game as an underdog. That
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: hasn't happened that often.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: No, especially against a team that finished tied for last
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: in the division a year ago in Minnesota.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: But they did win their last four or five games,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, this is a really unique division. I mean,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: you have the Lions getting the betting favorite and the Cubs,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the Bears and the Packers have all this hype and
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: stuff like that.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Just like Armin when he goes to Pornhub. I'm here
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: for the comments, though.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Because the comments under Skip, it's mostly the most angry
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: people are not Vikings fans, which you might expect.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: You shut up.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Because I thought we were going to be good. Now
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that you think we're going to be good, we're going
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: to suck. It's like the reverse lock, right? But the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: most angry people seem to be Bears fans.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Give us the respect we deserve. They're triggered by this.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: So maybe Skip should be our... Do we have another candidate?
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I don't want to give Skip any awards.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what?
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Here, I got a possibility for you. A 47-year-old father
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: of three who returned to the college football field I
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: like this. Justin Buzzard completes his dream of 30 years
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: in the making, taking defensive snaps for the Jags of
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: San Jose City College.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Now, it's never too late.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: To make a comeback. You prove this one from NBC
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Bay Area.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: While 35... is generally considered a little old by football standards, right?
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, Christian Yellich, 34.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: He's the oldest guy on the Brewers right now. He
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: stepped in onto the field with just five minutes remaining.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: And the recent loss for San Jose City College, we
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: won't talk about what the scoreboard read.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: All right. When my man stepped on, just know Justin
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Buzzard sparked a 14-0 run.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: For the Jags. I love that.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: They may have been down 41-7 with five minutes to go.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: When my man Justin got his first snap, teammates call
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: him OG, but as he said in an interview a
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: few weeks ago after making the roster, they've given me
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: a shot. I've become part of the team, part of
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: the family, my teammates and coaches. Although the game ended
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: in a blowout loss, it was a dream in the making.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: A 47-year-old taking college football snaps against the College of Redwoods.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: I'm loving that.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: That's our current electric superhero of the day. Callcurrent.com, the website.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Superheroes on the side of the van and inside. Why
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: did I never have to block a 47?
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, you would have been in
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: good shape there.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I'd have looked a lot better on tape.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: This is wild.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: I'd have been a lot better player if I was
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: playing dads of three in college.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: And then you get, you bristle and people are mad
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: at the stories of guys who are getting cut and
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: going to NFL.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: From NFL camps to LSU.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Nobody was mad at this pro. Not mad at this guy.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: He's been a professional pastor for the last 20 years.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Not mad at him at all.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: I don't see anybody being upset at San Jose City
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: College for giving him an opportunity.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: The Lord was with him. Didn't you ever see Reggie's prayer? Yeah, really.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Mike Greenberg was trying to kind of wash this a
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: little bit. Like, it's not what people think.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: It's not like Lamar Jackson's not going to like the
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: offer he gets from Baltimore and then go play at Alabama.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it's guys. And it's the rule that
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: changed just a couple of months ago that are.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Allowing guys to do it messed up. Shockingly.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Of course they did.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Of course. Shockingly.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: So are, is this misplaced? Are people mad for over
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: angry on this Billy?
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's, I don't think it's completely misplaced
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: because at the end of the day, drew, you see
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: somebody in an NFL uniform and then see him in
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: a college uniform. That's a hard one to melt your
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: brain around.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: It ain't right.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: But it's not going to break college sports. I watched
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: five guys from the G League go and play college.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Basketball last year.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I said that from the other day, though.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: It used to be there were two things that could
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: make you be done in college.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: One was betting on your own team, and the other
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: was going professional.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Now, eh.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Both might work. A little gray area there. You just
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: need the right judge, and you can still bet. Oh,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: this is epic. You're in the huddle.
• 40:47
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