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09/24/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Who's ready for a game day in the good land?
• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Raise your hand. Let's go. Drew Billion-Armond huddled up on
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: a Thursday. We, oh my goodness, this is going to
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: be good. We made it here, Drew. We made it.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Come on now. Game day, baby. Packers home opener this evening.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Lambeau Field against the Ravens. Brewers against the Phillies at
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park. Final road game of the championship season
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: before the postseason. Brewers are at 99 wins after last evening's.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Logan Henderson performance. Shut down stuff. Can't give that guy
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: enough accolades for the way he's pitched and comported himself.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: If it wasn't for that lanky right-hander he shares the
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: rotation with, he'd be all the buzz. Out of the jams, too,
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: last night. That was a good stuff. Cal Eldredesk. He's
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: having a great weekend. Good reference, yeah.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: It really is amazing how much gets clouded over by
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: one guy, I don't know, winning the Cy Young and
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: apparently throwing like a hundred miles an hour way more
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: than anybody ever has before instead just the mustached man
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: can just hang out in the weeds and dominate as
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: he has i liked murph county uh shouting it out
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: as much as he has over the last couple of
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: days he was on the mcfee show a couple of
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: days ago and while obviously the question immediately comes up
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  Speaker 2: of the ms drew he goes yeah we.
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  Speaker 1: Got this uh You got this other kid, Logan Henderson.
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  Speaker 1: He's pretty good too. He doesn't stink either.
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  Speaker 2: And being able to flex that in Philly last night
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  Speaker 2: was nice. And now he just gets to, as he said,
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  Speaker 2: get ready to live out his dream and pitch in
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. How about that? I love hearing that. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he would have last year, but he got hurt. He
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: got hurt at the wrong times.
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: And coming up in the minor leagues, it hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: a long time since he was in college or college age,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been dealing with a bunch of injuries throughout
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  Speaker 2: his time coming up. So Cool for him to finally
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  Speaker 2: be able to get here and be pitching the best
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  Speaker 2: he ever has. The best he's ever had.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's really become important to this team, and
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: he's peaking right now. And, you know, it's funny because
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: you think about, yeah, like you think about Miz, right,
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: and his fastball and how dominant that is.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: It's sort of like Logan sort of has that with
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: his changeup.
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: Like Logan Henderson's changeup is almost just as dominant in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the opposite, right, because it's slower. It's not speed.
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  Speaker 1: It's not arm strength.
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  Speaker 3: But he's able to dominate with that pitch, and when
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: it's going right, I mean, he has batters off balance.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: All night. And you saw him going to that when
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: he needed to last night. Indeed. Indeed. He pitched great
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: as he has. I mean, he has been lights out. What,
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: a major league record for consecutive starts of three runs
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: or fewer?
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  Speaker 2: Three or fewer, yeah. Yeah, and I keep forgetting to keep.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: track of it now, Drew. Once it got over 25,
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: it just got hard to keep counting.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: I think he tied Zach Gallin for the Major League record.
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  Speaker 1: Big time.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: Cruising and doing it his way and the Brewers having
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: multiple ways to pitch to you I think is important
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  Speaker 2: come October.
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  Speaker 1: Not granted, you can only fire one a night.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: Hopefully, you only need one good win on the road
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  Speaker 2: and then you can shut the box at home and
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  Speaker 2: get yourself rolling through.
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  Speaker 1: You're playing a team that's driving for the playoffs and
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  Speaker 1: you win a game. And now you have another game
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: against them tonight. And I know it's just we're so
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: used to the Brewers just winning and checking boxes. Right.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: That when they lost on Monday, it was almost like
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: a splash of cold water. Yeah, you catch yourself. You're like,
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: wait a second. Oh, you can lose to this team.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: But then, oh, all is right with the world. They
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  Speaker 1: get up early. They follow the most Brewers formula yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Another lockdown start. Great bullpen. They beat a really good
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  Speaker 1: team that's playing for something. And now the Brewers, all
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  Speaker 1: that's left is will they win 100 games? Most likely.
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  Speaker 1: They have four cracks at it. Most likely.
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  Speaker 2: I keep getting that question at the water cooler, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: I like that that's the most important question.
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  Speaker 1: And for all intents, the magic number is two to
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  Speaker 1: wrap up the number one seed overall. Because by my math,
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  Speaker 1: if the Brewers get to, if they win two, they'll
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: get to 101 wins. And the Dodgers, they have to
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  Speaker 1: go 4-0 to get to 101. And the Brewers win
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  Speaker 1: the tiebreaker. And then the Brewers would win the tiebreaker.
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  Speaker 1: So it tells me that two wins by the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: win two, or the Dodgers lose two, the year before.
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  Speaker 1: You're good to go. One win by the Padres last night,
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: and that's off and running.
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  Speaker 2: And now we can instead kind of just watch and
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the spectacle that will be Packers and Falcons tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I know spectacle might be a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: strong word.
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  Speaker 2: But the NL wildcard race, because these three teams, one
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  Speaker 2: of which that you have a piece in today against
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  Speaker 2: the Phillies, now it continues to move around. Last night,
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  Speaker 2: San Diego took over the number one spot in that
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  Speaker 2: wildcard race. It had been that for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cubs and some other teams are going to
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: have some interesting weather plans. issues the cubs are they're
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: jacking around their schedule in boston this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: They might be ending the season before anybody else right
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: they doubleheader on friday they were thinking to.
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  Speaker 1: Get in front of the storm and then they're like
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: they might not play sunday they might just you know
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: it's wild yeah craig was already the game up they
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: might move up uh saturday's game yeah and then they
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: were planned to be done yeah I think I listen.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that a disadvantage. He's walking about it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's complaining, but I will say though, I at least
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  Speaker 2: appreciate them being having some foresight in the situation. I agree,
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  Speaker 2: but instead of looking back at it on Sunday, me like, damn,
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: we probably could have played two on Friday and this
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  Speaker 2: would not have been as.
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  Speaker 1: Much of an issue. Logistically. I was reading, Craig was
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: talking about it and he said, well, they never move
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: up games.
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  Speaker 3: This is not what they do. They usually postpone games.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, maybe they should do that more. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: this is a good idea. to like move up a
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  Speaker 3: game to try and beat the nor'easter that's supposed to
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  Speaker 3: come and deliver these crazy wins and rain and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, what would you, he's upset.
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: I think because they don't, they won't have a starter
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: Saturday that can go full rest. They're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to probably throw a show to him and I got
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  Speaker 3: in short rest. And it's like, yes, they're jogging for position.
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  Speaker 3: So he's talking about how it's a disadvantage because of
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  Speaker 3: the double header and the way the rotate that, that
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  Speaker 3: might be true, but it's like, it's either that, or
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: then you'd have to play.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: Games after Sunday, which nobody wants. Right. I think, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah. You don't want to postpone stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So I do appreciate, like you said, Billy, that they
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: had foresight to try and figure this thing out ahead
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  Speaker 3: of the storms that are going to come because it
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  Speaker 3: could be a bigger problem other than Craig's, you know,
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: usage of his pitching staff.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe it will turn out to be similar to
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL. Like the game that we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see tonight is a short week is absolutely difficult on
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  Speaker 2: the body, but on the backend.
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  Speaker 1: You start appreciating a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they will appreciate it, Drew, getting a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days before that Tuesday start of the NLDS.
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  Speaker 1: That could be.
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  Speaker 2: Because right now, the way it slates up, if they
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  Speaker 2: end up as the third wildcard team, or however it
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: would end up sitting with the tentative schedule with the dates,
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  Speaker 2: they either play Tuesday or Wednesday for their first game.
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  Speaker 2: So you might as well know that at least you
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  Speaker 2: get a couple of days of reprieve on the back
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  Speaker 2: end to get yourself back to neutral.
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  Speaker 1: You can reach us at 877-794-1973. It's not optimal. It
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. You've got to do what you've
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  Speaker 1: got to do. Win the division. Wild card series starts
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, like you said. And then, oh lordy, a
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  Speaker 1: week from Saturday, game one, NLDS. Opponent TBA, Brewers sitting
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  Speaker 1: at home.
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  Speaker 2: Opponent TBA, and going through that lineup again last night
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  Speaker 2: I think was an exercise, even though the Brewers locked
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  Speaker 2: it up pretty well. throughout not only Henderson, D.L. Hall
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  Speaker 2: was phenomenal, and Uribe and McGill just workmanlike late. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that I'm picking or choosing any of these
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  Speaker 2: three teams that roll through here in the wild card.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever it ends up being, I'll be fine with, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to hitch my wagon to I'd like
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers to face that team because I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that there's much of an advantage with any three of
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  Speaker 2: these lineups.
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  Speaker 3: There's really no team you're going to look at and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: that's the clearly the team we want.
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  Speaker 2: That's the no red snuck in this year.
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  Speaker 3: That big apple. Everybody wants to pick off the tree there.
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  Speaker 3: There isn't one like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and we've talked about it all summer and
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: we've talked about a lot this week yesterday, but that
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  Speaker 3: is the way this has gone on the NL and
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: the AL. It's just been such a weird year where
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: it's been so NL heavy that there are all good
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  Speaker 3: teams there. So to your point, Billy, it's almost like
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  Speaker 3: you don't even have to worry about trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: make that decision of should we finesse the schedule or finesse?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Finesse like the, you know, the matchup and lose and
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  Speaker 3: win here. And it's like, sometimes that's a decision that
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  Speaker 3: burdens teams in this situation. It's not even one right
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  Speaker 3: now because it really doesn't matter because there aren't any advantages,
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  Speaker 3: like obvious advantages to playing one team or the other.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, maybe you could say, oh, well, we have
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  Speaker 3: a matchup here or we have history here, but they're
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  Speaker 3: all good teams to your point. If you're going to
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: go where you want to go this year, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to have to beat great teams. You're going to have
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: to run the gauntlet. So it is what it is.
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: You might as well just, and I wonder if that's,
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: you know, what are fans thinking about right now as
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: you approach the playoffs? I mean, is it get to
• 8:37
  Speaker 3: a hundred then kind of pay attention or is it
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: wait to see where the matchups are? Or are they
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: thinking only about pitching staff? Cause I also thought last night,
• 8:44
  Speaker 3: the way the Brewers scored their runs might make some
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: fans excited.
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  Speaker 1: Like if your focus is like, well, we've got.
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: To get Yelich and Terang and hot and those guys aren't, well,
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  Speaker 3: you got two homers out of those guys.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: You got a homer out of Yelich, you get a
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  Speaker 1: homer out of Terang.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe that warms your, your cockles of hoping, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I hope our big bats get hot, you know, and
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: people worry about stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I was just kind of thinking.
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  Speaker 3: That when those guys went yard, it's like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe this will get people excited about, oh, our right
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: guys are peaking and getting hot and all the buzzwords
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: we talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Adam McAlvey has an interview with Christian Yelich,
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: who's had his share of wonderful seasons that end in
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: postseason misery. Now he's had a miserable season. Wouldn't it
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: be nice to have some postseason glory and have it
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: be wonderful? Well, if you swing the stick like you
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: did last night, you got a chance to. That's just it. Yeah, well,
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: if he hits a couple hits and the Brewers win
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: the World Series, suddenly the six-month slog's not going to
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: seem like that bad a deal.
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, could you imagine the raucous AmFam crowd when
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: that man walks up in the seventh inning if he
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: had already tanked one in the second and is popping
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: off in game number six of the NL series? CS
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: and you got a 3-2 lead in the game and
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: a 3-2 lead in the series, that play's going to
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: be going crazy. And he could be one of the
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: catalysts to it. Let's be honest, him and Contreras. last year. Drew,
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: it's tough to say it, and I know people don't
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: like to put it all on it, but whatever the
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: sport is, they end up being players' games. And you
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  Speaker 2: can nitpick the situational decisions here or the play calls
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: there and the bullpen management here and there.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: It is... It comes down to the players.
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: And sadly, the biggest common theme with the Brewers' first
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: round exits through those three-game series and their shortcomings in
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: the playoffs recently, it's just been their.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Best guys have not hit.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, Willie Adamas, as much as we loved him,
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: my man's playoff resume left more than anything to be desired.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: And you're just not going to win much in October.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Talk to a Yankee fan.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: If your best guys aren't, if your best guys aren't them,
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  Speaker 2: their best selves in October.
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: And for all the massaging and trying to constrain about
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: what has to happen to win playoff games. And remember
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: for a while, Billy, it was from our buddy from Timmy.
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: It was, we got to get playoff performers on the team.
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: Like all these things you try and figure out when
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: you try and cope with frustration, it comes down to
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  Speaker 3: what you just said. Your best guys, the guys you
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: count on, the guys that have brought you to the
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  Speaker 3: dance all year. have got to hit in those situations
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  Speaker 3: in those small moments, uh, that you need them. They
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: need to be the ones to perform. And, and that's
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: eventually who wins, who wins the playoffs. It's like, who
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: has the most guys performing in the most clutch situations
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: and performances you don't expect.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: And that's the other thing too. So if you can
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: get a couple of those, yeah, there's always one or
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: two guys that rise up and come up big and
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: big moments and guys that you'll never forget last night's game. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Logan Henderson, when he got out of that, he got
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: out of a couple of wriggled off the hook a
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: couple of times and a great play by David Hamilton
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: up against the tarp. And you know, that was the,
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: to me, like you have those inflection points. And when
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: he got out of that jam, I was thinking to myself, okay,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: so if you're watching a playoff game and somebody, you
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: see a pitcher in the second or third inning escape,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: a base is loaded jam. You're like, Oh, that's going
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: to be big later. That's going to be, that's one
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: of those moments. That's like, That's an inflection point. Yes.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: Bullet dodge there because when you load the bases in
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, this way you can say this of any game,
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: but it's just magnified in the playoffs. You get a
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: guy on third with less than two outs in the playoffs,
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: you damn well better get him in. You have to.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Because if you don't, you don't get that many chances.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: And so if you don't get him in in the
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: third inning, like, eish, you know, things can change and
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: you can score multiple runs in a inning, but then
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: it's tougher. It's just you've got to string hits together.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: It's like. That's to me, and that's a stat. Armin's
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: big thing is run differential. That's another stat that people
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: should look at more is how do teams do in
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: terms of just scoring guys when they get guys to
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: third base with less than two outs out of that?
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: What's their percentage of? converting that into a run.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Well, cause that's like a can equating, you know, goal
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: to go situations like being inside the 20 that they
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: are different deals, right?
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: You get somebody a second base with two outs. Yeah.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: You hadn't that bad with runner in scoring position.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Not the same as having a guy standing at.
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  Speaker 2: Third with one out and a chance to pop one
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: into the outfield and get the run home or a
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: wild pitch or anything.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: These guys spikes a breaking ball or something.
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: Anything that stresses it, all the pitches are so intense
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  Speaker 2: that But when you got somebody standing over there 90
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: feet away, you got to. And I thought one of
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: the most important things yesterday was, and listen, you can
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: pick certain spots in a lineup that'll be important and
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: the biggest ones. No hits again for Schwarber and Harper.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Those two dudes are their catalysts of the offense. They
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: got a lot of great offensive players. But if you
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: hold down those two left-handed bats, you'll be feeling a
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: lot better. And those guys are the dudes that ultimately
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: you just strike fear in you when they step up
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: into the box in the playoff. Brewers don't have a
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: whole lot of those guys. It's going to be Cheerio
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: and maybe Terang for other teams. I mean, but like, again,
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: teams are going to say, yeah, he's a good player,
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: but he's not striking the fear of God in you
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: like future Hall of Famers are. And the Brewers have
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: to be able to string them along. They're just not
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: going to be able to count on too many of
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: those three-run shots like they got definitely a year ago,
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: mostly from Vaughn.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the small market rallies. I mean, the question remains
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: to be seen. The one to be answered is can
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: the Brewers find a way to reach their goals without
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: hitting a lot of home runs.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Unless they unexpectedly do in the postseason.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: But, right, a team that doesn't hit home runs, that's
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: always been the concern and continues to be.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: But you're right, Billy.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: It's like Jake Bowers has had a great year, but
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: that's not a guy people still circle on their lineup
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: card and say, we've got to get this guy out
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: one some way somehow to try and beat this team.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: And that was the case before the Dodgers started winning
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: World Series, too. It was like, when are Betts and
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Freeman going to hit?
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: And they had that consternation there, and then they eventually did,
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: and then they won World Series.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Yep. Yep, that's what it takes. You can reach us, 877-794-1973.
• 14:41
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• 14:44
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• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Vinny's back on YouTube. Vinny D, what's up? To make
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: this personal, we do not have the usual Thursday doubleheader.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: We will not be at Pottawatomie Sportsbook tonight. The official
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: sportsbook partner of the Green Bay Packers is the official
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: home of the Thursday Night Huddle. For our little program.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Because Billy and I will be at Lambeau Field to
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: preside over Packers OT. Yes. Armin will be here doing
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: what he does, which is being the most valuable player
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: of the Packers radio network, keeping things on the air
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: and talking to people and doing our thing. So we
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: will not be at Pottawatomie. But you should be. But
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: we'll be back. And then we have the quick turnaround.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: It's the all-nighter. It's the Jolt Cola Olympics. Yes, sir.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you in the morning. Because we'll be
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: doing the post-game show until 1 a.m. and then fire
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: you up at 5 a.m. Friday edition of the program.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: And I got this giant, this little stretch of ours.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: This little money stretch. It got off to a great
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: start today because I left my laptop at home. I
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: have a work laptop and my personal laptop. And usually
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I keep the work laptop here at work where you
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: need it for work. Sometimes that helps at work. I
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: took it home yesterday because I had this Zoom call
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: with the Super important. That was a really important one,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't it? Super important company Zoom call. And I had
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: to do that. A few minutes. And I took that home,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: and I don't even know why. I guess because it
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: works better with the microphone I have at home and stuff.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: You've got to do it. I left it, and I
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: left it right where I keep my keys and everything.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: You know, when you're up at 4 in the morning,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: it happens a lot more than you like to admit.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at my phone today. I don't have my
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: little laptop. I don't have as much capability and flexibility and, like,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: It's going to be harder to Google stuff on the fly.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: But we're going to soldier through. So the rest of
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the shows, like Packers OT and everything, it's going to
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: feel like Club Med because I'll have my laptop back.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: It's going to be the easiest thing we've done in
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: a long time. Because we are not above hacky radio
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: bits on this program, we're going to go throwback Thursday. Yes.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to ask, what piece of technology could
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: you live without for a day, a week, or even
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: a year? What piece? What modern convenience, I'll say. Drew, Billy,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and Armin bringing it to you on this Thursday. Game
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: day in the good land. It's a Thursday that feels
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: like a Friday because the Packers play tonight. And that's
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: why I said that Wayne Larrabee would join us today.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: He's not. He joins us tomorrow, the day after the game.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Or the day leading into the game. Wayne Larrabee's on
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Friday on the show. Hunter Baumgart is today.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Well, and listen, Wayne, I'll... He's going to have to
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: deliver some magnificent calls here tonight, and let's make sure
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: that they give him something to deliver on.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Let's give him some chances.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: To deliver maybe an early dagger here tonight to this
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Falcons team that comes limping in with one wing just
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: damaged like nobody's business.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Let me just say that because the Falcons come into town.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: They've not in two games. They've not had a snap,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: an offensive snap in the red zone, which is, again, stunning.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Feels like something that gets broken tonight. Michael Penix is
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: coming back, adding intrigue, but William, I would ask you,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: as our lead sports investor on the program, Pottawatomie Sportsbook,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: we won't be there tonight in the annex, and we're
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: going to miss it because I love the food there.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I love the vibe. I love doing shows there. It's
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: just so easy. Lead investor. That's like our best field
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: trip of the week, going to Pottawatomie Sportsbook for the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Thursday night huddle. We'll be back next week when the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Packers play or when there's a major holiday. We don't
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: do a show. But you get a chance to get
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: shots after touchdown, so you should be there tonight. You
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: should be. Yes. Most folks, if you don't have a
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: place to watch a game, that's the spot. But... Yesterday,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: people are mulling this game, and investors are trying to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: decide where to go, and they're looking, and it's like, okay,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Penix is back. That means that you don't have to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: watch Cooper Rush preside over the offense for the Falcons.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Good thing for all of us. That's got to be
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a plus. Yep, that's a good thing for all of us. Meanwhile,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the Packers are without two of their stalwart starters on
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the offensive line, Baco Bueli, out, Aaron Banks, toe, out,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and everything. So yesterday morning, The Falcons were plus five,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and then it moved to plus four, and then at
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, it was four and a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: half again. So it's vacillating. And one bet at Circa
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Sportsbook in Vegas stands out because 72% of the spread
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: handle is on Atlanta, although the Falcons are only attracting 28%
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: of the bets.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: So a lot of the money, and it's only the
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: sharpest plays that are coming in on the Falcons would
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: be what that indicates.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Pretty much.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: They would be the Packers would be the squarest of
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the square primetime favorites to win. And it's mostly because
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Atlanta has looked like warm cheeks for the majority of
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: the season. Tough thing is the Packers are a brand
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that's always going to get bad. It's always going to
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: get hit. We're gonna talk more about it on, on
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the line coming up in the second hour with the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Pottawatomie sports book. I got a little, maybe a little
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: tease to, help you out here, but it drew, I
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: think it indicates rightfully so that while horrible in their
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: first two games, Atlanta is about as dangerous as most
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: teams are right now in week number three of the
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: nfl regular season like it's so early it still is
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: uh as close to a pre-season game as you can
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: get they have their new head coach kevin stefanski coming
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: in there trying to figure out how do we wait
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: our best players is bijan robinson cat how do we
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: make sure that we get him the ball every game
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: how do we make sure we get this drake london
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: guy the ball every game well it's gonna help when
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: they actually have a competent quarterback throwing him the rock
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: And somebody that got to, I don't know, practice some
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: during training camp. So Penix is going to be an improvement.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: How much it'll be seen to be determined and to
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: be seen later on tonight.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: But make no mistake about it.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: The Packers can get some pressure against this team and
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: you can heat up Penix and force him out of
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the pocket. I think it adds for a lot more
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: intrigue coming up here tonight.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: And if he throws you a couple, can you take
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: them down? But I think you're right, Billy, to your
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: point as well. It's like, Earlier in the week, it's
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: like it's hard for them to do worse at that position,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: or at least it's hard to seem that they could
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: do worse. So that's why I think there are people
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: excited about the Falcons' chances to cover with Penix there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: And obviously the Packers haven't looked like world beaters to anybody.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, they found a way to.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Win last week, but have struggled in a lot of categories.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Obviously the injuries that you talked about in the offensive line,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: it kind of makes it for an interesting one because
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: this line has really moved more than you'll.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Ever see an NFL line move.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I think in one week, I mean, it was six
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: and a half and seven at one point in time.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: And I remember we were there last week, Thursday night
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: before the Packers had even played the jets and it
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: was offered at six and a half at Pottawatomie sports book.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: But you're right.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: It was, it was five yesterday. And I remember somebody
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: telling people, go and get your bets in now.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: We'll get them now. Yeah. I don't know who that was. Yeah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know who that was. I don't know who
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: that was.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Um, Yeah, and absolutely. But this thing is totally cruised.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: So I guess it's a couple ways to look at
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: it if you are an investor. It's like, oh, if
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: you like the Packers, you might have a little bit
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: of value here. And if you didn't, that's always how
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: it works. You can always convince yourself on one side
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: or the other.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Which is what makes it so fun. And
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the menu of prop bets, we could spin through some
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: of those. I got a couple of them. On the line, baby.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Coming up. I got a couple of them that I
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: got circled. How about Bijan Robinson?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Drew leads the Falcons with 254 scrimmage yards their first
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: two games.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Only player in Atlanta with at least 100.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: He's got 16 forced missed tackles this year in the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: two games. Twice as many as the rest of the
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Falcons roster combined. So number seven is how it'll start.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Roll and finish for Atlanta. And the Packers, you know,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: this is something that has not been a calling card
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: for a long, a lot of my lifetime and a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: long portion of Green Bay Packers fans' lifetimes.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: But they're pretty dang stout, I think, right now against
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the run.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And as long as you can keep it in between
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the tackles, and that's where the edge being set by
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Van Ness so well through the first two games. And
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I think the night Dennis Sutton and Barron Sorrell are
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: going to be big parts of it. You keep everything in.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: In between the tackles, they're pretty sound up the middle,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: so it could play right into the hands.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Need to have a big.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Chase down night from Edron Cooper because there's only a
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: couple of guys I think drew in football that could
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: chase down B. John Robinson, and I think Cooper at
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the linebacker position is one of the few.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: A couple of things here, a couple of hidden stats
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: for tonight. If you're weighing an investment, the officiating crew
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: is out. Sean Smith will be working his third game.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I like Sean Smith. With Green Bay. Packers 2-0 straight
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: up and 1-1 against the spread.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and while there will be one to two flags
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: that will leave you scratching your head with a Sean
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Smith crew, it'll be clean and concise.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: My man's not.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Going to hockey-lead the situation and talk up there and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: filibuster for 45 seconds. It'll be more of an efficient operation.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the efficiency of Sean Smith. Might get one
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: or two good voice cracks from Sean Smith here tonight.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Which is fine. Nothing wrong with that. 68% of Sean
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Smith's overall penalties last year were assessed, or this year,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: in the first two games, assessed for offensive holding and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: false start. Now, 68%. The average. That ties him with
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Bill Vinovich for the top, and the average for NFL
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: refs is 42% of their calls in offside and holding.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: crazy thing is those being a false start holding those.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Those would be a couple of the Packers calling card.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Now the false starts indeed. The false starts got to
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: get better in Packers. The Packers lead the league in
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: penalties after two games in the false. Yeah, sorry.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: The false starts have to get better at home, right?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Like going back and watching more of it with Jordan Morgan.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I think one once start playing there's definitely room for improvement,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: but but there's something to work there, but we can't
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: have lining up incorrectly twice, and just one of the
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: falls starts straight up just standing up.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Those are just not going to be able to play. Yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and it's going to be interesting to see.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Which trends continue there because this has been a bugaboo
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: for us, and will that continue?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Not all penalties are created equal, though, because the Packers
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: also rank number one in penalties overall, but also in
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: automatic first down penalties, which are those unnecessary roughnesses. It's
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: been the worst one, too. And as it happens, no
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: one has called more unnecessary roughness penalties in the NFL
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: than Tonight's referee, Sean Smith, since 2003. Great. He leads
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the league in unnecessary reference.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: And I'd like to see as a good test and
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: a point of emphasis. Hey, Chris McClellan, let's go one
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: game without getting an unnecessary roughness.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: We have the, we have the roughing the passer that
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: was questionable in game one.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The pushing the guy after the play going into, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: believe the fourth quarter this, this week, that one wasn't
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: very questionable. So let's be able to control the emotions.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: And as Larry said earlier, Focus, fellas.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Focus. That's where a lot of this ends up being.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Here's another stat for you. Whether this is meaningful or not,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: we will all find out together. But teams that play
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: on Thursday night, coming off an overtime game, have a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: record of 3-18. Yeah, I was going to say, not good.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Not a good number after that. The Packers, especially on offense,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: they ran a freakishly low number of plays to start with,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and overtime was only eight plays short. in general. So yeah,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, it wasn't a long overtime
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: and the Packers didn't, it wasn't like they were that taxed.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: No, not like the full bedwetter of an overtime that
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: they did in Dallas, or I was going to say
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: this past weekend, Indianapolis and Kansas city went down to
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the wire all the way.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And you know, green Bay ended up winning. Sure. They
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: played on Sunday last year after that, but that's also okay.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: So three and 18, but that's also should be mitigated
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: because we three, well in home teams, like home teams
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: on Thursday night, generally fare better. Home teams in general
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: fare better. And home teams get the preponderance of breaks
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: when it comes to the Zebras and the Whitecap. In theory.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Generally so, yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: You're going to get one to two really significant calls,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: especially more in college.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Significant statistic advantage in terms of penalties. People who have
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: done studies, that's a big part more than sleeping in
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: your own bed. That's a big part of in every
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: sport to home teams tend to get the preponderance of
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the calls.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Drew, how much of that is the stuff that nobody
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: ever wants to talk about out loud, but is one
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: of the most important parts of every single one of
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: these games. Like we had Mike and Merrill talking about
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: it on, in terms of the brewers, like they need
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the ball to bounce their way at some point during
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: one of these playoff runs. And I think it's okay
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: to say that it's not, hope is not a strategy,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: but to act like it is not an equalizer or
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: a factor in the wins and losses of these games
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: is I think it's just foolish.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: It needs to happen.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: You create your own luck sometimes in the turnover and
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: penalty variety, and.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: They just need to be able to be cleaner.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You're going to get called for five to six of
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: these things at some particular point, but you got to
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: be able to eliminate too many of the foolish ones
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: that have put themselves behind the eight ball.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: And it feels like they've come at the worst times.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: And I, I've been, you know, I've been saying a
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: little bit that we've been getting picked on by officiating.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but some believe that maybe
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: that is a, I'm not one of those, but that
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: would mean I'm not holding them to the big a.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Which means holding them accountable. And I want to know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I'm still going to hold my team accountable and, And
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: make sure that they are having to be blamed if
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: they don't clean those things up.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: But it does feel like we've gotten some inopportune ones.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: So let's see. Let's hope some of those trends change.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Because right now, I don't like the ones you're giving me.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Baseball does have the randomness. Totally. It's more random on
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: any given day. On any given Sunday. No, on any
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: given day in baseball. But that's part of it. And
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: momentum is real. And I always bring it back to Blackjack.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Some sessions. There are hands where you, sometimes when Johnny
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Vegas and I incorporate pool our money and we sit
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: down and one guy sits in the chair and the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: other guy sits over his shoulder going, all right, we're good.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: This dealer sucks. We got to get out of here.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Somebody needs a coach. Exactly. So that's what it is.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Because two heads, you know how it is. You win
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: 10 hands in a row. That's when you pick up
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and leave. Because it's about to turn the other way.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And you need that guy to say, let's get out
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of here. Otherwise, we're going to give it all back.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Let's leave. Or this dealer sucks. Let's get out of here.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: That guy's a villain every time. So that's what we do.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: But there are times when you do everything right and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you're sitting there with a 20 and the guy pulls
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: seven cards and beats you. Yep. Or you get dealt
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a hand that you think sucks. Like we always call
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: them the Aaron Rodgers when you get a 12. Mm-hmm.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Good luck. What are you doing here? Just good luck.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Just pray. And you win those hands. Sometimes it happens.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: So 12, you get dealt a 12 and you're looking
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: at the dealer's card. He's got an eight. Like, oh,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: we're going to lose. Oh, we won that one. It's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a three.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Find yourself in this thing. Then we're in it. You
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: need breaks in sports. Yeah. So, yeah. So, it's just
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you ride the tides. And the Brewers have not had, historically,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the best luck. You know, and hope isn't a strategy.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: And people always say that. But it is for fans. Like,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I don't like it when people say it. Because it's
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a strategy for me cheering on my couch. Big believer
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: in the butterfly effect, too. Yeah. One happens. Look at
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the Brewers, and you go in, as painful as it
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: may be, go back and look at the NLCS last year,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and they had a chance. They were in game one.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Had they won game one, it changes the entire tenor.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: First of all, you're not swept, but who knows what
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: happens then? The Dodgers are squeezing the handle in game two.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Had they prevented, and I think they lost 4-3 in
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: game one of... if I'm not mistaken.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Well, and they had the bases loaded with one or
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: two outs and terrain at the plate. And he jumps
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: out of the way of a fastball. That's about to
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: hit him right in the leg and draw, bring in
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the wit of the tying run jumps out of the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: way and K's out. So, I mean, That one thing
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: changes and all of a sudden it's a different game.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: It just changes the entire tenor.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: What if Chris Taylor doesn't make that catch? Well, that's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the thing.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: That's not luck, but it is luck for coaches. You
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: don't control that. Whether or not he makes that catch
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: is fortune for a lot of people.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Not for him. Absolutely. All right. 877-794-1973. When we come back,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: we'll hear Hunter Baumgart's recap of the proceedings last evening
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: at Citizens Bank Park, the land of the cheesesteak. Nice
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: having Levin Rock on the call. So comfortable. So good, man.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Rock is from the Philadelphia area, so he's back home
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: visiting family and hanging out. But we'll hear from Hunter.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: We'll hear his recorded recap of last evening, and then
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to him live. And then we're going to
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: have you vote which one you like better. Yeah. You
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: like the real Hunter or the recorded Hunter? 877-794-197. We're
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: going to throw an AI in there, too. What's the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: text line saying? Anybody coming up with conveniences you could
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: live without for a day, a week, a month? Modern conveniences?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Let me know. We've got a couple in here. We've
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: got to clean a couple of them up first. I
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: can't believe my daughter and her partner, they live in
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a place without a microwave. Like, how do you live
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: without a microwave? There's no chance I could be doing that. Oh,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that's impossible. That's actually a great one. They don't have
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a microwave. They don't have the counter space, so they
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: don't have a microwave. They have a counter space. You
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: put it on a rolling, like a desk or like
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a piece of wood. They just don't have the space.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I got one that lends itself to it. So I'm like,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine that. Once you live in a place
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: with a washer dryer, you're never living in a place
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: without a washer dryer and schlepping your laundry to the laundromat.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Or another one, then, when I was buying a house,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize houses didn't come equipped without washing. That
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: was a tough one for me to realize, and that's
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: a convenience that I'm still struggling with.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Well, there's some funny ones. We'll get
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to them. We'll get to them. We'll get to them.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billion-Armond
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: bringing it to you. Yeah, got out of the house
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: okay today. That's the first win of the day. I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: didn't even, but I walked right past the laptop that
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: was perched right where my keys are. It's like, don't
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: forget me, and I forgot it. It's hard when it's dark.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: You know, you're getting dressed in the dark. When you're
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: still foggy. I forgot pants almost once. I'm not even kidding. No,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: you didn't. One time, I almost didn't. I almost walked
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: out without. I'm not buying you. Yeah? I'm not buying it. Okay.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: You just walked out without pants on? No, I said almost.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I said almost. So did you take one step? Well,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I guess, okay. Now we can argue what almost is,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and that's fair. I got almost down there. No, it's fine.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: You're right. What is almost? Were you really going to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: not have pants on at work, Armin? Good point. That's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: a fair point. So what modern convenience could you do
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: without for a week, a day, a week, a year?
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Where are we on this? What's the talking text line saying? 877-794-1973.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: We got a couple of good ones on the talking
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: text line. First, the one that I was thinking of
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: that I didn't realize I could live without, that I
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: didn't realize houses didn't come without until we moved into
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: ours almost three and a half years ago, is the
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: garbage disposal.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, those are nice. Very nice, yes. That's a double-edged thing.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that houses didn't have them. We didn't
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: have one. Didn't put one in because, sorry, you look
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: at me. You think I'm putting in a garbage disposal?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And you know what? I've had plumbers come in who
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: say that creates more business for us than anything because
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: people let everything go down there and it jams up
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: and it screws things up. He's like, don't use it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Don't get too confident with one either. If you have one,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: don't use it.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: So I've strained the thing out and I've washed my
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: hands more times than that because of that than probably
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: changing diapers in the last three years.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: However... Now, it's so.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Much of an inconvenience that has become natural that I
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: don't know that I would get one. Like you said
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: with the plumbing thing, I have not even thought about
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: it so many different times. But yesterday, as I'm straining
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: out these noodles and all this random stuff, the fake
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: fried rice that your boy tried to make and failed
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: again with.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: My wife has one of those things that you put
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: over the drain, and it's like the mesh thing, and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it catches the food strain. You just empty that out.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And so we have, actually have two sinks with garbage
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: disposals and don't use either one. Drain that thing through.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: They're kind of like boats. They're nice to have, but
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: then you have to maintain them and all that stuff.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: But I like mine. I'm not going to lie. You
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: have to Google what you cannot put down there. You
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: can't let rice go down there and stuff like that. No,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff you can't.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: But unbelievably, you should put ice cubes down because it
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: sharpens the blades.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah it does yeah so i don't know i never
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: would have known it's really some stink too the way
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: i look at it is i'm only using it i
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: really really need to well that's the thing like you
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: really don't like you should we have that little lint
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: catcher that little like catches the food scraps and then
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: you dump those out and i'm like at times i'm
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: emptying that thing and i'm like why do we have
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: this when we have a disposal that would do this
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: But we just don't use it. That's what our plumber said.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: He's like, you're better off just not. And dishwashers are
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: made to people who scrape plates meticulously and basically wash
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the plates before they put them in the dishwasher. The
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: guy told me, yeah, don't do that either. You're designed
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: to knock the food off. Yeah, you're wasting time. Try
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: convincing my wife that. No chance. I showed her every
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: ream piece of information. Hey, you're not supposed to squeal.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: We don't have to do this. No, you have to.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: It's going to maintain. Okay, I'm not going to play
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: with you anymore about it. I'm the same way, though.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: It's honestly more of just a competition.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: There's something soothing to me trying to get the tomato.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Paste off the plate before I throw that thing out
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: in there. Dishwasher, another thing. I mean, Tupperware is going
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to be stained with tomato stains. Come on. It's just
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: a given. It's baked in.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: We didn't have one when we first bought the house.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: My pops was skilled enough to be able to put
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: one in, which was an impressive.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Thing to be able to watch. Oh, man. What a guy.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: That was another moment where I do think he'd sit
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: back if he's honest with himself and be like, you
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: should be doing that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Why don't I tell you how to be doing this?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: He tells me about the hose and I'm like, yeah, sure.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: It's outside. Yeah. No, no, not that I want Billy.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: All right. You just shut up and go sit here
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and maybe hand me a beer when I'm done with this.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: That's the one too, where you become so accustomed to
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: just eating with paper plates.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: You'll figure it out.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: But then, damn, once you start going back to that
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: life of luxury, one that I'm not going to be
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: able to go back to.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That's a good one. I still can't
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: get over the microwave one. All right. I'm going to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: read this one. um from red hot tim not he
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: said uh work laptop and personal laptop one for the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: huddle and one for the hub if you know you
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: hey if you know you know i mean you know
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: that that can be a convenience that you don't want
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: to you know when you miss it some people really
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: can't handle it literally um yeah and i would say
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: i don't know we could really go to like you
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: know how specific do we want to get.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I mean convenience your dime your dance floor Cause there
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: are some, I'll just say this. I never, I never
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: thought about gutter guards my whole life.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: But then when we, there were already gutter guards and
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: we moved into the house and there were so many
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: leaves in this, in this area, the spot where I'm
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: in that if I didn't have those, your boy would
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: be up on ladders trying to get gutters.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm thankful for those in the fall. I'd be
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: paying to watch you clean out the gutters. Oh my gosh. No,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't. Cause I wouldn't be. Could you imagine to
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: do that with the leaf blower?
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: I'd be sitting there with a lawn chair watching Armin
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: get up on that ladder.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Trying to get up on ladders. The thing was, you
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: don't want to do that twice, so you've got to
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: wait until the end of the leaf-shedding season. And then
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: by then, if it rains a lot, then you're kind
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: of screwed and it's coming over the top. It's nice
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to know how to think about that.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And there's a couple of chunks of ice in there
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: that you're trying to claw out of there.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: You waited long enough. Oh, yeah. I don't want to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: think about that, you know? That's just a scary thought.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, let's listen to Hunter's recap,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: but we probably don't have time. We won't have time.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: We'll wait till we will over the top. We'll do that.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: We'll do that. And right at the top of the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: six o'clock hour, five o'clock clubbers. Well, we'll, we'll let
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the six o'clock club have a little Hunter little hors d'oeuvre.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Cause he's joining us at seven 25 again. Dolph joins
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: us at six 25 game day in the good land
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Packers Falcons. What are your thoughts? Is this the right
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: team to be playing or is this a bad team
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: to be playing? It's a little nerve wracking. They got
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: a quarterback coming back. They're going to have a little
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: lift that way. They haven't been in the red zone
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: in two games. They're probably going to venture in there tonight.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, they will tonight. And, Drew,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, this is not going to be a
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: great night. This is a night to be watching. Brandon Cisse,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: baptism by fire. Drake London has not been good in
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: the first two games. Michael Penix is going to force
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the issue to that dude tonight.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: As much as it's going to be glorious and not
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: a cold night, it's just a home opener, the buzz,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the national TV audience. has a chance to be an.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Ugly game, has a chance to be an ugly game.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Very ugly over the lines. Got something on that too.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: All right. Stay tuned. You're in the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin.