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083126 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Five o'clock club off to a rumbling start with thunder
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Speaker 1: outside the studio at the Megaplex. Hey, now. Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: What's a little flash storm in the morning and get
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Speaker 1: your juices flowing? I don't think we need the extra
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Speaker 1: inflammation here. We don't. We don't need the smoke because
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Speaker 1: I got two words for you five o'clock clubbers this
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Speaker 1: morning and two words only. Game on. Yes, sir. There
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Speaker 1: were games on this weekend. Tackle football games, college football games.
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Speaker 1: Shoot it into Billy's veins. We got games coming. Brewers, Cubs.
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Speaker 1: We got a Badgers game coming very soon on the
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Speaker 1: horizon at Lambeau Field against Notre Dame. And it's game
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Speaker 1: on for the commissioners exempt list.
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Speaker 2: Goodness gracious, Drew, as the game was on on Friday
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Speaker 2: night and I departed and missed you guys. It feels
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Speaker 2: like a month ago since the Packers played that preseason finale,
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Speaker 2: as thrilling as that game was on Lambeau Field on
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Speaker 2: Friday night of 80 combined points.
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Speaker 1: Maybe craziest preseason game we've ever seen. That was a trip.
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Speaker 1: And then the news that came out of the Packers
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Speaker 1: was like, where do you lead today? Brewers and Cubs
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Speaker 1: both lose, but it's game on. Seven games in ten days,
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Speaker 1: starting tonight in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field as
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Speaker 1: the Brewers try to bottle up the red-hot Pete Crow Armstrong.
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Speaker 1: My goodness. And roll through and basically put, this is
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Speaker 1: their closing argument, is they could just put the, we
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Speaker 1: got Wayne Larivea today. It'll be a dagger if the
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Speaker 1: Brewers dominate this series. Brewers are 7-3 in their last 10.
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Speaker 1: Cubs are 3-7. Eight-game lead as we enter tonight's little tournament.
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Speaker 1: Seven games in 10 days, head-to-head. If the Brewers win
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Speaker 1: three of the seven games, they will win the season
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Speaker 1: series against the Cubs.
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Speaker 2: And you were on it, Drew, that there really is
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Speaker 2: no slowing down right now as four bombs in his
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Speaker 2: last seven plate appearances for PCA, hitting bombs left and right.
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Speaker 2: But the interesting thing is, as we saw a MVP
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Speaker 2: outfielder carry his team and race through and take out
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Speaker 2: the Cubs, In 2018, what Yelich did and helped lead
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Speaker 2: the Brewers into that 163 and win the division.
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Speaker 1: Everybody around him was helping him out.
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Speaker 2: Man, the pitching staff in Chicago that was very much
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Speaker 2: remade at the deadline has been hot and cold. And
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Speaker 2: this weekend, runs were a plenty at Wrigley's. The Cubs
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Speaker 2: put up 17 on Saturday and then give up 7,
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Speaker 2: give up 10 on Friday. Can't gain any ground. Losers
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Speaker 2: of 7 of their last 10.
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Speaker 1: A wild team.
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Speaker 2: With a crazy offense, but one that needs to have
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Speaker 2: basically shut the box to really have anything to do
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Speaker 2: because the math right now is all in the Brewers' favor.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Brewers are looking good. They win a series against
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Speaker 1: the Rangers. Flat performance yesterday after they scorched the first
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Speaker 1: inning with a bunch of hits in a row.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like that was a– they rolled out,
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Speaker 2: hit up two in the first inning. What, first four
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Speaker 2: guys get hits against Kumar Rocker? And it feels like
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Speaker 2: you're just about to rock all day. And then Dustin
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Speaker 2: May comes in, and it was lukewarm at best.
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Speaker 1: But you're right. It's a little bit uninspiring.
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Speaker 2: But otherwise, a very positive homestand, and one that you
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Speaker 2: just don't have a whole lot, right?
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Speaker 1: Two out of three, quick in and out. Sure, you
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Speaker 1: would like to sweep the Rangers. That would always be nice.
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Speaker 2: But you're in a weird position at the moment where, what,
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Speaker 2: they have three home series left. They get the Cubs
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Speaker 2: for three. They get three against the Reds, and then
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Speaker 2: three against the Redbirds to finish it out. And all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden you realize your chances to go see
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Speaker 2: the team before the postseason are dwindling.
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Speaker 1: Evaporating quickly here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's not that many home games left.
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Speaker 1: You look at the calendar and you're ripping pages off. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and if you're thinking about investing in some tickets, those
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Speaker 1: three games against Cubs, including a Labor Day matchup, going
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Speaker 1: to be tough to come by. Yeah, going to be
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Speaker 1: tough to come by and rather appealing to many.
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Speaker 3: They played on Labor Day in that year you guys
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Speaker 3: are talking about, the 18 year.
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Speaker 1: I remember that.
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Speaker 3: It was Brewers-Cubs-Cubs. on Labor Day, and it was such
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Speaker 3: a big ticket because of the off day and all
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Speaker 3: those things. And I remember snagging those tickets like months before,
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Speaker 3: and I'm really feeling good about it. And that was
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Speaker 3: the closest I came to reselling at one point, but
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Speaker 3: I never did. And that was a good game. So, hey,
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Speaker 3: maybe history's going to repeat itself. One thing that won't
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Speaker 3: repeat itself is I don't think the Brewers are giving
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Speaker 3: up this eight-game lead, which is a fantastic feeling. But
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Speaker 3: this Cubs offense is crazy, and you're right about PCA.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what, two numbers yesterday? His war is going
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Speaker 3: to get to nine here soon. He's having a great year.
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Speaker 3: He's minus 2000 when MVP, but like you said, not
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Speaker 3: enough because you have to have a complete team.
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Speaker 1: And right now they're, they're pitching as an able to
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Speaker 1: do it. So he was minus 200 when we talked
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Speaker 1: about it a week ago.
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Speaker 3: A week ago, and that thing jumped up crazy. So
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Speaker 3: pretty wild how that works. Hope you had your futures in.
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Speaker 3: If you didn't hate, at least you had your burst
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Speaker 3: futures in because by the way, anyone noticed they surpassed
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Speaker 3: the preseason, a wind total. I think it was 84
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Speaker 3: and a half at the sports books. They cruise by
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Speaker 3: that thing.
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Speaker 1: Pretty good. Pretty easy money for someone taking that to
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Speaker 1: the window. Yeah, pretty easy money.
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Speaker 3: So it's been a wild five months, and I'm sure
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Speaker 3: it's going to be a wild last one. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: the thunder's rolling through, and not the least of which
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Speaker 3: is the commissioner's exempt list as well.
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Speaker 1: So it's kind of a crazy weekend. Where do you
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Speaker 1: start today? Is it with the Packers roster and the,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say shocking news, but the somewhat
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Speaker 1: surprising news that Josh Jacobs is on the paid leave
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Speaker 1: for a little bit? You start there. I just think
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Speaker 1: we just have to default to media starts with me
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Speaker 1: and ask Billy, how was the bachelor party? It was
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Speaker 1: a good time.
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Speaker 2: It was a good time and a long drive home yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much. And it definitely felt very similar, right?
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Speaker 2: Where now if you start looking forward to something, you
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Speaker 2: build it up in your mind and then all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden it's a gloomy drive home. You're like, dang,
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Speaker 2: back to work tomorrow, back to a full-time reality. And
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden we're just like, this is it.
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Speaker 2: But it was phenomenal in the case of, The Island
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Speaker 2: Resort and Casino in Michigan.
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Speaker 1: Damn, that's a secret weapon up there.
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Speaker 2: On-site golf where you walk across the parking lot and
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Speaker 2: you can grab the 24-pack before you walk in. and
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Speaker 2: walk right over to the course, and then walk right
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Speaker 2: back in. When you can make that little triangle, and
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Speaker 2: then there's also another pit stop right next to the
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Speaker 2: gas station that also provides gas in a potentially.
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Speaker 1: Different spot. I mean, that's a triangle.
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Speaker 2: Bermuda triangle is what they would call it at certain
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Speaker 2: points for your Saturday thought process, but it was a
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Speaker 2: heck of a time.
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Speaker 1: You had nice weather too, didn't you? Pretty much?
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Speaker 2: I mean, it rained decently on and off on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: But otherwise, it was low 70s where that's perfect big
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Speaker 2: guy weather. And then also, when there's spots for you
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Speaker 2: just to hit a button and give thrilling action throughout
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Speaker 2: the rest of the night, that's going to be a
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Speaker 2: tough thing to pass up.
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Speaker 1: We are knocking on 90 degrees this week. Got a
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Speaker 1: little storm outside right now. No big deal.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, this is going to roll
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Speaker 2: in the heat, isn't it?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, but Billy is. Not many people have a
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Speaker 1: bachelor weekend interrupted by a Packers exhibition game like you do.
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Speaker 1: So kudos to you. Yeah, it was. Early game ball
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Speaker 1: to Billy. Absolutely. Peeling himself away after a Thursday night,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of establishing rendezvous there to get everybody
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Speaker 1: charged up and ready. And then to be ready Friday
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Speaker 1: and answer the bell and watch Packers, do Packers OT,
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Speaker 1: and then get back into it. That's quite, you showed
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Speaker 1: your versatility this weekend. Well, and had to wear a
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Speaker 1: couple of hats.
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Speaker 2: I'm also the best man in this, so that's one
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Speaker 2: of those where, you know, you're going to have to
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Speaker 2: be there, right?
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Speaker 1: Had to do it. You're going to be there at everything.
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Speaker 2: We're also in a position now where we're counting down
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Speaker 2: like a month and a half away, where I realize
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Speaker 2: I'm going to have to do one of Armin's favorite
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Speaker 2: things in the whole wide world, is rent that tux.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: So I was going to say that or write a speech.
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Speaker 3: Did you have that done yet? Don't AI it, Billy,
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Speaker 3: or don't chat GPT in.
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Speaker 1: Just wing it. Thank you, Drew.
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Speaker 2: I was going to ask. Nobody's planning on me writing anything, right?
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Speaker 1: Just wing it. It's going to be tough for me
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Speaker 1: to be able to write that. Giving a speech is
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Speaker 1: a better term, I guess, than writing, because you don't
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Speaker 1: have to write it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll definitely more be a delivering of the speech,
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Speaker 2: and hopefully I can deliver at the moment.
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Speaker 1: I think you will, Billy.
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Speaker 3: All you need is one or two good quips. about
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Speaker 3: the groom, good stories that are funny enough for people
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Speaker 3: to get.
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Speaker 1: But not too off-color. When it comes to those things,
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Speaker 1: the best course is keep it short.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, keep it short, sweet, a nice couple words about
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Speaker 3: the bride, how they met. Congrats to the family, and boom,
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Speaker 3: there you go.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, I think I've played a pretty significant role.
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Speaker 2: They met at our wedding, so I can at least,
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Speaker 2: you know, again, potentially sprain my shoulder patting myself on
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Speaker 2: the back.
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Speaker 1: Also, I feel good about that.
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Speaker 2: Too, because I was there. Because it's not about the couple,
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Speaker 2: it's actually about you. It's mostly about me standing there
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Speaker 2: waiting up. It starts with me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. That's pretty good. Yeah, you'll be
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Speaker 1: on fire. You'll be good. 877-794-1973 if you would like
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Speaker 1: to weigh in. It's like The news came hot and
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Speaker 1: heavy yesterday with the Packers. Josh Jacobs. It's all over
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Speaker 1: the place. On the paid leave list. So he's not,
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Speaker 1: he can't practice. He can come to the facility for
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Speaker 1: rehab and individual work. He can't even be around at games, really.
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Speaker 1: He's just out of it.
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Speaker 2: He said he can be in meetings, too, from what
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Speaker 2: Demofsky put out there. As he kind of peaced through
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Speaker 2: the spots.
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Speaker 1: But he's like, football activities are verboten. Can't find the
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Speaker 1: practice field.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He's getting paid. So it's a suspension with pay is
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Speaker 1: basically what it is from the commissioner. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And it's a lot of times it's the waiting to
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Speaker 2: figure out what else, what can be next at which
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Speaker 2: if we have to wait until what's next in the
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Speaker 2: middle of November, like a 10 deal.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing to me is like, does this, is
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Speaker 1: this the impetus for Josh Jacobs's attorneys to say, all right,
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Speaker 1: let's cop a plea here. Let's work a deal. Let's
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Speaker 1: now let's avoid trial. We'll plead no contest or whatever.
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Speaker 1: We'll pay a fine. whatever that is to avoid this
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Speaker 1: and then make this go away so that then the
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Speaker 1: league can say, well, this is four games or six
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Speaker 1: games or. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And miss time on the commissioner's exempt list will count
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Speaker 2: towards your.
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Speaker 1: Suspension when handed out.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: So like if he misses the first three games on
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Speaker 2: the commissioner's exempt list, then in the end of September,
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Speaker 2: they say, all right, this is a six game suspension.
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Speaker 1: He's already served three. Like he'll get, he'll get credit
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Speaker 1: for it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, so that when you, where you guys went
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Speaker 2: on Friday, I don't fully know all that got dove into,
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Speaker 2: but when we left on Thursday, When I left on Thursday,
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Speaker 2: we were talking about it, and I still thought, this
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Speaker 2: is going to be something that drags out for a while.
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Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, boom, Hammer gets dropped down
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Speaker 2: later that day from the Hobart Police Department in the
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Speaker 2: Brown County DA's office. And when it goes from felony
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Speaker 2: to misdemeanor, there's also some different thoughts of what it
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Speaker 2: could be. But Ezekiel Elliott, a number of years ago,
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Speaker 2: gets six games for a couple of misdemeanors that he
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Speaker 2: ultimately never... Went to trial four. I think the charges
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Speaker 2: were potentially dropped. He got six games. He had a
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Speaker 2: multitude of different things during that offseason, you can remember.
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Speaker 2: But now it's a weird deal, Drew, where you're almost
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Speaker 2: comparing situations across the league. Stephon Diggs. And then James Pierce,
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Speaker 2: who we talked about a couple of times. He's got
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Speaker 2: eight weeks, I think. And there's a very slippery slope
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Speaker 2: that comes through here.
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Speaker 1: But I do agree. It does feel like this is now.
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Speaker 2: let's expedite this process and then we'll figure out what
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Speaker 2: happens at the back end of this.
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Speaker 1: That's what it seems to me. Like then, then we
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Speaker 1: can just, rather than like, well, drag it out to November.
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Speaker 1: I mean, how long is this? That's, that's where it
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Speaker 1: gets murky. I was surprised that this happened. Cause I
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Speaker 1: thought it would now wait. And then I thought that,
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Speaker 1: cause it seems like they can go either way. They
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Speaker 1: could wait to let the court process play itself out
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Speaker 1: or like Goodell could make a statement like he sometimes
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Speaker 1: likes to do. And he chose to make the statement apparently. And, and,
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Speaker 1: As was speculated online, there's this lawyer that did a
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Speaker 1: long thread about it. And he's like, it hinges on
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Speaker 1: the video. What does the video show? And will that
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Speaker 1: become public? Because then it changes dynamics. We've seen it before. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it totally does. But then it's like, if that's inconclusive
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Speaker 1: or if that's like after the fact or something, if
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Speaker 1: that doesn't draw anything, well, there's a reason probably that
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Speaker 1: they drop the charges down to the misdemeanors. And then, again,
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Speaker 1: it's just such a murky situation.
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Speaker 2: Well, when internet was internetting over the weekend, when immediately
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Speaker 2: there's the statement in there that their surveillance video exists
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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden people are like, my gosh,
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Speaker 2: this is way worse than the Ray Rice video, reposting
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Speaker 2: the Ray Rice video on social media. Social media was
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Speaker 2: wild and out with this story. But you're right, because
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Speaker 2: the video can absolutely change the court of public opinion.
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Speaker 2: It's obviously done something to the investigation, whether dropping the
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Speaker 2: charges down more or, again, being the main reason why
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Speaker 2: you keep the charges around. It's a very serious situation
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Speaker 2: for Jacobs, and it's one that Judging what the Packers
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Speaker 2: did yesterday, going and grabbing Caleb Johnson, the former Hawkeye
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Speaker 2: second rounder, who was a beast in the Big Ten,
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Speaker 2: hasn't really grabbed any of his footing in the NFL,
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Speaker 2: especially after a special teams gaffe that earned him definitely
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Speaker 2: a few kicks to the balls on this particular program
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Speaker 2: a year or so ago. I don't know, Drew, that
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Speaker 2: they anticipated this was coming. Like watching that and seeing
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Speaker 2: how they've operated throughout the offseason.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that a whole lot of people were
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Speaker 1: planning on this.
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Speaker 2: Right towards the end, right on cut down day, at
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Speaker 2: least it came with five to six hours of somewhat
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Speaker 2: notice and planning that you were able to see, okay,
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Speaker 2: we are going to have to know coming up here
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Speaker 2: in the next couple of days, who's going to be
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Speaker 2: taking snaps for us in Minnesota. Cause I don't think
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Speaker 2: that we can take 50 for March on Lloyd. That
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Speaker 2: made it wild that they cut Pierre strong.
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Speaker 1: Right. And then like they made the move, they got
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Speaker 1: a tight end. All this is interconnected because they had
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Speaker 1: to give up a couple of draft picks. Is that
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Speaker 1: the impetus that, to trade Kyle McCord, which if not
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Speaker 1: for the Josh Jacobs news, that trading of the number
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Speaker 1: three quarterback that everybody loved on Friday night would have
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Speaker 1: been like, what really? Like they knew they, but maybe
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Speaker 1: they thought they couldn't get them through waivers, hook up
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Speaker 1: Halfley who just traded his backup quarterback away. So that
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Speaker 1: was an interesting dynamic. But the thing is, did they
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Speaker 1: do that solely to get a draft pick back that
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Speaker 1: they flipped to get a running back? And then, you know,
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Speaker 1: so it's like the calculus, it all adds together. but
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering what actions led to what reactions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you're kind of on to it.
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Speaker 2: But once they realized, and probably four touchdowns on Friday
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Speaker 2: night maybe also sparked more of the conversation. I think
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Speaker 2: it was clear he wasn't going to get through it.
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Speaker 2: Somebody was probably going to pick him up and try
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Speaker 2: to make him their two. Or, I mean, hell, maybe
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Speaker 2: some teams are going to keep three if Pittsburgh actually
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Speaker 2: is keeping four, which they put.
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Speaker 3: Out on their initial yesterday. They're keeping four quarterbacks. It's
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Speaker 3: just so rare now to keep even three. So that
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Speaker 3: blows your mind. So I guess that was the, he
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Speaker 3: could have been one of the rarities. They also then
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Speaker 3: picked him up in the off season and turn him
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Speaker 3: into a draft pick. So McCord is, That's a huge
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Speaker 3: win either way to be able to go from pick
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Speaker 3: a guy up in January to trade a sixth rounder.
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Speaker 3: But it does feel like they realized we're going to
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Speaker 3: need some. Let's try to recoup some capital because we
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Speaker 3: clearly don't want to go into the season with Drake
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Speaker 3: Dabney as our number three tight end where he's going
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Speaker 3: to get a bunch of snaps because we just signed
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Speaker 3: John O.
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Speaker 1: Smith.
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Speaker 2: We know Josh Wiley can play. They traded two tight
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Speaker 2: ends in LA and they kept five. So that might
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Speaker 2: be much more of a focus and a goal of
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Speaker 2: how they want to play offense this year is with
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Speaker 2: a lot of tight ends out there.
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Speaker 1: And it ain't over yet. Like the waiver wire today
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Speaker 1: is going to be pretty active and there's going to
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Speaker 1: be guys out there that, okay, let's, you know, and
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Speaker 1: there's going to be that, you know, that fallout as
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Speaker 1: teams try to last minute grab guys. Well, hopefully J.
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Speaker 1: Michael Sturdivant can celebrate and enjoy it. Let's hope.
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Speaker 2: Did yesterday online and deserved it for six catches and
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Speaker 2: a buck 15. Again, it feels like a week and
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Speaker 2: a half ago that they played that game on Friday night.
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Speaker 1: It does.
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Speaker 2: He was phenomenal. He deserved to make the team. They
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Speaker 2: kept seven defensive tackles. Maybe that's also, Drew, where coming
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Speaker 2: up later on today with some roster moves and some
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Speaker 2: waiver claims, maybe that position changes up. But the numbers
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Speaker 2: were a little surprising to me.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It was... it was a, not a usual cut
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Speaker 1: down day for a camp that had very little drama.
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Speaker 1: We packed a lot of drama into like four hours yesterday. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: They definitely made sure that they let you know it's
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Speaker 2: football season.
16:05
Speaker 1: We're going to take over. You're right though.
16:07
Speaker 3: There weren't any like quote unquote surprises in terms of,
16:09
Speaker 3: I guess the McCourt thing, obviously.
16:11
Speaker 1: Turned out to be a surprise that they could, they
16:13
Speaker 1: tend to keep their draft picks to money.
16:14
Speaker 4: Jackson.
16:15
Speaker 2: I kind of figured he'd be on the line. That
16:17
Speaker 2: was going to be a tough one. He's just missed
16:19
Speaker 2: so much of practice. And, If there's anybody that for
16:22
Speaker 2: your sixth round pick you can get through waivers to
16:25
Speaker 2: the practice squad, I definitely think it's the guy that
16:27
Speaker 2: only really played in the final game. He didn't necessarily
16:30
Speaker 2: paint himself in a whole lot of glory in.
16:31
Speaker 1: That final game. Yeah, so a bunch of moving parts there,
16:34
Speaker 1: as we mentioned. Backers, we got a lot of real estate.
16:37
Speaker 1: There's time for the new guys to get acclimated, that's
16:40
Speaker 1: for sure. Plenty of time with two weeks.
16:43
Speaker 2: And as our friend Mike Witt on the YouTube comments said,
16:46
Speaker 2: and you know it's Packer season when our boy Mike
16:47
Speaker 2: Witt joins back in. He said, and they still got
16:50
Speaker 2: to announce the Tucker Craft extension too. So I was,
16:54
Speaker 2: while all the news was rolling in yesterday, Drew, there
16:57
Speaker 2: was a little thought in my mind that they were
16:58
Speaker 2: just going to pop that for you. I was wondering
17:01
Speaker 2: if that was going to come up here quickly to
17:03
Speaker 2: try to change the conversation around because they definitely, they
17:08
Speaker 2: absolutely are going to get that thing done. And you're
17:11
Speaker 2: right for a team that was pretty quiet. And the
17:13
Speaker 2: kicker was the main controversy during camp quickly on a Sunday.
17:18
Speaker 1: They hit a bunch of news.
17:20
Speaker 2: And fired us up and letting us all know it
17:22
Speaker 2: is officially football season.
17:24
Speaker 1: So we had all of that going on yesterday and
17:27
Speaker 1: stuff around the league. We had college football kind of
17:29
Speaker 1: week zero starting on Sunday. Saturday. And Bill Belichick pulling
17:33
Speaker 1: the stunner of the weekend.
17:35
Speaker 2: Or was it just that TCU embarrassed themselves and embarrassed
17:38
Speaker 2: all of us that went back?
17:40
Speaker 1: Both can be true. Both can be true. The fight
17:42
Speaker 1: in Jordan Hudson's are 1-0. Now they're talking about, hey,
17:45
Speaker 1: if we can get to week three and upset Clemson
17:47
Speaker 1: and then play Notre Dame, we can make it. Or
17:49
Speaker 1: it only knows what's going to happen. Inside straight and
17:51
Speaker 1: go to the college football playoff. Don't you love what
17:54
Speaker 1: the power of positive results in sports can do? One victory.
17:57
Speaker 1: We always talked about the variance in week one. In
18:00
Speaker 1: college football? Well, week zero. Week zero. But the variance there,
18:04
Speaker 1: because there's no preseason, and then when you add in, oh,
18:07
Speaker 1: we're traveling internationally to play, too, it's like, okay, come on.
18:11
Speaker 2: Talk about the toughest comeback. And the Rams and 49ers
18:16
Speaker 2: in two weeks or a week and a half are
18:18
Speaker 2: going to deal with Australia. That Ireland game has wrecked
18:21
Speaker 2: a whole lot of seasons on the back end of it.
18:24
Speaker 2: The Wisconsin Badgers play the Pitt Panthers over there next
18:27
Speaker 2: year in the kickoff of the college football season.
18:30
Speaker 1: We're the wreckers next year, right? I sure hope.
18:33
Speaker 2: So because the team that comes back, I mean, last
18:35
Speaker 2: year it was the quarterback's dad and brother who were
18:38
Speaker 2: fighting in the street.
18:39
Speaker 1: That's right. I think Kansas State won four games. I
18:42
Speaker 1: forgot about that. That was a mess. And Billy Edwards
18:44
Speaker 1: had his moment, I guess, you know. Hey, man, you
18:47
Speaker 1: drive him down for field goals. That's all that matters.
18:50
Speaker 1: That's all that matters. That's a Belichickian victory. Hey, maybe
18:53
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's back. All right. You know, maybe he got
18:56
Speaker 1: his group back.
18:57
Speaker 2: Just didn't get his chief of staff back in Michael
18:59
Speaker 2: Lombardi yet.
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19:14
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19:17
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19:21
Speaker 1: to that first pitch tonight. Four night games at Wrigley. Goodness.
19:24
Speaker 1: It's as good as a playoff preview gets because it's
19:27
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19:30
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20:01
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20:07
Speaker 1: the Cubs in the next 10 days.
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Speaker 2: I was just going to say, and I'm glad you
20:10
Speaker 2: framed it that way, Drew, because I've looked at it
20:12
Speaker 2: as that exact opportunity to now I haven't done all
20:16
Speaker 2: the math and I probably should have looked at the
20:18
Speaker 2: magic number 18. Yeah, that's what we're looking at.
20:21
Speaker 1: So inside of 10 days. They very well could. You
20:26
Speaker 1: would really have to do some serious damage. It doubles up.
20:29
Speaker 2: Could you imagine at the end of this thing, if
20:31
Speaker 2: you were popping champagne inside American Family Field's home clubhouse
20:35
Speaker 2: on that final day of the 10-game series?
20:37
Speaker 1: That would be a wild one. That would be wild.
20:40
Speaker 1: I mean, you used that early. That would be awesome.
20:42
Speaker 1: You shut the box on them and basically finish it off.
20:44
Speaker 2: But you can very much make it a single-digit number
20:48
Speaker 2: by the end of this. And the Cubs are looking
20:49
Speaker 2: to tie a rope in this thing because, as has
20:51
Speaker 2: been pointed out, The Cubs are closer to missing the
20:55
Speaker 2: playoffs than they are to winning the Central.
20:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's true. I don't think it'll happen,
21:00
Speaker 1: but it's absolutely true, literally. If you look at the
21:03
Speaker 1: way it's laying out there with Arizona playing well. Really well, yes.
21:09
Speaker 1: Just because the Cubs are, what, eight games behind the Brewers?
21:13
Speaker 1: Eight games back of the Brewers. Four games ahead of the—
21:16
Speaker 1: the wild card of falling out of the wild card.
21:19
Speaker 2: Well, and right now they're tied for the top wild
21:21
Speaker 2: card spot, which felt like something that they were going
21:23
Speaker 2: to for sure hold over Philadelphia as they still try
21:26
Speaker 2: to chase down the break.
21:27
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has been hot. They just won and won eight
21:30
Speaker 1: of 10.
21:31
Speaker 2: And I mean, their numbers over the last, I mean,
21:33
Speaker 2: even since Mattingly took over are phenomenal, but Arizona even
21:38
Speaker 2: jumped San Diego. So five game difference between the Cubs
21:42
Speaker 2: and Padres who are the first team out and in
21:45
Speaker 2: the NL central, the, The Cubs have an eight-game deficit
21:48
Speaker 2: of the Brewers.
21:49
Speaker 1: The Cubs are, you know, though I just made that
21:52
Speaker 1: as a point of clarity, but the Cubs are going
21:54
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, barring the wheels falling off. Yes,
21:56
Speaker 1: their pop is real high. Real high. It's like 99.
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Speaker 2: But to show, the Brewers' wheels would have to fall
22:03
Speaker 2: off significantly worse for that team.
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Speaker 1: What's wheels falling off for the Brewers in seven games
22:09
Speaker 1: against the Cubs? What, two and five?
22:10
Speaker 3: About.
22:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe.
22:13
Speaker 2: The Brewers swept the Cubs in a three-game series way
22:16
Speaker 2: back in, what, April or May? So I think one
22:18
Speaker 2: team might be able to, but I don't see a
22:20
Speaker 2: team shutting the box.
22:21
Speaker 1: The Brewers can win three, and you'd like to be greedy,
22:23
Speaker 1: but if you make that the baseline expectation, and that
22:26
Speaker 1: would be three and four in seven games against the Cubs,
22:28
Speaker 1: which means the Cubs would pick up a game, and
22:31
Speaker 1: by the end of this little tournament, you're going to
22:34
Speaker 1: be down to, what, like 18 games left, and there'll
22:36
Speaker 1: be seven games out. The math is going to be hard.
22:39
Speaker 1: You know, and if you take these games out of
22:41
Speaker 1: the equation, you do that whole thing about let's armor.
22:44
Speaker 1: What's the Brewers record today? They're 83 wins. 85. 85.
22:47
Speaker 1: Brewers have 85. So they're 85 and 52. 85 and 52.
22:52
Speaker 1: 85 and 52. That sounds about right.
22:55
Speaker 2: And 77 and 60 are the Chicago Cubs sitting right
22:58
Speaker 2: here today.
22:59
Speaker 1: Yeah. So just again, you do the math of saying,
23:01
Speaker 1: let's say the Brewers play 500 the rest of the way.
23:04
Speaker 1: And they can be knocking on.
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Speaker 3: Door 100 wins.
23:08
Speaker 1: They're right in the wheelhouse of it. And then you say, okay,
23:10
Speaker 1: what do the Cubs have to do to get there?
23:13
Speaker 1: The math is the math. It's like, it's just going
23:15
Speaker 1: a crazy streak. Yeah.
23:16
Speaker 3: Yeah.
23:16
Speaker 1: It would be a absurd. So I'm not worried about
23:19
Speaker 1: the division. You want, you want one of the top two,
23:22
Speaker 1: the division is in hand. Like again, just do what
23:23
Speaker 1: you do. Play these games. Yeah.
23:26
Speaker 2: The, the, the top seed is definitely the, the race.
23:29
Speaker 2: That's a lot tighter as you're three games up and,
23:31
Speaker 2: and the Braves and Dodgers now tied Braves are rolling,
23:34
Speaker 2: sitting right there at three games back. So they're, they're
23:37
Speaker 2: going to Duke it out as well for, for one
23:39
Speaker 2: of those seeds. And if it ended today, it would
23:42
Speaker 2: be pretty, pretty perfect for the brewers. Now they would
23:45
Speaker 2: have the number one seed Braves would get the winner
23:48
Speaker 2: of their would get the wild card series and the
23:52
Speaker 2: Dodgers were sorry. The Dodgers would be in the wild
23:54
Speaker 2: card series. The Braves would get the last buy because
23:57
Speaker 2: they currently hold the tiebreaker over LA after winning that
24:01
Speaker 2: series and doing what they just did last week at home. So,
24:05
Speaker 2: I want every piece of the Dodgers in that three-game
24:08
Speaker 2: series again last year. Sure, did they get hot maybe
24:10
Speaker 2: in it last year against Cincinnati? I guess you could
24:12
Speaker 2: say that as they started to hit the accelerator into
24:15
Speaker 2: that Philadelphia series. But any chance at more variance that
24:19
Speaker 2: you throw at L.A., I am all about. Absolutely, you
24:23
Speaker 2: want that shot.
24:23
Speaker 3: I mean, anything can happen in a short series like that,
24:26
Speaker 3: and yeah, it worked out for them last year. But
24:27
Speaker 3: that would be great, you know. You walk into your
24:30
Speaker 3: first series and they already lost. Wouldn't that be a
24:32
Speaker 3: little boost right there? So I totally agree, Billy. That
24:35
Speaker 3: would be great. Although this is, you know, if you
24:37
Speaker 3: win the NL this year, you earned it. Like the
24:39
Speaker 3: teams that are in this, the talent that's in this,
24:41
Speaker 3: they're good. I mean, the Phillies are going to be
24:43
Speaker 3: a very popular pick. They make a run, I think,
24:45
Speaker 3: the way they're playing, what the talent they have. Obviously,
24:47
Speaker 3: you know what the Cubs offense can do and PCA
24:49
Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
24:50
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are the Dodgers. It is going to be,
24:53
Speaker 1: you know. As pointed out, like you saw earlier this year,
24:57
Speaker 1: the Pirates and Reds were all.
24:58
Speaker 4: You know.
24:59
Speaker 1: Everybody was there. Everyone's favorite. They were the darlings. Everyone's favorite.
25:01
Speaker 1: You kind of tell, like, okay, great start. That's adorable. Adorable. Cardinals, too.
25:06
Speaker 1: I took a lot of heat from people in the
25:08
Speaker 1: Ozarks when I said the Cardinals are two years away
25:10
Speaker 1: from even being close to catching the Brewers in terms
25:12
Speaker 1: of talent and, you know, where they are. And I
25:15
Speaker 1: took a lot. And their deadline showcased the same thing.
25:18
Speaker 1: You're never winning a... Yeah, the Brewers never won. I'm
25:21
Speaker 1: talking about right now, jackwads.
25:23
Speaker 2: The Brewers are a better organization than the Cardinals?
25:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now. Yeah, right now?
25:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, right now.
25:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been for several years. Look at your crowds.
25:31
Speaker 1: That's all you need. Best fans of baseball. So I
25:33
Speaker 1: took some heat there. But, as was pointed out, the
25:37
Speaker 1: NL Central, you know, still pretty damn good. And the
25:41
Speaker 1: NL Central is going to produce... The NL Cy Young,
25:44
Speaker 1: the NL MVP, and the NL Rookie of the Year
25:46
Speaker 1: are all coming out of the Central this year.
25:49
Speaker 2: Man, that is true, right? Because Sal Stewart is going
25:52
Speaker 2: to win it in the National League.
25:54
Speaker 1: It's going to be unanimous.
25:55
Speaker 2: He's leading the league in RBI. And Weatherholt was right
26:00
Speaker 2: there as well in St. Louis that was pacing that
26:03
Speaker 2: one as well. And PCA has completely ran away right now.
26:07
Speaker 1: PCA, the comps. He's got 14 homers in August, and
26:15
Speaker 1: that's the most by any player at the age 24
26:17
Speaker 1: or younger in a calendar month since Ken Griffey Jr.
26:22
Speaker 1: Ken Griffey Jr. hit 15 in May of 1994.
26:25
Speaker 2: And I didn't know the line of demarcation that they had,
26:27
Speaker 2: but since whatever date, he leads Major League Baseball in
26:31
Speaker 2: home runs and has hit like seven more than anybody else.
26:34
Speaker 1: I think it maybe was the All-Star break or July 1st.
26:36
Speaker 3: He's definitely found his peak.
26:38
Speaker 1: Ever since council put him into the leadoff spot, he just...
26:42
Speaker 1: He was playing well before that, but they needed a spark,
26:45
Speaker 1: and they put him in the leadoff spot.
26:46
Speaker 2: And then we needed that stupid ump to miss the
26:51
Speaker 2: balk call, and apparently him getting fired up on the
26:53
Speaker 2: field has fired up his bat again, because he was
26:54
Speaker 2: like one for 12 in that Arizona series.
26:57
Speaker 1: Struggling.
26:58
Speaker 2: He hits the pause button one time and then wakes
27:01
Speaker 2: right back up. So that's definitely a problem. I would
27:04
Speaker 2: just walk him all series long.
27:06
Speaker 1: Speaking of stupid umps, man, I don't know if I
27:09
Speaker 1: can save it for game balls and kicks, but They
27:11
Speaker 1: played Arbiter last night on the first pitch of the game. Yikes.
27:15
Speaker 1: Called a time violation. And he announced it as an
27:18
Speaker 1: automatic ball, a time violation on the pitcher. And then
27:22
Speaker 1: everything got confused. And then it was like people thought
27:25
Speaker 1: that Bryce Terang worked a five-pitch, five-ball walk. And then
27:30
Speaker 1: Murph came out. Everybody thought it was ball four. And
27:33
Speaker 1: then Murph came out. And apparently what happened is he
27:36
Speaker 1: actually called a pitch violation, time violation. on Bryce rank
27:39
Speaker 1: for not being ready. So it was a strike. He
27:41
Speaker 1: announced it as a ball, but then when he put
27:44
Speaker 1: up his count and everything, the scoreboard was off for
27:46
Speaker 1: a tick and everything was all confused. And I think
27:48
Speaker 1: Murph came out and I think he owned it, but
27:50
Speaker 1: this was a guy who he made the announcement. He'd
27:53
Speaker 1: set on into his mic, you know, automatic ball. He misspoke.
27:58
Speaker 1: He should have corrected it, but he never did. But
28:01
Speaker 1: he never corrected it. Everybody in the ballpark was confused.
28:06
Speaker 1: And then he was like, ah, yeah, I screwed that up.
28:08
Speaker 1: And then it was like, well, okay. And the count.
28:11
Speaker 1: at least let us know that you did or no
28:13
Speaker 1: one knew the count. Like they were going to go
28:14
Speaker 1: back and look at the tape, see if Bryce Terang
28:16
Speaker 1: actually drew a five ball walk, but it turned out
28:18
Speaker 1: the first pitch was strike, but it was announced as
28:20
Speaker 1: a ball. The hell are we doing?
28:21
Speaker 3: Nothing like a tough start like that. Getting the mess
28:23
Speaker 3: started like that. You don't want to do that. You
28:25
Speaker 3: don't want to do this very bad stuff.
28:26
Speaker 1: What else was a mess was the Brewers. That was
28:28
Speaker 1: their longest home game of the year yesterday, three hours
28:30
Speaker 1: and 25 minutes. It was a slog.
28:31
Speaker 2: It was like a throwback to the pre pitch clock.
28:34
Speaker 2: It was pre pitch clock game one.
28:35
Speaker 1: And I had the, and you felt it and it
28:37
Speaker 1: was like, this is terrible. What's going on? There were
28:40
Speaker 1: only two ABS challenges in the game. They were talking
28:43
Speaker 1: about all the pitches that were thrown. There were just
28:44
Speaker 1: a lot of pitches. A ton of pitches. A ton
28:46
Speaker 1: of balls. That's exactly what I was going to say.
28:48
Speaker 2: Both starting pitchers threw over 85 pitches, and they combined
28:52
Speaker 2: for seven and a third innings.
28:53
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, the first three innings were an absolute.
28:55
Speaker 1: Dustin May, it was admirable that he came back after
28:58
Speaker 1: getting smoked by a 106-mile-an-hour line drive in the back,
29:01
Speaker 1: but he didn't have good control, and he wasn't commanding.
29:05
Speaker 1: He was just kind of gritting it through.
29:06
Speaker 4: What?
29:07
Speaker 1: Rivers once again the most valuable garbage time pitcher in
29:10
Speaker 1: baseball bryce wilson sucked up a bunch of man and
29:12
Speaker 1: they enter this about as it is about as good
29:14
Speaker 1: a shape as you can.
29:15
Speaker 2: Yeah the law firm of anderson and wilson uh bite
29:18
Speaker 2: the bullet yesterday and you're slated with and now maybe
29:21
Speaker 2: you don't want to put bobby gasser in there uh
29:23
Speaker 2: in the middle of it but you got your hogs
29:26
Speaker 2: going with harrison tonight gasser tomorrow you throw mizorowski on
29:30
Speaker 2: wednesday And Henderson on Thursday.
29:32
Speaker 1: You got all your dudes to be able to go
29:34
Speaker 1: and lay it right out there. Miz and Henderson slated
29:36
Speaker 1: to face these guys twice. Now, it's really around Robin.
29:38
Speaker 1: Cause you think about it, the reds just went in
29:40
Speaker 1: to face the Cubs and gave him all the good handle.
29:43
Speaker 1: This is like, so it's a two week period where
29:45
Speaker 1: it's just the reds and Cubs playing each other. Cubs-Reds, Brewers-Cubs, Brewers-Reds, Brewers-Reds.
29:52
Speaker 1: It's insane.
29:54
Speaker 3: For those of you that missed the division matchups or
29:57
Speaker 3: the amount of division games and it coming down to
29:59
Speaker 3: the division games, you got a little bit here. This September,
30:03
Speaker 3: you do get a throwback.
30:05
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
30:07
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting, too, because with the situation with
30:10
Speaker 3: Dustin May, you've had inconsistent results and then obviously the injury.
30:14
Speaker 3: The nice thing about having this big lead is you
30:15
Speaker 3: have the luxury to see what you can see before
30:17
Speaker 3: the playoffs. and understand what you want to do with
30:20
Speaker 3: him before the playoffs. I think that's nice. You can
30:23
Speaker 3: keep him on his start, see what he got out
30:24
Speaker 3: of him, because they're not in some situation where they're
30:26
Speaker 3: dire for wins right now.
30:28
Speaker 1: Another nice development is that they're going to be able
30:30
Speaker 1: to activate Uribe either tonight or tomorrow. Ease these guys
30:33
Speaker 1: back into the bad water.
30:34
Speaker 2: And then you can expand the roster tomorrow. And then
30:36
Speaker 2: Romero probably comes up tomorrow then?
30:38
Speaker 1: Romero, I think he's going to need one in Nashville. Okay,
30:40
Speaker 1: one more then? Yeah, so he's probably a couple of
30:42
Speaker 1: days away, probably end of the week. He'll probably come
30:45
Speaker 1: on for the home series against the Reds.
30:47
Speaker 2: And it'll be interesting to see who their final addition
30:50
Speaker 2: ends up being on the offensive side. I would have
30:53
Speaker 2: bet a large sum of money that Pat Murphy was
30:56
Speaker 2: going to make sure Brandon Lockridge.
30:57
Speaker 1: Was on that run. But it almost sounds like it
31:00
Speaker 1: would be Bo Naylor if they want to go with
31:02
Speaker 1: a third catcher. I'm thinking it's Naylor. I think they
31:04
Speaker 1: want to go third catcher, give themselves more flexibility. Be
31:07
Speaker 1: able to pinch hit Gary whenever you can. When that
31:10
Speaker 1: pops up, yeah, I think that's what's going to happen.
31:12
Speaker 1: I think that's how it's going to lay out, I
31:14
Speaker 1: would think. I think it's definitely the safest option, too.
31:16
Speaker 1: Makes some sense, but yeah, get some... Everybody who's screaming
31:20
Speaker 1: for Andrew Fisher or Mate, don't. It's not going to happen.
31:23
Speaker 2: We've got plenty of time for that, boys. We've got
31:24
Speaker 2: plenty of time for that. Plenty of time for those.
31:27
Speaker 1: Not going to happen. 40, what? 44 bombs that Fisher hit?
31:31
Speaker 1: Plenty of time for that to be in the big leagues.
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Speaker 1: preview of what is going to be a regular season
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Speaker 1: playoff atmosphere. It's coming. It is definitely coming. It's game
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Speaker 1: on today. Let's get it going. You're in the huddle
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Speaker 1: Fox sports radio, Wisconsin. We are huddled up on a
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Speaker 1: Monday in the good land. Not just any Monday, the
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Speaker 1: last Monday in August, the hell happened. I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out what happened to July and we're onto September tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Blink and it's over, man. Football season is upon us.
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Speaker 1: The Packers preseason is in the books and the Brewers season.
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Speaker 1: It's been such a great ride, but it really is
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Speaker 1: just getting started tonight. Brewers-Cubs at Wrigley. Oh, baby. First
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Speaker 1: of seven games in 10 days between the division rivals
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Speaker 1: that will have a playoff atmosphere each and every one
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Speaker 1: of them. It's kind of fun to sit here at
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Speaker 1: the dawn of it and say, what's it going to
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Speaker 1: look like? Who's going to win this? Who's going to emerge?
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Speaker 1: What are the storylines? What are, you know, what's at stake? Well,
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Speaker 1: and I like personal pride bragging rights.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Personal pride bragging rights is one, but I mean, when
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Speaker 2: you throw in there, the home field advantage, basically up
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Speaker 2: for grabs for the Cubs. Now they have the tiebreaker
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Speaker 2: over the Phillies who right now they'd be tied with
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Speaker 2: for that top wildcard spot.
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Speaker 1: That three game series is such a difference. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: drew listening around the deadline.
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Speaker 2: And when this was, you know, a three game race
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Speaker 2: and you saw what the Cubs did and one of
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Speaker 2: their pieces that they grabbed the deadline, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: start this game tonight and start the series up with
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Speaker 2: clay homes. who the Brewers were also sounds like very
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Speaker 2: much in on, Jed Hoyer, their general manager, said, yeah,
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Speaker 2: our deadline would probably look a lot different if we
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Speaker 2: had to buy. Like if we were sitting in the buy,
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Speaker 2: it would be a lot more, a lot different because
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Speaker 2: we would be pushing the accelerator down a hell of
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Speaker 2: a lot more. Now it's just been validated over the
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Speaker 2: last couple of years. You win the NL central. Most
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Speaker 2: likely you're going to get the buy. You're going to
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Speaker 2: be in there for the buy. You're going to be
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Speaker 2: right there at the top of it because they've set
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Speaker 2: the pace. And if the Cubs would have been able
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Speaker 2: to hold around the Brewers and the Brewers would have
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Speaker 2: been continuing this pace that they're on, this probably would
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Speaker 2: have been for one of those. But if it's the
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Speaker 2: difference between skipping the wildcard round altogether and or having
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Speaker 2: to go on the road to Philadelphia, which is an
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Speaker 2: absolute hornet's nest, there's a lot on the line for
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Speaker 2: the Cubs.
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Speaker 1: There is. No question about it. 877-794-1973. Okay, let's spin
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Speaker 1: through Hunter's recap. Hunter Baumgart covers the Brewers for us.
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Speaker 1: He's boots on the ground. I saw him yesterday at
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Speaker 1: the old ballpark. And I bet Hunter is going to
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Speaker 1: give us a recap of a kind of a lackluster,
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Speaker 1: flat Sunday performance. Shaky defense. That was probably the most positive.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be the one that Murph is most
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Speaker 1: upset about. And a preview of today's game. I'm just
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Speaker 1: guessing because I know how Hunter works. Let's spin through this.
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Speaker 1: Take it away, Hunter B.
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Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
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Speaker 5: The Brewers fall in the series finale yesterday, 7-4 to
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Speaker 5: the Texas Rangers, but they did win the series. Their
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Speaker 5: fifth straight series win after that sweep in San Diego
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Speaker 5: in mid-August. They've also won nine straight series at home.
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Speaker 5: That ties a franchise record. And now all focus shifts
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Speaker 5: to what happens tonight at Wrigley Field. The next four
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Speaker 5: days the Brewers will be at Wrigley. Seven of the
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Speaker 5: next ten games will be at Wrigley Field. Then all
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Speaker 5: of a sudden they'll just have 15 games left. So
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Speaker 5: the next seven of the next ten is going to
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Speaker 5: be incredibly important. Brewers manager Pat Murphy talked about what
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Speaker 5: he wants to see from his team and what he's
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Speaker 5: seeing from his team right now as they head into
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Speaker 5: this stretch.
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Speaker 4: Defense has got to be part of our game. Defense
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Speaker 4: and base running have got to be part of our
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Speaker 4: game every time. The pitching has been great. offensively I
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Speaker 4: think there's some guys you know with William and Yellich
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Speaker 4: much better than they have been recently that is encouraging
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Speaker 4: Joey Ortiz continues to help I think I think there's
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Speaker 4: signs at this but we got to play a certain
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Speaker 4: way we got to play with a certain intensity you
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Speaker 4: know it's not that I mean people like to say
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Speaker 4: we're the underdogs well that's fine we're just trying to
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Speaker 4: say we have to play a certain way the expectation
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Speaker 4: can't be well we got a better record than them
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Speaker 4: so We're better at this, this, and this. We have
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Speaker 4: to play a certain way. And, yeah, it'll be a
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Speaker 4: great opportunity, great environment.
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Speaker 5: Should be a really fun atmosphere, as Brewers manager Pat
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Speaker 5: Murphy put there. So tonight, it'll be Kyle Harrison on
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Speaker 5: the mound. I'll have you from 530 to 630 on
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Speaker 5: the Baseball Pregame Show on Fox Sports 920 and our
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Speaker 5: social channels. And then tomorrow, it'll be Robert Gasser on
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Speaker 5: the mound. Wednesday, it'll be Jacob Mizorowski. And Thursday, Logan Henderson.
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Speaker 5: Should be a great week of baseball. and looking forward
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Speaker 5: to bringing you up to first pitch each and every evening.
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Speaker 1: Back to you guys. Thank you, Hunter B. People will
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Speaker 1: like to call them the underdogs. Yeah, people will do that. Murph,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't that you? Wouldn't that you call them the underdogs?
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Speaker 1: He is right, though.
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Speaker 2: Whether or not you just immediately look at the record
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Speaker 2: and say that team's going to be better, that team's
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Speaker 2: going to be favored, They do have to play a
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Speaker 2: different way. And when you're making defensive mistakes and you're
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Speaker 2: playing this way, hitting the least home runs against team
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Speaker 2: that just matches them there at the friendly confines, you
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Speaker 2: are going to have to be able to be on
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Speaker 2: your stuff.
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Speaker 1: Keep the ball in the park. It looks like the
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Speaker 1: weather we're getting this, like kind of the Indian summer thing.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get a blast of weather in the
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Speaker 1: upper eighties, at least in our parts. And I know
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Speaker 1: our weather is not that much different than Chicago's. Although
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Speaker 1: sometimes they get pounded with rain and we don't sure.
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Speaker 1: It's nice. And they might've, but you know, if it's,
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Speaker 1: if the ball's going to be jumping there, um, It
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Speaker 1: plays into the Cubs' hands. Definitely plays their favor. They
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Speaker 1: have more big flies than the Brewers do, but you
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Speaker 1: never know how it's going to. Well, you know what? Listen,
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Speaker 1: if anybody can catch a basket, it's the Brewers. That's true. Luckily,
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Speaker 1: we can hit one right into the basket. Don't have
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Speaker 1: to hit one on the... That's true.
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 1: Is it Addison behind, or is it Waveland? Waveland, Addison. Sheffield, Clark, Addison,
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: Big Chicago guys. Addison's behind home plate. Luckily, we can just... Overpriced.
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Speaker 1: Let's just forget about it and just hit the thing
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Speaker 1: right into the basket. They can grab the thing out,
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Speaker 1: and it's good. Waveland and the firehouse and the... The
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Speaker 1: Glenn Allen Hill went over a wavelength. That was the one.
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Speaker 1: That was the one. That was the one, right, when
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Speaker 1: he hit it over the... Yeah. But they got bleachers
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Speaker 1: up there now. When he hit it under the roof
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Speaker 1: on that, that was still one of the longest home
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Speaker 1: runs I've ever flip and seen. Pretty interesting.
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Speaker 3: I think we had a whole month, at least here,
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Speaker 3: without a 90-degree day. Temperature did not hit 90 in
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Speaker 3: all August yet. Is that your kick to the balls
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Speaker 3: to start?
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Speaker 1: Well, no. I mean, that's okay with me. Now we
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Speaker 1: might hit it in September. We might have some 90s.
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Speaker 3: We might have it to start September. And, yeah, the
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Speaker 3: crazy weather. Obviously, we thundered the first hour, but that
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Speaker 3: can bring in some warmth. And it might hit 90 today.
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Speaker 3: It might hit 90 tomorrow and Wednesday here and in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. The ball's going to be jumping.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right, Armin, we got some comments rolling in. A
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Speaker 1: lot of good ones. Some YouTubers. What do we got?
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Speaker 3: A lot of good ones to start the show today
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Speaker 3: on YouTube, Facebook X, and, of course, NickLayLaw.com, Talking Text Line.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, everyone, for getting in. Mike Whitten is saying, bring
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Speaker 1: on the Cubbies. Also has... Morning boys, Caleb Johnson season.
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Speaker 1: That's right. The Packers pick up Caleb Johnson from Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 2: I'm excited for John. I love some Iowa Hawkeyes. Love
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Speaker 2: some Iowa Hawkeyes. Our big listener Brandon in Iowa hit
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Speaker 2: me up yesterday on IG said.
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Speaker 1: Let's go Hawks. Caleb Johnson was a problem in the
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Speaker 1: big time.
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Speaker 2: He won big time. A freaking problem. And he really
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Speaker 2: never got his traction in Pittsburgh. Again, partially because he
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Speaker 2: botched a kickoff where he ran away from the ball
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Speaker 2: and the Seahawks recovered it in the end zone.
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Speaker 1: That's fine. Let's, let's have, and that is a tough,
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Speaker 1: that is a.
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Speaker 2: Tough one for current team to look at and not
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Speaker 2: for not remember when they see your face. So let's
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Speaker 2: get him a new look, new offense. I actually think
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Speaker 2: he's going to be really, really good in the zone offense.
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Speaker 1: So sorry. I just want to know. I love it.
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Speaker 1: Great breakdown there. P.J. Jumping in. Happy Monday fellows. Two
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Speaker 1: out of three over the weekend for the crew.
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Speaker 3: It's Cubs week, seven days and seven and 10 days.
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Speaker 1: Let's cool off PCA. I like that. Troy Casper. We'll
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Speaker 1: be in the building on Labor Day. Okay, Troy. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if that was a question. Let's go, Troy.
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Speaker 1: Come on now. What's up? Just want to pat yourself
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Speaker 1: on the back.
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Speaker 2: We need to know that there's going to be more
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Speaker 2: Brewers fans in the stands on Labor Day because otherwise
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Speaker 2: it is setting up for potentially the Fib weekend of
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Speaker 2: the year because they would roll up to Lambeau, Notre Dame,
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin on Sunday night. Roll down to American family field
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Speaker 2: on Monday afternoon, be back on Monday night. So like
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Speaker 2: that is, that is pacing for there to be a
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Speaker 2: lot in the stands. Let's make sure that there are
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Speaker 2: as many Brewers fans as possible.
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Speaker 1: No doubt, Billy.
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Speaker 3: Paul K, Cubs and Brewers lose, Dodgers and Braves win.
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Speaker 3: The game starting today is what we're all waiting for.
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Speaker 3: What's our magic number?
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Speaker 1: Well, that's 18.
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Speaker 3: Win three out of the seven games. Oh, I think
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Speaker 3: he's asking, what do we have to do? I think
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Speaker 3: three out of seven wraps the division up. I actually
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Speaker 3: think it's over probably already, but you win three out
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Speaker 3: of seven. I mean, you're in great shape, obviously, walking
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Speaker 3: in with a seven-game lead now with how many left.
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Speaker 3: So that's a pretty good number. So Paul's mini magic
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Speaker 3: number is three in these seven games.
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Speaker 1: I like that. Just don't let them run the table, right?
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Speaker 1: That's it. You just can't let them goose you, and
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Speaker 1: you should be totally fine. Even like two and five
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Speaker 1: gives you pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Right, again, because what is that, five and 17 games
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Speaker 2: that they would have? Five games and 17 games left
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Speaker 2: that they have.
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Speaker 4: To make up?
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Speaker 1: Granted, there's momentum is real, and you'd be like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you'd be looking in the rear view, but I think
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Speaker 1: they're in pretty good shape.
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Speaker 2: They also, again, it was in May, so it's hard
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Speaker 2: to say that it's the same place, especially Wrigley Place,
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Speaker 2: completely different at 50 degrees than 90.
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Speaker 1: He went down there and won three earlier this year. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Champions fear no one. I don't think that they're going
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Speaker 1: to fear that part. Game balls and kicks firing up next.
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