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Hour 1 - 03/31/26 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 3: cut me quick. You'll look at this play.
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Speaker 1: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 1: a seal here, and to try to run this play
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Speaker 1: in the hour.
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Speaker 4: Let's all a let's go what you do? Yeah, and
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Speaker 4: they can play be right all the way outside. Why
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Speaker 4: left Banks three ninety sick bag be in see talk.
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Speaker 2: He's right long enough for it. Watching to be proud
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Speaker 2: of a professional. It's a great professional.
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Speaker 1: Go out there and playing this ball game like I
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Speaker 1: know you can play it.
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Speaker 2: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure. Schmid. Oh my god, this
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Speaker 2: man's been on all night. Armand sorry.
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Speaker 3: Ready, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 5: Greetings, Welcome to the meeting that takes place every day
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Speaker 5: between five and eight. We call it the Huddle, and
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Speaker 5: we welcome all smart, good looking insomniacs, early risers, sports fans,
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Speaker 5: stuff fans, sociopaths waiting for the health club to open.
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Speaker 5: All are welcome into the huddle. Drew Wilson, Bill Schmid,
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Speaker 5: armand sorry. And it's a Tuesday in the good Land.
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Speaker 5: The Brewers have their first l of the season, and
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Speaker 5: you boys were both there to witness it.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to say mm hmmmm. Those events are related.
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Speaker 5: Choice Billy already attended a victory. He left early, and
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Speaker 5: the Brewers had a stirring comeback.
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Speaker 2: You don't have it, do you want to? Do you
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Speaker 2: want to tell him? Or should I? You don't even
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Speaker 2: know they have it? Do you want to tell him
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Speaker 2: or should I let's go because.
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Speaker 6: Well, and at that point, Drew, I'm glad you started
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Speaker 6: there because uh, one of our old friends, Brian Bush
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Speaker 6: gets gets labeled appropriately, So America's jinx.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you said appropriately because they a little bit
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Speaker 1: of deserved there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, armand Sarian wanted to take that mantle last night
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Speaker 6: after he decided that he was going to do a
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Speaker 6: little something that into this very microphone right over here,
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Speaker 6: blasted multiple young players and stars for trying to do
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Speaker 6: which the kids would call aura farming.
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Speaker 2: Farm.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you something, is it jinxing? If you're
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Speaker 1: really just trying to be prepared to deliver the content
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Speaker 1: area is preparing to fail?
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Speaker 2: It? All? Right? Delivered it, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I had this great, brilliant idea that was given
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Speaker 1: to you by the guy that was standing right next
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Speaker 1: to you while we were up on the Johnsonville party
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Speaker 1: deck hanging out with the Milwaukee Admirals, which was a phenomenal,
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Speaker 1: great evening, Great Milwaukee Admirals for having animals Admirals takeover, right,
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Speaker 1: was basically the whole Johnsonville party deck oasis Wise Black
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Speaker 1: throws out the first pitch or George.
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Speaker 6: Sorry, no, Jordan Jeordansley threw out first pitch. Why is
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Speaker 6: black the one that came back up with the show jersey?
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Speaker 6: And I mean he was in doctor and into Brewers fandom.
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Speaker 6: He's dialed in.
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Speaker 2: He ain't leaving.
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Speaker 1: First of all these guys, It's amazing how much smaller
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Speaker 1: they look out skates on.
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Speaker 2: You know, I should have played hockey.
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Speaker 1: I should have learned to play hockey because I think
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Speaker 1: I could have. If I was skilled athletically, I could
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Speaker 1: have done it.
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Speaker 2: Talented, well, I don't have the talent.
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Speaker 1: R taller, I don't have the size right, but it
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Speaker 1: was that was great to see Oasis Wiseblot getting the
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Speaker 1: Oshow jersey.
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Speaker 2: That was great. That was great.
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Speaker 1: You want to tell him, well, Jordan threw a perfect
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Speaker 1: strike too. I just want to mention that too. There
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Speaker 1: we a he threw the first pitch off.
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Speaker 2: But go ahead, Billy, you know that's your thing.
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Speaker 6: So as we were approaching the seventh inning, after William
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Speaker 6: Contreras got on the board tallying his first home run
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Speaker 6: of the season, uh, putting the Brewers up to one.
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Speaker 2: He struck that pretty well too, Wildman.
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Speaker 6: Thought back to the famous individual who grabbed the cardboard box,
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Speaker 6: threw up the one sixty two and oh banner back
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Speaker 6: there in nineteen eighty seven, right, nothing, nothing better of
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Speaker 6: an image from Brewers fandom than that one right there now,
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Speaker 6: shirtless cat on Easter Sunday, I believe right, Oh yeah,
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Speaker 6: everybody was shirtless that day because I think it was
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Speaker 6: like eighty five or something.
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Speaker 2: Hey, gorgeous into that brew Crue.
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Speaker 1: Bleacher section, great day in the County Sea, Arman decided that, Wow,
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Speaker 1: I wish I would have done that.
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Speaker 6: I should have done that. I wanted to do that.
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Speaker 6: I knew they were gonna win. I should have done
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Speaker 6: that as well. We're standing right here by a lovely
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Speaker 6: bar with a couple of very very nice individuals that
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Speaker 6: were helping us out all night there tapping a lot
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Speaker 6: of beer last night in the Johnsonville party.
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Speaker 2: Tek imagine.
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Speaker 6: I think they might have an empty case back there, Drew,
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Speaker 6: I think they might have some cardboard back there. Why
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Speaker 6: don't you just go and ask him if you can
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Speaker 6: have one?
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Speaker 1: And as Sharpie so Arman in the midst after a
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Speaker 1: two to one lead, it's only going into seventh inning,
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Speaker 1: because I'm yelling were we won for decides that he's
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Speaker 1: gonna grab the one sixty two and zero. Oh no,
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Speaker 1: flash it around American Family Field, waving it proudly, making
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Speaker 1: sure I can get all of the pictures, just so
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Speaker 1: he can be on his Jason Tatum and do a
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Speaker 1: little our farming and robbery. First of all, I did,
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Speaker 1: I did. I wanted to recreate the bit. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: that I wanted to rob at Billy. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: honor the legacy of it of anyone. No, not know
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Speaker 1: we're referring to. It's you should, by now have watched
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Speaker 1: it many times in your life. It's the great great
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven Brewers team of your book, Magic, Miracles
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Speaker 1: and true believers. All right, you can find it on
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Speaker 1: you I've never watched the video. I've seen the picture though.
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Speaker 1: It's you should. It's fantastic. Young Carson would watch it
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Speaker 1: over and over again.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you, you would love it, you know.
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Speaker 1: So I wanted to, you know, the guy had the
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Speaker 1: cardboard box one sixty two and oh, I love posting.
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Speaker 1: And then I'm like, wouldn't it be a great idea
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Speaker 1: because we're about to go four and oh that's in
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Speaker 1: my head. I'm thinking we just took the lead while
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Speaker 1: Bill hit the homer. We got the bullpen, we got
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Speaker 1: the we got the vibes. We're good to go. Wouldn't
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Speaker 1: it be great if I, you know, recreated the picture
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Speaker 1: just to keep the just to keep the legacy going
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Speaker 1: to the guy in the cardboard picture. And first of all,
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Speaker 1: I want to say thanks to the two guys working
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Speaker 1: the working the beer stand up there in our area,
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Speaker 1: who probably were hopeful I was dropping in a tip
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Speaker 1: for him or something like that, but no, I just
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Speaker 1: frantically yell, do you guys have a cardboard box.
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Speaker 2: Shots alligator arms?
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Speaker 1: Well I didn't have. I didn't have any singles drop it.
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Speaker 1: They do make change, that's awkward. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: castands it and take money out of the depth making change,
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Speaker 1: all right.
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Speaker 2: I probably could have done that, I don't know. And
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Speaker 2: did they even take cash at a lot of stands
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Speaker 2: in it was a little tip chart.
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Speaker 6: I mean, if you want it, you could have bought
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Speaker 6: a red vines and just throw a couple of bucks
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Speaker 6: on that one, but go ahead, which I considered.
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Speaker 1: And then yeah, those guys came through for me with
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Speaker 1: that and the sharp He kind of confused that I
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Speaker 1: was so frantic and trying to figure out like, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: this is a great idea now, now, William.
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Speaker 2: You you weren't. You weren't, like, you know, totally innocent
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Speaker 2: of this.
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Speaker 1: You had you were kind of pumping me up with
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Speaker 1: the ideas, and it's a great idea.
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Speaker 5: She was because then he la based you today after
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Speaker 5: the first loss, and you turned out to be the Jinks.
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Speaker 1: Have you just met me? I know it. It was
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Speaker 1: a classic billy move, do it you won't. I really
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Speaker 1: thought we were gonna win the game at that point, though,
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Speaker 1: so I guess I thought this would be a great
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Speaker 1: content if I just held the thing up a little
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Speaker 1: split screen. Turns out on the problem, turns out on
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Speaker 1: the reason, and the Brewers are three and one and
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Speaker 1: that four No, not Trevor McGill on the reason.
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Speaker 6: Trevor McGill losing that one two lead in the count,
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Speaker 6: walking the guy and then giving up a giving up
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Speaker 6: a ringing double.
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Speaker 2: In true arm and fashion.
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Speaker 1: I was just lamenting the fact that, you know, my
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Speaker 1: great idea wasn't gonna get the.
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Speaker 5: Wasn't the guy who doubled Also the guy who had
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Speaker 5: a big hit earlier in the game.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say you had a solo shot that
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Speaker 2: tied it off Ashby. Yeah, so it felt like we
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Speaker 2: hit a good night for that fella.
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Speaker 1: In all the hard contact we hit it and it
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Speaker 1: felt like almost of the night.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there was some pretty good baseball game. It
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Speaker 2: was good.
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Speaker 5: It was a pretty good baseball game. Brewers lose their
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Speaker 5: first of the season. You boys were there celebrating with
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Speaker 5: our friends from the Milwaukee Admirals, who are making their
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Speaker 5: own playoff push right now. Their season is in the
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Speaker 5: waning days. The Brewers are just dawning. So it was
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Speaker 5: good that you guys were out there. Brewers have game
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Speaker 5: tonight against the Race. They have a game tomorrow against
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Speaker 5: the Race, and then they start. I think they have
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Speaker 5: an off day every day, and like one off day
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Speaker 5: a week, like forever. I was gonna say, they end
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Speaker 5: up building in a number of these, Drew. I think
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Speaker 5: when you were a scribe covering baseball, you would have
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Speaker 5: really enjoyed a couple of these holidays. Now you might
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Speaker 5: like them a little bit more during the middle of
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Speaker 5: the summer when the grind really starts.
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Speaker 2: Uh that's true enough, that's true.
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Speaker 1: But it's gotta be nice to get your pitchers early
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Speaker 1: into the season.
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Speaker 2: Fully built up.
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Speaker 6: And I'll tell you this, Kyle Harrison last night, as advertised,
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Speaker 6: gives up the solo shot.
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Speaker 2: This might just be a Brewers thing. It's becoming a
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Speaker 2: Brewers thing.
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Speaker 6: Sure, it seems like it's dating back to the Cub
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Speaker 6: series ol Tani a couple of times. A leadoff home
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Speaker 6: run just might be the elixir. Get that out of
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Speaker 6: the way. But he was nails after he got out
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Speaker 6: of that second inning. A little bit of diceiness there,
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Speaker 6: but four hits, eight k's and a legit arm from
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Speaker 6: that left side. Who's going to be I think a
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Speaker 6: factor in the rotation going forward and now tonight and
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Speaker 6: hopefully I'm excited to be able to see Brandon Woodrof
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Speaker 6: tossed the pill a little bit for the first time
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Speaker 6: here in twenty twenty, says, because if there's going to
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Speaker 6: be somebody who you hope is the mainstay, long term
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Speaker 6: guy that can actually give you twenty eight starts, the
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Speaker 6: dare I say thirty starts?
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Speaker 2: If that's what you're going to be in a hell
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Speaker 2: of a good spot.
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Speaker 6: Because it looks like the youth in the rotation for sure,
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Speaker 6: they're going to go through their days. I think there's
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Speaker 6: gonna be more offensive days guys that you saw on
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Speaker 6: Sunday than necessarily last night, where this offense is good
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Speaker 6: enough that it's gonna dig teams, and it's gonna dig
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Speaker 6: this team out of a couple of those rough patches
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Speaker 6: that the young starter gets into. I would agree, especially
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Speaker 6: once you get your two agree two of your heaviest
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Speaker 6: hitters back, which really lengthd in that line had really
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Speaker 6: does You could see it last night?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty good, well pitched game, well played game, didn't
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Speaker 5: go to the Brewers way, but.
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Speaker 2: Had no shame in that one. Just get them tomorrow, right,
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Speaker 2: That could very much be a playoff game.
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Speaker 6: Both of those teams I think are playoff teams and
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Speaker 6: have been near the playoff spot for the last couple
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Speaker 6: of years. And I mean the guy is just as advertised.
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Speaker 6: Bryce Terrang is just an absolute walking double right again.
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Speaker 1: He did it again last night on an over one
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Speaker 1: and a half a total basis. But listen taking a
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Speaker 1: walk toot, that was great. We were a little worried
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Speaker 1: about that ball off the glove. Maybe they wouldn't score
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Speaker 1: it that way. I did not have any scoring he dives.
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Speaker 6: I should never worry drew right at the Potawatamey Sportsbook
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Speaker 6: with an over one and a half total. Basis on
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Speaker 6: that ground ball that Bryce Terrang hit, that's a high.
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Speaker 5: What about the spectacular play for the young man? Okay,
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Speaker 5: good hot shot.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, a little excited but anxious to see what
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Speaker 1: he pitched. I mean, it's you know, you hope he'd
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Speaker 1: be the anchor, the rotation of veteran anchor, and hopefully
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Speaker 1: he comes out with some good stuff tonight. We're kind
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Speaker 1: of ready to see him go. But I agree though
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Speaker 1: the way Harrison kind of settled down. I mean, he
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Speaker 1: had labored to the first couple of innings, but after
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Speaker 1: the homebreing he give up a couple base runners with
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Speaker 1: ducks and the pond got out of it. I thought
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Speaker 1: that was big for him, big for the confidence, able
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Speaker 1: to settle down, settle in and overall had a good night.
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Speaker 1: So that was a good sign last night. Overall, I
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Speaker 1: didn't think there was It was some terrible at bads,
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Speaker 1: you know, Yelich kind of struggle. Other than that, guys
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Speaker 1: were hitting the ball hard. It just, you know, some
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Speaker 1: nice plays by the raising field as well. So that's
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Speaker 1: the way it goes sometimes couldn't get the game late,
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Speaker 1: couldn't keep the undefeated dream alive. But onto the next
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Speaker 1: for the walking.
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Speaker 5: Your played arbiter last night was Jeremy Rehack. Did you
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Speaker 5: guys enjoy his work? Because they cut down on the
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Speaker 5: number of challenges last night from Sunday.
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Speaker 2: You say there's only a couple last night, right, I
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Speaker 2: think there were two and you you know three?
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Speaker 1: Okay, you know now because we had a weird angle.
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Speaker 1: Obviously we're way up up in the in the right
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Speaker 1: field the bleachers, so you didn't get a great look
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Speaker 1: at the home plan umpire. But you know now that
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Speaker 1: when there's a crowd pop, what kind of what kind
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Speaker 1: of crowd pop it is because it's an ABS challenge.
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Speaker 2: There's still the.
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Speaker 1: Way it's fired up the crowd for these ABS challenges.
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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna turn out to be one of
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Speaker 1: the one of the best little jolts to live, you know,
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Speaker 1: baseball viewing that we've we've seen here. So it looks
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Speaker 1: like it's turning out well all across baseball. I saw
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Speaker 1: last night the Yankees went five for five and ABS
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Speaker 1: challenges and Boom was kind of fired up about that.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of it's kind of funny to.
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Speaker 1: See how the uh you know that the DNA of
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Speaker 1: the game, you know, live game experience is going to
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Speaker 1: change with this.
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Speaker 6: It also has given me Drew a pretty good appreciation
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Speaker 6: on how good the umpires are. They're fantastic, They're pretty
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Speaker 6: they're pretty dang good if you actually look at the
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Speaker 6: the percentage of balls that you have to call generally.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, although the one guy who's been catching it, C. B. Buckner,
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Speaker 5: he might not be yes very much. Is in town?
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Speaker 5: Was that second last night? He'll be at third tonight
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Speaker 5: and that means on Ghetaway day.
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Speaker 1: He'll be at the dish he must viewing, he must
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Speaker 1: viewing on onesday. Yeah, he's kind of been the the
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Speaker 1: I guess the lightning rod in this early going of
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Speaker 1: the ABA.
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Speaker 6: Because he went back, he went back to back with
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Speaker 6: with Suarez and he you could tell the second time.
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Speaker 6: Buckner's like, all right, man, seriously, I knowing back here, well,
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Speaker 6: not getting the calls right, Bud, Like that's the biggest issue,
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Speaker 6: and we would love it if you just got it
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Speaker 6: right then we wouldn't have to clown you in front
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Speaker 6: of forty thousand people.
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Speaker 1: And the DNA of this is so interesting because it's
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Speaker 1: like the first time fans have been able to hold well,
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Speaker 1: you know how we are now on today we hold accountable, right.
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Speaker 2: Fans want to hold someone accountable.
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Speaker 1: Right, So if you feel like you've been wrong by
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Speaker 1: the by the empire, you've never been able to get
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Speaker 1: them held accountable objectively like you can now.
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Speaker 2: And fans love that.
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Speaker 1: They love that aspect of justice being served on Blue,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I think it's just
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Speaker 1: fun to watch and I do like that it's so
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Speaker 1: quick and it's so efficient and it's so accurate. Now
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Speaker 1: it seems like ideal real.
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Speaker 2: It is great.
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Speaker 5: And you know, as this tweak is is being unveiled
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Speaker 5: this year, we've already had the pitch clock, which was great,
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Speaker 5: and then now they're trying to right some wrongs here
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Speaker 5: and it's still being kind of it's still settling. Like
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Speaker 5: the Brewers. They didn't challenge a pitch your spot on
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Speaker 5: YEP Sunday, and I was like, why wouldn't they challenge that?
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Speaker 5: And they were just holding it. And you know, if
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Speaker 5: you're gonna it gives you another thing. The second guests
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Speaker 5: managers about yeah, operations, because managers can't really do it
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Speaker 5: it's gotta be the batter, and it's gonna be within
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Speaker 5: two seconds batter and the catcher or pitcher. But it's
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Speaker 5: gonna it's gonna give you something else to talk about,
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Speaker 5: and it's gonna I think it's gonna improve the way
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Speaker 5: people feel, uh, you know, the Eric Gregg's and there's
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Speaker 5: gonna be bad calls, and there's gonna be you know,
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Speaker 5: like some of the some of the.
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Speaker 2: Dudes are human.
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Speaker 5: They are human, but they are pretty good to your point, Billy,
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Speaker 5: And now this will correct the egregious ones. And meanwhile,
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Speaker 5: over on the NFL side, we're gearing up for replacement
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Speaker 5: refs to Electric Boogaloo, the sequel to the Lance Easley
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Speaker 5: game on Monday Night Football when the Packers got screwed
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Speaker 5: in Seattle and the NFL's like, listen, we're sorry, but
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Speaker 5: were you going to do it again? So negotiations are
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Speaker 5: getting ugly. They're negotiating a little bit in the media.
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Speaker 5: They're taking shots at each other and there the word is.
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Speaker 5: And the NFL's doing due diligence that they're going to
15:29
Speaker 5: start preparing college referees and like just non NFL referees. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: and that's interesting too, because I heard McAfee say, and
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Speaker 5: I thought this because I lived this in the when
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Speaker 5: the baseball had the lockout and they tried to have
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Speaker 5: replacement players in spring training. I was covering that spring
15:48
Speaker 5: training and we were getting ready to break camp with
15:51
Speaker 5: replacement players, and the Brewers probably would have had a
15:53
Speaker 5: better replacement team record than the regular team mid nineties.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but they were ready. They brought these guys and
16:01
Speaker 2: they had like open tryouts.
16:02
Speaker 5: It was so interesting because guys in the minor leagues
16:05
Speaker 5: were still they didn't want Nobody wanted to cross any
16:07
Speaker 5: picket lines and everything, and.
16:09
Speaker 2: It was there was that aspect of it.
16:10
Speaker 5: So you might get that with the top level college
16:12
Speaker 5: guys who have thought about aspirations, they might not want
16:16
Speaker 5: to cross the line. So you might have d three
16:18
Speaker 5: guys or old guys who I got no shots, my
16:20
Speaker 5: only shot.
16:21
Speaker 2: And independent guys.
16:22
Speaker 5: Right, So it's getting so thorny there now deadline spur
16:25
Speaker 5: actions that the CBA between the league and the officials
16:28
Speaker 5: ends in a couple of months.
16:29
Speaker 2: It's like an end of may or something.
16:31
Speaker 5: But they're starting to like prep and they might if
16:34
Speaker 5: it goes and goes, they might have these guys replacement
16:37
Speaker 5: refs who might end up being the new refs and
16:39
Speaker 5: might have them go to camps and work you know,
16:41
Speaker 5: controlled scrimmages and stuff like that, and maybe obviously exhibition
16:44
Speaker 5: games if it gets that far, so they're not messing
16:47
Speaker 5: around a lot of saber rattling going on. Oh yeah,
16:50
Speaker 5: the issues between the officials and you know that. The
16:54
Speaker 5: bigger question is, first of all, what would be if
16:58
Speaker 5: you could be a referee for any board at a
17:00
Speaker 5: high level, what would you choose? Who are the coolest arbiters?
17:05
Speaker 5: Because I think like the NFL guys, if you're not
17:07
Speaker 5: the crew chief, you're basically anonymous. If you kick a call,
17:11
Speaker 5: your crewmates know it, and the team and the players
17:15
Speaker 5: and the coaches and stuff who watch the film, they
17:17
Speaker 5: know it. But most people, you can kick a call
17:19
Speaker 5: and you're just a guy on the field in a
17:20
Speaker 5: striped shirt. Yeah you're just the idiot. Yeah, you're just
17:23
Speaker 5: the back judge or the line. You're not You're not
17:26
Speaker 5: going to catch anything. And even if you screw up
17:29
Speaker 5: a lot of times it comes on the white cap.
17:31
Speaker 5: The guy who's the head referee, like he get ends
17:34
Speaker 5: up wearing it like, oh his crew sucks. Hocus crew awful. Yeah,
17:37
Speaker 5: you're totally right. So they have that layer of anonymity,
17:40
Speaker 5: which is cool. And you know, baseball, you're out there,
17:43
Speaker 5: if you got the dish, you probably have more control
17:47
Speaker 5: over a game than any official in any other sport.
17:49
Speaker 2: I think if you got the home plate bar none. Yes,
17:52
Speaker 2: because the.
17:52
Speaker 5: Difference, as we've talked about, the difference between a one
17:54
Speaker 5: to one pitch being one and two in account or
17:56
Speaker 5: two and one is astronomical, and that there's that Now
18:00
Speaker 5: in the ABS era, maybe that's lessened a little bit
18:03
Speaker 5: because if you screw on up, if you scrip a call,
18:05
Speaker 5: but you're still you know, you're still controlling every pitch
18:10
Speaker 5: one hundred percent. Here you're dialed in every pitch and
18:12
Speaker 5: the flow of the game too, and you're wearing that.
18:14
Speaker 5: And if you miss a if you miss a call
18:17
Speaker 5: at the bases and cost a kid in Detroit a
18:19
Speaker 5: no hitter, you're going to be immortal.
18:21
Speaker 2: There's that.
18:23
Speaker 5: The NBA has a couple of refs that you know,
18:25
Speaker 5: and then the rest of them are kind of anonymous, right.
18:27
Speaker 6: And you hit it on that that one right there,
18:30
Speaker 6: I'll stop you when I when I hit the bell.
18:32
Speaker 6: The NBA ref has got to be the absolute best
18:35
Speaker 6: because you work three days a week. I'm pretty sure
18:37
Speaker 6: from from the scouting of it, you get three days
18:39
Speaker 6: that you can work. In the NBA, they make nearly
18:42
Speaker 6: five hundred grand probably when you need to look at travel
18:45
Speaker 6: first class, travel first class, and you do get the
18:48
Speaker 6: opportunity to work with just about every different official throughout
18:52
Speaker 6: the year. They don't work in the same crew every
18:55
Speaker 6: single night, So I like that kind of change in
18:58
Speaker 6: the back and forth. And there are there's only like
19:00
Speaker 6: three of them. And as long as I'm not gonna
19:02
Speaker 6: scot Scott Foster the situation immedia extender who is trending
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Speaker 6: today by the way, for something that's awesome, you know,
19:08
Speaker 6: Chris Paul bring it up, I must. But like, unless
19:11
Speaker 6: I'm gonna Joey Crawford and be so mad at Tim Duncan,
19:14
Speaker 6: like the nicest guy in the world, nobody's really gonna
19:17
Speaker 6: know who I am. I've had an experience reffing both
19:23
Speaker 6: basketball and baseball, have only had negative reactions with football refs,
19:28
Speaker 6: So I'll keep the football ref onto the side, and
19:31
Speaker 6: I'd absolutely take the NBA.
19:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with you. I think you have
19:34
Speaker 1: to look at a couple of things. You know, a
19:37
Speaker 1: hell of a workout every night. Yeah, it's the thing.
19:40
Speaker 1: You're gonna look absolutely ripped off if you want the workout.
19:43
Speaker 1: You have to figure soccer is good because I have
19:45
Speaker 1: to run all the time. Now, the problem is you
19:48
Speaker 1: some of these, some of these, you know, situations in
19:51
Speaker 1: soccer get kind of hairy, and I don't know if
19:53
Speaker 1: you want to be in the spotlight. I mean internationally overseas,
19:56
Speaker 1: we've know some soccer refs have taken been the crosshairs.
19:59
Speaker 1: I would sit there and tell you that my ideal
20:01
Speaker 1: one would be a chair umpire and tennis.
20:03
Speaker 2: I think I love the idea.
20:04
Speaker 1: You get your first of all, you got control of
20:06
Speaker 1: the microphone, you're on Mike, you got the umbrella right there,
20:09
Speaker 1: you're up on the chair in that nice seat. You
20:11
Speaker 1: probably get to wear a suit or some nice classy gear,
20:14
Speaker 1: and you ultimately always had the power. Right you're up
20:17
Speaker 1: on that chair where everyone's trying to elt you from below,
20:19
Speaker 1: you have the power. You're perched like a gargoyle on
20:21
Speaker 1: the purchase in the side of a building.
20:23
Speaker 2: I kind of like that.
20:24
Speaker 1: So I would say chair umpire in tennis is the
20:27
Speaker 1: most leisurely, relaxing, enjoyable one. And I like that you
20:30
Speaker 1: can you know, just call out, you know things on
20:32
Speaker 1: the microphone all the time. That'd be a lot of fun.
20:35
Speaker 1: I would say lacrosse is probably a good one too,
20:37
Speaker 1: because nobody knows what the hell is going on lacrosse
20:40
Speaker 1: in terms of all this that you know, So you're
20:42
Speaker 1: gonna get less quietest.
20:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the quietest. First at the youth an amateur level,
20:46
Speaker 5: that's the quietest.
20:47
Speaker 1: You're gonna get less parents arguing at you, cann get
20:49
Speaker 1: less people yell and they don't know what's going on
20:51
Speaker 1: in La Cross, what's going on, And so I would
20:53
Speaker 1: think that would be.
20:54
Speaker 2: A good one too to officiate. Yeah, of soccer two,
20:57
Speaker 2: I mean to a point.
20:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, the soccer one would be fun. To be able
21:01
Speaker 6: to bust out the card.
21:01
Speaker 2: On someone, that would be That would be the only
21:04
Speaker 2: thing I would like about the soccer one.
21:06
Speaker 5: Now you're about a year away from Carson even to
21:08
Speaker 5: start playing soccer, because it's the law. It's like the
21:10
Speaker 5: first spoor people play is soccer.
21:11
Speaker 2: I know he was kicking.
21:12
Speaker 5: He was kicking the basketball yesterday. It is for cardio
21:16
Speaker 5: and footwork and the coordination stuff.
21:18
Speaker 6: It's good gateway and I mean it seems like a
21:20
Speaker 6: good camaraderie situation because they never aren't all bunched up
21:23
Speaker 6: to that's true. Travel all hanging out and traveling packs
21:26
Speaker 6: travel impacts. So Hunter Bomgart has a report for us.
21:29
Speaker 6: We will listen to that.
21:31
Speaker 5: He also has an interview I believe with Joey Ortiz,
21:33
Speaker 5: Let's Go h Our baseball correspondent and host of the
21:36
Speaker 5: Baseball Milwaukee Baseball on Thursday and the Baseball pregame show.
21:40
Speaker 5: I think Joey Ortiz enjoyed yesterday. Yoh, a tough day
21:45
Speaker 5: for Joey Ortiz done.
21:47
Speaker 1: Gets a play, Maybe sees somebody get a big old
21:50
Speaker 1: bag that plays the exact.
21:52
Speaker 2: Position he is gone before Cooper Pratt, well, maybe maybe
21:56
Speaker 2: fire him up. Lighting on the wall. Maybe. So we
21:59
Speaker 2: got that and that second chance to look at joy. Weimbers.
22:02
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Speaker 5: we like to do. So hit us up eight seven
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Speaker 5: to seven, seven, nine, four one seven three at seven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Special guest in.
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Speaker 6: The house, Mike Hastings, head coach of the Badgers men
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Speaker 6: hockey team, is gonna call us yes, on his way
22:16
Speaker 6: to the Frozen four in a couple of weeks.
22:18
Speaker 2: Ready to go to the rink and get the boys.
22:19
Speaker 5: Boy absolutely, and then Bill Schroder Tuesdays with Rock makes
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Speaker 5: his triumphant return.
22:23
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Rock.
22:24
Speaker 5: Uh buying her selling, you're buying her selling that Rock
22:28
Speaker 5: in his prime, which was nineteen eighty seven.
22:30
Speaker 2: I think athletically and I'm right for that team. Yeah.
22:33
Speaker 5: Could Rock beat Gary Sanchez in a foot race to
22:36
Speaker 5: first base?
22:37
Speaker 2: That's good.
22:38
Speaker 5: I think Rock was not fast, but I think he's
22:41
Speaker 5: faster than Gary Sanchez. We got lots to get to today.
22:44
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22:46
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22:49
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Speaker 2: Don't make him turn the car around.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, and it works out very very well.
24:22
Speaker 5: Very apropos Chef's kiss if I may, hey, since you
24:25
Speaker 5: mentioned Hunter bombguard, he covers the Brewers for us and
24:27
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24:36
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Speaker 3: Thanks guys. Unfortunately, the Brewers will not be going one
24:39
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty two and oer this season. They fall
24:40
Speaker 3: three two into the Tampa Bay Rays here at American
24:43
Speaker 3: Family Field, Ray's putting up a run in that ninth inning,
24:46
Speaker 3: Trevor McGill giving it up Nick Fortes with an RBI double.
24:50
Speaker 3: Pat Murphy telling us after the game that Brewers knew
24:52
Speaker 3: that Nick Fortes liked to ambush those fastballs up. Unfortunately,
24:56
Speaker 3: McGill left one up there and Fortes was able to
24:58
Speaker 3: get to it put it in the gap, raise lead
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Speaker 3: at three to two. Then at the bottom of the night,
25:02
Speaker 3: South Freelick led things off of a hit by pitch.
25:05
Speaker 3: Garrett Mitchell came up bruise manager Pat Murphy saying he
25:07
Speaker 3: didn't want to bunt there with Garrett Mitchell, it's not
25:09
Speaker 3: really his forte. And then he led his lefties bat
25:13
Speaker 3: simply because Ian Seymour, who was on the mound for
25:16
Speaker 3: the Rays, is a reverse split lefty, meaning he does
25:19
Speaker 3: better against righties than he does lefties, which is obviously
25:22
Speaker 3: not normal. Pat Murphy lets his lefties bat there. Brewers
25:25
Speaker 3: cannot come up with a run and they fall three
25:28
Speaker 3: to two to the Tampa Bay Rays. On the bright side,
25:31
Speaker 3: Kyle Harrison, his Brewers' debut, went pretty well. Gave up
25:34
Speaker 3: a home run to start the game, but then bounce
25:35
Speaker 3: back five innings eight k's. We asked him after the
25:38
Speaker 3: game about working with William Conchraras for the first time
25:41
Speaker 3: in the regular season. Kyle how wasn't working with William
25:43
Speaker 3: for the first time in the regular season.
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Speaker 7: That was awesome. I mean from starting off in the bullpen,
25:48
Speaker 7: you know, he had ripping things back at me, and
25:51
Speaker 7: you know, it's just that consistency. He wants that consistency
25:53
Speaker 7: and that's everything and pitching, you know, tunneling all that,
25:57
Speaker 7: and he gets it. He gets it and just it's
26:00
Speaker 7: awesome having conviction back there. That's that's what I would
26:03
Speaker 7: sum it up.
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Speaker 2: He does that in the bullpen too. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
26:06
Speaker 2: Like if he doesn't like something.
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Speaker 7: I guess, you know, I mean, maybe he's just got
26:10
Speaker 7: a rocket of an army. You know, he's kind a
26:12
Speaker 7: hose on on um. But no, man, it's it's told
26:15
Speaker 7: you accountable.
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Speaker 2: That's for sure. We ever had a catcher like that.
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Speaker 7: No, No, it's awesome.
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Speaker 2: Back to you guys.
26:37
Speaker 5: How about that Hunter Hunter? For those of you on
26:40
Speaker 5: the stream, you got to see Hunter's smiling face. He
26:42
Speaker 5: was in front of the barrel Man backdrop and barrel
26:45
Speaker 5: Man invaded the press box.
26:46
Speaker 2: Last evening I saw on the Socialist he is out
26:48
Speaker 2: with his nemesis Adam McKelvey first dot Com and.
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Speaker 1: He came up by us too which is a lot
26:53
Speaker 1: of fun. Always fun to have the massons around that
26:56
Speaker 1: love that. And did I catch it, Caro color, here's
26:59
Speaker 1: some clumkin.
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Speaker 6: No, he said, you like to have conviction back there,
27:03
Speaker 6: as in, you like to have somebody that's convicted into
27:06
Speaker 6: what they like, what they want, what they demand.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I get it now, you like to have conviction
27:10
Speaker 1: for some reason. For a second, I thought he was
27:12
Speaker 1: nicknaming Contrere's conviction, which was kind of cool actually, but
27:17
Speaker 1: it could be.
27:17
Speaker 2: Worse nicknamed the way you explained it. Yeah, misheard, No,
27:21
Speaker 2: that's true. I did. That's why I asked. But I do.
27:23
Speaker 6: I do think there's Drew you'd you'd be able to
27:26
Speaker 6: speak to that, like I do think that there's something too,
27:28
Speaker 6: And Murph always says yes, just don't understand, which I appreciate,
27:32
Speaker 6: Like we we made fun of Matt Lafleur wings Like
27:34
Speaker 6: you guys just don't get it all right. You don't
27:36
Speaker 6: know how hard it is to win that game that
27:37
Speaker 6: Malik Willis did on nineteen days. And I also don't
27:42
Speaker 6: really understand all of the things that William Contreras can
27:45
Speaker 6: do on a pitch by pitch, day in and day out.
27:47
Speaker 6: Basis to get these guys ready to go. But the
27:49
Speaker 6: easiest thing is just being the exact same in what
27:52
Speaker 6: your standard is, because he really is the leader and
27:55
Speaker 6: the coach on the field when you call everything. We've
27:58
Speaker 6: talked to Rock about it with these challenges as well,
28:00
Speaker 6: like they've basically fully deferred Bill. You call it, you
28:05
Speaker 6: think it's ball, you think it's strike. You go otherwise
28:08
Speaker 6: We'll be okay, We'll put all our trust in you
28:11
Speaker 6: and put that seat on basically your chest to be
28:13
Speaker 6: able to make these calls.
28:14
Speaker 2: There are a contrarasts. This goes back.
28:18
Speaker 5: I mean even with when lu Croix came up a
28:20
Speaker 5: couple of you know, many years ago. Yes, but when
28:23
Speaker 5: Luke Croy came up, basically came up from double A
28:26
Speaker 5: and he had to learn on the fly and he
28:28
Speaker 5: did an incredible job just cramming.
28:30
Speaker 2: But the Brewers.
28:32
Speaker 5: In this current iteration, I remember talking to Counts and
28:35
Speaker 5: Murph about this, like he's They're like, we put a
28:38
Speaker 5: lot on our catchers. It was to the point where
28:40
Speaker 5: they weren't getting a lot of offense out of the
28:42
Speaker 5: catching spot. At one point I'm like, tell you guys
28:43
Speaker 5: doing and they're like, well, that's okay, because they're doing
28:47
Speaker 5: the other stuff, limiting the running game and working with
28:49
Speaker 5: our pitchers, and it's like we put a lot And
28:51
Speaker 5: there are some teams where the pitching coach and the
28:54
Speaker 5: manager they devised some kind of system or something where
28:56
Speaker 5: they can call pitches from the dugout, but they ain't
28:59
Speaker 5: doing that. With William you need to because he has
29:00
Speaker 5: a feel for it. We'll talk to Rock about that
29:02
Speaker 5: today at seven thirty. But contrast, you say calls are
29:07
Speaker 5: gonna get well, what does that mean? You put a
29:08
Speaker 5: finger down a big deal and the pitcher does have
29:11
Speaker 5: the right to shake and they sure you know, but
29:13
Speaker 5: it when you get that flow. That's one of the
29:16
Speaker 5: things that's one of the unsung things in baseball is
29:19
Speaker 5: that pitcher catcher vibe that connection that they have and
29:22
Speaker 5: just now with the pitch calm and stuff, it's it's unique,
29:26
Speaker 5: it's evolved, but it's still there. It's still like a
29:28
Speaker 5: key tenant of the game is the catcher helping the
29:31
Speaker 5: pitcher through. And I was wondering about that was Sprout
29:33
Speaker 5: the other day because he had Carol making his first
29:35
Speaker 5: big league start.
29:35
Speaker 2: You mention that, yeah, maybe it.
29:36
Speaker 5: Would have been better to have Carol make his first
29:38
Speaker 5: big leagu start with Woodroff on the mound, would if
29:40
Speaker 5: could have called his own damn game? I agree, yeah,
29:42
Speaker 5: and Sproute, who's kind of feeling his way, and then
29:44
Speaker 5: his fourth big league start.
29:46
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a factor or not.
29:48
Speaker 5: And I don't know, And I also wasn't at camp,
29:50
Speaker 5: so I don't know how much they work together games
29:53
Speaker 5: good point because there are times like how many guys
29:55
Speaker 5: is Gary Sanchez caught right? How many times has you know?
29:58
Speaker 5: How many guys you know it? It takes some time
30:01
Speaker 5: to develop that rapport, and you know some guys you know.
30:05
Speaker 5: Sometimes you'll see guys picture gets traded when Don Sutton
30:09
Speaker 5: came to the Brewers, or some picture gets traded mid season.
30:10
Speaker 5: He throws a complete game no hitter, or a complete
30:13
Speaker 5: game shutout to a catcher he's never thrown to before.
30:16
Speaker 5: You've seen it that way. You've also seen guys get rocked.
30:18
Speaker 5: But it is one of those things that's always there.
30:21
Speaker 5: It's so important and few people even.
30:24
Speaker 2: Think about it.
30:25
Speaker 5: And I was on the beat when I when I
30:26
Speaker 5: go would pitch a good game and everybody be at
30:28
Speaker 5: that locker, I go find the catcher and a lot
30:30
Speaker 5: of times there's nobody talking to him and he gives
30:33
Speaker 5: you like you know that he would tell you, oh.
30:35
Speaker 2: God, you know in the pen he sucked. I thought
30:38
Speaker 2: we were in for a long one.
30:39
Speaker 5: And then it was like oh and then then I
30:40
Speaker 5: go back to the picture and say, yeah, I heard
30:42
Speaker 5: your pen was a little shacky.
30:43
Speaker 2: Oh it was terrible. You know, get a real part
30:46
Speaker 2: of the story and you find out.
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Speaker 5: But you go to the guy behind the dish, and
30:50
Speaker 5: then sometimes a lot of times, you know, the pictures
30:52
Speaker 5: are always like, oh, I hung that.
30:54
Speaker 2: It was awful.
30:55
Speaker 5: And then you go to the catchers like I never
30:56
Speaker 5: should have called that I screwed up. We had him
30:58
Speaker 5: change up would have been good there. And I try
31:00
Speaker 5: to go fastball one more time and I could kill myself.
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Speaker 2: For doing it. Awful.
31:03
Speaker 6: I always like that dynamic is there every pitch, every
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Speaker 6: single night, and he has to have it with every pitcher,
31:08
Speaker 6: right like he's got to have that in intuition and
31:10
Speaker 6: that that dialed in with every single picture. And it
31:13
Speaker 6: gives me more uh slack to somebody that Armin sorry
31:16
Speaker 6: is not gonna like me giving a little crowd. I
31:17
Speaker 6: used to always laugh when Corbyn Burns is like we had
31:19
Speaker 6: a good night or we were we we missed on
31:21
Speaker 6: this while we were right here.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, brother, you're throwing the bar. What are you talking?
31:25
Speaker 2: Just talking about his catcher and Chris hook.
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Speaker 6: Yep and the video guys, the whole, the whole piece.
31:31
Speaker 6: That ends up leading into how you're going to be
31:33
Speaker 6: able to call a full game. What is a team effort?
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Speaker 1: It's hard to quantify that for some fans, I think like, well,
31:37
Speaker 1: I do you measure what those guys impact are?
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Speaker 5: The impact not only is there that you got to know,
31:42
Speaker 5: you know who's coming out of the pen and what
31:44
Speaker 5: what do they like to throw?
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Speaker 2: But you have to gauge what do they have that night?
31:48
Speaker 5: Yes, because every night and you got to do it
31:50
Speaker 5: quick here you know, some guy's like, well that pitch
31:53
Speaker 5: wasn't as sharp as it usually is. So we got
31:54
Speaker 5: away from that and we went to this and every
31:57
Speaker 5: night it evolves that way too.
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Speaker 2: It's not the same all the time.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, And like last night, Trevor McGill's up one two
32:02
Speaker 6: and I think they threw a couple of different curve
32:03
Speaker 6: ball looked like they were trying to get hammer the
32:06
Speaker 6: guy out with one of the knuckle curves. And you know,
32:08
Speaker 6: some people are saying, just blow by this guy with
32:11
Speaker 6: your ninety eight mile an hour he heat and all that.
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Speaker 1: There's something to it, But it's also game four, right,
32:16
Speaker 1: like you're you're gonna start learning a lot more as
32:18
Speaker 1: to what you're going to be able to piece and
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna have on a given night in that spot.
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Speaker 6: Also though it the easiest way is why do these
32:28
Speaker 6: catchers make the best managers all the time? Oh well,
32:30
Speaker 6: they get to see the whole field. They go and
32:32
Speaker 6: see the whole field. That's part of it. But they
32:34
Speaker 6: are the only guy that is calling every single thing
32:37
Speaker 6: that's happening through the entire hour, coaches on the field,
32:39
Speaker 6: and they make good broadcasters.
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Speaker 1: And once you to doubt that, you could probably make
32:43
Speaker 1: those adjustments without actually having to talk about it right.
32:45
Speaker 2: With a good picture.
32:46
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, the eighty two Brewers documentary,
32:49
Speaker 1: one of the interesting parts for me was the Ted
32:51
Speaker 1: Simmons part where Ted would talk through how he Buke
32:54
Speaker 1: on those things and him and Buk had that relationship
32:56
Speaker 1: and he knew what Buke wanted to do if he
32:58
Speaker 1: didn't have his best stuff, and how he could fight.
33:00
Speaker 1: So you know, Ted Simmons another one of the smart
33:02
Speaker 1: guys that talked about that a lot. And yeah, I
33:05
Speaker 1: mean you can see the intellect of the game on display.
33:07
Speaker 5: There may be a hidden sign. And I've heard this
33:11
Speaker 5: from some guys and we should ask Rock about this too.
33:13
Speaker 5: But when they when they go out to the mound,
33:14
Speaker 5: and Mike Maddox, he's always go out and put his
33:16
Speaker 5: hand on a guy' shoulder. He want to see if
33:17
Speaker 5: he could feel check his heart rate a little bit,
33:20
Speaker 5: you know, just like that little my favorite mad Dog
33:23
Speaker 5: would always do that, right. But a lot of times
33:25
Speaker 5: pitching coach or the manager will look to the catcher
33:29
Speaker 5: at the mound meeting and say, you know, what do
33:31
Speaker 5: you think And the catcher can't say, yeah, get him
33:33
Speaker 5: out of here.
33:33
Speaker 6: He's toast, he's done. So they almost like to have
33:36
Speaker 6: to have a like a little special sign there. Well,
33:39
Speaker 6: I don't know, like I'm gonna if I touch my hat,
33:41
Speaker 6: get him out of here, get the next guy.
33:43
Speaker 5: Like Wise, for a change, the picture catcher relationship is
33:46
Speaker 5: so sacred.
33:47
Speaker 2: You can't throw your guy under the bus.
33:48
Speaker 5: But you gotta be honest with the manager and you
33:49
Speaker 5: got to you know, the greater good the team. So
33:52
Speaker 5: it's like, get him out of here. He's like, he doesn't. Again,
33:58
Speaker 5: That's one of the things and the best part of
34:00
Speaker 5: sports is like the the underbelly of it, the stuff
34:02
Speaker 5: that people don't discuss, only us on the huddle. Who
34:05
Speaker 5: else so fun at this today, Burds made a trade
34:08
Speaker 5: Matos come in to town.
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Speaker 2: You can't call him cheap.
34:10
Speaker 1: They basically just bought a new player. Yeah, we're gonna
34:13
Speaker 1: get into the That was just thinking the same thing, Billy.
34:15
Speaker 1: Everyone always says, we give we were trying to take
34:17
Speaker 1: on cash. We're just paying for a guy. And of
34:20
Speaker 1: course the other big news is the new deal in
34:22
Speaker 1: the works for Coopers.
34:23
Speaker 5: We're gonna talk about before. We got some buyering and
34:26
Speaker 5: selling coming up. Badger's hockey coach Mike Hastings joins us
34:29
Speaker 5: at seven. Bill Schroeder at seven point thirty. You're in
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34:33
Speaker 5: Radio Wisconsin and Drew, Billy and Arman bringing it to
34:42
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34:47
Speaker 2: We are chilling on a Tuesday. I love you know what.
34:51
Speaker 1: We're chilling and most importantly we're able to uh sleep
34:55
Speaker 1: with the windows open last night because that wind was
34:58
Speaker 1: and it was a natural sound machine.
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Speaker 2: I thought.
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Speaker 6: I thought at the moment, uh, the babies was just
35:04
Speaker 6: losing its mind. Then I realized, oh no, it's just
35:06
Speaker 6: a window over here and this thing absolutely howling around us.
35:10
Speaker 6: Talk about an interesting weather dynamic. We got rolling here.
35:13
Speaker 6: He can change like twenty threes across the street. It
35:16
Speaker 6: did this morning.
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Speaker 1: When I saw it was like a ten degree difference
35:18
Speaker 1: when I got in and out of the car, and yeah,
35:20
Speaker 1: I told I was like, uh, I asked Laura. I
35:22
Speaker 1: was like, you're gonna run the laundry machine right now.
35:24
Speaker 2: She goes, I'm not.
35:25
Speaker 1: And I realized, oh, that's just like the fun beer's
35:28
Speaker 1: that you half last Why No, it wasn't that, But
35:31
Speaker 1: I just thought it was just the sound was so unique.
35:34
Speaker 1: It was like thunder or wind. I don't know what
35:35
Speaker 1: was happening. And you're right, the wind was rolling through that.
35:39
Speaker 1: We considered the ac last night. It was so getting warm,
35:42
Speaker 1: it was crazy like, and then it's gonna be you know,
35:44
Speaker 1: of course, thirty four degrees tomorrow there of course. Yeah,
35:48
Speaker 1: I had a couple billy, I didn't have a corner
35:50
Speaker 1: couch a couple of tew Tree beers. Come on nine.
35:56
Speaker 5: I went to the buffet like four times, one ninety seven,
35:59
Speaker 5: three eight seven seven seven night. I'm talking text on
36:02
Speaker 5: and hit us with your buyer cell props, because we're
36:04
Speaker 5: gonna be doing that.
36:05
Speaker 2: We'll be firing that up. You're buying our selling that.
36:07
Speaker 5: Armon had his uh he had some ziplock bags in
36:11
Speaker 5: his pants so that you can go through the buffet
36:13
Speaker 5: and take some food home.
36:14
Speaker 2: Well drew.
36:15
Speaker 6: All of a sudden, mysteriously, all the cookies disappeared, and
36:18
Speaker 6: I don't know where those happened, but maybe into a
36:20
Speaker 6: nice little pouch there. I did also put up the
36:22
Speaker 6: picture of arm and said, if anyone wants to blame
36:24
Speaker 6: Trevor McGill for last night's l I offer you this first.
36:27
Speaker 6: And our friend Adam said, uh, I blame Armand for
36:30
Speaker 6: last night's loss, not Billy for staying for the entire game.
36:34
Speaker 2: Oh contra Army Adams. One of us ailed. Yeah.
36:38
Speaker 6: I found myself out of there at the eighth inning.
36:40
Speaker 6: I thought I was just trying to do the magic.
36:43
Speaker 6: I was just trying to do my part and try
36:45
Speaker 6: to spark the rally. Sadly, it didn't so as Adam said,
36:48
Speaker 6: Oh so it's just Armond makes you trust, makes you
36:52
Speaker 6: question his true Brewers fandom somedays.
36:56
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, what just kidding, just kid, that's
36:59
Speaker 2: all question me. I was there, all right, question me.
37:06
Speaker 1: You guys are get out of here, Get out of town.
37:10
Speaker 5: So Brewers making a trade, spending money to get a
37:13
Speaker 5: player who had raked against them, Yes, had a big
37:16
Speaker 5: series last year. They Matt Arnold made a cracker, made
37:20
Speaker 5: a comment, not a crack, but he just said they
37:23
Speaker 5: were like the land of opportunity. Like this guy, you
37:26
Speaker 5: go get a guy who's had good moments against the
37:29
Speaker 5: Brewers in the past, they've liked him for a while,
37:31
Speaker 5: and they go get this guy who's out of options
37:33
Speaker 5: with the Giants, Giants GM zach Manassian, right, who worked
37:38
Speaker 5: with the Brewers as a relationship.
37:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah he was.
37:41
Speaker 5: And so they they got this guy for cash, cash considerations, right,
37:47
Speaker 5: that's that was the trade in exchange for a bank.
37:49
Speaker 5: Cash just cash, just money, cash. So they're bringing Matos
37:53
Speaker 5: in and like, well, look at and well he hasn't
37:56
Speaker 5: done much. Well, neither had priest Or and neither had
37:58
Speaker 5: Andrew Vaughan. Had they come to Milwaukee and they blossom.
38:03
Speaker 5: So that was an interesting move. I'm wondering, you know,
38:08
Speaker 5: a depth thing is that because Churio's out is it
38:10
Speaker 5: you know right hand bat.
38:11
Speaker 6: See the chury that was the one drew that like
38:14
Speaker 6: the only ca pause that it brought me was, does
38:17
Speaker 6: this mean that Jackson's situation might be a little bit
38:19
Speaker 6: longer than they think? They got so many outfielders, like
38:22
Speaker 6: I wouldn't think it would be the massive issue. Or
38:25
Speaker 6: it's just simply they want to see if they can
38:27
Speaker 6: build off of the fact that the guy went from
38:29
Speaker 6: a five eighty ops player in twenty four to a
38:32
Speaker 6: seven hundred ops player in twenty five. And he's also
38:36
Speaker 6: twenty four years old, right, Like.
38:38
Speaker 5: There's a large part of that us he fits their type,
38:41
Speaker 5: right he's you know.
38:42
Speaker 2: They have a type and the and they're doing it.
38:44
Speaker 6: And the other part of yesterday's you know, spending spree
38:47
Speaker 6: for the Milwaukee Brewers is wid I do wonder how
38:50
Speaker 6: much and maybe we're getting immediately to big picture with
38:55
Speaker 6: the situation, is the youth the cost certainty Pratt's deal
39:00
Speaker 6: of eight years fifty million dollars if they signed him
39:02
Speaker 6: to before he plays in a Triple A game. It
39:05
Speaker 6: almost seems like you're really trying to pinpoint and grab
39:09
Speaker 6: long term pieces that if indeed drew, there was a
39:12
Speaker 6: salary cap structure or a grandfathering in of contracts that
39:17
Speaker 6: would be outside of the con of the salary cap deal.
39:20
Speaker 6: I wonder if you're gonna see a race by different
39:22
Speaker 6: teams to try to lock that in going into twenty
39:25
Speaker 6: twenty seven and into all of the labor uncertainty.
39:27
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting. Uh, don't the Nashville Sounds open tonight? Tonight?
39:31
Speaker 2: I believe it's the first game.
39:32
Speaker 1: Yep.
39:33
Speaker 2: Cooper Press never played above double A, so tonight will
39:35
Speaker 2: be his first Triple A game. And he drew.
39:37
Speaker 6: And I gotta think, and we mentioned this last night.
39:41
Speaker 6: Maybe it's tonight, Maybe it was last night. He's gonna
39:45
Speaker 6: bring those boys on an absolute heater out on Broadway, right,
39:47
Speaker 6: Oh my god. Can't be the young guy that just
39:50
Speaker 6: signed that massive deal at Triple A and not bring
39:54
Speaker 6: some stakes into the clubhouse, right and more than that?
39:56
Speaker 1: Right you mentioned that to me, Billy, I'm not just
39:59
Speaker 1: the prime riven the club.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but this is but the Brewers drafted him out
40:03
Speaker 5: of high school in the sixth round and the slot
40:06
Speaker 5: for the sixth round pick is like three hundred and
40:09
Speaker 5: fifty four hundred. Well, and they gave him one point
40:12
Speaker 5: three yep, right, so they overpaid at that point, which
40:16
Speaker 5: is part of their something that they do to pay
40:18
Speaker 5: guys like high ceiling guys in the lower rounds, give
40:21
Speaker 5: them more, get them to sign to secure, get them
40:23
Speaker 5: to not go to Vanderbilt or wherever they're gonna go,
40:25
Speaker 5: or you know.
40:26
Speaker 2: So part of the strategy. It's part of the strategy,
40:28
Speaker 2: and it looks like it's working out pretty well. Now.
40:30
Speaker 5: This guy they say is big league ready with the
40:34
Speaker 5: glove already, and you could see it in those offensively
40:39
Speaker 5: he man, he made one or two plays during that
40:41
Speaker 5: exhibition game. What once he came in in the fifth
40:44
Speaker 5: or sixth inning that Jael was dropping. He's got an
40:48
Speaker 5: absolute cannon on him.
40:50
Speaker 6: And to be able to play it short the defense
40:53
Speaker 6: is going to be a non negotiable for the crew.
40:57
Speaker 6: And also, I mean big league ready with the glove
40:59
Speaker 6: and work in progress with the bat. That seems like
41:02
Speaker 6: all of their shortstop options, So I understand locking it in.
41:06
Speaker 6: I think it's a made the crack about it earlier
41:09
Speaker 6: in the show. It does make me wonder how a
41:13
Speaker 6: young Joey Ortiz was handling yesterday out of the lineup
41:15
Speaker 6: David Hamilton in for him, and this guy is the
41:18
Speaker 6: one that gets the big contract, Drew, Uh, it's gonna
41:21
Speaker 6: lock you into at worst, right at worst, he's yours.
41:26
Speaker 6: He's on your opening day rosters starting somewhere for you
41:29
Speaker 6: in twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: I would say that's a pretty good bet.
41:33
Speaker 6: You can't be thinking they're gonna be spending seven million
41:35
Speaker 6: on him to be playing in Triple A for longer,
41:37
Speaker 6: great full year.
41:38
Speaker 2: You're paying for that now.
41:39
Speaker 1: We also, it was funny because we talked just last
41:41
Speaker 1: week about the next guy to get the long term deal.
41:44
Speaker 2: We were talking a lot about Maday.
41:45
Speaker 1: None of us said Pratt, But I wonder would Maday
41:47
Speaker 1: had been approached for something like this as well.
41:49
Speaker 5: Or maybe they're talking to him, Maybe they're talking to
41:51
Speaker 5: it and then it's like, okay, it's Pratt now the shortstop,
41:53
Speaker 5: and Moday is the second basement.
41:56
Speaker 2: There was a lot of Moday at second base.
41:58
Speaker 1: A lot of prospects come up as shortstops get moved.
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Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, sure, you can play anywhere exactly what
42:03
Speaker 5: you play a third move him to you know, you
42:06
Speaker 5: can move him around the versatility outfield. Yeah, it's fascinating,
42:10
Speaker 5: so interesting move by the Brewers. They've had great success
42:13
Speaker 5: with deals like this, the Peralta thing. He was the
42:15
Speaker 5: biggest bargain in baseball for the last five years.
42:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, And frankly he hasn't uh, he hasn't been that
42:21
Speaker 6: guy yet, but they've they're getting their money's worth out
42:24
Speaker 6: of Aaron Ashby too. Yeah, they locked him up and
42:27
Speaker 6: they're making sure that they're using all of those as well.
42:29
Speaker 5: They are, and Churio's you know, work in progress, but
42:32
Speaker 5: that's gonna it looks like already a good deal.
42:34
Speaker 2: Yea feels like a good one. It's kind of the
42:35
Speaker 2: way the Brewers have to move. But it's interesting.
42:37
Speaker 5: And the thing about Pratt that is striking to me
42:40
Speaker 5: is on a team of short kings, he got a
42:42
Speaker 5: six four guy who looks like cal Ripkin out there
42:45
Speaker 5: in the fact that when shortstops were tall like a Rod
42:48
Speaker 5: and Cal Ripken, he's got it.
42:49
Speaker 6: He's gonna quickly be the most hated guy in the clubhouse.
42:52
Speaker 6: He's got all the money and he's head taller than
42:54
Speaker 6: all of those. Is not fair, unfair advantage.
42:57
Speaker 2: All right, we are rolling. We're gonna do some you's selling.
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Speaker 5: Next, Matt Miller's going to join us at six thirty
43:02
Speaker 5: for our halftime report. Mike Hastings, coach of the Badger
43:05
Speaker 5: hockey team. At seven, Bill Schroeder, seven thirty, You're in
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Speaker 5: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,