Transcript

02/23/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: I'm all for someone huddling if you have something.
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Speaker 3: To say right into.
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Speaker 1: It's time to wake up and talk about the teams
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Speaker 1: you love. Nobody work out, nobody with the guys you love.
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Speaker 4: It's just about getting the group together.
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Speaker 5: I need you, you need me today. Let's keep touching
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Speaker 6: Let's make sure we feel each other.
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Speaker 5: Let's make sure we.
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Speaker 1: Smell each other for a watch us on YouTube, Facebook
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Speaker 1: and act.
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Speaker 2: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to pour away with
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Speaker 6: Take the cameras off the field and there final huble.
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Speaker 1: Now gather around because it's time to huddle up. West Leftlott.
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Speaker 1: We think we watched tick on one ready to be learning?
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Speaker 6: What if it looks like man.
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Speaker 6: Cut them in crap.
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Speaker 5: You'll look at this play.
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Speaker 6: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 6: a seal here, and to try to run this play
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Speaker 6: in the hour's let's go on.
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Speaker 1: God yeah, and they can play be right all the
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Speaker 1: way outside? Why left bake three ninety thick bag behn
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Speaker 1: se park.
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Speaker 6: Is not long enough for you.
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Speaker 7: Watch you to be part of a professionalists, a great
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Speaker 7: professional out damn playing this ball game like I know
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Speaker 7: you can play it.
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Speaker 5: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid. Oh my god, this
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Speaker 5: man's been out all night.
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Speaker 1: Armand sorry, shit, don't get scared.
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Speaker 6: Were ready?
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Speaker 5: We gotta find a way to get on a link.
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Speaker 6: LinkedIn might be streaming Discord. The kids are always talking
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Speaker 6: about Discord. We start talking about Chat and we can
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Speaker 6: start addressing our friends as chat instead of individuals.
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Speaker 5: We just call it chat. What's happening here now, guys? Chat?
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Speaker 5: This is crazy. I do believe you have to either
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Speaker 5: be on Twitter or Discord to be able to do that.
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Speaker 4: I've got to fire up the younger demographic, absolutely reach
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Speaker 4: US any demographic com talking text line eight seven seven
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Speaker 4: seven nine four one. We've been talking about the US
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Speaker 4: Olympic hockey victory and both victories gold medal, overtime game winners.
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Speaker 4: How sweet it is over Canada, Sweeter than their maple syrup.
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Speaker 4: I was telling not Billy off the air ver month
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Speaker 4: is way better if I'm a Canadian hockey fan. Put
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Speaker 4: yourself in the other team skates for just a second. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's a gut punch, better sport. You lost both men's
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Speaker 4: and women's games in heartbreaking fashion after controlling play for
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Speaker 4: much of the gameful losing the three on three turn it.
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Speaker 3: And that's probably why they they're gonna rise the most
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Speaker 3: because the bigger but what's the.
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Speaker 4: Bigger travesty that they lost this Olympics like that? You
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Speaker 4: know that they didn't win the gold or that they
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Speaker 4: haven't won a Stanley Cup since nineteen ninety three.
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Speaker 6: That one.
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Speaker 3: But then you could argue away by saying, oh, well
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Speaker 3: that's professional and doesn't really what they.
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Speaker 6: Got six teams. I think in compared to the twenty
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Speaker 6: four or whatever it is, they have more than that,
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Speaker 6: don't they six or eight?
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Speaker 8: I'm gonna start off Edmonton, Edmond, working your away from
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Speaker 8: the West, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Edmond, say Edmonton, Montreal.
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Speaker 6: That's six, there is there's maybe you say Toronto, Toronto. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: I think so.
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Speaker 5: So it's like six or eight.
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Speaker 6: So I mean it's close to the quarter of the league,
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Speaker 6: so that they've got plenty of chances and they just
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Speaker 6: can't get it done. Listen, it's it's tough. It's almost
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Speaker 6: it's almost like econom McDavid. You know, maybe always a bride'smaid,
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Speaker 6: never a bride, or you know, maybe maybe you can
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Speaker 6: get the wayno treatment. Hey, you be one of the
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Speaker 6: greatest of all time, then really make your bacon when
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Speaker 6: you come to America. I get yourself out of Canada.
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Speaker 6: Then you start winning titles and Cups. Once he's playing
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Speaker 6: for I don't know, he's probably gonna have to play
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Speaker 6: in Florida, though, Drew, because that might be that might
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Speaker 6: be the greatest The greatest difference is that it's Canada's
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Speaker 6: favorite sport. Florida's won what the last five Cups because
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Speaker 6: I think Tampa won three and now Florida's one two
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Speaker 6: and all of these guys, Drew, Hey, we're all simple,
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Speaker 6: we're all very very easy. These guys in Fort Lauderdale.
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Speaker 6: Fort Lauderdale are like they they bought this big area.
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Speaker 6: We have all these houses. We take a golf cart
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Speaker 6: to practice. There's no income tax, and and it's always hot.
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Speaker 5: But this is kind of nice. This is kind of
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Speaker 5: nice to be up in h in Winnipeg. So that
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Speaker 5: anomaly though, nineteen ninety three, so it's the Canadians won Montreal. Canadians. Canadians. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: with an A and an e yes, Canadians won the
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Speaker 5: Cup and the actually talking French. So if you were
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Speaker 5: born that year, you're thirty three.
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Speaker 6: Now, man, and a lot of I mean even like Montreal.
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Speaker 4: But okay, But to Billy's point, you look at the
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Speaker 4: proportion of Yeah, you look at the proportion of the league.
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Speaker 5: It's like saying, well, when'sday AFC South gonna win a
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Speaker 5: Super Bowl?
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Speaker 6: Good question?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, good question?
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Speaker 4: Or the NFC South for that matter, other than Tampa, Tommy,
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Speaker 4: you got two divisions, they're a bigger number of the league.
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Speaker 6: Just mired in an uptic that still also dreaming of
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Speaker 6: what it's like to be able to play in a
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Speaker 6: Super Bowl. I was running through all the different teams
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Speaker 6: with my kid yesterday and he says, wait, Daddy, the
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Speaker 6: Lions playing in the Super Bowl. I was like, nobody,
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Speaker 6: they've never played in never, and we can't let them
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Speaker 6: forget it. Yeah, Drew, this is also and you you
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Speaker 6: touched on it, and you're exactly right. Why is one
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Speaker 6: of the excitement levels and why is it so much
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Speaker 6: more exciting of what happened with the US men's and
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Speaker 6: women's hockey team because it's against Canada, against a rival
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Speaker 6: that is a rival that I don't think we like
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Speaker 6: to talk about his arrival?
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Speaker 2: Is that fair?
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Speaker 6: Like it almost they almost get the Detroit Lions gloves
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Speaker 6: where it's like, yeah, we know we're not supposed to
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Speaker 6: like you, but you guys have get it's Detroit man, right,
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Speaker 6: like it's it's Canada.
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Speaker 5: They're not hurting anybody.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a definite flag. They got a deef on
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Speaker 6: their flag. You can't necessarily be mad at them. There's
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Speaker 6: a very much indifference where there should be a little
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Speaker 6: bit more.
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Speaker 5: I would urge.
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Speaker 6: Disdain, like just like we have instead of have more
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Speaker 6: disdain for Detroit Lions football and Lions fans because they
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Speaker 6: sure as hell hate you. They definitely hate the Packers,
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Speaker 6: and I think the Canadians definitely might hate the US
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Speaker 6: of a flag, so we need to be able to
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Speaker 6: have and I like that we have a little bit
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Speaker 6: more of that rivalry in disdain. Like it was always like, yeah,
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Speaker 6: the friendly neighbors to the north.
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Speaker 3: But if you that's why the nineteen eighty thing will
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Speaker 3: always overcome anything, because of the uh, the various views
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Speaker 3: of prisms.
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Speaker 6: It was viewed to him, because of the you know, because.
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Speaker 3: Of the world politics, old war, the idea of good
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Speaker 3: versus evil, the looming specter of Soviet evil that a
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Speaker 3: lot of people at least perceived whether or not it
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Speaker 3: was real, but the perception becomes reality and you just
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Speaker 3: don't have that feeling ever with Canada, although you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe you're right, Billy, I mean, they have boot Ard
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Speaker 3: national aand those type of things. Maybe you can work
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Speaker 3: yourself up into a lot of frustration, but I never
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Speaker 3: could with Canada, you know me, Yeah, I don't, you know,
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Speaker 3: but maybe these days people have that a little bit
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Speaker 3: and it adds. But in terms of a hockey rivalry,
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Speaker 3: there's no question Canada is kind of that one that
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Speaker 3: they're the yank you know, however you view them that
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Speaker 3: it is like top That's why I was more satisfying
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Speaker 3: winning it this way than if we would have beat
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Speaker 3: Sweden or feeling right because Canada had not played great
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Speaker 3: this whole tournament, at least in that probably the way
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Speaker 3: they feel they should play without deep and good. Their
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Speaker 3: team was now Crosby. They get hurt, But you're talking
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Speaker 3: about a team that almost lost in the cool Well.
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Speaker 3: They were down to one the quarters of the Semis Semis.
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Speaker 3: They had to save themselves a couple of times, so
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Speaker 3: they weren't They weren't playing down. You thought yesterday might
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Speaker 3: have been their best game. Drew and they did, and
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Speaker 3: they did everything, They did everything but score because Hallibuck
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Speaker 3: was so good.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, and they were so close. Do we really
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Speaker 6: need to be hating everything about Canada? Maybe not a
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Speaker 6: good but good old fashioned sports hate. We need more
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Speaker 6: of that in the world, because lord knows, there's so
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Speaker 6: much hate for everything else. Let's get more sports hate.
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Speaker 6: And I hate Canada because of their flag in those uniforms, which,
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Speaker 6: by the way, we're pretty sweet. By the way, I
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Speaker 6: did like that all blacked out flag. That are the
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Speaker 6: all blacked out leaf? Interesting that Canada. I thought their
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Speaker 6: sweater was sweet However, I liked that they were, you know,
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Speaker 6: sweet and second place with a silver around the neck
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Speaker 6: eight seven seven seven three game balls and kicks to
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Speaker 6: the balls a Monday tradition on the huddle going going
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Speaker 6: way back, even before the huddle.
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Speaker 5: One. Yeah, we fire that up today, Arman, you got
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Speaker 5: some sounders for us. So here's the deal.
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Speaker 4: You know, game balls, celebration people in towels and sports
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Speaker 4: under where you get to present a game ball for
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Speaker 4: a job well done today on the program it sounds
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Speaker 4: like this, all.
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Speaker 5: Right, pretty straight forward, beautiful.
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Speaker 4: Conversely, kick to the waivos a kick to the nads
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Speaker 4: for a perform it's improvement plan for a job not
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Speaker 4: well done for needs improvement.
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Speaker 5: What is a kick to the nads today?
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Speaker 6: You might ask you someone?
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Speaker 1: Is that right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: There's a spring training game between the between the clubs
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Speaker 6: and that siscon Stale Stadium.
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Speaker 3: It was when they were they had the emergency thing
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Speaker 3: going through and nobody did anything.
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Speaker 6: So I just thought that was kind of like.
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Speaker 4: The fire alarms at Assembly Hall in blooming talk about
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Speaker 4: dogs basketball.
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Speaker 6: I know the audio is not great, but you talk
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Speaker 6: about it okay, but that's kind of the point. Yeah, yeah, no,
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Speaker 6: it's hilarious. That was my no brainer. That's funny. The
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Speaker 6: reason why, the reason the Browns teacher weighs in, the
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Speaker 6: worst part is there's Hall of Famer and voice of
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Speaker 6: Sunday Night Baseball in my childhood, John Miller explaining what
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Speaker 6: on earth is happening? It sounds sounds like there is
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Speaker 6: a fire alarm, it's here here, but the umpires continuing
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Speaker 6: to play. Craig Council walks out, He's like, dude, man,
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Speaker 6: what is what are we doing right?
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Speaker 5: What are happening?
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Speaker 6: Are we actually in danger? And the I'm just like,
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Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't see any smoke or flames.
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Speaker 6: Keep playing. We're not getting paid by the hour here,
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Speaker 6: and they just keep playing there at gott Sales Stadium.
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Speaker 6: Maybe they hadn't turned the lights on in a while
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Speaker 6: and then and they fired up some cobwebs there yesterday
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Speaker 6: drew because sure, the emergency alert system blows off for
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Speaker 6: a good like two and a half minutes while they
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Speaker 6: continued to play baseball at.
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Speaker 3: The actual warning is uh, okay, fine, it's not great.
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Speaker 3: I need to get Crispy or stadium on. I'm proud
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Speaker 3: of you for trying, man.
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Speaker 5: Good effort. Good job, good effort. Good job, good job,
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Speaker 5: good effort. Harman would have been that kid if he
10:43
Speaker 5: would have been at the game.
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Speaker 6: Good job, good effort. I would have left. It got
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Speaker 6: me messed up. If you think they're not throwing a
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Speaker 6: warning up to get there.
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Speaker 5: I was talking about the kid as the heat.
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Speaker 3: I think he might be related that damn that guy
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Speaker 3: DNA test at the front row of the Jim Blossoms
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Speaker 3: on Saturday night yelling at to Robin Dude.
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Speaker 5: That uh that that game, that game there in.
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Speaker 6: In Scottsdale gave a lot of different moments yesterday. Not
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Speaker 6: only did the security alarm go off, it had Jeff
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Speaker 6: Kent call Alex Rodriguez a fat ass yeah, and also
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Speaker 6: saw later on in uh the contest, Uh, there'd be
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Speaker 6: more of an issue where well the Cubs forgot how
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Speaker 6: to base run, drew and ran into a triple play
11:32
Speaker 6: like that was. That game was the most spring training
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Speaker 6: you've ever seen a spring training game spring training where
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Speaker 6: the alarm goes off in the first inning, a team
11:41
Speaker 6: runs themselves into a triple, a triple play and a
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Speaker 6: Jeff Kent Hall of Famer this year right Hall of
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Speaker 6: Fame elect is that the way he got he's gonna
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Speaker 6: get voted into. He's not a Hall of Famer yet yet,
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Speaker 6: but he's going to shrined into the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 6: Calling another Hall of Famer fat, I mean, like that
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Speaker 6: had everything that you possibly we could as he right
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Speaker 6: rifles off a horror story from twenty five years.
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Speaker 3: Noah, you covered baseball long time, Drew does Jeff Ken
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Speaker 3: Finally the most like take the cake, is the most
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Speaker 3: unlikable guy in the in the sports history or maybe not.
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Speaker 6: I mean he's up there, isn't he everyone? He's up there?
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Speaker 4: But again the people who think that that affects people's
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Speaker 4: voting status, No, I don't think it does. But well,
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Speaker 4: he wasn't nice to the writers therefore heard chilling. No,
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Speaker 4: he was borderline anyway. Is he a prong?
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Speaker 5: Yes? I always did Jeff kent car washer, right, that
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Speaker 5: was what that was.
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Speaker 4: How he heard himself heard himself washing his car, not
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Speaker 4: doing a wheelie on a motor on a motorcycle.
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Speaker 5: Scott.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a guy that says people should be throwing
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Speaker 3: at people's eyes and stuff like that. Now he's said
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Speaker 3: about about uh Aron taking him out. Go back and
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Speaker 3: look at the play it was pretty basic play us
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Speaker 3: Jeff Kent was go back and look at something like.
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Speaker 6: Fat button.
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Speaker 5: He definitely thought about it. Go look at some of
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Speaker 5: the plays from the seventies.
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Speaker 4: Your career is over, Jim Gantner and like these guys
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Speaker 4: playing straight up football, and.
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Speaker 6: Put him on the broadcast list.
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Speaker 4: All right, Game balls and kicks the balls way in
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Speaker 4: eight seven, seven, seven, nine four one, seven to three,
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Speaker 4: and we can we teasingly rip Arman for the quality
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Speaker 4: of the audio.
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Speaker 6: Good.
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Speaker 5: I appreciate it. That's a good idea in the theory.
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Speaker 5: So game balls and kicks.
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Speaker 4: Game ball to the Badgers men's basketball team and Nick
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Speaker 4: Boyd in particular, big that's good effort, good, good job
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Speaker 4: last night with a pesky Hawkeye squad.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and one that listen, they didn't play their style
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Speaker 6: of the game, did the Iowa Hawkeyes. They wanted that
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Speaker 6: game to be played in the fifties or sixties, and
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Speaker 6: was what forty four forty two at halftime, So that
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Speaker 6: credit to Iowa being able to pick up the pace early.
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Speaker 6: They just couldn't run with Wisconsin later. And it was
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Speaker 6: a good test of is it easier to speed a
13:46
Speaker 6: team up than slow a team down?
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Speaker 5: Drew Uh.
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Speaker 6: You mentioned Nick Boyd, and it is a huge shout out.
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Speaker 6: It's also another game ball to Greg Guard as John
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Speaker 6: Rosstein calls him the silent assassin, the silent portal assassin.
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Speaker 6: Again they did it again, but again, it's remarkable how
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Speaker 6: you are able to find one of the most impactful
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Speaker 6: scorers in the portal when Boyd was kind of thought
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Speaker 6: sought after. I'm I guess I don't remember the full
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Speaker 6: chat room and message board breakdown of his recruitment. People
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Speaker 6: obviously knew him. He played in the Final Four, he
14:23
Speaker 6: had been around, and he had been a potent scorer
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Speaker 6: in college hoops. But I don't know that he was
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Speaker 6: the one, two or three most coveted portal prospect that
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Speaker 6: there was this year, just.
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Speaker 3: Like Donja, just like aj story. I don't remember them
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Speaker 3: being tops of the lists or anything. Tonjay definitely not.
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Speaker 6: He was hurt the year before, right, But to be
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Speaker 6: able to pinpoint one them, be them, walk in, be
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Speaker 6: one of your most productive players. He would be your
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Speaker 6: most productive player. John Blackwell wasn't in the backcourt with
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Speaker 6: him as well, But for them to mesh so seamlessly together,
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Speaker 6: it is it is really really impressive. And garden deserves
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Speaker 6: drew a ton of wow for how he's been able
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Speaker 6: to change his core of business.
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Speaker 5: That absolutely no question about it. Eight seven seven seven.
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Speaker 4: Olympics game, Balls and Kicks, Bucks, Badgers, Marquette, whatever you
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Speaker 4: want to.
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Speaker 6: Wait, Yeah, I really would hate to hear the SoundBite again,
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Speaker 6: but a kick to the balls to uh Toronto? Because
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Speaker 6: funny when you hear the second time, right, guys, kind
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Speaker 6: of funnier the second now that I know what I'm
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Speaker 6: listening for.
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Speaker 5: Bad audio. Yeah, kick to the balls of Toronto.
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Speaker 6: Has any city seen two more disastrous heartbreaks in a year? Now? Again? Yeah,
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Speaker 6: I still would say a Blue Jays World Series might
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Speaker 6: have meant more to the city of Toronto than yesterday's
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Speaker 6: gold medal did. But I don't know if anyone's been
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Speaker 6: closer to two championships, guys, and not gotten either one
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Speaker 6: of them. When my man is sliding into home plate,
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Speaker 6: he's what three inches away before Will Smith's foot catches
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Speaker 6: the ball and the force out at home and then
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Speaker 6: the halib save with the blocker yesterday, Toronto, as much
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Speaker 6: as everybody in our neighbors to the north is feeling it,
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Speaker 6: and you guys are feeling a very very difficult kick
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Speaker 6: to the nads here this morning, because those are two
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Speaker 6: rais or close misses that you've been able to have.
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Speaker 6: Sorry by the Packers fans know all that, right, Uh game.
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Speaker 4: Ball, Well, we mentioned earlier at the outset, I got
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Speaker 4: out of port of our heart to right before things
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Speaker 4: started the game ball right. Timing is everything though, game
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Speaker 4: Ball two. And this is rare Major League Baseball because
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Speaker 4: in this wave of this international competition, tizzy like they're
16:42
Speaker 4: they're next on deck with the World Baseball Classic, and
16:44
Speaker 4: you remember how great the World Baseball Classic was, so
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Speaker 4: tany trout remember that that's gonna be good, and then
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Speaker 4: that's going to set the stage for the World Cup
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Speaker 4: later this year if it indeed goes off.
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Speaker 6: Basically, based on the current situation, the World Baseball Classic
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Speaker 6: is gonna be awesome. I can't wait for it. Starting
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Speaker 6: up the game start what I think on the fourth,
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Speaker 6: maybe the third or fourth? Yeah, Drew, I saw Waynwright,
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Speaker 6: Adam Waynwright yesterday. Now he's doing Fox coverage, former cardinal
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Speaker 6: saying that he was trying to urge Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 6: in the Players Union and everybody to allow Major leaguers
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Speaker 6: to participate in the baseball version of the Olympics when
17:19
Speaker 6: it returns in twenty twenty eight. That would be the
17:23
Speaker 6: way you'd be able to capitalize. I think like the
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Speaker 6: NHL is right now of in season excitement. I don't
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Speaker 6: know how that would mess with the schedule brutally, I
17:31
Speaker 6: could assume right there in the middle of August. But
17:34
Speaker 6: if indeed whatever potentially might happen next year in twenty
17:37
Speaker 6: twenty seven, that would be a hell of a reassurgence.
17:41
Speaker 6: If if the doomsday scenario in twenty twenty seven happens
17:44
Speaker 6: with their labor strike and there's no baseball, that might
17:48
Speaker 6: be the only thing that could save some face with
17:51
Speaker 6: Major League Baseball if they're like, you know what, though,
17:53
Speaker 6: we are going to put our major leaguers out there,
17:55
Speaker 6: let them play in the Olympics, because we need a
17:57
Speaker 6: little bit more good will, because like that could be
17:59
Speaker 6: a disastrous time for the sport, but comes at a
18:03
Speaker 6: possibility where you could grab a little bit more of
18:05
Speaker 6: that heat if indeed that doomsday scenario went down.
18:08
Speaker 4: I'm wondering what if what happened with Tony Clark the
18:12
Speaker 4: Players Association While I was on the beach, I did
18:14
Speaker 4: get that in.
18:14
Speaker 5: My God, my social media scroll.
18:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, the fact that he's out, maybe it'll change things
18:20
Speaker 4: and maybe maybe there can be some kind of a chord.
18:23
Speaker 6: They said the lead negotiator is taken over Bruce my eer.
18:27
Speaker 6: But like, you know so much more about this than us.
18:30
Speaker 6: The amount of conversations that Clark has has had to
18:34
Speaker 6: have had, you would assume with Major League Baseball individually
18:39
Speaker 6: has to set a lot of this stuff back, right.
18:41
Speaker 5: I don't know.
18:42
Speaker 4: It's usually a panel of guys on each side, so
18:45
Speaker 4: it's never like the one to one let's are out
18:47
Speaker 4: a deal. It's usually like a you know, they're back
18:50
Speaker 4: channeling and you know, deadline spur action. And the last
18:53
Speaker 4: time they avoided it, it was like two months after
18:56
Speaker 4: the World Series maybe or a month six weeks after
18:59
Speaker 4: the World Series they came to deal and then we
19:00
Speaker 4: didn't have to worry about it. Maybe that'll happen again
19:04
Speaker 4: spring training last time. Yeah, I just don't think. I
19:09
Speaker 4: just can't foresee where they couldn't come to an accord.
19:11
Speaker 4: And the players have it pretty good now compared to
19:14
Speaker 4: some other sports.
19:15
Speaker 3: That's your thoughts changed on that, because there's definitely a
19:17
Speaker 3: point where I think a lot of people were pretty
19:19
Speaker 3: depressed or passive.
19:21
Speaker 5: I thought it was inevitable, but now I feel like
19:23
Speaker 5: you're just going to know they can't.
19:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's way too many smart people involved right to
19:28
Speaker 6: know that you can't miss an entire season.
19:30
Speaker 3: How many fans would be how many fans in small
19:32
Speaker 3: markets would be okay with the stoppage if it meant
19:34
Speaker 3: the salary cap or at least some sort of better
19:36
Speaker 3: or structure.
19:37
Speaker 5: And they would.
19:38
Speaker 4: But then when you dive deeper and Dom Contronio and
19:40
Speaker 4: I have talked about this, I don't know that the
19:42
Speaker 4: cap is going to help.
19:43
Speaker 5: But brevers fans as much as you think, because you're
19:45
Speaker 5: you're still in Milwaukee.
19:48
Speaker 4: There's there's a cap in the NFL, and Cincinnati has
19:51
Speaker 4: it won in forever, right, There's a cap in the
19:53
Speaker 4: NBA and Sacramento still exist.
19:55
Speaker 6: There's also this belief, and I love the NFL more
19:58
Speaker 6: than you know a lot of things in life. There's
20:01
Speaker 6: also this false belief that the salary cap is the
20:03
Speaker 6: reason why there's parody in the NFL. That's not why
20:06
Speaker 6: there's parody in the NFL. There's parody in the NFL
20:09
Speaker 6: because of the pick dispersion by the way that it
20:12
Speaker 6: continually cycles through the schedule, revolving like it is built
20:16
Speaker 6: to allow teams to go from six and eleven to
20:20
Speaker 6: eleven and six. It is not because everybody can spend
20:23
Speaker 6: the same amount of money. Because everybody can do the
20:25
Speaker 6: same gymnastics that allows you to not have to spend
20:28
Speaker 6: that same line.
20:28
Speaker 5: Rude.
20:29
Speaker 4: But at the core of it in the NFL is
20:31
Speaker 4: that they split the revenues and it's like they don't
20:34
Speaker 4: have a Dodgers and you know you don't have the
20:36
Speaker 4: Yankees and Dodgers.
20:37
Speaker 6: But like in the NHL again, oh, it's the hardest
20:39
Speaker 6: salaried cap in professional sports.
20:42
Speaker 5: They've had two champions in the five years.
20:44
Speaker 6: Right, So like the idea that like the salary cap
20:47
Speaker 6: automatically means that there's gonna be a lot more parody.
20:49
Speaker 5: I just don't believe that's the case. I'm with you, Drew, though.
20:52
Speaker 6: I think there's too many people with too many eyes
20:54
Speaker 6: on this and so much money at stake on both sides,
20:57
Speaker 6: where like, you can quibble with certain lots in life,
21:00
Speaker 6: but the one thing.
21:01
Speaker 5: You can't do is not make any money next year.
21:03
Speaker 5: Sowry CAP's not a pantas for small markets.
21:06
Speaker 3: It's just not I think brew I think the reason though,
21:08
Speaker 3: that Bruce fans feel would help is because they have
21:11
Speaker 3: a lot of faith in the wather organization is run
21:13
Speaker 3: and the thing that holds us back is an unfair system.
21:16
Speaker 3: So I think Brewers fans feel like, if we just
21:18
Speaker 3: had more equity in the system, then we could finally
21:20
Speaker 3: have a chance.
21:20
Speaker 6: You know, we run it well. You know what, you
21:23
Speaker 6: be really unfair though, when everybody can spend the same
21:25
Speaker 6: amount on players and not the same on coaches, and
21:27
Speaker 6: then Chris Hook gets twelve million dollars to go somewhere else. Yeah,
21:30
Speaker 6: I mean your entire pitching infrastructure goes somewhere. I think
21:34
Speaker 6: those things are how you start manipulating it when you're
21:36
Speaker 6: a big market and they start telling you how you
21:38
Speaker 6: can't just spend sixty million dollars on Kyle Tucker, but
21:42
Speaker 6: we're paying.
21:42
Speaker 3: A lot for coaches now. Isn't Murph getting up amongst
21:47
Speaker 3: the top was the term. I say it a little
21:50
Speaker 3: bit in Jess because we really don't know about anything.
21:53
Speaker 6: But there was a hot second there where I thought
21:54
Speaker 6: he was making more money than the FRED council and
21:56
Speaker 6: that was a game ball for us. Yeah, we'll get
22:01
Speaker 6: some marble seven seven seven nine.
22:04
Speaker 4: We're rolling in a half time. I'm going to make
22:05
Speaker 4: our adjustment. Scott Dolphin's going to be in to help
22:07
Speaker 4: us from the Country station down the hall.
22:08
Speaker 5: It's the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
22:17
Speaker 4: Halftime of the Monday edition of The Huddle, Drew, Billy
22:19
Speaker 4: and Armon bringing it to you Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin
22:22
Speaker 4: nine to twenty Milwaukee ten seventy in Madison. Halftime means
22:26
Speaker 4: adjustments halftime, it means a visit from Scott Dolphin from
22:28
Speaker 4: the Country station on the hall. Welcome back to hey,
22:30
Speaker 4: Welcome back double duty. He was doing our updates today,
22:33
Speaker 4: was filling in for Doug Russell. Yeah, yes, you're earlier.
22:36
Speaker 4: I'm a little rusty on those, you know. I used
22:38
Speaker 4: to do a lot of those and then uh and
22:41
Speaker 4: lately it's just been for a couple of stations. Now
22:43
Speaker 4: with Doug gone, I've been doing all six radio stations. Man,
22:46
Speaker 4: I got to get it early in the morning.
22:47
Speaker 6: But he sounded good on those updates.
22:49
Speaker 5: Thanks Armon.
22:49
Speaker 6: We got one more coming at seven, so yes, I
22:51
Speaker 6: appreciate it for that.
22:53
Speaker 5: Russ Douglas will be back from Hawaii and his trip
22:55
Speaker 5: to the National Parks, maybe because.
22:56
Speaker 4: He's had a lot of issues as well with the plant,
23:00
Speaker 4: like the East Coast being crippled by the blizzard. Has
23:04
Speaker 4: just said that the trickle down, Like what do you
23:06
Speaker 4: mean it's not snowing here, Like yeah, but flights are
23:08
Speaker 4: canceled everywhere.
23:09
Speaker 7: They're talking two to four inches of snow an hour
23:12
Speaker 7: overnight from New York State up in the Massachusetts.
23:15
Speaker 4: All right, Dolph, I need you to come in here
23:16
Speaker 4: and give me some support as a fellow old guy,
23:19
Speaker 4: because Billy's all excited. And Billy came in this morning
23:22
Speaker 4: just and I had to be the wet blanket. He
23:23
Speaker 4: thinks that what happened yesterday is gonna spike interest in
23:27
Speaker 4: hockey and it's gonna the kids will start playing.
23:29
Speaker 5: And I've told him, man, dipping dots isn't the ice
23:31
Speaker 5: cream in the future. I wish you heard this before.
23:34
Speaker 5: I wish you were right, Billy, I really do.
23:37
Speaker 7: The problem with hockey is it's so damn expensive for
23:40
Speaker 7: these families. You heard the comment yesterday with with our
23:44
Speaker 7: goalie mister stand on his head superstar. He already had
23:48
Speaker 7: a brother in traveling touring youth hockey and his parents
23:51
Speaker 7: said sorry, dude, we can't afford to send you on
23:54
Speaker 7: these trips too. It's just too expensive. So you're gonna
23:56
Speaker 7: have to play other sports. And you know, it ended
23:58
Speaker 7: up working out for him. He was really good in
24:00
Speaker 7: high school. He got a ride to UMass Lowell and
24:02
Speaker 7: then the rest is history. But my nephew played hockey
24:05
Speaker 7: and they were always going to Ohio, Indy, all over
24:08
Speaker 7: the Midwest.
24:08
Speaker 5: And soccer, softball and au travel ball.
24:20
Speaker 6: Just wait, private equities getting involved in sports.
24:23
Speaker 7: Maybe so, I mean, I would love watching the Olympics
24:26
Speaker 7: and watching how these teams, how these guys play so
24:29
Speaker 7: hard for the country. I should watch more hockey. It
24:32
Speaker 7: is an incredible sport to watch. That is my stomach
24:35
Speaker 7: the whole game yesterday.
24:36
Speaker 3: That was it.
24:37
Speaker 6: You said it right there, Dolph, is the thought of
24:39
Speaker 6: I should watch more hockey. And then you'll flip on
24:42
Speaker 6: the television next week and be like, oh, wow, there's
24:44
Speaker 6: three hockey games on yeah, oh, and.
24:46
Speaker 5: Oh three of those guys were on the American team.
24:49
Speaker 5: Where are the Badgers?
24:50
Speaker 3: Now?
24:50
Speaker 5: You're still gonna watch local stuff they watch?
24:53
Speaker 6: Yeah?
24:53
Speaker 4: I mean, but if you're always been there, like the
24:56
Speaker 4: internet exists, like if you want to follow and there
24:58
Speaker 4: are people that follow except this kind of this kind
25:00
Speaker 4: of accessibility to hockey. I don't think you're understanding that
25:04
Speaker 4: it hasn't been there.
25:05
Speaker 6: Like I grew up in the early two thousands, when
25:07
Speaker 6: I would turn on Sports Center and you would not
25:09
Speaker 6: see one highlight of a of an NHL game.
25:12
Speaker 5: Now you turn it on. When ESPN had hockey, they
25:15
Speaker 5: pumped a lot of highlights. Well right, and now they
25:18
Speaker 5: do again.
25:18
Speaker 6: So now they actually have it, So you'll watch it,
25:20
Speaker 6: you'll see highlights, they'll talk about it on these shows.
25:23
Speaker 6: It'll be brought up, and it'll be more of a
25:25
Speaker 6: mainstream conversation, unlike before where it was treated like international soccer.
25:30
Speaker 6: Now that they have a vested interest in it, I
25:32
Speaker 6: think there's a little bit of a difference to it.
25:33
Speaker 7: I'm going to try to be better, you know, I remember,
25:36
Speaker 7: as Drew probably does miracle on ice. I remember that
25:39
Speaker 7: the injection of excitement that put into our country. Hell
25:42
Speaker 7: I got the jay, I went right out and got
25:43
Speaker 7: the jersey for Christmas, and I was so excited to
25:45
Speaker 7: get that team USA jersey. But you know that faded
25:48
Speaker 7: after a while. In eighty four we got we kind
25:50
Speaker 7: of stunk at the Olympics, and and so I don't know.
25:53
Speaker 7: I remember as a kid they told me, get ready
25:55
Speaker 7: because soccer is gonna be bigger than American football by
25:57
Speaker 7: the time you're an adult, and you better get used
25:58
Speaker 7: to the metric system because we're all going to be
26:00
Speaker 7: using it by the time you're adult. And here we are,
26:02
Speaker 7: many many decades later, and we're still American Football's as
26:05
Speaker 7: big as it's ever.
26:06
Speaker 5: Been, if not bigger, and we're still not using it.
26:08
Speaker 6: But where are what are what are they doing with
26:10
Speaker 6: with American football? What's the number one topic? Why are
26:14
Speaker 6: they not Why are they not keeping it here? Why
26:16
Speaker 6: are they going all over the place? Why are they
26:18
Speaker 6: branching it out all over the place. If you really
26:20
Speaker 6: want to talk about people being upset with the kind
26:22
Speaker 6: of culture inside of America, they're continuing to branch out
26:26
Speaker 6: because they want more youth playing it. It's continually grabbing
26:29
Speaker 6: and that's what they're trying to do. So the money,
26:31
Speaker 6: I totally get it. You guys have seen it, you
26:33
Speaker 6: guys know it. You guys know way more about it
26:35
Speaker 6: because it's happened forty years ago. But now with the
26:38
Speaker 6: amount of ice, the amount of rinks, the amount of
26:41
Speaker 6: accessibility to it. I think it'll be different, but you know,
26:44
Speaker 6: we'll have to have this conversation in twenty years where
26:47
Speaker 6: maybe it won't be two generations ago.
26:49
Speaker 5: When they finally win another they are like one or
26:51
Speaker 5: two guys that played hockey and they had to get
26:53
Speaker 5: up at four in the morning, want.
26:54
Speaker 3: To go play.
26:55
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:56
Speaker 5: Now Wilson High schools have teams. Yeah, and yeah they do,
26:59
Speaker 5: and it is it is more, but it's still not
27:02
Speaker 5: like I just and we go through this and it
27:05
Speaker 5: goes away.
27:06
Speaker 4: When there's great NHL Stanley Cup playoff games that go
27:08
Speaker 4: over ten people watch it.
27:09
Speaker 5: They evangelize like this is better than the NHL, is
27:11
Speaker 5: the best playoffs, better than the NBA, better than March Madness,
27:14
Speaker 5: And it's still like, it's still hockey. It's still a niche.
27:17
Speaker 5: It's still yeah. And obviously it's bigger in other places. Minnesota,
27:21
Speaker 5: it's sure high school, sure, yes, as football is in
27:25
Speaker 5: Texas and Minnesota. In Boston and you had four kids
27:29
Speaker 5: on the ice during that winter, all from the state
27:31
Speaker 5: of Michigan yesterday. So clearly it's it's bigger in other places, Bigger.
27:34
Speaker 6: In the North, big in the South. I don't I mean,
27:36
Speaker 6: if you look, I don't know, they've won five Cups
27:38
Speaker 6: in the last five years. It would be the time
27:40
Speaker 6: now it right, Yeah, you would think like, is is
27:43
Speaker 6: there a surge in Florida of hockey? Interesting?
27:46
Speaker 5: But you're not going to believe it.
27:48
Speaker 2: I don't know.
27:48
Speaker 6: But they can't just go outside and play in the
27:50
Speaker 6: world's interesting.
27:52
Speaker 5: And that's also a quaint notion too.
27:53
Speaker 4: Billy was talking about flood in the backyard for his
27:55
Speaker 4: boys because they're a little young yet and maybe it'll
27:57
Speaker 4: come to that, right, But that notion too, the idea
28:01
Speaker 4: that any of these guys that we saw yesterday spent
28:03
Speaker 4: a lot of time playing shinny hockey on ponds and stuff. No,
28:06
Speaker 4: from the time they were four, they were going to
28:07
Speaker 4: well you ragg the rinks and travel teams. That's like
28:10
Speaker 4: the dream of anybody growing up going and playing at
28:13
Speaker 4: their local basketball park on the rims with the chain nuts. Yeah,
28:16
Speaker 4: you know, they're going and playing in six AAU tournaments
28:19
Speaker 4: and being shipped four different teams.
28:21
Speaker 5: My daughter played soccer as a youth all the way
28:24
Speaker 5: up through high school into high school, and she was
28:26
Speaker 5: on a.
28:26
Speaker 4: Select team and stuff and travel or whatever. She never
28:30
Speaker 4: once got together with friends on a Saturday in the
28:32
Speaker 4: park and just knocked the ball around. It was always
28:34
Speaker 4: with coaches and it was always structured.
28:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, never had that.
28:37
Speaker 4: And it so this romantic notion of backyard rinks and stuff,
28:40
Speaker 4: it exists. I'm not saying it doesn't. The administs did
28:42
Speaker 4: a good job a couple of years ago the social
28:43
Speaker 4: media going to people's backyard rinks and taking their players
28:46
Speaker 4: and taking Roscoe and it was awesome and it's cool,
28:49
Speaker 4: but it isn't that prevalent.
28:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, U sports are what they
28:52
Speaker 7: are today, and it's all you know, whether it's AAU
28:55
Speaker 7: and basketball or as you just mentioned, the touring, the
28:57
Speaker 7: travel teams, the elite teams in other sports, h and
29:01
Speaker 7: as far as hockey goes now, I don't have the
29:02
Speaker 7: roster in front of me, but I'm assuming the Wisconsin Badgers,
29:05
Speaker 7: both men and women, there's probably not too many Wisconsin
29:08
Speaker 7: high school players on those teams, is there. I don't
29:10
Speaker 7: know that the fact, but I'm assuming most of them
29:12
Speaker 7: are probably from Minnesota or the East coast.
29:14
Speaker 5: Like Arman mentioned, that's.
29:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's still the hotbeds. But it was a great moment,
29:17
Speaker 4: and that's and I hate to be the wet blanket.
29:19
Speaker 4: But and it happens every year with the World Cup
29:22
Speaker 4: when we see the crowds of people on Brady Street
29:24
Speaker 4: and at bars and early morning watching World Cup games,
29:27
Speaker 4: and you think, oh, this is awesome, look at the momentum,
29:29
Speaker 4: and then you forget about it until Findley from Swamaco he's.
29:32
Speaker 6: On the u W.
29:33
Speaker 5: All right, let's go Swamico represent ye, and well we
29:38
Speaker 5: fired up for nationalism when the World Baseball Classic happens. Yeah,
29:41
Speaker 5: I got to see you know, Dominican and Japan like
29:43
Speaker 5: it's gonna be great, that'll be fun. And that starts
29:45
Speaker 5: what next week?
29:46
Speaker 3: I think.
29:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, And again, the greatest sports moment of my lifetime
29:50
Speaker 7: by far was Miracle on ice and nothing will ever
29:52
Speaker 7: top that truth.
29:53
Speaker 5: It was hockey.
29:54
Speaker 7: Even though I didn't grow up with a hockey team,
29:56
Speaker 7: I didn't have a favorite NHL.
29:57
Speaker 5: Team and I still don't to this day. Yeah, and
30:00
Speaker 5: that remains.
30:01
Speaker 4: That was And again that we were talking about the
30:02
Speaker 4: backdrop and how much different it is and the college
30:05
Speaker 4: kids and.
30:06
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, the amateur Well, the fact that the college
30:08
Speaker 7: kids beat probably would have been a team that would
30:11
Speaker 7: run the table to the Stanley Cup if they were
30:13
Speaker 7: an NHL team as.
30:14
Speaker 5: Cool as the Dream Team was, and this might have
30:16
Speaker 5: been in the dawn of arm and sports fandom.
30:19
Speaker 2: Was it better?
30:21
Speaker 5: Were the Olympics better? When it was like air quotes amateurs?
30:24
Speaker 6: And was it?
30:24
Speaker 5: You know, when when college guys were playing instead of
30:28
Speaker 5: the was it was certainly more competitive.
30:31
Speaker 7: I remember just being so happy that in that year
30:34
Speaker 7: in ninety two, because you know, people are saying, well,
30:36
Speaker 7: it's American basketball slipped.
30:38
Speaker 5: Well, no it hasn't, and clearly they just destroyed it.
30:41
Speaker 3: Well. It was also the idea that you wanted to
30:43
Speaker 3: finally see all the best players to play together to
30:46
Speaker 3: beat everybody Like that was like the fantasy All star
30:50
Speaker 3: kind of idea and was coming to life. I'm like,
30:52
Speaker 3: they're all going to be on the same team. We're
30:54
Speaker 3: going to beat a goal by a million, Like this
30:56
Speaker 3: is great.
30:58
Speaker 6: There was there was. They were a traveling basketball road show.
31:00
Speaker 6: And now thirty five years later in the NBA, the
31:02
Speaker 6: best five players are all yea national and now the
31:05
Speaker 6: game to grow up.
31:07
Speaker 7: And it's tough to get enthusiasm for the American players
31:09
Speaker 7: to even go to international competition.
31:11
Speaker 5: More like, man, my body's tired. I want to I
31:13
Speaker 5: want to rast and and the rest of the world.
31:15
Speaker 5: Now it's it's not just a cake walk to get
31:17
Speaker 5: to the gold medal game and they lose.
31:20
Speaker 3: That was the one tournament that kept our imagination without
31:22
Speaker 3: ever having a competitive game. I mean even and even
31:25
Speaker 3: the great you know Croatia teams back then lost my
31:28
Speaker 3: twenty eight to the American.
31:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I remember they went after Tony Kukoch. You
31:31
Speaker 7: remember that because he was much sought after prospect for
31:34
Speaker 7: the Bulls, and Jordan and those guys just went after.
31:36
Speaker 6: They ate him alive. To make a point in Jery Cross.
31:39
Speaker 3: And no one gives Tony credit because in the final
31:41
Speaker 3: he played, came back and played very well and that
31:44
Speaker 3: was the prelimb. But in the final against the US,
31:46
Speaker 3: not the US still won by twenty five or whatever.
31:48
Speaker 7: It was one time Milwaukee buck right, Tony Kuko he
31:50
Speaker 7: was great. I like he was on the lighted up teams. Yes,
31:53
Speaker 7: I think he was in the midst I was right up.
31:56
Speaker 3: So I don't mean to get us off to criminally
31:59
Speaker 3: underrepresented last Dance documentary.
32:01
Speaker 6: I don't know whose the idea that was, you know
32:03
Speaker 6: who that was?
32:04
Speaker 3: All right?
32:04
Speaker 6: I wanted you to say it.
32:05
Speaker 2: You know who it was.
32:07
Speaker 6: It was the one guy that can do that is
32:09
Speaker 6: finally saving him. Actually game ball. Okay, wait, okay, here
32:13
Speaker 6: we go, give me a second. Here wasn't ready for it.
32:15
Speaker 6: A game ball?
32:15
Speaker 5: Here we go. Game ball.
32:20
Speaker 6: To Michael Jeffrey Jordan for finally being able to rectify
32:23
Speaker 6: his ownership issues, finally being able to figure out that
32:26
Speaker 6: he can own professional sports. Because not only has Tyler
32:29
Speaker 6: Redick won the Daytona five hundred, he wins the Auto
32:32
Speaker 6: Trader four hundred yesterday with the forty five car owned
32:35
Speaker 6: by MJ. And he was celebrating Victory Lane again the
32:39
Speaker 6: Bobcats and Hornets almost ruined the name. He said, hold on,
32:42
Speaker 6: I just got to go to another sport and I'll
32:44
Speaker 6: figure out this ownership.
32:45
Speaker 5: That podcasts. Wow, that amazing. So what is next?
32:49
Speaker 4: Now the Olympics are over, we can just bask in
32:51
Speaker 4: the glow of the gold medal of men's and women's
32:54
Speaker 4: hockey and Jordan Stoltz locally.
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Speaker 7: We got a good appeteazer to the NCAA tournament over
32:58
Speaker 7: the weekend with Michigan and Duke. Weren't game but exciting
33:01
Speaker 7: to the end. I know Billy, We're still trying to
33:04
Speaker 7: win you over.
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Speaker 5: I was I was almost dialed in.
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Speaker 6: I was almost I was almost fully dialed in on
33:08
Speaker 6: that one.
33:08
Speaker 5: I was so close. How about yesterday, that was a
33:11
Speaker 5: really good game until the end, I mean Wisconsin. Very
33:15
Speaker 5: impressed with Wisconsin.
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Speaker 4: The second half was my favorite nuts Nickoyd, you mentioned
33:20
Speaker 4: Michigan like they've they've lost to what Wisconsin and Duke. Yeah,
33:25
Speaker 4: but there's no guarantee of success come tournament time because
33:27
Speaker 4: the tournament is such a you know, crap shoot. I
33:31
Speaker 4: like the Badger's chances going into the tournament because when
33:33
Speaker 4: you got two guards like that that can get to
33:35
Speaker 4: the rackets.
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Speaker 6: Store and they're getting better. Absolutely, but a bad.
33:39
Speaker 7: Shooting night, they could lose to you know, USC, and
33:43
Speaker 7: they've proven that. I mean the Ohio State game, they
33:45
Speaker 7: lacked energy. They just looked like they were going to
33:47
Speaker 7: walk through that and get the dub and it didn't happen.
33:49
Speaker 7: So they have to play like they did yesterday. Were
33:51
Speaker 7: fired up for that game and they just weren't missing what.
33:54
Speaker 7: They shoot fifty four percent from the field.
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Speaker 3: Likes.
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Speaker 5: I do love sho.
33:57
Speaker 4: I like their chances because of the when you got
33:59
Speaker 4: two guards that can score that are tough to guard.
34:01
Speaker 5: That's m hm. It gives you a good give you
34:03
Speaker 5: a fighter's chance.
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Speaker 6: We talked about that with Matt Lapay on Friday, and
34:05
Speaker 6: they're like thirty to one at certain spots outside of
34:08
Speaker 6: the States. To go to the Final four that will
34:10
Speaker 6: win four games. That seems like something they could definitely do.
34:12
Speaker 5: I think so.
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Speaker 7: I mean those between those guys you just mentioned Drew,
34:16
Speaker 7: I mean, I got boyd yesterday, what fell one rebound
34:19
Speaker 7: shy of a triple double. They got shooters all over
34:22
Speaker 7: the place and they're not afraid to launch it. There's
34:24
Speaker 7: a lot of confidence on that team.
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Speaker 3: It comes down to the three point variants that I
34:27
Speaker 3: had to say, come on now, no, you don't touch frame, no,
34:33
Speaker 3: and they have the ability to get on it's not
34:35
Speaker 3: hot take hump day. But I would say I miss
34:38
Speaker 3: Fran McCaffrey because I interviewed him at the Final Four.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, more exciting. He's the nicest He was the nicest man.
34:43
Speaker 5: He's such a psychopath on the sidelines. It was the
34:46
Speaker 5: nicest man to talk to. I mean, I liked Franny
34:49
Speaker 5: was there fifteen years at IOWA.
34:50
Speaker 7: But Fran's velocity basically was let's try to score one
34:53
Speaker 7: hundred and hope they don't score one hundred and four.
34:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, which is what people wanted when they weren't doing it.
34:57
Speaker 6: Thought Iowa basketball is the greatest drew over correction right
35:01
Speaker 6: when when you're in the NFL. We got a we
35:03
Speaker 6: got a hard nose coach. We need to bring in
35:05
Speaker 6: a players coach. We got a great offensive coach, he
35:07
Speaker 6: just fired. We got to bring it in to the defense.
35:08
Speaker 6: We got Fran McCaffrey, who wants to play in the
35:10
Speaker 6: triple digits. We got this guy that wants to play
35:12
Speaker 6: forty eight, forty four, no shot frock Iowa High School basketball.
35:17
Speaker 7: Nebraska had forty eight points with a minute to go
35:19
Speaker 7: the other night against Iowa.
35:20
Speaker 6: So I'm still top twenty five and the Ken Pond.
35:23
Speaker 6: That's what matters.
35:24
Speaker 7: Ben McCollum is a guy that's won four Natties at
35:27
Speaker 7: Division two, and to his credit, one guy came back
35:30
Speaker 7: from France team everybody else bolted. One guy, Cooper Koch,
35:32
Speaker 7: who's a talented freshman.
35:34
Speaker 5: He came back.
35:35
Speaker 7: And so they're doing it with basically Drake Bulldogs and
35:37
Speaker 7: a couple of transfer portal guys.
35:39
Speaker 5: But then they're probably gonna make the tournament if you win.
35:40
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're gonna be in if you unless they collapse here.
35:43
Speaker 4: But if you win there, I made Frand McCaffrey laugh.
35:46
Speaker 4: I said, your name's Francis John McCaffrey. How are you
35:48
Speaker 4: not at Marquette or Xavier one?
35:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is awesome.
35:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a legend on the Philly playgrounds. Growing up.
35:56
Speaker 5: They called him white Magic.
35:58
Speaker 7: He was all big ten or all uh SEC freshman
36:00
Speaker 7: at Wake Forest uh and then acc freshman, and then
36:03
Speaker 7: he went to Panning.
36:04
Speaker 5: Was a legend and that's where he's coaching today.
36:06
Speaker 4: The I asked him if you if you weren't, if
36:08
Speaker 4: you hadn't gotten into coaching with the priesthood calling, and
36:10
Speaker 4: he's just laughed.
36:12
Speaker 6: Generations that he's having all, Oh my god, what the
36:17
Speaker 6: front rooms they.
36:19
Speaker 3: The white Magic Shires, the white mic every generation as
36:23
Speaker 3: something like that. There's some kid out in some summer
36:25
Speaker 3: that's the white lebron.
36:26
Speaker 6: Someone's gonna be white stuff here coming up soon. I'm
36:28
Speaker 6: excited for that one. Yeah, exactly.
36:30
Speaker 5: Steph had the number one movie at the box office
36:32
Speaker 5: over the weekend, The Goat. Who I didn't see that? Yeah,
36:36
Speaker 5: that we need Matt Miller for that, doll.
36:38
Speaker 4: Thank you for the halftime report, this injection of energy,
36:41
Speaker 4: and for being the old guy. Another voice of reason. Billy,
36:43
Speaker 4: I love your optimism and I hope I hope it does.
36:46
Speaker 5: I do too it. Let it happen.
36:47
Speaker 6: I need to go get the kids some skates, Billy. Well, listen,
36:50
Speaker 6: dad doesn't know how to skate, so they're probably not.
36:52
Speaker 6: But I'm definitely they're gonna be watching a lot because
36:54
Speaker 6: Dad's gonna be watching it.
36:55
Speaker 5: And investing on it.
36:56
Speaker 4: A lot of guys taking their kids to lacrosse that
36:58
Speaker 4: never played, just saying that's that's makes it peaceful.
37:02
Speaker 5: All right.
37:03
Speaker 4: We take a quick break. Game Balls and Kicks continue.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Yes, it's good to be heard. And great show
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Speaker 2: as always.
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Speaker 3: Boys.
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Speaker 2: Uh, I got a game ball to uh the uh,
37:43
Speaker 2: the guys that the hockey team that went up and
37:45
Speaker 2: got Johnny Goodros two children.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that.
37:52
Speaker 5: I'm glad you mentioned that come out under the ice.
37:54
Speaker 3: Well, man can tell you what.
37:56
Speaker 2: You don't have a soul if you didn't have a
37:58
Speaker 2: tear rolling down your cheek on that molt. Uh, what
38:02
Speaker 2: a great moment. And uh and then I kick to
38:05
Speaker 2: the balls to the announcers as they're giving them their
38:08
Speaker 2: gold medals for not shutting up and letting us just
38:10
Speaker 2: listen and appreciate that you had to talk over everything.
38:14
Speaker 3: It was just.
38:14
Speaker 2: After a bit. But you know, I'm old enough. I'm
38:20
Speaker 2: old enough to remember exactly where I was in nineteen
38:22
Speaker 2: eighty And I'm sorry, Billy, but I don't think that
38:26
Speaker 2: there's going to be this resurgence in hockey. One reason
38:29
Speaker 2: is you can always get your buddies together and play basketball.
38:32
Speaker 2: You just got friends over to do whatever, you got
38:34
Speaker 2: a hoop up, you can go out and play the
38:36
Speaker 2: little basketball. You know, you can throw the football around
38:41
Speaker 2: and stuff play baseball. But I just you know, for
38:44
Speaker 2: one thing, not every kid can skate. I couldn't. After
38:47
Speaker 2: the Olympics in eighty, I man, nothing more I wanted
38:50
Speaker 2: to do than play hockey. But I couldn't skate where
38:53
Speaker 2: they're darned and they don't allow to the I the
38:55
Speaker 2: old skates with four blades on them and.
39:00
Speaker 5: Training wheels.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no doubt, no doubt, pogo. I couldn't agree with you.
39:03
Speaker 6: And listen, you're talking to it. You're talking to a
39:05
Speaker 6: kid that was like I would be the goalie if
39:09
Speaker 6: I was invited to the pickup hockey game because I
39:12
Speaker 6: couldn't skate.
39:12
Speaker 5: However, I was thick enough.
39:14
Speaker 6: I was thicking up that I could wear tennis shoes
39:16
Speaker 6: just slide and it would be all right. I could
39:18
Speaker 6: figure it out. But the thousand percent right right, I
39:22
Speaker 6: know most kids can't state skate. I know that that
39:24
Speaker 6: is the number one hindrance to it. But like you're
39:26
Speaker 6: also saying that kids can't figure out a way to
39:30
Speaker 6: do target practice in their backyard with pucks. They do.
39:32
Speaker 5: They do that all the time, Like and this.
39:34
Speaker 6: Fantasizing of that's where the stars are born in basketball
39:39
Speaker 6: is in their backyard on their rickety hoop that their
39:43
Speaker 6: dad puts in with the concrete slab.
39:45
Speaker 5: That's most not it. That's not how it happens.
39:49
Speaker 6: You're always getting brought somewhere, You're always going to a
39:52
Speaker 6: new clinic, You're always going to a different thing. And
39:55
Speaker 6: you know, we had our individual crawling my chaos on
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Speaker 6: the on the YouTube stream said that it's expensive.
40:01
Speaker 5: I got bad news for everybody.
40:03
Speaker 6: Every one of these clubs sports is ridiculously expensive. And
40:07
Speaker 6: it does go to the difference with football to hockey
40:11
Speaker 6: at the high school level had always been the equipment.
40:15
Speaker 6: And this is why it's a bigger sport in the
40:18
Speaker 6: in Canada because at high schools you get team issued equipment,
40:22
Speaker 6: right a lot of times here in America you have
40:25
Speaker 6: to then go buy the equipment that you're going to
40:27
Speaker 6: play with in the game. When I go to sign
40:30
Speaker 6: up for high school football or youth football, they issue
40:33
Speaker 6: me shoulder pads, they issued me a helmet. When you
40:36
Speaker 6: get to a spot where there's enough clubs, which I
40:38
Speaker 6: do believe they're starting to become a lot of clubs
40:40
Speaker 6: that do have equipment, that do have stuff, that do
40:42
Speaker 6: have skates, that do allow some training modules. That's where
40:45
Speaker 6: it goes. And absolutely it is a slow, slow build.
40:48
Speaker 6: But you guys bring up the you guys bring up
40:50
Speaker 6: the ninety two Dream Team. Wasn't that one of the
40:52
Speaker 6: dreams of putting the best NBA players together was to
40:56
Speaker 6: inspire generations of kids across the world, nationally, internationally to
41:00
Speaker 6: be playing and wanting to be playing in this league.
41:03
Speaker 6: And now you look up, I think the last six
41:04
Speaker 6: or seven MVPs of all been international players. So like
41:07
Speaker 6: it does take time, one thousand percent, Do I believe
41:10
Speaker 6: that next year, all of a sudden we're gonna see
41:12
Speaker 6: a groundswell and hockey is gonna be up eighty nine percent?
41:14
Speaker 6: Probably not. But in fifteen twenty years, if you're still
41:18
Speaker 6: seeing Anthony Davis miss nine weeks because of a finger injury,
41:22
Speaker 6: and I'm watching Jack Hughes get his mouth knocked out
41:25
Speaker 6: and two teeth laying on the ice, pick him up
41:27
Speaker 6: and then go score a goal five minutes later, I
41:29
Speaker 6: think that's gonna be a little bit differently inspiring.
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41:49
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41:57
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