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02/17/26 - Hour 1 · 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 to say.
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Speaker 3: It's time to wake up and talk about the teams
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Speaker 3: you love, nobody with.
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Speaker 1: The guys you love. It's just about hitting the group together.
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Speaker 1: I need you, you need me today.
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Speaker 2: Let's keep touching each other. Let's make sure we feel
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Speaker 2: each other. Let's make sure we.
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Speaker 3: Smell each other for a half.
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Speaker 1: Watch us on YouTube, Facebook and act.
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Speaker 2: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to pour away with
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Speaker 2: a number of cameras. Take the cameras off the field
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Speaker 2: and their.
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Speaker 3: Final hubs now gather around, because it's time to huddle
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Speaker 3: up West.
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Speaker 2: You 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 try to.
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Speaker 4: Run this play in the hours.
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Speaker 1: Let's go on God yeah, and.
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Speaker 3: They can play be right all the way outside Why
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Speaker 2: Sick bag be he see punk.
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Speaker 1: Is that long enough for you watching to be prouty
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Speaker 1: of professionalists?
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Speaker 2: A great professional out damn playing this ball game like
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Speaker 2: I know you can play it.
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Speaker 3: With Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Bill Schmid.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, this man's been out all night, armand sorry,
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Speaker 1: don't get scared six we ready. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: is on the air.
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Speaker 2: Ray.
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Speaker 4: When it says don't get scared now, I always get
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Speaker 4: a little twinge in my tummy. It's the huddle here
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Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. I'm Bill Schmid alongside the
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Speaker 4: bright eyed, bushy tailed, fluorescent, adorable Armenian armand Sorry in
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Speaker 4: this morning, Good morning, armand Sorry.
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Speaker 2: In CBS nogin ninety eight. How we doing here today?
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Speaker 2: Day seven? Great?
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Speaker 1: Doing great this morning on a Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, I believe.
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Speaker 5: Yes, pause, yes, great, absolutely. I know you're doing well
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Speaker 5: because you're you're were the NASCAR sweatshirt today. You were
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Speaker 5: the NASCAR sweatshirt, and that's always a good vibe, especially
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Speaker 5: when you're in Florida. Daytona just ended, you know, I know,
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Speaker 5: I know you're starting to feel it down there with
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Speaker 5: the community when you start putting the NASCAR vibes on
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Speaker 5: the NASCAR gear and well.
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Speaker 4: In frankly armon, Yeah, the the Chase Elliott sweatshirt that
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Speaker 4: I got on here today, Jay Elliot would have would
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Speaker 4: have been a whole lot better to wear yesterday.
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Speaker 2: If my man.
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Speaker 4: Didn't blow a lead coming out of turn four on
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Speaker 4: the final lap at the Daytona five hundred y Just
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Speaker 4: like that, that's the great uh you know, tell it
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Speaker 4: to me in football terms. What if, like your favorite
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Speaker 4: football team had a twenty one to three lead at halftime.
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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, that would be way too early emotional damage.
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Speaker 4: What if you're what if your favorite football team had
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Speaker 4: like not one, not two, but three leads of ten
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Speaker 4: points in the final five minutes. I mean like that
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Speaker 4: would be like, that's like ten points in the final
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Speaker 4: two minutes.
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Speaker 2: That's your coming out of the turn.
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Speaker 4: You're seeing a you're seeing a celebration and Michael Jordan
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Speaker 4: kissing the trophy.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, and you're.
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Speaker 4: Believing that's you and instead, man, you're sitting in fourth place,
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Speaker 4: not even on the podium.
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Speaker 2: That's a tough beat.
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Speaker 5: Not actually you even have a hunter checking for a
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Speaker 5: garbage can after that one.
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Speaker 2: Man, it's tough.
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Speaker 4: It's tough, yeah, hunter, bomb guard in here today for
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Speaker 4: for Drewelson. Yeah, Hunter, good morning. That's a way to
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Speaker 4: welcome you in thought process. Just put yourself in that thought.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't in a while, thankfully, you know what.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's counting though.
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Speaker 2: What about an even what about an even even worse one?
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Speaker 4: It would be like your favorite baseball team, you know,
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Speaker 4: I don't know, up two runs going into the top
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Speaker 4: of the ninth inning with a chance to move on.
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Speaker 2: That wouldn't happen, though, You wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: Well, in fact, actually, then the next year you beat
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Speaker 3: the Cubs, and all's right with the world.
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Speaker 1: See there you go, see Hunter. The nice thing about
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Speaker 1: what happened last.
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Speaker 5: Year I understood the assignment first round series was we
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Speaker 5: were slowly erasing the memory of that met series.
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Speaker 3: We were so if the Packers come out and they
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Speaker 3: beat the Bears in the playoffs next year and get
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Speaker 3: to the super Bowl, Hey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all in the past.
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Speaker 4: It's all the past, and then everything then all's forgotten
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Speaker 4: and all's well with the world, and we could all
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Speaker 4: we could all smile and be okay.
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Speaker 2: No, actually, Arman.
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Speaker 4: The reason why the Sweatshirts signed because your boy did
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Speaker 4: not read any bit of an extended forecast this when
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Speaker 4: I'm at home. Why on earth would you do that
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Speaker 4: on vacation. It's currently sitting at about fifty two degrees
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Speaker 4: out here on this uh on this patio, so I
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Speaker 4: could probably be using that nogin o jacket instead. You
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Speaker 4: know what, we're rolling, and we're excited to be in
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Speaker 4: day two of Great Fruit League action, getting one day closer,
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Speaker 4: two games returning in the pro side for the NBA, obviously,
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Speaker 4: NHLs a couple of weeks away with their Olympic break,
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Speaker 4: Badgers back on the floor tonight, Golden Eagles off until tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: I mean, fellas, there's not a whole lot of sports
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Speaker 4: saharas that happened during the calendar year. But with the
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Speaker 4: NBA All Star break and this little gap in the
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Speaker 4: NHL and the game for the Badgers played on Friday,
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Speaker 4: it's felt like there hasn't been real action in about
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Speaker 4: five days. I even tapped in on some game last night,
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Speaker 4: arm and you'd be proud of me.
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Speaker 2: You'd be proud of me. Some game was, you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, a top ten matchup in Iowa.
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Speaker 5: State, and it was a good ballgame. I'm glad you want.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I was right down to the end, right there,
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Speaker 5: the old I.
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Speaker 4: Believe it was really really fun. It was really fun
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Speaker 4: to watch the Cyclones win. I didn't know that I
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Speaker 4: bought an obstructed view seat watching it on television with
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Speaker 4: somebody's pom pom jumping into the crowd all game long,
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Speaker 4: you know, the arm and the pomp pom and the
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Speaker 4: people in the way of the TV camera was sort
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Speaker 4: of a more common thing I remember growing up watching
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Speaker 4: It didn't happen a lot, but every now and then
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Speaker 4: it had a bad view where there was somebody in
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Speaker 4: the feed or someone shaking the camera.
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Speaker 5: And I thought we fixed all that, you know, I
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Speaker 5: thought we fixed all that, But apparently not. You know,
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Speaker 5: they still are putting in the ESPN cameras in places
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Speaker 5: like usually it happens during Championship Week when ESPN his
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Speaker 5: cameras are at arenas like Stetson and McNeese and all
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Speaker 5: these places that like four thousand people. So that's understandable
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Speaker 5: because they usually don't have a network broadcast to deal with,
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Speaker 5: although there are cameras everywhere now. But but I mean, really,
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Speaker 5: come on, I mean, first of all, you got to
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Speaker 5: be a little more aware. And I'm not really blaming
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Speaker 5: the fan, because when you're locked in and you're an
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Speaker 5: I always stay Cyclone fan and you're in that arena, nothing
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Speaker 5: else matters.
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Speaker 1: I'm not moving for anybody. That's your problem. You're the one.
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Speaker 5: I'm locked in on the game. My job is to
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Speaker 5: get as crazy as possible. So I'm kind of surprised
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Speaker 5: they couldn't fix They figured that out eventually, I mean
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Speaker 5: they did. Like when if you just watched the highlight
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Speaker 5: package today and they had TJ. Yottelberger on SVP, you know,
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Speaker 5: looked pretty good and stuff. Yeah, but if you're watching
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Speaker 5: the game every now and then, that happens and it's like,
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Speaker 5: that's something I remember I used to see growing up,
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Speaker 5: or like the camera shaking around because there were so
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Speaker 5: many people, you know, or those those old shots at
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Speaker 5: Assembly Hall and Indiana Bloomington where they're like right down
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Speaker 5: the floor like like it just was a weird angle.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's one of those.
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Speaker 2: There's a couple of those moments that you see that
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Speaker 2: you get to enjoy. Some of those.
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Speaker 4: I think when the Vikings were in London, I want
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Speaker 4: to see and they play two games in. They played
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Speaker 4: two games overseas this year. The second game, I want
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Speaker 4: to say, they're playing the Steelers. AnyWho, I'm listening to
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Speaker 4: our friend Paul Allen. I'm k fan for for the
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Speaker 4: closing of the game because the Vikings are losing.
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Speaker 2: I want to hear I want to hear them misery.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, he's talking to someone and
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Speaker 2: I'm like, who are we? Who are we talking to?
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Speaker 4: And and he's sitting there and he's having a conversation
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Speaker 4: with a fan who's right next to him, and he's like, hey, congratulations,
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Speaker 4: you guys won.
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Speaker 2: Good good, good game. Good for good for you. It
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Speaker 2: was crazy to be able to hear.
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Speaker 4: But all of a sudden that was the situation, and uh,
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Speaker 4: it just happened to be He's having a conversation with
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Speaker 4: a fan and all of a sudden it just runs through.
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Speaker 1: That's Wayne. Wayne has Uh.
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Speaker 3: Wayne's talked to obviously about the different advantages and disadvantages
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Speaker 3: to different booths when it comes to across the the NFL.
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Speaker 3: And I love talking about that hunter. He does he
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Speaker 3: does because because that's his livelihood. And if that's his livelihood,
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Speaker 3: then obviously, you know, if that's going to be your livelihood.
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Speaker 3: You're going to be into that and obviously want to know, Okay,
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Speaker 3: where am I going to be, what what's going to
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Speaker 3: make what's going to give me the best view, and everything.
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Speaker 1: Like that throughout his career.
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Speaker 3: But I'm sure that college basketball We've talked about it
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Speaker 3: with Matt Lapay a little bit as far as what's
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Speaker 3: his favorite arena to call game in or everything like that, Right,
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Speaker 3: But I would think that in college basketball you have
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Speaker 3: a little more of that because there's just more variance
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Speaker 3: in the types of sizes like I obviously Iowa State,
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Speaker 3: I would think is a little smaller than Kansas.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: It just depends on where you are and the TV
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Speaker 3: I would think the TV camera is.
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Speaker 1: Kind of paying attention to that though. Okay, could listen
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Speaker 1: you be, you know, obstructed it all, But where is it?
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Speaker 5: Like? Yeah, like you said, there's a consistency level too,
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Speaker 5: Like NFL stadiums for instance, like even though you might
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Speaker 5: be at a different spot, you're usually halfway up, usually
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Speaker 5: in one under the other, unless it's a pretty old stadium,
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Speaker 5: which is I guess more and more rare now.
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Speaker 1: But Wayne always talks about it. I really should be
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Speaker 1: running it down.
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Speaker 5: Wayne loves to like talk about what stadiums are the
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Speaker 5: best view and what rankings are the best view. But
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Speaker 5: you know, I remember the days guys where NBA, you know,
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Speaker 5: our old friend Ted Davis used to talk about how
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Speaker 5: it used to be court side. You know, so calling
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Speaker 5: an NBA game where a basketball game court side was
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Speaker 5: totally different than calling it halfway up and uh, you
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Speaker 5: know it's you know it a little broadcast starts up.
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Speaker 5: We could do that at five in the morning. You know,
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Speaker 5: it's always always find you guys do a lot. And
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Speaker 5: when you guys do the high school games, now that's
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Speaker 5: really where you can get all kinds of because you're
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Speaker 5: just putting the table wherever they'll allow you, like you're
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Speaker 5: really then you're really.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're dealing with some unusual broadcasts.
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Speaker 3: We're doing some Catholic memorial games, as you heard in
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee in Fox Sports nine twenty this year.
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Speaker 1: And that view is fantastic.
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Speaker 3: It's above it's it's kind of up into the left
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Speaker 3: on one of the sides of the bleachers a platform there,
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Speaker 3: and you can see everything going on down. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it's like it's an overview. It's not court side, but
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Speaker 3: the overview is almost better, yeah, because you're seeing everything
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Speaker 3: develop and that's a really good view.
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Speaker 5: Well as you know, like when you're do in college,
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Speaker 5: Like when you're in college do in the broadcast, you
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Speaker 5: just go wherever you're allowed to, Like you just basically,
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Speaker 5: you know, post up wherever you can.
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Speaker 1: We talk about our guy I forget his.
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Speaker 5: Name, doing the student broadcast at UW when he's kind
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Speaker 5: of like in the middle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, wherever he can be.
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Speaker 5: You got to kind of deal with wherever you're going
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Speaker 5: to be allowed to be, and then you just got
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Speaker 5: to kind of adjust.
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Speaker 1: That's the life you live.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And we're actually gonna have to adjust because I did.
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Speaker 4: I did get a red ticket during that During that conversation.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys were hearing, my man
10:51
Speaker 4: was not happy outside.
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Speaker 1: I heard something.
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Speaker 5: I want to make sure you're not in trouble because
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Speaker 5: we're good, brother, So are you trusting Everything's I think.
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Speaker 4: Will be okay. I think we'll be okay. I mean,
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Speaker 4: I don't really know that we want trouble. We definitely
11:04
Speaker 4: don't want trouble. We're happy to potentially put out the
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Speaker 4: fire if one potentially starts. But I think it's all
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Speaker 4: good in the neighborhood, and it is one of those
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Speaker 4: where you think about, like you mentioned, you're in a
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Speaker 4: different spot. I just didn't know that was gonna be
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Speaker 4: a top ten game in the NCAA. I didn't know
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Speaker 4: that it was going to be We're battling through over
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Speaker 4: at Sussex Hamilton in the corner and my man was
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Speaker 4: going to get his pompom waving in. But in a
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Speaker 4: world where you're rarely, you're rarely going to be covered
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Speaker 4: up and not found out on a national television broadcast.
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Speaker 4: I wonder if that guy was able to be anonymous
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Speaker 4: whose pom pom was waving in the air right like rarely.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if he gets the call from all
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Speaker 4: of his buddies. Dude, you're on TV. Sure, unless you
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Speaker 4: got a specific tattoo, no one's knowing who you are,
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Speaker 4: and you're able to kind of live in infamy and
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Speaker 4: you're like, wait a second, that's me. No one can
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Speaker 4: know that I'm messing up with this national television broadcast.
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Speaker 2: That's got to be kind of an empowering feeling there.
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Speaker 3: That's true, because then you're there's no way to identify you,
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Speaker 3: so you're like you know, you're just kind of floating
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Speaker 3: through anonymously. Yeah, as you go throughout the entire broadcast.
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Speaker 5: Unless you have a certain like mannerism or characteristic that
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Speaker 5: people will recognize, but only your closest friends and family would.
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Speaker 1: So I would think, yeah, he might.
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Speaker 5: He might have tapped into something there, Billy, where he
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Speaker 5: can still remain anonymous and have that power. Although do
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Speaker 5: you think do you think he was aware that he
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Speaker 5: was doing that to the brast I don't think he's
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Speaker 5: probably aware he's doing that to the broadcast.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure you would prefer not to.
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Speaker 5: But hey, I'm sure, like I said, that was one
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Speaker 5: of the that was one of the most intense games
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Speaker 5: of the week.
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Speaker 1: He was pretty locked in.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, that was probably the one morsel of food
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Speaker 5: left in the buffet last night and a very sparse
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Speaker 5: TV watching time. That's okay to say, like you said,
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Speaker 5: it is a sports desert right now. There are a
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Speaker 5: couple you know, the middle around all start breaking baseball
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Speaker 5: the other one in the summer, and this is the
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Speaker 5: other time and listen, that's okay to admit. That's okay
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Speaker 5: to admit if you're a sports fan. I was thinking
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Speaker 5: about this, you know, it's okay to admit that, Hey,
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Speaker 5: you know what, it was a sparse viewing, a smorgas
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Speaker 5: board of sports, except you know, we do.
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Speaker 1: Have the Olympics going right now. That's the thing. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't for that.
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Speaker 3: I was going to compare it to the All Star
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Speaker 3: break time in baseball, but you know, unless the Olympics
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Speaker 3: is going on, which I guess sometimes there but but
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Speaker 3: right now, yeah, right now, you do have that going on,
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Speaker 3: and you have the prime time in Milan that NBC
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Speaker 3: is doing every night, which is nice. It's like a
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Speaker 3: little recap of the day and you have to see
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Speaker 3: the best events and and so there there is that,
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Speaker 3: But obviously we're used to like our teams. Okay, one
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Speaker 3: of the Bucks play, When does Marquet play? When does wiscon?
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Speaker 3: When's the marquee NBA game tonight?
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Speaker 1: Right? Those types of things rather than the Olympic. Was curious,
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Speaker 1: Guys and Billy.
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Speaker 5: Maybe you get some thoughts on this too, like what
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Speaker 5: do sports fans have going on, you know in their viewing,
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Speaker 5: Like when there's less going on in terms of live sports,
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Speaker 5: what do you have going on?
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Speaker 1: Do you check it on other things?
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Speaker 5: Are you less invested in in the sports at the time,
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Speaker 5: or are you doing what I'm doing last night and
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Speaker 5: thanking the sports YouTube gods or whatever that you know
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Speaker 5: collegists that they dropped the nineteen ninety two packers your
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Speaker 5: book on YouTube. I tend to go check out stuff
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Speaker 5: like that when when it's time to see what's going
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Speaker 5: on and see because you know right now, you know
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Speaker 5: you can check out it. It's like it's international soccer,
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Speaker 5: it's international.
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Speaker 1: Hockey, you know.
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Speaker 5: I mean, obviously we do have the Olympics right now,
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Speaker 5: but even that's not live in the evening you talked
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Speaker 5: about the recap, uh Hunter. So I'm always curious just
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Speaker 5: sports fans just check out other things that already happened.
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Speaker 5: They pull the armor and watch old games, or do
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Speaker 5: they just remove themselves until their you know, their favorite
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Speaker 5: basketball team starts playing again.
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Speaker 4: I think there's probably a lot more that check out
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Speaker 4: in the advent of YouTube, the old games, in the classics,
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Speaker 4: old ESPN Classic.
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Speaker 2: To be able to grab it. But it's it's what
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Speaker 2: do you.
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Speaker 4: Do when there's nothing new on to stream, when you
14:45
Speaker 4: don't have a new show to watch, you go back
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Speaker 4: to the junk food.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: You go back to what you watched all the time.
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Speaker 4: So I do believe arm And there's probably more that
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Speaker 4: become Armansarians during this week than ever before, which has
14:56
Speaker 4: got to make you a little bit happy, Like it's
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Speaker 4: definitely you're not definitely the only one that's gonna be
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Speaker 4: tapping in on the ninety two finals during this run.
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Speaker 4: But the other good thing is Hunter. As much as
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Speaker 4: the Sports Desert leaves us open with a lot of
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Speaker 4: questions as to what we can talk about and what
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Speaker 4: to react to night in and night out, it gives
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Speaker 4: us a lot of opportunity to discuss what's going on
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Speaker 4: in the desert, which the team building that's about to
15:19
Speaker 4: be taking place with the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Speaker 2: And their full squad workouts.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna talk about that later on, but you're gonna
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Speaker 4: respond to Armand's question here first about what everyone's watching
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Speaker 4: here in the sports desert.
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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know what I've you know what I'm missing
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Speaker 3: this winter when there's a sports desert is The Bachelor
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Speaker 3: on Mondays.
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Speaker 1: I tell you that your.
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Speaker 3: Thing, and it was always like, okay, you know, past
15:41
Speaker 3: the it's it was always debuted the week after the
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Speaker 3: first Monday after the holidays, and so it was like,
15:46
Speaker 3: all right, you know, the football season's winding down, but
15:49
Speaker 3: I still have kind of that appointment TV every Monday
15:51
Speaker 3: to check out The Bachelor, and that's not happening, and
15:54
Speaker 3: who knows that that's really ever coming back.
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Speaker 1: I think the Bachelorette's coming back this spring.
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Speaker 5: I think, yeah, they have Taylor Frankie from Real Housewives
16:02
Speaker 5: of uh, Secret Lives, Secret Lives and Mormon Wives.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, they're tapping into that market.
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Speaker 5: Yes, one of the one of the girls from that
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Speaker 5: show is now the Bachelor are at They're doing anything
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Speaker 5: they can to get people. And she was in the
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Speaker 5: Celebrity Game, by the way, she was in the Celebrity
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Speaker 5: All Star Game and she was terrible. But it's not
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Speaker 5: her fault. She's out there trying to get shots off
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Speaker 5: against tackle fall.
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Speaker 1: Well, she was better than everybody, was better than choms,
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Speaker 1: but everybody checking.
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Speaker 2: That's fair, fair, Yes, that is fair. That was That
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Speaker 2: was horrendous by shop, but.
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Speaker 1: It was so good. I don't know, I was enjoying it.
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Speaker 5: Well, we did have a little shot and freud there,
16:43
Speaker 5: but the one thing you did have is opportunity. And
16:45
Speaker 5: we talked about that and Hunter took the opportunity to
16:47
Speaker 5: go live last night, which I appreciate it. If you
16:49
Speaker 5: had nothing to watch last night, a lot of people
16:51
Speaker 5: were checked in, like I know Dante Triple A, Dante
16:54
Speaker 5: checking in about the Brews game Saturday, doing a great
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Speaker 5: hour long live on Facebook YouTube on these streams, just
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Speaker 5: a reminder if you're listening to us on Fox Sports
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Speaker 5: just over the air.
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Speaker 1: We're streaming on YouTube X and Facebook.
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Speaker 5: Every day and from now and then we now and
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Speaker 5: again we do these live videos as well where we interact,
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Speaker 5: talk and do some live shows. Streaming and hundred one
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Speaker 5: last night and it was fantastic.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. If you had nothing to watch,
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Speaker 1: you had a hundred to watch last night.
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Speaker 3: Took advantage of the sports desert a little bit last
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Speaker 3: night to talk about what's going on in the desert.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, Billy, So it was a good show.
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Speaker 1: It was fun.
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Speaker 4: Hey, it was a phenomenal one. It was a beautiful
17:32
Speaker 4: way to I'll be honest with you, to put the
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Speaker 4: kids to bed. There you go, a little bit of
17:36
Speaker 4: Brewers conversation that's always going to be that's always going
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Speaker 4: to be a winner in the house eight seven seven
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Speaker 4: seven nine four three. You want to join the conversation
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Speaker 4: here up early with us on the huddle. We're huddling
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Speaker 4: up Hunter bombguard in for Drew Olson. We are going
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Speaker 4: to go towards the desert. Luis Renhifo into the mix.
17:52
Speaker 4: That was official yesterday, so was Elk Kraken as Gary
17:56
Speaker 4: Sanchez is back with the Milwaukee Brewers backup catch what an?
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Speaker 4: What questions does that open up? Or are we just
18:04
Speaker 4: never gonna get one question answered? And I'm excited to
18:07
Speaker 4: talk to Hunter about that because it was Pat Murphy's
18:10
Speaker 4: or he was allegedly Pat Murphy's favorite prospect. So so
18:14
Speaker 4: I don't know if the Gary Sanchez thing opens up
18:17
Speaker 4: another question on a name Brewers fans might have been
18:20
Speaker 4: familiar with for the last couple of years as well
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Speaker 4: as we touched on Joey Ortiz yesterday and the potential
18:26
Speaker 4: leash that Joey Ortiz is gonna have. Hunter, we queued
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Speaker 4: it up and I want to have the conversation next.
18:33
Speaker 4: You talked about the leash that Joey Ortiz has. Is
18:36
Speaker 4: he the only player? Is he the only guy? On
18:39
Speaker 4: the roster, in the lineup that you're you're looking at
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Speaker 4: with the leash. I got one or two other names
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Speaker 4: that might be interesting. We'll throw that one around at
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Speaker 4: you over as well. At eight seven seven seven nine
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Speaker 4: four one nine seven three Arman. Sarian's right there, he's fluorescent.
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Speaker 4: He's no goin owed up. Hunter bombguards in for Dree Olson.
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Speaker 4: I'm Bill Schmid reporting from the Graat Fruit League. We're
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Speaker 4: huddled up with you on Fox Sports Radio WISCONX Sports
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Speaker 4: Radio Wisconsin. Bill Schmidt alongside Hunter Bombguard, armand Sarians right
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Speaker 4: there as well.
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Speaker 2: And it is a beautiful Tuesday.
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Speaker 4: Morning in what is kind of a downtime during spring training.
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Speaker 4: The first full squad workout reports at Maryvale Baseball Complex
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Speaker 4: formerly known as Maryvale Baseball Complex now the American Family
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Speaker 4: Fields of Phoenix. A beautiful spot for the Milwaukee Brewers
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Speaker 4: to take their reps and get themselves ready for the
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Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty two game marathon that happens. Hunter
19:30
Speaker 4: Bombguard is going to be our Brewers insider covering all
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Speaker 4: of it. He's in for Jewelsen here today and armand
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Speaker 4: Sarian's right over there as well.
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Speaker 2: Hunter.
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Speaker 4: We were talking yesterday about Joey Ortiz in the shortstop
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Speaker 4: spot and the leash that potentially he's.
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Speaker 2: Gonna find and have in the quest to be able
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Speaker 2: to take over here in twenty twenty six and.
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Speaker 4: Take off offensively, because we were waiting for that all year.
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Speaker 2: Last year you got little bits and pieces of it.
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Speaker 4: You mentioned yesterday the day of Memorial Day as being
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Speaker 4: the runway for him to come through, and when we
20:01
Speaker 4: talked about some different players that might be pushing him
20:03
Speaker 4: as well, I was looking at where else could we
20:07
Speaker 4: see a position where the team is now obviously very
20:11
Speaker 4: committed and wanting the young player to do well and
20:13
Speaker 4: wanting them to be able to take off and be
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Speaker 4: the player that you hope he would be when you
20:18
Speaker 4: acquired him. But as center field a spot that also
20:21
Speaker 4: there's a couple of individuals maybe on leash and on
20:25
Speaker 4: a runway of time when you talk about Blake Perkins
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Speaker 4: and Garrett Mitchell, because you would think one of them
20:33
Speaker 4: is an odd man out because they kind of can
20:34
Speaker 4: be a little redundant there in center field. However, you
20:38
Speaker 4: want to see and give an actual chance for Garrett Mitchell,
20:41
Speaker 4: and you can't take Blake Perkins off the field sometimes
20:43
Speaker 4: because of how ultra productive he.
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Speaker 3: Can be well, and as Pat Murphy has said, he's
20:47
Speaker 3: gonna send himself down before he's gonna send Blake Perkins down.
20:50
Speaker 3: So's if that's the case, then Blake Perkins is in
20:53
Speaker 3: it for the long haul. I think I would love
20:55
Speaker 3: to see Garrett Mitchell and in a near everyday position
20:59
Speaker 3: there at center field.
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Speaker 1: Give him almost every day starts.
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Speaker 3: See what he can do with consistent playing time, and
21:05
Speaker 3: see what you have potential there, because I think you
21:07
Speaker 3: have a great you have really a chance to have
21:10
Speaker 3: a really productive outfield. But Churio and left and Mitchell
21:13
Speaker 3: and center, and for you Lick and right, and then
21:15
Speaker 3: if Yelich plays the outfield, then you shuffle that around
21:18
Speaker 3: a little bit. And then yeah, Perkins can definitely be
21:20
Speaker 3: off the bench. He can play a time or two.
21:21
Speaker 3: He can come in late in the game if you
21:23
Speaker 3: want to. Although Garrett Mitchell is a really good center fielder,
21:25
Speaker 3: I think we forget how fast Garrett Mitchell is. I mean,
21:28
Speaker 3: he's gonna be one of the fastest guys on the
21:29
Speaker 3: field when he plays. So I with Garrett Mitchell, I
21:34
Speaker 3: think there's less of a leash when it comes to
21:37
Speaker 3: like Memorial Day. I don't think, you know, they're going
21:40
Speaker 3: to be deciding his fate necessarily around that time. But
21:42
Speaker 3: I do think that he has to stay healthy, and
21:46
Speaker 3: I think this is kind of that one more year.
21:48
Speaker 3: Although although it's like, well if he is, this his
21:52
Speaker 3: last chance to stay healthy, Well, if he doesn't stay healthy, then,
21:56
Speaker 3: you know, not many teams around the league are necessarily
21:59
Speaker 3: gonna want him because of obviously that history, and so
22:02
Speaker 3: it's not like they're going to have an easy time
22:04
Speaker 3: getting rid of him, so to speak. Is not like, oh,
22:06
Speaker 3: if he doesn't stay healthy this year, you just trade
22:08
Speaker 3: him away. Well, I don't think it's necessarily that easy.
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Speaker 3: I also think just by chance that probably he has
22:15
Speaker 3: a better chance of staying healthy this year because he's
22:17
Speaker 3: got a lot of injuries behind him now. So I'm
22:20
Speaker 3: really hoping that he gets kind of ever just a
22:22
Speaker 3: chance to be that everyday player that South Freelick is
22:25
Speaker 3: right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I mean, he might always be our
22:27
Speaker 1: white whale.
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Speaker 5: He might always be the one that you always, you know,
22:29
Speaker 5: got that got away, the one you're always trying to
22:32
Speaker 5: chase and text back and all that stuff. You know,
22:34
Speaker 5: whatever efforts you want to use. But the reality is
22:37
Speaker 5: the talent is there that it's tantalizing, and you know
22:39
Speaker 5: what's put the potential is if he can stay healthy.
22:43
Speaker 5: You know, people forget get some of the you know,
22:46
Speaker 5: one of the biggest homers I think in playoff history
22:48
Speaker 5: was when that.
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Speaker 1: Series so part of that centerpiece.
22:52
Speaker 5: I still think it's it behooves the Brewers to try
22:55
Speaker 5: and get him to a place that, like you said,
22:58
Speaker 5: he can play consistently with health Hunter and Billy, and
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Speaker 5: a place where he can be part of it, because
23:03
Speaker 5: he could be a valuable piece for the Brewers going forward,
23:06
Speaker 5: even if it's not in your center field future or
23:08
Speaker 5: in your outfield future. But if he does become a
23:12
Speaker 5: trade piece or something like that, you know, you want
23:15
Speaker 5: to get his value up because obviously you don't get
23:18
Speaker 5: that by trading away at something that's that say, we're
23:20
Speaker 5: damage goods, right, I mean, if he's injured, so you
23:22
Speaker 5: want to him going.
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Speaker 4: Arman, isn't that one of our favorite things to be
23:26
Speaker 4: able to discuss, Well, why don't you just trade the
23:27
Speaker 4: guys that aren't good?
23:28
Speaker 2: Why why don't you guys trade this guy who's not
23:30
Speaker 2: going to be playing it exactly? And then you get
23:32
Speaker 2: somebody awesome.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way, right, It doesn't.
23:35
Speaker 4: Crazily enough, it doesn't necessarily work that way. But but
23:38
Speaker 4: you do wonder like, is there more of a an
23:41
Speaker 4: opportunity for Garrett Mitchell to be able to Like you said, Hunter,
23:45
Speaker 4: odds are odds, are the injuries are behind him?
23:49
Speaker 2: Or you know, maybe it just it is something that
23:51
Speaker 2: tracks him.
23:52
Speaker 4: You see a player who's so so competent, went on
23:57
Speaker 4: the field so competitive and also as a little bit
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Speaker 4: of the clutch factor that I feel like you're always
24:02
Speaker 4: looking for. It feels like Mitchell's had that flare for
24:04
Speaker 4: the dramatic when able to play an extended period of time.
24:08
Speaker 4: You hope that that would be the case, that he'd
24:10
Speaker 4: be able to be there the other one here and
24:12
Speaker 4: I mentioned it before the break? Am I reading too
24:16
Speaker 4: much into the Gary Sanchez ad? Hunter that it means
24:19
Speaker 4: that we may never see Jefferson Caro, who I was
24:22
Speaker 4: told is Pat Murphy's favorite prospect. I mean, he's been
24:26
Speaker 4: a top one hundred prospects for a long time.
24:28
Speaker 2: Now.
24:28
Speaker 4: You want to talk about a player that suffered a
24:30
Speaker 4: couple of freak injuries as well, but he's been along
24:34
Speaker 4: and on the forty man roster. He's been close to
24:36
Speaker 4: breaking the forty man roster. It felt like he's been
24:38
Speaker 4: close to breaking camp a couple of times, but he's
24:41
Speaker 4: never been able to get into Milwaukee for an extended run.
24:45
Speaker 4: And I'm wondering, if you know, three million bucks to
24:47
Speaker 4: Gary Sanchez means you're probably not seeing him again this
24:51
Speaker 4: year and maybe you're once again even just stockpiling him
24:55
Speaker 4: stashing away in triple A, or there's a question to
24:57
Speaker 4: be had there.
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Speaker 3: There is a question because I thought, okay, this is
25:00
Speaker 3: probably the year that he is going to be the backup. Now,
25:02
Speaker 3: you also look at his career numbers in the minor
25:04
Speaker 3: leagues and he's never played more than ninety five games
25:07
Speaker 3: in a season, So there's you know that it would
25:10
Speaker 3: be a significant if he were to be There's a
25:14
Speaker 3: couple of things there. If he were to be an
25:15
Speaker 3: every day catcher, obviously it'd be a significant jump. He's
25:17
Speaker 3: not going to be the every day cacher catcher because
25:19
Speaker 3: Contreras would be, So it's not like he would surpass
25:22
Speaker 3: necessarily ninety five. I don't think he would if he's
25:24
Speaker 3: the if even if he was the backup catcher, throughout
25:26
Speaker 3: the season. However, if you do think that he is
25:31
Speaker 3: the catcher of the future, I do think you want
25:34
Speaker 3: him to get more consistent playing time. You want to
25:36
Speaker 3: see if that arm can continue to bounce back from
25:38
Speaker 3: the injury.
25:40
Speaker 1: And you're not going.
25:41
Speaker 3: To necessarily get that at the major league level because
25:43
Speaker 3: of how much of an ironman William Contreras is, and
25:46
Speaker 3: knowing Contrara's after this year, only has one more year
25:48
Speaker 3: of control, I do wonder if they think, Okay, this
25:51
Speaker 3: guy's probably going to be our future. We want him
25:54
Speaker 3: to continue to get continuous at bats and not be
25:56
Speaker 3: a plug and play guy. Yet you get Gary in here,
26:00
Speaker 3: and I wouldn't be surprised if there are times when
26:03
Speaker 3: they do carry three catchers. Possibly, if let's say Caro
26:08
Speaker 3: starts the year and he's tearing it up in Triple A,
26:10
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if he comes up and maybe
26:12
Speaker 3: plays some. And Gary, he only played twenty nine games
26:16
Speaker 3: last year, so he's got to show that he can
26:18
Speaker 3: come back and play consistently as well too. So I
26:21
Speaker 3: think they have a couple of guys there. I think
26:23
Speaker 3: kind of Reese Maguire's probably out of the picture now,
26:25
Speaker 3: when it comes to that back, I don't know if
26:26
Speaker 3: he ever was really in the picture. I think he's
26:28
Speaker 3: more of that Jorgel Farro signing of last year where
26:31
Speaker 3: he spends time in Triple A and if they ever
26:33
Speaker 3: need him, if they get to that depth point and
26:35
Speaker 3: they need him, they do. I think. I think Caro
26:38
Speaker 3: still has a chance to be the catcher in the future.
26:41
Speaker 3: But right now, you've got Contraras, who's an iron man,
26:45
Speaker 3: coming back healthy, the fingers all all back in normal,
26:47
Speaker 3: which is great. You get a veteran guy and Gary
26:50
Speaker 3: Sanchez who can back him up. You can put Caro
26:52
Speaker 3: at Triple A and get him going. He spent fifty
26:55
Speaker 3: eight games in Triple A last year, eleven with the
26:58
Speaker 3: ACL Brewers, so only played sixty nine total games last year.
27:02
Speaker 3: So get him some of our bats, see how that
27:04
Speaker 3: arm progresses, and then you can make a decision. Or
27:06
Speaker 3: like you said, if they want to just keep going
27:08
Speaker 3: with a veteran as a backup, and and maybe they
27:11
Speaker 3: have other plans to extend William Contreras that that we're
27:13
Speaker 3: not aware of, then that becomes a discussion of do.
27:16
Speaker 1: Your trade yet for sint Caro.
27:17
Speaker 3: So I think right now thy'll start him in triple A,
27:20
Speaker 3: get him, get his feet under him there, and then
27:22
Speaker 3: you see where it goes from there.
27:24
Speaker 4: And guys, and you know, I'm excited about the extending
27:26
Speaker 4: William Contreras conversation. That's the conversation I definitely like to have,
27:30
Speaker 4: but I know it's probably one that we're not going
27:32
Speaker 4: to have.
27:32
Speaker 1: Well, they very excited.
27:33
Speaker 5: I think what's tricky for major league clubs is the
27:36
Speaker 5: position can be tricky.
27:37
Speaker 1: In a lot of in a couple of regards.
27:39
Speaker 5: One, when you talk about Carow and you talk about
27:41
Speaker 5: catching prospects in general, it's been notoriously a more inconsistent
27:45
Speaker 5: position to try and to try and prognosticate going forward
27:49
Speaker 5: with players, right right, Guys, I think that's you know,
27:51
Speaker 5: I've seen some stuff on that I think that's proven
27:53
Speaker 5: not to be true, is that you can count on
27:57
Speaker 5: there's less known quantity in catching prospects than a lot
28:00
Speaker 5: of other positions for another number of reasons, And the
28:03
Speaker 5: same thing with veteran catchers getting into their later years,
28:06
Speaker 5: how their bodies might or might not break down, Which
28:08
Speaker 5: makes the William contrerass exactly the situation interesting that you
28:12
Speaker 5: brought up as well, building yes, because if.
28:13
Speaker 3: You give him four or five years right now, it's
28:18
Speaker 3: it's risky, especially for Milwaukee. I just don't know if
28:21
Speaker 3: I see it at his age where he's at as
28:24
Speaker 3: I know, as good as he's been, but I just
28:27
Speaker 3: don't know if in this market you can do that. However,
28:29
Speaker 3: how does the CBA negotiations at a salary cap or
28:32
Speaker 3: floor play into that, because that's a real possibility next year,
28:35
Speaker 3: and if that's the case, the floor is almost more interesting.
28:38
Speaker 3: You put like one hundred and fifty at a floor,
28:41
Speaker 3: then you put the Brewers at twenty to thirty million
28:43
Speaker 3: to play with more each year than where they've been
28:46
Speaker 3: hovering around that one twenty five to one to thirty mark.
28:48
Speaker 3: You put another twenty to thirty million dollars in their
28:51
Speaker 3: pocket that they have to spend, and then I think
28:53
Speaker 3: you can talk about how then it's maybe more of
28:56
Speaker 3: a realistic possibility and that's just possibly next year already.
29:00
Speaker 3: So if that's the case, this is going to be
29:02
Speaker 3: fascinating because they're both converging at once. So if they
29:06
Speaker 3: keep them obviously through this year, like obviously I would
29:08
Speaker 3: expect them to and not pull you know, a Josh
29:11
Speaker 3: hater where they did it a year and a couple
29:13
Speaker 3: months in advance, keep him for the offseason, then see
29:15
Speaker 3: what you want to do with one year left of control.
29:18
Speaker 3: Then it merges with that CBA negotiation, and then you're
29:21
Speaker 3: talking about a really fascinating discussion.
29:23
Speaker 5: Then you start thinking, what's the bigger risk for the
29:25
Speaker 5: organization is in investing in a veteran catcher that's somewhat
29:28
Speaker 5: of a known quantity, although there is never such a
29:30
Speaker 5: thing as a catcher, or or investing in a catching
29:33
Speaker 5: prospect future whose future is inconsistent based on a lot
29:36
Speaker 5: you know, I'm aldough to remember there was on hell
29:38
Speaker 5: Salome he was the h in I don't know what
29:41
Speaker 5: years that was. I think the mid two thousands, maybe
29:44
Speaker 5: later on that he was, you know, part of a
29:46
Speaker 5: you know, the Laporta group that was like the next
29:49
Speaker 5: wave of prospects, and he was a big catching prospect.
29:51
Speaker 5: I think had one down year and he quit baseball.
29:53
Speaker 5: So you just never really know what's going to happen
29:55
Speaker 5: in that position. Also, the way we evaluate catchers, I
29:58
Speaker 5: think is changing. Guy, see what you think about this
30:02
Speaker 5: based on the way the rules have changed. Right for
30:04
Speaker 5: I think catchers were long evaluated on their ability to like,
30:07
Speaker 5: you know, can you hold a runner?
30:08
Speaker 1: Can you can you stealing frame?
30:10
Speaker 5: Those type of things, And now with the cal Radis
30:13
Speaker 5: of the world are popping them out of the park
30:14
Speaker 5: all the time, and it's less you know, with the
30:16
Speaker 5: pitch count and an abs now this year as well,
30:20
Speaker 5: and the you know, you know, amount of times you
30:23
Speaker 5: can go to first base on the and the throwovers
30:26
Speaker 5: and things like that, maybe that's less less of an
30:28
Speaker 5: evaluation point as it is other than just can you
30:31
Speaker 5: provide offense and things like that.
30:33
Speaker 4: Well, in Hunter, the interesting thing is because he brings
30:36
Speaker 4: up cal Rally's name. Cal Raley is one of the
30:38
Speaker 4: better defensive catchers in the game, right, Like he's he's
30:41
Speaker 4: phenomenal over there. But arming you're right, he's getting one
30:44
Speaker 4: hundred and five million bucks for six years because he's
30:46
Speaker 4: hitting forty or fifty homers a year. It's not because
30:48
Speaker 4: of necessarily what he's doing defensively, right. I do wonder
30:52
Speaker 4: if that that eliminates a little bit of the value
30:56
Speaker 4: or hinders some of their value. But like I'm also
30:58
Speaker 4: looking at will Smith, who I think is one of
30:59
Speaker 4: the players in the game, and my man's making like
31:02
Speaker 4: fourteen million a year. Like that to me, why it's stomachable.
31:06
Speaker 4: That's the one where you look at and it makes
31:08
Speaker 4: a lot of sense.
31:09
Speaker 2: Hunter. You also brought up something that I mean, you
31:11
Speaker 2: want to talk about licking your chops? Arman. We started talking?
31:15
Speaker 2: Are we talking sports business here? Did Hunter bring in
31:17
Speaker 2: some sports business conversation? Would like?
31:19
Speaker 1: I think it did, which is like barbaracue chicken for you.
31:21
Speaker 4: You know, oh my god, it's just fresh off of
31:24
Speaker 4: the grill a Hunter, I've never thought about it that way.
31:27
Speaker 4: I've always thought the floor would be the one that
31:29
Speaker 4: would impact more teams below the Brewers. I didn't realize
31:33
Speaker 4: one fifty was like a legitimate number that we were
31:35
Speaker 4: looking at. I always thought that it would be one hundred,
31:38
Speaker 4: one twenty. And I know, maybe you might have just
31:40
Speaker 4: been throwing something out there, so I don't mean to
31:41
Speaker 4: throw you completely in and have that that blender into
31:44
Speaker 4: your mentions. But I really do like the thought of
31:48
Speaker 4: it being even higher because I had, again shack meme,
31:53
Speaker 4: I was unfamiliar with your game. I had really thought
31:56
Speaker 4: that it was going to be some of the teams
31:58
Speaker 4: that were below the Brewers in the spending pool, because
32:01
Speaker 4: as much as the Brewers will get knocked for not
32:04
Speaker 4: being one of the highest spending teams, they're never one
32:06
Speaker 4: of the least spending prints in the last you know,
32:10
Speaker 4: ten to fifteen years. So I do think that's an
32:12
Speaker 4: interesting one where they could be forced to put some
32:15
Speaker 4: cash more on the table for some of the guys
32:17
Speaker 4: that would be in on their culture. And I just
32:19
Speaker 4: look at the value wise, everybody looks at the amount
32:21
Speaker 4: of games played and the value you're gonna have at
32:24
Speaker 4: first base or catcher. I just think that William Contrero's
32:28
Speaker 4: bat's gonna play wherever it goes, and maybe if you're
32:30
Speaker 4: able to spike on it on a down year off
32:32
Speaker 4: of a finger injury, hunter, you're able to get it
32:34
Speaker 4: at a little bit better of a price for the team.
32:37
Speaker 1: True.
32:37
Speaker 3: I mean if he had a down year, you know,
32:41
Speaker 3: last year, technically, when you compare it to twenty twenty four,
32:44
Speaker 3: and then maybe if he has another one, maybe it
32:46
Speaker 3: becomes you know, more affordable. But then also you're not
32:49
Speaker 3: getting as much production as you want from William Contrera,
32:51
Speaker 3: So that's also a thing to think about. The Athletic
32:54
Speaker 3: did put out they had a great article about the
32:57
Speaker 3: possibilities of the cap and the floor, and they set
32:59
Speaker 3: it reasonable goal from an ownership perspective, might be two
33:02
Speaker 3: hundred and forty million at the top and one hundred
33:05
Speaker 3: and sixty million at the bottom. So again one sixty
33:08
Speaker 3: and you look at where the Brewers payroll will bend.
33:10
Speaker 3: That's yeah, like thirty more million that you have to spend.
33:14
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it is.
33:17
Speaker 3: That is such a significant difference if and we've always
33:21
Speaker 3: talked about the cap, and that's gonna obviously the guy
33:25
Speaker 3: the Los Angelestalgiers who have a four hundred and two
33:27
Speaker 3: million dollars payroll, Obviously that's going to bring them down,
33:30
Speaker 3: and that's what everybody's talking about. But bringing everybody else
33:33
Speaker 3: up the floors, yeah, it right, And it it gives
33:37
Speaker 3: the Brewers a little more chance to sign some of
33:39
Speaker 3: those free agents. And it also it raises the tide
33:43
Speaker 3: of all boats now that you're still going to have
33:44
Speaker 3: the organizations that aren't run well. You look at the NFL,
33:47
Speaker 3: you look at right other sports who you have always
33:50
Speaker 3: those organizations that just cannot get out of their own way.
33:53
Speaker 3: And I think you're still going to have that, right
33:55
Speaker 3: the Dolphins. Yeah, but I think that would just as
34:00
Speaker 3: much as we're thinking about the cap part of it,
34:02
Speaker 3: the floor might be even the more fasting part for
34:04
Speaker 3: the brewers specific.
34:06
Speaker 5: It's a good point, really quick. Let's get a speaking
34:08
Speaker 5: of that before we get to the break. Let's get
34:09
Speaker 5: a couple of techs in here, not Tim Notts, and
34:12
Speaker 5: I'll take the under on Mitchell making its labor day. Okay,
34:15
Speaker 5: well not not Wow, way to get us all excited
34:17
Speaker 5: on a on a Tuesday morning. So the sunshine from
34:22
Speaker 5: Red Hot Tim not continues. He says, I'm excited from
34:25
Speaker 5: Mark to extend contreras too. I'm also excited for my
34:28
Speaker 5: weekend with Sidney Sweeney, neither of which is gonna happen. Look, hey,
34:32
Speaker 5: look Red Hot he's she's single. Now you have a chance,
34:35
Speaker 5: I mean there, I thought Pooka was linked to her,
34:37
Speaker 5: but that was apparently just a false.
34:38
Speaker 1: Rumor you got.
34:41
Speaker 2: Wasn't she engaged?
34:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're separated now.
34:43
Speaker 5: So she is single and she's in She's been linked
34:47
Speaker 5: to music mogul Scooter Braun, but not a serious relationship.
34:51
Speaker 1: So that's your updates.
34:52
Speaker 5: So for all you men out there that are still
34:55
Speaker 5: hoping and dreaming, you know, that's what life's about, right,
34:57
Speaker 5: Sidney Sweeney so red hot Tim not making his jokes,
35:00
Speaker 5: but maybe you will have a.
35:01
Speaker 1: Weekend date with her at some point.
35:03
Speaker 2: Did we have a Bobby uh, what was that girl's name? Situation?
35:07
Speaker 2: Rolling here?
35:07
Speaker 4: Bobby Aldoff? Yeah, are you talking about the podcaster right?
35:11
Speaker 4: Broke up with a long time fiance for a guy
35:14
Speaker 4: named Scooter?
35:16
Speaker 2: Is she? I mean, well, that's what you just explained, Sweeney.
35:22
Speaker 4: He's going full Bobby on us here dumping her longtime
35:25
Speaker 4: man for a guy named Scooter. I mean listening, it
35:27
Speaker 4: might not be Drake, but.
35:29
Speaker 1: I missed theirs. I didn't know Bobby all Hoof was dating.
35:31
Speaker 5: She's apparently she's dating Tyler Hawkins, who's a basketball player.
35:35
Speaker 1: Is Bobby the person that's always interviewing Drake? Yes? Yes,
35:39
Speaker 1: the situations?
35:41
Speaker 2: You knew that hunter.
35:45
Speaker 4: She was in? Yeah, oh yeah, everyone watches Everyone that
35:47
Speaker 4: says they're not watching one of those videos.
35:49
Speaker 2: They know they sit there and.
35:52
Speaker 1: Why is this person always interviewing Drake?
35:55
Speaker 5: And really quick, Jenny and Appleton's all upset with me
35:58
Speaker 5: saying the Olympics are not part of the sports desert.
36:01
Speaker 5: We do watch in the morning, so we do see
36:02
Speaker 5: it live. The men's and women's hockey has been great.
36:05
Speaker 5: I agree, our team's.
36:06
Speaker 1: Been winning and playing well.
36:07
Speaker 5: I agree, Janny can't wait for the USN gold medal
36:11
Speaker 5: or Canada and gold medal game. Yes, the women are
36:13
Speaker 5: playing Canada and the gold medal, and I'm assuming the
36:15
Speaker 5: men are going to be there too. I don't want
36:17
Speaker 5: to I don't want to cut my chakdos. Yeah, they're
36:19
Speaker 5: waiting for their opponent, right, Yes, they're waiting for Sweden
36:21
Speaker 5: or Latvia winner to play it in the knockout round.
36:23
Speaker 5: But my point is, it's not live at night, so
36:26
Speaker 5: I understand, Yes, it is live during the day.
36:29
Speaker 4: No, you know, arman, I'm glad you threw that in there,
36:32
Speaker 4: because it is and and it absolutely matters, and we
36:35
Speaker 4: enjoy it and we're we're appreciative that the Olympics comes.
36:38
Speaker 4: But it's one of those where you start sitting back saying, Wow,
36:41
Speaker 4: if I wasn't watching the Peacock gold.
36:43
Speaker 1: Zone, I love. By the way, this would be tough.
36:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, there would be a tough tough time to be
36:49
Speaker 4: a sports fan because there would be a lot of
36:50
Speaker 4: reruns or maybe a lot of NFL total access for
36:53
Speaker 4: the ninety seventh time having to check it in eight seven, seven, seven,
36:57
Speaker 4: nine four one nine seven three gets some more of
36:59
Speaker 4: the text. More comments as well on the YouTube page
37:01
Speaker 4: coming up. On the other side, Hunter Bombguard's right there,
37:04
Speaker 4: armand's on the other side. I'm Billy Schmid. It's no
37:06
Speaker 4: bs on the game.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back.
37:09
Speaker 3: It is the huddle here on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
37:12
Speaker 3: Hunter Bombguard in for Drew Olsen. Here we are awaiting
37:17
Speaker 3: Billy's arrival back on the porch there in Florida.
37:21
Speaker 1: Billy's dealing with some business down there. There is no
37:23
Speaker 1: doubt about it. Billy's dealing with some some issues down there,
37:28
Speaker 1: and it's not no fault of his own.
37:30
Speaker 5: No.
37:31
Speaker 1: Oh, now he's gotta he got a visitor. Oh, this guy,
37:34
Speaker 1: this is what I wanted. This is what I want. Benson.
37:38
Speaker 1: Benson is gonna be joining us live here, Benson joining
37:41
Speaker 1: us live. This is what I want to try about.
37:42
Speaker 1: That guy's no worry.
37:43
Speaker 2: You're good now, Yeah, we got we got the little
37:47
Speaker 2: guy with us here.
37:47
Speaker 5: I didn't know if you're doing some negotiations with the
37:49
Speaker 5: UH with some of the neighbors there. I heard it's
37:51
Speaker 5: getting really wild down there.
37:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it has an armand I'm glad you mentioned
37:55
Speaker 4: that because I did. Uh, I did just do something
37:57
Speaker 4: that I probably shouldn't have, and some people are gonna be,
38:00
Speaker 4: you know, maybe a upset with me.
38:02
Speaker 2: I'm grabbing him for I'm grabbing him for the cuteness factor.
38:05
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta have it, like is your human
38:07
Speaker 1: shield and it goes down? Yeah, he might be the
38:09
Speaker 1: human shield?
38:10
Speaker 2: You okay with that, buddy?
38:11
Speaker 1: Yeah?
38:11
Speaker 2: Is that good? You say?
38:12
Speaker 1: Hi, little camera that'smerized by this thing.
38:16
Speaker 2: A little camera shy.
38:18
Speaker 4: But yeah, so we uh, during the first segment, probably
38:21
Speaker 4: about five or six minutes there we go, we got uh,
38:26
Speaker 4: we got some rocks thrown up at us are. I
38:30
Speaker 4: was trying to figure out what it was. I was
38:31
Speaker 4: trying to figure out what it was, and it was
38:33
Speaker 4: a lock, and then it was then it was a
38:35
Speaker 4: rake being hit. So trying to figure out what was happening. Wow,
38:38
Speaker 4: And uh, we had definitely woke up a deepcent amount
38:40
Speaker 4: of the complex today.
38:41
Speaker 1: Wow, that's tough.
38:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we were a little rattled early, but I
38:47
Speaker 4: think it's getting better, especially again, especially if we have
38:50
Speaker 4: a human shield, Like, there's gonna be hard to be upset.
38:53
Speaker 2: I mean, again, there's a net in front of us.
38:54
Speaker 2: So he's not gonna get hit. Trust.
38:56
Speaker 4: I'm hopefully I'm not having any CPS upset people up
39:00
Speaker 4: that with us here. But just for a cuteness factor,
39:02
Speaker 4: I thought, you know, a nine month old should help
39:04
Speaker 4: us out here a.
39:04
Speaker 5: Little bit, right, I agree, But I I think so
39:06
Speaker 5: definitely you got Ben's in there for the cuteness factor.
39:09
Speaker 1: Naturally disarming.
39:10
Speaker 5: But I didn't want, and we talked yesterday about, you know,
39:13
Speaker 5: about the complex and how much of a community it is.
39:16
Speaker 5: I didn't want mister Schmid to have to, you know,
39:18
Speaker 5: get into it with anybody out there like that's something
39:20
Speaker 5: I'm worried about. He's not gonna have to start, you know,
39:23
Speaker 5: call any anybody down by the pool or anything like that.
39:26
Speaker 1: Right, there's not gonna be any The rock thing is
39:29
Speaker 1: wild now that that's that's one.
39:31
Speaker 5: I know. Bill Schmid isn't gonna take the standing. No,
39:34
Speaker 5: I know you're not gonna take that sitting down Billy, right,
39:37
Speaker 5: I mean, oh.
39:37
Speaker 2: Big Bill. I thought you've had big Bill Bill. So
39:41
Speaker 2: now he is.
39:42
Speaker 4: He has potentially already put in multiple calls to the
39:45
Speaker 4: ho A President.
39:46
Speaker 1: Let's go baby.
39:47
Speaker 4: He's pressive here, being proactive about it a little asking
39:52
Speaker 4: for forgiveness, right, because you know, maybe in the bylaws
39:55
Speaker 4: there's some kind of noise violation outside at a certain time, right,
39:58
Speaker 4: you know, maybe there's many, but you're working there, you're
40:02
Speaker 4: somewhere in there.
40:03
Speaker 2: There might be, But it's also a state, right. Can
40:06
Speaker 2: we not get a can we not get a small
40:09
Speaker 2: injunction to allow us for a two to three day run? Yeah?
40:12
Speaker 4: Right?
40:12
Speaker 5: And it doesn't it doesn't give that guy right to
40:15
Speaker 5: take matters into his own hands and start chucking bebbels, like,
40:18
Speaker 5: what is this?
40:19
Speaker 1: Come on, what is this Rapunzel?
40:23
Speaker 4: That's a really really good question, I like, but you know,
40:26
Speaker 4: I don't know that Rapunzel is exactly the right one.
40:29
Speaker 4: Would that be?
40:29
Speaker 2: Would that be correct? There?
40:33
Speaker 1: The three bears, Well that's the three bear situation.
40:36
Speaker 5: Well that's that's in the Big bad Wolf huffed and
40:38
Speaker 5: puffed and try to blow the house down.
40:40
Speaker 1: That's a different situation.
40:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, the wasn't that Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was
40:45
Speaker 3: gonna say the boy who cried Wolf that's a different Yeah.
40:47
Speaker 4: And never did you realize huff and puff was going
40:49
Speaker 4: to have a totally different interaction.
40:51
Speaker 2: You thought it was just going to be snoop. Yeah,
40:54
Speaker 2: you thought it was just gonna be a snoop.
40:55
Speaker 4: You like playing huff and puff, right, And all of
40:57
Speaker 4: a sudden, the casino hotel is like, wait, second week,
41:00
Speaker 4: can play a uffin Puff game?
41:02
Speaker 2: Next genius idea.
41:04
Speaker 5: If you get into a billy Uh, we need to
41:06
Speaker 5: recap on the ship. Here's the thing, though, you're only
41:09
Speaker 5: on with us tomorrow, right, Yeah, so you got I'll
41:12
Speaker 5: be back on friday'll be back on Friday. So you
41:14
Speaker 5: gotta get through one more day, smooth things out Thursday,
41:18
Speaker 5: and then just get But you know what, did they
41:20
Speaker 5: only hear you, Annancie because you could give the shaggy defense.
41:23
Speaker 1: You know, you could give just it wasn't me. You know,
41:25
Speaker 1: you can give a shaggy defense, you know.
41:28
Speaker 2: So that was my thought. I'm like, how did he
41:31
Speaker 2: realize that it's me?
41:32
Speaker 1: Yeah?
41:33
Speaker 4: Well, there's about sixty different places in here, and I
41:37
Speaker 4: was the only one with the porch light on.
41:40
Speaker 1: That's that's a quick that's a that's a quick tell.
41:44
Speaker 2: It was probably a quick tell to be able to
41:46
Speaker 2: figure it out.
41:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was tough, but we also woke him up,
41:50
Speaker 4: so I don't know that it really worked out very well.
41:52
Speaker 4: Everybody's been awake since the show started in the house
41:56
Speaker 4: is mad at you? No, I don't know that it's
42:01
Speaker 4: a full messenger. I'm definitely not everyone's favorite person right now,
42:05
Speaker 4: like I would say out of the time that I've
42:10
Speaker 4: my parents know this. Stor is sorry, I'm the favorite
42:12
Speaker 4: child right like, there's a moment where my sister knows this,
42:15
Speaker 4: I'm the favorite.
42:17
Speaker 2: There's a moment where you're gonna have to battle for
42:19
Speaker 2: that that nod.
42:21
Speaker 4: This is probably that week that we're gonna have to
42:23
Speaker 4: put in some sweat, equity arm and to be able
42:25
Speaker 4: to keep ourselves and.
42:25
Speaker 5: Nont worries, no worries, and we're Bozzie. It's a break
42:27
Speaker 5: here and we're gonna get the other side. But a
42:29
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of people are starting to bow
42:31
Speaker 5: up for you, Billy, don't worry. So we're getting We're
42:32
Speaker 5: getting the militia together to go support you. If there's
42:35
Speaker 5: a rumble by the lockers in the hallway, so.
42:38
Speaker 4: If there's a if there's a rumble by the pool,
42:40
Speaker 4: we'll have to figure it out, all right.
42:41
Speaker 2: You want to say goodbye, everybody, Budy, say bye bye.
42:45
Speaker 4: Almost thought about it. We'll be back after this hour.
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Speaker 4: Number two of the huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin's
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Speaker 4: coming up right after this