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06/16/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 1: Say, right into the streak. Time to wake up and
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Speaker 1: talk about the teams you love. Nobody know with the
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they can play be right.
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Speaker 2: Three ninety sick bag be he see park is not long.
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Speaker 1: Go out there and play this ball game like I
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Speaker 1: know you can play it it. Drew Olson, mythical legendary
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Speaker 4: Let's start raging. Fellas and ladies. Welcome in. Sun is up.
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Speaker 4: We're ready.
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Speaker 6: Yeah in twoesday Tuesday, when the club goes up, Drew,
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Speaker 6: it always does hit differently when the sun is up.
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Speaker 6: It's Summerfest week, so the party really does go all
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Speaker 6: week long, and really will for the next three weeks
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Speaker 6: because this is this was a test of will. This
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Speaker 6: is a test of power and pure determination that you're
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Speaker 6: going to roll through eleven days. Now, they give you
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Speaker 6: a nice little break here, but Thursday is still staring
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Speaker 6: us right down the trail.
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Speaker 4: Seventies, sunny music, beer can't hardly wait.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's gonna be going the best times of the
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Speaker 3: year in Milwaukee for sure, and Wisconsin.
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Speaker 4: People come from all over.
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Speaker 3: It's fabulous and uh, I mean that's one of my
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Speaker 3: favorite things.
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Speaker 7: That is, guys, it really is. We're looking forward to it.
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Speaker 7: But I have a big, big conundrum. I have a big,
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Speaker 7: big problem for alright, tonight, So Thursday night, you know,
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Speaker 7: if Summerfest is gonna be great, but we've got this
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Speaker 7: schedule and you know, one of my favorite bands, the
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Speaker 7: erstwhile you know, Third that Blind is playing at ten pm. Whoa,
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Speaker 7: you know, I always you know, I never missed a
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Speaker 7: third Ad Bloine show and they're in town. I mean
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Speaker 7: you only get a chance to see Third Ead Blind
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Speaker 7: for the eighth time once, yes, correct, I mean, so
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Speaker 7: what do I do about that?
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Speaker 4: So this has been a problem for me now.
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Speaker 7: Also, the Gin Blossoms are also doing a later show,
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Speaker 7: but we're gonna that's the second.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the one before on the last weekend. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: so we're off the third.
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Speaker 7: So I'm not too worried about that one, you know,
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Speaker 7: because your boy, can can sleep in. But I mean,
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Speaker 7: there's is there any realistic way I can do the
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Speaker 7: Third Eye Blind show Thursday night?
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Speaker 4: Like really, really you can?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: What are you talking about? I'm not gonna sleep at all.
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Speaker 4: It's been the clock.
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Speaker 6: Oh I think I think you can absolutely still get
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Speaker 6: a few. You're not gonna get five hours, right, Let's
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Speaker 6: be honest. You're talking three hours a shut eye three
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Speaker 6: hours maybe, and you're and you're building in a nap
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Speaker 6: before and and app after. But it really depends on
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Speaker 6: how much do you want to make sure that you
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Speaker 6: can party it up one more time with Third Eye
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Speaker 6: Blind here in twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 7: That's the thing is how bad do I want it?
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Speaker 7: I mean, Stephen Jenkins isn't getting the younger, and neither
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Speaker 7: am I. You know, think about however, I've seen this
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Speaker 7: show before multiple times.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't mean I don't want to see it again.
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Speaker 7: It just means it's not like I can't sit there
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Speaker 7: and say, boy, I'm gonna miss my chance to see
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Speaker 7: them because I've seen them. And you know how it
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Speaker 7: is getting on a summer fest at the late show
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Speaker 7: like that thing can be jammed up.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes I gotta get home. I gotta fall asleep. Let's
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Speaker 4: just crash. I could do that. Run just invite yourself.
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Speaker 7: Over, because you're cool with that, Trewly, just leave the door,
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Speaker 7: leave it and leave the code.
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Speaker 6: I mean, we'll set up a couple of microphones. You
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Speaker 6: guys could do the show in there on the patio
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Speaker 6: the next morning.
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Speaker 4: Down in Florida. That'd be the Bill Schmid move. I
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Speaker 4: don't know, this is up, this is gonna be.
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Speaker 7: This is gonna be a little conundrum for me as
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Speaker 7: we go on this week. It's like, how much am
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Speaker 7: I ready to run from the grind? How much much
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Speaker 7: am I ready to embrace the grind? How much am
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Speaker 7: I ready to actually try and get it done. So
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Speaker 7: it's a tough one, guys. But uh, for some reason,
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Speaker 7: I didn't look at it like ahead of time, like
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Speaker 7: I just knew they were playing.
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Speaker 4: And for some reason I didn't look look at it
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Speaker 4: and say, oh, you were just thinking your life was
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Speaker 4: fully charmed, not semi charming. You were gonna have to
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Speaker 4: make a sacrifice to go over there. Believe that's a
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Speaker 4: good one. That's a good one.
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Speaker 7: I mean, what if they play some of my favorites
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Speaker 7: and I'm not there to see it.
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Speaker 6: Oh, they will, they will. They're playing the hits, babe.
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Speaker 6: They're playing the hits.
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Speaker 4: And playing the deep cuts that I like, I'm not
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Speaker 4: really playing.
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Speaker 6: The world's largest music festival and leaving some leaving some
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Speaker 6: meat on the bone because.
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Speaker 7: You know what they say, it's a weekend event. Now,
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Speaker 7: it's like sort of Thursday nights on a weekend Friday,
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Speaker 7: Junior is this is this is the test, Drew. This
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Speaker 7: is where this will be. If you got dilemmas five
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Speaker 7: in you, five real short nights in you. This is
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Speaker 7: one the probably you know what. It's a decision for
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Speaker 7: Wednesday and Thursday. It is the five o'clock Club.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to put any wet blanket on.
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Speaker 7: I don't want to, you know, I don't want to
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Speaker 7: be right on the parade or anything like that.
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Speaker 4: This is the five o'clock Club. We are part of
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Speaker 4: five o'clock clubbers, Drew.
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Speaker 3: They're all the same, well, I mean, everybody who's up
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Speaker 3: at this time. You know, you have times when it's
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Speaker 3: you got a late night, yester night before. Now, if
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Speaker 3: Third Eye Blind was playing the way Summerfest is configured,
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Speaker 3: they're playing on the north end of the grounds at
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Speaker 3: the U Line Warehouse, right, Yeah, sadly if they were
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Speaker 3: at the Bemo Pavilion, be able to hear it from
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Speaker 3: my patio, because that's the stage that I can hear. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that would be that, that would be the home game
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Speaker 3: for you.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you could get right out into the parking lot
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Speaker 7: as soon as that lasts hit.
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Speaker 3: You know, I could be I sit there on my
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Speaker 3: on my hear it here, so yeah, but we won't
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Speaker 3: be able to hear it. Instead, I'll be able to
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Speaker 3: hear the dulcin tones of Charlie Wilson, who was you know,
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Speaker 3: Uncle Charlie.
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Speaker 4: He's the dude. Uncle is the he was in the
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Speaker 4: Gap band. Okay, we're going.
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Speaker 6: Now, we're going Gap band for you well, and the
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Speaker 6: getting out of Summerfest for the late show. You're You're right,
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Speaker 6: it is a problem. It's not necessarily the easiest one. Uh,
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Speaker 6: are you just gonna are you just gonna fly it?
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Speaker 6: You're just gonna pop up on the bus, flyre man
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Speaker 6: roll yourself. The most efficient way to get in and
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Speaker 6: out thousand percent. Not close flyers, not bad at all.
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Speaker 7: It's be Honestly, I haven't done it in a while
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Speaker 7: because usually I just get a parking pass.
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Speaker 4: You don't want to drink any well, no, it's it's
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Speaker 4: that's the part that that.
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Speaker 7: Makes me interested in the flyer that uh you know,
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Speaker 7: that's the part that feels garious because the flyer was
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Speaker 7: the party.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that was the best thing. Going wild.
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Speaker 7: When you were in high school, you really realistically couldn't
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Speaker 7: do much. Going on a summerfest is one of the
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Speaker 7: most exciting things you could do. You could do it
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Speaker 7: public transportation. We're going, we're taking the bus and man
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Speaker 7: that flyer in the line to get to the right
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Speaker 7: bus and on the way home. That was some of
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Speaker 7: the most exciting moments of your young life as a
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Speaker 7: seventeen age and you were learning a lot of things,
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Speaker 7: a lot of things, you were hopefully talking to a
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Speaker 7: lot of people, maybe some of them female. That those
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Speaker 7: were all the goals, like wait a minute, I think
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Speaker 7: I've seen you around.
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Speaker 4: Don't you go to for a while? Dude? She goes
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Speaker 4: to Witnel. Do you know this Witne girl over here?
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Speaker 4: She goes to w Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, once you already know all the other
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Speaker 7: girls at your school, you want to know the other
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Speaker 7: girls at the other school. So that was always exciting, Uh,
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Speaker 7: to see what kind of shenanigans people get involved on
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Speaker 7: the free the Freeway flyer, So that might be one
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Speaker 7: way to go. But then again, I'm like, just try
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Speaker 7: to get in and get out and drive back. I
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Speaker 7: don't know, there's no good option.
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Speaker 4: Well, Marcus marks and Ia ten PM show for Third
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Speaker 4: Eye Blind is too late for third demo. He's so right,
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Speaker 4: it is.
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Speaker 6: I do also appreciate and like that we have started
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Speaker 6: building in some more four o'clock headliners though for summer fo.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exact old people.
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Speaker 6: For that exact reason, let's fit these into a demo
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Speaker 6: and into a time slot where you're gonna go and
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Speaker 6: get some of the daytime specials. You can probably get
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Speaker 6: in from twelve to three. Bring a can of fruit
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Speaker 6: or whatever it ends up, get yourself a little bit
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Speaker 6: of a discount, then roll over to your headline.
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Speaker 4: I told I can't believe Laura. I'm like, we can
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Speaker 4: go to Sister Hazel.
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Speaker 7: It's at like four o'clock, because like, Sister Hazel is
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Speaker 7: one of those type of shows that we'd be I'd
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Speaker 7: be interested in them. Laura knows them, and it's like, hey,
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Speaker 7: we could get in at four, we could, we could
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Speaker 7: Len it could go on the splash Pad and then
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Speaker 7: we could go over to the Sister Hazel concert. You know,
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Speaker 7: So I do like that, and I guess third that
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Speaker 7: Blind is still big enough where they don't need to
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Speaker 7: do that yet. But I do see it in our future.
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Speaker 7: And when I say, I mean the third in the Yeah,
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Speaker 7: you know, I see that in our future.
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Speaker 4: One day we're going to be on that that type
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Speaker 4: of stage. So I don't know. I do like the
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Speaker 4: idea of it. It is pretty exciting, but listen, the
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Speaker 4: reality is we're excited for the big gig. It's coming up.
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Speaker 4: You've got uh it.
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Speaker 3: Actually kind of the warm up is tonight because Garth
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Speaker 3: Brooks is playing the first of two shows tonight pre Summerfest.
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Speaker 3: Summerfest opens Thursday, but the Amphitheater will be in use
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Speaker 3: tonight and tomorrow is Garth Brooks visits.
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Speaker 6: Now, Well, you get any any tones from the from
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Speaker 6: the Amphitheater faces out over the lake faces the other direction,
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Speaker 6: so it's pretty hard. I'd have to walk. I'd have
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Speaker 6: to walk a couple of blocks to get behind the
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Speaker 6: Amphitheater there. I could take the dog over there and
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Speaker 6: here's the show for free.
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Speaker 3: But nah, I'm actually gonna be at the Brewers game
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Speaker 3: tonight as the Brewers open a series against the Guardians
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Speaker 3: formerly the Cleveland Indians. Guardians in town tonight for a
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Speaker 3: series against your Milwaukee Brewers and boys. Remember this was
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Speaker 3: like we looked at this as kind of the tough
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Speaker 3: part of the schedule. I got Philadelphia, the Guardians, Atlanta.
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Speaker 3: This is kind of an They rolled through Phillies, won
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Speaker 3: a series.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 6: Just keep clicking the checking the boxes and it comes
10:06
Speaker 6: off the heels of what you thought of. All right,
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Speaker 6: Now you got to get fat territory. The good teams
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Speaker 6: Drew don't lose games against bad teams, all right, you
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Speaker 6: need to go and win all of your games against
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Speaker 6: the bad teams. Well, they end up losing a series
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Speaker 6: against the A's, they sweep the Rockies and split against
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Speaker 6: the Giants, who are also into that territory, and just
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Speaker 6: rip pages off the calendar while they were getting healthy.
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Speaker 6: And this is, to your point, maybe the toughest part
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Speaker 6: of the schedule. In June, after a couple of weeks
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Speaker 6: where you got to just not fully cruise but kind
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Speaker 6: of hit some cruise control. Now you're gonna face Atlanta.
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Speaker 6: You got Cincinnati, who's definitely flown back down to earth
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Speaker 6: them in Pittsburgh. Of if you look at the standings,
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Speaker 6: water has found its level there in the now Central
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Speaker 6: a little bit more and everything still is eyeing up
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Speaker 6: that series at the end of the month against the Cubs.
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Speaker 6: So this does start waking it up a little bit.
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Speaker 6: And some teams that you know are going to be
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Speaker 6: in the mix late. However, Cleveland it took a while
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Speaker 6: to get into the mix last year into the playoffs,
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Speaker 6: and uh as they're going to be without their number
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Speaker 6: one guy, their future Hall of Famer and Ramirez for
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Speaker 6: the next four to six weeks.
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Speaker 4: Not a bad time to face the guy. That's that's
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Speaker 4: pretty rough.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Guardians are basically in a virtual tie with
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Speaker 3: the White Sox for first place. The surprising White Sox
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Speaker 3: in the Al Central.
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Speaker 4: Surprising. I think they keep waiting for the White Sox
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Speaker 4: to go away and they're not.
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Speaker 6: Oh no, yeah, And the Guardians are the brewers of
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Speaker 6: the al right. It just they do it with some
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Speaker 6: some player development, some smoking mirrors. Also just the manager
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Speaker 6: of the year back to back years and Steven Vote
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Speaker 6: yeah yeah, him and Murph fed their annual meeting there exactly.
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Speaker 3: The Guardians, man, their run differential is minus three and
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Speaker 3: they're six over.
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Speaker 7: That's scrappy. Those are some scrap crappy crappy wins. It's
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Speaker 7: scrappy or is it like an indication? I mean, well,
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Speaker 7: that's they're expected.
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Speaker 3: One lost record would be about five hundred, So they're
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Speaker 3: scrappy and we'll see.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 3: Interestingly, Detroit is a minus six, but they're twelve under
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Speaker 3: and they're like not playing well at all.
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Speaker 4: But Detroit.
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Speaker 3: I still think Detroit everybody's talking about like a trades' google.
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Speaker 4: They can trade this guy.
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Speaker 3: Like, I still think they think they're in it because
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Speaker 3: they see the Guardians and White Sox as catchable.
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Speaker 6: Well, and what did the what did the Guardians come
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Speaker 6: back from on them last year? Like thirteen games back
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Speaker 6: at some.
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Speaker 3: Point, So it's like, well, let's not you know, yeah,
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Speaker 3: and let's not pull the parachute yet. This is the
12:28
Speaker 3: tough thing about professional sports and the armchair gms that
12:32
Speaker 3: you know, we also enjoy and play as well.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes on radio, it's always.
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Speaker 6: The easiest thing is well just blow it up, well,
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Speaker 6: blow it up and start over, blow it up and
12:41
Speaker 6: start over.
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Speaker 4: Then you get all these great picks and then you'll
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Speaker 4: instantly get better. Yep.
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Speaker 6: We always hear ye that's not and I'm looking at
12:47
Speaker 6: it as well with with our Milwaukee Bucks. I know
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Speaker 6: we'll talk a little bit more Giannis later that there's
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Speaker 6: something too having a surefire I don't know, top five
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Speaker 6: guy in MVP balloting as a return for a trade
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Speaker 6: instead of fifteen draft picks in a crap shoot roulette
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Speaker 6: like lottery where you don't necessarily know what you're gonna get.
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Speaker 6: For the Guardians last year, some people were trying to
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Speaker 6: say why don't they trade Jose Ramirez.
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Speaker 4: They're answering the phone and say, how about no? How
13:14
Speaker 4: about no?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, one of the biggest reasons why people come to
13:17
Speaker 6: the games, and he's our face of our franchise. We're
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Speaker 6: not just gonna deal them because we're seven games under.
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Speaker 6: And for the Tigers, they pushed some chips into the
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Speaker 6: middle of the table earlier this year with the Valve
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Speaker 6: Does signing, they might as well keep playing a little bit.
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Speaker 6: It's a lot easier for us on the outside to
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Speaker 6: make the damnation of I'll blow it up and start over,
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Speaker 6: because I don't know that I'll be here to rebuild
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Speaker 6: the magnetile statue that you're trying to farm system up.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know.
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Speaker 7: And the other thing is in baseball these days, the
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Speaker 7: idea of selling is not as tantalizing when you can
13:48
Speaker 7: be in a playoff mix with just a couple of
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Speaker 7: good weeks, and that's what often happens with a lot
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Speaker 7: of these teams. You can be under five hundred right
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Speaker 7: now and be a team that's gonna contend for a
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Speaker 7: World Series. I mean that there are playoffs spots available
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Speaker 7: now because of the extra wildcard, that you don't have
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Speaker 7: to be that far off to contend. So I think
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Speaker 7: because of that, less teams think about selling because nobody
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Speaker 7: really wants to do it. It's usually just a place
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Speaker 7: you end up being and it becomes the best situation
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Speaker 7: for you. But if you can try and win, or
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Speaker 7: if you believe in the guys you have, or if
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Speaker 7: you think to like what you said, Billy, no, we're
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Speaker 7: gonna try and play. This is the team we put together,
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Speaker 7: and you can rip off a couple of good weeks,
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Speaker 7: you go five hundred or five over or even ten over.
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Speaker 7: You know, in some situations you're in the wildcard spot.
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Speaker 7: A lot of times, especially this year, in the American League,
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Speaker 7: where it looks like there's enough, you know, enough average teams,
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Speaker 7: enough parody.
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Speaker 4: Not a lot of strength at the top.
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Speaker 7: There might be some teams in the wildcard with eighty
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Speaker 7: four wins or something like that. So there's really no
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Speaker 7: reason for a lot of these teams if they want
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Speaker 7: to remain competitive and sell to their fan base, that
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Speaker 7: they are to say, hey, we're gonna sell because all
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Speaker 7: takes a couple good weeks and we could be right
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Speaker 7: in the playoff.
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Speaker 4: Mix, right, yeah, back in it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So a big series for the Brewers there, keeping
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Speaker 3: their powder drive for the Atlanta series over the weekend
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Speaker 3: though with Miz, I was gonna say, Arison, I thought
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Speaker 3: mis might get the Thursday game, No, then bumping out
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Speaker 3: another day. Yeah, back them up, back them up in there,
15:13
Speaker 3: and and and let's get you in there for the
15:14
Speaker 3: Atlanta series. And for one that you know, Matt Arnold
15:18
Speaker 3: was very very good when he mentioned it to the
15:21
Speaker 3: reporters Hunter and Company drew where he's like, listen.
15:25
Speaker 4: We're we had scheduled this one in here.
15:28
Speaker 6: But it does help that we're also to be a
15:30
Speaker 6: battle against Atlanta down the stretch for playoff positioning. And
15:33
Speaker 6: you can start thinking about that because you you're right
15:36
Speaker 6: now in a UH in a group of three, in
15:39
Speaker 6: a race for two spots to try to get yourself
15:41
Speaker 6: and stay out of that wild card series.
15:43
Speaker 3: The Brewers felt, though, good that was last year. Like
15:45
Speaker 3: I said, last year, you win the series. You don't
15:47
Speaker 3: have to play.
15:48
Speaker 6: You got two series wins and you only had to
15:50
Speaker 6: you only had to grab one of them in that moment.
15:52
Speaker 6: I also think for the for the crew, they they
15:55
Speaker 6: back up and they get some of their UH secondary
15:58
Speaker 6: starters in here. Tonight's going be a fun night when
16:01
Speaker 6: when there's a debut of somebody that you've heard of
16:04
Speaker 6: before and gotten some pub about. For Cooper Pratt, there's
16:08
Speaker 6: always gonna be a little bit of excitement. I remember
16:10
Speaker 6: how excited I was when Jovanni Guyardo was gonna oh yes,
16:13
Speaker 6: oh yes, so.
16:14
Speaker 3: Pumped in fact, So that makes an opportune time, a
16:17
Speaker 3: little launching point, if you will.
16:19
Speaker 4: What debut got you most excited? What debuty remember being
16:23
Speaker 4: excited about pining for? Was it Jackson Churio an opening
16:28
Speaker 4: day a couple of years ago?
16:29
Speaker 6: See that one, Drew, I was trying to say, and
16:31
Speaker 6: I couldn't remember that one as much as the excitement
16:34
Speaker 6: of that, as much as I was just excited for
16:35
Speaker 6: opening day and.
16:36
Speaker 4: All being back the twenty year old. Remember he was
16:39
Speaker 4: younger than Braylen Allen.
16:41
Speaker 5: We made that big.
16:42
Speaker 4: We made that joke a lot.
16:44
Speaker 3: Jackson Churio is first, and by the he still looks
16:47
Speaker 3: pretty special, and it's like we're almost numb to it.
16:50
Speaker 3: Like he said, what five homers and five games or
16:53
Speaker 3: something like that, or even.
16:54
Speaker 6: When they put up his uh, his stance for the
16:55
Speaker 6: week with him and Misby and the co players of
16:58
Speaker 6: the week.
16:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, the run got their video game.
17:01
Speaker 3: Like he's starting to rake, and you just got to
17:03
Speaker 3: remind yourself he's like twenty one, Come on, like what
17:05
Speaker 3: do we you know, what are we watching here? And
17:07
Speaker 3: think about what he and Burst control him for a while.
17:10
Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about the contract, and he's
17:12
Speaker 3: just gonna continue to get better and better and better
17:15
Speaker 3: as he figures things out.
17:16
Speaker 6: And I like the fact that we can be in
17:17
Speaker 6: this situation. Allow yourself to be in the spot where
17:19
Speaker 6: you don't think about the long term contract, think about
17:22
Speaker 6: the next five years of Jacob Mazarowski being the headliner
17:26
Speaker 6: of the rotation with Kyle Harrison and Jackson Surio amongst others,
17:30
Speaker 6: and maybe Praps.
17:31
Speaker 4: Amongst one of those guys coming up here.
17:33
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely that level of excitement now that Cooper's coming
17:35
Speaker 7: up tonight and everyone's talking about it.
17:37
Speaker 3: There wasn't this the Jews for Giannis's debut, because Giannis
17:41
Speaker 3: wasn't Giannis yet.
17:42
Speaker 7: No, it was much more Jabbari, if anything correct, we
17:45
Speaker 7: kind of thought was the finished product. There was an
17:47
Speaker 7: intriguer on Gianness for sure as a rookie, just because like, yeah,
17:50
Speaker 7: by a guy that good dunks all the time.
17:52
Speaker 4: You wanted to see what he can do. But there
17:54
Speaker 4: wasn't this.
17:54
Speaker 7: Life he was like a cult like.
17:57
Speaker 4: It wasn't like the thorough bread that he got, no
18:00
Speaker 4: any other one he got.
18:01
Speaker 6: He got the chance like Larry Sanders as the first
18:03
Speaker 6: round pick, like come on, throw Larry in there, come on,
18:06
Speaker 6: throw Fon Maker in there, see what he can do.
18:08
Speaker 6: And then all this sudden there was a little something
18:09
Speaker 6: to it. Was there any for Bogut number one overall pick?
18:13
Speaker 6: Like I can't remember?
18:14
Speaker 4: Was there a little bit that I think there was? Yeah,
18:17
Speaker 4: I think there was.
18:18
Speaker 7: I think it was also like that was a year
18:21
Speaker 7: where we get the Bucks at the first pick, it's
18:23
Speaker 7: gonna be Bogut. But it was the idea. Wasn't that
18:27
Speaker 7: he might be the next you know, Lebron or something
18:29
Speaker 7: like that. I think you knew what he was gonna be.
18:31
Speaker 7: But there was an excitement to have Bogan and the
18:33
Speaker 7: team marketed him for sure. I think you know that
18:36
Speaker 7: was the thing, But there wasn't an idea that, all right,
18:38
Speaker 7: this guy's gonna take the Bucks to the championship or
18:40
Speaker 7: anything like that.
18:41
Speaker 4: Yet at least that's right.
18:42
Speaker 3: So Cooper Pratt makes his debut tonight, Which debut did
18:45
Speaker 3: you get excited about?
18:46
Speaker 4: Now?
18:47
Speaker 3: The miss thing and the way he's ascended and maybe
18:50
Speaker 3: even Kyle Harrison to a less lesser extent because he's
18:52
Speaker 3: a miss Shadow. But arman, if you're if you're of
18:54
Speaker 3: a certain vintage, and I know I'm talking to armand
18:57
Speaker 3: Nick Nugebauer and J. M.
18:59
Speaker 7: Gold, Oh yeah, they were going to be the dudes. Yeah,
19:03
Speaker 7: like those type of guys were the only hope we
19:05
Speaker 7: had was.
19:06
Speaker 3: A hard throwing right hander, big kid, strapping lads got hurt.
19:11
Speaker 4: There was an exciting for Nouga Bar when he came up.
19:13
Speaker 4: I remember Jeff Demiko's first game where he pitched. It
19:16
Speaker 4: was like, oh, they got this young kid out of
19:18
Speaker 4: Florida and Steve Ward had that game against Steve.
19:20
Speaker 3: Ward had his debut, which was incredible. That one of
19:24
Speaker 3: the best, and that made the list of best Pitch
19:26
Speaker 3: Brewers games, which, by the way, evidentially the game that
19:31
Speaker 3: mispitch was the best game Umber franchise history, better than
19:34
Speaker 3: Sheets his eighteen striker and it was incredible, like the
19:37
Speaker 3: Bill the Bill James game score.
19:39
Speaker 4: If you're into that, that was it.
19:41
Speaker 6: That's I think it'd be a fun one to talk
19:42
Speaker 6: to rock about next week when when when he joins
19:45
Speaker 6: us too.
19:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he saw maybe one of the other ones
19:48
Speaker 4: in the no hitter.
19:49
Speaker 6: As watched five guys, right, that's not dominating.
19:53
Speaker 4: He was back there. He could tell you there was
19:55
Speaker 4: some sketch hitter, but you know, you guys maybe touching second.
19:59
Speaker 6: Base and no crazy diving plays that there was no
20:02
Speaker 6: special defensive play.
20:03
Speaker 4: In there either.
20:04
Speaker 3: That was the thing about miss so Cooper Pratt day
20:06
Speaker 3: in the good Land. Today he will, we think, probably
20:11
Speaker 3: be in the starting line. You don't call him up
20:12
Speaker 3: to sit. You got here yesterday to get acclimated.
20:15
Speaker 7: That was the buzz around this building. People were in
20:17
Speaker 7: line that it. Talked to Hunter Bombguard to get his opinion.
20:20
Speaker 4: It seemed like, you know.
20:21
Speaker 3: It's perfect because as it happened, Hunter Bombguart, being the
20:24
Speaker 3: enterprising soul that he is, talk to the Nashville Sounds
20:28
Speaker 3: play by play man yesterday. Jeff him, Yeah, this is
20:30
Speaker 3: really good. I heard, and we are going to spin
20:32
Speaker 3: through that conversation next as a special treat Hunter Bombgart
20:36
Speaker 3: and the Voice of the Sounds talking about Cooper Pratt
20:40
Speaker 3: his development as his debut his big league time arrives
20:43
Speaker 3: tonight at American Family Field. We think, obviously we won't
20:46
Speaker 3: see the line it better come on, we won't see
20:48
Speaker 3: the lineup for a couple hours. But I'm pretty sure
20:50
Speaker 3: he's going to be in it.
20:50
Speaker 4: Now. What does that mean?
20:52
Speaker 3: We already had a texter A five o'clock clubber suggests
20:55
Speaker 3: that Matt Arnold could trade ren Hefo to the Guardians
20:58
Speaker 3: because they're in need right now.
21:00
Speaker 4: They need, they need something.
21:02
Speaker 6: There was a guy at the playground yesterday that was
21:04
Speaker 6: giving me a lot of ideas about what they could
21:06
Speaker 6: do with ren gifo.
21:12
Speaker 4: So we got this to talk about.
21:14
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Jeff I'm the voice of the sounds
21:16
Speaker 3: and Hunter Baumgart next talking Cooper Pratt. We're talking debuts,
21:19
Speaker 3: and then we're looking ahead because it's getting close to
21:21
Speaker 3: Janna's time. We're gonna have a resolution. Will John Horse
21:24
Speaker 3: pull a rabbit out of his hat?
21:25
Speaker 4: Will he get de.
21:26
Speaker 3: Aaron Fox and John Morants and keep you honus here?
21:29
Speaker 3: What do you say? Let's run it, let's run it
21:32
Speaker 3: back with And then I just saw something like I
21:35
Speaker 3: just saw some teams are in on Kyrie Irving and
21:36
Speaker 3: I'm like, he's still getting a check, still getting a check.
21:39
Speaker 3: Irving is drawing interest, Like, well, what if they brought
21:41
Speaker 3: him in? I think he was only seventh season ending injury. Yeah,
21:45
Speaker 3: so we got plenty of unpacked today. We're glad you're
21:47
Speaker 3: with us. Would do some buying and selling. After six
21:49
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22:21
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22:26
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22:29
Speaker 3: baseball go to guy, our pal. He had occasion yesterday
22:33
Speaker 3: catch up with the voice of the Nashville Sounds and
22:36
Speaker 3: their radio broadcast, Jeff him talking about Cooper Pratt, who
22:39
Speaker 3: makes his debut at American Family Field. We think tonight
22:42
Speaker 3: as the Brewers take on the Guardians take it away, Hunter.
22:46
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, Jeff, thank you so much for the time.
22:48
Speaker 1: Looking forward to talking about Cooper Pratt, the latest prospect
22:52
Speaker 1: to be called up by the Brewers.
22:53
Speaker 4: Jeff, how are you.
22:55
Speaker 5: I'm doing great, Dodter. Good to be with you.
22:57
Speaker 8: Really excited to have you back on. I want to
22:59
Speaker 8: start out, Take me through Sunday. You know what it
23:02
Speaker 8: was like being on the call for the game, seeing
23:05
Speaker 8: the hugs in that dugout, when you first kind of
23:08
Speaker 8: noticed that happening in the dugout, that Cooper Pratt was
23:11
Speaker 8: being pulled and you kind of realized what was going on.
23:14
Speaker 1: Take me through Sunday, Yeah, it was really cool to observe.
23:19
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you work in Triple A long enough,
23:22
Speaker 2: You're around a lot of call ups. You see them,
23:24
Speaker 2: you hear about them, and there have been times over
23:28
Speaker 2: the years where you see somebody come out of a
23:30
Speaker 2: game and you start to put a couple things together
23:33
Speaker 2: and you wonder, okay, maybe maybe he's going up. But
23:37
Speaker 2: I'd never seen one quite like that yesterday, and certainly
23:41
Speaker 2: not for somebody as as popular and well known as
23:46
Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt.
23:47
Speaker 5: And it's just, you know, if you had if you had.
23:50
Speaker 2: Asked me to give you ten different scenarios of the
23:52
Speaker 2: way I thought Pratt might find out he's going to
23:55
Speaker 2: the big League or how it might happen yesterday, would
23:58
Speaker 2: not have been in the ten.
23:59
Speaker 5: It was never seen anything quite like that.
24:02
Speaker 2: It was really cool once we realized what was happening,
24:06
Speaker 2: But you know, as the broadcast here, you're just not
24:09
Speaker 2: expecting it.
24:09
Speaker 5: In that moment, the.
24:10
Speaker 2: Sounds were playing an important game in a first half
24:13
Speaker 2: playoff chase with Durham. Jared Kanig had just come into
24:17
Speaker 2: the game, so my mind is on his rehab outing,
24:20
Speaker 2: and then I see.
24:22
Speaker 5: Rick Sweet come up the dugout steps.
24:24
Speaker 2: To talk to the umpire, and I'm like, okay, what
24:26
Speaker 2: was there? Was there a you know, a clock violation?
24:29
Speaker 5: Was there?
24:30
Speaker 2: Was he wondering if Durham was somehow like batting out
24:33
Speaker 2: of order. I'm trying to think quickly in my feet
24:35
Speaker 2: in that moment, like Okay, what's this about? And I
24:37
Speaker 2: had no idea, and then Rick literally yells out hey,
24:41
Speaker 2: and a couple of the guys were trying to think,
24:44
Speaker 2: and they kind of looked around, like who's he talking at?
24:47
Speaker 5: And he makes this.
24:47
Speaker 2: Waving motion to Cooper Pratt and waves him off the field.
24:51
Speaker 2: And then it was in that moment where I start
24:53
Speaker 2: to think, Okay, you know, there's no reason Cooper Pratt
24:57
Speaker 2: would be coming out of this game at this point,
25:00
Speaker 2: an important game, right in the middle, as valuable as
25:03
Speaker 2: he is to the sounds if something unless something's going on.
25:07
Speaker 5: And then I.
25:07
Speaker 2: Look down in the dugout and I see our head
25:10
Speaker 2: athletic trainer, Jeff Packson on the phone, And if the
25:14
Speaker 2: athletic trainer is on the phone during a game, it's
25:17
Speaker 2: probably related.
25:18
Speaker 5: To something with the.
25:20
Speaker 2: Brewers and more specifically like a big league club. And
25:24
Speaker 2: then I'm just literally going into radio play by play mode,
25:28
Speaker 2: but instead of calling a ground ball to a second
25:30
Speaker 2: or a fly out to right center, I'm doing play
25:33
Speaker 2: by play of what I see with Jeff Paxson on
25:36
Speaker 2: the phone. And then he a couple seconds later hands
25:39
Speaker 2: the phone to Rick Sweet and I don't know that
25:41
Speaker 2: I've ever seen Sweetie on the phone during a game
25:45
Speaker 2: like that. Normally it's the head athletic trainer. If he
25:47
Speaker 2: gets word of something, he's then gonna literally say it
25:51
Speaker 2: to the manager.
25:51
Speaker 5: But I see him hand the.
25:52
Speaker 2: Phone to Rick, and meanwhile, Cooper Pratt has been I've gathered,
25:56
Speaker 2: basically been told to like hang on a second, and
25:59
Speaker 2: he's like stand behind Sweet, and Sweet hands the phone
26:03
Speaker 2: back to Paxson, and a couple seconds later, he just
26:05
Speaker 2: turns around, extends a hand to Cooper and then hugs him.
26:09
Speaker 2: And then we see the dugout applause, And you know,
26:12
Speaker 2: it's still one of those moments where I'm very careful
26:15
Speaker 2: as a play by play guy to only say what
26:18
Speaker 2: I see or only give out information that I that
26:21
Speaker 2: I know. So I even said, at one point on
26:24
Speaker 2: the ear, can I say with one hundred percent certainty
26:27
Speaker 2: that Cooper Pratt is going to the big leagues? No?
26:29
Speaker 2: But can I say it with ninety nine point nine
26:32
Speaker 2: percent certainty yes? Because it's like what else.
26:35
Speaker 5: Could be going on?
26:36
Speaker 2: And and you know, then he gives all the hugs
26:38
Speaker 2: and and then it was like Cooper didn't know what
26:41
Speaker 2: to do because who knows what his travel plans were
26:44
Speaker 2: going to be.
26:44
Speaker 5: It wasn't like, hey, get to.
26:45
Speaker 2: The airport right now.
26:46
Speaker 5: He kind of hung around a little bit.
26:48
Speaker 2: And then he got to hug Jet Williams and his
26:50
Speaker 2: other teammates who were still out on defense when he
26:52
Speaker 2: jogged off the field. So he literally hugged everybody in
26:56
Speaker 2: the dugout. And you know, again from upstairs, you're trying
27:00
Speaker 2: to just describe what you see.
27:02
Speaker 5: And I literally did.
27:04
Speaker 2: Play by play of Cooper Pratt getting called up to
27:07
Speaker 2: the big leagues, and I said on the air, like,
27:09
Speaker 2: we're all observing this moment together, because out of the
27:13
Speaker 2: ten scenarios, if you told me, that probably would have been, hey,
27:16
Speaker 2: something late at night, Rick Sweet has to call him
27:18
Speaker 2: or something. After a game, Sweet would pull him into
27:21
Speaker 2: the manager's office. Like there's all those standard ways that
27:24
Speaker 2: a manager tells a triple A guy that he's going to.
27:26
Speaker 5: The big leagues. It's rarely during a game. It's rarely
27:30
Speaker 5: with somebody.
27:31
Speaker 2: As popular as Pratt. I also knew that the Brewers
27:34
Speaker 2: had already wrapped up, and I checked their box score.
27:38
Speaker 5: I didn't see.
27:39
Speaker 2: Any midgame position player substitutions. Because while I'm calling our games,
27:44
Speaker 2: if the Brewers are playing simultaneously. I'm keeping an eye
27:48
Speaker 2: every so often on either their box score or on
27:51
Speaker 2: my Brewers list on Twitter that has all the different
27:54
Speaker 2: reporters on there, so that if I knew, oh, so
27:57
Speaker 2: and so came out of the game, it's like, okay,
27:59
Speaker 2: I'm keeping an extra close eye on the sounds lineup,
28:02
Speaker 2: and nothing, quote unquote, nothing had happened in that Brewers
28:05
Speaker 2: game that would lead me to believe, hey, let's keep
28:07
Speaker 2: an eye out to see for a mid game substitution.
28:10
Speaker 2: So I really had to wait until I saw all
28:12
Speaker 2: the hugs and the high fives, and and Rick Sweet
28:16
Speaker 2: especially sort of giving the official word with the handshake
28:20
Speaker 2: and the hug. That's that's when I was very confident
28:23
Speaker 2: that Pratt was going to the big leagues. But you know,
28:25
Speaker 2: as a broadcast, you want to be careful because if
28:27
Speaker 2: I start to say he's going up and he's and
28:30
Speaker 2: I'm not confident he's going up, that is the last
28:32
Speaker 2: thing that I want to put myself out on that
28:34
Speaker 2: out on that catwalk if I'm not prepared.
28:37
Speaker 5: So it was you just you go.
28:39
Speaker 2: I did play by play and the call up, and
28:41
Speaker 2: I described what I saw, and I was as certain
28:44
Speaker 2: as I could be, but very careful with my words
28:47
Speaker 2: as well, just in case something else was going on.
28:50
Speaker 8: No, and you did a fantastic job. And I know
28:52
Speaker 8: the video was circling around online a little bit and
28:55
Speaker 8: I watched it. It was it was great. That's what
28:57
Speaker 8: I you know, being in radio, I love those type
28:59
Speaker 8: of right where you get to react on your feet
29:02
Speaker 8: and describe what you see. And as a reporter, as
29:05
Speaker 8: a as a play by play announcer, we get those times.
29:08
Speaker 4: And that's exactly what yesterday was.
29:10
Speaker 8: And so I encourage anybody who hasn't seen, you know,
29:13
Speaker 8: that clip circulating online to definitely go and do that.
29:16
Speaker 8: So let's switch over to what Pratt has done so
29:19
Speaker 8: far this season with Triple A Nashville, and I kind
29:23
Speaker 8: of want to give it insight, you know, and to
29:25
Speaker 8: listeners who haven't necessarily been following, you know, each and
29:28
Speaker 8: every game like you have and obviously being there like
29:30
Speaker 8: you have throughout his tenure as a member of the Sounds.
29:33
Speaker 8: Let's start with this offense. Two forty one, six home
29:36
Speaker 8: run seventeen stolen bases. What have you seen from him
29:39
Speaker 8: offensively this season?
29:42
Speaker 5: He's been very impressive. One of the things I like about.
29:46
Speaker 2: Cooper is he's got a great level of confidence. As
29:49
Speaker 2: you would expect, he knows he's very talented, as all
29:51
Speaker 2: these players are very confident in themselves. He can also
29:55
Speaker 2: be very self deprecating, and I remember interviewing early in
29:58
Speaker 2: the year after he hit his first home run and
30:00
Speaker 2: I asked him about his offense, and he basically joked
30:03
Speaker 2: but was serious. I couldn't have been any worse than
30:05
Speaker 2: the way I started, because he did get off to
30:08
Speaker 2: a slow start, and he later admitted, I think that
30:10
Speaker 2: the expectation I'm paraphrasing for him, but he later admitted
30:14
Speaker 2: in another interview I did just with him last week
30:16
Speaker 2: during our Jacksonville series that you know, the expectations right
30:21
Speaker 2: after that contract got to him a little bit, and
30:23
Speaker 2: he basically said, this game is hard enough to play
30:26
Speaker 2: without those, And so he started to really mentally devote
30:30
Speaker 2: himself to just how did the at that go based
30:35
Speaker 2: on his approach and his heart contact versus the result
30:41
Speaker 2: of the at bat, because there were a lot of
30:43
Speaker 2: that bats early in the year when the batting average
30:45
Speaker 2: was still.
30:45
Speaker 5: Low, that he was making a lot of hard contact.
30:49
Speaker 2: But you know, the box score shows a zero for
30:51
Speaker 2: four or something like that, and people from the outside
30:53
Speaker 2: of the man, what's up with Brad When's he gonna.
30:55
Speaker 5: Start his offense?
30:56
Speaker 2: And he's like, well, he never looked, he never looked lost.
31:00
Speaker 5: Has had very good at bats earlier in the year.
31:03
Speaker 2: He'd had the layoffs during the week that the contract
31:05
Speaker 2: got signed. Then the kind of the proverbial weight of
31:08
Speaker 2: the world a little bit, I think, for the attention
31:11
Speaker 2: that that contract brought, plus literally getting used to Triple
31:15
Speaker 2: A pitching, and that's something we've seen Jet Williams go through,
31:20
Speaker 2: Brock Wilkin, Luke Adams. We really haven't seen it with
31:23
Speaker 2: Luis Laura. He hit from day one, but most of
31:26
Speaker 2: these guys who are brand new Triple A also had
31:28
Speaker 2: to make that adjustment with their approach and how they're
31:32
Speaker 2: being pitched and and when to attack. So the at
31:35
Speaker 2: bats got better and better, the results started to get
31:38
Speaker 2: better for him. He really started, i think, mentally, to
31:42
Speaker 2: get a little freer of the pressure of the contract,
31:46
Speaker 2: it seemed, and from what his comments to me were,
31:50
Speaker 2: if I can, if I can say that kind of
31:52
Speaker 2: on his behalf without trying to quote him, so it
31:55
Speaker 2: just got it all got better and better the results
31:57
Speaker 2: started to come. I think he got more comfortable. But
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Speaker 2: from day one, it's not like he's getting called up
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Speaker 2: now and his offense is way different than what I.
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Speaker 5: Observed early in the year.
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Speaker 2: The quality of the at bats was always there, so
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Speaker 2: I was a full believer of like, yeah, it's only
32:17
Speaker 2: a matter of time where the offensive numbers are going
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Speaker 2: to start to climb. Then he went on this long
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Speaker 2: on base streak, and he went one stretch where he
32:24
Speaker 2: reached base safely in like thirty five out of thirty
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Speaker 2: six games, and the exceptions to those streaks.
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Speaker 5: I looked back later, I was like.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he had an o for four with two flyouts
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Speaker 2: that were one hundred plus off the bat, Like he
32:36
Speaker 2: was consistently making the hard contact. It had got to
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Speaker 2: a point offensively where you were surprised if he didn't
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Speaker 2: make hard contact or if he struck out, just because
32:46
Speaker 2: the consistency really started to show in the last few weeks.
32:51
Speaker 2: Fouling off pitches, spoiling pitches, making pitches work, not chasing.
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Speaker 2: I really can't recall very many times where it's like, well,
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Speaker 2: he was just overmatched on that at bet, Like it
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Speaker 2: was there from day one.
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Speaker 5: I just think it got.
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Speaker 2: Rained in a little bit with some consistency plus some
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Speaker 2: results that started to make those numbers that you just
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Speaker 2: gave out climb to where they are now. His OPS
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Speaker 2: is up around seven to fifty now and he has
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Speaker 2: become one of the team leaders in OPS. And it's
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Speaker 2: really from a great May and a really strong start
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Speaker 2: to June.
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Speaker 8: And that is Jeff him joining us here. Nashville Sounds
33:28
Speaker 8: played by pay announcer talking about Cooper Pratt set to
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Speaker 8: make his major league debut tonight, being called up by
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Speaker 8: the Brewers number four prospect in the system according to
33:38
Speaker 8: MLB Pipeline. I want to discuss a little bit of
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Speaker 8: his defense as well, because I know coming up to
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Speaker 8: play shortstop, Joy Ortiz has done a marvelous job defensively
33:46
Speaker 8: at the major league level for the Brewers for the
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Speaker 8: last couple of seasons. But you're not losing a ton
33:52
Speaker 8: if you do play Cooper Pratt there more often because
33:55
Speaker 8: his defense is really good as well.
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Speaker 4: Talk a little bit about that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that you're losing anything, quite honestly,
34:01
Speaker 2: and I say that with full respect to Joey Ortiz.
34:05
Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt is he's a shortstop he's a major league shortstop.
34:09
Speaker 2: I'll quote our manager down here, Rick Sweet, because he
34:13
Speaker 2: likes to say like he said it in twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: two all season long with Bryce Terrang. Bryce Terrang is
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Speaker 2: a major league shortstop. And he would later follow that
34:21
Speaker 2: up with there are a lot of guys who can
34:23
Speaker 2: play shortstop here and there. Not everybody can play it
34:28
Speaker 2: day after day at the major league level. He used
34:30
Speaker 2: to say that about Terrang and Cooper Pratt I think
34:33
Speaker 2: is even a step ahead now of where Terrang was
34:37
Speaker 2: then as far as his physicality, his speed, and his strength.
34:40
Speaker 2: And I say that out of full respect to having
34:42
Speaker 2: watched Bryce Terrang every day in twenty twenty two and
34:45
Speaker 2: feeling like he was going to be a future major
34:47
Speaker 2: leaguer for a long time, if not a star, and
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Speaker 2: he's becoming that. So Pratt is a is a legitimate
34:53
Speaker 2: major league shortstop. Defensively, I'd maybe only need one hand
34:58
Speaker 2: to count the times this year where his throw was
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Speaker 2: not just chest tie right to the.
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Speaker 5: First baseman, regardless of the.
35:05
Speaker 2: Difficulty of the play that led to that throw. I've
35:09
Speaker 2: asked different I've asked our until coach David Tuffo about Pratt.
35:12
Speaker 5: I asked the.
35:12
Speaker 2: Brewers until coordinator a couple weeks ago Andrew Roman, asking
35:17
Speaker 2: them what makes Pratt so special at shortstop, and their
35:20
Speaker 2: response basically was, He'll make the plays. He'll make the
35:25
Speaker 2: hard plays look easy. The plays that are more challenging
35:28
Speaker 2: for another shortstop look easier for Pratt.
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Speaker 5: He'll get there a half step.
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Speaker 2: Sooner and he'll have to He'll have the time then
35:35
Speaker 2: to set himself for other guys are making a jump
35:38
Speaker 2: throw on a ball, or he'll have a play up
35:40
Speaker 2: the middle that normally would lead to an off balance throw,
35:43
Speaker 2: and he's got more velocity on his throws, he's got
35:45
Speaker 2: the range, he's got the arm strength. Is he's so
35:49
Speaker 2: fun to watch because I literally can't recall Marry many
35:54
Speaker 2: times other than you know, needing only one hand to
35:57
Speaker 2: do it, where there was a slight bobble and even
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Speaker 2: there was a play a couple weeks ago and I
36:01
Speaker 2: interviewed Andrew Roman on the next day, Pratt had a
36:04
Speaker 2: little bit of a bobble getting the ball out of
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Speaker 2: his glove. But because he got to the ball so
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Speaker 2: quickly and he's got the arm strength, he's still got
36:11
Speaker 2: the runner out in plenty of time. And a lot
36:13
Speaker 2: of other shortstops would bobble and then have to eat
36:15
Speaker 2: it at short and not even make the throw because
36:18
Speaker 2: they didn't get to it at time, or the arm
36:19
Speaker 2: strength would not allow to make up for any kind
36:22
Speaker 2: of a hiccup with the gloves. So he he's the
36:24
Speaker 2: real deal defensively at shortstop.
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Speaker 5: It is.
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Speaker 2: It's really fun to watch, and some of the funnest
36:31
Speaker 2: plays are the plays that he makes look boring that
36:34
Speaker 2: you know, are not going to be boring for everybody
36:36
Speaker 2: at shortstop.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that makes me excited to continue to see the
36:40
Speaker 8: high level of defense that we have seen because a
36:42
Speaker 8: lot of those ways you know, you described joe you know,
36:44
Speaker 8: the way Cooper plays defense is very comparatable to Joey,
36:48
Speaker 8: just saying that, you know, these guys make the really
36:50
Speaker 8: hard plays look really easy, and you know it's not easy,
36:53
Speaker 8: but they have such a good you know, they're so
36:55
Speaker 8: good at making it look easy. So I'm very excited
36:57
Speaker 8: for that last question for you, Jeff is just simply like,
37:01
Speaker 8: what's Cooper Pratt like as a person? What can fans
37:03
Speaker 8: expect for this guy, you know, personality wise when he
37:06
Speaker 8: joins this big league club.
37:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a lot of fun. He's got great personality.
37:12
Speaker 2: Like I said before, he's very self deprecating. I'm curious
37:15
Speaker 2: to see if he has kept his mustache for the
37:19
Speaker 2: game for his major league debut. That made some fun
37:22
Speaker 2: news on social media. That sounds kind of had some
37:26
Speaker 2: fun with it a week or so ago because Cooper
37:29
Speaker 2: started to grow a mustache. And Cooper will tell you
37:32
Speaker 2: that some people in a clubhouse with the South hated it.
37:35
Speaker 2: Some people loved it. He's like, I'm blonde, so you
37:37
Speaker 2: can't really see it. It's not really coming in full.
37:41
Speaker 2: So there's been a lot of fun with that. He's
37:43
Speaker 2: very he's very self deprecating. Like I said, he joked
37:46
Speaker 2: about his offense in his slow start earlier in the year.
37:49
Speaker 2: But he is also a very confident guy everything. I
37:52
Speaker 2: also observed he's a great teammate, you know, for being
37:57
Speaker 2: the top prospect and signing the big contract based sectly
38:00
Speaker 2: in the first full week of the season, nothing seemed
38:03
Speaker 2: to change and how.
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Speaker 5: He approached his job. He loves to do the work.
38:07
Speaker 2: He loves to do the early work, take the ground balls,
38:10
Speaker 2: take the extra work.
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Speaker 5: He is he is a worker, but he's also a
38:15
Speaker 5: great teammate.
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Speaker 2: I know he treated the guys to different things after
38:18
Speaker 2: the contract. He can he can take a joke about
38:22
Speaker 2: the contract, he can give out some jokes to his teammates.
38:25
Speaker 2: I just didn't really observe, and I hadn't been around
38:28
Speaker 2: him a ton before the contract. Its side, but I
38:31
Speaker 2: didn't observe this whole difference after the contract, just because
38:34
Speaker 2: he's got that certainty in his life. He seemed like
38:37
Speaker 2: the same guy, the same work ethic, the same smile,
38:41
Speaker 2: the same hey, how you doing. Very personable, very confident guy,
38:46
Speaker 2: and he's got that right level of almost talkiness, but
38:50
Speaker 2: just full confidence in his ability, but not to the
38:53
Speaker 2: point where it rubs.
38:54
Speaker 5: Anybody the wrong way. He's just a really.
38:56
Speaker 2: Good ballplayer and knows it, and he supports his teammates
39:00
Speaker 2: as well as anybody else in that Sounds clubhouse. For
39:03
Speaker 2: twenty one years old, just a very impressive young man
39:08
Speaker 2: and ballplayer. You can tell he was raised well and
39:12
Speaker 2: he's as happy for his teammates' success as he is
39:15
Speaker 2: his own.
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Speaker 5: There's just he's got the whole package.
39:19
Speaker 8: That is a great look and insight into Cooper Pratt,
39:22
Speaker 8: the fourth rank prospect in the system and sixty third
39:25
Speaker 8: overall according to MLB Pipeline in Baseball. Well, Jeff, I
39:29
Speaker 8: really appreciate the time, you know. I know we joked
39:32
Speaker 8: about it before coming on the air here that we
39:34
Speaker 8: had talked. We had talked for Jacob Izarowski's debut almost
39:37
Speaker 8: a year to the day. So it's you know, for
39:40
Speaker 8: some reason, these mid June call ups are happening with
39:42
Speaker 8: these top prospects, and it's a blast. Always enjoy getting
39:45
Speaker 8: your insight and we'll talk again soon.
39:48
Speaker 2: I'm putting a calendar note for June of twenty twenty
39:51
Speaker 2: seven and right now to talk to you next year
39:53
Speaker 2: about somebody getting called up to the Big League Center.
39:56
Speaker 5: Appreciate you, man.
39:57
Speaker 4: Absolutely, let's do it back to you guys. Thank you Hunter,
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Speaker 4: Thank you Jeff Hining. Great stuff about Cooper Pratt.
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Speaker 3: Who is the newest Brewer will be uh we think
40:07
Speaker 3: making his debut tonight at American Family Feeld.
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Speaker 6: I love that hey man, treat the boys and some things.
40:12
Speaker 6: Let's have some fun after the contract. I like when
40:15
Speaker 6: he mentions though that that felt strange. I know a
40:18
Speaker 6: bunch of people in talking text form like wait, why
40:20
Speaker 6: wouldn't they just wait till after the game. Well, they
40:23
Speaker 6: do it differently every single time. And also, hey, we
40:26
Speaker 6: don't want you to then pull a hammy in the.
40:28
Speaker 3: Final skin saying a game I was gonna say, well
40:30
Speaker 3: you take a pitch on the hand, it's like, oh,
40:33
Speaker 3: well you're not going up now.
40:35
Speaker 4: You gotta hate wrapping. The same thing happens with the
40:37
Speaker 4: trade deadline. But you gotta get the process sor you
40:40
Speaker 4: gonna pat put.
40:40
Speaker 3: Him in bubble put him in bubble wrap. And it
40:42
Speaker 3: was a cool moment. I also like that though.
40:43
Speaker 6: Cooper is like, I don't really know what I'm gonna do,
40:46
Speaker 6: so I'm just gonna hang out here for a little while,
40:48
Speaker 6: hang out on the glove for a little while.
40:49
Speaker 3: Now, what pretty cool, Pretty cool, good job by Hunter Bombguart.
40:53
Speaker 4: We're rolling.
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41:33
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Speaker 3: I think we absolutely should mimosas for the ladies and
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41:57
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41:59
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Speaker 6: Club goes up on Tuesday that's right. Talking debuts today
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Speaker 6: after the Jeff Hemn conversation with Cooper Pratt, j T
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Speaker 6: and Sussex has a good one and a tough one
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Speaker 6: to top, but not one at American Family Field then
42:17
Speaker 6: effectually known as Miller Park, which I think adds a
42:19
Speaker 6: little bit to this one tonight. For Cooper Pratt made
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Speaker 6: twenty fifth two thousand and seven, is a hard one
42:24
Speaker 6: to beat. Ryan Braun leading hitting there in San Diego,
42:28
Speaker 6: a triple and a double in the game, just started
42:31
Speaker 6: raking and what did he have like ten homers in
42:34
Speaker 6: that spring that you guys were down.
42:35
Speaker 4: At, Yeah, tearing the cover off the ball. I was
42:37
Speaker 4: back then.
42:38
Speaker 7: I was getting text alerts at Dan Jansen Festmer on
42:42
Speaker 7: Jeff Jenkins' debuting in San Francisco kind of close to
42:45
Speaker 7: where he grew up and getting a hit offf oral Hrscheizer.
42:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll get some more tough one.
42:50
Speaker 7: We'll get some more of these, but I know there's
42:52
Speaker 7: gonna be a popular one coming up.
42:53
Speaker 4: I think, oh yeah, maybe I should save it. Yes,
42:57
Speaker 4: save it, Holster. That so great debuts, Cooper Pratt. Day
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