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03/16/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Buckle up, smart, good looking listeners, Insomniacs, early Risers.
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  Speaker 2: And battlers of the Great White Death.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the huddle, the Monday edition, the Blizzard Edition,
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  Speaker 1: the work from Home edition for me, Drew Olson, my boys,
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  Speaker 1: Billy Schmid and Arma Sion are safely at headquarters.
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  Speaker 2: Boys. How was the commute into work today?
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  Speaker 3: Not bad at all?
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  Speaker 2: Drew?
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  Speaker 3: It was good.
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  Speaker 4: It was a clean entry into the megaplex. They even
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  Speaker 4: had the young man who was doing the plowing out
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  Speaker 4: here had the whole thing cleared off by the time
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  Speaker 4: we got in here.
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  Speaker 3: So it was not bad.
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  Speaker 4: Now, there was a little bit of potentially wrong way
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  Speaker 4: driving on there, because one side would have about four
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  Speaker 4: or five inches of snow the other one was freshly,
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  Speaker 4: freshly cleaned off. But we got in here with no
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  Speaker 4: reason to fret. But as you welcome up and wake
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  Speaker 4: up the insomniacs and all the early risers, as well
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  Speaker 4: as Daley Olsen Manner and maybe everybody around you, because
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  Speaker 4: it would be like that moment in high school where
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  Speaker 4: you're partying at somebody's apartment. You're like, Hey, just so
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  Speaker 4: you know, I have won two three neighbors. Let's all
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  Speaker 4: quiet down a little bit here with the shots of sky,
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  Speaker 4: and let's calm ourselves down.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to use our inside voices to be able
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  Speaker 3: to roll through this. Now, well we'll wake up. I
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  Speaker 3: like this thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it could have been worse. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 5: I've had worse drives in.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 5: I can't tell you the amount of people that asked me,
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't going to work today, How are you going
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  Speaker 5: to get in today?
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  Speaker 3: How are you get in?
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  Speaker 5: I understand it's treacherous out there, but listen, I mean
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  Speaker 5: low these many years in my radio career, I've driven
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  Speaker 5: in many snowstorms to get in.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, let's be honest.
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  Speaker 5: So had we got in there, I just found a
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  Speaker 5: plow on lat and and right behind him, it was
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  Speaker 5: good to go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking out my window, and uh, I live real
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  Speaker 1: close to Lake Michigan, and that's Daley olsa manor that
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  Speaker 1: usually a lot of times lake effects snow you get
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  Speaker 1: socked in.
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  Speaker 2: Not so much.
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  Speaker 1: It's more a little bit more than a dusting nuisance snow.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps if I was you know, if I was still
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  Speaker 1: a homeowner, I don't know if I would to shovel
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  Speaker 1: outside my own house, I probably reature to take care
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  Speaker 1: of it. It's not that bad, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it's like a couple of miles from the studio,
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  Speaker 1: I mean from my place between my house and studio.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's twelve miles from my house to the megaplex.
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  Speaker 3: And it would it would pick up right like it
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  Speaker 3: would pick up.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what the warming.
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  Speaker 4: Effect is doing and all that kind of stuff, But
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  Speaker 4: I did do the I did do the try hard
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  Speaker 4: deal today. I cleared out the two lines, I cleared
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  Speaker 4: out the little bit of a path for the car
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  Speaker 4: to be able to get out of the driveway, and
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  Speaker 4: there was a good, you know, half inch of water
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  Speaker 4: that was caked up underneath that turns into ice. It
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  Speaker 4: would have been a much different different deal. We would
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  Speaker 4: all been having a much tougher time. But drew like
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  Speaker 4: the eyes on it in trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: You twelve miles away, my parents, twelve hundred miles away,
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  Speaker 4: the snowbirds that are still enjoying either Arizona or Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations like congratulate today is why you go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 4: And then you do drop four to five to ten
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  Speaker 4: texts to the one that's watching the house and clearing
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  Speaker 4: off the path.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, do you need any help? Are we all good?
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  Speaker 3: Is it okay? How many inches you guys got?
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  Speaker 4: Hey? How many inches you guys got? It hadn't started yet.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we'll give you the update. You are still winning.
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  Speaker 4: But this was a good win for the snowbird season
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  Speaker 4: because this is exactly why you get the hell up
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  Speaker 4: out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they feel good about this, There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 5: And and for those who thought that, you know, just
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  Speaker 5: remember that was fake spring. A couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 5: you were talking about the fake spring, and that's that
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  Speaker 5: that proved to be upon us today as this.
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  Speaker 1: Weekend broadcasting today from my wife's office. And thankfully we're
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  Speaker 1: done at eight, and that's right about when she starts,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll be figuring out.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like the studio after your show's over and
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  Speaker 2: the so.
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  Speaker 1: The donkeys are coming in behind you. Get your ass
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  Speaker 1: out of here and clear out. Take those cans with you,
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  Speaker 1: take your trash with you, Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Get your diet mountain dew out of here, and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: go and start, you know, occupying the couch like a
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  Speaker 4: like the civilized adult that you end up doing, which
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  Speaker 4: I love I love that she say that she allowed
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  Speaker 4: you to borrow the office here today, I will say this, our.
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  Speaker 1: Pals and the meteorology we had Brooke Brighton on she
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  Speaker 1: was awesome, right, and she's I'm sure she's slammed today.
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  Speaker 2: But they weren't wrong about this. They did call the shot.
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  Speaker 1: They did, and they did talk about how it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be really bad in the Fox Valley and
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  Speaker 1: the center of the state, and they got just pound.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't had one of those.
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  Speaker 1: And while we haven't had a statewide blizzard warning in
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  Speaker 1: a while because of the blowing and drifting. So it's
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  Speaker 1: the point now where Okay, the rain froze, that's bad.
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  Speaker 2: The snow is the snow. We can usually deal.
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  Speaker 1: With that, but you put it on top of ice,
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  Speaker 1: it's a complicating factor.
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  Speaker 2: But then it's the blowing and the visibility.
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  Speaker 1: And so throughout a lot of the state there is
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  Speaker 1: like the roads are basically impassable. I saw some around
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  Speaker 1: Eau Claire and up north. I saw some whiteout conditions
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  Speaker 1: where you couldn't even see the road. You couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: see like a lot of times you can't see the
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  Speaker 1: lane lines. You're kind of making them up as you
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  Speaker 1: go along on snowy drives. Well, in this case, you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even barely see the road, and there were accidents
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  Speaker 1: and people stranded and semis got stuck and then the
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  Speaker 1: wind blew them over and it's been it's been a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: But our friends warned us about this, so I took
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  Speaker 1: a portable broadcast unit home on Friday when I left
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  Speaker 1: the megaplex, just in case. And then I told you
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  Speaker 1: guys last night, it's like, well, I'm going to make
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  Speaker 1: the executive decision do the show from home so I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to deal with any snow and it allows
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  Speaker 1: me to stay up in like an extra hour watch
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  Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic, which was well worth the price
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  Speaker 1: of admission.
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  Speaker 4: Which was also well worth the extra the lack of sleep, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like I mean, it was phenomenal, phenomenal theater last night,
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  Speaker 4: and in a game and in a series with one
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  Speaker 4: of those teams where listen, I appreciate that we like
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  Speaker 4: to celebrate all the other teams when we cover different sports,
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  Speaker 4: and this allows you to see how different teams in
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  Speaker 4: different countries and cultures love the sport and celebrate the sport.
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  Speaker 4: But we are getting made fun of because we weren't
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  Speaker 4: working all over the base pads after hitting home runs
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  Speaker 4: and instead last night it's a two to one nip
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  Speaker 4: and tuck game Drew where I mean, that's baseball. Will
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  Speaker 4: get worked out here today with whatever the per Domo
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  Speaker 4: final pitch was.
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  Speaker 3: My man, Corey Blazer. I don't know if he was
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  Speaker 3: our wake and bake.
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  Speaker 4: Story all night long. That zone was on one throughout
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  Speaker 4: the game. But damn this American pitching in that bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: If you thought you were gonna get schemes out before
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  Speaker 4: the end of the fifth inning, I think a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people were ticketing the dr for getting to the
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  Speaker 4: World Baseball Final. But hey, man, it's house rules. We
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  Speaker 4: came up with the tournament. We play all the games here,
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  Speaker 4: we employ the umpires, so yeah, we get to cook
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  Speaker 4: the books and we get the final call.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, get up, We'll see this challenge, because that was
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  Speaker 6: absolutely somehow some might have been a challenge, right, Is
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  Speaker 6: that what we're looking at us to avoid missed calls
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  Speaker 6: like that, to end games.
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  Speaker 5: Feeling like that was is William Wallace last stand against ABS.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I'm gonna call some wild zone here.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna make sure, it's a total ameba of
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  Speaker 5: a zone and it'll be my last stand for the
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  Speaker 5: old blue and the umpires to say, all right, you
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  Speaker 5: know what abs might be coming, but for right now,
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  Speaker 5: I make the good decisions.
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  Speaker 3: It's my turn. I made the call. That's what it
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  Speaker 3: felt like. I did.
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  Speaker 4: Also, Drew think like it was a it was a
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  Speaker 4: good moment where because I was listening to the Foul
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  Speaker 4: Territory Boys this morning where uh, you know, Cratsy brought
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  Speaker 4: it up. He's like, well, who says they're not out
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  Speaker 4: of challenges?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: Like we see it in sports all the time, and
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  Speaker 4: especially when it's not, Hey, we're just gonna get the
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  Speaker 4: call right right, every single call is gonna get filtered
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  Speaker 4: and we're gonna fire it in. There's still gonna be
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  Speaker 4: a lot of a human element. And with how potentially
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  Speaker 4: bad Blazer was all night long, now, that could have
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  Speaker 4: become a four hour game with the amount of tapping
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  Speaker 4: on the head that we could have seen. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure Drew that they would have had enough challenges
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  Speaker 4: because of the emotion of that game.
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  Speaker 3: It was a it was a phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: Exhibition of the sport where otherwise it's been you know,
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  Speaker 4: Wilmer Abreu's blast and helicoptering the bat up into the
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  Speaker 4: air and instead last night, I mean, that is as
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  Speaker 4: good as baseball gets. And damn is Bobby Wood Junior
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  Speaker 4: one of the best players that nobody else gets to see.
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  Speaker 2: He really is. He's hogorific at everything on the baseball field.
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  Speaker 2: There's anything he can't do.
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  Speaker 1: And Aaron Judge made some great defensive plays. He showed
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  Speaker 1: why he's perennial. Mister MVP Schemes was pretty good for
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  Speaker 1: the most part.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he labored a little bit with the pitch count.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't that game feel a little bit really like?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we can make the parallels between the US Canada,
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  Speaker 1: the Olympic game, the gold medal game, but it felt
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  Speaker 1: like Dominican had more chances, more traffic, didn't get the
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  Speaker 1: big hit. It felt like they played the better game
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  Speaker 1: and still lost, which is hashtag sports.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, it's like that that Okay, yeah, oh you had
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  Speaker 2: all these base runs, he didn't get the big hit.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And those are frustrating games, so it's gonna linger
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  Speaker 1: with them for a while, the one that got away
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  Speaker 1: or the ones that got away.
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  Speaker 2: But it almost seems like now we're in this build.
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  Speaker 1: Up and we get to watch a championship game and
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  Speaker 1: not for nothing. As I'm watching this, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're rooting for the old USA, right, red white, and
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: blue baseball, hot Dogs, apple Pie, Chevrolet USA USA. But
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  Speaker 1: then I'm thinking to myself, you know, it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing in world see the Dominican play Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: in the.
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  Speaker 2: Championship game, because that would be pretty awesome too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that game was pretty amazing the first time
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  Speaker 4: I would, I would, I would sign up for another one. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Drew the It almost was the perfect embodiment
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  Speaker 4: of the USA Canada game because Soto had the same
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  Speaker 4: comment like damn near McKinnon esque where he said, I
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  Speaker 4: think we showed everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Who the best team in baseball?
• 8:58
  Speaker 4: Said yeah, and I don't disagree with them, Like the
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  Speaker 4: best collection of offensive talent was on that group. But
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  Speaker 4: luckily we had Wit going hallibuck on it. And I
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  Speaker 4: mean he stops the one where Guerrero probably should go.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was Vladdie. He's at second base, should
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  Speaker 4: go over to third instead, it's first and third with
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  Speaker 4: one out, Wit saves a run right there. He stopped
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  Speaker 4: a couple other ones and the double play. Everybody was
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  Speaker 4: loving Rogers to spin it, but that's a ridiculous throw
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  Speaker 4: by Bobby Whitt where.
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  Speaker 3: He's sitting at.
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  Speaker 4: They made the US made the biggest plays to be
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  Speaker 4: able to stunt and hold off. But I mean there
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  Speaker 4: were a couple of big time chances there where it
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  Speaker 4: felt like base running blunders or just a lack of
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  Speaker 4: being able to take now something that we I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 4: I'll take for granted because we watched the Brewers do
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  Speaker 4: it every single night. Like the Brewers have to play
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  Speaker 4: the way the US won the game last night, because
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  Speaker 4: if you give them an inch, they're going to take
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  Speaker 4: a mile. And it did feel like every single time
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  Speaker 4: the dr had a little bit of a slip up,
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  Speaker 4: the US made him pay. US gave him an extra
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  Speaker 4: out on the one where Terran drops the potential double playball.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's not an error, but it's about as
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  Speaker 4: easy of an additional out as you give them and
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  Speaker 4: they're still able to make it up and not be
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  Speaker 4: able to tack on.
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  Speaker 3: That was huge.
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  Speaker 1: That was huge, And the thing about it is like,
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  Speaker 1: much like I think the gold medal game, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about in the aftermath when the regular season starts. Opening
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  Speaker 1: days great and all, but the regular season gonna seem
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  Speaker 1: like a letdown from this.
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  Speaker 5: I was just I was just gonna say, it feels
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  Speaker 5: like Game seven and that that's what was great about it.
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  Speaker 5: That's what's been great about this whole tournament. And you
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  Speaker 5: talk about the tournaments that were at the international tournaments,
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  Speaker 5: you know, four nation's face off, Olympic hockey. Sometimes we
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: get that some of that, sometimes we don't from international basketball.
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  Speaker 5: It just feels like when you can tell the players care,
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  Speaker 5: when you can tell the team's care, when you can
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  Speaker 5: tell the intensity for them is is on the line
• 10:46
  Speaker 5: at like a Game seven, everything on the line and
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  Speaker 5: it matters to them, it's more enjoyable for fans.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't get that always these days.
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  Speaker 5: And you definitely got that with this with the World
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  Speaker 5: Baseball Classic last night's matchup. And the thing is you
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  Speaker 5: get that so much when he watches Latin countries play baseball. Man,
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  Speaker 5: they just are so into it, they care so much,
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  Speaker 5: to have so much passion for the game. It's a beautiful,
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  Speaker 5: refreshing thing. And you can't help but match that when
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  Speaker 5: you watch it, when you play it. And I thought
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  Speaker 5: the US did that last night, and that was the
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  Speaker 5: best part of what they did last night. It wasn't
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  Speaker 5: some dream team bludgeting, you know, like, Okay, we're the US,
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  Speaker 5: but the only team that does this. No, they had
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  Speaker 5: to play, you know, they had to make great defensive plays,
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  Speaker 5: do things fundamentally, you know, make those you know, like
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  Speaker 5: you said, Billy, the way the Brewers have done it.
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  Speaker 5: And that's it's very satisfying to see a collection of
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  Speaker 5: stars do that on a field. So what an awesome
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  Speaker 5: win last night, and it's gonna be a great final.
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  Speaker 1: We get to relive it in the other semifinal tonight,
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela and Italy at seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Who we're rooting for?
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  Speaker 1: I mean Venezuela because of William they got a top
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  Speaker 1: Brewers prospect.
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  Speaker 2: Playing for Italy. Italy has been a great story.
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  Speaker 1: It would be a little bit to me, like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: now that we're entering March Madness, huh, North Carolina State
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  Speaker 1: against FI Slam Majama in Houston, it's like the little
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  Speaker 1: scrappy underdog like Italy would be the hugest underdog, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And well see now yours is probably better. I
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: went to like Saint Peter's or George Mason, like trying
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  Speaker 4: to get get pass to go to the final four.
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  Speaker 3: But now they're to the final four.
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  Speaker 4: And this is where Drew like the travel and the
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  Speaker 4: week off that we see after you hit the Sweet
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  Speaker 4: sixteen and you get past the Elite eight. Everyone's reading
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: the press clippings where everyone's taking espresso shots across the country. Well,
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: we all know who Vinnie Pascantino is. We know that
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: his name used to be past Quintino, now it is Pasquantino.
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  Speaker 4: We know all of the changing that they had at Alis.
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  Speaker 4: Now we know a lot of their story. And Venezuela's
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  Speaker 4: just sitting back like, yeah, but we got Ronald Lacuna
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  Speaker 4: Junior blasting first pitches out on Japan. I think Venezuela
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  Speaker 4: WINSDA Night and I think the Cinderella story ends, and
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  Speaker 4: I will be cheering for Venezuela even though it probably
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  Speaker 4: is harder for the USA. It adds in maybe a
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  Speaker 4: better game, and I think USA would love to get
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: their their tick back on their.
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  Speaker 3: Lock back on on Italy.
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  Speaker 4: I want Venezuela and I want to see William Contraras
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  Speaker 4: rocking that Brewers headman into the into the championship because
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  Speaker 4: they play with a lot of Jews too, and there
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  Speaker 4: is some incredible, incredible guys on that Venezuela team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have the best game possible. But I think either
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  Speaker 1: way is gonna be good. This has been a great tournament,
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  Speaker 1: great for baseball that they start this way. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: terrang Following his arc has been interesting because he's had
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: some great moments and he's had a couple of oops,
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: you know, but he showed his platinum glove on the
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  Speaker 1: dive to his left last night.
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty sweet.
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  Speaker 4: It was pretty awesome. Yeah, the robbery is Soto well
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: and Drew. Like, there's just the USA defense. You mentioned
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: it with Judge, Like everybody sees the highlights of Judge
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: blasting fifty sixty homers, but I don't think anybody is
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: fully appreciated. Dude played what ten years of center field
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: right so I think rightfield will be okay for I
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: think he'll figure it out. But he is a special,
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: special defender. And the USA made just an even the
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: routine wants to fly out to deep center Pete Crow
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Armstrong runs down. I mean they made some really really
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: spectacular plays that kind of just saved runs. He cut
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: PCA cuts one off that I thought was ticketed for
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: sure to the gap and it just the little bits
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: and pieces of it to supplement that bullpen, which was impressive.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: And Mason Miller, I will give Corey Blazer a little
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: bit of a little bit of a leash.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: That was sick.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, what is he spinning there of one hundred
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: and two hundred and three oh and that that that
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: drop on the last pitch. You're watching some of these
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: guys and Drew, I don't know how on Earth Perdomo
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: walks more than he strikes out the last hitter for
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: dr last year in baseball, because I don't know how
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: you're seeing this stuff like these guys starting the year
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: off with this highest level of competition. We talked about
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: it with the NHL off of the Olympics, where now
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: you're gonna get the sport. Man. It's so much better
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: than all of a sudden you watch it and then
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: there's three months until these best stars are gonna be
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: playing again. Now we're gonna see the pagetery. We're gonna
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: get it on Netflix in a week and a half.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: And it's not gonna have the same energy. But I
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: think the people that are just wat watching and be like, whoa,
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: pitchers are thrown like this. Now there's some casuals that
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: I do believe might pick up just a little bit
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: more because the play has been that elite.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be ready for the regular season. And then
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: baseball does give you more, Like the.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Brewers won ninety seven games, and anytime you win a
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: game is cool, but they give you what would you say,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: maybe once a week, or they give you that kind
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: of like goosebump moment where it's you know, you're down
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: by a run and it's second and third with two
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: outs in the ninth, or it gives you those edge
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: of your seat moments over the course of the summer.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: They don't come every day, right, but they're there.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: And it just but you just know, well, in the
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: back of your mind, you're processing it in real time.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: You go, well, it's one of six, one sixty two.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: It's not an elimination game today, right, It's like we're
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: gonna you can lose five in a row and still
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: come back and win a xample ship. So it's like
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: they don't have the currency that this has where you
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: know it's win or go home both of these teams
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: way and you have all star teams playing. Not that
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: you don't see star players on a Tuesday night in June,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: but it's just not the same. You can't recreate this
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: because it's not win or go home. It's not like
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: the eyes of the world. So it's a little teaser.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: It's a little bit.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a little analogous to NASCAR folks who they
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: fire up the Daytona five and then it's like, Okay,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: then what the rest of the season is the John
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Deere Classic.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Well, that's where I thought Tucky was going when he
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: called it Toner Day in the update. I'm like, wait
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: a second, what we've earning this thing out at Daytona.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: But I like that with the brackets and you're giving
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: your your printer a workout. Then, Drew, it's one of
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: those two where like it actually makes me appreciate and
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: be in awe of the mental ability and makeup of
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball players more because like you for you
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: to know how highly competitive and how good, just how
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: flat out good you are when you're watching some of
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: these All star players, to know that they're gonna they're
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: gonna fail what seventy five eighty percent of the time
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: throughout the year. And to be able to still have
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: that supreme confidence. Uh, it's one of the more impressive
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: mental sports. And to have to be at your absolute
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: peak and then to roll with the consistency pretty pretty special.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Also, Joe Davis and John.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Schmoltz last night, boys were at the top of their game. Man,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Joe Davis was phenomenal to start it out here. This
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: is a mid season four right away.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Now, no star I have, you know, I could take
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: our leave. Smoltz he hits me once in a while.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It's like he's his batting average with me is a
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: bit spotty, but right around.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: The Mendoza line. Yeah, they were.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: They were a good squad last night, and uh yeah,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: it's just it's great theater. And again here we are
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: on a day, as Doug mentioned in the Sports Center update,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: a little top of the hour update, like this is
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: bracket day and we haven't talked about the brackets, but
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: we're going to in earnest. It's like the one thing
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: that could make us, you know, bump that down to
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the second segment status. Of course, the batterers are heading
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: into Portland.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: They're gonna face high Point.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: How many people raise your hand if you knew about
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: hih Point. I've known about it for a couple of
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: years because I know somebody who went there.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I knew about it when I watched that ninety nine
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: kid hit what five threes?
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was the big Highlight. Yeah he's like maybe
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: this year's Jack Gelki. But they've been in determined the
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: last three years now, I want to say, so they're
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: pretty They dominate the big South. I just know them
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: for that and I checked the uh. They have a
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: longer flight than e W, so that's important. I think
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: all the way out to Portland.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: That helps. That helps going west.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So yes, we'll funny to talk about about that show
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: as well. The high Point Panthers, thank you, Okay, I
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: was going to guess Pointers.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: They are located in North Carolina, and I think that's
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: a school that it feels to me like they're the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: planned planned community of universities, the Premier Life Skills University.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: It's like the DEBRAI of the is that what you mean?
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Or the University Phoenix they're playing.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: No, I think you mean it's like one of those
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: like golf course community.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, like neighbor.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: They put an emphasis on athletics and they they went
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: cutting edge. It's been around since like nineteen twenty four,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: so it's got some history. Rate campus.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're getting what the vibe that I'm getting from High.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Private known for its quote life skills, career readiness, and
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: the transformational student experience.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: That sounds like a mission statu right there. We no
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: doubt we're going to quire a national experience.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna game balls and kicks to the balls today.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: In fact, we might as well just start it now
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: because there might be some people like me working from
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: home or being home and stuck eight seven seven seven
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• 19:28
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• 19:29
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• 19:33
  Speaker 2: We are there for you as well. It's a normal
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: day for us, except I'm not in the studio with
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the boys. I should have been.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: And it's more about the baseball game and staying up
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: late than it's about the weather.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I will admit I'm soft.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Did you make one extra the one though, like right
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: right there in the sixth or seventh inning.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Did you go to the cooler? Did you go to
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: the fridge and ground because I did.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, we're waking up with
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: the smell again, and I I gotta grab one of
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: these before they close off liquor sales.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I gotta be ready.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: It's good that you made last call. Absolutely, we'll talk tournament.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Did the Badgers get screwed with this seating with Some
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: people are saying that they always gets hurd It's so funny.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: The victim complex runs strong on days like today. It's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the Monday edition, the Blizzard edition. We're glad you're hanging
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: out with us. It's the Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Billy and Armon at headquarters, there are pointed posts. I'll
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: be joining you guys tomorrow. I could have made it
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: in today. I'm soft and I just wanted to stay
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: up a little later than usual, treat myself to watch
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: in the World Baseball Classic.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: And I think I made the right decision. If I
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: had a bell here, i'd ring it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: I don't think you're soft yet. You saved me first.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: You had a tougher drive than us. It was a
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: smart move. It is a little better by the lake.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: There a little warmer for you guys. I don't think
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: you get the sheer volume, but even for us close
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: here in the county, but it's like central Wisconsin up north.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I know they got it all day yesterday too, when
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: a lot of ours is just rain. It's just some
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: of these depending on if you get lucky and you
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: hit the right road that applows hit already. It is
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: pretty treacherous, but so it's probably the smart thing you did.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Diference difference is good.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Everybody be careful out there.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I gotta say though, I just like it is. It
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: is pretty impressive to me, and it's it's a wild
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: difference that I just haven't fully grasped quite yet.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Man, we call snow days so quick now so quick changed.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Yesterday it's like five o'clock and Drew, there has not
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: been a flurry. I mean, it is still dumping buckets
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: of rain. And I'm seeing that that schools are closed.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad, right because I mean, there was good,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: good four or five six inches out there, depending on
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: where you are. We don't want kiss standing out of
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: the bus, or that we don't want kiss standing on
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: the bus waiting for that. But I'm just it is
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: a wild difference. Now, this one actually turns out the snow.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: But there have been a lot of these days where
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I'm looking out here seeing three inches of snow saying that's.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Keeping us from going to school. So it's not just
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: you working from home.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: And frankly, I mean, listen, we got the power of technology.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I'm amazed we don't use it more. We could do
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: this show from the moon potentially with starlink. It might
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: get starlink might get that good, or we can do
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: it just about anywhere. But I'm glad that we got
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: the power of technology. And more importantly, I'm glad that
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: we're able to still give some game balls and kicks
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: to the balls because not only USA Dominican. I know
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: we're gonna talk some oscars later on. It sounded like
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: it was a phenomenal event for all of those folks
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: and they didn't have to worry about a blizzard. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: we'll have our friends in Stevens Point riding their snowmobiles
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: to and from work in the grocery store here today
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: so they can go and enjoy the enjoy Lipstick City.
• 22:20
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• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Mike and Merrill had a bit of a weather report
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: for US.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: VIN.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: What did he say, Yeah, he said, guys, twenty three
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: inches since Friday and Merril. So, my goodness, storms on
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Friday and Sunday. Saturday was nice and great for cleaning up.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: But it is windy currently twenty one mile p hour
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: with gusts up to forty five. And that's the problem
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: with this, guys. It is the wind that is the
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: real challenge here is the wind. As you know, with
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: the blizzard conditions and the drifts, just about everything is canceled,
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: even factories. And wasa'll put out emergency road declarations where
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: if they see vehicles driving numerous times on patrol, they
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: would stop and tell you to get off unless absolutely necessary.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: By the way, he's got a WBC take. Well, we'll
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: let him have it, for sure, he said. Perdomo had
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: pitched two to hit right down the middle and let
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: it go. Great pitching only one walk given by the
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: USA all game. Well, both both factors are true, but
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: that's not the way it works. But yes, that's true, that.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Doesn't Yeah, we still like the integrity of balls and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: strikes being you know.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and Drew like our guy Hunter put out
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: a screen grab of it last night, and I saw
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: some of the comments of well, told me you don't
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: know baseball or you never played baseball if you don't
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: think the duct would be at a strike, because we've
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: been calling it all night long. They've been calling her
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: a ball off of the strikes.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: You can miss me with the Little league umpire walking
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: up to both benches and saying, tell your kids, I'm
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: calling it a ball off all corners.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Billy.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: This is Major League Baseball compliant, right, this is made
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: by Major League Baseball in WBC. These are professionals, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: the tough thing is but almost one of the best
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: ball strike deciders. He's got the best pitch selection maybe
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: in all of ball. He literally walked more than he
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: struck out last year, so my man knows the zone
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: and it was a bad call. However, like nobody screen
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: grabbed Byron bustdon't getting wrung up on a on a
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: horrendous one And what was that the eighth inning? Like
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: it context, it happens, and Drew like it to me,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: is being frustrated that they finally called a ticki tac
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: defensive pass interference or a ticki tak defensive holding when
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: it's been happen in all game. We don't go in
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: the NFL where you say, hey, guys, just so you know,
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: we're gonna give you like an inch off of into
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: the white on catches near the out of bounds line. Okay,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: so as long as you're within an inch, it's still
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: gonna be a catch because we're giving it a little
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: bit of grace period.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: The ball can maybe touch the ground.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Just just just an inch, just a tip, just to
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: see how it feels, to see if we're gonna call that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: So like at that, I struggle with being the discussion.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I'm glad that we're gonna be able to get it
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: right going forward, and I'm glad that this isn't gonna
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: decide a World series. But I am definitely glad that
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: we're playing in the house like this is. This is
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: when as a gambler, I to casinos all the time
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: and you know the game is slanted. I do wonder
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: if the other organizations we're looking at this saying, huh,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: extra day off after the travel, make sure all your
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: pitchers are aligned up for the for the championship.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: A couple of nice favorable calls like I do.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: I do wonder if there are some folks in on
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Team Italy and their uh, you know, brain Trust of Baseball,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: which I did find out armin for you is in Italy.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: So everything, the team being selected, the people that are
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: orchestrating at all, the Federation of Baseball in Italy is
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: all over this team. But I just wonder, drew if
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: if the other organizations are like, huh, I get I
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: get its house rules. I get that they're they're gonna
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: get a little bit of the call. They're gonna get
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: some home cooking. We came up with the events, all right,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: we host it. You haven't won it in a couple
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: of years, so we're gonna figure out how to We
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: gotta figure out how to win this thing.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: All right now.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I'm glad that it's not that we're not cheating, we're
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: not trying kind of situation. But hey, we're gonna get
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: We're gonna get the call. That's just how it is.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: You gotta beat the beat the home dog. Just like
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: when you're playing beer pong in somebody's house and all
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: of a sudden, the house rules get increasingly more in
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: favor of the host as the drinks continue to be
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: in vibed, and all of a sudden that ball didn't
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: touch the ground. Oh, that ball didn't by this two cups.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Actually it hits the lit and goes in. That's all
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: four cups. The house rules change as the game goes on.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've gotta love that. Eight seven seven, seven nine three.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Thanks to Mike and Marylynd everybody who's dealing with heavier
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: snow north of here, our buddies on the Green Bay
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Packers beat. We're posting pictures yesterday of the blizzard and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the Atrium at lambeau Field. Is that our version is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: that our north star. And in clement weather, is that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: our waffle house. Like in the South, when waffle house closes,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that's when it's like time to hold onto your ass
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: with both hands.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: That's that's why it's serious. Well, the a Trium is
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: close to it now.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: This today was supposed to be the celebration of life
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: for Bob Harlan, and they canceled that last week knowing
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that the forecast was going to be beat.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Well, they made the.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Right call, put that off until next Monday, and that
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: was absolute the right call. But the the Atrium and
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: just lambeau Field in general today shut down and that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: place never shuts down except for like Christmas day, right
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: like this is you know.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I think it's opened three hundred and sixty three days
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: a year, three hundred and sixty two days a year, right,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: maybe the fourth of July, maybe Eastern maybe Christmas and
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: uh and now today and listen, I was in I
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: was inside the den last night, the Butchi's den, talking
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: some brackets after the selection process. Saw that if my
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: man had damn your two feet like so it was,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: it's some serious stuff there in the Fox Valley. And
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: and I do wonder if you know, phone apps are
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: gonna get apologized to by the the weather police that said,
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: don't trust these online apps telling you there's gonna be
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: twenty five to thirty inches of snow. Don't don't trust
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: these big these fearmonger and tell you there's gonna be
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: two feet of snow all of a sudden. And the
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: meteorologists may have been may have been right. I did
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: see that, Billy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I saw some people trying to clap back and say
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: like that meteorologists owned the absolute and apology.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I don't meteorologists.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: I think all the folks that were saying and screaming
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: about the apps being wrong right away.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Well, I think the one that got people was the
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: one that said thirty three now might be thirty three
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: though in some places, so I guess in that sense.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. So when certain places.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Closed, I know, we know it's been a bad one
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: and and I think the what makes it so unusual
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: is that it's going to be fifty at the end
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: of the week, like you just know, you know, we
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: always made the joke about it quickly weather changes, but man,
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: did we see it? I mean, it was seventy last Monday,
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: like a week ago, and now it's uh, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: it's snow mcgeddon or it's notorious b I G or
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: however you want to say it. But yeah, when yeah,
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: when you when you, uh, how long have you been
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: sitting on that lip?
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, my god, so long? I actually probably ten years ago.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: So but no one will, no one be wile to
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: know and find out, no one will remember or have
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: tape for it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: But so they won't be able to catch me on that.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: But I just told myself.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: But yeah, when when those closed, maybe when the quick
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: trips closed, maybe when some of those institutions close closed.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, That's what I'm saying.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Close by Toby worked at a quick trip and he
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: didn't know where the keys were to close.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: It was the Kenosha Riots like he didn't he.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Didn't know how to close it.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: They told him, like, you guys gonna have to close up.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: He's we don't know where the key.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: No one else would only happen Adobe War is the
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: one guy that had.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: To close at one time.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Guy who runs out of gas in a in a.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Drive well, and you want to talk about it, Drew,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: of like the north Stars and the people that the
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: things that never closed, that never changed early game ball
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: through one of those north Stars. In my life was
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: it only been Matt Salemi Right now, My man is
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: always up in that chopper right yeah, News w I
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: S and twelve here in Milwaukee. He's been up in
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: that chopper since I was a kid eating my cheerios
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Apple Sentiment chios before school. And uh, he's grounded today.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: He is grounded today. Now he's driving around in the
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: in the car. They're given some good weather reports, Drew,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: but we can't we can't have that thing up into
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: the air. But he's still giving us some some information.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: That's one of those where I know that chopper is grounded,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be there's some serious issues up in the sky.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: And my man standing out here on Legend Avenue in
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Mechwan and Germantown, he is just getting pelted with this snow.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I thought he was about to get run over by
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: this plow. This is good weather channel reporting season where
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: you're you're gonna earn some keep if you're doing live
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: in the Fox Valley here today.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: It is funny mention that because even for like kicks
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: to the balls, you know stuff today, I was thinking,
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: let me just find the news that local news fail,
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Like there's one somewhere where a guy gets a plow
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: running him or something, but we're up before everybody, so
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: it didn't work out that way, But there is always one.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Or my favorite one was the people that were on
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: the live shot going jogging in the snow and said
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: it's perfect weather for running and then slipped and then yes,
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: that was funny, Like you know, there's so many of
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: these good ones, but it's a right at passage, as
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: you know, for local news, for local reporters to be
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: out there taking it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: You know, just taking it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just taking the blizzard, taking the weather, just
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: to be out there when the shot is going. It's
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: the old Jim Cantory thing. It's a right at passage.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: But hey, Mike Wick, good for essential word Wisconsin rapids
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: twenty four and a half inches between Saturday night and
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: then the forty mile an hour wins. Hey, Mike, be
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: safe in there from Dan and West Ben sin Fellas.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: It's a great day to stay in make a pot
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: of chili, I mean last night time last night, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I threw carrots in there, which I think improved it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go up to the fourth to third
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: place my next chili competition.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: But carrots then make it pretty good.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sweeen it up, It sweetens it up. Yeah, it's
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: the it's for Lenna. It's for my daughter. She likes
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: them a lot.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: So you know, carrots are good and chili.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I allow it armand that's okay.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: That's not a party.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Listen, all right, I had this, since I had this
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: ince COVID and I keep it to this day.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: We're part of the emergency response team for iHeart. All right,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: we're in here. We're in here for you all.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Day.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: There's my card. I'm keeping this forever in case anyone
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: stops me. And as you win, I'm driving all right.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven three gets you in again.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Game balls and kicks. The balls get them to.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Us now if you'd like, send them to the Nicolay
• 31:54
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• 31:56
  Speaker 2: We're glad you're chilling with us on this blizzard day.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Let's let's hope this is winter's last gasp, right yeah,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and then we got tournament games and everything will be
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: fine by then, everything being fined by tomorrow. Saint Patty's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Day celebrations that actually they happen on Saint Patty's Day.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: We'll discuss all of that and more as we move ahead.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: It's the Monday edition of the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,
• 32:22
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  Speaker 1: ninety four one ninety seven three talking about the World
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic because it was thrilling. Bucks won a game yesterday,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin had a nice ride in the Big Ten tournament,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and boys, I think what happened to them.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Was just about perfect.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: The fact that they didn't have to play yesterday, that
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: they didn't win on Saturday get them a little extra rest.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I think that laid out pretty well, don't you.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Well and Drew, I think the other part of it
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: for them is being able to prove that Michigan's not
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: that much better than you, right, even though like listening
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: to Butchy and Matt on the final call, and I
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: totally agree with Brian, is that like I think that
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Michigan team cuts down the nets somewhere, like they get
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: to a final, like they are that good and their
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: experience which is hard to ultimately beat. But to be
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: able to prove to yourself that it was no fluke
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: when you went up to ann Arbor and you were
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: the only team in Big Ten play to hand them
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: in l at that point, I thought that was pretty important.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: But also get healthy, get get rested, and let Nick
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Boyd and John Blackwell hit the game ready with them
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: knees and the calves. Make sure that we don't have
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: any hamstrings that are gonna be any bit tight when
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: you get out to Portland, because Perdue does feel, Drew
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: like it'll be the classic Big Ten team that runs
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: for four days in the Big Ten tournament and then
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: just straight runs out of gas coming up next week.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: We see it almost every single year. Yeah, the tailor's
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: oldest time. Yeah, Iowa did it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: I know Purdue it at once where if you have
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: to run that gamut, you usually are gas to the tournament.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Like it might change this here, but it does seem
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: to be a trend you wanted to avoid.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: So I agree with you, Drew. They threatened the needle perfectly.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: They played really well to make themselves feel good about
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: themselves and not have to play the last day. The
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: worst thing you can do is get to the final
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: and lose, in my opinion, So the most important thing
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: is they prove to themselves that, yeah, I agree believe
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: that they can beat Michigan. They know they're playing elite
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: ball right now that if they shoot, and they've been
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: shooting very well, they can hang with any team in
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: the nation. So I think they're primed for a run here,
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: whether or not it happens.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: We don't know. The ball has to bouncer win in
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: the tournament.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: There's a million, million factors that determine a small series
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: of events.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: But hey, you have to like the position they're in.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I think my pal Andy and westpend big time. Michigan
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: fan texted me yesterday and he said Michigan should have
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: lost on Saturday.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: They played awful today, created bad momentum, and now have
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to play on Thursday.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sucks you worry about that, you know.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: And then and then you debate forever what the prize
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: of the conference tournament is, what it means.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, once you're there, you want to win it.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: I get it. But if you don't, then it's like
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: what was all this for? You know?
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: So nothing cooler than Calipari's statement yesterday, though I don't
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: know if you guys caught it when when people were
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: asking him a similar question for Arkansas, who you know
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Badgers might be facing off in the second round, where
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: he started talking about it's like fellows, the most important thing,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: come out healthy, probably can't improve our seed. And then
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: somebody in the back, one of the seniors, one of
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: the captains, goes, hey, coach all due respect that leap
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: that all right, No, this is a championship game, so
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: we're gonna go out win a championship.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: And that's the tough part about it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Like the Badgers have now been to the Big Ten
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Championship Game one, they were there back to back years.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: They go to the semi final this year they get
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: boat raced by James Madison, and I don't know that
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: that was the case in A twelve five two years ago,
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: in twenty three, twenty four after going to the title game.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: But it definitely can't help, right, Like it doesn't necessarily
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: help when you play right away on Thursday, I did.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: I think the worst part for them guys would have
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: been if they got seated late night on Thursday. I
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: like that they're the first game out of the shoots
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: because drew the other part of their game and what
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: they showed again this weekend is man Boyden Blackwell just
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: feed off of the feeling like they are in a conundrum.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Right If they feel like the gym is against them,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: that's bad news for whoever they're playing in the gym.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: They feel like they feed off of that and it
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: being early them feeling like they might get a little
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: bit slighted. I like that as a Badger fan and
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: a Badger backer who my twenty eight to one still
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: doesn't feel great knowing that Arizona is sitting in there,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: who I think is one of the best teams in
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: the tournament. But they got just as good a chance
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: as anybody being out west. And last time they were
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: out west, we already know what happened Great Point, Billy.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, okay, so they draw high Point and the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: fact that they're going to Portland, people are like, oh,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: they had to screw them.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: How is this them getting screwed? Did you see them
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: above the five line? Did you see them? Like?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: There aren't really there's no place close they could have
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: been sent. They were going to travel either to Morelanders.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we brought that up a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: there's a good LOCA except for maybe Saint Louis. There
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: was no good Midwest locations at all.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And like, what did they do to deserve those
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: over other teams? I mean, I think the Five Seeds
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: kind of like about where I thought they would be.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Like it's pretty appropriate, isn't it.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I agree?
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: And I don't know about you guys. Now you Army
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: file is a lot better than any than me. And
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: I was talking about it with Butchery last night that
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: the five twelve isn't what it used to be, right,
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Like I that right, and I think you'll start to
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: see it more and more that there is. There's gonna
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: be a legit separation between the two, three, four, five
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: seeds and the twelve through fourteen or fifteen seeds. Right,
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: There's always been obviously a different talent, but the ability
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: to build the unit that runs for two or three
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: years to get to this point if you're a thirteen.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Seed is far different.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be a lot tougher for a pen to
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: unless you have my man power, who went for what
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: forty some point yesterday nuts with the butterfly bandage on
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: the chin, which was next level.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: You might hear more.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: There's there's times where you would be able to build
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: and the crescendo would be, you know, two three years
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: of work to get to the NCAA tournament and win
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: a game. Now, Drewiz and these teams are just as
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: new a lot of times in the mid majors as
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: the Power Forwards and the Power five. So I think
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: the talent's gonna be tougher. You just hope that you
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: don't get goalkeyed or whatever. This cat's name is in
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: the ninety nine jersey who was just stroking it from
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: deep no pause, I mean it was. That is a
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: tough highlight tape to watch.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: If you don't like shooting from distance and you like
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: the old school back to the basket basketball, it is
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: it there. This is going to be up and down
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: in one sixty five and a half. Uh, were was
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: what the number was earlier on yesterday, And that thing's
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: gonna continue to fly my.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: High number, no doubt.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Both teams like to shoot, both teams like to play
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: with pace, and you'll be seeing that Billy as you mentioned,
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: and you're right, I think this is more gonna be
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: more chalky. Ever since the portal era, it has been
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: more chalky, has been less upsets, even in the non
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: conference of the high major teams. We'll see if that continues,
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: but I do expect it to be. Yeah, like you said,
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: this is not the five to twelve of your of
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: your father. Now. It might still happen, but it's just
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: not as likewise. Just look at the lines. They're they're
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: bigger than they used to be.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: That's true, and the other five seeds along with Wisconsin
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: are Saint John's.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Arman like that their final fourteen.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not happy about that seating.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: They're not happy about that seating because they were you know,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: but Dragon they lost, all right, So the Saint John's,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the Badgers, Texas Tech twenty two to ten could definitely
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: be an Elite eight team.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: And Vanderbilt. Yeah, all good teams that have had big wins.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Vanderbilt, it just screwed me yesterday minus one forty the
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: only favorite you put in a parlay and they can't
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: win at home at Nashville. You want to talk, So
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: the locations don't necessarily matter, But yeah, those are all
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: right around.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: That Tyler Tanner kid.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: The way Matt and Butcher were saying, though, guys is
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: that it almost was circled, and it sounded like people
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: throughout the week we're talking about it that I felt
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: like it was either going to be High Point or McNee,
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: and it was most likely going to be.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: The five Seeds.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: So, like, I wonder how that helps drew of Because
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: one of the coaches, one of the assistant coaches, was
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: on with Butchy last night talking about the forecasting and
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: the different game prep that you have to do for
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: the teams that are going to be in your pocket
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: and in your little quad going out to Portland. But
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: I also wonder if you got an idea as to
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: who the two three teams that you probably are going
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: to take on, if some of that advanced scouting already
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: happened to try to get them a little bit ahead
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: on one of these groups.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: It's right, We're going to tee up some game balls
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: and kicks the balls. I think it's going to be robust.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: We got Matt Miller joining us today as well.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: To talk about the OSCARS, which we're also running concurrently
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: with that World Baseball Classic Spectacular semi final last evening
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: with the US beating the Dominican two.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: And I won, and I get to throw in a
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: little football part of the Oscars conversation that I just
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: found out about. So I'm excited when Matt joins us
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: and Marquette.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, with Matt and Arman being Marquette guys, the
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Marquette angle with Amy Madigan win a title, finally won
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: a title.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: That's amazing. Yes, indeed, it's a snowy. Addition, it's a
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: snow day.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Schools are closed everywhere throughout the good Land. So I hope,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I hope folks are comfortable and you know, safe listening
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to us on this Monday.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: You got us until eight o'clock, first hours in the books.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: We're barely breaking a sweat. It's the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,