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07/16/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: I watched it. If he's pouty of professional, it's a
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Speaker 1: great professional out there and playing this ball game like
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Speaker 1: I know you can play it. Drew Olson, mythical legendary
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Speaker 1: figure schmid Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 1: Armand Sorry. We read Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on
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Speaker 1: the air.
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Speaker 2: Let's get it the Thursday to show of the huddle
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Speaker 2: off and running. Welcome in, smart, good looking five o'clock
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Speaker 2: club members. We're glad you're here. I'm Drew Wilson, Billy
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Speaker 2: Schmid Off. Today armand Science is here. And it's like
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Speaker 2: one of the things that we always say about Arman
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Speaker 2: now that he's back on X is that he doesn't
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Speaker 2: fear the smoke from Bears fans, Cubs fans, Illinois residents,
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Speaker 2: just anybody who stands a post from one of his,
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Speaker 2: you know, sometimes sometimes well crafted and sometimes just haphazardly
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Speaker 2: emitted thoughts into the X verse.
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Speaker 1: And opinions into the atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: But today I'd like to duck the smoke. Now there's
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Speaker 2: smoke everywhere out there, and it sucks absolutely, Drew.
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Speaker 4: I don't like to duck the smoke, but I would
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Speaker 4: gladly duck this if I could. I went out to
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Speaker 4: I went out to fire up the grill last night,
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Speaker 4: and I said, someone already started it. What's going on
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Speaker 4: out here? Who's burning the Uh? Yeah, my burger smell
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Speaker 4: like that?
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Speaker 1: I hope not.
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Speaker 4: And then I quickly realized, oh no, oh no, what
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Speaker 4: I thought was oppressive conditions just the heat changed to
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Speaker 4: oppressive conditions when this stupid Canadian wildfire smoke punched us
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Speaker 4: right in the facing.
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Speaker 1: Kids.
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Speaker 2: I think blame Canada might be wrong. I thought it
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Speaker 2: was them two for the terrace, but I heard it's
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Speaker 2: from Minnesota.
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Speaker 4: But I alread, yeah, Minnesota is to blame also, so
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Speaker 4: not only is it Canada, I think it's both when
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Speaker 4: I read at least, but there is a lot in
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Speaker 4: northern Minnesota as well that's creating some of our problems.
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Speaker 4: And wouldn't you know it, once again it's Minnesota to blame.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised they did it again to us.
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Speaker 4: And absolutely oppressive out there. Terrible and it stinks because
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Speaker 4: we only get so many not to mention that, you
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Speaker 4: know the health concerns you have to breathe air, but
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Speaker 4: we only get so many days like this. We wait
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Speaker 4: all a year for summer and then to have that
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Speaker 4: happen here and to have to deal with this smoke
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Speaker 4: is to say the least, uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: And could be dangerous too.
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Speaker 4: So unfortunately, this this wildfire smokea has been hoisted upon
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Speaker 4: us once again from our neighbors to the north.
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Speaker 2: It was what two years ago that we had this
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Speaker 2: whole couple of weeks of the Canadian fires.
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Speaker 4: I remember exactly because I feel like, you know, there
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Speaker 4: are certain things we talk about on a nostalgic youth.
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Speaker 4: I don't feel like this was anything we ever dealt
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Speaker 4: with in my youth. I never remembered being a kid,
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Speaker 4: you know, I remember cryminal spiridium. I remember, you know,
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Speaker 4: all kinds of things when I was a kid, quick
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Speaker 4: saying all these things they would tell you to worry about.
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Speaker 4: We had tornado drills, we had all these things. Drew
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Speaker 4: obviously you were of a different vintage.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I.
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Speaker 4: Never remember, you know, hot uv ozone layer we had
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Speaker 4: to worry about that. Never had I remembered them warning
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Speaker 4: us or at least having an issue in the summer
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Speaker 4: with wildfire smoke, and all of a sudden it's happened
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Speaker 4: like two or at least three times. I feel like
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Speaker 4: maybe two years ago, maybe even four or five, like
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Speaker 4: this was a thing that we've had to check this
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Speaker 4: and deal with this, And I'm like, what's going on here?
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Speaker 4: Is it just because things are getting warmer all the
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Speaker 4: time or what? And then I saw a report that said, well,
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Speaker 4: if it starts snowing, it'll fix that. I'm like, well,
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Speaker 4: might have a few months, yeah for that, even though
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Speaker 4: it is Minnesota and Canada, might have a few months
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Speaker 4: to wait for it. So unfortunately, once again, we're just
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Speaker 4: sitting around waiting for this to leave us.
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Speaker 1: When it's gonna be.
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Speaker 2: We've got the local news on the television here in
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Speaker 2: the soon to be named studios and Impact Day Children's
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Speaker 2: Asthma Alert. Don't exercise outside if you can help yourself.
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Speaker 2: Toronto had some orange skies yesterday that we're pretty pretty
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Speaker 2: wild and uh they're I'm obviously coughing now because it
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Speaker 2: tickles the back of your throat. It's uh an, It's
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Speaker 2: almost like it's like being at a campfire and everybody like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I love it. We we were on a bond fire
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Speaker 2: and yeah, those are great. And then you get home
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Speaker 2: and you smell like the campfire and you can't escape it. Sure,
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Speaker 2: that's why I don't drink scotch. Scotch whiskey to me,
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Speaker 2: has that finished? It feels like you're swallowing a campfire,
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Speaker 2: and that's what we're doing outside right now.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Scotch guys love it, don't they. It
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Speaker 4: was like, is there a lot of peat a lot
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Speaker 4: of peaty? So you know, I'm not taking air quality
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Speaker 4: for granted anymore? No things that now we can't. You
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Speaker 4: can't make a salad. You gotta worry about produce. And
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Speaker 4: Armand's favorite thing in the world is to go shop
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Speaker 4: for produce.
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Speaker 1: I do love it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I I enjoy the you know,
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Speaker 4: the looking for deals at the grocery store. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: this is not a good time for that either. No,
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Speaker 4: can't you have to watch what you're eating?
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Speaker 1: Week? Had to watch it you're breathing? Can I just
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Speaker 1: enjoy an All Star week of no sports?
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's bad enough to not have any sports
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Speaker 4: this week, well except for the World Cup excuse me,
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Speaker 4: we'll talk about that. But it's bad enough to have
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Speaker 4: no sports, Drew, It's bad enough I can't have air
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Speaker 4: to breathe either. At any lettuce man. I mean, it's
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Speaker 4: pretty brutal out there. And not to mention it's been
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Speaker 4: so hot, like it's one thing they had the heat
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Speaker 4: in the July, Like, Okay, it's hot in July, big deal. Uncomfortable,
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Speaker 4: but you can't even deal with now. Some people are
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Speaker 4: gonna say, what's the big deal? I'm staying inside anyway.
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Speaker 4: I get it, but there's a point in time where
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Speaker 4: it's like you can't even get the air inside.
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Speaker 1: To be clear.
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Speaker 4: So I hope this clears up soon. But it's not
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Speaker 4: just us, it's the rust Belt. I mean, the Eastern
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Speaker 4: Seaboard is gonna start to deal with this. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: it sucks. It sucks.
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Speaker 2: And it was rolling down from the north because I
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Speaker 2: have a friend who was up in Monocua, and I
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Speaker 2: guess it was bad up there. Yes, they got it
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Speaker 2: before us, So it's rolling down. And I don't know
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Speaker 2: what we need is do we need a stronger west
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Speaker 2: winds or or does that hurt us? Or do we
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Speaker 2: need a south wind to push this stuff up north.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what the answer is. I just want
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Speaker 2: it to be over. Let's get it cleared up. I'm
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Speaker 2: leaving town on Friday, to start my vacation for with
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Speaker 2: a weekend away and hopefully where I go. I want
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Speaker 2: to have to worry about the air quality next. But
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Speaker 2: I'm traveling to Tornado Alley, so I don't know if
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Speaker 2: that's like LA.
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Speaker 1: No, I think the air should be clear. I mean
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Speaker 1: you'll have a it'll be hot down there. I'm assuming. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: well we'll see.
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Speaker 2: right now, and we uh we start the day's program.
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Speaker 2: We spent a lot of time, uh in recent shows
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Speaker 2: forecasting and I don't mean weather forecasting or smoke forecasting.
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Speaker 2: What the Brewers were gonna do at the deadline and
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Speaker 2: lo and behold, Matt Arnold made a move yesterday picking
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Speaker 2: up a pitcher of some renown. Now, I would have
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Speaker 2: liked to have seen the Brewers acquire the Lance mccullors
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Speaker 2: of like twenty eighteen, twenty twenty.
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Speaker 4: That's what we do though, right through. That's what we do. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: brand Rmo for what was Julio Tehran a couple of yeeah.
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Speaker 2: Then Lance mccullor's junior is coming to Milwaukee.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and you remember it. You know he's at some really.
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Speaker 2: Good years and yeah, and oh and they're also getting
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Speaker 2: Colton Gordon, who might.
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Speaker 1: End up being a key to this. But well that
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Speaker 1: might be their whole. That might be their whole.
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Speaker 2: Like Lance mccullors is, he's only thirty two years old,
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Speaker 2: but he's been around a while. And first round pick
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Speaker 2: of the Astros, the only organization he's known in twenty twelve,
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Speaker 2: debut in twenty fifteen, All Star in twenty seventeen, and
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Speaker 2: a playoff hero for the Astros. He pitched some high leverage,
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Speaker 2: big games and came up big for the Astros.
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Speaker 1: Huge. Yeah, two World Series, huge performances. Huge.
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Speaker 4: He's never really strung together the consistency from year to
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Speaker 4: year to year to make him one of these guys
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Speaker 4: that's an perennial Cy Young candidate All Star, but he's
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Speaker 4: had those spikes in performance in the playoffs that's earned
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Speaker 4: him some some renown in as a player. The career
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Speaker 4: numbers aren't anything spectacular, but he's shown greatness at certain
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Speaker 4: times and as he struggled, I guess the Brewers are
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Speaker 4: doing it again. They're gonna they're gonna try and fix another, right,
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Speaker 4: dro I think, yeah, I mean yeah, this, I mean,
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Speaker 4: this isn't the move. This isn't like okay, here we
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Speaker 4: got it, let's go to let's go This is like
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Speaker 4: the first move. Yeah, maybe what we think.
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Speaker 2: And they traded nothing except absorbing the rest of it.
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Speaker 2: This is his salary dump by the Astros.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I haven't done a deep dive in the Colt and
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Speaker 2: Gordon to see if that left. He's got promise, But
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Speaker 2: you know how the Brewers are with you know, acquiring
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Speaker 2: pictures and turning him into something correct.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of their thing. But uh, the Astros are
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Speaker 1: picking up some of the silary.
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Speaker 2: The Berers are only picking up two point five million
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Speaker 2: of his seventeen million dollar salary.
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Speaker 1: It's the final season of a deal.
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Speaker 2: That he signed, and you know, and maybe they'll sign
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Speaker 2: him to a lower deal when he's a free agent.
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Speaker 2: If maybe he'll go back to Houston on a lower number.
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Speaker 2: But the Astros were are dumping salary and getting rid
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Speaker 2: of a guy that's you know, popular there, long tenured,
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Speaker 2: he's been hurt.
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Speaker 1: Missed, a couple of years due to injury. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: He's on the list now.
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Speaker 2: So a lot of folks are like, oh, this is
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Speaker 2: Trevor Rosenthal all over again. And the Brewers. Initially it
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Speaker 2: said the Brewers were just sending cash and they were
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Speaker 2: just picking up, you know, the salary. But then it
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Speaker 2: became it came out that the Brewers are trading Jayden
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Speaker 2: Fielder Jaden Fielder, Yep, Prince's son who's been doing pretty
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Speaker 2: well at a ball. He's an older player at a ball,
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Speaker 2: but he's been doing pretty well and he's Prince's son.
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Speaker 2: And that came a day after the feel good story
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Speaker 2: from the All Star Game that Kurt Hog of The
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Speaker 2: General Centinel wrote about C. C. Sabathia's son joining the
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Speaker 2: organization via the draft and joining up with his friend
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Speaker 2: Jayden Fielder because they were buddies and their dads were
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Speaker 2: buddies on the twenty eighteen and you know, proud Brewer
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Speaker 2: dads with their sons in the organization. And that story
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Speaker 2: had a shelf life of about twenty four hours and
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Speaker 2: then it was boom gone. Poor Kurt, I think it's
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Speaker 2: interesting for you, like a jinx. Yeah, at a number
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Speaker 2: of angles. It's interesting.
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Speaker 4: On one hand, you know, most Brewer fans wouldn't know
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Speaker 4: any a ball player of the Wilson Warbirds that just
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Speaker 4: got you know, moved up to that level from Adam.
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Speaker 4: They wouldn't, right, I mean there's most casual Brewer fans
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Speaker 4: don't know those names. Jayden Fielder, obviously being the legacy,
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Speaker 4: is one of those guys, you know. I also think
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Speaker 4: Dury's kind of outperformed his status. He was an undrafted
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Speaker 4: free agent, right, I mean, he was looking to be
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Speaker 4: one of I think he was one of those guys.
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Speaker 4: Tell me if I'm wrong. And if you remember the
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Speaker 4: ned yo Son got drafted, it's one of those not
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Speaker 4: a favor, but it's one of those kind of just
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Speaker 4: ceremonious picks. I don't think anyone ever looked at Jayden
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Speaker 4: Fielder as a future prospect that's got a legit chance
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Speaker 4: to make any major leagues.
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Speaker 1: But he's hitting well there.
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Speaker 4: But now he's hitting well so that Brewers kind of
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Speaker 4: developed value out of him as a prospect to say,
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Speaker 4: you know what, if we have to give you something,
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Speaker 4: I think, is this something we're gonna give a twenty
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Speaker 4: one year old abel?
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Speaker 2: I think maybe well for Houston, Like his name alone
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Speaker 2: makes it like, oh okay, we remember his dad and
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Speaker 2: like his grandpa, so okay, And you know there's something
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Speaker 2: to be said for the legacy there bloodlines.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, that's the first thing anyone will bring up, because
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Speaker 4: it's not I mean, he doesn't hit for power. He's
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Speaker 4: done it. He takes walks, he's done a good year
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Speaker 4: of a good year of doubles, I think. But it's like,
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Speaker 4: it's interesting because you wonder, would would they have? Would
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Speaker 4: anyone wanted another a ball player if it wasn't Jadenfielder?
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Speaker 1: But hey, why not?
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Speaker 4: This is the epitome of a low risk, hy reward move,
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Speaker 4: in my opinion. You get a young pitcher that's kind
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Speaker 4: of a guy that you can kind of mold. You
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Speaker 4: get an old guy that was good, but he's obviously,
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Speaker 4: you know, a project in terms of trying to fix
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Speaker 4: him and get something productive out of him, and you
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Speaker 4: give up basically cash and a player you never projected
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Speaker 4: to be in the big league team other than just
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Speaker 4: the good vibes of having prince or a son.
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Speaker 1: That's right, all right.
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Speaker 2: So mccullor's is on his way to Milwaukee today and
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Speaker 2: the interesting thing about him is again he is mister Astro.
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Speaker 2: He's their veteran, the longest tenured astro, the one of
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Speaker 2: the links to that, you know, to their championship teams.
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Speaker 4: Kind of they're woody in a way, you know, in
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Speaker 4: a way. And absolutely yeah, And.
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Speaker 2: He had as part of his five year, eighty five
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Speaker 2: million dollar extension that he's riding out this year with
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Speaker 2: a seventeen million dollar salary, he had full no trade
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Speaker 2: rights which he had to wave. And he's also a
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Speaker 2: ten and five guy, which means he has ten years
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Speaker 2: of major league service, five consecutive years with his current team,
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Speaker 2: which gave him also gave so he had double the
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Speaker 2: no trade right. He would have had a no trade
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Speaker 2: even if it wasn't in his contract, he would have
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Speaker 2: had the no trade And he waived it to come
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Speaker 2: to Milwaukee because he knows the Brewer He's played in
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee enough and he knows the Brewers are, you know,
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Speaker 2: a good setup, well run organization. And he's got a
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Speaker 2: chance to have some fun in the playoffs with a
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Speaker 2: new team. Yeah, a chance to be in a contender, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: So he was. He consulted his family and here's his
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Speaker 2: quote to the Houston Chronicle. He said, I felt like
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Speaker 2: it was going to put the Astros in the best
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Speaker 2: situation moving into the rest of the year, getting close
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Speaker 2: to the deadline, letting them get a prospect back for
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Speaker 2: the future, remove some salary, to have some freedom at
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Speaker 2: the deadline. And I also felt like it was a
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Speaker 2: good move for me in my career. So he's looking
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Speaker 2: at the big picture and helping the team that he
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Speaker 2: loves and the only organization that he's known since I've
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Speaker 2: been an Astro since I was eighteen years old. I
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Speaker 2: never wanted to play for another organization or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: But I think everything kind of comes to a time
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Speaker 2: where sometimes you have to move on. I think this
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Speaker 2: was just a situation where I can be proud of
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Speaker 2: what I helped accomplish here and what I did here,
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Speaker 2: but I also understand the fact that I would put
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Speaker 2: the team in a better situation if I did move on,
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Speaker 2: and possibly put me in a better situation for the
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Speaker 2: rest of the season as well. Now they're bringing up
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Speaker 2: some young kids, and they needed forty man spots, and
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Speaker 2: they wanted to dump salary, so you know, they create
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Speaker 2: roster flexibility, and they got something for him and it's
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Speaker 2: you know, everybody wins in this, right if mccullar's pitch
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Speaker 2: as well, the Brewers really win because it's kind of
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Speaker 2: a low cost acquisition. And again for people who say,
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Speaker 2: well they go get this guy, he's hurt and he's
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Speaker 2: been mediocre, and I mean, this isn't the only move.
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Speaker 2: To me, like this will this is the first move.
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Speaker 2: And I said we needed the for you needed Matt
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Speaker 2: Arnold to get one, maybe two starters, maybe even more,
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Speaker 2: who knows.
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Speaker 1: It's like, can you have enough arms to choose fro him?
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Speaker 1: You can't.
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Speaker 2: And mccauller's is coming back and grinding his way through
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Speaker 2: an injury rehab, and the Brewers are certainly been injured themselves.
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Speaker 1: Now. Colton Gordon is twenty seven years old when athletes peak.
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Speaker 2: He's had twenty four appearances this year for the Astros
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Speaker 2: because era is just under six. But he's got a
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Speaker 2: lot of options left, and he's got he's got minor
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Speaker 2: league options left and a lot of team control.
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Speaker 1: He might end up being the key to this. He
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Speaker 1: might be the one the Brewers had targeted that.
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Speaker 2: The Brewers might like say, okay, get him in the lab,
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Speaker 2: let hook, get Jam Henderson work with him and turn
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Speaker 2: them into something there.
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Speaker 4: And they've done it so many times it's would be
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Speaker 4: kind of naive of us to think they wouldn't try
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Speaker 4: to do it again and have a good track record
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Speaker 4: of success doing so. They obviously identify to target that
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Speaker 4: inefficiency in the market of guys that have not performed well.
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Speaker 4: But they see something in in terms of whatever their
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Speaker 4: ability is pitching a pit certain pitch spin right, and
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Speaker 4: they say, we can change his strategy, we can change
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Speaker 4: tweak one thing here and there, making better. They did
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Speaker 4: it with Quinn, he did it with Harrison, multiple guys.
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Speaker 1: We know the story about that.
16:31
Speaker 4: And I think they look at two guys on different
16:33
Speaker 4: ends of the career saying, all right, one one's a
16:36
Speaker 4: prospect that's older. One's a veteran that had good years
16:39
Speaker 4: but it's been injured and hasn't done it for a while.
16:41
Speaker 4: Maybe we can take what of these guys, kind of
16:42
Speaker 4: tweak them. See what happens. It's a low cost deal.
16:45
Speaker 4: The only frustration I could see here is if you're
16:47
Speaker 4: for Brewers fans, is this is you know, we don't
16:50
Speaker 4: want this. We want to finally go with it, you know,
16:53
Speaker 4: we want to finally drive the sexy car. We want
16:55
Speaker 4: to finally, you know, buy the shiny toy. We don't
16:58
Speaker 4: want to have to go thrift shopping again, even though
17:00
Speaker 4: it's worked, even though it's has stained our family for
17:03
Speaker 4: so long. We don't want to have to shop at
17:05
Speaker 4: the thrift store anymore. We want to go get a designer,
17:07
Speaker 4: brand name thing.
17:08
Speaker 1: You know.
17:08
Speaker 4: It's like that's the only thing I could see. But
17:11
Speaker 4: like you said, Drew, I don't think this ever, you
17:13
Speaker 4: know this in any sense means they're done obviously. I
17:16
Speaker 4: just think it's a move. The Brewers said, oh we
17:18
Speaker 4: could make this move here. This isn't gonna cause as
17:20
Speaker 4: much this is a shot. We could take it to
17:22
Speaker 4: two pictures and they're gonna do it. It's a low
17:25
Speaker 4: risk move. You talk about the money, you know, it's
17:27
Speaker 4: it's not you cover some of the salary. It's minuscule.
17:30
Speaker 4: It's cash. And unfortunately, as much as the vibes are nice,
17:35
Speaker 4: giving up Jaden Fielder, I don't think it's gonna really ever.
17:37
Speaker 4: If he was never penciled in to any stretch, there
17:40
Speaker 4: may be a point zero five percent chance we would
17:42
Speaker 4: ever get make the big league club. So he's not
17:44
Speaker 4: part of your future, and and you and you try
17:48
Speaker 4: and see what you can get if there's anything to
17:50
Speaker 4: squeeze out of the Orange with mcclors and maybe something
17:53
Speaker 4: to unlock with Colton. So let's see what the Brewers
17:56
Speaker 4: can do. But uh, continue to be aggressive to try
17:59
Speaker 4: and find ways. Right, Drew, we talked about the pitchers.
18:02
Speaker 4: Hopefully this is only the first step and obviously doesn't
18:05
Speaker 4: take them anywhere out of the bidding to make a
18:07
Speaker 4: bigger move if that's what they want to do, uh
18:09
Speaker 4: down the road. But why he did it early too? Yeah,
18:12
Speaker 4: done early to be here. I don't know when he's
18:14
Speaker 4: gonna be Pencil And he was just rehabbing.
18:16
Speaker 2: Now he's got he's coming back from his shoulder impingement
18:19
Speaker 2: and he's had a whole litany of injuries. So he's
18:21
Speaker 2: kind of like there, Woody, he's kind of like a
18:23
Speaker 2: ticking time by them. And again, I don't think this
18:24
Speaker 2: is the move. It's not like, Okay, let's go to
18:26
Speaker 2: let's battle for the playoffs.
18:28
Speaker 1: Now we got lands some collars, so let's go. It's
18:30
Speaker 1: all move.
18:31
Speaker 2: It's a veteran guy, he's a pillar of the Astros organization.
18:35
Speaker 2: Good clubhouse, guy, even if he's hurt and he and
18:38
Speaker 2: w whatd he just you know, dress as cheerleaders. Good
18:41
Speaker 2: guys to have to counsel the younger pitchers and stuff
18:43
Speaker 2: through the you know, through through the big moments down
18:46
Speaker 2: the stretch that the Brewers are gonna face.
18:48
Speaker 1: So and he's been around big moments in the playoffs,
18:50
Speaker 1: World series. Maybe pitched. I remember him.
18:53
Speaker 2: I think it was like he pitched like a bunch
18:55
Speaker 2: of he put up a bunch of zeros in a
18:56
Speaker 2: game seven of a series. It might have been against
18:58
Speaker 2: the Yankees and else yes or something, but I remember him.
19:01
Speaker 2: He pitched in a game seven. So he's been through it. So,
19:05
Speaker 2: all right, kudos with burs. This is a start and
19:08
Speaker 2: it's only uh we're still a couple of weeks away
19:10
Speaker 2: from the trade deadline. The Buds have bolstered their their
19:13
Speaker 2: uh rotation and they got themselves a guy and maybe
19:17
Speaker 2: a young guy that that they can take a flyer on.
19:19
Speaker 1: So and he's always been a starter, dur.
19:21
Speaker 4: Maybe there's a chance they could se him, like, all right,
19:22
Speaker 4: you can give us some bullpen innings possible, we will see.
19:27
Speaker 2: Eight seven, seven, seven nine four. Billy's off today, uh,
19:32
Speaker 2: taking a well deserved day off. He's off today and tomorrow.
19:34
Speaker 2: I'm out next week to vacation season because training camp
19:37
Speaker 2: starts in less than two weeks for the Green Bay Packers.
19:41
Speaker 2: But uh, we are soldiering on without Billy with our
19:44
Speaker 2: air quality being awful. I'm just watching the graphics of
19:46
Speaker 2: the surface smoke.
19:48
Speaker 1: Yeah. I hope Billy decided to do something indoors for terrific. Well,
19:51
Speaker 1: he's helping his parents move. Oh.
19:53
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that that's not gonna be good way
19:56
Speaker 2: to take a couple of days off. Yeah, Billy, come
19:59
Speaker 2: right to help with this dress spectacular.
20:02
Speaker 1: But alas, we will move forward, we'll plow through.
20:05
Speaker 2: If you're just getting up, man, here's a funny thing,
20:07
Speaker 2: you know how this was such a point of contention.
20:09
Speaker 2: I just saw on TV, Like, if you have asthma
20:11
Speaker 2: problems or breathing problems, they're suggesting that you wear a
20:13
Speaker 2: mask today.
20:14
Speaker 1: Oh, here we go again, here we go, government telling
20:17
Speaker 1: you to wear a mask. I hope everyone saved their
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Speaker 1: N ninety five. Oh my god, boy, the discounts you
20:23
Speaker 1: could have got. I don't know.
20:24
Speaker 2: I had to work out with a mask on an
20:27
Speaker 2: orange theory back in the day when we're back to
20:29
Speaker 2: that now, hopefully this will clear up soon.
20:31
Speaker 1: All right.
20:31
Speaker 2: So it's foggy, it's smoky out there, but we're we're
20:36
Speaker 2: we're good inside this air conditioned studio of ours.
20:38
Speaker 1: Can still taste it though, from walking in from the car.
20:41
Speaker 4: So got it, say, I mean, I I throw it
20:43
Speaker 4: kind of on the end of the building.
20:44
Speaker 1: I do sinuses. I do have a fan in here, Drew,
20:46
Speaker 1: but I don't want to mess with the audio quality
20:48
Speaker 1: of our broadcast. That's because you hear that whoa.
20:52
Speaker 3: Pro?
20:53
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll turn it on. I'm not that professional, all right,
20:55
Speaker 1: let's hear from you you like.
20:57
Speaker 2: We're also going to talk about the World Cup another
21:00
Speaker 2: US got punch loss.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday.
21:04
Speaker 2: If you're a fan of the Three Lions, the English
21:07
Speaker 2: side against Messi and Argentina, Argentina goes through and plays Spain.
21:11
Speaker 2: What a game, What an incredible match. It's feeler cements
21:16
Speaker 2: the theory of the show that ninety percent of being
21:18
Speaker 2: a fan is getting kicked in the nuts.
21:19
Speaker 1: And that was a huge kick.
21:22
Speaker 2: And I texted our pal Aaron Nagler, who was rooting
21:24
Speaker 2: hard for England last night.
21:25
Speaker 1: You see why the world loves this game now, I
21:27
Speaker 1: mean it is a cruel mistress too. We'll talk about that.
21:32
Speaker 2: What you know, what sport is the most cruel when
21:36
Speaker 2: it comes to disappointing endings and stuff like that.
21:39
Speaker 1: That might you can make a case that.
21:40
Speaker 2: It's the grand old game that we're watching right now
21:42
Speaker 2: in the world stage football with a U. What sport
21:45
Speaker 2: has the most cruel endings that We're also going to
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Speaker 2: talk about your your sports bucket list because my dear
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Speaker 2: friend and former running mate on these here airwaves and interwebs,
21:55
Speaker 2: Stan Needles, crossed one off yesterday he played Saint Andrews
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22:01
Speaker 2: he first saw it as a kid like fifty years ago,
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Speaker 1: You may sense the theme in the bumps today.
22:34
Speaker 2: I just went to the leach of the Little reporters room,
22:37
Speaker 2: and there are portions of this building where the smoke
22:40
Speaker 2: is seeping in and definitely in the air.
22:43
Speaker 1: It's rough.
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Speaker 4: You'll see behind me on the video. You can watch
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Speaker 4: us always by the way YouTube x Facebook. Indeed, we
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Speaker 4: watched this broadcast on the video stream. I did start
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22:56
Speaker 4: it's something makes you feel like I'm helping or doing something.
22:59
Speaker 4: I got in your park here in the producer's room
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Speaker 4: because this part of the building, we do get it
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Speaker 4: a little bit true. This smoke is oppressive, though. I
23:07
Speaker 4: want to give a couple of shotouts. First of all,
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Speaker 4: Statman Steveman.
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Speaker 1: Steve, you're done with us from day one.
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Speaker 4: Your dedication to the bit and the craft is incredible, unmatchable.
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Speaker 1: He sent me a snapchat at five in the morning.
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Speaker 4: He was at Bradford Beach getting ready for the sunrise pictures.
23:24
Speaker 4: As you guys know, Statman Steve is pretty much Milwaukee
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Speaker 4: photo Steve. Now, he likes to take a lot of
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Speaker 4: great pictures, get some great aerial shots, some great shots.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's drone man. He's drone man, but he photographs
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Speaker 1: his city quite well. And it's all. It's beauty, the
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Speaker 1: beauty of nature.
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Speaker 4: And I guess he still couldn't resist trying to get
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Speaker 4: the shots today of the sunrise with the smoke. But
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Speaker 4: he's out there at Bradford Beach still in this smoke
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Speaker 4: drew five in the morning. Just stay safe out there, Steve,
23:52
Speaker 4: and try and get some some clear air if you
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Speaker 4: can find it. And I'd also like to shout out
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Speaker 4: the newest member of our five o'clock Club. Congrats to
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Speaker 4: Chris and the Bend who texted us on the nickolay
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Speaker 4: Law dot com talking text line that Elena Rose is
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Speaker 4: only two hours old and the newest member of the
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Speaker 4: five o'clock Club. So Elena Rose, welcome to the world.
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Speaker 4: Please send us a picture, absolutely beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Two hours old and she's already listening to our program
24:19
Speaker 2: and she's the first thing she assumed in her life
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Speaker 2: is the huddle.
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Speaker 1: How about that.
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Speaker 4: Bring us some bright days and sunshine and clear air please.
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Speaker 4: But number sixty four on the on the five o'clock
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Speaker 4: Club on the list, you are on the list, Elena Rose.
24:33
Speaker 4: And congratulations to Chris and the Bend and family on
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Speaker 4: their arrival. Pretty cool to see that, and I like
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Speaker 4: could know that we're the first show.
24:42
Speaker 1: You know, bring it. You know you can only go
24:44
Speaker 1: up from.
24:44
Speaker 2: Here, so you're right, you can only go up. Eight nine, four,
24:49
Speaker 2: one ninety seven three mentioned the Brewers trade for Lance mccullors,
24:54
Speaker 2: and again low risk, they're eating the rest of his salary.
24:59
Speaker 2: Couple of mill they traded Jaden Fielder, not one of
25:02
Speaker 2: their top fifty prospects.
25:05
Speaker 1: I don't think, no way, I wouldn't.
25:07
Speaker 4: I'd be surprised that option from that from our prospect huggers,
25:11
Speaker 4: but I would be shocked. Yeah, nothing against the Fielders,
25:15
Speaker 4: It's just that's not what the Brewers kind of had
25:17
Speaker 4: had ticketed for him. It's not the first time guys
25:19
Speaker 4: would have outperformed their you know POSI their draft position
25:23
Speaker 4: or non draft position.
25:24
Speaker 2: But Tim on the talking text line love the mccullars
25:27
Speaker 2: trade six years ago.
25:28
Speaker 1: Well again they're getting him. Now that's kind of the point.
25:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, then we have then we have a more
25:35
Speaker 4: negative view from six to oh eight. Come on, guys,
25:39
Speaker 4: he's always into us. Sorry, come on, man, he's injury ridden.
25:42
Speaker 4: I understand this is low risk, but this is stupid.
25:45
Speaker 4: And I asked him, why is it stupid? You're telling
25:47
Speaker 4: me there's no one else out there that has not
25:49
Speaker 4: consistently getting injured. Well, no, that's not the point. Six o' wait,
25:53
Speaker 4: there are other people out there that don't get injured
25:55
Speaker 4: that Brewers might trade for them, but they might not,
25:58
Speaker 4: but those pictures will probably cost more. That's kind of
26:01
Speaker 4: the idea there. So maybe I shouldn't say'stid a head scratch.
26:04
Speaker 4: I'll say one thing. I sure hope they make a
26:05
Speaker 4: splashes year, especially with the prospects we have. Also, there's
26:08
Speaker 4: live sports on the Open. Open Golf Championship was on, Yes,
26:11
Speaker 4: we know the Open starting.
26:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, this isn't the move, right, It's not
26:17
Speaker 2: the only move.
26:18
Speaker 4: There's not a first move. There's not a finite amount
26:20
Speaker 4: of moves you can know. And it's like first and
26:22
Speaker 4: the upset the uproar here.
26:24
Speaker 2: And he's always hurt. Well, the Brewers are at a
26:27
Speaker 2: point where who would you rather see? Lance mccullors, a
26:31
Speaker 2: guy with big league pedigree and big game experience. And
26:34
Speaker 2: I'm talking about I'm not projecting to October right now,
26:37
Speaker 2: there's a Brewers they have to worry about playing July seventeenth.
26:41
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they have to get to October, right, They
26:44
Speaker 1: have a five game leader, and if he can give.
26:45
Speaker 2: You even a couple of games, I think I'd rather
26:48
Speaker 2: see Lance mccullors out there and give me five innings
26:52
Speaker 2: than try to watch Coleman Crow give.
26:53
Speaker 1: Me five innings.
26:55
Speaker 2: I would, you know, I just called me crazy, But
26:58
Speaker 2: I like the guy with a pedigree. And these games
27:01
Speaker 2: are important too, Like they're playing, they're gonna play. He
27:05
Speaker 2: got more games left against the Cubs. You know, you
27:07
Speaker 2: got in a big stage like that. I think I i'd,
27:11
Speaker 2: you know, i'd feel good about having Lance mccollors go
27:14
Speaker 2: out there and try to figure work his way through.
27:16
Speaker 1: Now is he coming back from jury? Sure?
27:17
Speaker 2: Are Chris Hook and Jim Henderson miracle workers. Yeah, this
27:20
Speaker 2: is a very low risk move. Two and a half millions,
27:22
Speaker 2: not insignificant, but that's basically what it's costing.
27:26
Speaker 4: Julio Tehran gave you eleven starts in twenty twenty three.
27:30
Speaker 4: He was basically in the same situation.
27:33
Speaker 1: Came off a good.
27:34
Speaker 4: All the year of nothing, and he gave you good
27:35
Speaker 4: innings at half point War. He gave you I think
27:39
Speaker 4: a four era and a one to one whip, But
27:41
Speaker 4: he gave you a stretch of baseball that helped you
27:43
Speaker 4: win some games. That's all they're trying to get out
27:46
Speaker 4: of Lance right now is they're going to try and
27:48
Speaker 4: analyze him.
27:49
Speaker 1: They're gonna put him in the lab.
27:50
Speaker 4: They're gonna tweak probably his delivery, but more so probably
27:53
Speaker 4: his pitch selection. They're gonna try and make him focus
27:56
Speaker 4: on other pitches. See if he can get guys out
27:58
Speaker 4: in the short term. Is not meant to change the franchise. Like,
28:02
Speaker 4: I don't know why people get so upset about moves
28:05
Speaker 4: like this that are low risk. It probably won't make
28:09
Speaker 4: a significant difference. It might not work out. There's probably
28:12
Speaker 4: a high chance of that, but you're going for that
28:14
Speaker 4: low chance that it might. You're taking a flyer. It's
28:17
Speaker 4: sort of a little lottery ticket. If it works and
28:20
Speaker 4: it gives you a little bit of something of return, great,
28:23
Speaker 4: If it doesn't, you're no worse for the wear.
28:25
Speaker 1: So I don't understand.
28:26
Speaker 4: You know, the worst thing that might happen is you
28:28
Speaker 4: might go to the Clubhouse store next winter and find
28:31
Speaker 4: a Lance mccolor's game used jersey for eighty bucks. Like,
28:35
Speaker 4: that's the worst thing that might happen to you. So
28:37
Speaker 4: why people get I think drew some fans see this
28:42
Speaker 4: as a move that's going to take away from the
28:44
Speaker 4: possibility of a bigger one, and I just don't see
28:46
Speaker 4: why it's illogical to think that way. Yes, so there's
28:50
Speaker 4: obviously just as much of a chance for the Brewers
28:53
Speaker 4: to make their sexy splash to go get the Bentley
28:55
Speaker 4: that you wanted them to get at the Treade deadline.
28:58
Speaker 1: That hasn't changed. Yeah, dream is still alive. The dream
29:01
Speaker 1: is a lot. I was just looking surfing around.
29:04
Speaker 2: There's a story on the Athletic and it is by
29:07
Speaker 2: a guy named Neil Paine, and he's.
29:11
Speaker 1: Looking at who's gonna win the World Series.
29:13
Speaker 2: Well, it's complicated question, as it is always right now,
29:16
Speaker 2: but it's their dovetailing off a story they did last
29:18
Speaker 2: year where they came up with a series of metrics
29:22
Speaker 2: that teams that win the World Series, like boxes that
29:27
Speaker 2: you can check per se like, and some of these
29:30
Speaker 2: are kind of advanced dance like overall quality it runs
29:33
Speaker 2: divided by game differential.
29:37
Speaker 1: Stuff like this.
29:38
Speaker 2: The categories are like offense, batting, win probability, probability, added
29:42
Speaker 2: pitching in defense, pitching whip plus. You know that some
29:47
Speaker 2: of these are advanced metrics, but they they've come up
29:49
Speaker 2: with like a series of things that criteria that you
29:52
Speaker 2: haven't right now, by the way, at the at the break,
29:56
Speaker 2: according to bet MGM, the Brewers have the third best
30:00
Speaker 2: of winning the World Series, behind the Dodgers and Yankees.
30:02
Speaker 1: Pretty good. I would say Dodgers plus one to eighty.
30:05
Speaker 2: There are almost thirty percent chants to win the World
30:09
Speaker 2: Series according to the bettings.
30:10
Speaker 1: That's a great chance.
30:11
Speaker 2: Yankees plus five point fifty twelve point eight percent, Brewers
30:15
Speaker 2: plus one thousand and seven point six percent to win series.
30:19
Speaker 2: So that's that's like and it goes on from there,
30:22
Speaker 2: like you know, the Royals, Rockies, there's a bunch of
30:25
Speaker 2: teams that are below one percent, Pirates are at one percent,
30:28
Speaker 2: and then there's a whole raft of teams way below.
30:32
Speaker 2: If you're wondering where the Cubs are, their eighth plus
30:34
Speaker 2: two thousand, they have a four percent chance, So nearly
30:37
Speaker 2: the Brewers have, according to the betting odds, twice as
30:40
Speaker 2: good a chance as the Cubs. Now that's just where
30:42
Speaker 2: the money is going as of the break. But the
30:46
Speaker 2: stats that they go through and they run through this
30:48
Speaker 2: these filters of how you do the Brewers then fall
30:53
Speaker 2: they're in it, like basically they say they are according
30:55
Speaker 2: to these historical measures that they have, and there's a
30:57
Speaker 2: bunch of them. There are seven teams that they tab
31:01
Speaker 2: that can win the World Series, and they are the Yankees, Dodgers, Braves, Rays, Brewers, Cubs,
31:09
Speaker 2: and Mariners. Those are the teams that are right mostly
31:13
Speaker 2: passed and on their scale. And the Brewers are slightly
31:17
Speaker 2: slightly like one point ahead of the Cubs in their metrics.
31:22
Speaker 2: The Yankees basically clicked every box and they're they've they
31:25
Speaker 2: are like one hundred percent covered on all the metrics
31:29
Speaker 2: that they have, and that's without judging stan right now
31:32
Speaker 2: and some shaky pitching. Dodgers are at ninety eight percent.
31:35
Speaker 2: They've missed the category of speed. The Braves are at
31:39
Speaker 2: ninety four percent, raise ninety one, Brewers eighty six point
31:42
Speaker 2: eight percent of the boxes checked their deficiencies. Believe it
31:46
Speaker 2: or not, we're in fielding and slugging percentage slugging. So
31:49
Speaker 2: that's their that was where they were deemed low. Cubs
31:53
Speaker 2: were rotation era plus opponents average and home runs for nine.
31:57
Speaker 2: So the Cubs are a tick below and then the
31:59
Speaker 2: Mariners are below. But so that's encouraging if you want
32:03
Speaker 2: to go look at that and do a dive into
32:04
Speaker 2: the numbers. So seven teams have eighty percent or more
32:08
Speaker 2: of these benchmarks that you have to hit, and that
32:12
Speaker 2: is the best. It's a historical blueprint for postseason success.
32:16
Speaker 4: I like looking at this stuff because I always yearned
32:19
Speaker 4: towards standardized metrics.
32:20
Speaker 1: As you know, Yeah, we had sort of this sun differential.
32:23
Speaker 4: And in college basketball we had a similar sort of
32:26
Speaker 4: thing where the national champion for a number of years
32:29
Speaker 4: was a top whatever in offense and defense and Ken
32:32
Speaker 4: Palm so hey, look, Drew, this this is the neighborhood
32:35
Speaker 4: you want to live in, and you hold the break
32:37
Speaker 4: through one year.
32:38
Speaker 2: And there are always some topsy turvy things going on
32:40
Speaker 2: in a baseball season, because when you got to June,
32:43
Speaker 2: some of the best teams were Atlanta, Cleveland, San Diego,
32:47
Speaker 2: and the Yankees. And basically from June first on, the
32:50
Speaker 2: wheels came off for them, basically, and then the Marlins,
32:55
Speaker 2: the Tigers, the Astros, the Rangers, especially the Phillies who
32:59
Speaker 2: had to fire their man, they suddenly rose up. Turn
33:02
Speaker 2: it around June first on, and you know, they feel like, okay,
33:04
Speaker 2: we're you know, the market is correcting. So it's like,
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Speaker 2: you know, those teams are kind of in that there's
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Speaker 2: a middle tier of teams like Red Sox, White Sox
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Speaker 2: and Rangers check some boxes and then mostly failed Guardians,
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Speaker 2: Phillies and Blue Jays not checking a lot of boxes
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Speaker 2: according to these metrics. So it's interesting stuff. Now it's
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Speaker 2: as simple as where are you in the standings at
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Speaker 2: the All Star break? And you have, you know, seventy
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Speaker 2: percent better chance to win the World Series if you're
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Speaker 2: in first place at the All Star break. Now, the
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Speaker 2: Brewers have a tough schedule. They have the toughest strength
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Speaker 2: to schedule tough division outs in the second half. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I would say, I mean they probably have.
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Speaker 4: You know, when you talk about the Cubs, that's one
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Speaker 4: of the better, more talented, hotter teams that's going to
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Speaker 4: be in second place right now. It's going to be
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Speaker 4: on your tail. So it's not gonna be a cake
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Speaker 4: walk just because of them. To the NLS Central Crown.
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Speaker 4: As we know, Drew not at all.
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Speaker 2: Eight seven seven, seven nine four one ninety seven three
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Speaker 2: gets you to the Nicolay Law dot com talk and
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Speaker 2: text line we want your thoughts again, Lance mccollor's is
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Speaker 2: a Brewery's on his way to Milwaukee to do a
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Speaker 2: presser tomorrow when the Brewers reconvene after the break and uh,
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Speaker 2: you know again, low risk, just let it see.
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Speaker 1: But this is not the.
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Speaker 2: Only move they're gonna make, all right. Moving forward, we're
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Speaker 2: gonna talk a little World Cup. We're gonna talk sports
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Speaker 2: bucket lists. Matt Miller joins the party at seven thirty.
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Speaker 2: Dolphin is gonna be with us less than an hour
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Speaker 2: from now for our halftime report.
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Speaker 1: Billy is off today. We're glad you're hanging out.
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Speaker 2: It's Drew an Armond bringing it to you in the huddle.
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Speaker 1: On this smoky Thursday, more smoke songs that I realized
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Speaker 1: like this, Yeah, they're all got some.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: The Brewers made a transaction acquiring Lance mccullors and what's
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Speaker 2: the other kids named Colton?
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't believe I already Colton Gordon
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Speaker 1: Golden Gordon.
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Speaker 2: Gordon Gordon in the name game, Colton Gordon.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good that's Gordon is.
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Speaker 2: It's like if they made Varsity Blues two, the quarterback
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Speaker 2: would be Colton Gordon.
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Speaker 1: Colton Gordon a very Colton Gordon is a very Texas name.
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Speaker 2: It's a very well, it could be Jeff Gordon. It's
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Speaker 2: a it sounds like a NASCAR driver.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, sounds like a country singer to me.
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Speaker 1: Colton Gordon could definitely be a country singer. Yeah, absolutely right.
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Speaker 2: I mean, so he's got guy that's like a You
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Speaker 2: hear that name and it's like it almost seems made
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Speaker 2: up exactly central casting, more like an act. Yeah, like
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Speaker 2: a character's name. Or wasn't the quarterback who got hurt
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Speaker 2: in Varsity Blues and named Lance? So it could be
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Speaker 2: Lance mccullors and then Colton Gordon.
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Speaker 1: You know this. I love this took over for Vanderbeeks
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Speaker 1: character who's he gonna be played by the movie.
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Speaker 2: When Jonavan Maxon got hurt, Colton Garden was on the
35:56
Speaker 2: He was the backup, right, he was the freshman when
35:59
Speaker 2: Max got the call, so he was moved up to
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Speaker 2: Varsity to be the backup.
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Speaker 4: Which Jonas brother will pay play in the movie The
36:05
Speaker 4: Court series. Vinnie from Makwan, Good morning, off to basketball
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Speaker 4: and see it's even fifteen. All right, Vinnie, just keep
36:11
Speaker 4: us on. I don't care. I hope you have a
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Speaker 4: good game today. Yeah, Colton Gordon d basketball. I guess
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Speaker 4: he's playing ball. I hope it's indoors.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean you got you got a morning run? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that fascinates me.
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Speaker 2: Guys who played hoops before work, because I know there
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Speaker 2: were some guys that used to do that at my
36:25
Speaker 2: old gym.
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Speaker 1: It's like a workout though, right, it's a workout.
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Speaker 2: But if you get, if you got guys to do it,
36:29
Speaker 2: because it's you know, it's one thing to go to
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Speaker 2: the gym by yourself. We call them socio pass waiting
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Speaker 2: for the wide open as we drive by. Yeah, like
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Speaker 2: the ray Alan. But if you got, if you got, well,
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Speaker 2: you need at least six guys to get a decent sweat.
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Speaker 1: Three on three is decent. I mean two on two, okay.
36:44
Speaker 2: And my old Jim had kind of a shorter court,
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Speaker 2: so four on four was perfect. You didn't need five
36:49
Speaker 2: because four because the court would get crowded because it
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Speaker 2: was a smaller court.
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Speaker 1: Oh, so you convince yourself to go half so you
36:53
Speaker 1: don't run the foot court.
36:54
Speaker 2: All right, So the Birds make their transition transaction. They've
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Speaker 2: got Jaden Fielder go on to the Astros, and that's
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Speaker 2: a name for the Astros, like, oh, we got and
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Speaker 2: it's actually, uh for Jaden. I don't know, I don't
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Speaker 2: know that he he didn't get a big signing bonus
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Speaker 2: or anything from the Brewers, so he undrafted free agent.
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Speaker 2: But the Astros train in Florida and the Fielders do
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Speaker 2: live in Florida, So yeah, more convenient for him, probably
37:21
Speaker 2: it is.
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Speaker 4: And maybe he looks at as a shot to keep
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Speaker 4: moving up, yeah, I mean, and prove himself on a different.
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Speaker 1: Right, his dream things like that. You got to look at.
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Speaker 2: It like somebody wanted you, right, they wanted you thrown
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Speaker 2: in and he's a name and uh, it was an offset.
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Speaker 4: I can't imagine they expected him to do what he
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Speaker 4: did in rookie ball in terms of his numbers anything.
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Speaker 2: He's a little bit again, he's a little bit older,
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Speaker 2: like he's you know, twenty.
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Speaker 4: One for reference, I mean Cecil and Prince got called
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Speaker 4: up at twenty one.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's twenty one year old HYA guy. But
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Speaker 1: that or a low a guy. That doesn't mean it.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't It doesn't mean, yeah, don't you don't preclude I
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Speaker 2: wouldn't count him out. He's a grinder. No, he's grinder,
37:53
Speaker 2: good blood lines, good skills. But first traded him. There's
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Speaker 2: also a transaction. And it's funny because Arman, you when
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Speaker 2: Yannis was traded. And by the way, we'll talk more
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Speaker 2: about Yannis as we move forward. He took in the
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Speaker 2: World Cup game yesterday. Was at the match, you know,
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Speaker 2: it was Yeah, I gotta say I I channeled my
38:12
Speaker 2: inner arm and it's like I've kind of shut off
38:15
Speaker 2: the the Jannis faucet, Like I don't, I haven't been feeling.
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Speaker 1: I just kind of put it to the side.
38:21
Speaker 2: But then he's at the World Cup and he's hanging
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Speaker 2: around in this box and he's like meeting Mick Jagger,
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, I saw the picture. I'm like, oh,
38:28
Speaker 2: he used to be our guy. A little about our
38:30
Speaker 2: guy meeting Mick Jagger, yeah, somebody else.
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Speaker 4: It's a little weird to see it, but it's also
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Speaker 4: a different now that's I'm just looking at him as
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Speaker 4: a different guy.
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Speaker 2: But you had you had talked about how you you
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Speaker 2: hoped Giannis would keep his house here and keep a
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Speaker 2: presence here. I just saw the transaction. Drew Holliday sold
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Speaker 2: his home in River Hills finally. How he's been gone
38:51
Speaker 2: for a while. Yea, he had previously rented it to
38:55
Speaker 2: Dame Lillard.
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Speaker 4: That's what I was gonna say, those guys, those guys
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Speaker 4: trade their houses out.
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Speaker 2: And I'm looking at the picture of this house and
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Speaker 2: it's spectacled. Well, you might expect it's gonna be one
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Speaker 2: of the biggest transactions on the North Shore. I don't
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Speaker 2: know the price, but they were. They were asking like
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Speaker 2: four point nine million. They were asking, as you know.
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Speaker 4: Drew, relative to these types of houses and other NBA markets,
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Speaker 4: they're getting deals.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Now, the other thing, Janie's house was mears at Telnovitch's house. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: but added on to it, Skyles Cream and George Carl
39:24
Speaker 4: I think all were in the same spot. And then
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Speaker 4: Giannis added on to it, added the court, added the
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Speaker 4: extra kind of buildings for his family.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had his mom's place.
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Speaker 4: That's why that customization level, the fact that it kind
39:35
Speaker 4: of is still going to cost like one of his
39:37
Speaker 4: weekly checks.
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Speaker 1: I don't know Drew, I think he might, but whatever.
39:41
Speaker 2: If you're into Zillow porn. The picture of this are
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Speaker 2: just had an indoor like a very small indoor court
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Speaker 2: that not anything like an NBA player. I mean you
39:51
Speaker 2: could get some shots up like it was cut off
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Speaker 2: at like the top.
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Speaker 1: Of the key, but you can shoot from the corners
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Speaker 1: and stuff.
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Speaker 2: But it had a really nice like weight room and
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Speaker 2: sauna and spectacular.
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Speaker 1: So Drew Allday has sold his house.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I's to another athlete, because this
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Speaker 2: kind of house that an athlete or a coach would want.
40:09
Speaker 2: It's funny because Bucks players tend to live like north Shore,
40:14
Speaker 2: Mechwan Bayside, Fox Point and uh, the Brewers players, they
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Speaker 2: generally don't buy these houses.
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Speaker 1: They're renters. Well.
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Speaker 4: I was actually thinking about that when we're talking about
40:24
Speaker 4: jas sur Off the other day, because he was famously
40:26
Speaker 4: in Hill's Corners and I always wondered where a lot
40:29
Speaker 4: of these guys live. I remember Hardy in Weeks had
40:31
Speaker 4: the Brown Deer apartment, but most guys live in the
40:33
Speaker 4: third Ward now were right in that area.
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Speaker 1: Basically, they're renters. They're downtown.
40:37
Speaker 2: Well, if you have kids, a lot of them choose
40:38
Speaker 2: Brookfield and and still maybe even Muskigo and stuff, but
40:42
Speaker 2: they rent houses and be it. Yeah yeah, Whitefish Bay
40:46
Speaker 2: types too. So interesting. The longer you're here, the more
40:50
Speaker 2: you get appreciation for the area, and you might dive
40:52
Speaker 2: into some neighborhoods. You meet some people that you know,
40:54
Speaker 2: steer you to a neighborhood or something. But yeah, this
40:57
Speaker 2: house is Zillow porn. I'll send you the link arm
40:58
Speaker 2: and you're you're gonna be like, can't wait.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's interesting to see what guys, you know, all
41:03
Speaker 4: they look attacking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
41:05
Speaker 2: So yeah, but I don't know if you honest is
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Speaker 2: going to keep his house here. But I was just
41:08
Speaker 2: thinking about that because that's one of the things that
41:11
Speaker 2: you brought up in the aftermath of the trade.
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Speaker 1: If nothing else, he's a real estate investor.
41:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, I mean, well, yeah, Drew Holliday bought
41:19
Speaker 2: this house for like a million and a half and
41:21
Speaker 2: it was listed at four point Now.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I mean, that's part of it.
41:24
Speaker 1: And it's four acres, it's on the river. It's a
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Speaker 1: lovely nice it's a place that makes me go, wow,
41:29
Speaker 1: you could probably rent out. Those are the types of
41:32
Speaker 1: people were out. The pictures in the summer of this
41:34
Speaker 1: joint are just spectacled.
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Speaker 4: The thing is they can sustain the cost of maintaining
41:38
Speaker 4: it if they're not living in it, Oh for sure.
41:41
Speaker 4: So I think that's a big factor in it. Marcus
41:43
Speaker 4: and I will welcome to Smoke Out twenty six. Yeah,
41:46
Speaker 4: that's yeah, it sucks. It tickles the throat, no question.
41:49
Speaker 4: A lot of texts coming in Drew. The five o'clock clubbers.
41:53
Speaker 4: The door is closed, but the door will be open
41:55
Speaker 4: to the six o'clock. That's right, So we'll keep all
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all out there, and right now they're ducking
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