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10/02/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: On the air and dominating a Thursday, taking on all
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Speaker 2: Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 3: What's going on?
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Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armin, as we get ready for another
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Speaker 1: glorious weekend of overlap. We had John Greenberg on for
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Speaker 1: his initial appearance.
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Speaker 3: You guys were both on yesterday. El Jefe.
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Speaker 1: Admirals open Saturday night in Rockford. Home opener a week
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Speaker 1: from Saturday. We've got this week Badgers, Michigan State, homecoming, Brewers, Padres,
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Speaker 1: Saturday night and Sunday afternoon following Packers-Buccaneers.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be an epic, epic weekend.
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Speaker 3: And, I mean, don't look now, but I know a
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Speaker 3: lot of people were very, very excited to figure out
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Speaker 3: that the– Milwaukee Bucks will have their first tune-up in
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Speaker 3: the preseason coming up on Monday night against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Speaker 1: It's going to jump on you real quick here. We
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Speaker 1: were at Media Day, Billy, before you took a couple
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Speaker 1: of days off. We got to see Taylor Jenkins, Wes Edens,
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Speaker 1: Tyler Hero, Miles Turner, a bunch of guys talking. It
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Speaker 1: felt different because Giannis wasn't in the building. The gravitational orbit,
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Speaker 1: his force around him just dominated the organization for the
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Speaker 1: last several years. It was a different atmosphere.
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Speaker 3: I did appreciate, I don't know how you felt, Drew, the,
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Speaker 3: I mean, because you can't not acknowledge it, right? Like
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Speaker 3: you made the move. Now your core are guys that
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Speaker 3: you got from the heat, but Wes Eden's mentioned it
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Speaker 3: a couple of different times. He's like, I have, we
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Speaker 3: have now the last three first round picks from the heat.
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Speaker 3: We have two more first round picks coming and we're
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Speaker 3: excited to start a new era. Now, can they say like,
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Speaker 3: this is what we had hoped for? I don't necessarily
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Speaker 3: think so. But when he mentioned that it was a
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Speaker 3: relatively easy decision, That's where you could tell everybody knew
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Speaker 3: that it was time to part ways. It was time
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Speaker 3: to get something new rolling through. He called Taylor Jenkins
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Speaker 3: the biggest offseason acquisition in the NBA.
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Speaker 4: I love that.
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Speaker 3: The biggest offseason acquisition in the NBA was going to
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Speaker 3: be Taylor Jenkins. So that's a very lofty praise for
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Speaker 3: the new lead man there for the Milwaukee Bucks. Well,
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Speaker 3: he doesn't chop it at work like the other one does.
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Speaker 2: And kudos during the media day.
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Speaker 1: And this wasn't all softballs because they were asked the
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Speaker 1: questions about it.
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Speaker 2: About the Gary Trent Jr. thing.
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Speaker 1: John Orr, they couldn't comment on going investigation, but it
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Speaker 1: was asked. But then Laurie Nichol throwing the chin music
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Speaker 1: to Miles Turner, like you said on a podcast that
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Speaker 1: you had a culture where guys were late and missing
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Speaker 1: meetings and late to planes.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And how frustrated were you? She basically said, you know,
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Speaker 2: you want to take that back at all?
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Speaker 1: Or, you know, you said it on a podcast and
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Speaker 1: it kind of went around and he just kind of
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Speaker 1: owned it, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, Laurie, she's, For a long time, obviously, you
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Speaker 3: worked with her for a long time, obviously, and she's
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Speaker 3: been as gold of a standard as there is. She
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Speaker 3: had asked the most pertinent questions, because I think she
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Speaker 3: was the first to ask John Horse about the investigation
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Speaker 3: as well. Jimmy O was right there. But the way
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Speaker 3: she asked it was... just curious. And it's the right
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Speaker 3: way of saying it. Like you go into that podcast.
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Speaker 3: Did you feel like you got kind of like caught from, uh,
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Speaker 3: off guard with the question out of school? And he's like, no,
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Speaker 3: I just, but I'm moving forward. He's like, I'm moving forward.
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Speaker 3: I get asked about it. And I think it's a
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Speaker 3: good way for players to be able to speak their
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Speaker 3: minds kind of freely on it.
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Speaker 1: There was the dominant word. You could almost be a
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Speaker 1: drinking game. Dominant word at bucks me today was culture.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: The C word was our culture, build our culture, build
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Speaker 1: our culture, that, and the other, and then the, Corollary
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Speaker 1: was accountability.
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Speaker 4: Yes. Accountability.
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Speaker 2: We're going to hold each other accountable. Accountability. Accountability. Culture
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Speaker 2: and accountability.
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Speaker 3: And how are we going to get there, Drew? Compete together,
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Speaker 3: get better. That was... Compete together. Those were the team
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Speaker 3: names on the scoreboard throughout the practice facility as well.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was intriguing with a team that now also,
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Speaker 3: like when Wes Edens was up there, he spoke kind
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Speaker 3: of openly about how he's... one somewhat in the English
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Speaker 3: premier league with Aston Villa, who he owns partially. And
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Speaker 3: then I'd kind of ask like, how different has the
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Speaker 3: team building gone with the new salary structure in the NBA?
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Speaker 3: Cause it really had in all reality drew as much
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Speaker 3: as backing up and trading all your first round picks
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Speaker 3: for five to seven years, I think kind of hamstrung
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Speaker 3: them in their roster construction ability. It was that all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden in the middle here of their, what
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Speaker 3: you would hope to be championship window. The window shut
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Speaker 3: on being able to just outspend people, where I think
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Speaker 3: that was how the Bucs had kind of positioned themselves of, yeah,
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Speaker 3: we'll just spend a bunch of money, we'll go into
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Speaker 3: the luxury tax, and then we'll pay the piper on
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Speaker 3: the back end here. And when that second apron came in,
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Speaker 3: it really limited how you could be able to do anything.
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Speaker 3: For everybody.
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Speaker 2: You would have rather been a rebuilding team when that
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Speaker 2: went in than a team that was riding the window,
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Speaker 2: like you said.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because, I mean, look at the teams that are
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Speaker 3: the best positioned right now. Oklahoma City, San Antonio.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Charlotte, you could almost say.
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Speaker 2: Timing is everything.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were the teams that were building at
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Speaker 1: that point, so that's a really good point. While we're
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Speaker 1: talking hoops, we're not ignoring the Packers' bucks and the Packers'
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Speaker 1: offensive line additions. We have meaty segments on that early.
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Speaker 1: Back up the YouTube stream if you have to. Or
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Speaker 1: find the podcast later.
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Speaker 3: You'll find it.
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Speaker 2: The Huddle, wherever you find your podcasts.
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Speaker 3: We did it.
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Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot about Brewers Padres. Bill Schroeder
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Speaker 1: is going to join us next. But Billy was off
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Speaker 1: after we went to media day. Speaking of media comments,
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Speaker 1: did you see what Giannis said that has the Heat
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Speaker 1: fans all freaked out and the Bucs people like Armin
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Speaker 1: who said, I.
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Speaker 2: Hope Giannis keeps his house here and maintains ties to
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Speaker 2: the community.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think he will now. I think it's obvious.
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Speaker 1: When he said yesterday, he said, I've never been a
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Speaker 1: part of something like this. I want to leave my mark.
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Speaker 1: I want to know when this chapter is over, if
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Speaker 1: I'm only here for a year or two or whatever,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be, I want to leave my mark.
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Speaker 1: So that throws in the spark of hope that he's
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Speaker 1: not going to sign an extension with the Heat and
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Speaker 1: he'll be a free agent and come back to Milwaukee
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Speaker 1: after one year of enjoying the beach. It may be
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Speaker 1: easier if he won a title there. He'd come back to.
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee and say, I've already done it. That would definitely
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Speaker 2: be easier.
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Speaker 1: And they tried to surround him with young, hungry, aggressive
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Speaker 1: talent and a good coach.
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Speaker 2: And it didn't work. But now they have. Young, hungry,
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Speaker 2: aggressive talent and a good coach.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and a really, really good coach. And apparently a
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Speaker 3: slimmed-down Bobby Portis that he lost like 15, 20 pounds
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Speaker 3: in the offseason. Wow. Thanks, Bobby. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: for Giannis it was as much of the basketball thing
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Speaker 3: or if it was the iguana. That he found in
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Speaker 3: his house, and now he's... You love that. That might
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Speaker 3: be why he's hesitant to re-sign or to hold over?
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Speaker 5: He's freaked out about the Iguana. He said he might
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Speaker 5: leave his house, and he said, no, they're not cute.
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Speaker 5: Everyone told me they're cute.
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Speaker 3: They're not cute.
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Speaker 5: But, hey, it is interesting, and I know... Listen, maybe
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Speaker 5: this is more wishful thinking. Maybe this is like, hey,
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Speaker 5: is dad going to come home this week? Is dad
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Speaker 5: going to come home next month? I'm not sure, but...
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Speaker 5: Giannis has made all these kind of little side comments
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Speaker 5: about how ever since he's been there about, you know, Oh,
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Speaker 5: I'll always going to bleed green.
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Speaker 3: I'm always going to do this.
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Speaker 5: And maybe if I'm, you know, back in Milwaukee one day,
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Speaker 5: maybe this, and a lot of fans are kind of
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Speaker 5: reading it this way again, hearing this comment saying, if
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Speaker 5: I'm here for a year or two or whatever, I
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Speaker 5: want to make my markets like, wow. Imagine if he
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Speaker 5: came back in two years with this haul that we
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Speaker 5: got for him.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 3: I mean, talk about that. Like, think about that.
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Speaker 5: Now, just in case we don't lose it in translation,
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Speaker 5: because sometimes that happens. It's like, what was the tenor
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Speaker 5: of the comment? Here's the audio if you want to
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Speaker 5: hear what he said.
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Speaker 4: It's kind of hard.
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Speaker 6: I've never been a part of something like this. Obviously,
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Speaker 6: Milwaukee Bucks organization had a great history, great players played
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Speaker 6: before me. But here it's a whole different story. Won
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Speaker 6: a lot of championships. all-time great players from D-Wade, LeBron,
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Speaker 6: Chris Bosh, Alonzo Mourning, Shaq, you can go down the line,
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Speaker 6: but I just want to.
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Speaker 4: Leave my mark.
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Speaker 6: I just want to leave my mark, man. I want
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Speaker 6: to know when this chapter is over, if I'm going
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Speaker 6: to be here for a year or two, whatever it's
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Speaker 6: going to be, I want to leave my mark. I
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Speaker 6: want to know that I have a great relationship with
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Speaker 6: my coaching staff, my teammates, with the fans.
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Speaker 4: That's all.
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Speaker 6: I think I did the team that I played before.
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Speaker 2: In this age, for him to throw that, whether I'm
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Speaker 2: here a year or two. Or two. Oh, not one,
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Speaker 2: not two.
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Speaker 3: This is where I love Giannis. I think he is
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Speaker 3: maybe my favorite athlete of all time for not only
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Speaker 3: the way he plays, Drew, but how honest he is
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Speaker 3: to a point. I think he has gotten potentially a
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Speaker 3: little bit of a... pass on the way in which
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Speaker 3: he maneuvers the media and the thought of like, well,
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Speaker 3: he's just saying stuff. He just saying, he's being funny.
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Speaker 2: I get the same vibes as a far.
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Speaker 3: Drew, that's exactly it. Great point.
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Speaker 2: Favre used to be like, oh, he's such a bumpkin.
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Speaker 6: Oh, shocks.
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Speaker 3: He knew exactly what he was doing.
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Speaker 1: He knew the impact of things he was saying and
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Speaker 1: what he was putting into the world. He and Bus
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Speaker 1: Cook knew how to manipulate things into their favor.
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Speaker 3: There's a reason why you hear the nickel defense story
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Speaker 3: every single time that he'd be into them. What's a nickel, Ty?
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Speaker 3: Because it would build some stuff up.
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Speaker 2: Ty, what's nickel?
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Speaker 1: I always said with Favre, he'd be like standing around
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Speaker 1: and the barn's on fire. Like, what are all these
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Speaker 1: fire trucks doing here? After he kicked the lantern over
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Speaker 1: into the haystack, the kerosene lamp into the hay bales.
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Speaker 2: He's like, oh, what are all these firemen doing here?
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Speaker 2: What happened?
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Speaker 3: If he was the meme of the guy sitting in
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Speaker 3: the room with the fire, he was the one that
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Speaker 3: brought the torch.
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Speaker 5: And Yannis has been clear. He won't answer questions about
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Speaker 5: an extension. I'm not doing it, so quit asking. So
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Speaker 5: quit asking. So, hey, you never know. And maybe, yeah,
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Speaker 5: is it maneuvering?
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Speaker 3: Is it? You're right. Giannis knows by now.
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Speaker 5: This isn't the 2014 Giannis where he's still learning the language.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, obviously he knows what he's saying
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Speaker 5: these days.
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Speaker 1: Time for our current electric superhero of the day, brought
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Speaker 1: to us by callcurrent.com. I got one of my nominees.
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Speaker 5: Ooh.
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Speaker 3: Let's hear it. Is Ryan Fitzpatrick. I like Fitzy. Come on.
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Speaker 3: Shirt on or shirt off?
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Speaker 2: Shirt on.
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Speaker 1: He's like, you know, stats are stats, but there's a,
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Speaker 1: there's context. They provide context and they can open a
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Speaker 1: window and they're supposed to like, not be just, all right,
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Speaker 1: that's what it is. We mentioned Joe Burrow and his
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Speaker 1: 1-34 record when trailing in the final eight minutes of
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Speaker 1: an NFL game. But Fitz drilled down whether he did
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Speaker 1: it or a researcher did it. And he was on
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Speaker 1: this pod and he said, there are 27 times when
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Speaker 1: Joe had the ball under four minutes but had the
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Speaker 1: ability to tie the game or take the lead. And
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Speaker 1: he accomplished that 18 of the 27 times.
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Speaker 4: Whoa.
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Speaker 1: Which is a pretty good rate of four minutes. And
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Speaker 1: they still lost the game.
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Speaker 3: Still lost.
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Speaker 2: So, so is that, is that a damning stat for him?
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Speaker 3: I don't know, man.
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Speaker 2: If what about a quarterback who couldn't win on Monday
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Speaker 2: night until he did.
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Speaker 3: Until he did. And then, and then, you know, said
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Speaker 3: who you'd like that. I just, there's, there's a lot
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Speaker 3: to the borough thing in Cincinnati has had, listen, he
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Speaker 3: is not free of blame in how their team is built.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: Like, I mean, like when push came to shove of
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Speaker 3: who are they going to pay, they're going to pay
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Speaker 3: him and his two best wide receivers. Well, instead of one,
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Speaker 3: and then let's backload it with a young rookie, like
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Speaker 3: a Matthew golden or somebody else in the first or
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Speaker 3: second round and try to build up here and spend
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Speaker 3: some money on the defense. Like, no, this is how
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Speaker 3: we're built. This is how we're going to, this is
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Speaker 3: how we're going to do it. So he's not free
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Speaker 3: of blame. I think in how they sit. But that
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Speaker 3: is damning on what their outfit has been because he
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Speaker 3: has been so good and just unable to close the deal.
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Speaker 3: Seems like there would be a really, really good defense
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Speaker 3: that one of his other former LSU teammates is a
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Speaker 3: part of. That would be an interesting one. They sure
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Speaker 3: need a quarterback. You want to talk about a team
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Speaker 3: and a guy that would if he ended up forcing
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Speaker 3: his way out? How about Minnesota just chomping at the
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Speaker 3: bit to try to get into the Joe Burrow business?
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Speaker 3: That would be interesting. That would be a big coup
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Speaker 3: for them. Because if I'm Burrow and I'm going to
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Speaker 3: do any kind of manipulating to where I'd want to go,
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Speaker 3: that would be the answer. That would be the only
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Speaker 3: place that I'd be interested in going. I ain't going
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Speaker 3: to Dallas. I'm not going anywhere else in the AFC,
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Speaker 3: to be honest. They're stacked talent-wise, right? I mean, that's, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's, boy, I don't like that. You put
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Speaker 3: that thought in my head.
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Speaker 4: Now, Bill.
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Speaker 3: Head there with those weapons in an indoor facility with
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Speaker 3: that coach? Yeah, 100%. That's the one that he would
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Speaker 3: have circled big time if he would go somewhere at
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Speaker 3: the offseason. Why are you doing stuff like that to me?
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 4: Oh, man.
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Speaker 3: That would stink.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 3: It's already bad enough. They're already leading the division.
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Speaker 2: That's the thing.
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Speaker 3: It's bad enough they're winning now with what they have there.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That's a good point, though. It's definitely going to be
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Speaker 3: a landing spot. Now, we talked about... Giannis and learning
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Speaker 3: the language and being comfortable with it. I got a
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Speaker 3: nominee for the superhero. Yeah. What about one that one
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Speaker 3: young man that is still learning the language, but pretty
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Speaker 3: good on the cuts last night, the Chicago white Sox
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Speaker 3: celebrated their first series win since 2005 and their prize
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Speaker 3: from Japan Morikami after the game with another gem into
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Speaker 3: the microphone. Hey guys, tell me, what are you feeling
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Speaker 3: right now?
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Speaker 6: One hundred.
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Speaker 3: One hundred? Not a thousand this time? Yeah, one hundred.
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Speaker 3: I'm Japanese! It's early in Japan. They're celebrating with you.
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Speaker 3: Anything you want to say to them?
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Speaker 4: Same. Hi. Same, same. Same. Yeah, he's drunk.
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Speaker 3: He's drunk.
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Speaker 4: Last night.
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Speaker 3: But he's drunk.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You told me you didn't need him. I'm drunk.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Today, maybe hangover. You know?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow hungover.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: No, no, yesterday.
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Speaker 7: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry.
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Speaker 4: I don't speak English.
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Speaker 3: You don't need the translator.
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Speaker 4: Congratulations.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I think there's more. Somewhere I
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Speaker 3: got to get some more. He does another interview with
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Speaker 3: Connor McKnight, I think, on CHSN. But that one was
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Speaker 3: about as good as it gets right there with NBC Sports.
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Speaker 3: I have another minute of the other one that you
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Speaker 3: were just mentioning. Let's hear a little bit. Why not, right?
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Speaker 3: Here we go. Connor McKnight, former Badger, graduated from the
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Speaker 3: University of Wisconsin.
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Speaker 7: Mooney, Kenzo, this is your second time in one of these.
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Speaker 7: What'd you learn from your first one?
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Speaker 3: No, I'm drunk.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 3: You guys came in here with a mission. You knew
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Speaker 3: you could do.
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Speaker 7: This against the Houston Astros. How does it feel to
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Speaker 7: have finally done it? How does it feel to watch
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Speaker 7: all you guys celebrate? 100.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god!
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Speaker 2: I feel so good!
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Speaker 7: Mune, you guys are headed on to Cleveland, but you
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Speaker 7: get to celebrate tonight. Who needs a shout-out for what
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Speaker 7: they've done the last two games, in your opinion?
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Speaker 4: Chase Midas. He's so good.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Val, Chiquito.
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Speaker 4: Little Chiquito.
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Speaker 3: Small. This guy's electric.
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Speaker 2: I can't get enough of it.
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Speaker 3: I need to save all that for games and kicks.
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Speaker 3: Don't let me forget. I don't know what part.
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Speaker 2: 100, 1,000, whatever it takes.
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Speaker 3: Guys want me to say I'm in I love it
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Speaker 3: I think the translator there, too, has got to have
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Speaker 5: I mean, you just get to be in these champagne celebrations.
16:13
Speaker 3: It's pretty nice.
16:14
Speaker 5: And you have to translate the questions, but it doesn't
16:16
Speaker 5: matter anyway, because whatever Murakami says is going to be
16:19
Speaker 5: what he wants to say.
16:20
Speaker 3: He answers in English, even though.
16:22
Speaker 2: He's asked in Japanese. He's spitting bars, man.
16:25
Speaker 3: I will also say the Daniel Day Montessert is how
16:29
Speaker 3: I pronounce our guy. First off, he's got great pipes.
16:34
Speaker 3: His tone is phenomenal. The being able to remember 37
16:40
Speaker 3: seconds of what somebody says, Drew, I mean, you're transcribing time.
16:45
Speaker 3: You probably were pretty good at about 15, 16-second increments.
16:48
Speaker 3: That blows my mind when they rattle off 45 seconds
16:51
Speaker 3: worth of what.
16:51
Speaker 2: The guy just said. That is crazy how good they are.
16:53
Speaker 3: It's amazing. I wonder what those guys make. Man, that's
16:56
Speaker 3: an awesome gig.
16:57
Speaker 1: It's a pretty good gig. Would you rather be a
16:58
Speaker 1: translator or a bullpen catcher?
17:00
Speaker 3: I don't know.
17:01
Speaker 5: That's a great question. Probably you get a jersey. You
17:04
Speaker 5: don't get a jersey for a translator. You get gear,
17:06
Speaker 5: but you don't get a jersey. You don't get a number.
17:09
Speaker 3: See, but it also depends, Drew. What's the better hang?
17:11
Speaker 3: And maybe this is a better question to ask Rock.
17:12
Speaker 3: I don't know how much time he spent out in
17:14
Speaker 3: the bullpens.
17:15
Speaker 2: A lot.
17:16
Speaker 3: Is the dugout the better hang or the bullpen the
17:19
Speaker 3: better hang?
17:20
Speaker 2: They're both their own subcultures.
17:22
Speaker 5: Right?
17:22
Speaker 3: They're their own beast. That's the, that's the real question.
17:24
Speaker 1: It's rhythm, but the bullpen is like bullpen is the firehouse.
17:27
Speaker 1: It's why they're called firemen. They just sit out there
17:29
Speaker 1: and nothing's going on. You're sitting around watching TV, making chili.
17:33
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden there's an alarm and everybody's
17:35
Speaker 1: scrambling and let's go.
17:36
Speaker 3: As long as I don't have to take, as long
17:38
Speaker 3: as I don't have to wheel out the, uh, the
17:40
Speaker 3: suitcase with the snacks out to the bullpen every game,
17:42
Speaker 3: I think I'd say bullpen catcher.
17:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a better view from the dugout for sure.
17:47
Speaker 3: Oh, that's true.
17:47
Speaker 1: But less adult supervision in the bullpen, more interaction with
17:50
Speaker 1: fans around the rail. It's a little bit more leisurely.
17:53
Speaker 1: You get to be the rock star. You get to
17:55
Speaker 1: walk around and stuff.
17:56
Speaker 4: Yes, 100%.
17:56
Speaker 2: You get to walk around a little bit. Yeah, it's
17:59
Speaker 2: its own thing. They're both their own thing.
18:02
Speaker 1: Now, the clubhouse has its, you know, the dugout.
18:05
Speaker 2: You can go right up the tunnel and they got
18:06
Speaker 2: all the snacks.
18:06
Speaker 3: That's true. You're close enough. All the stuff, you know.
18:09
Speaker 3: Not out there on your island.
18:10
Speaker 2: Check your emails and check your texts and all that.
18:13
Speaker 3: Like you said, I mean, especially if you're in a
18:15
Speaker 3: certain location, good scenery. The bullpen, there's probably a lot
18:17
Speaker 3: less adult supervision.
18:18
Speaker 2: Bullpen coach ain't worried about it. No doubt.
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Speaker 1: as the Brewers now know their opponent Saturday night, American
19:10
Speaker 1: Family Field. Brewers Padres, we welcome Bill Schroeder. Rock, Brewers Padres,
19:15
Speaker 1: we knew it was going to be tough. They obliterated
19:17
Speaker 1: the Cubs and San Diego's on to Milwaukee.
19:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, everything's pretty much set except for the
19:24
Speaker 4: Phillies and Braves. What a comeback for Philly. Yesterday was
19:29
Speaker 4: three solo shots, I guess. I pray Schwarber and Harper
19:32
Speaker 4: tie it up and then boom. Boom. It's been great
19:37
Speaker 4: so far. I think the American League, it's all interdivisional matchups, right?
19:44
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay Yankees. We'll see who the Dodgers play. It's
19:48
Speaker 4: not going to be much easier. I mean, San Diego,
19:51
Speaker 4: one of the hottest teams in the big leagues to
19:52
Speaker 4: end the season.
19:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, the only team maybe hotter would be the Brewers.
19:56
Speaker 3: I think they've won, what, 20 of 26 now since
19:59
Speaker 3: the start of the month. Rock, it's been funny because
20:01
Speaker 3: Brewers fans, obviously there's a lot of consternation about When
20:05
Speaker 3: the Cubs come to town, who not only because of
20:07
Speaker 3: the fans and everything that happens around the stadium last year, that,
20:11
Speaker 3: that rose people's blood pressure to an uncomfortable level. I
20:14
Speaker 3: think there are a lot of people that felt like
20:15
Speaker 3: there might've been months and years off their lives in
20:18
Speaker 3: a Brewers Cub playoff series that didn't want to see it.
20:22
Speaker 3: this year, but you almost can argue that it would
20:25
Speaker 3: have been a better result for the crew because this
20:27
Speaker 3: Padres team can hit, and they got a back end
20:30
Speaker 3: to the bullpen. Obviously, Miller's the headliner, but their bullpen,
20:33
Speaker 3: as good as their lineup is, is just as good.
20:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the travels wouldn't have been so bad, right?
20:39
Speaker 4: Milwaukee to Chicago instead of Milwaukee to San Diego, but anyway,
20:43
Speaker 4: there's a bunch of days off. That's not going to
20:45
Speaker 4: be an issue, but, you know, Padres are tough. The
20:50
Speaker 4: Brewers are probably the I think National League is very
20:53
Speaker 4: competitive this year. I mean, there's a lot of good teams.
20:56
Speaker 4: I mean, Philly, Atlanta, they're going to go right down
20:59
Speaker 4: to the wire tonight. That's going to be a great game. But,
21:02
Speaker 4: you know, I agree with you. I think that the
21:05
Speaker 4: Brewers handled the Cubs much better than the Brewers handled
21:09
Speaker 4: the Padres. The Padres won four of seven in the
21:12
Speaker 4: season series this year. Did not fare very well in
21:16
Speaker 4: that San Diego West Coast swing, but You never know.
21:20
Speaker 4: It all starts from scratch. A lot of times, wild
21:24
Speaker 4: card teams keep playing and they don't have a lot
21:27
Speaker 4: of days off, particularly the hot teams. It's kind of
21:31
Speaker 4: an advantage, but we'll see how America is going to
21:33
Speaker 4: have these guys ready to go. I would imagine they're
21:36
Speaker 4: eager to go. They've been working out. They had Monday off,
21:40
Speaker 4: but they hit it hard starting Tuesday, so It's going
21:45
Speaker 4: to be fun. It's going to be fun. I will
21:47
Speaker 4: say this. I'm not going to miss the Cubs fans
21:50
Speaker 4: at American Family Field this year.
21:52
Speaker 2: No.
21:54
Speaker 1: A lot more Brewers fans when Game 1 fires up
21:56
Speaker 1: on Saturday at 730. Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV, joining us here.
22:01
Speaker 4: Talking about heartburn. Every time the Cubs come in town
22:04
Speaker 4: and those fans come in, I'll tell you, It's the
22:06
Speaker 4: same in Wrigley Field, though. I mean, the Brewer fans
22:09
Speaker 4: travel extremely well, too. I think both fan bases can
22:14
Speaker 4: say the same.
22:15
Speaker 1: You notice it when you get your headphones on, Rock,
22:17
Speaker 1: but what's it like when you're in the stands? Because
22:19
Speaker 1: you're in the stands for these games. You're among the unwashed.
22:22
Speaker 1: You're among the common folk like us.
22:24
Speaker 4: I know. I mean, we have our, you know, the
22:27
Speaker 4: Brewers give us two tickets. I bought two extras. You know,
22:29
Speaker 4: I treat some of my my friends and my family,
22:32
Speaker 4: the tickets, you know, and our tickets are down kind
22:35
Speaker 4: of the right field line a little bit. Still good seats.
22:39
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not a bad seat, you know, in
22:41
Speaker 4: the house. But you're right. I mean, it's a much
22:43
Speaker 4: different thing. You know, I think I told you guys
22:46
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago that, you know, when I
22:48
Speaker 4: watch a game, when I'm not doing a game, I
22:50
Speaker 4: am a full-blown rabid fan. And I say things out
22:54
Speaker 4: of my basement that I would never imagine saying on air. But,
22:59
Speaker 4: you know, it's kind of different, you know, I mean,
23:01
Speaker 4: when I'm in the stands over there at the ballpark,
23:04
Speaker 4: you know, you sign autographs, people come up, you know,
23:07
Speaker 4: every now and again, somebody might buy me a beer,
23:09
Speaker 4: which isn't the worst thing in the world, but, uh,
23:11
Speaker 4: you know, I, I, down the right field line, I'm,
23:14
Speaker 4: I'm right by Kurt in the, uh, the, you know,
23:16
Speaker 4: the booth, the tap brew, the local brew. Yeah. So
23:18
Speaker 4: over there, he takes, he takes good care of me.
23:20
Speaker 4: So Kate ends up driving home from those.
23:22
Speaker 3: That's amazing. That's exactly it. Well, I might owe you one. Cause, uh,
23:26
Speaker 3: rock at one point during the year, uh, you had
23:29
Speaker 3: left a, a cameo. My, uh, my brother-in-law drunkenly at
23:33
Speaker 3: Summerfest might've bought it for our three-year-old. And, uh, You
23:35
Speaker 3: recorded one, and that little guy watches it damn near
23:37
Speaker 3: every single day to fire up for the game. So
23:40
Speaker 3: I might owe you one for as much as we've
23:42
Speaker 3: heard it. You can tell, though, there's going to be
23:44
Speaker 3: obviously a lot of juice for a start. What about
23:48
Speaker 3: a postseason start that the Miz is starting? We didn't
23:51
Speaker 3: get this last year because he was kind of a
23:54
Speaker 3: wild card and a question mark going in. Now he's
23:56
Speaker 3: their best player, and it feels like the most sure
24:00
Speaker 3: thing you have.
24:03
Speaker 4: Best pitcher in baseball. Best starter. I mean, sure, if
24:06
Speaker 4: Hugh and Cy Youngboard wouldn't have this year, I can't
24:09
Speaker 4: imagine anybody even going to be close this year to
24:12
Speaker 4: what the Miz has done. I mean, it's just been incredible.
24:14
Speaker 4: He pitched out of the bullpen last year, did very
24:17
Speaker 4: well out of the bullpen last year. He's always handled
24:22
Speaker 4: all the pressure. I mean, his heart rate is very low.
24:26
Speaker 4: I mean, he really has a good sense of calming
24:29
Speaker 4: things down, slowing things down. But I would say That
24:32
Speaker 4: first pitch on Saturday, is it possible that he might
24:36
Speaker 4: hit 106 miles an hour with that first pitch? I mean,
24:39
Speaker 4: he is going to be ramped up. I mean, my concern,
24:42
Speaker 4: if anything, is going to be for him to be
24:44
Speaker 4: able to relax a little bit, you know, throw strikes,
24:47
Speaker 4: which he's been able to do all season long. And
24:50
Speaker 4: there's no reason to think he's not going to be
24:51
Speaker 4: able to do that. But, you know, first start for
24:54
Speaker 4: him in the postseason, that's a big deal.
24:57
Speaker 1: Talking to Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV. It is a big deal,
25:00
Speaker 1: and Rock, that changes game one. As we just saw
25:03
Speaker 1: and we've seen in these first-round three-game series, you've got
25:05
Speaker 1: to win game one. Three of the four, they didn't
25:08
Speaker 1: see a game three, and we got one game tonight.
25:10
Speaker 1: How important is it for Brewers to win when missed pitches?
25:12
Speaker 1: Even though you've got Henderson in game two, winning game one,
25:16
Speaker 1: to me, is still pivotal. Not as critical in a three-gamer,
25:19
Speaker 1: but still pivotal in a five-gamer.
25:23
Speaker 4: Well, more pivotal in the three-game run, I think you
25:26
Speaker 4: were speaking of.
25:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
25:28
Speaker 4: It's always important in a five-game series. That's going to
25:31
Speaker 4: be a big deal for sure. I mean, Burr is
25:33
Speaker 4: going to have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. That's
25:38
Speaker 4: another big deal. So they played very well at home
25:41
Speaker 4: this year. I mean, 103 wins. I mean, what do
25:44
Speaker 4: you say? And I think that if Pat Murphy had
25:46
Speaker 4: his drive, he would not have wanted his team to
25:48
Speaker 4: have a week off for sure. I mean, because they
25:51
Speaker 4: were as hot as any team, just like the Padres.
25:53
Speaker 4: I mean, you're talking about maybe two of the best
25:56
Speaker 4: finishes in all of baseball when you're talking about San
25:59
Speaker 4: Diego and Milwaukee in the regular season. They were both
26:02
Speaker 4: red hot. So the Brewers had a great September, so
26:04
Speaker 4: did San Diego. But game one is going to be exciting.
26:08
Speaker 4: Think about it. The Brewers... Very young team. Padres, not
26:11
Speaker 4: so much. They've got some young players, but they have
26:14
Speaker 4: a bunch of guys maybe a little bit longer in
26:16
Speaker 4: the tooth, and they've been there and done that before.
26:18
Speaker 4: So we'll see how these guys are able to respond
26:21
Speaker 4: on a first-game divisional series. A lot of these guys
26:24
Speaker 4: have never been through it before. So it's going to
26:27
Speaker 4: be fun to watch.
26:28
Speaker 3: Rock, as you go through a season, sometimes it's the
26:31
Speaker 3: moves that you don't make that end up being the
26:33
Speaker 3: biggest ones. Both of these teams, at least there were
26:36
Speaker 3: conversations around them shipping off their closers. McGill in the
26:40
Speaker 3: beginning of the year felt like his name popped up
26:43
Speaker 3: all the time. He's been nails for the crew. And
26:45
Speaker 3: it felt like the biggest lift the Padres got in
26:47
Speaker 3: their year was not trading Mason Miller at the deadline
26:51
Speaker 3: or the young man that comes before him. Cause their
26:53
Speaker 3: bullpen is really, really good. Sometimes as much as we
26:56
Speaker 3: want to look at the acquisition, it's a doubling down
26:59
Speaker 3: on the guys you got. And it feels like that's
27:00
Speaker 3: what has kind of carried San Diego to, to this spot.
27:04
Speaker 4: Man, no doubt. I mean, it's good decision-making, right? I mean,
27:07
Speaker 4: who knew how hot they were going to be at
27:09
Speaker 4: the end of the year. They, you know, Mason Miller, uh,
27:12
Speaker 4: one of the top relievers in all of baseball. He's
27:15
Speaker 4: a guy that can throw triple digits up, up at you.
27:17
Speaker 4: He threw, had a couple of strikeouts last night. And, um,
27:21
Speaker 4: you know, he's, he's a tough one to, uh, to
27:23
Speaker 4: get runs off of. I mean, one runs, one thing,
27:26
Speaker 4: two or three runs is going to be pretty much
27:28
Speaker 4: impossible against that guy. So it's going to be important
27:30
Speaker 4: for the Brewers, you know, to get off to an
27:32
Speaker 4: early league, get to the starter. Uh, a lot of
27:34
Speaker 4: times in September, it was just the opposite. You know,
27:38
Speaker 4: With staying the starter, they're going to be good and
27:40
Speaker 4: then get to the bullpens, you know, like Philly and
27:42
Speaker 4: teams like that. But how about the decision by Matt
27:46
Speaker 4: Arnold not to trade Logan Henderson? That whole Scooble thing,
27:50
Speaker 4: I mean, that was a big deal. Everybody was thinking,
27:52
Speaker 4: let's get Scooble, let's get Scooble. But the key piece
27:56
Speaker 4: to that deal that Detroit wanted was Logan Henderson. How
28:00
Speaker 4: great has he been? I mean, plus you have him
28:03
Speaker 4: for a while. Scooble was going to be a rental,
28:05
Speaker 4: but that was a great decision. You're right. I mean,
28:09
Speaker 4: some of the biggest decisions you make are the moves
28:11
Speaker 4: that you don't make, and that was a big one
28:13
Speaker 4: for Matt Arnold, for sure.
28:15
Speaker 1: Rock, Billy mentioned Xander Bogarts, and the guy's got to
28:18
Speaker 1: step up, and we always say it, and it's cliche,
28:20
Speaker 1: but the best player's got to play in big games.
28:22
Speaker 1: The Cubs just went down, and Bregman and Pete Crow
28:25
Speaker 1: Armstrong were 0 for 15.
28:27
Speaker 2: In the two games. Hard to win when your big
28:28
Speaker 2: guys don't come through at all in those spots.
28:33
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, one of the Brewers' big
28:34
Speaker 1: guys going to this series and this run is William Contreras.
28:38
Speaker 2: He's been hot lately, but.
28:40
Speaker 3: Rock, Sunday.
28:42
Speaker 1: I mean, even Friday night was the classic with him
28:46
Speaker 1: diving into first base. And then he challenged a Palooza
28:49
Speaker 1: when he went like five for five with his challenges.
28:52
Speaker 1: He's so much fun to watch that sometimes you forget
28:54
Speaker 1: how much fun.
28:54
Speaker 2: It is to watch him.
28:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, he can be, he can be kind of a,
28:58
Speaker 4: one of the maddening, I mean, the whole thing, you know,
29:01
Speaker 4: Murph pulled about for not running out of the ground ball,
29:04
Speaker 4: you know, Trey Turner booted it and William wasn't running
29:07
Speaker 4: all that well. You know, I mean, if anybody on
29:09
Speaker 4: the team, you can understand not busting it down the
29:12
Speaker 4: line every single time. It's a guy that catches, you know,
29:15
Speaker 4: 140 games a year. I mean, something like that. But anyway.
29:18
Speaker 4: You know, that whole thing with Murph pulling him out,
29:21
Speaker 4: that was a good thing because, you know, what that
29:23
Speaker 4: said is he doesn't play favorites. I mean, he's going
29:26
Speaker 4: to do that to Pratt, and he's going to do
29:27
Speaker 4: that to William Contreras. And, I mean, that speaks volumes,
29:30
Speaker 4: you know, in that clubhouse, you know. But that whole
29:34
Speaker 4: thing that, you know, he running down the first base
29:36
Speaker 4: like diving headfirst. Murph could have handled that one of
29:39
Speaker 4: two ways. I mean, Murph could have said, quit showing
29:41
Speaker 4: me up. I mean, that's not cool. But we've got
29:44
Speaker 4: a shot of him right away. He was smiling. He
29:46
Speaker 4: thought it was funny and played it really well. So
29:49
Speaker 4: it could have gone both ways in that situation. And
29:52
Speaker 4: then on that A.B.S. challenge, I mean, he tapped his
29:55
Speaker 4: head and walked right into the dugout. And that pitch
29:57
Speaker 4: was not That's obvious of a strike. It was just
30:00
Speaker 4: like maybe a quarter of an inch on the plate.
30:04
Speaker 4: William can give you heartburn sometimes out there, but he's
30:09
Speaker 4: a key component. When he's swinging the bat well, the
30:13
Speaker 4: Brewers are much better off for sure.
30:15
Speaker 1: His challenges in that game were epic, too, one of
30:17
Speaker 1: which came with two strikes and two outs, and he
30:19
Speaker 1: was approaching almost to the dugout when the thing showed
30:23
Speaker 1: that it was strike three.
30:24
Speaker 7: Yeah.
30:24
Speaker 2: That was so funny.
30:25
Speaker 4: That's what I was talking about.
30:26
Speaker 7: Yeah.
30:27
Speaker 4: That's what I was talking about. Yeah. You're talking about
30:28
Speaker 4: being really confident on the pitch that was barely in
30:31
Speaker 4: the strike zone. I think with the stitch, it was
30:35
Speaker 4: a strike by. Yes. Could you imagine what would have
30:39
Speaker 4: happened if that was a ball? He had to turn
30:41
Speaker 4: around and go back.
30:41
Speaker 6: Right.
30:43
Speaker 4: But what a risk that is to take that risk.
30:46
Speaker 4: But it worked out for him.
30:47
Speaker 3: Kid, yesterday for the Phillies, he started to painter the pitcher.
30:50
Speaker 3: He walked all the way to the foul line, and
30:52
Speaker 3: he's like, you know what, I'm going to walk right
30:54
Speaker 3: back to the mound because that's going to be embarrassing
30:56
Speaker 3: if this thing's not a strike. Just in case.
31:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, incredible. Incredible stuff. I think this postseason is going
31:04
Speaker 4: to be great. I think whoever the Dodgers play, that's
31:06
Speaker 4: going to be epic. I mean, again, a lot of
31:09
Speaker 4: times wildcard teams, they blow through the playoffs because they
31:13
Speaker 4: keep playing and every game is important. And for those teams,
31:17
Speaker 4: I mean, every game toward the end of the season
31:19
Speaker 4: was important just to get in. So we'll see how
31:22
Speaker 4: it works out. Hopefully the Brewers are going to be ready.
31:24
Speaker 4: I'm ready to go for Saturday. I can't wait. Absolutely. Absolutely.
31:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to face the White Sox right now.
31:29
Speaker 1: They've got a head of steam going, and they've got
31:31
Speaker 1: the Pope behind them.
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Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, they've got the fear of God in you.
31:34
Speaker 2: That'll be it.
31:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, right. Hey, Rock, Billy has a question.
31:39
Speaker 3: Go ahead, man.
31:39
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
31:40
Speaker 2: No, go ahead.
31:41
Speaker 4: Early in the season when the Brewers played the White
31:43
Speaker 4: Sox and the Brewers took them apart, Merced at that
31:46
Speaker 4: point in time, Be careful of the White Sox. They're
31:49
Speaker 4: going to be a team to contend with. And everybody
31:51
Speaker 4: thought he was crazy when he said that. But look
31:53
Speaker 4: where they're at now.
31:54
Speaker 2: That's right.
31:55
Speaker 4: Incredible stuff. Incredible stuff. So Murph has a way of, like,
31:59
Speaker 4: he can read tea leaves. I mean, he's been really good.
32:02
Speaker 2: That's right.
32:03
Speaker 1: Rock, Billy asked a question we have to bounce off
32:05
Speaker 1: of you because– You're.
32:07
Speaker 2: Going from the booth to the stands.
32:09
Speaker 1: What's it like in big games and just on a
32:11
Speaker 1: normal night going from the dugout to the bullpen?
32:14
Speaker 3: Which is the better hang?
32:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, and for a high-level game like this, for these big, exciting,
32:20
Speaker 1: what's it like in the bullpen in the early innings?
32:22
Speaker 1: And where's the better play? If you had to pick,
32:24
Speaker 1: where's more fun to sit, in the dugout or the bullpen?
32:28
Speaker 4: The bullpen is just more relaxing. It's kind of a
32:31
Speaker 4: community in and of itself down there. Not every pitcher
32:37
Speaker 4: is engaged throughout the whole game. Long relievers, they pay
32:42
Speaker 4: attention early. Closers, McGill, Uribe, they kind of do their
32:46
Speaker 4: own thing throughout. the game, and then 7th, 8th, 9th inning,
32:50
Speaker 4: that's when they start focusing and they start using the
32:52
Speaker 4: rubber bands and things like that. But I will say this,
32:55
Speaker 4: back in Old County Stadium, I spent a lot of
32:57
Speaker 4: time in that bullpen out there. Baseball was good for
33:00
Speaker 4: a hot dog and a soda back in those days.
33:02
Speaker 4: I'm not quite sure what it did.
33:06
Speaker 3: I was going to say, the snags and the fun
33:08
Speaker 3: with everything else might be a lot better in the bullpen.
33:11
Speaker 3: As Drew said, a lot less adult supervision, too, in
33:13
Speaker 3: those middle of July days. I think I'd be a
33:15
Speaker 3: lot better with it.
33:16
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that the dugout is intense. I mean,
33:19
Speaker 4: it's really intense down there. You got guys, you know,
33:21
Speaker 4: coaches walking up and down, getting guys ready. Guys are
33:24
Speaker 4: going back into the cage, you know, hitting, getting ready
33:27
Speaker 4: for a pinch hitting opportunity. But the bullpen, completely different,
33:31
Speaker 4: much more relaxed. I remember when I was playing, you know,
33:34
Speaker 4: starters would go down to the bullpen and just hang out.
33:36
Speaker 4: They didn't want any part of the dugout because of
33:39
Speaker 4: the intensity there.
33:40
Speaker 2: That's true.
33:40
Speaker 4: And they go down there just trying to kick back, right?
33:43
Speaker 1: Who would you rather sit next to, a guy who
33:44
Speaker 1: doesn't think he's going to get in the game or
33:45
Speaker 1: a guy who just struck out for the third time?
33:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the answer.
33:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be me. That would be me. I'd
33:51
Speaker 4: be going by touching Gary Robb.
33:53
Speaker 3: Oh, classic.
33:55
Speaker 1: Rock, we'll see you at the ballpark. It's going to
33:56
Speaker 1: be a blast. Do you have any juice? Do you
33:58
Speaker 1: have any field access? Will we see you milling around
34:01
Speaker 1: the field during.
34:02
Speaker 2: BP and stuff?
34:03
Speaker 6: Yeah.
34:04
Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to have a credential. I'm going to
34:06
Speaker 4: leave the guys alone a little bit, but I think,
34:08
Speaker 4: you know, I'll be down there probably every now and again,
34:11
Speaker 4: probably real early and then bug out once the stands
34:14
Speaker 4: start going up.
34:15
Speaker 3: I was going to say, better question is, will people
34:17
Speaker 3: see Rock walking around the concourse or walking around the
34:20
Speaker 3: parking lot? Because if you do, the man would like
34:23
Speaker 3: a brat in his head. I mean, you hand the
34:25
Speaker 3: man a sausage and help him out during the tailgate.
34:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't have a baseball for you. I'll
34:30
Speaker 4: do a selfie with you, though.
34:32
Speaker 3: There you go. That's worth it. That's worth it. No
34:34
Speaker 3: doubt about it. In the parking lot, it is.
34:36
Speaker 2: No doubt.
34:37
Speaker 4: Rock, we'll see you at the yard.
34:39
Speaker 3: It's going to be fun.
34:39
Speaker 2: See you Saturday.
34:40
Speaker 4: Thanks, guys. Looking forward to it. Can't wait. Go Brewers.
34:43
Speaker 2: All right. Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV. Can't wait. Going to
34:46
Speaker 2: be fun.
34:47
Speaker 3: Man, as a Brewers fan that has listened to that
34:51
Speaker 3: guy my entire life, to hear him enjoy and get
34:54
Speaker 3: excited to be able to crack open a cold one
34:56
Speaker 3: and enjoy the playoffs, oh, that's awesome. Not much better
34:58
Speaker 3: than that.
34:59
Speaker 1: Relish this, because this is part of the 10%, the
35:01
Speaker 1: buildup and the excitement. Today, tomorrow, and then through the
35:03
Speaker 1: day Saturday until the first pitch. And again, word to
35:07
Speaker 1: the wise, if you're going to the game, I know
35:09
Speaker 1: tailgating is awesome. It's going to be sunny and warm.
35:12
Speaker 1: Get in the park, man.
35:13
Speaker 3: That's the thing.
35:13
Speaker 1: You want to be there to go nuts when Miz
35:15
Speaker 1: is walking from the dugout to warm up for the
35:18
Speaker 1: first pitch, like when he's making his walk.
35:20
Speaker 3: You want it to throb. They'll line up on the
35:23
Speaker 3: foul lines this week. That is part of that ticket
35:27
Speaker 3: for game number one.
35:28
Speaker 2: It is, absolutely.
35:29
Speaker 5: You earned that right. The Brewers have earned that right
35:31
Speaker 5: to enjoy these couple days and.
35:32
Speaker 3: Have that moment.
35:33
Speaker 1: Time to close up shop here for our Thursday, the
35:37
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36:05
Speaker 1: We have covered a lot of ground today talking about
36:07
Speaker 1: the Brewers and their now set matchup beginning Saturday night
36:11
Speaker 1: against the Padres in the NLDS. We talked Packers, Buccaneers
36:15
Speaker 1: with their revamped offensive line. The loss of Jaden Reed,
36:17
Speaker 1: which will sting. Paging Sky Moore to the white courtesy telephone.
36:20
Speaker 2: Ooh, time to play, boy. Until Savion Williams comes back.
36:23
Speaker 3: Former second-round pick could be a lot worse. You get
36:26
Speaker 3: Savion Williams in there. He can run some jet sweeps,
36:28
Speaker 3: A-gap runs that Armand loves.
36:29
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
36:30
Speaker 5: This guy had stepped in with some nice production when
36:33
Speaker 5: they needed it to a little bit.
36:34
Speaker 2: Cinderella stories.
36:35
Speaker 1: Sports isn't built on, you know, modern sports isn't built
36:38
Speaker 1: on sentiment, but I do love the Kevin Zeitler arc. Like,
36:41
Speaker 1: bring him back here, a dude playing in his 15th
36:44
Speaker 1: year in the league, coming in to help out his
36:47
Speaker 1: homestay team that he grew up with the posters on
36:49
Speaker 1: the walls, you know, in the Favre era.
36:51
Speaker 3: Always love that jersey now, yeah. And sorry, he's got
36:54
Speaker 3: to have more juice than Rick Wagner did when you
36:56
Speaker 3: brought him in.
36:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I imagine he does. Well, he's played at such
36:59
Speaker 2: a high level for so long, and he's going to
37:01
Speaker 2: be better than anybody.
37:02
Speaker 1: And then it's going to be as the existential question is, yeah,
37:07
Speaker 1: you're happy that the Packers made these moves, but people
37:09
Speaker 1: were clamoring for these moves in March and April.
37:13
Speaker 3: That's the difficult thing to get over, Drew. This could
37:15
Speaker 3: have been done even because, again, I don't think Kevin
37:19
Speaker 3: Zeitler wanted to go through six weeks of training camp.
37:21
Speaker 3: In all reality, he's 35, 36 years old.
37:24
Speaker 2: If you can make the same money and skip it,
37:27
Speaker 2: It is a veteran move.
37:28
Speaker 5: 100%.
37:28
Speaker 2: It's the Harrison Smith thing.
37:30
Speaker 3: It's the move. When you're that age and the season
37:33
Speaker 3: is as long as it is, save the refs that
37:36
Speaker 3: you have. Tomlinson, probably the same way. But even if
37:39
Speaker 3: this is done on August 20th, you have three to
37:43
Speaker 3: four weeks to be able to give some information, understand
37:47
Speaker 3: for the young players. The Packers clearly wanted to give
37:50
Speaker 3: these guys a run. They gave them a run. and
37:53
Speaker 3: realized that was a brutal run. So now we're going
37:55
Speaker 3: to go try to fix the plane in midair. There's
37:58
Speaker 3: a lot worse things that you could do, but it
38:00
Speaker 3: could be a lot better if you would have had
38:01
Speaker 3: him for three games. You missed the playoffs by one game.
38:04
Speaker 3: This will be a damning deal as to why you
38:07
Speaker 3: ended up being on the outside looking in.
38:08
Speaker 5: It's that same thing, that same debate will go on.
38:12
Speaker 3: It's the outlook you have.
38:13
Speaker 5: It's like you can rip on them for putting themselves
38:17
Speaker 5: in this position, but the flip side is You have
38:19
Speaker 5: to at least give them some credit for trying to
38:20
Speaker 5: solve their problem while they can.
38:23
Speaker 3: Maybe it's too little too late, but, you know, you
38:25
Speaker 3: can also do nothing.
38:27
Speaker 5: There have been a lot of years where Packers fans
38:29
Speaker 5: have said, we have to go out and get somebody.
38:30
Speaker 5: We have to go out and, well, they've gotten everybody
38:33
Speaker 5: they can. So we'll see if it works. This is,
38:35
Speaker 5: you know, time will tell. Will this be just, you know,
38:38
Speaker 5: it won't work and it doesn't matter? Or will this
38:41
Speaker 5: be the first chapter in the America's Game documentary for
38:43
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl champion Packers?
38:46
Speaker 3: You never know. I mean, that's what's great about this game.
38:48
Speaker 5: That's what's great about sports is that it's going to
38:50
Speaker 5: unfold in front of you and you just don't know.
38:52
Speaker 3: I saw some folks saying that. Did Jordan Love demand
38:58
Speaker 3: the Packers fix their offensive line? Yes. Because nobody else
39:04
Speaker 3: watching said, you know what? I think it's fine. We're good.
39:07
Speaker 3: Everybody said, we're good. Milt Hendrickson and Goody and Russ
39:12
Speaker 3: Ball were all hanging out saying, what's the problem? What
39:14
Speaker 3: did you guys see? Quarterbacks only been hit 30-some times. No,
39:18
Speaker 3: they desperately needed their $ 220 million quarterback to knock on
39:21
Speaker 3: the door of the GM and say, you need to
39:24
Speaker 3: fix this.
39:24
Speaker 2: Come on. We're good. What are we talking about?
39:28
Speaker 3: But I do... The number one... one thing, though, Drew,
39:30
Speaker 3: that is going to be enhanced, and this is where
39:32
Speaker 3: Zeitler is going to be a huge part of it.
39:34
Speaker 3: You look at how good he was with Detroit a
39:37
Speaker 3: couple of years ago, how good they were in short
39:39
Speaker 3: yardage a couple of years ago, running behind him on
39:42
Speaker 3: that right side. I think of a Thursday night game
39:44
Speaker 3: in particular where they end up getting a first down
39:46
Speaker 3: against Green Bay. They ran right behind that number 70.
39:50
Speaker 3: Once Jacobs comes back, if he comes back, but I
39:52
Speaker 3: do believe it'll be a win, I think they're going
39:54
Speaker 3: to be able to run the football a little bit.
39:56
Speaker 3: And as much as pass blocking is paramount to be
39:59
Speaker 3: able to hold yourself up and keep Jordan Love's back
40:02
Speaker 3: off the grass, you got to be able to get
40:05
Speaker 3: your feet in the ground and run. And I do
40:06
Speaker 3: think Zeitler's going to help them even more into the
40:08
Speaker 3: run game.
40:09
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yes, absolutely.
40:11
Speaker 3: And he's going to get a huge pop when he
40:13
Speaker 3: runs out.
40:13
Speaker 2: All right.
40:14
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