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10/16/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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  Speaker 4: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 2: You know exactly what we got to do, right?
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  Speaker 5: Let's go out and kick some face.
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  Speaker 6: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 3: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 5: What the hell's going on out here?
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  Speaker 6: Yellow Weasel.
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  Speaker 2: Quit calling the plays, all right?
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  Speaker 6: It is time.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you think you are?
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  Speaker 6: I am.
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  Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 6: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 6: your respect.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick. And
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  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian. Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: The Brewers have had the ability to come back in game.
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  Speaker 5: There's the first base runner of the day for the Brewers,
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  Speaker 5: and it's the speedy Bryce Durang reaching.
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  Speaker 3: A one-out walk here in the fourth, and.
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  Speaker 2: It brings up Contreras.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 6: Hard down the left field.
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  Speaker 2: Bounces into the seats.
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  Speaker 5: A double for Contreras. towards the right field corner. Jake
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  Speaker 5: Bowers has done it again.
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee's cut it in half with a two-run double from
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  Speaker 2: that man.
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  Speaker 5: Jake Bowers delivering with another quality at bat.
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  Speaker 2: A 4-2 game in the fourth.
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  Speaker 3: There he goes.
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  Speaker 1: Score from Smith.
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  Speaker 2: In time, Stornham base, Sal Freeland.
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  Speaker 5: Hamilton grounds one through at base at center field. One
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  Speaker 5: pitch after the Stornham base, Hamilton delivers. Bottom of the
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  Speaker 5: order has cut it to one for the real crew.
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  Speaker 5: A take in for ball four, and Milwaukee has loaded
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  Speaker 5: them up.
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  Speaker 2: From down four to nothing to a 4-3 game. Three
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  Speaker 2: balls and no strikes with nowhere to put him. The
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  Speaker 2: Bears have tied the game. They just keep on coming.
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  Speaker 5: From down four to nothing to tied up.
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  Speaker 2: In the fifth.
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  Speaker 3: Mitchell sends a fly ball.
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  Speaker 2: To right center field.
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  Speaker 5: Tucker's going.
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  Speaker 4: And it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee takes the lead. From down four to nothing. The
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  Speaker 2: leading 5-4 in game four. Oh, come on. Three pitches.
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  Speaker 2: That's got a strike. Grabbed it. It's a short for Pratt.
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  Speaker 2: His throw is perfect. Ashby's one-two.
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  Speaker 1: Strikes him out and gets out of it again.
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  Speaker 7: Off the hand.
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  Speaker 5: Shadow center field. On comes Mitchell. It is Mitchell to
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  Speaker 5: make the catch. As good as a strikeout for Ashby.
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  Speaker 5: No chance for Will Smith to advance.
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  Speaker 3: 1982.
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton gets into a ball.
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  Speaker 1: Deep right field. David Hamilton goes yard.
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  Speaker 5: Something special about these Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Brewers.
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  Speaker 7: Hernandez to left center field.
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  Speaker 1: Chariot gets there.
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  Speaker 2: And for the first time in 44 years, the.
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  Speaker 3: Brewers are going to the World Series.
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  Speaker 6: But the bottom line is we aim right now.
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  Speaker 3: They got a bunch of Hall of Famers. We got
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of gamers.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, what a montage put together by Armin Sarian. Highlights
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  Speaker 8: from Fox Sports. Joe Davis on the call. Brewers going
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  Speaker 8: to the World Series. Winning the NLCS. Four victories away
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  Speaker 8: from Nirvana. And their first championship, the first championship in
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  Speaker 8: Milwaukee in baseball since the Braves in 1957.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome into the huddle.
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  Speaker 8: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison. iHeartRadio up
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  Speaker 8: streaming live. Facebook, X, and YouTube. Drew Olsen, Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 8: Billy's out today, and it's killing him. But he'll be
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  Speaker 8: back for Packers OT on Sunday night on the Packers
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  Speaker 8: Radio Network.
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  Speaker 4: And then he'll be back in the huddle on Monday.
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  Speaker 8: And next week, we talked about how tough it is
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  Speaker 8: to wait. We've got a whole week from today. for
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  Speaker 8: the Brewers to take for game one.
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  Speaker 7: That was the amazing thing, right? That was the amazing
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  Speaker 7: thing about that. We actually had all this time to
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  Speaker 7: bask in the glory, but then it's like, okay, now
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  Speaker 7: we'll get it going.
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  Speaker 4: Now we watch the ALCS.
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  Speaker 8: I have yet to meet someone who has described a preference.
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  Speaker 8: Tampa won more games and is regarded as the better
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  Speaker 8: outfit as the Guardians, but the Guardians have the upper
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  Speaker 8: hand right now. If they win tonight, it could be Milwaukee-Cleveland.
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  Speaker 8: In what a friend of ours termed The insurance series. Yes,
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  Speaker 8: shout out to the Neils. Guardians played at Progressive Field
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  Speaker 8: and the Brewers played at American Family Insurance Park. And
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  Speaker 8: I don't know there's anything parallels between Tropicana. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: if it was still Miller Park and it was Tropicana Field,
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  Speaker 8: we'd have, like, beverages.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the thing, Tropicana has had their, you know... they're
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  Speaker 7: they're carved out in the orange juice industry for many
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  Speaker 7: years but there was florida's natural and there was uh
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  Speaker 7: like sun kissed for a while what about uh the
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  Speaker 7: simply natural one so maybe if it's the orange juice
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  Speaker 7: wars i don't really know not really i really have
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  Speaker 7: no preference i will say this tampa was definitely the
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  Speaker 7: better team this year but that doesn't mean they're playing
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  Speaker 7: better right now i mean it's kind of in that
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  Speaker 7: sense a toss-up i i haven't looked deep in there
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  Speaker 7: like you know matchup rotation you know kate smith's really
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  Speaker 7: good obviously over there and uh cleveland that's a factor
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  Speaker 7: rasmussen there's drew rasmussen he's been up and down anyway
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  Speaker 7: in the playoffs i don't know i you know i
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  Speaker 7: agree with you i think if there's any preference now
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  Speaker 7: it's just based on your personal like opinion about where
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  Speaker 7: you want to travel to or if you want to
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  Speaker 7: try and travel or who you want to see or
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  Speaker 7: it is interesting though because outdoor games to indoor cleveland
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  Speaker 7: you got to deal with weather weather is a fact
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  Speaker 7: i covered a world series in cleveland that was a
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  Speaker 7: tough world series when it was cleveland and florida 97.
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  Speaker 2: It was a hard one to pack for.
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  Speaker 6: Very.
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  Speaker 8: And I remember standing on the field during BP in
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  Speaker 8: Cleveland at what was then Jacobs Field. And the snow, like,
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  Speaker 8: snow was coming down. And it was kind of that wet,
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  Speaker 8: sleety snow. It didn't accumulate at all.
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  Speaker 2: Wintry mix, as our friends say.
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  Speaker 8: It was the wintry mix. And it was like, oh,
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  Speaker 8: my goodness. And it was like, they're going to play
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  Speaker 8: in a snowstorm.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 8: And it started to, like, you could see it, like,
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  Speaker 8: on the cage. It was on the batting cage. It
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  Speaker 8: was starting to... A little bit.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Edgar Renteria and Alfonseca and all those young Marlins.
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  Speaker 7: I remember had like the sleeves and the neck sleeves
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  Speaker 7: and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Then we went to Florida. It was 85 degrees.
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  Speaker 2: Ivan Hernandez. Then you went to South Florida.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy.
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  Speaker 7: It was a crazy series. And, you know, obviously that's
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  Speaker 7: one that goes down. But yeah, I mean, you would
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  Speaker 7: have the outdoor factor there. Obviously in Tampa, you have two,
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  Speaker 7: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Indoor teams. Brewers could be indoor.
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  Speaker 7: And, you know, two teams that could have ceiling obstruction,
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  Speaker 7: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: That's like a new thing now.
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  Speaker 8: The roof in Tampa, that's not an easy place to
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  Speaker 8: play if you're not used to it.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say this, though.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's just, you know, what everyone's talking about
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  Speaker 7: now is ticket prices. I think if Tampa wins this
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  Speaker 7: series and they're down 2-1, you're definitely going to see
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  Speaker 7: that thing be an AmFam South. I really believe a
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  Speaker 7: lot of fans would try and travel to Tampa. They
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  Speaker 7: already do it for the Packers. Travel to Tampa. Tickets
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  Speaker 7: are easy to get. There are going to be so
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  Speaker 7: many fans, Brewer fans, in Tampa the way we're hungry
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  Speaker 7: for it. So that part might be good if you
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  Speaker 7: had Tampa, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And, yeah, Cleveland, the tickets are more expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Right, obviously, yes. You have that factor. The way the
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  Speaker 2: ticket market's going right now, it's about.
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  Speaker 7: Twice the price in milwaukee as cleveland and then it's
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  Speaker 7: half that in tampa that makes sense what i just all.
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  Speaker 8: Right so armin um we finished the thursday night huddle
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  Speaker 8: at potawatomi and we all headed to our respective domiciles
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  Speaker 8: to watch the game and i thought well this would
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  Speaker 8: be a cool thing to watch i do like watching
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  Speaker 8: games at home like but there's also something to be
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  Speaker 8: said for being in the crowd 16 000 people went
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  Speaker 8: to american family field to watch the game on tv
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  Speaker 8: which is Unfathomable when you think about... We used to
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  Speaker 8: go to games in County Stadium when there weren't 16,000
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  Speaker 8: people in the ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: For a game. Pretty awesome. And a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: I knew were there. A lot of people asked, are
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  Speaker 2: you here?
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  Speaker 4: Did you have FOMO at all?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit. A little bit.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I knew I was comfortable being home. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I had to be home for different reasons, obviously.
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  Speaker 7: But I was comfortable being home because... I could, you know,
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  Speaker 7: these big games and you're a neurotic sports fan like me,
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  Speaker 7: you kind of want to watch it in a controlled environment,
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  Speaker 7: but obviously looking back, knowing what would have happened, it
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  Speaker 7: would have been nice to be there in the crowd
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  Speaker 7: for that moment. And the Brewers did a good job
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  Speaker 7: with it. 15 bucks, but 10 of it was a
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  Speaker 7: concession credit. So basically $ 5. So it would have been
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  Speaker 7: nice to be there, but I was, I was kind
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  Speaker 7: of happy to be able to pace around, charge my
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  Speaker 7: phone and, Talk through it with myself and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of a weirdo like that.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But it would have been cool to be there.
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  Speaker 8: Let me ask you this because it is, this is
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  Speaker 8: the second time in this run, the Brewers have clinched
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  Speaker 8: and celebrated on the road. Are you hoping that trend
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  Speaker 8: does not continue? Because that would mean they'd have to
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  Speaker 8: clinch in game six.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: In Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 4: That means they'd lose two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And I think it'd be sort of, Naive of me
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  Speaker 7: to think we're just going to go sweep again because
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  Speaker 7: we just swept the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: A lot had to go right. A lot had to go.
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  Speaker 2: You had to play well.
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  Speaker 7: Had to come back every game. So if I had a,
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  Speaker 7: you know, we have never won the World Series. The
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  Speaker 7: Brewers drew, right? And that's what we want. So I'm
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  Speaker 7: never going to sit there and say, I hope we
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  Speaker 7: lose tonight so we can come back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm never, ever going to do that. Not that guy.
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  Speaker 7: First and foremost, you want to win the World Series.
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  Speaker 7: Would it be nice to win it at home? Yes,
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  Speaker 7: if I could play God. Would it be nice to
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  Speaker 7: lose two games there?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: So you don't want to look at it that way.
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  Speaker 7: So first and foremost, number one, most important thing is
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  Speaker 7: that the Brewers win.
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  Speaker 2: It'll feel great either way.
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  Speaker 7: Would it be a magical moment to watch that dog
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  Speaker 7: pile at American Family Field? Obviously, it would be the
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  Speaker 7: stuff of dreams. It would lift us to the heavens.
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  Speaker 7: But to your point, it would be a scarier situation.
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  Speaker 7: But I assume we're going to sweep again, right? That
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  Speaker 7: would be a little naive. I would like to see,
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  Speaker 7: this is a silly fan thing in me, and Tom
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  Speaker 7: even brought it up, I would like to see one
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  Speaker 7: epic dog pile celebration.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have those in baseball as much anymore. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what it is. Now, I'm hoping for a
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  Speaker 2: World Series. You'll see it. We did see a little
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  Speaker 2: bit from our outfielders. They had a big group hug.
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  Speaker 4: Some of it, Armin, I mean, you got to think
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  Speaker 4: about it logistically.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Like I do. Some of it is, how does the
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  Speaker 4: game end? A line drive to the gap that has snared.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 2: A strikeout.
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  Speaker 4: You dog pile on the pitcher. A walk-off hit. The
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  Speaker 4: guy who got the hit.
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  Speaker 2: Gets it.
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  Speaker 8: Or the guy who scores the winning run gets it
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  Speaker 8: when he scores.
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  Speaker 2: It's usually how it ends. That's a good point. So
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  Speaker 2: a pop-up and a fly-out are the two best.
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  Speaker 7: Ways because usually the catch and then everyone goes to
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  Speaker 7: the middle.
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  Speaker 2: But if it's a strikeout, do you hug the pitcher?
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  Speaker 2: How do you do it?
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  Speaker 4: You saw Contreras. No one went to the mound.
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  Speaker 8: Contreras went to his knees and then went out and
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  Speaker 8: kind of hugged Ashby.
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  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: With the outfield embrace. They embraced.
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  Speaker 7: And then the guys got together from the bench when
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  Speaker 7: the bullpen jumps on.
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  Speaker 8: It did look like Fox was trying to find somebody
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  Speaker 8: going nuts.
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  Speaker 4: They showed Bowers. He's just smiling and kind of jogging in.
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  Speaker 7: It was. It really felt like they expected to do that.
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  Speaker 8: But it's also what Jake Bowers said after the game
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  Speaker 8: was that what stood out to him last year, he said,
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  Speaker 8: I don't know if anybody else noticed it, but the
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  Speaker 8: Dodgers were very kind of ho-hum when they beat them
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  Speaker 8: when they swept them last year.
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  Speaker 7: That's the first thing he told the panel. So he's like,
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  Speaker 7: we have more to do. Our job is bigger. We're
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  Speaker 7: going to enjoy it, obviously, but our job is bigger.
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  Speaker 7: And that's, I think, how they really think of it,
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  Speaker 7: and they wanted to carry themselves in that situation.
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  Speaker 8: They were able to drop the hammer a little bit
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  Speaker 8: with the party because they don't have to play for
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  Speaker 8: a week.
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  Speaker 4: And I had people ask me, are they flying home tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, because.
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  Speaker 8: Nobody took, nobody was packed as confident as they may
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  Speaker 8: have been going into last night with Shane Drone pitching
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  Speaker 8: in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Like they, you don't, cause there's a chance you might
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  Speaker 8: play another game. So if you win, you're going to
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  Speaker 8: celebrate and stay in LA and have, they had the
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  Speaker 8: party probably at the hotel.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And the other thing is they didn't need to, it
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  Speaker 7: wasn't like they had a game the next day here
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  Speaker 7: and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So they knew they had plenty of time to get back.
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  Speaker 7: No reason to rush it.
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  Speaker 4: They were going to fly.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: They had to change their flight cause they, you know,
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  Speaker 8: the plans were to play all the games, but. So
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  Speaker 8: they were able to enjoy themselves and, you know, get
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  Speaker 8: as hammered as they wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: And still flatten it.
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  Speaker 8: Now they've navigated this layoff before, but there have been
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  Speaker 8: teams hurt by this layoff. I'm thinking about the year
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  Speaker 8: that Detroit made the World Series and had a layoff
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  Speaker 8: and waited and St.
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  Speaker 4: Louis clubbed them.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard. Is that correlation? Is that causation?
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  Speaker 4: That's just it.
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  Speaker 8: But the Brewers can rest their bullpen, get everybody sharp again.
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  Speaker 7: We're a team that relies on pitching. So I think
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  Speaker 7: it's great to have rest for your arms.
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  Speaker 8: Brewers have navigated this before, though, because they did it
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  Speaker 8: last year. They did it this year. I mean, they
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  Speaker 8: didn't hurt them. They won the first two against San Diego.
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  Speaker 8: They won the first two against Chicago last year after
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  Speaker 8: a laugh.
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  Speaker 4: So they have some familiarity with the concept.
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  Speaker 8: Of what it takes to get ready to play, but
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  Speaker 8: it is, it is unusual and maybe not ideal to
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  Speaker 8: have a week off, but.
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  Speaker 2: A week is a long time.
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  Speaker 4: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, those wondering, and I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 7: ask me cause I track these flights, um, but they
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  Speaker 7: are coming back now as we speak, uh, they, the
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  Speaker 7: team or whoever scheduled it, I had mercy on them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, to, to leave at 1130 Pacific time.
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  Speaker 7: So they got time to sleep a little bit or
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  Speaker 7: at least get some rest or some downtime to get ready.
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  Speaker 7: They're flying two planes. Drew, they do that in the
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  Speaker 7: playoffs a lot, family and family and team.
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  Speaker 2: So the, One bird is right behind the other, and
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  Speaker 2: they're on their way home.
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  Speaker 7: The first one's going to land probably, it looks like
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  Speaker 7: about 420, and the second one, 520. So one's just
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  Speaker 7: chasing the other. 420, how opportune. 420, how opportune, and
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  Speaker 7: we're right at that time. 420 is the time that
• 13:48
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  Speaker 7: Now, Abner was smoking one yesterday a lot in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 7: That was great in the post-game celebration. That was just
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  Speaker 3: A cigar, yes.
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  Speaker 7: But he was enjoying it a little bit and putting
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  Speaker 8: we talked to Tom Hardicourt earlier, and he's kind of
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: the brewer's historian. He's written several books about the brewers,
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: and it's just a great resource of a guy who
• 14:55
  Speaker 8: covered Robin Yount, you know, and Paul Molitor.
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  Speaker 6: Indeed.
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: Indeed.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: And he goes all the way back because he started
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: in 85.
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: He wasn't around for the World Series, but he has
• 15:04
  Speaker 8: a lot of Brewers institutional knowledge. Another buddy who I
• 15:07
  Speaker 8: was corresponding with is my pal Dan Needles, Rain Man,
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: who was the sports director for many, many years at
• 15:14
  Speaker 8: WISN 12 here in Milwaukee. And he just pointed out,
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: and this is a good one for you, Armin, because
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: it's one of those Armin facts.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: My favorites, yes.
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: Hard to believe, considering the Packers are the most successful
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: pro sports franchise in Wisconsin. But of the state's big three,
• 15:30
  Speaker 8: Green Bay now has the longest drought since playing for
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: the championship.
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and it doesn't even feel that long because we
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: think of it as in our recent memory, but it
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: has been 15, 16 years.
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: 2011 was the year that they, and that was the
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: 2010 season. And of course, the Bucs won it in 2021,
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: and now the Brewers are playing for the championship in 2026.
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: Well, you could look at this two ways. I choose
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: to look at it as a very positive. Our longest
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: drought now is only 15 years. What a wonderful renaissance.
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: What halcyon days that we've enjoyed here. The glory days,
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: as Bruce said, you know.
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: And it almost, the way it times out is that,
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: you know, the Packers went to 2011, won the Super Bowl.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Ten years later, the Bucs won.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Yep, exactly. In five years, maybe? In five years.
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: So it goes in increments and we're shaving it a
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: little bit. I'll take it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: I mean, the generation that now growing up, let's say
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: you're a teenager or a little older, you're blessed to
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: have seen all those.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe you weren't as much in consciousness, but
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: in your 20s, if you were.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: You're a YouTube guy.
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: I have no memory of the Bucs winning their first
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: championship against the Bullets, other than I heard the record
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: of Eddie Doucette's call when they won and stuff.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: There's not a lot of video of that. No, I
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: think I did watch something on YouTube. It was a
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: game four or post game with ABC where Oscar is
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: coming in with Kareem and it was pretty awesome. And
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: this image of Johnny Mac getting up on the bench
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: and cheering after they swept. So there is some of
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: that on YouTube, but you know, the NBA is interesting
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: because you think so much about Celtics Lakers in late
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: sixties and early seventies and, and then the memory of
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: the eighties NBA with Lakers Celtics and kind of, you know,
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: reviving things and all that. But the bucks were dominant
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: in that early seventies, mid seventies where, You know, there
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: wasn't as much fanfare around it, but those do exist
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: on YouTube.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: But that would be the only one.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: I mean, there was obviously a lot more, I think
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: there's a lot more documentation, so to speak, of like
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: the ice pole, for instance, and Super Bowl I and
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: Super Bowl II, even though those were a few years
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: before the Bucs' first championship. But you don't hear about
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: the Bucs' 71 title, or you don't see it as much.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: It's not as revered an American sport as those first
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: early Super Bowls.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Didn't have those guys back for the 50th anniversary when.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: It would have been nice to have Johnny Mac's been around.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, that would have been nice, you know, obviously.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: And Kareem's been around sometimes.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, you're right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: But what a blessing now to have the Brewers in
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: the World Series to snap that drought, that it's real,
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: it's true, it happened.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: And we're sitting here talking about it in a sweep.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Because there were moments, you know, early on that even
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: the most optimistic and faithful of us thought it was
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: going to be hard to come back down 4-0, when
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: it seemed like the Dodgers had the momentum after Otani
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: inexplicably pimped a homer. I don't care. Listen, he's got
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: to get his team fired up. He's had a long drought.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: I'm sure it was cathartic for him, but it was
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: a little bit like, wow.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's really.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Don't be the celebration police, Armand. You're bigger than that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: No, I was just surprised to see it, but it was...
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: It wasn't over, okay, at that point. But he needed
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: to fire his team up. Got no problem with it,
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: just like I had no problem with Abner celebrating in
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: the sixth.
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was going to say, when Wild Bill pimps
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: a home run for 35 seconds around the bases, you
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: can't really fault Otani.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: No, I just usually.
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: He felt like he'd climbed a mountain because he's been
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: stumbling around. That's the point, right. He's been in the
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: desert and he found a lake of fresh drinking water.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: He's just like Abner when you expect it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't expect it because he's so demure usually.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: That tells you how much he's been struggling and how much, yeah, how.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Much it meant.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: It's shown to me how desperate they were for a
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: moment actually. And they were, and they had it and
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: it didn't last long.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Thankfully they got pounded. The brewers took it to him.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: The brewers were the better team and it wasn't close
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: just as it wasn't close when the Dodgers swept the brewers,
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: you know.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: You're bludgeoning them. You're bludgeoning them to death with small hits,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: with small cuts, with small hits.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: They hit seven homers in four games.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: I'm talking about the moments, though, taking pitches, taking walks,
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: a stolen base, just the boa constricting.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: It was all that, though, but the seven homers were
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: also the difference.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: The biggest difference, and I'm glad we point that out
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: because so many people want to make it a narrative
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: about small ball or not.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You still need to slow down. in the playoffs to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: be successful. You do. And the brewers did it at
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the most opportune times.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: You do.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: And, and the home runs Murph always likes to say,
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: home runs are thrown, not hit. And, and, And to
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: bolster that case, it's the long at-bats and the pressure
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: of base runners and all that stuff.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Fighting back to full counts, getting pitches to hit, those
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: type of things. Yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: That's the bowl constrictor part of it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: And moving runners because, again, when you get a guy,
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: I had someone, I was talking about how.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Big Churio's productive outs were.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: When he was 0 for 5, but he twice moved
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: Hamilton from second to third and Hamilton scored. And some
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: nozzle on X is like, well, Hamilton could have scored
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: from second on that hit.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's not the point.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: Having him on third, pitchers are less likely to try
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: to spike a breaking ball because they don't want a
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: wild pitch, and it changes their approach to everything.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the stress is different. The stress is different.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Plus, if it's less than two outs, you can score
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: on a fly ball and any number of ways that
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: are outs, you can score. That's, again, why I've dialed
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: back on social media because I don't need to argue
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: with people who, you know, There was one guy.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I retweeted that. That's what Twitter, that's what it's about.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: I retweeted a stat about, there was a stat from
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: OptiStats or something about Robert Gasser being the first rookie
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: to do this.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: And this guy's like, he's not a rookie.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, he is.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Sure, he debuted a couple, he pitched like two games
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: one year and four games the next, and then he
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: got hurt. But he didn't cross the threshold of appearances
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: or service time. So he was still eligible this year
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: for rookie of the year. The guy's like, well, I
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: don't care about that. Well, okay, you do you, but
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: he was a rookie.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: You don't care about being wrong. A rookie, yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: Well, Drew, those are the type of fans and people
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: on social media that you just say, what are you high?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Those are the ones.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, those are the ones.
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  Speaker 8: voice of the Packers. He joins us next. Packers playing
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Sunday Night Football. They've got the stage to themselves now, thankfully.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: And we'll talk to Wayne next.
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  Speaker 4: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 6: Back on the huddle.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. It's Drew and Armin today. Billy
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Schmidt is off attending a wedding. in Rhinelander and we
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: are happy to be joined by the.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Voice of the Packers and our good friend Wayne Larrabee
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Wayne great to see you and um we're going to
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: talk Packers in a second but first I want to
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: get your reaction to the Brewers going to the World.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Series uh it's awesome Drew I'm telling you I was
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: watching last night Otani hits that three run homer I'm
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: thinking well They've got two, three to make one anyway.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: So let's go.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: And I figured they'd be on to the next game,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: but boy, that team just kept coming back. And I
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: think that game personified the way they played the entire season.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: They just keep coming at you. They keep putting the
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: ball in play. Doesn't really matter what you've done. You
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: might be leading by three or four runs. They're going
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: to keep coming at you. And the beauty of it
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: is they put the ball in play. And actually in
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: this series, they out Homer the Dodgers, if I'm not mistaken.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Is that true?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: They did seven to one.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, I mean, they can play the long ball.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: We're all wondering, you know, on a podcast, you and
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: I were talking about, hey, can they hit enough home
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: runs in the postseason? Well, they hit enough home runs.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: It's going to be interesting. It's just so great for Milwaukee. And,
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: you know, my friends on the Brewers are those broadcasters,
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: you know, and I'm just really happy for them.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: It's fantastic. And, Wayne, we avoided the conflict.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: The fact that it's not coming back for a game six,
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: we avoided a head-to-head conflict on Sunday night with your
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: broadcast and.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: The Brewers' broadcast.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: It would have been at the same time. We don't
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: have that now.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: But so many thoughts raced through my head last night,
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: including Commissioner Selig. When the Packers first started doing family
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: night on Saturday night, Commissioner Selig came up to me
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: at Hardcore in the press box, and he's like, they
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: drew 50,000 people to watch a practice game? And Tom said, yeah, bud,
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: that's more than you're going to draw all weekend.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez. And there's room for everything. Everybody's got bandwidth.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: But the competition here for eyeballs is real in the
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: current landscape.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: And obviously these games can coexist.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: But I thought it was fascinating that we avoided that
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: dilemma of people like.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: What am I going to watch?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: And what am I going to listen to? And how
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: do I consume both games at the same time?
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: You know what I was thinking though, Drew, if there
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: was a conflict, if the two teams are playing at
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: the same time, you know, I'm just thinking about all
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: the people in, uh, uh, M-Fam Field, who would have
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: had probably transistor radios listening to the Packers while they're
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: watching the Brewers game.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: That would have been interesting to gauge. That's right.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: They would have listened to you and Larry Moore. That
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: would have been great. For sure.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: And yeah, people looking down and watching it on their phones.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: And well, I covered the Brewers when they were bad.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: And on Sunday home games, you'd hear cheers going up randomly.
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: It's like, oh, the Packers must have scored again because
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: we didn't know. You're watching a baseball game and all
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: of a sudden the crowd is cheering and going crazy.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: And it's like, oh, that's something.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: What a phenomenon.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: What a time.
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: Wayne, the lead story right now is that Josh Jacobs
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: has been removed from the exemplist. We were wondering when
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: this is going to happen. We got word from New
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: York today. And he will be, after this game, removed
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: from the exemplist. What do you think that means? And
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: when will he return? He has to get back to practice.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: He's been working out. But what is the immediate future
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: hold for Josh Jacobs?
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's interesting, Drew, because I read the
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: article in The Athletic. Matt Schneidman, the outstanding reporter, had
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: the article there. And it mentioned that, okay, he's coming
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: off the exempt list, but it didn't say that he'd
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: be able to play. And then I read Brian McIntyre's
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: statement from the NFL office. He'll be eligible to play
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: in the Detroit game. But he also mentioned... The investigation
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: is ongoing by the league, and so they could make
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: a ruling. It led me to believe that, okay, Josh
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: could come back, play a game or two, and then
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: the league makes its determination and decides how many games
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: he's suspended for. Now, he has served six games. That's
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the code of rule. that they use for domestic issues,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: that it's usually six games.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: But it could be more. I don't know. But I
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: do know this.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Apparently, from what the league office said, he's going to
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: be eligible to return to the roster and practice on
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: the 19th of October. So, yeah, technically, he'd be able
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: to play in the Detroit game.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Do they want to bring him back on turf? Is
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: that a consideration?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Is it easier?
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: Could they bring him back and only give him 10 carries?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: We talk about it with offensive linemen, the way they're.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: Bringing Zeitler in kind of slowly and the way they're
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: working guys in and guys coming off injury.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: And Micah Parsons is a guy that we've been watching
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: and things like that.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: So you've talked about it, and it's something that has
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: hit with me throughout this fall is players can come back,
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: but they're not back until they've actually had time to acclimate.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: And we're seeing it with Devontae Wyatt and Tucker Kraft.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: that now they're getting back to where they were before
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: their injuries. Does Josh Jacobs come in and is he
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: Josh Jacobs right away or does it take a ramp up?
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: I think you would have to have him on a
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: pitch count. And I mean, a pretty significant low pitch count,
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: I would think, if he comes back. And, you know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: you mentioned Detroit and I've said this and I've started
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: to hear other people talk about it as well. That
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: might be one of the last places you'd want to
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: bring an injured player back or a player who hasn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: played much back because, It seems like every time the
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: Packers go to Detroit, they lose a player or two.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: And it's not just a hamstring and he's going to
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: be out two or three weeks. No, it's usually a
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: season-ending injury. This is where Wyatt went down last year.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: They lost a number of players in years past on
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: this particular field.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know why, but I do know this.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Detroit annually is one of the most injured teams in
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: the field, in the league, and they play on that
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: field every week.
• 27:58
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  Speaker 8: Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Concrete Coatings. All right, Wayne,
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: while all of us have been paying attention to baseball,
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: you've been doing that as well as preparing to broadcast
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: a Cowboys game.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: What have you seen from the Cowboys? Is this game
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: going to be the shootout that people expect?
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: What are the guys with the star on their helmet
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: bringing to the party on Sunday night?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're bringing a really good offense and an offensive
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: line that just got Tyler Smith, their left guard back,
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: and he's a big key to the running game for them.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: They haven't run the football very well, but they have
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: an excellent running back in Javante Williams, and people are
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: perplexed as to why they haven't run the ball well.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: I can tell you why the Packers haven't run the
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: ball well. They haven't had Josh Jacobs. Well, the Cowboys
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: have had their 1,200-yard rusher, and they still haven't run
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: the ball well. Part of it is the injury factor
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: on the offensive line. So, you know, Tyler Smith is back.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: He came back last week. He should be better even
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: this week. And their offensive line is one of the
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: better lines in the league. Now, where they have made
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: their money this year has been in the passing game
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: of those two great wide receivers. And we're going to
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: see the two best tandems of wide receivers in pro
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: football today, at least if you believe statistics, okay? Matthew
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: Golden and Christian Watson lead in a number of yards
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: by a combination of wide receivers on the same team.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: Right behind them, not very far behind them, are the
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Cowboys tandem of CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens. So this
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: could be just, I mean, for Sunday night football, under
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: the lights and all that, if the weather's good, this
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: could be a heck of a shootout.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: And they seem inconsistent to me i mean there's always
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: great players in the cowboys but why they can't string
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: together the the consistent performance is probably perplexing for them
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: and a lot of cowboys fans wayne it's hard to
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: know what to expect from them week to.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Week yeah you know i was at packers practice today
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: and the nbc crew was there mike terrico chris collinsworth And,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: you know, it's interesting because the Cowboys have talent on defense,
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: but that's where they've really struggled, Armin, in all factors
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: of defense. And you're sitting here saying, how are they
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: struggling against the run? Kenny Clark's a heck of a player.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: Quinn and Williams is even better, especially against the run.
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: How are they struggling against the run? Now, in the corners,
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: you know, the cornerbacks, they've had injuries at safety. They've
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: had injuries defensively. in their secondary. That's been a big factor. But,
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm struggling with the figure. I think the
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Cowboys are better defensively than they played. Now, whether they
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: play that way on Sunday night, who knows? It's a
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: week to week league, but I do know this, they've
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: had extra time and they are the healthier team coming
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: into this game.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: They are the healthier team. Keyshawn Nixon was on the
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: injury report.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: He's back.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: He hasn't missed many games since in his time with
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: the Bears. He's not going to miss this one.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: What about Brandon Cisse, though? I'm a little leery about
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: his availability.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: No, I think, Drew, he'll be fine. He'll be starting
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: as well in that regard. Now, Jonathan Ford is not
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: going to play. He's been ruled out. They're down to,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: I think, four defensive linemen or tackles. And they came
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: into the scene. They kept seven of those guys. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: thank God they did, you know, because now they're down to,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: you know, the basics. But at any rate, you know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: I think the Packers off of that Bears game, we're
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: all hoping that that might be the watershed that, as
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: you mentioned, in a way that may be the turning
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: point of the season that really sparks a run for
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: the Packers.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: And it would have to start with this game against Dallas.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: But the Cowboys guys going into the season, they had
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: high hopes, too. And to be two and three right now,
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: coming off a disappointing loss at home to a team
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: that was winless going into Texas Stadium or AT &
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: T Stadium, they're certainly looking to turn that around.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: A lot of people expect this game to be close.
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: I know Las Vegas does as well. And in close games, Wayne,
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: sometimes field goal kickers can be the difference. If you're
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: looking at Trace Mack, what's your level of confidence after
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: last week? He bounced back from tough times in camp
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: and looked fine. Was that a blip on the radar,
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: or are there some potholes in the road?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, we'll see.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, this game will tell us a lot about
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: where Trey Smack is at. I have told you before,
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: and we saw it during camp, I think the mental
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: aspect of that kid, I think he's got the makeup.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: That's the thing I would have to say. He has
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: the makeup to survive down times. And he went through
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: a little patch. He left seven points on the board
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: against the Bears. Didn't matter in the outcome of the game.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: but certainly matters in his psyche. And that's something to
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: keep an eye on this weekend. Now, on the other hand,
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: we're also talking about this at practice. And Matt LaFleur
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: is talking about this in his press conference. And by
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: the way, Matt had a Brewers cap on at his
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: press conference today. Had a great statement about the Brewers
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: and how much he admires the organization.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: He could call Murph coach, but, you know, that's a
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: football coach.
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Murph's a manager. We all know that. We knew what
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: he was talking about. So I didn't correct him. Not
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: that I'm allowed to. But no, I mean, Brandon Aubrey.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: Indoors, in good conditions, you get the ball to the,
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: I don't know, 45-yard line of your opponent, maybe. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: he can line up a 63-yarder and pop it through
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: like most people hit 30-yard field goals. So he's a
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: huge weapon in the kicking game, in the field position game.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: And that's what Matt mentioned today. So this is going
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: to be a field position game this weekend. Now, other conditions,
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: whether it's cold, windy, that kind of thing, the wind
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: was whipping. I mean, it had to be a three
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: and a half club wind today at practice. And so,
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: you know, that can have a factor as to whether
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: Aubrey is the weapon that he could be. But if
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: it's calm, if it's nice and Lambeau Field on Sunday night,
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Brandon Aubrey is a huge weapon. The other factor this
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: game and And I think somebody mentioned it to Matt
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: earlier at his press conference, and that is, you know,
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: this is going to be a field position game, but
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: it's also going to be a ball control game. You
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: want your offense on the field. You want to give
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: Dallas as few reps as you possibly can because that's
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: an explosive offense that can score from anywhere on the field.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: On the way out, you mentioned field position, and we
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: were just getting used to having Sky Moore providing a
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: boost in field position and starting yard lines for drives.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: What does his absence do to the Packers?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it has an impact. There's no doubt.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: You know, Bo Melton will do the kick returning, I
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: would imagine, and maybe the punt returning as well, although
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: they like Matthew Golden returning punts.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: We'll see. I don't know. I wouldn't risk him back there.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: I thought about that, too.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: Personally, I wouldn't, but, you know, they feel that explosiveness
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: he has that maybe he can make a play as
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: a punt returner, but We'll see how it works out
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: and what they decide to do in that regard. But
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: missing Sky Moore, boy. And Drew, he's been everything we
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: had hoped he would be. The advantage he gives them
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: in the kicking game. And the Packers also have some
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: of their offense. And now with Jaden Reed out, a
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: lot of what Jaden Reed was going to do in
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: the Packers offense, Sky Moore is being prepped to do
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: that kind of stuff. And now he's down for a
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: week or two. So that has an impact on both
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: the special teams and the offense.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I wondered about that.
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: We were just getting used to how refreshing it was
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: to have good field position to start a drive because
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: they just didn't get anything out of the return game
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: in recent years.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: And now it's taken away.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: We had this nice toy and it was taken away, Wayne.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, come on. Come on. What did we do wrong, Drew?
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: We're just getting used to this. It's going to be
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: a fun night.
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: I'm looking forward to Sunday night.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: It's a good matchup. Always a lot of juice.
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: There was a lot of juice in the building for
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: the Bears game, and the Packers provided a lot of
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: that by jumping out ahead.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: There's going to be some juice always with the Cowboys.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: Always.
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: When Jerry Jones is in the building, there's always juice.
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: There's always animosity and juice. It's going to be great
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: to watch this. Wayne, have a great weekend. We'll see
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: you Sunday night.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: You got it, guys. Take care. See you Sunday.
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: Wayne Larrabee, the voice of the Packers, joining us, brought
• 36:15
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• 36:21
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• 36:25
  Speaker 8: will join us for next week.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exciting. Another Wayne date.
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: Sometimes we get a treat like that, and it sure
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: is a treat, so I'm excited for that one.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: It is a total treat that I get to be
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: on the Beyond the Booth podcast with Wayne Larrabee. on
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: a regular basis.
• 36:39
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• 36:41
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• 36:44
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• 36:47
  Speaker 8: dropped some bombs about the, about the playoffs coming up.
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: And it was like, he actually, he's always on point.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: He always nails it. And Andrew Brandt is always a treat.
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: So come and join us for the beyond the booth podcast.
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: When we come back, we're going to close up shop.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: Time flies when you're having a good time and it's
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: good times right now in Wisconsin. for sports fans, for
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: Brewers fans, for everybody. People are high-fiving total strangers. It's
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: an Armin Sarian type of time. It's my type of time, man.
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: High-fiving strangers, hugging and talking.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: And I'm working the Admirals. I'm at the Admirals game hosting.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: I'm hugging anybody that wants.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: To hug me.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Go see Oktoberfest.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: Are you wearing like a Lederhosen or are you just
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: going to wear a normal Admirals jersey? I told Greeny
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: and Woj, I will wear whatever you want me to wear,
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: but I don't know if they have something for me.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I've got my Admirals jersey ready because it's the first
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: one I wore.
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: But I'll do it. Is it okay if I bet
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: against you in the Steinholding contest?
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: Absolutely. Actually, you know what? I'm not even going to
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: let me participate, Drew. Yeah, well, you'll be calling the action.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: You'll be holding a microphone.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Right, that's what I'm going to be doing.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, good.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: We'll be back to close up shop next.
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Drew and Armin taking you to the finish line on
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: a Friday in the Goodlands. Last Minute Words, 877-794-1973.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Do we have a favorite text of the day? Did
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: anybody give you one?
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: Any spitting any bars there on the NicoletLaw.com talking text line?
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: We've just had so many wonderful ones. It's hard to
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: get them all in.
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: Great day to be alive in the state of Wisconsin,
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: says Tristan, obviously. What's more surprising, said James Caprellian. that
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: the Brewers, one of these swept and demolished the Dodgers
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: in four Armenian power for sure. James, you're not the
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: James Capone that pitched for the A's, are you?
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: I was surprised that they swept. I believe we could win.
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: But the sweep was pretty impressive, Drew. I mean, that's
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: probably one we'll always remember. And then David wanted a
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Jeff Juden story. You have one for a minute?
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: Just the famous one of him playing with KB's band,
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: KB's Midlife Crisis on the stage at Summerfest.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: And he was.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: strumming his guitar and rocking out but he wasn't plugged.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: In yeah i like that that's that was a great
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: one um tristan wants us to be able to exercise
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: our demons from the seattle 2014 nut punch starting i
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: mean i don't think anything will ever stab that wound
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: but it'd be sure sure help to get our own
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: championship here uh in town so that'd be pretty good.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah i mean that of course he's referring to as
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: a championship. Yeah.
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: As, as again, noted historian, Dan needles pointed out that
• 39:37
  Speaker 8: no matter who plays in the world series, it will
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: be a franchise that changed names.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Pilots to brewers, Indians to guardians, uh, And Devil Rays
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: to Rays.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: And that's a great point. Although they still wear those throwbacks.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: They do.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: And then obviously the Brewers, one of two teams now
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: to win the pennant in both leagues.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Astros being the other one.
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: So there you go. It's true.
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: I hate to relegate it to this, and I don't
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: want to piss anybody off because we love our listeners
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: in the 608.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Shout out, Madison.
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: But we haven't spoken a lot this week because of
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: the Brewers about a huge matchup at the Rose Bowl Saturday.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: With the Badgers playing the Bruins. The winner of that game,
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: some say, is going to wake up on Sunday morning
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: and tell themselves they have a chance to make the
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: college football playoff.
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's a position I don't think many Badgers
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: fans expected to be in. So I think everything's turning
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: up right now in our sports landscape.
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: And then the Badgers coming off their bye. UCLA's coming
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: off a nice win at Oregon.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: And then.
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: The next week, up against game two of the World Series,
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: the Badgers will be playing USC in a primetime game.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, and that'll be another big one.
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: So we haven't forgotten about Badger football, and it's still
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: a going concern, and it could get even spicier. There's
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: something about it, Armin. I don't know if you buy
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: into this theory. You probably do. That winning is contagious.
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: And not only within a franchise, but within a city
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: and a market, like, oh, all of a sudden our
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: teams are good again. And it's like, saw it happen
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: with the Badgers back in the early 90s and the Packers, right?
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: The kind of dovetailed. Yeah, I think the idea of
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: it's great. Does it always work? Maybe not, but I
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: think there is something, you know.
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: You saw in the Brewers Ascension coupled with the Giannis
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: arrival in Ascension, right?
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: You're seeing LeFleur wear the hat today. The Brewers hat.
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: I mean, everyone is sort of rooting for each other.
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: Moving times and stuff like that. It's cool to see
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: us unite. That's what we do all around these parts.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: We unite.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: We commune. We're a community where we gather. We like
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: to help each other out.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: We do.
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: It's been a great week. I mean, I don't know, like,
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: Last night was so joyous. And you think about the
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: agonizing moments.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: We've gone through as a market. Last night was so
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: joyous that it seems like a month ago that we
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: were at Pottawatomie. It was last night for the Thursday
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Night Huddle.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Hard to believe.
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: I know everybody had a hard time sleeping last night, right?
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: Because it was like you just had to stay on.
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: And I stayed until the bitter end of the Fox
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: Sports 1 coverage. Those moments, you have to soak in
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: every moment you can, Drew.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: You do.
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: Indeed.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: It was epic. It was epic.
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: And it's only going to get better. Sunday night football.
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: We'll be back at it Monday at 2. Talking Brewers,
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: talking Packers, Cowboys, talking Badgers.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: We're going to have some fun. We'll see you then.
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: Peace.