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04/13/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Director Chris McIntosh is leaving his post immediately to take
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Speaker 1: a newly created position in the Big Ten office. McIntosh's
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Speaker 1: five year run mixed success in some sports but failures
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Speaker 1: in the catalyst of college athletics football well the finest
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Speaker 1: tenure football program, General manager Marcus Sidbury becomes the interim
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Speaker 1: ad until the successor is named. What could have been
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Speaker 1: McIntosh's final achievement came up just short on the ice
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Speaker 1: one night before the Badgers in the National Championship game
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Speaker 1: at the Frozen Four, they lose to Juggernaut Denver two
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Speaker 1: to one. Moving on to golf, history made of the Masters,
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Speaker 1: Rory McElroy hangs on to become just the fourth repeat
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Speaker 1: champion at Augusta National. To basketball, the Bucks season comes
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Speaker 1: to a merciful end. They lose to the seventy six
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Speaker 1: Ers one twenty six to one oh six. Doc Rivers
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Speaker 1: done as Buck's head coach, and then the struggling Brewers.
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Speaker 1: They get swept by the Nationals at American Family Field
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Speaker 1: eight to six. The final hour of the Huddle starts. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Russell on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: Go this morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the Huddle.
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Speaker 3: I'm all four from one huddling. If you have some
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Speaker 3: in the same.
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Speaker 4: Right in two, It's time to wake up and talk
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Speaker 4: about the teams you love.
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Speaker 2: With the guys you love.
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Speaker 2: I need you, you need me today, Let's keep touching
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Speaker 3: we smell each other for half.
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Speaker 2: Now gather around because it's time to huddle up. West
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Speaker 2: Leftlott we think we watch stick on one ready to
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Speaker 2: learn from Well, if it looks like man covered, I'll check.
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Speaker 2: cutting prat red light eighteen Bob on one ready, cut
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Speaker 2: them me quick.
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Speaker 3: You'll look at this play.
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Speaker 1: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 1: a seal here, and to try to run this play
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Speaker 1: in the alley.
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Speaker 3: Let's all let's go on kicking.
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Speaker 6: Track from.
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Speaker 4: Doing what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: God yeah, and make it play right all the way outside?
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Speaker 2: Why left banks three ninety thick bag be hen see
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Speaker 2: talk is not long enough for you watch it to
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Speaker 2: be party of professional.
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Speaker 1: It's a great professional out there and playing this ball
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Speaker 1: game like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 2: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 2: Armand Sorry Ready, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 5: Bill Schmid, armand Sarian.
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Speaker 7: Come on now, Big Monday whenever we are able to
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Speaker 7: get game balls and kicks to the balls in here.
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Speaker 7: But also it's a huge Monday when it marks the
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Speaker 7: return of armand Sarian and yes that he's not lost
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Speaker 7: on us on it's good to be back Postmasters Monday.
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Speaker 7: Where in the tradition, unlike any other generally speaking, when
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Speaker 7: Arman returns from any length of absence, Drew, he'll play
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Speaker 7: like Mac macis Bagley. He'll find a way to tribute
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Speaker 7: himself in the return. Yeah, I was waiting for you
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Speaker 7: to hit Return of the Mac to be able to
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Speaker 7: celebrate the fact that you are back into the saddle again.
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Speaker 3: Maybe some aerosmith.
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Speaker 7: I did think there would be a tribute to yourself
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Speaker 7: coming back is generally that's a staple.
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Speaker 6: Well, when I came back after Lena was born, I
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Speaker 6: did have a long, long U master I.
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Speaker 3: Think it was four minutes long. But you know, this
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Speaker 3: is a little different. It's just a week vacation.
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Speaker 6: I mean everyone, we've all got a week vacation right
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Speaker 6: now and then, so I don't think this this should
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Speaker 6: be as much of a call for a long masterpiece
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Speaker 6: like that it has been the past. Yeah that's true,
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Speaker 6: Billy maybe uh but you know, maybe return of the
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Speaker 6: Mac at some point. But the reality is so much
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Speaker 6: has happened this weekend in local sports. I mean, we
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Speaker 6: have so many stories going on that it's just been
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Speaker 6: a chalk full day. So maybe I can fit one
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Speaker 6: of those things in at some point. That's nice of
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Speaker 6: you to let the news of the week.
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Speaker 3: It's a big of you. It's rather mature. I don't
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Speaker 3: want to.
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Speaker 6: Think I main character syndrome, and I'm hoping I don't,
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Speaker 6: but you know, maybe sometimes that does come.
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Speaker 3: In there into play a little bit.
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Speaker 5: So game balls and kicks eight seven seven seven nine
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Speaker 5: seven three if you would like to weigh and who's
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Speaker 5: the next Bucks coach? And who's the next Badger's ad?
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Speaker 5: Those are the two big stories yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, clearly the two biggest ones. Now the AD.
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Speaker 7: I got more of an idea at least two people
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Speaker 7: would want for the AD than Buck's coach because Jamie
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Speaker 7: Poler's name has just been flying around now he's the
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Speaker 7: current AD at Iowa State. Obviously they've had a tumultuous
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Speaker 7: year or so with how many guys have well one
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Speaker 7: guy left, and everyone wants to get t j Ozilberger
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Speaker 7: out of there. Now he's committed uh in a new
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Speaker 7: deal to to coaching the team next year. Pollard has
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Speaker 7: had a difficult run where like they've had mentions of
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Speaker 7: possibly having to shut down certain sports and talked about
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Speaker 7: the the ever changing NIL landscape being very very difficult
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Speaker 7: to names. So maybe that would be a possibilities. So
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Speaker 7: it Wisconsin native, Wisconsin alum. It would be a good name.
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Speaker 7: So I feel like that's the name that I've heard first.
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Speaker 7: Drew on who people want, because let's be honest, we
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Speaker 7: want to clearly identify who people want. We're coming up
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Speaker 7: on draft season. We want to know who people want,
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Speaker 7: so then you know exactly who it won't be. You
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Speaker 7: want to know who the consensus is on what people
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Speaker 7: are hoping for, because then you can pivot to know
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Speaker 7: that it'll.
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Speaker 3: Be optioned, be or see it never is it's never
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Speaker 3: the guy you think. It's never Cooper Degen. Yeah, never
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Speaker 3: Cooper Degen.
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Speaker 5: Indeed, Jamie Pollard from Oshkosh, he's a titan uw Oshkosh.
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Speaker 5: He has been at Iowa State for like twenty five
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Speaker 5: years after being the number two guy behind Alvarez for
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Speaker 5: several years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for a long time.
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Speaker 5: Now, you guys, I don't know how much longer he
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Speaker 5: wants to work or if he's settled in names and
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Speaker 5: doesn't want to come back. Does he want to, like
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Speaker 5: at age sixty one, do you want to take one
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Speaker 5: last challenge and one last swing at being finishing up
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Speaker 5: at Madison?
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Speaker 3: Maybe? Maybe?
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Speaker 7: And again it then becomes do you want to have where?
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Speaker 7: Where do you want your last legacy to be?
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Speaker 6: There?
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Speaker 7: There's a lot of people that love him in ames
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Speaker 7: Iowa under rightfully, so then there's also that like seemingly
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Speaker 7: had some Matt Campbell syndrome to it was like, yeah,
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Speaker 7: well we'll see what else we can do, right, We'll
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Speaker 7: see what else we could possibly.
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Speaker 5: Ret heiberg tj Ottzenburger. Matt Campbell got like one hundred
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Speaker 5: and fifty million dollars worth of renovations of the facilities.
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Speaker 7: He's had quite a run there, a really really good run,
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Speaker 7: and it would be that would be a last grab.
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Speaker 7: The other thing is like this then becomes when when
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Speaker 7: you start hiring for one of these positions you do
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Speaker 7: it when it's men's basketball or football, when you start
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Speaker 7: identifying and these teams and universities a lot of times
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Speaker 7: have maybe a dose of reality. Like Penn State was
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Speaker 7: one now coincidentally, so that was where Matt Campbell left
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Speaker 7: Iowa State to go to, was Penn State. But I
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Speaker 7: mean Penn State thought, sweet, we're just gonna hire kurtz Signetty,
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Speaker 7: it'll be awesome. He's like, well, no, actually have a
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Speaker 7: team that's going to go to the national championship, so
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Speaker 7: you can kick rocks. And then they had to kick
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Speaker 7: down five, six, seven different candidates and them all get
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Speaker 7: extensions before you go, so you can always shoot for
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Speaker 7: the moon and people. It's one of my favorite statements
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Speaker 7: is make this guy say no. Well, then you do,
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Speaker 7: and then you have to restart the entire list. That's
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Speaker 7: gonna be a tough one.
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Speaker 3: To be able to calibrate.
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Speaker 6: And it does become humbling for those groups, those fan bases,
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Speaker 6: those alumni bases, those brain trust presidents, ads, what have you.
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Speaker 3: When they are said no, they do get said no
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Speaker 3: to eight nine times.
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Speaker 6: And then it's like, okay, well, not only we're knocketting
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Speaker 6: the guy we thought we wanted, we had to settle
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Speaker 6: on somebody, convince ourselves this is the guy we're happy
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Speaker 6: with getting while emotionally processing the processing that we are
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Speaker 6: who we thought we were, and that is hard for
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Speaker 6: a lot of organizations. So it is going to be
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Speaker 6: interesting to see what happens in the next steps here
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Speaker 6: in the next regard for the Badgers and for that,
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Speaker 6: you know, for that matter, for the Bucks and all
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Speaker 6: these different changes that are going to be made, because
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Speaker 6: this is what we mentioned earlier in the show, this
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Speaker 6: is a totally new college landscape. This is a totally
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Speaker 6: new job. You know, ad is not the ad job
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Speaker 6: that it was even five, ten, twenty years ago. Obviously,
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Speaker 6: it's a fundraising job now and you have to be
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Speaker 6: able to manage all that and continuously feed the nil
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Speaker 6: beast because that's what that's what people want. And as
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Speaker 6: much as I hear fans say the system is a mess,
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Speaker 6: the system is broken, guys are asking for too much
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Speaker 6: in the portal, Well, that's gonna happen until people stop
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Speaker 6: caring about winning, because that's what it's about. I mean,
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Speaker 6: if you want to win, you're gonna have to get players,
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Speaker 6: and you're gonna have to compete. And I'll tell you
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Speaker 6: right now, people aren't gonna stop caring about winning. So
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Speaker 6: that's just the reality of the situation. So it's gonna
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Speaker 6: be interesting to see because it's a whole whole new
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Speaker 6: landscape of a job now in college sports.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not lying about that, arman.
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Speaker 7: It is one of those things that until people tell
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Speaker 7: me that winning the most games and winning titles and
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Speaker 7: making sure that we look better than them and it
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Speaker 7: not being a big measuring contest with your university drew,
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Speaker 7: until I believe that that's no longer the case in
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Speaker 7: college sports, then that job won't be what it is.
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Speaker 6: But it is.
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Speaker 7: It's a fundraising gig and you have to be able
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Speaker 7: to bark up the right trees. But let's also as
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Speaker 7: much as the four and eight record is a is
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Speaker 7: a part of it, no doubt about it, McIntosh is
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Speaker 7: leaving it a little bit better than just if it
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Speaker 7: was in the middle of October last year. Right like
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Speaker 7: they did just get the bill passed by Governor Evers.
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Speaker 7: They're in the process of building the uh the Kelender
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Speaker 7: Center in the new athletic facility, so it's starting to move.
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Speaker 7: But then it goes all right, Now, if the wheels
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Speaker 7: are in motion, you better keep them things rolling and
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Speaker 7: be able to get this thing up the hill because
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Speaker 7: it is a high heel to climb in a big
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Speaker 7: ten that is only going to be more funded. You're
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Speaker 7: in ander and he did leave a lot of the
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Speaker 7: sports in better shape. The problem is the biggest and
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Speaker 7: obviously most important one. Football is important one. Yeah, is
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Speaker 7: the issue right now? It's the engine.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, game, balls and kicks eight seven seven seven three,
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Speaker 5: Dan and west Man, how about Brian Butch for the
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Speaker 5: new Bucks coach?
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Speaker 3: Hit that bell?
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Speaker 5: Come on now again, game mister sweat equity?
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Speaker 3: How good that would be a just be amazing to
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Speaker 3: see Butcher on the sideline.
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Speaker 7: He knows the team he's doing the Lockdown Bucks podcast
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Speaker 7: after the game he is and if.
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Speaker 3: That happens, I want to see him bring a suit
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Speaker 3: back to the sidelines. Come on, let's go a total
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Speaker 3: track suit.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh yeah, you kidding me. He's going right
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Speaker 6: to the quarter zip. That's a right question.
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Speaker 5: Kick to the balls and we don't really need this
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Speaker 5: twin because it happens all the year. In the stand
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Speaker 5: up for can kick to the Balls to Cancer, claiming
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Speaker 5: two of the best guys I've come across in sports
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Speaker 5: Henry Mason, longtime Badger's receivers coach, huge impact on the players,
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Speaker 5: beloved by everybody. He's a little bit like the Howard
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Speaker 5: Moore of the football side perfect so it was beloved
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Speaker 5: and he was such a big glue guy for the
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Speaker 5: program for years. Guys who came into contact with him
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Speaker 5: loved him. Like I mentioned, I had him as a
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Speaker 5: weekly guest on a radio show for a while and uh,
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Speaker 5: just one of the nicest guys. And Phil Garner, Yeah,
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Speaker 5: both to coming to cancer. And gar was special man
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Speaker 5: because my first major league beat was covering him. And
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Speaker 5: you the impact that the first guy has on you
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Speaker 5: in the relationship you have with a manager. And he
11:06
Speaker 5: helped me so much as a reporter, taught me about
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Speaker 5: baseball every day conversations we would have, and he was
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Speaker 5: a bit of a visionary. I was telling Billy some
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Speaker 5: of his ideas and tell you the kind of guy
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Speaker 5: that Phil was. We have so many stories where it
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Speaker 5: was just, you know, they didn't win a lot, but
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Speaker 5: he was good natured and they played hard.
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Speaker 3: They did the best they could. He knew it was.
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Speaker 5: You know, he's playing freshman against varsity.
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Speaker 3: A lot of times.
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Speaker 5: You knew the problems that the job has. Though, yes
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Speaker 5: he knew it, and a couple of times he let
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Speaker 5: it get to him. There's probably a famous I don't
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Speaker 5: know if Doug or like Les Grobstein's archives have the
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Speaker 5: tape of him at Wrigley with the Albert bleeping Bell story.
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Speaker 5: Not Albert Bell hitting Fernando Vina. Different, no different. It
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Speaker 5: was like we had spent the pregame and Hardcourt was
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Speaker 5: beating him up because like your roster is messed up.
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Speaker 5: You have like you have more catchers than outfielders right
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Speaker 5: now in your roster. What are you guys doing, Like
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Speaker 5: you're gonna get hung out and you're gonna be a
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Speaker 5: player short and it's going to be brutal. And he's like,
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Speaker 5: we got good players in that day at Wrigley, the
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Speaker 5: Brus had a chance to win and they had, uh,
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Speaker 5: you know, guys on base against rod Beck and the
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Speaker 5: only guy that had left was a rookie Todd Dunn
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Speaker 5: to pinch it, and Todd Dun struck out on some bugs.
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Speaker 5: Bunny change ups from rod Beck and Hardercore comes down
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Speaker 5: and like afterwards he's like, see, I told you I
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Speaker 5: couldn't wait to hit him, Like the first question, like, see,
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Speaker 5: I told you your roster are screwed up and you
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Speaker 5: were gonna get hung out, and the guards just like,
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Speaker 5: you know, Tom, you know, he said, you know, don't
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Speaker 5: you think I'd like to have Albert bleeping Bell up
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Speaker 5: in the ninth inning with the game on the line. Well,
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Speaker 5: I don't have Albert bleeping Bell. I'm not going to
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Speaker 5: get Albert bleeping Bell, and Albert bleeping Bell is not
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Speaker 5: gonna be part of our team and it's not going
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Speaker 5: to bleeping change, So stop asking me about the ross.
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Speaker 3: And everybody's like freaking out.
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Speaker 5: But this is like the discourse would seem heated, and
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Speaker 5: he had this reputation of being scrap iron.
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Speaker 3: But it was all with love. That for sure.
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Speaker 5: It's like almost sometimes for comedic effect.
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Speaker 7: There's an understanding and where you're able to have the
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Speaker 7: personality of a person and a human being in the
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Speaker 7: job he allowed himself.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like to be a human A lot of times.
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Speaker 5: I was the only guy on the road during that
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Speaker 5: I was the only guy who traveled, and so I'd
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Speaker 5: be waiting outside the clubhouse with a bunch of AP
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Speaker 5: stringers and like they'd be like, what's Garner going to
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Speaker 5: be like after a loss like that. I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 5: you just wait, and we'd be standing outside. In one night,
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Speaker 5: it was really a long lockout, like they're making a
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Speaker 5: player move or something, and there was no PR guy
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Speaker 5: and then we're waiting. I'm looking at my watch like
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Speaker 5: this is longer than usual, What the hell's going on?
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Speaker 5: And then gar comes out and he's eating a spare,
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Speaker 5: he's getting a rib. But he's like, let these fine people,
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Speaker 5: the fourth of State in, they got a job to do.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, guys, I apologize for the weight. Come on,
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Speaker 5: and he let us in, and the PR guy didn't
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Speaker 5: let us in. Gar came and I'm like, yeah, that's
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Speaker 5: what it's.
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Speaker 3: Going to be like.
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Speaker 5: And the guy's like, oh good, I thought it was you.
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Speaker 5: I was nervous guys guys like that. Gar lived in Houston,
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Speaker 5: where he played at the end of his playing career,
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Speaker 5: and he was a big ambassador for Houston. He loved
13:44
Speaker 5: it there. And when the Brewers played there an inter league,
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Speaker 5: I'm work hanging out the Astrodome and it's a getaway
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Speaker 5: day and their team's flying home and he's like, Hey,
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Speaker 5: what's your deal. What are you doing after the game?
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Speaker 5: I said, well, I got time. My flights out of
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Speaker 5: Bush Airport and I'm gonna finish my story and find
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Speaker 5: a place to have dinner and take my rental car
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Speaker 5: back and go to the airport and I'm gonna kill
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Speaker 5: like five hours. Or He's like, well, that's dumb because
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Speaker 5: when you just go to my place, like he fishes
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Speaker 5: his keys out, He's like, it stop my place.
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Speaker 3: There's nobody there. I'm laying out there.
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Speaker 5: It's twenty minutes from the airport. You can go to
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Speaker 5: my house and chill out. His house keys, he can
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Speaker 5: give me his house. He's like, nobody's home, Carol, and
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Speaker 5: the kids are gone, Like you can just go there
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Speaker 5: and hang out and just relax at my place and
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Speaker 5: just bring me the keys tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, go, I appreciate that, but I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to your freaking house.
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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna walk into Somebody might think that I'm
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Speaker 5: breaking in or something, but I'm not gonna like walk
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Speaker 5: around and snoop through you.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to your house.
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Speaker 5: He like, he insisted. He was like mad that I
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Speaker 5: didn't take his keys.
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Speaker 2: Like why would you not?
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Speaker 3: My house isn't good enough.
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Speaker 5: For you, That's that's all good. He lived in Kingwood,
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Speaker 5: and he was I'm like, no, no, that's okay. I
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Speaker 5: appreciate the offer though, and that was that was one
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Speaker 5: of his finer moments. That's the kind of dude he was.
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Speaker 6: That's incredible. I mean, how many people are gonna give it,
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Speaker 6: especially the manager to.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to your house, dude. He was like
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Speaker 5: offender that I didn't do it. So we got to
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Speaker 5: know his family. Uh really just a great kids, great family.
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Speaker 5: His daughter worked at Harley Davidson and spent the summer
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Speaker 5: here as an intern, and we had it was such
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Speaker 5: a good relationship, like.
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Speaker 3: You'll never be like that again.
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Speaker 5: You'll never have that and the coaches are so guarded
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Speaker 5: now I'm trying to think.
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Speaker 3: Of who there's such a fear of the information.
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Speaker 5: Was like a you know, a go to guy. I mean,
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Speaker 5: Ron Wolf would return everybody's calls, but it was it
15:30
Speaker 5: was professional and that was probably the closest thing.
15:34
Speaker 6: To your point, Billy, A fear of being open in
15:36
Speaker 6: some ways, we get the closest we can get, maybe
15:39
Speaker 6: is what we have with Murph. Now, Murph's open and
15:41
Speaker 6: he's pretty gregarious with media. I don't know what tells that,
15:44
Speaker 6: but that's probably as close as you'll get now, right
15:46
Speaker 6: to it.
15:47
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's such a fear of any information getting out
15:50
Speaker 7: or but there's also just like you know, Garthend played
15:54
Speaker 7: in an era where you lived a common life right now,
15:57
Speaker 7: obviously you were you were an uncommon individual as a
16:00
Speaker 7: pro athlete, but you were able to live a normal life.
16:03
Speaker 7: Now the way that certain players and you know, managers
16:07
Speaker 7: who ended up playing started living in a little bit
16:09
Speaker 7: more of that time, you just have grown up a
16:11
Speaker 7: totally different way. There's a casual nature of just being
16:14
Speaker 7: a human being that has kind of escaped us from
16:19
Speaker 7: a lot of years. And there's just that there's something
16:21
Speaker 7: special to knowing and hearing about him as a player
16:25
Speaker 7: and as a manager. He feels like the number like
16:28
Speaker 7: the greatest calling card to he could relate to every
16:31
Speaker 7: single human being in the locker room because you allowed
16:33
Speaker 7: yourself to be in all of their shoes, and anybody, all,
16:37
Speaker 7: anybody ever wants to be is respected. And when you
16:40
Speaker 7: can respect everyone's time the same as the best player
16:42
Speaker 7: on the team to the local beat guy who's working
16:45
Speaker 7: his first job on the newspaper.
16:46
Speaker 3: That just shows the quality of a guy you end up. Yeah.
16:49
Speaker 5: He was another time Burson playing Detroit, another getaway game,
16:52
Speaker 5: and I had a tight flight on this one.
16:54
Speaker 3: I had to leave Tiger Stadium.
16:55
Speaker 5: Was an afternoon getaway game, middle of the week, and
16:57
Speaker 5: I got to get to the airport so I can
16:58
Speaker 5: get home and to the old Tiger Stadium. The dugouts
17:02
Speaker 5: were sunken and you were like you were kind of
17:05
Speaker 5: looking up and it was really weird. You're almost like
17:07
Speaker 5: below ground level, and they let the grass grow along
17:10
Speaker 5: so it was actually hard to like see and stuff.
17:11
Speaker 5: It was like being in a duck blind. I mean
17:13
Speaker 5: it was very hard. It was a weird view, the
17:15
Speaker 5: weird layout. And during this game, I was pitching them
17:20
Speaker 5: as always spent a lot of my time pitching about
17:22
Speaker 5: the time of game and the pace of play.
17:23
Speaker 3: This is pre pitch clock and gone.
17:26
Speaker 5: And there's a ball hit to the Brewers left fielder
17:29
Speaker 5: and it's a shoe top thing, and the umpire called
17:31
Speaker 5: it a trap and the base and gar goes jogging
17:34
Speaker 5: out there and talks to him for a little bit.
17:35
Speaker 3: I'm just like, what do you do? You're killing me?
17:37
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
17:39
Speaker 5: And like there's no way you could see from the
17:41
Speaker 5: out in the grass, Like there's no way you could see.
17:44
Speaker 3: And so immediately I'm downstairs my car. You're killing me.
17:48
Speaker 5: I got a tight flight out of here. What are
17:49
Speaker 5: you doing arguing that call? He goes, Oh, mister smarty pants,
17:52
Speaker 5: you think I was arguing the call. I'm like, no, yeah,
17:55
Speaker 5: of course you went out there. You delayed the game
17:57
Speaker 5: for a couple of minutes.
17:58
Speaker 3: What the hell? He said. I wasn't arguing at all.
18:01
Speaker 5: I went out there because it was a hot day
18:04
Speaker 5: and it's like eighty five ninety degrees and he's like,
18:05
Speaker 5: as a hot day, and the third base Empire and
18:07
Speaker 5: I think it was like Jim Joyce or something ran
18:10
Speaker 5: out and was in position to make call, hustled out there.
18:13
Speaker 5: He goes, I went out there to congratulate the empire
18:16
Speaker 5: and say I appreciated him hustling and making a call.
18:18
Speaker 3: I couldn't see it. I told him I didn't see it,
18:20
Speaker 3: but I.
18:20
Speaker 5: Said, I appreciate because you busted your ass down there
18:22
Speaker 5: and got out there and made a call. And he's
18:24
Speaker 5: like he was trying to curry favor with the guy
18:26
Speaker 5: for a trip, you.
18:26
Speaker 3: Know, try to help the next time.
18:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he's like, I was out there and I
18:30
Speaker 5: was applauding him and saying good job for the hustle.
18:33
Speaker 5: And I'm like, well, it looked like I said, it
18:35
Speaker 5: looked like you were addressing him down and arguing, goes, Well,
18:38
Speaker 5: it might have looked like that, but that's not what
18:39
Speaker 5: I did. And I'm like and I'm like, oh, well,
18:42
Speaker 5: either way, you're killing me on time again.
18:44
Speaker 3: What are you doing? Well?
18:45
Speaker 7: You choose now when I'm on a tight flight out
18:47
Speaker 7: of here, that good guy, Phil.
18:50
Speaker 6: You know, you always felt like even though the Brewers
18:53
Speaker 6: seems in the nineties weren't winning, you know, weren't winning
18:58
Speaker 6: enough and weren't didn't have the rec as you wanted, right,
19:00
Speaker 6: couldn't get to five hundred after ninety two. You always
19:03
Speaker 6: felt like they were well managed. At least that's how
19:04
Speaker 6: it felt like to me when Gardner was the manager
19:06
Speaker 6: in the nineties. You always felt like this team was
19:08
Speaker 6: well managed. He knew baseball, he was a good leader.
19:11
Speaker 6: They just didn't have a talent, you know. I always
19:13
Speaker 6: felt that way, at least for me as a young
19:15
Speaker 6: as a young boy growing up watching the Brewers in
19:17
Speaker 6: that era, my formative years in the nineties, and you
19:20
Speaker 6: always remember the ninety two year, his first year, what
19:23
Speaker 6: he could do if he had that talented type of team,
19:25
Speaker 6: you know, and he did have that guy.
19:26
Speaker 3: Kyle Aldred was the miss that year.
19:28
Speaker 6: All those guys, right, yes, Dash, Rookie of the Year,
19:30
Speaker 6: the great staff, Matyors last year, Robin you Allonslow had
19:34
Speaker 6: a good year, so in Darryl Hamilton was a young guy.
19:36
Speaker 6: Lits Dash, So it was pretty Vaughn. It's pretty interesting
19:39
Speaker 6: to think about that. He was a good, you know,
19:42
Speaker 6: good baseball The.
19:42
Speaker 5: Other one also in Detroit, last weekend of the season,
19:46
Speaker 5: Brewers are going nowhere. It's the last weekend of the season,
19:48
Speaker 5: so it's like the ultimate getaway weekend and It's a Friday,
19:51
Speaker 5: first game of the series in Detroit, and I walked
19:53
Speaker 5: in the clubhouse and I could tell something was off.
19:55
Speaker 5: You get these spidey sense of something's going on, somebody
19:57
Speaker 5: get somebody, get sent out, like the last weekend. What
20:00
Speaker 5: could happen? I could something was going on. I could
20:02
Speaker 5: feel it in the air. Like didn't find out. I
20:06
Speaker 5: asked some of my go to guys, what's going on here?
20:08
Speaker 5: I got nothing for you, man, can't nothing? All right, Well,
20:11
Speaker 5: that's weird. Go up to the press box after the availability.
20:13
Speaker 5: It's an hour before the game. Phone rings in the
20:15
Speaker 5: press box. Drew Wilsome call. So I go down to
20:18
Speaker 5: the pr guy's phone.
20:19
Speaker 3: It'say.
20:20
Speaker 5: I figure it's my wife from my desk calling me
20:23
Speaker 5: something important, something, some something going on. Hey, Drew, it's car.
20:27
Speaker 5: Come on back down here, will you?
20:29
Speaker 6: What?
20:30
Speaker 3: All right?
20:31
Speaker 1: All right?
20:31
Speaker 5: So I come on back down and the security guards
20:34
Speaker 5: outside the clubhouse and the guy goes, are you Drew? Yeah,
20:36
Speaker 5: they're waiting for you. Go to Gar's office. Just walk
20:38
Speaker 5: right through, you know, don't go to where the team is,
20:41
Speaker 5: but go right to Gars.
20:42
Speaker 3: Off.
20:42
Speaker 5: Go to Gar's office and he's got their new left fielder,
20:45
Speaker 5: acquired in the trade that year Mark Newfield with.
20:47
Speaker 3: Newfield of Dreams.
20:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he said, yeah, hey, Drew. Just so you know,
20:52
Speaker 5: Mark was arrested this afternoon. One of his friends sent
20:57
Speaker 5: him some marijuana in the mail. He was arrested for.
21:00
Speaker 5: He had half ounce of marijuana FedEx to him and
21:02
Speaker 5: the dog sniffed it out at the airport and the
21:05
Speaker 5: and the Feds came and he was arrested. And he's
21:08
Speaker 5: not going to have any comment for you now, but
21:10
Speaker 5: I just wanted you to know this. And just like
21:12
Speaker 5: you know, he's laid it out. And so before they game,
21:14
Speaker 5: so I'm like, holy cow, like this is a big story.
21:17
Speaker 5: It's like the and so he told me this, and
21:21
Speaker 5: I spent that I barely watched a pitch of the game.
21:23
Speaker 5: I'm calling the Wayne County Sheriff and I'm finding out
21:25
Speaker 5: what happened in the particulars and I'm writing basically a
21:27
Speaker 5: crime story. And this, you know, and this was a
21:30
Speaker 5: guy that they there was a centerpiece of a trade
21:32
Speaker 5: for Greg Vaughan. And he hit seven homers and just
21:34
Speaker 5: like listence, he had arrived and he was going to
21:37
Speaker 5: be the left fielder of the future. And like now,
21:39
Speaker 5: you look back and you kind of laugh weed in
21:40
Speaker 5: a half ount in the mail too, especially since it's
21:43
Speaker 5: legal in Detroit.
21:44
Speaker 3: Now yeah, no Michigan. But he did that.
21:47
Speaker 5: Guards did that, and he didn't check with PR anybody.
21:49
Speaker 5: He's just like, the last weekend of the year, we
21:51
Speaker 5: got one beat guy and he knew that Friday. He's
21:55
Speaker 5: like the Saturday paper. Not many people read or buy
21:57
Speaker 5: this Saturday paper. He's like, if we do that this way,
22:00
Speaker 5: it'll be a one day story and it'll be done.
22:02
Speaker 5: And if we don't and he finds out like through
22:05
Speaker 5: you know, the police reporters in Detroit, it's going to
22:07
Speaker 5: be way worse.
22:08
Speaker 3: And he did that on his own.
22:09
Speaker 5: He had the PR sense to do that, and management
22:13
Speaker 5: wasn't especially thrilled until he explained like his reasoning for it.
22:17
Speaker 3: They were like, oh, you should't have stone Wall. You
22:18
Speaker 3: shouldn't told him. He might not have gotten out. And
22:19
Speaker 3: it's like, it's gonna get out. People are gonna find out, yes, say.
22:22
Speaker 5: Milwaukee Brewers outfielder, and somebody somewhere is gonna whether it's
22:25
Speaker 5: a TV station or radio station, ap, somebody's gonna find it.
22:28
Speaker 5: So we might as well get out in front of it,
22:30
Speaker 5: and that was a great PR instinct. Yeah, so when
22:32
Speaker 5: I talked to like PR class and stuff, that was
22:34
Speaker 5: a great instinct on his part, like make it a
22:36
Speaker 5: one day story, get a mark, move past it. He
22:38
Speaker 5: did his community service all that. Now, Newfield flamed out
22:42
Speaker 5: for other reasons other.
22:43
Speaker 7: Than than that, other than more packages, getting the cars
22:46
Speaker 7: instinct and you know, baseball and crisis.
22:49
Speaker 5: PR in that moment he made the call told me,
22:52
Speaker 5: he's like, we got one guy on the beat and like,
22:53
Speaker 5: it'll be a one day story. He read the room,
22:56
Speaker 5: he read the rooms. He's like, because it would have
22:58
Speaker 5: been worse. You know, it's crazy, how honest he can
23:01
Speaker 5: generally make things a little bit better. Exactly, he knew
23:04
Speaker 5: he read that, and he knew and that was the
23:06
Speaker 5: right thing to do.
23:06
Speaker 7: You're a hundred and well he's one hundred percent true,
23:08
Speaker 7: and let's make this a one day story and then
23:10
Speaker 7: instead of a four day story in the middle of
23:12
Speaker 7: the off season when the only thing that people can
23:14
Speaker 7: be talking about the Brewers is our guy getting arrested.
23:16
Speaker 3: Exactly. That is really really smart and truly.
23:19
Speaker 7: Ahead of his time, even like the baseball things that
23:21
Speaker 7: you've told me about, and how he saw the game,
23:23
Speaker 7: his belief in where it was going. I mean, that's yeah, impressive,
23:27
Speaker 7: impressive baseball.
23:27
Speaker 5: Life question, no question. Great uh, great guy, great ambassador.
23:31
Speaker 5: And again he does deserve a lot of credit.
23:32
Speaker 3: I know George p.
23:33
Speaker 5: Tax the guy that people think, but Gark carried a
23:35
Speaker 5: lot of water and he was the face of it
23:37
Speaker 5: and he made people realize that.
23:39
Speaker 3: He like, he's not.
23:40
Speaker 5: Good now, but we're getting better. And in order to
23:42
Speaker 5: be where we want to be, we got to have
23:43
Speaker 5: a stadium. He was the messenger for that.
23:46
Speaker 7: I was gonna say, you want to talk about, don't
23:47
Speaker 7: shoot the messenger. He was the one that had to
23:49
Speaker 7: send that pigeon around a lot of different times.
23:52
Speaker 3: Yep, it was amazing.
23:52
Speaker 5: All right, when we come back, we'll talk about the
23:54
Speaker 5: Brewers current travails with our pal Hunter bomb Guard.
23:56
Speaker 3: He's going to join us.
23:57
Speaker 5: Oh, the injuries are piling up early here and the
24:00
Speaker 5: Brewers are in a bad way right now. Day off today,
24:03
Speaker 5: Toronto coming in on Tuesday, Hunter bombguardt is next. You're
24:06
Speaker 5: in the huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin and Drew billion
24:17
Speaker 5: arm and bringing it to you the Huddle Fox Sports
24:19
Speaker 5: Radio Wisconsin. Happy to be joined by our pal Hunter
24:23
Speaker 5: Bombguart live up early on this Monday after a disappointing
24:28
Speaker 5: Brewers weekend in the Wisco Jerseys.
24:30
Speaker 3: Good morning, Hunter, good morning.
24:32
Speaker 4: Yes, it was a tough weekend at the ballpark despite
24:36
Speaker 4: the Wisco Jerseys, or maybe some people are saying because.
24:39
Speaker 7: Of the potentially because of right into that beautiful sunset camp.
24:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was interesting because there, oh, yeah, who
24:49
Speaker 5: can breakdowns in every area like you had Trevor McGill
24:55
Speaker 5: and the PfP Brewers pride themselves on, you know, defense,
24:59
Speaker 5: and that was leaky with mcguil on Friday night and
25:02
Speaker 5: then they didn't do much after the first sitting offensively
25:05
Speaker 5: in that game.
25:06
Speaker 3: And then Saturday just kind of didn't hit at all.
25:08
Speaker 5: Nothing, And then Sunday they hit and didn't pitch out
25:10
Speaker 5: of the bullpen, which has been their strength, and it
25:12
Speaker 5: was a bad time for a hiccups. So they're in
25:13
Speaker 5: like bad team syndrome right now, where whatever part of
25:16
Speaker 5: the game they need to be strong is faltering. So Hunter,
25:20
Speaker 5: where are you with this series? What does it mean
25:22
Speaker 5: in the big picture and what will it take for
25:24
Speaker 5: the Brewers to write the ship.
25:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, the first ten games compared to the last five
25:30
Speaker 4: are just incredibly different. I mean, you had one air
25:33
Speaker 4: through the first twelve games. You have six airs in
25:36
Speaker 4: the last three. Your bullpen isn't you know? You have Serpa,
25:40
Speaker 4: Uribe and McGill who are kind of set up to
25:43
Speaker 4: be your seven eight nine guys all have over five
25:45
Speaker 4: eras McGill's era sitting at eleven plus. And I get
25:49
Speaker 4: it we're still early in those numbers, but they tell something, right,
25:51
Speaker 4: They tell some sort of story.
25:54
Speaker 2: And then, of course, like you said.
25:55
Speaker 4: The offense went from the hot, one of the hottest,
25:57
Speaker 4: if not the hottest in the league through ten games
26:01
Speaker 4: to basically nothing, and now you have the injuries piling
26:05
Speaker 4: up as well. It's just been very uncharacteristic of the Brewers.
26:09
Speaker 4: You're seeing kind of the Nationals did to the Brewers,
26:12
Speaker 4: or the Brewers have done to so many opponents over
26:14
Speaker 4: the last couple of years. And it just is if
26:17
Speaker 4: the Brewers would have went, you know, maybe five hundred
26:19
Speaker 4: over the first ten games, if they went five and
26:21
Speaker 4: five and then went on a five game losing streak,
26:22
Speaker 4: obviously there'd be more panic because they'd be like five
26:25
Speaker 4: and ten or something like that.
26:26
Speaker 2: But this is just it's just puzzling because of how
26:30
Speaker 2: well the.
26:31
Speaker 3: First ten games went.
26:32
Speaker 2: Now can they how can they improve?
26:34
Speaker 4: It's going to take some guys obviously coming back, but
26:37
Speaker 4: also yeah, they're just going to need to play better
26:40
Speaker 4: baseball in every facet of the game, it seems right now.
26:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, Murph did say they came out lackluster after the
26:45
Speaker 5: series in Boston and the day off, that they never
26:47
Speaker 5: really didn't show much spark on Friday night and that
26:50
Speaker 5: set the tone for the weekend. The Nationals battled them.
26:52
Speaker 5: But unter you mentioned it, the Orthopedic Associates of Wisconsin
26:56
Speaker 5: injury report is getting long, and Yelich might be added
26:59
Speaker 5: to it, and baseball is so every day that you've
27:02
Speaker 5: sometimes discount. Oh yeah, they're playing without Churio and von
27:04
Speaker 5: two guys who hit in the top five of the
27:06
Speaker 5: order and bring some offense, especially right handers against lefties.
27:09
Speaker 5: Now Yelich might be down for a while with a hammy.
27:13
Speaker 5: That's that's not looking good. So, Hunter, if you could
27:15
Speaker 5: give us the Cliff's notes on Burr's injuries, starting with
27:19
Speaker 5: Yelich and then descending into the guys that are on
27:21
Speaker 5: the comeback trail.
27:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're just waiting word on Christian Yelich, and it's
27:26
Speaker 4: not you know, it didn't sound great when Pat Murphy
27:28
Speaker 4: says we're awaiting some bad news or expecting it, you know,
27:32
Speaker 4: doesn't sound like it's going to be good news. On
27:33
Speaker 4: Christian Yelich. He felt the hamstring twins wanted to stay
27:36
Speaker 4: in the game. But you know, Murph's like, at April
27:38
Speaker 4: twelveth we're not gonna they're not going to have his
27:40
Speaker 4: stay in the game at this point in the season.
27:42
Speaker 4: Get you healthy, get you checked out. So that's what
27:45
Speaker 4: he's doing there. We got some good news on Harrison
27:47
Speaker 4: and Sprout. It doesn't seem like they're injuries both from
27:50
Speaker 4: Saturday night's game, sprote diving for that ball and then
27:54
Speaker 4: Harrison getting nailed and the knee by Carrie Sanchez's throw. Luckily,
27:57
Speaker 4: it sounds like unscathed for both of those guys. However,
28:00
Speaker 4: Harrison is dealing with some soreness at his risk from
28:03
Speaker 4: falling when getting hit by that throw by Sanchez in
28:07
Speaker 4: that awkward play at first base, but luckily it's It
28:10
Speaker 4: was brutal that Porgary had had a rough game on
28:13
Speaker 4: Saturday night at first base that was he plunk to
28:16
Speaker 4: get plucked an umpire in the head, bounced the ball
28:19
Speaker 4: bounced off the head, and then he grabbed it and
28:20
Speaker 4: actually got the guy out. It was one of that
28:23
Speaker 4: Saturday night game was an adventure in every really sense
28:26
Speaker 4: of the word. But then yeah, so so those guys,
28:30
Speaker 4: it seems to be okay. It sounds like Brandon Sprotte
28:32
Speaker 4: will be back in the starting rotation against Toronto if
28:34
Speaker 4: it all goes well and if he's healthy.
28:36
Speaker 3: So that's good. Uh.
28:37
Speaker 4: Priester had a live VP in Arizona this I think
28:41
Speaker 4: it was Thursday or Friday, and it sounded like that
28:43
Speaker 4: really went well and he felt good afterwards, so he'll do.
28:46
Speaker 4: He'll pitch in an AZL Brewers game in Arizona League
28:49
Speaker 4: Bers game coming up this week, and then hopefully Nashville
28:51
Speaker 4: after that. Cherry and Vaughan continue to come back, you know,
28:54
Speaker 4: Matt Arnold said early May. Late last week, the report
28:58
Speaker 4: part of the Brewers was mid to late April. I
29:00
Speaker 4: would guess late April, early May for Jackson Curio, and
29:03
Speaker 4: then you're looking more mid May, mid to late May
29:05
Speaker 4: for Andrew Vanald. Though Vaughan was taking some ground balls
29:07
Speaker 4: with that glove hand, not taking some ground balls, but
29:10
Speaker 4: doing some little bit of glove work with Matt Erickson
29:12
Speaker 4: on the side. It wasn't it wasn't ground balls, but
29:14
Speaker 4: it was, you know, out of the machine a little bit,
29:17
Speaker 4: doing a little work.
29:17
Speaker 3: So that's good.
29:18
Speaker 2: So yeah, so those guys are working the rabbit.
29:20
Speaker 4: But like you said, especially against lefties, and whould they
29:22
Speaker 4: face on Saturday night when they really struggled on offense
29:25
Speaker 4: another lefties? Would they face on Tuesday night when they
29:27
Speaker 4: are struggled Eric Crochet? Obviously he's one of the best
29:30
Speaker 4: lefties in the game, but that is just their kryptonite
29:33
Speaker 4: right now.
29:33
Speaker 7: Now, I'd be hypocritical if I was against our guys
29:37
Speaker 7: playing in the WBC, because I enjoyed the event so much.
29:39
Speaker 7: But is it safe to say, Hunter that this Jackson
29:42
Speaker 7: curio thing is going on a little longer than they anticipated,
29:45
Speaker 7: because when Murph talked about it and it comes out
29:48
Speaker 7: the day of opening day, it felt like he was
29:52
Speaker 7: trying to cushion it by saying like it's already got
29:55
Speaker 7: a couple of weeks of healing, right like, it almost
29:57
Speaker 7: feels like we got a little bit of healing. But
29:59
Speaker 7: then it was reaggravated the week leading up two, he
30:03
Speaker 7: still hasn't resumed any hitting, And you mentioned that timeline
30:06
Speaker 7: was a little bit different there. You think it's safe
30:08
Speaker 7: to say that this is going on a little longer
30:10
Speaker 7: than they anticipated. Not maybe that he would have been
30:12
Speaker 7: returning these games against Toronto the next couple of days.
30:15
Speaker 7: But it feels like this is an elongated rehab for him,
30:20
Speaker 7: where they thought it might have been just a very
30:22
Speaker 7: very quick ten day I Elston.
30:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean when they first said it on opening day,
30:26
Speaker 4: they said two to four weeks. Well, right now we're
30:28
Speaker 4: at two and a half and he hasn't resumed hitting yet,
30:30
Speaker 4: So I think you know that. And to be honest,
30:33
Speaker 4: it kind of seems like and Drew you probably know
30:36
Speaker 4: this too, Like they set those timelines and it feels
30:38
Speaker 4: like it always is on the longer end of those timelines.
30:40
Speaker 2: Too, so that that is what it seems like. He's
30:43
Speaker 2: running around.
30:44
Speaker 4: We saw him doing some running and everything, and obviously
30:46
Speaker 4: you can run with it with a hand injury. But yeah,
30:49
Speaker 4: I mean, look, if he would have gotten hit on
30:51
Speaker 4: March fourth and Ben shut down, that would have been
30:55
Speaker 4: completely different. But he played in the WBC, and then
30:57
Speaker 4: he played in spring training and they played in.
31:00
Speaker 2: The exhibition game. So it's like that, you know, it
31:03
Speaker 2: wasn't like he just was sitting there healing.
31:05
Speaker 4: Now, he obviously felt good enough to do that, or
31:07
Speaker 4: else they wouldn't have and the original imaging did not
31:10
Speaker 4: show damage. And then they finally got it looked at,
31:13
Speaker 4: and maybe that hairline fracture did come in those you know,
31:16
Speaker 4: three or four weeks while he.
31:18
Speaker 2: Was playing, and then eventually put him on the il.
31:20
Speaker 4: So, like you said, as much as we love the WBC,
31:23
Speaker 4: this was a risk, right, we knew it when he
31:26
Speaker 4: got hit in the hand, you know. Pat Murphy jokingly texted,
31:28
Speaker 4: you know the team you know, and said, hey, let's
31:31
Speaker 4: get him out of there. But obviously he knew that
31:34
Speaker 4: Churio was going to want to play. And look, it's
31:35
Speaker 4: a great experience and it was great for baseball, but
31:38
Speaker 4: that is a risk. And luckily it looks like he
31:40
Speaker 4: should be back, you know, by the latest early May.
31:43
Speaker 4: But a month without one of your star players not
31:46
Speaker 4: optimal for this.
31:47
Speaker 3: No, does it seem like to you?
31:48
Speaker 6: And I don't know, you guys can tell me, because
31:50
Speaker 6: obviously I'm always trying to stay positive, but it just
31:53
Speaker 6: feels like this is a carbon copy in a lot
31:55
Speaker 6: of ways of last April, where there was a kind
31:57
Speaker 6: of you know, even though the Brewers didn't have a
31:59
Speaker 6: better stuff.
32:00
Speaker 3: Now they're in a little rough patch.
32:01
Speaker 6: Last year was a rougher start, but it felt like
32:03
Speaker 6: there were so many injuries right away off the bat.
32:06
Speaker 6: It felt like this was just such an incomplete, complete team.
32:08
Speaker 6: It was the constant. Okay, we got to remind ourselves,
32:11
Speaker 6: this is still April. This is not the full Brewers
32:13
Speaker 6: squad we expect to have most of the year. Rather
32:16
Speaker 6: have the injuries now than later. That's kind of the
32:19
Speaker 6: way I looked at it all. I remember last year.
32:21
Speaker 6: I'm trying to look at it that way. Now, does
32:23
Speaker 6: just feel that similar to you as it did last year?
32:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's It's interesting because I think in
32:29
Speaker 4: a way it's it's the same. But the difference is
32:32
Speaker 4: you have all these injuries to your position player group
32:35
Speaker 4: rather pitching.
32:36
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, because the pitch.
32:37
Speaker 4: The pitching was decimated last year in April, and you
32:40
Speaker 4: kept saying, all right, just wait for the pitching to
32:41
Speaker 4: get healthy. And now we're saying, just wait for the
32:43
Speaker 4: lineup to get healthy. And look, they lost four games
32:45
Speaker 4: in a row twice in April last year. Well, I
32:48
Speaker 4: guess I want to be marching to April with the
32:50
Speaker 4: New York series exactly.
32:51
Speaker 3: It was a slow start, yeah, net regard, Yeah, for sure.
32:54
Speaker 4: I mean they were right there right around five hundred,
32:56
Speaker 4: under five hundred around Memorial Day, and then of course
32:59
Speaker 4: they and things around with that series against Boston and
33:01
Speaker 4: the rest it's history. But they yeah, they had a
33:04
Speaker 4: couple They lost four in a row to start the season,
33:06
Speaker 4: they lost four in a row and in late April,
33:08
Speaker 4: and now of course five in a row for the
33:10
Speaker 4: first time since twenty twenty three. They never lost five
33:12
Speaker 4: in a row last year. But I think this it
33:15
Speaker 4: just to me, the most surprising part is the stark difference.
33:17
Speaker 4: But yes, I clearly you are looking at the stark
33:21
Speaker 4: difference is to for the first ten games compared to
33:23
Speaker 4: the last five. But you're looking at that lineup and
33:26
Speaker 4: it just it look, you have a lot of guys
33:28
Speaker 4: that are used to not that they don't want this
33:32
Speaker 4: opportunity or not trying to take advantage of the opportunity,
33:34
Speaker 4: but they know they're getting the opportunity and maybe pressing
33:37
Speaker 4: a little two hard at times. I mean, Pat Murphy
33:38
Speaker 4: alluded to that on Saturday Night, saying that you know,
33:40
Speaker 4: you have guys who are either stuck in the middle
33:43
Speaker 4: or they're guys who are no they have this opportunity.
33:45
Speaker 4: Like take a guy like Blake Perkins, right, he knew
33:47
Speaker 4: he wasn't on the opening day roster. Now he gets
33:50
Speaker 4: a chance, and now it's probably you know, it's got
33:52
Speaker 4: to be in your head a little bit of trying
33:54
Speaker 4: to go up to the plate and maybe do a
33:56
Speaker 4: little too much lockerage, but you know, could be in
33:58
Speaker 4: that same category. He started a little hot, but now
34:00
Speaker 4: it's tailed off for him. Joey started hot, it's tailed
34:03
Speaker 4: off for him. That's that's, you know, got to be
34:05
Speaker 4: in his head a little bit. So I think those guys,
34:08
Speaker 4: especially at the bottom of the order, you're just not
34:10
Speaker 4: you know, getting as much production down there. Terrain has
34:12
Speaker 4: been hot, Contraus has been pretty good, Yelich has been
34:14
Speaker 4: pretty good, so that top has been okay. The boy
34:17
Speaker 4: if you're not getting any production from the bottom half
34:20
Speaker 4: of that lineup, that's where you miss.
34:21
Speaker 3: Cherio and vonn Hunter Bomguard joining us.
34:23
Speaker 5: Here on the huddle. The Brewers are eight and seven
34:26
Speaker 5: looking up for some reason. Saint Louis is listed ahead
34:29
Speaker 5: of them in the standings, though they have eight and
34:30
Speaker 5: seven records, Red's nine and seven Pittsburgh's nine and six.
34:34
Speaker 5: In first place, Brewers would be in first place in
34:37
Speaker 5: two of the three divisions in the American League. And
34:41
Speaker 5: they're holding keeping pace right now with both New York teams,
34:44
Speaker 5: as the Mets and Yankees are each in five game
34:47
Speaker 5: losing streaks.
34:47
Speaker 3: All right, there we go keeping pace. That's big.
34:49
Speaker 5: That's something, right, keeping pace. Yeah, So yeah, eight and
34:53
Speaker 5: seven is not great, but it's how you get there.
34:55
Speaker 5: Because the Dodgers are running our away with the West.
34:57
Speaker 5: No shock, right, Rays are in second there, they're ten
35:01
Speaker 5: and six and last week they were at five and
35:04
Speaker 5: six and they've won five in a row. It's like
35:07
Speaker 5: a batting average thing. Things can happen quickly, like you
35:09
Speaker 5: know it can.
35:11
Speaker 3: You can flip around very very and there's a lot
35:14
Speaker 3: of changes early in the year.
35:15
Speaker 6: We microwave these first few weeks and we pay attention
35:19
Speaker 6: so much to them.
35:20
Speaker 3: But as we know, there's gonna be a lot of time.
35:22
Speaker 5: Lefts we're in it for the long haul, definitely, definitely,
35:25
Speaker 5: all right, So Hunter, what is the move with Yelich?
35:28
Speaker 5: And what is the what do you think the Burwers
35:30
Speaker 5: plan will be at d H Is Sanchez the guy?
35:36
Speaker 6: Is that?
35:37
Speaker 3: Is that a risk?
35:38
Speaker 6: Is that?
35:38
Speaker 3: What do you think is going to happen?
35:40
Speaker 4: It's hard to keep Sanchez out of the lineup. I
35:42
Speaker 4: do wonder if they go I know he's a right
35:44
Speaker 4: handed bat, but do you bring up Jefferson Carrow again?
35:48
Speaker 4: You know, I know Luis Laura is doing great in
35:50
Speaker 4: triple A, but he's not on the forty man, so
35:53
Speaker 4: that would be a forty man move and you could
35:57
Speaker 4: do that, but yeah, so does obviously maybe you put
36:01
Speaker 4: Luis Mantos more in there. You're again again, it's a
36:05
Speaker 4: left handed batter, so Luis Mantos is righty. Ever, Sir
36:09
Speaker 4: Caro's righty. I think it's too early for Pratt. I
36:12
Speaker 4: think he's still you know, he's on the forty man,
36:14
Speaker 4: so that's why I say bring up his name.
36:16
Speaker 2: But I think they obviously want him.
36:17
Speaker 4: And he was dealing with a little bit of a
36:18
Speaker 4: shoulder last few days as well, so he's back. He
36:21
Speaker 4: was back in the lineup over the weekend though in Nashville,
36:23
Speaker 4: which is good, So.
36:24
Speaker 2: That's probably it.
36:26
Speaker 4: I mean, otherwise, depending on how long he's out, though
36:29
Speaker 4: I wouldn't rule out an outside move. We remember Quinn
36:31
Speaker 4: Priester was acquired on April seventh last year when the
36:33
Speaker 4: pitching was down. If if Yelich is down for a
36:36
Speaker 4: significant period of time and you're looking at like, you know,
36:39
Speaker 4: this is just guessing, But if you're saying mid to
36:41
Speaker 4: late May for Yelly and mid to late May for
36:43
Speaker 4: Vaughan and then Cheerio's not till like at some point
36:46
Speaker 4: you got to say, all right, do we make him
36:48
Speaker 4: a little bit of a move here, more significant than
36:50
Speaker 4: a Luis Mantos, right, maybe a step up from that.
36:53
Speaker 2: So I think that could be in the in the
36:56
Speaker 2: in the play, if Yellich.
36:59
Speaker 4: Is out for a signific a period of time, like
37:00
Speaker 4: you said, hopefully, maybe it's just a it's a lot
37:03
Speaker 4: better than they thought. Maybe we're conditioned to hear bad
37:07
Speaker 4: news right now because of how the injuries have gone,
37:09
Speaker 4: and maybe that's why Pat Murphy was kind of saying that.
37:12
Speaker 2: But now Pat Murphy's kind of like, look, it's it's
37:15
Speaker 2: troubled waters, there's no doubt about that.
37:17
Speaker 4: But you know they've been there, been here before. Brandon
37:21
Speaker 4: Woodriff said the same thing in the clubhouse yesterday, like,
37:23
Speaker 4: look we look at last year and look at how
37:26
Speaker 4: we came back from that. So it has a similar
37:29
Speaker 4: vibe just because they're they're not winning maybe as much
37:31
Speaker 4: as you expect, and they have the injuries.
37:33
Speaker 7: Good good outing by Woody, Yeah, no doubt about it.
37:36
Speaker 7: It was good to see him as back at full strength.
37:38
Speaker 7: Also good to see Bryce Terrang nineteen game on Bay Streak,
37:42
Speaker 7: the two homers yesterday and also Hunter, how different is
37:45
Speaker 7: it going to Bryce Terrang's locker and getting like legit
37:48
Speaker 7: sound bites. He's been He's been really really cool with
37:50
Speaker 7: the media. It's exciting to hear from him because he's
37:54
Speaker 7: a baseball guy, baseball player, and when you're this good,
37:57
Speaker 7: people want to hear from you. And he gave some
37:59
Speaker 7: really really positive feedback to it yesterday.
38:02
Speaker 3: It was interesting.
38:03
Speaker 4: There were one time during that interview yesterday, I kind
38:06
Speaker 4: of had I kind of thought Aaron Rodgers vibes a
38:09
Speaker 4: little bit, and they're both the California cool.
38:11
Speaker 3: Kind of guy and lax.
38:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, it was, yes, and it not.
38:17
Speaker 4: Brys Ing is not obviously as detailed as Aaron Rodgers,
38:20
Speaker 4: you know, quite yet Rogers is you know, obviously very
38:23
Speaker 4: detailed in some of his explanations over the years, but
38:25
Speaker 4: it was just it just kind of had that vibe
38:28
Speaker 4: a little bit to it, and you know, confident in
38:31
Speaker 4: the team. Look, they have a lot of talent on
38:32
Speaker 4: that team, especially when they're healthy, right, they have a
38:35
Speaker 4: lot of talent. They know, you know, the way they
38:38
Speaker 4: want to play. Unfortunately, they just have not played it. Look,
38:41
Speaker 4: I mean when you have the you talk about the
38:43
Speaker 4: six aers, I mean Gary Sanchez had had a couple
38:45
Speaker 4: of them on Saturday night and he's it's not like
38:48
Speaker 4: he's played a lot of first base in his career,
38:51
Speaker 4: and so that that is a learning you know, crash course.
38:54
Speaker 4: I mean, we were talking to Matt Rickson the infield
38:55
Speaker 4: coach and it's kind of like, yeah, it's like just
38:57
Speaker 4: crash course time. It's like, all right, guys, now go
39:00
Speaker 4: and swim in the in the deep end here. It's
39:02
Speaker 4: kind of like that with Gary Sanchez. Or even if
39:04
Speaker 4: you say, who else you want to put there, maybe
39:06
Speaker 4: a Brandon Lockrate, okay, but you know, if you if
39:08
Speaker 4: you don't want Bauers in the lineup against a lefty,
39:10
Speaker 4: what have you? I tend to think maybe just play
39:13
Speaker 4: your guys at this point, because I don't know if
39:15
Speaker 4: it's if it's worth all the splits and all of that,
39:18
Speaker 4: but they know they know better than us as far
39:19
Speaker 4: as the numbers go. Maybe, but yeah, so I think
39:23
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39:25
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39:28
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39:30
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39:32
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39:34
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39:34
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