Transcript

09/24/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Who's ready for a game day in the good land?
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Speaker 1: Raise your hand. Let's go.
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Speaker 2: Drew Billion-Armond huddled up on a Thursday. We, oh my goodness,
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Speaker 2: this is going to be good.
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Speaker 1: We made it here, Drew. We made it. Come on now.
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Speaker 1: Game day, baby.
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Speaker 2: Packers home opener this evening. Lambeau Field against the Ravens.
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Speaker 2: Brewers against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Final road
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Speaker 2: game of the championship season before the postseason. Brewers are
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Speaker 2: at 99 wins after last evening's. Logan Henderson performance.
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Speaker 1: Shut down stuff.
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Speaker 2: Can't give that guy enough accolades for the way he's
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Speaker 2: pitched and comported himself. If it wasn't for that lanky
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Speaker 2: right-hander he shares the rotation with, he'd be all the buzz.
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Speaker 1: Out of the jams, too, last night. That was a
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Speaker 1: good stuff. Cal Eldredesk. He's having a great weekend. Good reference, yeah.
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Speaker 3: It really is amazing how much gets clouded over by
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Speaker 3: one guy, I don't know, winning the Cy Young and
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Speaker 3: apparently throwing like a hundred miles an hour way more
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Speaker 3: than anybody ever has before instead just the mustached man
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Speaker 3: can just hang out in the weeds and dominate as
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Speaker 3: he has i liked murph county uh shouting it out
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Speaker 3: as much as he has over the last couple of
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Speaker 3: days he was on the mcfee show a couple of
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Speaker 3: days ago and while obviously the question immediately comes up
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Speaker 3: of the ms drew he goes yeah we.
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Speaker 1: Got this uh You got this other kid, Logan Henderson.
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Speaker 1: He's pretty good too. He doesn't stink either.
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Speaker 3: And being able to flex that in Philly last night
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Speaker 3: was nice. And now he just gets to, as he said,
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Speaker 3: get ready to live out his dream and pitch in
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Speaker 3: the postseason.
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Speaker 1: I love that. How about that? I love hearing that. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he would have last year, but he got hurt. He
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Speaker 1: got hurt at the wrong times.
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Speaker 3: And coming up in the minor leagues, it hasn't been
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Speaker 3: a long time since he was in college or college age,
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Speaker 3: but he's been dealing with a bunch of injuries throughout
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Speaker 3: his time coming up. So Cool for him to finally
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Speaker 3: be able to get here and be pitching the best
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Speaker 3: he ever has. The best he's ever had.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's really become important to this team, and
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Speaker 4: he's peaking right now. And, you know, it's funny because
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Speaker 4: you think about, yeah, like you think about Miz, right,
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Speaker 4: and his fastball and how dominant that is.
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Speaker 1: It's sort of like Logan sort of has that with
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Speaker 1: his changeup.
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Speaker 4: Like Logan Henderson's changeup is almost just as dominant in
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Speaker 4: a lot of ways.
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Speaker 1: It's just the opposite, right, because it's slower. It's not speed.
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Speaker 1: It's not arm strength.
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Speaker 4: But he's able to dominate with that pitch, and when
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Speaker 4: it's going right, I mean, he has batters off balance.
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Speaker 1: All night.
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Speaker 4: And you saw him going to that when he needed
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Speaker 4: to last night.
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Speaker 1: Indeed. Indeed.
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Speaker 2: He pitched great as he has. I mean, he has
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Speaker 2: been lights out. What, a major league record for consecutive
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Speaker 2: starts of three runs or fewer?
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Speaker 3: Three or fewer, yeah. Yeah, and I keep forgetting to keep.
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Speaker 3: track of it now, Drew. Once it got over 25,
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Speaker 3: it just got hard to keep counting.
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Speaker 2: I think he tied Zach Gallin for the Major League record.
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Speaker 1: Big time.
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Speaker 3: Cruising and doing it his way and the Brewers having
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Speaker 3: multiple ways to pitch to you I think is important
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Speaker 3: come October.
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Speaker 1: Not granted, you can only fire one a night.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully, you only need one good win on the road
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Speaker 3: and then you can shut the box at home and
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Speaker 3: get yourself rolling through.
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Speaker 2: You're playing a team that's driving for the playoffs and
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Speaker 2: you win a game. And now you have another game
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Speaker 2: against them tonight.
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Speaker 1: And I know.
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Speaker 2: It's just we're so used to the Brewers just winning
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Speaker 2: and checking boxes.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: That when they lost on Monday, it was almost like
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Speaker 2: a splash.
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Speaker 1: Of cold water. Yeah, you catch yourself.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you can lose to this team. But then, oh,
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Speaker 2: all is right with the world. They get up early.
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Speaker 2: They follow the most Brewers formula yesterday. Another lockdown start.
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Speaker 2: Great bullpen. They beat a really good team that's playing
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Speaker 2: for something. And now the Brewers, all that's left is
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Speaker 2: will they win 100 games?
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Speaker 1: Most likely. They have four cracks at it. Most likely.
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Speaker 3: I keep getting that question at the water cooler, Drew.
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Speaker 3: I like that that's the most important question.
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Speaker 1: And for all.
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Speaker 2: Intents, the magic number is two to wrap up the
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Speaker 2: number one seed overall. Because by my math, if the
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Speaker 2: Brewers get to, if they win two, they'll get to
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Speaker 2: 101 wins. And the Dodgers, they have to go 4-0
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Speaker 2: to get to 101. And the Brewers win the tiebreaker.
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Speaker 1: And then the Brewers would win the tiebreaker.
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Speaker 2: So it tells me that two wins by the Brewers
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Speaker 2: win two, or the Dodgers lose two the year before.
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Speaker 1: You're good to go. One win by the Padres last night,
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Speaker 1: and that's off and running.
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Speaker 3: And now we can instead kind of just watch and
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Speaker 3: enjoy the spectacle that will be Packers and Falcons tonight.
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Speaker 1: I know spectacle might be a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: strong word.
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Speaker 3: But the NL wildcard race, because these three teams, one
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Speaker 3: of which that you have a piece in today against
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Speaker 3: the Phillies, now it continues to move around. Last night,
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Speaker 3: San Diego took over the number one spot in that
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Speaker 3: wildcard race. It had been that for a long time.
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Speaker 2: And the Cubs and some other teams are going to
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Speaker 2: have some interesting weather plans. issues the cubs are they're
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Speaker 2: jacking around their schedule in boston this weekend.
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Speaker 3: They might be ending the season before anybody else right
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Speaker 3: they doubleheader on friday they were thinking to.
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Speaker 2: Get in front of the storm and then they're like
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Speaker 2: they might not play sunday they might just you know
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Speaker 2: it's wild yeah craig was already the game up they
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Speaker 2: might move up uh saturday's game yeah and then they
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Speaker 2: would be done yeah I think I listen.
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Speaker 4: I appreciate that a disadvantage. He's walking about it. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: he's complaining.
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Speaker 3: But I will say, though, I at least appreciate them
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Speaker 3: being having some foresight in the situation.
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Speaker 1: I agree.
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Speaker 3: But oh, yeah, looking back at it on Sunday, me like, damn,
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Speaker 3: we probably could have played two on Friday.
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Speaker 1: And this would not have been as much of an
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Speaker 1: issue logistically. I was reading.
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Speaker 4: Craig was talking about it. And he said, well, they
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Speaker 4: never move up games. This is not what they do.
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Speaker 4: They usually postpone games. I'm like, well, maybe they should
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Speaker 4: do that more. Maybe this is a good idea. to
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Speaker 4: move up a game, to try and beat the Nor'easter
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Speaker 4: that's supposed to come and deliver these crazy wins and
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Speaker 4: rain and.
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Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
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Speaker 4: He's upset, I think, because they won't have a starter
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Speaker 4: Saturday that can go full rest. They're going to have
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Speaker 4: to probably throw Shota, Imanaga, and short rest. And it's like, yes,
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Speaker 4: they're jogging for position. So he's talking about how it's
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Speaker 4: a disadvantage because of the doubleheader and the way they rotate.
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Speaker 4: That might be true, but it's either that or then
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Speaker 4: you'd have to play– games after Sunday, which nobody wants, right?
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Speaker 1: I think, I don't know how else they would do it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you don't want to postpone stuff.
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Speaker 4: So I do appreciate, like you said, Billy, that they
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Speaker 4: had foresight to try and figure this thing out ahead
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Speaker 4: of the storms that are going to come, because it
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Speaker 4: could be a bigger problem other than Craig's, you know,
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Speaker 4: usage of his pitching staff.
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Speaker 3: And maybe it will turn out to be similar to
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Speaker 3: in the NFL, like the game that we're going to
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Speaker 3: see tonight, is a short week is absolutely difficult on
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Speaker 3: the body. But on the back end, you start appreciating
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Speaker 3: a little bit more. Maybe they will appreciate it, Drew,
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Speaker 3: getting a couple of days before that Tuesday start of
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Speaker 3: the NLDS.
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Speaker 1: That could be.
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Speaker 3: Because right now, the way it slates up, if they
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Speaker 3: end up as the third wildcard team, or however it
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Speaker 3: would end up sitting with the tentative schedule with the dates,
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Speaker 3: they either play Tuesday or Wednesday for their first game.
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Speaker 3: So you might as well know that at least you
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Speaker 3: get a couple of days of reprieve on the back
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Speaker 3: end to get yourself back to neutral.
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Speaker 2: You can reach us at 877-794-1973. It's not optimal.
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Speaker 1: It is what it is.
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Speaker 2: You've got to do what you've got to do. Win
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Speaker 2: the division, and then you don't have those problems. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: the Wild Card Series starts on Tuesday, like you said.
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Speaker 2: And then, oh lordy, a week from Saturday, Game 1, NLDS.
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Speaker 2: Opponent TBA, Brewers sitting at home.
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Speaker 3: Opponent TBA, and going through that lineup again last night
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Speaker 3: I think was an exercise, even though the Brewers locked
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Speaker 3: it up pretty well. throughout not only Henderson, D.L. Hall
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Speaker 3: was phenomenal, and Uribe and McGill just workmanlike late. I
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Speaker 3: don't know that I'm picking or choosing any of these
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Speaker 3: three teams that roll through here in the wild card.
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Speaker 3: Whoever it ends up being, I'll be fine with, but
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to hitch my wagon to I'd like
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Speaker 3: the Brewers to face that team because I don't know
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Speaker 3: there's much of an advantage with any three of these lineups.
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Speaker 4: There's really no team you're going to look at and say, hey,
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Speaker 4: that's clearly the team we want.
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Speaker 1: And no Reds snuck in this year.
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Speaker 4: That's that big apple everybody wants to pick off the tree.
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Speaker 4: There isn't one like that. Yeah, I mean, and we've
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Speaker 4: talked about it all summer, and we've talked about it
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Speaker 4: a lot this week, yesterday, but that is the way
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Speaker 4: this has gone in the NL and the AL. It's
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Speaker 4: just been such a weird year where it's been so
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Speaker 4: NL heavy that there are all good teams there. So,
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Speaker 4: to your point, Billy, it's almost like you don't even
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Speaker 4: have to worry about trying to, you know, make that
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Speaker 4: decision of should we finesse the schedule or finesse, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 4: finesse like the you know, the matchup and lose and
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Speaker 4: win here. And it's like, sometimes that's a decision that
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Speaker 4: burdens teams in this situation. It's not even one right
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Speaker 4: now because it really doesn't matter because there aren't any advantages,
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Speaker 4: like obvious advantages to playing one team or the other.
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Speaker 4: I mean, maybe you could say, oh, well, we have
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Speaker 4: a matchup here or we have history here, but they're
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Speaker 4: all good teams to your point. If you're going to
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Speaker 4: go where you want to go this year, you're going
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Speaker 4: to have to beat great teams. You're going to have
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Speaker 4: to run the gauntlet. So it is what it is.
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Speaker 4: You might as well just, and I wonder if that's,
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Speaker 4: you know, what are fans thinking about right now as
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Speaker 4: you approach the playoffs? I mean, is it get to
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Speaker 4: a hundred, then kind of pay attention or is it
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Speaker 4: wait to see where the matchups are? Or are they
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Speaker 4: thinking only about pitching staff? Cause I also thought last night,
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Speaker 4: the way the Brewers scored their runs might make some
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Speaker 4: fans excited. Like if your focus is like, well, we've
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Speaker 4: got to get Yelich and Terang and hot and those
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Speaker 4: guys aren't, well, you got two homers out of those guys.
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Speaker 1: You got a homer out of Yelich, you get a
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Speaker 1: homer out of Terang.
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Speaker 4: So maybe that warms your, your cockles of hoping, hey,
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Speaker 4: I hope our big bats get hot, you know, and
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Speaker 4: people worry about stuff like that. So I was just
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Speaker 4: kind of thinking that when those guys went yard, it's like, oh, well,
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Speaker 4: maybe this will get people excited about, oh, our right
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Speaker 4: guys are peaking and getting hot and all the buzzwords
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Speaker 4: we talk about.
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Speaker 2: I think it's Adam McAlvey has an interview with Christian Yelich,
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Speaker 2: who's had his share of wonderful seasons that end in
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Speaker 2: postseason misery. Now he's had a miserable season. Wouldn't it
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Speaker 2: be nice to have some postseason glory and have it
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Speaker 2: be wonderful?
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Speaker 1: Well, if you swing the stick like you did last night,
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Speaker 1: you got a chance to. That's just it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if he hits a couple hits and the
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Speaker 2: Brewers win the World Series, suddenly the six-month slog's not
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Speaker 2: going to seem like that.
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Speaker 1: Bad a deal.
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Speaker 3: I mean, could you imagine the raucous AmFam crowd when
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Speaker 3: that man walks up in the seventh inning if he
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Speaker 3: had already tanked one in the second and is popping
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Speaker 3: off in game number six of the NL series? CS
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Speaker 3: and you got a 3-2 lead in the game and
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Speaker 3: a 3-2 lead in the series, that play's going to
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Speaker 3: be going crazy. And he could be one of the
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Speaker 3: catalysts to it. Let's be honest, him and Contreras. last year. Drew,
10:02
Speaker 3: it's tough to say it, and I know people don't
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Speaker 3: like to put it all on it, but whatever the
10:07
Speaker 3: sport is, they end up being players' games. And you
10:10
Speaker 3: can nitpick the situational decisions here or the play calls
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Speaker 3: there and the bullpen management here and there.
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Speaker 1: It is... It comes down to the players.
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Speaker 3: And sadly, the biggest common theme with the Brewers' first
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Speaker 3: round exits through those three-game series and their shortcomings in
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Speaker 3: the playoffs recently.
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Speaker 1: It's just been their best guys have not hit.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Willie Adamas, as much as we loved him,
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Speaker 3: my man's playoff resume left more than anything to be desired.
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Speaker 3: And you're just not going to win much in October.
10:42
Speaker 3: Talk to a Yankee fan. If your best guys aren't
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Speaker 3: their best selves in October.
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Speaker 4: And for all the massaging and trying to constrain about
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Speaker 4: what has to happen to win playoff games. And remember
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Speaker 4: for a while, Billy, it was from our buddy, from Timmy,
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Speaker 4: it was, we got to get playoff performers on the team.
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Speaker 4: Like all these things you try and figure out when
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Speaker 4: you try and cope with frustration, it comes down to
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Speaker 4: what you just said. Your best guys, the guys you
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Speaker 4: count on, the guys that have brought you to the
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Speaker 4: dance all year have got to hit in those situations,
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Speaker 4: in those small moments.
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Speaker 1: That you need them.
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Speaker 4: They need to be the ones to perform, and that's
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Speaker 4: eventually who wins, who wins the playoffs. It's like who
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Speaker 4: has the most guys performing in the most clutch situations
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Speaker 4: and performances you don't expect, and that's the other thing, too.
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Speaker 1: So if you can get a couple of those.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always one or two guys that rise up
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Speaker 2: and come up big in big moments and guys that
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Speaker 2: you'll never forget. Last night's game, Logan Henderson, when he
11:34
Speaker 2: got out of that, he got out of a couple,
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Speaker 2: wriggled off the hook a couple times in a great
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Speaker 2: play by David Hamilton up against the tarp. And you know,
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Speaker 2: that was the, to me, like you have those inflection points.
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Speaker 2: And when he got out of that jam, I was
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Speaker 2: thinking to myself, okay, so if you're watching a playoff
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Speaker 2: game and somebody, you see a pitcher in the second
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Speaker 2: or third inning escape, a base is loaded jam. You're like, Oh,
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Speaker 2: that's going to be big later. That's going to be,
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Speaker 2: that's one of those moments. That's like, that's an inflection point.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Bullet dodge there.
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Speaker 2: Because when you get, when you load the bases in
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Speaker 2: the playoffs, it's, this way you can say this of
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Speaker 2: any game, but it's just magnified in the playoffs. Get
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Speaker 2: a guy on third with less than two outs in
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Speaker 2: the playoffs. You damn well better get them in.
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Speaker 1: You have to.
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Speaker 2: If you don't, you don't get that many chances. And
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Speaker 2: so if you don't get them in, in the third inning, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, things can change and you could score multiple
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Speaker 2: runs in a name, but then it's tougher. It's just,
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Speaker 2: you got to string it together. It's like, that's to me.
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Speaker 2: And that's a stat. Arman's big thing is run differential.
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Speaker 2: That's another stat that people should look at more is
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Speaker 2: how do teams do In terms of just scoring guys,
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Speaker 2: when they get guys to third base with less than
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Speaker 2: two outs, what's their percentage of converting that into a run.
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Speaker 3: Well, cause that's like a can equating, you know, goal
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Speaker 3: to go situations like being inside the 20 that they
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Speaker 3: are different deals, right?
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Speaker 1: You get somebody a second base with two outs. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You hadn't that bad with runner in scoring position. Sure.
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Speaker 1: Not the same as having a guy standing at.
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Speaker 3: Third with one out and a chance to pop one
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Speaker 3: into the outfield and get the run home or a
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Speaker 3: wild pitch or anything.
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Speaker 1: These guys spikes a breaking ball or something.
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Speaker 3: Anything that stresses it, all the pitches are so intense
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Speaker 3: that But when you got somebody standing over there 90
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Speaker 3: feet away, you got to. And I thought one of
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Speaker 3: the most important things yesterday was, and listen, you can
13:19
Speaker 3: pick certain spots in a lineup that'll be important and
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Speaker 3: the biggest ones. No hits again for Schwarber and Harper.
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Speaker 3: Those two dudes are their catalysts of the offense. They
13:28
Speaker 3: got a lot of great offensive players. But if you
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Speaker 3: hold down those two left-handed bats, you'll be feeling a
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Speaker 3: lot better. And those guys are the dudes that ultimately
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Speaker 3: you just strike fear in you when they step up
13:39
Speaker 3: into the box in the playoff. Brewers don't have a
13:41
Speaker 3: whole lot of those guys. It's going to be Cheerio
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Speaker 3: and maybe Terang for other teams. I mean, but like, again,
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Speaker 3: teams are going to say, yeah, he's a good player,
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Speaker 3: but he's not striking the fear of God in you
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Speaker 3: like future Hall of Famers are. And the Brewers have
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Speaker 3: to be able to string them along. They're just not
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Speaker 3: going to be able to count on too many of
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Speaker 3: those three-run shots like they got definitely a year ago,
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Speaker 3: mostly from Vaughn.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the small market rallies. I mean, the question remains
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Speaker 4: to be seen. The one to be answered is can
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Speaker 4: the Brewers find a way to reach their goals without
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Speaker 4: hitting a lot of home runs.
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Speaker 1: Unless they unexpectedly do in the postseason.
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Speaker 4: But, right, a team that doesn't hit home runs, that's
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Speaker 4: always been the concern and continues to be.
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Speaker 1: But you're right, Billy.
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Speaker 4: It's like Jake Bowers has had a great year, but
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Speaker 4: that's not a guy people still circle on their lineup
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Speaker 4: card and say, we've got to get this guy out
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Speaker 4: one some way somehow to try and beat this team.
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Speaker 4: And that was the case before the Dodgers started winning
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Speaker 4: World Series, too. It was like, when are Betts and
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Speaker 4: Freeman going to hit? And they had that consternation there,
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Speaker 4: and then they eventually did, and then they won World Series.
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Speaker 1: Yep. Yep, that's what it takes.
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Speaker 2: Night Huddle. For our little program. Because Bill and I
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Speaker 2: will be at Lambeau Field to preside over Packers OT.
15:08
Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Armin will be here doing what he does, which is
15:11
Speaker 2: being the most valuable player of the Packers radio network,
15:14
Speaker 2: keeping things on the air and talking to.
15:16
Speaker 1: People and doing our thing. So we will not be
15:19
Speaker 1: at Pottawatomie. But you should be.
15:21
Speaker 2: But we'll be back. And then we have the quick turnaround.
15:25
Speaker 1: It's the all-nighter. It's the Jolt Cola Olympics. Yes, sir.
15:27
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you in the morning.
15:28
Speaker 2: Because we'll be doing the post-game show until 1 a.m.
15:30
Speaker 2: and then fire you up at 5 a.m. Friday edition
15:34
Speaker 2: of the program. And, like, I got this, like, giant,
15:37
Speaker 2: this little stretch of ours, you know? This little money stretch.
15:41
Speaker 2: It got off to a great start today because I
15:43
Speaker 2: left my laptop at home. I have a work laptop
15:46
Speaker 2: and my personal laptop. And usually I keep the work
15:49
Speaker 2: laptop here at work where you need it for, you know, work.
15:54
Speaker 1: Sometimes that helps, yeah, at work.
15:56
Speaker 2: And so I took it home yesterday because I had this, like,
15:59
Speaker 2: Zoom call with the.
16:01
Speaker 1: Super important. That was a really important one, wasn't it?
16:03
Speaker 1: Super important company Zoom call. And I had to do that.
16:06
Speaker 1: A few minutes. And I took that home, and I
16:08
Speaker 1: don't even know why.
16:08
Speaker 2: I guess because it works better with the microphone I
16:10
Speaker 2: have at home and stuff.
16:11
Speaker 1: You've got to do it.
16:12
Speaker 2: I left it, and I left it right where I
16:15
Speaker 2: keep my keys and everything. You know, when you're up
16:19
Speaker 2: at 4 in the morning, it happens.
16:20
Speaker 1: A lot more than you like to admit. I'm looking
16:23
Speaker 1: at my phone today. I don't have my little laptop.
16:26
Speaker 2: I don't have as much capability and flexibility and, like,
16:29
Speaker 2: It's going to be harder to Google stuff on the fly.
16:31
Speaker 1: But we're going to soldier through.
16:33
Speaker 2: So the rest of the shows, like Packers OT and everything,
16:37
Speaker 2: it's going to feel like Club Med because I'll have
16:38
Speaker 2: my laptop back.
16:39
Speaker 1: It's going to be the easiest thing we've done in
16:41
Speaker 1: a long time.
16:43
Speaker 2: Because we are not above hacky radio bits on this program,
16:48
Speaker 2: we're going to go throwback Thursday.
16:51
Speaker 1: Yes.
16:51
Speaker 2: And I'm going to ask, what piece of technology could
16:55
Speaker 2: you live without for a day, a week, or even
16:58
Speaker 2: a year?
16:59
Speaker 1: What piece?
17:00
Speaker 2: What modern convenience, I'll say. Drew, Billy, and Armin bringing
17:05
Speaker 2: it to you on this Thursday. Game day in the
17:07
Speaker 2: good land. It's a Thursday that feels like a Friday
17:09
Speaker 2: because the Packers play tonight. And that's why I said
17:12
Speaker 2: that Wayne Larrabee would join us today.
17:14
Speaker 1: He's not.
17:14
Speaker 2: He joins us tomorrow, the day after the game. Or
17:18
Speaker 2: the day leading into the game. Wayne Larrabee's on Friday
17:21
Speaker 2: on the show. Hunter Baumgart is today.
17:24
Speaker 3: Well, and listen, Wayne, I'll... is going to have to
17:26
Speaker 3: deliver some magnificent calls here tonight, and let's make sure
17:29
Speaker 3: that they give them something to deliver on.
17:32
Speaker 1: Let's give them some chances.
17:33
Speaker 3: To deliver maybe an early dagger here tonight to this
17:36
Speaker 3: Falcons team that comes limping in with one wing just
17:40
Speaker 3: damaged like nobody's business.
17:41
Speaker 2: Let me just say that, because the Falcons come into town,
17:44
Speaker 2: they've not, in two games, they've not had a snap,
17:47
Speaker 2: an offensive snap in the red zone, which is, again, stunning.
17:50
Speaker 1: Feels like something that gets broken tonight.
17:52
Speaker 2: Michael Penix is coming back, adding intrigue, but William, I
17:57
Speaker 2: would ask you, as our lead sports investor on the program,
18:01
Speaker 2: Pottawatomie Sportsbook, we won't be there tonight in the annex,
18:03
Speaker 2: and we're going to miss it because I love the
18:05
Speaker 2: food there.
18:05
Speaker 1: I love the vibe.
18:06
Speaker 2: I love doing shows there. It's just so easy.
18:08
Speaker 1: Lead investor.
18:09
Speaker 2: That's like our best field trip of the week, going
18:12
Speaker 2: to Pottawatomie Sportsbook for the Thursday night huddle. We'll be
18:14
Speaker 2: back next week. When the Packers play or when there's
18:17
Speaker 2: a major holiday, we don't do a show.
18:18
Speaker 3: But you get a chance to get shots after touchdown,
18:20
Speaker 3: so you.
18:20
Speaker 1: Should be there tonight. You should be.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
18:22
Speaker 2: Most folks, if you don't have a place to watch
18:23
Speaker 2: a game, that's the spot.
18:25
Speaker 1: But.
18:26
Speaker 2: Yesterday, people are mulling this game, and investors are trying
18:31
Speaker 2: to decide where to go, and they're looking, and it's like, okay,
18:34
Speaker 2: Penix is back. That means that you don't have to
18:36
Speaker 2: watch Cooper Rush preside over the offense for the Falcons.
18:39
Speaker 2: Good thing for all of us. That's got to be
18:40
Speaker 2: a plus. Yep, that's a good thing for all of us. Meanwhile,
18:43
Speaker 2: the Packers are without two of their stalwart starters on
18:46
Speaker 2: the offensive line, Baco Bueli, out, Aaron Banks, toe, out,
18:51
Speaker 2: and everything. So yesterday morning, The Falcons were plus 5,
18:58
Speaker 2: and then it moved to plus 4, and then at
19:01
Speaker 2: the end of the day, it was 4.5 again.
19:02
Speaker 1: So it's vacillating.
19:04
Speaker 2: And one bet at Circa Sportsbook in Vegas stands out
19:08
Speaker 2: because 72% of the spread handle is on Atlanta, although
19:13
Speaker 2: the Falcons are only attracting 28% of the bets.
19:17
Speaker 3: So a lot of the money, and it's only the
19:19
Speaker 3: sharpest plays that are coming in on the Falcons would
19:21
Speaker 3: be what that indicates.
19:22
Speaker 1: Pretty much.
19:23
Speaker 3: They would be the Packers would be the squarest of
19:26
Speaker 3: the square primetime favorites to win. And it's mostly because
19:32
Speaker 3: Atlanta has looked like warm cheeks for the majority of
19:35
Speaker 3: the season. Tough thing is the Packers are a brand
19:38
Speaker 3: that's always going to get bad. It's always going to
19:40
Speaker 3: get hit. We're going to talk more about it on,
19:42
Speaker 3: on the line coming up in the second hour with
19:44
Speaker 3: the Pottawatomie sports book. I got a little, maybe a
19:46
Speaker 3: little tease to help you out here, but it, drew,
19:50
Speaker 3: I think it indicates rightfully so that while horrible in
19:57
Speaker 3: their first two games, Atlanta is about as dangerous as
20:00
Speaker 3: most teams are right now in week number three of
20:04
Speaker 3: the NFL regular season. Like it's so early. It still
20:07
Speaker 3: is as close to a preseason game as you can get.
20:10
Speaker 3: They have their new head coach, Kevin Stefanski coming in.
20:13
Speaker 3: They're trying to figure out how.
20:15
Speaker 1: Do we wait?
20:17
Speaker 3: Our best players is Bijan Robinson cat. How do we
20:20
Speaker 3: make sure that we get him the ball every game?
20:22
Speaker 3: How do we make sure we get this Drake London
20:24
Speaker 3: guy the ball every game? Well, it's going to help
20:27
Speaker 3: when they actually have a competent quarterback throwing him the rock.
20:30
Speaker 3: and somebody that got to, I don't know, practice some
20:32
Speaker 3: during training camp. So Penix is going to be an improvement.
20:35
Speaker 3: How much, it'll be to be determined and to be
20:40
Speaker 3: seen later on tonight. But make no mistake about it,
20:43
Speaker 3: the Packers can get some pressure against this team, and
20:47
Speaker 3: you can heat up Penix and force him out of
20:49
Speaker 3: the pocket. I think it adds for a lot more
20:52
Speaker 3: intrigue coming up here tonight. And if he throws you
20:54
Speaker 3: a couple, can you take them down?
20:55
Speaker 4: But I think you're right, Billy, to your point as well,
20:59
Speaker 4: it's like Earlier in the week, it's like it's hard
21:01
Speaker 4: for them to do worse at that position, or at
21:03
Speaker 4: least it's hard to seem that they could do worse.
21:05
Speaker 4: So that's why I think there are people excited about
21:07
Speaker 4: the Falcons' chances to cover with Penix there. And obviously
21:11
Speaker 4: the Packers haven't looked like world beaters to anybody. Yes,
21:14
Speaker 4: they found a way to win last week, but have
21:17
Speaker 4: struggled in a lot of categories. Obviously the injuries that
21:20
Speaker 4: you talked about in the offensive line, it kind of
21:22
Speaker 4: makes it for an interesting one because this line has
21:24
Speaker 4: really moved more than you'll ever see an NFL line move.
21:28
Speaker 4: I think in one week, I mean, it was six
21:30
Speaker 4: and a half and seven at one point in time.
21:32
Speaker 4: And I remember we were there last week, Thursday night
21:35
Speaker 4: before the Packers had even played the jets and it
21:37
Speaker 4: was offered at six and a half at Pottawatomie sports book.
21:40
Speaker 1: But you're right. It was, it was five yesterday. And
21:42
Speaker 1: I remember somebody telling people, go and get your bets
21:45
Speaker 1: in now. We'll get them now.
21:47
Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:47
Speaker 1: I don't know who that was.
21:48
Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:48
Speaker 1: I don't know who that was. Billy was, um, Yeah,
21:51
Speaker 1: and absolutely. But this thing is totally cruised.
21:54
Speaker 4: So I guess it's a couple ways to look at
21:57
Speaker 4: it if you are an investor. It's like, oh, if
21:59
Speaker 4: you like the Packers, you might have a little bit
22:01
Speaker 4: of value here. And if you didn't, that's always how
22:03
Speaker 4: it works. You can always convince yourself on one side
22:05
Speaker 4: or the other.
22:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Which is what makes it so fun.
22:08
Speaker 2: And the menu of prop bets, we could spin through
22:11
Speaker 2: some of those.
22:12
Speaker 1: I got a couple of them. On the line, baby,
22:13
Speaker 1: coming up.
22:14
Speaker 3: I got a couple of them that I got circled.
22:15
Speaker 3: How about Bijan Robinson? Drew leads the Falcons with 254
22:20
Speaker 3: scrimmage yards their first two games. Only player in Atlanta
22:23
Speaker 3: with at least 100. He's got 16 forced missed tackles
22:30
Speaker 3: this year in the two games. Twice as many as
22:33
Speaker 3: the rest of the Falcons roster combined. So number seven
22:37
Speaker 3: is how it'll start. roll, and finish for Atlanta. And
22:42
Speaker 3: the Packers, you know, this is something that has not
22:45
Speaker 3: been a calling card for a long, a lot of
22:50
Speaker 3: my lifetime and a long portion of Green Bay Packers fans' lifetimes,
22:54
Speaker 3: but they're pretty dang stout, I think, right now against
22:56
Speaker 3: the run. And as long as you can keep it
22:58
Speaker 3: in between the tackles, and that's where the edge being
23:01
Speaker 3: set by Van Ness so well through the first two games,
23:04
Speaker 3: and I think the night Dennis Sutton and Barron Sorrell
23:06
Speaker 3: are going to be big parts of it, you keep
23:07
Speaker 3: everything in In between the tackles, they're pretty sound up
23:11
Speaker 3: the middle, so it could play right into the hands.
23:14
Speaker 3: Need to have a big chase down night from Edron
23:16
Speaker 3: Cooper because there's only a couple of guys I think
23:19
Speaker 3: drew in football that could chase down B. John Robinson,
23:21
Speaker 3: and I think Coop at the linebacker position is one
23:23
Speaker 3: of the few. A couple of things here, a couple
23:26
Speaker 3: of hidden stats for tonight. If you're weighing an investment,
23:31
Speaker 3: the officiating crew is out. Sean Smith will be working
23:34
Speaker 3: his third game.
23:35
Speaker 1: I like Sean Smith.
23:37
Speaker 2: With Green Bay. Packers 2-0 straight up and 1-1 against
23:42
Speaker 2: the spread.
23:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, and while there will be one to two flags
23:46
Speaker 3: that will leave you scratching your head with a Sean
23:49
Speaker 3: Smith crew, it'll be clean and concise. My man's not
23:52
Speaker 3: going to hockey-lead the situation and talk up there and
23:54
Speaker 3: filibuster for 45 seconds. It'll be more of an efficient operation.
23:57
Speaker 3: I appreciate the efficiency of Sean Smith. Might get one
24:00
Speaker 3: or two good voice cracks from Sean Smith here tonight.
24:02
Speaker 1: Which is fine. Nothing wrong with that.
24:05
Speaker 2: 68% of Sean Smith's overall penalties last year were assessed,
24:09
Speaker 2: or this year, in the first two games, assessed for
24:12
Speaker 2: offensive holding and false start. Now, 68%, the average, that
24:17
Speaker 2: ties him with Bill Vinovich for the top, and the
24:20
Speaker 2: average for NFL refs is 42% of their calls.
24:24
Speaker 3: Are in offside and holding. crazy thing is those being,
24:28
Speaker 3: you know, false start holding. Those would be a couple
24:30
Speaker 3: of the Packers calling card.
24:31
Speaker 1: Now the false starts. Indeed.
24:32
Speaker 2: The false starts got to get better in home, right?
24:35
Speaker 2: The Packers lead the league in penalties after two games.
24:37
Speaker 2: And the false, sorry, the false starts have to get
24:39
Speaker 2: better at home, right? Like going back and watching more
24:42
Speaker 2: of it with Jordan Morgan, I think once you start playing,
24:44
Speaker 2: there's definitely room for improvement, but there's something to work there.
24:49
Speaker 2: But we can't have lining up incorrectly twice, and just
24:53
Speaker 2: one of the falls starts straight up just standing up.
24:55
Speaker 1: Those are just not going to be able to play.
24:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's going to be interesting to see which
24:58
Speaker 4: trends continue there, because this has been a bugaboo for us,
25:01
Speaker 4: and will that continue?
25:02
Speaker 2: Not all penalties are created equal, though, because the Packers
25:05
Speaker 2: also rank number one in penalties overall, but also in
25:09
Speaker 2: automatic first down penalties, which are those unnecessary roughnesses.
25:13
Speaker 1: It's been the worst one, too.
25:14
Speaker 2: And as it happens, no one has called more unnecessary
25:17
Speaker 2: roughness penalties in the NFL than Tonight's referee, Sean Smith,
25:21
Speaker 2: since 2003.
25:22
Speaker 1: Great.
25:22
Speaker 2: He leads the league in unnecessary roughness.
25:24
Speaker 3: And I'd like to see as a good test and
25:28
Speaker 3: a point of emphasis, hey, Chris McClellan, let's go one
25:31
Speaker 3: game without getting in unnecessary roughness.
25:35
Speaker 1: Right? We have the roughing the passer. That was questionable
25:38
Speaker 1: in game one. Yes.
25:39
Speaker 3: The pushing the guy after the play going into, I believe,
25:42
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter this week. That one wasn't very questionable.
25:45
Speaker 3: So let's be able to control the emotions. And as
25:47
Speaker 3: Larry said... Focus, fellas.
25:50
Speaker 1: Focus.
25:50
Speaker 2: That's where a lot of this ends up being. Here's
25:52
Speaker 2: another stat for you. Whether this is meaningful or not,
25:54
Speaker 2: we will all find out together. But teams that play
25:58
Speaker 2: on Thursday night, coming off an overtime game, have a
26:02
Speaker 2: record of 3-18.
26:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, not good. Not a
26:05
Speaker 1: good number after that.
26:06
Speaker 2: The Packers, especially on offense, they ran a freakishly low
26:09
Speaker 2: number of plays to start with, and overtime was only
26:12
Speaker 2: eight plays short.
26:13
Speaker 1: In general.
26:13
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was going to say it wasn't a
26:15
Speaker 3: long overtime and the Packers didn't, it wasn't like they
26:18
Speaker 3: were that taxed. No, not like the full bedwetter of
26:21
Speaker 3: an overtime that they did in Dallas, or I was
26:25
Speaker 3: going to say this past weekend, Indianapolis and Kansas city
26:28
Speaker 3: went down to the wire all the way.
26:30
Speaker 1: And you know, green Bay ended up winning.
26:31
Speaker 4: Sure.
26:32
Speaker 3: They played on Sunday last year after that, but.
26:34
Speaker 1: That's also okay.
26:35
Speaker 2: So three and 18, but that's also should be mitigated
26:37
Speaker 2: because we three home, well in home teams, like home
26:40
Speaker 2: teams on Thursday night, generally fare better. Home teams in
26:43
Speaker 2: general fare better. And home teams get the preponderance of
26:46
Speaker 2: breaks when it comes to the Zebras and the Whitecap.
26:50
Speaker 1: In theory. Generally so, yeah.
26:52
Speaker 3: You're going to get one to two really significant calls,
26:57
Speaker 3: especially more in college.
26:59
Speaker 2: Significant statistic advantage in terms of penalties. People who have
27:03
Speaker 2: done studies, that's a big part more than sleeping in
27:06
Speaker 2: your own bed. That's a big part of every sport, too.
27:09
Speaker 2: Home teams tend to get the preponderance of the calls.
27:12
Speaker 3: Drew, how much of that is the stuff that nobody
27:14
Speaker 3: ever wants to talk about out loud but is one
27:16
Speaker 3: of the most important parts of every single one of
27:18
Speaker 3: these games? We had Mike and Meryl talking about it
27:20
Speaker 3: in terms of the Brewers. They need the ball to
27:22
Speaker 3: bounce their way at some point during one of these
27:25
Speaker 3: playoff runs. And I think it's okay to say that.
27:28
Speaker 3: Hope is not a strategy, but to act like it
27:31
Speaker 3: is not an equalizer or a factor in the wins
27:33
Speaker 3: and losses of these games.
27:35
Speaker 1: I think it's just foolish. It needs to happen.
27:38
Speaker 3: You create your own luck sometimes in the turnover and
27:41
Speaker 3: penalty variety, and they just need to be able to
27:44
Speaker 3: be cleaner. You're going to get called for five to
27:47
Speaker 3: six of these things at some particular point, but you
27:49
Speaker 3: got to be able to eliminate too many of the
27:52
Speaker 3: foolish ones that have put themselves behind the eight ball.
27:54
Speaker 3: And it feels like they've come at the worst times.
27:55
Speaker 4: And I, I've been, you know, I've been saying a
27:58
Speaker 4: little bit that we've been getting picked on by officiating.
28:00
Speaker 4: I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but some believe that maybe
28:02
Speaker 4: that is a, I'm not one of those, but that
28:05
Speaker 4: would mean I'm not holding them to the big a,
28:08
Speaker 4: which means holding them accountable. And I want to know,
28:10
Speaker 4: I'm still going to hold my team accountable and, and
28:12
Speaker 4: make sure that they are having to be blamed if
28:15
Speaker 4: they don't clean those things up. But it does feel
28:17
Speaker 4: like we've gotten some inopportune ones.
28:21
Speaker 1: So let's see. Let's hope some of those trends change,
28:23
Speaker 1: because right now I don't like the ones you're giving me.
28:25
Speaker 2: Baseball does have the randomness.
28:28
Speaker 1: Totally.
28:29
Speaker 2: It's more random on any given day. On any given Sunday. No,
28:34
Speaker 2: on any given day in baseball. That's part of it,
28:37
Speaker 2: and momentum is real. I always bring it back to Blackjack.
28:42
Speaker 1: Some sessions.
28:43
Speaker 2: There are hands where you, sometimes when Johnny Vegas and
28:46
Speaker 2: I incorporate pool our money and we sit down and
28:48
Speaker 2: one guy sits in the chair and the other guy
28:50
Speaker 2: sits over his shoulder going, all right, we're good.
28:52
Speaker 1: This dealer sucks. We got to get out of here.
28:53
Speaker 1: Somebody needs a coach. Exactly.
28:55
Speaker 2: So that's what it is. Because two heads, you know
28:58
Speaker 2: how it is. You win 10 hands in a row.
28:59
Speaker 2: That's when you pick up and leave. Because it's about
29:02
Speaker 2: to turn the other way. And you need that guy
29:03
Speaker 2: to say, let's get out of here. Otherwise, we're going
29:05
Speaker 2: to give it all back. Let's leave. Or this dealer sucks.
29:08
Speaker 2: Let's get out of here.
29:08
Speaker 1: That guy's a villain every time. So that's what we do.
29:10
Speaker 2: But there are times when you do everything right and
29:12
Speaker 2: you're sitting there with a 20 and the guy pulls
29:14
Speaker 2: seven cards and beats you.
29:15
Speaker 1: Yep.
29:16
Speaker 2: Or you get dealt a hand that you think sucks.
29:19
Speaker 2: Like we always call them the Aaron Rodgers when you
29:21
Speaker 2: get a 12.
29:22
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Good luck. What are you doing here? Just good luck.
29:25
Speaker 1: Just pray.
29:26
Speaker 2: And you win those hands. Sometimes it happens. So 12,
29:28
Speaker 2: you get dealt a 12 and you're looking at the
29:30
Speaker 2: dealer's card.
29:31
Speaker 1: He's got an eight.
29:32
Speaker 2: Like, oh, we're going to lose.
29:33
Speaker 1: Oh, we won that one. It's a three. Yeah. Find
29:36
Speaker 1: yourself in this thing. Then we're in it. You need
29:39
Speaker 1: breaks in sports.
29:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
29:40
Speaker 1: So, yeah.
29:40
Speaker 2: So, it's just you ride the tides. And the Brewers
29:43
Speaker 2: have not had, historically, the best luck.
29:46
Speaker 1: You know, and hope isn't a strategy. And people always
29:48
Speaker 1: say that. But it is for fans.
29:50
Speaker 4: Like, I don't like it when people say it because
29:52
Speaker 4: it's a strategy for me cheering on my couch.
29:54
Speaker 2: Big believer in the butterfly effect, too.
29:56
Speaker 1: And, like, One happens. Look at the Brewers, and you
30:00
Speaker 1: go in.
30:01
Speaker 2: As painful as it may be, go back and look
30:03
Speaker 2: at the NLCS last year, and they had a chance.
30:06
Speaker 2: They were in game one. Had they won game one,
30:09
Speaker 2: it changes the entire tenor. First of all, you're not swept,
30:13
Speaker 2: but who knows what happens then? The Dodgers are squeezing
30:15
Speaker 2: the handle in game two. Had they prevented, and I
30:17
Speaker 2: think they lost 4-3 in game one of... if I'm
30:20
Speaker 2: not mistaken.
30:21
Speaker 3: Well, and they had the bases loaded with one or
30:24
Speaker 3: two outs and Terang at the plate, and he jumps
30:27
Speaker 3: out of the way of a fastball that's about to
30:28
Speaker 3: hit him right in the leg and bring in the
30:31
Speaker 3: tying run, jumps out of the way, and K's out.
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Speaker 1: So, I mean.
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Speaker 2: One thing changes and all of a sudden it's a
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Speaker 2: different game. It just changes the entire tenor.
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Speaker 1: What if Chris Taylor doesn't make that catch? That's the thing.
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Speaker 1: That's not luck, but it is luck for coaches. You
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Speaker 1: don't control that.
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Speaker 4: Whether or not he makes that catch is fortune for
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Speaker 4: a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: Not for him. 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll hear Hunter Baumgart's recap of
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Speaker 2: the proceedings last evening at Citizens Bank Park, the land
31:03
Speaker 2: of the cheesesteak. Nice having Levin Rock on the call.
31:06
Speaker 2: So comfortable. Rock is from the Philadelphia area, so he's
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Speaker 2: back home visiting family and hanging out. But we'll hear
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Speaker 2: from Hunter. We'll hear his recorded recap of last evening,
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Speaker 2: and then we'll talk to him live. And then we're
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Speaker 2: going to have you vote which one you like better.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. You like the real Hunter or the recorded Hunter? 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 1: We're going to throw an AI in there, too. What's
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Speaker 1: the text line saying?
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Speaker 2: Anybody coming up with conveniences you could live without for
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Speaker 2: a day, a week, a month?
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Speaker 1: Modern conveniences?
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Speaker 3: Let me know.
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Speaker 1: We've got a couple in here. We've got to clean
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Speaker 1: a couple of them up first.
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Speaker 2: I can't believe my daughter and her partner, they live
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Speaker 2: in a place without a microwave.
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Speaker 1: Like, how do you live without a microwave? There's no
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Speaker 1: chance I could be doing that. Oh, that's impossible. That's
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Speaker 1: actually a great one. They don't have a microwave.
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Speaker 2: They don't have the counter space, so they don't have
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Speaker 2: a microwave.
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Speaker 1: They have a counter space. You put it on a rolling,
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Speaker 1: like a desk or like a piece of wood.
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Speaker 2: They just don't have the space. I got one that
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Speaker 2: lends itself to it. So I'm like, I couldn't imagine that.
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Speaker 2: Once you live in a place with a washer dryer,
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Speaker 2: you're never living in a place without a washer dryer
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Speaker 2: and schlepping your laundry to the laundromat.
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Speaker 3: Or another one, then, when I was buying a house,
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Speaker 3: I didn't realize houses didn't come equipped without it. That
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Speaker 3: was a tough one for me to realize, and that's
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Speaker 3: a convenience that I'm still struggling with.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's some funny ones. We'll get to them. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to them.
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Speaker 2: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billion-Armond
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Speaker 2: bringing it to you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, got out of the house okay today. That's the
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Speaker 1: first win of the day.
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Speaker 2: I didn't even, but I walked right past the laptop
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Speaker 2: that was perched right where my keys are. It's like,
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Speaker 2: don't forget me, and I forgot it.
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Speaker 1: It's hard when it's dark. You know, you're getting dressed
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Speaker 1: in the dark.
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Speaker 2: When you're still foggy.
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Speaker 1: I forgot pants almost once. I'm not even kidding. No,
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Speaker 1: you didn't. One time I almost didn't. I almost walked
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Speaker 1: out without buying you. Yeah. Not buying it. Okay. Well,
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Speaker 1: you just walked out without pants on.
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Speaker 4: Almost.
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Speaker 1: I said almost. So did you say one step? Well,
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Speaker 1: I guess. Okay. Now we can argue it almost isn't.
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Speaker 1: That's fair. I got almost down there. I know. It's fine.
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Speaker 1: You're right. Like what is almost, did you almost, were
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Speaker 1: you really going to not have pants on at work? Armin?
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Speaker 1: Good point. That's a fair point.
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Speaker 2: So what modern convenience could you do without for a week,
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Speaker 2: a day, a week, a year?
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Speaker 1: Where are we on this?
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Speaker 2: What's the talking text line saying?
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Speaker 1: 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 3: We got a couple of good ones on the talking
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Speaker 3: text line. First, the one that I was thinking of
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Speaker 3: that I didn't realize I could live without, that I
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Speaker 3: didn't realize houses didn't come without until we moved into
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Speaker 3: ours almost three and a half years ago, is the
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Speaker 3: garbage disposal.
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Speaker 1: Oh, those are nice.
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Speaker 2: Very nice. That's a double-edged thing.
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Speaker 3: I didn't realize that houses didn't have them. We didn't
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Speaker 3: have one. Didn't put one in because, sorry, you look
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Speaker 3: at me. You think I'm putting in a garbage disposal?
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Speaker 1: And you know what?
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Speaker 2: I've had plumbers come in who say that creates more
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Speaker 2: business for us than anything because people let everything go
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Speaker 2: down there and it jams up and it screws things up.
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Speaker 2: He's like, don't use it.
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Speaker 1: Don't get too confident with one either. If you have one,
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Speaker 1: don't use it. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So I've strained the thing out and I've washed my
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Speaker 3: hands more times because of that than probably changing diapers
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Speaker 3: in the last three years.
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Speaker 1: However... Now it's.
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Speaker 3: So much of an inconvenience that has become natural that
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Speaker 3: I don't know that I would get one. Like you
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Speaker 3: said with the plumbing thing, I have not even thought
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Speaker 3: about it so many different times. But yesterday as I'm
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Speaker 3: straining out these noodles and all this random stuff, the
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Speaker 3: fake fried rice that your boy tried to make and
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Speaker 3: failed again with.
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Speaker 2: My wife has one of those things that you put
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Speaker 2: over the drain and it's like the mesh thing and
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Speaker 2: it catches the food. You just empty that out. And
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Speaker 2: so we have, actually have two sinks with garbage disposals
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Speaker 2: and don't use either one.
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Speaker 1: Drain that thing through.
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Speaker 4: They're kind of like boats. They're nice to have, but
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Speaker 4: then you have to maintain them.
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Speaker 1: And all that stuff. But I like mine.
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to lie. You have to Google, though,
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Speaker 4: what you cannot put down there. You can't let rice
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Speaker 4: go down there and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: No, there's a lot of stuff you can't. But unbelievably,
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Speaker 1: you should put ice cubes down because it sharpens the.
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Speaker 2: Blades yeah it does yeah so i don't know i
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Speaker 2: never would have known it's really some stink too the.
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Speaker 1: Way i look at it is i'm only using it
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Speaker 1: i really really need to.
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Speaker 2: Well that's the thing like you really don't like you
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Speaker 2: should we have that little lint catcher that little like
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Speaker 2: catches the food scraps and then you dump those out
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Speaker 2: and i'm like at times i'm emptying that thing and
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Speaker 2: i'm like why do we have this when we have
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Speaker 2: a disposal that would do this But we just don't
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Speaker 2: use it. That's what our plumber said. He's like, you're
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Speaker 2: better off just not. And dishwashers are made to people
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Speaker 2: who scrape plates meticulously and basically wash the plates before
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Speaker 2: they put them in the dishwasher. The guy told me, yeah,
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Speaker 2: don't do that either. You're designed to knock the food off.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're wasting time. Try convincing my wife that. No chance.
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Speaker 1: I showed her every ream piece of information. Hey, you're
35:38
Speaker 1: not supposed to squeal. We don't have to do this. No,
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Speaker 1: you have to. It's going to maintain. Okay, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to play with you anymore about it. I'm the
35:44
Speaker 1: same way, though. It's honestly more of just a competition.
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Speaker 3: There's something soothing to me trying to get the tomato
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Speaker 3: paste off the plate before I throw that thing out
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Speaker 3: in there.
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Speaker 1: Dishwasher, another thing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Tupperware is going to be stained with tomato stains.
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Speaker 1: Come on. It's just a given.
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Speaker 3: It's baked in. We didn't have one when we first
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Speaker 3: bought the house. My pops was skilled enough to be
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Speaker 3: able to put one in, which was an impressive.
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Speaker 1: Thing to be able to watch. Oh, man. What a guy.
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Speaker 3: That was another moment where I do think he'd sit
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Speaker 3: back if he's honest with himself and be like, you
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Speaker 3: should be doing that. Why don't I tell you how
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Speaker 3: to be doing this? He tells me about the hose
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Speaker 3: and I'm like, yeah, sure.
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Speaker 1: It's outside. Yeah. No, no, not that I want Billy.
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Speaker 1: All right. You just shut up and go sit here
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Speaker 1: and maybe hand me a beer when I'm done with this.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 3: That's the one too, where you become so accustomed to
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Speaker 3: just eating with paper plates.
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Speaker 1: You'll figure it out.
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Speaker 3: But then, damn, once you start going back to that
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Speaker 3: life of luxury, one that I'm not going to be
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Speaker 3: able to go back to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That's a good one. I still can't
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Speaker 1: get over the microwave one. All right. I'm going to
36:46
Speaker 1: read this one. from Red Hot Tim Knot. He said,
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Speaker 1: work laptop and personal laptop, one for the huddle and
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Speaker 1: one for the hub, if you know you know.
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Speaker 2: Hey, if you know you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, that can be a convenience that
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Speaker 1: you don't want to, you know, when you miss it,
37:01
Speaker 1: some people really can't handle it, literally. Yeah, and I
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Speaker 1: would say, I don't know, we could really go to, like,
37:08
Speaker 1: you know, how specific do we want to get? I mean, conveniences.
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Speaker 1: Dime your dance floor.
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Speaker 4: Cause there are some, I'll just say this. I never,
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Speaker 4: I never thought about gutter guards my whole life.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 4: But then when we, there were already gutter guards and
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Speaker 4: we moved into the house and there were so many
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Speaker 4: leaves in this, in this area, the spot where I'm
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Speaker 4: in that if I didn't have those, I'd, your boy
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Speaker 4: would be up on ladders trying to get gutters.
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Speaker 1: So I'm thankful for those in the fall. I'd be
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Speaker 1: paying to watch you clean out the gutters. Oh my gosh. No,
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't. Cause I wouldn't be.
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Speaker 2: Could you imagine to do that with the leaf blower?
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Speaker 3: I'd be sitting there with a lawn chair watching Armin
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Speaker 3: get up on that ladder.
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Speaker 2: Trying to get up on ladders. The thing was, you
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Speaker 2: don't want to do that twice, so you've got to
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Speaker 2: wait until the end of the leaf-shedding season. And then
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Speaker 2: by then, if it rains a lot, then you're kind
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Speaker 2: of screwed and it's coming over the top.
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Speaker 1: It's nice to know how to think about that.
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Speaker 3: And there's a couple of chunks of ice in there
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Speaker 3: that you're trying to claw out of there if you
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Speaker 3: waited long enough.
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Speaker 1: Ice dams. I don't want to think about that. That's
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Speaker 1: just a scary thought.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say let's listen to Hunter's recap,
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Speaker 2: but we probably.
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Speaker 1: Don't have time. We won't have time. We'll wait until
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Speaker 1: over the top here.
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Speaker 2: We'll do that right at the top of the 6
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Speaker 2: o'clock hour. 5 o'clock clubbers. We'll let the 6 o'clock
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Speaker 2: club have a little Hunter, a little hors d'oeuvre, because
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Speaker 2: he's joining us at 725 again. Dolph joins us at 625.
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Speaker 2: Game day in the good land. Packers, Falcons, what are
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Speaker 2: your thoughts? Is this the right team to be playing,
38:24
Speaker 2: or is this a bad team to be playing? It's
38:26
Speaker 2: a little nerve-wracking. They've got a quarterback coming back. They're
38:28
Speaker 2: going to have a little lift that way. They haven't
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Speaker 2: been in the red zone in two games. They're probably
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Speaker 2: going to venture in there tonight.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say, they will tonight. And, Drew,
38:36
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, this is not going to be a
38:38
Speaker 3: great night. This is a night to be watching. Brandon Cisse,
38:42
Speaker 3: baptism by fire. Drake London has not been good in
38:45
Speaker 3: the first two games. Michael Penix is going to force
38:48
Speaker 3: the issue to that dude tonight.
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Speaker 2: As much as it's going to be glorious and not
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Speaker 2: a cold night, it's just a home opener, the buzz,
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Speaker 2: the national TV audience. Has a chance to be an
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Speaker 2: ugly game.
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Speaker 1: Has a chance to be an ugly game. Very ugly.
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Speaker 1: Over the line's got something on that, too. All right.
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Speaker 1: Stay tuned. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.